Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Bears All Access. It's brought
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Speaker 1: five nine FM WBBM, Chicago Bears Super Bowl Winter Tom. There,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Jonahak. We're previewing the Bears Week four matchup
Speaker 1: against the Giants in Jersey. Sunday. Our broadcast on WBBM
Speaker 1: gets underway at nine, kickoff at noon. Coming up with
Speaker 1: the show, veteran offensive lineman Lucas Patrick joins the program,
Speaker 1: and we also hear from the voice of the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, Bob Papa. Thanks to our producers Dan Brilli
Speaker 1: and Jordan tread Up and the folks at the score. Tom,
Speaker 1: how you feeling. I'm feeling good, Jeff. You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of crazy how your expectations change in week four
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the season, and even though the
Speaker 1: Bears are suffering through some growing pains in their passing game,
Speaker 1: now the expectations of what you can do going to
Speaker 1: New York. Can you go toe to toe with these guys?
Speaker 1: And then can you come out with a win? And
Speaker 1: I think all of those things are doable, but I
Speaker 1: guess that the anticipation of the week leading up to
Speaker 1: the game, Well, we know where the Bears are and
Speaker 1: they are not going to change in that regard. From
Speaker 1: an offensive perspective, we're going to focus on that. In
Speaker 1: this segment Tommy offensive coordinator Luke Gatzy described it to
Speaker 1: the TEA. They are a physical based rushing offense. From
Speaker 1: the very beginning we walked in and training camp, we
Speaker 1: made it the focus of what of who we wanted
Speaker 1: to be and the way we wanted to play the game,
Speaker 1: and they have taken that by the reins for sure,
Speaker 1: and our play style reflects that. The way they're they're
Speaker 1: firing off the football, the way they're finishing all that stuff,
Speaker 1: that's that is That was the number one thing we
Speaker 1: said we were going to do. We wanted our tape
Speaker 1: to look a certain way, and those guys have definitely
Speaker 1: accepted that challenge and done a really nice job. Joe,
Speaker 1: he wants the tape to look a certain way, wanted
Speaker 1: to set the tone with that from day one. You
Speaker 1: watch the tape as much as anybody has. That been
Speaker 1: a mission accomplished in terms of the running game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But the thing that's impressed me about it is this
Speaker 1: is not just an exclusive outside zone running team. They
Speaker 1: have interior vision by the running backs and they have
Speaker 1: nice solid physical performances by the guards in the center
Speaker 1: to keep that interior running game open, being effective and
Speaker 1: being profitable. And a big part of it is the fullback.
Speaker 1: It is Karrie blasting game. He hasn't played much fifteen
Speaker 1: snaps last week thirteen, the week before eleven before that,
Speaker 1: but Tommy, the production has been outstanding. This is from
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show with Matt Iberflus on Monday night.
Speaker 1: And that's such an important thing on early downs to
Speaker 1: have that fullback in there, and it changes, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're in twenty two personnel or twenty one personnel
Speaker 1: and you have that guy in there, it's it's a
Speaker 1: big adjustment for the defense and you have to really
Speaker 1: work on those run fits because not every team carries
Speaker 1: a fullback, you know, so you know, only a few
Speaker 1: teams do you know, and more and more are starting
Speaker 1: to go back to it. But man, when you have
Speaker 1: that weapon as a fullback, it creates a lot of
Speaker 1: situations for the defense to handle. Tom. I know you
Speaker 1: love it. I know you'd probably like to see more Bake.
Speaker 1: The defense matchup against you the fullback is not a revelation.
Speaker 1: It makes it more challenging nowadays because you know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: back in the day when you had your Matt Sueis
Speaker 1: and you had your Calvin Thomas's, and you had your
Speaker 1: Brad Muster's part of the fullback family of the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: you're talking about linebackers that were two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: pounds at the point of attack. Now you're talking about
Speaker 1: interior linebackers there are two hundred and twenty pounds. You
Speaker 1: get a fullback this two hundred and thirty five pound
Speaker 1: plus with a running start. That's a winnable battle. And
Speaker 1: you get that winnable battle and it means positive interior
Speaker 1: rushing yards. So I understand the creativity of all the
Speaker 1: boy geniuses around the league, But what's the basic football
Speaker 1: fundamental physical interior presence. And that's because of a fullback.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you they've gotten some really good yards
Speaker 1: before first context. So you got to give the guys
Speaker 1: up front, the receivers, the tight ends, the backs all
Speaker 1: doing their part in this rushing attack that produced two
Speaker 1: eighty one against Houston and Luke Yetzi. Tommy thrilled with
Speaker 1: the performance of Khalil Herbert, just what he brings to
Speaker 1: the table. Not certain what David Montgomery status will be
Speaker 1: for Sunday, but he had to leave the game after
Speaker 1: eleven plays with that lower leg injury. It's got a
Speaker 1: really cool patience about him that he's able to kind
Speaker 1: of let things happen and make it feel like he's
Speaker 1: not necessarily going full speed but he is, which then
Speaker 1: allows him to make cuts, you know, and read off
Speaker 1: the blocks of guys pretty really well. But was to
Speaker 1: me stood out this game compared to the other ones
Speaker 1: was his ability to make the first defender miss, whether
Speaker 1: it was a stiff arm, whether it was running through
Speaker 1: a tackle, or whether it was a making miss move.
Speaker 1: I think that was the biggest improvement this week. Well,
Speaker 1: he's a racked up dude as well. It's great leverage, Tommy,
Speaker 1: and he just he gets north and south in a
Speaker 1: big hurry. Yeah. But you know, Jeff, when a new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator comes aboard, you really don't know what your
Speaker 1: personnel can deliver for you until you get into the
Speaker 1: regular season. Running backs are rarely tackled in practice. You
Speaker 1: really don't get the solid understanding of their vision and
Speaker 1: how they see things unfold in front of them and
Speaker 1: how they react accordingly. I think Luke Getsy is finally
Speaker 1: getting an understanding of the traits and the talents and
Speaker 1: the vision and the physicality of a guy like Khalil
Speaker 1: Herbert that you can play him in multiple in multiple
Speaker 1: ways within this offense. They gotta worry about. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the opposition of this case. The Giants gotta worry
Speaker 1: about justin fields when he gets out of the pocket
Speaker 1: and picking up rushing yards. You gotta worry about those
Speaker 1: fly sweeps. You gotta worry about Herbert. You gotta worry
Speaker 1: about blasting game. Heck, but you're getting six point seven
Speaker 1: six yards on first down run of the football, second
Speaker 1: best in the National Football League behind Nick Chubb and
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. How significant is that? How can you
Speaker 1: build on that? And how can the passing game develop
Speaker 1: because of that? First of all, don't shy away from it.
Speaker 1: If that's where you have coming into New York, then
Speaker 1: continue that process. Make the defensive coordinator, defensive personnel adjust
Speaker 1: to you. And then as soon as they start saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're committing to stop the run. We're gonna have eight
Speaker 1: guys up in the box, no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: then you use Justin's athleticism outside the box identify that
Speaker 1: receiver immediately. Like he said last week, you got to
Speaker 1: be willing to take checkdowns and turn those three yard
Speaker 1: completions into ten yard plays. So yeah, there are going
Speaker 1: to identify what your best asset is offensively, and that's
Speaker 1: running the ball, and they're going to try to figure
Speaker 1: away how to confuse you at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and make more guys have individual assignments for the second
Speaker 1: week in a row. At hat U saw during his
Speaker 1: Thursday news conference, Luke Getsy asked right out of the
Speaker 1: gate what his confidence level is. Trust in Justin fields
Speaker 1: and we do whatever we have to do to win games.
Speaker 1: So we've opened up the passing game. It's not like
Speaker 1: we haven't called pass plays that we were or that
Speaker 1: we've been intimidated to call a play by any means.
Speaker 1: We're calling the game the way we feel his best
Speaker 1: to attack with our matchups, So it doesn't just it's
Speaker 1: not you know, the perspective is that everything is just
Speaker 1: because it's through Justin, but we have ten other guys
Speaker 1: that we have to account for too, So you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we aren't able to go five wide and spread
Speaker 1: people out because of matchups that we have to deal with.
Speaker 1: So that goes into a lot of things. So as
Speaker 1: we go through the games, we just got to find
Speaker 1: about our way to take advantage of the matchups that
Speaker 1: we feel really good about and kind of stay away
Speaker 1: from those matchups that maybe we don't feel so good about.
Speaker 1: My concern is to me, is when you get into
Speaker 1: a passing down, what are they going to do with
Speaker 1: that safety? So the safety last week for Houston, he
Speaker 1: kind of was a spy against Justin, and if Justin
Speaker 1: wanted to run, the safety would chase him. If the
Speaker 1: Justin did not want to run any he was going
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, then he was dropping back into
Speaker 1: trying to get into a confusing coverage joint. So to me, Jeff,
Speaker 1: it's all about how does the safety factor in an
Speaker 1: individual battle an eye battle against Justin And it would
Speaker 1: be Xavier McKinney and Julian Love Adam Nazareth High School
Speaker 1: here in the Chicago area. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: be joined by a veteran offensive lineman Lucas Patrick. This
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Speaker 1: With Tom the Jeff johny AAC joined by Bears offensive
Speaker 1: lineman Lucas Patrick. Good to see you, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: And how about this Giants, how about this? Two teams
Speaker 1: with new regimes, new coaches. One of these two teams
Speaker 1: got to come out of this firing overtime of course
Speaker 1: at three and one. That that puts a smile on
Speaker 1: your face, right, because no one really had these kind
Speaker 1: of expectations outside looking in anyway. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know inside the building we see our team differently, and
Speaker 1: we have certain standards that we hold ourselves too. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been in the league long enough and
Speaker 1: you start to look at the league as kind of
Speaker 1: its own game. The regular season kind of has four quarters. Now,
Speaker 1: I know, we have seventeen games, so that math doesn't
Speaker 1: really add up, But if you can win each quarter,
Speaker 1: it sets you up for a nice shout at the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So three and one would be huge. And you come
Speaker 1: from a program that's been super successful. When you when
Speaker 1: you came from college and then you went to the
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, was that kind of feeling that you're talking
Speaker 1: about right there talked to you by the other players,
Speaker 1: was a talk to you by management. It was the
Speaker 1: expectations high because of the success you were having. Um,
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. Um, I think, uh, whenever
Speaker 1: you can get a player led team, and coach Fleus
Speaker 1: is really big on us kind of setting the tone
Speaker 1: and taking care of things. But um, when the older
Speaker 1: guys can kind of instill in the younger guys or
Speaker 1: vice versa. But like, hey, this is our standard, and
Speaker 1: it's to win this quarter, you know, the first four games,
Speaker 1: and then set ourselves up so that you know, because
Speaker 1: you never know what uh, what game you went earlier
Speaker 1: in the year can help with seating and UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's something that I kind of got indoctrinated
Speaker 1: to early on in my career and I firmly believe
Speaker 1: in it that um, you can't you can't look at
Speaker 1: the NFL season as a you know, a big mountain,
Speaker 1: you know, huge task because when in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is the hardest thing you have or do. You have
Speaker 1: to go weekend, week out, and each week the price
Speaker 1: becomes a little greater. So you got to segment them,
Speaker 1: break them up, and really attack it one week at
Speaker 1: a time and kind of compartmentalize the season. What I
Speaker 1: like to do is into four quarters and try and
Speaker 1: win each quarter because that's you know, that's kind of
Speaker 1: how we try to win the games. It's going drive
Speaker 1: at a time and you know, win a quarter at
Speaker 1: a time. Lucas Patrick Gard guest here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy of the score,
Speaker 1: Healthy and ready to go. Ed had to tear your
Speaker 1: heart out a little bit because you were brought here
Speaker 1: for a very specific reason to help, you know, not
Speaker 1: only take the next step in your career, but but
Speaker 1: get this offense acquainted with the scheme and so forth.
Speaker 1: And then the injury to the hand pops up. I'm
Speaker 1: sure given your route here to the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Never easy to deal with something like that because again
Speaker 1: you had a new platform and you had to be
Speaker 1: sidelined a bit. But now you're back and it's it's
Speaker 1: all over. But mentally, how did you handle all that?
Speaker 1: You know, you think it's going to be easier each
Speaker 1: time you you get an obstacle and something comes your
Speaker 1: way and UM, but it's not because each each obstacle
Speaker 1: has different parameters to it. Um, and this one was
Speaker 1: unique in the sense that, UM, I felt as if
Speaker 1: I had a bigger role here. Um was brought in
Speaker 1: for a purpose and I feel like UM sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: when you're just watching your guys practice and grind through camp,
Speaker 1: you're not fulfilling your purpose. Um. And so it's tough.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta do a few gut checks and
Speaker 1: rely on you know, teammates like Cody's been exceptional through
Speaker 1: this and been a great teammate, and uh, somebody like
Speaker 1: Sam who's uh, you know, taking the challenge and run
Speaker 1: full steam with it and super proud of what he's done.
Speaker 1: And UM, so I have some good guys around me.
Speaker 1: But it's tough. But you just gotta keep putting one
Speaker 1: foot in front of the other and take everything with
Speaker 1: a little bit of grace and gratitude and just know
Speaker 1: that you're in a certain situation. You know, one similarity
Speaker 1: we do have. When I came out of college, I
Speaker 1: was kind of a center guard guard center combination and
Speaker 1: I was going to play wherever they needed me most
Speaker 1: and I but I always had a preference of playing guard.
Speaker 1: That's where I felt my most football confidence. Do you
Speaker 1: have a preference of where you play? Do you have
Speaker 1: the football confidence that I had? And what do you like?
Speaker 1: What position do you favor? I think, without like giving
Speaker 1: away any scheme stuff, I definitely prefer one position, and
Speaker 1: I think you could probably guess which position it is.
Speaker 1: It's a position I was signed to a team to play.
Speaker 1: I just enjoy the battle of that, the mental and
Speaker 1: the physical. At the end of the day, the opportunity
Speaker 1: to play in the NFL so short, and I saw
Speaker 1: that early in my career, which I look at as
Speaker 1: a great learning lesson that I don't want to be
Speaker 1: back out of the league. So if they need me
Speaker 1: to play anything and give them everything I got. Well.
Speaker 1: Jeff mentioned it before about the practice we are at
Speaker 1: the practice when you got hurt, did you know immediately
Speaker 1: because I remember you uran Uran your play. You turn around,
Speaker 1: walk back to the group of guys, and it seemed
Speaker 1: like you recognize something. Did you know immediately that you
Speaker 1: had tweaked something? Yeah, Unfortunately, I've had previous hand injuries
Speaker 1: that required medical attention similar to that, just hoping it
Speaker 1: wasn't severe enough to remove me for a long time,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I knew right away. Lucas Patrick our guest
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to the score
Speaker 1: with Tom There Jeff Jonia getting you ready for Bears
Speaker 1: and Giants. One thing, no matter what position or what
Speaker 1: your situation might be, you bring unbelievable enthusiasm. You always
Speaker 1: catch you doing something. You're the life of the party
Speaker 1: on the football field, and I'm sure you're pretty pretty
Speaker 1: significant in the weight room too in terms of motivating
Speaker 1: and however you go about doing it. Is this who
Speaker 1: this native Tennesseeing always has been? Or have you grown
Speaker 1: into this personality? Definitely? Early on in my career I
Speaker 1: was be seen and not heard, and I think it's
Speaker 1: just as you get older, you get more comfortable and
Speaker 1: you know what to expect to the season. But one
Speaker 1: thing that I love about our coaches they let us
Speaker 1: be ourselves. And I learned that from a previous staff
Speaker 1: and this staff is amazing at that, especially seemos probably
Speaker 1: Chris Morgan, our offensive line coach. We all call him Semo.
Speaker 1: He is so he's so good at balancing personalities but
Speaker 1: also like getting us to work, and it just makes
Speaker 1: it fun, Like we're playing a kids game, way too
Speaker 1: much money to play kids game, Like let's go out
Speaker 1: and have fun, like let's win games, let's play hard,
Speaker 1: let's do what we need to do, but let's have fun.
Speaker 1: And you know, I only get to do this for certain,
Speaker 1: you know, limited years, you know, because the NFL tends
Speaker 1: to tell you buy before we want to say bye.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have as much fun every day as
Speaker 1: I can. You know that was a veteran move right there.
Speaker 1: Tom now is he's worked at the MIC more than
Speaker 1: he has in the trenches in his great career. But
Speaker 1: did you notice the veteran move right there? Because not
Speaker 1: everybody listening knows who Semo is, but he did a
Speaker 1: reset there. That's a veteran move by Lucas pa Patrick.
Speaker 1: I like it tell the audience who Semo is. Chris
Speaker 1: Morgan and getting to know him is just something. Really
Speaker 1: impressed by his attitude. Number one, I know time He's
Speaker 1: got plenty of comments also to make about seemos. I'll
Speaker 1: let him do that as well. But what have you
Speaker 1: taken from him that really sets him apart maybe from
Speaker 1: others that you've worked with over the course of your career,
Speaker 1: and just he's working with a really interesting group of guys.
Speaker 1: He's got the two vets, he's got a bunch of
Speaker 1: young guys trying to get on this, get this thing going.
Speaker 1: I think one of the best attributes that Semo has is,
Speaker 1: like I said, letting us be us, but like working,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you can look like you're working but not
Speaker 1: be working efficient. And that kind of was an epiphany
Speaker 1: early on in the spring because I've always like it's
Speaker 1: kind of been my career, like I've had to work
Speaker 1: as hard as I can at everything and exhaust myself.
Speaker 1: But his biggest thing is like, you don't have to
Speaker 1: exhaust yourself if you're smarter, you know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Like let's study, Like you should know exactly what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do before they do it, so that you can
Speaker 1: beat him to it and then you can play even
Speaker 1: harder and make it through the seventy five snaps And
Speaker 1: just that mentality of like being a maniac about the
Speaker 1: details and not, not that I haven't been detailed before,
Speaker 1: but that's that's what coaching is. It's making your you know,
Speaker 1: you're better, your best and keep keep climbing and keep improving.
Speaker 1: And he's really good at improving, you know, a guy
Speaker 1: like me, a seven year vet and improving a first
Speaker 1: year player in Braxton and uh, you know, even second
Speaker 1: year players like I think Devin Jenkins has made one
Speaker 1: of the greatest jumps from a tackle to a guard
Speaker 1: and he's playing a really good ball right now, and
Speaker 1: um yeah, Simo is able to handle all all of
Speaker 1: that in one room. I like the little details that
Speaker 1: he pays attention to an offensive line play, just a
Speaker 1: small thing. For example, you're gonna have a double team block.
Speaker 1: You guys both have to hit the defensive player, don't
Speaker 1: have any contact with each other. And that was one
Speaker 1: of the things that frustrates me around the league when
Speaker 1: you see an offensive lineman bumping another offensive lineman off
Speaker 1: the block. So you know, I really you know, lucas As,
Speaker 1: I was watching the speed and wish you guys were
Speaker 1: practicing at throughout OTAs and I was going, I know,
Speaker 1: I think in my career and my time with the Bears, player,
Speaker 1: and now as a broadcaster, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: seen the tempo in OTAs like I saw you, and
Speaker 1: I was going to wonder if this is going to
Speaker 1: carry over to full pads, and it did. So my
Speaker 1: question is did it surprise you at the tempo and
Speaker 1: wish you guys were practicing at number one in number
Speaker 1: two when Matt Eberflus was introduced as the head coach
Speaker 1: and he came up and he said, these guys better
Speaker 1: have their running shoes on. Did the running shoes part
Speaker 1: sit well with you? And did the tempo of OTAs
Speaker 1: set well with you? Yeah? I mean I've always thought
Speaker 1: I was in good shape, but this is a different shape.
Speaker 1: And it's not that I ever played in a bad shape.
Speaker 1: It's just this is a different style of working, and um,
Speaker 1: it's good. I mean, we firmly believe if we get
Speaker 1: a team in a close bat on the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: they didn't work like us. And like I can say
Speaker 1: it because I have. I have never ran like I've
Speaker 1: run here before. I've never drilled like I've drilled here before.
Speaker 1: And when we get in the fourth quarter, I feel
Speaker 1: fresher than I've ever felt before with you know, six
Speaker 1: years prior to me in the NFL, so it's definitely
Speaker 1: worth it. But like it's it's eye opening, like you
Speaker 1: got to you gotta bring your lunch pail literally every
Speaker 1: day because nothing is given from coach Fleus or Semo.
Speaker 1: And I love it because it it we have an edge,
Speaker 1: like we believe the fourth quarter is ours and right
Speaker 1: now defense believes that too. They haven't a lot of
Speaker 1: touchdown to the fourth quarter. That's all. It continues in
Speaker 1: East Rutherford against the Giants. That is Lucas Patrick, I'
Speaker 1: Jeff jonnyaku Town there. We'll take our first break here
Speaker 1: in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment
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Speaker 1: six seventy The Score. We're brought to you by IGS Energy. Tommy.
Speaker 1: You know, when you see the development of an offensive line,
Speaker 1: it's kind of unique in that the fact that it's
Speaker 1: kind of a team within a team, and like I said,
Speaker 1: I really enjoy what I've seen out of Chris Morgan
Speaker 1: and how he's coached everybody and coach guys of multiple positions.
Speaker 1: As an offensive lineman, when did you start seeing this
Speaker 1: thing come together? Going Okay, I'm getting an understanding that
Speaker 1: we're gonna be a solid group and we're gonna be
Speaker 1: a really powerful offensive line. You know, it's not to
Speaker 1: give you the coach or the player answer, the football answer,
Speaker 1: but like I just I guess because I'm in the
Speaker 1: weed of it. I still feel like we have so
Speaker 1: far to go. But the only times you can kind
Speaker 1: of barely and I'm talking barely look up and peek
Speaker 1: around is after games when you look at rushing yards
Speaker 1: and we gotta get bread and protection. It's one thing
Speaker 1: that you know, we're working on with our fundamentals, but
Speaker 1: we're doing some special things up front and kind of
Speaker 1: have to rely on the fact that this is what
Speaker 1: we wanted to do from the beginning. This is the
Speaker 1: goal we set out in OTAs when we had our
Speaker 1: first meeting about being a special grouping, being tight, having
Speaker 1: a brotherhood, you know, not being vets and rookies, but
Speaker 1: being older brothers and little brothers and really looking out
Speaker 1: for each other because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the five guys that are out there have to play
Speaker 1: as one. And when we get to play as one,
Speaker 1: everyone plays better. And when we play better, the team
Speaker 1: plays better. And it's it's just kind of the mentality
Speaker 1: we have to have. You know, our offensive line coach
Speaker 1: always used to tell us, if you win the game,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get any credit. If you lose
Speaker 1: the game, you're gonna get all the blame. So I
Speaker 1: guess generation the generation, that's the way it goes. I'd
Speaker 1: like to ask you a little bit about the emotions
Speaker 1: from week one to week two. So Week one, you
Speaker 1: come out, you sold your feel you get the introduction,
Speaker 1: you got a super supportive crowd, and it's so whether
Speaker 1: that I haven't seen three or four times in my life,
Speaker 1: and so I'd like to capture the emotions of that game,
Speaker 1: and then the emotions of week two going to Green
Speaker 1: Bay because in my I mean I've played played in
Speaker 1: Green Bay a number of times and to me as
Speaker 1: never being a Packer but being a Bear, I know
Speaker 1: what the emotions are of that game. So Week one,
Speaker 1: as a Bear in Week two as a Bear. Going
Speaker 1: into Green Bay Week one as a Bear was a
Speaker 1: little more emotional for me personally, just you know, my
Speaker 1: journey through the NFL and then signing here and post
Speaker 1: injury and like knowing I was going to get snaps,
Speaker 1: didn't know when those would come, and then finally playing
Speaker 1: and then in this crazy back and forth just slug fest.
Speaker 1: It felt like against a really good Niners team. I
Speaker 1: mean that's you know, the last three to four years,
Speaker 1: that's been the consistency in the NFC has been the Niners.
Speaker 1: They've been what two or three Super Bowls, they haven't
Speaker 1: won one yet, but a couple of NFC championships, and
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's been kind of the NFC standard.
Speaker 1: So to go toe to toe with them felt great,
Speaker 1: and I think it I think it gave us a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in our process and belief in our
Speaker 1: system and what we're building here, because anything worth building
Speaker 1: is gonna be hard, Like there's gonna be some really
Speaker 1: tough days, and there were some tough days in the spring,
Speaker 1: the summer, fall camp. But like that was kind of
Speaker 1: a thing to say, like, hey, you're on the right track.
Speaker 1: It's not perfect, but like, let's keep going. And then
Speaker 1: to segue into week two just personally going back, you know,
Speaker 1: spending six years in a in that building and with
Speaker 1: that staff and certain players that are still there when
Speaker 1: I was there, and it was definitely emotional for a
Speaker 1: different reason because I felt a lot of gratitude an
Speaker 1: appreciation for a place that allowed me an opportunity to
Speaker 1: now be a bear and come back. You know, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of staff. I know, there's plenty of staffs, kids.
Speaker 1: I know, there's players and even some of the players
Speaker 1: kids that I know. Um, so it was good to
Speaker 1: see some faces and get some hugs and and see
Speaker 1: all that. But then, uh, the lost stung. Like I
Speaker 1: when we were going down in that fourth quarter drive
Speaker 1: to go was it like ninety eighty seven yards I
Speaker 1: think was how long we were I was convinced we
Speaker 1: were gonna win that game because we were gonna score,
Speaker 1: especially as that thing was going. We were gonna get
Speaker 1: the ball back like I knew we would. But you know,
Speaker 1: that's another top team in our division, Like it is
Speaker 1: what it is. You got to win your division if
Speaker 1: you want to know you're going to the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: I think to go again, toe to toe with them,
Speaker 1: and you know, one bounce goes our hey on a
Speaker 1: call on a goal line, and that's a completely different
Speaker 1: ball game, and that's, you know, a completely different storyline.
Speaker 1: Lucas Patrick our guest. Okay, So I don't know if
Speaker 1: I wrote this or somebody wrote this about you. All
Speaker 1: I know is the affable teddy bearish Tennesseeing. It starts
Speaker 1: with that. You know, you're partly to tryout at a
Speaker 1: rookie camp in Green Bay, and that's why you're here
Speaker 1: right now. You worked your way through the practice squad.
Speaker 1: You got opportunities in your first three years, but in
Speaker 1: a reserve role, and then you get to be a
Speaker 1: starter battle some injuries. When you look at the entire
Speaker 1: way you got here, how much do you respect that journey?
Speaker 1: And who do you think for that? Wow? I mean
Speaker 1: that's a deep, heavy question. There's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people I have to thank. I mean, first is my
Speaker 1: Lord and Savior. Like I would not be the man
Speaker 1: I in today if it weren't for knowing and the
Speaker 1: unconditional love and person that I am in my faith.
Speaker 1: That's like one of my core beliefs and allows me
Speaker 1: to I think be so comfortable around people and be
Speaker 1: myself and trust that I'm like I'm good enough because
Speaker 1: if I'm good enough in God's eyes, that I'm good
Speaker 1: enough in anyone's eyes. But when I look back and
Speaker 1: look at this journey, it's it's one of like I've
Speaker 1: always said, when I leave the NFL, whenever I'm told
Speaker 1: or whenever, hopefully I get to choose, is that everyone
Speaker 1: can say it was a good teammate Like that's and
Speaker 1: most guys who play like if if you say, man,
Speaker 1: that was a good teammate, that's such a short compliment,
Speaker 1: but a very like there's a lot of depth in that.
Speaker 1: So that's what I've tried to do pretty much since
Speaker 1: getting in the pros is just be who I am,
Speaker 1: work hard, you know, be on time, do the SMA,
Speaker 1: all things right, celebrate the big things, move on from
Speaker 1: the bad things as quickly as I can. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean be open, like, be open and honest with teammates.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes guys are afraid to share their personality
Speaker 1: or really show who they are or be themselves and
Speaker 1: so but also being a good teammate sometimes yeah, you
Speaker 1: have fun with them, but sometimes you gotta be tough
Speaker 1: on them. Too right, and I think you can. You
Speaker 1: can pull that off pretty good. Yeah, I mean a
Speaker 1: good teammate or a good coworker in any function of
Speaker 1: a team or business, Like there's gonna be tough conversations
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be hard days, and you need people
Speaker 1: to look you in the face say that wasn't good
Speaker 1: enough or you know you just weren't prepared or like
Speaker 1: to get you better because we don't have time for
Speaker 1: you know, we've got seven days in between each game.
Speaker 1: We don't have time to sit and worry about feelings
Speaker 1: sometimes about hey, like hey, don't be sagosh down sensitive.
Speaker 1: Yeah I know, I'll speak frankly about myself last week.
Speaker 1: That wasn't good enough, Like I can't give up a
Speaker 1: sack like that. It was bad technique, poor I was,
Speaker 1: I was seeing too much, but that wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1: And I've had that conversation with a few guys I
Speaker 1: was in with and told them like, hey, that won't
Speaker 1: happen or I'll try everything I can to not let
Speaker 1: it happen again. Like that's being real, and like being real,
Speaker 1: it's what we need. All right, We'll let you go here.
Speaker 1: We're brought to you by Igs Energy. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access with Lucas Patrick. Quick scouting report of what
Speaker 1: you're seeing from that front of the New York Giants talent.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they got a lot of high
Speaker 1: draft picks, they got a lot of size. They've got
Speaker 1: a lot of speed too when they go in their
Speaker 1: sub packages, and they present a lot of issues to
Speaker 1: your base rules. So you really got to understand who's
Speaker 1: in the game and how they're trying to attack you
Speaker 1: so that you can respond, well, well, good luck on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we'll be looking forward it. It's a traditional battle man
Speaker 1: Bears and Giants to the Emily run organizations. When they
Speaker 1: get together, it's always a lot of fun. So it
Speaker 1: should be fun. And it looks like teams you're just
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball. It's good old fashioned football, exactly
Speaker 1: what way we like it. Right. That's Tom there. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Joni acc Thank you, Lucas Patrick, appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Thank you. You're never gonna forget those sacks no matter
Speaker 1: how old you get, dude, because I can tell you.
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now three of the worst
Speaker 1: sacks I ever gave up, and I every time I
Speaker 1: see it talk about football. You'll always remember them and
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. It's part of the growth process.
Speaker 1: I appreciate what you've done and thanks for coming on, No,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I appreciate it too. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: we get a Giants point of view from they're veteran
Speaker 1: play by play man Bob Papa. It's all ahead. You're
Speaker 1: on Bears All the Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the score. This segment of Bears All Access is
Speaker 1: brought to you by CDW. People to get it with Tom,
Speaker 1: theyre Jeff Joniac. We're breaking down Bears Giants Week four
Speaker 1: upon us already and we're hitting the road. In fact,
Speaker 1: the Bears are hitting the road six out of nine weeks.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be quite the journey, quite the chunk of
Speaker 1: the season. First stop though, met Life Stadium in Jersey,
Speaker 1: pleased to be joined by the veteran voice of the
Speaker 1: New York Giants, the multi talented Bob Papa. So where
Speaker 1: are they at right now? With a new regime, Brian Dayball.
Speaker 1: After this week, one of these two teams are going
Speaker 1: to be a surprising three and one. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: that that's a shocker. There's a definite, definitive swing within
Speaker 1: the building and the organization of They have broken from
Speaker 1: their past. Giants have always run a certain way general manager,
Speaker 1: with the authority the head coach and the way the
Speaker 1: whole thing on folds. They realize that these sort of
Speaker 1: half baked rebuilds weren't working, and they decided to sort
Speaker 1: of sweep it all clean, and thus they bring in
Speaker 1: Joe Shane from Buffalo to be the new general manager.
Speaker 1: He brings in Brandon Brown, who's a young rising stars
Speaker 1: and assistant genne. They got him from the Eagles. And
Speaker 1: then Brian Dable comes in and even though he learned
Speaker 1: a lot under the Patriot Way, he's been a guy
Speaker 1: that's been to a lot of different places. And what
Speaker 1: they've put together is a collaboration. Now people there are
Speaker 1: people within the front office, personnel side, college side, coaching
Speaker 1: side that have all come from various places that haven't
Speaker 1: always they're not all connected. Put it that way, so
Speaker 1: it's more of a think tank fresh ideas, and I
Speaker 1: think it's really energized everybody within the building. I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of analytics, but sometimes it's hard to
Speaker 1: ignore numbers during the course of the season, so you
Speaker 1: look at the Bears and the Giants statistically and there's
Speaker 1: very similar numbers on both sides. You double us in
Speaker 1: the amount of pass yards and you're better twenty yards
Speaker 1: better against the rush. But then on the percentage side,
Speaker 1: it gives the Giants a sixty six percent chance for
Speaker 1: them to beat the Bears. Is it home field advantage?
Speaker 1: Is the crowd noise support? What is the two thirds
Speaker 1: advantage for the Giants that they have over the Bears.
Speaker 1: I think, first of all, it's at a little bit
Speaker 1: of the home field component of it. Although the Giants,
Speaker 1: you know, since the start of twenty seventeen or a
Speaker 1: whopping thirteen and twenty nine and MetLife Stadium. Thanks for
Speaker 1: that nugget, by the way, I'll be that one. It's
Speaker 1: not like it's been a house of horrors for teams
Speaker 1: coming in. I think there's just a different energy about
Speaker 1: this Giant's team. They play hard. Brian Dabele Tolcar Banks
Speaker 1: and I on the field before the game last week
Speaker 1: a Monday night. He said, look, we know that we
Speaker 1: don't have a chance to draw picassos every week. We
Speaker 1: don't have a chance to be the prettiest girl. We're
Speaker 1: not going to draw the prettiest picture the way our
Speaker 1: team is right now in this maturation and turnover the roster.
Speaker 1: Can we hang in there and fight, fight, fight, and
Speaker 1: get this game into the fourth quarter and take the
Speaker 1: opponent into the deep waters and then see where the
Speaker 1: chips fall. And the team is bought into that mentality,
Speaker 1: which is why they were able to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to win in Tennessee and figure out a way
Speaker 1: to win against Carolina in Week one, and in the
Speaker 1: Cowboys game, you know, they had to lead in the game,
Speaker 1: they had opportunities late in the game, they weren't good
Speaker 1: enough to make the plays. But the philosophy is, if
Speaker 1: we could just hang in there, we're gonna be good
Speaker 1: enough and play smart enough to steal some games that
Speaker 1: maybe in the past they haven't. You know, when they
Speaker 1: hired Mattie Eberflus, he came in and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: single handedly, but a lot of this preaching and a
Speaker 1: lot of his messages to the team has really been accepted.
Speaker 1: And he's a big responsibility for the change of culture
Speaker 1: in this building. So immediately is Dave all the same
Speaker 1: as he changed the culture that much. He's just a
Speaker 1: real person. He takes time going into the cafeteria at
Speaker 1: lunch and he'll go in there and sit not just
Speaker 1: with the football people. Sometimes he'll sit with a group
Speaker 1: of marketing people. Sometimes he'll sit with a group of
Speaker 1: people in the season ticket sales office or PR or broadcasting,
Speaker 1: just to get to know them. Because he feels like
Speaker 1: he's every single person that works in this building has
Speaker 1: value to the team, and I want to know that
Speaker 1: I feel that way about them, and so he brings
Speaker 1: He's really good at team building. He's really good at
Speaker 1: being authentic perfectly. So much was made about Darius Tony
Speaker 1: only playing a couple of snaps in Week one seven,
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay played two the following week against Carolina. He
Speaker 1: told those guys up front during the week, probably not
Speaker 1: fitting into this game plan this week for whatever the
Speaker 1: reasons are. But he was honest and he wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to b s. And the other thing that I've noticed
Speaker 1: about him is he's not trying to act like how
Speaker 1: a head coach should act. He's acting like Brian Dable.
Speaker 1: And if you talk to anybody who knows Brian Dable
Speaker 1: for a long period of time, they say he's like
Speaker 1: the same guy. He came from nothing. He was raised
Speaker 1: by his grandparents, you know, in Canada, in the Toronto
Speaker 1: area or in the Buffalo area, and he's just like
Speaker 1: there's no airs about him. But he also has drawn
Speaker 1: a line of where he's the coach and he's not
Speaker 1: the buddy. And I think everybody respects his honesty and
Speaker 1: him not trying to say, Okay, now I'm a head
Speaker 1: coach of a football team, I gotta act like this
Speaker 1: because this is how head coaches are supposed to act.
Speaker 1: Pop Our guest here on Bears Out Access on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy the Score, Jeff and Town with you.
Speaker 1: Neither of them are calm plays. Am I correct? I
Speaker 1: mean I know Heberfluce isn't is Dable No no, And
Speaker 1: I thought that was a really smart move by a
Speaker 1: Dable because you know, it's not easy to give that.
Speaker 1: That's how you got the job, right, You're really good
Speaker 1: at that. That's what got you in this position to
Speaker 1: get the job. Now suddenly I'm going to give that up.
Speaker 1: But he looked at the big picture and he had
Speaker 1: a lot of respect from Mike Kafka and what he's
Speaker 1: done in Kansas City and his reputation, and he gave it.
Speaker 1: He gave it a walk through during during training camp
Speaker 1: and through the preseason games to see how it would go.
Speaker 1: And he told us so many times during before our
Speaker 1: TV production meetings during the preseason. He goes, Man, he goes,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with myself in the morning,
Speaker 1: because when I'm calling plays, you know, I have I
Speaker 1: had my whole routine. I'm going here and I'm just
Speaker 1: walking around not really know what to do with myself.
Speaker 1: But it's all good, you know. Obviously he shares in
Speaker 1: some of the things that go on during the course
Speaker 1: of the game, but he's letting Kafka run with it,
Speaker 1: you know. To me, I think sae Quon Barkley is
Speaker 1: a running back that is like league wide. I think
Speaker 1: everybody when he got injured was pulling for him to
Speaker 1: get back into the type of guy that we are
Speaker 1: introduced to early in his career. Number one, is he
Speaker 1: back to one hundred percent? And number two, is he
Speaker 1: the biggest offensive influence on your team? Oh? Without a doubt.
Speaker 1: As far as influence, Yeah, Barkley. Last year you could
Speaker 1: see that he was still feeling his way back. In fact,
Speaker 1: the only game last season he had of seventy or
Speaker 1: more rushing yards was the one against the Bears in
Speaker 1: which he went for one hundred and two. This year,
Speaker 1: he's over seventy plus rushing in every game. We saw
Speaker 1: it in training camp. We saw that burst, that quickness,
Speaker 1: elusiveness that we hadn't really seen last year. The other
Speaker 1: thing that we saw the sake. Well. The other thing
Speaker 1: that this is coaching. These guys are stressed in a
Speaker 1: sequon Barkley. Sometimes you gotta just take the dirty two,
Speaker 1: the dirty two of the dirty three, and Barkley has
Speaker 1: bought in. And if you look at him compared to
Speaker 1: what he was doing in the past, there's much less dancing,
Speaker 1: there's much less looking to try to find the home run,
Speaker 1: and he takes the dirty two and the dirty three,
Speaker 1: which eventually leads to the sixty eight yard run. You
Speaker 1: think about the game in Tennessee against the Titans in
Speaker 1: Week one, and he wasn't doing that much. But you
Speaker 1: know what, he wasn't trying to bounce it outside and
Speaker 1: look for the home run ball. He was just sticking
Speaker 1: it in there, sticking it in there, and eventually the
Speaker 1: defense cracked. Same thing happened last week against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: a lot of dirty two's, a lot of ugly runs,
Speaker 1: but not negative plays, not the loss of four, two three,
Speaker 1: keeping unmanageable down the distance. Then he cracks one for
Speaker 1: thirty six for a touchdown. It's music to the ears
Speaker 1: of your guy right here, Tom Thare. He'll take the
Speaker 1: dirty two, he'll take three, he'll take three and a half,
Speaker 1: He'll take whatever. And it's a stunning number of rushing
Speaker 1: yards last week by the Bears at two eighty one.
Speaker 1: I was thinking they were gonna pop like three fifty
Speaker 1: at one point. But both teams are running it, and
Speaker 1: both teams are given up some yards on the ground.
Speaker 1: So is this a trench game, Bob? To wrap us up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely is a trench game to me. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it's the Bears were born in nineteen twenty
Speaker 1: the Giants were born in nineteen twenty five. And we
Speaker 1: could talk about all the different schemes that have come
Speaker 1: into the support and whether it's the run and shoot,
Speaker 1: the spread, the K gun, all these different offenses, ground
Speaker 1: and pound, everything else. One thing hasn't changed since nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1: If you don't win at the point of attack, you
Speaker 1: do not win. It doesn't matter what schemes. I don't
Speaker 1: care how creative these guys are. If you can't block
Speaker 1: them and you can't stop him, you're not gonna win
Speaker 1: the football game. And you know Leonard Williams being an
Speaker 1: outless we killed the Giants. He's a Pro Bowl caliber player.
Speaker 1: But then when I looked at the coaches tape, the
Speaker 1: defensive line wasn't as bad as it looked at first blush.
Speaker 1: It was the inside backers who they Let's say that
Speaker 1: they don't have elite inside backers. Take Crowder and Austin
Speaker 1: Calitro are not elite inside backers, and those guys were
Speaker 1: running out of holes. Gap integrity was terrible. They have
Speaker 1: to be better, and looking at the Bears, they have
Speaker 1: to be able to stop the run because it is
Speaker 1: about the trenches in this football game. This is not
Speaker 1: It is gonna be a low scoring game, and if
Speaker 1: you can stop the run, you're gonna have a great
Speaker 1: chance to win, especially with the Giants hurting at the
Speaker 1: receiving car. I'm gonna give you one stat from my
Speaker 1: little note card. I'm starting to prep it for the game.
Speaker 1: The New York Giants have not scored a touchdown in
Speaker 1: the first half, not the first quarter, in the first
Speaker 1: half of their last seven games. Oh my good. The
Speaker 1: last first half touchdown they scored was on December the
Speaker 1: twelfth in Los Angeles against the Chargers, the legendary Mike
Speaker 1: Glennon with a three yard touchdown pass to full back
Speaker 1: Eli Penny. Is the last time that the Giants have
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown in the first half of a game. Well,
Speaker 1: it's almost impossible in the NFL, right, and the Bears
Speaker 1: haven't given up a touchdown in the second half so
Speaker 1: far this year, so something may have to give, hopefully
Speaker 1: from a Bear's perspective, will keep that streak going for you.
Speaker 1: Shut out touchdown in the first half. You know, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: We just did thirteen and a half minutes. In this
Speaker 1: quarterback era, we never mentioned Daniel Jones or Justin Fields. Well,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I'm gonna give you some words from Brian
Speaker 1: Dable the game against Caroline. Jones got ripped on social
Speaker 1: media by the ESPN guys for his eyes not seeing
Speaker 1: guys that appeared to be open. I asked table about
Speaker 1: it today after the game. I said, he goes he's
Speaker 1: selling my wife because he's seeing like my wife, He's
Speaker 1: like Daniel played one of the smartest games ever. He goes.
Speaker 1: You know, some of those guys that were running wide open,
Speaker 1: they weren't in his progressions, So he wasn't cutting it
Speaker 1: loose at them because they were where they were. They
Speaker 1: were they were running routes that weren't even part of
Speaker 1: the play. So how does he know to cut it loose?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna stop? Are they gonna keep going? Are
Speaker 1: they running a sail route? Daniel doesn't know. He said
Speaker 1: he played one of the most intelligent games that he's
Speaker 1: seen a quarterback play. And then what the way he
Speaker 1: played on Monday night was as tough a game as
Speaker 1: you're going to see a guy play and delivered plays
Speaker 1: under pressure. So they're very excited about what Jones has
Speaker 1: done so far. I don't know if he's the future,
Speaker 1: but I know for certain he's he's playing the game
Speaker 1: much better than the outside public, media and fan base.
Speaker 1: I think he's playing the game. Not only a coach
Speaker 1: could tell you that. All right, we're gonna let you
Speaker 1: go appreciate the time as always, and we will see
Speaker 1: you Sunday in Jersey. Looking forward to seeing in the Booths, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you, Great Bob Popa and the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: Tom and I resume the show after a break here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The score. Great seats
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Speaker 1: With Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac wrapping up our show.
Speaker 1: In our final segment time we looked at offense in
Speaker 1: the first segment tonight, interesting conversations with Lucas Patrick and
Speaker 1: the voice of the Giants, Bob Bob. But now let's
Speaker 1: look at the Bears defense through your eyes. What do
Speaker 1: you see when you watch the tape of the Bears
Speaker 1: defense that is a exciting for you to see how
Speaker 1: it continues to build or if there's anything troublesome for
Speaker 1: you right now. And I think the run defense would
Speaker 1: be the focus on that. You know. I think Nicholas
Speaker 1: Morrow and Roquan Smith are understanding how to play alongside
Speaker 1: each other, how to commit to a point of attack,
Speaker 1: and then how to flow to the point of attack.
Speaker 1: They're being complimented by solid play up up front. Blackston
Speaker 1: gets a tip ball that's creative results and an interception
Speaker 1: for Roquan. They got a variety of outside pass rushers
Speaker 1: that they can just keep the offensive tackle off balance
Speaker 1: because he doesn't get a chance to continuously read one
Speaker 1: guy's stands. And I guess it's up to the defensive
Speaker 1: backs to compliment the pass pressure. So to meet this week,
Speaker 1: when I look at a guy like say Kuon Barkley,
Speaker 1: start low, stay low by the front eight, because when
Speaker 1: you're gonna tackle say Quon Barkley, you better be in
Speaker 1: a perfect tackling position. Eddie Jackson, the Bears starting safety
Speaker 1: on high alert about say Quon Barkley. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: to take the ball, you know, eighty yards, hundred yards
Speaker 1: or whatever. So us he just gotta build my keys
Speaker 1: and we reroute. We gotta come, make sure we crowd
Speaker 1: a line and give him less base as possible, overfill,
Speaker 1: you know, make the tackles, you know, easier on ourselves.
Speaker 1: You know, when the ball starts to hit, you know,
Speaker 1: the second level of the defense. You know, he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's thick, thighed, he's fast, he's big. He can pess
Speaker 1: catch as well as anybody, and definitely can hit the rails.
Speaker 1: And burn you. His speed is always going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge to every defense that he plays against. And
Speaker 1: you probably know at the forty time on Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: from the combine, I don't but say quon speed. You
Speaker 1: have to respect Daniel Jones speed. You can't let beat you.
Speaker 1: So when Annie Jackson's talking about what their responsibility is,
Speaker 1: his is from back to front. So make sure that
Speaker 1: you keep say Quan in front of you. And like
Speaker 1: I said, don't be looking to strip the ball, look
Speaker 1: to tackle. Four three seven for Barkley, four eight one
Speaker 1: for Daniel Jones. But he can scamper now he's got
Speaker 1: thirteen rushing first downs this year. Well I know that
Speaker 1: no one would know that off the top of their
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying four three year respect four eight
Speaker 1: don't let beat you. Alan Williams on Barkley, it's hammer
Speaker 1: the rock, hammer, the rock hammer of the rock and
Speaker 1: then big play. He finds a gap, someone that's peaking
Speaker 1: backside and could be the nose or it's he's going
Speaker 1: outside and it may be the defensive end that's that's
Speaker 1: peeking inside. For whatever reason, he's on the edge and
Speaker 1: you know, going for thirty or forty so, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he is a he's a scary guy in terms of
Speaker 1: his home run ability. So it's an interesting name game here.
Speaker 1: Ro Quan versus say Quan Jaquan the Bears safety Jiquan
Speaker 1: Brisker also against sa Quan. They're gonna meet these three guys.
Speaker 1: It's almost a triangle of trouble there, both for say
Speaker 1: Quan and for the for the Bears because those two
Speaker 1: guys in the safety may be involved here if he's
Speaker 1: in the box. Well, you know, Q thir Q is
Speaker 1: a third latter in their names. You know, how often
Speaker 1: does that happen? Not often, Roquan. By the way, it
Speaker 1: gonna be more position, according to Matt Heberflus, the further
Speaker 1: he gets deeper into this defense to be in a
Speaker 1: position to make big play. No, he's growing in the defense.
Speaker 1: He's understanding where he fits in the defense. You know,
Speaker 1: And I said it last night. You know he's coming
Speaker 1: from a three to four, you know. So it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more lateral. Um, it's a little more take on.
Speaker 1: And this is more run, you know, it's more run,
Speaker 1: it's more speed, it's more playing, you know. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: in front of the in front of the lineman in
Speaker 1: front of that penetrating and you have to learn how
Speaker 1: to do that, and I think he's learning as he goes.
Speaker 1: He's getting more comfortable in that position for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at these tackles for a loss
Speaker 1: just from this Houston game, and you look at what
Speaker 1: the defensive line was doing up in front of them.
Speaker 1: And when Matt Eberflews talks about the freedom of these
Speaker 1: linebackers to run, reading and penetrate, it's because you either
Speaker 1: got a guy like Justin Jones that's making immediate penetration
Speaker 1: and he's getting the entire playoff balance, or you got
Speaker 1: those guys on the inside taking multiple blockers to allow
Speaker 1: the speed of Roquan and Nicholas Morrow to take over.
Speaker 1: And I go back to the tape watching it, so
Speaker 1: it's three weeks now, you start to develop some tendencies
Speaker 1: and you start to see things. That doesn't mean they're
Speaker 1: gonna show that exactly, but this was interesting this week.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard Alan Williams discuss how
Speaker 1: the idea is to be difficult to scout. If you're
Speaker 1: good at what you do, you have tendencies. Good teams
Speaker 1: have big time tendencies, and I would hope that when
Speaker 1: people look at us, they would say, hey, we kind
Speaker 1: of know what are doing, but they execute their stuff
Speaker 1: so well that we can't we can't stop them. That
Speaker 1: they play at such a speed, at such a rate,
Speaker 1: at such a voracity that they can't be stopped. So
Speaker 1: I'm more that's more important to me than saying that, gosh,
Speaker 1: they do everything. We want to do something well at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. We want to say that
Speaker 1: when people come and look at the or they look
Speaker 1: at the tape, I want them to say, wow, did
Speaker 1: they speed the tape up? Is that the speed of
Speaker 1: you know the tape? Or are they really playing that fast?
Speaker 1: And that precise and that consistency that those the words
Speaker 1: I want people to use, not just they do a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. Listen eighty five, eighty six Bears, you
Speaker 1: get to the two thousand era, Ray Lewis, Baltimore, Ravens.
Speaker 1: There's things that they can do so good no matter
Speaker 1: what you try to do, you can't block them. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's the thing about the process of playing
Speaker 1: in the NFL. When we played against when Buddy Ryan
Speaker 1: went to Philly and he had the Reggie White and
Speaker 1: you look at that defensive personnel group. Sometimes they're so
Speaker 1: good that you know their ability outweighs tendencies. This has
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