Speaker 1: And welcome into Bears All Access Here from PNC Studios
Speaker 1: at Hallisau. Jeff joni Ac along with Tom Thare from
Speaker 1: news Radio seven eighty a one or five point f
Speaker 1: w BBM and pleased to be joined by Bears Wide
Speaker 1: receiver Alan Robinson. Alan, how you doing? My man doing well?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. Good to have
Speaker 1: you along. That's right. Give him a round of a plus.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy's been working hard, working hard, trying
Speaker 1: to work through a groin injury. And by the way, pauls.
Speaker 1: Ranks are engineering. Dan really our producer here at Bears
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Speaker 1: it'll be an interesting week for you getting back in
Speaker 1: the in the swing of things and trying to get
Speaker 1: on the field for Sunday against Detroit. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm really glad to be back out there,
Speaker 1: you know, feeling great, you know, So, I mean it's
Speaker 1: not a better time, you know that I could have
Speaker 1: came back. You know. I like to take a little
Speaker 1: chance on Bears All Access to get to know your
Speaker 1: background a little bit, because all you know, we don't
Speaker 1: get very much of a chance to talk to you,
Speaker 1: and when I was reading about you, you're from Michigan,
Speaker 1: Michigan or Michigan State, they don't recruit you. You end
Speaker 1: up going to Penn State. And then the other choices
Speaker 1: were Buffalo and Toledo. Your six three receiver. Look where
Speaker 1: you're at? What happened there? Or why did Why was that? Um?
Speaker 1: Why did that happen? I mean it's pretty funny because, Um,
Speaker 1: actually at Michigan State, they wanted me to play defense.
Speaker 1: They wanted to play cornerback, as did a few other schools,
Speaker 1: you know, but I wasn't really too comfortable at that time,
Speaker 1: you know, playing playing a defensive back position, you know,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to play receiver, you know. And I
Speaker 1: kind of had made that pretty known as as a
Speaker 1: lot of college coaches and stuff, We're coming to my
Speaker 1: high school. So I feel like that may have been
Speaker 1: a little bit of the reason why when you went
Speaker 1: to the combine and you had your pro day, why
Speaker 1: didn't you bench press? Um? Actually I had I had
Speaker 1: a shoulder issue. Okay, yeah, so um, coming out of college.
Speaker 1: I believe it was against Minnesota, I had got Um,
Speaker 1: I got tackled and I let it on my shoulder.
Speaker 1: Wrong and it wasn't any structural damage. It was more
Speaker 1: so um, I was more so like a nerve damage
Speaker 1: type thing, you know. So um, throughout the process of
Speaker 1: training for the combine and everything like that, it just
Speaker 1: was really about just just kind of rehabbing the arm,
Speaker 1: you know. So I wasn't even everything else. Yeah, everything
Speaker 1: else that they asked of you, you did. And I
Speaker 1: would just find a kind of you know, but but
Speaker 1: that happens a lot of times guys, you know, or
Speaker 1: an agent. It will say to somebody, Hey, listen, maybe
Speaker 1: you shouldn't bench rest, wait ti your pro day, or
Speaker 1: don't do it at all. You know that that's some
Speaker 1: something of what of a common thing. But I'm curious
Speaker 1: with Tom brought up about, uh, that recruitment process. What
Speaker 1: was with the cornerback idea? Yeah, I mean, weren't you
Speaker 1: a prolific offensive player in high school? I was? I was,
Speaker 1: but I played both sides of the ball. And actually
Speaker 1: my my high school receiver and cornerback coach, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a big he's a big corner as well, and
Speaker 1: he went to Duke and play a corner, you know.
Speaker 1: So he always talked to a lot of schools and
Speaker 1: and I think for him, he thought that I could
Speaker 1: play corner as well, you know, but but just my preference,
Speaker 1: I wanted to play receiver. But you know, everybody in
Speaker 1: the NFL was great on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: When we were talking to Prince of Mukamara last night,
Speaker 1: when he went to his college recruiting trip to Nebraska,
Speaker 1: he thought he was going as a running back, and
Speaker 1: they kind of sold him the story that he was
Speaker 1: and then when he showed up to Nebraska, they put
Speaker 1: him in the room. They literally found him in the defense.
Speaker 1: Funny thing is I remember receiving a phone call from
Speaker 1: coach Royan Vanderlin at the time at Penn State. This
Speaker 1: is probably a week before I had officially enrolled in
Speaker 1: Penn State, and he asked me how did I feel
Speaker 1: about playing defense? And for me, it was I told
Speaker 1: him how I felt. You know, that wasn't the reason
Speaker 1: why I was going to Penn State is because I
Speaker 1: wanted to play receiver, you know. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: funny how the whole recruiting process goes sometimes, right, So
Speaker 1: you go through the recruiting process and then you go
Speaker 1: into Penn State, you had the what you went through
Speaker 1: your freshman year and then all of sudden you go
Speaker 1: into a sophomore year and then there's some guys dismissed,
Speaker 1: there's some guys that leave the program, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're kind of catapulted in the position of
Speaker 1: you can't just be good, you gotta be you know,
Speaker 1: a big time player for Penn State at that point.
Speaker 1: Then you were able to capitalize on it. Definitely, that
Speaker 1: had to be a heck of an opportunity for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. Um, I think the biggest thing for me
Speaker 1: was once coach Bill O'Brien got there. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: starting that spring, going into my going into my sophomore year.
Speaker 1: I started out really at the bottom of the depth chart,
Speaker 1: you know. I didn't have much fun you know, some
Speaker 1: of the older guys and stuff like that. But as
Speaker 1: we approached the spring game and after the spring game,
Speaker 1: I was named as as as one of the starters,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's funny because coach O'Brien, he's a
Speaker 1: guy um for me. He named me as a starter
Speaker 1: with like an asterisk, you know, just to just to
Speaker 1: make sure I didn't get too comfortable at the time,
Speaker 1: you know. So um with him being a coach that
Speaker 1: he is. You know, he took us through a really
Speaker 1: tremendous winner conditioning and really spring football, you know. And
Speaker 1: and for me, you know, I was just able to
Speaker 1: thrive through that, you know. Again, it was one of
Speaker 1: the tougher things that I've done, you know, throughout the
Speaker 1: course of football, you know. So again, I mean just
Speaker 1: just me really be able to build the trust of
Speaker 1: the coaches and stuff like that, offer really not having
Speaker 1: too much game film, you know, by by being very
Speaker 1: limited as a freshman. This is Bears All Access, which
Speaker 1: run by Alan Robinson the second along with Time There.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniak. Thanks for joining us. We'll be with
Speaker 1: you to the top of the hour. Alan, that was
Speaker 1: a blessing to play for For Bill O'Brien, I would imagine,
Speaker 1: because obviously he's an NFL head coach. You played in
Speaker 1: an NFL system in your college career. That made easier
Speaker 1: transition for you with Jacksonville and ultimately where you are today. Definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, for me, I was fortunate enough to be
Speaker 1: able to be thrown into a lot of different positions,
Speaker 1: you know, playing playing outside, playing inside, you know, playing
Speaker 1: playing a lot of different positions and being able to
Speaker 1: run a lot of different routes. You know, I'm going
Speaker 1: into my junior year. That was something that he had
Speaker 1: challenged me, you know, right after my sophomore season. Was
Speaker 1: you know how really the type of player that I
Speaker 1: said I wanted to be. You know, he challenged me
Speaker 1: to be that player. You know, he would send me film,
Speaker 1: We would do a lot of different things as far
Speaker 1: as just for me to try to elevate my game.
Speaker 1: You know, he knew that my end goal was that
Speaker 1: I wanted to play in the NFL. You know, So
Speaker 1: for him, each and every day, he made sure that
Speaker 1: he challenged me, you know, and really and truthfully held
Speaker 1: me accountable to that. So with that, the understanding of
Speaker 1: concepts for receivers and Mitch Drubisky talked about this yesterday
Speaker 1: about Alan and what their relationship is like and how
Speaker 1: it's been developing since the offseason and training camp as
Speaker 1: he worked back from his ACL But do you understand
Speaker 1: better the nuances of the position from route running and
Speaker 1: understanding and the other positions and what they're trying to
Speaker 1: do coverage wise to you and your relationship with the
Speaker 1: quarterback maybe better than most because now you know a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys coming out of college, they're in
Speaker 1: spread systems. They run one route, they're just reading off
Speaker 1: one thing. You had to do it all, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: And again, even even when I first got into the NFL,
Speaker 1: you know, I had a receiver coach who challenged me
Speaker 1: a lot as a player. You know, so even like
Speaker 1: now seeing seeing some of the front side of a concept,
Speaker 1: you know, depending on what that concept is, you know,
Speaker 1: typically I have a good idea of what will be
Speaker 1: the backside route, you know, especially in certain offense where
Speaker 1: you have certain things coming to the quarterbacks vision. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's for me, I've been able to really digest
Speaker 1: a lot of the offense is now to whereas it's
Speaker 1: more so just learning the terminology of everything rather than
Speaker 1: learning the schematics. Like you capitalize on the opportunity your
Speaker 1: sophomore year in college, it seemed like you capitalize on
Speaker 1: that same opportunity your rookie year in the NFL. Depends.
Speaker 1: They prepare you to be ready as a rookie to
Speaker 1: go out there and contribute. You know, some guys like
Speaker 1: Tony Madeline always says, you have one year in the
Speaker 1: NFL to be young. After that you have to be experienced.
Speaker 1: It seemed like you came in experience and took control
Speaker 1: of your opportunity. Definitely. Um, I was really thrown into
Speaker 1: a blessing of a situation, you know, being able to
Speaker 1: being able to be thrown into a team that really
Speaker 1: drafted a lot of the young players to come in
Speaker 1: and really play right then. You know. So our core
Speaker 1: of our offensive group at the time was all rookies,
Speaker 1: you know, so we all were able to grow together.
Speaker 1: I was able to get on the field early, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to get those opportunities, you know. Um, I
Speaker 1: think a big part of being a rookie is is
Speaker 1: this a lot of trial and error, you know, seeing
Speaker 1: seeing certain things that you do well, seeing certain things
Speaker 1: that you don't do so well, continuing to just polish
Speaker 1: what you do really well, and trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to how to improve the things that you don't
Speaker 1: do well. You know. So so for me, I was
Speaker 1: able to get a lot of reps at doing that,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what really helped me out. So
Speaker 1: that was Alan Hearnes and Marquis Lee also, Yeah, there
Speaker 1: are still players in this league. Um did that? Does
Speaker 1: that help you today? Dealing with that as rookies and
Speaker 1: all you guys learning at the same time to help
Speaker 1: somebody like Anthony Miller right now. Definitely, definitely. You know, um,
Speaker 1: I've I've been in I've been in a situation you
Speaker 1: know like him. You know, I think it's best to
Speaker 1: be thrown into the fire, you know, so to speak.
Speaker 1: You know, being able to have to go out there
Speaker 1: and really learn how to swim, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think because you really learn a lot faster like that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like you don't have You're not
Speaker 1: being baby you know, uh, you know baby sat with
Speaker 1: certain things. You know, you're you're you're really called them
Speaker 1: to go out there when you're routes, make plays, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's what you're axed up, you know. And and
Speaker 1: at this level, you know, the type of guys that
Speaker 1: really make it to this level, you know, you really
Speaker 1: thrive off the competitive nature and the challenge. You know,
Speaker 1: whether that's from coaches, whether that's from an opponent. You know,
Speaker 1: that's where you thrive at and that's where you typically
Speaker 1: see your best. That's Anthony to a t. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about I'm like, heck, guy wanting
Speaker 1: to compete, right, what if you learn about him? Definitely,
Speaker 1: you know that's the biggest thing, you know, seeing seeing
Speaker 1: his competitive nature you know, um um, the confidence that
Speaker 1: he has in himself. You know, even sometime in training camp,
Speaker 1: you know, if he if he may run a wrong
Speaker 1: route or something like that, it was always at a
Speaker 1: very good tempo, you know, always always playing full of speed,
Speaker 1: you know, never taking plays off and things like that.
Speaker 1: You know, and when you have young guys like that
Speaker 1: that you bring around you, even as even as a
Speaker 1: five year guy, you know, that's something that really inspires
Speaker 1: you each and every day, you know, because you see
Speaker 1: the motor of other guys, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of that energy. You know. What helped
Speaker 1: you guys too, is you guys are out there at
Speaker 1: practice every day at training camp playing against an experienced defense.
Speaker 1: And I think when you're trying to learn an offense,
Speaker 1: it's more challenging to you. But ultimately all you guys
Speaker 1: are going to get better because of the guys you're
Speaker 1: facing every day in practice. Definitely, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think I think that's something that stands true you know
Speaker 1: to all good teams. You know, um, it's it's really fine.
Speaker 1: You know, really comes down to sharper than iron with iron,
Speaker 1: you know, So going up against those guys each and
Speaker 1: every day, you know, Prince and Kyle, you know, seeing
Speaker 1: the different looks and going against press coverage. You know,
Speaker 1: you got two great safeties in the back end. You know,
Speaker 1: so each and every day we were challenged. Alan Rabbits
Speaker 1: in the second Bears wide Receiver our guest here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access with Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac. The
Speaker 1: Bears heading into a stretch of three games against division opponents,
Speaker 1: will tackle that subject with Alan and much more here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Studio at Allisall with a group of season ticket holders
Speaker 1: thrilled it they're here. I mean, how many of you guys? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I know we got some folks that never miss a
Speaker 1: game home or away, But how many of you guys
Speaker 1: have traveled this year to any of the Bears road games,
Speaker 1: so we got a fair amount, nice percentage. Yet Tom
Speaker 1: has Alan has I'm a season ticket. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now, the travel, it always blows my mind. I
Speaker 1: don't know how. I don't know how. In Buffalo they
Speaker 1: got the lower bull like they did the lower bull
Speaker 1: of the stadium right near the Bears bench. You could
Speaker 1: see the uniform difference, you know, the jersey difference, the
Speaker 1: Navy blue and orange. And what a what a loud
Speaker 1: crowd that was. Arizona was like that, Miami was like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a player that doesn't get old, you
Speaker 1: know that that is an impactful thing definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, you know, especially like the Miami and
Speaker 1: the and the Arizona game. You know, I mean when
Speaker 1: you feel a crowd like that, you know, in the
Speaker 1: in those type of environments. Man, it's so fun to
Speaker 1: play in front of. But the white the white out
Speaker 1: that they have at Penn State. But when I was
Speaker 1: when I went to college, I played at Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: I had the chance to play at Penn State a
Speaker 1: couple of times. It's an impressive stadium, an incredible place
Speaker 1: to go. There had to be a lot of even
Speaker 1: on when I saw it this year on TV the
Speaker 1: white Out at Penn State. That's got to be inspirational
Speaker 1: and college level. But then you think the same thing
Speaker 1: that these guys commit to you as a pro. Definitely, definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, you know, um the White
Speaker 1: House and happy that they are really something special. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean this is I've I've had some pretty crazy games,
Speaker 1: so like that in front of that, you know, but again, um,
Speaker 1: being in the NFL, you know, this is this is
Speaker 1: the best crowd that I've played in front of, you know, Umm,
Speaker 1: being at home, you know, so I mean coming out
Speaker 1: there to Soldier Field each and every week, you know,
Speaker 1: it's fun to play in front of. You know, when
Speaker 1: you were in Jacksonville and you were going through your
Speaker 1: contract situation, there was transition tag was mentioned with your name,
Speaker 1: So given to what happened you you're here with the
Speaker 1: Bears and then you see what the transition tag and
Speaker 1: Levion Ball is going through. Did it all work out
Speaker 1: for you according to the plan that you would hope
Speaker 1: for whenever? Because it's there's there's so many business aspects
Speaker 1: of the decisions. You have to make that a lot
Speaker 1: of time. We're not privileged too. But it all worked
Speaker 1: out the way you wanted it, definitely, you know, for me, Um,
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season, you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of talking to my agent and things like that. You know,
Speaker 1: as a player, you start to kind of sculpe out
Speaker 1: you know, some some some of the possible scenarios, you know,
Speaker 1: and especially once I saw a coach coach nag he
Speaker 1: get the job here, you know, Um, Chicago flew to
Speaker 1: number one on my radar. You know, that was that
Speaker 1: was a big thing for me. You know, I had
Speaker 1: I had got a chance to really watch a pretty
Speaker 1: good amount of film on on the Kansas City offense
Speaker 1: and what they had done, you know, and and really
Speaker 1: how their players are moved around and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know, so as a receiver, I mean for I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, it was truly a no brainer. You know,
Speaker 1: I have not heard many players actually do the homework beforehand.
Speaker 1: They have their agent try and set the price, and
Speaker 1: maybe the guy wants to pick two or three places
Speaker 1: he wants to go. But it sounds to me like
Speaker 1: you did the homework on coach first before committing and
Speaker 1: they obviously had to have interest as well. I would
Speaker 1: find that quite rare. Why did you do that? For me?
Speaker 1: I knew that this would be a big, a big
Speaker 1: point in my career, you know, the next um these
Speaker 1: next few years, you know, as far as as far
Speaker 1: as what I want to establish, you know, again, as
Speaker 1: as myself as a player, you know. So I think
Speaker 1: that was the most important thing, you know, is is
Speaker 1: to really get with a coach who was a was
Speaker 1: something like an offensive guru, you know, who knew, who
Speaker 1: knew how to make things easy for the players, put
Speaker 1: the players in right positions and everything like that, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think for any guy, you know, for I
Speaker 1: mean for me, you know, my goal is to play
Speaker 1: at least twelve seasons, you know, that's my goal. So
Speaker 1: for me, I knew that this part right here would
Speaker 1: be a big, big part of my career, you know.
Speaker 1: So for me, I really wanted to take the time,
Speaker 1: especially having a little bit of extra time, you know,
Speaker 1: being an injured I wanted to do all all the
Speaker 1: due diligence that I could do. Why is that the
Speaker 1: magic number? Um? I felt like for me, just kind
Speaker 1: of setting that as a as a goal for myself.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, I feel like in twelve seasons, Um,
Speaker 1: I'll be able to to really accomplish everything that I
Speaker 1: would want to accomplish out of the game, you know,
Speaker 1: and as far as you know, just just me playing
Speaker 1: a minimum of twelve you know, so I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: twelve years would be a good number, just as far
Speaker 1: as to me, you know, to to really hold me
Speaker 1: accountable us as to a goal. You know, I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a very goal setting person, you know. So I
Speaker 1: feel like twelve seas really allowed me a chance, you know,
Speaker 1: to compete for Super Bowls, you know, to be able
Speaker 1: to do things with my family, you know, to play
Speaker 1: in to play in an organization like this. You know,
Speaker 1: I knew that twelve seasons would be able to really
Speaker 1: to really exhaust everything on the NFL that I would eat.
Speaker 1: You know what's cool about playing for Matt Naggie, It's
Speaker 1: never a one man show. Everybody's gonna get their opportunities.
Speaker 1: And I think the Bears have plenty of playmakers. But
Speaker 1: I'm reading an article today on my phone that said
Speaker 1: the Bears lack game breakers, and I don't agree with
Speaker 1: that because I think there's a lot of you guys
Speaker 1: that have the ability to be game game breakers. But
Speaker 1: I like Matt's use of all the playmakers, and that
Speaker 1: had to be interesting that when you came to Chicago,
Speaker 1: then you saw all the other pieces that they were
Speaker 1: putting in here, and how all you guys were going
Speaker 1: to be able to run this scheme together and how
Speaker 1: effective it would be. Definitely, you know, and that's something
Speaker 1: that you really see and field through training camp, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a lot of guys who can
Speaker 1: go out there and make plays, you know. So I mean,
Speaker 1: for us, we don't really focus too much too much
Speaker 1: on the outside of noise. You know. We understand that
Speaker 1: the media has to be the meeting and has to
Speaker 1: write about something, you know. So for us, you know,
Speaker 1: we understand the players that we have. You know, we've
Speaker 1: had players a lot of players you know, score touchdowns
Speaker 1: and and and really thrive in their opportunities and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, you know. So you know, each each and
Speaker 1: every week we just try to go out there and
Speaker 1: just compete and be our best. Last week, on the
Speaker 1: official stats at the end of the game, I think
Speaker 1: it might have been one of the first time I've
Speaker 1: seen it that every single player active was used. You
Speaker 1: know how every time you look at them, there's always
Speaker 1: a couple of backup quarterback or a backup tight end
Speaker 1: or whatever that doesn't get a chance to play. Every
Speaker 1: guy used in the game last week, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of neat because every everybody has their hand in the
Speaker 1: victory and there's more support in the locker room. Definitely, definitely,
Speaker 1: And that's something that coach Nik you know, preaches, especially
Speaker 1: in offensive rooms. You know, everybody has to learn everything
Speaker 1: you know each and every week, you know, because you
Speaker 1: don't know how you know, really how to cookie makrmball.
Speaker 1: You know, going back to what time said about alleged
Speaker 1: lack of game breakers, this offense is designed to stretch
Speaker 1: the field vertically and horizontally. And now you got a
Speaker 1: three dimensional component when you add in a guy like
Speaker 1: Adam Shaheen getting back healthy because he's six foot seven,
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy pounds and he can run and
Speaker 1: he can catch, he can you know, threaten the seam,
Speaker 1: and he can be a red zone target. But with
Speaker 1: Cohen and Burton and Gabriel a lot of yard after
Speaker 1: the catch. Those are three guys were already a lot
Speaker 1: of yards after the catch in this offense. You know,
Speaker 1: every position you're a deep threat. You got the tight
Speaker 1: end position. I said with Shaheen, you got Jordan Howard,
Speaker 1: you got many different types of weapons. Isn't that more
Speaker 1: beneficial to create matchups and also to force a defense
Speaker 1: that you know, we gotta pick your poison a little
Speaker 1: most definitely, you know, even even through him, they're Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, I forgot it. I mean, we got
Speaker 1: we have we have. Sorry, Anthony, I didn't mean to
Speaker 1: forget Anthony. We have a great group of guys, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing, you know, for us each and
Speaker 1: every week, you know, we go against teams in and
Speaker 1: just just pick your poison, you know, I mean, whatever
Speaker 1: you do. You know, we have a counter four, you know,
Speaker 1: and we have and we have more where that came from,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think that's what makes this thing
Speaker 1: so fun is again you see so many different guys
Speaker 1: making plays and it's and it's so hard to account
Speaker 1: for as many players as we have. That's Alan Robbinson
Speaker 1: the second. He's our guest here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy, Jeff and Tim with
Speaker 1: you as well. We'll be with you to the top
Speaker 1: of the hour at P and C Studios at Hallisa
Speaker 1: in front of a live studio audience of Bears season
Speaker 1: ticket holders, no doubt jacked up by the fact the
Speaker 1: Bears have hit the bye week at five at the
Speaker 1: halfway point, at five and three, the second half of
Speaker 1: the season gets under way, and we hope to see
Speaker 1: Alan on the field on Sunday, Khalil Mack on the
Speaker 1: field on Sunday, Adam Shaheen. But Nichols, Ben Bronnicker all
Speaker 1: this week cleared to practice and ready to go at
Speaker 1: the right time because three games in twelve days and
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna focus on just one. But the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is is Prince and Mukamara brought
Speaker 1: up yesterday, it's hard not to think about playing the
Speaker 1: Lions twice in three weeks because that's a rare occurrence.
Speaker 1: But do you guys feel like it's almost a new
Speaker 1: season starting a little bit? You got the first half
Speaker 1: out of the way, some of the kinks out, everybody's
Speaker 1: getting healthy, and now you go into the good stuff
Speaker 1: the divisionally, definitely, you know, and I think that's what's
Speaker 1: so fun about this league. You know, you work so
Speaker 1: hard and in the months of May, April and August,
Speaker 1: you know, to put yourself out of position to be
Speaker 1: really contending for you know what I'm saying, for the
Speaker 1: division in November. You know, that's what you play for.
Speaker 1: You play to be in the mix in November and December,
Speaker 1: you know, so you start the new year hopefully as
Speaker 1: a playoff team. You know, that's what you play for.
Speaker 1: You know, like coach Nagie always says, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of teams right now who are really getting ready for
Speaker 1: next year, and there's a lot of teams who are
Speaker 1: doing a lot of things. You know. Fortunately, we're the
Speaker 1: team you know that's at the top of the division,
Speaker 1: you know, and really getting into the meat of our schedule,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's exciting. You know. Again, like I
Speaker 1: said before, that's what you play for, and you've earned
Speaker 1: it because you missed the good stuff last year in Jacksonville. Definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know how you handled that. Honestly.
Speaker 1: It was tough. It was tough, you know again, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean seeing for me being in Jacksonville, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing the send of the years that we had my
Speaker 1: first three years, you know, to to really creating a
Speaker 1: culture and really working so hard to get to that standpoint,
Speaker 1: you know, to be in sidelined in in the biggest
Speaker 1: game that I've ever been a part of, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as the AFC Championship, you know, said that
Speaker 1: was tough, you know, but but again, I'm glad to
Speaker 1: be able to have this opportunity right now to really
Speaker 1: be in the mix, you know, at the top of
Speaker 1: the division, you know, and really usum, really us having
Speaker 1: the whole whole plan to you know, to what we want,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as as far as winning the division.
Speaker 1: You know, we hold our own destiny in our hands,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what you want. In November. Being
Speaker 1: from Michigan, did you have an attachment to the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions when you're growing up? I mean, are you familiar
Speaker 1: with the thing? And I'm not looking ahead because I've
Speaker 1: had the experience of playing in the Thanksgiving Day game
Speaker 1: and it's kind of unique because there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of teams playing. It's a Thursday game. Um, we're you
Speaker 1: a Detroit Lion fan growing up? I mean, are you
Speaker 1: a Calvin Johnson guy? Almost? Actually, it's funny. Growing up,
Speaker 1: I was a Randy Moss fan. Really, I was a
Speaker 1: big Randy Moss fan, So I really wasn't. I really
Speaker 1: wasn't too much of a Detroit Randy Moss the Kings,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was. I was a huge Brandy Moss.
Speaker 1: You know. Typically my um typically one of my birthday
Speaker 1: gifts each and every year was to be able to
Speaker 1: go see the Vikings when they played at Detroit because
Speaker 1: of his skills? Is that why? I mean? It was
Speaker 1: that's that obvious that his skills were so superior. Definitely definitely.
Speaker 1: You know, growing up playing football, you know, watching this guy,
Speaker 1: you know, um and some of the plays he made.
Speaker 1: I believe it was one game, I think he had
Speaker 1: like three catches for like one hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns or something crazy, you know. So um,
Speaker 1: he always had always put on a great show. Well,
Speaker 1: you know he has this little little bit on TV.
Speaker 1: Now you got moshed. What would it be for Allen Robinson,
Speaker 1: you know when you burned somebody? Yeah, definitely, I definitely
Speaker 1: want you got robbed. That's how I like that. I
Speaker 1: like that. That's Allen Rods in the second here I
Speaker 1: bears all Access. We're gonna step away back with Moron,
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score. This segment of
Speaker 1: Bears All Access is orchestrated by cd CDW people to
Speaker 1: get it Jeff Jonny Act, Tom Fair, and Adam Robinson.
Speaker 1: The second the Bear's receiver back and ready to go,
Speaker 1: hopefully this week after that grunt injury. Those soft tissue
Speaker 1: injuries are paining, aren't they They are? They are you know, um,
Speaker 1: just so much you got to get through, you know.
Speaker 1: Fortunately now I'm I'm back one hundred percent, you know,
Speaker 1: so feeling good. Yeah, you probably could have played, probably,
Speaker 1: But Matt Naggi is emphasized over and over again that
Speaker 1: take the cautious approach. Do you appreciate that as a player,
Speaker 1: even though everybody wants to play. I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: what Khalil Mack wanted to do about not being able
Speaker 1: to play because of his ankle. But sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: smart move. Definitely, Definitely it's smart, you know, I'm um,
Speaker 1: definitely frustrating for me, you know, I wanted to be
Speaker 1: out there, you know, and and for me, um, the
Speaker 1: number one goal that I had said this year was
Speaker 1: I wanted to playing all sixteen games. You know, that
Speaker 1: was a goal that I as set for myself, you know.
Speaker 1: So it was frustrating, you know, not being able to
Speaker 1: not accomplish that, but you know the best is yet
Speaker 1: to come for you. Do you like your animated character
Speaker 1: that they have for all? I do? I do. Actually,
Speaker 1: I like it. Think that you're you're physical enough your arms?
Speaker 1: I do. I do. I actually like it a lot.
Speaker 1: I do remember the first time seeing it, you know,
Speaker 1: and I thought that I really like it a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great you know what. Um. One thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about is Jeff and I have
Speaker 1: had the opportunity since he's been here to get to
Speaker 1: know Adrian Amos a little bit. Um. I know, you
Speaker 1: guys are good friends from college. He's told us that before.
Speaker 1: Are you surprised how good he is as a pro?
Speaker 1: Are you surprised what he's developed into? And are you
Speaker 1: impressed with the way that he's come along in these
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Definitely, I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker 1: You know. One thing is funny, um, Actually, once I
Speaker 1: left Penn State, I kept telling him to play cornerback,
Speaker 1: to play cornerback. He was a he was a very
Speaker 1: good cornerback in college. You know, and it's funny because
Speaker 1: we always go back and forth. I know he wanted
Speaker 1: to play safety, and I will always tell him just
Speaker 1: continue to play corner. Continue to play corner. So as
Speaker 1: far as I'm not, I'm not at all surprised that
Speaker 1: at the player that he has developed into, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, he has tremendous cover skills for a safety,
Speaker 1: you know, um him and him and Eddie Jackson, you know,
Speaker 1: they both do you know, So, I mean I think
Speaker 1: that's something that really is is rare in this league,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to have two safeties who can
Speaker 1: cover you know, light corners, you know. So m for him,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not surprising at all. Well,
Speaker 1: you'd better be able to in this league now the
Speaker 1: highest scoring total in NFL history at this point anyway,
Speaker 1: and the most touchdown passes in the league, So you
Speaker 1: gotta have. I mean, look at Bryce Callahan, He's basically
Speaker 1: playing the entire game in Vic Fangio's nickel package. Defensively,
Speaker 1: she's got to be able to tackle here. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's requirement for a corner to safe. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think that's what the league
Speaker 1: has come to you know, they put a lot of
Speaker 1: stress on the back end. But you know, Adrian when
Speaker 1: he got here and they didn't have the support of
Speaker 1: the pass rush they do now, and they you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of took a little bit of pressure that
Speaker 1: was kind of unfair to him. So for us, I'm
Speaker 1: not speaking for Jeff, but I know I'm really impressed
Speaker 1: with the way he's come along because he's a true pro.
Speaker 1: And I don't think if you dedicate yourself at this level,
Speaker 1: whether you're good or not, you may not you know,
Speaker 1: it may not work out for you. But the effort
Speaker 1: that he's put into it's kind of cool. Definitely. Like
Speaker 1: you said, you know that's something especially on defense, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean really on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, every thing from from upfront, you know, has
Speaker 1: to has to coincide with, you know, what you want
Speaker 1: to do as far as an offense or defense. You know,
Speaker 1: you need to line the block, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: have a receiver running route, you need to pass rush,
Speaker 1: you need to cover, you know, so in this league
Speaker 1: that's kind of how it works sometimes. And you guys
Speaker 1: were roomies, right, Yeah, Yeah, has he at all changed?
Speaker 1: He has literally not changed a bit, not changed a bit.
Speaker 1: You know. Um it's funny. Um I haven't, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't lived with him in five years, but I could,
Speaker 1: I could, I could only imagine he literally has not
Speaker 1: changed one bit. Oh he's a humble guy. He's soft spoken,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know he when he has something to say,
Speaker 1: it's pretty, it's a it's a deep thought he right,
Speaker 1: I mean he tells it like it is a little bit.
Speaker 1: He does. He does, He definitely does. And he's the
Speaker 1: incredible Hulk, right, that's what they call him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's been he's been living with that, you know,
Speaker 1: since since probably our freshman year in college that I
Speaker 1: can think of, So, I guess said quite the recruiting class.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. Over there at Penn State. Alan Robinson the
Speaker 1: second our guest here on Bears All Access were brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy. So now that you've had
Speaker 1: time to marinate a little bit with this new team
Speaker 1: that you're on, and you know what a playoff team
Speaker 1: looks like, obviously from being in Jacksonville, you know what
Speaker 1: it takes for a team to get over the hump
Speaker 1: and get to someplace that everybody wants to go. Do
Speaker 1: you see the makings of that right now swirling in
Speaker 1: this locker room? Definitely? You know, I would say the
Speaker 1: first time that I saw it and knew the kind
Speaker 1: of team that we would have was after we beat Arizona.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard enough in this league trying to
Speaker 1: come back from down fourteen on the road. You know,
Speaker 1: so having a young team like this, you know, a
Speaker 1: team who really had only played a couple of games.
Speaker 1: You know, that game could have won a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways, you know, but seeing how the sideline responded,
Speaker 1: seeing an energy that we maintained throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game, you know, I knew the kind of team
Speaker 1: that we would have had. You know. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of teams, you know, when they get down ten points
Speaker 1: or thirteen points, it could be in the first quarter
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, they lay down. You know. So
Speaker 1: we were down fourteen points, I believe came out our
Speaker 1: first drive of the second half. We punt it. You know,
Speaker 1: so even then, you know, a lot of teams would
Speaker 1: have just packed it up, you know, and start pointing fingers,
Speaker 1: start blaming different people. You know, as a team, we
Speaker 1: really hung together, you know, hung strong and battle back
Speaker 1: and won that game, you know now, and that's really
Speaker 1: you know, every time I would go home, you know,
Speaker 1: I would talk to my to my family, everybody would saying,
Speaker 1: you know that that right there was a special and
Speaker 1: big win for us throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, when you win a game like that early,
Speaker 1: you know you're able to play week to weekend and
Speaker 1: really keep that in the memory bank as far as
Speaker 1: not getting down, you know, knowing how the game can play.
Speaker 1: Same thing with like the Dolphins game. We didn't come
Speaker 1: out on top, but as a as an offense, you know,
Speaker 1: we really picked it up in the second half, you know,
Speaker 1: and we know that we can do that comeback in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Huh didn't that happen any two thousand and six, right
Speaker 1: Bears fans? I can't remember yesterday? Super Bowl year. You
Speaker 1: know what's interesting for Buffalo game was, and it's got
Speaker 1: to be exciting for you is the first player to
Speaker 1: start the second half, they come out here and he
Speaker 1: Unleasha's middle of the field the bomb and then it
Speaker 1: ends up interference and stuff. But it's nice to see
Speaker 1: that Mad It's always on the edge of attack, definitely.
Speaker 1: You know that's something that he preached. You know, he
Speaker 1: wants to stay aggressive, you know, and I think for us,
Speaker 1: you know, as as players in the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what you want. You know, you never want to
Speaker 1: play against the clock. You know, I've said I said
Speaker 1: a few times, you know, to really accomplish what we
Speaker 1: want to accomplish in this league, you got to beat
Speaker 1: the team. You know, you can never beat the clock.
Speaker 1: You know, beating the clock is so tough. You know, again,
Speaker 1: especially playing against against good quarterbacks and good teams. You know,
Speaker 1: you the only way to beat that team is that
Speaker 1: go through that team. You know, Bears fans are really
Speaker 1: smart fans, and they study their opponent. They really get
Speaker 1: to know the guys within the division really well. Are
Speaker 1: you a type of guy that studies the defensive backfields
Speaker 1: of the teams in the Bears Division or is it
Speaker 1: just week the week you only you only study what
Speaker 1: you have in front of you. Or are you familiar
Speaker 1: with the talent within this division because now you're playing
Speaker 1: on Yeah, definitely, I would say I would say for me,
Speaker 1: typically how it goes is um I kind of focus
Speaker 1: on the big picture of that a little bit more
Speaker 1: in the in the in the off season, months, you know,
Speaker 1: when you have more time and stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 1: but during the season, you know, I really keep it,
Speaker 1: uh keep it focused on week to week, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: oh no, I'm sorry, it's took a deep breath, now
Speaker 1: go ahead. Yeah, yeah, so, uh so I keep it
Speaker 1: week to week. You know, we play against a lot
Speaker 1: of good defense and a lot of good cornerbacks in
Speaker 1: this league. You know, every game matter, you know, So
Speaker 1: I know, I know now especially you know, getting into
Speaker 1: the division, we do have having the lumps of a
Speaker 1: division games coming up, you know, but each and every week,
Speaker 1: you know, like like coach Matt has said before, you know,
Speaker 1: we've we've really put ourselves in this position, you know,
Speaker 1: to be to be five and three into and to
Speaker 1: give ourselves these these next two quarters of the season,
Speaker 1: you know, to really accomplish what we want to complish.
Speaker 1: If you play against the team they have a number
Speaker 1: one corner, would you rather go against the number one
Speaker 1: corner all all game? Or would you like to be
Speaker 1: alternated between the different corners depending upon what side of
Speaker 1: the field or where you line up on the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, are you do you become more
Speaker 1: familiar with the defense you're doing if you do one guy, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely. Um.
Speaker 1: I just it's funny because I didn't I didn't want
Speaker 1: to tip my hand too much as far as as
Speaker 1: far as my preference, you know. But but it's like
Speaker 1: being an offense. It's like it's like a boxing match,
Speaker 1: you know. Um in boxing, you know, boxers go up
Speaker 1: against the one opponent you know, for the whole match.
Speaker 1: You know, so you're able to to kind of crack
Speaker 1: a code if you will, or or you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of develop your strategy based on you know, how
Speaker 1: the game is going and stuff like that. So I
Speaker 1: think set them up a little bit. Yeah. Well, with
Speaker 1: that being said, do sometimes because you know you're you're
Speaker 1: a very level headed guy. Uh well, I can tell anyway.
Speaker 1: But you got receivers and corners in this league not
Speaker 1: naming names, they really get into it a little bit
Speaker 1: in the weeks in advance of the matchups. So either
Speaker 1: they're trying to get in each other's head or one
Speaker 1: up them in the in the public relations game or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Um, I don't picture you ever doing that,
Speaker 1: But are there corners out there or guys that have
Speaker 1: kind of baited you over the course of a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks before the matchup, or during the week of
Speaker 1: the matchup, on game day maybe or maybe during the game,
Speaker 1: maybe during the game. Um, you know. But but me personally,
Speaker 1: I've never done that, you know him. I think again,
Speaker 1: in this league, you know, I'm typically so focused in lockdown,
Speaker 1: you know, to the to the week to week playing,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as as far as a certain things,
Speaker 1: you know. And again, I'm not a person who really,
Speaker 1: um really circles too many teams or or or a
Speaker 1: defensive backs or opponents on the schedule. You know, I
Speaker 1: take I take every each and every week for what
Speaker 1: it is you're sending that too many. So there is
Speaker 1: a couple, you know, it's a couple. It's always a couple.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always a couple. So anybody you want
Speaker 1: to get back get back at again, you don't have to,
Speaker 1: I'd ask you for names. So there's got to be
Speaker 1: a guy or two you like to get back at them. Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Alan Roberts. In the second We'll continue
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Speaker 1: Alan Robbins in the second Bears Receiver here, Oh, hold on,
Speaker 1: I gotta finish. Jeff Jonik in Tap there with you
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Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy. You gotta pay the
Speaker 1: bills times. I'm so very expensive. Um yeah, right, double a.
Speaker 1: Anthony Adams? Did you know him from Penn State? And
Speaker 1: have you seen anything of him on just the different
Speaker 1: funny things? I did not know him from Penn State,
Speaker 1: But how could you miss the antics that he has? Right,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You know, Anthony Adams was a
Speaker 1: really good football player and he comes from Penn State.
Speaker 1: But now he's a developed a persona on the comedic
Speaker 1: then that's more. Many more people know him for that
Speaker 1: nowadays than you know for his football accomplishments. Definitely, definitely,
Speaker 1: you know what I know, for him, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's good or bad, you know, but but I'm
Speaker 1: it's definitely. Um, I would say, you know, that's a
Speaker 1: great thing, you know, being able to transition, you know,
Speaker 1: out of the game and do different things, you know,
Speaker 1: and really such a mark on certain things like that
Speaker 1: is is a great accomplishment. He's developed a brand, he's
Speaker 1: developed Spice Adams, and it comes with it. And like
Speaker 1: you said, I think you're intrigued by that yourself. You
Speaker 1: you almost and he had done stuff folks in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: about his recovery from the ACL and it was almost
Speaker 1: like your own media company. Yeah, honestly, it's funny because
Speaker 1: actually me actually met and one of my buddies did
Speaker 1: like the whole thing. Really okay, yeah, so in this
Speaker 1: person had some background in it or yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just wait and yeah no, um, we both went to
Speaker 1: Penn State. Um, we both were in a communication. So
Speaker 1: I mean, he knows a lot about a lot about
Speaker 1: the behind the camera stuff. Well, it's a great pairing
Speaker 1: because it's a great story. These mini documentaries, they're very
Speaker 1: popular right now. We all have short attention spans apparently
Speaker 1: in our society. So these five to ten minute vignettes
Speaker 1: about somebody's journey that and not unlike Tom Brady's deal
Speaker 1: that he did. It was fascinating and it was fascinating
Speaker 1: to hear you and first person explain your journey and
Speaker 1: what you all went through, because I don't think the
Speaker 1: average person. I mean, there's a lot of high school
Speaker 1: football players out there, college football players. You've never admitted
Speaker 1: to the NFL that obviously, and whatever sport you played,
Speaker 1: you've suffered an injury of significance. Torn acls are very common, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but for a professional football player in the top one
Speaker 1: percent of all human beings who can actually get a
Speaker 1: job and play it at a high level, like yourself,
Speaker 1: that is a significant hurdle to overcome, and that is
Speaker 1: a very lonely journey. What was it for you or
Speaker 1: did you try and make it? Because it happened on
Speaker 1: a third play of your season you lost the whole
Speaker 1: dog on thing. What was that journey? How did you
Speaker 1: choose to frame it for yourself? For me, once I
Speaker 1: had gotten back into the locker room after I got injured,
Speaker 1: I told myself, you know, it's It's a couple of
Speaker 1: different ways that this thing can go. You know, I
Speaker 1: can either feel sorry for myself or I can bounce back,
Speaker 1: you know, and really set myself up to be the
Speaker 1: player that I've always been. You know, I knew that
Speaker 1: I knew that nobody would feel sorry for me, and
Speaker 1: I knew that me feeling sorry for me wouldn't do anything,
Speaker 1: you know, So at that at that standpoint in time,
Speaker 1: you know, it was always always glass glass half full,
Speaker 1: you know, And for me, I think that was a
Speaker 1: big thing that that changed a lot, just as far
Speaker 1: as my mental and how I approached a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. You know, each and every day, if you
Speaker 1: ask anybody in Jacksonville or even here, you know, who's
Speaker 1: who has really had any type of any type of
Speaker 1: part in in my progress in my recovery, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll tell you each and every day. For me, you know,
Speaker 1: I came in here and you know, each and every
Speaker 1: day was like it was like nothing ever happened. You know.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because even even the trainer, Andre Tucker,
Speaker 1: he will always tell me, you know, like like something,
Speaker 1: I know, you may have those days, you know where
Speaker 1: you're not feeling the best or something like that, you know,
Speaker 1: so just let me know, you know, But even he'll
Speaker 1: tell you know, it's not I don't think a day
Speaker 1: at all that I ever came in here and said that,
Speaker 1: you know. And and again I knew, I knew the
Speaker 1: type of player that I wanted to get back, you know,
Speaker 1: and not just to get back to the player that
Speaker 1: I that I was then, but continue to improve from that,
Speaker 1: you know. And I knew again that at the moment
Speaker 1: if I dropped my head, you know, I knew the
Speaker 1: different ways that that could go. You know, it's there's
Speaker 1: never a good time to get hurt. We've all I've
Speaker 1: had surgeries too, but you've given the fact that when
Speaker 1: it happened, it's probably better for you in your career
Speaker 1: instead of happening with seventeen seconds left in the season
Speaker 1: or you know, because you worked to that hard and
Speaker 1: then you had that whole process of being able to
Speaker 1: get yourself healthy again. And now if if anybody didn't
Speaker 1: know it, no one would ever know that about it.
Speaker 1: And now you're you know, they often say, oh, kids,
Speaker 1: it's you can get back. Obviously did, but it's now
Speaker 1: a year and a half. Yeah, that's kind of a
Speaker 1: slot number for getting back for Yeah, definitely, definitely you
Speaker 1: know him and each and every week, you know, throughout
Speaker 1: my lifting stuff and stuff like that, you know, I
Speaker 1: continue to do different different playos and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: you know, to to really continue to help my explosiveness
Speaker 1: and everything like that that I've that I've always brought
Speaker 1: to the table. I think Adrian Peterson was able to,
Speaker 1: um kind of allow people to believe in theirselves if
Speaker 1: they did go out and they work hard and they
Speaker 1: did the right where youhab, that they could get back
Speaker 1: to one hundred percent less than you're just like he did.
Speaker 1: And definitely, you know, um I was say, I would say,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a pretty big group of guys, you
Speaker 1: know that I can think of off the top of
Speaker 1: my head, just that I will always you know, kind
Speaker 1: of just think back about, you know, going through my recovery.
Speaker 1: You know, you're Adrian Peterson's, You're Jordy Nelson's, you're Keenan Allen's.
Speaker 1: You know, seeing how these guys came back from their
Speaker 1: injuries and stuff like that, you know, I knew again,
Speaker 1: I knew if I just put my head down and
Speaker 1: work to get back on that field, you know, that
Speaker 1: everything will play out how how essentially how I wanted
Speaker 1: it to. So, Matt Nagy, you investigated him obviously, now
Speaker 1: you've gotten to know him, and the and the players
Speaker 1: like to call him Swaggy Naggie. I think Josh Belleny
Speaker 1: came up with that because he does carry himself in
Speaker 1: that manner. We can see it. We saw it in
Speaker 1: the micd up segment that the Bears put together from
Speaker 1: the game against the Jets, I believe, and just his fire,
Speaker 1: his intensity, what he does in the post game, his
Speaker 1: idea of celebrating wins. I think it's starting to resonate
Speaker 1: with this young slash pseudo veteran team. What's he like
Speaker 1: behind closed doors when he's just talking to Allen Robbins,
Speaker 1: same he knows that, like you said, you know, very
Speaker 1: very very energetic, very optimistic. You know, I've never it's
Speaker 1: not too many times that you see him upset, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing that can really get him
Speaker 1: upset is mental errors. So besides that, it's not too
Speaker 1: many things that can really get him upset. You know,
Speaker 1: he's always he's always positive, always encouraging, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think for any player, you know, not just young players,
Speaker 1: but vets and you know you need that from a coach,
Speaker 1: you know, because again I mean from a guy who
Speaker 1: who really played the game and a guy who understands
Speaker 1: players and understands how players tick and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a great coach. You got the disco
Speaker 1: ball that hangs in the winning locker room after games.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it before, but now we see snippets
Speaker 1: and highlights of everybody dancing in the background. You have
Speaker 1: your breakout dance ready, so when you you know, are
Speaker 1: are you? Are you ready for that moment? I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big dancer, you know, And I think
Speaker 1: I'll keep it to the same terms of coach nag,
Speaker 1: you know, m I'll bring out some dance moves. You know,
Speaker 1: once you go to the playoffs, you know that's the plan.
Speaker 1: You can always go to the robot good well, you know,
Speaker 1: like he says, just be right, yeah, you don't that.
Speaker 1: You don't dance. You can jump up and down though,
Speaker 1: you can celebrate with your teammates, and the Bears have
Speaker 1: done it five times so far in twenty eighteen, looking
Speaker 1: for more. Starting Sunday against the Lions at Soldier Field,
Speaker 1: will continue with our guest, Alan Robinson the Second here
Speaker 1: from Pallis Hall and panc Studio. After this break on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score and thank you
Speaker 1: to Alan Robinson Second for joining us today on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access. Ruths Chris would like to send this one
Speaker 1: hundred dollar gift card to enjoy at one of their
Speaker 1: Chicagoland area steakhouses. Tom Thare's opening up your gifts. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's like sports. He's the kid on Christmas morning, no question,
Speaker 1: will be opening up everybody. He is. He is a
Speaker 1: meddler and a needler, and he's very very how should
Speaker 1: I say fidgety? You know on the team plane. I
Speaker 1: can't even sit still. I can't even fall asleep. He'll
Speaker 1: be poking at me. He doesn't want me to sleep.
Speaker 1: One time, as a kid, I got a box of
Speaker 1: slim Gems for Christmas. I woke up and ate every
Speaker 1: one of them. That's down there. I'm Jeff Jonik. Our
Speaker 1: final moments where Ellen Robinson the Second here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate the season ticket holders coming by, so thank you
Speaker 1: folks very much for coming here. I hope you're enjoying
Speaker 1: the show, all right. I can't help it because the
Speaker 1: locker room and I go in the locker room two
Speaker 1: or three times a week for a few minutes and say,
Speaker 1: how do the fellows do some interviews or whatever? And
Speaker 1: there's constant conversation about the NBA in there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got Charles Lenno Junior knows his basketball. You got
Speaker 1: Josh bell Andy weighing in on who's the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time? And Allen Robinson shows up to our show
Speaker 1: tonight in a Big Baller brand sweatshirt. I could see
Speaker 1: where he's thinking. He's he loved them Lakers. You know,
Speaker 1: It's funny. I just realized, probably what five or sixty
Speaker 1: years ago, that I wasn't actually a Lakers fan. I
Speaker 1: was a Kobe Bryant fan, you know. And it's funny
Speaker 1: because you kind of throughout the whole wave of Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: you know, I just assumed that I was a Lakers
Speaker 1: fan as well until he left, and there was like, gosh,
Speaker 1: I really don't like the Lakers like that. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because one of my host buddies is a big
Speaker 1: Lakers fan, and we always bonded over being quote unquote
Speaker 1: Lakers fans, you know, and took Kobe Bryant left, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, like, I'm not a Lakers fan anymore.
Speaker 1: So I think that's pretty funny. Now what Um, Now,
Speaker 1: I really just follow a lot of good basketball, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not really too I do like watching the Celtics,
Speaker 1: you know, I really enjoy watching the young team that
Speaker 1: they have, um them, Golden State. I like watching Golden State. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of good ball going on right now.
Speaker 1: Did you like the bad boys back in the day?
Speaker 1: Too young? I am too young? I am too young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was more What was that two thousand and four Pistons,
Speaker 1: two thousand and four Pistons, Ben Willace, Richard Hamilton, Chauncey Billups,
Speaker 1: Tayshaun Prince group right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: that was the group. That was a group that I grew.
Speaker 1: When you look at a guy like Lebron James, and
Speaker 1: you know, the thing that I always I talked about
Speaker 1: it all the time because I'm so impressed with the
Speaker 1: obvious effort he has to invest in the off season
Speaker 1: to be so great for this many years. And when
Speaker 1: you talk about playing for twelve years. Um, you have
Speaker 1: to have that investment in the off season, and if
Speaker 1: you don't, you're not gonna play, no matter how badly
Speaker 1: you want to. And so when I see a guy
Speaker 1: like Lebron, that's what inspires me, is the effort that
Speaker 1: he must invest in the off season. Is it the
Speaker 1: same for you most definitely. Yeah, I'm definitely learning more,
Speaker 1: you know, each and every year. You know, as far
Speaker 1: as you know, investing in like game readys, norma techs,
Speaker 1: you know this this up and coming off season, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna try to invest in the hyperbaric chamber,
Speaker 1: you know, So just doing a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, you know, for me, um,
Speaker 1: for me wanting to play you know at least twelve years.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's a job in itself, you know,
Speaker 1: each and every day, each and every off season, you know,
Speaker 1: taking care of your body, putting the right things into
Speaker 1: your body. You know. So it's a lot of work. Well,
Speaker 1: you're in the right place because in this building, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously the Peyton Center, and Tim played with Walter
Speaker 1: so knows every detail about how he got ready in
Speaker 1: off seasons and the and the infamous hill that he
Speaker 1: ran every every summer getting ready for the season. But
Speaker 1: Charles Tillman, we were privileged enough to see Charles here
Speaker 1: for a long time, and how he showed up on
Speaker 1: the first bus every every game, and how he went
Speaker 1: through these really detailed situations before a game to get
Speaker 1: himself right. Or Matt Forte who did use the hyperbaric chamber,
Speaker 1: I believe too, And what the massages he got after
Speaker 1: every game and and the and the It was painful.
Speaker 1: Its painful to get rid of the pain, definitely. So
Speaker 1: you got to be willing to go through the pain
Speaker 1: to get rid of the pain most definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, massages, cold up, um, cupping, hyperbaric, you know,
Speaker 1: even like cryotherapy. You know, it's a lot of different
Speaker 1: things that you can use. And do you do the
Speaker 1: cupping thing and explain that thing? I do? I do
Speaker 1: so yeah, So so I guess the cup and is
Speaker 1: you know, they put these cups on you and they
Speaker 1: and they and they compress them, you know to where
Speaker 1: ass they're they're compressing your muscles, you know, because the
Speaker 1: best way to get like the acid and stuff out
Speaker 1: of your muscles is to compress it, you know, rather
Speaker 1: that's through a cup, through massage and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know, so at times it is it is pretty painful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you'll see, guys, it's not your typical massage where
Speaker 1: it Yeah, you got these big bruising circle bruises on
Speaker 1: your body. It is amazing what you guys go through.
Speaker 1: Players and all that's done. What's your game ready attitude like,
Speaker 1: because you're it's not massage and it's not covering all
Speaker 1: that stuff has been done during the week and now
Speaker 1: you show up on Sunday morning, Monday night, Sunday night,
Speaker 1: whenever you're gonna play. You know, me, my typical game
Speaker 1: day is funny because just probably over the last three
Speaker 1: to four years, and I'm not a big, big music
Speaker 1: guy on game day, you know, I'm typically just focused,
Speaker 1: locked in. You know, when I'm riding to the stadium,
Speaker 1: I typically may um um driving wise, I may I
Speaker 1: may turn on the radio, you know, and whatever's on there,
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm not too much like loud music
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. You know. I found it best
Speaker 1: for me, you know, to just to just be you know,
Speaker 1: everything calming, you know, just just visualizing and thinking about
Speaker 1: you know, everything that's about to take place early early
Speaker 1: bus or late bus early bus, first bus because it
Speaker 1: when you go to a team they have six buses
Speaker 1: for the team. They have them staggered, so you can
Speaker 1: go at different times. First bus time goes on a
Speaker 1: cab at five thirty in the morning. But I never
Speaker 1: took a team bus to a game. I took a
Speaker 1: cab every time because I kind of got there a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier because that was so anxious and everything.
Speaker 1: But and then that you look at the guys that
Speaker 1: come on the third bus because they have a whole
Speaker 1: different way that they function and get Yeah, yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: I'm the first bus guy, you know. Being able to
Speaker 1: be able to get to the stadium, you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of just kind of sit down, you know, being
Speaker 1: able to do everything that I want to do, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as as far as maybe getting cups before
Speaker 1: the game or or or different things like that. You know.
Speaker 1: So I'd just like to give myself all the time
Speaker 1: in the world, you know, to really prepare myself and
Speaker 1: and to really just you know, just just kind of
Speaker 1: relax a little bit before the game and just you know, um,
Speaker 1: I mate, like uh, look at some more players or
Speaker 1: just kind of visualize everything. Well, one thing we can say,
Speaker 1: I'm behalf of all Bears fans, glad to have you back.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you in Chicago. I'm glad, trust me,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be here in Chicago. Now, this is
Speaker 1: a good city for it. You're a Midwestern guy and
Speaker 1: now I hope to see you on Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Good luck in it should be a heck
Speaker 1: of a second half of the season. Will be five
Speaker 1: and three, Bears in first place. We'll have the game
Speaker 1: nine am pre game noon kickoff over on WBBM on Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's gonna wrap us up here. From how to saw
Speaker 1: PNC Studio Bears FANJA turned out again. Way to go
Speaker 1: for Allen Robinson the second time there. I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, everybody. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy.
Speaker 1: The score, Yeah,