WEBVTT - Darnell Mooney has something to prove in Week 1 | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.679 Right justin middle of the field forty five to fifteen. 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.000 Bring Russ in front of a leading Lions in his way, 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.960 I am Jeff Jonihacklitz is not done? 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:13.840 Good us? What was like playing for coache Good done? 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.560 I don't want to answer any questions like that. Sixty 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:17.439 one yards? 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:26.720 What's Sunday stroll for? Justin field? Ye Bears et Cetera 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:33.000 with the voices of the Chicago Bears Jeff Joniac. From 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.560 nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety two, the Bears won 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.960 nine straight season opener, something five other teams have done 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.239 in history, and something Kansas City can match tonight when 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.600 they host the Detroit Lions. Tom Thayer started on all 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.839 but two of those Bears teams, so his perspective keenly insightful. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.760 As we kick off Bears et Cetera Episode fourteen in 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.920 our first game preview of the twenty twenty three season. Hi, everybody, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.360 it's Jeff Joniac with the aforementioned Tom Thayer coming out 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.480 with the program sit down with fourth year wide receiver 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.200 Darnel Mooney as he comes back from a broken ankle 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.000 and ready to resume where he left off. As he 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.160 continues to strive to be the best he can possibly be. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.440 A lot to cover as we break down the pack 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.319 We're gonna do this every Thursday time. We're gonna do 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.280 a preview like we used to do on YouTube with 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.920 the Bear's website. We're gonna go a really deep dive 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.480 on the Bears Packers. But winning the opener is imperative 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.440 when it involves a division game. And on the mention 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.360 of this, you had a couple days ago it's America's 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.119 game of the week, so it's a national tell. It's 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.560 big and the Bears tom are eight and twelve in 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.040 the last twenty years, Week one, two and seven over 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.080 the last nine openers. I brought all this up because 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.320 you didn't know any other way. You started in nineteen 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:51.080 eighty five and winning openers every year to nineteen ninety two. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.720 Was there a mindset associated with that or were you 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:56.640 guys just that good? 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:58.840 No, you had to earn it. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.360 If you go back and you look at the first 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.720 two games in nineteen eighty five, I think we are 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.920 behind at halftime at both the games. And then finally 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.720 the third game of the year when we went to 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.240 Minnesota and Jim McMahon was inserted into the game and 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.160 he threw a couple of touchdown passes as we were behind. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.960 In the Minnesota Vikings game, I think that was the 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.000 game that kind of put the belief in our minds 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.960 that we could be a good football team and we 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.120 could go out and challenge anybody because it was a 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.399 difficult atmosphere to play inside well at Dicka once named 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.480 the roller Dome in Minnesota. So it's something that the 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.840 belief and the confidence comes with time. The Bears aren't 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.960 going to be as confidence at the kickoff of the 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.280 Green Bay game as we hope they are in week five, six, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.640 seven down the line. However, they need to have a 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.840 lot of belief in what they were able to accomplish 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.480 in training camp, the development of certain players and segments 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.040 of this football team that they can go out there 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.200 and compete against anybody, especially week one of the NFL season. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.360 All right, I got a good one for you, ready. 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.240 This is all the stuff that comes out before Week one. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.200 There's so much. It's a fresh slate, so everything that's 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.760 pertinent won't be in a few weeks. So you find 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.080 out things, You learn things people doing a deep dive. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.600 Name the last Green Bay quarterback to start against the 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:20.680 Bears without Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers on the Packers roster. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:23.360 I mean, not that hotly kid. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.280 The last quarterback to start against the Bears without Farvar 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:33.160 Rodgers on the Packers roster, Mike tom Zach against Jim Harbaugh. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.640 Mike tom the all time winning his Bears quarterback. He's 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.520 I know there's some stats surrounding Tom's he started his 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.480 career ten and zero as a Bear starter. 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.880 So but we forget. I forgot he was with the Packers. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.680 Yeah, I mean, you know what I mean, Jim Morrissey, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.760 Steve McMichael. There are other Bears that went on to 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.200 play for the Green Bay Packers. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:54.800 Jim McMahon. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.839 Yeah, and that you know, Jim McMahon was the one 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.240 who took off his Green Bay jersey at the White 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.800 House in exposes Bear jersey because that's we hadn't gone 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.440 to the White House yet as a Super Bowl winning team. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.360 So I go to the La Times headline. At least 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.160 Harbass settles one score. This is nineteen ninety one, twenty 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.080 seven to thirteen. Bear quarterback gets the best of old 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.800 faux Packers Tom Zach, whose response is Jim who Harbaugh 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.680 buries the hatchet twice Sunday, once into the Packers by 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.960 throwing two touchdowns and later with old teammate Mike tom 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.719 Zach quote, we shook hands after the game and I said, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.560 let's bury the hatchet, Harbasch said after the win. So 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.839 you take it from there. Apparently bad blood between the two, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:38.599 is that legit? 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.520 Well, Jeff, take this into consideration. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.840 Before the headset in the quarterback helmet, do you either 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.280 brought in plays with the position player, wide, receiver, running back, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.240 whomever would tell the quarterback. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.240 Then there is a. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.280 Period of time that the quarterback coach, the offensive coordinator 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:02.000 or the backup quarterback would hands signal plays into the quarterback. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.239 So they didn't have that exchange time. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.839 So the quarterbacks on the team, Jim Harball, Jim McMahon, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.880 and Mike Tomzack, they go every day and they go 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.760 through this practice session where they do. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.120 The hand signals as you can see me doing. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.600 Now, and that's how they relay the information in and 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.600 out of the huddle from the sidelines. So a day before, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.800 a couple of days before we get we're playing the 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.719 San Diego Chargers in a preseason game. The Bear's trade 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.919 Jim McMahon to the San Diego Chargers. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.560 So now it's. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.960 Such a quick trade that he's not going to play 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.160 in the game. So Tomzack is on the sideline, Jim 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.120 Harball is in the huddle. Jim Harball glances over at 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.000 the Bear sideline and he sees Mike Tomzack signaling the 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:53.159 play that was just called over to Jim McMahon. But 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.520 it wasn't something that Jim was standing next to the 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.760 defensive coordinator because the time exchange would have not a 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:00.640 word anyways. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.279 It was just kind of just some Tom foolery or 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:05.960 some Mike foolery, i should. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:10.000 Say, from the sideline to McMahon, just to you know, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.720 kind of extend the friendship that. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:13.799 We all had together. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.680 And Jim Harball, the serious person that you see him today, 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.880 was equally as serious as a competitor and or quarterback 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.680 back then. When he saw tom Zach to it doing that, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:31.440 he took direct defense as Mike tom Zach was trying 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.920 to derail Jim Harball over to Jim McMahon. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:36.400 That wasn't the case. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.599 It was just a little high jinks inside the game itself. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.679 Yeah, So tom Zach said in this La Times article. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.479 He didn't say anything to Harbaugh and then added Jim 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.239 who But Harbaugh had a good day sixteen to twenty 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.000 five two oh nine, twenty and thirty five yard strikes 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.960 to Wendell Davis and Brad Muster, tom Zach twenty two 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.880 to thirty nine two fifteen and a touchdown to Jackie Harris. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.440 You guys were ten and four at that point, and 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.920 this is where you know the difference in eras is 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.520 you were closer to your seventh which was called the 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.640 Central Division title, the Black and Blue Division bag and 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.480 your seventh title in eight years. The Packers were three 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.080 and eleven, had lost five in six games. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:23.080 Well, you're talking about first round draft choice quarterback in 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.840 Jim McMahon, where everybody wasn't excuse me and Jim Harball, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.040 everybody wasn't agreed upon that he should be the pick. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.320 You got a free agent quarterback and Mike Tomzak, who 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:34.840 had a successful. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.400 Career with the Bears in the time he was there. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.240 Then you had had an injury played quarterback and a 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.800 former first round or Super Bowl quarterback in Jim McMahon. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.240 That's getting traded for the first time. So there was 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.800 a lot of it wasn't bad blood. There was just 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.320 a lot of competitiveness at that stage of the preseason, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.239 and Jim Harball is chipping away at his lengthy career 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.240 in the NFL, Mike Tomzack is trying to day in 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.160 his career in the NFL, and Jim McMahon is trying 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:04.360 to reinvent. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:08.560 Himself in his NFL career. So, you know, it's just. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.560 It's something that happened, and it was kind of a 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.440 ugly situation in the locker room between the in the 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.440 quarterback room, and you know, kind of created a little 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:22.440 bit of bad blood. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.840 Right well, and you were close to the corter, You 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.280 were close to all these guys. You still are all 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:26.600 of them. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.440 Yeah, but you know, at that point, I had a long, 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.160 a long time friendship with Tom Zach good buddy, business partner, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.000 and I liked Jim Harball. I thought he was a 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.800 great competitor. He was super intense and whenever you get 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.520 a first round quarterback out of the University of Michigan, uh, then. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.160 You know you'll see you see what you can do. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.200 Jimmy Morrissey intercepted him in the game. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.440 Yeah, Jim Morrisey, Uh, he had that interception. You know, 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.719 Jim Morrisey had what was voted the number one interception 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.360 in the history of Monday Night football when we are 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.360 playing the Minnesota Vikings. It was just an incredible play. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.120 And you know, Jim Morrissey probably doesn't get the NFL 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.120 credit that he deserves, but he's a great guy and 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:12.160 he was a great player. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.280 One last thing about that game, the one hundredth regular 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.200 season win from Mike Ditka. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.720 Fastest coach at that point to one hundred wins in 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:23.880 the history of the NFL. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.959 He also had this to say about it, because obviously 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.920 you're gonna ask coach about it after the game. As 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.160 for playing against Tom, Zach Dicker said, you don't play people. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.080 You've got to play the team and the concept of 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.320 what they're doing. He's a very capable young man. That 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.440 was the quote. But that is true. You don't play 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.080 the people, you play the team exactly. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:46.120 And it's the same thing. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.520 You know, getting ready for the Bears Packer game, and 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.800 would you say, it's the two hundred and seventh meeting 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.360 between the two teams, and it's not justin again, Jordan, 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.320 it's the Packers against the Bears. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.600 Well, now, it's the Justin and Jordan show. It's Justin 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.079 Field and Jordan Love. That'll be our focus. They're good friends, 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.840 they share the same agent, Tommy. They've talked. I'm not 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.760 certain they socialized, but they work out together at times. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.040 So there's a young relationship. And it'd be a great 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.880 story if these two would now generate the next great 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:24.040 rivalry in the division between great quarterbacks. I don't need 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.360 another great quarterback in Green Bay, for example, but I 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:28.520 do need Justin to be great. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:29.120 Well. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.880 You know, they asked Justin Fields at the podium today 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.640 about his relationship with Jordan Love because they did do 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.400 a little traveling in the offseason, and he says, they 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:41.160 don't talk about strategy. They don't talk about football between 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.520 the two teams. They talk about quarterback development and other 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.720 subjects like that. It's the same thing when my brother 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.000 in law played for the Atlanta Falcons and the Bears 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.600 were getting ready to play the Falcons. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.240 We didn't talk strategy. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.600 I didn't give him any hints or clues about our defense, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.440 just like he didn't give them to me. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.400 There's a certain. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.600 Sense of professionalism that you have to adhere to when 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.120 you have those types of relationships and friendship. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.760 Yeah, I would think it goes without saying. John Scully 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.360 is the man he's referring to. For those young folks 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.880 out there, he is a very good center for the 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.440 Atlanta Guard Center Guard No. Jeff Vanot was the center 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:24.600 right of the old Atlanta Falcons, and that's that's Tommy's 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.840 brother in law. And he's a great guy, super smart. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.160 But you know you're not giving away company secrets. And 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.120 I'm sure you didn't ask him either, even in jes right. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.680 Listen, you know I was playing on one of the 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.480 most confident football teams in the history of the NFL, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.040 and he was playing on a struggling Atlanta Falcons team. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.400 So there's no secret that I could give him that 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.079 is going to change the outcome. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.000 I did root for him to stay healthy and play well, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.560 just like he did for me, and he had a 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.240 couple of awful injuries throughout his career, and it's those 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.800 are the types of things that we have a great 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:03.200 relationship and with it's more relatable to talk about those 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.920 types of things instead of strategy, just like we're talking 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:08.560 about Justin and Jordan. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.160 Take a chance download the Bette Rivers app today. Jeff 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.800 Jonik and Tom they are on Bears, etc. So please 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.679 you've joined us, Jordan Love. Tommy's been in the league 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.400 longer than Justin Fields, but Fields has twenty five starts. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:26.640 Love has one. Mike Holmgren, the former Packers head coach 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.160 former Seattle head coach, was heard to say back in 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.719 the day, it took thirty two starts to determine if 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.440 a quarterback was the guy that's been written about this 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.840 week in the Packer papers up there. That's where I 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.640 got the quote. But I heard him say that in 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.400 other instances as well. Back at the Super Bowl when 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.000 Seattle went to the Super Bowl years ago, do you 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:47.600 believe in that? 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.280 No, go tell Justin Herbert that. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.559 Remember Justin Herbert was in a backup role and then 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.360 the quarterback in front of him was getting a pain 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:01.400 killing injection and they ended up two something more destructive, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.400 and Justin Herbert was burst on the scene and he's 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.160 been great ever since. I think greatness is in the 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.840 mind of a quarterback. And if it's Patrick Mahomes or 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.040 Justin Herbert, or Joe Burrow or some of the other 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.199 young guys. Was Tom Brady's success predictable after Drew bletsoe 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.120 got hit on the sideline and he had to be 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.640 inserted into the game. So you really never know it 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.880 until you get your first opportunity to show it. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.280 All right, So, if you're staring at the Bears defense 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.560 in a team meeting, what are you telling about Jordan Love? 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.440 Control, you know, control his athleticism and try to be 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.880 as you know, a variation of defensive fronts as you 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.320 can possibly be. Try to make some adjustments throughout the 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.000 cadence so they don't have time to make their own adjustments. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.520 And you know, you have to hopefully the crowd comes 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.320 and it's a Bear crowd, and they, you know, bring 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.720 a noise that is almost uncontrollable at the line of 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.760 screw image. And once you take away the snapcount and 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.400 the volume of a snapcount, the defense can be in 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:06.800 charge of a lot of things. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.640 How do you anticipate green Bay's defense handling justin fields? 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.560 Will they try at all costs to keep him in 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.679 that pocket and avoid the damage he can do with 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.840 his legs. That seems to be the popular thinking, and 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.320 then make him pay for it, I guess right, you know, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.160 justin making the packers. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.280 Pay right, you know, Justin's a unique type of person 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.400 to try to defense because you have to worry about 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.760 the rush of the outside defenders try to if you 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.760 want to keep him in the pocket, then you have 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.800 to worry about what type of coverage you want to 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.880 play against Dj Moore? But how does that factor and 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.280 the rest of the receivers in the tight end? Can 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.400 you contain a running game that was one of the 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.480 tops in the league last year, So there's more concerns 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.400 than just Justin fields and then if they try to 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.000 they're not going to ignore Justin because it's impossible. He's 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.640 one of the most dynamic athletes on the field. But 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.400 I think that you when you have a I like 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.160 DJ Moore that's brought aboard it kind of thing finds 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.880 out their defensive responsibilities a little bit. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.720 Time for the status from Hallas Town. The first injury 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.240 report of this season has come out. The Bears today 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.680 only did not have Dylan Cole, the reserve linebacker still 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.200 working through a hamstring injury. He did not practice today. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.280 Limited duty for Jakwan Brisker, Eddie Jackson on the back end, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.960 and DeMarcus Walker. They got groin, ankle, and calf issues respectively. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.000 Those doggun calf injuries, Tommy, those are one. I mean 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.800 it is clearly lingered on DeMarcus Walker. Hopefully he'll be 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.200 back to full go. You know, Matty Reflus is at 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.480 the podium on Wednesday saying that everybody was full goal 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.120 or was anticipated to be full goal, but Cole did 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.440 not practice on Wednesday. Calves are particular, but then the 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.240 groin and ankle for Brisker and Jackson are also something 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.880 that the Packers will certainly circle and maybe test early 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:55.360 in the game. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.600 Yeah. Well, you know, those are questions that linger on 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.960 us on our mind throughout all of training camp because 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.240 they don't have to tell you what the injury is 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.320 during training camp. So this is the first that we 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.280 are alerted to those injuries. So maybe it's something that 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.640 you pay attention to during the course of the game. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.440 Is a player favoring what their injury is designated to be? 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.000 Is DeMarcus Walker dressed or not dressed? If he's not dressed, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.040 and obviously the cap is lingering is the two defensive backs. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.120 Are they struggling with their injuries that are designated to 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.120 be and can they last as long as they needed 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.240 to in the conditions that I think are going to 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:31.440 be perfect on Sunday. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.720 But to me, Jeff, I'm not. I don't always think 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:34.520 about one game. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.040 I think about seventeen And when you think about players 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.520 that have fatigued type of injuries, I worry about Tampa 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:42.200 Week two. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.160 So if they're all ready to go and practice and they're. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.680 Considered one hundred percent, then they got to be one 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.520 hundred percent in game time. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.640 Right now. When you spend over two nine ninety nine dollars, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.800 it's Steinhoffels, you'll score a one hundred dollars Bears Pro 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.800 Shop gift card. Is it any one of the four 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.640 Chicago land locations Vernon Hills, Crystal Lake, Downers Grove, and 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:07.680 Hardwood Heights, or shop online at Steinhoffels dot com. All right, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.480 The Packer injury report has three players not practicing and 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.160 their significant ones. It's a young receiving corps. Everybody's two 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.200 years or younger in the league, including Romeo Dobbs and 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.480 Christian Watson, both with hamstring injuries. David Baktiari, that's more rest. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.800 He's eleven year veteran. He's played a lot of football. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.120 A cranky knee that has been problematic over the last 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.280 couple of years. He'll be ready to go on Sunday 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.360 at left tackle. Rashan Gary also in a similar situation 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.760 coming off in ACL limited today. That's a big boost 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.760 to their pass rush, which soured at times last season 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.040 without them and Dontavius Wicks, a rookie wide receiver from Virginia, 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.639 also dealing with a hamstring seal three receivers with soft 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.880 tissues there in Green Bay. They had a much tougher camp, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.199 they say they played them in the preseason. They wanted 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.359 to look at things from a little different perspective because 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.000 the Packers have been blown out their last two first 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.199 weeks of the regular season, and so a little bit 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:09.040 of a change by head coach Matt Lafleur. There so 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.800 things to watch on the Packer roster. My perspective, tom 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.280 on all of this is with Jordan Love. The number 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.800 one thing the Bears are gonna have to shut down 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.040 is something the Packers did well against the Bears last year, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.320 and that's run the football, and they've got a one 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.920 two punch. In my opinion, Aaron Jones is their top 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.680 weapon and a most dangerous weapon because he can hurt 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.159 you twice. He can hit you through the air and 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.359 he hits you run of the football, much like Khalil Herbert. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.760 They had over five yards of carry last year each 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.480 of them. They're not gonna give him too much in 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.280 the run game. They got aj Dillon for that, but 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.600 they're gonna punish you a little bit and test that 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:48.280 Bears front. 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.920 What do you think, Well, you know, David Botiari, he's 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:53.680 missed a lot of football in the last couple of 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.480 years due to injury. So I mean, if you're resting 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.160 a guy before the regular season on a day that's 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:03.679 designated your first real practice of the start of the 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.639 regular season, I do have question marks about that. You know, 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.920 veteran days off this time of the year is never 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.720 a good thing because you need that offensive line time 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.040 to gel and get that chemistry, especially in front of 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.439 a young quarterback. The hamstring issues with the talent that 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.480 they have at the wide receiver position, especially when a 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.600 guy like Watson puts speed on display through the middle 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.800 and the end of the season. So I would have 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.200 to pay attention to the way those guys warm up. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.639 Do they really let it go and warm ups are 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.280 they are they a little bit hesitant, But you really 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.719 brought up the key ingredient to this offense, and it 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.840 is Aaron Jones, and it is because he can hit 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.560 you in the ground and through the air. And the 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.320 best thing a quarterback can have that's starting his first 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.760 game under the circumstances of soldier field and the support 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.479 of crowd is having a running back that you feel 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.080 equally as confident handing the ball off to, as well 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.560 as throwing screens and short little passes. So you got 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.240 to make the atmosphere a really comfortable for Jordan Love, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.560 and that is the way that you're really gonna derail 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.879 the tempo of the Green Bay offense that we've seen. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:10.120 In the last thirty years. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.880 Tom young quarterbacks turn the ball over. It happens, It's 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.760 always happened. It happened with Aaron Rodgers thirteen interceptions in 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.440 his first season. Peyton Manning, of course, led the league 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.960 in interceptions. Interceptions. Torment young quarterbacks. If that's the case, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:29.240 Bears defense, get ready, then force them, make them get 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.400 the turnovers, intercept the ball because it might be there 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.520