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Speaker 1: tomes so much to discuss.
Speaker 2: I wish you were.
Speaker 1: Here because I think I got to kick out of
Speaker 1: the coaches on the grass just listening to them coach,
Speaker 1: a little bit of fire, a lot of instruction, a
Speaker 1: lot of motivation, not letting anything slight is promised, I
Speaker 1: can tell you that.
Speaker 2: And the result it was a fun watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just shorts and guys running around doing
Speaker 1: techniques and fundamentals, but I enjoyed it.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 3: For me, it's a little different because I had a.
Speaker 6: Chance to listen to a lot of it.
Speaker 3: And when you kind of shut your eyes and you're
Speaker 3: not paying attention to any one person, you're kind of
Speaker 3: paying attention to the sympathy of voices that surround all
Speaker 3: of the practice fields and whether they're yelling encouragement or
Speaker 3: correction or whatever they're talking about according to the position
Speaker 3: and the guys are coaching. I think that's the neat
Speaker 3: process and the beginning for me is kind of listening
Speaker 3: and getting to know those new voices with your eyes closed.
Speaker 3: So in four or five months and we're listening to
Speaker 3: those guys make in game corrections or corrections during the
Speaker 3: course of the week, he kind of familiar with that
Speaker 3: is and what they're saying and what they're trying to
Speaker 3: encourage and accomplish.
Speaker 1: I hear some of my takeaways from from my eyes.
Speaker 1: Ozzie Trippelo is a huge man. Let me just tell
Speaker 1: you that right now. He is a big guy, and
Speaker 1: it's not just linear.
Speaker 2: He is built.
Speaker 1: He is broad chested, big armed dude and just a
Speaker 1: large human being. Luther Burden the Third has got burst
Speaker 1: to him, man, he's got burst and finished to his game.
Speaker 1: Did make a heck of a catch, banged up on it,
Speaker 1: but he was right back out there on Saturday. And
Speaker 1: Kyle Manungai he's gonna be fun to watch as well.
Speaker 1: He may be short in stature, but he's a plowhorse man.
Speaker 1: He looks good. And Zay Frazier the Corner thinly built,
Speaker 1: but he can move those long arms make an impact.
Speaker 1: So some very interesting stuff, and then we'll get into
Speaker 1: the coaching of Antoine Randall.
Speaker 2: L Boy, he's got a big voice.
Speaker 1: Eric Bana me, you're not walking back to the huddle, Tom,
Speaker 1: you gotta hear about it.
Speaker 2: No, it was fun.
Speaker 3: Jeemy the Enemy is one of the guys that you
Speaker 3: close your eyes and you kind of get to know
Speaker 3: already because his approach to coaching is a little bit
Speaker 3: more old school, where he's not gonna coddle you and
Speaker 3: tell you how.
Speaker 6: Great you are.
Speaker 3: He's going to tell you what you screwed up, what
Speaker 3: not to do, and for God's sakes, don't touch the
Speaker 3: cone's yeah, when someone kicked the cone in there.
Speaker 6: And so I.
Speaker 3: Like, you talk about Antoine Randall l and you talk
Speaker 3: about beenemy, you talk about Al Harris and these guys.
Speaker 3: It's kind of neat to listen to, you know, the
Speaker 3: help that they're going to give these young players to
Speaker 3: come in here and compete the best against the veterans.
Speaker 1: And over the course of this podcast, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: defensive line coach Jeremy Garrett to sit down with him.
Speaker 1: From a couple of weeks ago, he worked with Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett with the Cleveland Brown so he's been in the
Speaker 1: college game. And then j T Barrett, just getting his
Speaker 1: feet wet as an NFL coach, came over from Detroit
Speaker 1: with the Bears head coach Ben Johnson, so has some
Speaker 1: interesting comments what he had as well, just from his
Speaker 1: perspective not that far removed from being a college player.
Speaker 1: But also let's talk about the schedule. We know a
Speaker 1: couple of things at the taping of this podcast. One
Speaker 1: is the Bears are gonna host Green Bay Week sixteen
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field on Fox.
Speaker 2: So that's big.
Speaker 1: By the way, tickets will go on sale through Ticketmaster,
Speaker 1: the official ticket partner of the Bears, here on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: But for this game, you can already start buying those tickets.
Speaker 1: It breaks a you know, it's been two years since
Speaker 1: no primetime game used to be an annual thing. You're
Speaker 1: going to play the Packers in primetime, so this could
Speaker 1: be either three thirty or six thirty. So that's primetime
Speaker 1: enough for me, and it'll be interesting late in the
Speaker 1: season Tom, and.
Speaker 2: Then the Black Friday Game.
Speaker 1: About that, the Black Friday Game, Tom, the Bears are
Speaker 1: going in primetime with the Black Friday Game. That also
Speaker 1: means the possibility when the schedule comes out that the
Speaker 1: Bears could also play on Christmas Day because that happened
Speaker 1: and the teams who played on Black Friday they played
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, you're going to have to do a lot
Speaker 3: of your shopping online, yeah, because I know Big Friday
Speaker 3: is a huge day for you to hit all the
Speaker 3: malls and pick up stuffs for Caitlin and Kelly, but
Speaker 3: this year you might have to do it.
Speaker 1: At halftime at Philadelphia, we'll go shop in the morning
Speaker 1: je steaks only.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so how do you feel about those two?
Speaker 3: You know, I want to see the whole schedule because
Speaker 3: just talking about two games out of seventeen is just
Speaker 3: a little underwhelming. But when you put all seventeen together,
Speaker 3: where when, how conditions heat, cold, all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: it'll be fun to see because you know, they kind
Speaker 3: of leak a couple of games. And I look at
Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings. How they have two international games back
Speaker 3: to back, one doublin Ireland and one in England. So
Speaker 3: you know, the schedule is the great unknown nowadays. Jam
Speaker 3: before when we start this thing, you know there is
Speaker 3: gonna be sixteen games played home and away. Now you
Speaker 3: have no idea where you're gonna play, what country you're
Speaker 3: gonna play, or when you're gonna play.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to talk to our guy Pete Bursich
Speaker 1: because that was on my list of things to talk
Speaker 1: about later in the show. But let's talk about it
Speaker 1: right now. Because they're the only team in the division
Speaker 1: that's playing an international game. There are thirteen overall teams
Speaker 1: gonna have an international game this year out of the
Speaker 1: thirty two, and that's gonna be an annual thing and
Speaker 1: it's going to increase. It's gonna increase. So that's the future.
Speaker 1: But what is it ten days abroad? Okay, what is
Speaker 1: the challenge of that. You're gonna play obviously close proximity.
Speaker 1: You're gonna play, you know, in London, but also in Dublin.
Speaker 1: But then you don't have to play at Pittsburgh where
Speaker 1: you've never beaten the Steelers in Heinz Field. You don't
Speaker 1: have to play to Cleveland where they've won once since
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. Those are irrelevant statistics, I know. But
Speaker 1: it's just good for conversation if nothing else. But ten
Speaker 1: days away yet, Now that's.
Speaker 2: I like to say, that's real money, Tom, that's real money.
Speaker 3: But you know, there's so many other considerations that you
Speaker 3: have to take into an effect. You know, Now, are
Speaker 3: you gonna leave your family home for ten days or are
Speaker 3: you gonna bring your family with you for ten days?
Speaker 6: You know, And there's a lot of young guys in
Speaker 6: the NFL.
Speaker 3: That are married and guys that are newlyweds, So there's
Speaker 3: a lot of decisions that you have to that have
Speaker 3: to be made, similar to like a baseball team that
Speaker 3: goes on a ten day road trip or a basketball team.
Speaker 3: So these guys, they have a lot of friends in
Speaker 3: other professional sports, and maybe you should take some advice
Speaker 3: from those guys about how they go about business on
Speaker 3: those long extended trips.
Speaker 6: We've never been on one.
Speaker 3: Our longest trip is probably going to the Super Bowl
Speaker 3: for five or six days, and that's for one game.
Speaker 3: But when you're talking about going from Ireland to England
Speaker 3: and everything else in between, it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 3: be trying.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Of course Jacksonville has done that, but this is something
Speaker 1: brand new for Minnesota. Okay, let's get into some things
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Speaker 1: All right, let's start with Holston Lovelin Tom transitioning right
Speaker 1: now from that injury where he had to have surgery
Speaker 1: in January, so his return to full activity won't be
Speaker 1: until some point during training camp. So he likes to
Speaker 1: describe it he's stacking bricks right now. But let's listen
Speaker 1: in on his early feedback of Ben Johnson.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm a big fan. I love like this spirit
Speaker 8: is energy. He's super like determined, he's ready to go.
Speaker 8: He's ready to take this thing to the top. And
Speaker 8: he's no nice guy. He's gonna I see him getting
Speaker 8: getting on butt and you know, getting on people's butts
Speaker 8: and but fired up to like super excited. I'm loving
Speaker 8: how he coaches' so early and I'm excited to play
Speaker 8: for him.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be a topic.
Speaker 1: Let's every time there's a practice, the media will ask
Speaker 1: a question about Ben Johnson to a player, maybe something
Speaker 1: they heard, something they saw how he goes about it,
Speaker 1: because there's so there is more intrigue about Ben Johnson
Speaker 1: than any Bears coach we've ever been around since Dicka
Speaker 1: my opinion, because they're watching him because he has that
Speaker 1: reputation of excellence that he brings to from Detroit and
Speaker 1: he's already laid it out. This is how we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it, no nonsense, We're not letting a mistake go unnoticed.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. I think it's fascinating this conversation. Everybody's
Speaker 1: getting asked the same question about Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3: But it's almost like you have a scientist. Okay, So
Speaker 3: we saw him in the lab in Detroit and what
Speaker 3: he did with the personnel, what he did with the
Speaker 3: guy like Jared Goff, bringing in Jamar Gibbs, and how that.
Speaker 6: Offense, and it's kind of exploded up there.
Speaker 3: Now this lab that he's in, this new lab in
Speaker 3: Chicago is completely different. The quarterbacks aren't the same, the
Speaker 3: running backs are different. The personnel on the exterior of
Speaker 3: the offense and the tight end position in the offensive line,
Speaker 3: they are a lot different from the formula, the formula
Speaker 3: that he perfected in Detroit. So now what is the
Speaker 3: formula for the Chicago Bears personnel? And I don't think
Speaker 3: that's ever going to stop. That's going to be Ben
Speaker 3: Johnson's entire career here in Chicago. He's going to take
Speaker 3: what's offered to him, take him in the lab, and
Speaker 3: figure out what is the most effective way to put
Speaker 3: these guys in the most threatening position against their opponent
Speaker 3: that he can do.
Speaker 1: I appreciated what he had to say when his only
Speaker 1: day at the podium for the rookie Minti Caamp talked
Speaker 1: about finding that sweet spot and coaching their different personality
Speaker 1: styles are going to come out for all the coaches,
Speaker 1: including himself, in scenarios and situations.
Speaker 2: And then this to me is the most important learn
Speaker 2: what the.
Speaker 1: Guys need to be pushed, because sometimes they do may
Speaker 1: not be may may not be feeling it one day,
Speaker 1: working through an injury or having a bad practice. What
Speaker 1: how far can you take a guy what they need?
Speaker 1: How you figure out what they need to be pushed?
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that thought me too.
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of an evaluation that goes, you know, understated,
Speaker 3: because sometimes these coaches are the guy, the guys that
Speaker 3: get to see these guys at their worst moments. So
Speaker 3: when you show up at the facility at six o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning, are you awaken ready to go? Are
Speaker 3: you needed to be woken up and told what you're
Speaker 3: going to do and try to get your energy up
Speaker 3: and all those types of things from the players that
Speaker 3: have a I mean, the coaches that have a lot
Speaker 3: of experience, they know exactly how to push those buttons.
Speaker 3: And then you talk about some of the young guys,
Speaker 3: a JT. Barrett stuff. You know, how do they, you know,
Speaker 3: put together their formula of inspiration to some of these
Speaker 3: young guys. And so I think, not only Ben Johnson,
Speaker 3: but every one of these coaches, it's going to be
Speaker 3: fun to want watch how they push their players buttons.
Speaker 1: All right, here's Luther Burden, the third drafted number thirty nine.
Speaker 1: He said it. It was the quote of the week.
Speaker 1: It's gonna stay with him forever. Everybody who passed up
Speaker 1: on me has got to pay. He believes in himself.
Speaker 1: He feels he should have been drafted much higher. But
Speaker 1: this part of his conversation is that he's gelling with
Speaker 1: Antoine Randall, l his receivers coach.
Speaker 9: I feel like he's going to bring the best out
Speaker 9: of me. You know, I've seen his past history.
Speaker 10: You know, he's a guy who's you know, been in
Speaker 10: my shoes, so he knows what to expect in you know,
Speaker 10: different ways how to handle it.
Speaker 9: So I'm grateful, you know, to have a great coach
Speaker 9: like him.
Speaker 1: On the on the practice field, Burden getting a lot
Speaker 1: of attention from Anton Randall l but he was coaching
Speaker 1: everybody up the same way. He's just full of energy
Speaker 1: exactly the way we've described him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love it here and I'd love to
Speaker 3: see it because these guys need to be inspired coming
Speaker 3: out of college and into their first NFL action, and
Speaker 3: you gotta, like we're just talking about the last been
Speaker 3: pushing their buttons.
Speaker 6: You got to get the best out of them.
Speaker 3: You got to make sure that they work play in
Speaker 3: and play out, and that they work harder on Sunday.
Speaker 3: So I think that this is kind of probably the
Speaker 3: perfect player coach combination because you need a young guy
Speaker 3: like Burn that needs inspiration for an experienced guy like
Speaker 3: Antoine Randall.
Speaker 1: El and Antoine wenderbl can still spend it. He throws
Speaker 1: a nice pass, Tommy, he really puts some heat on
Speaker 1: that missile.
Speaker 2: He can he can with it.
Speaker 6: Those guys, you know, they don't lose that. They're they're
Speaker 6: always They're always.
Speaker 3: Going to have that so hey, and you know, he
Speaker 3: can probably help in some of the drills when you
Speaker 3: need a couple of extra balls flying exactly.
Speaker 1: Reuben Hippolyte, the second self described bumpy first day. I
Speaker 1: guess Dennis Allen told me, you needed a better day
Speaker 1: the next day, and he appreciated that. But they're really
Speaker 1: what draws them to this player is the speed and
Speaker 1: you can see it on.
Speaker 2: The hook four four to two.
Speaker 1: That's the ability to be a coverage weapon. But overall,
Speaker 1: he describes his journey here to the NFL how he
Speaker 1: was overlooked many times in his life.
Speaker 11: Misery loves company. There's a lot of people that don't
Speaker 11: know what I had to go through to get this opportunity.
Speaker 11: You just look at my story, just not going into
Speaker 11: the Combine, not going to the Senior Bowl, Trim Bowl
Speaker 11: had a Hula Bowl, which you know, I give a
Speaker 11: lot of you know, credit to Nick Logan for trusting
Speaker 11: me for to play in that game. But just that
Speaker 11: and then I called the NFS twice to see if
Speaker 11: I had a Combine invite. They said no, So going
Speaker 11: through that and then just you know, going through training
Speaker 11: the whole Combine season and just you know, chopping wood,
Speaker 11: carry water, you know, going through it every day, and
Speaker 11: then having my opportunity, I want my one opportunity at
Speaker 11: Pro Day doing that and then I went on like
Speaker 11: fifteen visits, took like thirty flights in two weeks, just
Speaker 11: back and back and forth across the country, you know, doing.
Speaker 9: My meetings and stuff with like that.
Speaker 11: So you know, all that is just a combination of
Speaker 11: you know, me getting his opportunity now.
Speaker 9: Definitely don't take it for granted.
Speaker 11: Very grateful for you know, everybody upstairs for believing in
Speaker 11: me and in my ability.
Speaker 9: Now it's time for me to put together.
Speaker 11: I just love my story for anyone who's you know
Speaker 11: out there who thinks that they need you know, you know,
Speaker 11: things like the combine and invite singer boy invited, you
Speaker 11: know that, who thinks that they need that to get drafted?
Speaker 9: You don't. You just got to put your best foot forward.
Speaker 11: You gotta run fast and uh, he's got to be
Speaker 11: your best self every day.
Speaker 9: And I feel like I'm showing that.
Speaker 11: I got a lot of messages, a lot of love,
Speaker 11: a lot of hate too, but that's what comes with it,
Speaker 11: so I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: The essence of that was the surprise that he was
Speaker 1: a fourth ron or others had him as undrafted. Uh,
Speaker 1: just draft analysts, you know, the the crowd that does
Speaker 1: that work. During this entire offseason, he wasn't buying any
Speaker 1: of it, and I'm glad talking about putting a chip
Speaker 1: on another shoulder.
Speaker 2: There you go, listen.
Speaker 3: I I love his reaction to how the draft went down,
Speaker 3: and his dissatisfaction with his evaluation or non invite to
Speaker 3: the combine. All those types of things that are going
Speaker 3: to stay in the back of his head are going
Speaker 3: to be fuel for the fire.
Speaker 6: You think of what happened with TJ.
Speaker 3: Edwards throughout his career after being undrafted free agent and
Speaker 3: now he's one of the best interior linebackers in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I think that kind of fuel is, you know, is
Speaker 3: really important for any of these guys, and Hippolyte is
Speaker 3: one of the guys that I think he's going to
Speaker 3: be inspired by it.
Speaker 2: All right, Assie Tripillo, what a what a nice guy,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: I introduced him to Tommy Wattle in the hallway because
Speaker 1: played with his dad and got a big charge out
Speaker 1: of that. I stopped him in the in the lunch room,
Speaker 1: I said, hey, I got one more nugget for you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know.
Speaker 1: Who this person is, but a gentleman by the name
Speaker 1: of Jim Finks, a general manager in the Pro Football
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, had a big hand and putting together
Speaker 1: that starting offensive line for the nineteen eighty five world
Speaker 1: champion Chicago Bears and was a big line of scrimmage guy.
Speaker 2: He's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, he drafted your dad in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and that's a great nugget. He was like, man,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for tell me. That's a cool story.
Speaker 1: I think it's a cool story. And it's interesting that
Speaker 1: he is a Bear. That and Jim Finks so popular
Speaker 1: in this organization. And I know you respected Jim Finks
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 6: Oh heck yeah. And you know I knew his dad.
Speaker 6: I knew who his dad was.
Speaker 3: You know, I knew a lot about him from his
Speaker 3: college background and stuff.
Speaker 6: And so Trapillo has.
Speaker 3: Got an opportunity to keep that name alive and flourish
Speaker 3: even farther in the NFL. So he's definitely a guy
Speaker 3: I think all Bears fans will pull for. But he's
Speaker 3: also in the midst of a job interview that could
Speaker 3: be some of the more difficult times over the next
Speaker 3: five or six months in his life. When you're trying
Speaker 3: to go from right tackle to left tackle or maybe
Speaker 3: even on inside in the guard, then you're going to
Speaker 3: have an extreme upgrade and talent every single snap that
Speaker 3: you have in the NFL. I'm super excited for the kid,
Speaker 3: and I hope he has a long, double digit career.
Speaker 6: And you know that smile stays on his face.
Speaker 1: Here's Trapillo on getting his first snaps at left tackle
Speaker 1: throughout the course of mini camp.
Speaker 12: Throughout college, I knew that I wanted to play in
Speaker 12: the NFL, so doing so you have to be versatile.
Speaker 12: That's the quickest way to get on the field. So
Speaker 12: you know, after practice, even though I was the right
Speaker 12: tackle the last two years in college, working left, making
Speaker 12: sure that it's it's still smooth, still feels good. Especially
Speaker 12: after the season. You know, I was working more left
Speaker 12: than right just because catching out for lost time. So
Speaker 12: it felt good today.
Speaker 9: Did you have a non football checklist?
Speaker 12: I mean yeah, you could say similar, similar like showing
Speaker 12: who I am as a person along the staff, all
Speaker 12: the great people around the staff here. So I think
Speaker 12: that sort of coincides in a way with who I
Speaker 12: am as a football player.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, some guys have to learn how to
Speaker 1: be a pro. Some guys are just a pro. They're
Speaker 1: just a pro. Asi Trapello is a pro because, as
Speaker 1: he indicated, working at left tackle after practices at Boston College,
Speaker 1: thinking big right, thinking long term what that means, maybe
Speaker 1: an injury on his own team, or maybe the NFL
Speaker 1: is going to look at me. I have to play
Speaker 1: both sides. Way to go Ozie Tripillo Right.
Speaker 3: Listen, man, But you know they're saying in the NFL
Speaker 3: is the more you can do. There is very few
Speaker 3: guys out there unless you're a bona fide left tackle
Speaker 3: and that's what you played your whole career, and you
Speaker 3: know that's what you're walking in the NFL to do.
Speaker 6: You know, there's a few of those guys.
Speaker 3: That's the first thing an offensive line coach wants to do.
Speaker 3: Feed you as much information and as much as many
Speaker 3: stances as you can possibly get into on the offensive
Speaker 3: line and see where you fit the best.
Speaker 6: And the most confident.
Speaker 1: Okay, Tommy, a couple more guys here. Kylem anung guy,
Speaker 1: the running back out of Rutgers. Here's a clip from
Speaker 1: him on dropping into the seventh round.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm concern myself with who went before me
Speaker 10: and all those things that drafts over with to my
Speaker 10: rare view for me, but definitely something I'll take with
Speaker 10: me in some fuel chip on my shoulder. But that's
Speaker 10: kind of been my whole career and my path to
Speaker 10: getting here. And you know, the things that allowed me
Speaker 10: to excel in college, I got to figure that out
Speaker 10: at this level first, and then, you know, use those
Speaker 10: things to my advantage and then I expect to see
Speaker 10: the same results.
Speaker 9: What are those things?
Speaker 10: You know, the little things, little details, you know, just
Speaker 10: being a professional sport and with grown men. At the
Speaker 10: end of the day, everyone's talented, everyone's got the certain
Speaker 10: things that are necessary to be a football player. It's
Speaker 10: a little details that makes the great guys great, you know,
Speaker 10: that allows them to see the results they see. So
Speaker 10: I got to figure out what those things are for me.
Speaker 10: You know, I've got a little idea, but now now
Speaker 10: that I'm here, I get to kind of fine tune
Speaker 10: those things and figure it out and then apply it
Speaker 10: to my game.
Speaker 1: You have a great saying when something is brought to
Speaker 1: your attention that aggravates you a little bit, you say,
Speaker 1: don't care.
Speaker 2: He does not care where he was drafted. It matters not.
Speaker 1: And that's the proper way to look at it, because
Speaker 1: once you are on the field, now it's your ballgame.
Speaker 1: You show what you got, You're gonna get evaluated from
Speaker 1: a completely different set of eyes. This is a different system,
Speaker 1: different scheme. You got your chance, you run with it.
Speaker 1: And I like that he's looking forward in that backwards
Speaker 1: tom oh me too.
Speaker 3: I really enjoy this young running back. I enjoy everything
Speaker 3: he said. I like the things that you see on
Speaker 3: tape and what Eric the enemy needs out of them,
Speaker 3: and what Ben Johnson is gonna use him.
Speaker 6: For this offense.
Speaker 3: So I think he increases the competition in the backfield,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I I think he's got a
Speaker 3: bright future ahead.
Speaker 6: Of him in the NFL.
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Speaker 7: Coach Man helped me for sure getting my stands higher,
Speaker 7: not being too low when I'm perst Man and stuff
Speaker 7: like that. So being coached by him is really a
Speaker 7: blessing for he gonna coach me every day, even coaching
Speaker 7: Harris and I got here and right now, so you
Speaker 7: know this bit having him right there just it just
Speaker 7: motivates everybody, and it just you know, elevation our game
Speaker 7: as well.
Speaker 1: Tommy made a terrific play at one point breaking up
Speaker 1: a pass and that was his mo. He gets to
Speaker 1: the football, he's like a man. He had six interceptions,
Speaker 1: but a lot of pass breakups in college.
Speaker 3: You know one thing about Frasier, I always say I
Speaker 3: believe that the cornerback position is the second most difficult
Speaker 3: position in the NFL. And so if you take a
Speaker 3: guy that has the template that can be successful, and
Speaker 3: then everything matches his feet, matches with his length, his
Speaker 3: you know, as he matures, he gets bigger and stronger,
Speaker 3: and then you have the mind to pick from Al
Speaker 3: Harris that can probably help expedite the way you should
Speaker 3: be thinking about the offenses that you're facing, the receivers
Speaker 3: that you're facing, the different types of routes they can run.
Speaker 3: I think Fraser has probably been picked in the perfect
Speaker 3: place with the perfect coach.
Speaker 6: And really can utilize that length and size of his.
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Speaker 1: get into the defensive side of the ball. Defensive line
Speaker 1: coach Jeremy Garrett, coach with Jacksonville last year as a
Speaker 1: D line coach, has worked at Liberty College, Auburn, the
Speaker 1: high school level with the Browns a few years ago,
Speaker 1: working with Miles Garrett. He's got a lot of excitement
Speaker 1: about what's ahead, making that transition from college to pro
Speaker 1: and what that means.
Speaker 2: The essence of our conversation.
Speaker 13: How is that transition from college.
Speaker 4: To PROFI It's been good.
Speaker 14: You know, I was with the Browns in twenty twenty,
Speaker 14: so it got some NFL you know experience, and some
Speaker 14: Midwest experience, so kind of used to the cold a
Speaker 14: little bit, but you know, you get to this level,
Speaker 14: you know, football is football, just as minus the recruiting
Speaker 14: and all the home visits and things like that. So
Speaker 14: it's been good man, you know, come from Jacksonville and
Speaker 14: now you know with another NFL team, it's it's been good.
Speaker 13: Does it feel like you have a lot more runway
Speaker 13: when you don't have to worry about those other things
Speaker 13: in college?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think it is. As a coaches, definitely.
Speaker 14: I think the biggest thing, like you're gonna spend the
Speaker 14: hours in football, You're gonna grinding football.
Speaker 4: You know, all of that doesn't change.
Speaker 14: I think the biggest thing is you know, when you're off,
Speaker 14: when you're on summer vacation, like you're actually off and
Speaker 14: you're with your family and you can give them all
Speaker 14: your attention and it's not you know, you got to
Speaker 14: answer the phone for every recruit that's calling. So that's
Speaker 14: the biggest difference. I enjoyed recruiting, but it is nice
Speaker 14: to be with your family and not have to interrupt
Speaker 14: that time.
Speaker 13: All right, So what do you think of your guys
Speaker 13: so far?
Speaker 14: Like the group, Man really really excited about everybody as
Speaker 14: a whole. You know, I spent some time with those guys,
Speaker 14: been meeting with them.
Speaker 4: We got some talent.
Speaker 14: We got some work to do, and I'm just excited
Speaker 14: to get on the field, man, and work with them
Speaker 14: and coach and do what we love to do on
Speaker 14: the grass.
Speaker 13: Can you kind of explain to us, because we haven't
Speaker 13: seen him from the inside, only the outside. Look at it,
Speaker 13: Gray Jarrett's energy, enthusiasm, juice.
Speaker 14: I mean, he's a leader. I mean you could feel it.
Speaker 14: He's one of the guys you walk in the room.
Speaker 14: He has a presence about himself and he is, you know,
Speaker 14: very detailed. You know, he takes notes as if it's
Speaker 14: the first time he heard anything, So you can see
Speaker 14: the leadership in him. I know he's doing great in
Speaker 14: with those weight room guys at this time. But you know,
Speaker 14: I think he's the type of guy. I mean, he's
Speaker 14: a captain, he's a he's a veteran, he's tough, he
Speaker 14: works hard, he has the right mentality.
Speaker 4: Uh, he's an unselfish player.
Speaker 14: I think anytime you get a guy like that and
Speaker 14: you add that to your defensive line, you know, along
Speaker 14: with the talent we had in place, man, I think
Speaker 14: it's it's exciting, uh to have that type of guy
Speaker 14: join us.
Speaker 4: I was excited with him as a veteran in.
Speaker 11: Your Billings, how can they help the younger guys come in.
Speaker 14: I think just just uh, the biggest thing with new
Speaker 14: guys coming in is how to be a pro. And
Speaker 14: so those guys Billings he sweat all those guys can
Speaker 14: just reiterate, you know, the coaching points like here's here's
Speaker 14: a note taking process, here's how you handle yourself as
Speaker 14: a pro, here's how to get rid of the distractions
Speaker 14: if there are some. But just to be a pro
Speaker 14: and have longevity in this league, I think is important.
Speaker 14: And I think those guys have proven they've done that
Speaker 14: can be an example for those young guys coming in.
Speaker 14: We won't have a depth charte or anything like that. Man,
Speaker 14: it's going out. Let's coach, let's play football, let's get better.
Speaker 14: Let's work on our fundamentals and technique. Let's work on
Speaker 14: our effort and toughness and all those type things, and
Speaker 14: then everything else will work out exactly how.
Speaker 13: It should in terms of what they're being asked to
Speaker 13: do this year versus whatever you don't you know last year,
Speaker 13: doesn't matter previously or matter. Yep, the style that Dennis
Speaker 13: wants when you snapped the ball boot.
Speaker 4: Right, yep, yep.
Speaker 14: So you know, really looking forward, you know, first of all,
Speaker 14: we want to see a tough, a tough group, a
Speaker 14: tough defense in general, and we all know it starts
Speaker 14: up front, so mentally tough, physically tough. We want to
Speaker 14: see relentless pursuit, all right, and we want to strike
Speaker 14: blocks like we.
Speaker 4: Want to attack up front.
Speaker 14: We want to knock guys back, and so that's kind
Speaker 14: of mentality style that we want to be with. You know,
Speaker 14: we want to disrupt the timing of the running back
Speaker 14: and the quarterback, and so that's that's really our goal
Speaker 14: and what we strive to do and what we want
Speaker 14: to put on tape.
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of great things about this coach
Speaker 1: also being a excellent teacher and a fiery guy, very
Speaker 1: nice guy. But he's got a lot of work on
Speaker 1: his hands because there's a lot of clay to mold
Speaker 1: on that defensive line, a lot of different personalities, body types, talent,
Speaker 1: everything that Dennis Allen is trying to get accomplished about.
Speaker 1: These guys coming off the ball hard and just banging
Speaker 1: into that guy across the line of scrimmage and them
Speaker 1: being disruptive and penetrating.
Speaker 3: I like that Garrett recently had college experience because he
Speaker 3: kind of understands the young buying of defensive linemen that
Speaker 3: are coming up through the ranks out of college and
Speaker 3: then coming to make the pro game. Then he also
Speaker 3: understands the professional guys because he's been around the game
Speaker 3: for a while now. And so I think when you
Speaker 3: take the combination of your past experiences as a position coach,
Speaker 3: you know how it fits according to every one of
Speaker 3: their personalities, you know how to get the best out
Speaker 3: of them. So I'm excited for the group of guys
Speaker 3: that Garrett gets to work with, and I'm excited that
Speaker 3: he's getting to work with Dennis Allen. And Dennis Allen
Speaker 3: has already said what he wants out of his defensive line,
Speaker 3: and I think that you can take their traits and
Speaker 3: their abilities and coach every one of their responsibilities accordingly
Speaker 3: and get the best out of this group and make
Speaker 3: the most competition to see who wins jobs at the
Speaker 3: end of camp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if you just go on last year
Speaker 1: and the projection anyway, you had eight guys that are
Speaker 1: coming back as starters, right, so the defensive improvement that
Speaker 1: will come, it'll be the other supplements added from what
Speaker 1: you've put in here in the offseason. Certainly the names
Speaker 1: are familiar now with dioa Edengbo and Shamar Turner and
Speaker 1: of course Great Jarrett in terms of how they come
Speaker 1: together will be the key, and that will come from
Speaker 1: how their coach, what they're being asked to do, hopefully
Speaker 1: playing on the lead more than they have had the
Speaker 1: chance to, which will make a big difference, I know
Speaker 1: in your opinion, and how Grady Jarrett opens things up.
Speaker 1: I think these are things we'll be looking at from
Speaker 1: a defensive perspective. All the attention remains on the offense
Speaker 1: even today. I look, and you know Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: has a big rundown on all the offensive improvements of
Speaker 1: the Bear. Let's talk about defensive improvement and how guys
Speaker 1: like Montese Sweat and Javon Dexter Senior and Tremaine and
Speaker 1: TJ and Jalen Johnson and Tyreek Kyler Gordon and Brisker
Speaker 1: all have to rise as well.
Speaker 3: You know one thing that the h coach is really
Speaker 3: said throughout your interviews with me, I know there's no
Speaker 3: depth chart, and I like that though Jeff and I
Speaker 3: want them to keep saying that until they get into
Speaker 3: training camp in pads a couple of weeks, evaluate one
Speaker 3: on ones of every different segment that you're looking at.
Speaker 3: You look how they fit in according to the mental
Speaker 3: side of the game. And then maybe the first time
Speaker 3: a depth chart comes out, there's gonna be guys that
Speaker 3: walk into that locker room and they look at that
Speaker 3: first depth chart and they're gonna go what where. You know,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot of those question marks. And
Speaker 3: I remember the first away game when I was at
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. I ran to the locker room to look
Speaker 3: to see if I made the traveling team. That's all
Speaker 3: I wanted to do, and when I saw my name
Speaker 3: on the traveling team, it gave me a shot of
Speaker 3: adrenaline and a boost. Go game, Okay, that first obstacle.
Speaker 6: You know you made it. Let's let's see what's next.
Speaker 3: And so it's the same thing with your if you're
Speaker 3: in a professional level. Let me look at that first
Speaker 3: depth chart. Where am I? Okay, what do I need
Speaker 3: to do to climb up that depth chart or what
Speaker 3: else can I do to improve my opportunities?
Speaker 1: Did you have the same euphoric rush when you ran
Speaker 1: to the scores on the outside of your teacher's office
Speaker 1: after a big test and you have passed your map final.
Speaker 2: Remember remember those days in college.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't run with the same excitement. That was
Speaker 3: more earn. I probably had more confidence in my football
Speaker 3: ability than my schooling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the kids today they get you know, it's how
Speaker 1: digital we had to run.
Speaker 2: We had you had to sit there and you had
Speaker 2: to look for your for your.
Speaker 1: Test score on a on a piece of paper outside
Speaker 1: the office.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It was talk about a stomach ache tom for both
Speaker 1: of us. I'm sure again. We're brought to you by
Speaker 1: PNC Official Bank of the Bears. A note on Dennis
Speaker 1: Allen on Shamar Turner. By the way, and since we
Speaker 1: had Turner's interview last week, I didn't run any soundbites
Speaker 1: throwing from the podium, but I love this quote and
Speaker 1: he's he's a Texan. Dennis sounds a Texan. So put
Speaker 1: it all into perspective. I think we'll have to put
Speaker 1: the saddle.
Speaker 2: On him and break them a little bit.
Speaker 1: But we'd rather have to pull the reins back rather
Speaker 1: than have to whip him to get him to go.
Speaker 1: I love that quote about Shamar Turner and that's that's
Speaker 1: an ode to his aggressive play.
Speaker 2: He drew some flags in college. You won't be able
Speaker 2: to do that in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna play with a lot of fire, and
Speaker 1: they don't want to take that away from him.
Speaker 3: Oh no, You never want to just go urage a
Speaker 3: guy from playing full speed all the time, whether he
Speaker 3: does it in practice or games. But you want to
Speaker 3: take that full speed attitude and be able to connect
Speaker 3: it to fundamentals and techniques and al sudden turn this,
Speaker 3: like you said, this wild horse into something that's rideable
Speaker 3: and the usable, and take his traits and turning turn
Speaker 3: them into assets.
Speaker 1: Start them out at defensive tackle, working both three technique
Speaker 1: and nose tackle, and they see versatility in him, but
Speaker 1: one step at a time.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the approach with j. T. Barrett.
Speaker 1: I sat down with him when all the coaches who
Speaker 1: were available a few weeks ago, asked him if he
Speaker 1: drove right in when when getting to teaching Caleb Williams
Speaker 1: and the rest of the quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say just dive in. I think it's a process,
Speaker 5: and so we're trying to take the necessary steps in
Speaker 5: order to make sure that we're going about things in
Speaker 5: the right way as coaching staff to make sure that
Speaker 5: guys are prepared and so when you get to OTA's
Speaker 5: and training camp that we're all on the same page.
Speaker 5: So it's just a day by day process.
Speaker 13: What do you think of the entirety of the staff
Speaker 13: because the experience levels from a veterans sixty nine year
Speaker 13: old defensive coach to the different types of influences offensively
Speaker 13: and is it been a fun process to hear everybody's thoughts.
Speaker 5: No doubt, Being that there's a lot of experience, there's
Speaker 5: a lot, you know, a lot of things people have
Speaker 5: done in their past. There's a lot of ways to
Speaker 5: do with one thing. So with that, it's been cool
Speaker 5: to hear the unique different ways some my you know
Speaker 5: coaches have a play scheme up and play whatever it is,
Speaker 5: So I think that's been cool.
Speaker 15: In your approach as a coach, do you coach the
Speaker 15: way you liked to be coached or do you have
Speaker 15: a different way about you now from a player perspective
Speaker 15: to a coach person.
Speaker 5: I would say that I'll probably take an approach that
Speaker 5: how I would like to be coach. As a player,
Speaker 5: I knew I wanted to be coach hard. I knew
Speaker 5: I wanted to, you know, I don't know I wanted to.
Speaker 5: I was getting better each and every day, right, So
Speaker 5: with that, I feel like I do take that same
Speaker 5: approach and making sure that you know, at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, we're at least getting better in some.
Speaker 4: Area each and every day.
Speaker 5: From a quarterback perspective, so I'll say, yeah.
Speaker 13: It's interesting to hear all the coaches because they all
Speaker 13: are saying, we say, coach hard, We're gonna coach guys hard.
Speaker 13: I mean, it's it's it's it's refreshing to hear.
Speaker 5: It's a tough, tough business, but there's we've got a
Speaker 5: lot of responsibility. We've got to be accounta roof making
Speaker 5: sure that we know our job, know what to do,
Speaker 5: and it's not easy.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's profession football league.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's okay, thank you.
Speaker 10: When that was.
Speaker 3: Higher, he said that he want the assistant coaches to
Speaker 3: be ready to grind late.
Speaker 6: Nights, especially on the office.
Speaker 3: Try to call it like can you give us a
Speaker 3: little insight or what you like? Pretend to weekly works
Speaker 3: like fornder doctor.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, just that a lot of late nights So
Speaker 5: it's interesting, you know, because my family they would, you know,
Speaker 5: try to come see me up in Detroit during the
Speaker 5: season and they were like, oh, you're always at work,
Speaker 5: and it's like, yeah, guys, it's my job and it's
Speaker 5: really important. So yeah, I'm at work, you know, nineteen
Speaker 5: hours the other day, Like this is what it is.
Speaker 5: But no, it just comes with it.
Speaker 2: So some really good answers from j T.
Speaker 1: Barrett finding his voice as well as a coach, the
Speaker 1: former Ohio State quarterback.
Speaker 2: Very serious guy, very serious guy.
Speaker 1: And I think being not so far removed from college
Speaker 1: is another advantage in working with these young quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and Tyson Bagent and you got the veteran
Speaker 1: case Keenum Austin Reid also on this roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think it's an exciting opportunity for J. T.
Speaker 3: Barrett because he's what the Chicago Bears, a new coaching
Speaker 3: staff and a new head coach from the ground floor.
Speaker 3: And if you start seeing the emergence of Caleb, there's
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of conversation of what where can
Speaker 3: J T. Barrett go in terms of his coaching and
Speaker 3: his coaching success.
Speaker 6: But I'm glad.
Speaker 3: Right now, he's only focused on the Bears quarterback room.
Speaker 3: He's not trying to think too far ahead or even behind,
Speaker 3: but he's just trying to get every one of these
Speaker 3: quarterbacks an equal opportunity to succeed.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the Declan Doyle interview at the podium
Speaker 1: during Mini caamp I said, Caleb came in on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: went through his own walkthrough by himself in the paytent center.
Speaker 1: Just he's driven to show that he's got to handle
Speaker 1: on this for his teammates and for his own future
Speaker 1: and for this team's future. I thought that was a good,
Speaker 1: good anecdote, good story, you know.
Speaker 3: I think from the moment Caleb was drafted, he's always
Speaker 3: been a really wise young man up at the podium,
Speaker 3: but he also knows what's at stake here because now
Speaker 3: this is the third program in three years. In the
Speaker 3: difficulty of mastering the terminology that he has to learn
Speaker 3: that it's not an easy process. So the more time,
Speaker 3: whether you're by yourself, you're with your teammates, or you're
Speaker 3: with the maybe you know what, one guy from your team,
Speaker 3: there's a lot that you can learn that's going to
Speaker 3: help you moving forward.
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Speaker 1: Another big night. Thank you to everyone who attended and
Speaker 1: contributed to cancer and ovarian cancer research Breston Ovarian Cancer Research.
Speaker 1: Another big, big night in terms of those contributions and
Speaker 1: the live auction.
Speaker 2: And you know, some of the.
Speaker 1: Players there included Roma Dounza, who he must have taken
Speaker 1: about a thousand pictures. People really are attracted to Rome's
Speaker 1: personality and he was He was so generous.
Speaker 2: With his time over the guy.
Speaker 1: I have to mention that, and same with other players
Speaker 1: and some of the guys that have been there many times,
Speaker 1: like your teammates Stan Hampton and Gary Fencik and Charles Panett.
Speaker 1: Tillman was there, Jerry Azuma, Anthony Adams, those those folks,
Speaker 1: so DJ Moore. So it was a very very fun
Speaker 1: night went smoothly and a big night for cancer research
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 3: Well that's awesome, you know, listen, man, that events meant.
Speaker 6: A lot to every single Chicago Bear player.
Speaker 3: Who's walked into that event and they know that how
Speaker 3: it's helped people that are in such a position of
Speaker 3: need at that time. And the whole Chicago Bear staff
Speaker 3: has always done a great job of putting it together.
Speaker 6: And you running the live auction.
Speaker 3: I know that is not easy, but it's it's super
Speaker 3: beneficial to the people that that it helps.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what makes it easy when you have
Speaker 1: President and CEO Kevin Warren grabbing the microphone to give
Speaker 1: it himpassion plea and explain just how we are all interconnected. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: in the cancer world, there's not a person that we
Speaker 1: know has not been impacted by someone they know that
Speaker 1: has been afflicted with cancer of any type, all of us.
Speaker 1: But you know, he helped me out a little bit
Speaker 1: on some of the some of the items, and he
Speaker 1: is just and he is the he's the best speaker
Speaker 1: and motivator I've ever seen at the microphone.
Speaker 2: So he did a heck of a job. So I
Speaker 2: appreciate that as well.
Speaker 1: Hey, Tommy so OTLs will be starting May twentieth. There'll
Speaker 1: be three on field days that week, four days the
Speaker 1: following week, then a mandatory midi camp June third through
Speaker 1: the fifth, and then the rookies got to come back
Speaker 1: for one more week, but that'll be it for the
Speaker 1: offseason until training camp starts.
Speaker 2: We don't have the exact date just yet.
Speaker 1: That'll come rolling out once the schedule is released on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: But you know you'll be back in.
Speaker 1: Town and enjoying that process. And I'll tell you, the
Speaker 1: excitement is bubbling up.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: It's just seeing the guys on the grass again.
Speaker 1: A lot of smiles on a lot of faces, just
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to rinse the bad taste out right
Speaker 1: and start over here and get it right and have
Speaker 1: a great, great.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five season. And I know you feel the
Speaker 2: same way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, it's going to be one of the most
Speaker 3: competitive divisions in the history of the NFC North in
Speaker 3: the NFL, and I think every time you have a conversation,
Speaker 3: whether they're having a conversation in Green Bay, in Detroit, Minnesota,
Speaker 3: or Chicago, the conversation.
Speaker 6: All revolves around the division.
Speaker 3: It's something that you know, the Bears are in the
Speaker 3: process of improvement, coaching players and everything, and you know,
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see where this is going to go.
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Speaker 1: One last thing, your dear friend and a guy that
Speaker 1: has because of you, have had a few conversations with
Speaker 1: the enjoyed Chris Berman.
Speaker 2: I got to give him a shout out.
Speaker 1: The Berminator gets to stay with ESPN through its fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary and first Super Bowl. He got a contract extension.
Speaker 1: He's seventy, right, he's going to be seventy yep, just.
Speaker 6: What seventy just turned seventy the other day.
Speaker 1: An amazing career and I'm glad they still believe in
Speaker 1: Berman and he delivers every time he takes the mic,
Speaker 1: and you tell him congratulations from me as well. I
Speaker 1: think that's huge, especially you know he's all abau ball.
Speaker 1: He's all about football, of course, and he's really carved
Speaker 1: out that niche and really been a big presence in
Speaker 1: terms of the National Football League in that regard. Certainly
Speaker 1: his work at the Hall of fame also underscores that.
Speaker 1: But he's been around such a long time, and they'll
Speaker 1: get to be, you know, part of the first Super
Speaker 1: Bowl at ESPN when they do air that.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I did get a thank you message
Speaker 3: for him while we are doing this podcast, and I
Speaker 3: talked to him a couple weeks ago and he said,
Speaker 3: and he will be and I don't think there will
Speaker 3: ever be another fifty year employee of ESPN, and that
Speaker 3: was his goal. He wanted to stay with ESPN and
Speaker 3: to get to that fifty year anniversary. Super happy for him,
Speaker 3: Congratulations to him. And you know, I think the first
Speaker 3: time that he gets to be a part of a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl on ESPN, it's just gonna be an awesome
Speaker 3: opportunity for him.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I appreciate Burman as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure he's tickled, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: All Right, that'll do it for us for Tom there,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniyak.
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