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Speaker 1: Good evening and welcome to Bears All Access. Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: Tom there, We've got you for one whole hour talking
Speaker 1: all things Bears. Training camp just around the corner when
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears will report to bourbon A to kick
Speaker 1: off their twenty nineteen NFL season. Always an exciting time
Speaker 1: of the year, a lot of expectation, a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: That's what Matt Naggie has talked about recently and about
Speaker 1: not getting complacent as a Chicago Bear. Plus, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a great show as we roll along. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have some great guess is Bears six round draft picked
Speaker 1: Duke Shelley is going to join us out on the
Speaker 1: program at tremendous nickel corn that the Bears selected. Plus
Speaker 1: at six thirty pm Eastern Time. Otis Wilson, former NFL
Speaker 1: or for Chicago Bears linebacker, gonna join us. We've got
Speaker 1: plenty to talk about the eighty five Bears because Eddie Jackson,
Speaker 1: coming out strong, said they want to top everything the
Speaker 1: eighty five Bears did. So we're gonna go back in
Speaker 1: time put out the statistics what the Bears could potentially
Speaker 1: reach here in twenty nineteen. But who better to break
Speaker 1: it down over the next hour, none better than my partner.
Speaker 1: Let's welcome in Tom there to the program. Tom, how
Speaker 1: are we doing today? Big Jim doing good? You know,
Speaker 1: with the anticipation of training camp, it's it's I you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know when the anticipation has been this positive
Speaker 1: in a long time, because you think even last year,
Speaker 1: we didn't know a lot about Matt Nagey, We didn't
Speaker 1: know how the team was going to perform, We didn't
Speaker 1: know the growth process and the fact that they were
Speaker 1: gonna get Khalil Mack when they ended up getting him
Speaker 1: and the whole You know, we are still anticipating a
Speaker 1: contract situation with Roquan Smith at this time, but all
Speaker 1: that's behind us, and it's raised expectations by a large percentage,
Speaker 1: and not just by me, by all the people I
Speaker 1: talk about in the streets and around the Chicago Land area.
Speaker 1: Because the first thing they bring up is positive expectations
Speaker 1: of the Bears, where they believe that they can be
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. And then they also
Speaker 1: talk about the difficulty of the schedule they're going to face.
Speaker 1: And so when you kind of take all that into consideration,
Speaker 1: if they do continue to improve, they're able to increase
Speaker 1: their offensive playbook. They have a Khalil and they have
Speaker 1: Roquan from the beginning, you get Clinton Dix and Busters
Speaker 1: Screen and these guys to fit into the system nicely.
Speaker 1: There's no reason that they can't accomplish all the goals
Speaker 1: that the players have been talking about and the fans
Speaker 1: have expected at the beginning of the year till the
Speaker 1: end of the year. And it's interesting time because the
Speaker 1: Bears aren't going to sneak up on anybody. They're a
Speaker 1: surprise team last year when you come off four losing seasons,
Speaker 1: then you burst onto the team with Matt Naggy, you
Speaker 1: go twelve and four, You go from worse to first
Speaker 1: in the vision in the division, and take the NFC North.
Speaker 1: You know, last year, when you look at those surprise teams,
Speaker 1: probably Chicago tops the list. You gotta believe Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: Look how they jump back into it, found themselves in
Speaker 1: the playoffs as well. I think Seattle was somewhat of
Speaker 1: a surprise team last year. Now if you think the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins, prior to the injury to Alex Smith, they
Speaker 1: were winning that division tim in the NFC East, and
Speaker 1: then Alex Smith goes down. They were five and two
Speaker 1: and their season kind of spiraled out of control with injury.
Speaker 1: But the Bears are not going to sneak up on
Speaker 1: anybody this year. Everybody's marking them down on the schedule.
Speaker 1: But then you know, you'll go back and you look
Speaker 1: at some games from last year. Danny Mack and Matt
Speaker 1: Spiegel we are talking a little bit off the air
Speaker 1: and on the air right before at the end of
Speaker 1: their show, And now you think about how disappointing that
Speaker 1: loss was to the New England Patriots because it was
Speaker 1: a couple of special team snaffoos that really took the
Speaker 1: opportunity to beat you know, what's considered one of the
Speaker 1: best teams of the last decade in the NFL last
Speaker 1: year and if you think if you would have just
Speaker 1: added that victory to the last year's team, that would
Speaker 1: change the thinking process and it would change the whole
Speaker 1: profile of the Bears, because, yeah, they have a first
Speaker 1: place schedule now, they went from worst to first. But
Speaker 1: if you go out there and you beat one of
Speaker 1: the best teams in the league, you know, right there,
Speaker 1: you're there's a lot of different considerations that you got
Speaker 1: to put in place if you would have went out
Speaker 1: there and beat Tom Brady Bill Belichick in your home field.
Speaker 1: How do you fight complacency? Mett Naggie was recently at
Speaker 1: Serious Sex NFL Rady when he talked about that. Really
Speaker 1: the quote was him that says, we can't beat complacent
Speaker 1: as a football team, you know, and that's probably the
Speaker 1: worst trait you can have as a football player time.
Speaker 1: I truly believe that if you're not doing the things
Speaker 1: you need to do to stay on top of your
Speaker 1: game and not show up with that preparation that you
Speaker 1: need in order to compete sundays, I think that is
Speaker 1: always something that you gotta fight. It's just it's human nature.
Speaker 1: People tend to get complacent when they find themselves having
Speaker 1: a little bit of success. I think complacency can take
Speaker 1: effect on a losing team and a losing atmosphere and
Speaker 1: a losing culture because some guys they're not being competed against.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at winning, the winning attitude,
Speaker 1: the winning culture, and you look at competition, you know
Speaker 1: from guys within your own locker room, if complacency sets in,
Speaker 1: that's the best way to get yourself out of the
Speaker 1: off the team and off the roster and onto a
Speaker 1: different team maybe or maybe not in the league at all.
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's any players out there that
Speaker 1: have the luxury of being complacent because they've taken some
Speaker 1: big steps forward to get themselves into this first place schedule,
Speaker 1: into consideration preseason, consideration for the playoffs, and even bigger goals.
Speaker 1: So this is not the time for a complacency to
Speaker 1: set in because you haven't you haven't take did that
Speaker 1: much success yet. Well, even with the recent comments of
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson, we'll get into that about saying, hey, we
Speaker 1: want to try and top with the eighty five Bears
Speaker 1: did defensively, or even a Keem Hicks, what a tremendous
Speaker 1: leader talking about the team and not regressing. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the vibe you get with the players in the
Speaker 1: locker room of how they've approached this offseason. You know,
Speaker 1: having a chance to talk to a lot of those
Speaker 1: guys at the hundred years celebration and you look at
Speaker 1: some of the influences they had from the history, the
Speaker 1: alumni of the Bears and how and they see how
Speaker 1: it important is to them. Listen. I like the comments
Speaker 1: of Eddie Jackson. I like the fact that this is
Speaker 1: a team that wants to be better than anything the
Speaker 1: Bears have put out there before. And I like a
Speaker 1: little bit of the pressure that a Keem Hicks felt
Speaker 1: when he was up there with Ed o'bradovitch, with Dan Hampton,
Speaker 1: with Chris Zorge and with Tommy Harris, and how much
Speaker 1: not pressure, but how much they wanted to see a
Speaker 1: Keem Hicks, you know, have success. Hey, you want to
Speaker 1: stay with us, because on the other side, rookie cornerback
Speaker 1: Duke Shelley is going to join us here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access. Don't change that, Dow, keep it right here. Everyone,
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Speaker 1: should be joined by Bears rookie cornerback Duke Shelley, drafted
Speaker 1: in the sixth round out of Kansas State, but brought
Speaker 1: up the comments of Eddie Jackson say one to top
Speaker 1: everything of the eighty five Bears and Tom we were
Speaker 1: prepping for the show, and it is a good topic
Speaker 1: to get into because you think of some of the
Speaker 1: great defenses in the history of the NFL, whether you
Speaker 1: go back to the seventy four or seventy five Steel Curtain.
Speaker 1: Obviously the two thousand Ravens stand out as well. Eighty
Speaker 1: five Bears consider one of the all time grades. Probably
Speaker 1: even the early two thousand Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense was
Speaker 1: given a lot of love as well. You got the
Speaker 1: Orange Crush out there, endeavor. But the statistics are incredible
Speaker 1: of the eighty five Bears. So some of the statistics
Speaker 1: are sixty four sacks on the season, thirty four interception,
Speaker 1: six rushing touchdowns, and we'll get into that in just
Speaker 1: a moment time, because I believe our guest is waiting
Speaker 1: there for so I'm getting excited talking defense. So let's
Speaker 1: go out and talk a little defense of the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears as we welcome in Duke Shelley to the program. Duke,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, Tim thare with you. Thanks for joining us
Speaker 1: tonight on Bears All Access. Hey, how ya doing? How
Speaker 1: y'are doing? We're doing great? And for you, how's the
Speaker 1: time off leading up to training camp? About the first
Speaker 1: time you'll be able to dawn the Chicago Bears jersey
Speaker 1: in full paths? Maybe just talk about the excitement leading
Speaker 1: up to training camp. Man, I'm super excited to get
Speaker 1: out there with the guys getting put on pads. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about that. So okay, my busies and pats, I'll
Speaker 1: be running around in shorts too long now, So get
Speaker 1: to hit somebody at this level I'm excited for. You know, dude,
Speaker 1: guys reading an article by Ryan Pace and he's called
Speaker 1: you scrappy, sticky, and highly highly competitive. You know that's
Speaker 1: some pretty high plaise when you, you know, for a
Speaker 1: defensive back, and especially when you look at you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: scrappy and sticky. I think you have to understand how
Speaker 1: how complimentary that is when you look at what Ryan
Speaker 1: how Ryan Pace describes your abilities. Oh yeah, I appreciate compliment. Uh.
Speaker 1: I've been hearing it a lot and be talking to
Speaker 1: back Worth. Everybody liked how my feedes and being able
Speaker 1: to stick with guys in the slot and on the
Speaker 1: outside and things like that. H I mean, my it's
Speaker 1: my job to kind of glue be glued to receiver.
Speaker 1: So the fact he called me stick yot, I appreciate it. Well,
Speaker 1: well does it you know, because everybody will say, oh,
Speaker 1: he's an undersized slot corner. Does that bother you when
Speaker 1: people say that? Is that why you're more scrappier and
Speaker 1: and why you're more physical, and just how you compete
Speaker 1: at the slot position and just how you play the
Speaker 1: cornerback position in general, Because that's all I hear, all
Speaker 1: he's an under size slot corner. Well, there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of under sized corners that played pretty darn good
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, right right. I mean I've
Speaker 1: been hearing my whole life. I've been on the side
Speaker 1: of my whole life, y'all. It just a big kind
Speaker 1: of hind me have a cheap on my shoulda and
Speaker 1: go out and compete. I mean, I've been a super
Speaker 1: competitive growing up. I mean been playing any games since
Speaker 1: I was five years old, so I mean I'm used
Speaker 1: to it now. It comes with the territory. I mean,
Speaker 1: just just give me a chip on my shoulder, something
Speaker 1: something to go out damn food and guys, and when
Speaker 1: you actually do it, then they look at you kind
Speaker 1: of different, so I'd be excited for it. Duke. So
Speaker 1: when you're playing cornerback, you obviously have a boundary and
Speaker 1: then you have the field of play. I read something
Speaker 1: else where I said you have an uncanny ability to
Speaker 1: mirror the receiver's feet. Is that a trait that you'll
Speaker 1: be able to use at the slot position because there's
Speaker 1: a little bit more feel for the receiver to work
Speaker 1: with then if they're sided along the sideline. Oh yeah, Definitely.
Speaker 1: Being in the slot, you have to be clear because
Speaker 1: guys have opportunity to go both ways on you, a
Speaker 1: lot of option routes and and things like that. So
Speaker 1: being able to be quick and fast twitch, have a
Speaker 1: fast twitch about you definitely uh separates you in the
Speaker 1: slot compared to the outside have using the sideline as
Speaker 1: your help and being able to stay inside of guys
Speaker 1: and kind of use sideline as an extra man on
Speaker 1: the field. So I mean playing outside corner my whole career.
Speaker 1: I see the difference in that. But for my skills, say,
Speaker 1: this's an easy transition. Well for the listeners out there,
Speaker 1: very instinctive cover corner. You got thirty nine passes defense
Speaker 1: and thirty eight career games, which is really impressive. And
Speaker 1: your football character is is second to none according to
Speaker 1: your to your college coaches. But what has probably been
Speaker 1: the biggest transition from Case State to to what you've
Speaker 1: been learning for the Chicago Bears, and really the biggest
Speaker 1: difference to you so far a man, the biggest difference
Speaker 1: for me has been just coming in and seeing speed
Speaker 1: of the game thing. You know, I just level everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody's fast, everybody's good, everybody know how to run routes
Speaker 1: and things like that. So I just stand out to
Speaker 1: you just as far as the consistency as far as
Speaker 1: play to play. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's still football and you still play the game how
Speaker 1: you know how to play the game. So I mean
Speaker 1: that does the things, but definitely the speed of the
Speaker 1: game is probably the biggest difference that I see compared
Speaker 1: to college living N's duke. What about the communication though,
Speaker 1: when you go into a slot now, it seems like
Speaker 1: if you're on a corner and you have a wide
Speaker 1: receiver that's the widest out of the offensive formation, you
Speaker 1: kind of don't have to communicate because you have you
Speaker 1: understand your responsibility. So now is it the outside linebacker
Speaker 1: to your side with the safety and maybe even the corner,
Speaker 1: So how will it your communication responsibilities change? Oh man,
Speaker 1: that's that's the difference also as well. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: usually when you out there on the outside, you kind
Speaker 1: of you kind of your own little world and called
Speaker 1: your own little island because you're just kind of separated
Speaker 1: from everybody else, you know, you you're kind of just
Speaker 1: locking down. You're you're a man and your side of
Speaker 1: the field. But in slote you have a lot of
Speaker 1: different people that depend on a lot of different things
Speaker 1: like that. So you might get a lineback and help.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you might get cornerback help. Sometimes might be squatting
Speaker 1: on outside that come to you always have the safety
Speaker 1: behind you. So it's just different. And how you can
Speaker 1: play guys, and how you can line up on guys
Speaker 1: and U. I mean it's very It's very interesting for
Speaker 1: me because I can discuise more and play outside shade,
Speaker 1: play inside shade and things like that. So I actually
Speaker 1: love it. I like transition. That's a great point. How
Speaker 1: has the install gone for you with the defense under
Speaker 1: Chuck Pagano to where you can maybe disguised knowing where
Speaker 1: your your hope is so you can play fast, uh defensively. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's It's been a really smooth transition for me. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean I created my college coaches for that, um
Speaker 1: being being having coach Hayes for the first three years
Speaker 1: of my college career. He comes being that he came
Speaker 1: from the NFL. He uh been being it was a
Speaker 1: quarters team running a lot of NFL coverages in college,
Speaker 1: so the concept kinda was the same. And I mean
Speaker 1: defense is kind of easier because you can only run
Speaker 1: certain amount of coverages. You can't really do too much
Speaker 1: out of the box. It is what it is. You
Speaker 1: even cover three, cover one, cover two, or man and man,
Speaker 1: so it's not really too much that you can really
Speaker 1: change up as far as that. So, uh, coming from
Speaker 1: coming from college and having an NFL coach Uh, definitely
Speaker 1: plays a role. And how how well all that would
Speaker 1: pick out the playbooks? Not it's not hard at off
Speaker 1: me in a various moove. Hey, duke, I don't you
Speaker 1: know when you when you start playing as a freshman,
Speaker 1: you know there's not a lot of time that you
Speaker 1: have special team responsibilities. So throughout the OTAs and on
Speaker 1: mini camp, where were you rapping on special teams? And
Speaker 1: we're is your skill set fall into play on the
Speaker 1: different teams you'll you'll be a part of this year.
Speaker 1: I'll definitely be on all the special teams. Uh, And
Speaker 1: I take it serious, Yeah, definitely. In college, I didn't
Speaker 1: have to uh run down on kickoffs and run down
Speaker 1: on punt because they needed me on the defense side.
Speaker 1: But now I'm doing both punt kickoff, kickoff return, returning
Speaker 1: kicks h holding up guys on punt return, so uh,
Speaker 1: it all works out. Special teams transition is very good
Speaker 1: to me. And I know, I mean, this is how
Speaker 1: you stay around in this league, being that it's so
Speaker 1: competitive and things like that. So I go out and
Speaker 1: play special teams like his defense. Well, from your standpoint,
Speaker 1: who have you hitch your wagon to? What what veteran
Speaker 1: do do you find yourself maybe gravitating to just their
Speaker 1: style of play? Um, just how they prepare even going
Speaker 1: out to practice. Is that Prince of Mukamara is a
Speaker 1: Buster screen? Is it? Eddie Jackson? Who if you can't
Speaker 1: have really tried to emmy watching how they prepare themselves.
Speaker 1: Really all the guys being you had two pro bowlers,
Speaker 1: uh in the banking with with Eddie Jackson and and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I look at all the guys mennerism,
Speaker 1: see how they how they approach the game. I know this,
Speaker 1: uh coown Fuller. He more of a a quiet focused guy.
Speaker 1: He keep getting to his owns on before practice and
Speaker 1: things like that, and he kind of locked in. Eddie
Speaker 1: on the other hand, he can be focused in the
Speaker 1: same way, but he still talking to guys and things
Speaker 1: like that. That's kind of more my personality. So I
Speaker 1: watched those guys and try to go out of MLA.
Speaker 1: Then Buster has been helping me. He's been doing a
Speaker 1: great job helping me learning different things and do different
Speaker 1: techniques and things like that. But I mean, I watch
Speaker 1: all the the guys. Prince he had his own little
Speaker 1: way and getting ready because he they might take them
Speaker 1: a little longer so I mean in all words out
Speaker 1: but I definitely say attention to all of the guys,
Speaker 1: any anybody who's in front of Lead, and I can
Speaker 1: learn from him. I try to find my best to
Speaker 1: just do that and stay stay focused and try to
Speaker 1: emulate their game and that fire demand and it made
Speaker 1: Litt leave so hopefully and he had me when lead.
Speaker 1: So just learn as much as I can, I Duke,
Speaker 1: just to get to know you a little better, and
Speaker 1: forgive me if I say it wrong. Is it Yaquis
Speaker 1: Bertrand and why so? Why are you Duke? And because
Speaker 1: I actually I love your first name and I think
Speaker 1: of prince. I think of haha, Clinton Dix, and I
Speaker 1: love your first name. But but how how did this
Speaker 1: go to duke? So I'm a junior and duke means prince.
Speaker 1: So when uh, when I was a little boy and
Speaker 1: my grandma just started calling me dude, they said it
Speaker 1: and it just stuck with me every since. My first
Speaker 1: name is Yaquis and I'm a junior and it means
Speaker 1: strong leader. But my dad, I mean he wrote with
Speaker 1: that name. But Duke is just kind of a ways
Speaker 1: to me just separate myself, like getting myself my own
Speaker 1: by Well, Duke, last one, what do you do with
Speaker 1: you a little bit of time off or are you
Speaker 1: cranking it up in terms of your workouts leading up
Speaker 1: to training camp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just trying to get
Speaker 1: in the best shape as I can. Definitely been working
Speaker 1: out in training every day, have a great training bout
Speaker 1: here at home with Ernest Ross, doing a lot of
Speaker 1: speed training things like that, and trying to be in
Speaker 1: the best shape I can't go into training cap and
Speaker 1: feeling the best, feeling the best I have going into
Speaker 1: training cap. So that's that's all I've been doing, Just
Speaker 1: trying to get ready to camp in the season, knowing
Speaker 1: this a long season. I mean preseason games to the
Speaker 1: regular season to playoffs. You'll pay playoff twenty gangs this year,
Speaker 1: so you just have to be ready for it and
Speaker 1: coach coach will call me, tell me go on playbooks
Speaker 1: and things like that. So I've been doing that and
Speaker 1: just noticed a marathon right now, it's not a sprint.
Speaker 1: So just trying to be in the best shape I
Speaker 1: can for the season. Well, Duke, good luck to you.
Speaker 1: We'll see it down in Bourbon at for your first
Speaker 1: NFL training camp. But we appreciate you joining us on
Speaker 1: the show. Oh man, thank you appreciate it. Duke Shelley,
Speaker 1: everybody's six round draft pick of the Chicago Bears out
Speaker 1: of Kansas State. We're gonna come back talk more defense, recap.
Speaker 1: What Duke Shelley had to say, like the depth of
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears secondary heading into twenty nineteen. We'll get
Speaker 1: to it on the other side. Keep it right here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access. Welcome back to Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to Duke Shelley, Bears six round draft
Speaker 1: pick five nine, about one hundred and eighty pounds out
Speaker 1: of Kansas State. He mentioned during the interview that he
Speaker 1: was still finally the healthiest he's Benny did miss five
Speaker 1: games in twenty eighteen with a lower right leg injury,
Speaker 1: and Tom he is he's a highly competitive young man
Speaker 1: for an undersized corner You mentioned how the coach called
Speaker 1: him sticky. You know, he's just kind of a pest
Speaker 1: is what he is, because he's always in the hip
Speaker 1: pocket of the wide receiver. And as it relates to
Speaker 1: the depth of the Chicago Bears secondary, I like the
Speaker 1: depth at that cornerback spot for Chicago had into twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: You go out and sign buster screen is what the
Speaker 1: Bears did. He comes over from the Jets. He has
Speaker 1: not missed a lot of games, whether in Cleveland or
Speaker 1: with the New York Jets. He's always been available to
Speaker 1: play some football. We know Sherick McManus has had the
Speaker 1: ability to fill in at the nickel cornerback spot. Now
Speaker 1: Duke Shelley kind of being groom for that spot as well.
Speaker 1: So a lot of depth. You know that normally is
Speaker 1: somewhat you're based defense a lot of times because so
Speaker 1: much eleven personnel, one running back, one tight end, three
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the field so much for the listeners
Speaker 1: out there, that nickel kind of becomes your base defense
Speaker 1: going into the scene, No Jim. The nagging injuries is
Speaker 1: what really followed Bryce Callahan around, and that was always
Speaker 1: difficult because some of the biggest games he had a
Speaker 1: lower body injury to show up. With Duke Shelley, it
Speaker 1: was a toe injury that's recoverable where to the point
Speaker 1: where it may never show up again. And you think
Speaker 1: about whatever size he is, one hundred and eighty pounds.
Speaker 1: He started playing as a freshman and played all the
Speaker 1: way through senior. He didn't have any physical injuries because
Speaker 1: of the sport of football. It was more of the
Speaker 1: toe injury that you know, I'm not sure how he
Speaker 1: got it, but I'm talking about physical injuries in terms
Speaker 1: of shoulder, stingers, you know, the types of injuries that
Speaker 1: you face when you're you're making a big tackle. So
Speaker 1: I do think health consistency at that position is something
Speaker 1: they really wanted to have and was maybe one of
Speaker 1: the deciding factors with Bryce Callahan going forward. And now
Speaker 1: he's gonna have more of an opportunity, but if that
Speaker 1: haunts him and follows him to the next team, it's
Speaker 1: always gonna be you know that question, Mark, are you
Speaker 1: gonna be ready for the biggest of games we need
Speaker 1: you for? And talk about raising the bar when you
Speaker 1: get Eddie Jackson said he one to top everything the
Speaker 1: eighty five Bears did, and Tom, you know, I threw
Speaker 1: out obviously the steel curtain in the era of the
Speaker 1: seventies and how great their defenses were. Baltimore Ravens probably
Speaker 1: the most I think comparable to what the Bears did
Speaker 1: in the eighty five. But the statistics are ridiculous. Sixty
Speaker 1: four sets on the season by the eighty five Bears
Speaker 1: thirty four interceptions, only gave up six rushing touchdowns, seventy
Speaker 1: four rushing first downs, only thirteen little over thirteen hundred
Speaker 1: yards rushing, one hundred and forty one passing first downs,
Speaker 1: and only twenty eight little over twenty eight hundred yards passing.
Speaker 1: Those are tough statistics to top, and I commend Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson that they feel that they're going to try and
Speaker 1: make a run at it. But man, it's far different
Speaker 1: in how the game's played now. With three wide receivers,
Speaker 1: that eleven personnel over twenty two thousand snaps of eleven
Speaker 1: personnel of what teams ran, that is more than double
Speaker 1: of all other personnel groupings combined in just where the
Speaker 1: game's changed. Maybe just talk about Eddie Jackson's comments and
Speaker 1: how difficult that is and how realistic it is to
Speaker 1: top some of those great defensive statistics. Five Bears. I
Speaker 1: love Eddie Jackson. I love the confidence that he's coming
Speaker 1: into the second season, of the second season with Matt
Speaker 1: Naggey with Obviously, he's got some good teachings from his
Speaker 1: college career. He's in a professional type program down there
Speaker 1: in Alabama. But when I look at the modern day offenses.
Speaker 1: When I look at these eighty five stats, I think
Speaker 1: it's really difficult to surpass the sixty four sacks because
Speaker 1: even if they go to the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: they have a pass play called, sometimes they get out
Speaker 1: of it because they know they're overwhelmed at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and they're just going to try to run
Speaker 1: a play into a safety zone, whereas sometimes an old
Speaker 1: school and as a question I wanted to ask otis
Speaker 1: is about did you get the feel of teams autobowling
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage? And that was at a
Speaker 1: pro or a con for them because now when you
Speaker 1: break the huddle, you break the huddle with two plays called,
Speaker 1: and then they call what they feel as best against
Speaker 1: the front they're seeing. You know, I think the next
Speaker 1: year after the sixty four sacks, the Bears went on
Speaker 1: to have maybe seventy two. So it was that you know,
Speaker 1: that number the Bears because of the aggressiveness of their rush,
Speaker 1: the style of defense they're playing, and the limitations of
Speaker 1: the offense to get them out of some plays that
Speaker 1: were detrimental to this type of quarterback they had that
Speaker 1: we're taking the center quarterback exchange. So I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot difference of the quarterback play, there's a lot
Speaker 1: difference in the tempo at the line of scrimmage. But
Speaker 1: you know, again, I'm glad Eddie Jackson is confidently saying
Speaker 1: that he would like to be part of a team
Speaker 1: that has the ability to surpass what those guys did statistically. Well,
Speaker 1: let's go out to the guest line. He gets some
Speaker 1: of the comments from Otis Wilson, two time All Pro
Speaker 1: as a Chicago Bear a linebacker, because Eddie Jackson, man,
Speaker 1: those are some big numbers to achieve when you look
Speaker 1: at that eighty five Bears defense. So let's welcome in
Speaker 1: Otis Wilson to the program. Otis, Jim Millard, Tom there,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking a few moments of your day. Otis welcome, guys.
Speaker 1: How you guys doing good? Big? Oh, you know we're again.
Speaker 1: I'm confident. I'm happy that Eddie Jackson is talking about
Speaker 1: defense and play with confidence because I think that's an
Speaker 1: important thing for any team to have that confidence. So
Speaker 1: I think it gives the offense confidence. But when you
Speaker 1: look at some of the numbers that you guys put up,
Speaker 1: you know, start specifically with sixty four sacks and thirty
Speaker 1: four interceptions when you watch football today, is the eighty
Speaker 1: five defense capable of achieving those types of numbers with
Speaker 1: a different style at the line of scrimmage? Well, you
Speaker 1: hit it on the head. I mean, the game of
Speaker 1: football is totally different from when we played. And you know,
Speaker 1: the aggressiveness in football is totally different from when we played.
Speaker 1: And you know the style I mean, and that's basically
Speaker 1: when you're talking about a spread offense, you know, and
Speaker 1: throwing the football a lot and just really basically doing
Speaker 1: things a lot differently. You know, it would be kind
Speaker 1: of hard to do because number one, I would have
Speaker 1: to say it, you can't be aggressive, you know, you
Speaker 1: get fine. Secondly, you know you had more running plays, um,
Speaker 1: then now you got pad more passive plays. Shouldn't been
Speaker 1: a totally different game. So I don't think, Bacon, we
Speaker 1: could have done what we're doing today. We can do
Speaker 1: then what we can do today. Yeah, And you look
Speaker 1: at it all the wide receiver screens. They get the
Speaker 1: ball out of the quarterback's hand so quickly nowadays, and
Speaker 1: a lot of it is just run after the catch.
Speaker 1: There a lot of offenses are geared towards just getting
Speaker 1: the run after the catch, and it's kind of a
Speaker 1: fast pass happy league, is what we've seen. A you're
Speaker 1: protecting these guys so much. Yeah, you can't, you know, really,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you can't touch a lot wide
Speaker 1: receiver after four yards or five yards. You know, I
Speaker 1: think the offense had truly had an advantage right now,
Speaker 1: big Oal. So when you were at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: were you aware of when a team was audibling against
Speaker 1: you and was that a good thing for them, a
Speaker 1: bad thing for them, or was it a good thing
Speaker 1: for you or a bad thing. But because you know
Speaker 1: nowadays the audible is built into the terminology coming out
Speaker 1: of the huddle, back in our days, there was kind
Speaker 1: of an alert word or an alert phrase that changed
Speaker 1: the play at the line of scrimmage with terminology, What
Speaker 1: did you how did what did you feel at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage other teams were trying to do at
Speaker 1: those difficult times? Well, I don't know, if you remember, Tom,
Speaker 1: we would call AFC, would matter front and cover, you know,
Speaker 1: and then we have the coverage to go along with it,
Speaker 1: depending on the set that the offense came out of.
Speaker 1: So we really never had a set defense that you
Speaker 1: know we would play. And you know, Singletary was so
Speaker 1: well versed in film watching and whatever teams did a
Speaker 1: lot of times whether they audibleed or whether they just
Speaker 1: ran to play, a lot of times he would call
Speaker 1: out to play. We were getting adam, because we knew
Speaker 1: what they were going to run. We wanted them to
Speaker 1: run it. You know, don't call them or them might
Speaker 1: be quiet and let them go ahead and run right
Speaker 1: into what we're doing. So, to make a long story abailable,
Speaker 1: we were doing what offenses doing today. We will call
Speaker 1: two or three different defenses and depending on what the
Speaker 1: set was, depending what they did, that's what we went
Speaker 1: into well in terms of in Tom and I just
Speaker 1: brought it up because there's so much eleven personnel being
Speaker 1: run in the NFL over twenty two thousand plays last year.
Speaker 1: Out of eleven personnel, three wide receiver sets buy offenses.
Speaker 1: And for the listeners out there, you're normally defensively substituting
Speaker 1: out of linebacker and substituting in a nickel, So essentially
Speaker 1: you're in forty two nickel. I mean, how much can
Speaker 1: you even take us back or remember potentially how much
Speaker 1: eleven personnel you maybe saw back in eighty five. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what we really you know, we had the
Speaker 1: luxury of not interchanging our lineback as much. Number one,
Speaker 1: you know, because I would have usually run with a
Speaker 1: tight end. Wilba was faster than I was. He can
Speaker 1: sometime run with a wide receiver because mind you, we
Speaker 1: didn't have to run but ten, ten to fifteen yards
Speaker 1: because the ball was already gone. We allowed people to
Speaker 1: hold that football that long to wait till for play
Speaker 1: the mature, you know, so we didn't even change the
Speaker 1: I think the one mistake that we did make it
Speaker 1: if I can say anything, is in the Miami game
Speaker 1: when Buddy kept Wilba on the wide receiver, and I
Speaker 1: think Duper and Clayton, those those two guys were probably
Speaker 1: a little faster than he was. And then Marino with
Speaker 1: that three step drop. I mean, you know, he was
Speaker 1: popping in there. So, you know, because Dicker and Buddy
Speaker 1: was going back and forth about putting a d be
Speaker 1: in there. So I think that would probably the only
Speaker 1: situation because obviously you know, three receivers now you know,
Speaker 1: linebacker wouldn't be in there. I mean, because they know,
Speaker 1: no way I'm running with a four or four or
Speaker 1: four to three or four two guys, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just not humanly possible. Hey, big oh. When you think
Speaker 1: about Dan Marino and his skill set and you think
Speaker 1: about Tom Brady and his skill set up today, I
Speaker 1: think they would probably tie if they ran a forty
Speaker 1: against each other, And it was difficult to get to
Speaker 1: Marino because that style of defense. Do you see any
Speaker 1: similarities in the style of offense that Brady plays when
Speaker 1: you think about the way Marino played back in the day,
Speaker 1: You're right in saying as far as run wise, both
Speaker 1: of neither one of them you have to you know,
Speaker 1: clocked in with the calendar in the forty. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, with the receivers that Brady hads and
Speaker 1: receivers that Marino then had, I mean, those those guys
Speaker 1: are mirror of each other. I mean they they're heading,
Speaker 1: they you know, had talent on the offensive side, and
Speaker 1: you know they both get that ball out when they need. Well.
Speaker 1: What's interesting too, is you guys back in eighty five
Speaker 1: only allowed six rushing touchdowns and probably the biggest team
Speaker 1: that runs the most eleven personnel would be the Rams.
Speaker 1: Eighty nine percent of their plays were an eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: but yet they ran the ball over five yards to
Speaker 1: carry last year for the Rams. Do you think because
Speaker 1: it just seems like the fullback has gone away of
Speaker 1: the Dodo bird that now that is more of a
Speaker 1: running set than ever before as well. And how would
Speaker 1: you defend that? Otis? Well, that that is the key,
Speaker 1: you know, you the fullback is kind of obsolete now.
Speaker 1: I mean it turns into a tight end you know,
Speaker 1: you know, or wide big wide receivers. So but basically,
Speaker 1: I mean, we would defend it real simple. You know,
Speaker 1: we go into the forty six and we'll make them
Speaker 1: keep players in because I mean that's what really the
Speaker 1: forty six you're designed to do. I mean, to keep
Speaker 1: a tight end in there or keep her back in there.
Speaker 1: Are you're gonna lose your quarterback. So we wanted to
Speaker 1: minimize the amount of people you're sitting out on pass.
Speaker 1: So that'd be real simple. You know, call AFC and
Speaker 1: jump right in at forty six and you know, make
Speaker 1: them either either block somebody or you know, where league
Speaker 1: guy out of there, you know, Jim and Otis. And
Speaker 1: what's interesting about that as you think about the personnel
Speaker 1: groupings that the Rams used today. And then otis you
Speaker 1: go back to the Rams playoff game in the week
Speaker 1: before they played, you guys, Dickerson had two hundred yards
Speaker 1: rushing or something, and that was gonna be the thing.
Speaker 1: Is they were gonna come and they were gonna run
Speaker 1: at the Chicago Bears and the big famous third and
Speaker 1: one or fourth and one stop that Singletary had against Dickerson,
Speaker 1: but their inability to run the ball. And that's the
Speaker 1: one thing I think that would translate the most from
Speaker 1: the time in eighty five even to this era with
Speaker 1: the running style that these teams would try to have
Speaker 1: and they would try to block with an undersize h
Speaker 1: back or a player that doesn't have the skills of
Speaker 1: the old school fullbacks. And then that's the key because
Speaker 1: if you remember Tom, you know, a lot of teams
Speaker 1: when you they send Lawrence Taylor on that week's side,
Speaker 1: most of the time he was he was going against
Speaker 1: a back that was wasn't more than two hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: I mean, he outweighed him about fifty pounds. So what
Speaker 1: did everybody expect him to do? All he's got past
Speaker 1: that tackle that wasn't really a jib though, and you
Speaker 1: know that's what you do. You know, that's what we did.
Speaker 1: We made people change their personnel and going back to
Speaker 1: the rams. Yes, you know, every they kept two tight
Speaker 1: ends and and you know I was trying to trying
Speaker 1: to deal with us that way. Well, Otis, how's the
Speaker 1: golf game, how's your summer game going along? You got
Speaker 1: the tea time set for tomorrow? You know what. I
Speaker 1: actually played the other day at Lost March with a
Speaker 1: group for the first team to help raise some money
Speaker 1: for the young folks, and I played very well. I
Speaker 1: mean I actually hit the ball pretty decent, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to a good year because really
Speaker 1: we only have been having some nice weather in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. I've been waiting for the rain leave
Speaker 1: us alone. So I'm I'll be out there and from
Speaker 1: this point on and this year, I finally enjoyed my game.
Speaker 1: I broke down and spent some money on my game,
Speaker 1: and I'm really I'm really liking what I see. Well, Otis,
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for your time to enjoyed the
Speaker 1: rest of your summer and get those rounds in. My friend, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you much. And you know, I think Tom was
Speaker 1: mentioning something about you know, I like to see these guys,
Speaker 1: you know, they want to compare themselves with us, and
Speaker 1: because that's the benchmark to everybody. I mean, all got
Speaker 1: those calls around Super Bowl because you know, did everybody
Speaker 1: look at the numbers and see what we do? I mean,
Speaker 1: they can come up to half of what we did.
Speaker 1: That defense will be great. Otis Wilson, everybody. We'll be
Speaker 1: back with more Bears All Access right after this. Keep
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Speaker 1: those eighty five statistics were staggering sixty four sacks on
Speaker 1: the season. Last year, two teams they were only able
Speaker 1: to achieve fifty two sacks, and that was the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bears in Vikings with
Speaker 1: fifty sex on the season's Bears got a ton of
Speaker 1: turnovers as well last year, but thirty four interceptions for
Speaker 1: the season for that eighty five group, And when you
Speaker 1: look at it, Tom, I mean, some of those numbers
Speaker 1: do seem with today's game and how it's played, that
Speaker 1: they would be very difficult to reach. But again, you
Speaker 1: commend to Eddie Jackson, you gotta have goals, and I
Speaker 1: think they're talent enough to go out and try and
Speaker 1: reach those goals. For this twenty nineteen Bears group, you know, Jim,
Speaker 1: because of the percentage of the time that offenses are
Speaker 1: throwing the ball, is it interceptions? Is the one that
Speaker 1: can realistically get beat by a defense that is has
Speaker 1: a defensive backfield of their four or five and six
Speaker 1: dybs at times that are just their cover skills in
Speaker 1: the matchup of the pressure of the front seven. Is
Speaker 1: that the one number that can be not that can
Speaker 1: be most tracked down. Maybe it'll never get to that,
Speaker 1: maybe it will, but you know, because when I look
Speaker 1: at that thirty four interceptions, a lot of it has
Speaker 1: to do with the type of athletes that were playing quarterback.
Speaker 1: Then when you're looking at Steve Grogan and Tony Easton
Speaker 1: and some of the quarterbacks that couldn't run away from
Speaker 1: any of the defensive players at that time. Nowadays, when
Speaker 1: you look at Deshaun Watson, you look at Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: and you look at just the creativity of the New
Speaker 1: Orleans quarterback, I'm just just yeah, Drew Brees, you know,
Speaker 1: just their skill sets, you know, is the sac one
Speaker 1: is going to be difficult. The timing of the offenses
Speaker 1: is difficult. But if you get quarterbacks that are either
Speaker 1: injured and they're working into the depth of their quarterback
Speaker 1: But and that really didn't affect you know, San Francisco
Speaker 1: last year with the three quarterbacks they ran throughout the season,
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't you know, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they threw thirty four combined interception. So that's
Speaker 1: the one thing. Is that the one that's the most
Speaker 1: reachable of all the stats that we are talking about
Speaker 1: of that era. Hey, twenty seven interceptions last year as
Speaker 1: a group. But you're right, I mean they will be
Speaker 1: facing some tough backs right away. You're going to say,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers out the gate. September fifth, when the Bears
Speaker 1: line up to play the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: they will face Drew Brees October twentieth. That'll be a
Speaker 1: four to twenty five pm Eastern Time games. So they've
Speaker 1: got some quality quarterbacks that they'll be facing this year,
Speaker 1: and it's difficult to do, but we'll have to see
Speaker 1: how the Bears tacker. And I think the key to
Speaker 1: a time is because so many teams are running so
Speaker 1: much eleven personnel. Like I said, twenty two thousand place,
Speaker 1: that's more than double of all other personnel groupings, whether
Speaker 1: it's two tight ends twenty one, which is a two
Speaker 1: running backs, fullback in two wide receivers, it's more than
Speaker 1: double of all other personnel groupings combined. So I do
Speaker 1: think it's difficult, but I think the key is is
Speaker 1: a lot of these teams are running the football out
Speaker 1: of eleven personnel on first and second down. I bring
Speaker 1: up the rams. You gotta believe Matt Lafleur, who's now
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, he has
Speaker 1: that same scheme that he plans on utilizing. So how
Speaker 1: much will Green Bay run the football on first and
Speaker 1: second down out of eleven personnel? Because I think the
Speaker 1: old adage holds true if you can hold them to
Speaker 1: create third and longs Now you're cooking with gas where
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity. So if you can stop the
Speaker 1: run out of eleven personnel and first and second down
Speaker 1: where a lot of teams have taken advantage, now you've
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to maybe eclipse those sack totals of
Speaker 1: potentially those interception totals which are close, but there's still
Speaker 1: that is a long way to go from fifty to
Speaker 1: sixty four sacks and from twenty seven to thirty four
Speaker 1: interceptions of the eighty five beris. You know, it's weird
Speaker 1: too about today's NFL. I think there's a lot more
Speaker 1: consistency in coaching staffs back in the day when again
Speaker 1: I keep just recurrent for referring to the eighties, because
Speaker 1: you had Chuck Noll, you had Don Shula, you had
Speaker 1: Tom Landry, you had these guys that were with their
Speaker 1: organization for sometimes ten and twenty years. Now you got
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, he's the guy that's been in New England
Speaker 1: the longest. And now with all these coaching changes, and
Speaker 1: then you get the analytics involved, and then you get
Speaker 1: the scouting involved, you know, it's almost there's a certain
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of uncertainty within the first four
Speaker 1: weeks of a season because you don't know how La
Speaker 1: Flour is going to run his offense. You don't even
Speaker 1: know how that Chuck Pagano's going to run his defense.
Speaker 1: You don't know how Vic Fangio is going to run
Speaker 1: both his offense and defense out in Denver. So with
Speaker 1: all these coaching changes that take place so frequently now
Speaker 1: in the NFL, that's why analytics play a role. I
Speaker 1: think in deciding what types of personality you're going to
Speaker 1: play early, and then of all of a sudden in
Speaker 1: week four you notice there's a real deficiency in a
Speaker 1: nickelback on a team, or you look at a real
Speaker 1: deficiency and the ability for a front seven to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Then you start seeing game plans organized
Speaker 1: towards the deficiencies of your opponents. Yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: when we come back TOIME, I want to focus on
Speaker 1: the division. I want to talk Detroit Lions, how they're
Speaker 1: the subtle changes that the Detroit Lions are going to
Speaker 1: be different this year. Green Bay we certainly though that's
Speaker 1: a whole new coach up there. But I think with
Speaker 1: the acquisition of Gary Kubiak up there in Minnesota. That
Speaker 1: is going to be a great help to Kevin Stefanski,
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator, and they got better on their offensive line.
Speaker 1: So when we come back on Bears All Access, let's
Speaker 1: talk in division, the NFC North, the Black and Blue Division. Hey,
Speaker 1: who's going to run the football? Because it sounds like
Speaker 1: the Lions they'll be first up, that's what they're gearing
Speaker 1: to do. We'll be back right after this. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Bears All Access. Hey, we started the show talking
Speaker 1: about the Bears. They went from worst to first in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. They are not going to surprise anybody. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Matt Nagy talking about that complacency would be the worst
Speaker 1: trait the Bears could have. So they've got to be
Speaker 1: ready and what to anticipate in the NFC North because
Speaker 1: you win your division, hey, you're gonna have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. And you look at the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions that they have made a lot of changes here
Speaker 1: at this offseason. Brought in a new offensive coordinator, Daryl Bevel.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows him from his days and Seattle, and they
Speaker 1: wanted to pound the football. They suddenly have already changed
Speaker 1: much like the Bears did. With James Daniels. They took
Speaker 1: Graham Glasgow who was their center, kicked him out to guard,
Speaker 1: and now Frank Ragnow, who was a first round draft
Speaker 1: pick last year out of Arkansas, he will now be
Speaker 1: moved into center. They go out and they signed C. J.
Speaker 1: Anderson and hope to have a healthy carry on Johnson.
Speaker 1: Then they drafted two tight ends as well, when you
Speaker 1: look at TJ. Hockinson out of Iowa, and they went
Speaker 1: came back in the seventh round and drafted Isaac Nada,
Speaker 1: who's more of a movement tight end. Kabile a fullback
Speaker 1: h back type of that type of scenario for them,
Speaker 1: So their focus seems to be more on running the
Speaker 1: football defensively, Tom, this team did not play that bad defensively,
Speaker 1: and I know it was the first year of Matt
Speaker 1: Patricia and they ended up six and ten on the season.
Speaker 1: But the Detroit Lions, they were a top ten defense
Speaker 1: a season ago. They were playing extremely well down the
Speaker 1: stretch defensively. But I think they're a team that plans
Speaker 1: on shifting and running the football much more would be
Speaker 1: the anticipation from the Detroit Lions. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Detroit? You know, I think Detroit they had a
Speaker 1: lot of defensive back injuries, and I do think matt
Speaker 1: Patricia is a good defensive coach, and I think their
Speaker 1: defense will get better. The one area that scares me
Speaker 1: about the Detroit Lions and where their deficiency I think
Speaker 1: will lie two young offensive lineman playing next to each
Speaker 1: other with the first time center and a slow footed quarterback.
Speaker 1: And Matthew Stafford, he's a good athlete, he's got he's
Speaker 1: super intelligent, he's got a powerful, accurate arm. But if
Speaker 1: you give up any type of crease impact in that
Speaker 1: interior of the defense, and now you're making him be
Speaker 1: an athlete to his writers left, that's what you're taking
Speaker 1: away from him. And so I'm really interested to see
Speaker 1: how these two guys fit and form into their new
Speaker 1: interior offensive line positions. And he does run out of
Speaker 1: the shotgun a lot, and they run a lot of
Speaker 1: their running game from that standard formation out of the shotgun.
Speaker 1: But again, I do think if you put Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: in a position in retreat of retreat, of trying to escape,
Speaker 1: that's when you take advantage of one of his you know,
Speaker 1: deficiencies or weaknesses or however you want to say it
Speaker 1: because time is catching up with him. He's not a
Speaker 1: guy that is He's always a guy that is a
Speaker 1: not a heavy but he's a thicker quarterback and his
Speaker 1: arm strength has always been his main asset. Well, much
Speaker 1: like the Detroit Lions, green Bay kind of went in
Speaker 1: that direction as well. Defense will remain the same under
Speaker 1: Mike Pennon and what they'll be running defensively. Offensively, it's
Speaker 1: going to be totally different. Nathaniel Hackett brought into is
Speaker 1: the offensive quitner, so the terminology doesn't change. It's a
Speaker 1: West Coast offense. But Matt Lafleur, he's a disciple of
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh and the La Rams, So I expect a
Speaker 1: lot of three wide personnel. But will they run the
Speaker 1: football because that seemed to be the bona contention last
Speaker 1: year in the news is that Aaron Rodgers was audibiling
Speaker 1: too many plays. So you'd like to think that Matt
Speaker 1: Laflour is going to try and get a handle on
Speaker 1: this somewhat for the Green Bay Packers. And again, I
Speaker 1: I think there's another You know, the offensive line is
Speaker 1: going to be responsible for the success of them being
Speaker 1: able to run the ball because as quickly as you
Speaker 1: take the ball out of the Aaron Rodgers hands and
Speaker 1: handed to a running back, then you're trying to you
Speaker 1: you are putting the pressure on the upfront eyes. The
Speaker 1: biggest threat that Green Bay can pose to any defense
Speaker 1: is keeping the ball in his hands as long as
Speaker 1: he possibly can find a target. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that's the way this system is run. I think this
Speaker 1: system is run and a timing of you call the
Speaker 1: play in the huddle, you go to the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage with two plays, and then you have to stick
Speaker 1: with the decision of what you've called in the huddle.
Speaker 1: There's not going to be freedom for Aaron Rodgers. And
Speaker 1: when you take the freedom out of his hands and
Speaker 1: now you put it in the feet. In the blocking
Speaker 1: ability of the offensive line, I think this offensive line
Speaker 1: has some deficiency, although there you know, I do hear
Speaker 1: compliments about it. I think as a group, they've had injuries,
Speaker 1: they have issues at the offensive tackle positions staying healthy,
Speaker 1: and man, if you don't keep Aaron Rodgers as the
Speaker 1: biggest threat behind center, then you put a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a challenge to the offensive line. And finally,
Speaker 1: you look at the Minnesota Vikings again the changes on offense,
Speaker 1: So the Bears are going to have to keep up
Speaker 1: with how these teams. Their five game breakdown is early
Speaker 1: in the year because Minnesota with Kevin Stefanski, he's somewhat
Speaker 1: of a new play caller, but you know how they
Speaker 1: call plays offensively, certainly going to affect the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: of what they need to be ready for going into
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Well, hey, everybody, we thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us tonight on Bears All Access. We'll do it again
Speaker 1: next week training camp just around the corner. Tom As always,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me this hour and we'll be back
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