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Speaker 4: Coming up of the program, we visit with the assistant
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Speaker 4: Eric Ostrowski, we saw Tom Jim up here at Hallis
Speaker 4: Hall today, a sighting that was a site for sore eyes,
Speaker 4: red carpet treatment for Tom there. Tom, did you enjoy
Speaker 4: all the assistant coaches and coordinators spoke to the media today, Jim.
Speaker 4: It felt like a Super Bowl and during the week
Speaker 4: they put all the assistant coaches in the round tables
Speaker 4: with the media to talk to you, and Tommy was there.
Speaker 4: I loved every second of it, and good evening to
Speaker 4: you guys.
Speaker 3: Tommy. What'd you get out of it today?
Speaker 5: First of all, I want to say hi to John Tarpy,
Speaker 5: director of security for the Chicago Bears. And then we
Speaker 5: went in the weight room and paid homage to the
Speaker 5: great Great Clyde Emrick because now they have a wall
Speaker 5: of honor for Clyde Emrick inside that weight room. And
Speaker 5: I heard a lot of heavyweights bouncing around and it
Speaker 5: was super a pleasant sound for those of us that
Speaker 5: have weight lifting in our past. But you know, going
Speaker 5: up to Hallas Hall at this time of year, there's
Speaker 5: angst that's building because of the draft, but there's also
Speaker 5: a certain sense of, you know, just the off season
Speaker 5: rituals that you go through. Said hi to Jonah Jackson,
Speaker 5: and I met the new offensive line coach and a
Speaker 5: bunch of the other personnel up there. But listen, man,
Speaker 5: I love being up at Hallis Hall because it reminds
Speaker 5: me of when it was younger days.
Speaker 6: In my life.
Speaker 5: But I also like to see the momentum in that building.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of positive vibe up there. It's got
Speaker 5: a good feeling, and so I'm excited to have been
Speaker 5: a part of today and all the you know, the
Speaker 5: the assistant coaches being there and having a chance to
Speaker 5: talk to them. It was a pretty cool day.
Speaker 4: And Jim, let me just step in here because I
Speaker 4: don't want people to think that we're just sitting here
Speaker 4: manufacturing Hope. Tom's exactly right now. It's happened before in
Speaker 4: all of our time. There's an electricity here and it
Speaker 4: is so palpable. And I am so impressed, Jim with
Speaker 4: this coaching staff. And again they haven't coached a single
Speaker 4: game yet, but what they're saying about Ben Johnson, all
Speaker 4: these assistants and coordinators and what they're learning because a
Speaker 4: lot of these guys have not coached together, and how
Speaker 4: they present their information to the media, how direct they
Speaker 4: are and speaking they're all speaking in the same language already. Jim,
Speaker 4: It's it's a great start, That's what I got to say.
Speaker 7: Well, hey, there's a lot of energy there should be.
Speaker 7: I think, you know, from the same standpoint as a
Speaker 7: player's side, they know they've got a lot to prove.
Speaker 7: They've got to win these coaches over with how they perform,
Speaker 7: how they practice, how they work. The coaches then have
Speaker 7: to trust them, and there's still a lot of work
Speaker 7: to do. You know, they have yet to Like you said,
Speaker 7: they have their first practice as a football team, and
Speaker 7: how they're going to perform as a unit together in
Speaker 7: all three phases. But they're, you know, saying all the
Speaker 7: right things. I think the players are excited. But I
Speaker 7: think the players know that they're on notice too. That's
Speaker 7: why you make a coaching change, and so there should
Speaker 7: be a lot of energy in that building, a lot
Speaker 7: of positive energy in the building, and that everybody's putting
Speaker 7: their best foot forward to make the best impression possible.
Speaker 7: I think it's more on the players side, and yes,
Speaker 7: those coaches have to impress the players as well. You know,
Speaker 7: I think that goes both ways. I think Tom knows
Speaker 7: if maybe a head coach lets some things slide, players
Speaker 7: are going to be aware of that that's not an
Speaker 7: area of importance, you know. So I do think that
Speaker 7: goes both ways. But I think again, a coaching change
Speaker 7: signifies a lot of things. There needs to be a
Speaker 7: new era of football of Chicago Bears. They have to
Speaker 7: find a way to win the division. They've seen teams
Speaker 7: in the division like the Detroit Lions turn it around
Speaker 7: pretty quickly under new leadership, and they're basically the targeted
Speaker 7: team right now. I don't think anybody would say anything
Speaker 7: else that the Detroit Lines aren't the targeted team.
Speaker 2: They are.
Speaker 7: They've won the division and so, you know, I do
Speaker 7: think there should be a lot of positive energy and
Speaker 7: it needs to be rightfully directed in all the how
Speaker 7: should I say the areas of where it needs to
Speaker 7: be directed, and that's towards winning everything towards winning.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 2: They know.
Speaker 5: Listen, there's something I'm gonna bring up later about Antoine
Speaker 5: Randall l and what he said about winning. But the
Speaker 5: thing I'm gonna bring up first of all is Declan
Speaker 5: Doyle when he was up at the podium, they asked
Speaker 5: them about the offense and he goes, look, there's no secret, sauce.
Speaker 5: This is about teaching fundamentals and techniques and mentally getting
Speaker 5: this offense down with the complete understanding. So you go
Speaker 5: out there and do things intelligently. And that's what I'd
Speaker 5: like to hear, because it's not about, you know, some
Speaker 5: device scheme that NFL players and coaches haven't seen before,
Speaker 5: because everybody's seen it all. But if you don't start
Speaker 5: with the basic fundamentals and techniques, you're not going to
Speaker 5: be able to install anything successfully.
Speaker 4: And they make a big emphasis that, yes, mistakes, they're
Speaker 4: not just looking past him. If you're not doing what
Speaker 4: you're supposed to do, it's going to be called out immediately.
Speaker 4: And I think that's from the top down. Ben Johnson
Speaker 4: has empowered his staff to execute that to a t.
Speaker 4: JIM and I think that's important to know from a
Speaker 4: player standpoint, so there will be none of that.
Speaker 7: The basics have to be in place, you know, it's
Speaker 7: always first things first.
Speaker 2: You know when you.
Speaker 7: Break down to tackle and how you tackle and how
Speaker 7: you block on a certain play, and it always has
Speaker 7: to be first things first. You know, at quarterback center
Speaker 7: exchange seems the most basic thing in football. You have
Speaker 7: to be able to do all those things in order
Speaker 7: to move on to the more difficult things. And then
Speaker 7: once you get the base down and then you start
Speaker 7: to build around it. But it's first things first, and
Speaker 7: it's got to start somewhere, and it has to start
Speaker 7: with the basics of what's expected on every single play,
Speaker 7: in very detailed manner of what's expected. And then once
Speaker 7: that expectation is laid down there, it's expected to be
Speaker 7: reached every single time. You know, it's you know, when
Speaker 7: you go to school, you're expected to do well. You're
Speaker 7: expected to advance to from first grade to second grade
Speaker 7: to third grade, and you've got to put in the
Speaker 7: work and there are certain things that you have to
Speaker 7: do in order to what advance advance, and then you
Speaker 7: have to advance as a football team.
Speaker 4: All right, we come back. We're gonna hear from Dennis
Speaker 4: Allen from his podium appearance today. Up they here at Adasa,
Speaker 4: the Bears defensive coordinator with top there and Jim Thatta.
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Speaker 4: for the coaching staff that've been working behind closed doors
Speaker 4: getting a plan together not only for the draft, but
Speaker 4: for the actual season and the playbook.
Speaker 3: Met all the media.
Speaker 4: In town, and I was virtually every assistant coach, but
Speaker 4: including the coordinators at the podium today, defensive coordinator Dennis
Speaker 4: Allen celebrating the signing the extension of Kyler Gordon and
Speaker 4: the next step for him.
Speaker 8: It's good for us, it's good for our program. You know,
Speaker 8: he was the guy that you know when we first
Speaker 8: got in here and we watched the tape, guy that
Speaker 8: we clearly identified as a guy that fit our scheme
Speaker 8: the things that we want to be able to do.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: And so yeah, we're excited about about having him and
Speaker 8: and uh and looking forward to getting started. And that's
Speaker 8: what specifically does Kyler do that that intrigues.
Speaker 2: You with with the way you played it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, look, I think you know, he's got he's got
Speaker 8: covered skills. Uh, he's highly intelligent. I think one of
Speaker 8: the things that that impressed me the most was, you know,
Speaker 8: how they played him last year. They were kind of
Speaker 8: a field defense. He lined up to the field, but
Speaker 8: you know, he got into he got into the box
Speaker 8: a lot, you know, and fit in the run game.
Speaker 8: And so I think he's got a really good understanding
Speaker 8: of how to fit there. And you know, our nickels
Speaker 8: are gonna have to fit in the run game. And so,
Speaker 8: you know, I think I think that was that was
Speaker 8: kind of one of the things that that we thought
Speaker 8: was you know, pretty good fit for us.
Speaker 5: Their player coached that has a similar similar skill set.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: Look, really, I mean, honestly, I don't really like to
Speaker 8: get into like all the comparisons and stuff like that.
Speaker 8: I would say that, you know a lot of things
Speaker 8: that we look for in the nickel position. Uh, you know,
Speaker 8: he he has that skills that I think. The other
Speaker 8: thing that and and I've talked to him about this is,
Speaker 8: you know, where do we find that second position for him?
Speaker 8: You know, where it's not just he's a nickel only
Speaker 8: you know, does he go outside and compete at outside corner?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 8: Does he compete some at safety? I've told him to Ah,
Speaker 8: you know that he needs to be learning both of
Speaker 8: those spots. And and we'll figure out where that second position,
Speaker 8: you know that that where he can go in and
Speaker 8: compete and you know, hopefully we can find some more
Speaker 8: playing time for him.
Speaker 5: Do you have a sense of whether he'd be a
Speaker 5: better outside corner or a safety.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well he's played he's played more outside corner, you know,
Speaker 8: so obviously that would be uh the comfort level. But
Speaker 8: some of the things that I see him do and
Speaker 8: the way that he fits in the run game tells
Speaker 8: me that he could be a fit you know at
Speaker 8: safety also. So and and look, we've we've had guys
Speaker 8: that have had the flexibility to play a lot of
Speaker 8: different positions. I think that's important in today's football, where
Speaker 8: you're not just locked into one thing, being able to
Speaker 8: be multiple and and do a lot of different things.
Speaker 8: And so, uh, that's something that I think he can do.
Speaker 8: And as we get to know him better, spend more
Speaker 8: time with him, start to get out on the field
Speaker 8: with him a little bit more, we'll have a better
Speaker 8: feel for, you know, where that second position might be
Speaker 8: and and where we want to try to work pressure.
Speaker 2: And then it was a big problem for the Bears
Speaker 2: last season.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like with the additions that you've made
Speaker 5: in the off season that that's going to.
Speaker 6: Be straight for this team?
Speaker 8: Well, I think it's a start. I think it's a
Speaker 8: step in the right direction, you know. I think, look,
Speaker 8: we're never we're never in the in the position that
Speaker 8: we're just satisfied with where we're at. We're going to
Speaker 8: continue to look for areas that we think we can
Speaker 8: improve this defense and so but but I do think
Speaker 8: we we made some improvement in that area, obviously with
Speaker 8: the addition of Grady, you know, as an interior defensive
Speaker 8: tackle dio. I think one of the things that he
Speaker 8: does exceptionally well is I think he moves inside and
Speaker 8: passing downs and rushes really well from the from the interior.
Speaker 8: So I do think we have some options in there,
Speaker 8: and certainly that's that to me, that's like one of
Speaker 8: the main points of pass rush. You know, he talks
Speaker 8: about these speed rushers off the edge, but really it's
Speaker 8: about the interior pocket pressure that you have to have
Speaker 8: and that allows guys like montes Wet to be able
Speaker 8: to have some success coming off the edge.
Speaker 5: When you're installing your scheme and when you're getting in
Speaker 5: all these guys and matching the personnel.
Speaker 6: When it comes to personality or stylistically, how do you
Speaker 6: want these players to play within your defense?
Speaker 8: Tough, nasty, hyper competitive, play with a swagger, play with
Speaker 8: a chip on their shoulder. You know, I think that's
Speaker 8: that's kind of been, you know, the hallmark of the
Speaker 8: best defenses that I've been around. I think that's been
Speaker 8: a hallmark of a lot of great defenses that have
Speaker 8: been here in Chicago, and so I think that's what we're.
Speaker 3: Looking for, all right.
Speaker 4: That is Dennis Allen partially of his news conference today.
Speaker 4: Love what he had to say. Reaction from you, Tom
Speaker 4: and Jim on Kyler Gordon wanting last year he played
Speaker 4: on average about forty eight defensive snaps a game. The
Speaker 4: leader for the team, Kevin Byer to really got off
Speaker 4: the field was at sixty two, so wants to see
Speaker 4: him get more reps out there.
Speaker 5: Well. I like the fact that he immediately talks about
Speaker 5: exploring his versatility. Where else can you put Kyler Gordon
Speaker 5: in this offense to keep him on the field. And
Speaker 5: we've all seen what Kyler Gordon is capable of and
Speaker 5: his willingness to tackle, but we've also seen how creative
Speaker 5: he is when he lines up at all three levels.
Speaker 3: So I like that.
Speaker 5: Dennis is already thinking ahead about what players can do
Speaker 5: for this team, and so I like to see what
Speaker 5: he thinks about Kyler Gordon. But the same thing about
Speaker 5: a guy like Javon Dexter. Where does he think that
Speaker 5: his expandability is on the defensive line and can he
Speaker 5: move maybe to another position?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think you know, with the recent extensions, whether it's
Speaker 7: Gordon what TJ. Edwards today, he's identified, Hey, these are
Speaker 7: players that I can work with that can make plays.
Speaker 7: And I do agree with Tom. I think, you know,
Speaker 7: Kyler is a guy who I thought Matt e Reflus
Speaker 7: went outside his comfort zone. You know, he proved how
Speaker 7: good of a blitzer he was when the Bears were
Speaker 7: struggling with edge rushers, and then they make the trade
Speaker 7: for Montes Sweat. They started to do more with Kyler Gordon,
Speaker 7: and when he succeeded and they kept on feeding them,
Speaker 7: he got better and better and was making more plays.
Speaker 7: Think he takes good angles towards the quarterback when he
Speaker 7: does blitz. I think he's got great football intelligence, has obviously,
Speaker 7: you know, an eye for the football and his sticky hands.
Speaker 7: Why he gets the nickname spider Man. And I'd save
Speaker 7: that for Edwards too. That guy makes a ton of
Speaker 7: plays as a week side backer. What he's done not
Speaker 7: only for Philadelphia, but I think he's done but impress
Speaker 7: me as a Chicago Bear. Has a nose for the
Speaker 7: football flies around and those are pieces to the puzzle
Speaker 7: that I think really Dennis Allen, when he arrived there, said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 7: I feel very comfortable if you were to resign those guys.
Speaker 7: I plan on using them this way. I think I
Speaker 7: can use them in other ways. And I think that
Speaker 7: really solidified that the Bears were like, Hey, these are
Speaker 7: two players that we need to lock up and they
Speaker 7: already knew after talking to Dennis Allen that they were
Speaker 7: going to be Key Coggs in his offense or in
Speaker 7: his defense.
Speaker 4: Edwards nearly three hundred tackles in two years, six and
Speaker 4: a half sacks, fourteen quarterback hits with the Bears in
Speaker 4: an outstanding just an overall great guy in that locker
Speaker 4: room for the Chicago Bears. Also, we're gonna hear later
Speaker 4: in the show from Richard Smith, the sixty nine year
Speaker 4: old assistant head coach excuse me, a defensive assistant head
Speaker 4: coach on the linebacker level as well. We'll hear from
Speaker 4: him coming up later in the show, just about the
Speaker 4: overall impact of the linebacker position and the speed, and
Speaker 4: that is a big thing for Dennis AmAm. He likes speed,
Speaker 4: but there's all kinds of speed. There is straight line speed,
Speaker 4: there is linear speed in that regard, but there is
Speaker 4: mental speed, and there is lateral speed. There is many
Speaker 4: different ways to get to the football. Tommy and I
Speaker 4: think that's certainly the case with TJ.
Speaker 3: Edwards.
Speaker 5: Listen, Dennis Allen, since he's been a defensive coordinator and
Speaker 5: a head coach in the NFL, that's one of the
Speaker 5: displays that his teams have always put on is the
Speaker 5: fact that you have to bring intelligence that's match with speed,
Speaker 5: athleticism and then being able to get your jobs done.
Speaker 5: And when he talks about what his goal is for
Speaker 5: the defensive line and how it fits into assisting the
Speaker 5: linebackers and then how it filters to the defensive backfield,
Speaker 5: we all want to see a defense that plays fast,
Speaker 5: that starts up front.
Speaker 2: And we know that TJ.
Speaker 5: Edwards, Tremaine edminds that these guys can compliment the defensive
Speaker 5: line up front. And we all know what we've thought
Speaker 5: about the defensive backfield the last couple of years, and
Speaker 5: we think it's progression and growth because we know what
Speaker 5: Jalen is. I think we're kind of going to scratch
Speaker 5: the surface and we can see ultimately see what a
Speaker 5: Tyreek Stevenson can be. And I think Terrell Smith is
Speaker 5: a good guy to have in there to increase the
Speaker 5: competitiveness of the speed of the defense. So I'm really
Speaker 5: encouraged by what I hear, but now I'm excited to
Speaker 5: see it.
Speaker 4: Also today just listening and none of these guys like
Speaker 4: they've they've not gone over the top about any particular
Speaker 4: player they've been steady eddy on. You know, they haven't
Speaker 4: got these guys on the grass yet. They they're just
Speaker 4: now learning. Okay, they went back watch out their tape.
Speaker 4: They're focused on the draft. But a couple of coaches
Speaker 4: that there's no depth chart. Like what they're saying is, hey,
Speaker 4: we're putting everybody out there.
Speaker 3: May the best man win. I do like that thinking.
Speaker 5: Dennis Allen said. Dennis Allen said that to me today
Speaker 5: when I was talking to him. He goes, we have
Speaker 5: no starting lineup. Is we're going to put a team
Speaker 5: out there, then the competition begins. So I think that's
Speaker 5: the same thing that Jim and I have been through
Speaker 5: throughout our whole career. Is day one, nobody's a starter.
Speaker 5: You only happen to be penciled in on that day
Speaker 5: one where that's where you're going to line up, and
Speaker 5: that pencil has an eraser on it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, those guys got to earn it. You know, these
Speaker 7: guys are evaluating these players, like you said, they've evaluated
Speaker 7: all the tape. They haven't put any pads on yet,
Speaker 7: So yeah, there's going to be an evaluation through OTAs
Speaker 7: of what they do without pads on. Then when the
Speaker 7: pads are on, there's kind of a new evaluation because
Speaker 7: things change once the pads come on, and players are
Speaker 7: going to have to earn it, and you need to
Speaker 7: create a highly competitive atmosphere every single day, and it's
Speaker 7: got to be structured and focused on winning to be
Speaker 7: a better team. And that's what the foundation that they're laying.
Speaker 7: Those players got to compete. Nothing is going to be
Speaker 7: a given to them. They shouldn't think that anything's given
Speaker 7: to them. I think contractually we know some guys are
Speaker 7: are going to be there, but I think you have
Speaker 7: to make it as highly competitive as you can. They
Speaker 7: have not won anything. They haven't won anything for quite
Speaker 7: some time, and that need those players need to be
Speaker 7: reminded of that. They need to be reminded of that
Speaker 7: big time, that this is what's at stake here. We
Speaker 7: have to go win this division. Detroit has kind of
Speaker 7: dominated it, Minnesota's trying to make a move. Well, when
Speaker 7: you're gonna put yourself into the picture. The Lions were
Speaker 7: able to do it and turn around their culture, and
Speaker 7: we'll see if the Bears are able to do it.
Speaker 7: But I do think that they are off to the
Speaker 7: good start sending the right message and I think Ben
Speaker 7: Johnson has really been firm with what's beine, what is
Speaker 7: expected now moving forward.
Speaker 4: It's a great word for it. Firm, no question. That's
Speaker 4: Tom Fair, Jim Miller. I'm Jeff Joniyak. When we come back,
Speaker 4: I one on one conversation with Bears receiver coach and
Speaker 4: assistant head coach and Twine Randall Al. It's all coming
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Speaker 4: As we continue our introductions of the coaching staff for
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five and beyond, we are thrilled to be
Speaker 4: joined by Antoine Randall l the local product from Riverdale, Illinois,
Speaker 4: Thornton Township High School, all Big ten quarterback at Indiana,
Speaker 4: nine year NFL career at wide receiver and at times
Speaker 4: a quarterback throwing touchdowns in Super Bowls. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: so much to get to, but good to see you.
Speaker 4: I've seen you up at Hattles Off a few times.
Speaker 4: The face is beaming, you're smiling. You must be thrilled
Speaker 4: to be here.
Speaker 2: I am. Man, I'm thrilled to be here.
Speaker 10: Excited to keep going now in terms of what we're building,
Speaker 10: changing the culture, and getting to what we got to
Speaker 10: get to, getting the.
Speaker 2: Right players in here.
Speaker 10: We've got a lot of the players we have now
Speaker 10: and then obviously want to add to it with this
Speaker 10: draft coming up. But man, I'm I'm excited, really excited.
Speaker 10: I go see my parents twice a week, which is
Speaker 10: which is great, and they love it, so it's it's awesome.
Speaker 10: And this is the time to do it because my
Speaker 10: wife not here, and when they come up, they got
Speaker 10: my kids got all kinds of games and stuff. So, uh,
Speaker 10: something that will be limited, but man, I'm enjoying it
Speaker 10: right now, especially haven't been able to spend this time
Speaker 10: with mom and pop as well.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, and as a Chicago kid, real quick, Tommy,
Speaker 4: because you know it's oh, you were six one, Tommy
Speaker 4: won a Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Is that correct? The eighty five Bears. Are you about six?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean do you have any any recollection
Speaker 3: of all that?
Speaker 10: Yes, indeed, the bowl shuffling and everything like Fridge and
Speaker 10: him getting a handout like you you name it. I
Speaker 10: enjoyed watching it and and really being a part of it.
Speaker 10: To be honest with you, that's to me, like that
Speaker 10: was a that's that's our highlight growing up. Man, To
Speaker 10: be honest with you. Uh So it's like for me,
Speaker 10: like growing up and seeing McMahon and gentry Willie Gault
Speaker 10: like all and we and then we're playing Techmo Bowl
Speaker 10: with those guys.
Speaker 3: How about some offensive linemen? How about that great offensive line?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 10: You know, you know it happens when they just you
Speaker 10: don't really mention them guys. You mentioned the skill guys,
Speaker 10: and sometimes you mentioned Steve McMichael and them guys before
Speaker 10: you mentioned and Mike Secretary and all those other guys
Speaker 10: before you mentioned office a lineman. Man, To be honest
Speaker 10: with you, but loved that team and just love the
Speaker 10: Chicago Bears. I'm glad to be here coaching it like
Speaker 10: this is this is big time, you.
Speaker 5: Know, Antoine, We could probably sit here and have a
Speaker 5: conversation with you for a half hour and never talk
Speaker 5: about football because when you talk about baseball and you talk.
Speaker 2: About basketball and stuff.
Speaker 5: But when you look at the state of football today
Speaker 5: and you look at guys like Kyler Murray, if you
Speaker 5: were coming out of football today and you're playing quarterback
Speaker 5: in the Big Ten, would you pursue quarterback or are
Speaker 5: you still okay with the transition of everything you've done
Speaker 5: in the sport of football.
Speaker 10: I was okay. I'm okay with everything I did. I
Speaker 10: did in the sport of football at the time. And
Speaker 10: when I say at the time, I was pursued as
Speaker 10: more of a wide receiver and not a quarterback. And
Speaker 10: for me, the only reason why I really stayed on
Speaker 10: that track and not you know, fault let me I
Speaker 10: want to play quarterback, keep me a quarterback, was because
Speaker 10: my idea of playing pro sports was different than most,
Speaker 10: meaning like I wanted to play pro ball in whichever
Speaker 10: one came first, like for me, whether it was basketball,
Speaker 10: whether it was baseball or football, whichever one of those
Speaker 10: came first. And I thought for sure it would be
Speaker 10: Major League baseball when I got drafted and my parents said, no,
Speaker 10: you're going to school, You're going to Indiana, get your degree.
Speaker 2: You're gonna play ball there.
Speaker 10: You can do, you can play whatever you want to
Speaker 10: play there, but you are going going to school. So
Speaker 10: for me, when the opportunity came to play in the
Speaker 10: National Football League, I didn't want anything to stop me
Speaker 10: hold me back from doing that. So I made the
Speaker 10: decision very early on to start training, learning and understanding
Speaker 10: the wide receiver position.
Speaker 2: And at the same time, I still train as a quarterback.
Speaker 10: And sure enough, when I went to the different workouts,
Speaker 10: they worked me out as a wide receiver and sure enough, Hey,
Speaker 10: we want to get twenty five to thirty throws out
Speaker 10: of you to see me as a quarterback. So no
Speaker 10: regrets at all. Fast forward to where we are now
Speaker 10: because of what it's transpired and the pursuit of.
Speaker 2: That position and.
Speaker 10: The guys who are coming out of playing that position,
Speaker 10: like you said, Kyler Murray and those different guys, that
Speaker 10: would kind of change it because I feel like I
Speaker 10: would match up with those guys pretty well in terms
Speaker 10: of being able.
Speaker 2: To lead, not just complete and throw the ball, but
Speaker 2: man lead.
Speaker 10: I like leading, leading the office and putting people where
Speaker 10: they got to be and being successful on that end.
Speaker 5: So when you're watching football, now, do you watch it
Speaker 5: through the eyes of a quarterback or do you watch
Speaker 5: it through the eyes of a wide receiver, because I
Speaker 5: he can order the coach wide receivers. You have to
Speaker 5: have the eyes of a quarterback. But so, how are
Speaker 5: you I'm gonna I'm anax offensive lineman, so usually my
Speaker 5: eyes gravitate towards the offensive line and I work out
Speaker 5: from there.
Speaker 10: What about you, Well, for me, I do do it
Speaker 10: through the eyes of the quarterback, meaning I want to
Speaker 10: make sure my guys are where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 10: For the quarterback, like that's the deal, because I know
Speaker 10: planing position, you drive back and that guy's not where
Speaker 10: you expected him to be like that, that's an issue.
Speaker 2: Like for a quarterback, it's like, wait.
Speaker 10: A minute, You're supposed to be ten yards of depth
Speaker 10: right outside the hash and you fifteen yards and now
Speaker 10: the timing is thrown off or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: So for me, I do see it through the eyes
Speaker 2: to the quarterback.
Speaker 10: Hey, for us, we got to be be what we're
Speaker 10: supposed to be when we're supposed to be there, And
Speaker 10: that experience at quarterback helps me to be.
Speaker 2: To teach the guys.
Speaker 10: For sure, as it relates to them being the spots
Speaker 10: they need to be so the the time when the
Speaker 10: quarterback works out.
Speaker 4: Antoine Randell lel Our guest here on ESPN one thousand
Speaker 4: Bears Weekly with Tim Thare Joniyak. Give us the insight.
Speaker 4: What has it been like there with Ben Johnson? Obviously
Speaker 4: you worked with them in Detroit, so you can give
Speaker 4: us more insight than most. But the collaboration of all
Speaker 4: these coaches, all these different insights, minds, experience levels and experience.
Speaker 3: Fill us in what's it been like?
Speaker 10: Well, it's been great, And I tell you it's it's
Speaker 10: it's kinda it's a different feel. And when I say
Speaker 10: a different feel, like we're not coming here and saying.
Speaker 2: The way we ran it in Detroit the way we're
Speaker 2: gonna run it here.
Speaker 10: Like, man, we have some offensive minds that understand football
Speaker 10: as well, and then we talk about our defense, like
Speaker 10: with Da coming in and what he's done over the
Speaker 10: years defensively, and the different people we've brought in like
Speaker 10: with Al and obviously Bill and Richard, like those are
Speaker 10: like cornerstones of football and they know the game from
Speaker 10: that standpoint in terms of making sure we have what
Speaker 10: we need the personnel, but then making sure the scheme
Speaker 10: is right and making sure like like we we know
Speaker 10: how to coach ball, but how do we continue.
Speaker 2: To lead ball?
Speaker 10: And and and for us, it's about leading this group,
Speaker 10: you know, not just in practice, not just you know
Speaker 10: we're there way down in the weight room and that
Speaker 10: type deal. But man, when we're in game, how do
Speaker 10: we lead them and give them the best opportunity to
Speaker 10: be a to win? And we feel like we're gonna
Speaker 10: do that and we're and we're starting this off season
Speaker 10: bit by bit implement offense bit by bid, implementing on
Speaker 10: the defense, and the same thing with a high tier
Speaker 10: on our special team's department in terms of making sure
Speaker 10: we're implementing these things bit by bit because we got
Speaker 10: a lot of knowledge, but we have to be careful
Speaker 10: not to just bly throw it all on the players.
Speaker 2: We can't give it to them all at once.
Speaker 10: We want to, hey, give them what they what they
Speaker 10: what they need right now and continue to grow from there.
Speaker 2: And that's what we're doing, and it's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: It's just amount of.
Speaker 10: Time what's getting going and getting going uh in a
Speaker 10: way that they understand it, uh and that it's clear,
Speaker 10: it's detailed. It's not you know, if or maybe this
Speaker 10: is where you're supposed to be, this is how you
Speaker 10: need to get there. And then you know, we let
Speaker 10: the guys be athletes. We don't want to be robots,
Speaker 10: but we do want to start from a standpoint of
Speaker 10: detail and what that detail looks like.
Speaker 5: Antoine, there's the words since the end of last season
Speaker 5: and even leading up to this season has been accountability
Speaker 5: and culture. You have an you have a playing background.
Speaker 5: You know what those two things are in the.
Speaker 2: Reasoning for success on a team.
Speaker 5: How can you stress accountability and culture as a coach?
Speaker 2: Well, I think you stress it one.
Speaker 10: You say guidelines and what you expect, all right, and
Speaker 10: an expectation in to our receiver room, the tight end room,
Speaker 10: the defensive backs room, the line.
Speaker 2: But like the.
Speaker 10: Expectation is going to be high, all right. And with
Speaker 10: that being said, like you you make sure when you
Speaker 10: talk to your guys about these expectations you want them
Speaker 10: to take ownership of it. Like it's only so much
Speaker 10: for us as coaches that we can do, like we
Speaker 10: can Rah Rah encourage you all day long, but at
Speaker 10: some point, these expectations and what we're giving you like
Speaker 10: they need to take and grab the bull by the
Speaker 10: horns and let's roll in terms of the accountability. Uh.
Speaker 10: And that's the ownership part. When that starts taking place,
Speaker 10: and it'll start taking place even more with the veterans
Speaker 10: and the veterans in.
Speaker 2: The locker room like you.
Speaker 10: It's got to be like when you understand like you
Speaker 10: as a coach man, you got to get those veterans
Speaker 10: in the locker room to believe in what you're doing
Speaker 10: and they'll just continue to continue to grow and grow
Speaker 10: and watch all the other guys follow from that standpoint.
Speaker 10: So once you get them believing and understanding that expectation,
Speaker 10: the veterans are the ones who are gonna kind of
Speaker 10: take and lead the group. Because you can only do
Speaker 10: so much so much as a coach, but you gotta
Speaker 10: start with the expectations. You got to start with the guidelines. Here,
Speaker 10: this is what it is, and this is what it's about.
Speaker 10: And here we go.
Speaker 5: The terminology that you're teaching all these guys for the
Speaker 5: first time. Is this M terminology you're familiar with from
Speaker 5: being with ban or is this new terminology to you yourself?
Speaker 10: Well, some of us new because we obviously the way
Speaker 10: we've operated, we've operated sometimes on the ball and all
Speaker 10: the different calls that we make, we can't have the
Speaker 10: same calls, especially being in the same division. So we
Speaker 10: just got to make those adjustments. But as it relates
Speaker 10: to the way we teach it, how we teach it,
Speaker 10: it won't be a whole lot of change as it
Speaker 10: relates to the teaching part of it, but as relates
Speaker 10: to the on the ball stuff like that'll be different.
Speaker 10: So it's it's it's a little bit of a new
Speaker 10: learning curve for me, but it won't be something that's
Speaker 10: out of the bluted. We can't teach and we can't
Speaker 10: get them to understand it's gonna be great. And the
Speaker 10: way we have it package packaged so they understand it,
Speaker 10: they get it and at the same time, it paints
Speaker 10: a picture for them to understand, Okay, this is what
Speaker 10: this route means, this is what this this run play means.
Speaker 10: Whether it's inside zone, I shouldn't say inside zone, it's
Speaker 10: tight zone and wide zone from that standpoint, and it
Speaker 10: helps us move forward.
Speaker 4: All right, final question for assistant head coach, which is
Speaker 4: a nice title to have, My man and wide Yes,
Speaker 4: ange climbing that ladder all right, I like it right
Speaker 4: here in Chicago. Have you gotten a taste from the
Speaker 4: players in this short couple of weeks so far or
Speaker 4: just your conversations about guys desire to win? This team
Speaker 4: has really had a hard time finding that magic potion
Speaker 4: of learning how to do it. You got DJ Moore
Speaker 4: who's been around a while but hasn't had a lot
Speaker 4: of experience winning.
Speaker 3: But can you feel that from them? And what can
Speaker 3: you tell them?
Speaker 2: No question?
Speaker 10: And it uh and being kind of set he set
Speaker 10: the stage. He set the stage in our team meeting,
Speaker 10: our first team meeting, to the point where the players
Speaker 10: are walking out like okay, all right.
Speaker 2: This is the real deal.
Speaker 10: Here we go and then we as assistant coaches, we
Speaker 10: follow it up so they understand like this is this
Speaker 10: is the road we're going, and this is how we're
Speaker 10: gonna get there.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: So it starts there.
Speaker 10: So yes, we do feel that, uh, and we see
Speaker 10: it just in terms of the participation with players who
Speaker 10: are here voluntarily getting the work done in the strength
Speaker 10: and conditioning area right now.
Speaker 2: And then obviously we hit the field with them.
Speaker 10: You know, here a week or so as it relates
Speaker 10: to us, uh moving to the field, but they we
Speaker 10: we feel it, we see it, and it's just amount
Speaker 10: of time of man just watching it continue to grow
Speaker 10: and grow and grow. And that's what we're excited about it.
Speaker 10: As coaches like you, you're in office all the time.
Speaker 10: You you you spend seventy percent of your time in
Speaker 10: the office, and now you're gonna have opportunity to go
Speaker 10: to the field and get with the guys for the
Speaker 10: first time, which will be here in the next couple
Speaker 10: of weeks. And that's gonna that's that's gonna feel real good.
Speaker 10: And I'm excited about it for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we all are. We all are.
Speaker 4: Man, appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Welcome back
Speaker 4: home and enjoy every bit of it.
Speaker 2: Sounds good. Appreciate you guys and.
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Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to Bears Weekly on the Bears Radio Network.
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Speaker 4: the fans that come out. Certainly the excitement is building. Jim,
Speaker 4: what are you hearing around the league, all the conversations
Speaker 4: you're having on sirius XM, all your connections about what
Speaker 4: might be happening at ten and frankly for the first
Speaker 4: few picks for the Bears.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I think you know, quarterbacks typically have always
Speaker 7: driven drafts. We've talked about that, and this year it
Speaker 7: really is not the case. You know, We're gonna have
Speaker 7: to see where Shador Sanders actually falls to. I do
Speaker 7: think cam Ward is probably gonna be a lot to
Speaker 7: go number one. You know, what does Cleveland do at
Speaker 7: number two? The Giants there are picking high, you know,
Speaker 7: skill position players could start to go there, and I
Speaker 7: think everybody expect those to be defensive players, you know,
Speaker 7: so it's gonna leave good offensive players are out there.
Speaker 7: Edge rushers, I think they're gonna dominate the first round.
Speaker 7: There are a lot of guys that have been gaining
Speaker 7: a lot of steam, like hopefully I can pronounce his
Speaker 7: name right, Donovan az a Uku, the edge rusher out
Speaker 7: of Boston College that seems to be a guy that's
Speaker 7: garnering a lot of attention. I know Mike Green from
Speaker 7: Marshall expect him to probably go in the first round.
Speaker 7: But I do think those edge rushers if teams that
Speaker 7: are looking for edge guys, and it's gonna leave a
Speaker 7: lot of good offensive players there. And I do expect
Speaker 7: the run on offensive lineman. If say, well Campbell falls
Speaker 7: past New England at three, I would think the Bears
Speaker 7: a great shot to get themselves a left tackle. And
Speaker 7: I know he's been mocked to the Bears quite a bit.
Speaker 7: I know gent has as well. But because those quarterbacks
Speaker 7: are lacked, thereof that will be taken early. There's gonna
Speaker 7: be a lot of good positional players that are there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, last week we talked about seven different writers from
Speaker 4: NFL dot Com, six different Bears picks, and that keeps changing.
Speaker 3: I think you and your partner there.
Speaker 4: Pat Kerwin said that they were upwards of fifty one
Speaker 4: different first round picks from all the mock drafts that
Speaker 4: you guys happen to look at, and I think Tom
Speaker 4: feels the same way. It's just been changing on the daily, Tommy,
Speaker 4: Are you narrow focused on what you want right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm a narrow focus on what I want.
Speaker 5: But I still think it's the most common, complicated, predictable
Speaker 5: draft that there's been in maybe the last thirty years,
Speaker 5: just because you know how many bona fide John Elway
Speaker 5: Dan Marinos are there in this draft, not only quarter
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm talking Jim Bow's and the other guys. Yeah,
Speaker 5: bona fide, you know, you know Ashton Genty. I don't
Speaker 5: even think cam Ward has reached that type of astronomical
Speaker 5: opinion of everybody because they don't know even though if
Speaker 5: he's gonna be the first pick, is he really gonna
Speaker 5: turn out to be the draft choice that that first
Speaker 5: pick is supposed to be. So I can't wait for
Speaker 5: the draft because you know, I don't want to disrespect
Speaker 5: Laramie Tunsul and I don't want to disrespect Michael Pennix
Speaker 5: because nobody knew what was gonna happen the night before
Speaker 5: the draft or how the draft was gonna turn out
Speaker 5: for Atlanta last year when they just signed a quarterback
Speaker 5: to one hundred million dollar deal and then they went
Speaker 5: and drafted a quarterback in the first round. So I
Speaker 5: tell you, I I just think this is a roll
Speaker 5: of the Dice Draft.
Speaker 7: Yeah, every team's board is stack differently for those reasons.
Speaker 7: You know, it's interesting in Tom Bray and I think
Speaker 7: we've said it on the show. Think about Cam Word.
Speaker 7: This guy did not even get an offer to a
Speaker 7: Power five conference. I mean he went to Incarnate Word,
Speaker 7: then went to Washington State and then was gonna go
Speaker 7: pro and then was you know, basically Nio money took
Speaker 7: him to Miami. He wasn't even offered scholarship out of
Speaker 7: high school, and he could be the number one overall selection.
Speaker 7: So I just think that says it all. Every year
Speaker 7: we look at the first round, and I know that's
Speaker 7: what a lot of media and fans focus on, is
Speaker 7: that first round. But in all reality, look at this
Speaker 7: past year's draft or four years ago. I should say,
Speaker 7: when teams have to decide on the fifth year option,
Speaker 7: over half of them do not even get the fifth
Speaker 7: year option. Okay, so they have fallen out of favor
Speaker 7: of their team. So half of the first round is
Speaker 7: going to be wrong. And going into this year's draft,
Speaker 7: Gil Brandt used to say, probably about fourteen to seventeen
Speaker 7: guys are legit first round picks, and that number where
Speaker 7: you get fifty one, Jeff, which is basically two rounds. Essentially,
Speaker 7: that means there are a lot of guys that are
Speaker 7: going to be there. That is really the meat and potato.
Speaker 7: Your draft is going to be the second, third, and
Speaker 7: fourth round. They're good football players. They're not gold jacket guys,
Speaker 7: but they're going to be huge contributors to your team.
Speaker 7: And you know, every year that happens. And it was
Speaker 7: funny because we had a conversation. You know, I look
Speaker 7: at Dave Gettlman, Dave Getelman for the listeners out there,
Speaker 7: he's the former GM of obviously the New York Giants,
Speaker 7: and running backs have taken a lot of beating. This
Speaker 7: guy drafted Christian McCaffrey when he was general manager of
Speaker 7: the Carolina Panthers, and he drafted Saquon Barkley when he
Speaker 7: was the general manager of the Giants.
Speaker 6: And I don't think.
Speaker 7: Anybody could say both those guys could be gold jacket guys.
Speaker 7: But yet he got killed for his drafts. You know, Oh,
Speaker 7: he doesn't know a lot of draft He's drafted a
Speaker 7: running back in the first round. Those are the two
Speaker 7: best running backs in the National Football League. Saquon Barkley
Speaker 7: is like a unicorn. He is one of nine guys
Speaker 7: now that has rushed for two thousand yards in a season.
Speaker 7: And people were killing Dave Gettleman. So Dave Gettleman knew
Speaker 7: who bluechip draft picks were. And those two guys are
Speaker 7: blue tip draft picks. And Alway's no longer in the NFL.
Speaker 7: But man, what great selections at a position that seems.
Speaker 2: To be devalued.
Speaker 7: But yet we're huge contributors for their teams in the
Speaker 7: run to Super.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of them. I just did like thirty
Speaker 4: of them. So they're all interesting, every one of them.
Speaker 4: So we got to take a break one more segment ago.
Speaker 4: We'll wrap things up here on Bears Weekly with Tom
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Speaker 3: Final moments here on the show again.
Speaker 4: All the assistant coaches meeting with the media today had
Speaker 4: a chance to sit down with the defensive assistant.
Speaker 3: A senior defensive assistant.
Speaker 4: In helping out with the linebackers running that group is
Speaker 4: Richard Smith, nearly forty years in the NFL.
Speaker 3: This is what he feels about him.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: He never worked with before head coach Ben Johnson.
Speaker 6: Ben Ben's the real deal. Now he's young, he's sharp.
Speaker 6: He interacts with all of his coaches, which when you're
Speaker 6: an offensive coach and you're a head coach, you mainly
Speaker 6: feel more comfortable around the offensive guys. He'll make it
Speaker 6: an opportunity to come in every day and talk to you,
Speaker 6: and that's very very unusual, highly intelligent. I respect the
Speaker 6: heck Adam and we played against his them at Detroit
Speaker 6: and they were extremely well coached in a really good
Speaker 6: football team. You know, if they didn't have the injuries,
Speaker 6: I think they would have won the whole thing. And
Speaker 6: you met him, I think he's unbelievable people's skills. You know,
Speaker 6: he's a good family man. I think from an organization standpoint,
Speaker 6: you couldn't be any prouder. He's going to make the
Speaker 6: organization and the city proud, you know. And now what
Speaker 6: we got to do. We came here, We're paid to win,
Speaker 6: and that's what we came here to do. We got
Speaker 6: to try to change it a little bit here and
Speaker 6: see who can handle it and keep the thumb on
Speaker 6: everybody and see if we can get these players better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the key that's about coaching Tom.
Speaker 4: He's also very high, of course on Dennis Allen, whom
Speaker 4: he's worked with in the past, but those pretty interesting
Speaker 4: comments about the head coach.
Speaker 5: He's mentioned the high quality of the character of Ben Johnson,
Speaker 5: and I'm excited to see that be put in motion
Speaker 5: by being the head coach and how his character affects
Speaker 5: the players.
Speaker 7: Jim, Yeah, well, I think, you know, for you know,
Speaker 7: saying a lot when coaches haven't crossed paths like that
Speaker 7: and they speak that highly of, you know, a coach
Speaker 7: that they've coached against, you know, I think he's a
Speaker 7: real deal. I think, you know, obviously all the accolades
Speaker 7: and platitudes, but but again now that that they're they're there,
Speaker 7: they're in the building. They're going to work with all
Speaker 7: these players, and I don't think it'll it'll change. I
Speaker 7: like how firm they've been this offseason because a lot
Speaker 7: of it is on the players. And I think randall
Speaker 7: El said it earlier about how they're gonna, you know,
Speaker 7: disseminate the information. There's two ways to do it. You
Speaker 7: can give all of it or you can piece meal it.
Speaker 7: And it sounds like they're gonna piece meal it so that, hey,
Speaker 7: there are no mistakes when it comes to what is
Speaker 7: going to be expected of how we teach you, how
Speaker 7: you need to go out and execute it. They're gonna
Speaker 7: cover it piece by piece so that every player is
Speaker 7: detailed in order to get done what they want to accomplish.
Speaker 4: Jim, we need you on Monday night for another version
Speaker 4: of Bears Weekly.
Speaker 7: You in, I'm in, all right, you kidding?
Speaker 4: That's gonna do it for tonight's show. We'll get deeper
Speaker 4: out of the draft on Monday. Thanks to our producers,
Speaker 4: thanks to our guests, Antoine Randa El for Jim Miller.
Speaker 3: Intent there, I'm Jeff Jihoniak.
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