Speaker 1: Right justin middle of the field forty five to fifteen.
Speaker 1: Bring Russ in front of a leading Lions in his way,
Speaker 1: I am Jeff Jonihacklitz is not done?
Speaker 2: Good us? What was like playing for coache Good done?
Speaker 3: I don't want to answer any questions like that. Sixty
Speaker 3: one yards?
Speaker 1: What's Sunday stroll for? Justin field? Ye Bears et Cetera
Speaker 1: with the voices of the Chicago Bears Jeff Joniac. From
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety two, the Bears won
Speaker 1: nine straight season opener, something five other teams have done
Speaker 1: in history, and something Kansas City can match tonight when
Speaker 1: they host the Detroit Lions. Tom Thayer started on all
Speaker 1: but two of those Bears teams, so his perspective keenly insightful.
Speaker 1: As we kick off Bears et Cetera Episode fourteen in
Speaker 1: our first game preview of the twenty twenty three season. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 1: it's Jeff Joniac with the aforementioned Tom Thayer coming out
Speaker 1: with the program sit down with fourth year wide receiver
Speaker 1: Darnel Mooney as he comes back from a broken ankle
Speaker 1: and ready to resume where he left off. As he
Speaker 1: continues to strive to be the best he can possibly be.
Speaker 1: A lot to cover as we break down the pack
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this every Thursday time. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: a preview like we used to do on YouTube with
Speaker 1: the Bear's website. We're gonna go a really deep dive
Speaker 1: on the Bears Packers. But winning the opener is imperative
Speaker 1: when it involves a division game. And on the mention
Speaker 1: of this, you had a couple days ago it's America's
Speaker 1: game of the week, so it's a national tell. It's
Speaker 1: big and the Bears tom are eight and twelve in
Speaker 1: the last twenty years, Week one, two and seven over
Speaker 1: the last nine openers. I brought all this up because
Speaker 1: you didn't know any other way. You started in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five and winning openers every year to nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: Was there a mindset associated with that or were you
Speaker 1: guys just that good?
Speaker 3: No, you had to earn it.
Speaker 4: If you go back and you look at the first
Speaker 4: two games in nineteen eighty five, I think we are
Speaker 4: behind at halftime at both the games. And then finally
Speaker 4: the third game of the year when we went to
Speaker 4: Minnesota and Jim McMahon was inserted into the game and
Speaker 4: he threw a couple of touchdown passes as we were behind.
Speaker 4: In the Minnesota Vikings game, I think that was the
Speaker 4: game that kind of put the belief in our minds
Speaker 4: that we could be a good football team and we
Speaker 4: could go out and challenge anybody because it was a
Speaker 4: difficult atmosphere to play inside well at Dicka once named
Speaker 4: the roller Dome in Minnesota. So it's something that the
Speaker 4: belief and the confidence comes with time. The Bears aren't
Speaker 4: going to be as confidence at the kickoff of the
Speaker 4: Green Bay game as we hope they are in week five, six,
Speaker 4: seven down the line. However, they need to have a
Speaker 4: lot of belief in what they were able to accomplish
Speaker 4: in training camp, the development of certain players and segments
Speaker 4: of this football team that they can go out there
Speaker 4: and compete against anybody, especially week one of the NFL season.
Speaker 1: All right, I got a good one for you, ready.
Speaker 1: This is all the stuff that comes out before Week one.
Speaker 1: There's so much. It's a fresh slate, so everything that's
Speaker 1: pertinent won't be in a few weeks. So you find
Speaker 1: out things, You learn things people doing a deep dive.
Speaker 1: Name the last Green Bay quarterback to start against the
Speaker 1: Bears without Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers on the Packers roster.
Speaker 3: I mean, not that hotly kid.
Speaker 1: The last quarterback to start against the Bears without Farvar
Speaker 1: Rodgers on the Packers roster, Mike tom Zach against Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 4: Mike tom the all time winning his Bears quarterback. He's
Speaker 4: I know there's some stats surrounding Tom's he started his
Speaker 4: career ten and zero as a Bear starter.
Speaker 1: So but we forget. I forgot he was with the Packers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know what I mean, Jim Morrissey,
Speaker 4: Steve McMichael. There are other Bears that went on to
Speaker 4: play for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Jim McMahon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that you know, Jim McMahon was the one
Speaker 4: who took off his Green Bay jersey at the White
Speaker 4: House in exposes Bear jersey because that's we hadn't gone
Speaker 4: to the White House yet as a Super Bowl winning team.
Speaker 1: So I go to the La Times headline. At least
Speaker 1: Harbass settles one score. This is nineteen ninety one, twenty
Speaker 1: seven to thirteen. Bear quarterback gets the best of old
Speaker 1: faux Packers Tom Zach, whose response is Jim who Harbaugh
Speaker 1: buries the hatchet twice Sunday, once into the Packers by
Speaker 1: throwing two touchdowns and later with old teammate Mike tom
Speaker 1: Zach quote, we shook hands after the game and I said,
Speaker 1: let's bury the hatchet, Harbasch said after the win. So
Speaker 1: you take it from there. Apparently bad blood between the two,
Speaker 1: is that legit?
Speaker 3: Well, Jeff, take this into consideration.
Speaker 4: Before the headset in the quarterback helmet, do you either
Speaker 4: brought in plays with the position player, wide, receiver, running back,
Speaker 4: whomever would tell the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Then there is a.
Speaker 4: Period of time that the quarterback coach, the offensive coordinator
Speaker 4: or the backup quarterback would hands signal plays into the quarterback.
Speaker 3: So they didn't have that exchange time.
Speaker 4: So the quarterbacks on the team, Jim Harball, Jim McMahon,
Speaker 4: and Mike Tomzack, they go every day and they go
Speaker 4: through this practice session where they do.
Speaker 3: The hand signals as you can see me doing.
Speaker 4: Now, and that's how they relay the information in and
Speaker 4: out of the huddle from the sidelines. So a day before,
Speaker 4: a couple of days before we get we're playing the
Speaker 4: San Diego Chargers in a preseason game. The Bear's trade
Speaker 4: Jim McMahon to the San Diego Chargers.
Speaker 3: So now it's.
Speaker 4: Such a quick trade that he's not going to play
Speaker 4: in the game. So Tomzack is on the sideline, Jim
Speaker 4: Harball is in the huddle. Jim Harball glances over at
Speaker 4: the Bear sideline and he sees Mike Tomzack signaling the
Speaker 4: play that was just called over to Jim McMahon. But
Speaker 4: it wasn't something that Jim was standing next to the
Speaker 4: defensive coordinator because the time exchange would have not a
Speaker 4: word anyways.
Speaker 3: It was just kind of just some Tom foolery or
Speaker 3: some Mike foolery, i should.
Speaker 4: Say, from the sideline to McMahon, just to you know,
Speaker 4: kind of extend the friendship that.
Speaker 3: We all had together.
Speaker 4: And Jim Harball, the serious person that you see him today,
Speaker 4: was equally as serious as a competitor and or quarterback
Speaker 4: back then. When he saw tom Zach to it doing that,
Speaker 4: he took direct defense as Mike tom Zach was trying
Speaker 4: to derail Jim Harball over to Jim McMahon.
Speaker 3: That wasn't the case.
Speaker 4: It was just a little high jinks inside the game itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So tom Zach said in this La Times article.
Speaker 1: He didn't say anything to Harbaugh and then added Jim
Speaker 1: who But Harbaugh had a good day sixteen to twenty
Speaker 1: five two oh nine, twenty and thirty five yard strikes
Speaker 1: to Wendell Davis and Brad Muster, tom Zach twenty two
Speaker 1: to thirty nine two fifteen and a touchdown to Jackie Harris.
Speaker 1: You guys were ten and four at that point, and
Speaker 1: this is where you know the difference in eras is
Speaker 1: you were closer to your seventh which was called the
Speaker 1: Central Division title, the Black and Blue Division bag and
Speaker 1: your seventh title in eight years. The Packers were three
Speaker 1: and eleven, had lost five in six games.
Speaker 4: Well, you're talking about first round draft choice quarterback in
Speaker 4: Jim McMahon, where everybody wasn't excuse me and Jim Harball,
Speaker 4: everybody wasn't agreed upon that he should be the pick.
Speaker 4: You got a free agent quarterback and Mike Tomzak, who
Speaker 4: had a successful.
Speaker 3: Career with the Bears in the time he was there.
Speaker 4: Then you had had an injury played quarterback and a
Speaker 4: former first round or Super Bowl quarterback in Jim McMahon.
Speaker 4: That's getting traded for the first time. So there was
Speaker 4: a lot of it wasn't bad blood. There was just
Speaker 4: a lot of competitiveness at that stage of the preseason,
Speaker 4: and Jim Harball is chipping away at his lengthy career
Speaker 4: in the NFL, Mike Tomzack is trying to day in
Speaker 4: his career in the NFL, and Jim McMahon is trying
Speaker 4: to reinvent.
Speaker 3: Himself in his NFL career. So, you know, it's just.
Speaker 4: It's something that happened, and it was kind of a
Speaker 4: ugly situation in the locker room between the in the
Speaker 4: quarterback room, and you know, kind of created a little
Speaker 4: bit of bad blood.
Speaker 1: Right well, and you were close to the corter, You
Speaker 1: were close to all these guys. You still are all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, at that point, I had a long,
Speaker 4: a long time friendship with Tom Zach good buddy, business partner,
Speaker 4: and I liked Jim Harball. I thought he was a
Speaker 4: great competitor. He was super intense and whenever you get
Speaker 4: a first round quarterback out of the University of Michigan, uh, then.
Speaker 3: You know you'll see you see what you can do.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Morrissey intercepted him in the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jim Morrisey, Uh, he had that interception. You know,
Speaker 4: Jim Morrisey had what was voted the number one interception
Speaker 4: in the history of Monday Night football when we are
Speaker 4: playing the Minnesota Vikings. It was just an incredible play.
Speaker 4: And you know, Jim Morrissey probably doesn't get the NFL
Speaker 4: credit that he deserves, but he's a great guy and
Speaker 4: he was a great player.
Speaker 1: One last thing about that game, the one hundredth regular
Speaker 1: season win from Mike Ditka.
Speaker 4: Fastest coach at that point to one hundred wins in
Speaker 4: the history of the NFL.
Speaker 1: He also had this to say about it, because obviously
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask coach about it after the game. As
Speaker 1: for playing against Tom, Zach Dicker said, you don't play people.
Speaker 1: You've got to play the team and the concept of
Speaker 1: what they're doing. He's a very capable young man. That
Speaker 1: was the quote. But that is true. You don't play
Speaker 1: the people, you play the team exactly.
Speaker 3: And it's the same thing.
Speaker 4: You know, getting ready for the Bears Packer game, and
Speaker 4: would you say, it's the two hundred and seventh meeting
Speaker 4: between the two teams, and it's not justin again, Jordan,
Speaker 4: it's the Packers against the Bears.
Speaker 1: Well, now, it's the Justin and Jordan show. It's Justin
Speaker 1: Field and Jordan Love. That'll be our focus. They're good friends,
Speaker 1: they share the same agent, Tommy. They've talked. I'm not
Speaker 1: certain they socialized, but they work out together at times.
Speaker 1: So there's a young relationship. And it'd be a great
Speaker 1: story if these two would now generate the next great
Speaker 1: rivalry in the division between great quarterbacks. I don't need
Speaker 1: another great quarterback in Green Bay, for example, but I
Speaker 1: do need Justin to be great.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: You know, they asked Justin Fields at the podium today
Speaker 4: about his relationship with Jordan Love because they did do
Speaker 4: a little traveling in the offseason, and he says, they
Speaker 4: don't talk about strategy. They don't talk about football between
Speaker 4: the two teams. They talk about quarterback development and other
Speaker 4: subjects like that. It's the same thing when my brother
Speaker 4: in law played for the Atlanta Falcons and the Bears
Speaker 4: were getting ready to play the Falcons.
Speaker 3: We didn't talk strategy.
Speaker 4: I didn't give him any hints or clues about our defense,
Speaker 4: just like he didn't give them to me.
Speaker 3: There's a certain.
Speaker 4: Sense of professionalism that you have to adhere to when
Speaker 4: you have those types of relationships and friendship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think it goes without saying. John Scully
Speaker 1: is the man he's referring to. For those young folks
Speaker 1: out there, he is a very good center for the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Guard Center Guard No. Jeff Vanot was the center
Speaker 1: right of the old Atlanta Falcons, and that's that's Tommy's
Speaker 1: brother in law. And he's a great guy, super smart.
Speaker 1: But you know you're not giving away company secrets. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure you didn't ask him either, even in jes right.
Speaker 4: Listen, you know I was playing on one of the
Speaker 4: most confident football teams in the history of the NFL,
Speaker 4: and he was playing on a struggling Atlanta Falcons team.
Speaker 3: So there's no secret that I could give him that
Speaker 3: is going to change the outcome.
Speaker 4: I did root for him to stay healthy and play well,
Speaker 4: just like he did for me, and he had a
Speaker 4: couple of awful injuries throughout his career, and it's those
Speaker 4: are the types of things that we have a great
Speaker 4: relationship and with it's more relatable to talk about those
Speaker 4: types of things instead of strategy, just like we're talking
Speaker 4: about Justin and Jordan.
Speaker 1: Take a chance download the Bette Rivers app today. Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonik and Tom they are on Bears, etc. So please
Speaker 1: you've joined us, Jordan Love. Tommy's been in the league
Speaker 1: longer than Justin Fields, but Fields has twenty five starts.
Speaker 1: Love has one. Mike Holmgren, the former Packers head coach
Speaker 1: former Seattle head coach, was heard to say back in
Speaker 1: the day, it took thirty two starts to determine if
Speaker 1: a quarterback was the guy that's been written about this
Speaker 1: week in the Packer papers up there. That's where I
Speaker 1: got the quote. But I heard him say that in
Speaker 1: other instances as well. Back at the Super Bowl when
Speaker 1: Seattle went to the Super Bowl years ago, do you
Speaker 1: believe in that?
Speaker 3: No, go tell Justin Herbert that.
Speaker 4: Remember Justin Herbert was in a backup role and then
Speaker 4: the quarterback in front of him was getting a pain
Speaker 4: killing injection and they ended up two something more destructive,
Speaker 4: and Justin Herbert was burst on the scene and he's
Speaker 4: been great ever since. I think greatness is in the
Speaker 4: mind of a quarterback. And if it's Patrick Mahomes or
Speaker 4: Justin Herbert, or Joe Burrow or some of the other
Speaker 4: young guys. Was Tom Brady's success predictable after Drew bletsoe
Speaker 4: got hit on the sideline and he had to be
Speaker 4: inserted into the game. So you really never know it
Speaker 4: until you get your first opportunity to show it.
Speaker 1: All right, So, if you're staring at the Bears defense
Speaker 1: in a team meeting, what are you telling about Jordan Love?
Speaker 4: Control, you know, control his athleticism and try to be
Speaker 4: as you know, a variation of defensive fronts as you
Speaker 4: can possibly be. Try to make some adjustments throughout the
Speaker 4: cadence so they don't have time to make their own adjustments.
Speaker 4: And you know, you have to hopefully the crowd comes
Speaker 4: and it's a Bear crowd, and they, you know, bring
Speaker 4: a noise that is almost uncontrollable at the line of
Speaker 4: screw image. And once you take away the snapcount and
Speaker 4: the volume of a snapcount, the defense can be in
Speaker 4: charge of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: How do you anticipate green Bay's defense handling justin fields?
Speaker 1: Will they try at all costs to keep him in
Speaker 1: that pocket and avoid the damage he can do with
Speaker 1: his legs. That seems to be the popular thinking, and
Speaker 1: then make him pay for it, I guess right, you know,
Speaker 1: justin making the packers.
Speaker 4: Pay right, you know, Justin's a unique type of person
Speaker 4: to try to defense because you have to worry about
Speaker 4: the rush of the outside defenders try to if you
Speaker 4: want to keep him in the pocket, then you have
Speaker 4: to worry about what type of coverage you want to
Speaker 4: play against Dj Moore? But how does that factor and
Speaker 4: the rest of the receivers in the tight end? Can
Speaker 4: you contain a running game that was one of the
Speaker 4: tops in the league last year, So there's more concerns
Speaker 4: than just Justin fields and then if they try to
Speaker 4: they're not going to ignore Justin because it's impossible. He's
Speaker 4: one of the most dynamic athletes on the field. But
Speaker 4: I think that you when you have a I like
Speaker 4: DJ Moore that's brought aboard it kind of thing finds
Speaker 4: out their defensive responsibilities a little bit.
Speaker 1: Time for the status from Hallas Town. The first injury
Speaker 1: report of this season has come out. The Bears today
Speaker 1: only did not have Dylan Cole, the reserve linebacker still
Speaker 1: working through a hamstring injury. He did not practice today.
Speaker 1: Limited duty for Jakwan Brisker, Eddie Jackson on the back end,
Speaker 1: and DeMarcus Walker. They got groin, ankle, and calf issues respectively.
Speaker 1: Those doggun calf injuries, Tommy, those are one. I mean
Speaker 1: it is clearly lingered on DeMarcus Walker. Hopefully he'll be
Speaker 1: back to full go. You know, Matty Reflus is at
Speaker 1: the podium on Wednesday saying that everybody was full goal
Speaker 1: or was anticipated to be full goal, but Cole did
Speaker 1: not practice on Wednesday. Calves are particular, but then the
Speaker 1: groin and ankle for Brisker and Jackson are also something
Speaker 1: that the Packers will certainly circle and maybe test early
Speaker 1: in the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, you know, those are questions that linger on
Speaker 4: us on our mind throughout all of training camp because
Speaker 4: they don't have to tell you what the injury is
Speaker 4: during training camp. So this is the first that we
Speaker 4: are alerted to those injuries. So maybe it's something that
Speaker 4: you pay attention to during the course of the game.
Speaker 4: Is a player favoring what their injury is designated to be?
Speaker 4: Is DeMarcus Walker dressed or not dressed? If he's not dressed,
Speaker 4: and obviously the cap is lingering is the two defensive backs.
Speaker 4: Are they struggling with their injuries that are designated to
Speaker 4: be and can they last as long as they needed
Speaker 4: to in the conditions that I think are going to
Speaker 4: be perfect on Sunday.
Speaker 3: But to me, Jeff, I'm not. I don't always think
Speaker 3: about one game.
Speaker 4: I think about seventeen And when you think about players
Speaker 4: that have fatigued type of injuries, I worry about Tampa
Speaker 4: Week two.
Speaker 3: So if they're all ready to go and practice and they're.
Speaker 4: Considered one hundred percent, then they got to be one
Speaker 4: hundred percent in game time.
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Speaker 1: The Packer injury report has three players not practicing and
Speaker 1: their significant ones. It's a young receiving corps. Everybody's two
Speaker 1: years or younger in the league, including Romeo Dobbs and
Speaker 1: Christian Watson, both with hamstring injuries. David Baktiari, that's more rest.
Speaker 1: He's eleven year veteran. He's played a lot of football.
Speaker 1: A cranky knee that has been problematic over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. He'll be ready to go on Sunday
Speaker 1: at left tackle. Rashan Gary also in a similar situation
Speaker 1: coming off in ACL limited today. That's a big boost
Speaker 1: to their pass rush, which soured at times last season
Speaker 1: without them and Dontavius Wicks, a rookie wide receiver from Virginia,
Speaker 1: also dealing with a hamstring seal three receivers with soft
Speaker 1: tissues there in Green Bay. They had a much tougher camp,
Speaker 1: they say they played them in the preseason. They wanted
Speaker 1: to look at things from a little different perspective because
Speaker 1: the Packers have been blown out their last two first
Speaker 1: weeks of the regular season, and so a little bit
Speaker 1: of a change by head coach Matt Lafleur. There so
Speaker 1: things to watch on the Packer roster. My perspective, tom
Speaker 1: on all of this is with Jordan Love. The number
Speaker 1: one thing the Bears are gonna have to shut down
Speaker 1: is something the Packers did well against the Bears last year,
Speaker 1: and that's run the football, and they've got a one
Speaker 1: two punch. In my opinion, Aaron Jones is their top
Speaker 1: weapon and a most dangerous weapon because he can hurt
Speaker 1: you twice. He can hit you through the air and
Speaker 1: he hits you run of the football, much like Khalil Herbert.
Speaker 1: They had over five yards of carry last year each
Speaker 1: of them. They're not gonna give him too much in
Speaker 1: the run game. They got aj Dillon for that, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna punish you a little bit and test that
Speaker 1: Bears front.
Speaker 4: What do you think, Well, you know, David Botiari, he's
Speaker 4: missed a lot of football in the last couple of
Speaker 4: years due to injury. So I mean, if you're resting
Speaker 4: a guy before the regular season on a day that's
Speaker 4: designated your first real practice of the start of the
Speaker 4: regular season, I do have question marks about that. You know,
Speaker 4: veteran days off this time of the year is never
Speaker 4: a good thing because you need that offensive line time
Speaker 4: to gel and get that chemistry, especially in front of
Speaker 4: a young quarterback. The hamstring issues with the talent that
Speaker 4: they have at the wide receiver position, especially when a
Speaker 4: guy like Watson puts speed on display through the middle
Speaker 4: and the end of the season. So I would have
Speaker 4: to pay attention to the way those guys warm up.
Speaker 4: Do they really let it go and warm ups are
Speaker 4: they are they a little bit hesitant, But you really
Speaker 4: brought up the key ingredient to this offense, and it
Speaker 4: is Aaron Jones, and it is because he can hit
Speaker 4: you in the ground and through the air. And the
Speaker 4: best thing a quarterback can have that's starting his first
Speaker 4: game under the circumstances of soldier field and the support
Speaker 4: of crowd is having a running back that you feel
Speaker 4: equally as confident handing the ball off to, as well
Speaker 4: as throwing screens and short little passes. So you got
Speaker 4: to make the atmosphere a really comfortable for Jordan Love,
Speaker 4: and that is the way that you're really gonna derail
Speaker 4: the tempo of the Green Bay offense that we've seen.
Speaker 3: In the last thirty years.
Speaker 1: Tom young quarterbacks turn the ball over. It happens, It's
Speaker 1: always happened. It happened with Aaron Rodgers thirteen interceptions in
Speaker 1: his first season. Peyton Manning, of course, led the league
Speaker 1: in interceptions. Interceptions. Torment young quarterbacks. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: Bears defense, get ready, then force them, make them get
Speaker 1: the turnovers, intercept the ball because it might be there
Speaker 1: for the taking. And it's a young secondary obviously with
Speaker 1: young talent. Jalen Johnson's not young anymore, though, he's the
Speaker 1: leader in that group at corner, but Codler, Gordon, Tyreek Stevenson,
Speaker 1: the rookie, whomever's playing out there, be hunting for the football,
Speaker 1: look for those tip passes, position yourself in the right
Speaker 1: way to be there for those lucky bounces so they're
Speaker 1: not so much lucky, and they're there because the strategy said.
Speaker 4: So, you know one thing going into this game, I
Speaker 4: think the multiple defenders they have at the defensive line
Speaker 4: could be the biggest asset to the Bears defensive backs
Speaker 4: because if they can rotate a fresh group of guys
Speaker 4: in there that are getting pressure and making the pocket
Speaker 4: uncomfortable for Jordan Love, if he's looking to escape before
Speaker 4: he gets to his final drop step, or he doesn't
Speaker 4: have a chance to go through his reads and he's
Speaker 4: kind of stuck on one receiver, then yeah, maybe there's
Speaker 4: a defensive back that can take advantage of that. Eddie
Speaker 4: Jackson and Jakwan Brisker are going to have to read immediately,
Speaker 4: and then Jalen Johnson, Triegue Stevenson, Kyler Gordon, if they
Speaker 4: have an opportunity to get in front of one of
Speaker 4: those passes, they're going to have to take advantage of it,
Speaker 4: but they're not going to do it single handedly. And
Speaker 4: I think the middle of the defense with Tremayne Edmonds
Speaker 4: is going to be, you know, more clogged because of
Speaker 4: his ability, his length, and his his way to challenge
Speaker 4: and coverages. But they got a couple of young tight
Speaker 4: ends that can really help a young quarterback get the
Speaker 4: ball out of his hands immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there's a lot there. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: speed right now. They got it at the receiver position.
Speaker 1: They got out of the tight end position, for sure,
Speaker 1: But in an offensive line, it's a veteran offensive line.
Speaker 1: All right, let's flip it. And before we do, we
Speaker 1: should tell you Miller Lite is the official beer of
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. Tastes like Miller Time Chicago. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the Bears receivers against this secondary.
Speaker 1: It's a secondary that's been maligned at times, especially at safety,
Speaker 1: but the corners, including JayR Alexander, is one of the
Speaker 1: best the Bears match up with Dj Moore and jay
Speaker 1: R Alexander should be a beauty. That's probably one you've
Speaker 1: got circled. I'm sure how would you stack what the
Speaker 1: Bears have brought in with Claypool, more, a healthy Mooney,
Speaker 1: come met Tanyan, the addition of Marcedes Lewis, who won't
Speaker 1: be heavily involved obviously in the past game. But all
Speaker 1: these weapons against that secondary, well.
Speaker 4: You know, you kind of think back to the days
Speaker 4: when Dion Sanders played for the Dallas Cowboys and they
Speaker 4: played the San Francisco forty nine Ers. So Dion's job
Speaker 4: was to go out there and take Jerry Rice out
Speaker 4: of the offense, and then it opened up John Taylor
Speaker 4: and the tight ends and Roger Craig and the rest
Speaker 4: of the players that the quarterbacks could throw the ball to.
Speaker 4: So if JayR Alexander does follow DJ Moore all around
Speaker 4: the field, all those other guys you mentioned are going
Speaker 4: to have to be open targets for justin fields. And
Speaker 4: I think Chase Claypool with the size he can, I
Speaker 4: think Darnell Mooney with his route running, he has that ability.
Speaker 4: I do think that the tight end position for the Bears,
Speaker 4: if you look at the combination of Cole and Tanyan,
Speaker 4: and you know, one thing we're going to have to
Speaker 4: be introduced to this year because we don't know a
Speaker 4: lot about it, is the pass catching ability of the
Speaker 4: running backs, and so when you look at you know, Jaira, Jayira, Alexander,
Speaker 4: who's gonna take away the other guys have to present
Speaker 4: themselves as open targets to justin as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Let's find out exactly what the Bears are thinking these days,
Speaker 1: including Darnell Mooney as he returns from a broken ankle
Speaker 1: last season. He had tightrope surgery. It was an eight
Speaker 1: month recovery. He's back, He's ready to roll. I want
Speaker 1: to start on the Packers because it's what everybody's been
Speaker 1: hoping for and thinking about. So let's just dive right
Speaker 1: in before we just chat a little bit. It feels
Speaker 1: like it's bigger than one game. I know you guys
Speaker 1: can't look at it that way, but there's just something
Speaker 1: about it symbolic. You don't play him again to a
Speaker 1: week eighteen when that theoretically may not even matter, right,
Speaker 1: You guys could ever be locked up playoff spot, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that happens. This This thing just carries a
Speaker 1: lot of weight for a lot of people. What's a
Speaker 1: player perspective? What's Darnell's perspective?
Speaker 2: H I mean, I've never beating these guys since I've
Speaker 2: been the elite, So it's definitely a big one. And you
Speaker 2: Understan and the rivalry many years after, you play multiple games,
Speaker 2: and it's definitely a big one. First game of the
Speaker 2: year for sure, and then going against them. It's something
Speaker 2: that the fans care about, so you you kind of
Speaker 2: gravitate and understand like why they care about it so much,
Speaker 2: and then you're just like, Okay, yeah, let's definitely beat
Speaker 2: those guys for sure.
Speaker 1: So didn't you have a team even in youth football
Speaker 1: or any sport you played you just got tired of
Speaker 1: you want to beat them?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Are you at that point now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely definitely want to beat them for sure. For sure.
Speaker 2: I mean whatever we got to do to beat those guys,
Speaker 2: for sure, I'm ready to pull out everything that we
Speaker 2: have just to take care of these guys for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, I went back and looked, and I know
Speaker 1: what the numbers say. Okay, it has been a struggle
Speaker 1: way before you ever got here, thirty years of it.
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark, for example, was thirteen and oh against the Bears.
Speaker 1: Preston Smith's ten and oh, Matt Leffleur is eight. No,
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, it just hasn't happened. So it's time
Speaker 1: for taking when the bully and the block, you gotta
Speaker 1: finally punch you in the mouth right otherwise Anyway, this
Speaker 1: is big for you. I know it's big because coming
Speaker 1: off injury is a lonely ride. I know you and
Speaker 1: I spoke months ago and you said you're glad you
Speaker 1: went through the experience not getting injured. But yeah, just
Speaker 1: what you learn. Can you put that in the context
Speaker 1: for the average Why?
Speaker 2: It's just uh, you you get a lot to like
Speaker 2: self reflect, I mean, and just have a lot of
Speaker 2: self awareness. I mean, it's just you a lot of
Speaker 2: rest time, and I mean you you get to read
Speaker 2: some books and just have a lot of loan time.
Speaker 2: You're looking at the ceiling a lot of times, and
Speaker 2: you're just relaxing and just thinking thinking a lot, and
Speaker 2: sometimes thinking overthinking can be a bad thing, but sometimes
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a good thing, you know. So it's
Speaker 2: been what eight nine months since the last time I
Speaker 2: was actually in a in a game or whatever, So
Speaker 2: I'm excited to get back out there. It won't be
Speaker 2: any like fearness or anything. I mean, obviously the preseason
Speaker 2: was nice. I didn't get the actual feeling, but I
Speaker 2: definitely will allow myself to have some emotion going into
Speaker 2: this game, and in what sense, just readiness and just
Speaker 2: ready to you know, get back to being me and
Speaker 2: going out there with what I wanted to do. Last
Speaker 2: year I didn't get to do as much. But uh,
Speaker 2: just pick up, pick pick back off of where I
Speaker 2: feel that, you know, I'm able to perform at and
Speaker 2: it's easy to do that with a second year and
Speaker 2: into the offense and just everybody is it is not
Speaker 2: so much of a newness thing. It's more of a like,
Speaker 2: we know what's going on, so I'm happy to get back.
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 1: Is it an offense? I mean, just think about you.
Speaker 1: I can't remember how many targets well over one hundred
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Is this gonna be an offense?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: You just gotta find your place for sure?
Speaker 2: You mean like role wise.
Speaker 1: Role wise, but that's day to day, day to day.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think this is an offense, and you
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Hey, Darnell, listen, and here's
Speaker 1: the pecking order. This is how it's gonna go, So
Speaker 1: you know, don't be anticipating a lot or a Darnell,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be the feature. No day to day, week
Speaker 1: to week depends the matchups. Yeah right, what Justin ces
Speaker 1: definitely matters on all those cases.
Speaker 2: You never know, you can be the top guy for
Speaker 2: this game and you cannot be the top guy for
Speaker 2: the next game. So it just just depends on who
Speaker 2: we're playing, and it just matters about matchups, like you said,
Speaker 2: So we'll see. It's it's big for the first couple
Speaker 2: of games, honestly to identify who we are and what
Speaker 2: we like to do.
Speaker 1: So see I already think that, Yeah, we love to
Speaker 1: run the ball, and we're good at it. Justin's dynamic runner.
Speaker 1: We know all that. Already got the weapon, reason, increased
Speaker 1: the offensive lines different. Hopefully they'll be healthy. Sure, I
Speaker 1: don't know. To me, there's not too many surprises.
Speaker 2: I mean, it all looks it all looks good. It's
Speaker 2: just it just has to be put out there and performed. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can you know throughout the whole offseason
Speaker 2: you have all the hypeness of everything and just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be able to do this, but you don't
Speaker 2: really know until you actually go out there and play.
Speaker 1: Or how they're gonna play you exactly because I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking they're gonna play less man. They don't want
Speaker 1: their back turn to Justin. Don't you think for sure?
Speaker 2: You never Yeah, you never want to do that, So
Speaker 2: it's just a dangerous thing. Obviously he shows you don't
Speaker 2: do that at all last year, So yeah, we'll see
Speaker 2: you never you have. You can have some guys that
Speaker 2: are just like, we don't care who you are, We're
Speaker 2: gonna do this.
Speaker 1: So that is going to happen.
Speaker 2: You never know how that how people are going to
Speaker 2: play us.
Speaker 1: So post injury, it's always an interesting discussion because and
Speaker 1: you said you were gonna have ankle surgery of some
Speaker 1: kind no matter what happened, and you happen to have
Speaker 1: a broken ankle. First of all, painful?
Speaker 2: Was it when I first injury? At first, I like
Speaker 2: on the field wise like I knew I broke it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because Byron was telling me like get up. I'm like, nah, bro,
Speaker 2: this is this is broken. It's like, no, there's no
Speaker 2: way I'm getting up after this. And I'm usually like
Speaker 2: I'll get up and go to the slide or whatever
Speaker 2: and then shake it off and then come back again.
Speaker 2: But this one I knew even going to the locker room, Andrea,
Speaker 2: and then we're trying to like give me on the stretch,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, that's one thing I'm not doing. I'm
Speaker 2: going to walk off of this field, but I'm not
Speaker 2: getting on that stretcher. You ready, give me your shoulder.
Speaker 2: That's the only way I'm getting off the field. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, it was. It wasn't painful then, but I
Speaker 2: didn't want to like died down. I got a little painful.
Speaker 2: And then I got in my car after the plane
Speaker 2: ride all that all that air or whatever and kind
Speaker 2: of blew my blew my ankle up a little bit.
Speaker 2: But it was a little painful. One too crazy, but
Speaker 2: it was it was painful.
Speaker 1: Do you feel whole again?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I felt felt whole, yeah, within it all.
Speaker 2: I mean, I made a decision when I was in
Speaker 2: after surgery that this is something I really want to do,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to continue to pursue what I want
Speaker 2: and get out of what I want out of this.
Speaker 2: And I made that decision then, and I'm not looking back.
Speaker 1: You look amazing, right, You're you're you're strong. What do
Speaker 1: you think that'll do for you?
Speaker 4: Have?
Speaker 1: You have you felt that strength that you've added that muscle,
Speaker 1: that armor. Have you felt it when you've gone up
Speaker 1: against dbs even in practice?
Speaker 2: For sure? Yeah? Sure I can. I can use my
Speaker 2: strength more, whether it be like a sneaky push off
Speaker 2: or just blocking wise and running my routes and not
Speaker 2: getting bumped off of anything and just just planning some
Speaker 2: just having some good play strength. Uh. I would say
Speaker 2: like DJ Man, DJ has incredible play strength, Like he
Speaker 2: can catch the ball over anybody at any point of time.
Speaker 2: And it's just amazing to see that, because it's like,
Speaker 2: that's what I want to be able to do every time, Like,
Speaker 2: no matter what happens to balls and airs minds, and
Speaker 2: DJ does a good thing, good a good act of that,
Speaker 2: and I want to do that same action of that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: You mentioned you read a lot of books during your
Speaker 1: time rehabbing and getting ready. What would you reading anything
Speaker 1: that's sticking with you to this Unstoppable?
Speaker 2: It's by Tim Grover.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we all know timmy man. He's the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bulls Fame.
Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing, I've known him forever.
Speaker 1: What's the gist of that book?
Speaker 2: It's about It's basically about finding your role and understanding,
Speaker 2: understanding your role and and playing that role into the
Speaker 2: into the like the the best you can and uh
Speaker 2: understand it and really going fulfilled about it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a good book. I kind of read it
Speaker 2: over and over to remember myself and what they don't
Speaker 2: want to do.
Speaker 1: Like you said, long time, you're all about heart, right,
Speaker 1: that's going to carry. That's gonna win the day for
Speaker 1: Darnel Mooney. Have a great season, stay healthy, Let's go
Speaker 1: get him. Thank you appreciate it. You got to love
Speaker 1: the optimism and the desire to be great continues to
Speaker 1: be there for Darnell Mooney. You heard in this interview
Speaker 1: Tom just how much he wants it, how much he
Speaker 1: loves it, and how much he's back. Mentally, he's not
Speaker 1: scared about going out There's no fear about going out
Speaker 1: there after that surgery and actually playing a real football game.
Speaker 1: And that's really the first step in recovering from an injury. Oh,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: I remember after I had back surgery, I needed to
Speaker 4: hit somebody, and I needed to hit somebody hard, and
Speaker 4: that was going to give me all the confidence that
Speaker 4: I needed to go forward. I've always loved Darnell Mooney.
Speaker 4: He's got incredible work ethic. He has great desire. He
Speaker 4: wants to be great, which I think is the most
Speaker 4: important aspect a player can have in their development. He's
Speaker 4: still a young kid, So if he can come up
Speaker 4: and he can be that great second option to DJ
Speaker 4: Moore and Chase Claypool and the rest of the guys,
Speaker 4: Justin Field should continue to develop that relationship that he
Speaker 4: started with him last year. So I pull for Darnell
Speaker 4: Mooney and I hope that he continues on that trajectory
Speaker 4: that he has since the moment.
Speaker 1: He's got here, total team guy, and he's very close
Speaker 1: with Justin Fields. They have carved out quite the relationship.
Speaker 1: They still work at it after practice every day, sometimes
Speaker 1: for forty five minutes extra throws. He puts in his
Speaker 1: work on his jugs gun at home, and he is really,
Speaker 1: really in fantastic shape right now. He says that that
Speaker 1: bill he's got right now, that he's all he looks
Speaker 1: like a I'm telling you man, he's thick and he
Speaker 1: thickened up man. He's strong head. It's helped me. He
Speaker 1: feels it against a corner. He can use better strength,
Speaker 1: certainly in blocking as well, and so that'll serve him well.
Speaker 1: But you know, I can't have a preview without mentioning
Speaker 1: Cole Kmet. I purposely didn't put him in the group
Speaker 1: of weapons that are at the at thel ready for
Speaker 1: Justin fields because he came on strong. When Justin came
Speaker 1: on strong last year, Tommy the numbers say so caught
Speaker 1: six of his seven touchdowns down the stretch, the whole bit.
Speaker 1: But Week two last year, that first game when Justin
Speaker 1: was seven of eleven no targets to Cole Comet not one,
Speaker 1: And with the suspect safety play there at Green Bay
Speaker 1: right now that they're still not convinced. And even though
Speaker 1: Savage is a good player and a former first round pick,
Speaker 1: I'd rather see a six catch seventy two yard twelve
Speaker 1: yard of catch average that he had in Week thirteen.
Speaker 1: So I've got him circle for a big day on Sunday.
Speaker 1: What's your thought, all right?
Speaker 4: I would rather start with one hundred and seventy yards
Speaker 4: rushing because Cole is blocking the edge so well that
Speaker 4: the outside zone is opening up in Khalil Herbert and
Speaker 4: the rest of the running backs that are on the
Speaker 4: field and getting their opportunities are having huge yards, because
Speaker 4: if that's the case, then col is going to open
Speaker 4: up opportunities for himself because they're going to become more
Speaker 4: aware of him being a great blocker, going to have
Speaker 4: a less of a defender on him, and then he's
Speaker 4: gonna be able to run away from that defender and
Speaker 4: you're probably gonna have a larger attachment than twelve yards
Speaker 4: of catch. So Cole the blocker is gonna help Cole
Speaker 4: the receiver.
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Speaker 1: most difficult part of this conversation until the end and
Speaker 1: breaking down the Packers and that is their defensive their
Speaker 1: defensive line. Tommy, we know what Kenny Clark's all about.
Speaker 1: We got a healthy Rashan Gary now that will boost
Speaker 1: their pass rush. He is a great kid. He works
Speaker 1: at it. He also wants to be something special and
Speaker 1: he's back and it looks like he's ready to roll.
Speaker 1: So with Preston Smith. On the other side, they've got
Speaker 1: young guys. They can have a rotation up front now
Speaker 1: to Davante Wyatt and second year didn't get as much
Speaker 1: playing time a year ago because there were veterans in
Speaker 1: front of him. No veterans in front of them now.
Speaker 1: So this top pick, a first round pick, and that
Speaker 1: that defense has eight of them, along with a linebacking
Speaker 1: corps that includes kway Walker in his second year. Again,
Speaker 1: everybody assumes you're going to take a step after your
Speaker 1: first year. He led that team in tackles and he's
Speaker 1: very fast on the perimeter. Can the Bears offensive line
Speaker 1: handle that defensive front now they have to.
Speaker 4: It's not a question if you go If your question
Speaker 4: mark going into the game is can the Bears offensive
Speaker 4: line handle the defensive line of Green Bay, then you're
Speaker 4: already behind. You have to make sure that you have
Speaker 4: a great deal of confidence in your double team combination blocks.
Speaker 4: When you have a combination block that starts with the
Speaker 4: double team at the line of scrimmage then goes up
Speaker 4: to the second level, make sure that you get the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage block first, and that's going to increase
Speaker 4: the opportunities in the yards for your running backs. Dev
Speaker 4: Andre Campbell is a heck of a middle linebacker. They
Speaker 4: got a three hundred and forty pound nose guard. So
Speaker 4: those are the types of guys that are going to
Speaker 4: be have to be moved out of the way in
Speaker 4: order for the Bears running game to flourish like it
Speaker 4: did last season. And if it does, the moveability of
Speaker 4: Justin Fields is going to create more opening up more
Speaker 4: open opportunities for him to get outside the pocket and
Speaker 4: work the edges on screens and like the first play
Speaker 4: of the preseason this year, a nice comfortable, easy pass
Speaker 4: to carry blasting game. We need to see a couple
Speaker 4: of those just to keep them off balance.
Speaker 1: All right, Tom, we're on zoom for your folks at home,
Speaker 1: so that's how we communicate. So do you see my
Speaker 1: little my spotters chart? Yeah, that is the spotter chart
Speaker 1: from week thirteen Bears Packers. And look at how many
Speaker 1: players are only left on that chart. Those are the
Speaker 1: guys active on that day. Do you see all the
Speaker 1: spaces on the Bears and frank there's quite a few
Speaker 1: other Packers. I mean it is a frankly a brand
Speaker 1: new team. Let me count it up. Two for six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two players, So that you're telling me that
Speaker 1: on a game, So half the team is going to
Speaker 1: be different on the field on Sunday for the Bears.
Speaker 4: Okay, Jeff, save that sheet, save your flip chart from
Speaker 4: the week one, and let's look at it on week eighteen,
Speaker 4: because that's the next time that these two teams will
Speaker 4: face each other. And let's look at the differences in names.
Speaker 4: Let's look at the guys that have played all sixteen
Speaker 4: games up unto that point, and let's.
Speaker 3: See the difference.
Speaker 4: Because the team with the most names on Week eighteen
Speaker 4: that was in Week one is going to have the
Speaker 4: better record and the team most likely fighting for a
Speaker 4: playoff spot.
Speaker 1: Great thought, right there. Let's touch on special teams. Bayles
Speaker 1: Jones will return kicks, Trent Taylor will be the punt returner.
Speaker 1: The Bears have their operation the same we got ro
Speaker 1: Santos off a good preseason, but it's totally different in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Tommy, totally different. They got a whole new operation.
Speaker 1: What are the inherent challenges coming to Soldier Field? And
Speaker 1: granted it's going to be a beautiful day, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the win's going to be, but we're talking
Speaker 1: about guys that have never been there. Anders Carlson will
Speaker 1: be the kicker. He had a fifty seven yard or
Speaker 1: in the preseason for the Packers, but he's the new kicker.
Speaker 1: Mason Crosby is still a free agent out there, and
Speaker 1: Carlson in his career in college was just five of
Speaker 1: seventeen fifty plus, so I don't know how much faith
Speaker 1: they have in him for that. The new punter is
Speaker 1: Daniel Wheeland, big leg, but he beat out Patrick o'donald,
Speaker 1: a ten year veteran, and a brand new long snapper
Speaker 1: in matt Orzick. For me, the key is is Wheelan
Speaker 1: because he hasn't been a holder very much in his career.
Speaker 1: Pat O'Donnell was exceptional as a holder, exceptional. These little
Speaker 1: things make a difference in Week one. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: e and minor things like a field goal hold and
Speaker 1: making a difference in this game.
Speaker 4: Listen, if I was Cairo Santos, I would go seek
Speaker 4: out the kicker in the holder and I would tell
Speaker 4: them how difficult it is to kick and soldier field,
Speaker 4: how the ground is uneven and you never know if
Speaker 4: you're going to have a great ball placement on a
Speaker 4: center holder exchange, and I would plant the seed in
Speaker 4: their head because I guarantee you it's not This is
Speaker 4: not going to be the first time he hears about
Speaker 4: the difficulties in kicking and soldier field.
Speaker 3: They're going to come out there early.
Speaker 4: They're going to look up at the skyboxers, They're going
Speaker 4: to figure out which way the flags are blowing. They're
Speaker 4: going to go through all this you know, pre weather look,
Speaker 4: and that's gonna the other They're going to think about
Speaker 4: it every time.
Speaker 3: They hit the field.
Speaker 4: So Cairo, he is the most experienced guy of this
Speaker 4: group of guys that are going to go out and
Speaker 4: be part of the special teams on Sunday. So you know,
Speaker 4: if we talk about giving no advice from Jordan and Justin,
Speaker 4: don't give any advice to the opponent kicker.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they chatted up pretty good kickers. Take care
Speaker 1: of themselves now of each other. I should say, Hey,
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Speaker 1: Any final thoughts, concerns otherwise about this matchup?
Speaker 3: You know, I just I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I wish it was a noon start because I would
Speaker 4: like to get to it faster than three twenty five.
Speaker 4: And I'm so excited to see what Justin Fields is
Speaker 4: in year two in the Luke Getsy system. What does
Speaker 4: Luke Getsy remember about the defense of.
Speaker 3: The Green Bay Packers?
Speaker 4: Where does he feel that Justin is the most confident
Speaker 4: player going to the line of scrimmage after the.
Speaker 3: Play called in the huddle?
Speaker 4: And I know that selfishly only looking at one position,
Speaker 4: and I know the defense plays an important role, But
Speaker 4: when you have a quarterback that's been in the MVP
Speaker 4: conversation all off season, I want to see if that
Speaker 4: starts Game one.
Speaker 1: All right, Tom, hope you're not going to be late.
Speaker 1: We'll be there. And by the way, we'll be on
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