WEBVTT - What we learned from rookie minicamp | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.960 Cut over that DJ Moore and zone touchdown touchdown pairs. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.119 I am Jeff Joniac. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:08.119 Glitz is not. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:10.920 Donnie go Cart. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:13.560 What was like playing for Coche Good. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.000 I don't want to answer any questions like that. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:30.360 Pressure coming is a big trouble Donnie Goes Mottest Sweat. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:26.720 Bears, et cetera. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.120 Brought to you by Miller Light with the voices of 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.400 the Bears, Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.120 Exciting times for Bears fans. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.640 Schedule release on Wednesday of this week and fans out 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.680 of their collective minds, Oh my gosh, it's as big 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.960 as anything he does. And we get our first look 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.640 at the new Bears coaching staff on the grass, coaching 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.320 up the rookies over the weekend try out guys as well. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.960 We had another successful Bear's care gala, and we're cooking 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.360 right now with Tom Thayer, the Super Bowl winning Bears guard. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.520 I'm Jeff Joniac. We're brought to you by Miller Lights. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.560 This is episode on the Bears et cetera. A podcast 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.000 tomes so much to discuss. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:04.319 I wish you were. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.959 Here because I think I got to kick out of 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.759 the coaches on the grass just listening to them coach, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.440 a little bit of fire, a lot of instruction, a 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.920 lot of motivation, not letting anything slight is promised, I 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:17.600 can tell you that. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.160 And the result it was a fun watch. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.399 I mean, it's just shorts and guys running around doing 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.319 techniques and fundamentals, but I enjoyed it. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:25.119 Well. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.240 For me, it's a little different because I had a. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.080 Chance to listen to a lot of it. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.440 And when you kind of shut your eyes and you're 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.120 not paying attention to any one person, you're kind of 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.160 paying attention to the sympathy of voices that surround all 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:43.360 of the practice fields and whether they're yelling encouragement or 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.840 correction or whatever they're talking about according to the position 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.760 and the guys are coaching. I think that's the neat 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.280 process and the beginning for me is kind of listening 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.840 and getting to know those new voices with your eyes closed. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.800 So in four or five months and we're listening to 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.200 those guys make in game corrections or corrections during the 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.160 course of the week, he kind of familiar with that 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.120 is and what they're saying and what they're trying to 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:11.399 encourage and accomplish. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.120 I hear some of my takeaways from from my eyes. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.680 Ozzie Trippelo is a huge man. Let me just tell 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.040 you that right now. He is a big guy, and 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.280 it's not just linear. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:21.360 He is built. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.680 He is broad chested, big armed dude and just a 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.120 large human being. Luther Burden the Third has got burst 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.640 to him, man, he's got burst and finished to his game. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.720 Did make a heck of a catch, banged up on it, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.360 but he was right back out there on Saturday. And 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.240 Kyle Manungai he's gonna be fun to watch as well. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.639 He may be short in stature, but he's a plowhorse man. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.080 He looks good. And Zay Frazier the Corner thinly built, 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.040 but he can move those long arms make an impact. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.679 So some very interesting stuff, and then we'll get into 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.600 the coaching of Antoine Randall. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.360 L Boy, he's got a big voice. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.760 Eric Bana me, you're not walking back to the huddle, Tom, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:03.760 you gotta hear about it. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.079 No, it was fun. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.600 Jeemy the Enemy is one of the guys that you 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.320 close your eyes and you kind of get to know 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:15.160 already because his approach to coaching is a little bit 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.480 more old school, where he's not gonna coddle you and 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:19.320 tell you how. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:19.799 Great you are. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.880 He's going to tell you what you screwed up, what 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.840 not to do, and for God's sakes, don't touch the 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:29.799 cone's yeah, when someone kicked the cone in there. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:30.960 And so I. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.480 Like, you talk about Antoine Randall l and you talk 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.240 about beenemy, you talk about Al Harris and these guys. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.760 It's kind of neat to listen to, you know, the 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.080 help that they're going to give these young players to 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.040 come in here and compete the best against the veterans. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.080 And over the course of this podcast, we'll hear from 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.720 defensive line coach Jeremy Garrett to sit down with him. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.640 From a couple of weeks ago, he worked with Miles 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.600 Garrett with the Cleveland Brown so he's been in the 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.760 college game. And then j T Barrett, just getting his 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.920 feet wet as an NFL coach, came over from Detroit 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.680 with the Bears head coach Ben Johnson, so has some 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.040 interesting comments what he had as well, just from his 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.800 perspective not that far removed from being a college player. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.680 But also let's talk about the schedule. We know a 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.320 couple of things at the taping of this podcast. One 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.400 is the Bears are gonna host Green Bay Week sixteen 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.039 at Soldier Field on Fox. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:24.279 So that's big. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.839 By the way, tickets will go on sale through Ticketmaster, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.799 the official ticket partner of the Bears, here on Wednesday. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.520 But for this game, you can already start buying those tickets. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.760 It breaks a you know, it's been two years since 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.640 no primetime game used to be an annual thing. You're 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.760 going to play the Packers in primetime, so this could 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.240 be either three thirty or six thirty. So that's primetime 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.240 enough for me, and it'll be interesting late in the 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:47.360 season Tom, and. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.440 Then the Black Friday Game. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.120 About that, the Black Friday Game, Tom, the Bears are 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.520 going in primetime with the Black Friday Game. That also 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.760 means the possibility when the schedule comes out that the 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.200 Bears could also play on Christmas Day because that happened 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.039 and the teams who played on Black Friday they played 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:07.839 on Christmas Day. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:09.920 Right, Well, you're going to have to do a lot 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.120 of your shopping online, yeah, because I know Big Friday 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.080 is a huge day for you to hit all the 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.839 malls and pick up stuffs for Caitlin and Kelly, but 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.960 this year you might have to do it. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.400 At halftime at Philadelphia, we'll go shop in the morning 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:25.719 je steaks only. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.000 Yeah, so how do you feel about those two? 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.240 You know, I want to see the whole schedule because 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.000 just talking about two games out of seventeen is just 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.040 a little underwhelming. But when you put all seventeen together, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.479 where when, how conditions heat, cold, all that kind of stuff, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.200 it'll be fun to see because you know, they kind 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.200 of leak a couple of games. And I look at 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.400 the Minnesota Vikings. How they have two international games back 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.279 to back, one doublin Ireland and one in England. So 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.839 you know, the schedule is the great unknown nowadays. Jam 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.240 before when we start this thing, you know there is 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.680 gonna be sixteen games played home and away. Now you 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.080 have no idea where you're gonna play, what country you're 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:09.840 gonna play, or when you're gonna play. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:11.120 That's funny. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.719 Yeah, we got to talk to our guy Pete Bursich 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.560 because that was on my list of things to talk 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.520 about later in the show. But let's talk about it 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.880 right now. Because they're the only team in the division 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.960 that's playing an international game. There are thirteen overall teams 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.960 gonna have an international game this year out of the 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.240 thirty two, and that's gonna be an annual thing and 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.080 it's going to increase. It's gonna increase. So that's the future. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:37.080 But what is it ten days abroad? Okay, what is 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.640 the challenge of that. You're gonna play obviously close proximity. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.640 You're gonna play, you know, in London, but also in Dublin. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.360 But then you don't have to play at Pittsburgh where 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.000 you've never beaten the Steelers in Heinz Field. You don't 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.960 have to play to Cleveland where they've won once since 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.240 nineteen eighty nine. Those are irrelevant statistics, I know. But 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.680 it's just good for conversation if nothing else. But ten 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.880 days away yet, Now that's. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.679 I like to say, that's real money, Tom, that's real money. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.839 But you know, there's so many other considerations that you 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.480 have to take into an effect. You know, Now, are 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.880 you gonna leave your family home for ten days or are 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.080 you gonna bring your family with you for ten days? 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.160 You know, And there's a lot of young guys in 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.160 the NFL. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.880 That are married and guys that are newlyweds, So there's 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.440 a lot of decisions that you have to that have 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.160 to be made, similar to like a baseball team that 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.760 goes on a ten day road trip or a basketball team. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.320 So these guys, they have a lot of friends in 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.520 other professional sports, and maybe you should take some advice 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.320 from those guys about how they go about business on 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:42.800 those long extended trips. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:43.960 We've never been on one. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.320 Our longest trip is probably going to the Super Bowl 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.040 for five or six days, and that's for one game. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.160 But when you're talking about going from Ireland to England 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:58.119 and everything else in between, it's gonna be it's gonna 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:58.600 be trying. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:07:59.560 Yeah. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.240 Of course Jacksonville has done that, but this is something 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.640 brand new for Minnesota. Okay, let's get into some things 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.880 here as we get you set for some of the 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.560 sounds of the week last week with the Rookies. This 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.720 podcast brought to you by the official beer partner of 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:16.760 your Chicago Bears. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.360 Tastes like Miller Time Chicago. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.800 Go to Miller Lite dot com slash Bears Pod to 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:25.560 find delivery options near you. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.360 Ninety six calories and three point two carbs per twelve ounces. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.960 All right, let's start with Holston Lovelin Tom transitioning right 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.800 now from that injury where he had to have surgery 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.560 in January, so his return to full activity won't be 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.520 until some point during training camp. So he likes to 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.280 describe it he's stacking bricks right now. But let's listen 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.360 in on his early feedback of Ben Johnson. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.080 Yeah, I'm a big fan. I love like this spirit 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.240 is energy. He's super like determined, he's ready to go. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:57.880 He's ready to take this thing to the top. And 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.839 he's no nice guy. He's gonna I see him getting 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.000 getting on butt and you know, getting on people's butts 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.280 and but fired up to like super excited. I'm loving 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.520 how he coaches' so early and I'm excited to play 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:10.840 for him. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:12.760 He's gonna be a topic. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.960 Let's every time there's a practice, the media will ask 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.600 a question about Ben Johnson to a player, maybe something 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.280 they heard, something they saw how he goes about it, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.800 because there's so there is more intrigue about Ben Johnson 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.880 than any Bears coach we've ever been around since Dicka 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.400 my opinion, because they're watching him because he has that 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.880 reputation of excellence that he brings to from Detroit and 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.040 he's already laid it out. This is how we're gonna 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.599 do it, no nonsense, We're not letting a mistake go unnoticed. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.520 Blah blah blah. I think it's fascinating this conversation. Everybody's 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.559 getting asked the same question about Ben Johnson. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.400 But it's almost like you have a scientist. Okay, So 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.920 we saw him in the lab in Detroit and what 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.839 he did with the personnel, what he did with the 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.720 guy like Jared Goff, bringing in Jamar Gibbs, and how that. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.000 Offense, and it's kind of exploded up there. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.440 Now this lab that he's in, this new lab in 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.599 Chicago is completely different. The quarterbacks aren't the same, the 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.240 running backs are different. The personnel on the exterior of 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.240 the offense and the tight end position in the offensive line, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.559 they are a lot different from the formula, the formula 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.120 that he perfected in Detroit. So now what is the 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.880 formula for the Chicago Bears personnel? And I don't think 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.360 that's ever going to stop. That's going to be Ben 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.960 Johnson's entire career here in Chicago. He's going to take 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.680 what's offered to him, take him in the lab, and 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.520 figure out what is the most effective way to put 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.720 these guys in the most threatening position against their opponent 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:41.360 that he can do. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.520 I appreciated what he had to say when his only 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.040 day at the podium for the rookie Minti Caamp talked 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.760 about finding that sweet spot and coaching their different personality 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.600 styles are going to come out for all the coaches, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.200 including himself, in scenarios and situations. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.640 And then this to me is the most important learn 0:10:58.720 --> 0:10:59.120 what the. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.720 Guys need to be pushed, because sometimes they do may 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.559 not be may may not be feeling it one day, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.319 working through an injury or having a bad practice. What 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.760 how far can you take a guy what they need? 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.560 How you figure out what they need to be pushed? 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:13.160 I like that. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:14.960 I like that thought me too. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.720 I think that's kind of an evaluation that goes, you know, understated, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.720 because sometimes these coaches are the guy, the guys that 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.240 get to see these guys at their worst moments. So 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.280 when you show up at the facility at six o'clock 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.880 in the morning, are you awaken ready to go? Are 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.679 you needed to be woken up and told what you're 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.679 going to do and try to get your energy up 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.040 and all those types of things from the players that 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.040 have a I mean, the coaches that have a lot 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.120 of experience, they know exactly how to push those buttons. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.920 And then you talk about some of the young guys, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.240 a JT. Barrett stuff. You know, how do they, you know, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.880 put together their formula of inspiration to some of these 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.240 young guys. And so I think, not only Ben Johnson, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.480 but every one of these coaches, it's going to be 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.640 fun to want watch how they push their players buttons. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.520 All right, here's Luther Burden, the third drafted number thirty nine. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.520 He said it. It was the quote of the week. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.520 It's gonna stay with him forever. Everybody who passed up 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.640 on me has got to pay. He believes in himself. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.400 He feels he should have been drafted much higher. But 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.560 this part of his conversation is that he's gelling with 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.640 Antoine Randall, l his receivers coach. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.199 I feel like he's going to bring the best out 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.640 of me. You know, I've seen his past history. 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.360 You know, he's a guy who's you know, been in 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.640 my shoes, so he knows what to expect in you know, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.000 different ways how to handle it. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.080 So I'm grateful, you know, to have a great coach 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:39.679 like him. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.080 On the on the practice field, Burden getting a lot 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.600 of attention from Anton Randall l but he was coaching 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.640 everybody up the same way. He's just full of energy 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.360 exactly the way we've described him. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.280 Yeah, and I love it here and I'd love to 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.440 see it because these guys need to be inspired coming 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.520 out of college and into their first NFL action, and 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.240 you gotta, like we're just talking about the last been 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.120 pushing their buttons. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:02.439 You got to get the best out of them. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.240 You got to make sure that they work play in 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.360 and play out, and that they work harder on Sunday. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.400 So I think that this is kind of probably the 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:15.040 perfect player coach combination because you need a young guy 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.320 like Burn that needs inspiration for an experienced guy like 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.520 Antoine Randall. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.080 El and Antoine wenderbl can still spend it. He throws 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.240 a nice pass, Tommy, he really puts some heat on 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:25.760 that missile. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:26.719 He can he can with it. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.160 Those guys, you know, they don't lose that. They're they're 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.199 always They're always. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.160 Going to have that so hey, and you know, he 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.000 can probably help in some of the drills when you 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.360 need a couple of extra balls flying exactly. 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:42.400 Reuben Hippolyte, the second self described bumpy first day. I 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.559 guess Dennis Allen told me, you needed a better day 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.559 the next day, and he appreciated that. But they're really 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.679 what draws them to this player is the speed and 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:51.480 you can see it on. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:52.520 The hook four four to two. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.559 That's the ability to be a coverage weapon. But overall, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.920 he describes his journey here to the NFL how he 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.520 was overlooked many times in his life. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.640 Misery loves company. There's a lot of people that don't 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.679 know what I had to go through to get this opportunity. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.000 You just look at my story, just not going into 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.040 the Combine, not going to the Senior Bowl, Trim Bowl 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.679 had a Hula Bowl, which you know, I give a 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.840 lot of you know, credit to Nick Logan for trusting 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.840 me for to play in that game. But just that 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.960 and then I called the NFS twice to see if 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.160 I had a Combine invite. They said no, So going 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.280 through that and then just you know, going through training 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.920 the whole Combine season and just you know, chopping wood, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.600 carry water, you know, going through it every day, and 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.400 then having my opportunity, I want my one opportunity at 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.800 Pro Day doing that and then I went on like 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.760 fifteen visits, took like thirty flights in two weeks, just 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.240 back and back and forth across the country, you know, doing. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.160 My meetings and stuff with like that. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.280 So you know, all that is just a combination of 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:56.800 you know, me getting his opportunity now. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.600 Definitely don't take it for granted. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.520 Very grateful for you know, everybody upstairs for believing in 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:03.680 me and in my ability. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.360 Now it's time for me to put together. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.640 I just love my story for anyone who's you know 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.400 out there who thinks that they need you know, you know, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.600 things like the combine and invite singer boy invited, you 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.160 know that, who thinks that they need that to get drafted? 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.240 You don't. You just got to put your best foot forward. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.560 You gotta run fast and uh, he's got to be 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:24.760 your best self every day. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.480 And I feel like I'm showing that. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.160 I got a lot of messages, a lot of love, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.480 a lot of hate too, but that's what comes with it, 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:31.800 so I'm all for it. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.760 The essence of that was the surprise that he was 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.240 a fourth ron or others had him as undrafted. Uh, 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.240 just draft analysts, you know, the the crowd that does 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.920 that work. During this entire offseason, he wasn't buying any 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.760 of it, and I'm glad talking about putting a chip 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:47.560 on another shoulder. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:48.760 There you go, listen. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.520 I I love his reaction to how the draft went down, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:57.400 and his dissatisfaction with his evaluation or non invite to 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.200 the combine. All those types of things that are going 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.120 to stay in the back of his head are going 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:03.320 to be fuel for the fire. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.480 You think of what happened with TJ. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.960 Edwards throughout his career after being undrafted free agent and 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.720 now he's one of the best interior linebackers in the NFL. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.600 I think that kind of fuel is, you know, is 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.760 really important for any of these guys, and Hippolyte is 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.440 one of the guys that I think he's going to 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:21.920 be inspired by it. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.160 All right, Assie Tripillo, what a what a nice guy, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:25.480 you know. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.160 I introduced him to Tommy Wattle in the hallway because 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.360 played with his dad and got a big charge out 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.680 of that. I stopped him in the in the lunch room, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.320 I said, hey, I got one more nugget for you. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.120 I don't know if you know. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.920 Who this person is, but a gentleman by the name 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.520 of Jim Finks, a general manager in the Pro Football 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.960 Hall of Fame, had a big hand and putting together 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.400 that starting offensive line for the nineteen eighty five world 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.760 champion Chicago Bears and was a big line of scrimmage guy. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:52.800 He's in the Hall of Fame. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.040 Just so you know, he drafted your dad in New 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.160 Orleans and that's a great nugget. He was like, man, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.360 thank you so much for tell me. That's a cool story. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.720 I think it's a cool story. And it's interesting that 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.760 he is a Bear. That and Jim Finks so popular 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.960 in this organization. And I know you respected Jim Finks 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:12.280 as well. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.960 Oh heck yeah. And you know I knew his dad. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.199 I knew who his dad was. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.119 You know, I knew a lot about him from his 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:19.560 college background and stuff. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.320 And so Trapillo has. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.480 Got an opportunity to keep that name alive and flourish 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:28.120 even farther in the NFL. So he's definitely a guy 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.000 I think all Bears fans will pull for. But he's 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:35.520 also in the midst of a job interview that could 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.720 be some of the more difficult times over the next 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.680 five or six months in his life. When you're trying 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.240 to go from right tackle to left tackle or maybe 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.639 even on inside in the guard, then you're going to 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.080 have an extreme upgrade and talent every single snap that 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.040 you have in the NFL. I'm super excited for the kid, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.200 and I hope he has a long, double digit career. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.639 And you know that smile stays on his face. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.639 Here's Trapillo on getting his first snaps at left tackle 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:00.920 throughout the course of mini camp. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.920 Throughout college, I knew that I wanted to play in 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.600 the NFL, so doing so you have to be versatile. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.080 That's the quickest way to get on the field. So 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.640 you know, after practice, even though I was the right 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.840