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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Jonny Acalama, broadcast partner from news Radio one
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Speaker 1: Burrelli and Jordan tread Up. Tom. How are you, buddy? Oh?
Speaker 1: You know, Big Jeff. As soon as the season ends,
Speaker 1: we're kind of sitting in the seat of immediate playoff
Speaker 1: jealous and so you kind of have to watch how
Speaker 1: the other teams are doing, what the narrative is around
Speaker 1: the league, what type of injuries take place, how to
Speaker 1: affect the upcoming games and stuff. But then on the
Speaker 1: other side, you have the information that you have to
Speaker 1: pay attention to us about the selection of the GM
Speaker 1: and the head coach. And then initially everybody gets an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Then you start looking at, Okay, this team's got a
Speaker 1: second interview on the candidate that you guys have already
Speaker 1: had an interview. And now that's like the third level
Speaker 1: of effect of the off season. From the jealousy of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the idea that you have to interview a
Speaker 1: head coach, then all of a sudden, the real competition
Speaker 1: for the head coach when multiple interviews take place from
Speaker 1: these guys around the league. Let me touch on that
Speaker 1: playoff jealousy a little bit more. I never used to
Speaker 1: be so crazy about that because I covered the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to be doing that, and I
Speaker 1: didn't last year, and so it was always a prep
Speaker 1: ration situation, right, You're preparating, you're preparing to get ready
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl, and so you were keenly interested.
Speaker 1: But now it is it is total paid playoff jealousy.
Speaker 1: There's certain people certain teams I don't want to win
Speaker 1: because it's just gonna aggravate me to no end. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure Bears fans feel the Stars fans feel the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But you know that's the thing about it is that's
Speaker 1: what you need to try to accomplish in the next
Speaker 1: move the Bears make up there is they got to
Speaker 1: figure out a way, shape, form plan going forward how
Speaker 1: they're going to come in here and compete for the division.
Speaker 1: Because you know, you, yeah, off in the horizon has
Speaker 1: always win the super Bowl, but you gotta start by
Speaker 1: winning your division. And so I think that has to
Speaker 1: be an immediate goal, whether you know, no matter who's
Speaker 1: on any other team, as that's what you have to
Speaker 1: set your sights on. One wildcard team left San Francisco,
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. They're going up to Green Bay. We'll
Speaker 1: touch on all the playoff games coming up this weekend
Speaker 1: in our last segment tonight. Coming up, we'll have, of
Speaker 1: course Jim Miller from Serious Sex MNFL Radio are weekly guest,
Speaker 1: and at six thirty the executive director of the upcoming
Speaker 1: Senior Boat, Jim Nague, will join us as well. So
Speaker 1: lots of interviews with general manager candidates. They'll continue. More
Speaker 1: are expected here over the next couple of days as well.
Speaker 1: There's too many to go down the list. But the
Speaker 1: hardest part of it, and now you and I talked
Speaker 1: about it. It's one thing to say, oh, I'd love
Speaker 1: to have this guy. I'd love to have you know
Speaker 1: this guy as well for GM, But the pairing of
Speaker 1: the two. How do you go about processing that with
Speaker 1: all these names and boiling down the right fit, right
Speaker 1: fit for your team, what your future franchise you want
Speaker 1: to look like. And it becomes a lot more difficult
Speaker 1: than just saying I want person xerson one person, don't
Speaker 1: you get you know, yeah, I just wish that somebody
Speaker 1: stood out above and beyond all the rest, in one
Speaker 1: one or the two GM or the head coach. And
Speaker 1: then you said, Okay, we don't want this guy to
Speaker 1: leave our building. But now that we don't want him
Speaker 1: to leave the building, we're going to include him in
Speaker 1: our second half of our selection, because I just think
Speaker 1: that would be an important way to go about it.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to be having an introduction
Speaker 1: to two candidates the first day they're on the job together,
Speaker 1: because you're talking about learning their roles, their new roles,
Speaker 1: if some of them haven't been head coaches before, their
Speaker 1: new roles, if they haven't been general managers before, and
Speaker 1: then trying to get to know each other in what
Speaker 1: their football background is and what their vision is of
Speaker 1: putting a division winning football team out there for the Bears.
Speaker 1: A bunch of intriguing candidates, certainly on both sides of
Speaker 1: that fence, head coach, general manager, or if you prefer
Speaker 1: to say general manager, head coach. I think that's how
Speaker 1: most teams would want to look at things. But you're
Speaker 1: also competing. You're competing. The Giants are now through two
Speaker 1: rounds of interviews with their GM candidates, so they might
Speaker 1: be becoming and guys that the Bears have also talked
Speaker 1: to as well, So they're going to be making a decision,
Speaker 1: possibly sooner rather than later. Do you feel any fret
Speaker 1: about that? I don't. I just want to have conviction
Speaker 1: on the choice of the person they're going to bring
Speaker 1: in here on both in both roles. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: do you do you want a first time guy that
Speaker 1: has no experience in dealing with the complexities that you
Speaker 1: deal with on an everyday basis. In terms of the
Speaker 1: GM because there's candidates out there that have experience. But
Speaker 1: then if you get a guy in here that you
Speaker 1: want to bring in as a head coach and you
Speaker 1: feel he's the most responsible to get you where you're going,
Speaker 1: and I said, allow him to have an input on
Speaker 1: the GM. You know you have to, you have to
Speaker 1: trust him. But I would trust him because he's the
Speaker 1: guy that wants to succeed more than any any decision
Speaker 1: you're making. And the Vikings also interviewing some of the
Speaker 1: same candidates as the Bears in four different cases here.
Speaker 1: So those gentlemen from the Cleveland Browns, Quesciadopho Mensa and
Speaker 1: Glenn Cook Manias and Ford from Tennessee and Elliott Wolf,
Speaker 1: the executive and consultant with the New England Patriots. How
Speaker 1: we're gonna step away. We'll be joined by Jim Miller
Speaker 1: here coming up next from Serious XM's NFL Radio with
Speaker 1: Tom Fair. I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Bears All Access
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to James with Pat Kerwin. The one, the One, the One,
Speaker 1: the Only Bearers quarterback Jim Miller. Big Jim. I know
Speaker 1: you've played for a lot of teams, but you're Bears quarterback.
Speaker 1: You're down with that. I am done with that, Jeff. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: excited for the offseason to get here. Certainly, have you know,
Speaker 1: excited about the divisional round of the playoffs. This is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest weekends a football I think you
Speaker 1: know it. The teams are right, the best eight teams
Speaker 1: are are left in these contests, and so it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great weekend. Man. But yeah, always fired up
Speaker 1: for the off season. And you know, like everybody else
Speaker 1: interested and what decisions are going to be made. Who
Speaker 1: you know, who slides in as a general manager and
Speaker 1: the head coach for the Bears, and you know, we'll
Speaker 1: see where it goes going to be. You know, there's
Speaker 1: eight openings, there's a lot going on, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of news flying around with all these interviews going on.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it's always interesting. There's never a
Speaker 1: dull moment. Let's put it that way. It is three
Speaker 1: sixty five twenty four to seven in the NFL. The
Speaker 1: pods of candidates, there is certainly a cross pollination and
Speaker 1: some of these organizations. I just want to know what
Speaker 1: your thought is on the list that has been revealed
Speaker 1: by the Bears in terms of head coaches and gms
Speaker 1: and and how as this committee looks at all the
Speaker 1: positives and how do they pair the two that are
Speaker 1: going to be right. And that's to me the biggest question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pat and I you know, we talked about a lot
Speaker 1: this week in what I understand some of the owners.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is the Bears, but you know,
Speaker 1: they wanted it to be the traditional model where they
Speaker 1: hire the general manager and the general manager hires the coach.
Speaker 1: And now multiple of these candidates have the same head
Speaker 1: coach in place, so they're almost thinking that they may
Speaker 1: have to change gears and lock up the coach first.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see how it unfolds. I think.
Speaker 1: Obviously Dan Quinn is a very hot coach. I mean
Speaker 1: from what I saw, he had four interviews in the
Speaker 1: last forty eight hours, you know, and obviously Minnesota and
Speaker 1: the Bears, and I believe he just left South Florida,
Speaker 1: so you know the Miami Dolphins there in didn't. I know,
Speaker 1: Denver is extremely interested in Dan Quinn, so he to me,
Speaker 1: he seems like the hottest candidate right now of all
Speaker 1: the coaches that are being considered right now. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd like to get both of your take on this.
Speaker 1: In the modern era of interviewing because of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: do you think that the whole zoom interview complicates it,
Speaker 1: prolongs it, or makes it more difficult to make the
Speaker 1: final position decision because you don't have initial eye contact.
Speaker 1: Will probably the second go around. Well, well, I think
Speaker 1: it's expanded the number of people that you're going to
Speaker 1: talk to because it's efficient, right, Jim. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: you're able now to take care of a lot of
Speaker 1: the travel and coordination out of it, because even if
Speaker 1: these playoff coaches are at work, they can flip on
Speaker 1: a zoom call and bam, you can get a couple
Speaker 1: of hours. I think that's the max, right, a couple
Speaker 1: of hours, and then if you really if they strike
Speaker 1: a chord, if there's some connection, if there's some gut
Speaker 1: feeling then you bring them in. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: what it is. It's more peripheral and you know, kind
Speaker 1: of a feelout, you know, almost like a screening is
Speaker 1: what that is, what the video is or the you know,
Speaker 1: zoom in, whatever you want to call at that type
Speaker 1: of meeting. And that's from what I understand, that's what
Speaker 1: it's been for, you know, for the Giants and the
Speaker 1: other teams. You know, so it's just kind of screens
Speaker 1: them and you go back. That's how Thomas Dimitroff got
Speaker 1: his general manager job with Atlanta, you know, because at
Speaker 1: that point the Patriots were in the playoffs and he
Speaker 1: did it all by zoom and it went pretty extensive
Speaker 1: from that standpoint. Now, I think how they've set them
Speaker 1: up with the first interviews, it's just more of a screening.
Speaker 1: What are you call it, speed dating however you want
Speaker 1: to refer to it. It's very short, it's very you know,
Speaker 1: just gets to the finer points of, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: a guy we want to bring in for a second interview.
Speaker 1: You know, Jim, you get to talk to a lot
Speaker 1: of people around the NFL. Is there a tier to
Speaker 1: this group of coaches right now? Out there amongst the
Speaker 1: general public, not from the bears or just the general feeling,
Speaker 1: because you have a wider variety of people that you
Speaker 1: talk to that are involved in the business in so
Speaker 1: many different way shapes and form. Is this a one
Speaker 1: tier two tier type of a group of head coach
Speaker 1: and gms or are they kind of all equal at
Speaker 1: this point in the selection. No. I think while you
Speaker 1: look at Dan Quinn and Peterson, Doug Peterson, they've led
Speaker 1: teams to super Bowls, right, So I do think that
Speaker 1: there's a reason why they're kind of leaders in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1: And at least from Peterson's standpoint, he's brought along young
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that we know has been a hot commodity around
Speaker 1: the NFL. He has done that, you know, so I
Speaker 1: think from that standpoint that experience matters. But again, other
Speaker 1: teams want to go in that younger direction where they've
Speaker 1: got no problem, uh, you know, getting a guy who
Speaker 1: they think an up and comer, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: a you know, Matt Lafloor. And that's how everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about this division around Matt Lafloor, Sean mcvagh, Kyle Shannon,
Speaker 1: they were all on the same staff. You know, and
Speaker 1: they're looking at those, even Zach Taylor. You know, it's
Speaker 1: got a lot of love from that that they're young,
Speaker 1: up and coming coaches. I think if that's the direction
Speaker 1: the team is looking to go in, there's candidates from
Speaker 1: that standpoint as well. I mean, Luke Getsy, the quarterback
Speaker 1: coach for the Green Bay Packers getting interviewed now, is
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers? Is that really the greatness of Luke Getsy?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, you tell me so. Jordan
Speaker 1: Love didn't fare too well in my opinion down there
Speaker 1: in Kansas City with his first start, But you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's their coaching tree, their scheme, whether
Speaker 1: on offense or defense, that seems to be factoring in
Speaker 1: and into it where you say, hey, this guy could
Speaker 1: be the next up and comer from that quote unquote
Speaker 1: tree or family of coaches and where they've come from. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you think? So does Floors and Kingsberry? Do
Speaker 1: they help this whole process or do they hurt the
Speaker 1: process because here they you know, one guy is a
Speaker 1: you know, had I don't know, a confused experience in
Speaker 1: Miami and the Arizona coach initially started had looked like
Speaker 1: a whiz kid. Then all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: they went down the tubes at the end. So you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at their not only their future, but
Speaker 1: how do you project other guys in that same role,
Speaker 1: do they hurt or help? Yeah? To me, for Flores,
Speaker 1: to me, it was all about relationships, you know down
Speaker 1: there from what I understand. I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: he's I think everybody understands he's a really good coach,
Speaker 1: But why what deteriorated on those relationships? One your relationship
Speaker 1: with your star quarterback who's young, who you selected in
Speaker 1: the first round. Your relationship with your general manager, who
Speaker 1: you came in there with a long vision of what
Speaker 1: you wanted to build there. And then look at the
Speaker 1: number of coaches he's gone through. There have been coaches
Speaker 1: that have left that staff. So I would have some
Speaker 1: question marks from from ownership standpoint of, hey, well what
Speaker 1: happened here? Well what happened here? Well, you know, how
Speaker 1: do you how did you want to bring along the
Speaker 1: young quarterback? And some of those have been pretty public,
Speaker 1: and so I think you'd want to dive into those
Speaker 1: areas that are really critical to your team, especially when
Speaker 1: you got a young quarterback of your own in Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: who really is going to be the face of the franchise,
Speaker 1: and you want that to be a solid relationship moving forward,
Speaker 1: because let's be honest, Justin Field's not going anywhere. He's
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, and the coach who comes in there
Speaker 1: is going to have to be able to work with
Speaker 1: Justin Fields. That's Jim Miller toomp there, Jeff Jonny yac Karan,
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Speaker 1: lot about the head coaches, but the general managers are
Speaker 1: also a big part of this and how it paints
Speaker 1: the future for the Bears franchise. So there's a long
Speaker 1: list that they've already interviewed. A few more on that
Speaker 1: list that probably have not been revealed yet, but from
Speaker 1: the in house candidate in Champ Kelly seven years with
Speaker 1: the organization, Assistant Director of Player Personnel Morocco Brown had
Speaker 1: some interviews obviously in the last couple of years. Familiarity
Speaker 1: with the organization, Jeff Ireland, Quesco Dopo Mensa, Glenn Cook,
Speaker 1: Monte Asenford, Elliott Wolf, Joe Shane ed Dodd's reportedly pulled
Speaker 1: his name out of the mix and Rancarton as recently
Speaker 1: as yesterday with San Francisco. Is there any theme to
Speaker 1: this group, Jim from your perspective, because there is a
Speaker 1: lot of inexperience there in terms of being in that
Speaker 1: job before we talked about this last week. There aren't
Speaker 1: that many that have had the job before, So you're
Speaker 1: going to have a new blood here. Yeah, yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: probably the most experiences. Jeff Ireland. Right, he's done it,
Speaker 1: he's called the shots, he's rand drafts and things of
Speaker 1: that nature. You'd like to know, you know, say, I'll
Speaker 1: give an example of say Brad Holmes, who's now the
Speaker 1: new GM up there for the Detroit Lions. From what
Speaker 1: I understand, he conducted the last eight drafts for the Rams,
Speaker 1: even though Less Sneat quote unquote is the de facto
Speaker 1: GM for the Rams. But Brad Holmes ran all the drafts,
Speaker 1: you know, trading guys away, acquiring guys, moving up and
Speaker 1: down the players that they picked, you know, things of
Speaker 1: that nature, and obviously did a good job, you know,
Speaker 1: And so you're gonna want to dive into that about
Speaker 1: some of these new newbie candidates that are, whether they're
Speaker 1: assistant gms or a part of the player a scouting
Speaker 1: department and things of that nature. Like Elliot wolf of
Speaker 1: you mentioned of the Patriots earlier, just how much experience
Speaker 1: they have, and I think that's why Brad he became
Speaker 1: very highly recommended, recommended where the Lions did that. They
Speaker 1: knew he had a background of conducting it and doing
Speaker 1: those draft So you know, all that's gonna come out,
Speaker 1: But you know, for a fact, just at face value,
Speaker 1: Jeff Ireland's done it. He was in Miami, he was
Speaker 1: the GM there was with Mickey Loomis, who's terrific in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and he's been the assistant GM there for
Speaker 1: quite a bit of time. So that is a season
Speaker 1: guy that knows talent and he probably comes with the
Speaker 1: most experience. If that's the direction the Bears are looking
Speaker 1: to go in, or do you want the newbie guys
Speaker 1: like you said, where you potentially could have some growing pains.
Speaker 1: Time for a break here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score with Jim millertop there, Jeff Joniac coming
Speaker 1: up at the bottom of the hour, Jim Naggee from
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl to talk about the college draft and
Speaker 1: the initial process of scouting the next wave of NFL
Speaker 1: players as we continue to break down the Bears look
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller from sirius XM NFL Radio is moving the
Speaker 1: chains our special guest each week, let's talk beyond the
Speaker 1: head coach and GM search. Just some thoughts here on
Speaker 1: the Bears. I know Tom wanted to touch on some
Speaker 1: of this stuff last week. We didn't get to it,
Speaker 1: so I'll start with you. Tom and Jim just jump
Speaker 1: in whenever, what do you want the Bears offensive identity
Speaker 1: to be or maybe phrased in a different way again,
Speaker 1: regardless of coach or general manager. YouTube guys are the
Speaker 1: guys who played the game what it should be. With
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, knowing he's the number one quarterback, I still
Speaker 1: think I'll should lift through David Montgomery and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: include Khalil Herbert in that. So when you go to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and you call the multiple plays
Speaker 1: within the huddle, you know a majority of the time,
Speaker 1: if it's a run, you know issued play, then it's
Speaker 1: going to start with David Montgomery obviously, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of got a excuse me, it's kind of got a
Speaker 1: feed off of that, whether it's play action or they
Speaker 1: see a coverage they can take advantage of, or even
Speaker 1: a play action fake to David Montgomery that puts Justin
Speaker 1: in a more favorable throwing position and then keep your
Speaker 1: offense on the attack even though it goes through Dave Montgomery.
Speaker 1: When you go back and you look at the teams
Speaker 1: that have Super Bowl success, ultimately they average over twenty
Speaker 1: seven carries a game at about four point one yard
Speaker 1: to carry. So if your ultimate goal is to win
Speaker 1: a division, get yourself into the playoffs, into super Bowl
Speaker 1: caliber team, you have to have an identity and I
Speaker 1: don't think there has been any identity of the Bears
Speaker 1: offense in the last couple of years. It was a
Speaker 1: week to week a game plan that they put together.
Speaker 1: Now you need that foundation, and I think as good
Speaker 1: as what Justin can be what Darnell and Cole Commet
Speaker 1: can be. I still think the foundation of your offense
Speaker 1: is Dave Montgomery and the offensive line. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think you look at all the teams in the NFC North,
Speaker 1: it's running the football. That's what Dan Campbell did for
Speaker 1: the Lions is the best saver. Run the football. Since
Speaker 1: he's too taken over, he knows they need to run it.
Speaker 1: Look at Minnesota what they do with Dalvid Cook. Oh,
Speaker 1: wait for it, Green Bay their top ten running the football.
Speaker 1: They're top ten, all right. So Aaron Rodgers needed to
Speaker 1: me there's just there's a style of play that the
Speaker 1: Bears need to play. I think they're always going to
Speaker 1: be good defensively. They've always, you know, had that feather
Speaker 1: in their cap, and I think no matter who comes
Speaker 1: in there, it's going to continue to be the process there.
Speaker 1: So I mean, again, run the football, protect a young quarterback.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what Philadelphia did with Jalen Hurtz for Week
Speaker 1: eight on who was better than them? They're in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and the Bears have a better defense. They can
Speaker 1: do this and so and then expand the offense. You know,
Speaker 1: I just don't think that style of play in the
Speaker 1: NFC North, just wide open, chuck it all over the
Speaker 1: lot that it's not going to win your games, all right,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford in the Rams just won a game playoff
Speaker 1: game throwing the football seventeen times, seventeen times with a
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback who hasn't won in postseason. So it is
Speaker 1: about running the football. It's about protecting a young quarterback
Speaker 1: and let him grow. He'll be learning now a whole
Speaker 1: new offense. No matter who comes in there, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be different terminology. It's gonna take time. He's no finished
Speaker 1: product and he's not gonna have a gold jacket and
Speaker 1: decant right now. So give him the best things that
Speaker 1: can help him out. A good defense, a running game,
Speaker 1: and put some weapons around him, and let the passing game,
Speaker 1: you know, grow as he grows as a quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: and hopefully that's the case. I think that's what everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, hope unfolds. And maybe one day he will
Speaker 1: be able to carry the team. But it's not right now.
Speaker 1: It's not now. And knock on wood, he stays healthy
Speaker 1: and so you don't have multiple quarterbacks going in there,
Speaker 1: there will be no debate he'll be the number one
Speaker 1: quarterback when the season begins and training camp begins, the
Speaker 1: offseason begins. Did the multiple quarterbacks? Do you think guys
Speaker 1: affect or challenge the identity definition? I think it affects
Speaker 1: it definitely because you got different styles of play. I mean,
Speaker 1: Fields offers more than what Nick Foles than Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: could do, and he just brings different attributes to the position.
Speaker 1: And like anything else, when you're shuffling guys in and
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, especially at the quarterback position because
Speaker 1: he takes every snap, you know, it's you know that's difficult.
Speaker 1: You know, you got a different cadence, different things that
Speaker 1: they're good at in terms of play calls that you
Speaker 1: run that everybody's different at. Because Fields can drive the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that's the strength of a Dalton.
Speaker 1: He can make all the throws, but you know it's
Speaker 1: different than how Fields could do it. And that's the
Speaker 1: same for Nick Foles as well. So protections are different
Speaker 1: from that standpoint. To me, I would call totally different
Speaker 1: protections if Foles in there than what I would with
Speaker 1: Dalton or Fields, because Fields in his escapable. You know,
Speaker 1: things are different from that standpoint, So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it definitely affects it. You know, I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the very beginning of training camp, I think,
Speaker 1: as fans of the Bears, and as you know, even
Speaker 1: guys in the background like us, we always thought it
Speaker 1: was a two man quarterback game. It was Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: and Justin and Nick was always in the background. So
Speaker 1: you're trying to formulate a plan that immediately best fit
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton in the Bears offense, and how could they
Speaker 1: go out there and compete. Unfortunately, he got hurt so
Speaker 1: early in the season. It almost made him transition to
Speaker 1: what they believe that Justin Fields was capable of doing.
Speaker 1: And then they went into Cleveland and had an awful
Speaker 1: game plan form from the line of scrimmage downfield, what
Speaker 1: they're asking, that's a point right there, Tom, I mean,
Speaker 1: you go in there and running empty with a quarterback
Speaker 1: who's not ready to do it against that pass rush,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's you're looking for disaster, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. Yeah, I'm just saying that environment too. There.
Speaker 1: It was a difficult environment to start just in his
Speaker 1: first game. All right, we gotta take a break coming
Speaker 1: up next Jim Neegi, the executive director of the rec
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. Coming up next here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: segment of Bears All Access brought t buy CDW people
Speaker 1: to get it with Tom Bear, Jeff Jonihak and Jim
Speaker 1: Miller from Sirius XM. NFL Radio is moving the chains
Speaker 1: with Pat Kerwin. Shout out Boys to Jimmy Graham, the
Speaker 1: Bears tight end, a finalist one of the three boys
Speaker 1: for the Official NFL Salute to Service Award. And we
Speaker 1: know what he's done for veterans and how committed he is.
Speaker 1: He says he will always be that way. He's done
Speaker 1: some great stuff. But this is the eleventh annual award
Speaker 1: presented by USA. A tight end and fullback from the
Speaker 1: de Ver Broncos. Andrew Beck is also a finalist in
Speaker 1: Baltimore Raven former Braven. Uh. They call him legend Jim
Speaker 1: Jared Johnson. So those are the three finalists. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: congratulations to Jimmy Graham. And you know, has he made
Speaker 1: an announcement yet? Did he? Did he call it or
Speaker 1: no yet for Jimmy, I have not heard that, but uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's something that's possible. I would imagine. But tom uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's had he had a great career. But
Speaker 1: it's stuff he does off the field that gets a
Speaker 1: ton of attention as well. And you know, and he
Speaker 1: should still get credit for what he does on the
Speaker 1: field if you're looking the totality of a position and
Speaker 1: how it affects a team, and you may not have
Speaker 1: a Travis Kelsey playing short yardage and goal line or well,
Speaker 1: you know you will. I'm just trying to use a
Speaker 1: you know, a comparison. But when you look at Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham in the red zone, what he does on the
Speaker 1: goal line, you know what he can do on on
Speaker 1: matchups that he know that he's favorable every time you
Speaker 1: want to throw him the ball. You know, I never
Speaker 1: got tired of having Jimmy Graham here. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that wanted to sit here and say, oh,
Speaker 1: the game has passed him, buy and stuff. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a k that's the case. I think if
Speaker 1: you're looking at a team that has an offense that's
Speaker 1: interested in getting first downs, I think Jimmy Graham can
Speaker 1: fit into an offense, and if you put him into
Speaker 1: a Bill Belichick type of system where he loves the
Speaker 1: two tight end threat, he could always be a secondary
Speaker 1: tight end that would be an asset to your roster.
Speaker 1: We're waiting for Jim Naggi, the executive director of the
Speaker 1: recy Senior Bowl, to join us. We'll talk Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: and get it some early. Look, I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: believe Jim because of all the different writers now out there, podcasts,
Speaker 1: you know, draft experts out there. There's already a ton
Speaker 1: of mock drafts and not even sure who's actually in
Speaker 1: the draft yet. Right Well, you know, we talked to it,
Speaker 1: started about it, I'd say about a month and a
Speaker 1: half ago. We invited Jim Naggie on because we'll be
Speaker 1: down covering the game, and so he comes on to
Speaker 1: announce obviously at you know, the Jets Robert Sala and
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions Dan Campbell. They'll be down there to coach
Speaker 1: both what used to be the North and the South
Speaker 1: now it's the National and Americans. So Jim's made a
Speaker 1: lot of changes down there that really you know, helped
Speaker 1: incorporate the guys or what it's like to be at
Speaker 1: the next level in the NFL. You know, in terms
Speaker 1: of the draft coming up, I know this is a
Speaker 1: very deep tight end class. Jim said he could literally
Speaker 1: invited like fourteen tight ends. That's how the depth at
Speaker 1: the tight end position. Typically, players are going to increase
Speaker 1: a round or two with how well they do during
Speaker 1: the week. Last week or last year was coveted by
Speaker 1: a lot of players to be there because of what covid.
Speaker 1: There was no combine, so players wanted to play in
Speaker 1: the game last year and it increased their draft stock.
Speaker 1: About ninety percent of the guys that are invited to
Speaker 1: Mobile will get drafted. Like I said, a guy could
Speaker 1: start out as a third rounder, could move up to
Speaker 1: a late second or first rounder depending how they do
Speaker 1: Dona Mobile. It's a lot of one on one. It's
Speaker 1: how they practice. There's a lot of NFL principles and
Speaker 1: what the coaches and the general managers want to see.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for it. They moved it over to
Speaker 1: South Alabama. They've got a great new stadium, and it's
Speaker 1: a terrific week for the fans. They've got a concert
Speaker 1: on Friday and Saturday night, so it's terrific, and you've
Speaker 1: got Martagral going on. So you know, we're gonna let
Speaker 1: the man himself. We're gonna let the man himself tell
Speaker 1: us about it. How about it? We got him now?
Speaker 1: We got him now. The executive director of the rec
Speaker 1: Senior Boat, Jim Nagee, kind enough to join us for
Speaker 1: a sneak peak tonight here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy The Score. This is BEARS All Access brought to
Speaker 1: you by IGS Energy. Top there Jeff Joniak and Jim
Speaker 1: Miller and Jim Nagge. Jim Miller trumpeting your work on
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl over the course of your time there
Speaker 1: as a long time NFL scout, but you've you've done great.
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that the hashtag on your
Speaker 1: Twitter account, which is at Jim Nagge underscore sp the
Speaker 1: Draft starts in Mobile and that could not be any
Speaker 1: truer than that. Jim, Yeah, guy, Sorry, Sorry, I I
Speaker 1: was a little delayed. We just had a community service
Speaker 1: thing over in Pensacola with We've got about fifteen players
Speaker 1: training over here for the draft and for our game,
Speaker 1: and we just did a little thing over here and
Speaker 1: I just step outside We're at a Brazilian steakhouse with
Speaker 1: fifteen future Run Hope players. So they saw they saw
Speaker 1: us walking the door, and I don't think they were
Speaker 1: very happy. But so sorry I had to jump out
Speaker 1: of there. But no, I appreciate whatever Mills was saying
Speaker 1: on the air. I appreciate what he was saying. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a senior Bowl alone. He played in
Speaker 1: the game, he knows, he knows the value of it,
Speaker 1: and we're just excited here to be kicking off here
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. Hey, Jim, So when I
Speaker 1: came out of college, I went to the hula ball.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like a reward game. Jackie Cheryl
Speaker 1: was our head coach. Dan Marina was our quarterback, and
Speaker 1: we threw the ball a lot and we had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun and practice. However, when when you look
Speaker 1: at these guys and you get a chance to see
Speaker 1: them eye to eye after a couple of practices, is
Speaker 1: this the first recognition of the quote unquote speed of
Speaker 1: the game, Because that's everything they're gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: their first two or three weeks when they go to
Speaker 1: training camp in an NFL. But I gotta believe this
Speaker 1: is faster football than they've ever seen up into this
Speaker 1: point in their life. Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean,
Speaker 1: in time you bring up Marino playing in the Hulah Bawl,
Speaker 1: he also played in the Senior Bowl, which tells you
Speaker 1: that that was a very different era because I don't
Speaker 1: think we're you would get you would get a first
Speaker 1: round quarterback playing in multiple All Star games anymore. But
Speaker 1: uh no, it really is. You know, obviously it is
Speaker 1: for guys like like Quinn Miners from Wisconsin Whitewater Division
Speaker 1: three school last year. Um, you know, obviously waste be
Speaker 1: the game, speed it up, set up. But with all
Speaker 1: these guys, even if you're if you are an SEC player, UM,
Speaker 1: I mean, these practices are intense. I mean there's there's
Speaker 1: you're going against NFL guy after NFL guy, high one
Speaker 1: after you know, one rep after another. So it's an
Speaker 1: intense week, it really is, um, and things happen fast
Speaker 1: and the coaches coach at a faster pace, and um,
Speaker 1: yeah it is an intense week. And it's an intense
Speaker 1: week both on the field and off the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: just I mean, you guys have been through that. They're
Speaker 1: learning new new playbook, learning new teammates interviews all night.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's really a lot on these players.
Speaker 1: But I think that's also part of the evaluation process
Speaker 1: for the NFL teams is which guys can manage the week,
Speaker 1: which guys can handle it, which which guys struggle with it,
Speaker 1: because as you know, that's such a big part when
Speaker 1: they when they get to a team like the Bears
Speaker 1: in the offseason. I mean, those rookies they think or
Speaker 1: swim based stuff if they're ready to be pros, and
Speaker 1: that's more of being pros off the field. So um,
Speaker 1: that's all kind of built in the Senior Bowl week
Speaker 1: is which guys can which guys can manage the stress
Speaker 1: of it? Hard to believe just over a little over
Speaker 1: two weeks away, fifteen days, seventeen hours, Jimmy, So I'm
Speaker 1: fired up for you. You know that. Well, I tried
Speaker 1: to explain to all the Bears fans that are listening
Speaker 1: to Bears All Access. I mean, typically about ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the guys get drafted, is what I said. And
Speaker 1: guys can they can really improve their stock, you know,
Speaker 1: the talk about a round or two guys could potentially jump,
Speaker 1: like he said, with how they present themselves as pros
Speaker 1: and their play on the field. Yeah again, Mills, I
Speaker 1: think at all different levels of the draft. I brought
Speaker 1: up Quinn Miners a second ago. You know, the guy
Speaker 1: came in. Um, he's really the only time we've we
Speaker 1: try to try to stick to about the fifth round
Speaker 1: in terms of our draft grades and in inviting players. UM,
Speaker 1: but Quinn, we we kind of deviated from that. I
Speaker 1: just felt like the kid needed a chance. They didn't
Speaker 1: have a season last year at Whitewater. He was training
Speaker 1: with Ray shawns Later you know, right in your backyard
Speaker 1: Northwestern player. Um. And yeah, I said there there. The
Speaker 1: agent did a great job. He just was, you know,
Speaker 1: sending me videos all fallow, those two guys training next
Speaker 1: to each other. So I just I felt like Quinn
Speaker 1: would have a good week, and obviously he went. He
Speaker 1: went the third round. So we went from you know,
Speaker 1: probably not even getting drafted or being a seventh round
Speaker 1: picked to the third round. I think Terry mcclorin's a
Speaker 1: good example. A couple of years ago, everyone kind of
Speaker 1: saw Terry as a special teams player. He came down
Speaker 1: here most of the league at fifth and sixth round
Speaker 1: grades on Terry he ends up in the third round.
Speaker 1: You know, now, in hindsight, he should probably should have
Speaker 1: been a first rounder. And then you look, you know,
Speaker 1: you just look in the like a Darius Tony last
Speaker 1: year came down probably somewhere in the thirty to forty
Speaker 1: five range and he goes twenty overall, and you know
Speaker 1: you jumped ten or fifteen in that part of the draft.
Speaker 1: You're talking about millions of dollars. So, um, no matter
Speaker 1: what level of the draft you're at, all these guys
Speaker 1: can really help themselves. Senior Ball Executive Director Jim Nagiar
Speaker 1: guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access. I'm Jeff jonny Ac with
Speaker 1: Tom There and Jim Miller from Serious XM NFL Radio.
Speaker 1: So is this a political process a little bit in
Speaker 1: selecting or do you just trust your eyes as a scout,
Speaker 1: a veteran scout and your staff or are the agents
Speaker 1: like you alluded to with Miners, they are they in
Speaker 1: your ear really early on in the process as you
Speaker 1: go through this and try and select with a one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten guys that are going to be going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a great question. Um, and you know that's
Speaker 1: something that I was warned about going into the into
Speaker 1: the position that the agents do. That did play a
Speaker 1: huge part in it. And I'll say this, we you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't have tape in the office when I got there,
Speaker 1: which was shocking to me that they All Star games,
Speaker 1: that the league office had never given access to tape
Speaker 1: to All Star games. And I wasn't going to do
Speaker 1: the job I'll being able to put my eyeballs on players.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just not that's not the right way
Speaker 1: to do it, because then it does become political. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we've hired I've hired a different staff every year,
Speaker 1: former NFL scouts kind of guys, guys that get let
Speaker 1: go m in the previous hiring cycle, firing cycle, which
Speaker 1: you know, there might be some Bears guys let go
Speaker 1: this year that could end up working for the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl next year. But we try to get an experienced staff.
Speaker 1: We had one hundred and twenty years of experience this year. Um,
Speaker 1: obviously you know spent my twenty years in the league,
Speaker 1: and so we just tried to do it the right way.
Speaker 1: And then at the end of the process, when we
Speaker 1: get to November ready to invite players. Um, there's no
Speaker 1: ego in this. Of course, you know we're going to
Speaker 1: miss on players too. So that's where the relationships come
Speaker 1: in with the NFL, and you know, guys that came
Speaker 1: into the league with that are now most of the
Speaker 1: most of the guys that came in with our general
Speaker 1: managers out of them. So then we just go position
Speaker 1: by position. We have really you know, exhaustive phone calls
Speaker 1: with these teams trying to figure out who they want
Speaker 1: because the rosters are for them. So yeah, if we
Speaker 1: get in those conversations and our staff has a guy
Speaker 1: graded a little higher than they do and they want
Speaker 1: to see someone else, will will obviously defer to what
Speaker 1: the league wants to see. But that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: our process in a nutshell. But doing our own work
Speaker 1: really takes the politics out of it. You know, Jim,
Speaker 1: are you at a disadvantage though because you don't know
Speaker 1: the coaching staffs until this portion of the year, and
Speaker 1: specifically about the quarterback position because you got runners and
Speaker 1: you got throwers, you got Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: those types, justin fields, Jalen Hurds, Zach Wilson, Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: and those types. So is it difficult to pick that
Speaker 1: position specifically because you don't know the coaching staffs that
Speaker 1: are coming in And do you have more than one system?
Speaker 1: If there's two quarterbacks that are drastically different? Now those
Speaker 1: are those are really good questions. Now, I mean we
Speaker 1: just stick to the straight orderback evaluation and we take
Speaker 1: them off the board as we have him graded. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it certainly would be nice to know. Um, but again,
Speaker 1: we're we're we're we're picking these players for all thirty
Speaker 1: two teams, so regardless of who's coaching the game, Um,
Speaker 1: they need to they need to be graded well for
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams because that's who we're that's who
Speaker 1: we're catering to, not just the teams that end up coaching.
Speaker 1: But you're right, Um, it is, it is. You know,
Speaker 1: it would be nice in some instances, and when it
Speaker 1: comes down to the roster right now, I mean we're
Speaker 1: kind of in the process. We're losing some players right now.
Speaker 1: We're we're I'm getting calls from agents that you know, hey,
Speaker 1: my guy played in the Bowl game and he got hurt,
Speaker 1: and you know, we don't think he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get back. So now we're we're plugging some holes
Speaker 1: in the roster. And now that the teams are in place,
Speaker 1: now I now I am directly dealing with the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions and the New York Jets. When we come to
Speaker 1: filling our holes, um again, those phone calls will will
Speaker 1: be like if we lose a safety, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: call up the general manager of that club and say, hey,
Speaker 1: these are the next couple of safeties we've got, you know,
Speaker 1: stacked on our board. You know, do you like either
Speaker 1: of those guys or there's someone else? And that's when
Speaker 1: we start working in hand in hand with trying to
Speaker 1: plug them in guys they want. But up until that time,
Speaker 1: we're really just picking players for all thirty two. Jim
Speaker 1: could you give the listeners the Bears fans out there
Speaker 1: areas of depth at positions in this year. I remember,
Speaker 1: I think last week you said you literally could have
Speaker 1: invited like fourteen tight ends to this year's Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: What are strengths strength positions in this year's draft? Do
Speaker 1: you think, Yeah, Jimmy, you hit it with the tight ends.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's been that's been a tough position.
Speaker 1: In the last couple of years, we've struggled to bring
Speaker 1: six Toomobile that we feel good about, you know, solidly
Speaker 1: being drafted in that that top five round rage that
Speaker 1: I talked about this year. Yeah, I mean it's more
Speaker 1: than double that we could have went to twelve or fourteen. Um.
Speaker 1: I think offensive tackle is a really good group. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see guys like like Trevor Penning from Northern Iowa
Speaker 1: and Darren Kinnard from Kentucky. UM, some really good ones
Speaker 1: down in Mobile. There's some juniors in that mix that
Speaker 1: are that are going to be first round picked. So
Speaker 1: so tackle is a good class. Um. You know, you
Speaker 1: flip it to just to the ed rush category, whether
Speaker 1: that's outside linebacker like a pure edge player. UM, there's
Speaker 1: some there. There's some pass rush pass rush depth in
Speaker 1: this class. You know, the Bears got got Gibson from
Speaker 1: from Tulsa out of the Senior Bowl a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago in the fifth round. Looks like it could
Speaker 1: be a steal of a pick um for for Ryan Pace.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be those guys in the fourth or fifth
Speaker 1: round of this draft that'll come in and could be
Speaker 1: a six eight. You know nine that that guy pretty
Speaker 1: early in their careers. Jim Nagie, our guest a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes left with the Senior Bowl executive director here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score you already met. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a couple of names on my list. Penning
Speaker 1: was one of them because he's a big dude from
Speaker 1: Northern Iowa that's underrated football program. I'm a cyclone, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta fest it up. I'm a cyclone. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad Jolie Charlie Cohlar is in there. Um. But the
Speaker 1: Daniel Fallee, the tackle from Minnesota Tom, I know we've
Speaker 1: talked about him, six nine, three eighty. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna tip the scales at that. What do
Speaker 1: scouts say? What did your eyes tell you about him?
Speaker 1: Beyond the size, Well, he's got rare size. Anyone has
Speaker 1: a rare trait. You know, you got to take him seriously.
Speaker 1: He's very nimble for a big man. What really sticks
Speaker 1: out for a guy that's six foot nine in his
Speaker 1: path level, this guy can really bend. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not out of the question. He could play guard. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm being. If you go to some goal line
Speaker 1: package stuff. This guy's coming off the ball lower than
Speaker 1: the other guys on that Minnesota offensive line who are
Speaker 1: six three. So you know there is some question as
Speaker 1: he more of a guard is a tackle. I think
Speaker 1: you could play guard. He's a big, powerful human being.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't remember a player that's that big
Speaker 1: coming out. I mean, it predates my scouting time, but
Speaker 1: I do remember Aaron Gibson from Wisconsin, the former Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions number one overall pick. I mean he was around
Speaker 1: four hovering around four hundred. I think Daniel right now
Speaker 1: might be in that range. Just a huge human being
Speaker 1: and a very talented one. You know, he's from Australia.
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of just scratching the surface. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got a chance to be a high
Speaker 1: end right tackle in the league. But I wouldn't rule
Speaker 1: out guard just because he's been so well. Jimmy, you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're having an All Star game and protecting a
Speaker 1: lot of players and watching a lot of college football.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of football. I see all these
Speaker 1: guys wearing no knee pads anymore. Is that something that
Speaker 1: you can enforce is that something that you can enforce
Speaker 1: or it's like, Okay, this is your first pro game,
Speaker 1: you gotta do what you want to do. Because I
Speaker 1: think this no knee pad thing is really harmful to
Speaker 1: a lot of guys coming up. Uh you're yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're speaking to a to a dat of a son
Speaker 1: in the high school player that thinks he wants to
Speaker 1: look cool like those guys and tries to pull that
Speaker 1: up himself. So um, No, it's you know, honestly, it's
Speaker 1: it's nothing that we really overly enforce. I mean, the
Speaker 1: NFL officials on game day will have kind of the
Speaker 1: same crew that that enforces stuff for the NFL on
Speaker 1: game day. So um, but in practice, it's hard to
Speaker 1: go up to a guy that's come down to an
Speaker 1: All Star game and tell him to, you know, pull
Speaker 1: his pants down or something like that. So that that's
Speaker 1: a tough one. Well, it is a great week down
Speaker 1: to Mobile if anybody wants to travel. You've got the
Speaker 1: concert set up for for I believe late in the week.
Speaker 1: You've got the players doing all the things in the community,
Speaker 1: and plus you have Marta Rock going on. Just the
Speaker 1: atmosphere leading up to the game is great. Jim, So
Speaker 1: maybe just touch on that if anybody wants to come
Speaker 1: down and enjoy a week in Mobile. Yeah, that's really
Speaker 1: been a goal Mills. I appreciate you bringing that up.
Speaker 1: I think it's something that we haven't done great as
Speaker 1: a game in the past. Um, it's really marked our
Speaker 1: game to the fan base because I think it's such
Speaker 1: a unique time. Mobile's not a not a very big town. Um,
Speaker 1: the whole NFL descends on the city. We've got over
Speaker 1: a nine NFL guys. Sou You can walk up at
Speaker 1: down Dolphin Street and in which is kind of the
Speaker 1: main Dragon town where our headquarters is, and just walking
Speaker 1: to a bar and there'll be three head coaches sitting
Speaker 1: there drinking a beer together. So it's for a fan
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's pretty cool. Our practices are wide open,
Speaker 1: Like you said, Mills. On Tuesday night, we have a
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl Thumbit event kind of a panel style event
Speaker 1: at an old historic theater down on Mobile with Kirk
Speaker 1: kerb Streets moderating. It's gonna be Nick Saban, Brian Harson,
Speaker 1: melt Tucker, James Franklin, some great college coaches, and you
Speaker 1: said Friday, we've got our players, Marty Gross parade because
Speaker 1: Marti Gross, you know, Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Grosse.
Speaker 1: Or our players are gonna have a Mardi Grass parade,
Speaker 1: throwing autograph football all through downtown Mobile. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: a blast. And then yeah, Friday night to the concert
Speaker 1: with Portugal the Man, Downtown Free Concert, Downtown Mobile and
Speaker 1: Cathedral Square and then game on Saturday. So it really,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a great football if you're a football
Speaker 1: fan and you love it, you're passionate about it, you
Speaker 1: come down Thursday, catch practice and do all those other events.
Speaker 1: It really and I sound really bias it in the
Speaker 1: chair that I'm in right now, but it is like
Speaker 1: a football if it's a football fans paradise because you're
Speaker 1: you're immersed in NFL culture, which which you never ever get.
Speaker 1: You can go to the Combine in Indie, but Indie's
Speaker 1: a huge city, like this is a small account and
Speaker 1: the whole NFL is there. So just just a really
Speaker 1: unique time. I'd encourage any fan up there that hasn't
Speaker 1: been down to Mobile, come make the trip. You won't
Speaker 1: regret it. Appreciate the passion that you bring to the table.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is what it's all about.
Speaker 1: The love of the game and passion is a big
Speaker 1: part of it. So appreciate your time. Hopefully get you
Speaker 1: on again shortly before the draft if you have the time,
Speaker 1: because you will be busy, appreciate it. Jim No, I
Speaker 1: appreciate guys, I'll have the time, and good luck with
Speaker 1: the GM and coach start. I hope, I hope you
Speaker 1: get two good guys. We do too, We do too.
Speaker 1: The confidence is key right now. Hopefully it will turn
Speaker 1: out great. Senior Bowl Executive Director Jim Naggie. Time for
Speaker 1: a break with Tom There, Jeff Jonyak and Jim Miller
Speaker 1: run series on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score
Speaker 1: back with you on Bears All Access, brought to you
Speaker 1: by IGS Energy. A few more minutes to go with
Speaker 1: Tom There, Jeff jony Act, Jim Miller from Serious XM
Speaker 1: NFL Radio. Jim, real quick, we're gonna talk to playoff
Speaker 1: games here. But two key positions in the draft that
Speaker 1: can produce starters in any round for the Bears. What
Speaker 1: positions would you be dialing into. Oh, definitely, Like you said,
Speaker 1: this is a tackle group. I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be presented donomobile tight end group. Like he said, it's
Speaker 1: it's the best it's in a long time. Like you said,
Speaker 1: he would scramble to get six. There's literally fourteen guys
Speaker 1: that can play, that can play and so and like
Speaker 1: you said, edge rushers, you know, if it's a situational
Speaker 1: type thing where you can get a guy in a
Speaker 1: key situation on a third down, if you've got to
Speaker 1: rotate in or have a rotational player, I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: just look at the young rushers and how well they
Speaker 1: played this year. Ojulari, you know, he had a nice
Speaker 1: year for the for the New York Giants. So I
Speaker 1: love the kid that they drafted up there in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: So I think pass rushers is always a good bet.
Speaker 1: You know that you can get a guy that can
Speaker 1: make an impact, and you know minimum if you're getting
Speaker 1: a rookie getting eight nine sacks. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons is a is a first round draft pick. Dude,
Speaker 1: that guy's All pros first year. You know Penn State.
Speaker 1: You know that not only as a linebacker, but as
Speaker 1: a as an edge rushing defensive end is what dan
Speaker 1: Quinn put him at. And he had an instant impact
Speaker 1: from that standpoint for Dallas, so yeah, right away. And
Speaker 1: of course receivers. I think this year, I don't think
Speaker 1: this receiver's class is as good as last year's. But
Speaker 1: look at the guys that he mentioned. Kadarius Tony led
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. Look what Jamar Chase is doing
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati. My goodness, you know, so good receiver class
Speaker 1: and guys that can come in and play. Right away, Tim,
Speaker 1: I'm about positions for you that impact the Bears here.
Speaker 1: You know, looking at what their draft choice or what
Speaker 1: their selections are, I think you could go out there
Speaker 1: and find a safety and a playmaking defensive tackle. And
Speaker 1: you know, you look at some of those guys from
Speaker 1: the bigger schools, the bigger programs, and you look at
Speaker 1: what they can do to insert themselves. Immediately. Give me
Speaker 1: a safety, give me a defensive tackle. With the Bears
Speaker 1: draft choices, I'll be happy. You're gonna have to look
Speaker 1: at corner for sure, no question about it. All right,
Speaker 1: NFL playoffs. This weekend division around is Jim alluded to
Speaker 1: at the top of the show. It's always, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the best weekend. So let's let's start in the af
Speaker 1: See Buffalo at Kansas City. Uh Steve Speck No, I
Speaker 1: see his quote today. They're trying to do trackle tackle
Speaker 1: drills because they gotta tackle. Josh Allen Jim, we don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of time, so you gotta be cool.
Speaker 1: I will be taking Buffalo. He's a hot quarterback. This
Speaker 1: could come down to who's got the ball last. Both
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are playing out of their minds right now. I'm
Speaker 1: going Buffalo. Tennessee hosting Cincinnati tomorrow. Decision tomorrow, Jim. On
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, do you think he'll play? He's playing in
Speaker 1: I got Tennessee in the in that ball game. They're
Speaker 1: they're to me, they're the better team all the way.
Speaker 1: That decision is not being made tomorrow. For goshly that thing.
Speaker 1: I'm looking I'm riding Derrick Henry all way to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, all right? Green Bay hosting San Francisco. Looks
Speaker 1: like the Packers could get Zadarius Smith back, Box Tri back,
Speaker 1: Jaire Alexander back, Whitney Merciless back. Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 1: Because the forty nine ers still have some guys questionable too,
Speaker 1: including Nick Bosa. Looks like he'll be out of the
Speaker 1: concussion protocol but where do you see that thing going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's playing, but Packers are healthier. Aaron Rodgers could be,
Speaker 1: you know, winning back to back. M VP's playing at
Speaker 1: a high level of Green Bay. I will take at
Speaker 1: home in Lambau to Aaron Rodgers has been the number
Speaker 1: one seed five times and he's lost the first four.
Speaker 1: So I'm listen. I'm not pulling for Aaron Rodgers or
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, but the temperature I think it'll
Speaker 1: change the ferociousness of what we've seen out of San
Speaker 1: Francisco up into this point. All right, So what you're
Speaker 1: saying is Packers. Yeah, Tampa Rams to me the most
Speaker 1: difficult one to handicap because LA is feeling good about
Speaker 1: themselves right now. Jim, I know t TB twelve is
Speaker 1: still cooking, but his offensive line little banked up, a
Speaker 1: little banged up. Where you going, healthy, cam Akers? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna go with Todd Bowles in that defense.
Speaker 1: I think they'll shut it down and they'll get a
Speaker 1: turnover to Matthew Stafford. Give me Tampa Bay at home.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna come down to TB. It's gonna come
Speaker 1: down to tw and that's Tristan Worth's the right tackle
Speaker 1: of Tampa Bay. If he's not healthy, they can't win.
Speaker 1: That's Tom there. Jim Miller, thanks boys, appreciate it. Talking
Speaker 1: next week, Jim sounds good man, And thanks to our
Speaker 1: producers here of course, Dan Bili and Jordan Trentup and
Speaker 1: Brian Callahan for helping us out here in the Score studios.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. Thanks to our guests
Speaker 1: Jim Miller and executive director of the Senior Boat Jim Naggie.
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