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Speaker 2: at six ' ten. Bears Rookie Wright tackled Darno right
Speaker 2: to sit down with me earlier this week and Tom
Speaker 2: Happy birthday to Bear's owner Virginia Allis McCaskey.
Speaker 3: Wow, what a what a what a benchmark, What a
Speaker 3: great person? What just a beautiful person in this world.
Speaker 3: And if there was more people like her in this world,
Speaker 3: it would be a better world. I'd say that with
Speaker 3: all sincerity. And she's a beautiful person. And you know,
Speaker 3: I know throughout my mom's lifetime when they had the
Speaker 3: Mothers and Girlfriends and Wives luncheon, my mom used to
Speaker 3: look forward to going to that and being able to
Speaker 3: have a conversation with Virginia McCaskey, because if you if
Speaker 3: I think of two mothers with similarities, both of those
Speaker 3: people going to church every day and raising a family
Speaker 3: and that being the most important part of their lives.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't say enough about her.
Speaker 2: Right on the eve of the Packer game, basically the
Speaker 2: Packer week, think she's a little excited about this one.
Speaker 3: As much as I am, as much as you are,
Speaker 3: as much as I think anybody that's an NFL football fan,
Speaker 3: you don't necessarily just have to be a Bears Packers fan.
Speaker 3: But it has so much history, so many dominating personalities,
Speaker 3: so much importance in the role in the NFL, and
Speaker 3: I don't know why it is. It just adds such
Speaker 3: angst to my weeks of the years of my life,
Speaker 3: whether it be a player or a broadcaster of the
Speaker 3: Bears Packers week.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it makes total sense. I mean it
Speaker 2: makes I was just now with Wada and Sylvie talking
Speaker 2: about this very topic. I was with Hampton today talking
Speaker 2: about this very topic. I mean, there's there, It's just
Speaker 2: it's ingrained in you guys, well got the guys who
Speaker 2: played the game and the fans certainly. And I don't
Speaker 2: think it ever, I don't ever want to have anybody
Speaker 2: kind of mute the rivalry or pooh pooh or Tampa
Speaker 2: down or you know. It is what it is. And
Speaker 2: the fact is we're sick of losing to the Packers.
Speaker 3: Well it's even you know, stretches beyond that. Because so
Speaker 3: there's a golf tournament this weekend that starts a PGA
Speaker 3: tour and it's in Coppola. It's in Coppolua, which is
Speaker 3: on the island of Maui. Of course that I played
Speaker 3: plenty of times, but I watch it just to get
Speaker 3: the visuals of Maui. And so Berman is out there
Speaker 3: playing our good our good friend, Chris Berman, and so
Speaker 3: I talked to him about who he's gonna play with yesterday,
Speaker 3: and he played with Wyndham Wyndham Clark and Jordan Speith
Speaker 3: and one of my best buddies, Sean Saint Clair is
Speaker 3: Berman's caddy. But with all that, he brings up the
Speaker 3: Bears Packers game. So it's not it doesn't. It's not
Speaker 3: far removed from people's minds who aren't directly, you know,
Speaker 3: with their feet on the ground in Green Bay or Chicago.
Speaker 3: It stretches the love of the game of football far beyond,
Speaker 3: you know, this close radius of Chicago Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm glad this game has value beyond just
Speaker 2: the fact that, hey, it's the last regular season game.
Speaker 2: The Bears have won seven of their last twelve games.
Speaker 2: They have a different football team on in all three phases, frankly,
Speaker 2: but no teams resting starters. Nobody's preserving themselves with the
Speaker 2: playoffs because the Packers haven't been they haven't had their
Speaker 2: ticket punched yet, and now I'd like to have a
Speaker 2: different kind of punch, punch them right in the face.
Speaker 2: And then the story here of this nine game losing
Speaker 2: streak to the Green Bay Packers. So I believe emotions
Speaker 2: are going to run high in this game.
Speaker 3: They were.
Speaker 2: We were talking about this in the lead up to
Speaker 2: week but as you sit here as an analyst of
Speaker 2: the game, what the Bears were working themselves into week
Speaker 2: one against the unknown of Jordan Love And now we
Speaker 2: got a pretty good glimpse of what Jordan Loves becoming
Speaker 2: and what your Justin Fields was gonna do in the
Speaker 2: second year of an offense, and the improvements personnel wise
Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball, what was gonna happen
Speaker 2: over the course of the season. I made the comment
Speaker 2: to these guys earlier in the hour that game feels
Speaker 2: like five seasons ago, a lot's happened to the Bears
Speaker 2: and a lot's happened to the Packers, And now I
Speaker 2: you know, it's a fair fight. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: good fistfight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the first game of the year. I
Speaker 3: got to be perfectly honest with you as a Bear alumni.
Speaker 3: I was frustrated because I didn't think the Bears did
Speaker 3: enough during training camp to be prepared for the speed
Speaker 3: and what the regular season offers you. And my attitude
Speaker 3: is completely changed from Week one to week eighteen. I
Speaker 3: think the development of the linebacker position, Trumaine, Tremaine Edwards
Speaker 3: and TJ. Edwards and Trumaine have completely changed the fact
Speaker 3: that they're starting rookie cornerbacks of the first game of
Speaker 3: the year. How much my attitude of the defensive backfield
Speaker 3: has changed, bringing in Montes Sweat and the rotation of
Speaker 3: the defensive line and how powerful they can be and
Speaker 3: how much of game changers in defensive production they can change.
Speaker 3: What the offensive line has been able to accomplish, and
Speaker 3: how Chris Morgan has kept that group together, what Justin
Speaker 3: has done, and how the running back stition and the
Speaker 3: running game has been able to develop. I have a
Speaker 3: completely different attitude today about this game than I did
Speaker 3: Week one.
Speaker 2: And since debuting with the Bears in Week nine, Montese
Speaker 2: Sweat and the Bears defense fifth in the NFL in
Speaker 2: points per game allowed. Before that, they were twenty eighth
Speaker 2: in the NFL, averaging nearly twenty eight points a game.
Speaker 2: It's a ten point drop in points. Man is significant, hint,
Speaker 2: and it's not all him, it's not all him. But
Speaker 2: he makes a difference.
Speaker 3: He well, he does. He makes a difference because now
Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator or the opponent with Montese Sweat and
Speaker 3: the and the cast of characters, now he thinks football
Speaker 3: completely different. He thinks the speed of the game differently.
Speaker 3: He thinks the ball out of the quarterback's hands in
Speaker 3: the passing game differently, he thinks point of attack against
Speaker 3: the running game differently. There's so many things that the
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator has to think differently with the emergent. Listen,
Speaker 3: I think TJ. Edwards and and Tremaine have as much
Speaker 3: as much improvement as the defenses as Montese Sweat coming aboard,
Speaker 3: because I think the way those two guys are playing
Speaker 3: in the passing game in the running game is all
Speaker 3: is pro Bowl deserve, all pro deserving. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: say the words Pro Bowl anymore. All Pro deserving from
Speaker 3: that position and what Montes has been able to accomplish.
Speaker 2: Right because's no longer a Pro Bowl game. It's Pro
Speaker 2: Bowl games. We're not gonna get you going, We're not
Speaker 2: gonna get you going, but we'll come back. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what we'll get you going. Darnell Right, who's had
Speaker 2: a terrifics first start, big first step as a rookie
Speaker 2: for the Chicago Bears at right tackle. He has improved,
Speaker 2: Devin Jenkins has improved. The Bears offensive line in general
Speaker 2: has improved over the course of the season as well.
Speaker 2: We'll dip into all that. It's coming up next here
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Speaker 1: This is Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears
Speaker 1: for twenty three years, Jeff Jony on the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to the Bears Weekly. Jeff joniyaglong the
Speaker 2: top there, he'll be along in just a while here
Speaker 2: with Bears starting right tackle Darnell Right. Wrap up what
Speaker 2: has been a very impressive rookie season. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to put words in your mouth. Would you tell me?
Speaker 2: How do you think it's gone.
Speaker 4: I think it's been good. I think it's been good.
Speaker 2: It's been fun, yeah, fun. And I'll tell you everything
Speaker 2: that was said about you turned out to be quite accurate.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: Sam Summerville, the Scout that I bought you for a
Speaker 2: long time coming out of Tennessee, said that you were violent, aggressive, physical,
Speaker 2: great on your feet. All that has really come to
Speaker 2: fruition over the course of the season. How did you
Speaker 2: think it went in terms of all of that in
Speaker 2: this offensive line?
Speaker 5: I think it was some good stuff and some bad stuff.
Speaker 5: A lot of stuff I can learn from going into
Speaker 5: your two and stuff, but there was some good stuff
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is always going to be the case right
Speaker 2: the rest of your career. I almost cringe when I
Speaker 2: hear reporters ask offensive lineman in particular, Hey, what do
Speaker 2: you gotta work on With the kind of coaching you
Speaker 2: got from Chris Morgan this year? How did he help
Speaker 2: you elevate your game?
Speaker 4: The main thing that really helped me at the beginning was,
Speaker 4: you know, he just he let me.
Speaker 5: He told me when I was coming in, you know,
Speaker 5: I can be whatever I want to be, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, Like there's college is over, you know,
Speaker 5: whatever whatever he was in college, you know, you get
Speaker 5: to be whatever you could be here. And you know,
Speaker 5: never put a ceiling on anything I could do. You know,
Speaker 5: I just want to help me be as good as
Speaker 5: I could be. So Yeah, he was. He was a
Speaker 5: good coach for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did a heck of a job. Just I
Speaker 2: mean it's a lot of changes with injuries and whatnot.
Speaker 2: What did you think of his coaching style and how
Speaker 2: he kept that group together? And you guys, I love
Speaker 2: it because you guys are right at the top of
Speaker 2: the charts and rushing in the NFL and that's it's
Speaker 2: got to start at the offensive line. So what do
Speaker 2: you think of the job he's done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been good.
Speaker 5: I mean he's the only thing he really cares about,
Speaker 5: Like it is obviously football and all that, but like
Speaker 5: just the people in the room, you know, all of
Speaker 5: us just being as close as we can and as
Speaker 5: good as we can and that's really just the main focus.
Speaker 5: That's everything else is whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I always felt that. You know, when you're
Speaker 2: a top ten pick, the expectations are crazy. Did you
Speaker 2: did you personally feel any pressure with that and any
Speaker 2: new point during the season or if you just take
Speaker 2: me back to when you were drafted, because we we've
Speaker 2: met on day after you're drafted, man, you had an
Speaker 2: ear to ear grin. You were loving up the fans.
Speaker 2: Remember we went to the fan. Oh that was awesome.
Speaker 2: So you have a great personality, But how did you
Speaker 2: handle all that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was it was a little bit crazy.
Speaker 5: Uh, obviously coming to Chicago with you know, or just
Speaker 5: NFL in general, with the media and stuff. You know,
Speaker 5: you have to be you know, you have to do it,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. In college I kind of
Speaker 5: didn I kind of ducked the dogs.
Speaker 2: But but you're, you know, like on the ground floor.
Speaker 2: Something special brewing here. I know that everybody in that
Speaker 2: locker room feels it.
Speaker 4: I've heard it.
Speaker 2: I've talked to so many guys off the record, on
Speaker 2: the record. Do you feel the same way about what's coming?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we've been we're doing really good.
Speaker 5: I think we just I think it's a credit to
Speaker 5: all the guys and a team that just you know,
Speaker 5: obviously it's not the season that we wanted.
Speaker 4: We wanted.
Speaker 5: I mean, if it's not a super Bowl, it's not
Speaker 5: the season that you want, really, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But I feel like it's a credit to everybody. You know,
Speaker 5: just keep keeping on fighting, not worrying about whatever somebody's
Speaker 5: talking about.
Speaker 4: Or this, and that.
Speaker 5: It's just just try as hard as you can and
Speaker 5: see how the chips late.
Speaker 2: You know, talking to general manager Ryan Poles throughout the
Speaker 2: course of the season, we love talking ball and x's
Speaker 2: and o's, and we agreed on something significant. Devin, You
Speaker 2: a lot of these guys, Braxton. When you when you
Speaker 2: are pulling, it's a beautiful thing. You're so athletic and
Speaker 2: you do it the right way. And the guy on
Speaker 2: the other end of that poll, God bless him because
Speaker 2: they're gonna they're gonna feel you. Is that something you
Speaker 2: really love doing?
Speaker 4: It's fun? Yeah, it's fun. It is fun.
Speaker 2: Do you do you feel your strength and power in
Speaker 2: that moment you get ahead of steam. I mean, you're
Speaker 2: an athletic guy for your size, big time, and when
Speaker 2: you're motoring like that, I can't think much gets in
Speaker 2: the way of Darnel right in that moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just fun. Yeah, it's just fun pulling, of course.
Speaker 4: I mean it's just you get to run a little
Speaker 4: bit and then make contact.
Speaker 2: Who were some of your football role models?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: I was I was playing like linebacker, like safety, so
Speaker 5: I was watching like Ray Lewis and uh and then
Speaker 5: I wish I was too big to run the ball,
Speaker 5: but I wanted to be like Devin Hester.
Speaker 4: I love it, but it was really just Ray Lewis
Speaker 4: and Devin Hester.
Speaker 5: I would watch their highlights and then not get the
Speaker 5: ball in the game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, while you have the mentality and the and
Speaker 2: the and the seriousness of a Ray Lewis and the
Speaker 2: power and the and the passion for the game, I
Speaker 2: could see it on tape. I don't even need to
Speaker 2: talk to you to ask you about it. The Devon angle.
Speaker 2: That's just pure clean fun right there. And I had
Speaker 2: the opportunity to call nineteen of his twenty returns in
Speaker 2: his NFL career, so you know, I missed that part
Speaker 2: of the game. It's all about kicking it out of
Speaker 2: the back of the end zone now right, as.
Speaker 4: A football I wouldn't kick it to him either.
Speaker 3: No, I know.
Speaker 2: But even today though now right, like as a football fan,
Speaker 2: the kick return is like a home run in baseball.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody gets up and wait, can't wait, especially
Speaker 2: if it's a great returner, even for players. Do you
Speaker 2: think that's missing a little bit now?
Speaker 4: A little bit, Yeah, it could be missing.
Speaker 5: It's fun to see some of my first opening player
Speaker 5: even just any play kickoff, they take it to the house.
Speaker 5: But I guess if you can mitigate that, I would
Speaker 5: probably do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after a while, they don't want to kick to Devin,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. It frustrated him. I I just met
Speaker 2: with him in Orlando before our Tampa game and I
Speaker 2: did We did like a four hour interview in his house.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable week two before the Tampa game, and
Speaker 2: I learned things that I never knew about Devin and
Speaker 2: stuff and just an amazing I mean, do you believe
Speaker 2: he belongs in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well hopefully on his third try, you'll get in this year,
Speaker 2: because that would be some kind of story. There's great
Speaker 2: demands in this NFL level meetings galore. It's a full
Speaker 2: time job. You're always thinking ball. What comes with that?
Speaker 2: How did you handle that? How did you handle that?
Speaker 2: The new kind of workload for football being a rookie.
Speaker 5: Uh, I think, you know, I try to get back
Speaker 5: into a routine, you know, see what the routine will
Speaker 5: be for me here obviously with the new schedule, not
Speaker 5: going to class and all that, and then just relying
Speaker 5: on some of the guys in the room asking them
Speaker 5: what they do, how they some of the things they do. Obviously,
Speaker 5: everybody's different, So some of the things I took from
Speaker 5: some people.
Speaker 4: Some people I took this and.
Speaker 5: That, and then just kind of crafted my own routine
Speaker 5: and how I approach it and uh. But yeah, as
Speaker 5: far as handling it, I think, you know, just diving
Speaker 5: into it when I need to. And then also there's
Speaker 5: on the flip side of that, you know, getting away
Speaker 5: from it, not just chasing ghosts and sitting there too
Speaker 5: much into it.
Speaker 4: Just you know that my instinct.
Speaker 2: Play Darnell Right, our remaining moments here on Bears Weekly.
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Speaker 2: give up appetizers or desserts for the rest.
Speaker 4: Of your life? I say desserts.
Speaker 2: What would be the title of your autobiography? I think
Speaker 2: that's my name, all right, Darnell Right and big bull letters.
Speaker 2: That's that speaks of strength, deepest fear. Uh could be none.
Speaker 4: Oh, I have some fears.
Speaker 2: Animals and a bucket list vacation spot when you do
Speaker 2: find the time to get away from it.
Speaker 4: All the beach something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, Darnell, we appreciate you. You have had
Speaker 2: a wonderful year, great start point for your career, and
Speaker 2: now the best is yet to come for you in
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears appreciate it, darn all right, our guests,
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Speaker 8: The veterans have done a really good job in this
Speaker 8: building to guide people like Darnell his work habits, his structure,
Speaker 8: of his schedule, you know all that stuff. Like you
Speaker 8: can see a guy becoming a pro his work ethic
Speaker 8: on the football field is outstanding. His mentality, like, the
Speaker 8: guy's a competitor, Like it doesn't matter what we're doing.
Speaker 8: The guy wants to compete and he wants to win.
Speaker 8: And I think you know you put all that together,
Speaker 8: you give yourself a chance and then you match it
Speaker 8: with his athleticism the power. Now you know, you have
Speaker 8: the potential to have a pretty special player. And it's
Speaker 8: and uh, you know, a credit to Simo and Steck
Speaker 8: and those guys, you know, getting him where he is now.
Speaker 9: But uh, you know, we're really.
Speaker 8: Excited about where he can go and and uh, you know,
Speaker 8: it'll be up to him how far he wants to
Speaker 8: take this thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know he mentioned that Tom it's up to him.
Speaker 2: That was told him by Chris Morgan, the man they
Speaker 2: call Simo. And you know what I like about it,
Speaker 2: because you've taught the offensive line, uh on those polls,
Speaker 2: is he hits his landmarks. There's there's a track. There's
Speaker 2: a track to wipe out the guy, whether it's a
Speaker 2: pull off to the right or a pull across the formation.
Speaker 2: That to me is one of the most beautiful things
Speaker 2: an offensive lineman could do. And you taught me you
Speaker 2: got to have that landmark. You gotta, you gotta, you
Speaker 2: gotta make it tight.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, the key ingredient that he pull is not
Speaker 3: showing off your poll before you do it, because that
Speaker 3: is a lot of evidence that you give away to
Speaker 3: an opponent, to an opponent's defense to the linebacker position
Speaker 3: and the defensive line, and if you do show your
Speaker 3: pull too much and you're uneven in your balance and
Speaker 3: you're giving a lot of pre snap indicators that are
Speaker 3: harmful to the play. And Darnell doesn't do that. And
Speaker 3: I think that he's come aboard initially that he's a
Speaker 3: lot more mature in his playing ability than a lot
Speaker 3: of you know that a lot of people see because
Speaker 3: he's only an offensive lineman like all of us. It's
Speaker 3: not a high profile, you know, attractive position. It's a
Speaker 3: lonely position that that you know, it's a great position
Speaker 3: when you play it. However, I really like the interview
Speaker 3: with Darnell because I don't want to hear a rookie,
Speaker 3: a guy that's drafted as high as he is and
Speaker 3: he's been productive as he has been in his rookie
Speaker 3: year to be tooting his own horn. I think the
Speaker 3: more that you interview through him throughout his career, the
Speaker 3: trust he's gonna gain in the more outgoing he's gonna become.
Speaker 3: So I think Ryan Poles and his staffed at a
Speaker 3: nice job evaluating the who's going to afford the longest
Speaker 3: successful career and it is Darnell right. And listen, I
Speaker 3: was one of those guys that was thinking about Carter,
Speaker 3: the defensive lineman from Georgia, maybe the right pick. But
Speaker 3: now at what I've seen out of Darnell, I'm happy
Speaker 3: that Ryan Poles stuck to his decision and made the
Speaker 3: right choice.
Speaker 2: Brian did his homework big time, and of course the
Speaker 2: workout that happened is almost legendary down down in Knoxville
Speaker 2: at the University of Tennessee. Just how hard he worked
Speaker 2: him to find out if he was going to have
Speaker 2: any quit in him, and there was none, and that's
Speaker 2: what he wanted to find out. He found out. Now,
Speaker 2: like you always say, if you want to find out
Speaker 2: about a guy, you'd put him in the weight room
Speaker 2: and you sit there and you'd work out with him
Speaker 2: to find out, you know, find out what they're all about.
Speaker 2: And we're learning also what Braxton Jones is all about
Speaker 2: as well. Second year fifth ront pick out of Southern Utah.
Speaker 2: Here's Getsy's analysis earlier today, So.
Speaker 9: That's reflective in his play.
Speaker 8: I think there's a guy who you know, he got here,
Speaker 8: you know, he's kind of quiet, you know, didn't run
Speaker 8: off the ball. Wasn't real physical, but then he got
Speaker 8: this confidence about him last year and started believing in
Speaker 8: his game and and that showed up this year. I mean,
Speaker 8: you see the way he runs off the rock. I
Speaker 8: mean he got called for a false start in the game.
Speaker 8: That's because he was anticipating the snap counting. Maybe Lucas
Speaker 8: was just a tick leg with it. That wasn't like
Speaker 8: a false start because he's ready to go. He's ready
Speaker 8: to go, like he's ready to run.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: We talked about a couple weeks ago in Cleveland when
Speaker 8: we had that we were using him to get out
Speaker 8: on a perimeter and he's burying a dB like all
Speaker 8: that stuff. Has just been really cool to see him
Speaker 8: him grow and have that mentality. He's super smart guy,
Speaker 8: so he can handle a lot, but the mentality part
Speaker 8: of it has been really the coolest part about his
Speaker 8: game and the way his game is translating.
Speaker 3: And would you agree one hundred percent he's a super athlete.
Speaker 3: He uses his length well, He's got good body control
Speaker 3: when he is a run blocker or when he's pulling
Speaker 3: to the outside. However, I will say this, and I've
Speaker 3: always said, Braxton needs to invest time in the weight room.
Speaker 3: He needs to become that offensive lineman that puts power
Speaker 3: on display in his pass blocking as much as he
Speaker 3: does is athleticism versatility in his run blocking, and I
Speaker 3: think that's gonna be the deciding factor in any offensive
Speaker 3: tackles long career. And you and I had a chance
Speaker 3: a couple weeks ago when we talked to Mike Ken,
Speaker 3: who an offensive tackle that played seventeen years for the
Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons, and he was six seven. He was also
Speaker 3: enormously strong weight room guy, and so just because you're
Speaker 3: long doesn't mean you can't be strong. And so to me,
Speaker 3: that would be one of the things that I would
Speaker 3: encourage Braxton Jones the most is to invest time in
Speaker 3: that weight room to try to set your goals that
Speaker 3: may be unrealistically obtainable, but you try to climb for them,
Speaker 3: and it's gonna get you stronger in the long run.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about that length as it pertains to the
Speaker 2: weight room, in particular the bench press, which is the
Speaker 2: level that these guys are graded at how many times
Speaker 2: you can throw it up in the air at the combine.
Speaker 2: But the idea is that longer arms make it harder
Speaker 2: to be a good bench presser. What is your opinion
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, I'll quote Clyde Emrick, the greatest strength coach
Speaker 3: of all time. Speed is strength and strength to speed.
Speaker 3: It's how quickly you try to move the weight. Listen, Jeff,
Speaker 3: you know Dan Hampton as well as anybody, and you
Speaker 3: when you look at Dan Hampton's frame right now, he's
Speaker 3: a big man. He's a long guy. He's one of
Speaker 3: the best and strongest power cleaners in the history of
Speaker 3: the Bears organization. And it's because of the speed he
Speaker 3: moved the weight. And so when you look at him,
Speaker 3: do you say, oh my god, this guy's not gonna
Speaker 3: bench five hundred, but he's gonna power clean over three
Speaker 3: hundred pounds, three hundred and fifteen, three hundred and twenty five,
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty pounds, which is an enormous weight.
Speaker 3: So I'm not saying Braxon Jones has to live under
Speaker 3: a five hundred pound bench, but the more repetitions that
Speaker 3: he can do at a heavier weight is gonna make
Speaker 3: his body stronger, which is going to compute to football strength.
Speaker 3: And it's the same thing as squats. He's got a
Speaker 3: really long frame, so it's not easy for him to
Speaker 3: squat it. It is for somebody like me that's a
Speaker 3: tad under six y four and because I have a
Speaker 3: shorter distance, I have to move the weight. But when
Speaker 3: you try to treat achieve the numbers, it just gives
Speaker 3: you a lot of confidence in the strength part of
Speaker 3: the game.
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Speaker 2: last week, Arrow up, Luke Getz.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't even look at it like that as far
Speaker 8: as points, really, I really don't try to do that.
Speaker 9: You know, you want to look at your execution.
Speaker 8: You want to make sure that you're you're doing things
Speaker 8: that are fundamentally sound, or your players fundamentals where they're
Speaker 8: supposed to be. Are are you giving yourself a chance
Speaker 8: in every situation? And there's areas we got to improve on.
Speaker 8: These areas we're doing well, and I think as long
Speaker 8: as we continue to get better at those things and
Speaker 8: start to you know, continue to eliminate the things that
Speaker 8: we're not doing so well or do we need to
Speaker 8: get a little bit better.
Speaker 9: At that's that's the track, right.
Speaker 8: The points make it look better, but the wins are
Speaker 8: what we're trying to get and you have to win
Speaker 8: games a bunch of different ways in this league. It's
Speaker 8: not always you know what Baltimore and Miami had last week,
Speaker 8: that's like whatever you dream of that for every game,
Speaker 8: but that's not realistic in this game. When you're going
Speaker 8: to lambeau Field, like you know you're going in for
Speaker 8: a grimy game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're gonna be facing a zone, a heavy
Speaker 2: attack with an elite front, as he indicated, and can
Speaker 2: the Bear's court that kind of point total on the
Speaker 2: on the on the home standing Green Bay Packers who
Speaker 2: have given up a lot of yards, their numbers aren't
Speaker 2: great on the defense side of the ball, but individually
Speaker 2: they've got players that turn your head certainly on the
Speaker 2: front and jay r Alexander on the back and some others.
Speaker 3: But I but I thought that was such a great
Speaker 3: answer by Luke, one of my favorite answers of all year,
Speaker 3: because it's not the amount of points you score, it's
Speaker 3: about how well organized of an attack that you have
Speaker 3: from all the players. Their jobs where they're supposed to be,
Speaker 3: the decision making process, everything that computes the points. And
Speaker 3: I think it was a really a super educated answer
Speaker 3: by the offensive coordinator, Luke Getzi, and to make sure
Speaker 3: that it's more important of the function of the offense
Speaker 3: than it is the points you score.
Speaker 2: All right, So what he's going to encounter justin fields
Speaker 2: against these packers a topic as well.
Speaker 9: That's the big thing that they do.
Speaker 8: They have an elite front, right, and so you have
Speaker 8: this elite front that makes you, uh, not be able
Speaker 8: to hold the ball very long, and then you have
Speaker 8: these zone defenders that are their eyes are on you
Speaker 8: and play into your game.
Speaker 9: So that's that's what they play into.
Speaker 8: And then you know, and then like the few number
Speaker 8: of explosives that these guys give up too, so like
Speaker 8: you're not getting behind them.
Speaker 9: So you got to be detailed. You got to be
Speaker 9: in timing and.
Speaker 8: Rhythm is critical when you play zone defenses like this,
Speaker 8: and then the rest of the guys have to be
Speaker 8: on too, right, violent to the tuck, drop step, getting vertical,
Speaker 8: all that stuff. But you know, making sure we have
Speaker 8: good ball security because that's what that's what we can
Speaker 8: play These teams that have the vision to the ball.
Speaker 8: They're going to be you know, the context is going
Speaker 8: to happen right away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And in five games against the Packers, Justin as
Speaker 2: throwing a pick in each of those five games. Nine
Speaker 2: giveaways in five games. And that's my emphasis this week
Speaker 2: from my perspective, is the takeaways. I mean the takeaways
Speaker 2: and the turnovers. You need the takeaways and you can't
Speaker 2: have the turnovers on the road in that place with
Speaker 2: the team trying to get in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Well, you only have this luxury one game a year
Speaker 3: and it's the last game of the year. If you
Speaker 3: don't like the throw, then run. If you think that
Speaker 3: you can put the team on the defensive if you
Speaker 3: can make them change their thinking process, if you can
Speaker 3: make the defensive coordinator sit up on that booth or
Speaker 3: on the field curious of what the quarterbacks next decision
Speaker 3: is going to be, then you're starting to create a
Speaker 3: confusion that affects the way they play defense. You're always
Speaker 3: thinking about the next week, staying healthy, and I'm making
Speaker 3: sure that you're on the field. Just this is the
Speaker 3: type of game that Justin can be the most threatening,
Speaker 3: dynamic athlete in the NFL. That he is that can
Speaker 3: change the thinking process of players and coaches alike on
Speaker 3: the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2: All right, So the Bears do have two Pro bowlers.
Speaker 2: The Packers one of what four teams that did not
Speaker 2: have a Pro bowler named. Their record and their numbers
Speaker 2: are eerily similar to last season when they had Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: But this year they've got Jordan Love throwing thirty touchdowns
Speaker 2: in twenty nine of those touchdowns going to first or
Speaker 2: second year targets. Amazing, Yeah, it is amazing. But some
Speaker 2: of the guys that will be wreaking havoc, hopefully against
Speaker 2: Jordan Love. One of them is Montes Sweat. This is
Speaker 2: a compilation of his comments today of how he learned
Speaker 2: about becoming a pro bowler. He was called in the
Speaker 2: house hall, as was Jalen Johnson. You can check it
Speaker 2: out on the Bears website for the video. Told them
Speaker 2: they want to talk about some things and here sprung
Speaker 2: it at them and it was a surprise, your sweat.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was pretty surreal. Coach hitting me up, tell
Speaker 6: me you got to go over the game player, I'm like,
Speaker 6: what so, yeah, I kind of figured something was up,
Speaker 6: but yeah, man, they presented me the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 6: Really uh, lots of words. Man, I'm blessed to get
Speaker 6: my first one. I mean, it's a lot. It's my
Speaker 6: fifth year in the league. It's something that every player aspires,
Speaker 6: the kids. I've been working a long long time to
Speaker 6: get to to get to this point where I am,
Speaker 6: and I'm still not satisfying. Things that definitely started slow
Speaker 6: down as as the as the year is coming to
Speaker 6: an end. Uh, you get to analyze the whole the
Speaker 6: whole year from start to finish, and uh to say
Speaker 6: that I'd be a Pro Bowl and I would, I
Speaker 6: wouldn't have guessed it. But I'm nothing. I'm never but thankful.
Speaker 6: I'm blessed for even though the things that I've done
Speaker 6: on taping, the things that we've been been able to
Speaker 6: do as a group, I just feel like it's a
Speaker 6: lot more on the table. It's a lot more goals
Speaker 6: I want to reach in. It's a lot more things
Speaker 6: I want to do. Yes, definitely, it's definitely a relief.
Speaker 6: It's definitely a respect thing. It's nice to get noticed
Speaker 6: by the league and by your teammates. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: still it's a what you've done late.
Speaker 4: For me league.
Speaker 6: So yes, it's pretty cool, but I don't I don't
Speaker 6: really want to take take credit for what these guys
Speaker 6: have been able to do around here. Man, these boys
Speaker 6: really stepping up. They've been playing their asses off, so
Speaker 6: credit to them. I'm the one getting the credit now,
Speaker 6: but it's it's really all because of those boys. Yes, all,
Speaker 6: I'm really worried about right now, just ending the season
Speaker 6: on a good note. H I understand it's a it's
Speaker 6: a rivaly game around here. I'm kind of new to it,
Speaker 6: so yeah, I'm just looking forward to helping them do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, help helping it stop a nine game losing streak
Speaker 2: to the Green Bay Packers, the last Bears winning green
Speaker 2: Bay can on Thanksgiving in twenty fifteen. Week twelve, a
Speaker 2: seventeen thirteen Bears win. Still the first player in NFL
Speaker 2: history to lead two teams in sacks at any point
Speaker 2: in this season. So if he finished the job and
Speaker 2: no one springs to life in Washington, I think it'll
Speaker 2: be a cool thing. I've never heard of anything like this,
Speaker 2: and he's got that lead right now, and I hope
Speaker 2: he does get it.
Speaker 3: Nobody trades pass rushers in the NFL, especially guys with
Speaker 3: his brightest of the future and in their twenties, like
Speaker 3: a guy like montes Sweat. I'm super proud of him,
Speaker 3: and I'm happy for him for what he's done with
Speaker 3: his attitude and for this team since he's come aboard,
Speaker 3: because we were out we played the Commanders this year,
Speaker 3: and we are out there and we saw that atmosphere
Speaker 3: of what they were facing in Washington, and so I
Speaker 3: couldn't be happier for Montesen. He's not a secret to
Speaker 3: us because he's the same guy that we talked a
Speaker 3: lot about after what he was able to do in
Speaker 3: the combine, in how much we talked about him at
Speaker 3: that point to follow and track his career, and I
Speaker 3: hope he's only scratching the surface of how dominant that
Speaker 3: ultimately he's gonna be in the next five, six, seven years.
Speaker 2: All Right, coming up, we'll here Jalen Johnson's reaction to
Speaker 2: be in a pro bowler. It's all coming up next
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Speaker 1: This is Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears
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Speaker 2: Jeff and Tom getting you ready for Bears Packers. The
Speaker 2: injury report today and no work for Jalen Johnson's shoulder injury,
Speaker 2: but he did an interview in the locker room, says, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's gonna try and go. He wants to play in
Speaker 2: this game. He also explained his reaction when he found
Speaker 2: out from coach Eberflusen general manager Ryan Poles that he
Speaker 2: was headed to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 10: I would just honestly just blessed, fortunate to be in
Speaker 10: a position to have the voting to have the favor
Speaker 10: go my way. But I mean, honestly, just just blessed.
Speaker 10: Guy's been doing here, Guy's been doing this stands this
Speaker 10: year for sure. I mean I've always wanted some things
Speaker 10: to go a little differently, but I think everything has
Speaker 10: worked out perfectly this year. And I mean hopefully I
Speaker 10: got I got one more award and left in me,
Speaker 10: and I think that it's very tangible and I believe
Speaker 10: it's on his way.
Speaker 3: So I mean just.
Speaker 10: Really looking forward to this end of this year off
Speaker 10: right and hopefully getting some more accolades. No, I mean
Speaker 10: never downplayed it. One just out within the other one.
Speaker 10: But I mean both of them are still good, prestigious
Speaker 10: have for like awards, So I mean, as far as
Speaker 10: I mean all Pro Go, that's definitely still the one
Speaker 10: I want. I want more, but it was definitely still
Speaker 10: a good feeling to have. I think I'll I'll be
Speaker 10: able to soak it in more. I think after season's
Speaker 10: over with and then when I start playing it to
Speaker 10: actually get down there. But I mean right now, I haven't,
Speaker 10: like I haven't seen too many graphics or anything really
Speaker 10: come out about it, so it's like it hasn't it
Speaker 10: hasn't truthfully hit me yet. I kind of just soak
Speaker 10: it in internally, but I haven't seen too much externally.
Speaker 10: I knew something was kind of fishy though, because they
Speaker 10: try to call me in for an exit interview early
Speaker 10: and the inclusive talking about watching game like going over
Speaker 10: game film and going on with game plan. I'm like,
Speaker 10: we're too late in the year for us to just
Speaker 10: be trying to do and do different things. So I mean,
Speaker 10: I knew something was up and then I kind of
Speaker 10: had a feeling. I was like, and then they told
Speaker 10: me to bring my family, so I'm like, you can't
Speaker 10: be talking about nothing. So it was a good moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, happy for Jalen once that All Pro title as well,
Speaker 2: with you always say is the one you really want
Speaker 2: to get, the notification if you're an All Pro, especially
Speaker 2: first team All Pro, you've done something really well.
Speaker 3: Listen, all first team, All Pro, All Pro, second team
Speaker 3: All Pro. That's the legitimate award that shows you've accomplished
Speaker 3: quite a bit in whatever scenes it is in the NFL.
Speaker 3: And it's funny that Jalen kind of sniffed out the
Speaker 3: deal that they were calling him in to watch film
Speaker 3: with his family, because the only time they ever called
Speaker 3: me to walk in early is when they were gonna
Speaker 3: cut me. So you know, I'm happy though for Jalen
Speaker 3: because he's had an enormous amount of pressure on him
Speaker 3: since the beginning of the season because of the contract
Speaker 3: situation and everything, and he's had a great season and
Speaker 3: John Hoak has done a great job with the cornerback
Speaker 3: position specifically, and you know, he's rewarded with what his
Speaker 3: he set out to accomplish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look what he's done, Jalen. And you look at
Speaker 2: Kyler Gordon's second best slat coverage defender in the league
Speaker 2: according to Pro Football Focus, and they're grading that came
Speaker 2: out today. Tyreek Stevenson since Week fifteen, four forced in
Speaker 2: completions plus three interceptions, quarterback rating of under forty eight
Speaker 2: against Atlanta. Two catches twenty eight yards, two interceptions on
Speaker 2: six targets. The unit overall defensively seventeen turnovers since Week eleven,
Speaker 2: number one in the NFL. All of it lovely, very impressive.
Speaker 3: One thing I like about Tyreek Stevenson is I think
Speaker 3: three times this year he's had to leave the game
Speaker 3: because he's been nick up. Every single time he's returned
Speaker 3: to the game. He's the most physical cornerback that the
Speaker 3: Bears have, and I admire his courage. I admire his
Speaker 3: willingness to come back on the field even if he gets,
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit off center for a minute
Speaker 3: or two. But he's answered the bell, and I think
Speaker 3: the Bears coaches have done a great job of getting
Speaker 3: him prepared since training camp.
Speaker 2: The linebackers coach Dave Borgonzi was the defensive coach to
Speaker 2: talk today at the podium to address the development and
Speaker 2: what Jordan Love is getting done right now for the Packers.
Speaker 9: Really effective passer. I think he's got thirty touchdowns this year.
Speaker 7: Balls come out on time, does a really good job
Speaker 7: moving in the pocket, really distributes the ball well to
Speaker 7: his receivers in the box.
Speaker 9: He's been he's been really good.
Speaker 11: Obviously aware of a year and how many with and
Speaker 11: turns and turbulence it was within it. When you see
Speaker 11: where this team is emerged going into two week eight team,
Speaker 11: what are your takeaways in terms of why this team
Speaker 11: wasn't derailed and now it's.
Speaker 9: Finishing the year the way it is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it speaks to the leadership from the
Speaker 7: head coach, so the general manager to the you know,
Speaker 7: the leaders on the team, just to stay the course,
Speaker 7: trust the process, and it's a resilient group and proud
Speaker 7: of I think everybody's proud of what we've you know,
Speaker 7: accomplished to where we started to you know we're right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's all true. Sometimes it's hard to
Speaker 2: stick to the process, especially when you know if things
Speaker 2: keep backfiring, it's hard for players to accept the process.
Speaker 2: But they have, they've stayed together tight completely different football team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Dave says, everybody has a hand in it,
Speaker 3: but nobody has a more important hand in it than
Speaker 3: the role of the players, because they're the ones that
Speaker 3: spend the most time together behind closed doors, whether it's
Speaker 3: waiting for your coach to get there for meetings or
Speaker 3: sitting in the locker room when you're getting ready or
Speaker 3: getting undressed after practice. There's a lot of conversation that
Speaker 3: goes on that can either keep the narrative positive or
Speaker 3: create an extremely negative narrative that can completely collapse an
Speaker 3: entire organization. And that's never been the case. And so
Speaker 3: when you look at some of the free agents that
Speaker 3: Ryan has brought in and how positive of a you know,
Speaker 3: effect that they've had in the locker room, what an
Speaker 3: important role the rookies have played in the locker room,
Speaker 3: and just the fact that Matt has been able to
Speaker 3: keep this group together and have just just a really
Speaker 3: good constructive working atmosphere in that locker room.
Speaker 2: The rest of the injury report, by the way, still
Speaker 2: know darn Al Muny type and page ins under the weather,
Speaker 2: Patrick scales with a foot, so they have a long
Speaker 2: snapper came in Matt Overton. They did work out some
Speaker 2: special teams players today in Tallisaw. Cole Comet limited today,
Speaker 2: so it looks like he's getting better. Khalil Herbert also limited,
Speaker 2: and he got a lot of praise from Joe Berry,
Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator of the Packers. He spoke glowingly about
Speaker 2: Khalil Herbert. They have respect for him, and they respect
Speaker 2: him in the passing game, in the screen game as well,
Speaker 2: but the run game respect you must you must respect
Speaker 2: the Bears run game. Over the last two seasons, it's
Speaker 2: been very good, very productive, and I get it Justin's
Speaker 2: had a big hand in that as well, certainly more
Speaker 2: last year than this year. But the Bears like running
Speaker 2: the ball and they do a nice job of running
Speaker 2: the ball. In the last two weeks, have done.
Speaker 3: A nice job, oh no doubt. Chris Morgan has got
Speaker 3: to be complimented as well, because he's kept this offensive
Speaker 3: line together even though there's been some changes, you know,
Speaker 3: throughout the whole year. And yeah, Khalil Herbert is a
Speaker 3: heck of a compliment to the offensive line. Ro Sean
Speaker 3: and Deontay form and you can't ignore what he has
Speaker 3: done with when he's had his opportunity. So when you have,
Speaker 3: you know, a staple that you believe that you can
Speaker 3: go into any environment and still have that as your
Speaker 3: main asset. If it is your running game, you're always
Speaker 3: gonna have a chance to win the game.
Speaker 2: Packers injury reports long, Tom, they got five guys, did
Speaker 2: not practice, six limited, A bunch of guys were full today. Again,
Speaker 2: but it's a pretty it seems like it. Ever believe it.
Speaker 2: Don't believe.
Speaker 3: Don't believe the hype that is. I tell you that is.
Speaker 3: You know, there's an exact opposite that some coaches don't
Speaker 3: want to put anybody on the injury report even though
Speaker 3: they are banged up, and then there are some coaches
Speaker 3: that want to list their entire team even though they're
Speaker 3: not bad. So you kind of you're kind of a
Speaker 3: trying to pull the old Hoboken hustle where you're trying
Speaker 3: to sucker the team into thinking that someone's not going
Speaker 3: to be there, and then all of a sudden, play one,
Speaker 3: there comes that player trotting on the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see that Packer love coming through right now, Tom,
Speaker 2: I see it. Remember that time you wanted to go,
Speaker 2: you wanted to hunt down Brett Favre in the locker room.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, all times. I have a couple of times
Speaker 3: I still would like Aaron Rodgers I do this right.
Speaker 3: Uh well, yeah, it's the laydown for Mike Strahan that's
Speaker 3: completely offensive to all offensive lineman in the history of
Speaker 3: the game. And then the other one was is when
Speaker 3: Warren Sap went and passed up hitting Brett Farb after
Speaker 3: he threw an interception and went and hit I think
Speaker 3: Chad Clifton, one of their offensive linemen, and then Brett
Speaker 3: Farb was walking off the field kind of smiling and laughing,
Speaker 3: and I was completely offended as an offensive lineman and
Speaker 3: Chad Clifton, I think it was I it could have
Speaker 3: been somebody else by it, Thigos, Chad Clifton. He kind
Speaker 3: of had his pelvis displaced because of that hit. And
Speaker 3: so any time that quarterback takes you know, that type
Speaker 3: of relationship with the defensive lineman from the opponent, I'm
Speaker 3: always personally offended.
Speaker 2: As a broadcaster. Have you ever told another player or
Speaker 2: coach to say, hey, go tell somebody, I want to
Speaker 2: talk to him. I want I want them out here,
Speaker 2: I want to talk to him. Have you ever done that?
Speaker 3: I told Doug Peterson when he was the assistant on
Speaker 3: the quarterback coach for the Green Bay Packers. Okay, if
Speaker 3: you could go go and get Brett Farva, I'd like
Speaker 3: to tell him what I think of him about laying
Speaker 3: down for straight hand.
Speaker 2: Oh my, that's hilarious. All right, we'll continue our last
Speaker 2: segment ahead here on Bears Weekly a Esponca Gowork.
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Speaker 2: to get it, Jeff in Tom of the final moments
Speaker 2: before we turned over to Blacken up Dalla, Thanks for
Speaker 2: listen everybody. So, if I'm not mistaken, Week one, DJ
Speaker 2: Moore at two targets that will not happen, cannot happen.
Speaker 3: In week eighteen, we need to re We need to
Speaker 3: look at the game plan because DJ Moore is knock
Speaker 3: going to end this game with two targets. He's a
Speaker 3: guy that has got snubbed for the Pro Bowl and
Speaker 3: he deserves multiple targets near that ten mark weekend and
Speaker 3: week out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that Pro Bowl thing we keep talking about TJ Edwards,
Speaker 2: but Dj Moore. I mean, wow, he had a career
Speaker 2: year and it's not over yet. Thirteen hundred yards and
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns plus one run of the football. So it's
Speaker 2: been a tremendous season for DJ Moore in many, many
Speaker 2: different ways. The leadership component and what the quality guy
Speaker 2: is in the locker room as well. A couple quick
Speaker 2: nuggets before we go, Tom, I know you appreciate the
Speaker 2: high school level. NFL gave the nominees for the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three Don Shula High School Coach of the Year Award.
Speaker 2: Rick Leonard, who led Rochester to a fifty nine to
Speaker 2: thirty eight four A title win over Saint Lawrence, is
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears nominee for the Don shul And you
Speaker 2: played for coach Shula for one season in Miami, so
Speaker 2: a good recognition there for that program.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Congratulations, quite an accomplishment to get recognized like that.
Speaker 3: You know what a just a great thing it is
Speaker 3: for your players in your program.
Speaker 2: And Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren and his wife
Speaker 2: Greta announcing their family foundation one million dollar pledge to
Speaker 2: Lurie Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders and support
Speaker 2: of Chicago families with a childhood cancer or serious blood
Speaker 2: or disordered diagnosis. Honors hit mister Warren's late sister, Carol
Speaker 2: and Elaine Warren Knox's legacy. She passed several years ago
Speaker 2: from brain cancer. Quite the Hey, he's amazing.
Speaker 3: I saw that today on the Bears website. So what
Speaker 3: a gracious couple that they are, and what a program
Speaker 3: to add financial assets.
Speaker 2: All right, Tom, don't peak too soon for Bears Packers
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