WEBVTT - Players to watch during Training Camp | All Access 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.920 Welcome in everybody to Bears All Access brought to you 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.880 by IGS Energy, with a broadcast partner from news Radio 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.760 seven eighty and one h five point at FM WBM. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.960 Tom Fair, I'm Jeff Joniak and joining us as well 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.680 from Sirious XM NFL Radios, Moving the chains Puma Chicago 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.479 Bears quarterback. That great two thousand and one season keeps 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.439 ringing in my ears. Jim Miller, who predicted thirteen and 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.480 three way before the season beginning, that's exactly what they finished, 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.400 going out of the playoffs before bowing out at Old 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.280 Soldier Field before the new facility open up. Jim, how 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.400 are you doing? And you got your traveling shoes on 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.000 ready to roll? Yeah, I'm ready. We head out next Tuesday, 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.240 so I'll be gone for about a month, hitting about 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.640 twenty two different camps, So looking forward to it. Just 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.840 it's just good to be back out on the field 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.840 and just see guys going to work. I mean, that'll 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.280 be just fun to be a part of again. Tom. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.600 I know you're not a traveling man, but it'd be 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.360 kind of fun to take a dip in to look 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.360 at all thirty two teams before you get the season started, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.040 you'd learn a heck of a lot. Yeah, it would be. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.280 But I also look forward to going to Bears practice 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.280 every day because it's incredible how you see the maturation 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.240 process of a team from day one till the end 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.959 of the football season that we have the luxury to see. So, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.880 you know, we've talked a lot about a different subjects 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.280 throughout the offseason. Now we're gonna be talking about real football, 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.959 real development, about the process of these young guys to 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.240 see how they fit in and to see how these 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.440 old guys are coming not old guys, the veterans are 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.880 coming along in their career, all right. Yeah, thank our 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.480 producers Jordan tread Up, Dan, but really Katie Tuber helping 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.000 us out. Certainly the friends here at six seventy to 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.680 score a final show before they started training camp. Later 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.720 on in the program, we'll be joined by NFL dot 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.440 Com writer Adam Rank from NFL Network and NFL dot Com. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.000 He'll join us to talk. He's a Bears fan, big 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.440 Bears fan. We've got the weekend of arrival tom of 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.680 the rookies quarterbacks and rehabbing injured players, so the rookies 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:56.440 kind of get a lay of the land, a little bit, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.240 even though they had the mini camp of the Rookie 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.360 Mini Caamp. It is how fool will get a little prestart. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.960 They won't be in pads by any means. But what 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.800 does that do for the young guys as they find 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.680 out what the routine's going to be every morning up 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.799 at hallisah? I don't know. I've heard it described as 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.240 class on the grass, you know, because a lot of 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.480 these guys need to be reintroduced to the information mentally, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.560 because physically, I think all these guys have been going 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.360 about their business at the normal pace that's expected of them. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.400 But when you're away from the mental part of the 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.760 information that's played such an important role in your success. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.200 I think it's good for the rookies to have a 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.120 couple of days of getting back in the classroom so 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.520 they can get up to speed. Jim, with the new 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.960 CBA rules that kicked in a few years back, do 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.080 you feel this is an advantage for the rookies, Well, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.880 I think it puts more on the players. They have 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.800 to do a lot of stuff on their own time, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.040 you know, because you're you're not getting the reps on 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.240 the field that we've talked about. But as Tom mentioned it, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.639 it reintroduces the material to these guys where they get 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.239 a jump start before the veterans come in. But you've 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.600 got to take advantage of the time you're away from 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.919 the facility. You know, even though there'll be a training 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.919 camp and they're kind of in a confined environment even 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.920 when they're not on the field, they got to have 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.760 the wherewithal and the due diligence to constantly go over 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.520 the material, do it as much as you can until 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.200 you finally understand it and you finally get it. So 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.760 I think it puts more accountability on players that they've 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.560 really even though when their downtime is there, they've got 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.040 to take advantage and take advantage of learning this material 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.680 that they're required to learn. Tom, I just did an 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.480 event the other night in front of twenty five Bears fans. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.960 They were absolutely thrilled and excited about Justin Fields being 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.960 a Chicago Bear, and that's really all they wanted to 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.480 talk about. And honestly, that's been the case the entire offseason, 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.360 and you can't fall fans for doing that. This is 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.080 an exciting player and one that is going to develop 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.000 and be a franchise quarterback. Everyone hopes for many, many 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.680 more years to come. But I tried to accentuate other 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.040 big topics during what is going to be a very 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.920 intriguing training camp, and I can't get past a couple 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.040 of positions. One is the offensive line, obviously, and we 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.000 do feel it's going to be a much stronger offensive 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.760 line with the health returning to a player like James 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.520 Daniels and Sam Mustafer being trying to continue to be 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.159 a leader on that offensive line. Of the center position 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.920 after being inserted during the season, Cody Whitehair steady as always, 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.679 but Jermaine Affediot right tackle to start the training camp, 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.880 and at left tackle, Tevin Jenkins, the rookie hat of 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.800 Oklahoma State, and simply because it's a position that he 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.920 is learning on the fly, essentially having just over four 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.599 hundred snaps in college, and nobody else on the roster 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.640 right now with left tackle experience in an NFL game, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.880 So to me, that is a as big a story 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.359 as anything. How do you feel about it? You know? 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.680 I also think that Matt Maggie drew a line in 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.240 the sand. How many carries a game does he intend 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.479 on getting for David Montgomery? Did he say twenty? And 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.600 there's a couple of other running backs out there, so 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.080 you see if these guys get eight to twelve carries 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.800 a game. So now you're talking about thirty sometimes thirty plus, 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.920 And I think that's what the offensive line wants to hear, Jeff. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.120 They want to hear that. Listen, we're gonna run the ball. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.960 We are gonna be physical, we are gonna make this 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.839 offense move forward. And compliment no matter what quarterback plays 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.160 behind center, that if they can have a strong running game, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.720 it's gonna help their passing games. So I'd like Matt 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.320 Naggee taking over the play calling duties in coming out 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.040 and saying that he has intentions to compliment David Montgomery, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.120 because I think Montgomery and the offensive line, Jeff go 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.720 hand in hand. You gotta have one to help the other, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.920 and I think it's David can help the offensive line 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.440 as much as the offensive line can help David. Hey, 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.400 big Jim, you're the quarterback, You're Andy Dalton, you're justin fields, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.920 you're Nick Foles. You're going to camp. You get the 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.120 layout of the land from Matt Naggie on the first 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.240 team meeting, this is what we're going to be. They 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.760 start installing plays if if they do stick to that 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.000 run game and have that kind of desire to run 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.040 the ball that many times, if you're ready done, you're 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.279 justin fields, you're Nick Foles, and you are a former quarterback. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.719 How does that make you feel heading into the season. Yeah, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.840 I think you know, saying it and doing it are 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.360 two different things. I think you have to stay committed. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.360 You know, you've got to follow through with it, because 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.920 I think we know game situations sometimes dictate that the 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.360 run game can be taken out of it, you know, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.000 so we even say if you're behind in a game, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.719 you can't panic. You got to have the wherewithal and 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.039 the commitment that you've presented the players that you're going 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.040 to follow through on it. I mean, how many times 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.360 do we see teams that say it and then they 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.800 go into a game, bad things happen, and then they 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.200 abandon what they originally tried to do and just scrap 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.600 the game plan. So I think it's, you know, like 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.279 what Tom said, the message is there that this is 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.320 what we're going to do, but you have to follow 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.080 up and have the commitment because the play acts and 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.520 pass game will play off of that. So well could 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.520 be such a big part of the Bears offense as 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.480 long as they stick to running the football in a game. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.280 In your career, Jim, did you ever get to the 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.080 sideline and say, coach, we gotta stay on the run 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.720 and you start to feel it slipping away. Everybody likes 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.480 to throw a ball, obviously your QB. But did you 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.000 have any a story about that when you actually made 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.000 your case and they listened to you. Yeah, I think, well, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.440 there's numerous times. I think we went in and played 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.160 Philly one time and who was it Chris Valerio. I 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.520 think he knew a certain run play was gonna work, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:40.000 and I remember he went over and told the coaches that, hey, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.040 if you call this play, this is gonna be there. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.840 And all it was was twenty six duo. They felt that, 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.520 you know, getting a double team on the nose tackle, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.520 they felt that they could move them with ease and 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.640 with the strength of Oland obviously the strength of Chris Valerio. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.440 That's you know, over seven hundred pounds of beef coming 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.880 at you. So all of a sudden, the coaches listen, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.000 they paid attention. We started running that play and we 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.400 started making Hey, in the run game. So you have 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.000 to have that back and forth of you know, a 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.880 really dialogue that the coaches believe in you as a 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.400 player that certain things are going to work. Now, what 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.760 game was that again? You ran the ball at twenty 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.800 five times in a row. We played the Indianapolis Colts 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.560 in that eighty five season where we ran at the 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.920 first twenty two plays to open up the game. And 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.960 you know, I've been a part of those types of 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.920 games in my past where we knew that we had 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.640 one play that was so strong, but depending upon how 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.920 the defense lined up, we could call it at the 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.800 line of scrimmage and we went that direction and we 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.120 had about two hundred and fifty yards rushing and we 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.120 are super successful because of what the defense was offering us. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.640 So I think sometimes you have to listen to the 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.679 players as much as you want to sit there and 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.760 look at your play sheet to see what you think 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.000 can work well. And I always bring up this this example. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.400 When I was with Pittsburgh, we went out at that 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.640 point the Oakland Raiders. We had zero rushing yards at halftime. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.000 I mean, the coach Kawers said, will Be went into 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.480 the game. He said, guys, don't be surprised if they 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.319 because they were shooting penetrating defense back then. He said, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.920 they're going to get some tackles for loss, but we're 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.359 gonna stick with our game plan and have the wherewithal 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.520 for four quarters to continue to run the football. The 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.400 second half, Jerome Bettis rush for one hundred and fifty yards. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.360 It was just sticking with the run game, and the 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.600 coach told us as a team, it's not gonna look 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.200 pretty at times, but we're gonna stick with it and 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.640 stick with it. We will wear them down and this 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.320 is how we're going to win the game. And that's 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.280 exactly how it played out, and everybody believed in that plan. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.040 That's Jim Miller, tomp there, Jeff Jonnyak and this is 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.280 Bears All Access. Coming up next, NFL dot COM's Adam 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.199 Rank will join the program. This is Bears All Access 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.959 brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.280 six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.680 brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.360 your home at IGS dot com because every good choice 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.360 adds up to a better world. With Top there and 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.280 Jim Miller from Serious Sex M NFL Radio, Moving the 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.079 chains with Pat Kerwin. I'm Jeff Joniak, please to be 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.959 joined by Adam Rank from NFL dot Com. You see 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.000 him on NFL Network as well. He's got his hand 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.320 in the fantasy pot. He does previews and he did 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.199 a great job for all thirty two teams, state of 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.680 the franchise for everybody. So Adam, thank you so much 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.320 for joining us from LA. But before we begin to 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.560 talk about the NFC North and your thoughts on it, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.959 Bears fan, you are not shy about it, are you? Huh? 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.079 How'd this come about? Are you a Chicago and I 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.679 don't know your entire background? I yeah, you know what 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.480 I'm not share or not shy I should say about 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.280 sharing my my fandom. And it really does come from 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.839 my parents, who would be freaking out right now. I'm 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.280 sitting here looking I know this is an audio recording, 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.600 but I'm looking at Tom and just thinking of my 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.360 life and my parents and my uncles and everybody just 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.000 love the Chicago Bears. And I was born in Schaumburg. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.800 Oh sorry, park Ridge. I don't want some Chamberg. You know, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.240 somebody from Schaumberg getting upset and being like no, the 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.520 hospitals in Park Ridge get it right, but you know what, Like, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.640 I don't know, because now the suburbs are fighting. I 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.640 don't know. There's a whole issue going on. But I 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.000 didn't grow up in Chicago or in the Chicago Land area, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.720 but I still kept in an allegiance to the Bears, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.560 mostly because we moved to southern California and the team 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.480 moved away. I did. I did live there long enough 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.440 to be like, hey, I sort of liked the Rams 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.160 in eighty five and then had to hear it from 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.079 every member of my family like I'm a four year 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.959 old and everybody's yelling at me. Like I was, like, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.200 I'm Deeter Brock, Like listen, I'm sorry. I was rooting 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.800 for the local team. But I do now have fully 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.840 embraced the Chicago Bears, and I've also made my children 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.200 following that footsteps too. I said, I don't know if 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.079 you're gonna have a link to Chicago, and I think 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:54.880 I think this is a longer answer than you wanted. 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.440 I'm always my kids. You know, they weren't born in Chicago, 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.800 They're born out here, but I want them to have 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.880 that kind of lineage and I want to look back 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.839 and seeing that because my dad put me in a 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.199 Walter Peyton jersey when I was a kid. I am 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.679 now making my kids put on Bears jerseys instead. I'm 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.160 getting rid of the Cutler jerseys. I'm getting him Justin 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.440 Fields jersey, so that'll be a little bit better. But 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.480 it's just something that's now going to be a family tradition. Well, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.000 you can always change that sea on the Cutler jersey, 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.320 turn it into a being. It becomes a Butler, and 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.000 you're right back in the eighty five team. But you know, 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.320 you know, I want to ask you just real quickly 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.880 about the division. You take in consideration. Every head coach 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.520 in this division give me the temperature of their seats 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.640 at this point. Well, I think i've Lafleura is probably 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:46.240 the safest regardless what happened. So he's good. Dan Campbell 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.600 is coming in, brand new coach. He's going to get 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.280 an opportunity, hopefully a couple of years to try to 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.560 prove himself. It is a little I don't know. You 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.760 can take it one of two ways of having Anthony 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.679 Lynn on your staff. Number One, it's good if you're 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.240 an INEXPI orience head coach. It's always good to have 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.679 somebody on your staff, who has been in that role previously, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.440 who can help guide you along and kind of, you know, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.080 knows what it's like to call a time out in 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.640 an NFL game. I do believe that he's going to 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.600 get a unless it's a complete disaster and they would 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.200 turn to Anthony Lynn. But I think that he's going 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.360 to get a little bit of run. Mike Zimmer, of course, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.800 has been there a long time with the Minnesota Vikings. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.880 It seems like every other year the Minnesota Vikings are competitive. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.480 It's a real It's kind of like you're walking by 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.280 a roulette table and it's like one red, one black, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.280 one red, one black. I don't know, this is their 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.560 odd year. This is the year that Mike Zimmer is 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.160 supposed to be good. Of course, he's got his son 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.960 is the assistant defensive coordinator. Kubiak's son is the offensive coordinator. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.840 So it'll be interesting to see how that plays out, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.000 because at some point it feels like Mike Zimmer needs 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.840 to stretch together some consistency. Adam, you'd since you just 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.760 wrote about the state of all thirty two franchises, what 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.680 is the state of the Green Bay Packers, And it 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.079 could be two states one where Aaron Rodgers does show up. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.240 One more Aaron Rodgers doesn't show up. That could be 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.200 the state of those that franchise. That was it was. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.680 There was a lot of glee in my heart writing 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.280 about the possibility of Aaron Rodgers moving on from Green 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.280 Bay and what it would be like and what what 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.920 everything would you know, how how the world would be 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.760 different without Aaron Rodgers as a quarterback of the Green 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.920 Bay Packers, because I think those fans are a little 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.360 too spoiled, you know, these thirty year old millennials who've 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.040 never experienced what it's like to go through a season 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.360 without a franchise, without a Hall of Fame quarterback. It's 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.200 not even like having a franchise quarterback. You've had two 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.880 of the best quarterbacks of all time, guys who are 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.720 probably in the top ten of all time, and it's 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.080 you know what, it's a it's a it's a weird world. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.800 You don't know what it's like. And so I also 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.520 look at this too, because the Milwaukee Bucks just won 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.720 the NBA Championship, and I don't know if this is 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.440 going to be some sort of monkey's paw situation where 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.280 some kid had found the monkey's paw in a flea 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.640 market in Milwaukee and then whisked for a Bucks Championship, 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.360 not knowing that it's going to set off a chain 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.200 of events that would include, you know, Aaron Rodgers being 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.920 dealt to the Las Vegas Raiders or something. Actually, I 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.400 don't want him to go to Las Vegas because that 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.480 would mean Derek Carr would come into the division. I'm like, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.120 I don't want you to have a good quarterback. I 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.120 want you to try Jordan Love. You stick with the 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.360 quarterback that you thought was going to be better than 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.840 Aaron Rodgers or the air apparent. You should have to 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.320 wear that. So I'm I'm looking forward to see how 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.000 that plays out. Because these Packer fans sure seem to 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.480 think that they're this great model organization. Oh we're so 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.040 they always feel like they're the La Lakers of the NFL, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.480 And I'm like, bro, you're the Mavericks. You had a 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.000 generational talent and you have one title to show for it, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.560 and I know you can come in and make fun 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.680 of me. We have one title since eighty five, A 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.320 hell of a title, by the way, I'll take that 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.920 if you ask me. I don't know, and my dad 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.560 used to always talk this is one of my dad's 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.200 running jokes, and I'm sorry that I'm gonna share it 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.440 with you. He's like, you know, he's like, he really 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.880 My dad was convinced that somebody asked a Bears fan, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.480 do you want to have a string of Super Bowls? 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:05.960 Or do you want to have the greatest team of 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.680 all time? And that person chose greatest team of all time? 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:10.840 So if that's if that's what you're trying to come 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.520 back at me with, it's like, oh, look at you. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.840 You had the greatest team ever ever in football history. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:20.600 Because there's no debate about that. It's ridiculous. But I 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.880 would love to see the Packers have to wallow in 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.480 this and find out what it's like to go into 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.640 a season where your quarterback's not going to bail you 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.200 out all the time, because that's the biggest thing. It's like, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.640 you're always able to be bailed out, like Aaron always 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.400 pulls it. You know what you guys do? You know 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.480 irresponsible things and Aaron always bails you out. And I 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.400 want to see this. I want to see you live 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.800 life like me for a change. Well, the network needs 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.080 to send you to the shareholders meeting next week to 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.480 ask all the tough questions. That's what needs to be 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.160 done at him. I would love that. Yeah, let's do it. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.880 I would happily make I would happily make that journey. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.840 Adam ranked NFL dot Com writer and big star at 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.760 NFL Network, joining the program with Tom, Jim Miller, Jeff 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.560 Jonnyaca remaining moments with Adam. So you're in the fantasy 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.040 game as well. We have so many fantasy football players 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.680 out there. I don't play. I know't. Tom definitely doesn't play. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.120 Time's not even on social media. Jim. I don't know 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.120 if you're doing it, but if you get to pick 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.160 your top fantasy players on the Bears headed in here 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.760 to the twenty twenty one season, who you circling well? 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.600 Number one? I love David Montgomery and I love when 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.000 Matt Nagee was talking about getting the ball to him 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.399 twenty times per game. And it's always good when coaches 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.959 say that I know that Matt Matt, I call him 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.760 like I'm his best friend. I feel so stute, Like Jeff, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.240 I'm so sorry. I feel like this is where it 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.960 really I get exposed as some sort of fraud. But 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.800 I really like that Matt Nagee was mindful that he 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.960 needs to get the ball into the hands of David Montgomery. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.400 I think that he's shown himself to be a dynamic back. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.960 I think, as you said on NFL Network the other day, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.680 the left tackle position and rebuilding this offensive line is 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.399 gonna be go hand in hand with how good David 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.800 Montgomery can be. And when you have a young quarterback 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.280 and whether it's Andy Dalton or Justin Fields, I think 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.400 that that running game is going to be very important 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.600 and I hope to see Montgomery get those opportunities. He 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.280 was fantastic down the stretch. I think we finally got 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.960 to see David Montgomery fully operational. You know, it had 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.119 been it had been a you know, it had been 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.600 at a Dodge Charger that had been in the garage 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.000 for so long, and they're finally out. You know, the 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.720 guy's driving it in the neighborhood and you're like, that's 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.359 a sick car. Yeah. I love to seeing that. We 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.680 should see more of that this season, so I think 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.440 he should be the number one guy. Alan Robinson, of course, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.560 is fantastic. I will continue to contend that he's a 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.960 top five wide receiver in this League, Fantasy Reality, whatever 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.199 it is. I love Alan Robinson, but we also love 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.720 Darnell Mooney, and I really, you know, I think it 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.639 really was me. I think if you trace this back, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.400 Jalen Ramsey being mad at Darnell Mooney this offseason really 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.320 does stem from me in a comment that I made 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.080 on Instagram. So I apologize for that, but I'm not 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:58.160 going to apologize for being so bullish on the ability 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.360 of Darnell Mooney and what he's going to be able 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.240 to do this season. And you know what, I'll play 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.480 that clip over and that's it. Yeah. People make fun 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.480 of me for that too, like, oh, the best part 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.800 of your season was Darnell Mooney beating Jalen Ramsey And 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.679 I'm like, yeah, pretty much was. Yeah, that was that 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.600