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Speaker 1: mister Tom Fair and Jim Miller from Sirius XM NFL
Speaker 1: Radio with Pat Kerwin. I don't know, Big Jim, you
Speaker 1: know these are vacation times for you. I mean you're working,
Speaker 1: You're doing the big show this week. Yeah, we're definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of select fridays you take off
Speaker 1: here and there just to get some downtime. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we're going through the whole league right now.
Speaker 1: We're eating now, we're breaking down our time five offensive lines,
Speaker 1: and we actually just did the NFC North today. We've
Speaker 1: got the Bears rated as the best offensive line in
Speaker 1: the division of the NFC North. Well, you know, you
Speaker 1: think about the changes on the Bears offensive line. You
Speaker 1: got Cody Whitehair moving to guard, you got James Daniels
Speaker 1: coming in at center. And it's nice to see the
Speaker 1: transition with James Daniels because they're going back to a
Speaker 1: more conventional snap. Last year at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season with Cody Whitehair, they worked on a bunch of
Speaker 1: different styles and then Mitchell Trubisky had to adjust to that.
Speaker 1: So now it's more of a conventional shotgun staff Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky will receive it and more of a spiral type
Speaker 1: of motion. And when you look at Bobby Massey and
Speaker 1: Kyle long In, Charles Leno Jr. The rest of the
Speaker 1: guys in place with offensive line coach Harry heastand I
Speaker 1: think it's a wise choice because consistency in the offensive
Speaker 1: line is five guys plus the backups. And then they
Speaker 1: had a big change at the tight end position. So
Speaker 1: when you look at Bradley Swell at the tight end position,
Speaker 1: it looks like you have a fifth offensive tackle out there.
Speaker 1: Don't forget don't forget Adam Boys, Don't forget big Adam.
Speaker 1: I know the tight ends well, the factor, but we're
Speaker 1: just going by best five offensive line. That's how Pat
Speaker 1: and I broke it down and all the things you mentioned,
Speaker 1: Pat about the depth, and I brought that up to that.
Speaker 1: I said, yes, Swell could probably still be a swing tackle.
Speaker 1: But that's where I said, we need to get on
Speaker 1: Tom Thare to break down Rashad Coward because I know
Speaker 1: you like him and where you see, you know the
Speaker 1: swing tackle, whether it's Cornelius Lucas who could potentially ulfill
Speaker 1: that role, because I love Ted Larson, Tom because everywhere
Speaker 1: I remember, coach told me this, They tried to cut
Speaker 1: Ted Larson anyway they could. Where this coach was and
Speaker 1: he said everywhere. Every time we signed him, the guy
Speaker 1: ended up playing like six to eight games he started
Speaker 1: for us. Were always coming on Ted Larson, you know,
Speaker 1: Jim two. It's the versatility the offensive line, because you know,
Speaker 1: some point during the season you're gonna have some type
Speaker 1: of hiccup, maybe an injury, some guy twists his ankle.
Speaker 1: When you got Cody Whitehair, James Daniels, Ted Larson, they're
Speaker 1: all interchangeable. They can play everyone one of those interior positions.
Speaker 1: And then when you have Kyle Long that's able to
Speaker 1: contribute and take part in an off season, gets stronger.
Speaker 1: He looks huge out there. So when you see this
Speaker 1: offensive line break the huddle in go to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, you're talking about size, strength, and athleticism and versatility.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the offensive line expert, Jim, who's number
Speaker 1: one in the league. We haven't gone through all the
Speaker 1: division yet, but I'll tell you what, man, the NFC
Speaker 1: East is looking strong. Philly has four tackles, and Dallas
Speaker 1: got stronger with Travis Frederick returning to the mix. So
Speaker 1: they may be the leaders in the clubhouse right now.
Speaker 1: Jim Miller top there. Jeff Joniac when we come back,
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson, the Pro Bowl safety, expected to join the program.
Speaker 1: We'll also here from Tom Super Bowl teammate from nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five. Gary Fenzick joined the program as well. This
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Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the score. Thanks as always to our
Speaker 1: producing crew, Herb Lawrence, Adam Szinski, and of course Shane
Speaker 1: Rearden helping us out getting all those little gremlins out
Speaker 1: of the out of the story here. Jim Miller with
Speaker 1: us and Jim seeing practice here this every Wednesday over
Speaker 1: a three week period they allowed the media to come
Speaker 1: in and so this week was the offense. You can
Speaker 1: talk to offensive players, offensive coaches, and oh Man. The
Speaker 1: conversation significant about the development of Mitch Trubisky and what
Speaker 1: I love was talking to Dave Ragone. Dave Ragone saying
Speaker 1: all he's focused on is what Mitch did in the
Speaker 1: playoff game. Against Philadelphia. Forget about the loss right now.
Speaker 1: It's about making the plays and crunch time, getting them
Speaker 1: and putting them in a position to win the game
Speaker 1: of the end. That's the confidence builder, first time in
Speaker 1: that situation as a player that he should be focusing
Speaker 1: on as he moves forward. That's his new floor. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I agree. I was very encouraged by all the things
Speaker 1: I heard, especially from Mark Helfritz today too, the Beer's
Speaker 1: offensive quarter. But and I mentioned it the last couple
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, Jeff, I mean, I thought, Mitch,
Speaker 1: he played a whale of a game on the road
Speaker 1: in Minnesota the last week of the season, one to
Speaker 1: drive the dagger into the Minnesota Viing Vikings and shut
Speaker 1: them out in their home, in their own field. And
Speaker 1: that dude twice made money throws against the Blitz where
Speaker 1: he beat the Blitz. And then, like he said late
Speaker 1: March versus Philly, that's all you can ask your offensive do,
Speaker 1: get your team in a position to win the game,
Speaker 1: and it comes down to a kick. And that's unfortunate
Speaker 1: how it played out. I know it hurts a lot
Speaker 1: of people, and it probably hurts you know, the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints losing the way they did, even worse with
Speaker 1: how that game finished against the Rams, But hey, that's
Speaker 1: all you can ask your quarterback to do. But for
Speaker 1: Mark Helfritz today to come out and talk about just
Speaker 1: the command of the offense and where Mitch is at,
Speaker 1: I love hearing that type of stuff. What Helfrid was
Speaker 1: talking about today. What I liked about Mitch in practice
Speaker 1: is I like using all the new pieces that the
Speaker 1: Bears are brought on board. You got Patterson, you have Davis,
Speaker 1: you have Montgomery. All these guys were actively involved in
Speaker 1: the offense. And it was Mitch's accuracy that impressed me
Speaker 1: most throughout practice and all the drills and all the
Speaker 1: balls they threw, and I heard a lot of compliments
Speaker 1: coming out of the coach's mouth that is a great pass.
Speaker 1: There were some great catches, but Mitch's accuracy was the
Speaker 1: most impressive portion of practice. Wellitch goes back, Jim to
Speaker 1: decision making, and I think that's one of the big
Speaker 1: keys here. You can be accurate all day long. If
Speaker 1: you're not making the right decisions though within the framework
Speaker 1: of the scheme and what's being asked of you as
Speaker 1: you go through your progressions, then you're really not getting
Speaker 1: it done. Yeah, I think Tom just nailed you right there.
Speaker 1: The reason why he's so accurate right now is the
Speaker 1: reflection how much further in the command of the offense
Speaker 1: that he has. I mean, when you're playing confident, you
Speaker 1: know exactly what is being asked of you to do,
Speaker 1: hope for is this coverage. I'm doing this for this coverage.
Speaker 1: It maybe at the same place, say I'm calling you know,
Speaker 1: Z drive or whatever, play every play I call, but
Speaker 1: now you're just rolling through the coverage. Well, this coverage,
Speaker 1: they're doing this, this coverage, they're going to do this,
Speaker 1: this coverage, They're gonna do something different. And now he's
Speaker 1: locked and loaded. He's further into this offense where it
Speaker 1: just lights up to him. I always say, I always
Speaker 1: bring it up that it's like the movie A Beautiful
Speaker 1: Mind with Russell Crowe, where that that picture that play
Speaker 1: its lights up in your mind and against every coverage,
Speaker 1: all those things just kind of light up in your
Speaker 1: head and you're like boom, ready to go. And that's
Speaker 1: why he's accurate. Tom. He's confident in the plays where
Speaker 1: the command of the offense where he's at with it,
Speaker 1: and when you're confident that, Hey, everywhere, every time I
Speaker 1: drop back, I've got an answer and I know exactly
Speaker 1: where I'm going with the football. You are going to
Speaker 1: be accurate with your passing. And that's what I think
Speaker 1: is showing on the field right now. You know, it's
Speaker 1: so beneficial to to the Bears is they're practicing against
Speaker 1: the fast defense. And I know, you know, you hate
Speaker 1: to rehash the eighty five season, but every day when
Speaker 1: the offense broke the huddle and they were practicing against
Speaker 1: the eighty five defense and made that football team better
Speaker 1: and made him have to perform faster and more accurately.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the Bears are going to
Speaker 1: be able to accomplish while they're going against the Bears defense.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they're trying to put a new portions of
Speaker 1: this offense. But last year, you know, we knew that
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard was here and we all wanted to see
Speaker 1: a high percentage of runs. Now though now they have
Speaker 1: so many great pass catchers, I think that percentage is
Speaker 1: out the window. Now. It's about how often and how
Speaker 1: accurately can they throw the ball? That is tom there
Speaker 1: with Jim Miller and Jeff Chioni here in Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the score getting you through the preseason
Speaker 1: here the offseason program, rather you got next week, you
Speaker 1: got some OTAs. Then it's veteran mini camp for three days.
Speaker 1: And then these guys are out of here by the
Speaker 1: fourteenth of June, so not much time left in this
Speaker 1: offseason program. Then they get about six weeks before they
Speaker 1: started training camp, and I think they'll be better prepared. Also,
Speaker 1: just listening to the brand Childress yesterday, he's in here now.
Speaker 1: He's a confidant of Matt Neeggie. He had a chance
Speaker 1: to be in training camp last year leaf for the
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. But now back and see what
Speaker 1: the roots of this offense, how they quickly they grew,
Speaker 1: and just how Matt Naggie did it. Matt didn't do
Speaker 1: it an unconventional way, but he did it his way.
Speaker 1: It's that bu way that he's taught his players, and
Speaker 1: that's been impressive to see from a guy who's been
Speaker 1: around a long time in brad Children's fellas well. I
Speaker 1: think he's a He is a great confident because he
Speaker 1: has the experience at every level of football. He was
Speaker 1: a great high school football player. He's been involved in
Speaker 1: every aspect of the NFL, from head coach to an
Speaker 1: assistant coach, and it's just great to have the experience
Speaker 1: and a sounding board off of an assistant coach like Childers.
Speaker 1: He's done it all, man. He's very well respected around
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Certainly, Met Naggie trusts his judgment
Speaker 1: and his decision making and his coaching ability, and he
Speaker 1: relies on Brad greatly, and he should because Brad has
Speaker 1: done it all. People for you. When he was the
Speaker 1: head coach in Minnesota, he had control of the roster.
Speaker 1: Not too many coaches have that ability. Normally it's the
Speaker 1: general manager that has control of the roster. That's why
Speaker 1: I was able to cut raind him all so quickly.
Speaker 1: Remember that quote by brand Childress. I mean, pretty amazing
Speaker 1: the stuff that he's been through, and what a what
Speaker 1: a great asset for Matt Naggie to have on his staff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was very thrilled the fact that he was he
Speaker 1: was coming back here because Hey, he's a great he's
Speaker 1: very funny guy. Number one, he's a Chicago guy. Talking
Speaker 1: yesterday about the fact he's got his parents' time much
Speaker 1: like yours. Their lifelong Chicago wins. They've been here since
Speaker 1: the eighties are excuse me, they're in their eighties. His
Speaker 1: wife's parents are in their nineties, and he has a
Speaker 1: love of the game. He was at Wrigley Field on
Speaker 1: the day that Gayel Sayers left on a canvas stretcher.
Speaker 1: Then he had a bad knee injury. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: Something that lives with him for a long time. And
Speaker 1: you was a Chicago win all the way through. Can
Speaker 1: relate to all that well. I think every experience you
Speaker 1: have the ability to draw back from, either when you
Speaker 1: were a young kid or the experiences you grow through,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna face that scenario sometime in your coach life.
Speaker 1: And I think Brad has seen at all. All Right,
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Speaker 1: return any of my texts, but he's saying that he
Speaker 1: doesn't have my text So do I have the wrong number?
Speaker 1: Double A. I'm still gonna get this guy back. He's
Speaker 1: getting he's getting under my skin a little bit. One
Speaker 1: thing I noticed about you, Jeff, is phone problems are
Speaker 1: always the other person's fault. And that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that I've known since grown up with you through
Speaker 1: the business. That's a bunch of malarkey. Miller, Hey, I
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Speaker 1: techs that were very much needed some answering. Let's just
Speaker 1: say this Eddie's h He's from jerseys That Stan Islands,
Speaker 1: Statan Islands. So you can imagine his decorum, you can
Speaker 1: imagine how direct he is. Yeah, exactly a lot of
Speaker 1: people talk about Chicago Bears football because there's something that
Speaker 1: interested me yesterday about Klilmack at the podium, and you know,
Speaker 1: Clilmack talked about how last year he only had about
Speaker 1: a week's time of practice before he had to get
Speaker 1: prepared to play in the first regular season game. I'm
Speaker 1: interested now to see how Klilmack. After the OTAs and
Speaker 1: the and then the training camp, he goes through how
Speaker 1: much faster he'll play in relation to the back end
Speaker 1: of the defense, you know, because it's hard for the
Speaker 1: back end of the defense to play when there might
Speaker 1: be some uncertainty upfront. And I think that was one
Speaker 1: of the things. Yeah, he said, I want to be
Speaker 1: the best linebacker all time. I think this defense can
Speaker 1: be a lot better than they were last year. But
Speaker 1: him individually, I want to see how much better he
Speaker 1: can be from the start of the season. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the same quarterback they opened up with, but I think
Speaker 1: the defense is going to have a chance to be
Speaker 1: a little bit faster. Yeah, Jim, it was an ideal obviously,
Speaker 1: he admits that. So he feels much better about the situation.
Speaker 1: So you can talk about with Tom saying and then
Speaker 1: the Chuck Pagano factor. He says he's already learned things
Speaker 1: he never knew from Chuck Pagano. Yeah, that's a great thing. Well,
Speaker 1: first off, I'm gonna say this. I commend every one
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears players that are there participating at OTAs.
Speaker 1: One is voluntary, right, Tom, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: feel about it, But I kind of viewed it as
Speaker 1: my duty and responsibility as a teammate and obli gastion
Speaker 1: to my coaches and things like that to be there
Speaker 1: in the offseason, to work out, to get to know
Speaker 1: my teammates, to be around to get better. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at some of these teams, and no offense
Speaker 1: to the Jets for for Leveon Bell not to be
Speaker 1: there for the young quarterback character. They just paid him
Speaker 1: the amount of money they paid him. It's a new coach,
Speaker 1: it's a new system, it's and I get it, it's voluntary,
Speaker 1: but I kind of viewed that as a player that
Speaker 1: it's my obligation as a player to be there. And well,
Speaker 1: you know, I recommend every because there's a high profile
Speaker 1: personality in Baker Mayfield and when you don't have their
Speaker 1: receiver who they spend a lot of money with, when
Speaker 1: O b J, you know he's not there too. And
Speaker 1: so how what precedence is that set with another first
Speaker 1: time head coach in the NFL. Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, if you're trying to gel
Speaker 1: and get better, you know here basically Freddie Kitchens, the
Speaker 1: head coach of the Cleveland Browns said it today. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: what got accomplished today? He goes, he goes nothing. He's
Speaker 1: behind in the offense, you know, because that train's not stopping.
Speaker 1: So when they do have their anatory minicamp, they'll throw
Speaker 1: it all out there and these these supposed veterans who
Speaker 1: are pros better have it all down. I doubt that
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham will because it's a whole new offense. So
Speaker 1: they are falling behind the eight ball as we speak.
Speaker 1: All those expectations on the Cleveland Brows. They're behind the
Speaker 1: eight ball currently. The Bears are not because they've got
Speaker 1: basically one hundred percent participation. Well Matt Neggie is, he's
Speaker 1: got their respect. So they're there because it's fun to
Speaker 1: be here. They enjoy their teammates. They feel what you
Speaker 1: know I've been talking about, and Matt Neggie has been
Speaker 1: talking about just building this continue this momentum that they
Speaker 1: have created since he got here and what they did
Speaker 1: last year. You got to keep that momentum going. Talking
Speaker 1: to Cody White Harry yesterday, big smile to his face
Speaker 1: about that word momentum. They really feel strongly about where
Speaker 1: they're headed here in twenty nineteen and beyond. And it's
Speaker 1: not even just about this season. It's just about the
Speaker 1: whole future and about this culture that's been created, and
Speaker 1: they don't want to mess it up. Nobody wants to
Speaker 1: mess this culture up right now. And what you said
Speaker 1: at the outset of this little discussion point about being
Speaker 1: here for the off season program and it's a responsibility,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I just feel that in the next
Speaker 1: collective barking agreement, you know, Demorris Smith and his gang,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of talking about saving money for the
Speaker 1: future and a potential lockout or strike, how about just
Speaker 1: getting better and keeping yourself healthy through the entire offseason
Speaker 1: program and being with your teammates. Yeah, I again, I
Speaker 1: commend to every player and like you said, for them
Speaker 1: to hold each other accountable, and again, like you said,
Speaker 1: for the players to respect the coach, to want to
Speaker 1: be there because, like you said, it's a fun situation.
Speaker 1: They want to get better. They enjoy being around each
Speaker 1: other as a team, and they get it. And like
Speaker 1: as you said that no one wants to be the
Speaker 1: guy right now. You just said it perfectly, Jeff. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to be the weakest link in that locker room
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears because they know they've got something
Speaker 1: special going here. I'm not going to be the guy
Speaker 1: to screw it up. That's what you got. Guys like
Speaker 1: Tree calling that. His enthusiasm is infectious and it spills
Speaker 1: over the both sides of the ball. He's challenging against
Speaker 1: the defenders he goes against, but his spirit is so
Speaker 1: high on the practice field that it makes everybody else
Speaker 1: filled with enthusiasm in their preparation. Yeah. I love that,
Speaker 1: and I think you said it best time earlier. How
Speaker 1: the defense challenge you guys as an offense For the
Speaker 1: eighty five Bears, that's kind of what's going on right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, even back you know Greg Blosch and all
Speaker 1: the great things he did with the defenses. Us guys
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Speaker 1: to get known for something. You know, we need to
Speaker 1: do our part as a football team. It's always about
Speaker 1: the defense. Let's do our part and hold ourselves accountable.
Speaker 1: When you go against good defenses like that, it challenges
Speaker 1: you and it's going to get you better on offense.
Speaker 1: And I think that's materializing as well for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Had you experienced that a bit in O one here
Speaker 1: with the Bears and weaponed what I learned it. In Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: we used to go full out third down conversion. Imagine
Speaker 1: that defense with Kevin and Greg Lloyd and Rod Woodson
Speaker 1: and all the guys that they had there. Our offense,
Speaker 1: we would go live on third downs and it would
Speaker 1: get heated because our offensive players. We hated that it
Speaker 1: was always about Blitzburg and the deep fens. We wanted
Speaker 1: to be known for what we could do as well.
Speaker 1: That's Jim Miller along with Tom There, Jeff Jonnyak. This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access. Coming up, we'll hear from Gary Fenzick.
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Speaker 1: Radio six seventy The Score with Tom Thayer, Jimmeler, Jeff Jonia,
Speaker 1: good Even, and Gary. How are things You're excited about
Speaker 1: seeing some old friends again? Are in a couple of weeks?
Speaker 1: I am. I'm actually excited about meeting a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that well, not a lot of guys, but certainly
Speaker 1: some of the guys I don't know who are on
Speaker 1: that list and alumni and yeah, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun weekend. Hey, Gary, you know when we both grew
Speaker 1: up in the area and when you came to the Bears,
Speaker 1: did you feel pressure because you're a homegrown guy or
Speaker 1: did you feel pressure because it was your second NFL opportunity.
Speaker 1: I think I felt pressure because of the latter and
Speaker 1: the fact that I was a Yale guy. Thank god
Speaker 1: Jiggets took away some of the heat coming in earlier,
Speaker 1: was a fourth round draft choice. But yeah, you come
Speaker 1: in as an IVY League player, it doesn't exactly help
Speaker 1: your credentials. Well, Gary, obviously such a cerebral player. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've added a lot of guys from Yale. Dick, Dick
Speaker 1: turn there's another Yale guy. I mean, come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: Dick and Mike. Mike Pyle a recruiting me to Yale.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean there have been some some really
Speaker 1: good yaleies. But you know, let's say, said Jim, it's
Speaker 1: I think I remember the first time I started, it
Speaker 1: was against the Detroit Lions, and I missed a tackle
Speaker 1: early in the game, and I just remember coming in
Speaker 1: a huddle and just feeling this real pressure about you know,
Speaker 1: I don't fit in here. Well, the desire to be
Speaker 1: great because obviously you got to make the first play
Speaker 1: in order to make the second play, Gary, and maybe
Speaker 1: just talk about that, because truly, you look at the
Speaker 1: defenses you're on. You guys were thriving or striving to
Speaker 1: be greatness all the time. Yeah, you know, I was
Speaker 1: really lucky. And I'm going to see Doug Plank at
Speaker 1: the Bear alumni reunion and it's well, I guess it's
Speaker 1: not an alumni reunions the celebration of one hundred years
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears in the NFL. But Doug really
Speaker 1: taught me how to play, and it was through not
Speaker 1: coaching me. It was just the way he played. I
Speaker 1: emulated him and I gave him a lot of credit
Speaker 1: for getting me as far as I got. Hey, Gary,
Speaker 1: when you your first introduction to Doug Plank. We had
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and he's he is a great spokesperson for football for
Speaker 1: the Bears in his life. Did you guys fit well
Speaker 1: immediately together or did it take time? I think I
Speaker 1: take a little time. You know, I came in is
Speaker 1: I think Jim said. I was drafted by the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and made it to the final cut, But I
Speaker 1: got cut and so I didn't come into I missed
Speaker 1: the entire rookie preseason, and so I came in. You
Speaker 1: know how difficult that is to come in where you
Speaker 1: really don't have a chance to bond with anybody. You're
Speaker 1: already into the season and you're just a backup. You know,
Speaker 1: you're just another player, and so you know it's it's
Speaker 1: but you know, secondary players. I mean, there's only about
Speaker 1: eight of you on the team. And so I got
Speaker 1: to know Alan Ellis and Craig Clemens and Doug and
Speaker 1: they were all great to me. And you know, over time,
Speaker 1: certainly Doug and I got to be better friends. But
Speaker 1: Doug was already married, and I was living in the
Speaker 1: suburbs and I was always single and living in the city.
Speaker 1: So you know, socially, we didn't spend as much time
Speaker 1: as maybe some people thought. I'll tell you to this day,
Speaker 1: people still come up to me and call me Doug.
Speaker 1: And I know it happened to Doug that people call
Speaker 1: him Gary. I mean, you know, he's got blond here
Speaker 1: and I've got whatever left dark hair, and you would
Speaker 1: think people would get it, but we both understand it.
Speaker 1: And it's a compliment either way that we were kind
Speaker 1: of interchangeable, so should have been the forty five zone
Speaker 1: and not the forty six zone. Well, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: if I knew how famous that I would have been
Speaker 1: lobbying to call it forty five. Gary Fenzig guest here
Speaker 1: on Bears Out Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score Jim Miller, Tom Thare, and Jeff Joniac. And
Speaker 1: you know, referees got it wrong too. Quarterbacks got it wrong.
Speaker 1: They thought that you were getting hit by by your buddy.
Speaker 1: But sometimes sometimes a lot more a lot more alignment
Speaker 1: or other people looking for Doug Plank than forty five.
Speaker 1: I mean, We've played a game in Buffalo and Joe Dalamalure,
Speaker 1: their Hall of Fame guard Doug Chief shot of him
Speaker 1: so late and glam Lure wasn't sure if it was
Speaker 1: me or Doug, and he was literally chasing us beyond
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, like like you were in grade
Speaker 1: score or something like that. And then he beat the
Speaker 1: heck out of Jim Osbourne for the rest of the game,
Speaker 1: and then Ozzy was mad at Doug because he knew
Speaker 1: they'd cheap shot of him. Well, Gary, when you look
Speaker 1: at it. I love some of the current players, like
Speaker 1: a Keem Hicks. The reason why he signed with the
Speaker 1: Bears is he he wanted to be a part of
Speaker 1: building something and we've had a lot of great players.
Speaker 1: Otis Wilson a lot of great Bears on their show
Speaker 1: and thanks for joining us tonight. But for you, Gary,
Speaker 1: when you arrived to the Bears in seventy six, when
Speaker 1: did you realize something great was about to be built
Speaker 1: here and you were going to be a part of
Speaker 1: something special. Well, you know, I feel as though I
Speaker 1: had three really good head coaches, but I came in
Speaker 1: with Jack Party and Jack, you know, was a great
Speaker 1: player in the NFL, but you know he didn't tolerate
Speaker 1: anybody having injuries at all. But he was tough and
Speaker 1: it was you. I wouldn't say it was an easy defense,
Speaker 1: but I was very lucky that when I did start,
Speaker 1: I played behind the trunk's side linebacker Dug the Phone,
Speaker 1: and you know Doug, it was just easy to play
Speaker 1: off of him as almost I didn't need to know
Speaker 1: the defense. But it really wasn't until Buddy Ryan. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what I tell people this, I think it's true.
Speaker 1: When Dan Hampton it was drafted in the fourth pick
Speaker 1: in the first round. Our team changed both offensively and defensively.
Speaker 1: Dan was a game changer and that was the beginning
Speaker 1: of the fillers of you know, the great defense that
Speaker 1: ended up winning the Super Bowl in eighty five. Gary.
Speaker 1: In the modern day, defenses, who would have played closer
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage between you and playing because
Speaker 1: it seems like any other position on defense that's changed
Speaker 1: more in terms of coverage and responsibility, it has been
Speaker 1: the safety position. Yeah, I think you're right time. You know,
Speaker 1: they're just you're playing three and four wideouts almost read down,
Speaker 1: and that really didn't happen as much didn't happen on
Speaker 1: first down in the seventies and early eighties. So I
Speaker 1: think that you have to be a better cover safety.
Speaker 1: And so people ask me all the time, Hey, you
Speaker 1: don't look that big. Are the safety is a lot bigger? Well,
Speaker 1: with some exceptions, I think most safeties aren't a lot
Speaker 1: bigger because you have to have the cover ability and
Speaker 1: also be able to hit. So the strong safety would
Speaker 1: usually line up, you know, wherever the tight end was,
Speaker 1: and I think that's still true today. But you know that,
Speaker 1: I see what's interesting to me, it was I'm season
Speaker 1: ticket holder, and now you go to the games, just
Speaker 1: how deep the safeties line up and they take three
Speaker 1: steps back immediately. I don't even know if they're reading anymore.
Speaker 1: Because if you're already back twelve fifteen feet yards and
Speaker 1: then you take another three steps, you got another three yards.
Speaker 1: If that guy comes through the middle, you just opened
Speaker 1: up a lot more yardage in terms of angles to
Speaker 1: take that guy down. And so, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a much different game. It's more pass oriented game.
Speaker 1: But you know, I still love seeing good hits, although
Speaker 1: you know it's fifty fifty whether or not that's going
Speaker 1: to cost somebody ten thousand dollars. What do you think
Speaker 1: your biggest hit was? Uh? That oneed Jimmy Johnson and
Speaker 1: h in the Giants game that we had went to
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs in seventy seven. That was a
Speaker 1: a killer hit. That was. It was just one of
Speaker 1: those you know what I used to talk, you know
Speaker 1: when Waddle and I would talk at Fox and he
Speaker 1: got Tom Waddle. He just got laid out on some
Speaker 1: unbelievable throws by any quarterback, but he got hit by
Speaker 1: the safety Attampa and I go, oh, what a great hit.
Speaker 1: You know, Tom got knocked out, hurt his knee and
Speaker 1: all that. He goes offense a lot. I go, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you got to admit that that was a great hit.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Doug and I would be, you know,
Speaker 1: helplessly out of a game like thirteen to six, there's
Speaker 1: no way we're gonna score a touchdown? Would be the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter would say time to have some fun, and
Speaker 1: they just started nailing people. That was it was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Well it's interesting too because the big
Speaker 1: hits in safeties now there's a lot more of them
Speaker 1: that are asked to play linebacker in nickel situations. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at guys like Mark Baron. I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of these safeties are getting paid kind of the more
Speaker 1: you can do it. It's a lot of big nickel
Speaker 1: out there today, and it's all safeties in some places.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. It used to be you know,
Speaker 1: like Wilver Marshall could have played that role, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: he just had so much physical talent and can cover anybody.
Speaker 1: But you're right, they're they're asking the safety to almost
Speaker 1: become like a will or something like that, a will
Speaker 1: linebacker and and you know that there's been a number,
Speaker 1: I mean probably a dozen of great safeties across the league.
Speaker 1: Of being able to play that type of role kept
Speaker 1: you out of playing wide receiver. I know that you
Speaker 1: got injured in Miami and you had you had the
Speaker 1: long punctured long issue. What if that didn't happen, what
Speaker 1: do we be talking to number eighty nine Gary Fenzick
Speaker 1: right now? Or were you meant to be a safety?
Speaker 1: Oh Tom, I was too slow to be a wide
Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL. The thing I loved. I played
Speaker 1: wide receiver Yale, but I wanted to play defensive back
Speaker 1: and I threatened not to come out my senior year
Speaker 1: if they didn't move me over there. And they didn't
Speaker 1: buy into it. But the only team that you really
Speaker 1: looked at my freshman year film, which they don't have
Speaker 1: freshman teams anymore in the Arguablyague or anywhere else. And
Speaker 1: Miami said, we looked at that, and we think you
Speaker 1: have a chance of maybe being a defensive back. I go, great,
Speaker 1: I'd love to do that, and so I thank them
Speaker 1: for the opportunity. Back then, you know the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: I remember Rex Current, he played at ohiose as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: He played as a safety for the Baltimore Coals, and
Speaker 1: so it wasn't all that unusual, but I knew that
Speaker 1: that was the only chance that I had. It's funny
Speaker 1: because I was a wide receiver. I really did need some,
Speaker 1: you know, some instruction, and you know, you get in
Speaker 1: the NFL and there's not as much fundamental teaching as
Speaker 1: you would think because the coaches kind of make this
Speaker 1: assumption that you already have it right and maybe you
Speaker 1: can improve it. And I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 1: The line play, I'm sure it has to be somewhat similar,
Speaker 1: and Jim, I've talked to some of the offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: in the league and to try to look at a
Speaker 1: college quarterback and the routes that they run and everything
Speaker 1: else is so different than the pros that it's almost
Speaker 1: impossible for them to be able to consistently determine who
Speaker 1: will be able to make that type of transfer. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up, Gary, because it's funny. I
Speaker 1: interview a lot of the kids that come out of college,
Speaker 1: and Luke Falk obviously was with the Washington State Cougars
Speaker 1: under Mike Leach, you know, and Mike Leach gets known
Speaker 1: as this just guru on offense, right, So I asked Luke,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, what drills do you work on in
Speaker 1: terms of your drops? Because you guys do a lot
Speaker 1: a shotgun what about your three step, five step, seven
Speaker 1: step drops. He's like, Jim coach doesn't teach us anything.
Speaker 1: He didn't know anything about drops, and you just assume
Speaker 1: that the young man's gonna know. And it's it's quite
Speaker 1: the opposite. I'm glad you pointed that. It's really funny.
Speaker 1: And you know, people go, well, you know, my coach,
Speaker 1: my coach for the first couple of years ago. I
Speaker 1: really like he said, hey, I'm getting worried about you.
Speaker 1: You know, you you lead with your head. You could
Speaker 1: get hurt. I go Ross, I was a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm opened, you know, helped me out. He goes, hey,
Speaker 1: I've got into the technical stuff. He says, you know,
Speaker 1: either kind of learn it or you don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was like, that was really that was what he said.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think Doug Plank he was like
Speaker 1: a player coach for me. Gary fencik Our guests here
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Speaker 1: seventy score. Well the hands worked career interception leader with
Speaker 1: thirty eight, and that happened over ten consecutive seasons. Gary
Speaker 1: a couple of more interceptions in the eighty four playoffs.
Speaker 1: Do you remember your only NFL touchdown? Let's jog the memory. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a short memory, but it was a long run against Denver.
Speaker 1: If you got a mouth guard and you know, you think, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, and I see these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: now look at you know Jackson me what five touchdowns
Speaker 1: or something. I mean, it's it's amazing. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: did it at home against tember Back the ball through it,
Speaker 1: Craig Morton, you got it. You aced the exam, all right,
Speaker 1: So you're number thirty on the top one hundred. It
Speaker 1: was great water cooler talk. It was a great thing
Speaker 1: the Bears put together. Dam Yeah. I mean I think
Speaker 1: about that history of one hundred years. Michael. What did
Speaker 1: McMichael payoff John Pearson Pompey. I wrote them, I go,
Speaker 1: how did you get up there? You go the game
Speaker 1: and offer they couldn't refuse. That's McMichael for you. Gary,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. We'll see you here on June seventh
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Speaker 1: right shoulder reading the copy with me. So I choked
Speaker 1: under pressure. Oh I'm not. What I'm laughing at is
Speaker 1: every time I think of Jeff promoting a race of
Speaker 1: some type, I think about the one time he ran
Speaker 1: a marathon and was the only guy to go in
Speaker 1: the wrong direction and had to reroute his course. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. That's not true, Jim. It was multiple people.
Speaker 1: But you're like, that don't happen. You're like the top
Speaker 1: hundred plays of all time running the wrong direct Marshall
Speaker 1: or Jim Marshall. Yeah, Jim Marshall. But listen, you know,
Speaker 1: let's stick to Bears football about that. They don't need
Speaker 1: to hear my exploits, that's for sure. As we get
Speaker 1: you set for it, Bears one hundred and the more
Speaker 1: the that I do research on this event, and Tom
Speaker 1: and I are going to am seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: these paneled discussions, you have to you have to go deep.
Speaker 1: You have to go deep in the history to find
Speaker 1: some of the stories that have not been told yet.
Speaker 1: Hopefully jog some memories, and that's what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: for the fans. That are going to come out, and
Speaker 1: we hope you guys all come out. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a heck of an event. But you'll learn to
Speaker 1: appreciate what's happened here over a hundred years. You appreciate
Speaker 1: the humble beginnings, the successes, the failures, the personalities, the characters,
Speaker 1: the things that made champions, and how consistent that kind
Speaker 1: of theme is when you are a champion. And it's
Speaker 1: really what the Bears are starting to create here under
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie and you guys both have been a part
Speaker 1: of successful franchise. Has both been a part of Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: So you know what it takes and you just start
Speaker 1: to see it come to life when you try to
Speaker 1: put it all in context. Well, I hope you know, Jim,
Speaker 1: I hope the young guys embrace the opportunity to meet
Speaker 1: some of the historical figures of theirs because they have
Speaker 1: they have a great dedication to the Bears. They have
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to be dedicated to the communities they've
Speaker 1: lived in after they left the Chicago Bears. And for
Speaker 1: these young guys not to pick the brains of a
Speaker 1: Dug Plank or a Gary Fensick or whatever position you play,
Speaker 1: there are going to be some Hall of Fame guys
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Speaker 1: talk about their career, learn something about, and learn something
Speaker 1: about their dedication since their career ended. And it is
Speaker 1: going to be a great opportunity for the fans, for
Speaker 1: the supporters of the Chicago Bears, and for the young
Speaker 1: players of the Bears. Yeah. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: just piggybacking off what Tom said, and I think you're right, Tom.
Speaker 1: The guys where they'll be more than willing to help
Speaker 1: out their brethren. You know, they want the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: to do well. They want this team to succeed. And
Speaker 1: I think you're right if you can talk to some
Speaker 1: of the guys how they went about things, and granted
Speaker 1: as different eras of football, but football still football. I
Speaker 1: mean you still got to run, you still got to tackle,
Speaker 1: you still got to execute plays, The field dimensions are
Speaker 1: the same, and all those type of things. And I
Speaker 1: think it is it's something This could be another building block,
Speaker 1: so to speak, that really unites this team to hopefully
Speaker 1: do something special here in twenty nineteen. Yes, and that's
Speaker 1: certainly a big expectation. I you know now that it's
Speaker 1: starting to become a common theme that you're hearing back
Speaker 1: from players, and they voted on this, They voted on
Speaker 1: this year's slogan, and it is chasing great And so
Speaker 1: each player is commissioned to find what they're chasing great is,
Speaker 1: for example tight and Adam Sheen I asked him about
Speaker 1: it yesterday. His gotta stay healthy or I have no
Speaker 1: weight to chase great, Gotta stay healthy hasn't been that
Speaker 1: way first two years. So his chasing great, stay healthy
Speaker 1: built from there a guy like Cody white Hair, you know,
Speaker 1: going back to left guard. Chasing great as an offensive
Speaker 1: line is an offense what would be yours respectively? As players?
Speaker 1: You're chasing greats? And did you feel you ever ever
Speaker 1: got there? You know, I don't think any player during
Speaker 1: the time they're playing ever feels they're great, because there's
Speaker 1: always something else that you can improve on. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you talk about Gary having to learn Gary Fence
Speaker 1: having to learn how to tackle properly in the midst
Speaker 1: of his NFL career, one thing about offensive line play
Speaker 1: is it's repetitiously learned each and every day. And thankfully
Speaker 1: we had a Hall of Fame coach like Dick Stanfeld
Speaker 1: that was able to relate his experience into making you
Speaker 1: a better football player. In offensive lineman, there's five guys
Speaker 1: in the offensive line. There's eleven or twelve in the room,
Speaker 1: and every one of them have something different about their game.
Speaker 1: And you see these great coaches that are able to,
Speaker 1: you know, mold these players into being the best player
Speaker 1: they can be with their style of play. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the challenge to every single person that plays
Speaker 1: the NFL is never, never stop chasing the chance to
Speaker 1: be great. Yeah. I don't think you're ever happy that
Speaker 1: you've reached or have arrived. There's always something you can
Speaker 1: work on to get better. And as Tom Nosen as
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, football's an imperfect game. It's one thing
Speaker 1: when you look open up your playbook and it says, hey,
Speaker 1: you run your route, you go up twelve yards and
Speaker 1: then cut outside and roll it to fifteen yards or whatever,
Speaker 1: but it never plays out like that in the game.
Speaker 1: Or as Tom would mention, if you know whatever the
Speaker 1: blocking assignment is in terms of hand placement and three step,
Speaker 1: five step, the timing of the route and for everybody
Speaker 1: to execute and literally to have eleven players do exactly
Speaker 1: what is written up in a playbook on a specific play.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's never it's ever happened. I've yet
Speaker 1: to see the perfect play executed. If you were to
Speaker 1: go back watch a game and evaluate, say the seventy
Speaker 1: plays you ran on a Sunday, and that every player
Speaker 1: executed it to perfection, it just doesn't happen. It's an
Speaker 1: imperfect gaming, that's what you But you're you're always striving
Speaker 1: to be that, to be to make the perfect play,
Speaker 1: to play the perfect game, to play you know, everything
Speaker 1: that you do to practice perfect, everything like that, And
Speaker 1: so I think you always try to try to strive
Speaker 1: to be that way, and it's tough to do. In
Speaker 1: the NFL, coach Stanfield was around the game for fifty
Speaker 1: or sixty years and he always, you say, I've never
Speaker 1: seen anybody play a perfect game. And all you gotta
Speaker 1: do is put on the film and start evaluating yourself strictly,
Speaker 1: and you can find and there's evidence of the of
Speaker 1: their mentelaire missing an assignment something that really didn't allow
Speaker 1: you to play that perfect game. So yeah, it is
Speaker 1: always chasing to be great, but it's a it's a
Speaker 1: practice in and practice out week in and week out, effort,
Speaker 1: chasing great through and the team focus obvious, the team
Speaker 1: context is winning the Super Bowl and that's really what
Speaker 1: this is all about, and they're triving to do and
Speaker 1: part of that will be mandatory miniicamp coming up Big
Speaker 1: Jim next, not this coming week, but the following week,
Speaker 1: a three day mandatory miniicamp. And what do you hope
Speaker 1: to accomplish when you're a three day minicamp at this
Speaker 1: point in the month of June. Well, I think it's
Speaker 1: really just about the finishing touches. You know. Again, you're
Speaker 1: you're putting in all this this install and the Bears
Speaker 1: are just probably so much more advanced than what they
Speaker 1: were a season to go, specifically on the offensive side
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, I just think they're they're a
Speaker 1: lot further ahead of the game. And again that's what
Speaker 1: Mark Helfer has talked about today. The quarterbacks has command,
Speaker 1: the huddle, of the playbook, all those type of things,
Speaker 1: and certainly Chuck Bagano has his wrinkles, and you pointed
Speaker 1: out that that Cleo Max is very excited about the
Speaker 1: stuff that he learned, But it's really about the finishing touches.
Speaker 1: I always thought like when we did it, at least
Speaker 1: teams that I've been on, we probably had about ninety percent,
Speaker 1: ninety to ninety five percent of everything in in the
Speaker 1: last veteran mini camp and then hey, guys, hit the
Speaker 1: showers and we'll see at training camp and then it
Speaker 1: was kind of just polished. So all this stuff has
Speaker 1: been introduced, then reintroduced, and now this is the final time,
Speaker 1: and then it will be introduced again at training camp.
Speaker 1: Well everything will be one hundred percent. But if they're
Speaker 1: ninety ninety five percent done with their install the Bears
Speaker 1: will be sitting in a beautiful position come when they
Speaker 1: arrive in Bourbon at do you guys? And now I'll
Speaker 1: start with Tom. Do you guys like the way the
Speaker 1: offseason and is scheduled leaguewide Again, it's tied and tethered
Speaker 1: to the collective bargaining agreement. But the fact is that
Speaker 1: you get it all polished up, but then you go
Speaker 1: away for five six weeks. Guys go on vacation. Guys
Speaker 1: stay in the gym, but there's that relaxation period a
Speaker 1: little bit mentally, spend some time with your family before
Speaker 1: training camp, which is very different than what either of
Speaker 1: you experienced during your playing day. I think you can
Speaker 1: go through the seriousness of Mini camp and you have
Speaker 1: all this evidence on tape that the coaches are going
Speaker 1: to go over and make sure that you're assignment sure
Speaker 1: and you're not making mistakes or what you need to
Speaker 1: be coached down. If you think that you can take
Speaker 1: six weeks off before the start of a regular season,
Speaker 1: you're either going to get hurt, you're gonna get cut,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be more difficult to be prepared
Speaker 1: once training camp gets here. I think these guys got
Speaker 1: to take the final six weeks after Mini camp as
Speaker 1: serious or more serious as they did before. What I
Speaker 1: mean is, would you prefer it scheduled less time in
Speaker 1: between the end of Mini camp and the start of
Speaker 1: training camp. I don't know. I think it's up to
Speaker 1: the person because you know, again, you know, we ended
Speaker 1: the season and we never saw anybody until Mini camp
Speaker 1: or until Mini camp. Now, we had a couple of
Speaker 1: days in Mini camp and then we didn't see it
Speaker 1: till the start of training camp. It's the challenge of
Speaker 1: being a professional to make sure you're prepared. So whether
Speaker 1: we're in this the modern day schedule or in your
Speaker 1: the old archaic type of schedule. It's all about you
Speaker 1: being prepared as a professional to make sure you're ready
Speaker 1: for day one a training camp. Yeah, and that's the problem.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen. I personally, I hate it, Jeff, I
Speaker 1: hate it. I think the coaches have been very vocal
Speaker 1: that they want more hands on opportunities to have the
Speaker 1: young players in the build, especially first year players going
Speaker 1: to second year players. They want more ability in the classroom.
Speaker 1: They want more on the field ability to work with
Speaker 1: these players for them to grow as players and be prepared.
Speaker 1: Because honestly, even John Harball, head coach of the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: he talked about it this last year and he brought
Speaker 1: it up at the NFL wonners Beans. He goes, when
Speaker 1: you go to training camp, he goes, we almost have
Speaker 1: to have a a two week almost reintroduction to get
Speaker 1: a player in shape so that they're ready to start
Speaker 1: hitting again. Because as Tom just mentioned, the injuries. Think
Speaker 1: about the first month of the season. That's probably the
Speaker 1: most grotesque football I've ever seen in terms of tackling
Speaker 1: all the basics that you need to do. It really
Speaker 1: takes a month, literally, the first month of the NFL
Speaker 1: season pretty much are the preseason games where teams are
Speaker 1: just kind of figuring out. Then towards the end of September,
Speaker 1: you finally teams starting to play a little bit better,
Speaker 1: where they're caught up on everything and finally in shape
Speaker 1: ready to play. And now you start to see some
Speaker 1: good football, which is a shame I think it. I
Speaker 1: don't like it the way it is right now at all. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see if they could somehow adjust, tweak and continue
Speaker 1: to grow this game and keep everybody's best interest at
Speaker 1: heart here. Certainly the safety aspect of the league is paramount,
Speaker 1: but also you know, help out the coaches a little
Speaker 1: bit here to get teams ready to go and get
Speaker 1: their players put in the best possible position. So we'll
Speaker 1: come to you again next week on Thursday, that'll be
Speaker 1: the night before opening ceremonies of the Bears one hundred
Speaker 1: celebration weekend. Big Jim, Thanks as always. We'll be talking
Speaker 1: to you next week, and we'll see at the convention
Speaker 1: for sure. Style's good by friend, always gonna be with you, guys.
Speaker 1: That's Jim Miller, that's Tom Thair. I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Super Bowl Bear, Gary Fencik, and to our producers
Speaker 1: Tonight Herb Lawrence at M Sazinski and Shane Ridden for
Speaker 1: helping us out as well. Thank you all for listening
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