Speaker 1: We started breaking down Week eight in the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: the Bears and Cowboys in Dallas Sunday at noon, good evening, everybody.
Speaker 1: We talked about it right here on Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: broadcast partner Tom Thayre from news Radio one oh five
Speaker 1: nine w BBM, the Super Bowl winning Bear going down
Speaker 1: to Dallas. I know you got fond memories of Dallas
Speaker 1: over the course of your career. Give me one that
Speaker 1: really sticks out. Really one is the point of emphasis
Speaker 1: that Mike Dicta made about the respect he had for
Speaker 1: Tom Landry, and that was a coach a couple decades ago. However,
Speaker 1: he said that everything from the way we stood for
Speaker 1: the national anthem to the effort that we gave in
Speaker 1: the game, he wanted us to pay attention to details.
Speaker 1: That eighty five year we went there for the third
Speaker 1: third preseason game I think it was, and it broke
Speaker 1: out into such a massive fight that guys were ejected
Speaker 1: by the third player of the game. But then we
Speaker 1: went down there during the regular season and we beat
Speaker 1: him forty four to nothing, and it was a humiliating
Speaker 1: loss for Dallas, and I think personally, Dicta felt a
Speaker 1: little empathy for Tom Landry because he was his mentor
Speaker 1: along with George Hallis. But you know, all due respect
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys at that time, I want the
Speaker 1: Bears to go down and have the same performance that
Speaker 1: we did and surprised a lot of people. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: I was hoping you were going to say that game,
Speaker 1: because I do recall it. It was November seventeenth of
Speaker 1: eighty five, and you guys went to eleven to know
Speaker 1: you clinched the NFC Central that's what it was called
Speaker 1: back then, and the Bear snapped a six game losing
Speaker 1: streak against mister Landry and the Cowboys. So I think
Speaker 1: that probably was as important to win as any for
Speaker 1: you guys to propel yourselves to a championship in so
Speaker 1: many ways, going into that environment with the old Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys stadium that still had tons of respect around the league,
Speaker 1: the type of atmosphere that the Dallas Cowboys, Tony our
Speaker 1: set and that whole crew put on the field weekend
Speaker 1: and week out. But as a offensive line, and the
Speaker 1: way we ran the ball for Walter Payton, and the
Speaker 1: way the defense took care of the end of their
Speaker 1: end of the bargain and the way they what they
Speaker 1: did to quarterbacks. It was a great plane ride home.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that I hope the Bears could
Speaker 1: have one as well. Coming up of the show, rookie
Speaker 1: cornerback Kyler Gordon joins us for a couple of segments.
Speaker 1: We got to thank our producers, Dan Burrelli and Jordan
Speaker 1: trut Up in the folks here at the score. All right,
Speaker 1: So Matt Iberflus kind of set the tone of the
Speaker 1: week a couple of days ago when he got to
Speaker 1: the podium. And how to deal with losing is one thing,
Speaker 1: and they did overcome a three game losing streak by
Speaker 1: beating the Patriots on Monday night, but on a short week. Now,
Speaker 1: forget about that, and now how to deal with success.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have success, you have to handle
Speaker 1: that a certain way. You know when you have adversity,
Speaker 1: you have to handle that a certain way. And I
Speaker 1: think when you become a mature competitor, you have the
Speaker 1: ability to handle him almost one and the same. So
Speaker 1: certainly when you win, you know, there's all this other
Speaker 1: stuff going on, but there's distractions in that. When you win,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of so called hype for
Speaker 1: you know, a victory or two victories or three victories,
Speaker 1: wherever that might be. When you're in the middle of
Speaker 1: a season, I think that you have to keep everything perspective.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that statement right there? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a super young team. They probably giddy his heck
Speaker 1: about winning in New England to beat Bill Belichick and
Speaker 1: the Patriots. But I see what he's doing. I see
Speaker 1: he's trying to just stay level headed, keep everybody level headed.
Speaker 1: You know. It's kind of funny because the phraseology is
Speaker 1: different from Matt Eberflus, from Mike Ditka, but the message
Speaker 1: is the same. Make sure you're aware of all the
Speaker 1: compliments you're getting after a big win like last Monday night,
Speaker 1: because the same people that are complimenting you to your
Speaker 1: face they want to stab you in the back when
Speaker 1: things go wrong. So I just think it's same message,
Speaker 1: different time in era, how it's delivered. How did you
Speaker 1: view how they played after watching it over and over
Speaker 1: again the tape and especially on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. We're going to give props to the defense
Speaker 1: as well, because their second half performances are stacking. Now
Speaker 1: we've got eight examples of some really good defense. You
Speaker 1: take away that Minnesota final drive. They haven't given up
Speaker 1: many points and that is critical in the second half.
Speaker 1: Put all that in a bull shake it up, and
Speaker 1: where we had almost at the midpoint of the season.
Speaker 1: From your perspective on the developments of the offense, the
Speaker 1: coaches and how they're teaching the fundamentals and techniques and
Speaker 1: how it's relating to performance in the end for both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. You know, the fundamental and technique
Speaker 1: is a continuous process that goes every single day in
Speaker 1: practice that they reconfirmed what they're trying to teach these
Speaker 1: players to go out and just play naturally. To me,
Speaker 1: the thing that was one of the most encouraging things
Speaker 1: in the game is you can watch the emergence of
Speaker 1: the relationship between Luke Gatsy and what Justin Fields does well.
Speaker 1: If you go and you just look at the third
Speaker 1: and the fourth play of the game, where the first
Speaker 1: two passes they threw back to back, In just didn't
Speaker 1: have to stand in the pocket because he was moving around,
Speaker 1: and then you look at the path that the defenders
Speaker 1: had to take the play three, he moved over to
Speaker 1: his right instead of linebackers and DB's rushing they had
Speaker 1: to move latterly Play four, when he rolled out to
Speaker 1: it was left to hit eq Saint Brown. There was
Speaker 1: no rushers in his space. So the importance of the
Speaker 1: fast start, the importance of the first fifteen, I think
Speaker 1: the Bears, the coaches, everybody put it on display what
Speaker 1: they can be early in games. Gets He was asked
Speaker 1: this week what was most satisfying about to win over
Speaker 1: the Patriots. It was more about the way the way
Speaker 1: that we did it, more than necessarily, you know, getting
Speaker 1: thirty three points or whatever. I thought. You know, it
Speaker 1: was probably the most physical game that these guys, our
Speaker 1: guys played. You know, we had guys getting go down
Speaker 1: kind of in and out of the game, and so
Speaker 1: other guys had to step in and a bunch of
Speaker 1: different reps and there was no blink and the guys
Speaker 1: were prepared to play. So I thought that was really
Speaker 1: a really cool part about that whole day was the
Speaker 1: play style, the physicality of it. And then when you
Speaker 1: need a guys a step in and play, they were
Speaker 1: rid of rock and roll, and that physicality did show
Speaker 1: up on tape. I mean, there were some really powerful
Speaker 1: hits in that game, including special teams, and near the
Speaker 1: end of the game, Sterling Weatherford, you run for another
Speaker 1: two hundred plus yards. You know, that's a mentality of
Speaker 1: physical approach to that. The plays by the safeties, the
Speaker 1: plays by Roal Kuan Smith, the guy's up front tip
Speaker 1: and passes. I mean, you had everything going on from
Speaker 1: a physical point of view. You left it. You left
Speaker 1: a statement. You left a statement in that game. You know.
Speaker 1: To me, everybody when they talk about the physical portion
Speaker 1: of the game, and they usually reserve that for the
Speaker 1: offensive line, the tight ends, for the defensive line, for
Speaker 1: the linebackers, Jeff, When you have the physical style of
Speaker 1: running that Dave Montgomery and Khalil Herbert and Ebner, how
Speaker 1: they all run with the ball in their hands, how
Speaker 1: they bounce off the initial hit, how they get three
Speaker 1: extra yards after the first collision. When you talk about
Speaker 1: the physicalness of a football team, and you could include
Speaker 1: the running back man, that does a lot for your
Speaker 1: reputation going forward. Because there's four guys in the back
Speaker 1: of the defense. They don't want to tackle Dave Montgomery
Speaker 1: Clil Herbert one on one. They want that to be
Speaker 1: a group effort. You gotta throw in blasting games. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta throw in eck when many a Saint Brown bocking.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, it's it's fun to watch,
Speaker 1: you know. We love the running games, So I blasting game,
Speaker 1: blasting game. Jeff, you put a sixty number on him,
Speaker 1: you put an eighty number on him, You have keep
Speaker 1: his thirty number. He's always going to bring an element
Speaker 1: of physicality to this team, all right, So forgetsy, what's
Speaker 1: the next challenge for the offense? Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's just staying within who we are, what we do.
Speaker 1: Guys have a lot of reps and believe in things conceptually,
Speaker 1: and we got to keep continuing to maneuver that through.
Speaker 1: That's what this league is. I think it's teams that
Speaker 1: do too much. It's hard to be good at it,
Speaker 1: and guys like you know, teams that are really really good,
Speaker 1: they usually do what they do pretty well and then
Speaker 1: just make it look a little different to the defense,
Speaker 1: or defense makes it look a little a little different
Speaker 1: to the offense. So kind of the same thing. And
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's the challenge of every coach across
Speaker 1: the league is the fun ways to do what your
Speaker 1: guys do well, without letting it be so obvious or predictable.
Speaker 1: I like that idea of lower volume time in terms
Speaker 1: of place too. I mean that's music to our ears.
Speaker 1: Everything at aso side of the ball is repetitiously perfected.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Luke said at the beginning of
Speaker 1: that statement. This is a team that needs reps. They
Speaker 1: need reps on the practice field that carry over to
Speaker 1: the game field. All right, So now the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: a lot to break down here. Let's start doing it offensively,
Speaker 1: not unlike the Bears. They've have two running backs and
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott and I'm not sure what his status will be,
Speaker 1: but also Tony Pollard outstanding with his hands as well
Speaker 1: as his legs, are running game behind a solid offensive line.
Speaker 1: The Bears and Cowboys the only two teams in the
Speaker 1: league with two backs time with over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: from scrimmage. Oh and by the way, Justin Fields is
Speaker 1: almost there as well, running the football and almost four
Speaker 1: hundred yards from scrimmage. So it's a unique couple of
Speaker 1: backfields here, dual backs, but they want similar things and
Speaker 1: they're going to try to control the clock. They use
Speaker 1: that running game to their advantage to set up the
Speaker 1: passing game. And then of course you got to talk
Speaker 1: about the defense, and that's where I'm gonna bringing Cole
Speaker 1: Commet the Bears tight end on number eleven. Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: you gotta find him, that's for sure. Yeah, well it's
Speaker 1: gonna be all eleven. I think, you know between receivers
Speaker 1: who if they got chip help tight ends and they
Speaker 1: got chip help backs and protection and no where he's
Speaker 1: at all times, you know. So I think we've got
Speaker 1: a good plan coming up. But again, he's a special
Speaker 1: player and you know he's gonna get a shot to
Speaker 1: but we got we gotta handle off for sure on
Speaker 1: the injury report with a shoulder to flare it up
Speaker 1: later in the week. But number eleven pops up on
Speaker 1: tape repeatedly. He's got eight sacks, and he's got confidence
Speaker 1: that he can outrun just about everybody, including justin fields.
Speaker 1: Don't let him outrun yet, you got to attack him, yea.
Speaker 1: The worst thing that you can do to the best
Speaker 1: player on the field is give him an opportunity to
Speaker 1: chase unblocked, because he will make plays all over the field,
Speaker 1: up and down in the width of the field. But again.
Speaker 1: You continuously take cold combat, take Griffin, take every one
Speaker 1: of the offensive tackles, and you and blasting game for
Speaker 1: that matter, and you run the ball repeatedly at Micah Parsons.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to get out on the defensive before
Speaker 1: you allow him to make those tackles. They got other
Speaker 1: guys to Lawrence is outstanding, and so is Dorrence Armstrong,
Speaker 1: very very good player. He had a couple of blocks
Speaker 1: field goals and he's showing up on tape as well.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big test. They do not allow
Speaker 1: a lot of points. They are number one in many categories,
Speaker 1: even the nuanced ones that reflect a defense that's playing
Speaker 1: some very good football for dan Quinn. We'll break that
Speaker 1: down and more on Dak Prescott and the Boys as
Speaker 1: we get ready to go down to Dallas tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 1: and then play at a good old fashioned noons start
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. We'll have the coverage at nine am
Speaker 1: on WBBM, with a kickoff at noon coming up next.
Speaker 1: Kyler Gordon joins us here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access. It's
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy, choose clean energy for
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Speaker 1: adds up to a better world. With Tom Thayer, I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff jonahac pleased to be joined by rookie corner Kyler
Speaker 1: Gordon about the midpoint of a season. Thanks for taking
Speaker 1: the time. I know things are busy and there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on, obviously getting ready on a short week
Speaker 1: taking out the Dallas Cowboys. How you feeling, first of
Speaker 1: all at this point, feeling good, just getting our recovery,
Speaker 1: get my recovery, and uh just getting ready get shopped
Speaker 1: up for next weekend. Yeah, you're getting used to these
Speaker 1: short weeks. You didn't really do that in the college
Speaker 1: game too much? Yeah, not at all. Uh yeah the
Speaker 1: first one, I kind of recognize how it was going
Speaker 1: to be. But I'm ready and kim with a good
Speaker 1: planing routine just to get myself, my body, my mind right. Hey, Kyler,
Speaker 1: I wish I would have known this the other day,
Speaker 1: but I went to Notre Dame. Did you really as
Speaker 1: a cornerback, as a top athlete, did you really consider
Speaker 1: going to Notre Dame? I was like super close to
Speaker 1: going to Notre Dame. I was in love with it.
Speaker 1: My parents were in love with that. I was just
Speaker 1: like I'm telling you, it was very close. You know,
Speaker 1: you think from that time, that decision you made to
Speaker 1: go to Washington, and then you think of what you
Speaker 1: went through last year. Does last year at this time
Speaker 1: you're getting ready to play a college game. Does last
Speaker 1: year at this time seem a long time ago? Yes, Like,
Speaker 1: I honestly feels like I was just in college playing
Speaker 1: at a out of college night. So honestly doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like that long ago. Yeah, it seems recently. Honestly. You know,
Speaker 1: when you take everything into consideration, you talk about your
Speaker 1: individual improvement as a player, you talk about the talent
Speaker 1: that you're facing and you're succeeding against. You think about
Speaker 1: the big stage of Monday night football. Is all that
Speaker 1: hard to take in that so much has happened in
Speaker 1: such a short period time, Because you finish your college season,
Speaker 1: you get ready for the Combine, and now you're on
Speaker 1: center stage. You're starting in one of the most high
Speaker 1: profile positions in the NFL. Yeah, Honestly, going through all
Speaker 1: that short amount of time and stuff like that, honestly,
Speaker 1: just trying to find the best ways and using my
Speaker 1: resources to find the best way for me to probably
Speaker 1: prepare myself for that position and being on that stage
Speaker 1: and being able to execute. And yeah, I just really
Speaker 1: just find it, like I said, like the best ways
Speaker 1: I can get myself going and knowing how I can
Speaker 1: prepare myself and you know, just being detailed and intentional
Speaker 1: with how I want to go and set up things
Speaker 1: for myself so I can perform how I know I can.
Speaker 1: Kyler Gordon, our guest here on Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score, Tom Fair, Jeff
Speaker 1: Jowning gap with you. The trick of this is is
Speaker 1: that you're doing something that's really difficult. You're playing inside Nickel.
Speaker 1: We talk about it a lot. It gets a lot
Speaker 1: of praise and for good reason. And you know, when
Speaker 1: we met Buster Screen, he was a veteran here a
Speaker 1: few years ago, smaller body type and really was a
Speaker 1: rugged player and just learned. He really taught me a
Speaker 1: lot about what goes into Nickel and I didn't really
Speaker 1: realize it. And now, I mean, it's a starting job,
Speaker 1: let's just call what it is. But you're also learning outside.
Speaker 1: You've got special teams meeting coming up here soon. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot on the plate, but they wouldn't
Speaker 1: give you all that if they didn't think you could
Speaker 1: handle it correct. Yeah, So is that a compliment that
Speaker 1: you take seriously? Yeah, most definitely. Um, you know, them
Speaker 1: knowing and believing in me that I can handle this
Speaker 1: job and how much they're gonna throw on my plate,
Speaker 1: and knowing that I'm an keep ausking for more and
Speaker 1: keep wanting to improve and giving them one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: You know, they believe in me and I believe in them,
Speaker 1: so you know it goes hand to hand, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give them one hundred percent and go all out
Speaker 1: at it. And I know I can and I know
Speaker 1: I hold myself to high standing. I know what I
Speaker 1: can do. And uh yeah, you know you learned a
Speaker 1: little about business right away, don't you. I mean when
Speaker 1: I first started in the radio long time ago, I
Speaker 1: had an internship at a station and I was showing
Speaker 1: up at three o'clock in the morning. And I showed
Speaker 1: up the middle of my internship and everybody was crying
Speaker 1: and people were getting their resumes or what happened, Well,
Speaker 1: they changed formats of the radio station, and I like, wow,
Speaker 1: that just happened, right and then the next day everybody's gone.
Speaker 1: You know, you have one of your captains get traded
Speaker 1: to the Philadelphia Eagles this week and Robert Quinn a
Speaker 1: lot of respect for him in the locker room. How
Speaker 1: do you process that as a first time NFL player,
Speaker 1: a rookie halfway through a season. Yeah, honestly, I've never
Speaker 1: i haven't got a lot of experiences where I've got
Speaker 1: to see that. So I just kind of seeing the
Speaker 1: way the NFL works and how the business are. But
Speaker 1: you know, having a leader like him being able to
Speaker 1: take you know, the things whatever we can't say for
Speaker 1: him as as a rookie and the other guys you know,
Speaker 1: we talk about, you know, the small things that we see, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, coming from a veteran and how they you know,
Speaker 1: they go about this game and how you know, what
Speaker 1: prepares them and what gets them in the mode or
Speaker 1: you know, different things that both benefit them and help
Speaker 1: them play better during game time. So just all those
Speaker 1: little things, you know, Thankful what I got to see
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and the type of leader he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Kyler, through my experience as a player, I
Speaker 1: know what it's like to play full NFL season but
Speaker 1: just backtracking a little bit. In two twenty you play
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty four snaps. Two thy twenty one
Speaker 1: you play seven hundred and ninety seven snaps. Did that
Speaker 1: seem like a big increase to you at the time
Speaker 1: because I had just taken consideration the length of an
Speaker 1: NFL season, Not asking you about that, but just back
Speaker 1: in your experience about that huge amount of reps that
Speaker 1: you took on in twenty twenty one. No, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it seemed like a lot. Um. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: glad it was a lot. Honestly. I was disappointed that
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season was short, um, But when I finally
Speaker 1: got that full season, um, it didn't feel like a lot. Now.
Speaker 1: I was really just looking forward to every week, Honestly.
Speaker 1: I was looking up your combine numbers and then said,
Speaker 1: you did twenty reps with two twenty five. Dude, that's
Speaker 1: that's good. Um. So is that something like you work
Speaker 1: for just training for that amount of reps? Or and
Speaker 1: do you think he could do it today? That was
Speaker 1: my goal was to get over twenty something, way over twenty.
Speaker 1: I think I put it out like twenty five, but
Speaker 1: ended up only gets twenty. But yeah, it was definitely
Speaker 1: something I worked worked towards a lot during my combine
Speaker 1: process and uh, you know, working on my form in
Speaker 1: different ways to just increase my strength and a lot
Speaker 1: of those different things, uh, with different things are going
Speaker 1: on in the testing for my combine that I was
Speaker 1: working on. But yeah, that's one thing that stands out.
Speaker 1: That's a heck of a job too, because I know
Speaker 1: how much work goes into being able to gain that
Speaker 1: amount of reps in just the stamina to be able
Speaker 1: to do it. So good job. Man tells me a
Speaker 1: lot about your weight room. Ask him how many he did? Hey,
Speaker 1: what did you get? I mean I was heavy. I
Speaker 1: did forty one, but I was happy. So yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know it's awesome because of Lineman. It's you know,
Speaker 1: you're when you're a guy that's two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: five pounds going in there, you should be you should
Speaker 1: do that many. Yeah, I feel you. That's town there.
Speaker 1: I can't feel you. I can maybe do one if
Speaker 1: I was lucky on a good day. Jeff Joni actim
Speaker 1: there and counter Gordon our guest, what a tremends just
Speaker 1: response by the defense Monday Night, The play of the
Speaker 1: entire team, the most complete game of the year so far,
Speaker 1: every phase contributed in, almost every single player contributed. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about it looking back? I feel really
Speaker 1: good about what we put on tape and just knowing
Speaker 1: that that's something we can do game in and game out,
Speaker 1: and just you know, he'll keep holding that standard, all
Speaker 1: the guys holding each other accountable, just to go out
Speaker 1: there and do our job and execute. And I know
Speaker 1: that's something we can can do repeated Lyue and the interception.
Speaker 1: You got one, yeah, you know Brian Urlacker every time
Speaker 1: and somebody got a pick here, we got one, he
Speaker 1: screamed out. That was the thing. We got one. So
Speaker 1: you got one, we got one, you got we got one.
Speaker 1: We got one here. And I know you wanted to score.
Speaker 1: But Thorte a little bit. He's got some wheels on him.
Speaker 1: He cut you from behind. Alan Williams was talking about
Speaker 1: it this week. That's the only the finish, right, So
Speaker 1: you're gonna be thinking about that field ghost came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Get on your back. I knew immediately because
Speaker 1: my legs a little dead from the no huddle, but
Speaker 1: I knew. I was like, I got the fourth two
Speaker 1: deal on my back, got run. Yeah, But getting the
Speaker 1: first though, is that's that's the one now, right that
Speaker 1: everybody's got to get that off their back a littizabit.
Speaker 1: So do you feel you're going to uh take advantage
Speaker 1: of every opportunity? And uh, you know, bouncing balls, the
Speaker 1: guys are tipping balls of the line of scrimmage. This
Speaker 1: team rallies to the ball, so the ball is going
Speaker 1: to be there for the taking. Is that pretty much
Speaker 1: the message from above? Ye? And being all the stars
Speaker 1: over the middle, you know, all we've got to be
Speaker 1: ready for those and the tips and overthrows, like we said,
Speaker 1: we got to get those, and uh, you're just ready
Speaker 1: for everything that comes to us. Already equal last year's
Speaker 1: interception total Tommy eight a year ago, and you guys
Speaker 1: have done it in just seven games. So more to come,
Speaker 1: More to come as well. With Kyler Gordon our guest
Speaker 1: here on Bears All Access, let's take a break. We'll
Speaker 1: have another segment with a young cornerback after this on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy the score Timmy. Right before the commercial,
Speaker 1: Kyler Jeff was talking about your interception and so you
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with us. We got a big audience
Speaker 1: out here. The adhesiveness of the gloves today, does it
Speaker 1: Does it allow you to think about making harder catches?
Speaker 1: Because that was a great, you know job of tipping
Speaker 1: that cape, getting control and then taking it in a
Speaker 1: good direction. But when you think about the ball flying
Speaker 1: through the air and you think of why what the
Speaker 1: gloves can do, does it challenge you to make harder catches? Um? Personally,
Speaker 1: I would say, honestly, I don't think about, you know,
Speaker 1: the gloves and what they can do. I just think
Speaker 1: about my own ability and it's the best way for
Speaker 1: me to catch this ball. Um. I would definitely say
Speaker 1: that the gloves do have a little bit of a
Speaker 1: stick to them that you feel more comfortable making a
Speaker 1: harder catch. Yeah, Um, But really just putting yourself, for
Speaker 1: myself in the best position to make that catch, whether
Speaker 1: it has to be the one hand, two hands, or
Speaker 1: any anyway I could tip it to myself. It definitely
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a stick to it. So
Speaker 1: now when you're in the modern operation of NFL football,
Speaker 1: you have so many tools of improvement, from the jugs
Speaker 1: machine to practice to the video and everything you have
Speaker 1: a chance to watch. When you're studying an opponent, I'd
Speaker 1: say you open up the season, you got receivers like
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel and stuff, and then you get ready to
Speaker 1: play a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers in a week two.
Speaker 1: Where where does your vision go while you're studying your opponent.
Speaker 1: Does it go quarterback to route or does it go
Speaker 1: exclusively route of the receiver? For me so far has
Speaker 1: really been offense offense to the receiver to quarterback, really
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know what, you know, what
Speaker 1: does the offensive coordinator trying to do, because everybody, everybody
Speaker 1: got to do the whole team, the offense has to do.
Speaker 1: Whatever the offensive coordinator is trying to get. Introduce I
Speaker 1: really trying to figure out his concept, where he liked
Speaker 1: his philosophy. All that um then stemming on the receivers.
Speaker 1: You know who I'm guarding who's going to be in
Speaker 1: that position to make those certain plays. And then going
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback and be like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: these arrest targets what he likes to do. So UM
Speaker 1: really chilling from there from the offense coordinated receivers a
Speaker 1: quarterback is what I've been doing so far. You know,
Speaker 1: when you play a slot, you play corner, you play slot.
Speaker 1: As slot, you're gonna tackle running backs, You're gonna tackle
Speaker 1: tight ends, you're gonna tackle wide receivers, a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything. So two weeks ago, you make a big
Speaker 1: tackle against the tight end, you stop him on second down,
Speaker 1: and then that you guys get off the field on
Speaker 1: third down. When you're tackling a bigger guy that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a little slower than you do, you have more
Speaker 1: confidence because you could probably get into more in a
Speaker 1: better tackling position, at a better tackling position. When you're
Speaker 1: tackling a bigger guy, I'm not as worried about the
Speaker 1: cutback or him joking. You know, I know I can
Speaker 1: get there with speed and just shoot at the outside
Speaker 1: leg or wherever I'm aiming at. Um. Yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not really worried about you know their change in
Speaker 1: direction or what's gonna get me on? No, I can
Speaker 1: fly and just long stride through the through the quad
Speaker 1: and just wrap up all right, one of those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, well, you have a lot of guys for
Speaker 1: Dallas this week. Obviously Ceedee Lamb is working all out
Speaker 1: out of the slot, but he winds up all over
Speaker 1: the place. But a guy with a great deal of confidence.
Speaker 1: So what you're scotting report on number eighty eight. We
Speaker 1: got our we got our whole little deal. Can't give
Speaker 1: it all away, but we got our whole little deal
Speaker 1: for for their for their offense, and uh we got
Speaker 1: we got our stuff planning from you know, he's a
Speaker 1: good player, a good athlete, and uh yeah, we got
Speaker 1: we got a little game plan. Yeah, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the running backs in this game is fantastic. Only
Speaker 1: two teams in the league with two backs each with
Speaker 1: over four hundred yards from scrimmage. And then oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, we got a QB one that's approaching four
Speaker 1: hundred yards from scrimmage just with his legs. So it's
Speaker 1: really a battle with running backs here. Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 1: also Tony Polter's an outstanding receiver as well. Um, how
Speaker 1: do you feel about their running games? Yeah, just recognizing
Speaker 1: you know, who does what, you know, what they're good at. Um,
Speaker 1: you know they're two different type of backs and knowing
Speaker 1: what they're what they like to do with the offense,
Speaker 1: how the offense likes to use them, and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: just the best way for us to go up in
Speaker 1: a first That all right, last two questions because we
Speaker 1: gotta let you go. You gotta head to a meeting. Uh.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott thoughts deck as the starting quarterback. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna be out here. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we got our own little Scott Reports, So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still going through my studies of him, going through
Speaker 1: what he does and how he is and uh, what
Speaker 1: he likes and uh, you know, we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: game plan. From Great Northwest is where you're from, and
Speaker 1: now you're in the Great Midwest. You sense the difference
Speaker 1: in uh not only geography but the people. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: almost definitely. Yeah, there's a there's a difference for sure.
Speaker 1: What do you feel, how do you feel? Um over here,
Speaker 1: it feels pretty welcoming. I guess I would say it's
Speaker 1: a there's a lot of nice people out here. It's
Speaker 1: it's easy to talk to people. Everyone's pretty cool. You know.
Speaker 1: I do get a little sense of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Pheel of Washington. As far as like the nature out
Speaker 1: here in the in the north part of Chicago, and
Speaker 1: I like it a lot. Made me feel a little
Speaker 1: bit at home. Um, yeah, that's all. That's just no ocean.
Speaker 1: You got the big lake. Tim. Tim takes his paddle
Speaker 1: board out there on Lake Michigan. So if you like
Speaker 1: doing that, he'll come up. All right, Tommy, we gotta
Speaker 1: let him go. He's got to go to a meeting.
Speaker 1: Appreciate all the time, and good luck on Sunday in Dallas. Sorry,
Speaker 1: thank you. Kyler Gordon our guest here on Cago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the Score. We'll take a break. We'll
Speaker 1: be joined by the voice of the Dallas Cowboys, Brad
Speaker 1: Sham after this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Speaking of legends, I'm sitting with one via zoom with
Speaker 1: my good friend, the legendary Bradsham, longtime voice of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, I believe since nineteen seventy six, and he's
Speaker 1: seen a lot, He's done a lot, and he's at
Speaker 1: the top of his game here in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: with a very good football team. You got here. It's
Speaker 1: fun to watch. First of all, drop that legend stuff. Secondly,
Speaker 1: tellfare that I'm taking it personally. Decided to snub us
Speaker 1: on this segment right right, You know they're there, They're
Speaker 1: fun to watch, and they're still work in progress. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they'll be. I mean, I don't. I
Speaker 1: feel kind of silly talking to you about works in progress.
Speaker 1: But defensively, they were so vastly improved last year, which
Speaker 1: they would almost have to be because they were historically
Speaker 1: bad in the COVID year in twenty twenty and so
Speaker 1: they've taken another step and they seemed to have drafted
Speaker 1: well the last couple of years, and the coaches, particularly
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn on defense, have done a great job of
Speaker 1: figuring out how to use guys, and I think that
Speaker 1: they're not where they're going to be. And offensively, they're
Speaker 1: definitely not where they're going to be. And it's a
Speaker 1: little different for this team to have a completely defensive
Speaker 1: identity and have the offense be viewed as a huge
Speaker 1: question mark. But that's where we are. It's better than
Speaker 1: it was when the offense I'm talking about it was
Speaker 1: when the season started. That was to be expected and
Speaker 1: I don't believe it's as good as it's going to
Speaker 1: be by the end of the season. If it'll be
Speaker 1: good enough, we'll find out. And let's take a look
Speaker 1: at you guys a little more in depth. Obviously the
Speaker 1: defense with a lot of names. Um note Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: first and foremost. Um, I here start hearing LT comparisons
Speaker 1: lines up every you know, Is that fair? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean he's not there yet, but I mean he's awful good.
Speaker 1: He's awful good. But he was awful good at Penn State.
Speaker 1: He just didn't who wasn't there very long? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: um you started here in that last year. Um, he's
Speaker 1: a little different kind of player than LT, and Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn has been very good for him, being being willing
Speaker 1: to use him in ways that they didn't calculate. He's
Speaker 1: been very good about taking coaching and expanding his role
Speaker 1: and he see he's now what's possible. I don't know
Speaker 1: who the you hesitate to say Lawrence Taylor. By the way,
Speaker 1: there's another example. A lot of people you say LT.
Speaker 1: People think you're talking about Ladani and Tomlins running back.
Speaker 1: I know the original LT was Lawrence Taylor. And as
Speaker 1: Quinn pointed out last year, Quinn grew up in New
Speaker 1: Jersey a big Giants fan, the LT teams were the
Speaker 1: ones that he watched, and he pointed out correctly that
Speaker 1: you know, you always knew where Lawrence Taylor was. He
Speaker 1: was the right outside linebacker in a three to four. Now,
Speaker 1: it didn't mean you could stop him, but you knew
Speaker 1: where he was. And the beauty of what they're doing
Speaker 1: with Parsons is that you don't know where he is
Speaker 1: until it's too late. He's got insane speed for his size,
Speaker 1: but he also has some things that you can't teach instincts.
Speaker 1: He made two plays last week which we've seen him
Speaker 1: make before, where he basically started to rush. He began
Speaker 1: his rush screens and realized three steps into an all
Speaker 1: out rush that the play was behind him, and he
Speaker 1: stopped and turned around, recognized it, and ran it down
Speaker 1: and one of them probably saved the game. So he's
Speaker 1: an unusual He's an unusual player. Now, let's flippited Dak,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott healthy got the rustoff last week? What's the
Speaker 1: status Ezekiel and how would that impact things? Well, first,
Speaker 1: I mean, are you sure that Dak got all the
Speaker 1: rustoff last week? I mean, he really think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was pretty average and the only game
Speaker 1: he played in this year was about three quarters of
Speaker 1: the opener and he was pretty bad in that game.
Speaker 1: And he didn't play in the pre season, so you
Speaker 1: got to go back to the end of last year.
Speaker 1: I don't know that the rust is knocked off, and
Speaker 1: his receiving corps is not what it was last year.
Speaker 1: So he's going to be better this week than he
Speaker 1: was last week. But I think it'll be a few
Speaker 1: weeks before we see the rust completely off. If I
Speaker 1: had to guess, if you put a gun to my head,
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if Elliott played in this game. Only
Speaker 1: because they've got to buy next week and so. And
Speaker 1: they have a pretty good backup in Tony Pollard. And
Speaker 1: they've got a kid from Florida practice squad running back
Speaker 1: who a lot of us thought was going to make
Speaker 1: the team, League Davis, and he's I think he's pretty good.
Speaker 1: So now Elliott is a warrior. He will not come out.
Speaker 1: He probably needed to be not playing Last year when
Speaker 1: he had a torn PCL, which is not Pacific Coast League,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't come out and it cost him. That injury
Speaker 1: costs him a lot of explosiveness. He's still as good
Speaker 1: a blocking running back as there might be in the league,
Speaker 1: and he's extremely smart. But he also might be smart
Speaker 1: enough to realize that this is only the We're not
Speaker 1: yet at the halfway point of the season. So they
Speaker 1: won't practice today. They have a recovery program they do
Speaker 1: on Friday. He hasn't practiced the last two days. If
Speaker 1: I had to guess, I would guess they would tell
Speaker 1: us that after the Saturday practice that he's not going
Speaker 1: to play. I would expect that he'll be ruled listed
Speaker 1: as doubtful today. That's a guest, and then then he's
Speaker 1: essentially got three weeks to rehabilitate the injury till after
Speaker 1: the buy, so you know, we'll see their receivers are
Speaker 1: getting a little better. I think they've got some tight
Speaker 1: end depth, although the number one tight end is also
Speaker 1: limping around on a torn pcl Dalton Schultz. But they've
Speaker 1: got two big ten tight ends rookies Ferguson from from
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Hendershot from Indiana, and I think those are
Speaker 1: going to be good players down the road. So the
Speaker 1: key is I think for them that they they have
Speaker 1: to be able to run the ball, and I think
Speaker 1: they need to get out in front. I'm you know
Speaker 1: who didn't watch the game Monday night and not come
Speaker 1: away impressed. And you can almost see Fields, I think
Speaker 1: growing from week to week. And I think he's an
Speaker 1: underrated passer and I'm not sure the team is built
Speaker 1: to come from two touchdowns behind the Bears. So I
Speaker 1: think for Dallas a fast start is really important and
Speaker 1: to do that, they might have to open it up
Speaker 1: a little bit more than they have been. So that's
Speaker 1: the chess game. That's what's fun about watching the games.
Speaker 1: How you touchdown the offense and fields. How about defensively,
Speaker 1: anything stick out that gets your attention that maybe. I
Speaker 1: mean they shut people down in the second half. The
Speaker 1: adjustments have been working. They don't give up much. I
Speaker 1: think they drafted well. You know, I understand fifty eighth's
Speaker 1: not happy with his contract, but he'd looked good in
Speaker 1: a lot of uniforms. He's a really good football player.
Speaker 1: And the two defensive backs they drafted this year, I
Speaker 1: think they're really really good players, and so I think
Speaker 1: that they are just they're young and growing. But I
Speaker 1: know Matt Eberflus. I don't know him intimately, but I
Speaker 1: was around him long enough, you know. In fact, Prescott
Speaker 1: said yesterday, when he puts the tape up of the Bears,
Speaker 1: he can see the influence of how Eberflus. And they
Speaker 1: might have only been together for a year, but you
Speaker 1: can see the influence of how Flus wants his players
Speaker 1: to play aggressive around the ball all the time. It's
Speaker 1: a style that's that's very evident when it's being done right,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the whole can be greater than the sum
Speaker 1: of the parts. I think that's a little bit true
Speaker 1: of what's going on in Dallas, and I certainly think
Speaker 1: that that is true of almost any Eberflus defense when
Speaker 1: they're playing it the way he wants. So you've got
Speaker 1: to have you've got to have great individual players, a
Speaker 1: few of them, but and he's got He's got some.
Speaker 1: But he's also a really good coach. And I think
Speaker 1: as a team, they're starting to play well and they're
Speaker 1: not going they're going to be a nightmare for everybody
Speaker 1: they play. And the teams that are the teams that
Speaker 1: are going to be able to breathe a little easier
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter is are the teams that are
Speaker 1: able to make the Bears play offensively differently than they
Speaker 1: want to play. But that game Monday night will go
Speaker 1: a long way. They now know they can do it.
Speaker 1: And I know New England's not what they were a
Speaker 1: few years ago and all the rest of that, But
Speaker 1: I know the Cowboys went to New England last year.
Speaker 1: They had never won in that stadium, and they needed
Speaker 1: a play at the end. Was right about the mid year,
Speaker 1: and Prescott would not getting hurt on the winning play
Speaker 1: and we're not sure how much it affected him the
Speaker 1: rest of the year calf injury, but he they won
Speaker 1: on a touchdown pass at the end of the game
Speaker 1: and it was a notable celebration, and it said to them,
Speaker 1: we can do that. We can go on the road,
Speaker 1: we can go to New England and we can beat
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Now the Bears have done that, and as
Speaker 1: long as Belichick is there, yeah, then that's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough place to play. It's gonna be the thing, right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a thing that's gonna stand the Bears
Speaker 1: in good stead for a while. All Right, last thing,
Speaker 1: I'll let you go appreciate the time. As always, your
Speaker 1: team has been built through the draft. They're thirty nine
Speaker 1: players homegrown, plus some undrafted free agents added to the mix.
Speaker 1: The Bears are I'm barking on that same journey. That's
Speaker 1: the plan. It's gonna take some time, obviously to do that.
Speaker 1: The positives of that in the era of free agency.
Speaker 1: To me, that's the way to do it is to
Speaker 1: build through the draft. Is there enough patience for that?
Speaker 1: Most of your listeners may not know that I'm a Chicagoan.
Speaker 1: I've been a Bears fan since I listened to the
Speaker 1: championship game win over the Giants on the radio in
Speaker 1: my grandmother's kitchen. I mean, I go back, I go
Speaker 1: back to Bill Wade and Larry Morris and Johnny Morris
Speaker 1: and Bill George. So I've got a little sense of
Speaker 1: Bears history, Bears fans and I believe Cowboys fans have
Speaker 1: in common a noted impatience the key and what you
Speaker 1: just said, in my opinion, is one hundred percent right.
Speaker 1: It's the way to go. You need to spend some money,
Speaker 1: and then when you do it, you have to be
Speaker 1: smart because those contracts come up in three years. You
Speaker 1: know they're gonna this is a year two for Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: I think it's year three for cdee Lamb. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pay those guys, just like they had to
Speaker 1: pay Prescott. You know, if Justin Fields turns into what
Speaker 1: the Bears hope he is, they're gonna have to pay him.
Speaker 1: And that's what's going on with Roquan Smith right now.
Speaker 1: So patience is a difficult thing to come by in
Speaker 1: the Twitter age. Fans don't want to hear it that
Speaker 1: like Cowboy fan can he. I saw on Twitter this
Speaker 1: morning the Eagles are talking to the Saints. They're trying
Speaker 1: to get Alvin Kamara. This place will go much if
Speaker 1: the Eagles get Alvin Kamara because the Cowboys aren't spending
Speaker 1: that money. They're not. You look at the Rams, right
Speaker 1: they went short term big money. Three years from now,
Speaker 1: the Rams may be standing on a street corner jiggling
Speaker 1: a cup for a contribution of the quarter, but nobody
Speaker 1: cares about that. Right now is what they see. I
Speaker 1: really believe, and I'm just talking about the Bears now.
Speaker 1: I know, Matt Eberflus. I look at the young players
Speaker 1: the Bears have. I see the way they drafted. They
Speaker 1: weren't going to win a Super Bowl with Robert Quinn,
Speaker 1: but that fourth round pick might turn out to be
Speaker 1: an outstanding player. And Bears fans are tired of hearing
Speaker 1: be patient. I get it, but listen to Jeff Joniako
Speaker 1: telling you the truth. It's really the only way that
Speaker 1: makes sense. You have to throw in some stuff if
Speaker 1: they get if they move and they get the stadium,
Speaker 1: something splashy will happen because the front office will understand
Speaker 1: that you have to do something besides just put a
Speaker 1: building up. But you have to be smart about how
Speaker 1: you do it. I believe the Bears are on the
Speaker 1: track of doing it the smart right way. They've got
Speaker 1: they need offensive linemen, but look at fields. Look at
Speaker 1: his competitiveness, look at his physical ability. I see a
Speaker 1: guy who can win if he has the pieces around him.
Speaker 1: But you don't just this is coming from a die
Speaker 1: hard Cup fan. Yep, no, you don't just wave him.
Speaker 1: As Bill Parcels used to say, you cannot go down
Speaker 1: to the Texico and dial up one eight hundred defensive end.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen. Be patient, because good things are
Speaker 1: gonna come, Brad. Great stuff is always. I could talk
Speaker 1: to you for hours. We'll see you Sunday. Meet to
Speaker 1: see you Sunday. Take care. Brad Sham, Voice of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, back with Tom Thayre. In a final segment
Speaker 1: after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score.
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Speaker 1: brought to you by CDW people who get it with
Speaker 1: Tom Fair, Johnny ac Overall, Alan Williams on how to
Speaker 1: deal with a player like Dak Prescott who's had a
Speaker 1: couple of four thousand yard passing seasons nearly a five
Speaker 1: thousand yard passing season a couple of years ago. But
Speaker 1: it's still not about Dak Prescott. Is still about how
Speaker 1: we execute our defense, how we run, how we hit,
Speaker 1: how we hustle, the intensity of how we get to
Speaker 1: the football taking the football away. You know, whether it's
Speaker 1: Dak or anyone else, we try to look at it
Speaker 1: as a nameless, faceless opponent, and it's about the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears defense and playing complimentary football, and which they did
Speaker 1: very well against New England. Toime, that was the first
Speaker 1: time Prescott had played by the way in forty two days.
Speaker 1: Did he look rusty to you on tape? Pretty easy.
Speaker 1: Just the knowledge of the system and his work there
Speaker 1: with Kellen Moore makes it an easy transition to get
Speaker 1: the rushed off. You know, timing is so specific to
Speaker 1: a cornerback, especially in the passing game. Yeah, he did
Speaker 1: look a little rusty, but he's got a little different
Speaker 1: you know. He can target so many from people and
Speaker 1: I think as you described the formations during the Dallas game,
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting for the description of the
Speaker 1: position of the wide receivers because when you think of
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson, you think of ken Bill, Bill Doer you
Speaker 1: think that Kyler Gordon, where those receivers line up, is
Speaker 1: going to play an important role on how they play defense.
Speaker 1: And Dalton Schultz a player to watch as well, caught
Speaker 1: all five of his targets against Detroit and then third
Speaker 1: string rookie Peyton Hendershott caught a touchdown pass in the
Speaker 1: game as well. But the impressive part of this, oh
Speaker 1: whole thing to Mattieberflus is the running game. You do
Speaker 1: a good job protecting the quarterback. You know, they do
Speaker 1: a nice joba with their protections. They've limited the number
Speaker 1: of sacks they've had, but they really rely on their
Speaker 1: running game. They do a nice job with the two
Speaker 1: headed two headed guys there with Poward and Ezekiel. And
Speaker 1: again they do a really good job of their receivers
Speaker 1: blocking of the perimeter. So it's gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: task force. What do you think of that offensive line?
Speaker 1: There's a domeer on there, well decorated on it, right
Speaker 1: guard number seventy Zach Martin. Yeah, you know they have
Speaker 1: a good, solid offensive line. They still are missing a
Speaker 1: couple of key pieces that really could turn that offensive
Speaker 1: line into the next level. How the Bears are able
Speaker 1: to use the mobility of a guy like Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: Dallas can do the same thing, and I'm sure week
Speaker 1: two of his comeback from the thumb surgery, I don't
Speaker 1: ever expect that he'll be in less condition because he's
Speaker 1: an athlete that works hard. So the Bears defensive front
Speaker 1: is going to have to be able to slow down
Speaker 1: the pat rushing game as well as rushed the passer.
Speaker 1: At the same time, Robert Quinn traded to Philadelphia this
Speaker 1: week of reverberations in the locker room, a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for him from the young guys, including Dominique Robinson,
Speaker 1: but now an opportunity for him and Travis Gibson and
Speaker 1: some others. It's a big opportunity. It's been like this
Speaker 1: since since college almost It's the next man up, so
Speaker 1: you never know when your opportunity is going to come.
Speaker 1: We've got some shoes of field, but I think that
Speaker 1: the higher ups they feel comfortable with us, you know,
Speaker 1: taken over, so we got put on. Oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: higher ups being Ryan Poles and the coaching staff. Robinson
Speaker 1: again didn't let that go unnoticed. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: a confidence booster. My confidence in build and ever since
Speaker 1: I got here though, So you know, I came in rookie.
Speaker 1: During the rookie stuff, kind of a little nervous, But
Speaker 1: once I've seen it, I could play and play with
Speaker 1: some of these guys, I was okay. And then as
Speaker 1: the weeks keep going on, our confidence continues to build.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna keep trying to stack and you know best.
Speaker 1: He's raw and untapped. Man, he's got so much potential. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like Luke as he talking about the offense that
Speaker 1: you need reps. This is a young man that needs
Speaker 1: a lot of reps. He needs to be able to
Speaker 1: visualize the difference between run and pass. He needs to
Speaker 1: understand the balance of the stances of the guys he's
Speaker 1: playing against. He's got to be able to read the
Speaker 1: down and distance, what hashmark they're starting on. There's so
Speaker 1: much pre snap information that has to run through your head.
Speaker 1: All those parts of learning football are equally as equally
Speaker 1: as important is anytime he comes out of his stance.
Speaker 1: So how do you defend this team? Because they do
Speaker 1: have a lot of weapons, and they have a veteran quarterback,
Speaker 1: but they haven't put up a lot of point even
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush doing so well, and they won five
Speaker 1: games overall this season. The numbers offensively are not staggering.
Speaker 1: It's the defense that has set the table for them.
Speaker 1: You got you gotta keep back inside the pockets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to try to close and condense the area
Speaker 1: to make him really uncomfortable. Be careful of his follow
Speaker 1: through motion so it doesn't hit the helmet of one
Speaker 1: of his offensive linemen. So if you can keep him
Speaker 1: inside that pocket, ask him to throw the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. Then you're talking about playing into the
Speaker 1: hands of the defensive players. And he's the type of
Speaker 1: guy that wants to sit back, locate target and then throw. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fourteen and fourteen on passes of ten or fewer air
Speaker 1: yards in his return and also on play action eleven
Speaker 1: of twelve one twenty one yards in a touchdown. There
Speaker 1: goes the running game setting it up for you exactly.
Speaker 1: And again, it's it's almost a mirror image of each
Speaker 1: other because those are probably stats that you could read
Speaker 1: about justin the running game is going to help you
Speaker 1: with your passing game, And it's the same thing in Dallas. However,
Speaker 1: I just think when you're coming off of that thumb
Speaker 1: injury and you want to close that pocket down, and
Speaker 1: you want to put make sure that Dak is throwing
Speaker 1: with bodies around him. Maybe you change his arm level,
Speaker 1: his arm angle, the release of the football a little
Speaker 1: bit more to help you defensively. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: back to how to attack that defense and now with
Speaker 1: more design runs that were unveiled in New England for
Speaker 1: quarterback Justin Fields. You know what that means for Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: what that means for Dallas. Was watching the Thursday night
Speaker 1: game and how Baltimore used Lamar Jackson, and of course,
Speaker 1: you know, Justin admitted that they stole a few plays
Speaker 1: from from Baltimore using the same kind of philosophies that
Speaker 1: the Ravens do. Boy, they they really tired out the
Speaker 1: defense of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and then just hammered them.
Speaker 1: You know that that was the planned the whole game.
Speaker 1: And you know, can the Bears do something like that.
Speaker 1: They have the same elements taken place from Baltimore. It
Speaker 1: means Baltimore took place from somebody else, and somebody else
Speaker 1: and so on down the line. Again, from my own
Speaker 1: experience as a player, when I go and watch the
Speaker 1: development of a guy like John Elway. That's the same
Speaker 1: thing they did with John Elway. They had quarterback sweeps,
Speaker 1: they had quarterback roll pullouts, they had a quarterback that
Speaker 1: was moving all over the field to tire out one
Speaker 1: of the best defenses I saw in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL, and that was the Bears defense. So I think,
Speaker 1: whether you're talking about Lamar Jackson or Justin Fields, every
Speaker 1: one of these guys have the leg power, the arm, talent,
Speaker 1: the mental part of the football game to really use
Speaker 1: their versatility as a threatening asset to guys like Michael Parsons. Interesting,
Speaker 1: Luke Getsy, you know, I was asked about these design
Speaker 1: runs and a new page in the playbook, so to speak,
Speaker 1: but he said it wasn't as different as people think.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've been doing it all year. I think
Speaker 1: what the what we do with our entire offense is
Speaker 1: we try to get, you know, get the premier play
Speaker 1: against the defense. And so, you know, they presented some
Speaker 1: cool opportunities for us that we were able to kind
Speaker 1: of get better angles and stuff with a quarterback run
Speaker 1: this this past week. So we wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: we took advantage of it, and it didn't hurt that
Speaker 1: we had an extra day as far as like necessarily
Speaker 1: creating a new offense, and then no, we didn't do
Speaker 1: anything differently that from that perspective, and we went about
Speaker 1: it the way we kind of always do in our
Speaker 1: game plan part of it and what you know, what
Speaker 1: gives us the best opportunity and what gives all eleven
Speaker 1: guys the best opportunity to succeed. And now from Matt
Speaker 1: Eberflew Sound the Bears Coaches Show Monday night on WBBM,
Speaker 1: will this be the norm with fields? How much we
Speaker 1: use those? I don't know, you know, we use, We'll
Speaker 1: use some of them, will sprinkle them in there. Again,
Speaker 1: it's all based on who we're playing and what we're
Speaker 1: going to do and how we're going to do things
Speaker 1: for that particularly week to win the game. But when
Speaker 1: you have that that commitment by the offensive staff and
Speaker 1: us as Bears in general, that that's something that's important
Speaker 1: to us and the three guys that can do it,
Speaker 1: the two runners in the quarterback, that's special for those guys.
Speaker 1: And as a defensive mind, he knows how tough that
Speaker 1: is to defend. You know, Jeff, it's all about using
Speaker 1: them when you need them because you go over and
Speaker 1: we sit there every day at training camp, and you
Speaker 1: see him practice all these plays and you go, wow,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting when you see it. And then
Speaker 1: you never see it, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: an opportunity presents itself to go, hey, let's go back
Speaker 1: in the archives what we are doing at training camp.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you guys some examples of this play
Speaker 1: that will work perfectly in the environment or the personnel
Speaker 1: we're playing against. Then you pull it out and you
Speaker 1: used it. And so Luke Kets He's probably got five
Speaker 1: hundred plays in his back pocket that he could call
Speaker 1: at any moment. However you don't. You're not gonna call
Speaker 1: him unless you need him. And they fit your game
Speaker 1: plan as it moved you in any way that they
Speaker 1: are the number one rushing team in the NFL. Oh,
Speaker 1: it warms my heart as much as I admire with
Speaker 1: Chris Morgan been able to do since he started to
Speaker 1: developing an offensive line that was going to be able
Speaker 1: to compete against the past, compete against the run, and
Speaker 1: be as good as they have bet And then you
Speaker 1: have immediate changes, whether it's Cody getting injured, Lucas Patrick
Speaker 1: getting injured. Not known who you're going to start at
Speaker 1: the offensive tackle position, how Tevin Jenkins is going to
Speaker 1: fit in. But I really admire how the desire of
Speaker 1: the running back position matches the intensity of the offensive
Speaker 1: line because it's gotta be a one two punch. The
Speaker 1: running backs are not going to do it on their own,
Speaker 1: and the offensive line is not going to be able
Speaker 1: to have this type of running game if they don't
Speaker 1: all work together from the start of the week of
Speaker 1: practice until the final whistle blows. All right, Tom, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. We'll talk to Ian Dallas
Speaker 1: on the radio. Buddy. I want to thank everybody for
Speaker 1: listening tonight and our producers Dan Ba really, Jordan trud
Speaker 1: Up and the folks at the Score. Thanks to Kyder
Speaker 1: Gordon as well. Appreciate you listening tonight. For Tom There,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. This has been Bears All Access. Hown't yougo?
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