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Speaker 3: Championship Week Get Ahead in the NFL, the Bears working
Speaker 3: towards getting back there, something they've done only five times
Speaker 3: since nineteen seventy. A new takeout of the Bears offense
Speaker 3: with the hiring this week of Shane Aldrin, his offensive
Speaker 3: coordinator from Seattle, where he called plays for three seasons.
Speaker 4: So it's time to rock and roll.
Speaker 3: My broadcast partner Tom Thayer, the Super Bowl winning Bears
Speaker 3: guard and former Bears quarterback Jim Miller from Serious x
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Speaker 4: Tell me how you feeling today, buddy, Oh, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I'm excited about the week that took place up at
Speaker 5: Hallas Hall. You know, the most interesting thing I think
Speaker 5: if you have a career in professional sports is what's
Speaker 5: your first opportunity at the highest level is gone?
Speaker 6: How quickly does that next opportunity come?
Speaker 5: And when you know, I get cut as a player,
Speaker 5: you kind of hope that your phone rings again to
Speaker 5: give you another opportunity.
Speaker 6: And I think the same thing goes along with the coach.
Speaker 5: And I'm glad that the Bears have identified Shane Waldron
Speaker 5: to be the next leader of the offense.
Speaker 6: And I'm excited to see what he can do with
Speaker 6: this group of guys.
Speaker 4: What's your vibe about him? What are you what are
Speaker 4: you thinking? You know?
Speaker 6: I like that he has experienced in calling plays.
Speaker 5: I like the experience that he's had in the difficult division.
Speaker 5: I like the fact that he's taking a guy like
Speaker 5: Geno Smith that a lot of guys have given up
Speaker 5: on and he turned him into a Pro Bowl player.
Speaker 5: And I think that is really interesting to me because
Speaker 5: the difficulty of the movement of the.
Speaker 6: Quarterback position in Seattle.
Speaker 5: You know, he never lost his conviction to the type
Speaker 5: of system he wanted to run, no matter who was
Speaker 5: playing quarterback for him, So whether it's Drew Locke, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 5: or Geno Smith, and the program was successful the whole
Speaker 5: time he was there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, last two years, Gino thirty two games, seventy nine
Speaker 3: hundred passing yards, fifty touchdowns, twenty interceptions, a ninety six
Speaker 3: y five QBR, five hundred and twenty one yards rushing,
Speaker 3: two touchdowns, and Pro Bowler Comeback Player of the Year
Speaker 3: and a playoff game. So right, well that's a lot
Speaker 3: of good math. And you got to give a lot
Speaker 3: of credit to Gino too, because he always believed in himself.
Speaker 4: He never doubted it.
Speaker 3: And this was just a perfect mix of coaching and
Speaker 3: guy give Dave Canalis his quarterback. She became the head
Speaker 3: coach of the Carolina Panthers. Now credit as well for
Speaker 3: working out the math and getting everything done surrounding with
Speaker 3: the right people.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, that's the psychology of coaching. You have
Speaker 5: to make sure no matter who you're coaching in the
Speaker 5: depth of the position, you have that you can convince
Speaker 5: whomever you're trying to coach to get ready that they
Speaker 5: can be successful within their system and they have the
Speaker 5: ability as the player to go out there and play
Speaker 5: at an NFL level. So I like that as much
Speaker 5: as any aspects about Shane.
Speaker 3: All right, we haven't met him yet, we haven't talked
Speaker 3: to him, but you know, you put two and two
Speaker 3: together about what he comes with him. Sean McVay obviously
Speaker 3: somebody that's significant to him, and that system carries over
Speaker 3: in many different cities now in the NFL. But it
Speaker 3: is a system that includes running the football zone, rushing
Speaker 3: to set up some deep shots. And they had some
Speaker 3: really interesting characters there, and Metcalf Lockett and Jackson and
Speaker 3: Jay and and two really good young running backs and KENNETHA.
Speaker 4: Walker and Zach Charboney.
Speaker 3: A lot of motion, got a quick release, find the
Speaker 3: open short to intermediate and make something happen after the catch,
Speaker 3: and the use of the tight end former tight end
Speaker 3: himself at Toughs where he played his college football.
Speaker 4: Also, Tom, you'll be happy you know he's a launch snapper.
Speaker 6: He was a launch snapper.
Speaker 4: Was a launch snapper.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 5: My first roommate in the USFL was a guy named
Speaker 5: Mark Buben who graduated from Toughs University. And I never
Speaker 5: thought I'd hear of another football player from Toughs. And
Speaker 5: then when I started reading his bio, not only is
Speaker 5: he born on August seventeenth and I'm August sixteenth, then
Speaker 5: I see the Toughs University in his background.
Speaker 6: So it's it's fun. It's fun to see that.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it seems like the tight end position and
Speaker 5: the long snapping position used to go hand in hand
Speaker 5: back in the back in the NFL days, and and
Speaker 5: so I like that with his you know, his building
Speaker 5: blocks to where he's gotten, you know, have been a
Speaker 5: lot of different coaching personalities, a lot of different elements
Speaker 5: of trying to learn the different aspects of what you said,
Speaker 5: motion and you know the use of the tight end,
Speaker 5: good running backs, good wide receiver.
Speaker 6: But it's all according to the talent that you're offered.
Speaker 5: And so I don't think that you can come in
Speaker 5: here and have a system and say, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: put I'm gonna use this specifically. Okay, let me study
Speaker 5: my assets. Let me see where I can start. Is
Speaker 5: this system teachable enough where you can include those motions
Speaker 5: and do you have the practice time to have all
Speaker 5: those Yeah, but it has to be it takes a while,
Speaker 5: you know, when you have specific motions that fit according
Speaker 5: to listen, looking coverages and trying to give some defense,
Speaker 5: to give you some clues, it's it's super specific and
Speaker 5: it's got to be perfection, not general, not general.
Speaker 3: Error, is Right's yeah, Speaking from an offensive lineman's perspective,
Speaker 3: the same goes there.
Speaker 4: It's got to be specifics right.
Speaker 6: Right, right.
Speaker 5: But you know, there's just a lot of things that
Speaker 5: go hand in hand when you talk about motion and
Speaker 5: an offense, and nobody will be able to tell us
Speaker 5: that better than Jim Miller.
Speaker 6: So you know, I just think it's something we watch.
Speaker 4: And then the.
Speaker 3: Big thing too is you know, I was just on
Speaker 3: with Wada and Sylvie for a little bit and the
Speaker 3: idea that this is maybe not gonna be that much
Speaker 3: of a departure scheme wise from what the Bears had,
Speaker 3: and I'm I don't know for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, the language could be different.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's different, the play calls and how they're
Speaker 3: how they're charted. How they're called is an art that
Speaker 3: has to be a feel. It's got to be a setup.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to. I mean, I'm glad it's
Speaker 3: not like a complete redo and everybody's got to take
Speaker 3: a couple of years to learn it. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: not that's not gonna help a team that's ready to
Speaker 3: take that next step with the hall they're gonna get
Speaker 3: from the draft and free agency and the further development
Speaker 3: of the current players.
Speaker 6: But the language is gonna be different, different, different.
Speaker 5: And that's the most difficult aspect of making sure that
Speaker 5: all eleven guys are always on the same page. And
Speaker 5: no matter what system you're talking about, there's gonna be
Speaker 5: eleven guys on offense, there's gonna be eleven guys on defense.
Speaker 5: And everybody sitting in that room is not an a student.
Speaker 5: So it's gonna take different levels of learning when you
Speaker 5: try to incorporate the new, a new language into an
Speaker 5: offense that.
Speaker 6: You know everybody else.
Speaker 5: Everybody has the responsibility of spending a little bit of
Speaker 5: extra time studying.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, they're putting together an offensive staff around
Speaker 3: Shane Waldron and the Bears also looking for defensive coordinator help.
Speaker 3: A couple of known reported candidates, Chris Harris, our good
Speaker 3: friend obviously the defensive passing game coordinator of Tennessee and
Speaker 3: the former Bears cornerback, assistant head coach and defensive line
Speaker 3: coach in Tennessee, Terrell Williams. Also a report that the
Speaker 3: Bears asked to interview. Eric Washington was with Lobby Smiths
Speaker 3: staff here for several years. He's the assistant head coach
Speaker 3: d line coach for a Buffalo. I'm sure there'll be
Speaker 3: doing more names. We're gonna take our first break down
Speaker 3: me when we come back. We'll hopefully be joined by
Speaker 3: Jim Miller. We'll break down what's going on with the
Speaker 3: Bears in terms of what they have to offer. Look
Speaker 3: at many different aspects of things as it relates to
Speaker 3: Shane Waldron and I look around what's news right now
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Speaker 4: Fifty two already, Tommy, I have enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: We got Bears Kicking legend Robbie Gold on his career
Speaker 3: and playoff kicking pressure. Obviously a lot of discussion on
Speaker 3: Tyler Bass the breakdown there some really good stuff and Tom,
Speaker 3: we had a good time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was you know, Robbie's a super intelligent guy,
Speaker 5: and until you listen to the podcast, I don't think
Speaker 5: he can really understand how much information that he tries
Speaker 5: to digest to help the special teams coach. But his
Speaker 5: way of thinking, whether it's on a kickoff, on an
Speaker 5: extra point or field goal, to help the punter, to
Speaker 5: help the snapper, and it's really it's interesting in the
Speaker 5: specific details that go into the condition, the field conditions,
Speaker 5: the outside conditions, the wind and the weather, and then
Speaker 5: trying to get the punt return guy or the kickoff
Speaker 5: return guy that's placed in a disadvantage position.
Speaker 3: All Right, we got Jimmy on board now from serious
Speaker 3: x MNFL radios move in the chains. He'd been watching
Speaker 3: the coaching carousel spinning out of control. I didn't realize this,
Speaker 3: Big Jim, and good evening, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4: Atlanta settling on Raheem Morris.
Speaker 3: But one of fourteen candidates that they interviewed for the
Speaker 3: head coaching job, and one of those candidates was Bill Belichick,
Speaker 3: and so fourteen talk about doing due diligence, we start there.
Speaker 3: Some of this has been surprising in terms of the
Speaker 3: volume of interviews by some of these squads and what's
Speaker 3: happened so far in this round of head coaching hires.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's by no surprise. I think for
Speaker 7: Carolina that they get a first time head coach in
Speaker 7: Dave Canelis. I mean that, you know, I don't know
Speaker 7: any veteran coach that was going to deal with an
Speaker 7: owner that obviously is very involved in his team, somewhat
Speaker 7: meddling at times. So I think we understood it was
Speaker 7: going to be a first time coach. So good luck
Speaker 7: to Dave Canelis and what he has going there in Carolina.
Speaker 7: Atlanta's somewhat baffling because you already had Raheem Morris in
Speaker 7: the building. You know, he was there. They had him
Speaker 7: as an interim head coach, and he did fine. He's
Speaker 7: a leader of men, he's all those things. He went
Speaker 7: out to the Rams obviously got another Super Bowl there,
Speaker 7: and then they bring him back when they could have
Speaker 7: hired him in the first place, you know, And it
Speaker 7: just seems like the same type of move there for Atlanta.
Speaker 7: You've got other coaches that were decorated coaches that have
Speaker 7: done it for a long time and ben world champions,
Speaker 7: like a Bill Belichick who was interviewed there. So you
Speaker 7: thought that maybe they were going to go in a
Speaker 7: different direction because that owner wants to win. Now there's
Speaker 7: you know, I think there's a lot of other pushback there.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of status quo in that building. I
Speaker 7: think some higher ups there as well did not want
Speaker 7: to shake up the apple cart there because you know,
Speaker 7: they have a lot of control, so I can you know,
Speaker 7: it's kind of surprising that they went in the direction
Speaker 7: that they didn't. I'd like Raheem. I've spent time with Raheem.
Speaker 7: He's a great coach, there's no doubt about that. But
Speaker 7: they could have hired him the first time around, so
Speaker 7: that's somewhat baffling and hardball. Obviously, landing out there for
Speaker 7: the Chargers I think makes a lot of sense. You know,
Speaker 7: he's got ties there when he coached Pacific obviously Stanford
Speaker 7: and had success there and obviously moved on to San
Speaker 7: Francisco and was successful there and then of course going
Speaker 7: back to Michigan and went in the National championship. So
Speaker 7: I think there was a big, you know, uproar that
Speaker 7: for them to land him, to really see what he
Speaker 7: can do with Justin Herbert, so that's not a surprise.
Speaker 7: He'll probably add a GM here soon. I think it
Speaker 7: could be that Brandon Brown from the New York Giants.
Speaker 7: I think he and Jim have already talked, so I
Speaker 7: would think that's going to be an as soon coming
Speaker 7: announcement as well, and then we'll see what happens. He
Speaker 7: got two spots open right Seattle and obviously Washington, and
Speaker 7: I would think for the Washington group, I think the
Speaker 7: leader in the clubhouse is Ben Johnson of the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 7: and they've had him both Aaron Glenn in there now.
Speaker 7: Whether they can wait two weeks. It happened last year, right,
Speaker 7: Arizona waited two weeks and they signed Jonathan Gannon, so
Speaker 7: you know, don't be shocked if that happens. And then
Speaker 7: we'll just see with the Seattle what direction they going.
Speaker 7: I think Dan Quinn would probably be the leader in
Speaker 7: the clubhouse there, and I wouldn't rule out Mike Vrabel
Speaker 7: up there in the Great Northwest, as he and John
Speaker 7: Schneider have really crossed paths before. So all around pretty interesting.
Speaker 7: And Belichick could be shut out unless there's a, you know,
Speaker 7: a coaching move that we're surprised about, a late firing
Speaker 7: that could surprise us.
Speaker 3: And if Bill does not land a position of any
Speaker 3: kind short of head coach, I don't see him being
Speaker 3: interested in anything else. But it would end a forty
Speaker 3: nine year stretch of coaching consecutively in the NFL, whatever
Speaker 3: position was for Bill Belichick. So quite the run, and
Speaker 3: I'm certain we haven't heard the last from Bill, no
Speaker 3: matter if it's a different hiring cycle or whatever the
Speaker 3: case may be. But Tom, I know you and I
Speaker 3: both feel very strongly about Iron Glenn, and the reason
Speaker 3: I do is because of what people have told me
Speaker 3: about him in the past. People have worked with him
Speaker 3: and have studied him. He is a great head coaching candidate,
Speaker 3: but again, offensive coaches get up most of the love
Speaker 3: right now in the modern day NFL.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know that doesn't always mean it's the
Speaker 5: right decision, you know. I you know, Will Bell Bell,
Speaker 5: will Bill Belichick leapfrog a guy like Ben Johnson because
Speaker 5: maybe they thought they never had an opportunity to get
Speaker 5: a guy like Belichick, so maybe he jumps to the
Speaker 5: a candidate in that group. And then you know, my
Speaker 5: our experiences with Raheem Morris in the NFL, you know
Speaker 5: he yeah, he was in Atlanta, he got fired by
Speaker 5: Tampa Bay, he did some front office work, and then
Speaker 5: he went to be a coach on the West coast.
Speaker 5: If you've got to tell me that a guy like
Speaker 5: Aaron Glenn is not a better fit for Atlanta when
Speaker 5: he has just been an observer of what Detroit had
Speaker 5: to do to turn that organization around, the role of
Speaker 5: the front office, the role of the emotions and the
Speaker 5: commitment of the head coach. And then his the way
Speaker 5: he you know, kind of addresses his players in game
Speaker 5: type of an attitude to me, I would like, I
Speaker 5: hope Aaron Glenn gets an opportunity because if I had
Speaker 5: the choice between Raheem Morris or Aaron Glenn to go
Speaker 5: to Atlanta, I would have gone to Aaron Glenn just
Speaker 5: because he's been a part of what it takes to
Speaker 5: build a franchise that's been on its knees for twenty
Speaker 5: five to thirty years to give himself into a possible,
Speaker 5: you know, Super Bowl opportunity. And but you know, you
Speaker 5: never know, like Jim says, you never know that if
Speaker 5: people are trying to shy away from meddling owners, like
Speaker 5: in Carolina or Atlanta, they felt that they knew enough
Speaker 5: about Raheem Morris that he was easy to come and
Speaker 5: plug and play. And it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 5: all this goes to me, you know, as Ben Johnson
Speaker 5: a candidate, because he's living off of the personality of
Speaker 5: a guy like Dan Campbell, who is so emotion so
Speaker 5: personal with the players.
Speaker 6: He's got total control of that locker room.
Speaker 5: And so I'm interested to see if he has that personality,
Speaker 5: those personality traits that can go from the sidelines of
Speaker 5: a play caller to addressing a team in a team
Speaker 5: meeting to open up training camp.
Speaker 7: And I want to add one thing just about because
Speaker 7: you're right, I mean these guys, you know, even Brian
Speaker 7: Callahan getting signed there by Tennessee. I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 7: think we understand it's to bring along the young quarterbacks
Speaker 7: or Canalis down there, to bring along young Bryce run
Speaker 7: But let's not forget Bill Belichick's a defensive guy who
Speaker 7: developed Tom Brady.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 7: Pete Carroll is a defensive guy who developed Russell Wilson.
Speaker 7: John Harbaugh is a special teams coach who developed Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 7: Demiko Ryans is a defensive coordinator who has the rookie
Speaker 7: of the Year in CJ. Stroud. So the guys who
Speaker 7: are developing the quarterback, you could make a hard argument
Speaker 7: it's the defensive guys and who they put is oc
Speaker 7: develop the young quarterbacks. So doesn't always ring true just
Speaker 7: because you hire the next great offensive mine or what
Speaker 7: you deem to be the next great offensive mine for
Speaker 7: a system that's not going to equate success. It's defensive
Speaker 7: guys have developed and had good quarterbacks that they have
Speaker 7: developed and drafted.
Speaker 3: In broad Wall well, Gared Mayo and Antonio Pierce now
Speaker 3: and those roles former defensive guys with the Patriots and
Speaker 3: Raiders respectively as the head coach, and I guess the
Speaker 3: Canalis one surprises me the most of just having one year.
Speaker 3: And granted he's had his hand in helping develop two
Speaker 3: veteran quarterbacks get him back on their feet, so to speak,
Speaker 3: in Baker Mayfield this year and last year with Gino Smith,
Speaker 3: so you got to give.
Speaker 4: Him credit for it.
Speaker 3: And then you know about Vic Vangil leaving Miami and
Speaker 3: going over to the Philadelphia Eagles. Tommy that one, I
Speaker 3: don't know behind the scenes. Jim probably has a better
Speaker 3: viewpoint of that, but maybe it's wanting to get closer
Speaker 3: to home. Maybe was not a good fit with the
Speaker 3: head coach there and Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know the thing that surprised me about Vic.
Speaker 5: If Jim Harball would have been hired three days earlier,
Speaker 5: wouldn't Dick Fangio end up in LA with Jim Harball
Speaker 5: Since they have a pass Vick has coached on the
Speaker 5: West Coast, He's familiar with the personality of Jim Harball.
Speaker 5: It would have been interesting to see how that would
Speaker 5: work itself out. But Vic Fangio, if he's looking at
Speaker 5: a template of defensive personnel, it's hard to pass up
Speaker 5: an opportunity to go and try to get the best
Speaker 5: out of those guys. It would have been interesting to
Speaker 5: watch Fangio re united with Khalil Mack out there in LA. So,
Speaker 5: you know, there's a lot of interesting things that the
Speaker 5: coaching carousel is gonna spit out this year.
Speaker 4: Jim, you have any insight on that Miami situation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do think going back home to Pennsylvania, that's
Speaker 7: where he's from, has family in the area, and obviously
Speaker 7: him being a consultant the year prior. I don't disagree
Speaker 7: with Tom on the timing. Maybe if that would have
Speaker 7: been a sure thing, that may have been an opening
Speaker 7: where he gonna used as leverage, obviously, but I think
Speaker 7: he felt good about going back home to spend some
Speaker 7: time with some family.
Speaker 4: All Right, we're gonna take another break here on Bears Weekly.
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Speaker 3: Jim Miller from Serious XM, head of our radio's Move
Speaker 3: in the Chains. Jim, you know you're on the national
Speaker 3: skate stage, but here in town every minute, this is
Speaker 3: only discussing the future quarterback position of the Bears. What
Speaker 3: Ryan Poles is going to do, what does he need
Speaker 3: to do? What do people want him to do? What's
Speaker 3: Justin's future? Are you gonna move that pick? Are you
Speaker 3: gonna package.
Speaker 4: One and nine? What are you getting? I mean, we have.
Speaker 3: Four months of this and we knew this was gonna happen,
Speaker 3: but just scanning the globe of reactions from Bears, Twitter
Speaker 3: or x and fans and listening on the radio, it's something, Jim.
Speaker 4: Is exactly what we thought it would be. Were it's unescapable.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, we get the calls on Serious SEXM and
Speaker 7: you know it seems like it's like split that you
Speaker 7: got to do either or like if you you know,
Speaker 7: trade out of pick number one means you're sticking with
Speaker 7: Fields and you know, want to build around him and
Speaker 7: nobody wants to draft a quarterback, or it's vice versa.
Speaker 7: Draft the quarterback and get rid of fields. You don't
Speaker 7: have to do that. You can do both. You can
Speaker 7: do both. And I brought this up numerous times. I mean,
Speaker 7: they're gonna have to decide on the fifth year option
Speaker 7: with Justin. If they choose to slap the fifth year
Speaker 7: option on them, it'll be about twenty three million bucks,
Speaker 7: twenty to twenty three to twenty five million dollars. Can
Speaker 7: still draft a quarterback with one develop the young player,
Speaker 7: and if Justin fields, you know, plays well, you know,
Speaker 7: you could potentially offer him a long term and that
Speaker 7: could be the same could be said if they don't
Speaker 7: put the fifth year option on Justin, like what Daniel
Speaker 7: Jones happened for the New York Giants. They didn't place
Speaker 7: the fifth year option on Daniel Jones. They let him
Speaker 7: play out the year he guided them to the playoffs,
Speaker 7: had a good year, and they rewarded him with the
Speaker 7: contract that has easy outs. And I've been saying it doesn't.
Speaker 7: It's not a contract like Lamar Jackson's, like a Joe Burrows,
Speaker 7: like a Justin Herbert's, or Kyler Murray or even like
Speaker 7: a Deshaun Watson. You know it has an outclause that yes,
Speaker 7: he's being paid, well, he's being paid at the starting
Speaker 7: quarterback level. And then you can continue to develop the
Speaker 7: the young quarterback and if Justin plays well, you can
Speaker 7: offer him a long term contract there or franchise him
Speaker 7: is what you could do, and you have his rights
Speaker 7: for another year. Why you continue to develop a young quarterback.
Speaker 7: Green Bay drafted a first round quarterback who sat for
Speaker 7: three years. And it's happened before I say it about
Speaker 7: San Diego. At that point, San Diego they had Drew Brees.
Speaker 7: They drafted Philip Rivers first round. Drew Brees was the starter.
Speaker 7: They slapped the franchise tag on Drew Brees. Then he
Speaker 7: had the unfortunate injury to his shoulder. Then they turned
Speaker 7: it over to Philip Rivers. Dallas had Troy Aikman. They
Speaker 7: drafted Steve Waalsh's supplemental draft first round. They had two
Speaker 7: first round quarterbacks and Troy Aikman. Obviously it was one
Speaker 7: in fifteen his rookie year, and then the rest is history.
Speaker 7: Obviously Walsh never essentially touched the field. You can do both,
Speaker 7: and there's nothing wrong with having a competitive quarterback groom.
Speaker 3: Now we all agree with that for sure. But I'll
Speaker 3: tell you one thing, Tommy, if I may, Yeah, after
Speaker 3: watching all these playoffs, one deniable word just keeps popping
Speaker 3: into my.
Speaker 4: Head off the line. The word is special. That's two words.
Speaker 4: To get to where you want to go, you gotta
Speaker 4: have special.
Speaker 5: All right, how about this? Let me ask special. Let
Speaker 5: me ask both of you guys, your reaction.
Speaker 6: All right? Now, Shane Waldron comes.
Speaker 5: Into the building and then in three to five weeks,
Speaker 5: he's got a very specific opinion of how he feels
Speaker 5: about the.
Speaker 6: Quarterback position in going forward?
Speaker 5: Would your respect what he wants to do and say
Speaker 5: he doesn't want to take it with the first pick
Speaker 5: in the draft, but he's willing to, you know, find
Speaker 5: a quarterback.
Speaker 6: What do the Bears have the ninth pick in the draft? Also?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so and so they they get they bring in
Speaker 5: a special guy at number one, and then they say, hey,
Speaker 5: we can we can go down to number nine and
Speaker 5: get this other quarterback and still have high too high,
Speaker 5: still have a high first round pick quarterback to get
Speaker 5: into that developmental seat. So are you going to take
Speaker 5: from a guy you just hire to come in and
Speaker 5: develop this offense and respect his opinion after he gets
Speaker 5: a chance to study what the Bears did in the
Speaker 5: last couple of years. Or is this a Ryan Poll's
Speaker 5: decision exclusively.
Speaker 3: I think they probably vetted his opinions about it all
Speaker 3: already in the interview process.
Speaker 6: But well, you can't just.
Speaker 5: Listen he doesn't have enough time to study the product
Speaker 5: at the interview. I need him to sit down and
Speaker 5: look at the reps, to look at the seven on
Speaker 5: seven reps in practice, look at the game reps, look
Speaker 5: at study a bunch of in you know, you know,
Speaker 5: you understand the play call, you understand the situational football,
Speaker 5: just everything that takes in evaluating a quarterback.
Speaker 4: Jim, Well, what do you think?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they'll They'll all have an opinion. Obviously,
Speaker 7: Ryan Poles will have the decision. Plus the ownership for
Speaker 7: the first round pick will have a big say in
Speaker 7: it as well. Obviously the owner last year had a
Speaker 7: big say in drafting Bryce Young, who I don't think
Speaker 7: Frank Wright was on board with. He wanted c. J. Stroud. Okay,
Speaker 7: but all I'm saying is this, you passed up Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 7: you passed up Patrick Mahomes right, because basically Kansas City
Speaker 7: traded up from twenty eight to ten to get Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 7: They knew who he was, and they knew Cardinals and
Speaker 7: the New Orleans Saints also knew who he was because
Speaker 7: they were trying to trade up to get him. You
Speaker 7: just passed up c J. Stroud. I don't think you
Speaker 7: want to pass up the next one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with that, we're going to take a break. That's
Speaker 3: a good exclamation point right there by. Jim Miller was
Speaker 3: not there. I'm Jeff Jonny ackwa we got a break?
Speaker 6: Is Jim saying Caleb Williams is the one?
Speaker 4: Well, we don't know.
Speaker 3: We'll find out on the other side, the good old
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Speaker 3: Jeff Jonniac, Tom Bear, Jim Miller, Jim, since we teased you,
Speaker 3: you got to take it from there, and then we
Speaker 3: got to get into something with Tom because Tom is
Speaker 3: just letting me have it in the break.
Speaker 4: So go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think a lot of people do think Cable
Speaker 7: Williams is a special guy. You know, not only is
Speaker 7: he talented with his legs, he's everybody is talented throwing
Speaker 7: the football. Now the other things matter, the intangible side
Speaker 7: of it. How good of a teammate is he? You know,
Speaker 7: how does he treat people? What type of person is he?
Speaker 7: All those things matter because you want to draft the
Speaker 7: right guy, right he is the face of the franchise,
Speaker 7: you know, if they were to draft him. But all
Speaker 7: those boxes have to be checked. And that's true for
Speaker 7: Drake may or Daniel or any other quarterback that's drafted.
Speaker 7: You know, let's not forget when they traded to or
Speaker 7: when they got picked up Mitchell Trubisky when they selected him.
Speaker 7: You know, he did take the Bears to the playoffs
Speaker 7: two years. You know, coaching changes all those things, new offenses,
Speaker 7: that all the things that Justin has been fighting as well.
Speaker 7: You know, this is a change for Justin so but
Speaker 7: nobody questions the talent of Justin Fields. I've said that.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's tough, he's a good leader. People love
Speaker 7: him in the building. You know, he's everything that you want.
Speaker 7: It's just got to be more consistent. Right, it hasn't
Speaker 7: been there yet. But who knows this more than Ryan Poles.
Speaker 7: He was in Kansas City when they traded up to
Speaker 7: get Patrick Mahomes. They knew who he was when they
Speaker 7: traded up to get him, and he sat for a
Speaker 7: year behind Alex Smith. That's what I'm saying. It can
Speaker 7: happen in Chicago too. You know, you can develop two guys. Shoot,
Speaker 7: even when Washington they drafted Robert Griffin the third they
Speaker 7: traded up to number one, and they still drafted Kirk
Speaker 7: Cousins in the fourth round, who wally pipped him.
Speaker 3: Okay, which which don't forget your thought, Tommy, because you know,
Speaker 3: you think back about that Washington coaching staff, because if
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, was that was that twenty twelve because
Speaker 3: all these guys were talking about all were coaching on
Speaker 3: that team with Mike Shanahan, that whole Washington brigade, Kyle Shanahan,
Speaker 3: Sean McVay was the tight end coach man Lafleur was
Speaker 3: the quarterback coach. Mike McDaniel was on the staff. Raheem
Speaker 3: Morris was on the staff. Bobby Slowick the Houston Texans,
Speaker 3: he was on the staff. And I'm probably missing some guys. Wow,
Speaker 3: that was Beck. That's that's ten years ago anyway to
Speaker 3: get something.
Speaker 5: You know, So you're talking about the evaluation of the
Speaker 5: quarterback position, and so you look at Patrick Mahomes when
Speaker 5: there's no nil deals and so you're in you're a
Speaker 5: poor college player back then and you're not leaving college
Speaker 5: with any money.
Speaker 6: And then you have speed up.
Speaker 5: To the modern day quarterback of Caleb Williams and now
Speaker 5: you're leaving college with a few million dollars in your
Speaker 5: pocket already. Do you think that affects the evaluation or
Speaker 5: the way they're liked or disliked by their players? And
Speaker 5: you know, then Patrick Mahomes, he has to come out
Speaker 5: of college and he has to make money, whereas you
Speaker 5: have some of these guys that are leaving college with
Speaker 5: a pocket full of money, and so they you know,
Speaker 5: you don't come out as desperate as you do as
Speaker 5: a poor player.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think that goes into evaluation. How much
Speaker 7: does a guy love football. You know, because I agree
Speaker 7: with you. I think he he had a lot of
Speaker 7: success there at USC and then this year it didn't
Speaker 7: go so well. He had a couple of moments. You know,
Speaker 7: I think that Notre Dame game that did not go well,
Speaker 7: and I think he's going to have to answer for
Speaker 7: those things. So what type of person are you entering
Speaker 7: having entered into your building? Those things matter, you know,
Speaker 7: they're there's a reason why the Lions are having the
Speaker 7: success that they're having With general manager Brad Holmes, every
Speaker 7: one of those guys knew what they were signing up for.
Speaker 7: The players that they drafted are hard nosed football players
Speaker 7: that love football. Every one of them had impact. Brian Branch,
Speaker 7: the safety out of Alabama, Laporta, who's like a mini
Speaker 7: George Kittle out of Iowa. You know, you look at Gibbs.
Speaker 7: Everybody poo pooed the Gibbs pick. You know, Gibbs is
Speaker 7: a great player. I mean, every one of their draft
Speaker 7: picks love football and they know that Dan Campbell is
Speaker 7: a hard football coach. Those two guys from Alabama knows
Speaker 7: what hard coaching is. They were under Nick Saban. I
Speaker 7: know Nick Saban well, he was at Michigan State. He's
Speaker 7: a prick, okay. And Dan Campbell he can be that
Speaker 7: way too. And every pre agent that signed there. The
Speaker 7: word on the street was Cam Sutton, who came from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 7: the Pittsburgh Steelers, which is another hard nosed city. He
Speaker 7: wanted to play for Dan Campbell. Every one of those
Speaker 7: guys signed up in new ones that was expected in
Speaker 7: the building. They know it's no nonsense and they love football.
Speaker 7: Let's go get it. Look where they are. And if
Speaker 7: you don't have those guys, forget it. I don't care
Speaker 7: if it's Caleb Williams whoever the Bears draft. If those
Speaker 7: guys don't love football, I don't want them. You don't
Speaker 7: want them.
Speaker 6: Bears fans don't.
Speaker 4: Want boy Jim that boy.
Speaker 3: You hear Mattifle talking about all the time, and so
Speaker 3: does Ryan Poles. They want guys who love football, love football,
Speaker 3: and nothing else matters.
Speaker 4: Love football. And and yes, there needs.
Speaker 3: To be additional alphas brought to the team too, and
Speaker 3: that quarterback position's got to be an alpha also.
Speaker 5: And listen, when you look at DJ Moore and you
Speaker 5: look at Montes Wett and you look at TJ. Edwards,
Speaker 5: and you look at Tremaine Edwards, you look at you know,
Speaker 5: Tyree Skirson, Brisker, Kyler Gordon, you look at you know
Speaker 5: these Darnell right, all these types of guys.
Speaker 6: You look at them and your that process is changing.
Speaker 5: And I think the more of those alpha males that
Speaker 5: are positive of influences in the locker room, the more
Speaker 5: competitive you make the whole building from the way to
Speaker 5: the practice field.
Speaker 7: And listen again, Ryan Pole's experience that they knew that
Speaker 7: about Patrick Mahomes. That's why they traded up from twenty
Speaker 7: eight to ten to get them. So if he's at one,
Speaker 7: or he's at nine or wherever you get him, period.
Speaker 3: Right, we can again I say this, we can close
Speaker 3: our eyes and see which teams draft and bring in
Speaker 3: players like you just described, and we know where they exist.
Speaker 4: We know they are in the National Football League. That's
Speaker 4: all there's to it.
Speaker 3: And in this city, I think it requires it, It
Speaker 3: requires it to move forward. All right, Listen, you're a quarterback.
Speaker 3: I'm just some short, fat guy. Tom is an offensive lineman.
Speaker 3: I think he's feeling lonely.
Speaker 4: Jim.
Speaker 3: We only are talking about quarterbacks and how you need
Speaker 3: a quarterback to win and to be special, but the
Speaker 3: guys up front protecting them and clearing the lane for
Speaker 3: the run game.
Speaker 4: He wants to embrace it a little more. Tom, don't
Speaker 4: be offended.
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 4: It's the time to talk quarterbacks. But let's talk the
Speaker 4: offensive line.
Speaker 6: Jim Miller's do it.
Speaker 5: Jim Miller instigated this topic a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5: And when you talk when you talk about how many
Speaker 5: sacks the Bears gave up last year and how many
Speaker 5: sacks that they gave up this year, and the whole,
Speaker 5: the whole sack process of the offensive line, you know,
Speaker 5: the short yardage, the important third and one and fourth
Speaker 5: and ones that you know, factor in the outcome of
Speaker 5: a game when you have a you don't have the
Speaker 5: bread and butter. When you're talking about the end of
Speaker 5: that Detroit game, when you needed to get that last
Speaker 5: first down to put yourself in an opportunity to beat
Speaker 5: a team that's playing for the NFC Championship game this
Speaker 5: week at home. That could be another stepping stone, improving
Speaker 5: point to where your team is going. I just don't
Speaker 5: think that you know, you can only talk, you know,
Speaker 5: emphasize what the court of the importance of the quarterback position,
Speaker 5: but not emphasize if you don't have a good offensive line,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter who's playing quarterback, because I think it's
Speaker 5: gonna get even more difficult for that guy to come in,
Speaker 5: whether you're experience like justin or inexperienced by whomever they
Speaker 5: could pick and think that they're gonna be the reason
Speaker 5: the offensive line is better.
Speaker 3: Looking for five pillars or you know, or developing guys.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this question because I heard something
Speaker 3: about another team and I can't remember what it is now,
Speaker 3: but you know, some of the analysts are, well, they
Speaker 3: can hide this guy.
Speaker 4: He's good enough, but he's not.
Speaker 3: You know, there's always somebody you're targeting on an offensive
Speaker 3: line to kind of.
Speaker 4: Beat and you know, maybe do you believe in that
Speaker 4: for better it better be a guard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'm a guard. It can't be a center.
Speaker 5: You can't have inefficient snaps, you can't get beat up,
Speaker 5: you can't be pushed back into the lap of the quarterback.
Speaker 6: It can't be an offensive tackle.
Speaker 5: Look at the left tackle for Buffalo getting pushed back
Speaker 5: into the of Josh Allen. He tries to make a
Speaker 5: touchdown throw, but he can't follow through because his left
Speaker 5: foot's getting stepped on. So yeah, you know, and I'm
Speaker 5: talking about the position I played. So you can you
Speaker 5: have a guy that's good and capable and is a
Speaker 5: tough guy and he's he'll play hurt and he'll play
Speaker 5: hard and you know that tight that he can have
Speaker 5: that type of role.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it can't be the edge and it can't
Speaker 6: be the center.
Speaker 4: Jim.
Speaker 3: It did it ever affects you when you and your
Speaker 3: you're teammate, you're you're you're loving up your guys up front?
Speaker 3: Did it affect you on certain play calls that it
Speaker 3: made you think more about is he gonna block this guy?
Speaker 3: Is he going to do his assignment right? Is there
Speaker 3: gonna be a mental air more than you focused.
Speaker 4: On the play? Did that ever leak into your psyche
Speaker 4: a little bit of.
Speaker 7: You have to be oblivious to the past rush.
Speaker 4: But you but you believe, you believe though it does
Speaker 4: affect some.
Speaker 7: Quarterback yeah, you yeah, you trust that those guys are
Speaker 7: going to do their job and you have to be
Speaker 7: oblivious to that. You're trying, but you've got to be
Speaker 7: able to feel it. You know, if a guy comes free,
Speaker 7: if I know I can see color when I'm dropping back.
Speaker 7: My eyes are downfield, but I see maybe the right
Speaker 7: guard is slipping up on the tackle and he's got
Speaker 7: a swim move coming at me. And you got to
Speaker 7: feel that. And so what I'm going from one to
Speaker 7: three dumping the ball down. Look look at the teams
Speaker 7: in the playoffs right now. Brock Purdy's been sacked twenty
Speaker 7: eight times all year, twenty eight times out of four
Speaker 7: hundred and forty four dropbacks.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 7: Look at Jared Golf He's been sacked thirty one times
Speaker 7: all year. And they throw the ball quite a bit.
Speaker 7: But you know, you got Penny Sewell, you got Taylor Decker,
Speaker 7: you got Frank greg Now is probably one of the
Speaker 7: strongest centers in the league. We recognize out there in
Speaker 7: San Francisco Trent Williams, but that the rest of that
Speaker 7: group are not so special. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 7: even think there's as good as the old line that
Speaker 7: I had with the Chicago Bears. There is a certain
Speaker 7: rhythm and timing that you have to get rid of
Speaker 7: the ball. Those guys cannot win every single block. They cannot,
Speaker 7: you know, pick up every single blitz. Sometimes they are
Speaker 7: gonna win defensively, and you're the last line of defense
Speaker 7: to get rid of the ball. You have to get
Speaker 7: rid of the ball and make decisions, and so that's
Speaker 7: a big part of it too. But having a good
Speaker 7: old line is a part of it. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: You got interested that can play.
Speaker 3: I saw this Inside Edge as a stat company. They
Speaker 3: sent some stuff the top blitzed offense in the NFL
Speaker 3: this year to Detroit.
Speaker 7: Lions thirty one sacks.
Speaker 6: He gets rid of the balls.
Speaker 3: Top blitz team Chargers were second, Packers were third, Saints
Speaker 3: were four, and the Vikings were fifth. So three teams
Speaker 3: in our division. We're the most blitzed in the NFL.
Speaker 3: All right, we got to take a break. That's top there,
Speaker 3: Jim Meller, I'm Jeff jonnyak. One final segment to go
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Speaker 3: Com I guess we should say next season because this
Speaker 3: season is down to four teams and the championship games
Speaker 3: this weekend before we dip into that. Because forty nine
Speaker 3: ers playing host to Detroit, and the Bears tied San
Speaker 3: Francisco for the most interceptions with twenty two, tied for
Speaker 3: fifth and total takeaways. It was the first time since
Speaker 3: twenty ten Bears had three players with four or more interceptions.
Speaker 4: And I just want to talk defense because we're only.
Speaker 3: Focused so far this whole offseason already in almost a month,
Speaker 3: and talking about the quarterback play, but things that are
Speaker 3: needed defensively, and obviously Jim and Tom the first thing
Speaker 3: that pops in him.
Speaker 4: You absolutely have.
Speaker 3: To find another edge rusher of significance, whether it is
Speaker 3: through the draft where there doesn't seem to be a
Speaker 3: huge cachet of talent in that regardless high end, or
Speaker 3: in free agency.
Speaker 4: Would you guys say.
Speaker 3: You collectively, do we agree that you got I have
Speaker 3: another edge rusher of note?
Speaker 6: Yes or no? Yes, I do, I think you know.
Speaker 6: I think you know.
Speaker 5: I like DeMarcus Walker. I like the enthusiastic approach he
Speaker 5: has the game. But I think if you're gonna have
Speaker 5: an ability to dictate protection, especially if you play against
Speaker 5: an offensive line that has an exposure to it, it's
Speaker 5: got some vulnerability. I think that you need an extra
Speaker 5: special guy.
Speaker 7: I think your guy opposite Montest Sweat needs to be
Speaker 7: a double digit sack guy there.
Speaker 6: Period. Yeah, you know it.
Speaker 7: Chase Young, who was traded obviously opposite Montest Sweat, he's
Speaker 7: only I think he's at three and a half sacks
Speaker 7: or four and a half sacks for San Francisco. Don't
Speaker 7: pull up the numbers, but he's got seventy three pressures,
Speaker 7: all right, seventy three pressures, all right. So you need
Speaker 7: a double digit sack guy. You're you're, you're, you're cooking
Speaker 7: with gas when your two edge rushers are getting double
Speaker 7: digit sacks period end.
Speaker 3: And the engine in this defense, of course is three technique.
Speaker 3: And Justin Jones did a very nice job this year.
Speaker 3: I would look to retain him, but also have another
Speaker 3: because I want rotation. I want I want fresh guys
Speaker 3: coming up there. I want a bunch of bed you
Speaker 3: know what's ombres in there to to recavoc with the
Speaker 3: young kids they got last year. So three technique defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: If there's somebody special, out there. That's going to make
Speaker 3: a world of difference.
Speaker 4: Also face to do this.
Speaker 5: Well, you see that sack that that rookie for Tampa
Speaker 5: Bay had against the right guard for Yeah, I'm beautiful.
Speaker 5: It was a beautiful move. It was textbook and it
Speaker 5: resulted in a sack. I mean, you know, you need
Speaker 5: that type of efficiency, ability, quickness and pressure by that
Speaker 5: position in order to allow those exterior rushers to capitalize
Speaker 5: on that.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jim, guess who leads the NFL in pressures this year?
Speaker 3: Who is the number one pressure team?
Speaker 6: Was the right?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Detroit, And there I was gonna say, well, Baltimore
Speaker 7: is up there with the sacks. But and they may
Speaker 7: get they may get Houston back this week. He's been
Speaker 7: practicing full speed, so they may have.
Speaker 6: A little bit.
Speaker 7: Really, a lot of people are under Yeah. So Houston
Speaker 7: had eight sacks last year, you know, and they threw
Speaker 7: him into Trump's middle of the year. It's played, has
Speaker 7: started the last six out of eight games, and they
Speaker 7: had eight sacks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I against the Bear.
Speaker 3: Sadly he was He's got a dangerous little spin move
Speaker 3: like Aiden Hutchinson. All right, well, let's let's let's start
Speaker 3: there with let's let's break it down a little bit.
Speaker 3: We only have a few minutes to go, Jim. Uh,
Speaker 3: we'll keep it short on these games. But at San Francisco,
Speaker 3: Detroit at San Francisco. I know, uh, you got a
Speaker 3: lot of Michigan love out there, but where are you
Speaker 3: going in this one?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I do like San Francisco. I think they were you know,
Speaker 7: the weather last week, but perty put it together when
Speaker 7: it mattered the most. He is, They're both top five
Speaker 7: in scoring. I expect I would take the over uh
Speaker 7: in this game because I do think uh uh San
Speaker 7: Francisco as of late they've given up running wise, and
Speaker 7: so I do give Detroit a chance out there, but
Speaker 7: I will take San Francisco. They're even in the run game,
Speaker 7: so Detroit's got I think twenty five or twenty seven touchdowns,
Speaker 7: san Francisco twenty five rushing touchdowns, but both their passing
Speaker 7: games are on part. But I think it's a high
Speaker 7: scoring matchup.
Speaker 4: Tom.
Speaker 5: You know, I never heard the crowd louder in any
Speaker 5: San Francisco game, whether it's an old candlestick or the
Speaker 5: new park than it was last week. And I think
Speaker 5: crowd noise will have you know, kind of hurt the
Speaker 5: efficiency of Detroit and their their ability to communicate if.
Speaker 6: They have to make a play change. So I'm going
Speaker 6: with San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Last time Detroit won a real playoff game nineteen fifty
Speaker 3: seven at Kizar Stadium that was San Francisco's original stadium
Speaker 3: back there, Okay, AFC, I think it's going to be
Speaker 3: some kind of a war. Lamar Jacksonvain's Pat Mahomes, two
Speaker 3: former MVP quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Gym where you going? Got a minute ago, minute minute
Speaker 4: left in the show.
Speaker 7: I will take Baltimore. I like them better in the
Speaker 7: trenches on both sides. But Kansas City do. I mean,
Speaker 7: he's special, But give me Baltimore at home.
Speaker 3: And a home conference game for Baltimore Town first time
Speaker 3: since Johnny Unitas was quarterbacking against George Blanda and the
Speaker 3: Raiders fifty one years ago.
Speaker 5: Or you just talked about edge rushers and the worst
Speaker 5: part of the offensive line for Kansas City as their
Speaker 5: offensive tackles, So look for that defensive line to play
Speaker 5: havoc up for Patrick Malmes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going with Baltimore in San Francisco as well.
Speaker 3: I mean, the point differential for the Ravens this year
Speaker 3: is plus two to three. They only trailed for eighty
Speaker 3: five snaps in the second half all season, so they've
Speaker 3: been they've been flying high. All right, boys, we got
Speaker 3: to run. Thanks to everybody once again, all our producers
Speaker 3: and thanks specifically to Jay Canto and Sean Graney. A
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