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Your hosts Jeff Chilneac aka the 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.480 Mayor of Bearsville and his sidekick Tom the surf Faster. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.120 There, It's Bears Browns and thank you for joining us. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.240 A big matchup Sunday along Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.199 Ohio for the week fifteen Bears Brown's Matchup. And this 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.519 is Bears Weekly with Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:51.720 There. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:52.640 I'm Jeff Jonniack. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.200 Thanks to our producers Jordan tread Up and Dan Burrily 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.000 from the Bears And Tonight at the ESPN one thousand Studios, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.080 Jack McGrath and Sean. Our executive producer of the Bears 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.559 Radio Network is Eric Ostrowski Coming up tonight we visit 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.360 with Bears cornerback Jalen Johnson and later in the program 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.320 big time former Browns quarterback Brunie Kosar from Our Bears, Etc. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.920 Podcast that we tape this week tonight. All right, So 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.760 the Bears going to Cleveland as underdogs as they've been 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.600 all season long, but that line keeps shrinking, Tom, not 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.440 that we're into that, but the Browns have nine starters 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.280 out if you take out guys like Deshaun Watson, Nick 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.960 Chubb and some really good defensive players losing Grant del 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.880 but its safety, twelve players of note on their injured reserve, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.440 and their their top three tackles are out. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.880 Yeah, but you know, I think everybody's accustomed to that 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.480 in the in the football business, because you know that 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.120 everybody's not going to have a perfect rosser at this 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.760 time of the season. I mean, it's just like the Bears, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.840 you know, just a mid stride and Yannick and Gotaway 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.080 comes up and he's injured and he's out of the lineup, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.880 So how do you make changes accordingly? And I think 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.720 everybody is faced with those types of injury issues throughout 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.160 the course of the season. To me, did Cleveland win 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.160 last week. I mean, they got a quarterback that's thirty 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.440 eight years old that's just come aboard. They have injury 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.960 issues up and down their roster, but they still go 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.480 out there and play a super brand of competitive football. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.080 And they're playing at home where they get great support. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.560 So just because there's injuries on the side of the 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.680 Cleveland Browns, I wouldn't take them any less seriously than 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.720 I would if they had a healthy roster Week one. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.200 Right now, this will be the fourth consecutive game. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.639 It just occurred to me if I had my math straight, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.200 the Bears played the Lions twice and. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.359 The Vikings and now going to play Cleveland. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.040 Those are currently as the season ends today, there's four 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.800 playoff teams. The Bears have a chance here. Should have 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.240 beat Detroit the first time, beat Minnesota, beat Detroit. If 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.359 they beat Cleveland, they will have beaten What now if 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.680 the season ended today and it doesn't December? 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:51.360 Football is weird that way. I mean, what perspective. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.680 Does that give you about how these guys have come together? 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:54.880 You know? 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.320 I just like the whole fact that they've been improving 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.000 throughout the course of the season, and Matt Eber flew 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.560 the head coach has never lost the locker room. They're 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.800 working in a positive direction in segments and team and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.600 aspects of this group are making significant improvements week in 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.440 and week out. So you look at the Minnesota Vikings, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.320 they had a backup quarterback in the mix and the 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.760 Bears were able to take advantage of them. Now the 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.560 Cleveland Browns, they have a backup, well, a newly a 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.880 board quarterback that's in the mix, and they have to 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.440 do the same the Joe Flacco. But when you look 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.520 at what they did against the Detroit Lions and a 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.920 quarterback that was probably playing as good as any quarterback 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.360 in the league, the Bears were able to take advantage 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:35.360 of him as well. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.480 We're going to break this thing down with our coordinators 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.960 every Thursday. They speak at Hallisaw so we get snippets 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.160 of it. Luke Getzi right in your alley, asked about 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.000 the offensive line. This will be the fourth straight game 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.760 that the Bears offensive line is it's currently constituted, it 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.320 has played the other That seems odd, but you feel them, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.040 You feel the difference they're making. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:56.600 Here's the offensive coordinator. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.680 You're definitely seeing that chemistry, communication, the different styles of defenses, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.840 that we've play put some some put extreme circumstances out 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.200 there that the communication has. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:07.840 To be on point. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.400 And when you play next to each other, you know, 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:11.920 sometimes you don't have to speak those words. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.440 You just know what each other are gonna do. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.880 And so I think that's the long term benefit of 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.839 those guys playing next to each other, that that well, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.479 even that will happen even more. But what you know, 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.640 the short term part of it is absolutely we're seeing 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.080 the benefit of it, you know, and you have the 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:27.200 just that free play. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:28.640 Just take that play alone. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.919 Yeah, that play alone was the fourth and thirteen free 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.240 play conversion to DJ Moore. You played it, and you 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:40.280 played it well at a level that's beyond expectations. These days, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.880 seven straight years, you guys barely miss a snap together. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.960 You're same five. I mean, this is this is baby 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.240 steps in terms of continuity with four. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:49.520 How encouraged are you? 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.000 Oh, I'm super encouraged. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:51.200 You know. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:52.919 The first game I was getting ready to start for 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.440 the Chicago Bears, Jay Hilgenberg the center came up to 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.240 me and said, remember, you do my job first and 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.960 then you do your own. And it's kind of just 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.280 chemistry type of talk because when they had the discipline 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.120 to stay on sides when the defensive lineman from Detroit 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.120 jumped and it gave him the opportunity for that free play. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.080 I don't think people understand how much discipline that takes, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.800 because the first thing you want to do as an 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.880 offensive lineman is if you get a guy jumping off 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.160 sides is kind of overreact to them. They didn't do that. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.040 They kind of fell into place with their protection and 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.720 justin read it accordingly saw DJ down the field for 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.600 a touchdown throw and it became one of the biggest 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:30.279 plays in the game. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.200 But Tevin Jenkins has been graded out very high during 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.320 his time this season, moving on both sides of the 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.960 line eight games, and then Darnell Wright with really maybe 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.120 his best game of the season last week. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.520 But you know, I think when you talk about chemistry, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.040 and I joke about Jay saying do my job first, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.000 I think this is what I was kind of getting at, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.400 as the fact that Tevin Jenkins and Nate Davis they 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.880 have to really pay attention to the offensive tackles in 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.560 this game because first of all, they have to identify 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.440 where Miles Garrett is lined up, and they have to 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.839 understand and if they have any freedom, if they have 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.400 a bubble over them, they're gonna have to have all 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.160 eyes approach on Miles Garrett. And so when you look 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.320 at Tevin Jenkins and you look at Nate Davis, you're 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.640 gonna have to really take into account where Miles is 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.520 so you can help these offensive tackles the most. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.560 AND's a Darius Smith. He may be on the other 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.120 side of thirty, but he's still a threat. As Luke 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.920 Getzi outline, it's not just Miles Garrett, it's also big Z. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:26.920 It's not just him. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.680 I mean they're it's they give us a report each 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.640 week and I think they were like number one, and 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.320 like every defense is statistic in the league. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.320 So I was like, this is gonna be fun. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.600 Right, And then then you go out there and you 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.240 have ninety five and ninety nine staring down at you 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.480 at the same time. But they're no, that's it's fun. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:43.920 And I think this is this is like, this is 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.120 why you do what you do. You want to play 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.440 against the best, and I think this is, yes, you 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.600 have those two, those two you have to account for 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.880 at all times. There's no question about it that when 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.040 you're when you're going up against some guys like that 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.640 that your game plan has to be fit centered around 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:57.239 those two guys. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.120 Yeah, they are number one in eight different categories, but 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.200 in recent weeks they're giving up a lot of points. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.960 Right. You know, when Jeff So, when Reggie White was 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.440 in the NFL, who was the defensive end that played 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.760 on the opposite side of him? You don't know, You 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.560 can't remember anyway, you weren't concerned about that defense was 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.720 on the opposite side. It was he played here for 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.000 a while. I'll think of him in a minute. However, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.120 I'm just saying back to Miles Garrett, you have to 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.640 be one hundred percent assured that you have as many 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.640 hands and eyes on Miles Garrett as you can have 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.800 in that sometimes you're going to have some difficult circumstances 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.400 for the opposite offensive tackle who's going to have to 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.840 block the Zadarias Smith by himself. So again, it's about 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.240 all due respect to Smith, but it's about Miles Garrett 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.640 that you're going to have to have complete awareness of. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.360 All Right, we're going to take a break our first 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.560 here on Bears Weekly. When we come back, we'll hear 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.720 from cornerback Jalen Johnson, My sit down interview with him 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.960 for our Bears Game Day Live show. Now you'll see 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.560 and hear on Sunday from Cleveland on Fox thirty two Chicago. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.080 With Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniak. This is Bears Weekly 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.480 on ESPN Chicago and the Bears Radio Network. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.040 You were tuned into Bears Weekly with Jeff Jona on 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:13.280 the Bears Radio Network. This is Bears Weekly with a 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.200 voice of the Bears for twenty three years, Jeff jon 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.760 on the Bears Radio Network. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.160 This segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you by 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.120 IGS Energy. Jeff in Tom with you on Bears Weekly 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.040 getting ready for the Cleveland Browns. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.520 Coming into the break, Tom was trying. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.079 To figure out who played opposite Reggie White, and you 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.040 say it was Clyde Simmons. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:41.960 Yeah, as one of. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.000 The man he was one of them because Reggie played 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.160 at Green Bay, Reggie played, you know, in other places. However, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.720 I'm just getting back to the Miles Garrett comparison with 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.000 a guy like Reggie White, that when you're that awesome, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.800 that's where your focus begins. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.640 All right, We got to talk about Ja Kwon Brisker 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.880 before we get to Jalen here real quick, because he 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:03.640 is hitting and. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:04.760 Playing like a linebacker. 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:11.319 He's playing as his inspirational and motivated and loud defensive players. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:11.440 You can get. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.520 They gave him eighteen tackles from the coaches. See they 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.080 don't give those stats out anymore. Once upon a time 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.000 you'd get the league stats and then on Tuesday you'd 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.600 get with the defensive coaches gave and the numbers were 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.360 usually elevated, which helps the player out know those are 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.400 kept secret. But when a guy gets seventeen tackles like that, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.000 the coach eber Flues said, yeah, we had him for eighteen. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:40.240 This is Dave Borgonzi on Jakwan Brisker's impact on the defense. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.720 Just the physicality and the tempo that he sets for 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.640 the rest of the guys. I mean he's a safety, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.280 but I mean he plays like you said, the way 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.840 he hits and how physically is it's like a linebacker. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.280 We've had safeties in the league. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:53.840 That have played like that. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.120 But he's also a good cover player, So I think 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.800 he's got the unique combination of can play in the box, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.520 he can play the run, he's physically can tackle bigger backs, 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.480 and he can also cover and just Jakwan's mentality I 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:09.199 think is awesome. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:10.040 Again. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.160 I talked about TJ and Tremaine about how they prepare 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.719 in Jaquan's the same way. Football is important to him 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.439 and how he prepares I think positively affects him how 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:20.360 he plays on Sunday. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.320 All right, So there's a lot on the table for 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.040 him on Sunday. Actually, because the Browns are physical, they 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.600 like to run the ball. How they running it the 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.920 way they did with Nick Chubb. No, but they have 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.920 capable running backs and Kareem Hunts the change up to 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.480 Jerome Ford right now, everybody knows what Hunt is like. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.120 And David and Joku. We don't talk enough about David 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.480 and Joke with the tight end position. Uniquely gifted athlete. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.360 Kind of makes me, gives me the most concerns for 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.920 a quarterback that's just come aboard because if you want 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.480 to talk about matchups, that it's difficult to match up 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.480 against in terms of a linebacker with tight end speed 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.720 or defensive back to the size that cover a line 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.240 or a tight end. You know that's you know, Joe 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.000 go to guy right now. And so it's going to 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.920 be interesting to see what the Bears do. But you're 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.520 not going to do anything without getting pressure on the quarterback. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.800 So everything has to match up with each other. And 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.920 I think when you look at a guy like Jakwan Brisker, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.200 because he's not exclusively a defensive back, he can play 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.200 at the first, second, or third level that I think 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.560 that's why you know he's the guy that creates interesting 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.320 matchups because he never gives away actually who he's going 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:26.679 to cover. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.440 And I wonder who Jalen's gonna cover. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.320 Jalen Johnson Amari Cooper is the guy that's the most 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.480 targeted so far with Flakley at fourteen targets only seven 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.040 catches last week out of those fourteen, but on an 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.880 array of different types of receivers. But overall, Jalen Johnson's 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.720 been playing at a very high level this season. Pro 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.439 Football Focus says he's the number one cover corner this 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.760 point in the NFL. Here's my conversation with a Bears 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.600 starting corner. Would you agree this is a dangerous team 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:55.000 right now? 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:55.680 Yeah? For sure. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.079 I mean forget about that. I mean, it's a handful 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.640 of games and see what happens. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:00.800 Do you feel that way? 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.800 No, definitely, I think honestly, I think teams are I 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.240 won't even say scared, but it's a little unknown I 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:07.839 think of what type of team we are because I 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.920 think we've given teams plenty of problems and I think 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.120 it's always about us not finishing. And I think that 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.120 it can be scary for teams to go into scout 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.640 because it's like you look at the record and just 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.720 naturally you want to think like, Okay, they're not that good, 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.839 but then you kind of watch the game, it's like, nah, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.200 they're good. They just don't finish it. They just find 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.400 ways in a sense to lose the game. But I 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.080 think now when you start kind of changing that narrative 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:30.839 towards the end of the season, now it's like, Okay, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:31.640 now this team. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:32.120 Is pretty good. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:33.880 They just had a rough start. So I mean, just 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.520 for us, just got to continue to find ways to finish. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.120 And I think that after we do that, I think 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:40.320 we'll be a very dangerous team. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:40.600 Yeah. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.199 You know, I went back before the season and looked 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.679 up everybody's record on this roster and there ain't been 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.800 many guys that had a winning record. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.400 And I think over time that. 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:51.080 Will get better. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.000 Yeah, I mean, I think it just comes with experience. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.360 I mean even I think if you look from the 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.400 top down, I think everybody's in newer positions. I mean, 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.800 even start with Ryan Poles. He is the first year 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.880 GM coach. Flues is the first year head coach. So 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:05.720 it's like there's a lot of people that are in 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.760 newer positions that are still that have been around winning, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.720 but for like you said, being in it yourself and 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.360 actually having to drive that boat and be the leader 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.839 and be that that dude that shows teams how to 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.120 win or show your players and things like that, and 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.160 we're all I think we're all building it together. I 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.600 think it's just a matter of getting the right pieces. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.040 And I think we have the right pieces. We just 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.080 got to continue to gel together and continue to go 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.199 through these experiences and then really just have to kick 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.160 the door down mentality, because I mean, we've been knocking 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.319 out the door so many times, and just throughout this 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.200 season it's knocking out the door. But at some point 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.400 we got to take that step to kick the door down. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.800 I love your confidence. You came in the league that way, honest. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:42.320 You have to. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:48.959 Yeah, right, like you're twenty four, right, you don't look 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.000 you know what I'm saying. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.040 I'm just saying you just have a way about. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.840 You and your confidence of going to a podium, and 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.720 you know it can be looked at many different ways, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.280 saying yeah, I think I'm the best corner in league. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.760 I'm going to be the best corner in the league. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.960 I think there's a few guys in this league, this 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:05.560 is what you said over the most of your career 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.400 that could cover better than me. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.920 But I've got the truth is the truth. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.400 The truth is the truth. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:13.680 Right, Like your catch. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.160 Rate all four years is in the fifty seven to 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.720 fifty four percent range, which is outstanding. Guys are catching 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.800 the ball when it's thrown in your direction. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.720 They have a battle with you. How I mean the. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.080 Facts or the factions four years of it right, right? 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:30.760 Do you agree? 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:31.440 Yeah? 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.480 I mean, honestly, that's what That's what I prot myself 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.560 in doing. I think when it comes to covering, coming 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.440 to challenging and really going getting after wide receivers, I 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.640 mean that's what that's what I've always wanted to do. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.160 I mean, just in college, that's what I did, and 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.400 I think just coming down to the league, nothing nothing 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.160 for me. Changes, continue to perfect my craft, continue to 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.200 get smarter and learn offenses, learn different concepts, and I 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.400 think that's what has took me over the top this year, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.320 really learning and what the offense was to do, learning 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.400 situational ball. But I mean, honestly, just all comes down 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.720 to them of just being a dog and competing. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.880 How about this too this year. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.720 It hasn't been much over the course of your career, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.640 but less than one hundred yards. You after the catch, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.600 alout what's going on there? 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.640 I mean sticky covered. I mean if they do catch it. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.280 A few times that they do catch it, I think 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.440 it's one of those I'm right there on them, so 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.400 just being able to get them down right away. But 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:22.920 I mean, honestly, you just got to be in the 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.720 right position. I mean sometimes you're gonna get them the 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.800 catches and then just when you do, you got to 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:27.400 get them down. 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.080 Or you had a two interception game against Vegas, you 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:31.720 had the interception against Minnesota. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.040 That's been a big, a big point right. 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:35.440 For you too? 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.240 You think you too, And you know you made a 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.480 comment a couple of weeks ago like I don't know 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.480 what's going on with a couple drops and you're gonna 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.280 go back to you know, is it is it a 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.480 Darnell Mooney hit the jugs gun every day type of situation. Well, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.680 I mean it's a little different when you're a receiver 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:52.280 in a corner. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.640 But what have you learned about that part of it? 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.000 About your game in your hands? 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.640 Honestly, really just getting in that point. I mean I 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.600 feel up until this year, I have had too many 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.160 of those opportunities. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:02.360 Really in the game. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.040 Slowing, slowing down when you get to that point. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.200 I think that's the biggest part. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.240 I mean, sometimes, especially as the DV, you got to react, 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.880 you got to go fast, but just in that moment 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.680 of catching, because I mean I have I have pretty 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.680 good hands, but at times, I know, especially its Minnesota, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.480 thinking about the end zone, to think about what I'm 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:19.960 gonna do after It's like now you just got to 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.400 see it all the way in first. So it's like 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.400 not getting those game reps. I think I feel like 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.040 we're shown clearly, but just as the project is just 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.040 continuing too. Every time I catch, make sure I'm looking 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.000 the ball all the way in. And honestly, speaking of 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.440 the morning he we are catching a few weeks ago, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.400 and he showed me this thing that he does, and 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.080 he was like, every time he catches it, he calls 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.040 what he sees, and it's like, does he sees spaces 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.520 or laces? So I mean, even so we've called a 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.240 few times out of practice and just when I am 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.800 catching with the quarterbacks and things, I just always want 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.600 to catch it and in a sense call out what 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.160 I see. So definitely credits to him and giving me 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.280 some of those wide receiver tips. But I think that's 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.520 the biggest thing, just being able to focus and slow, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.960 slow down in that catch porn and just call out 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:58.440 what I see. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.320 Best moment that's happened to you as a Bear and 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:03.240 you're worst. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.720 I would probably say, Walter Payton, man you nominee. Yeah, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:11.879 I'll probably say that one worst moment, I would say 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:16.280