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Speaker 1: cell phone. I'm on an app from Cancun, Mexico, courtesy
Speaker 1: of Apple Vacations and the Riu Coasta Mujeri's Hotel and Resort,
Speaker 1: and it is a pleasure to bring Bears football to
Speaker 1: you from Mexico. Lout of Bears fans here about I'd
Speaker 1: say about ninety folks have joined us on the trip
Speaker 1: down here, and so it's been a fun couple of days.
Speaker 1: We're joined by for Chicago Bears. I'm Jeff Joniac Tom
Speaker 1: there in studio. Tom. Can you hear me all right? Buddy?
Speaker 1: I got you loud and clear. Jeff, I'm envious about
Speaker 1: the temperature as you are sitting in while we sit
Speaker 1: inside the offices and the houses we have with coats
Speaker 1: and hoods on a right. It was Tom's first question
Speaker 1: to me today by text was how are the waves?
Speaker 1: They're they're not surfable, Tom, but there is a nasty
Speaker 1: wind of time, so they crop up a little bit.
Speaker 1: And Jim Miller, Jim, are you home yet from the combine?
Speaker 1: Are you still in Indie? Yes? The best thing Tom
Speaker 1: and I got gold for us is daylight savings time.
Speaker 1: Next next week, spring forward, we'll get a little bit
Speaker 1: more sunlight. Jeff, much like yourself, I won't rub it
Speaker 1: in fellas, and I'll tell you what happened today a
Speaker 1: bit later on. But right off the top of the show,
Speaker 1: where pleased to be joined by the outstanding now second
Speaker 1: year linebacker the Chicago Bears, Roquan Smith, one of the
Speaker 1: four players here with us in Cancoon. Good to see it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking a few minutes with us. Roquan, you're
Speaker 1: here with not only some of the defensive guys on
Speaker 1: the team, but big Bradley Soul kind of stole the
Speaker 1: show today at the beach drills with the fans. But
Speaker 1: you also have Prince of Mukamara here and Bala Nichols,
Speaker 1: one of your teammates on the defensive, said of the ball,
Speaker 1: good time, isn't it? Absolutely enjoying it, great weather, great
Speaker 1: team bun as well, and just enjoying time with those guys.
Speaker 1: Now you appreciate the fans even a little more when
Speaker 1: you see them here. They are decked head to toe
Speaker 1: and bears gear. A lot of these folks have come
Speaker 1: to these thirteen years in a row. They can't get
Speaker 1: enough of it, and they were very vocal today. A
Speaker 1: good time And you did a nice job today, did everything.
Speaker 1: You know, you're the I think you were then again
Speaker 1: without your shirt off today, I mean, you know, like
Speaker 1: showing off a little bit, right, Hey, you know I've
Speaker 1: worked out a little bit, so I deserve to show
Speaker 1: it off in the sun somewhat. But it's definitely great
Speaker 1: having a lot of those dedicated fans out. So it's
Speaker 1: great having fans like that behind you, you know, I mean, Jim,
Speaker 1: have at it, ro Quan. After the fun is over
Speaker 1: this week, you know, Ryan Pace said in this press
Speaker 1: conference this past week, instincts and speed are the two
Speaker 1: best traits of ro Kuan Smith. So this offseason, what
Speaker 1: is your focus to make Roquan a better player in
Speaker 1: year two. I would say, just improving on all aspects
Speaker 1: of my game. Nothing in particularly that I'm doing. I
Speaker 1: want to pretty much be the same size, improve my
Speaker 1: speed if I can do that, get stronger obviously, and
Speaker 1: just do everything better, you know, just improve on the
Speaker 1: little things. And I feel like that, and I feel
Speaker 1: like that to take my game to the next level.
Speaker 1: But what about for you, ro Qua Jim Miller here,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you again, and just how quickly
Speaker 1: did it take you to settle in into the defense?
Speaker 1: Here you have the long hold out, but long behold
Speaker 1: you arrived. For the Bears, you get an early sack.
Speaker 1: But how quickly told was when you felt comfortable and
Speaker 1: we're really just out there reacting and maybe not thinking
Speaker 1: as much. In terms of learning the defense, I would
Speaker 1: say weekend and week out. I felt like I constantly
Speaker 1: improved from like game one to game seven, and then
Speaker 1: I felt like around like game nine or ten, I
Speaker 1: felt like I was really comfortable doing whatever throughout the
Speaker 1: defense as well as playing out a difference. So when
Speaker 1: you're doing that and not thinking at all, it definitely
Speaker 1: great and it makes you fly around and makes you
Speaker 1: make a lot more plays, for sure. We're with roe
Speaker 1: quand Smith here in Cancun, Mexico. I thought I'd never
Speaker 1: say that, right, Huh, how about it? I mean from
Speaker 1: below Nichols, who's my next door neighbor. This is the
Speaker 1: first time Fellas he's ever been out of the country,
Speaker 1: so he's digging it. And it is a great, great
Speaker 1: beach resort. Obviously Rio here in Cancun and apple vacations.
Speaker 1: But a year ago, at this time, you're at the
Speaker 1: combine trying to impress folks, and you certainly did. You
Speaker 1: had a great combine. You were the eighth pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. Does it seem a long time ago? And
Speaker 1: when you were getting ready for that? How much of
Speaker 1: that translated into what you did here with the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears in twenty eighteen. I'll feel like a little bit
Speaker 1: of that did. But it was great, you know, experience
Speaker 1: in that, you know, not many can say the experience
Speaker 1: the NFL Combine, and so having an opportunity to perform,
Speaker 1: now that was great. And then doing what I did,
Speaker 1: and then in the interview process and met a lot
Speaker 1: of great players across the country, So it was definitely great.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it like I learned a lot through there,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I carried some of it over,
Speaker 1: some of the drills and different things like that and
Speaker 1: some of the other things in the interview process, learned
Speaker 1: from that and just carrying it on in my day
Speaker 1: to day life. So I feel like I learned in
Speaker 1: a lot of different aspects Roquan, after you became familiar
Speaker 1: with the defense and you had a better understanding when
Speaker 1: you look at the offensive side of the football from college,
Speaker 1: do the blockers stay on you longer? Number one? And
Speaker 1: is it noticeably more difficult to tackle the talent in
Speaker 1: the NFL than it was in a major college that
Speaker 1: you played in. Well, there there is a difference, But
Speaker 1: planning in the SEC, I definitely think it prepared like
Speaker 1: help me actually got be ready for the NFL, because
Speaker 1: I felt like the talent level from the SEC to
Speaker 1: the NFL is maybe just a tad big more. But
Speaker 1: it's definitely a little more challenging in the NFL because
Speaker 1: there's no like weekend and week out, you're playing the
Speaker 1: best of the best. It's not like you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a cupcake, so you're gonna get the best player you
Speaker 1: know around and it makes you brings out the best
Speaker 1: and they everyone. So that's what we love about the game.
Speaker 1: You know, well, from your standpoint, did did it live
Speaker 1: up to everything you thought it was gonna be? Them?
Speaker 1: When you look at it, it's just a step above.
Speaker 1: It's the best of the best. But I guess in
Speaker 1: terms of just the workmanlike manner of it. You know,
Speaker 1: it is professional football, how your teammates prepare himself, how
Speaker 1: the professional locker up is held, maybe just touch on it.
Speaker 1: From that standpoint, is the live up to everything you
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be in pro football? I came
Speaker 1: in didn't really have any expectations. I'm just going in
Speaker 1: like it's a dream to be here, so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna make the most of the dream. And I just
Speaker 1: felt I was gonna stick to what got me to
Speaker 1: that point. So whatever my goals were, whatever my work
Speaker 1: habits were in college, I felt like I would just
Speaker 1: continue that over into the NFL, and I felt like
Speaker 1: that would get me to where I want to go.
Speaker 1: And so far, so good, but there's still obviously room
Speaker 1: for improvement and gonna continue with that and just continue
Speaker 1: to keep getting better. But I definitely didn't have any
Speaker 1: expectations I was just looking at it more of a
Speaker 1: dream come true and living out a dream. Georgia pro
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith here with us in can Kou, Mexico at
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, Tom there, Jeff Joniac. I was at the
Speaker 1: Combine until Saturday, and one of the last interviews that
Speaker 1: I was a part of there was a Devin White
Speaker 1: from LSU and your name was brought up, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my brother. And they said, hey, you're gonna following
Speaker 1: the footsteps of Roquan Smith and what he did in
Speaker 1: the Combine last year and what he did in the
Speaker 1: NFL in his rookie year. He says, I respect what
Speaker 1: he accomplished. He goes I'd like to be, you know,
Speaker 1: a top five pick. And he goes out and runs
Speaker 1: a four four forty and what was it, a four
Speaker 1: four two and he jumped over forty at the Combine.
Speaker 1: Now those are just numbers, obviously, but it does accentuate
Speaker 1: his explosion and his speed. And he had a great
Speaker 1: personality too. What do you know about him? And how
Speaker 1: much did that impact you that he brought you up,
Speaker 1: because now you're in the game, now you're in the league.
Speaker 1: He had a great rookie years, led the team and
Speaker 1: tackles on a twelve win football team that went to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Absolutely, I still have a lot a long
Speaker 1: way to go, but like getting back to the Devin
Speaker 1: White situation, Yeah, he's a great player. I know he's
Speaker 1: a great player. I hear he's a guy of high character,
Speaker 1: you know from the conversations we've had the times we've
Speaker 1: hung out. I think I think a lot of him.
Speaker 1: I think he's a tremendous athlete as well, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what he's gonna do. He's obviously put
Speaker 1: up some op popping numbers that to come by, so
Speaker 1: if he can go top five, that'll be great. I'm
Speaker 1: cheering for him inside linebacker, so I need to put
Speaker 1: a little more respect on the position, So if he
Speaker 1: can do that, I'll be extremely happy for him. I
Speaker 1: can't I think what the last inside linebacker to go
Speaker 1: top five was a guy from Wake Forest, Aaron Curry,
Speaker 1: something like that, So it'll be it'll be great to
Speaker 1: see that and I'll be very excited for him, and
Speaker 1: I'm wishing him the best throughout the rest of the process.
Speaker 1: You know, Roquan second year in the league and you're
Speaker 1: already going through a major coaching change on your side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Did you ever experience a coaching change
Speaker 1: that close to you in college? And have you had
Speaker 1: a chance you have to talk to coach Chuck Pogano
Speaker 1: and not necessarily to pick his brain, just to get
Speaker 1: a feeling of his personality. So the crazy thing about
Speaker 1: it is my first year at Georgia. At the end
Speaker 1: of that year, my head coach defensive cording to everyone
Speaker 1: left and then we got Dustin, we got coach Kirby Smart.
Speaker 1: So it's crazy how that all works out, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty much the same thing and now. But yeah, I've
Speaker 1: definitely chopped it up with Chuck as well as Mark,
Speaker 1: my inside linebacker coach. So I'm very excited to be
Speaker 1: working with those guys. Guys got a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: I know they want to do some amazing things, and
Speaker 1: I know they have a good track record, So I'm
Speaker 1: very excited to get to work and see where we
Speaker 1: can take it. Well, since Jeff put out your scouting cap,
Speaker 1: I want to take you there too. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the linebacker DeAndre Walker out of Georgia. What
Speaker 1: can you tell me about him and where he's at
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table. I feel he's a
Speaker 1: little he's a little down down dealing with recent surgery
Speaker 1: he's had. But like I'm very excited to see where
Speaker 1: he's going. He has a high ceiling, can do a
Speaker 1: lot of different things, tremendous athlete from We've been together
Speaker 1: since like high school, working in camps and then the
Speaker 1: years at Georgia. So I'm very excited to see who
Speaker 1: he can go. He goes, and he can get after
Speaker 1: the pastor, I know that for sure, and he can
Speaker 1: a lot of things happen. He can rig hav for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, Roquant, were gonna let you go. I know
Speaker 1: you got dinner plans tonight, but you know we'll be
Speaker 1: hanging out a little bit down here at the beach.
Speaker 1: Got any plans? I know? I know today you had
Speaker 1: a good good time, didn't you. I definitely did have
Speaker 1: a good time, even swim with the dolphins. Swim with
Speaker 1: the dolphins. That isn't that something this guy is gonna
Speaker 1: jump in the water and do. But that's you know,
Speaker 1: these young guys, they can have that kind of fun. Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for the hit. It absolutely broke Quant Smith.
Speaker 1: What a great rookie year. It was who could not
Speaker 1: forget the first snap sack against the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: and the season opener. And it looks like it'll be
Speaker 1: the Bears and Packers and the season opener again, if
Speaker 1: all reports are true. As we continue on here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the
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Speaker 1: Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Jone Yeah here in Canco, Mexico,
Speaker 1: Apple vacations and the Ryu Kasta Mujaris. Guys. It's unbelievable
Speaker 1: weather here. But what I love today the guys I
Speaker 1: mentioned at top of the show, Roquan and Balon Nichols
Speaker 1: and Bradley Souls here the offensive lineman, Prince of Mukamara.
Speaker 1: This the interaction with the fans so today on the
Speaker 1: beach was the drills that you guys, you know, always
Speaker 1: make fun of me from last year about when I
Speaker 1: caught a football on the face from an unsuspecting kicker.
Speaker 1: They really, they really were knocking down these drills, like
Speaker 1: Prince of Mukamara is teaching them true defensive bag drills,
Speaker 1: footwork and flipping your hips and all that, and they
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Thangel, it was two hours of that and
Speaker 1: they did not want to leave. I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. You know, that's why those players are there.
Speaker 1: It's their personalities that I think they're in the position
Speaker 1: they're in. They're really gracious to the fans and the
Speaker 1: people they get a chance to meet. I told you
Speaker 1: last week on the show, I thought Bradley Soul was
Speaker 1: going to be the guy that was going to stand
Speaker 1: out because he does have a dynamic personality and when
Speaker 1: you see him playing tight end, you see him playing
Speaker 1: running back, you see him playing offensive tackle. He's a
Speaker 1: really good long snapper that he net doesn't have to
Speaker 1: do because other teams hire a guy just for that position. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the fans are really fortunate too,
Speaker 1: because when you get these instructions from guys like Prince
Speaker 1: and Blaw and all the whole crew, you're getting them
Speaker 1: from in a really fun atmosphere for from an NFL player,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a great time for those players
Speaker 1: as well as it is the fans. Well, evidently the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears didn't want to tweet out the techniques because
Speaker 1: all I saw was Prince of Mukamara doing the salsa
Speaker 1: on the beach. But yeah, that's what I saw, So
Speaker 1: I just say, any techniques that you were talking, he's practice.
Speaker 1: He's practicing the post touchdown celebration. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. He definitely was doing the salsa. And it
Speaker 1: was Bradley Sewel who got the idea. So at halftime
Speaker 1: of the of the day, the halftime was Club Dub
Speaker 1: and it was Bradley Sewel who got him jumping. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, it was very entertaining. And of
Speaker 1: course Anthony Adams otherwise known as Spice, otherwise known as
Speaker 1: his alter ego here was coach dun Dunn. So coach
Speaker 1: Dundunn had the high tube socks, the ditka you know,
Speaker 1: Plattville ara pants, the shorts, and he had the visor
Speaker 1: and all that, and boy was that entertaining. So the
Speaker 1: offense and defensive lines seul against Anthony Adams. A couple
Speaker 1: of guys got after it pretty seriously, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was a little crazy what these fans were doing,
Speaker 1: but it was a lot of fun to see. Also
Speaker 1: learned that Bradley not only because he could have been
Speaker 1: a very good pitcher. He was a very good pitcher
Speaker 1: in baseball. He had very good velocity as throws, and
Speaker 1: he's also a scratch golfer, so you'll talk about it
Speaker 1: all around athlete. My goodness, at sixty seven, he's the best.
Speaker 1: He is one of the best big men golfers I've
Speaker 1: ever seen to be so organized at that you know
Speaker 1: that hand eye coordination, to have you know the size
Speaker 1: he has, it's it's impressive anyway, So Jim, let's switch
Speaker 1: to the combine real quick. Early in the week, we
Speaker 1: heard from Matt Naggie and also general manager Ryan Pace. Obviously,
Speaker 1: people want to know about a couple of key free
Speaker 1: agents and the developments of the week. And with the
Speaker 1: agents all around, you're gonna hear a lot of reports,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in the field nationally and locally
Speaker 1: from Chicago trying to check and sniff out what's going
Speaker 1: to happen with Bryce Callahan and Adrian Amos. It seems
Speaker 1: like from everything that I've gathered and reading these reports
Speaker 1: and listening through the week that yes, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a shot at keeping these guys if they want and
Speaker 1: if they need to, if they feel they need to,
Speaker 1: given what's available in free agency and what they're going
Speaker 1: to see And I didn't see anything today with the
Speaker 1: defensive backs drills, what's available when they are going to
Speaker 1: be coming around to their draft space in the third
Speaker 1: round and beyond, what's the feedback you're hearing because Jim,
Speaker 1: you were there all week and you talk to every
Speaker 1: general manager, every head coach, and almost every big player
Speaker 1: in this draft as regards what the Bears might do
Speaker 1: at that position with those two free agents. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like they're going to make an honest effort to
Speaker 1: try to resign the players that we talk about. Adrian's
Speaker 1: been very productive. We talk about surehanded tackler, Bryce Callahan
Speaker 1: very versatile in terms of what he brings as a
Speaker 1: nickel back in the NFL. But again, I think it
Speaker 1: always comes down it's got to be at the right price.
Speaker 1: You know. Fortunately for the Bears are not like other
Speaker 1: teams right now that you have to dedicate a lot
Speaker 1: of money in terms of the franchise tag. If any
Speaker 1: players they've done a good job about resigning their own
Speaker 1: signing good young players. Went really aggressive last year in
Speaker 1: free agency, Maybe won't have to do that as much
Speaker 1: this year. Those two players are probably the key components
Speaker 1: they would like to have back. But again it's got
Speaker 1: to be at the right price. But in terms of
Speaker 1: the draft, we know it's going to be the market
Speaker 1: is going to be flooded with a lot of players
Speaker 1: that are out there. You know, here another safety released
Speaker 1: by the Tennessee Titans today, Jonathan Sipprian. He's coming off
Speaker 1: of you know, an ACL and he certainly Tennis he's
Speaker 1: probably looking to resign him. But we've seen Tyrn Matthew.
Speaker 1: The safety population out there and free agency is pretty
Speaker 1: deep right now. There's going to be more corners that
Speaker 1: are going to be out there on the free agent
Speaker 1: market and you want on it. And then you tap
Speaker 1: into the combine in the draft, there's talented players coming out.
Speaker 1: We know how players have become impact players. Adrian Amos
Speaker 1: was a fourth round pick who made an instant impact
Speaker 1: out of Penn State. You know, you look at other
Speaker 1: players Eddie Jackson, look at his impact and that he's
Speaker 1: had for the Chicago Bears, Kyle Fuller. Here's a high
Speaker 1: draft pick, has his ups and downs. He's resigned by
Speaker 1: the Bears, a drafted player that returned home to Chicago.
Speaker 1: So who are those players we know early in the draft,
Speaker 1: at least all the feedback coming out of what we
Speaker 1: saw this past weekend. Defensive linemen are fantastic. It is
Speaker 1: stacked in terms of the edge rushers and the defensive
Speaker 1: linement that are out there. A lot of guys tested well.
Speaker 1: So it's going to push good players down the board.
Speaker 1: For the Chicago Bears, quarterbacks starting to move up again,
Speaker 1: that's going to push good players down the board. And
Speaker 1: you look at players today that went out there and performed.
Speaker 1: From the defensive back that LSU corner Greedy Williams. Some
Speaker 1: people don't think he's aggressive enough in tackling. He could
Speaker 1: put on some weight, but he runs a terrific time
Speaker 1: six two, one hundred and eighty five. I thought he
Speaker 1: displayed himself very well. Byron Murphy Washington State, here's a
Speaker 1: guy could be a nickel corner. He I think balled out.
Speaker 1: He's projected to be a first round pit draft pick.
Speaker 1: So there are players out there. DeAndre Baker would be
Speaker 1: another one should have asked a Roqueline about him. There's
Speaker 1: the Georgia product. He's a player that I think displayed
Speaker 1: very displayed himself very well. I think he's a guy
Speaker 1: who could be versatile in terms of the secondary, whether
Speaker 1: it's at a slot corner or ultimately lines up outside.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're there, Jeff, They're definitely there. You know.
Speaker 1: One thing about this draft and Ryan's initial press conference,
Speaker 1: he said that he's going to treat this combine as
Speaker 1: if they had a first in the second rounder, because
Speaker 1: he's said a lot of these guys come up as
Speaker 1: free agents throughout their career and they like to have
Speaker 1: these interviews on record to go back and look at information.
Speaker 1: I like that forward thinking Ryan. I think it's really
Speaker 1: smart when you don't have it. And then when you
Speaker 1: look at the combine seventeen wide receivers, six two are
Speaker 1: better in that group of wide receivers. And then you
Speaker 1: start thinking about the Bears nowadays and what Matt Nagge offers,
Speaker 1: and you think about the tight ends. There's there's a
Speaker 1: solid online tight end group, and there's the U tight end,
Speaker 1: the Trey Burton style of tight ends. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of them out there that makes it interesting. But the
Speaker 1: thing about it is, I think after having the experience
Speaker 1: of living through the Bears season this combine, I looked
Speaker 1: at the tight ends and the running backs completely different
Speaker 1: than I did a year ago and for the previous
Speaker 1: years in the history of the Bears. I think that's
Speaker 1: the two positions offensively that change the most for me
Speaker 1: when I was looking at the talent during the draft
Speaker 1: or during the combine that you need specifics in the
Speaker 1: style depending upon what tight end you're gonna be. So
Speaker 1: it's not like one tight end lumped in is going
Speaker 1: to do a little bit of everything that I have
Speaker 1: this specific you tight end and these guys like Faint
Speaker 1: or Fant that can run out of Iowa or you
Speaker 1: have the other big guys that can play on the
Speaker 1: online tight end. And then when I think of the
Speaker 1: running back position, for years, you guys, we thought about
Speaker 1: the running back, the bigger style of running back, the
Speaker 1: four yards, you know. Plus nowadays it's like I need
Speaker 1: to see an athlete at the running back position. I
Speaker 1: need to see a running back that can catch the
Speaker 1: ball as well as he can run the ball. And
Speaker 1: it maybe changes you're thinking process of a first and
Speaker 1: second down running back that you may be attracted to
Speaker 1: because of size and power, but now you gotta think, hey,
Speaker 1: can this guy catch? Can he be the primary receiver
Speaker 1: coming out of the huddle in the past, in the
Speaker 1: passing game, And so that's changed for me and looking
Speaker 1: at those two positions. It'll be interesting because the Bears
Speaker 1: don't have them, you know, the high pick in the
Speaker 1: high picks, I should say, and are selecting later just
Speaker 1: you know how good and I do think and a
Speaker 1: lot of people think the draft is going to be
Speaker 1: deeper later. You know where good players are going to
Speaker 1: be there in the second even the third round. I
Speaker 1: think one of those players who got hurt at the
Speaker 1: combine and I'm talking about that Kendall Sheffield, excuse me,
Speaker 1: the corner from Ohio State because he tore his pack,
Speaker 1: you know, something like that could push him down the
Speaker 1: board a little bit and then they won't behold a
Speaker 1: good corners waiting there for Chicago with where they're selecting
Speaker 1: in the third round. So I think it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: There's good players that I think Matt Nett or excuse me,
Speaker 1: Ride Pace and Matt Naggie are going to dive into
Speaker 1: and they'll be there, and I think we've seen them
Speaker 1: uncover them before. What I like about it, what I
Speaker 1: like hearing about from Ryan Pace just a very stern
Speaker 1: confidence about what he wants to do and what he
Speaker 1: is going to be capable of accumulating despite not having
Speaker 1: a first or second round pick, and for now with
Speaker 1: a third to start the festivities in the twenty nineteen draft,
Speaker 1: but not discounting hey move up into the second round.
Speaker 1: If there's somebody that he absolutely wants, he usually goes
Speaker 1: and gets what he wants. Will continue you on. We'll
Speaker 1: start taking your phone calls to three one, two, four,
Speaker 1: sixty seven, sixty seven, Jeff Joni Actom There Jim Miller
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Add from
Speaker 1: Camp Mexico. We are back on Bears All Access here
Speaker 1: with the Apple Vacations crew and some Bears players. We
Speaker 1: got real quant Smith, Prince and Mukamara, Bradley Sewell and
Speaker 1: Bilal Nichols all here enjoying the festivities and a great
Speaker 1: start to the trip. Indeed, as we set for the
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, a lot of excited Bears fans and
Speaker 1: excited Bears that they are very ecited about what's ahead Blackcoles.
Speaker 1: I had a long conversation with today just super about
Speaker 1: what's to come to Chicago Bears here in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: They feel like a lot of unfinished business, and I
Speaker 1: think that's the theme we'll hear from these guys, Tom
Speaker 1: and Jim throughout the course of the off season programmers
Speaker 1: they get ready for training camp. You know one thing
Speaker 1: about Bi Nichols, he's got to be excited because Jay
Speaker 1: Rogers's defensive line coach, got an award over the week
Speaker 1: to be in the defensive line coach position Coach of
Speaker 1: the Year, which is a you know, it's a high praise,
Speaker 1: a high compliment to the hiring of them. First of all,
Speaker 1: the development of his coaching style and as techniques and
Speaker 1: then that's stop. Then the ability to develop young players
Speaker 1: and veteran players into playing quality football from a team
Speaker 1: Hicks down to blow Nichols, and he gives equal coaching
Speaker 1: to every one of them, and that's it gives these
Speaker 1: guys a great opportunity to succeed in their career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're you know, they've got to be motivated
Speaker 1: to take a step forward. One. They're coming off a
Speaker 1: great season. They got to keep that coat cohesiveness and continue.
Speaker 1: It is a team and as Tom knows, just go
Speaker 1: out there compete, you know, push your push your team,
Speaker 1: he push one another to try and strive for better
Speaker 1: going into twenty nineteen. I think the team has the
Speaker 1: character they've displayed that that they want to strive and
Speaker 1: continue to push forward to to really take a step
Speaker 1: further than what they did a year ago. It's unfortunate
Speaker 1: and how they ended, because they were a good enough
Speaker 1: team to continue. But I think you've got to be hungry.
Speaker 1: I think they know they're not going to settle for that,
Speaker 1: and they've got to push one another, all right. You
Speaker 1: know from the combine some of the drills and success
Speaker 1: of some of these guys. DK Metcalf, the receiver from
Speaker 1: Old miss How do you run a four three three
Speaker 1: forty and a half vertical eleven two broad at six
Speaker 1: three two twenty eight and then Montes Suite a Mississippi
Speaker 1: State at two sixty running a four four forty four
Speaker 1: four one forty at six six, two sixty. Can you
Speaker 1: explain that to me? Fellas, these guys are training for
Speaker 1: Jeff and they're they're kind of fortunate that they only
Speaker 1: have to do it twice a year, and that's at
Speaker 1: the Combine and at the Pro Day, and you get
Speaker 1: the best of the best that's you. You specifically train
Speaker 1: for the tests that you're going to go through, and
Speaker 1: then you kind of change your training as soon as
Speaker 1: the combine's done. You're not getting ready to run any
Speaker 1: more forties. You're trying to get stronger as a football player,
Speaker 1: not at as an endurance athlete to see how many
Speaker 1: times you can do two twenty five. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot more job structure that you have to start investing
Speaker 1: in yourself once the combines over. Yeah, you saw all
Speaker 1: those displays of talent and it's it's impressive. However, do
Speaker 1: all those numbers compute into anticipating a ball that's coming
Speaker 1: out of an NFL quarterback's hands at blazing speed with
Speaker 1: the safety that's gonna light you up? You know, can
Speaker 1: all these guys fulfill the obligations of their jobs even
Speaker 1: though they tested so well, because um just you know,
Speaker 1: to give a quick story, when I was going through
Speaker 1: a combine, there was a guy, Dave Dreschler. He was
Speaker 1: an offensive guard out of North Carolina, and he wasn't
Speaker 1: strong in the bench, he wasn't overwhelming looking. He got
Speaker 1: drafted in the second round by the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: So sometimes, you know, I don't. I think he injured
Speaker 1: his back and never really had any time spent with them. However,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not always what you do. It's the
Speaker 1: evaluation of the personnel that's you know, has eye contact
Speaker 1: with you. And I think that you know, you look
Speaker 1: at the representation. As Tom mentioned, they've got it down
Speaker 1: to a science. Remember when Mamoula, who everybody diagnoses as
Speaker 1: a draft bus by the Philadelphi Eagles, he was one
Speaker 1: of the first guys to tests for all those tests,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of you know, the short shuttle
Speaker 1: and the techniques in the forty and here he you know,
Speaker 1: he has his breakout combine and everybody thinks he's going
Speaker 1: to be the greatest pass rusher ever. He just kind
Speaker 1: of had a so so career. It's not you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't have a bad career, he just never got
Speaker 1: above dominating double digit sacks in his five year career
Speaker 1: for Philadelphi Eagles. So I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: put him in the bus category. But I'm with Tom.
Speaker 1: I think these guys train it to perfection. You know,
Speaker 1: even if it's what everybody expects a top pick. Now
Speaker 1: in Kyler Murray, the Oklahoma quarterback comes in wayne over
Speaker 1: two hundred. That's no different than what Teddy Bridgewater did
Speaker 1: when ultimately he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings late
Speaker 1: in the first round, went in there, beefed up, you know,
Speaker 1: got to like two hundred and I think it was
Speaker 1: like seventeen pounds and then lo and behold a week
Speaker 1: later he's back down to two oh seven. You know,
Speaker 1: so you know they're prepared for what's being asked of him,
Speaker 1: and of course you got to do all the character
Speaker 1: side of it. You know. For Montez who you mentioned,
Speaker 1: who blew it up at the Mississippi State defensive end,
Speaker 1: there's a reason why he wasn't asked to return to
Speaker 1: Michigan State, you know, That's why he ended up down
Speaker 1: there in Mississippi State to play football. I think he's
Speaker 1: a terrific athlete, but you got to uncover what were
Speaker 1: his issues and why it didn't work out at his
Speaker 1: first stop in college before he put up record setting
Speaker 1: numbers there as a pass rusher in defensive end at
Speaker 1: Mississippi State. Jeff Jony Act, Tom There and Jim Miller
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Speaker 1: want to jump on, let's talk kickers, because there were
Speaker 1: three in Indianapolis. They're trying to get drafted. All three
Speaker 1: met with the Bears. You got LSU's col Tracy, Utah's
Speaker 1: Matthew Gay, and Oklahoma's Astern Cybert. I interviewed Cybert, and
Speaker 1: I interviewed Gay, and much of the conversation was about
Speaker 1: mental toughness, because I was trying to find out where
Speaker 1: their heads are at when things don't go well and Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Cody Parking situation is really prevalent right now. It
Speaker 1: was brought up by other reporters and they had strong
Speaker 1: feelings about how Cody is as a kicker. They happened
Speaker 1: to be aware of him in certain cases in Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and assistant coach work with Parkey, so Austin Cybert knows
Speaker 1: of him and they have a lot of respect for him.
Speaker 1: And then just how it all unfolded after missing the
Speaker 1: playoff kick and the criticism and so forth. So these
Speaker 1: guys are well aware of it. They are well aware
Speaker 1: of what they are walking into. And in the case
Speaker 1: of Cybert, he he missed sixteen kicks in college over
Speaker 1: his four years. He made a lot of big kicks,
Speaker 1: but he missed kicks, and he said he took a
Speaker 1: ton of criticism and he had to just learn not
Speaker 1: to listen to it. Do you think that it's that
Speaker 1: easy to do when you get to the NFL, if
Speaker 1: you experience it even in college. No. I think that
Speaker 1: you need to surround kickers by pressure, and I think
Speaker 1: you need to have bodies around him. You need to
Speaker 1: have confusion, you need to have hecklers, and you need
Speaker 1: to have noise because you know, whether you go look
Speaker 1: at the tryout of Robbie Gold when he initially signed
Speaker 1: with the Bears, and they had six or seven guys
Speaker 1: there and they're kicking, and whoever kicks the best is
Speaker 1: going to win the job. And there's six or seven
Speaker 1: of your peers that are looking at you, and that's
Speaker 1: an enormous amount of pressure. And so I think that's
Speaker 1: what you need. So you talk about going and kicking
Speaker 1: in the perfect combine situation indoors and all that, no
Speaker 1: pressure at all. When I go back, and I know
Speaker 1: you don't want me to bring it off. It's Saturday night.
Speaker 1: I was watching an AAF game. They're playing out in
Speaker 1: Utah and it snows the whole game. So you got
Speaker 1: Steve Spurrier coaching against Eric's and and if you want
Speaker 1: to go back and you want to look at kickers
Speaker 1: with pressure on them, go back and you look at
Speaker 1: the kickers and you laugh. I mean, you laugh, but
Speaker 1: it's fact, And I'm not no, I know, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, you need to see examples of pressure,
Speaker 1: and you need to see examples of really crummy conditions
Speaker 1: that you're being really successful. And when I look at
Speaker 1: the kicks that those two guys hit the other night,
Speaker 1: and those conditions, I would be more more to go
Speaker 1: investigate that talent that I'm seeing actually being used. Then
Speaker 1: to bring a guy in a perfect scenario where he's
Speaker 1: a kicking, he's got a holder and he's hitting him
Speaker 1: from fifty five I need to see pressure. I need
Speaker 1: to see what your plant fit foot is doing when
Speaker 1: it's on a three quarters of an inch of snow,
Speaker 1: it's still snowing, and you're still banging them from forty
Speaker 1: and fifty yards. Well, you bring up a good point,
Speaker 1: and that's why Matt Gay of Utah, you know, probably
Speaker 1: is kicked in those kind of can get conditions. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, you think of the other two kickers that
Speaker 1: you mentioned in Cole Tracy and Austin Siebert out of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: You know how many times were they behind? How many
Speaker 1: pressure kicks has they made? I think that's a good
Speaker 1: thing that Cybert, like you said, has missed a lot
Speaker 1: of kicks and he's had to overcome that. He probably had,
Speaker 1: you know, was getting heckled by the fans. He's coming
Speaker 1: out of the tunnel and I'm sure they were saying
Speaker 1: certain things to him. You do. I have to have
Speaker 1: a certain mental toughness to overcome it. But game winning
Speaker 1: kicks when kicks are on the line. The last time
Speaker 1: I check, Oklahoma won a lot of games both with
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield in Kyler Murray and sometimes buy a lot.
Speaker 1: So how many pressure situations what he is has he
Speaker 1: been in? And I think that's what really Ryan Pace
Speaker 1: is looking to uncover when you look at all the
Speaker 1: kickers coming out this year. Well, I did miss a
Speaker 1: game winner against Army last season. That was the one
Speaker 1: I asked him what his worst moment was in terms
Speaker 1: of a kick he'd want back in the one he
Speaker 1: was most happy about. But there was an Ohio State
Speaker 1: game and the Army game. But then last year he
Speaker 1: made his final fourteen kicks, so he rebounded well. Different
Speaker 1: sized kickers too. I don't know what we're looking for,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if the Bears are going to
Speaker 1: be interested in even considering drafting one. But a guy
Speaker 1: like Cybert is five nine gay a bigger guy at
Speaker 1: six one, two twenty and Tracy at five eleven one
Speaker 1: eighty eight. If you're keeping score on all that, we'll
Speaker 1: continue on three one, two, six, four, four sixty seven
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Speaker 1: the journey. We'll continue on with Combine talk, but first
Speaker 1: a little look to free agency. Because fellas clearly, teams
Speaker 1: don't want to just let their pass rushers walk, and
Speaker 1: you never do. You never can have enough of them.
Speaker 1: So a bunch of guys were franchised to Marcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Frank Clark, Jadavian Clowney. I'm here in though, Kansas City,
Speaker 1: open to even though they franchise d Ford opened a
Speaker 1: trading d Ford, and there are many more that also
Speaker 1: got tagged. It doesn't surprise me, doesn't surprise you guys. No,
Speaker 1: you know, no, it doesn't because you know, if there
Speaker 1: is such a high price tag on those types of players,
Speaker 1: then why would you just let them walk? And if
Speaker 1: some of these teams have intentions of trying to franchise
Speaker 1: a guy and then sign them do a long term deal,
Speaker 1: if they believe that much in that player, because you know,
Speaker 1: that's really a a tricky situation. And the player that's
Speaker 1: getting franchise dag he's after he's got to be the
Speaker 1: right person, because you have these guys are still working
Speaker 1: for a bigger contract, a bigger opportunity. But sometimes if
Speaker 1: you know you're only getting franchise for one year, sometimes
Speaker 1: you get into that protective mode and that's not a
Speaker 1: good way to play football, whether you're a college senior
Speaker 1: trying to protect yourself or a free agent, you know,
Speaker 1: a guy that's trying to gain his free agent opportunity
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Well, DeMarcus Lawrence is interesting because this
Speaker 1: is a second year he's been tagged, and I think
Speaker 1: we know the reasons why Dallas did it a year ago.
Speaker 1: He's had the shoulder injury, he said, the off the
Speaker 1: field problems where he was dealing with suspension. They did
Speaker 1: offer him an early deal leading up to the combine,
Speaker 1: but let's face it, the guy's gonna want, you know,
Speaker 1: minimum his tag this year because it's the second time
Speaker 1: he's been tagged. He's gonna want twenty million a year
Speaker 1: because that's what his tag comes in at. So you're
Speaker 1: basically looking at a five year, over one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars deal for DeMarcus Lawrence. And let's be honest, Frank
Speaker 1: Clark is looking at that way too, because he finds
Speaker 1: he thinks he's probably every bit as good is DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence and probably why Seattle couldn't get a long term
Speaker 1: deal done with him. Now watch if DeMarcus does sign first.
Speaker 1: That's what Frank Clark is gonna want. He's gonna want
Speaker 1: to be in the neighborhood of what DeMarcus Lawrence gets.
Speaker 1: The other two guys are interesting. Jadavian Clowney for me,
Speaker 1: that the injury history with him, and I think the
Speaker 1: motivation he doesn't practice a lot for the Houston text,
Speaker 1: so I think they're kind of like, hey, why not,
Speaker 1: we just will slap the tag on him. It'll be
Speaker 1: a wait and see look, And I think ultimately he
Speaker 1: ends up walking. He'll play this year under the tag
Speaker 1: and then I'll move on and d Ford's kind of
Speaker 1: out of position. This one's kind of going to go
Speaker 1: to an arbiter. I gotta believe, because they're gonna tag
Speaker 1: him as a linebacker because that's what he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in Steve Spagnolo's defense down there, and ultimately why he
Speaker 1: eventually ultimately will probably be traded for that football team.
Speaker 1: They're looking for more of defensive ends in the traditional mold,
Speaker 1: and d Ford's a little light from that standpoint and
Speaker 1: probably why they won't get a long term deal done
Speaker 1: with him either. Nick Foles looks like he's headed to
Speaker 1: the Jaguars thoughts this year's case Keenum? You know, any
Speaker 1: think a case Keenum and all the analytics they try
Speaker 1: to justify him going to sign in Denver, and now
Speaker 1: Denver they go and trade for Joe Flacco. Then you
Speaker 1: bring in Nick falls who really hasn't had a lot
Speaker 1: of success outside his opportunities with Philly, and you look
Speaker 1: at the supporting cast he as there. Now you go
Speaker 1: and you look, okay, what type of system are you
Speaker 1: going down to Jacksonville to run? You're not going to
Speaker 1: run the Doug Peterson system. Are you going to run
Speaker 1: a system that is more of an Eli Manning Tom
Speaker 1: Coughlin type system, that's a straight dropback system and you
Speaker 1: have an average offensive line. So I question that move.
Speaker 1: But you know that's one of the benefits for Nick
Speaker 1: Folds of playing so well in the same benefit that
Speaker 1: case Keenum was given in Denver. But listen, it's about production,
Speaker 1: and you know these seems like some of these veteran
Speaker 1: quarterbacks with question marks could be one year wonders in
Speaker 1: some cases. Yeah, it's interesting here Philadelphia lex not to
Speaker 1: tag Nick Foles. We know the reasons why they believe
Speaker 1: in Carson Wentz. They drafted him to be the franchise
Speaker 1: of that football team, and ultimately, even though it's free agency,
Speaker 1: they let Nick Foles walk and they'll probably get third
Speaker 1: round compensation for what he's done over the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. How he's performed in the playoffs, he's one
Speaker 1: of Super Bowl, he's an MVP of a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Knows John d Filippo very well from his days in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: But really, the market's not out there for Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: There hasn't been any talk of him potentially maybe joining
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. I mean, think about it. He's unrestricted
Speaker 1: right now, and you know Washington that they've got a
Speaker 1: huge injury at their quarterback spot. You don't see any
Speaker 1: interests from the Washington Redskins right now. We'll see if
Speaker 1: it picks up as it gets closer, but already linked
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. And I think for all the reasons what
Speaker 1: Time just said, it's kind of a pounded offense what
Speaker 1: they want to be with the running back Leonard Fournette.
Speaker 1: But I do think d Filippo he'll try to model
Speaker 1: it after the Philadelphi Eagles and what they did offensively.
Speaker 1: But man, I just don't know if they got the
Speaker 1: weapons outside. And I don't know if Nick Foles is
Speaker 1: really going to cash in. I doubt that he'll get
Speaker 1: the money that he's looking for, which a lot of
Speaker 1: people think he's a franchise quarterback, no doubt, But I
Speaker 1: just don't think that number will be over, say thirty million,
Speaker 1: what some of the quarterbacks have gotten here, because there's
Speaker 1: really only one team interested from what we see. Okay, well, Jim,
Speaker 1: let me let me just ask you a question, Jeff. Also,
Speaker 1: so now you look at the situation, that's brewing in Arizona.
Speaker 1: First of all, if the GM hired our drafted Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen last year and he's gonna draft Kyler Murray this year,
Speaker 1: I'd fire him because you're not going to have a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback and you think his value is going to
Speaker 1: be maybe a third rounder on the open market. So,
Speaker 1: Jim Washington Redskins, you talk about a quarterback that maybe
Speaker 1: be able to get him through a couple of seasons
Speaker 1: that once was looked after the possible first pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. What are your thoughts on the Josh Rosen scenario. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting because I'm with you Tom here.
Speaker 1: You gotta believe that you know Bidwell and the ownership
Speaker 1: out there, and even Steve Kine, who's the general manager
Speaker 1: who committed, you know, a top pick to Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: during the interview process. You gotta believe it was brought up,
Speaker 1: Hey can you win with Josh Rosen as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: And in order to get offered the job for Arizona,
Speaker 1: you would say yes that, hey, I can win with
Speaker 1: this quarterback. We're gonna have to build this around him.
Speaker 1: I've worked with pocket passers before, which Cliff Kingsbury has.
Speaker 1: But when you have the discussion, it's like, hey, we
Speaker 1: believe this is a more explosive player. I can structure
Speaker 1: a different style offense that maybe brings excitement for the
Speaker 1: ticket holders that are out there for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you, Tom. I. You know here they
Speaker 1: were backtracking from about the Kyler Murray pick as number one. Oh.
Speaker 1: I would get it out there knowing that, say, hey,
Speaker 1: we are interested in Kyler Murray, get the fan base
Speaker 1: excited about it, which is going to promote ticket sales,
Speaker 1: and then they if they elect to move on, which
Speaker 1: they don't have to. I mean, think about the rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback contracts. It's not like they're getting buried. It's not
Speaker 1: like it used to be. They're not paying one guy
Speaker 1: twenty million and the other guys coming in that you know,
Speaker 1: basically lead minimum with where they're slotted and slated right now,
Speaker 1: so they could carry both quarterbacks, but you've got to
Speaker 1: secure if they do draft Kyler Murray and them potentially
Speaker 1: they could work maybe a third round pick ultimately for
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen and whether that's with you know, Miami, who
Speaker 1: could have an opening at quarterback or even the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1: I would think it's not going to be for a
Speaker 1: lot of compensation that they're already given up on a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. If that happens out there in the desert, Hey,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick has three third round picks available. You never know,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'll just say this, if you feel
Speaker 1: you made a mistake, or even if you don't feel
Speaker 1: you made a mistake with Josh Rosen, and you know,
Speaker 1: because this coach evidently believes in Kyler Murray as much
Speaker 1: as he does. And if this in fact is going
Speaker 1: to happen, if you feel it's gonna make you better,
Speaker 1: you gotta do. It makes you better, and whatever happened,
Speaker 1: you gotta live with and hopefully the results in his
Speaker 1: case as a general manager work out in the end
Speaker 1: will continue. On one more segment to go, It's Jeff, Joni, Ac,
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Speaker 1: that the Bears take the beach here in Cancoon courtesy
Speaker 1: of Apple Vacations. About one hundred folks or so the trip,
Speaker 1: and a lot of Bears fans from all over the country.
Speaker 1: And there's some folks from Calgary, Canada that listened to
Speaker 1: you Tom on the radio and they wanted to say
Speaker 1: a particular shout out to you. They appreciate your analysis.
Speaker 1: But we've got we've got a bunch of all over
Speaker 1: Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana, some folks from Wisconsin, Utah, again
Speaker 1: emphasizing that there's Bears fans all over the place. And
Speaker 1: I will say this about Anthony Adams today, after the
Speaker 1: Funding Games ended and all that, he was talking with
Speaker 1: Balal Nichols and then Roquine comes over and I never
Speaker 1: really talked in depth with Anthony about defensive line plays,
Speaker 1: technique and all that. And I gotta tell you he
Speaker 1: blew me away with what he understands and knows about
Speaker 1: the game of football. He comes off it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: a funny man sometimes. But he was a really good
Speaker 1: nose tackle with quickness for the Bears in a four
Speaker 1: to three played at three to four in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Was not an ideal fit and even had him as
Speaker 1: a defensive end dropping into coverage and it kind of
Speaker 1: wasted the first two years of his career. But he
Speaker 1: was talking about those days working with Lance Briggs and
Speaker 1: Brian Earlacker and those guys up front, Julius Peppers, and
Speaker 1: it was very interesting to hear the types of detail
Speaker 1: of technique he understood at the defensive line position. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's amazing if you take any defensive lineman
Speaker 1: and I was privy to this with Richard Dent, which
Speaker 1: it kind of amazed me. So if you give a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman a scenario, you said, okay, double as it's
Speaker 1: third and it's second and seven midfield, right, hash, this
Speaker 1: is the offensive formation. Now give me the roll of
Speaker 1: decks of thoughts going the three year head as the
Speaker 1: offense of line approaches the line of scrimmage and these
Speaker 1: defensive lineman will give you an in depth investigation of
Speaker 1: the offense, the stances, the formation, the positioning of the players,
Speaker 1: where their position against the offensive lineman or double team
Speaker 1: offensive lineman they're gonna face. It's incredible that how much
Speaker 1: knowledge that they have to have before the ball has
Speaker 1: ever snapped to be prepared for what you're gonna do
Speaker 1: once the ball is snapped. And it is a continuous
Speaker 1: thinking process from learning the down a distance, breaking the
Speaker 1: huddle to the ball is snapped. Yeah, I thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting because I remember talking to Mike McCarthy. I
Speaker 1: think it was a twenty ten season for Anthony, and
Speaker 1: you know, it was a big Bears week game, and
Speaker 1: I remember Mike McCarthy came out serious sex of NFL radio.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, who's the bears best defensive lineman? Right away,
Speaker 1: he didn't even blake, he said, Anthony Adams. By far.
Speaker 1: I thought he was the most disruptive, the most athletic.
Speaker 1: How we came off the ball, how we set up
Speaker 1: everything else, set up other players, I should say, in
Speaker 1: terms of his technique. And again I think you know,
Speaker 1: players on the team know it. You know, just the
Speaker 1: respect when you look at Lance Briggs or Bran or Lacker,
Speaker 1: and just how his teammates respected him and how he played.
Speaker 1: And of course he likes to keep it lighthearted. I'm
Speaker 1: sure players love him from that too, But he was
Speaker 1: He was a pretty darn good football player and really
Speaker 1: put up had some great years there for the Chicago Barry.
Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing to me. Well, when you talk
Speaker 1: about Anthony Adams and you talk about offensive lineman and
Speaker 1: you get this big article that I say you last week,
Speaker 1: Jeff about offensive line with shard arms, which is a
Speaker 1: bunch of boulonge. It's about your feet. Why don't think
Speaker 1: Joe Daley? All right? Do they measure the arm length
Speaker 1: of defensive lineman? And because Anthony Adams is not a
Speaker 1: tall guy, but his ferociousness, his anticipation into the snap,
Speaker 1: count his ability to disengage from blockers. You know, I
Speaker 1: you know, I just think that's why when you talk
Speaker 1: to head coaches and there's impressed with Anthony, it's his
Speaker 1: desire to play the game, not what his arm length is. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, they measure everybody's arm length first of all.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is a big topic when it comes
Speaker 1: to tackles and guards. And I know it irritates the
Speaker 1: heck out of you. His arm link, by the way,
Speaker 1: it was thirty one and a half at the combine
Speaker 1: stop came out of Penn State. Yeare stumps, But the
Speaker 1: guy is. The guy is a dominating defensive lineman. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure every offensive lineman that he ever played against
Speaker 1: throughout the entirety of this career had longer arms than
Speaker 1: Double A. And on top of that, we you know,
Speaker 1: he loved when offensive lineman tried to cut block him.
Speaker 1: He thought that was a win because he was so
Speaker 1: low to the ground at six one, he was the
Speaker 1: one firing out of stance getting leverage. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you'd feel about it as a guard trying to
Speaker 1: block down. You can't cut it. You can't cut a
Speaker 1: bowling ball. So to really to try to sit there
Speaker 1: and think that you're going to take the legs out
Speaker 1: from underneath Anthony, you know Double A or Jerry Ball,
Speaker 1: who is a similar style of defensive lineman that double
Speaker 1: the Double A was that played for the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: during my career. Is yeah, you're you're not going to
Speaker 1: take these guys off their feet because they are they're
Speaker 1: playing with their knees. Beat. They're playing load the ground
Speaker 1: and they just have great center of balance. And you know,
Speaker 1: if he keeps on tweeting out these basketball moves, I mean,
Speaker 1: just the I mean it's hilarious. I mean, he was,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's on NBA two. K now he
Speaker 1: is on NBA two k as Kareem as a Kaream
Speaker 1: Biggins or Kaream something like that. Anyway, he is a celebrity.
Speaker 1: He was. I saw a video of him playing with
Speaker 1: the Harlem Globetrotters. Well, I'll tell you what. Well, he
Speaker 1: was extremely athletic for like you said, a bowling ball
Speaker 1: type of player, extremely you know, athletic in order to
Speaker 1: get off the ball, the amount of moves and things
Speaker 1: like that. And that's why he's always dancing and showing
Speaker 1: off the moves. From from that standpoint of what he
Speaker 1: can do on the basketball court as well, eblieve he's
Speaker 1: an entertainer. All right, before we wrap things up kind
Speaker 1: of quickly, go Tom watched the entire combine from the
Speaker 1: comfort of his own home. So give me three guys
Speaker 1: that intrigued you, Tom and putting you on the spot.
Speaker 1: But and three guys that you think you know forget
Speaker 1: about it. It's not happening. Well, you know, Jim, you
Speaker 1: do the same. You know, one guy really liked and
Speaker 1: Jim's gonna have to help me with his name. The
Speaker 1: defensive back from Michigan. Uh, he ran in the four fours.
Speaker 1: Um he he can play inside and he can play outside. Um.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I wish I knew his name. I'm
Speaker 1: just watching these guys for for the first time. Um.
Speaker 1: You know I liked the quarterback from Missouri. Is his
Speaker 1: name Lock? Look? Yeah, yeah, Drew Lock. Yes, I liked him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's like I said, I liked the
Speaker 1: selection of the running backs. Um. But again I, like
Speaker 1: I said, I look at it different league, trying to
Speaker 1: think the way that Matt Nagee wants his running back
Speaker 1: to be equally as talented as catching the ball and
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. Yeah. I think for me, from from
Speaker 1: my standpoint, a couple offensive lineman who who I liked
Speaker 1: and I thought really helped themselves. I think the more
Speaker 1: and more you think about how he worked out, that
Speaker 1: Andre Dillard from Washington State, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought he was going to be a second rounder one.
Speaker 1: That dude at three hundred and ten pounds ran a
Speaker 1: sub five forty, not that that matters, but just his
Speaker 1: feet for how Biggie is and how he moves. And
Speaker 1: I think the other guy that really impressed a lot
Speaker 1: of least from the offensive line coaches. There are three
Speaker 1: centers that will probably be drafted pretty high. It's been
Speaker 1: a solid group in terms of you know, offensive lineman
Speaker 1: and centers that have gone in the first round. But
Speaker 1: that Garrett Bradbury from North Carolina State is no dro joke.
Speaker 1: He was a tight end who moved to defensive line,
Speaker 1: then he switched over to the center position, and he
Speaker 1: was a catcher in baseball in high school and so
Speaker 1: here he just wanted to get on the field and
Speaker 1: start lifting weights and ends up being a really a
Speaker 1: terrific center, And I think is going to be a
Speaker 1: ten year plug and play player. And then you know
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna have dark horses across the board. I
Speaker 1: know everybody's piped for Danny or Andy Isabella. The kid
Speaker 1: from UMass. He runs a blazing four three one at
Speaker 1: the forty, but he won't be a first round pick,
Speaker 1: but he's going to be a tremendous slot receiver in
Speaker 1: the national What's McSorley gonna because now they're talking about
Speaker 1: McSorley could be the next Edelman. Is he a quarterback
Speaker 1: and refuse to work out as a receiver. I think
Speaker 1: he'll give him an opportunity at quarterback first, but I
Speaker 1: think ultimately he'll switch position. It's almost like how Logan
Speaker 1: Thomas had to switch to a tight end his first
Speaker 1: three years in the league he was a quarterback. Ultimately
Speaker 1: makes that change to the tight end position, and I
Speaker 1: think that'll happen for McSorley as well. All Right, well, fellas,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you. We'll see us soon next
Speaker 1: week when we head back home from Cancoon. But Jim,
Speaker 1: take a deep breath. Now, free agencies just around the corner.
Speaker 1: But now you can stay home for a little bit.
Speaker 1: You've been traveling down stop and Tom I'll be talking
Speaker 1: to you tomorrow, all right, Big Jeff, Thanks to her,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Mike Chen, Thanks everybody for listening. This wraps up
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