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Speaker 1: with Tom Fair. I'm Jeff Joniac. Good to have you
Speaker 1: alongside our producer tonight, Julio Hossas, and we've got Jordan
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Speaker 1: Good evening Buddy. Over the next hour, we're gonna break
Speaker 1: down Sunday's home opener against the Giants. Special guests lined
Speaker 1: up including Bob Popa, the Voice of the Giants, coming
Speaker 1: up at six ten six thirty. Got a couple of
Speaker 1: segments with Juice Javon Wims with a touchdown and it's
Speaker 1: only catching the day on Sunday and the win over
Speaker 1: Detroit that will be at the b of the hour,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna hear a little Jimmy Graham tom
Speaker 1: an interview I did with him in advance of Bears
Speaker 1: Game Day Live. They'll hear it on Fox on Sunday
Speaker 1: morning at ten thirty with You and I and Luke Canellis.
Speaker 1: First of all, health check to Robert Quinn Calil Mac
Speaker 1: today both limited ankle knee, respectively. But that's two days
Speaker 1: in a row at least on the field getting some
Speaker 1: work in for Robert Quinn. Does that give you optimism
Speaker 1: for Sunday against the Giants? Well, and you kind of
Speaker 1: look at the injury port from last week. Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: was on the injury port as well with some type
Speaker 1: of ankle issue, but he came out and played every
Speaker 1: snap that they needed of him. But I'm not sure
Speaker 1: about Robert Quinn. I have high hopes for him because
Speaker 1: I know that he's a difference maker to this defense.
Speaker 1: He can provide the un fat I think teams without
Speaker 1: knowing what he was going to provide. We're preparing for
Speaker 1: a defense that included him. So now it's a mingo's
Speaker 1: gotta come up and play as hard, and I think
Speaker 1: the rest of the supporting cast to Khalil Mack has
Speaker 1: to play equally as hard heard from the coordinators as
Speaker 1: we do each and every Thursday. Check gotill pretty direct
Speaker 1: about what happened in the run defense. It was a
Speaker 1: big day for Adrian Peterson. The Bears did get to win.
Speaker 1: They made the play to win the game, but given
Speaker 1: out the Lions ran it. Tom He's fully expecting the
Speaker 1: Giants and Sequon Barkley to try to do the same.
Speaker 1: It's copycat league. We're gonna see the same thing. We
Speaker 1: got a great running back coming town, and after last week,
Speaker 1: you know they're going to try to run the ball
Speaker 1: right at us, whether it's between the tackles, get them
Speaker 1: on the edge, throwing the ball. In the pass game,
Speaker 1: screens this, that and the other. So we've got our
Speaker 1: hands full. Yes, they do in both run and pass
Speaker 1: because Barkley is equally is explosive in the passing game,
Speaker 1: and as he showed that on Monday night against the Steelers.
Speaker 1: But when you watch that tape of that Steeler game,
Speaker 1: what is it the Steelers were doing. They got a
Speaker 1: great defense. They are as good as any defense in
Speaker 1: the league, really aggressive front. But fifteen carries and six
Speaker 1: yards with a little long of seven, you gotta go
Speaker 1: back to ninety eight with a back fifteen carries having
Speaker 1: only that many yards. That was Kareem Abdul Jabbar for
Speaker 1: the Medolphins against I believe the Saints or Broncos can't remember.
Speaker 1: They almost made each play one dimensional. They didn't give
Speaker 1: Barkley an escape route. And that's the unique thing about him.
Speaker 1: He is so creative on his feet that if someone
Speaker 1: over pursues a play, he'll take advantage of that. What
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh did as they played very discipline within their lanes,
Speaker 1: and so they never gave a big void for him
Speaker 1: to capitalize on. And you know Chuck McGonnell today, when
Speaker 1: he was talking in front of media, he never singled
Speaker 1: out one element of his defense. He talked about a
Speaker 1: group effort. And I think that was precise because everybody
Speaker 1: had a hand in allowing Adrian Peterson to gain some
Speaker 1: big yards. Whether it should have been better effort on
Speaker 1: the first level, a couple of issues where he got
Speaker 1: to the second level with a full head of steam,
Speaker 1: and he's a difficult guy to bring down. So now
Speaker 1: there's a body of work that every single team in
Speaker 1: the NFL can watch, pay attention to, and prepare for.
Speaker 1: And so I think the Bears have to upgrade their
Speaker 1: pressure on the line of scrimm. But that's the case
Speaker 1: each and every week. What did you see, because there
Speaker 1: were not a lot of mistackles by the Bears, was
Speaker 1: it just simply the blocking they got These guys they
Speaker 1: were blocked, Yeah, you know, they were blocked, and sometimes
Speaker 1: just because of the speed of the game that you're
Speaker 1: trying to get used to after about fifteen days of
Speaker 1: practice that it's completely different monster than anything you faced
Speaker 1: in practice. Now, if you're gonna disengage from a block
Speaker 1: in nine on seven period in practice, it's completely different
Speaker 1: than disengaging in a live block. It's different than getting
Speaker 1: away from bodies that are diving at your knees and
Speaker 1: trying to trying to have cut blocks to make you
Speaker 1: very insecure. So again, it's it's it's definitely a drastic
Speaker 1: improvement that I think that you're going to see these
Speaker 1: teams go through. We're not talking about just trying to
Speaker 1: get through the preseason healthy and then into the regular season.
Speaker 1: It's drastic improvement from week one. And it was Bill
Speaker 1: Lazar that said high school coaches improved week to week.
Speaker 1: College coaches improved from one half to the next and
Speaker 1: professional coaches improved each series, and so I think that's
Speaker 1: the case going forward. Even on defense. I know that
Speaker 1: there were a lot of questions about Danny Trevathan's performance,
Speaker 1: and certainly at the end of the game, that could
Speaker 1: have went very differently with the Georgia rookie if he
Speaker 1: didn't drop that pass on his assignment covering a back
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. But Chuck was very as you
Speaker 1: pointed out, he would not go down that road because
Speaker 1: it was a complete defensive effort that led to a
Speaker 1: four hundred plus yard day for the Detroit Lion. It was,
Speaker 1: but you know, that play specifically was just reaction. When
Speaker 1: you look at the route of the running back. He
Speaker 1: kind of looked like he was going to undercut the
Speaker 1: route at the first down marker. But as soon as
Speaker 1: you thought he was gonna undercut, he took it off
Speaker 1: field of the pylon. And you know, I really think
Speaker 1: that this kid from Detroit's being treated unfairly for anybody
Speaker 1: to think that that was an easy play to make
Speaker 1: while you're backing into the end zone with bodies flashing
Speaker 1: in front of you, and then you have a high
Speaker 1: velocity pass from Matthew Stafford. It wasn't just a four
Speaker 1: gone conclusion that he was going to catch it. It
Speaker 1: was an unfortunate drop by the young kid, and the
Speaker 1: Bears benefited because of it. As I always say, I'm
Speaker 1: a Bears fan. Meet me, I'm one hundred percent. I agree,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, I'm a Bears fan. But when you
Speaker 1: look at Danny Trevathan specifically, you know he's gonna understand
Speaker 1: how the route's gonna be run, how he has to
Speaker 1: move his feet. I guarantee you every single route run
Speaker 1: by a backer tight end in the Giants game, Danny
Speaker 1: Trevathan has studied at fivefold. Tom, Happy birthday, Happy birthday, Ready,
Speaker 1: Happy one hundred birthday. Pretty neat one hundred years start
Speaker 1: off with that. I think it's it's crazy to think
Speaker 1: of how you know where we're at as an organization
Speaker 1: and be a special part of that is neat. You
Speaker 1: know here with with coach Hollis and what he's done here,
Speaker 1: it's a special pretty neat. Yeah it is. Jen. It's
Speaker 1: the hundredth birthday and the anniversary of the National Football
Speaker 1: eag of which the Bears are are prominent, and the
Speaker 1: first and tonight the Bears and excuse me, Browns and
Speaker 1: Bengals with play in Cleveland to celebrate that. From an
Speaker 1: NFL perspective, in the we even had the one hundred
Speaker 1: celebration a summer ago. But from what I understand, any
Speaker 1: player who played a snap in the National Football he's
Speaker 1: gonna get some sort of gift from the National Football League,
Speaker 1: down or Hunter. So check your mail, Tom, Hey. I
Speaker 1: look forward to it, and I'm proud to have been
Speaker 1: a part of it. I was born here in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty one, and I ben a Bears fan in my
Speaker 1: whole life. So it's a it's a long relationship that
Speaker 1: I've had with the Bears and it will continue on forever. Right,
Speaker 1: it takes on special significance when you talk about George
Speaker 1: Hollis and the birth of the Chicago Bears and the
Speaker 1: birth of the National Football League. On this day. Coming
Speaker 1: up next, we're gonna be joined by the play by
Speaker 1: play voice of the New York Giants, Bob Poppa here
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Speaker 1: minute on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score, Welcome
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Speaker 1: With Tom Theyre Jeff, You're at Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score this week's edition of Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: Bears and Giants open up the home slate at Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: No fans, of course, but Tamid I will be there
Speaker 1: and we're welcomed by one of the great play by
Speaker 1: play voices in the National Football League. Is this your
Speaker 1: twenty sixth anniversary season? Voice of the Giants, Pop Pop,
Speaker 1: kind enough to take some time out tonight with us
Speaker 1: from New York because this twenty six Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: is twenty six full time. Been with the team since
Speaker 1: eighty eight. That's an investment, right there, my brother, That's
Speaker 1: an investment. But boy, no year is gonna be like
Speaker 1: this one. Odd You know, when Darius Slayton scored on
Speaker 1: a deep post against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night,
Speaker 1: you're expecting to hear these tremendous roars and was dead silent,
Speaker 1: even when the Steelers always travel well, and you know
Speaker 1: they would have been a big bunch of Steeler fans
Speaker 1: in the building. Teams came running out and it felt
Speaker 1: like you were watching a scrimmage and you are not
Speaker 1: coming to Chicago? Is that correct? And how how are
Speaker 1: you prepared for that? As we all discuss it amongst
Speaker 1: each other, so to speak, the other thirty play by
Speaker 1: play guys, I'm sure you've talked to some and maybe
Speaker 1: you've done this before, just not football. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I got I had to cancel my reservation to Gibson's.
Speaker 1: So that's a bummer. H Yeah, this is this is
Speaker 1: weird man not coming to the Windy City, perfect time
Speaker 1: of a year to be there. It's just a bummer
Speaker 1: because you miss so much. Right, You can't go on
Speaker 1: the field before the game. You can't catch up with
Speaker 1: people that you know that are coaches on other teams
Speaker 1: and players that are on other teams. You get that
Speaker 1: last little bit of information on the opponent, and none
Speaker 1: of that exists now. I mean, we're gonna be calling
Speaker 1: it from the Giants practice facility, We're gonna get a
Speaker 1: feed from the network, and then we're gonna get another
Speaker 1: feed to help the analysts out a little bit. But
Speaker 1: it's really not the way to go. I've done this
Speaker 1: before on many occasions for Olympic style sports, whether it
Speaker 1: was Bob sled, cross country skiing, biathlon, rowing, some of
Speaker 1: these other sports, water polo, but it's it's not conducive
Speaker 1: for football, Hey, Bob. During the course of my career
Speaker 1: playing for Mike Dicka, he did the one time start
Speaker 1: practice over because we weren't carrying enough enthusiasm into it.
Speaker 1: And I saw Joe Judge did it a couple weeks
Speaker 1: ago in training camp. Can you give us a little
Speaker 1: introduction to Joe Judge that will not a lot of
Speaker 1: us know a lot about. Yeah. I mean, well, first
Speaker 1: of all, he's young. He's thirty eight, so he gets
Speaker 1: it so to speak at air quotes there. But he
Speaker 1: comes from an old school. I mean, look at his petit,
Speaker 1: look at where he comes from. He learned under Belichick,
Speaker 1: and prior to that, he learned under Nick Saban, and
Speaker 1: he's got a way of doing things. And it really
Speaker 1: feels like in giants Land if you were turned to
Speaker 1: the early days of Coughlin. It's got that feel of Parcels.
Speaker 1: It's just a certain style he brings. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: when guys make mistakes, he makes him run laps during
Speaker 1: training camp, and he makes the position coaches of that
Speaker 1: group run with him because he says that you didn't
Speaker 1: teach them well enough if they're making these mistakes and
Speaker 1: you know, restarting practice. Look, that's an old trick. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys have used it, and he
Speaker 1: just wanted to get their attention. And even though they
Speaker 1: lost the other night, talking to fans and more importantly
Speaker 1: talking to people that are analysts that I respect around
Speaker 1: the NFL, they see a noticeable difference in the Giant
Speaker 1: So just they're better coach. They had a much better
Speaker 1: plan going into the game. I thought Jason Garrett called
Speaker 1: a great team. Their defensive coordinator Patrick Graham, had a good,
Speaker 1: solid plan to go against the Pittsburgh team. They were
Speaker 1: just punching up in class. Pittsburgh's is better than them,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you got to resolve yourself to that. But
Speaker 1: what I expect to see from the Giants this year
Speaker 1: is for them to win games in their weight class.
Speaker 1: Last year, Pat Shermer, other than beating the Red Washington
Speaker 1: the football Washington team twice, you know, they didn't pick
Speaker 1: anybody off, and they lost too many games against the
Speaker 1: same level kind of opponent. Just think of a game
Speaker 1: last year in Chicago, and that was a winnable game.
Speaker 1: It's not like one team was that much better than
Speaker 1: the other. The Giants found a way to lose every
Speaker 1: one of those games, the Bears game, the Jets game,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals game. This coaching staff will win a couple
Speaker 1: of those. When you look at the asset in which
Speaker 1: Sequon Barkley is going forward, is that the fact that
Speaker 1: the offensive lion has to play better or is there
Speaker 1: something else that needs to be done within the offense
Speaker 1: that opens up more opportunities for sa Quon. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make two points. Tom I was talking to Phil
Speaker 1: Sims yesterday and he had just finished watching the Giants.
Speaker 1: You know, coaches take studying them for inside the NFL
Speaker 1: and CBS, and he actually thought that the offensive line
Speaker 1: played better than the outside observer thinks. In fact, he
Speaker 1: was floored by how well the rookie left tackle Andrew
Speaker 1: Thomas played. Really want to? I mean, look, they had
Speaker 1: some breakdown that Nick Gates was starting his first game
Speaker 1: effort center. They had some communication issues. The bigger problem
Speaker 1: that they have with their run game right now is
Speaker 1: the tight ends. The tight ends were a lot of
Speaker 1: no hitters. A lot of note show plays. You know
Speaker 1: you're going three tight ends, you know you're you're out
Speaker 1: numbering them, you're out flanking them, and if you choose
Speaker 1: to not block anybody, well that's on you. So I
Speaker 1: think some of their running game issues are tied more
Speaker 1: into the tight ends sometimes than they get. You know,
Speaker 1: the offensive line gets all the blame, but the tight
Speaker 1: ends have to do a much better job. Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: was awful the other night, and he can't be awful
Speaker 1: for them to be good. Yeah, And I've been waiting
Speaker 1: to see exactly where he'd wind up because you got
Speaker 1: a tight end and what two forty runs? A forty
Speaker 1: two great great speed explosion. That's a dangerous weapon in
Speaker 1: that mix we're talking about popa voice of the New
Speaker 1: York Giants with Tom Fair Jeff Joniak here on bears
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy the score. So you take his explosion,
Speaker 1: say Quin's dual threat ability in a Daniel Jones second
Speaker 1: year improvement where he really stood in the pocket in
Speaker 1: that game against the Steelers, took the rush and still
Speaker 1: managed to fire that ball down the field. If not
Speaker 1: for that nineteen play drive inning in an interception, you know,
Speaker 1: who knows what the outcome might have been. Where is
Speaker 1: his bounce coming from? What is his next step for
Speaker 1: Daniel Well, you know again, talking to Phil yesterday, you know,
Speaker 1: and I respect his opinion. He was over the moon
Speaker 1: about watching Daniel Jones against that Steelers defense and what
Speaker 1: he was able to do moving in the pocket, the
Speaker 1: ball placement, the accuracy, the arm strength. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: these are things a lot of us didn't see of
Speaker 1: him coming out of college, but we see it right now.
Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome. Look, I think Daniel Jones has a
Speaker 1: tremendous upside. Yeah, he made a really dumb play the
Speaker 1: other night. We're not kidding anybody with that. But they
Speaker 1: got to get this run game going. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think and Tom maybe you could comment on this.
Speaker 1: You know, sa Quan had his best season two years ago.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you can discount having Eli Manning
Speaker 1: at quarterback two years ago because Eli was a master
Speaker 1: of run protection, run fit, calling out protections and changing runs,
Speaker 1: changing plays at the line. Because the play could come
Speaker 1: in and the defense could have your out playing, Eli
Speaker 1: picked it up right away and would change direction of
Speaker 1: the run or change the protection, change the blocking scheme.
Speaker 1: And Daniel Jones is still learning on the job, and
Speaker 1: I think Barkley's feeling in some of the residual effects
Speaker 1: to that. Well, you know, one of the think I
Speaker 1: as a nice challenge because Matt Nagy said that he
Speaker 1: wants Mitchell Trobisky to master coverages. And that's the similarity
Speaker 1: that into young quarterback goes through David Cutcliffe, his college coaches.
Speaker 1: You know, he's an architect of great quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And I just think that's some of the growing pains
Speaker 1: that these young guys go through because they have such
Speaker 1: an opportunity to manipulate what type of talent they have
Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah, and I think we're seeing the
Speaker 1: maturation of Jones that way. You know, for the most part,
Speaker 1: you know, you saw him much more secure with the ball.
Speaker 1: He's been coached really well. Remember he had Eli in
Speaker 1: his ear all the last year too, in a good way,
Speaker 1: not a bad way. And you know that was you know,
Speaker 1: he was the starting quarterback for twelve games, but he
Speaker 1: had a two time Super Bowl MVP helping him out
Speaker 1: every step of the way. Because remember Eli's known Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones since he was a kid. Jones went to the
Speaker 1: Manning family passing camp, so they had a relationship, so
Speaker 1: there was nothing contentuous, and I think, I think it's
Speaker 1: just baptismal by fire. It was his thirteenth start. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's done some things that you know, he did
Speaker 1: something last year that key quarterbacks have ever done. You know,
Speaker 1: have you know, multiple games of three hundred more yards
Speaker 1: passing and four or more touchdowns with no interceptions, And
Speaker 1: he's thrown a touchdown in thirteen straight games that he started.
Speaker 1: Only three other guys have done that to start their
Speaker 1: career since nineteen seventy, so there's a lot there. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the Giants, in my opinion, are one more draft and
Speaker 1: one more year of free agency away from being a
Speaker 1: real force in the NFC. They're not there yet. Pop Papa,
Speaker 1: our guest here at Bears All Access, final question before
Speaker 1: you let you go, because you mentioned the lineage of
Speaker 1: Judge and where he's been touched by, who he's been
Speaker 1: touched by, what the organization has seen from the Parcels era.
Speaker 1: His influence of Belichick is probably no shock to people.
Speaker 1: I just saw this today that the Giants have the
Speaker 1: most three hundred plus pound players in the league at
Speaker 1: fifteen here in twenty twenty. Because Belichick likes big guys.
Speaker 1: Barcells says, the big man's game. Is that how Joe
Speaker 1: thinks it is that fit the franchises? You know, much
Speaker 1: like you know, you know the Bears. It's it's a
Speaker 1: defensive city. It's a defensive town. It's a team of
Speaker 1: great running backs in middle linebackers. Is this a better
Speaker 1: fit for the Giants personality and ownership? Yeah? And you know,
Speaker 1: let's not forget you. Dave Gettlman was the director of
Speaker 1: Pro Personnel for the Giants starting in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and he helped with free agency. His decisions on free
Speaker 1: agency or recommendations got that two thousand Giants team to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And then he was the director of
Speaker 1: pro personnel, you know, in building that oh seven team
Speaker 1: and that two eleven team, along with Jerry Rees. And
Speaker 1: it goes back to the late grade George Young, who
Speaker 1: was the longtime general manager of the Giants, And it
Speaker 1: goes back to the same adage. You know, the game,
Speaker 1: no matter how much window dressing it's changed you, no
Speaker 1: matter how many new teams have come in and fast
Speaker 1: break this fast break that if you can't win at
Speaker 1: the point of attack, you can't win, and that means
Speaker 1: controlling the offensive and defensive line. So big is definitely
Speaker 1: the order of the day. Bob Bush, we could see
Speaker 1: yeah here in Chicago, but I'll have to pick you
Speaker 1: up on the rebound. Buddy, good luck at your broadcast,
Speaker 1: Have fun and thanks for taking the time you got guys.
Speaker 1: Stay safe. Bob Pop a voice of the New York
Speaker 1: Giants here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll hear a little Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: as the Bears. You're ready to meet the Giants and
Speaker 1: coming up at the bottom of the hour, Javon Wims
Speaker 1: will join the program for a couple of segments were
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Speaker 1: Tom There good insight. Tom from Bob Pop up in
Speaker 1: there a long time so he knows where as Matt
Speaker 1: Naggie likes you know, he knows where all the bones
Speaker 1: are barried. Yeah, he dies. He's been a part of
Speaker 1: that organization for a long time. Yeah. And then Matt
Speaker 1: Naggie with very good things to say about Joe Judge
Speaker 1: and said that they're playing fast, so the Bears have
Speaker 1: to play fast Sunday. Oh yeah, I mean you could
Speaker 1: see his attitude is is involved in this team. He
Speaker 1: wants them to play fast, wants them play hard. But
Speaker 1: it's good all how, It's all gonna be about how
Speaker 1: they rebound in the week two. Okay, So Jimmy Graham,
Speaker 1: the Bears tight end, was kind enough to sit down
Speaker 1: with me in advance of Bears Game Day Live that
Speaker 1: we will be airing on Fox at ten thirty live
Speaker 1: from Soldier Field. This is a snippet of that interview
Speaker 1: and produced by the Bears, and it should be an interesting,
Speaker 1: uh to listen because he's this guy's got a lot
Speaker 1: to him, a lot of background, a lot of history,
Speaker 1: and a lot of great insight order to be here
Speaker 1: and to be in the city. Um, I've just spend
Speaker 1: my off days um in this city over the last
Speaker 1: two years, so I'm very familiar and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just proud to be a bear and
Speaker 1: looking forward to know the opportunity to make a run.
Speaker 1: And let's be clear for those may not know about
Speaker 1: your history. You are a pilot and you have a
Speaker 1: love of airplanes. What drew you to Chicago on those days?
Speaker 1: Off the beautiful city on the water, I mean flying
Speaker 1: along Lake Michigan and I'd land down there a midway
Speaker 1: and and you know I was off into the city. Uh,
Speaker 1: get a nice bite to eat. So Jimmy, tell me
Speaker 1: about playing catch with Bernie Kosar and what that moment
Speaker 1: meant to you in your life. You've definitely done your homework. Um,
Speaker 1: you know Bernie Kozar, I guess he was the beginning
Speaker 1: of kind of this this road, you know, through my
Speaker 1: connections at the U. Really just sat down and had
Speaker 1: a conversation with me with maybe I think it was
Speaker 1: about an hour just playing catch and just talking. Literally,
Speaker 1: you know, he greased up the arm and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: got warm and we just kind of sat there and talked,
Speaker 1: and you know, he shared his experiences in life, I
Speaker 1: mean not only football but life. You know, the things
Speaker 1: he had been through as a player and things he
Speaker 1: had experienced, and you know what he wished he could
Speaker 1: do differently and what he wished that he would have
Speaker 1: maybe enjoyed more. And then after about an hour, you know,
Speaker 1: he told me, he said, hey, you could be a
Speaker 1: playmaker in the NFL. And uh, you know, obviously I
Speaker 1: thought he was crazy. You know, he had seen me
Speaker 1: play basketball, and I was beyond aggressive on the court.
Speaker 1: You know, I definitely had probably more fouls than anything
Speaker 1: else than any other stat line there was, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I was aggressive kid who lifted on game day,
Speaker 1: you know, so you know that was kind of my
Speaker 1: mentality and Bernie saw that and and you know he
Speaker 1: kind of whispered those in my ear. And I mean
Speaker 1: everything's history since them. In one year at Miami playing football,
Speaker 1: you get drafted by the Saints and Ryan Pace was
Speaker 1: there obviously in Sean Payton, and in the very next
Speaker 1: year you become a monster on the field. It's it's
Speaker 1: a rare story. Yes, basketball players make the transition, but
Speaker 1: why do you think it was such an instant success
Speaker 1: for you? And you just kept building and building and
Speaker 1: building to be one of the best tight ends in
Speaker 1: NFL history, and you will be in the conversation for
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I think not only the belief
Speaker 1: that you know, my quarterback hade me on the coaches
Speaker 1: that um that were coaching me. You know, they believed
Speaker 1: and told me that I was going to be great. Um,
Speaker 1: you know. And and you know, for a kid, you know,
Speaker 1: who had been through a lot in his life. UM,
Speaker 1: sometimes that's all it takes, you know, is people believing
Speaker 1: in you. And so you know, I took that, and
Speaker 1: I took the fire that I have in my heart.
Speaker 1: And you know, I've given everything to this game, at
Speaker 1: every opportunity to be as good as I can possibly be,
Speaker 1: you know, to to not let this opportunity pass me by.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been doing that for eleven years now.
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to do that until the moment
Speaker 1: I leave this game. I take it that serious. I
Speaker 1: mean I really do. Um. I play with everything that
Speaker 1: I have. You know. The only thing I'm missing is
Speaker 1: some big Shanny jewelry. So that's that's my main focus,
Speaker 1: and I think that's that's the only thing that I
Speaker 1: need to do left. That's Jimmy Graham again more on
Speaker 1: the Bears Game Day Live show on Fox at ten
Speaker 1: thirty Sunday morning. He also hears some in Joni x
Speaker 1: Journal on our broadcast on w BBM during the pregame show,
Speaker 1: our number two Tom it is it is somewhat a
Speaker 1: remarkable story that I love the Bernie Koshar aspect of
Speaker 1: it because he knew friends at his watched him play basketball.
Speaker 1: I said, they just want to talk to him. He
Speaker 1: starts throwing the ball around, says, you have the best
Speaker 1: hands I've ever seen, and talked to him into playing
Speaker 1: football for one year at Miami and then two years
Speaker 1: later he's an a pro. Yeah, but you're not going
Speaker 1: to recommend football to every basketball player that you meet
Speaker 1: along the way, because you see some guys that are
Speaker 1: skinny as a rail. When you look at Jimmy Graham,
Speaker 1: even at this stage of his career, you can see
Speaker 1: that he is dedicated to the weight room. He is
Speaker 1: dedicated to conditioning. If you didn't know his age, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't know his age by his appearance. So Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: has done a lot to build his own career. He's
Speaker 1: also the guy that I think is his arrow will
Speaker 1: be trending up within these next couple of weeks. When
Speaker 1: you look at the performance last week, there was some
Speaker 1: mistime jumps by Jimmy Graham. So I think the better
Speaker 1: that Mitchell Chubisky gets to know Jimmy Graham and vice versa.
Speaker 1: I think he is a weapon that you can dedicate
Speaker 1: size mismatches too, and throw him the ball as often
Speaker 1: as you need to. Yeah, seven targets, three catches in
Speaker 1: the opener. He had that touchdown though, and that's a
Speaker 1: big one. Not a gimmy, But for him in his career,
Speaker 1: what's he I should could have had to the one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his knee hit down. Yeah. But what I'm saying is, though,
Speaker 1: you know, in the career of a player like this,
Speaker 1: what he was known for is his red zone dominance.
Speaker 1: I mean you've heard players on his own team that
Speaker 1: have faced him, you know, now, sixty one red zone
Speaker 1: touchdown catches in his career, so quite the accomplishment that
Speaker 1: that is a terrific And because of his size and
Speaker 1: his basketball ability, and he is also long, his long arms,
Speaker 1: he's a leaper. All that in adds up to a
Speaker 1: great weapon inside the red zone. You know, if you
Speaker 1: look at every safety and outside linebacker in the entirety
Speaker 1: of the NFL, you're not going to find any six
Speaker 1: seven cover guys. So when you talk about Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: and his frame and his reach and everything. He's just
Speaker 1: a target that if he gets in a favorable position,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks won't shy away from him. That's Tom Fair. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonia Coming up shortly. Javon Wims, the Bears veteran
Speaker 1: wide receiver who joined the program twenty one games in
Speaker 1: his career, gets a touchdown in the opener to Hell
Speaker 1: knockout the Detroit Lions. Some of the things will also
Speaker 1: be hearing tonight. We'll hear from Bill Laser about the
Speaker 1: run game and just how that looked. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of conversation about that. Tommy and Tarik Cohen had some
Speaker 1: really good things to say today about the run game
Speaker 1: success and how it's boosting overall the offense is confidence.
Speaker 1: I feel like it builds confidence within you know, the offense,
Speaker 1: the play calling and also you know the individual groups
Speaker 1: like the old line and the running backs. Just having
Speaker 1: those you know, those sixteen yard runs, ten plus yard
Speaker 1: runs and almost having them like a six yard average
Speaker 1: in the rinching game, you know, it makes the play
Speaker 1: caller comfortable and calling anything, calling a run on first
Speaker 1: sick and or third down, and it just gives us,
Speaker 1: give us the ability to you know, be mysterious and
Speaker 1: the play calling and not be one to mission him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. You gotta be mysterious, you gotta be deceptive.
Speaker 1: And then when these teams start jumping to stop the
Speaker 1: run game, it's gonna give Mitch some over the top opportunities,
Speaker 1: you know, on first down. Mitch was a big benefactor
Speaker 1: of that as well, because they gained over five yards
Speaker 1: on first down of the run game. He had two
Speaker 1: incompletions one hundred and something yards, one hundred fifty eight
Speaker 1: quarterback rating on first down throwing the ball. Now, they
Speaker 1: got to fix third down and take advantage of those
Speaker 1: key situations, those clutch moments. Clean that up. There were
Speaker 1: two of eleven. Oh yeah, you know. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a point of ephasis point of emphasis going into the
Speaker 1: game was making sure they had a solid run game
Speaker 1: to help the rest of the performance. So now week two,
Speaker 1: what is the point of emphasis. Let's get this third
Speaker 1: down issue short up and we'll be a better offense
Speaker 1: for it. All Right, we come back up to have
Speaker 1: Javon Wims back with us as the Bears get ready
Speaker 1: to meet the New York Giants were brought to you
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Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score will be at
Speaker 1: Soldier Field on Sunday for the regular season home opener
Speaker 1: nine am pregame, noon kickoff with Ron, Jim and Jay
Speaker 1: as well. Tom. As you watch tape and break down
Speaker 1: the Giant's offensive line after watching it live on Monday night,
Speaker 1: then get the tape. Andrew Thomas, the left tackle, We're
Speaker 1: here from Bob Pop earlier tonight. They thought in his
Speaker 1: conversation with Phil Simms as they looked at it that
Speaker 1: the kid did remarkably well for making his first NFL start.
Speaker 1: He's fixed six five plus three fourteen with quick feet
Speaker 1: and twenty six games starts in college at left tackle
Speaker 1: for the Georgia Bulldogs. What'd you see? You know, there's
Speaker 1: guys throughout the history of the NFL, saying Anthony Monyos,
Speaker 1: there's a Jimbo covert. There's guys that are natural left tackles, Jeff.
Speaker 1: And when they have that type of talent, that type
Speaker 1: of balance, that type of that innate ability to be
Speaker 1: strong at the point of attack or in their past
Speaker 1: protection responsibilities, you can see it immediately and that's why
Speaker 1: they become a commodity. There's not a lot of guys
Speaker 1: like that. And then when you add his size and
Speaker 1: just has the power that he has and his growth
Speaker 1: and his potential. I mean, he's got he's got the
Speaker 1: chance to be a left tackle of an organization of
Speaker 1: a decade or or however you want to look at
Speaker 1: his lifespan. But it's really unique when you see these
Speaker 1: guys that they're plug in play players. Not a lot
Speaker 1: of them, but this young man is one of the individuals.
Speaker 1: The Giants did a nice job evaluating the same with
Speaker 1: their guard a couple of years ago. Will Hernandez the
Speaker 1: left guard. He's a nasty, powerful guy. Inside Gates is
Speaker 1: the center that they had a tackle when we saw
Speaker 1: him last year, so that was his first NFL start
Speaker 1: at center. Zeitler's a veteran. You count on him. And
Speaker 1: Cam Fleming has been a swing tackle last year with Dallas,
Speaker 1: three starts at the left tackle position. Now he's a
Speaker 1: starting right tackle. You know, one thing about left tackle
Speaker 1: is they can isolate you. They can put you in space,
Speaker 1: and they could do a lot of creative things against
Speaker 1: you with mind stunts, and they have to make you
Speaker 1: adjust to the with the inside guy. But when you
Speaker 1: look at Will Hernandez and the rest of the guys
Speaker 1: in the inside, Jeff, you got a security blanket your
Speaker 1: right and to your left, so you're not responsible for
Speaker 1: an enormous amount of space and it's a little bit
Speaker 1: harder to isolate you unless they have a guy like
Speaker 1: a Keem Hicks or Reggie White that they can line
Speaker 1: up over the top of your head and just overpower
Speaker 1: you no matter where they want to line up. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of the unique things about offensive tackles is
Speaker 1: they can pull you out. But again we mentioned with
Speaker 1: the no crowd noise how beneficial it is to that
Speaker 1: one position specifically that you can always hear the quarterbacks cadence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Hicks by the way. I did not practice today because
Speaker 1: of an illness, so hopefully he'll be ready to go.
Speaker 1: Had the sack the only one for the Bears and
Speaker 1: the win over the Lions on Sunday, so as you
Speaker 1: had time to think about this now with the no
Speaker 1: crowd being at Ford Field live and in color and
Speaker 1: seeing what was going on there with the sound and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Again again, unless you take your headset off, we're hearing
Speaker 1: sound pumped into our headset. What it is like on
Speaker 1: the field. We've heard varying degrees of opinions, but in
Speaker 1: a word, it felt weird for the players and coaches.
Speaker 1: How does it impact and who does it benefit? Sunday
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field with no crowd, if anybody's benefiting well,
Speaker 1: the crowd response can affect the decision of an official
Speaker 1: and whether it's an interference call or a fumble or
Speaker 1: whatever whatever the officials take away from it. It's nondeniable
Speaker 1: because the crowd has that type of impact. But when
Speaker 1: you're at home and you have a series where you
Speaker 1: go three and out or you have a play that
Speaker 1: really the crowd doesn't agree with, there is no reaction
Speaker 1: from the crowd, whether it's positive or negative, So you're
Speaker 1: not going to have the boo birds and you're not
Speaker 1: going to have the cheering fest. So it's about the
Speaker 1: discipline inside the thirties because that's where the players line up.
Speaker 1: Even Chuck Pagano referred to it today in his press
Speaker 1: conference how at one time he could hear the players
Speaker 1: trying to make crowd noise on the field to affect
Speaker 1: the Detroit It's it's unlikely it's going to happen, But
Speaker 1: it's more the psychological aspects where you're not walking off
Speaker 1: the field with your head hanging low because the crowd
Speaker 1: is reacting to something they're not satisfied with. And how
Speaker 1: about it the line of scrimmage, who wins on Sunday?
Speaker 1: With that in mind, who benefits I shouldn't say who wins,
Speaker 1: who benefits the offensive line or the defensive offensive line
Speaker 1: because every time you break the huddles right because you
Speaker 1: know the snap count, and that's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: weapons across the board in any type of organized football play.
Speaker 1: Because it's like a boxer. If if I know I'm
Speaker 1: gonna punch you in the face before you you know
Speaker 1: what's coming, I'm gonna punch you in the that's the mentality.
Speaker 1: If these offensive linemen have to have one. Castillo has
Speaker 1: been talking about it all training camp, physical and finish,
Speaker 1: and if you can start the physical part of it
Speaker 1: before the D line, you can finish. I felt the
Speaker 1: Bears offensive line was very good on Sunday. Would you
Speaker 1: think you know the guy that I'm really impressed with
Speaker 1: is JERMAINEA Fetty Because I'll tell you this from the
Speaker 1: very first practice that I saw him out there and
Speaker 1: he was going against the Keem Hicks. You know, he
Speaker 1: looked like he was thinking out there. When I go
Speaker 1: back and I look at big Jermaine of Fetty, he
Speaker 1: was more organized with Cody on the inside, with Bobby
Speaker 1: Massey too his right, you finally see that this three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two pounder is a big, powerful man
Speaker 1: with good feet. So I was really encouraged by what
Speaker 1: I saw to everybody but Jermaine. I was impressed with
Speaker 1: the most sounds good going up against a defensive front
Speaker 1: for the New York Giants that include some big guys
Speaker 1: up front, Leonard Williams, Dalvin Towlinson, and Dexter Lawrence, A
Speaker 1: former first round pick in seventeen out of Clemson, a
Speaker 1: seventh round pick of the Chicago Bears in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and a draft class that we all have high expectations
Speaker 1: for and all making plays right now is Javon Wims.
Speaker 1: Juice is joining the program here on Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: Good evening, Javan how you doing. Congratulations sound to win
Speaker 1: and grabbing an important touchdown catching the fourth quarter? Good even,
Speaker 1: and good even. Thank you for having me? Yeah, all good. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you had one of the better camps out
Speaker 1: of all the players that we're looking at, and we
Speaker 1: could get a handful of guys that really rise and
Speaker 1: you were one of them. Do you think you're poised
Speaker 1: to have a breakout season? Um? You know, I think
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, the piggyback off what you said.
Speaker 1: I think I had a great camp and it led
Speaker 1: us just a lot of work I put in the
Speaker 1: all season, and you know it led to you know,
Speaker 1: just a lot of you know, minor but big improvements
Speaker 1: in my game. And you know, I think, you know
Speaker 1: with you know, my main focus is making the most
Speaker 1: out of every opportunity I get. So out of every
Speaker 1: opportunity I get, I've tried to just capitalize on it
Speaker 1: that way. I get more opportunities in the future. That
Speaker 1: way I can larger role. So I think, you know,
Speaker 1: with in due time, with you know, the right of
Speaker 1: mind opportunities, I can you know, So I gotta have
Speaker 1: a good role from this team. Hey Javon, two questions here.
Speaker 1: What did you do with the football after you caught
Speaker 1: the touchdown? And did you want to spike it? Because
Speaker 1: I watched you kind of take it to the sideline
Speaker 1: and keep a hold of it. So what was your
Speaker 1: thinking in the moment of catching that touchdown? So it
Speaker 1: was my I forgot it wasn't my first touchdown pass
Speaker 1: my career is my second one. So I spun it.
Speaker 1: I wanted to spike it, but I spun it. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously we were down, so you know, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to get too high, you know, be too low about it,
Speaker 1: you know, just how just you know, just be neutrue
Speaker 1: in between. I'm happy I score and happy you know
Speaker 1: we put points on the board, but I just spun
Speaker 1: it in you know, adapted up my teammates, Hey, Jivan,
Speaker 1: So going back, you know the last three camps, Jeff
Speaker 1: and I have been at every single practice and from
Speaker 1: your rookie year to this year. We've seen you make
Speaker 1: big plays throughout training camp, and like Jeff said, is
Speaker 1: this your breakout season? However, you know, I thought that
Speaker 1: Nick Foles really helped you in training camp. He gave
Speaker 1: you an opportunity to make big plays in camp. He
Speaker 1: never shied away from you, whether you were going down
Speaker 1: the sideline or across the middle. So can you talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about just that relationship and how that
Speaker 1: type of quarterback. You guys had good quarterbacks no matter
Speaker 1: who you were playing with, but Nick himself, how did
Speaker 1: he help you develop this year? Um? Well, just Nick,
Speaker 1: he's been around and you know me personally, you know,
Speaker 1: through my personal journey, I've always had quarterbacks so where
Speaker 1: you know, I'm either older than in football years or
Speaker 1: older than than them in age, or we're the same age.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously I can learn a lot from Michigan.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been um in the NFL year longer
Speaker 1: than I have. But you know, just to have that older,
Speaker 1: older veteran presence like Nick, you know he's been he's
Speaker 1: played with the great receivers and you know receivers specifically
Speaker 1: that you know he loved to comparement to is Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, he's guy outshine that he played with and
Speaker 1: you know, just him trusting me, you know, were having
Speaker 1: a solid relationship. You know, he definitely helped me have
Speaker 1: a great account. You know, you've done zoom meetings with
Speaker 1: the media. Javon Wims, our guest here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access Chicago Sports six seventy the score. You said minor
Speaker 1: improvements to your game, but you definitely, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: in camping on the field on Sunday, you look faster.
Speaker 1: Is it because of the whole traditional cliche which is
Speaker 1: not really a cliche, it's reality is that you're not
Speaker 1: thinking as much. You're just playing and running and you're
Speaker 1: not able to cut it loose and play fast. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's some of that, and it's I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of that, and it's you know, it's definitely
Speaker 1: more so it's a mental aspect. You know, so much
Speaker 1: thinking that goes on the football and a lot of
Speaker 1: people just line up Jesus play. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of X and os, and there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that whatever the is, like chess, whatever defense do you
Speaker 1: know we have the counter that social a lot of
Speaker 1: things like going But once I'm so fully you know,
Speaker 1: invested in the playbook and I'm so fully just you
Speaker 1: know mentally, Um, you know, I have so much just
Speaker 1: this year, my slackers is different and you know I've
Speaker 1: had you know, and I realized that I had to
Speaker 1: cut back that way I could play faster. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm a lot leaner, I'm a lot lighter, and you
Speaker 1: know I'm not thinking as much. So definitely confidence and
Speaker 1: you know, just being in my playbook helps with all that.
Speaker 1: It is your third year and that's usually a time
Speaker 1: when this all comes together. You learn a lot about
Speaker 1: what it means to be a pro. But you know
Speaker 1: the influence of your receivers. Coach Mike Furrey, who played
Speaker 1: the game and probably could still play a little bit
Speaker 1: giving him look yeah maybe maybe well he wasn't safety too,
Speaker 1: but you know, did he spark the fire that say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you know I believe in you, so going go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it, do these little things to make a
Speaker 1: big difference. Oh definitely. Um, you know, it's it's so
Speaker 1: it's so incredible to you know, to have a coach
Speaker 1: that you know truly believe in you and that wants
Speaker 1: it as bad as you want it. Sometimes he may
Speaker 1: even want it more than you know yourself. And you
Speaker 1: know that's coach. He's definitely a motivator. He definitely stays
Speaker 1: on me every day at it's literally every day. You know,
Speaker 1: he's talking to me every meeting, and you know he
Speaker 1: calls me at least once or twice a week, you know,
Speaker 1: the same, talking to me about everything. So he definitely see,
Speaker 1: you know, a great potential in my abilities, and he
Speaker 1: definitely wanted to make sure he shows that potential. You know,
Speaker 1: Jim Van being six four. When you're watching your teammates,
Speaker 1: can you watch a guy like Anthony Miller or Darnell
Speaker 1: Mooney or tere Cohen and the way they run their
Speaker 1: routes or do you pay more attention to a Rob
Speaker 1: Cordarrell Patterson even ted Kin Junior and how they run
Speaker 1: routes or or is it kind of like everybody can
Speaker 1: watch everybody how they run them. Well, you know everybody
Speaker 1: can watch everybody but me. It's you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: also be realistic. I never you know, I'll never be
Speaker 1: as quick as Anthony Miller. You know he's five eleven,
Speaker 1: five ten, you know, one hundreds of the path and
Speaker 1: you know, see as quick as light and the same
Speaker 1: thing with TERI. You know, with those guys, their quickness
Speaker 1: is unmatchable. No, this is being realistic with myself. My
Speaker 1: physical abilities match more of Adama Robinson. It matched more
Speaker 1: of a bigger received, So I kind of passanted those guys.
Speaker 1: And I also have a you know, athleticism that's kind
Speaker 1: of unmass as well, because although I'm six four, I'm
Speaker 1: move around like I'm six foot and you know, it's
Speaker 1: definitely I use that to my advantage. I'm learning to
Speaker 1: use that to my advantage now in my third year. Hey,
Speaker 1: javan will you stick with us through a commercial break
Speaker 1: and then wrap it up here in a few minutes. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right, Javon wims for one more segment coming back
Speaker 1: as we break down Bears and Giants. We'll ask him
Speaker 1: about what he sees in the Giants Sunday at Soldier
Speaker 1: Field with Tom there, I'm Jeff Joni Act. This is
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Speaker 1: enough to join us for one more segment before we
Speaker 1: hand it off to Thursday Night football. Browns entertained the
Speaker 1: Bengals tonight of the one hundredth birthday. Hey, happy birthday, Javan.
Speaker 1: I mean to say, you played in a hundred years
Speaker 1: of football. That's a big deal. That is that's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man Naggie said, it's kind of cool. A bunch of
Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs down the field on Sunday, My friend, you
Speaker 1: got a bunch on the Bears of course, uh with
Speaker 1: Roe Kuana and yourself and Riley Ridley and John Jenkins.
Speaker 1: But you got the Lorenzo Carter over there and Andrew Thomas.
Speaker 1: A lot of Georgia bulldog love on Sunday. Soldier Phil,
Speaker 1: what are you? What are you expecting on Sunday? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, go out there, definitely want to compete against
Speaker 1: those guys, and you know, hopefully you know, you know,
Speaker 1: the home team, you can get a victory, you know,
Speaker 1: thanking on it um, you know, and I expect you know,
Speaker 1: those Georgia guys like you said, my former teammates to
Speaker 1: guard there, you know, and just you know, I'm be
Speaker 1: happy to see those guys as well. Hey Dravan, when
Speaker 1: you're on the sidelines waiting to go into a game,
Speaker 1: what segment do you what do you watch the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: the dbs or the quarterback and what segment can you
Speaker 1: learn the most from, oh far, opposing team or my team? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're on the sideline and you're looking
Speaker 1: at your own offense. But if you're looking at your
Speaker 1: own offense, would you look at the opponent's defensive backs
Speaker 1: or do you look at what your wide receivers and
Speaker 1: what your quarterback is doing? So I'm manly. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I watched what the defensive backs look like. They're aggressive
Speaker 1: if they're you know, kind of you know, passive already
Speaker 1: aggressive at the top of the route, aggressive at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Um. I look at how the defensive
Speaker 1: scott disguise their coverages, what the safeties had to do. Um,
Speaker 1: look at how they communicate cornerbacks to safeties. That I
Speaker 1: definitely look at the route combination of our receivers. You know,
Speaker 1: I see our receivers every day in practice, and I
Speaker 1: know those guys are good, so you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know too much. Have to watch them all the way.
Speaker 1: I'm kindly pastances, guy says, guarding them. Um. So that way,
Speaker 1: when they come up to silent they ask me any
Speaker 1: question about anything they could have did different, I give
Speaker 1: them my opinion or you know, I asked them, Okay,
Speaker 1: how did you know this guy playing on you? Or
Speaker 1: what did you you think you could have did different?
Speaker 1: Or your route? So I kind of just, you know,
Speaker 1: I pay attention of both parties, receivers and defense. Hey,
Speaker 1: javon Sunday night on Bears Game Night Live with Lauren Screed,
Speaker 1: and you said that during Club Dub that you guys
Speaker 1: all brought out your sunglasses. Is this gonna be the
Speaker 1: year of prop Club Dub or was it just a
Speaker 1: one time thing where you guys just had him and
Speaker 1: went with it. Nah, I think I'm gonna go harder.
Speaker 1: I got my uh, I got my dirt Fike goggles
Speaker 1: I'm about to bring out for the next club. Don't
Speaker 1: go hard to share for the wins. Yeah, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you guys like to show your personality, and I know
Speaker 1: absolutely as a group, you guys were ticked off about
Speaker 1: how it all ended last year, and it just seems
Speaker 1: there's a lot of recommitment here. Was it difficult to
Speaker 1: stagger through three quarters? And even Matt Naggi called the
Speaker 1: frustration until the fourth quarter. Is that a learning lesson
Speaker 1: for this team here moving forward as well? Well, you
Speaker 1: definitely would love to learn from wins versus losses. And
Speaker 1: that's the most important thing that you know, we gotta
Speaker 1: one in the win column of this past week. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, frustration kicks in. But like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we got a great group of guys. You know, we
Speaker 1: are a positive mind, uh minded people. We are, we're brothers.
Speaker 1: We come together. We don't know, we definitely don't divide,
Speaker 1: and we definitely don't we believe in the next person.
Speaker 1: And I definitely you know step fourth quarter hit. You
Speaker 1: can see it was just light switch that turned off.
Speaker 1: And the offense we complimented the defense, and defense defense
Speaker 1: complimented offense, and special teams played well as well. So
Speaker 1: that was just saw a great quarter for the whole unit,
Speaker 1: the whole team. Well, it certainly was, and uh we'll
Speaker 1: remember it, that's for sure, because division road wins no
Speaker 1: matter fans are not are big deal? Hey, good luck
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Thanks for taking the time to join us.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you down the road. Oh, thank you
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