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Speaker 3: Good to be with you tonight, and thanks for joining
Speaker 3: us on Bears Weekly, unpacking the loss of the forty
Speaker 3: nine ers and previewing them any match with the Vikings
Speaker 3: with Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom Baher. I'm Jeff,
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Speaker 3: our interview with Bears head coach Thomas Brown from our
Speaker 3: Bears at C podcast this morning and part of my
Speaker 3: I sit down with starting right guard Matt Pryor that
Speaker 3: airedon Bears Game Day Live prior to the forty nine
Speaker 3: Ers game. Good evening one and all Tom Theayre, how
Speaker 3: you feeling and a lot to unpack tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot to unpack.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: The thing about it is nowadays, in the modern world
Speaker 5: of football, you get right to work as soon as
Speaker 5: you get on an airplane. Before back in the day,
Speaker 5: we used to have to wait twenty four hours for
Speaker 5: the video to get ready and then you got a
Speaker 5: chance to look at it the next day.
Speaker 4: That's not the case anymore.
Speaker 5: By the time you get on the bus, you have
Speaker 5: your video on your tablet, you go right to the
Speaker 5: plane a three ride, a three hour plane ride home,
Speaker 5: and then you start making corrections. It's not something that
Speaker 5: you can sit there and dwell on what just happened.
Speaker 5: You got to sit there and watch the tape constructively
Speaker 5: and see how you can make corrections, adjustments and improvements.
Speaker 5: And I think that's the way you go about business
Speaker 5: from the end of the football game until the start
Speaker 5: of your next football game. And whether you're an evaluator
Speaker 5: like you and I are, or or if you are
Speaker 5: a coach or a player, you have a different way
Speaker 5: about going to watch the tape, and you know, everybody
Speaker 5: has to do it according to their improvements.
Speaker 3: Just think what Jim Miller has to do. Fara Bears
Speaker 3: quarterback joining us tonight, Big Jim.
Speaker 2: How you doing, buddy, I'm doing great.
Speaker 6: How you guys doing well?
Speaker 2: You have to watch all sixteen games every week?
Speaker 6: Yes, that's true, you got to go through the tape.
Speaker 6: I don't spend a lot of time on Jacksonville, Tennessee,
Speaker 6: trust me, I know.
Speaker 3: But then let me ask you this though, with the
Speaker 3: all twenty two that's available, do you, honestly, in terms
Speaker 3: of preparation, because you're doing a daily talk show specifically
Speaker 3: to the National Football League, are you watching as much
Speaker 3: tape as anybody or do you even have time for that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? No, I think you can, like if you know,
Speaker 6: like the big matchups like tonight, obviously they'll be the
Speaker 6: big Monday night matchup. And but tomorrow I'll watch the
Speaker 6: coaches tape of it. So I watched tomorrow. It goes
Speaker 6: a lot faster than say a three hour broadcast. The
Speaker 6: tape runs a lot quicker because you don't have any
Speaker 6: of the commercials and it just goes play to play,
Speaker 6: So yeah, you can watch it and then do a
Speaker 6: pretty in depth breakdown of a game, say of a
Speaker 6: Monday night matchup.
Speaker 3: All right, so what are your thoughts on what transpired yesterday?
Speaker 3: Obviously another slow start. They tried to crawl back in
Speaker 3: it late in the second you know, and not late
Speaker 3: but early start in the second half, and just just
Speaker 3: didn't have it yesterday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, I think Thomas Brown was
Speaker 6: putting a tough spot. I think he was elevated to
Speaker 6: call plays and to continue the development of Caleb Williams,
Speaker 6: and then of course you have this this change with
Speaker 6: Matt Eberflus and now more is thrust on his plate,
Speaker 6: which you know, whether we like it or not, I
Speaker 6: don't know how fair that is to Thomas Brown, but
Speaker 6: that's what the situation is, and they're trying to make
Speaker 6: the best of it. So I think that's why they
Speaker 6: did start slow. I think his attention to the offense,
Speaker 6: you know, had to take a back burner because now
Speaker 6: he's delegated to the whole team, where his one job
Speaker 6: was to get the offense up and running and get
Speaker 6: the quarterback. So there's Hey, there's a lot they're having
Speaker 6: to manage right now. And I think it went to
Speaker 6: kind of how we.
Speaker 5: Went Jim, what do you think about the quarterback situation specifically?
Speaker 5: Because here you are a guy coming in with a
Speaker 5: lot of attention paid to you since the end of
Speaker 5: your college season, and then you start that journey towards
Speaker 5: the draft. Then you go through the draft process and
Speaker 5: onto the OTAs and hard knocks and everything else that's involved,
Speaker 5: and now you have, you know, the second voice in
Speaker 5: your ear through the start of a rookie season.
Speaker 4: What do you think the.
Speaker 5: Trials are for a guy like Caleb up into this
Speaker 5: point and throughout the season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think it's been ideal for him. And
Speaker 6: he's had his part in it too, because he was
Speaker 6: a part of choosing the offensive coordinator and hopefully, in
Speaker 6: my opinion, hopefully that's not on his plate for the
Speaker 6: next head coach, because Caleb Williams shouldn't be choosing the
Speaker 6: next head coach of the Chicago Bears. And so whoever
Speaker 6: is chosen as the Bears, that's who's going to have
Speaker 6: to work with Caleb to get him up and running
Speaker 6: to the to where it needs to be. At the
Speaker 6: National Football League to win games, and it's not ideal.
Speaker 6: I think you can see now the frustrations with Caleb.
Speaker 6: I think you've seen his demeanor at least the fourth
Speaker 6: quarter of the game against the forty nine ers, where
Speaker 6: it's kind of wearing on him. I mean, let's face it,
Speaker 6: he's the most sacked quarterback in the league. He's a
Speaker 6: little shell shocked right now, and they have to finish
Speaker 6: strong and he's got to continue to push through. And
Speaker 6: that's where Thomas Brown, hopefully his focus is on for
Speaker 6: his young quarterback.
Speaker 3: Well, Thomas Bronce certainly embracing the moment. This is something
Speaker 3: that he ultimately wants to be. He wants to be
Speaker 3: a head coach in the National Football League, and he's
Speaker 3: taking it head on, and he's taking it head on
Speaker 3: in terms of what went right went wrong yesterday. So
Speaker 3: we'll hear some of that, but I appreciate his honesty
Speaker 3: and his thought process throughout the course of all the
Speaker 3: interviews he did today and after the game last night.
Speaker 3: But he feels there's no loss of confidence and there's
Speaker 3: plenty of optimism and they're going to battle forward. All
Speaker 3: the things you need to have in your room to
Speaker 3: continue to make some progress here and focusing on, you know,
Speaker 3: just another another week of prep. They thought they had
Speaker 3: a really good week of prep. Players said it, They
Speaker 3: said it after the game, they said it before the game,
Speaker 3: coaches said it, but it just didn't translate to the
Speaker 3: grass completely.
Speaker 7: On Sunday, Tommy, yeah, you know, and listen, I was
Speaker 7: expecting a high excitement performance as well, and I thought
Speaker 7: that the conditions were perfect for the Bears, obviously the
Speaker 7: outside outdoor playing conditions, the fact that there are some
Speaker 7: injuries for the San Francisco forty nine ers that I
Speaker 7: thought would affect their performance.
Speaker 2: But now you know again, you.
Speaker 5: Know, we talked about it at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 5: So you have that opportunity to make the corrections, to
Speaker 5: watch the tape on the way home, to take that
Speaker 5: time in order to figure out how you're going to
Speaker 5: make corrections and adjustment on the way home, and then
Speaker 5: you get into the meetings today. But it's almost like
Speaker 5: you have to leave that behind you now because you
Speaker 5: got to start talking about what the Minnesota Vikings do.
Speaker 5: What you can take the good portion of the game,
Speaker 5: what can you take and add it to the Minnesota
Speaker 5: Vikings how can you look at the last game film
Speaker 5: that when you played the Vikings, put a lot of
Speaker 5: study time into that and what you did well and
Speaker 5: how to continue that process. What did you do in
Speaker 5: the second half on the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 5: that you really like that you can add from the
Speaker 5: beginning of this game all the way to the end.
Speaker 3: Jim, did you when you played quarterback and it could
Speaker 3: be college or your coordinator? Was he at times on
Speaker 3: the sideline or at times in the booth, and which
Speaker 3: did you prefer?
Speaker 6: I had both in college. He was in the booth
Speaker 6: at Morris Watts. He coached over fifty years at the
Speaker 6: college level, so he was well versed in it. And
Speaker 6: he went both pro and came back to college, and
Speaker 6: then in the pros it was both ways. I've had both.
Speaker 6: The coordinator on the sideline, which was nice, and had
Speaker 6: him up in the booth. But either way you can
Speaker 6: talk to him. Just because he's up in the booth,
Speaker 6: you still have the phone where you can just get
Speaker 6: on the phone with him and talk to him and
Speaker 6: talk through things and talk through the pictures if you
Speaker 6: need to. And a lot of times it's just by
Speaker 6: choice where maybe OC wants to get the bird's eye
Speaker 6: view or the bigger picture, rather than being up close
Speaker 6: and personal down on the sideline where you can't get
Speaker 6: that overhead view that you need.
Speaker 3: Did you ever consider going into coaching and being an
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator or quarterback coach?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have decided. I've been asked to do that,
Speaker 6: but you know, it's got to be the right situation obviously.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I have been asked for, you know, to
Speaker 6: join staffs, but it's you know, coaching is kind of
Speaker 6: a nomadic life, you know, it really is. These coaches
Speaker 6: move around and it's really shortened even more. But it
Speaker 6: would have to be the right opportunity.
Speaker 2: Jim, what kind of coordinator would you be?
Speaker 6: Multiple? I think you got to be able to do everything.
Speaker 6: You got to have every club in your bag and
Speaker 6: make them defend everything. So whether that's you know, your
Speaker 6: base offense to if you need to go five wides,
Speaker 6: so you better have everything, but you better be able
Speaker 6: to run the football too. It'd be similar to mcveigh's system,
Speaker 6: is what it'd be, but it'd be multiple where you
Speaker 6: can do everything.
Speaker 3: And my last question about this time, I'm intrigued. I
Speaker 3: don't know, you know, after loss is like this. You know,
Speaker 3: things just pop in your head. Had nothing to do
Speaker 3: with the game that I'm asking these questions, but in
Speaker 3: terms of of that, you know, the kind of system
Speaker 3: and whatnot. I know, I talked to Tommy earlier today
Speaker 3: on Our Bears et cetera podcast about Kurt Warner some
Speaker 3: of the things he's saying about getting rid of the
Speaker 3: football quickly, you know, try and trying to make big
Speaker 3: plays and whatnot. There's all these ex quarterbacks and quarterback
Speaker 3: gurus that they call themselves gurus and teachers, and they
Speaker 3: have quarterback camps and whatever. So everybody's got opinion on
Speaker 3: quarterback play. What is your strongest statement about quarterback play
Speaker 3: today in the NFL? For young players that you think
Speaker 3: needs to be tweaked.
Speaker 6: Or worked on, a decision making. Okay, ultimately the most
Speaker 6: important job you have as a quarterback is your decision making,
Speaker 6: because the game can be won or lost by your
Speaker 6: poor decisions. And I think we've seen that, you know,
Speaker 6: for young quarterbacks. You know, even for for Caleb Williams.
Speaker 6: You know, a bad decision by not calling the time out,
Speaker 6: you know, so obviously you know it stems from there.
Speaker 6: I think you better be tough, both mentally and physically,
Speaker 6: because that's how you gain respect in the locker room.
Speaker 6: Your quarterback needs to be one of the toughest guys
Speaker 6: on your team, if not the toughest mentally and physically.
Speaker 6: To take the beating from the press, to take the
Speaker 6: beating from your teammates, to take the beating from your
Speaker 6: fans and turn those jeers into cheers is what you
Speaker 6: gotta do. Yeah, you better be a hard worker, you
Speaker 6: better be preparation. But all the stuff in terms of
Speaker 6: the intangibles, loving football, all those things need to be
Speaker 6: a part of it. And then of course the tangibles.
Speaker 6: And I think we know Caleb Williams has all the tangibles.
Speaker 6: What is that arm, speed, athletic, You know, he's got
Speaker 6: all those things that there are mouldible traits to be successful.
Speaker 3: And he definitely has the intangibles as well. We're gonna
Speaker 3: come back after a break. That's Jim Miller thomp there,
Speaker 3: I'm Jeff Joniyak, and we'll hear from head coach Thomas
Speaker 3: Brown after this break on ESPN one thousand and the
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Speaker 3: Earlier today, I sat down with Thomas Brown, the Bears
Speaker 3: head coach for our Bears. Instead of a podcast, took
Speaker 3: kind of a different route discussion on all kinds of
Speaker 3: things about the game and about him.
Speaker 2: Let's listening. I know you've already talked a lot.
Speaker 3: About this game and the benefit of traveling that kind
Speaker 3: of distance. You do get a lot of work done
Speaker 3: on the plane, don't you.
Speaker 8: Absolutely just haven't a challenge from a prep standpoint headed there,
Speaker 8: but also on the way back. It gives me enough
Speaker 8: time to be able to grade both sides of the
Speaker 8: ball and also take a pick at special teams as well.
Speaker 8: I try to always, you know, watch all phases multiple times.
Speaker 8: I have a kind of a more accurate picture when
Speaker 8: I end up meeting with the coordinators.
Speaker 4: But definitely get a ton of work there.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you about that because I learned to
Speaker 3: watch tape from Tom There Super Bowl Bear so over
Speaker 3: of course from my career, I don't know assignments or
Speaker 3: anything like that.
Speaker 2: But it's just that that ability.
Speaker 3: To watch things over and over again, it slowed the
Speaker 3: game down for me to call the game. When you
Speaker 3: first started playing football and you ran the ball at Georgia,
Speaker 3: did you before you go into the NFL, did you
Speaker 3: know how to watch tape?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
Speaker 8: I think come out of high school, you know you
Speaker 8: don't really watch much tape in high school. It's no mean,
Speaker 8: everybody's in the same media room and the head coach
Speaker 8: might have a couple of clips to show from the
Speaker 8: other opponent. But I don't think like anything else, it's
Speaker 8: as skill you have to develop when it comes to
Speaker 8: understanding what you're looking at. But also you know understand
Speaker 8: how to break down the actual film. So watching the
Speaker 8: game is one thing, building cut ups and preparations is
Speaker 8: something different. So we tried to do a really good job.
Speaker 8: As I learned throughout talk about the years at Georgia,
Speaker 8: of what am I looking at? I think when I
Speaker 8: was a freshman, I'm just I'm just watching taping and
Speaker 8: tape running.
Speaker 4: I have no idea what I'm looking at.
Speaker 8: I'm not, you know, necessarily reading coverage and looking at
Speaker 8: linebackert the minion. I'm looking just for big plays as
Speaker 8: time I was the only you understand to look at.
Speaker 8: You know, formational alignments from a defensive standpoint, are there
Speaker 8: any pressure tails indicative when it comes to how limbacker's
Speaker 8: feet are, also how guys going to play and the fence,
Speaker 8: certain blocks you can of anticipate certain reads.
Speaker 4: But I think, like anything else, reperti is the mother
Speaker 4: of learning.
Speaker 8: So the more you hear it, the more you hear it,
Speaker 8: the more you see it, the more you do it,
Speaker 8: the better become anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the crazy thing about it, it's the
Speaker 3: subtle stuff. It's the hand placement, it's the footwork, it's
Speaker 3: how somebody's lined up. The uniqueness of the greatest players
Speaker 3: that in a split second can do something that one
Speaker 3: tenth of one percent of the entire world is capable
Speaker 3: of doing because of their strength or athleticism or their instincts. Right,
Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of watching tape because if you
Speaker 3: really slow it down and watch it over and over
Speaker 3: and over again, it almost paints a different picture every time,
Speaker 3: don't you agree.
Speaker 4: It's like watching poetry emotion of time.
Speaker 8: And I think you know that's why I oftentimes get
Speaker 8: irritated when people speak about athletes football player in general
Speaker 8: not being intelligent. You have to be highly intellectual to
Speaker 8: be able to understand and diagnose some processing and a
Speaker 8: split second and make a full speed decision with the.
Speaker 4: Game in the line.
Speaker 8: So I think it's it's all about, you know, kind
Speaker 8: of what you commit yourself to, and as you mentioned before,
Speaker 8: the greats becoming the greats because of their habits and
Speaker 8: with the repeat on a regular basis, but also what
Speaker 8: they can kind of do a really good job of
Speaker 8: with Tennessees.
Speaker 4: That's what I try to.
Speaker 8: Do a really good job with the offense of how
Speaker 8: we marry formations and motions and even just talk citible
Speaker 8: about his mechanics and demeanor in the pocket proof that
Speaker 8: wise they're gonna keep everything off of your hand placement
Speaker 8: that you grab a tael before the ball comes any
Speaker 8: manner and they can pick up on them for the
Speaker 8: balla so try to be as uniform as possible.
Speaker 4: They can't get a key on when the ball's gonna
Speaker 4: be snapped.
Speaker 3: You know, it's almost And I play baseball, so I
Speaker 3: always used to hitch before I threw, and sometimes if
Speaker 3: a fast runner.
Speaker 2: He got me, you know, but exactly almost almost every
Speaker 2: quarterback taps before they throw.
Speaker 3: Though, to me, that's an indicator, right, but it is
Speaker 3: part of the ritual that you grew up with or
Speaker 3: your you can't, I mean, it's just you, right. Do
Speaker 3: you find that interesting that a lot of quarterbacks tap
Speaker 3: it first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it just goes back to habits.
Speaker 8: I think whether you create good habits and bad habits,
Speaker 8: it is still define who you are. And so, as
Speaker 8: you mentioned, a lot of qbs do kind of pat
Speaker 8: the ball before the ball comes out.
Speaker 4: I remember being in LA listening.
Speaker 8: To idb's coaches talk about pattern match and reading key
Speaker 8: e ball out break wileos got to make their breaks
Speaker 8: off of a kep pats balls about to come out,
Speaker 8: so they we go trigger and drive on the ball,
Speaker 8: which to me, if you're aware that from a quarterback standpoint,
Speaker 8: you can play off of that and you can dumb
Speaker 8: me tap, make a defensive drive for double moves and
Speaker 8: throw the ball behind them. So, but it's definitely all
Speaker 8: about kind of playing the game within the game, and
Speaker 8: also how much can you disguise and minimize the tennessees
Speaker 8: you kind of exposed to the other opponent.
Speaker 3: So with that being said, when you watched it and
Speaker 3: watch it, watch it again, and watch it again, and
Speaker 3: you'll watch it again with the team. What are some
Speaker 3: things that you feel are correctible from the tape from
Speaker 3: yesterday's game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the execution first and foremore as far as our assignments,
Speaker 8: our details, and how we execute the players if they
Speaker 8: plays become just wines on the sheet until you bring
Speaker 8: to life something.
Speaker 4: The more clear that we can.
Speaker 8: Give our guys a better understanding, the better they can execute.
Speaker 8: Opposite getting played a really good football team. This is
Speaker 8: just the NFL that there's no d League of the NFL,
Speaker 8: So it's the best of the best that are here,
Speaker 8: and so.
Speaker 4: We can and we out.
Speaker 8: You going to face really good opponents with really good players,
Speaker 8: and so have to be ready for that challenge to.
Speaker 4: Be up to it. I think also when it comes.
Speaker 8: To separating, you know, motivation and confidence from actually execution,
Speaker 8: I think our guys were definitely motivated, they were definitely confident.
Speaker 4: We had a really good week of preparation.
Speaker 8: But the game, the execution is what matters the most
Speaker 8: when it comes from winning and losing football.
Speaker 3: Games, and with that becomes the psyche of a player
Speaker 3: or a team.
Speaker 2: Do you do you feel that you have a.
Speaker 3: Pretty firm grasp on the overall psyche of the team,
Speaker 3: especially one that now has unfortunately lost seven games in
Speaker 3: a row, because that could go many different ways. But
Speaker 3: you've been there the whole season, and it's not just
Speaker 3: now that you're in charge. You have had a good
Speaker 3: sense of it, but the hopes of a winning season
Speaker 3: for example, our dash, but now it's about just putting
Speaker 3: your best foot forward for the final four.
Speaker 2: Do you have a good sense of that from these guys?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I feel like I do. I mean,
Speaker 8: I've seen time you drop seven in a row. I'm
Speaker 8: not gonna say the cycle is going to be in
Speaker 8: a great spot. That would be unrealistic and not a
Speaker 8: true statement. But I think as far as our guys
Speaker 8: belief in themselves and ability better fix things and get better,
Speaker 8: that's not lost. I think there's definitely still a good
Speaker 8: continuity in locker room as far as they're belief in
Speaker 8: each other, which is one of the big points of
Speaker 8: emphasis I want to make last week as far as
Speaker 8: stay connected, unifying as a football team. So he had
Speaker 8: an opportunity to concede and move forward and ultimately, like
Speaker 8: we're all paid to do our jobs and so regardless
Speaker 8: of feelings, those don't really matter.
Speaker 4: I think feelings come and go.
Speaker 8: As a grown man, you have to do stuff sometimes
Speaker 8: that you don't feel like doing. Our responsibility is to
Speaker 8: attack every single day and be it at best.
Speaker 3: And this converges with the Monday night game national attention.
Speaker 3: They're they're gonna be looking at us, They're gonna be
Speaker 3: poking at us, They're gonna be looking at you know
Speaker 3: what's next and everything. How do you plan on telling
Speaker 3: these guys, Hey, listen, man, this is us on Monday Night.
Speaker 3: I mean, we we gotta, we gotta stay together, which
Speaker 3: I don't doubt you won't, uh, but we gotta, we gotta.
Speaker 3: We gotta really play some really good football against this
Speaker 3: Minnesota Viking outfit.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think my missus continue to say the same.
Speaker 8: As far as the outside no is I think it
Speaker 8: becomes harder for our player the times because it's a
Speaker 8: social media generation, so everybody looks at their phone and
Speaker 8: watch every TV show.
Speaker 4: I don't look at anything with purpose of the football season.
Speaker 8: I don't really care about the outside world or what
Speaker 8: their thoughts are.
Speaker 4: Even if it's positive, then it don't help me.
Speaker 8: Do my job any better, and so I'll keep the
Speaker 8: same miss as far as he has a primetime game, Yes,
Speaker 8: Monday night football, Yes, the whole world is watching. But
Speaker 8: the most important thing is how to prepare and being
Speaker 8: able to play at our best when it met.
Speaker 4: Us the most.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, i'd imagine that's super difficult. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: is difficult because that phone man, that thing lights up.
Speaker 3: It was lighting up during the broadcast for me, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I can't.
Speaker 4: Look I turn notifications off, and you I do.
Speaker 8: Uh. I do have a little small Instagram deal. I
Speaker 8: scroll past certain things. I don't even look at it. Even
Speaker 8: if it's positive, it doesn't matter. I'm just keep scrolling
Speaker 8: and look at something different. So I think, you know,
Speaker 8: diet is is definitely you know, what you put into
Speaker 8: your body, but also die is also what you allowed
Speaker 8: to go.
Speaker 4: Into your ears and also in your eyes.
Speaker 8: So that's I don't care who you are, what you think,
Speaker 8: that will still have an effective use from a subconscious standpoint,
Speaker 8: So I choose always ignored and block it out, particularly
Speaker 8: do a football season.
Speaker 2: I need to take that advice from you as well.
Speaker 4: Buddy.
Speaker 2: It's hard, Yeah, hard, it is hard. Uh, let's talk
Speaker 2: about something.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Jandre Swift because when Homer
Speaker 3: goes down, No Roa Sean, he's the man, right.
Speaker 2: You got Darien ton Evans there, but he's he's been
Speaker 2: around for three years.
Speaker 3: But I hasn't been here much this season, and I
Speaker 3: was looking at the workload, okay, because it was going
Speaker 3: to be him in the second half, and clearly that
Speaker 3: long drive was a part of it.
Speaker 2: But is he capable of a good heavy workload?
Speaker 3: I went back and looked last season against Minnesota went
Speaker 3: twenty eight for one to seventy five, twenty one for
Speaker 3: seventy three against Carolina this year. So he's capable of
Speaker 3: handling a big load if necessary.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 8: I think he's in the right mindset, in the right
Speaker 8: framework as far as how you compete him prepares every
Speaker 8: single day. But the issue sometimes would come to that
Speaker 8: position is how bald it can be. It's a very
Speaker 8: valid position. So I think playing running back every single
Speaker 8: snap to getting hit by multiple people you've been asked
Speaker 8: to hit people for because very few stamps that are
Speaker 8: kind of ended up being non contact downs for running back.
Speaker 4: I think he's he's taking on the task.
Speaker 8: He wants to be in the entire time and sometimes
Speaker 8: you got a saving from himself, you know, so he
Speaker 8: doesn't wear himself down, but you want to have that
Speaker 8: mentality brought to it the other way.
Speaker 3: And then what did you think you know, as a
Speaker 3: as a great player watching great players, you never get
Speaker 3: sick watching greatness.
Speaker 2: And Keenan Allen, is.
Speaker 3: That the fastest to nine hundred and fifty catches in
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty games?
Speaker 2: Has it turned out?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 3: Eleven thousand yards? Six to active There's only fourteen players
Speaker 3: that have a thousand catches in the NFL, So just
Speaker 3: to I know, it's in a losing effort, but that's significant.
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: He's part of the Bears, although he's been you know,
Speaker 3: the La Chargers guy, but to have that happen in
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you.
Speaker 8: Said before me so kind of gets overshattered the times
Speaker 8: because of our record and losing football games.
Speaker 4: But greatness is greatst as you.
Speaker 8: Mentioned, he's been one of the best for a very
Speaker 8: long time and continue to prove it.
Speaker 4: So to be consistent. I said it back in training camp.
Speaker 4: I think the guy is on.
Speaker 8: Guarded but when he wants to be able to kind
Speaker 8: of have some one on win opportunity. So good team
Speaker 8: to Cold continue to prove himself every single day and
Speaker 8: we'll con see to find ways to get him involved.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like within a dune's sake, still learning obviously,
Speaker 3: but a good connection with Kleb, you got cole Comet,
Speaker 3: you got DJ, you got Keenan other players as well,
Speaker 3: that that these guys all are capable of being uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: There's no question.
Speaker 8: I think that's that's the benefit of having the guys
Speaker 8: that we have, and we have we.
Speaker 4: Have displayed at times.
Speaker 8: Then they say showcase itself yesterday, but I would said
Speaker 8: that the previous game before the three in a row
Speaker 8: gets three of the best in the league.
Speaker 4: Those guys consistently made plays.
Speaker 8: Then team to find ways to get him open, and
Speaker 8: obviously Callab has found him as far as with accurate
Speaker 8: ball plays, rhythm and timing.
Speaker 4: That's definitely important. And you obviously mentioned.
Speaker 8: Rome Rome as a is uh the youngest of all
Speaker 8: that bunch, But I mean that dude is because to me,
Speaker 8: I was already special in the team to be special
Speaker 8: in the future because he's super detailed and lucid rock
Speaker 8: Runner has really strong, aggressive hands, so love all those
Speaker 8: guys kind.
Speaker 4: Of get involved in the game, all right, not looked.
Speaker 2: We got a long week.
Speaker 3: So last question, what's it going to be like getting
Speaker 3: in the ring again, going to the toe Brian Flores.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean he's one of the best in the league,
Speaker 8: if not the best. I think he actually did reach
Speaker 8: out to me after the first time we played him,
Speaker 8: which I think was was great of him, and I
Speaker 8: do appreciate that reaching out. Tommy and I exchanged a
Speaker 8: couple of texts with him. But it's gonna be hard,
Speaker 8: and it was the first time. I once you kind
Speaker 8: of show your hand and explore yourself. He does a
Speaker 8: great job. But adapting tojustin to give you some new looks.
Speaker 8: That defense probably has the most disguised to the vidio
Speaker 8: of the league. So I'll be about trying to prepare
Speaker 8: our guys the right way, particularly you know Caleb from
Speaker 8: a quarterback stand, put up understanding different looks, how to
Speaker 8: diagnose things fast, but also the ball distribution and put
Speaker 8: the ball in play and you know, not losing the
Speaker 8: game because of the stuff that they do.
Speaker 4: As far as how they impact the coverage units.
Speaker 2: You might have follow up on that with him. How
Speaker 2: rare is that? And had you guys a previous relationship
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 8: Met him one time briefly just at the combine, just
Speaker 8: kind of just walking in past and I just told
Speaker 8: him how much respect I had for him, introduced myself
Speaker 8: to him, and kind of just kept kept moving. So
Speaker 8: not much dialogue before that, but I think it was
Speaker 8: really cool and also a humming of him himself. Again,
Speaker 8: he is regard as one of the best, if not
Speaker 8: the best, in the league at his role, and so
Speaker 8: I think it's also a good testament to the display
Speaker 8: we had from off of the stampoints you Garner respected
Speaker 8: one of the best in the league and it'll be
Speaker 8: a tough test for us on Monday Night football.
Speaker 3: That was pretty cool. That's a pretty cool story. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much, appreciate the time. As Bears head coach
Speaker 3: Thomas Brown, We'll get reaction from Jim and Tom after
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Speaker 3: This winner Jeff Joning, Act, Tom There and Jim Meta
Speaker 3: from Serious XMNFL Radio get your reactions. You know, Thomas
Speaker 3: gave us a little bit, you know, more, he talks
Speaker 3: Morey's available, Jim. He gives you some insight into what
Speaker 3: he's all about as a football man. I got a
Speaker 3: kick out of that interview.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean he's got a lot on his plate,
Speaker 6: you know, like you said, you know, you know, you've
Speaker 6: got the big picture, the micro and macro macro views,
Speaker 6: so to speak, and you know he's trying to put
Speaker 6: everything together but yet still try to develop young players.
Speaker 6: Here he's talking about Roma Dunsa and in Caleb and
Speaker 6: so that they're all on the same page. So there
Speaker 6: is a lot ongoing. There's been a huge disruption. I
Speaker 6: would think it would be more settled this week, and
Speaker 6: like you said, it'll be in primetime in a big
Speaker 6: matchup and there's plenty of play for for everybody involved.
Speaker 2: Big time.
Speaker 9: What he thought, you know, I just like the seriousness
Speaker 9: and this tone of voice and the preparation.
Speaker 5: As Jim was talking about, how you get to learn
Speaker 5: a little bit more about him.
Speaker 9: Every single time that you get to interview him and
Speaker 9: week to listen to him. And I'm really interested to
Speaker 9: see is the second time around inside the division, how
Speaker 9: he would subtle changes he has his game planning, how
Speaker 9: it affects the team on the field to play, and
Speaker 9: then how the team comes out. It gives a representation
Speaker 9: of respect to Thomas Brown because this is still going
Speaker 9: to be an emotional team. Minnesota's got a lot to
Speaker 9: play for. The Chicago Barrets players should have a lot.
Speaker 5: To play for as well. And whether you know whatever,
Speaker 5: you think, Caleb is the future of this football team.
Speaker 5: And so you got to do everything and you're possible
Speaker 5: to continue his development and his protection to make sure
Speaker 5: that he gets through the game he plays as well
Speaker 5: as he can possibly play, continue the development that relationship
Speaker 5: with Roman duns in all the offensive assets and let's
Speaker 5: roll this on Monday night football and walk away with
Speaker 5: something you can be proud of.
Speaker 3: I felt strongly about what he had to say to
Speaker 3: the media at his morning news conference as well, because
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: They felt that they were ready to go.
Speaker 3: But you know, inspiration is different than execution, and the
Speaker 3: execution wasn't always there, and that was in both run
Speaker 3: or excuse me, offense and defense. Obviously, fell as Tommy,
Speaker 3: you can jump in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm one hundred percent with you. And you know
Speaker 5: that's the interesting thing about it is because you have that.
Speaker 9: Worktime on the airplane home, you have the worktime when
Speaker 9: you got there this morning. I'm sure that he was
Speaker 9: up and at him early before he met the press.
Speaker 9: And now what you have to do is you have
Speaker 9: to go in there and see how to address the
Speaker 9: football team when you get to meet with.
Speaker 5: Him for the first time before this game. You got
Speaker 5: to see how.
Speaker 9: You're going to talk to Eric Washington about the adjustment
Speaker 9: you'd possibly make on defense, and then what he's thinking
Speaker 9: in the offense and where he's going with the good
Speaker 9: things they did in the first game, the good things
Speaker 9: they did yesterday, and where they can go with more immediacy.
Speaker 9: Try to make those first and second quarters as profitable
Speaker 9: as you've been able to do in the second halfs
Speaker 9: throughout these games. So start fast, get Caleb, you know,
Speaker 9: off to a fast, fresh start, and then get on
Speaker 9: the attack.
Speaker 3: Jim And yeah, of course of your career, just observing
Speaker 3: and analyzing. Is there a common denominator for slow starts
Speaker 3: for teams?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean when you fire your head coach, you'd
Speaker 6: like to think there's a sense of urgency, right, But
Speaker 6: I think with that disruption, like I said, and things
Speaker 6: should be more settled this week because when the Iberus
Speaker 6: Eberflus was let go, now it's set in place a
Speaker 6: chain of events, right, Eric Washington now elevated to the
Speaker 6: defensive play caller. Here Thomas Brown, who was just elevated
Speaker 6: to call plays, now he's elevated to now delegate to
Speaker 6: the whole team. Now he's now got to spread his
Speaker 6: time thin now talking to Eric Washington, how is he
Speaker 6: gonna call a game? So there's a lot of working
Speaker 6: parts here is my point that Tom that has been
Speaker 6: put on Thomas Brown's plate. And yeah, I think that
Speaker 6: sense of urgency was there. I think that's real. I
Speaker 6: think everything's authentic about what the coach said. But with
Speaker 6: the situation last week, it'll be more settled this week
Speaker 6: because that is a lot of disruption for one coach
Speaker 6: to go through, and he basically changed his hats three
Speaker 6: different times in the last three weeks. Thomas Brown has
Speaker 6: all having different requirements that that are that are being
Speaker 6: asked out of those jobs, and so I think we
Speaker 6: could give him a little bit of a break, but
Speaker 6: I would think it'd be much more settled this week.
Speaker 3: How tom Oh, sorry, Jimmy, Tommy. Defensively, Thomas mentioned also
Speaker 3: in that about communication issues on the back end of
Speaker 3: the defense. Those are things second, in my opinion, unless
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, easily corrected.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, anything in the NFL is not easily corrected,
Speaker 5: but you have to do it, as he said repetitiously,
Speaker 5: and the more you do it, the better understanding you
Speaker 5: get in, the better you play, the better you understand
Speaker 5: each other. But the Bears have a group of veterans
Speaker 5: in the defensive backfield with Kevin Byard and Jalen Johnson and.
Speaker 9: Now Tarik Stevenson has the experience, and they've gone through
Speaker 9: a couple of other secondary safeties and they have Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 9: So all these guys they have to be up to
Speaker 9: stuff in their communication because they got to be able
Speaker 9: to control tight end, a couple of good receivers, a
Speaker 9: quarterback that's really playing well right now, and they have
Speaker 9: a back that catches the ball well out of the backfield.
Speaker 9: So however that back seven, back eight, they work together.
Speaker 9: They have to do it and being on the same
Speaker 9: page every single play, every single down and distance. And
Speaker 9: when you talked about Thomas Brown, how you watch tape,
Speaker 9: the Bears have to make sure that they put in
Speaker 9: their tape study to see if they can get any
Speaker 9: hints or clues or keys before the ball has ever snapped.
Speaker 3: Tom what would be the impact if Javon Dexter can't go?
Speaker 3: We don't do't We're not gonna know injuries really until
Speaker 3: Thursday at least. So Travis Homer, Jan Dray, Carter all
Speaker 3: left the game obviously as well. Homer concussion, Downdray Carter ankle,
Speaker 3: Travon Dexter ankle.
Speaker 9: Well, you know Zach Pickens recently came back. You have
Speaker 9: DeMarcus Walker, you have Coward.
Speaker 5: You have guys that are reversible, changeable and can play
Speaker 5: up and down the line of scrimmage. You may even
Speaker 5: have to explore some opportunities by putting Montese sweat on
Speaker 5: the inside at the three technique defensive tackle to see
Speaker 5: if he can give you some immediacy of pressure on
Speaker 5: the inside there, because then that's going to change the
Speaker 5: responsibility of the offensive line at the last second and
Speaker 5: they're gonna have to talk about make an adjustment. So
Speaker 5: I think when you look at guys, even like Daniel
Speaker 5: Hardy and the rest of the outside pass rushing crew, they.
Speaker 9: Have versatility within this defense alignement. So if you can
Speaker 9: do something that's unsuspected by the offensive line in their
Speaker 9: preparation during the week, maybe you can create a little
Speaker 9: confusion and a little apprehension on their protection that gets
Speaker 9: you to Darnold a little earlier.
Speaker 3: You know, Tom mentioned the name of Daniel Hardy, and Jim,
Speaker 3: I don't know that you had a chance to meet
Speaker 3: him when you were at Bears training camp this year.
Speaker 2: But this is a guy who he got here the
Speaker 2: hard way, right.
Speaker 3: He definitely overlooked and then he plays constantly hair on fire.
Speaker 3: So he and I'm in a band Lamimiga are special
Speaker 3: teams tackle leaders, and that was an area that also
Speaker 3: was recognized by Thomas Brown. As being that that was
Speaker 3: the violent, physical, very good play yesterday from Special Teams.
Speaker 2: Those two guys are a part of it.
Speaker 3: Hardy heard from again on Special Teams that that can't
Speaker 3: be understated. We only focus obviously on offense because it's
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams. He's the number one pick, he's the future.
Speaker 3: And then how we talk defense by boy. Special teams
Speaker 3: has had some good moments.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they really have. And you know, obviously Hardy I
Speaker 6: remember him in the in the preseason. He did he
Speaker 6: played with his hair on fire. Like you said, he
Speaker 6: had an impact and you know and all that and
Speaker 6: and that needs to continue because like you said, now
Speaker 6: when guys are a little bit banged up here, you
Speaker 6: know Tom's talking about Pickens is obviously his numbers in
Speaker 6: his snap totals could go up. It's this is the
Speaker 6: point in time of the year where everybody's got to
Speaker 6: grab an oar. It truly is how deep is your roster.
Speaker 6: Everybody's got to help out and you're going to be
Speaker 6: expected to play. And other teams have been able to
Speaker 6: weed through uh that you know that part of their
Speaker 6: schedule and these are the games that normally you want
Speaker 6: to be in. That matter right end of the year
Speaker 6: division matchups, and that's what's going to be key in
Speaker 6: this game for the Bears. I thought it was interesting
Speaker 6: because Minnesota just played the Falcons. Jesse Bates the safety
Speaker 6: of the Falcons, you know, he said, we did not
Speaker 6: play as a secondary to the physical stature of the Vikings. Well,
Speaker 6: what does that mean. You've got Justin Jefferson and you've
Speaker 6: got Addison who basically climbed the ladder and made a
Speaker 6: big catch in their game. But Jesse Bates said, that's
Speaker 6: where they failed. And we interviewed actually Rahiem Morris today,
Speaker 6: head coach of the Falcons, and he said that, he said, yeah,
Speaker 6: we did not when it came time to contest the
Speaker 6: past where we need to play bigger and make the plays.
Speaker 6: We did not and that's where they thought they failed.
Speaker 6: And obviously this is going to be a big test
Speaker 6: for the Bears secondary.
Speaker 2: Again, to the secondary, I know it, to the secondary.
Speaker 3: Also want to talk Tory Taylor had a good day,
Speaker 3: a really really good day bombing punts for sure. So
Speaker 3: when we come back, Matt Pryor, we'll listen into a
Speaker 3: conversation that's coming up next here on Bear's Weekly on
Speaker 3: ESPN one thousand and the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Bear's Weekly with Jeff Joniak on the Bears Radio Network. Well,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Bears Weekly on the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Here's your host up Bears, Jeff show you.
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Speaker 3: from Serious XM NFL Radio. Getting things ready for the
Speaker 3: Minister of the Vikings. Early start of the week for us, well,
Speaker 3: Monday night at one of the best stadiums, if not
Speaker 3: the best stadium in the National Football League's going to
Speaker 3: be loud. Vikings are currently on a roll. Will dig
Speaker 3: into them in a moment, But first a portion of
Speaker 3: an interview I did. This was a little while ago,
Speaker 3: so this is prior to Thomas Brown being elevated to
Speaker 3: head coach. But Matt Pryor the Bears starting right guard,
Speaker 3: just his experience so far with with the head coach.
Speaker 10: You know, it's just a different energy. He carried himself well,
Speaker 10: and you know he left the room filled his energy
Speaker 10: and you know, just just as mindset of you know,
Speaker 10: being physical up front and you know, getting solidified in
Speaker 10: the run, which is what's I think helped offense kind
Speaker 10: of you know, expand on plays is getting in there
Speaker 10: and being able to run the ball and running it
Speaker 10: early and then not only that, but getting the ball
Speaker 10: to our playmakers playmakers early, and you know, that's what
Speaker 10: he's doing a great job of doing. And just as
Speaker 10: my set, you know, the physicality, physicality and uh you know,
Speaker 10: playing offense and upfront. He's really hard on the stuff front.
Speaker 10: So uh, you know, it's just it's good.
Speaker 4: Do you like that?
Speaker 2: You are you a guy that likes being coached hard?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, uh yeah, I like I like hard coaching.
Speaker 10: You know, some some people don't respond to it well.
Speaker 10: But you know, I've had my whole career, not only
Speaker 10: in the league but in college, so it's not new,
Speaker 10: you know. Yeah, yeah, you know, I came from Philly,
Speaker 10: so you know, you got coach all in there, and
Speaker 10: Coach Allen's going to coach you hard, but you know
Speaker 10: he means it, will buy it, So you know, I'm
Speaker 10: used to it.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 3: And you don't have a problem of physicality because you're
Speaker 3: the biggest guy around. And you don't have a problem
Speaker 3: of physicality because you're the biggest guy around. There's only
Speaker 3: so many people walking the planet, Like I'm Matt pryor.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, man, I mean obviously you play online, you
Speaker 10: got to like being physical, so uh, you know, it
Speaker 10: comes with the territory.
Speaker 3: How does your length wingspan which is massive and you
Speaker 3: and I have talked before on the radio side just
Speaker 3: about using that link, but how do you use it
Speaker 3: to your advantage and not have it become a negative
Speaker 3: because sometimes if there's a shifty or smaller guy and
Speaker 3: get on of you.
Speaker 10: And yeah, I mean I think with the shifter guy
Speaker 10: it comes more down to being patient and you know,
Speaker 10: throwing your hands. But you know, obviously it's a lot more.
Speaker 10: I don't know how to put it, but like the
Speaker 10: complexity and being taller in the entier has its, you know,
Speaker 10: weaknesses and pros. But it's a lot quicker in engagement
Speaker 10: when you're on the inside compared to being out on
Speaker 10: the edge. So you know, I kind of use that
Speaker 10: to my advantage on you know, dudes with shorter arms
Speaker 10: and whatnot. But you know, it's it's it is kind
Speaker 10: of shifty with the quicker guys just because you don't
Speaker 10: know what they're going to do, so it just comes
Speaker 10: down to being a little more patient and throwing your hands.
Speaker 3: Following your timeline, You've been through organizations that really value
Speaker 3: run in the football from indeed Philly, certainly San Francisco,
Speaker 3: certainly here too.
Speaker 2: I would take that as a compliment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're investing in a guy like yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, man.
Speaker 10: They did a great job in all three places I've
Speaker 10: been at run the ball, and you know here they
Speaker 10: fall suit and you know, just being being able to
Speaker 10: go out there now and you know, getting that job done,
Speaker 10: it's great, especially when you have you know, the runners
Speaker 10: we have in a Swift and Rosauran and you know,
Speaker 10: allowing them to go out there and do what they do.
Speaker 3: How do you feel when people talk about your versatility
Speaker 3: do you look at it as a positive?
Speaker 2: Obviously everybody says you can do in the league.
Speaker 3: But for a guy like yourself, I don't know what
Speaker 3: you envisioned when you came into this league. What you
Speaker 3: wanted obviously want to start, but where and all that.
Speaker 3: But because they keep moving you around.
Speaker 10: I say, when when I first came in, I expected
Speaker 10: to be a tackle and I kind of got tricked.
Speaker 10: I'm not gonna say tricked, but I went to my
Speaker 10: thirty visit. I went out to dinner and sat down
Speaker 10: with Stout and Chung, the assistant O line coach, and
Speaker 10: they kind of baited me into saying I want to
Speaker 10: I'm a tackle, and Stout didn't like that. You know,
Speaker 10: It's kind of when when you're a young guy, and
Speaker 10: when I got drafted there they had all pro you know,
Speaker 10: offensive line, Brooks, Lane, JP Kelse, Yeah, and uh, you
Speaker 10: know me going there, I was like, man, I'm never
Speaker 10: going to play just because you know the how good
Speaker 10: that old line was. So you know, the only way
Speaker 10: I see I could get on the fields if I
Speaker 10: was able to play everything. So that's kind of what
Speaker 10: I try to do. But you know, obviously everybody wants
Speaker 10: to just settle down into one position. But you know,
Speaker 10: when it comes out like this year, I had to
Speaker 10: play tackle. But you know, if it comes down to
Speaker 10: me having to go out there, I don't have no issue.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm I'm a team guy. I'm gonna do
Speaker 10: whatever the team needs.
Speaker 3: And that really is the story on Matt Pryor, Tommy,
Speaker 3: is your area of expertise, give us, give us an
Speaker 3: update on this young man.
Speaker 2: And he's a delightful. Guy loves being here too.
Speaker 9: He loves playing well, you know the thing about it,
Speaker 9: and body size is no longer or only isolated to
Speaker 9: one position. If you have the athleticism, the bendability, and
Speaker 9: the mental part of the game, then you're going to
Speaker 9: be plugged in anywhere you can possibly help out the offensive.
Speaker 5: Line the most. And we saw Matt move around the
Speaker 5: offensive line up and down wherever they needed the most.
Speaker 9: But I do think when you have a player of
Speaker 9: his talent and his ability, and the longer he can
Speaker 9: play one position longer, the more familiar he becomes with
Speaker 9: all the nuances of that position, how he can be
Speaker 9: most beneficial to the right tackle, how he can help
Speaker 9: out the center the most. And then the offensive coordinator
Speaker 9: gets to learn a little bit about what his strengths
Speaker 9: are in what type of plays that you can run
Speaker 9: directly behind him, how you could use them as a
Speaker 9: pulling athlete out in front of the plays. And then
Speaker 9: on pass plow what can he do at his best
Speaker 9: to make sure that you can put the protection in
Speaker 9: the place where you use that big body, that big size.
Speaker 9: So the more that you keep a guy in one spot,
Speaker 9: the more you learn about his strengths and vulnerabilities, and
Speaker 9: then I think the more you can build an offensive
Speaker 9: game plan around the consistency of have an offensive.
Speaker 5: Line in place.
Speaker 2: Jimmy, you like that big size on the interior help
Speaker 2: you out?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Absolutely, I mean you got the big guards, and
Speaker 6: you know, because I wasn't running anywhere, so the firmer
Speaker 6: the better up there to shore it up a little bit.
Speaker 6: But you know, it's so much of a space game.
Speaker 6: We know the tackle's got to be able to move.
Speaker 6: And then when you have the versatility and flexibility like prior,
Speaker 6: he can play more than one position, which always helps,
Speaker 6: and that's going to add your value to a roster. Obviously,
Speaker 6: the sack totals have been a problem. I mean they
Speaker 6: lead the league in sacks. It has to get better,
Speaker 6: not only from a upfront standpoint, but from a quarterback
Speaker 6: standpoint as well, processing and get rid of the ball
Speaker 6: a lot faster as well. We'll see where it goes
Speaker 6: here as they close out the season.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, we'll preview the matchup
Speaker 3: on Monday night against the Vikings, and our final segment.
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Speaker 3: Joniac So by this quarterback.
Speaker 2: Darnold.
Speaker 3: I think his first name is Sam. Where is this
Speaker 3: coming from twenty eight touchdown passes? Five yesterday?
Speaker 2: I think, Jim.
Speaker 3: The more remarkable thing is justin Jefferson caught us first
Speaker 3: touchdown pass since week three, but five. I've all told
Speaker 3: he and Jordan Addison danger.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's playing with a lot more confidence.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: It was interesting. I was watching Caleb Williams his mannerisms
Speaker 6: out in San Francisco on the bench when they saw me.
Speaker 6: You just see him taking a deep breath, kind of
Speaker 6: rolling his eyes a little bit. That looked like Sam
Speaker 6: Donald back for the New York Jets days, you know.
Speaker 6: But now you look at Sam Donald, he looks like
Speaker 6: he's in control.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: I think you see how big his arm is. He's athletic,
Speaker 6: he can move around, he can make plays, and coach
Speaker 6: O'Connell really has done a good job with his decision making.
Speaker 6: He still has some turnover issues, but they've been able
Speaker 6: to overcome it and they've been able to win with
Speaker 6: Sam Donald. So I think it's a remarkable comeback story.
Speaker 6: So Gino Smith and now he probably add Sam Donald
Speaker 6: to the mix. He looks very relaxed this year.
Speaker 2: Tommy.
Speaker 9: You know, it's I have really admired what Donald has
Speaker 9: done because there's a lot of people that thought that
Speaker 9: his career was basically on the over and actually when
Speaker 9: they started at training camp, I thought they brought him
Speaker 9: into be a camp arm for JJ McCarthy. But they
Speaker 9: obviously have done a good job of coaching him.
Speaker 5: But then you look at the offensive assets that he's there,
Speaker 5: not only from their running back with Aaron Jones and
Speaker 5: the tight end Hockinson and the rest of the receivers
Speaker 5: he's had. He's really taken advantage of his opportunity and
Speaker 5: he's done a nice job developing and I think the
Speaker 5: Bears have an opportunity to get right back on track
Speaker 5: by limiting his success, putting pressure on him getting the
Speaker 5: ball out of his hands quickly and get yourself an
Speaker 5: interception or two to get your defense back in the
Speaker 5: right side of the ball.
Speaker 3: And I just wonder what floor is the defensive coordinator
Speaker 3: has in store for this one at home. Things he
Speaker 3: didn't really show in the first meeting because they didn't
Speaker 3: blitz a ton on Caleb Williams in that game the
Speaker 3: first week time.
Speaker 9: We miss Yeah, Kayla was throwing completion So the thing
Speaker 9: about a blitzing coach is you throw completions, then you
Speaker 9: don't blitz.
Speaker 5: Them very much.
Speaker 2: Jim, if you feel the same, yeah, you just just
Speaker 2: got them.
Speaker 6: Make sure you get completions and they'll get out of
Speaker 6: the blitz. Totally agree.
Speaker 3: All right, it's gonna be an interesting matchup as get
Speaker 3: back in the Division four pack of games. To wrap
Speaker 3: things up, Jim, thanks again for taking the time to
Speaker 3: join us. Appreciate you, buddy.
Speaker 6: Always fun. Good to be with you guys.
Speaker 2: All right, that's.
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