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Speaker 1: Tom Fair, I'm Jeff Joniak and joining us as well
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Speaker 1: Bears quarterback. That great two thousand and one season keeps
Speaker 1: ringing in my ears. Jim Miller, who predicted thirteen and
Speaker 1: three way before the season beginning, that's exactly what they finished,
Speaker 1: going out of the playoffs before bowing out at Old
Speaker 1: Soldier Field before the new facility open up. Jim, how
Speaker 1: are you doing? And you got your traveling shoes on
Speaker 1: ready to roll? Yeah, I'm ready. We head out next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so I'll be gone for about a month, hitting about
Speaker 1: twenty two different camps, So looking forward to it. Just
Speaker 1: it's just good to be back out on the field
Speaker 1: and just see guys going to work. I mean, that'll
Speaker 1: be just fun to be a part of again. Tom.
Speaker 1: I know you're not a traveling man, but it'd be
Speaker 1: kind of fun to take a dip in to look
Speaker 1: at all thirty two teams before you get the season started,
Speaker 1: you'd learn a heck of a lot. Yeah, it would be.
Speaker 1: But I also look forward to going to Bears practice
Speaker 1: every day because it's incredible how you see the maturation
Speaker 1: process of a team from day one till the end
Speaker 1: of the football season that we have the luxury to see. So,
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked a lot about a different subjects
Speaker 1: throughout the offseason. Now we're gonna be talking about real football,
Speaker 1: real development, about the process of these young guys to
Speaker 1: see how they fit in and to see how these
Speaker 1: old guys are coming not old guys, the veterans are
Speaker 1: coming along in their career, all right. Yeah, thank our
Speaker 1: producers Jordan tread Up, Dan, but really Katie Tuber helping
Speaker 1: us out. Certainly the friends here at six seventy to
Speaker 1: score a final show before they started training camp. Later
Speaker 1: on in the program, we'll be joined by NFL dot
Speaker 1: Com writer Adam Rank from NFL Network and NFL dot Com.
Speaker 1: He'll join us to talk. He's a Bears fan, big
Speaker 1: Bears fan. We've got the weekend of arrival tom of
Speaker 1: the rookies quarterbacks and rehabbing injured players, so the rookies
Speaker 1: kind of get a lay of the land, a little bit,
Speaker 1: even though they had the mini camp of the Rookie
Speaker 1: Mini Caamp. It is how fool will get a little prestart.
Speaker 1: They won't be in pads by any means. But what
Speaker 1: does that do for the young guys as they find
Speaker 1: out what the routine's going to be every morning up
Speaker 1: at hallisah? I don't know. I've heard it described as
Speaker 1: class on the grass, you know, because a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys need to be reintroduced to the information mentally,
Speaker 1: because physically, I think all these guys have been going
Speaker 1: about their business at the normal pace that's expected of them.
Speaker 1: But when you're away from the mental part of the
Speaker 1: information that's played such an important role in your success.
Speaker 1: I think it's good for the rookies to have a
Speaker 1: couple of days of getting back in the classroom so
Speaker 1: they can get up to speed. Jim, with the new
Speaker 1: CBA rules that kicked in a few years back, do
Speaker 1: you feel this is an advantage for the rookies, Well,
Speaker 1: I think it puts more on the players. They have
Speaker 1: to do a lot of stuff on their own time,
Speaker 1: you know, because you're you're not getting the reps on
Speaker 1: the field that we've talked about. But as Tom mentioned it,
Speaker 1: it reintroduces the material to these guys where they get
Speaker 1: a jump start before the veterans come in. But you've
Speaker 1: got to take advantage of the time you're away from
Speaker 1: the facility. You know, even though there'll be a training
Speaker 1: camp and they're kind of in a confined environment even
Speaker 1: when they're not on the field, they got to have
Speaker 1: the wherewithal and the due diligence to constantly go over
Speaker 1: the material, do it as much as you can until
Speaker 1: you finally understand it and you finally get it. So
Speaker 1: I think it puts more accountability on players that they've
Speaker 1: really even though when their downtime is there, they've got
Speaker 1: to take advantage and take advantage of learning this material
Speaker 1: that they're required to learn. Tom, I just did an
Speaker 1: event the other night in front of twenty five Bears fans.
Speaker 1: They were absolutely thrilled and excited about Justin Fields being
Speaker 1: a Chicago Bear, and that's really all they wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about. And honestly, that's been the case the entire offseason,
Speaker 1: and you can't fall fans for doing that. This is
Speaker 1: an exciting player and one that is going to develop
Speaker 1: and be a franchise quarterback. Everyone hopes for many, many
Speaker 1: more years to come. But I tried to accentuate other
Speaker 1: big topics during what is going to be a very
Speaker 1: intriguing training camp, and I can't get past a couple
Speaker 1: of positions. One is the offensive line, obviously, and we
Speaker 1: do feel it's going to be a much stronger offensive
Speaker 1: line with the health returning to a player like James
Speaker 1: Daniels and Sam Mustafer being trying to continue to be
Speaker 1: a leader on that offensive line. Of the center position
Speaker 1: after being inserted during the season, Cody Whitehair steady as always,
Speaker 1: but Jermaine Affediot right tackle to start the training camp,
Speaker 1: and at left tackle, Tevin Jenkins, the rookie hat of
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, and simply because it's a position that he
Speaker 1: is learning on the fly, essentially having just over four
Speaker 1: hundred snaps in college, and nobody else on the roster
Speaker 1: right now with left tackle experience in an NFL game,
Speaker 1: So to me, that is a as big a story
Speaker 1: as anything. How do you feel about it? You know?
Speaker 1: I also think that Matt Maggie drew a line in
Speaker 1: the sand. How many carries a game does he intend
Speaker 1: on getting for David Montgomery? Did he say twenty? And
Speaker 1: there's a couple of other running backs out there, so
Speaker 1: you see if these guys get eight to twelve carries
Speaker 1: a game. So now you're talking about thirty sometimes thirty plus,
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the offensive line wants to hear, Jeff.
Speaker 1: They want to hear that. Listen, we're gonna run the ball.
Speaker 1: We are gonna be physical, we are gonna make this
Speaker 1: offense move forward. And compliment no matter what quarterback plays
Speaker 1: behind center, that if they can have a strong running game,
Speaker 1: it's gonna help their passing games. So I'd like Matt
Speaker 1: Naggee taking over the play calling duties in coming out
Speaker 1: and saying that he has intentions to compliment David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: because I think Montgomery and the offensive line, Jeff go
Speaker 1: hand in hand. You gotta have one to help the other,
Speaker 1: and I think it's David can help the offensive line
Speaker 1: as much as the offensive line can help David. Hey,
Speaker 1: big Jim, you're the quarterback, You're Andy Dalton, you're justin fields,
Speaker 1: you're Nick Foles. You're going to camp. You get the
Speaker 1: layout of the land from Matt Naggie on the first
Speaker 1: team meeting, this is what we're going to be. They
Speaker 1: start installing plays if if they do stick to that
Speaker 1: run game and have that kind of desire to run
Speaker 1: the ball that many times, if you're ready done, you're
Speaker 1: justin fields, you're Nick Foles, and you are a former quarterback.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel heading into the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, saying it and doing it are
Speaker 1: two different things. I think you have to stay committed.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to follow through with it, because
Speaker 1: I think we know game situations sometimes dictate that the
Speaker 1: run game can be taken out of it, you know,
Speaker 1: so we even say if you're behind in a game,
Speaker 1: you can't panic. You got to have the wherewithal and
Speaker 1: the commitment that you've presented the players that you're going
Speaker 1: to follow through on it. I mean, how many times
Speaker 1: do we see teams that say it and then they
Speaker 1: go into a game, bad things happen, and then they
Speaker 1: abandon what they originally tried to do and just scrap
Speaker 1: the game plan. So I think it's, you know, like
Speaker 1: what Tom said, the message is there that this is
Speaker 1: what we're going to do, but you have to follow
Speaker 1: up and have the commitment because the play acts and
Speaker 1: pass game will play off of that. So well could
Speaker 1: be such a big part of the Bears offense as
Speaker 1: long as they stick to running the football in a game.
Speaker 1: In your career, Jim, did you ever get to the
Speaker 1: sideline and say, coach, we gotta stay on the run
Speaker 1: and you start to feel it slipping away. Everybody likes
Speaker 1: to throw a ball, obviously your QB. But did you
Speaker 1: have any a story about that when you actually made
Speaker 1: your case and they listened to you. Yeah, I think, well,
Speaker 1: there's numerous times. I think we went in and played
Speaker 1: Philly one time and who was it Chris Valerio. I
Speaker 1: think he knew a certain run play was gonna work,
Speaker 1: and I remember he went over and told the coaches that, hey,
Speaker 1: if you call this play, this is gonna be there.
Speaker 1: And all it was was twenty six duo. They felt that,
Speaker 1: you know, getting a double team on the nose tackle,
Speaker 1: they felt that they could move them with ease and
Speaker 1: with the strength of Oland obviously the strength of Chris Valerio.
Speaker 1: That's you know, over seven hundred pounds of beef coming
Speaker 1: at you. So all of a sudden, the coaches listen,
Speaker 1: they paid attention. We started running that play and we
Speaker 1: started making Hey, in the run game. So you have
Speaker 1: to have that back and forth of you know, a
Speaker 1: really dialogue that the coaches believe in you as a
Speaker 1: player that certain things are going to work. Now, what
Speaker 1: game was that again? You ran the ball at twenty
Speaker 1: five times in a row. We played the Indianapolis Colts
Speaker 1: in that eighty five season where we ran at the
Speaker 1: first twenty two plays to open up the game. And
Speaker 1: you know, I've been a part of those types of
Speaker 1: games in my past where we knew that we had
Speaker 1: one play that was so strong, but depending upon how
Speaker 1: the defense lined up, we could call it at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and we went that direction and we
Speaker 1: had about two hundred and fifty yards rushing and we
Speaker 1: are super successful because of what the defense was offering us.
Speaker 1: So I think sometimes you have to listen to the
Speaker 1: players as much as you want to sit there and
Speaker 1: look at your play sheet to see what you think
Speaker 1: can work well. And I always bring up this this example.
Speaker 1: When I was with Pittsburgh, we went out at that
Speaker 1: point the Oakland Raiders. We had zero rushing yards at halftime.
Speaker 1: I mean, the coach Kawers said, will Be went into
Speaker 1: the game. He said, guys, don't be surprised if they
Speaker 1: because they were shooting penetrating defense back then. He said,
Speaker 1: they're going to get some tackles for loss, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna stick with our game plan and have the wherewithal
Speaker 1: for four quarters to continue to run the football. The
Speaker 1: second half, Jerome Bettis rush for one hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 1: It was just sticking with the run game, and the
Speaker 1: coach told us as a team, it's not gonna look
Speaker 1: pretty at times, but we're gonna stick with it and
Speaker 1: stick with it. We will wear them down and this
Speaker 1: is how we're going to win the game. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly how it played out, and everybody believed in that plan.
Speaker 1: That's Jim Miller, tomp there, Jeff Jonnyak and this is
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Speaker 1: joined by Adam Rank from NFL dot Com. You see
Speaker 1: him on NFL Network as well. He's got his hand
Speaker 1: in the fantasy pot. He does previews and he did
Speaker 1: a great job for all thirty two teams, state of
Speaker 1: the franchise for everybody. So Adam, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us from LA. But before we begin to
Speaker 1: talk about the NFC North and your thoughts on it,
Speaker 1: Bears fan, you are not shy about it, are you? Huh?
Speaker 1: How'd this come about? Are you a Chicago and I
Speaker 1: don't know your entire background? I yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm not share or not shy I should say about
Speaker 1: sharing my my fandom. And it really does come from
Speaker 1: my parents, who would be freaking out right now. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here looking I know this is an audio recording,
Speaker 1: but I'm looking at Tom and just thinking of my
Speaker 1: life and my parents and my uncles and everybody just
Speaker 1: love the Chicago Bears. And I was born in Schaumburg.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, park Ridge. I don't want some Chamberg. You know,
Speaker 1: somebody from Schaumberg getting upset and being like no, the
Speaker 1: hospitals in Park Ridge get it right, but you know what, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because now the suburbs are fighting. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's a whole issue going on. But I
Speaker 1: didn't grow up in Chicago or in the Chicago Land area,
Speaker 1: but I still kept in an allegiance to the Bears,
Speaker 1: mostly because we moved to southern California and the team
Speaker 1: moved away. I did. I did live there long enough
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, I sort of liked the Rams
Speaker 1: in eighty five and then had to hear it from
Speaker 1: every member of my family like I'm a four year
Speaker 1: old and everybody's yelling at me. Like I was, like,
Speaker 1: I'm Deeter Brock, Like listen, I'm sorry. I was rooting
Speaker 1: for the local team. But I do now have fully
Speaker 1: embraced the Chicago Bears, and I've also made my children
Speaker 1: following that footsteps too. I said, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a link to Chicago, and I think
Speaker 1: I think this is a longer answer than you wanted.
Speaker 1: I'm always my kids. You know, they weren't born in Chicago,
Speaker 1: They're born out here, but I want them to have
Speaker 1: that kind of lineage and I want to look back
Speaker 1: and seeing that because my dad put me in a
Speaker 1: Walter Peyton jersey when I was a kid. I am
Speaker 1: now making my kids put on Bears jerseys instead. I'm
Speaker 1: getting rid of the Cutler jerseys. I'm getting him Justin
Speaker 1: Fields jersey, so that'll be a little bit better. But
Speaker 1: it's just something that's now going to be a family tradition. Well,
Speaker 1: you can always change that sea on the Cutler jersey,
Speaker 1: turn it into a being. It becomes a Butler, and
Speaker 1: you're right back in the eighty five team. But you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to ask you just real quickly
Speaker 1: about the division. You take in consideration. Every head coach
Speaker 1: in this division give me the temperature of their seats
Speaker 1: at this point. Well, I think i've Lafleura is probably
Speaker 1: the safest regardless what happened. So he's good. Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: is coming in, brand new coach. He's going to get
Speaker 1: an opportunity, hopefully a couple of years to try to
Speaker 1: prove himself. It is a little I don't know. You
Speaker 1: can take it one of two ways of having Anthony
Speaker 1: Lynn on your staff. Number One, it's good if you're
Speaker 1: an INEXPI orience head coach. It's always good to have
Speaker 1: somebody on your staff, who has been in that role previously,
Speaker 1: who can help guide you along and kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: knows what it's like to call a time out in
Speaker 1: an NFL game. I do believe that he's going to
Speaker 1: get a unless it's a complete disaster and they would
Speaker 1: turn to Anthony Lynn. But I think that he's going
Speaker 1: to get a little bit of run. Mike Zimmer, of course,
Speaker 1: has been there a long time with the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: It seems like every other year the Minnesota Vikings are competitive.
Speaker 1: It's a real It's kind of like you're walking by
Speaker 1: a roulette table and it's like one red, one black,
Speaker 1: one red, one black. I don't know, this is their
Speaker 1: odd year. This is the year that Mike Zimmer is
Speaker 1: supposed to be good. Of course, he's got his son
Speaker 1: is the assistant defensive coordinator. Kubiak's son is the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see how that plays out,
Speaker 1: because at some point it feels like Mike Zimmer needs
Speaker 1: to stretch together some consistency. Adam, you'd since you just
Speaker 1: wrote about the state of all thirty two franchises, what
Speaker 1: is the state of the Green Bay Packers, And it
Speaker 1: could be two states one where Aaron Rodgers does show up.
Speaker 1: One more Aaron Rodgers doesn't show up. That could be
Speaker 1: the state of those that franchise. That was it was.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of glee in my heart writing
Speaker 1: about the possibility of Aaron Rodgers moving on from Green
Speaker 1: Bay and what it would be like and what what
Speaker 1: everything would you know, how how the world would be
Speaker 1: different without Aaron Rodgers as a quarterback of the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, because I think those fans are a little
Speaker 1: too spoiled, you know, these thirty year old millennials who've
Speaker 1: never experienced what it's like to go through a season
Speaker 1: without a franchise, without a Hall of Fame quarterback. It's
Speaker 1: not even like having a franchise quarterback. You've had two
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks of all time, guys who are
Speaker 1: probably in the top ten of all time, and it's
Speaker 1: you know what, it's a it's a it's a weird world.
Speaker 1: You don't know what it's like. And so I also
Speaker 1: look at this too, because the Milwaukee Bucks just won
Speaker 1: the NBA Championship, and I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: going to be some sort of monkey's paw situation where
Speaker 1: some kid had found the monkey's paw in a flea
Speaker 1: market in Milwaukee and then whisked for a Bucks Championship,
Speaker 1: not knowing that it's going to set off a chain
Speaker 1: of events that would include, you know, Aaron Rodgers being
Speaker 1: dealt to the Las Vegas Raiders or something. Actually, I
Speaker 1: don't want him to go to Las Vegas because that
Speaker 1: would mean Derek Carr would come into the division. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't want you to have a good quarterback. I
Speaker 1: want you to try Jordan Love. You stick with the
Speaker 1: quarterback that you thought was going to be better than
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers or the air apparent. You should have to
Speaker 1: wear that. So I'm I'm looking forward to see how
Speaker 1: that plays out. Because these Packer fans sure seem to
Speaker 1: think that they're this great model organization. Oh we're so
Speaker 1: they always feel like they're the La Lakers of the NFL,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, bro, you're the Mavericks. You had a
Speaker 1: generational talent and you have one title to show for it,
Speaker 1: and I know you can come in and make fun
Speaker 1: of me. We have one title since eighty five, A
Speaker 1: hell of a title, by the way, I'll take that
Speaker 1: if you ask me. I don't know, and my dad
Speaker 1: used to always talk this is one of my dad's
Speaker 1: running jokes, and I'm sorry that I'm gonna share it
Speaker 1: with you. He's like, you know, he's like, he really
Speaker 1: My dad was convinced that somebody asked a Bears fan,
Speaker 1: do you want to have a string of Super Bowls?
Speaker 1: Or do you want to have the greatest team of
Speaker 1: all time? And that person chose greatest team of all time?
Speaker 1: So if that's if that's what you're trying to come
Speaker 1: back at me with, it's like, oh, look at you.
Speaker 1: You had the greatest team ever ever in football history.
Speaker 1: Because there's no debate about that. It's ridiculous. But I
Speaker 1: would love to see the Packers have to wallow in
Speaker 1: this and find out what it's like to go into
Speaker 1: a season where your quarterback's not going to bail you
Speaker 1: out all the time, because that's the biggest thing. It's like,
Speaker 1: you're always able to be bailed out, like Aaron always
Speaker 1: pulls it. You know what you guys do? You know
Speaker 1: irresponsible things and Aaron always bails you out. And I
Speaker 1: want to see this. I want to see you live
Speaker 1: life like me for a change. Well, the network needs
Speaker 1: to send you to the shareholders meeting next week to
Speaker 1: ask all the tough questions. That's what needs to be
Speaker 1: done at him. I would love that. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1: I would happily make I would happily make that journey.
Speaker 1: Adam ranked NFL dot Com writer and big star at
Speaker 1: NFL Network, joining the program with Tom, Jim Miller, Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonnyaca remaining moments with Adam. So you're in the fantasy
Speaker 1: game as well. We have so many fantasy football players
Speaker 1: out there. I don't play. I know't. Tom definitely doesn't play.
Speaker 1: Time's not even on social media. Jim. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're doing it, but if you get to pick
Speaker 1: your top fantasy players on the Bears headed in here
Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty one season, who you circling well?
Speaker 1: Number one? I love David Montgomery and I love when
Speaker 1: Matt Nagee was talking about getting the ball to him
Speaker 1: twenty times per game. And it's always good when coaches
Speaker 1: say that I know that Matt Matt, I call him
Speaker 1: like I'm his best friend. I feel so stute, Like Jeff,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I feel like this is where it
Speaker 1: really I get exposed as some sort of fraud. But
Speaker 1: I really like that Matt Nagee was mindful that he
Speaker 1: needs to get the ball into the hands of David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I think that he's shown himself to be a dynamic back.
Speaker 1: I think, as you said on NFL Network the other day,
Speaker 1: the left tackle position and rebuilding this offensive line is
Speaker 1: gonna be go hand in hand with how good David
Speaker 1: Montgomery can be. And when you have a young quarterback
Speaker 1: and whether it's Andy Dalton or Justin Fields, I think
Speaker 1: that that running game is going to be very important
Speaker 1: and I hope to see Montgomery get those opportunities. He
Speaker 1: was fantastic down the stretch. I think we finally got
Speaker 1: to see David Montgomery fully operational. You know, it had
Speaker 1: been it had been a you know, it had been
Speaker 1: at a Dodge Charger that had been in the garage
Speaker 1: for so long, and they're finally out. You know, the
Speaker 1: guy's driving it in the neighborhood and you're like, that's
Speaker 1: a sick car. Yeah. I love to seeing that. We
Speaker 1: should see more of that this season, so I think
Speaker 1: he should be the number one guy. Alan Robinson, of course,
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I will continue to contend that he's a
Speaker 1: top five wide receiver in this League, Fantasy Reality, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I love Alan Robinson, but we also love
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney, and I really, you know, I think it
Speaker 1: really was me. I think if you trace this back,
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey being mad at Darnell Mooney this offseason really
Speaker 1: does stem from me in a comment that I made
Speaker 1: on Instagram. So I apologize for that, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going to apologize for being so bullish on the ability
Speaker 1: of Darnell Mooney and what he's going to be able
Speaker 1: to do this season. And you know what, I'll play
Speaker 1: that clip over and that's it. Yeah. People make fun
Speaker 1: of me for that too, like, oh, the best part
Speaker 1: of your season was Darnell Mooney beating Jalen Ramsey And
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, pretty much was. Yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: was the highlight. That's fine, Like I don't like, I
Speaker 1: can admit, like, you know what, the season didn't work
Speaker 1: out quite like I had wanted it too, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that was. That was one of our highlights. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be proud of that. So I love those guys,
Speaker 1: and I hope that cole Comet can take a step forward.
Speaker 1: We love tight ends in this in this chief derivative
Speaker 1: offense and I think Cole Comet it's a pretty good player,
Speaker 1: you know. I it's funny to me again, like you
Speaker 1: guys know this as well as anybody like. Tight end
Speaker 1: is a tough position to learn, and it is probably
Speaker 1: especially for fantasy football. It's the one that takes the
Speaker 1: most time to come in and really grasp. Because I
Speaker 1: think it was Greg Olson who was talking about it.
Speaker 1: This by the way, the Greg If you get me
Speaker 1: started on the Greg Olson trade. Sorry, no, no, that's
Speaker 1: not what you're asking, but I will say time for that,
Speaker 1: dang it um. But he was talking about how difficult
Speaker 1: it is to make to transition into the NFL and
Speaker 1: Cole coming in last year in a COVID limited offseason
Speaker 1: and now getting a full, full workload. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be fantastic. So I'm really optimistic about some
Speaker 1: of these Bears players in a fantasy football Hey, Adam,
Speaker 1: I want to go back to Green Bay for a second, because, okay,
Speaker 1: we heard a lot about Oh, they offered Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: the most money for an extension, but they could possibly
Speaker 1: give him a quarterback. He doesn't want to be there
Speaker 1: for five years. But what does that tell Jordan Love? Now?
Speaker 1: We don't believe in you that you're even close to
Speaker 1: being ready because we're willing to keep Aaron Rodgers for
Speaker 1: five more years. Or was it just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: was shooting up in the air and hoping they hit
Speaker 1: a bird as it flew by. Maybe a little of
Speaker 1: column ay, maybe a little of column B. I really
Speaker 1: love the fact that there's a lot of people in
Speaker 1: this world who would say things like you couldn't pay
Speaker 1: me enough money to live in Milwaukee or Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is going out there and actually putting its
Speaker 1: money where his mouth is, like, yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Couldn't pay him enough to live there? Apparently. I do believe, though, Tom,
Speaker 1: you hit the nail right on the head with this
Speaker 1: is sort of a vote of no confidence for Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: Like you drafted him as a developmental prospect, and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a little unfair to say that he's not
Speaker 1: ready right now? What is he going to be ready? Like?
Speaker 1: How long is it going to take him to make
Speaker 1: that transition to the NFL? Because we've seen some of
Speaker 1: these other quarterbacks come in and immediately pay off. And
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, you know, took one year off and then
Speaker 1: he was ready to go. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: player that he gets compared to a lot. So he
Speaker 1: had a full season. He's behind it. You've you've seen
Speaker 1: him in practice. That's the thing is like you've seen
Speaker 1: him in practice, you've made the assessment. And if you've
Speaker 1: made the decision that he's not going to be ready
Speaker 1: for the next five years, then why were you even
Speaker 1: drafting this player? So that's that's a tough one, all right, Adam,
Speaker 1: you are highly entertaining a word Smith and I tell
Speaker 1: too much of your time, is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 1: Had you had ten questions, you got the three. I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry, but I'm so excited. I can't I see
Speaker 1: these faces. I'm too excited. I can't control I saw
Speaker 1: you on NFL Network and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I'm like trying to tell the producer, like tell Jeff
Speaker 1: I said high and they're like, Adam, please shut up,
Speaker 1: like let him do. Hey, we'll have you on again, Adam.
Speaker 1: A great job and have a great twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 1: know virtually at least you can make the way you
Speaker 1: can make you finish line in that race. I don't
Speaker 1: know about physically, but personally, Yeah, has to make some pains,
Speaker 1: but I can pull it off, that's for sure. All Right, fellas,
Speaker 1: let's break down some other camp battles. We talked about
Speaker 1: the offensive line on our first segment. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the ball and talk about
Speaker 1: that cornerback position because obviously Jalen Johnson is ready to
Speaker 1: take off in his second year, healthy, ready to go.
Speaker 1: I like his demeanor, I like his attitude. It was
Speaker 1: never too big for him last year. But then it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a battle for both that inside slot and
Speaker 1: the outside cornerback position. So let's take a look at it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with Jim and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different names there with varying degrees of experience or what
Speaker 1: they're coming off of. Desmond Truffont, rough Year in Detroit
Speaker 1: comes here a lot of experience. If he can get
Speaker 1: back to his form of being a guy who makes
Speaker 1: plays on the ball, that would be big. Artie Burns
Speaker 1: had a chance last preseason, was not able to stay healthy,
Speaker 1: and then he got kendallville Door, who got a lot
Speaker 1: of attention during the veteran mini camp. You know, corners
Speaker 1: with confidence played their talent. He played with a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence during the mini camp. Yeah, I think, well,
Speaker 1: Kendall he got his feet what last year got in
Speaker 1: some playing time. You're right, You've got two veterans there
Speaker 1: and already Burns and Desmond Truffont. Desmond certainly has the
Speaker 1: most experience of all of them. But as we know,
Speaker 1: father time catches up with everybody and Kenny stay healthy
Speaker 1: for an entire season. The guys that are behind him,
Speaker 1: already Burns, Duke Shelley, Kendall, Vidoor have played. There's just
Speaker 1: not a lot of not a lot of which I say,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of their amount of time that
Speaker 1: they played. So those are ascending players. Duke Shelley I
Speaker 1: thought at times did some good things last year, especially
Speaker 1: in the inside at the Nickel Spot when a buster
Speaker 1: screen went down and Kendall vidore. For me. About Kendall,
Speaker 1: I think he's got all the skills. I'd like to
Speaker 1: see how much he's grown physically. For me, when I
Speaker 1: thought the Bears, uh, you know, picked him, he'd had
Speaker 1: to get spent a little time in the weight room
Speaker 1: and just beef up a little bit so he could
Speaker 1: really compete with the rigors of football because his frames
Speaker 1: not as big is some other players. But if he's
Speaker 1: done his due diligence, he'll have an opportunity to show
Speaker 1: his wares. But I think they'll be ready with the
Speaker 1: guys that they have upfront that'll help him out in
Speaker 1: terms of the pass rush where they're not covering all day.
Speaker 1: You know, Jim, you said it. I think it's the
Speaker 1: guys up front. To me, I concern more about Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn and what he can do up front to be
Speaker 1: able to help the defensive backs in the back end.
Speaker 1: If you really don't have significant pass pressure and you're
Speaker 1: asking these cornerbacks, defensive back nickel corners to cover for
Speaker 1: more than three seconds. I think it's almost a losing battle.
Speaker 1: I think if Robert Quinn can come up here and
Speaker 1: accentuate the play of Blile Nicols and how much that
Speaker 1: he's improved last year, you know what you can get
Speaker 1: out of a key, makes you know what you can
Speaker 1: get out of Khalil, And then you have a group
Speaker 1: of other guys on the interior helping out that defensive line.
Speaker 1: If that defensive line can push the urgency of the
Speaker 1: quarterback up to about that two second mark before he's
Speaker 1: thinking about getting rid of the ball, that's what's going
Speaker 1: to help the defensive back. Again, I like the a
Speaker 1: selection of guys that you have in the defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: I think we need more of a selection of guys
Speaker 1: up front to be able to compliment the rushers. But
Speaker 1: a lot of it is gonna be if Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: can show up like he's demonstrated in the history of
Speaker 1: his career that he can play at that level. And
Speaker 1: that is true. But when the quarterbacks getting rid of
Speaker 1: the ball so quickly now in today's NFL, those guys
Speaker 1: really have to be ready, and I look at that
Speaker 1: slop position because it's a difficult one. You have to
Speaker 1: cover everybody, and you have to defend the run, and
Speaker 1: you have to be a smart player, and you have
Speaker 1: to be physical, and you have to stay healthy. Bears
Speaker 1: had a really good one and Bryce Callahan couldn't not
Speaker 1: stay healthy here. He has not been able to stay
Speaker 1: healthy throughout his stay in Denver either, but he's regarded
Speaker 1: as one of the best slack corners in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Jim that position from a quarterback's eyes on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball, How significant is it that they
Speaker 1: find the right for that spot. Yeah, because a lot
Speaker 1: of times nickel has kind of become the base defense.
Speaker 1: Teams will go out there on first and second down
Speaker 1: and they'll be in a three wide package, which is
Speaker 1: going to force that nickelback on the field. It's just
Speaker 1: that's the way the game has evolved and is time
Speaker 1: would refer it to say a pass rusher, you don't
Speaker 1: want a pass rusher to have a two way go.
Speaker 1: So imagine you're on an island, they're in the slot
Speaker 1: on a receiver. What does that receiver have a two
Speaker 1: way go? So you've got to be pretty savvy about
Speaker 1: how you are as a player to really maybe force
Speaker 1: a one way go where you don't allow him, say
Speaker 1: to have an inside release or an outside release depending
Speaker 1: on the downer distance. So I think you've got to
Speaker 1: be a really savvy player as well as have the
Speaker 1: athletic ability and be cat quick for all those reasons
Speaker 1: that I just mentioned. One thing I liked about Buster
Speaker 1: Screen over the last couple of years is how efficiently
Speaker 1: and how aware he wasn't the line of scrimmage playing
Speaker 1: and helping in the run game. You can't have these
Speaker 1: guys thinking one dimensional on a retreat stepping goal back.
Speaker 1: You got to be able to read the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage as efficiently as you're covering pass routes and in
Speaker 1: the different dime packages that we've seen over the years
Speaker 1: from Vic Fangio to last year with coach Pagano, I
Speaker 1: think Sean Desai is gonna be pretty creative. He's got
Speaker 1: DHC still in the mix there help out third safety position. Tom.
Speaker 1: Let's look a little deeper into the defensive line and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna consider the two outside linebackers are part
Speaker 1: of that bunch, because I still think it's highly regarded
Speaker 1: around the league. If they played at their potential, they
Speaker 1: could be devastatingly good. And that's what we're looking for
Speaker 1: in the return of Eddie Goldman. It looks like that
Speaker 1: is going to happen. He's gonna be back, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be a camp It's it's said to be that he's
Speaker 1: hungry and ready to go. Got to see it though,
Speaker 1: and when they get the pads on and see where
Speaker 1: it goes. But that to me is a is a
Speaker 1: big addition to the mix as well. But you know,
Speaker 1: you look at the eighteen team, the defense was so
Speaker 1: good a low Nichols, you know it was not that
Speaker 1: guy just yet he flashed. Jonathan Bullard is the guy
Speaker 1: he beat out. They were counting on a gentleman Bullard.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a chance it could be if
Speaker 1: they play to their potential and stay healthy and even
Speaker 1: better defensive line. Leonard Floyd had four sacks that year.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're saying what you say about Robert Quinn,
Speaker 1: I mean, if he gets back and rolling and is healthy,
Speaker 1: it could be in a really big story for the defense.
Speaker 1: And Sean to say, yeah, and I think what blow
Speaker 1: Nichols has been able to do the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: and how much improvement he's shown with the willingness and
Speaker 1: the ability to play on the inside but probably being
Speaker 1: more effect on the outside. I think he's the type
Speaker 1: of guy that can attract so much attention like a
Speaker 1: Kim does on the other side, that it can help
Speaker 1: Khalil or this can help Robert Quinn. Mario Edwards Junior
Speaker 1: played really well on the snaps that he got and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to show the same presence that he
Speaker 1: did last year on the defensive line. So again, a
Speaker 1: lot of us we have our fingers cross for Eddie
Speaker 1: Goldman because we wish the best for him individually as
Speaker 1: the player we've seen him be able to develop into. Now,
Speaker 1: if he comes out here with a great attitude and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's attracting double team attention on
Speaker 1: the inside, it only kind of opens up those outside
Speaker 1: guys to have less bodies, less hands at him. So
Speaker 1: it is going to be a team effort, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see how Sean Decide puts these pieces
Speaker 1: in place initially to take advantage of what he assumes
Speaker 1: is the opponent's vulnerabilities. Jervis skips it also, Jeremiah attach
Speaker 1: you adding to that mix as well, looking for further
Speaker 1: development of that defensive front. Jim Tom mentioning Sean decide,
Speaker 1: we all know him very well. I do think you
Speaker 1: could be safe to say that he is not only
Speaker 1: super smart, but if things go well and he is
Speaker 1: the play caller that we think he is, this could
Speaker 1: be a rising star defensive coordinator in the national football
Speaker 1: He as a young guy, but do you feel he
Speaker 1: is equipped to get the best out of the safety
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson. Jackson respects him a great deal, loves how
Speaker 1: he thinks, and that is a very important relationship and
Speaker 1: you could dare say one of the most important relationships
Speaker 1: to the coaching a player on this team for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. Would you agree, Yeah, I think Eddie, he's
Speaker 1: a quote unquote quarterback of that secondary's going to be
Speaker 1: disseminated a lot of information to the other players that
Speaker 1: are out there. So you have to have the ability
Speaker 1: to communicate and you've got again you've got to trust
Speaker 1: the plan of the coach and have that back and
Speaker 1: forth that Sean will be listening to to Eddie as
Speaker 1: well of what he's seeing on the on the field
Speaker 1: and how it's unfolding. So but I always go back
Speaker 1: to this, every coach we have tendencies, you know, so
Speaker 1: we'll have to see, you know how how how are
Speaker 1: things going to be called differently than say Chuck Pagano
Speaker 1: or say Vic Fangio. You know, Sean's gonna put his
Speaker 1: own fingerprint on this defense, whether it's you know, a
Speaker 1: third and short situation or a goal line situation or
Speaker 1: maybe a third and long. Maybe he likes to litzmore
Speaker 1: to force the offense to cite adjustin then they rally
Speaker 1: up and make a tackle. Things like that. I think
Speaker 1: that's really where you need to see where Seawan Desai
Speaker 1: is going to go as a play caller. We have
Speaker 1: yet to see it yet, so I think it's remains
Speaker 1: to be seen what's out there and how it's going
Speaker 1: to unfold. And that's our teams are looking at the
Speaker 1: Bears that don't quite know exactly what Sean Desai is
Speaker 1: going to be. That's Jim Miller toomp there. I'm Jeff Joniac.
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Speaker 1: Access dow Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score brought
Speaker 1: to you by Igs Energy Fellas Meet the Rookiees. Always
Speaker 1: a popular production to the Bears broadcasting department. You can
Speaker 1: catch it on Chicago Bears dot com and the Bears
Speaker 1: YouTube channel and airing Saturday night on Fox thirty two
Speaker 1: at ninth pm. The featured attractions Justin Fields, Tevin Jenkins,
Speaker 1: and Khalil Herbert, the sixth round running back. Here's a
Speaker 1: snippet of what Fields says in the show. A quarterback, everybody,
Speaker 1: I'm the team's gonna look up to you. You know
Speaker 1: when things are going good, and of course some things
Speaker 1: are going bad, so everybody's gonna look at you, to
Speaker 1: your body language, how you carry yourself. I'm definitely ready.
Speaker 1: I think you know, if there was you know, anybody
Speaker 1: in this drive class, I was ready for this to
Speaker 1: and I think everything nobody but me. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I've just been groom, you know, for this
Speaker 1: little in my whole life, and he has from a
Speaker 1: high school start at Georgia, Ohio State. The amount of plays,
Speaker 1: the big games, the amount of games played, his skill
Speaker 1: set and speed, his size, his intelligence, his poise frankly
Speaker 1: from what we saw in the in the few snaps
Speaker 1: we did during minicamp. But most of all, and it
Speaker 1: comes out of the piece time, is his humility and
Speaker 1: that is coming from his parents on down to him.
Speaker 1: Stay in humble is a great place to be when
Speaker 1: you're a professional football player, especially at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: to draw the attention of everybody else on the roster.
Speaker 1: You know, I always look at guys that transfer and
Speaker 1: when they transferred to a program that's big, to a
Speaker 1: transfer to a program that's equally as big as maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger than how do you succeed? And
Speaker 1: Justin did everything that was asked of him. And that
Speaker 1: tells me a lot about a player. Because there's other
Speaker 1: guys that have gone to a Division one school and
Speaker 1: then went down a division or two. They've had a
Speaker 1: good career because of the Joe Flacco. But here's Justin
Speaker 1: Fields going from a big program to one equally as big.
Speaker 1: So I like to when you know, it's like a
Speaker 1: poker player, you're betting on yourself. Man, you're going all in,
Speaker 1: and I believe in my hand, and I believe what
Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to accomplish. And he went
Speaker 1: out and did exactly that. That's why the scouting in
Speaker 1: the people that admired the talent that he brought to
Speaker 1: the table became enamored with him, because here's a guy
Speaker 1: that left a program and came to another one and
Speaker 1: took charge and was equally as successful as he beat
Speaker 1: on himself to be. Jim, you're gonna get a thousand
Speaker 1: fans a day max at have us off for the
Speaker 1: first time fans at a training camp in that facility.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. And hear all the clamor of
Speaker 1: the fans and their excitement about it. If you were
Speaker 1: to give them a guide to what to watch at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position during this particular camp with Andy Dunton
Speaker 1: and Justin Fields and Nick folstanging snaps, what would that
Speaker 1: guide take their eyes to? What do you what do
Speaker 1: you suggest they look at with these three? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think well you can definitely tell how a quarterback holds
Speaker 1: onto the football that he's not processing information. You know,
Speaker 1: as Tom mentioned, there's a timing aspect of it where
Speaker 1: you go back. Whether it's a three step, five step,
Speaker 1: seven step, drop, you hitch and you throw the ball,
Speaker 1: that ball should be coming out pretty quickly, and if
Speaker 1: it's not doing if a quarterback is not doing at
Speaker 1: it tells you that they are not processing the information
Speaker 1: quickly enough, ie the coverage, whether it's a blitz so
Speaker 1: forth like that. So when that ball comes out with
Speaker 1: timing in rhythm, you'll know that a quarterback is growing
Speaker 1: and doing his job. From that standpoint, handoffs or handoffs,
Speaker 1: I think we understand that. But if the ball isn't
Speaker 1: coming out in a certain allotted amount of time, I
Speaker 1: think you know that that something's amiss there at the
Speaker 1: quarterback spot. When you're listening to connors or even talking
Speaker 1: to guests about the incoming class, because they get a
Speaker 1: lot of attention all the way up to and through
Speaker 1: training camp, especially the big names like at justin Fields,
Speaker 1: what are you hearing on your show? But what are they?
Speaker 1: What are they? Is everyone the same on justin Fields
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah? I think everybody's pretty high on Justin
Speaker 1: Fields you know, it's just for him, there's not a
Speaker 1: big sample size. Is Tom mentioned he transfers into Ohio
Speaker 1: State and he's really a two year starter, so he
Speaker 1: hasn't reached that, you know, that thirty thirty start thresh old.
Speaker 1: That really Bill Parcels has always talked about that he
Speaker 1: would never want to draft a quarterback who didn't have
Speaker 1: at least thirty starts from college. I think teams try
Speaker 1: to dive in differently now because we know with the
Speaker 1: situations that that's unfolded. Sometimes that's just not going to
Speaker 1: be the case. As Tom mentioned, Kintell transfer one from
Speaker 1: one school to another, and maybe he's only a one
Speaker 1: year starter, So you've got to be able to dive
Speaker 1: deeper into the intangibles about a quarterback. But as far
Speaker 1: as justin fields, nothing but positives is what I've heard.
Speaker 1: And another player featured in Meet the Rookies, left tackle
Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma State, Tevin Jenkins. Personally, right now, the
Speaker 1: next step for me is to add more grit and
Speaker 1: more grind into my daily aggression, you know, like how
Speaker 1: I tech the day and you know, like everybody's been saying,
Speaker 1: like I keep on hearing about it, you know, stacking days.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just about getting better every day and
Speaker 1: then have a good day, have a better day next day,
Speaker 1: and keep on doing that. Tom does he have it
Speaker 1: figured out there in terms of the plan any campus
Speaker 1: he embarks on this journey a unique journey for anybody
Speaker 1: making the switch and being at this level against that
Speaker 1: defense every day. Any other advice you'd give Tevin Jenkins,
Speaker 1: you know you're in it as a player, Just make
Speaker 1: sure you understand the information as well as what we
Speaker 1: expect justin fields to understand it, because again, you Jeff,
Speaker 1: we talk about it all the time. You cannot go
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage thinking you've got the lot.
Speaker 1: Go to the line of scrimmage knowing what your assignment
Speaker 1: is against any defense you can face. If you create
Speaker 1: any hesitancy within your game as a left tackle because
Speaker 1: of that, you're thinking at the line of scrimmage, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get beat. You're gonna jeopardize the entire offense. So look,
Speaker 1: we have to have a little bit of patience with Tevin.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna go out there and see an all
Speaker 1: pro left tackle from day one, but I think you'll
Speaker 1: see a different left tackle one week into it, two
Speaker 1: weeks into it, and then when the season gets starts,
Speaker 1: it gets underway. And in general, with that being said,
Speaker 1: the players coming back from injury, everybody wants to hurry
Speaker 1: up and get better. Everyone wants to be able to
Speaker 1: be back to one hundred percent. What advice to both
Speaker 1: of you guys and do this in a minute if
Speaker 1: you can't each that you would give players in terms
Speaker 1: of getting on the field when they might see something
Speaker 1: slipping away from them, a starting job or a place
Speaker 1: on the roster, because there's a there's a handful of
Speaker 1: guys that are in that position. I think you got
Speaker 1: to trust at the work that you've put into it.
Speaker 1: There was an off season where I had back surgery
Speaker 1: in the off season. Then you had to create that
Speaker 1: trust within yourself and what's expected of you once you
Speaker 1: get ready to play. And I think all these guys
Speaker 1: they kind of gain that trust as they go through
Speaker 1: the reheabilitation process and understanding what's going to be expected
Speaker 1: of them once they put shoulder pads in a helmet on. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's different varying degrees. You know, It's like
Speaker 1: who we say, there's there's a difference between between being
Speaker 1: hurt and injured, and as Tom said, you got to
Speaker 1: trust not only the trainers in the information they're giving
Speaker 1: you in terms of the plan of your recovery and
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do to get back on the field.
Speaker 1: And you've also got to trust yourself. You know how
Speaker 1: your body feels and what you can play through and
Speaker 1: what you can't play through, and that you need to
Speaker 1: heal up a little bit more to understand that. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I feel confident now. I'm ready to get back on
Speaker 1: the field and play my best. But there are other
Speaker 1: things that you know as a player that you can
Speaker 1: fight through and it'd be just a matter of time,
Speaker 1: but you're still able to go out there and get
Speaker 1: things done that you need to get done. A couple
Speaker 1: of key players will keep an eye on das Newsome,
Speaker 1: not sure what his availability will be with a broken
Speaker 1: collar bone during the rookie minicamp, and also Tarik Cohen
Speaker 1: as he works his way back from a torn acl
Speaker 1: All right, more to come. Last segment ahead Jim Miller
Speaker 1: and Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac on Chicago Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: will be at Soldier Field, and that's always a fun
Speaker 1: time and a good practice. All right. Remaining moments fellas
Speaker 1: real quick interesting thing done by Pro Football Reference. They
Speaker 1: went back to the nineteen sixty season, and you know,
Speaker 1: sacks were not a thing until nineteen eighty one, but
Speaker 1: it meant that they looked at the tape. Jim Osborne
Speaker 1: would have had fifteen sacks and seventy six, Willie Holman
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half and seventy nine, Wally Chambers fourteen
Speaker 1: and nineteen seventy five. That's just below Richard Dent's seventeen
Speaker 1: and a half and seventeen the all time records. But
Speaker 1: that's an interesting exercise and I think it's important too.
Speaker 1: And I would have loved to know what Deacon Jones's
Speaker 1: numbers would have been. I can't wait to find that out.
Speaker 1: But a guy like Jim Osborne. Tom his number really
Speaker 1: jumped to eighty one sacks, and for that matter, so
Speaker 1: did Dan Hampton's to eighty two. Just some Yeah, Jim
Speaker 1: Osborne was a great defensive tackle. You know, he was
Speaker 1: kind of ahead of his time. He was a combination
Speaker 1: of a guy like big, thick, strong on the inside
Speaker 1: like Steve McMichael. He was able to be absorbed heavy
Speaker 1: duty double teams at that time, where you could hold
Speaker 1: the player up top and you could chop his knees
Speaker 1: out from underneath them. So I think Ozzy Jim Osborne
Speaker 1: has all the respect in the world as one of
Speaker 1: the premier defensive lineman defensive tackles in football throughout his time.
Speaker 1: Jim different topic. Roquan Smith the inside linebacker position and
Speaker 1: the linebacker position in general. I think he got everybody's attention.
Speaker 1: With Fred Warner's big ninety five million dollar deal in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Roquan's gonna get an extension. But as a
Speaker 1: player that knows what's going on and what happens next
Speaker 1: with the Indianapolis Coats, a great linebackers or Darius Leonard,
Speaker 1: what's it all mean? Yeah, I think we all know
Speaker 1: the CAP's gonna start going up again, and you know,
Speaker 1: these crazy numbers are coming out there. And if Roquan
Speaker 1: can continue to play like player I thought he played
Speaker 1: at an all pro level last year. And that's no
Speaker 1: offense to Bobby Wagner. That's how well Roquan played in
Speaker 1: my opinion. So yeah, I think the Bears know it's
Speaker 1: going to come at a heavy cost. All Right, we're
Speaker 1: at a time fellas appreciate it. We'll see a training
Speaker 1: camp Jim in a few weeks. And now thank you
Speaker 1: for everything he did this offseason as well. For Tom there,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller. I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks to Jordan Trentup, Dan
Speaker 1: Billy and Katie Tuber and the folks at the Score.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for us today. Talk to you from
Speaker 1: training camp on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score