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Speaker 1: Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score. Good
Speaker 1: to have you along, Jordan Malley, our producer. Tonight coming
Speaker 1: up at six ten, Bears linebacker Josh Woods joins the program,
Speaker 1: and at six thirty we get a Detroit Lions perspective
Speaker 1: on the season ahead from one of the great left
Speaker 1: tackles certainly in Lions history and an eighteen year NFL
Speaker 1: player at the position, Lomas Brown, kind enough to join
Speaker 1: the program tonight as well. Good to have you alongside
Speaker 1: every buddy. The rookies are reporting. You get the sense
Speaker 1: that things are going to start rolling in the right direction,
Speaker 1: but still much to discuss Tom and Jim about what's
Speaker 1: ahead in terms of negotiating between the NFL and the NFLPA.
Speaker 1: We seem to be in every show with that, right
Speaker 1: you know, that's just the way that this landscape is
Speaker 1: going to be throughout the season. But right now sports
Speaker 1: are starting to carry a little bit of momentum, which
Speaker 1: is nice to see. It's a nice distraction. But I
Speaker 1: think every day throughout football there will be a new
Speaker 1: occurrence that needs to be addressed, and then they'll address
Speaker 1: it and try to formulate a plan. And so it's
Speaker 1: kind of a let's get things started, but it's still
Speaker 1: wait and see economics, big Jim Miller economics. That's on
Speaker 1: the line right now, right Yeah, that's really what it is. Obviously,
Speaker 1: It's about will the you know, the owners want to
Speaker 1: take the hit right now, everybody's estimated about seventy million dollars.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a shortfall in terms of the
Speaker 1: revenue that are lost this year potentially in the NFL.
Speaker 1: In the NFL would prefer to take those earlier. The
Speaker 1: player's side, obviously, they want those spread out over time
Speaker 1: a little bit more that way, high priced you know,
Speaker 1: veterans wouldn't be you know, salary cap figures wouldn't be
Speaker 1: slashed next year because some high priced players would ultimately
Speaker 1: get cut in orders for the teams to settle in
Speaker 1: the cap. So now, so basically owners want to do
Speaker 1: it over two years. Players want to do it over
Speaker 1: ten years. Maybe the agreeable area is five or six years.
Speaker 1: Jeff and I do think they'll come to an agreement
Speaker 1: minimum by Sunday because a lot of these teams now
Speaker 1: are starting to push back their reporting dates until that
Speaker 1: comes to a conclusion. That will be the final things
Speaker 1: they need to agree upon, and then it's final and
Speaker 1: everybody will be able to move forward with training camp.
Speaker 1: Kansas City and Houston schedule to begin their strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning work coming up on Sunday. They'd like to get
Speaker 1: that done before then. I've always felt fellas that the
Speaker 1: veterans anyway, in the last oh I don't know how
Speaker 1: many years, at last eight years, have really had a
Speaker 1: tougher time. And I only pay attention to it because
Speaker 1: when you're putting their rosters together throughout the league for
Speaker 1: every training camp, have your old years and you're looking
Speaker 1: through and seeing well, a lot of these guys have
Speaker 1: never resigned and their careers are just quietly over. I
Speaker 1: think veterans do have a tough time when it comes
Speaker 1: to salary gap because you want your draft picks. You're
Speaker 1: on drafted, it's cost effective to make the roster, and
Speaker 1: certainly some of those guys will being at the top
Speaker 1: end of the roster, but motion will be on the
Speaker 1: bottom and then the roster or practice squad. So the
Speaker 1: veteran in today's world and the national footballing has a
Speaker 1: tough road. They do. But it's what value do you
Speaker 1: bring to your team? You know, are you a multiple
Speaker 1: position player or are you a Day one starter that's
Speaker 1: not gonna be you know, supplemented very much. So I
Speaker 1: think it all depends on the type of value you
Speaker 1: bring to your position, to your segment, and how good
Speaker 1: you are at it. Yeah, it'll be interesting. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at guys that are still out there on
Speaker 1: the free agent market, and there are some good ones.
Speaker 1: J Davian Clowney. He really doesn't you know, he really
Speaker 1: doesn't practice a lot. He's had a lot of injuries
Speaker 1: and that's going to factor it into it it as well,
Speaker 1: and that's probably It's why nobody is offered a multi
Speaker 1: year deal. A suppose he he originally wanted twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars to play. Now that number is probably coming down.
Speaker 1: The more realistic value is probably thirteen maybe fourteen million
Speaker 1: that he'll be playing for it and it will just
Speaker 1: be one year. Because of the uncertainty of the seller cap.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of teams are locking up guys to
Speaker 1: long term contracts. We only saw two franchise tag players
Speaker 1: get a long term contract, right so Chris Jones was
Speaker 1: one of them for the Kansas City Chiefs. No other
Speaker 1: player Bud Dupree, look at Hunter Henry the tight end.
Speaker 1: None of those players got a long term deal because
Speaker 1: of the uncertainty of one where at things are at
Speaker 1: the wind or the shortfall of revenues that's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and why the uncertainty teams don't want to pay that
Speaker 1: moving forward, and why only two deals got done. Bears
Speaker 1: made a roster move today with the release of Ben
Speaker 1: Bronicker one hundred forty three offensive snaps last season among
Speaker 1: a large group of tight ends. To that group now
Speaker 1: down to eight and still a large number, and it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how many they actually bring to
Speaker 1: the table. But he was a very good special teams player.
Speaker 1: We've had him on this show many times. He's a
Speaker 1: good man, a smart guy. But there's a big log
Speaker 1: jam at tight end right now. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's got the type of a minimal amount of experience
Speaker 1: in the fourth phase of the game in undeveloped talent
Speaker 1: at the tight end position. So I think he will
Speaker 1: end up on a roster somewhere down the road because
Speaker 1: he's such an intelligent guy that they know that he
Speaker 1: can absorb a lot of information and put it to
Speaker 1: use very quickly. Still a lot of tight ends in
Speaker 1: the mix. He just gets cold Comet signed. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: what Spern that move today for Ben Bronicker. You signed
Speaker 1: Demetrius Harris, who has familiarity in the system, and you've
Speaker 1: signed Jimmy Graham. Now what does that mean for JP Holtz?
Speaker 1: What does it mean for Adam Sheheen or jessper Horstead
Speaker 1: or the other guys that are there. JP doubles as
Speaker 1: a as a fullback, you know, So do they keep
Speaker 1: four or do they keep five? Those are the training
Speaker 1: camp numbers you're gonna have to to keep in remember,
Speaker 1: because I think that's what's going to come down to.
Speaker 1: So I don't think they're done at that position yet.
Speaker 1: Up Horsted, Eric Soberd and undrafted rookie Darian Clark, former
Speaker 1: college basketball player, all in the mix. As we break
Speaker 1: things down, we'll take a look at the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball and a very lively character as I
Speaker 1: like to call him. We'll join the program tonight, and
Speaker 1: coming up here in moments out of the break, Josh
Speaker 1: Woods out of Maryland, entering his third year with the Bears.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him coming up next on Bears All
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Speaker 1: Toom and Jim joining us now. Josh Woods, veteran linebacker
Speaker 1: and special team stud of the Bears, kind enough to
Speaker 1: take some time out. Good to have you along, Josh,
Speaker 1: and I know you are like every other football fan
Speaker 1: out there, can't wait to get back and ready to
Speaker 1: roll again. How are things going for you? First and foremost,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I'm excited to be getting back
Speaker 1: finally having hit somebody since December twenty nine, So I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I can't I missed my boys. The group chat just
Speaker 1: isn't enough anymore, you know, So I'm definitely excited to
Speaker 1: get back with everybody. I hear you. Who happens to
Speaker 1: be on that group chat? Is it? Is it linebacker specific?
Speaker 1: Because I'll tell you what you know if politics are
Speaker 1: ever in your future. You got that button down because
Speaker 1: we've talked about you before in many ways, and yes,
Speaker 1: have you had a lot of defensive snaps? No? But
Speaker 1: are you a major impact in that locker room? Yes,
Speaker 1: you're friends with everybody on that team. You get everybody
Speaker 1: fired up, You're always talking, You're always chatting, I mean chatting.
Speaker 1: So you got a lot of friends in that locker room. Josh,
Speaker 1: who's on that group chat? Sir? So yeah, the group
Speaker 1: chat that I'm a friends who specifically is the inside
Speaker 1: back of chat with coach Daily Own and assistant coach
Speaker 1: Ronnell Williams. We also added the two rookies in there. Now. So, UM,
Speaker 1: it's been good. It's been It's always jokes in there. Um,
Speaker 1: whenever somebody's down, it's something we make sure to pick
Speaker 1: each other up, check in with each other. Um, just
Speaker 1: you know, further further in that brotherhood, Um, in that
Speaker 1: locker room, I mean, in that meeting room that we
Speaker 1: always had. Hey, Josh, this Tom Parents. Good to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Hey. You know, Josh, from the first time
Speaker 1: I saw you, the first time I saw you run
Speaker 1: on a football field, you run as well as anybody. Okay,
Speaker 1: now let's speed up to the today. What's different about
Speaker 1: your football mind in your body at this point to
Speaker 1: put you to allow you to take up a bigger
Speaker 1: role in the competition at linebacker. Um, I think the
Speaker 1: mental aspect. I think that my physical attributes were there.
Speaker 1: I mean I lacked, uh what I would call linebacker strength.
Speaker 1: So that was a big part of my my my
Speaker 1: offseason regiment this year. But um, my mindset, my mental
Speaker 1: you know, just learning from guys like Danny and Roquan
Speaker 1: how to lead such a great defense already. You know,
Speaker 1: those guys do a tremendous job and I think first
Speaker 1: and foremost they lead by example. So just kind of
Speaker 1: watching those guys, picking those guys brains and coming like
Speaker 1: growing into my own, you know, version of being able
Speaker 1: to quarterback the defense because essentially that's what linebacker is,
Speaker 1: you know. Oh yeah, hey, all right, here's another question.
Speaker 1: I might put a little bit more pressure on you
Speaker 1: with the competition a linebacker. So your speed really gives
Speaker 1: you great special teams versatility. Versatility. So when I look
Speaker 1: at Tariq and I look at Cordarrel and now ten
Speaker 1: Gids junior, you know, there's kind of a Devin Hester
Speaker 1: excitement in the special team's return game kickoff return once.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. How exciting is that to get
Speaker 1: in the huddle and you see those guys behind you going, look,
Speaker 1: we have the chance of create a Devin Hester return
Speaker 1: excitement on the team this year. Every every time we
Speaker 1: talk touchdown, this is the touchdown club right here. We
Speaker 1: try to make a big play every time because you know,
Speaker 1: statistics say if you score on special teams, your change
Speaker 1: to win the game go through the roof. So we
Speaker 1: know the impact that special teams has on the game.
Speaker 1: And it's just an honor to be able to play
Speaker 1: with guys of that caliber, you know, and just doing
Speaker 1: my eleven on the field and making sure that my
Speaker 1: guy doesn't touch the ball, essentially eras him from the play.
Speaker 1: That's that's really my mindset, knowing that those guys, if
Speaker 1: I take care of my job, they'll take care of theirs. Well, Josh,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller here, good to talk to you. I'm as
Speaker 1: excited as you. Just you know, we got baseball starting tonight,
Speaker 1: training camp just around the corner as the owners and
Speaker 1: the players have agreed to the protocols. And from your standpoint,
Speaker 1: is there anything you're still concerned about or do you
Speaker 1: think everybody, meaning your teammates, your brothers, everybody will abide
Speaker 1: by what is needed to get this accomplished as you
Speaker 1: approach training camp. UM, I will say that me being
Speaker 1: a single, single man in Chicago, no family, you know
Speaker 1: that I would be interacting with in and out of
Speaker 1: the locker room kind of just going home to myself.
Speaker 1: I have a much different perspective um on. You know,
Speaker 1: what's what's what's to ensue if we start camp now
Speaker 1: and with all the guidelines and stuff that weren't in
Speaker 1: places or are in place, um, Because I mean, guys
Speaker 1: have pregnant wives and kids, and you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, grandparents like you know, I can
Speaker 1: honestly say that I see where everybody has a point,
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody's opinion matters. So um, I can't
Speaker 1: necessarily say that anybody is wrong in the situation for
Speaker 1: how they feel, because you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, this is just a game, you know, and
Speaker 1: and and family and family comes first, safety comes first.
Speaker 1: But I know that, my guy, if if, if everybody
Speaker 1: gets the thumbs up that we're rolling, I know my
Speaker 1: guys are rolling. We're ready, We're ready, we're hunting this year,
Speaker 1: and I can I can stamp that. Yeah, I believe that.
Speaker 1: I think players will make that commitment to each other
Speaker 1: because you're only as strong as your weakest link. You
Speaker 1: know that, my friend, let me ask you, I mean
Speaker 1: virtual world. You're having fun in the meetings, but yet
Speaker 1: still learning things concepts. Um, you know, how do you
Speaker 1: feel you've gotten better? You know, when you really can't
Speaker 1: physically go out in the field and practice. I know
Speaker 1: you're working on your own and doing the things you
Speaker 1: need to work on, but we're what areas do you
Speaker 1: feel like you've gotten better? I think the coaches did
Speaker 1: a really good job of installs and the way that
Speaker 1: we learned this like with it being all virtual this year,
Speaker 1: I know that coach Pagano did a really good job
Speaker 1: of like the way they kind of lumped played like
Speaker 1: like similar plays and schemes together and they installed all
Speaker 1: of those things, and it really was It made it
Speaker 1: easier for guys to pick up on and you know,
Speaker 1: tendencies and similarities like I said, between schemes and play calls,
Speaker 1: and because I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: football's football, like the player you only you're only running
Speaker 1: a couple but a couple of things, you know, but
Speaker 1: there are certain adjustments there. But everything comes from a
Speaker 1: certain family, like whether it's a cover for a family
Speaker 1: cover too, family like, And they did a really good
Speaker 1: job of lumping those things together. Whereas you knew that
Speaker 1: everything that you would, you could really focus on the
Speaker 1: finer details throughout the OTA period. So that's why that's
Speaker 1: why I felt like I even complimented coach Forgana on
Speaker 1: Coach de Leon for how they did that. They definitely
Speaker 1: changed the way that they approached installs. This this this
Speaker 1: little Camp Bears linebacker Josh Woods our guest You're on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago's Ports Radio six seventy to score.
Speaker 1: Jeff thom and Jim with you. Is this your best
Speaker 1: opportunity to make an impact beyond special teams, because okay,
Speaker 1: some veterans are gone kPr and Nick Wikowski, but you
Speaker 1: enjoy Ea Booney Way and maybe some undrafted gays are
Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix. But is this do you
Speaker 1: feel it's your best chance? And then with that said,
Speaker 1: what are you tipping the scales at these days? And
Speaker 1: what have you done physically to get ready for what
Speaker 1: you're about to embark on. I changed my body composition,
Speaker 1: I got stronger. I feel like I've matured a little bit,
Speaker 1: not a lot of bit, but a little bit. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I'm growing every day, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely I'm I'm coming for that next man. Then
Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely trying to help the team in other
Speaker 1: ways other than special teams. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I'm just gonna do my part and let
Speaker 1: the chips fall where they may because the game rewards
Speaker 1: you when you work hard, and I know that, so
Speaker 1: I know that I've done my part in the offseason
Speaker 1: once camp starts rolling, I know I'm gonna do my
Speaker 1: part and the coaches are gonna put the best players
Speaker 1: on the field. So at that point, I'm I'm claiming
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna be in the mix. Absolutely, I got
Speaker 1: to have that attitude. But can I sneak one in?
Speaker 1: Because you laughed when you said you've matured a little bit?
Speaker 1: You know, because the fact is that you're a fun
Speaker 1: loving guy, right, you have very seriously to you too,
Speaker 1: But I mean, why did you chuckle with that? Do
Speaker 1: you think that? Because I don't. I feel like people
Speaker 1: think that the whole Like, you know, I'm always dancing.
Speaker 1: I'm making sure guys are having fun on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of like the spark plug, So I
Speaker 1: can't get too serious. So that's that's the only reason
Speaker 1: I chuckled at that. But because I know, I know
Speaker 1: for a fact that I do need to, you know,
Speaker 1: buckle down a little bit more. You know that my
Speaker 1: role could potentially grow. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: know that I know my role on the team and
Speaker 1: from an energy standpoint, So um, I definitely don't want
Speaker 1: to lose that about myself as a player. I feel
Speaker 1: like I played best when I'm happy, when I get
Speaker 1: others excited, when people just feed off my energy is contagious.
Speaker 1: It is Josh and almost watching you on the sideline,
Speaker 1: your energy comes contagious because throughout my career, I've never
Speaker 1: practiced with music, and then when the music starts, I
Speaker 1: watch you, and you kind of become this bubble of
Speaker 1: energy that may affect fifteen other guys standing on the sideline.
Speaker 1: And so do you think no music in this generation
Speaker 1: would affect your energy level as it kind of it
Speaker 1: kind of helps you throughout the course of practice. It does,
Speaker 1: It definitely helps, It definitely helps. Um. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. There was no means. I probably would
Speaker 1: still find a way to get guys excited, to make
Speaker 1: guys laugh, to make guys you know, excited to come
Speaker 1: to work and just all know, have fun, because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, that's what it's about. It's
Speaker 1: like I said, we're blessed to be in the position
Speaker 1: that we're in, the opportunities that were granted, and I
Speaker 1: just remind guys of that so much because there's so
Speaker 1: much pressure surrounded surrounding what we do that guys kind
Speaker 1: of lose, you know, the little kid and the little
Speaker 1: kid in them. That's the reason why you play this game.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's happen me around so long
Speaker 1: because I never lost. I still have the same amount
Speaker 1: of fun as when I was five or six years
Speaker 1: old playing the game. Josh last one for me and
Speaker 1: just I know, you probably saw the protocols that will
Speaker 1: be in place, and you know things are going to
Speaker 1: be different. You might not be able to feed off
Speaker 1: the energy of the crowd until the crowds are able
Speaker 1: to return to games. But every player has a routine
Speaker 1: that you know of that you know, how do you
Speaker 1: with all these new things that you're probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to be thinking about or follow these protocols, how quickly
Speaker 1: do you think you can get into that routine because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go about your preparation just a
Speaker 1: little bit different than what you've done in the past.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Or the point of the
Speaker 1: matter is there's still a job that has to get done,
Speaker 1: and that job is affecting winning, being on the personal
Speaker 1: level or on a team level, we have to win games.
Speaker 1: So it's no time, no, no, there is no time
Speaker 1: for an adjustment period. Honestly, like there will be one obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, in a perfect world I can say, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll be just fine, and obviously there's going to be
Speaker 1: a learning curve and adjustment period. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, hopefully by the no fans that camp
Speaker 1: will be over it, you know, like hopefully we're we're right,
Speaker 1: we're right on it, because I do feed off the crowd,
Speaker 1: but at the same time I know that potentially there
Speaker 1: there will be no people there. Cool, whatever, the game
Speaker 1: still has to be played. We still have to win
Speaker 1: last one. We'll let you go and thank you so
Speaker 1: much for taking the time out to join us. We'll
Speaker 1: be looking forward to seeing you. Don't know if we'll
Speaker 1: be able to talk to your face to face with
Speaker 1: the protocols and whatnop, but we'll be watching. We'll be
Speaker 1: watching you. So you made mention earlier about you insinuated
Speaker 1: the defense is ready to rock, ready to roll. Uh,
Speaker 1: it could be special, couldn't it. Oh? Absolutely absolutely? This
Speaker 1: is I tell people there's just an aura around this team,
Speaker 1: like it's especially our defense, like just the way that
Speaker 1: we come together, the way that we have fun together.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, as soon as we need
Speaker 1: to flip the switch and get to business. Businesses handled
Speaker 1: and it's done, it's executed perfectly, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: a it's it's an honor to be around such a
Speaker 1: great organization, such great teammates and really such great leaders
Speaker 1: on our defensive side of the ball, to really learn
Speaker 1: from and really keep the culture going that we have
Speaker 1: right now. Would Josh, we look forward to seeing you
Speaker 1: roll it out there, buddy, Be safe and thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Bears linebacker Josh Wood's coming up
Speaker 1: next Jeff and Tim and Jim Milder with Lomas Brown
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour, the Detroit Lions star
Speaker 1: left tackle and now they're radio analysts as we begin
Speaker 1: our second look at the division last week in Minnesota
Speaker 1: with Pete Bursis. This week the Lions all coming up
Speaker 1: next down Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Thank
Speaker 1: with you on the score. The segment of Bears Out
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Speaker 1: with Tom Thayer and Jim Miller love talking to Josh Woods. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's got so much enthusiasm that I'm telling you. Players
Speaker 1: look to that and they really do feed off of him,
Speaker 1: especially during practice time. He's gonna try to earn his
Speaker 1: way into more of a prominent role and backup or whatnot,
Speaker 1: but feels he's gonna be in the mix for that,
Speaker 1: and I think he very much will be because again
Speaker 1: he's got that speed and athleticism at the lineback. He's
Speaker 1: a former safety. We forget about that Blake College safety
Speaker 1: Star Cross career in Maryland. But like I said, he
Speaker 1: runs as well as any position on the team. He's
Speaker 1: got the speed that we admire Danny Travathan or Roquan
Speaker 1: or even joe Elia Booney Way four, and he can
Speaker 1: he can equal that, he can match it and sometimes
Speaker 1: he can. So I mean, he's got that really important
Speaker 1: role on special teams. But I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: early in the career you want to settle for that.
Speaker 1: I think Josh Woods wants to reach for a higher
Speaker 1: opportunity and see if he can forge you and inside
Speaker 1: meaningful rep you know, um position out there seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of safeties that have converted. We always talk about
Speaker 1: Thomas Davis, formerly of the Carolina Panthers. Now he's reunited
Speaker 1: with Ron Rivera with the Washington football team. Other guys
Speaker 1: Shack Thompson has done it, made that conversion from safety
Speaker 1: to linebacker, and I do he's got some scoots where
Speaker 1: he can get out. He impressed me during the preseason
Speaker 1: last year. Unfortunately, won't get those opportunities here in the
Speaker 1: preseason this year for the Bears. But it's something that
Speaker 1: he can build upon and move on from. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know so, I think he's done a nice job
Speaker 1: in his conversion. He takes it serious. You can tell
Speaker 1: that just in the in the interview. And now he
Speaker 1: thinks his best football's ahead of him. You know, Quickkowski
Speaker 1: kind of burst onto the scene. Why not Josh Woods
Speaker 1: if he gets that opportunity, I'm sure he's looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. And he had that injury in his first year,
Speaker 1: so he spent the year on the practice. I learned
Speaker 1: a lot and as well, liked in that locker room
Speaker 1: all right. Time to which gear is gonna look at
Speaker 1: the rest of the division? Now? Last week Minnesota, This
Speaker 1: week we'll look at the Detroit Lions. The Bears season
Speaker 1: opener at Detroit on the thirteenth of September, joined now
Speaker 1: by Lions Great and their radio analysts, Lomas Brown kind
Speaker 1: enough to join us two hundred and sixty three games
Speaker 1: in eighteen years in the National Football League. That's a lot. Hey,
Speaker 1: Is there any tread left down the tires? Lomas, Oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, It might be a third down in
Speaker 1: long play. It might be one of those left in
Speaker 1: the tread, but not much more than that, I honestly,
Speaker 1: And we got two former players here with us on
Speaker 1: the program, Tip there and Jim Miller, and I insist
Speaker 1: both of them, but would love to take it. Just
Speaker 1: one more snap in the National Football League, I dare say,
Speaker 1: but you team up with Dan Miller, the outstanding voice
Speaker 1: of the Lions. But before we get into the Lions
Speaker 1: a little bit, just your career was something else and
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. And I know I've brought this
Speaker 1: up with you before, when you've been kind enough to
Speaker 1: join us on the Bears pregame show. But early in
Speaker 1: his career, Rich you'r dent when asked Lomas Brown game
Speaker 1: the most trouble down in and down out when he
Speaker 1: played in the in the old Black and Blue Division,
Speaker 1: And it was you, my friend. So he's in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and you had a great career. So
Speaker 1: that hype praise coming from that guy, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that is my god. Dam brand. They called him dirty
Speaker 1: dance man. But I tell you what, I've never been
Speaker 1: around another player that can flip the switch on and off.
Speaker 1: I mean, he would be a totally distant person while
Speaker 1: we playing for those sixty minutes, and as soon as
Speaker 1: the whistle went off, So how are the wife and kids?
Speaker 1: You know, how you being? And you'd be like, wow,
Speaker 1: this guy just went to Bible with for sixty seven.
Speaker 1: He plays trying to beat each other up, and right after,
Speaker 1: right after the whistle balls, he's asking how the wife
Speaker 1: and kids and how you doing? So man, A great man, man,
Speaker 1: great person too. Man. So he was my players going
Speaker 1: up against that guy because he was one of the
Speaker 1: very best. Well, Lomas, it's awesome to talk to you
Speaker 1: this top there. I hope things are well with you
Speaker 1: and your family. But you know a little bit about
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions family, because I think we have some
Speaker 1: young coaches in the division outside of Mike Zimmer looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to get a contract extension, and they're
Speaker 1: still trying to develop a culture. Is so can Patricia
Speaker 1: and these modern day guys develop a culture through zoom
Speaker 1: and during an offseason that's this important. That's a great coestion, Tom,
Speaker 1: And I tell you what I would hate being a
Speaker 1: rookie this year coming into the league. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: that time? I mean, no, OTA's nothing with the team,
Speaker 1: that won't be any mini camps. I mean you go
Speaker 1: jump right into training camp and then right into the season.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't imagine, you know, going through something like this.
Speaker 1: So I feel bad for those young guys that happen
Speaker 1: to do that. And you know, I feel bad for
Speaker 1: the coaches too that have the young guys or guys
Speaker 1: that transition from another team trying to build that chemistry
Speaker 1: that they know they desperately need, especially the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: and Matt Patricia because things hadn't gone well the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. I think he's been trying to get
Speaker 1: his guys the type of players that he needs to
Speaker 1: run his schemes, the type of players mentally that they
Speaker 1: had in New England. I think you could see more
Speaker 1: and more he's trying to get those type of players
Speaker 1: on this team. So I think it would make the
Speaker 1: transition for a coach Patricia trying to get his system
Speaker 1: relayed to these guys. But it's gonna be so important
Speaker 1: that I just don't see how they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do it. To be honest with you, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be a different season this year to watch and
Speaker 1: watching watch and see how unfolds. You know. So the
Speaker 1: midway point in the season, are we going to be
Speaker 1: talking about what a great year Matthew Stafford is having
Speaker 1: or are we going to talk about, Wow, Patricia's defense
Speaker 1: is really turning the corner from what we expect it
Speaker 1: of him when they hired him. It's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be Patricia's defense turn in the corner. It's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be. That's been our Achilles Hills, and that shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been that. We've been't count on our defense being
Speaker 1: the Achilles Hills, but that's what it's been the last
Speaker 1: I would say, the last two years for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford has played very well when he's played. You know,
Speaker 1: the last eight games that he played before he got hurt,
Speaker 1: he was on pace, a very good pace of maybe
Speaker 1: even in the clips five thousand yards. But again, once
Speaker 1: he went down, you would count on, you would accounting
Speaker 1: on the defense to kind of hold things together, because again,
Speaker 1: Jeff Drifschool, the guys they had behind after didn't do
Speaker 1: a bad job, but they weren't Matthew Staffords, And you
Speaker 1: were accounting on the defense to step up, and I'd
Speaker 1: be honest with you, the defense hadn't stepped up. Defense
Speaker 1: is stepped back. So this has to be a big
Speaker 1: giant for the defense this year if the Lions are
Speaker 1: going to have any susice in twenty twenty, and for
Speaker 1: the listeners out there that the daughter is succeeding the mother. Now,
Speaker 1: Sheila Ford hamp will run the Detroit Lions and Martha
Speaker 1: Firestone Ford will step down from that capaction. Is there
Speaker 1: any more pressure on matt Patricia because Martha's kind of
Speaker 1: her One of her last statements after the season was
Speaker 1: last year it is like, hey, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: needs to be a playoff year and it's a difficult years.
Speaker 1: As you know, Loma's to get a team better in
Speaker 1: all the areas that you just talked about without even
Speaker 1: having a practice. Do you think Sheila Ford will maybe
Speaker 1: take a step back, look at the pandemic and just
Speaker 1: see if there is improvement under Matt Patricia this year
Speaker 1: and maybe not such a harsh mandate needs to be
Speaker 1: made in terms of players. Well, I mean you could
Speaker 1: you be honest about the whole thing. They kind of
Speaker 1: made their own bed and I would say, as what
Speaker 1: was so Bob Quinn when you know when Jim Caldwell
Speaker 1: was let go and they came in and said than
Speaker 1: nine and something wasn't good enough? I mean when you
Speaker 1: make a statement like done to the fans, and I
Speaker 1: know Coach Patricia, I set with the man. You know,
Speaker 1: ten and sins is an average season for them in
Speaker 1: their mind because of where they came from, the New
Speaker 1: Zealand Patriots. So ten and six is a have receison.
Speaker 1: So we haven't even come close to that than the
Speaker 1: last two years. So I think they put the pressure
Speaker 1: on themselves, and I think it's it's self, the self pressure.
Speaker 1: It's gonna drive them more so than I think pressure
Speaker 1: from Shilla hamp or anybody else. I think it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be the self pressure that these guys have put
Speaker 1: on themselves by coming there setting the goal so lofty,
Speaker 1: which they should have done. I'm not blaming them for
Speaker 1: doing that, it's just the results having shown what they
Speaker 1: came in and what they wanted to get accomplished. Do
Speaker 1: think Jeff Okuda will help out that secondary and obviously
Speaker 1: with true font come over from Atlanta, But I want
Speaker 1: to talk old line because that's an area that's gonna
Speaker 1: need chemistry. How about the third round pick in Jonah Jackson,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on him getting up and running
Speaker 1: early because I like him as a player and maybe
Speaker 1: he could fill in that right guard spot for the Lions.
Speaker 1: I do too, I really do, and I was really
Speaker 1: here man Logan Steinberg. I like both of those guys.
Speaker 1: But again, I got to go back to this pandemic
Speaker 1: and what it's done to the all season, what it's
Speaker 1: gonna do to the preseason. You know what it's gonna
Speaker 1: do to camp. You know that's it's tough for these
Speaker 1: rookies to be able to come in here and perform
Speaker 1: under that. I'm gonna give them a lot of credit
Speaker 1: for being able to come in and perform under that.
Speaker 1: I think Noel will be Jona. The Jona would be
Speaker 1: a real good all sensive lineman in this league. I
Speaker 1: just think the circumstances are just unreal. Whether he has
Speaker 1: to go through and you got guys like Kenny Wiggins,
Speaker 1: and you got guys like Oday Abuchier that are already
Speaker 1: there that the Lions, I know, they're looking for these
Speaker 1: guys who play reserve roles. They're looking for them to
Speaker 1: step their game up and hopefully seal those spots where
Speaker 1: you can have those rookies backups, because the one thing
Speaker 1: you don't want to do if a rookie isn't ready.
Speaker 1: And Tom knows that if a rookie ain't ready, to
Speaker 1: put them in there, you just don't want to do
Speaker 1: that because you could damage the young man just as
Speaker 1: much as you could help the young man by putting
Speaker 1: them in. Now, Loma's proud our guests here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score
Speaker 1: radio analysts for the Detroit Lions. His first game was
Speaker 1: a preseason game against the Bills in the Pontiac Silver Dome.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's standing anymore, is it real? It's Google?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, it's Amazon now, so site with a
Speaker 1: silver dome used to be at and tell you what
Speaker 1: in those days, you know, this is the one thing
Speaker 1: about the Lions that I think most people would agree on.
Speaker 1: You got you got a very very good to great
Speaker 1: quarterback in Matthew Stafford, and as you pointed out, he
Speaker 1: was having an MVP first half of the season, no
Speaker 1: question about it. I and Daryl Bebo mixed beautifully. You
Speaker 1: got young receivers. Kenny Galladay from NIU here in the
Speaker 1: Chicago area is a stut monster land eighteen point three
Speaker 1: per reception last year, eleven touchdowns. But the running game
Speaker 1: over the year you blocked for Barry. You're blocked great
Speaker 1: years for Barry Sanders. They you think of the Lion,
Speaker 1: you think of Billy Simson, Barry Sanders in the run game,
Speaker 1: a couple of nice years from James Stewart, but Reggie
Speaker 1: Bush the last one thousand yard back and he was
Speaker 1: very much a pass receiver two back in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: but not much since. Will the running game be a
Speaker 1: weapon finally for the Detroit Lions. I hope. So it
Speaker 1: has the beat that's gonna help Matthew staff Without. And
Speaker 1: we've been preaching this for a year around here in Detroit,
Speaker 1: because you just pointed out how few to our running
Speaker 1: game has been around here in the years. It's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be. We've been so one dimension over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years to you know, teams don't really
Speaker 1: have to. Yeah, they gear up for the run because
Speaker 1: that's something that you have to do, but they really don't.
Speaker 1: They play us for the past. They play us for
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, and that has to stop. I think coach
Speaker 1: bellbo coming in matching up with Matthew has done a
Speaker 1: great job, and I think he's the type of guy
Speaker 1: that will push that run game. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: force the run game down the troughs of these defenses,
Speaker 1: and you have to be able to do that and
Speaker 1: with a three headed attack that we could possibly have
Speaker 1: in both Scar Run, DeAndre Swift and Carrie on John says,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to utilize these guys and
Speaker 1: they do so many different things they zerily, their running
Speaker 1: styles vary so much till they can actually be a
Speaker 1: weapons on offense because of all the different things that
Speaker 1: these guys can bring to the running game in the
Speaker 1: different ways that they approached the run game. So yes,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, the run game is gonna have
Speaker 1: to be big and bold in twenty twenty for the
Speaker 1: Lions again to have the sussist that they won't to
Speaker 1: have on the offense in side of the ball. Well, Amos,
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear your feelings about this. Since you
Speaker 1: played the position, I think the one position that's going
Speaker 1: to be affected the most in a positive way is
Speaker 1: going to be the offensive tackle position to have a year.
Speaker 1: If you play with no crowd noise and you can
Speaker 1: hear every snap count given to you at home or
Speaker 1: on the road, it's gonna make you a more efficient.
Speaker 1: It's gonna allow the offensive coordinator to work with the
Speaker 1: protections a little more. How do you feel about those
Speaker 1: guys being able to hear the cadences? Beautiful point. You
Speaker 1: right on with it. That's a beautiful point, and you're
Speaker 1: right about that. Right, you can actually expand the run
Speaker 1: game out because again, with your linemen would be able
Speaker 1: to do municate to each other. So so you know
Speaker 1: how we used to get those late dog looks when
Speaker 1: you got a little cornerback coming off the outside and
Speaker 1: he's trying to sneak up out there with Hey, but
Speaker 1: I'm the tackle now, hey guard guard. You know, especially
Speaker 1: if we're on the road in a loud places. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: hey fan fan, well I lod a lot. I got
Speaker 1: a possible dog out here. That might be coming. So again,
Speaker 1: little things like that, the communication would be so much
Speaker 1: better with those guys when you when you do have
Speaker 1: that crowd newies that you have to put up with.
Speaker 1: And yes, I think offensive coordinators, I think they will
Speaker 1: took to INSS and be able to do the more things.
Speaker 1: You might see more variances in the past game because
Speaker 1: of the crowd newories not being there. They're not having
Speaker 1: to be afraid of a tackle getting off the ball
Speaker 1: lake because he can't here, and getting beat around in
Speaker 1: the corner by Khalil Knack that you know, those are
Speaker 1: things that are positive things. And then also with leaving
Speaker 1: guys there, not having leave a tight end and because
Speaker 1: again your tackles having problem get not just stance because
Speaker 1: you can't hear. So it's so many things that yes,
Speaker 1: I think without the crowd goings doing that may even help.
Speaker 1: But on the opposite hand, Tom them them be lineman,
Speaker 1: the defenders, they should gonna be able to hear everything
Speaker 1: that we're saying out front. So we're guys gonna have
Speaker 1: to be a lot of sign language going though for
Speaker 1: the offensive linement out front because don't be lineman, They're
Speaker 1: don't be able to hear everything and empty stadium. Last
Speaker 1: one for me, Loman's appreciate your time. Uh. Corey Unland
Speaker 1: comes in and takes over the defense as a defensive porter. Uh.
Speaker 1: Paul Plaskaloney moves out. I think Patricia and Unland have
Speaker 1: been together in the past. I guess, are you expect
Speaker 1: any new wrinkles? I guess defensively and how heavy handed?
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll print Patricia be involved with what's on the line.
Speaker 1: With that mandate to make the playoffs, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to help them. I do. I think coach Underaling
Speaker 1: coming in and like you said, the I'm having familiality
Speaker 1: working together. I think it's gonna work hand in hand.
Speaker 1: I could just see coach now maybe spending more time
Speaker 1: with the D line, best time with the dbs and
Speaker 1: the linebackers being able to give the D line more
Speaker 1: attention because again on the dcen society of the ball,
Speaker 1: I have to say that probably was the innery that
Speaker 1: was the worst for us, and we thought that was
Speaker 1: going to be the strength of the of the of
Speaker 1: the defense last year. Now, those injuries, yeah, that happened too,
Speaker 1: But again, you know, the D line didn't play as
Speaker 1: well as it was respecting. So not that I good
Speaker 1: coach Patrician world the opportunity to coach them up and
Speaker 1: coach Underling he can handle the rest of the Ducens.
Speaker 1: But I do think with those guys being familiar with
Speaker 1: each other and having worked under each other, worked with
Speaker 1: each other in New England, I think it's just it
Speaker 1: can only help. To me, it can only help, especially
Speaker 1: again when we talk about this pandemic, guys not being
Speaker 1: able to have gotten together, might not be able to
Speaker 1: see till they get together, till they get to camp,
Speaker 1: which Sylthy happening soon and even going for going forward
Speaker 1: from there. So it's gonna be a challenge for them,
Speaker 1: but I think the familiality is going to help them
Speaker 1: out a lot. Thomas well More to let you go.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you taking the time and hope you have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your offseason. Get ready for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty here and the excitement of pro football back in
Speaker 1: business once again. We asked bet Bursus last week, we
Speaker 1: ask you, now through your lens, what do you see
Speaker 1: from the Chicago Bears in twenty twenty. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: again to me, it relies on your quarterback. That to
Speaker 1: me that's where the Chicago Bears. I think the defense
Speaker 1: is looking good. Famil y'all had a huge hiccups over there.
Speaker 1: Y'all lost a couple of people on the decense side
Speaker 1: of the ball. I've always thought that Chicago had a
Speaker 1: real good defense. This is in at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: the old line. Yeah, y'all lost Coyle. Long up. You
Speaker 1: got some younger guys, Nancy and all those guys to
Speaker 1: fill in up there. I think they'll be pretty decent
Speaker 1: up there. I like the run game, but to me
Speaker 1: and I love Alan the wide receiver. You know he's
Speaker 1: from Michigan. I know it's Tracy his mom here. She's
Speaker 1: a big, big fan of him back here in Michigan.
Speaker 1: I just think it depends on Trubisky. You know, if
Speaker 1: he could take the next step. You got a great
Speaker 1: quarterback and Nick Foles behind him, which I think in
Speaker 1: the year with the pandemic and you never know what
Speaker 1: might happen, I think the backup quarterback might be the
Speaker 1: most valuable person on the team this year. But I
Speaker 1: just think Trubisky, if he could take the next step
Speaker 1: and take this team and get the confidence of those guys,
Speaker 1: that's what he's gonna have to work on right now
Speaker 1: is the confidence of those guys. Yeah, they're gonna say
Speaker 1: the right thing, and Tom knows this. They're gonna say
Speaker 1: the right thing to the media and say the right
Speaker 1: thing around certain people. But it's how these guys feel
Speaker 1: when they're around each other. You know about the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I know if Mitcho could step up, I know
Speaker 1: that they already have his back. But if he steps up,
Speaker 1: I know they're really gonna have his back. So I
Speaker 1: just thank for him. It's just the point of getting
Speaker 1: his confidence to the level to where he could get
Speaker 1: the rest of the offense of guy, and not just
Speaker 1: the offense, get the Chicago Bears a twenty twenty Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear team to a level where they have a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence in him and they can trust him. Thomas outstanding.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, and let's keep our fingers cross Ago as well.
Speaker 1: We'll see on September thirteenth up in your yard. How
Speaker 1: about it sounds great, man, We'll bring some bread together.
Speaker 1: That sounds great to meeting. Sounds good. It's Thomas Brown,
Speaker 1: the great NFL tackle, eighteen years in the league. Lions
Speaker 1: analysts down the radio here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventies score back with Tom and Jim. After this, Hey
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Speaker 1: you're there in Michigan soil. He's a legend any that
Speaker 1: Lomas Brown, Yeah, he is. He was a great player.
Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, they you know, they just obviously
Speaker 1: took down the Silver Dome last year. The palace is
Speaker 1: now no more. They just destroyed that and demolished it
Speaker 1: this week. Jeff, So, a lot of the high tech
Speaker 1: companies moving in, so all these old and that was
Speaker 1: a great place to play at the old Plenty acts over.
Speaker 1: They could pack a house there and seated over ninety thousand,
Speaker 1: So we could get loud in the old Silver Dome
Speaker 1: in Plenty. We're cheering for Lomas Brown. So you were
Speaker 1: born there, you were born in gross Point, right, which
Speaker 1: is outside of Detroit. Well, it's the first sporting event
Speaker 1: you ever saw is at Detroit Kid. I saw Doug
Speaker 1: Williams that I think I was nine years old and
Speaker 1: my dad took me to see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: versus the Detroit Lions. I saw Doug Williams, who was
Speaker 1: a quarterback at Tampa Bay, obviously high draft pick, throwing
Speaker 1: eighty yard touchdown and I remember turning my dad and saying, Dad,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to do. Yeah, And that ended
Speaker 1: up and that got me started at football, just because
Speaker 1: watching Doug Williams throw that football and it was effortless
Speaker 1: for him to chuck a ball eighty yards in the air,
Speaker 1: and it was a pretty exciting, exciting game, you know,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller. When I was playing in the USFL with
Speaker 1: Doug Williams, he came out of practice one day and
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of guys lining up to show you
Speaker 1: how far they could throw the football. So Doug got
Speaker 1: warmed up a little bit and he let one fly
Speaker 1: it and I think it went about eighty five yards,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit more in the air, and
Speaker 1: he just blew away the competition and he walked away
Speaker 1: and just kind of gave you an example of that
Speaker 1: arm strength that you're talking about, that he demonstrated in
Speaker 1: a real game. Yeah, it's funny when you think of
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccan years, they literally have walked away
Speaker 1: from every one of their first round quarterbacks when you
Speaker 1: think about it, right, Doug Williams, Trent Dilfer, they just
Speaker 1: fought away basically from Jameis Winston, the shoot. They had
Speaker 1: Steve Young on that roster at oh my goodness, and
Speaker 1: now they got Tom Brady. Maybe they're finally gonna get
Speaker 1: it right here in Tampa Bay with their quarterbacks, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Video of him today. Hey, by the way, happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Roy Robertson Harris and the Chicago Bears in a shout
Speaker 1: out to Dion Bush. We had him on a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. Last weekend, the Bears safety handed out
Speaker 1: some book backpacks to Miami area kids, about one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty in families and in elementary school. Is part
Speaker 1: of his work with his foundation, DOBIE's Dream. So Bears
Speaker 1: players in the community guys every single week, even in
Speaker 1: the offseason. So a little tip of the cap to
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, I mean they're out there because they care.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the cool thing about it, and you
Speaker 1: see we see evidence of af throughout the season when
Speaker 1: they go to their cha charitable gigs throughout the regular season.
Speaker 1: The guys put a lot of time effort, and I
Speaker 1: think George m George mc caskey encourages all these guys
Speaker 1: to be heavily involved in their communities, whether it's in
Speaker 1: the Chicago Land area or at their home base. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, obviously just being a good citizen
Speaker 1: in your civic duty and things you're responsible for. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think players, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're living up to it. You know, it's about
Speaker 1: action right now, and I think even George McCaskey is
Speaker 1: talking about it's all about action, and players are being
Speaker 1: active and they are acting upon what has happened here
Speaker 1: this whole offseason and a couple of things league wide.
Speaker 1: So we mentioned earlier top of the show, Bears did
Speaker 1: part company with Ben Bronicker, who's been an active player
Speaker 1: both on the offensive side of the Bond special teams
Speaker 1: over the last few years. A great kid. We wish
Speaker 1: him well, but it's now the Washington football team. They'll
Speaker 1: get a new name eventually, but there's legal reasons all
Speaker 1: sorts of time invested in that the unit. The units
Speaker 1: look good. You guys, you guys cool with this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean because if if you just call them Washington
Speaker 1: the rest of your time, you know exactly who they're
Speaker 1: talking about in the NFL. So I hope Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: has his hand in the matter, because as exciting as
Speaker 1: it was when he had the opportunity to come to Washington,
Speaker 1: it would be exciting for him to have his footprint
Speaker 1: on the name of the Washington football team going forward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll get the fans involved to have some sort of contest,
Speaker 1: you know, get the fans up to date on it,
Speaker 1: and you know what they can do to you know,
Speaker 1: pull and throw some things out there and get the
Speaker 1: feedback from all the fans on what it should be.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't think the players will have any
Speaker 1: problem with it. Ron Rivera is about as laid back
Speaker 1: as he comes, and he's about as good as a
Speaker 1: coach as they come. He'll be able to lead this
Speaker 1: franchise through this. It's a little rocky right now. I'm
Speaker 1: probably sure a couple of things he didn't anticipate that
Speaker 1: he'd have to deal with. But Ron's up for the challenge.
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think we all know that from
Speaker 1: that standpoint. And as for their old name is still
Speaker 1: going to get retired because I heard Mark May. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Tom you know Mark May very well, yes, but
Speaker 1: and he talked about a lot of the older guys
Speaker 1: are mad. And then their name is Ben Retarre. You said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I won these rings for a reason and
Speaker 1: they're upset about it. But that's why they retired the name.
Speaker 1: That way, that history still exists with the Hogs and
Speaker 1: everything at that great franchises is really accomplished because they
Speaker 1: did play some good football, and you couldn't write the
Speaker 1: history of the league without writing about the Washington football team,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. One more break and then we wrap
Speaker 1: it up. The Lightning Round coming up real quick, fellas
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Speaker 1: training cap time. So we're gonna part company now. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you down the road. So thank you,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Well, guys, thank you. Be safe and hopefully
Speaker 1: everybody can we can pull this off. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: excited for sports and hopefully we can get the return
Speaker 1: to football. I'm excited, guys. Good luck to you. We're
Speaker 1: counting on you and Tom. We'll talk to you next week. Right,
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