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Speaker 2: The guys are here, and they're joining us, Waddle and
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Speaker 3: We've done this a time or two.
Speaker 2: Our first show together was at the Bears draft at
Speaker 2: Soldier Field, and we love being with the voices of
Speaker 2: the Bears, Tom Thayer and Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 4: I feel like I have to be my best on
Speaker 4: my best behavior.
Speaker 5: You do a little bit, yeah, a little bit?
Speaker 3: Yeah. How are you guys doing?
Speaker 5: This is new for us? Yes, I not not that
Speaker 5: we haven't been all together certainly, but this here particular
Speaker 5: show kind of a formula hit all the buttons, but
Speaker 5: now we got a couple of wrinkles and toms a player.
Speaker 6: Why do you just why do you look at me
Speaker 6: and say we have wrinkles like something physically.
Speaker 5: You gotta adjust, We gotta adapt and overcomes.
Speaker 3: That's what we need. That's what the Bears need to
Speaker 3: do right after week.
Speaker 5: One hundred percent. Heard a lot of good things today
Speaker 5: and yesterday, so we'll see how it all adds up.
Speaker 5: Assistant coaches, the offensive coaches just were available to the media,
Speaker 5: so they rotate last week defense, this week offense. So
Speaker 5: everybody obviously wanted to talk to offensive line coach Chris Morgan,
Speaker 5: but also to take Tobert just where Chase Claypool's at.
Speaker 5: And with Claypool, he said he's hustled and worked harder
Speaker 5: than any of the receivers this week first to show
Speaker 5: up at meetings and hopefully it'll translate. So, uh, and Tommy,
Speaker 5: I don't know what any of that means to you
Speaker 5: as next player, but that's oude of the mouth that
Speaker 5: tech over.
Speaker 6: But tom this is the perfect spot for a player
Speaker 6: that you can't wait to get to the next Sunday,
Speaker 6: right because you want to make good on what transpired
Speaker 6: last Sunday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's it's kind of weird because if
Speaker 7: you look at the player, the plays that they're criticizing
Speaker 7: Chase Claypool for. You know, there's reasoning behind it. You know,
Speaker 7: the first outside screen, that the lateral screen, the ball
Speaker 7: was tipped by an unblocked rusher at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 7: so it interrupted the flight of the football. There's no
Speaker 7: guarantee you're going to catch it anyways, because the defenders
Speaker 7: who were already in pursuit of the pass when you
Speaker 7: when they saw it. Then the next one that he
Speaker 7: comes in, he has a crack on a linebacker, hits
Speaker 7: the linebacker really good, but Darnell Wright doesn't have enough
Speaker 7: depth on his poll and then he hits Claypool and
Speaker 7: his block knocks him off and then they make then
Speaker 7: they have the play, and so everybody's blaming Claypool. You know,
Speaker 7: when you have a design of an offense, you know
Speaker 7: it when you have eleven guys trying to do one
Speaker 7: specific job. Everything's got to fit perfectly and there's an
Speaker 7: ex act to everything. It's not trying to get to
Speaker 7: a general area and then see how the block unfolds.
Speaker 7: Because you know, on the fifteenth play of the game,
Speaker 7: Robert Tunyan he had a block. He was an exterior
Speaker 7: wide receiver and he got run over by a defensive back.
Speaker 7: That'sn't as egregious as any of the Claypool plays that
Speaker 7: everybody's highlighting. And the thing about it is is all
Speaker 7: these social media evaluators they come and they look at
Speaker 7: a couple plays and then they put it out there
Speaker 7: and then it's the blame game. And so that's just
Speaker 7: not the case because I can sit here and go
Speaker 7: through my notes on every single play and you can
Speaker 7: talk about how do you improve it? And so I
Speaker 7: think that's the thing about the offensive coaches going forward
Speaker 7: and the defensive coaches. When you look at a tape,
Speaker 7: you got to have thick skin because you're gonna get
Speaker 7: criticized in front of your peers whether you like it
Speaker 7: or not. And so what do you do with it?
Speaker 7: Do you put your head in the sand like an
Speaker 7: ostrich or do you go out in the practice field
Speaker 7: and do what you need to do to improve in
Speaker 7: when Matt Iberfluss was talking about the technique things that
Speaker 7: every it's every single guy's job has to get better
Speaker 7: at their technique. And to me, when you go from
Speaker 7: training camp, when you go from like seventy percent max
Speaker 7: to one hundred percent on game day. It's almost impossible
Speaker 7: to catch up on week one. So we'll see how
Speaker 7: it is week two, week three, and going forward.
Speaker 2: And how much do you think that they'll be able
Speaker 2: to go from seventy to one hundred here in week two.
Speaker 2: You've talked about the heat a lot time, right, and
Speaker 2: it's not and we talked to Jeff yesterday and the show.
Speaker 2: It's not like it's going to be one hundred degrees,
Speaker 2: but they're eighty six or eighty nine with a.
Speaker 3: Lot of humidity.
Speaker 2: It's and when the sun peeks out from behind the clouds.
Speaker 2: I set out there in the crowd in on a
Speaker 2: cloudy day two years ago when Tom Brady threw six
Speaker 2: hundred touchdown against the Bears, and for the ten minutes
Speaker 2: the sun came out, it felt like I was sitting
Speaker 2: on the sun.
Speaker 3: That's how hot it's out out there.
Speaker 7: So right now six o'clock, it's eighty six degrees on Sunday,
Speaker 7: there's a thirty percent chance range, so that means it's
Speaker 7: going to be humid, and it's ninety degrees, which probably
Speaker 7: be a little bit higher than that. When you have
Speaker 7: a blue helmet on, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 7: heat absorbing the orange.
Speaker 8: Well, same things dark color.
Speaker 3: Those orange helmets too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no Dora helmet like uh, you know, I'm a
Speaker 7: traditional blue guy, you know. I want to see the
Speaker 7: Bears come out in the uniforms that they've been wearing
Speaker 7: since nineteen twenty, although they do have the other you
Speaker 7: know uniforms, like the blue with.
Speaker 5: The white low You like the blue with the white logo. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 4: We used to sweat like we stole something, right.
Speaker 7: Your head would come out fielding like a raisin at
Speaker 7: the end of the game with those blue helmets on
Speaker 7: the you know.
Speaker 8: And that's why Tampa wears white aad homes exactly, you know.
Speaker 7: And then they have the sideline that that doesn't get
Speaker 7: shaded as the sun moves, so you sit in the
Speaker 7: sun off game.
Speaker 6: Is that seriously why the Bears are probably wearing the
Speaker 6: orange because they don't want to wear the dark blue
Speaker 6: and makes a lot.
Speaker 5: Of sense, but you know, you got to pick a
Speaker 5: couple of games a year to alternate, so that's one
Speaker 5: of the but.
Speaker 8: You know, get you getting back to the heat.
Speaker 7: It is a factor because when you go out for
Speaker 7: pregame warm ups, it's about eleven o'clock East Coast time zone.
Speaker 7: And so now you're out there for a couple hours
Speaker 7: before actual kickoff, and when you go into the locker
Speaker 7: room after warm ups, is there's sometimes that you're already
Speaker 7: so drenched in sweat that the game hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 5: It could be soupy, but I think it's worse in Miami.
Speaker 5: That's really you do. Yeah, humid in Miami, and they
Speaker 5: got the sun. They put you on the sideline when
Speaker 5: the sun's just baking you.
Speaker 7: You remember, yeah, and then they have a dark green
Speaker 7: tarp down that absorbs even more heat. You stand on
Speaker 7: the grass and you stand on the tarp at Miami,
Speaker 7: it's fifteen degrees hotter on the tarp than it is
Speaker 7: on the natural.
Speaker 4: Howl effect what you guys are wearing in the in
Speaker 4: the booth.
Speaker 5: It doesn't it does not end. And you looked at
Speaker 5: you looked at me serious with that question. Yeah, No,
Speaker 5: we're gonna go shirt listen and.
Speaker 8: This so listen.
Speaker 7: So so for the TV show that we have to
Speaker 7: do on the sideline, this half hour live.
Speaker 8: So I called the guy for the camera guy from Fox.
Speaker 7: And I go, hey, do you shoot us from just
Speaker 7: the waist up, or do you see our legs at all?
Speaker 8: He goes, no, it's pretty tight from your wear shirt.
Speaker 7: Yes, no, no, I'll wear shoes, but there is a
Speaker 7: good chance that I will be in shorts.
Speaker 3: Uh, shorts and the jacket for the no, we don't.
Speaker 5: We used to? Well I did, he never did it,
Speaker 5: and the contrast got to be to the point where
Speaker 5: I look ridiculous, or he does one of the two
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna stop, shoot and tie. Wait, there's a
Speaker 5: case could be made we should look the same. So
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago we started wearing a bear
Speaker 5: shirt and there we go. That's not you know, aside
Speaker 5: from the heat and Clay point that the biggest news
Speaker 5: of the day is Kyler Gordon. Yeah. I mean you
Speaker 5: knew he's probably not gonna play, but now he's on
Speaker 5: ir to what extent is the injury and not sure?
Speaker 5: But uh, that's a big loss. They Jeff, I think
Speaker 5: it could be a combination of guys. I mean, Blackwell
Speaker 5: obviously is on the depth chart as the backup. But
Speaker 5: you know, I think when they bring Stroman up on
Speaker 5: the practice today, yeah, yeah, see that's that's just it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I got the injury report here too. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 5: you know, so hey, all hands on deck because they
Speaker 5: put good Godwin in that slot and he's he's a rugged,
Speaker 5: outstanding receiver, one of the best duos in the league
Speaker 5: with him and Mike Evans, so that that is a
Speaker 5: major position to address. Tom.
Speaker 2: So you you talked a lot about the the armchair
Speaker 2: film guys, you know, and I like to watch a
Speaker 2: lot of that stuff, you with the trained eye, a
Speaker 2: guy who knows what he's watching. I I compared it
Speaker 2: to I said earlier, it's like taking a boat ride.
Speaker 2: Like sometimes you want a captain who will explain it
Speaker 2: to you, and those are the people who narrate it.
Speaker 2: You don't need a captain because you know how to
Speaker 2: navigate the waters.
Speaker 3: So if your analy.
Speaker 2: Seeing the sixty minutes of filmed us, what are your
Speaker 2: big takeaways from watching those sixty minutes that you would
Speaker 2: tell us and Bears fans that you the biggest takeaways
Speaker 2: in your mind, not from anybody else.
Speaker 3: The Tom Thayer took off.
Speaker 5: Before you answer, say I'm the captain, Now go ahead,
Speaker 5: all right, that's good.
Speaker 8: I'm not rack Gil again.
Speaker 7: You know, it's it's just more of I I really
Speaker 7: think if if you're gonna have football timed up to
Speaker 7: the exact way it's gotta be designed, and the rhythm
Speaker 7: that you need and the act exact whereabouts after a
Speaker 7: receiver's running aroute at one hundred percent. I just don't
Speaker 7: think that you can have you can come out of
Speaker 7: training camp with that when you have so few reps
Speaker 7: at one hundred percent together, and whether it's an angle
Speaker 7: by a wide receiver going to hit a dB so
Speaker 7: that dB who Green Bay said before that might have
Speaker 7: been one of the most physical training camps I've ever had.
Speaker 7: So now if these guys are going through training camp
Speaker 7: and they're working eighty five to one hundred percent and
Speaker 7: you've been working at seventy to eighty percent, Now you
Speaker 7: have to get to a specific angle on a crack
Speaker 7: block or wherever you got to be. Maybe you're not
Speaker 7: exactly in the right spot because you really didn't do
Speaker 7: it at the game expected speed. So to me, you know,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of things. Let me because I do have,
Speaker 7: you know, notes on my.
Speaker 5: Fall you look for that. Let me, let me add this,
Speaker 5: Let me add this. Though, because you know the chemistry
Speaker 5: or the offensive line, we always say it's got to
Speaker 5: be great but that also matters to the defensive line.
Speaker 5: It matters to the secondary. So Eddie Jackson Jakwan Brisker
Speaker 5: didn't play that much in the preseason together. They were
Speaker 5: both banged up, so that matters. All of it matters in.
Speaker 6: The end route combination for receivers and tight ends and
Speaker 6: also is important for them.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: Tom will hold your notes. We'll get well back to
Speaker 2: get back to them. And Bears Weekly. We've got Colt
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 5: Conversation I have with him today, so he'll address some
Speaker 5: of these topics. Ye coming up.
Speaker 7: He's the son he always wanted.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. They brought them to the wrong thing, so
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Speaker 9: All right, how bad did it hurt Sunday?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was tough.
Speaker 11: That was probably probably the hardest one of the ones
Speaker 11: I've played in.
Speaker 9: Yeah, all games or just Bears Packers.
Speaker 11: All games for sure. I mean that game means the
Speaker 11: most I mean to me personally. You know, I still
Speaker 11: think guys that you know aren't from here may not
Speaker 11: necessarily understand the truth, like really what it means to
Speaker 11: guys who are from here and the fans it means
Speaker 11: from I mean, that's a game where you know, if
Speaker 11: I you know you're twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old, you
Speaker 11: know you're crying at home after the game, you know,
Speaker 11: that's what that game means, you know what I mean,
Speaker 11: And you know I definitely felt that, and I was
Speaker 11: super emotional for a couple of days about it. So
Speaker 11: a hard one to get over, but uh, but one
Speaker 11: we got to move on from. And you kind of
Speaker 11: just have to take the perspective that even though it's
Speaker 11: it really isn't only one game, you know, because that
Speaker 11: game doesn't mean it, but it still is one of seventeen.
Speaker 11: And we got to be able to move on here
Speaker 11: and and get going here against Tampa.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the the whole cliche of don't make one loss
Speaker 9: equal to absolutely that really is confronting this team this week.
Speaker 11: We agree, Yeah, absolutely, I think you know, there's a
Speaker 11: there's gotta be a balance of taking what happened into
Speaker 11: the practice week and using it, you know, for good
Speaker 11: and but also moving on from it and creating a
Speaker 11: positive attitude of locker room going forward, because there's a
Speaker 11: lot of football left and it's week one, and you know,
Speaker 11: I was watching tape around the league, like there's a
Speaker 11: lot of teams.
Speaker 10: That didn't come out ready to go. So at the
Speaker 10: end of the day, we gotta we got.
Speaker 11: To use this week of preparation, get ready to go
Speaker 11: here and get a win against Tampa.
Speaker 9: How about your role in the offense.
Speaker 5: Uh, this Tampa team is going to be pretty dangerous
Speaker 5: with the pressure packages up.
Speaker 9: But you know it could you can make them pay too.
Speaker 5: Can't you?
Speaker 10: Absolutely?
Speaker 11: Yeah, So they're embering pressure, So we got to be
Speaker 11: good about our checks and you know, just justin will
Speaker 11: get us in the right calls.
Speaker 10: And you know, if.
Speaker 11: I got a block, a block of defender, block of blitzer,
Speaker 11: you know, those are the type of things I have
Speaker 11: to do, you know, in third down situations. And we
Speaker 11: got to hold up so we can dish out the
Speaker 11: ball to our playmakers here. So we're looking forward to
Speaker 11: doing that this week. And you know, we're excited about
Speaker 11: the plan and and we're looking we're looking forward to
Speaker 11: get a good rebound game here.
Speaker 5: You're so well spoken, you're engaging, You communicate extremely well
Speaker 5: your thoughts about the game. Are you that way with
Speaker 5: the fellas in the locker room? Do you? Are you
Speaker 5: now comfortable now in your fourth year with a young
Speaker 5: team to speak your mind?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Absolutely, I think you know, I feel like I have
Speaker 11: to speak my mind on things now because I want
Speaker 11: to win I want to win, and you know, I'm
Speaker 11: going to say what needs to be said, and like
Speaker 11: I'm going to be respectful about it obviously and all
Speaker 11: those things. But you know when I when I think
Speaker 11: something needs to be said, I'll say it. And at
Speaker 11: the end of the day, though, I think it's just
Speaker 11: about going to work every day of practice and treating
Speaker 11: those practice reps like like game reps, and and making
Speaker 11: sure we're on it there. So you know, just telling
Speaker 11: the guys like making sure we're prepared throughout the week,
Speaker 11: making sure you're at practice doing the right things, and
Speaker 11: taking care of your body and so we can get
Speaker 11: wrong here, you know, starting starting on Tampa.
Speaker 9: All right, you got Levante David, you get, Devin White,
Speaker 9: you get and.
Speaker 5: You got you got that little guy who is just
Speaker 5: like his dad was, Antoine Winfield Junior. Those could be
Speaker 5: guys that attract your attention. What do you think of
Speaker 5: those three guys and how do you how do you
Speaker 5: handle that? Because they they gave up a lot of
Speaker 5: catches last week to Hokinson.
Speaker 10: No they did.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they're they're physical. I mean they give up catches,
Speaker 11: but they didn't give up a lot of yards there. So
Speaker 11: they're they're they're uh, they're quick trigger guys. You know,
Speaker 11: they're fast, they're speedy side to side, and they're hard
Speaker 11: hitters too, so they've shown that on tape. So I
Speaker 11: just think at the end of the day, we just
Speaker 11: got to show our show our physicality towards them and
Speaker 11: and do that and in the run and pass and
Speaker 11: I think it'll be all right.
Speaker 5: You know, watching you catch the balls there in the
Speaker 5: second half, you get chopped down.
Speaker 9: Man, you have to be aware of that.
Speaker 5: You know they're going low, your tall timber, you know, Uh,
Speaker 5: is that automatic to you or can you never really
Speaker 5: relax that part of the idea that that guy's coming
Speaker 5: low for me because he could really hurt you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, yeah, there's a balance with it, you know.
Speaker 11: Some I think like the first one when we had
Speaker 11: in the ren zone in the in the first half,
Speaker 11: Gyre made a good play because he was getting depth
Speaker 11: on the slam and I threw down thinking I had
Speaker 11: more room to him than I did turn around, and
Speaker 11: he triggered pretty well. So I mean, that's a veteran,
Speaker 11: veteran guy knowing what he's doing.
Speaker 10: But yeah, you know, you.
Speaker 11: Just got to feel those things out and and be
Speaker 11: able to, you know, get that stiff arm down when
Speaker 11: you can and kind of protect your life a little bit.
Speaker 11: But it's definitely hard. You know, they're trying to chop
Speaker 11: you down as they know they can't get you up top.
Speaker 5: All right, Chase Claypool, he's a lightning ride right now
Speaker 5: for whatever the reasons may be. But you know him
Speaker 5: better than any tell us about him.
Speaker 9: What we for this?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I think. I think that's what it is.
Speaker 11: It's his passion and you know, sometimes it gets it
Speaker 11: gets out of him a little bit and and you know,
Speaker 11: it becomes a thing, and but he knows, you know,
Speaker 11: he knows is what he's got to do, all those
Speaker 11: type of things. And he's frush. He wants to win too.
Speaker 11: No one wants to win more than Chase. And I
Speaker 11: know he was he was frusher with some things, uh
Speaker 11: this past week, but I know he's looking forward to
Speaker 11: have a good rebound week coming up here. Like coach says,
Speaker 11: I for I Ford, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you this and I may have before,
Speaker 5: so answer it again if you can, But you know,
Speaker 5: I know what you're gonna answer.
Speaker 9: But I'm gonna throw it out there anyway.
Speaker 5: What is the most underrated aspect of your game that
Speaker 5: doesn't get talked about enough.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's been my blocking coming out.
Speaker 9: Ding ding ding ding ding ding. I know he's gonna
Speaker 9: say that, but I got a different one, but go ahead.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's been my blocking.
Speaker 11: I think people kind of start taking use of that
Speaker 11: this past year a little bit more, especially with our
Speaker 11: ground game doing so well. So yeah, I'd say that
Speaker 11: that's kind of always been a come out of college.
Speaker 10: And you know, I've always had a physical element to me.
Speaker 11: It's just a matter of, you know, getting the technique
Speaker 11: down and and I just get been getting better and
Speaker 11: better at that as as my career progressed.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, you get, you get very you get
Speaker 9: a little at you about when people start to question
Speaker 9: your blocking. Yeah, right, don't you like, I don't. I
Speaker 9: don't know why this thought is out.
Speaker 11: There, but yeah, I think, well, I think it's just
Speaker 11: to me if you're going to say that, At least
Speaker 11: for me when I was coming out, I thought it
Speaker 11: was a little bit of a lazy analysis. I don't
Speaker 11: think you're really watching the film and doing your homework
Speaker 11: on it, and not to say that I didn't.
Speaker 10: Have a lot to improve as a blocker, but that's constant.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but you could definitely see that, you know, idle
Speaker 11: willingness and it was there, and that that physicality part
Speaker 11: of my game has always been there.
Speaker 9: See I'll take the physicality part and now this is mine.
Speaker 5: Is that when the ball's in your hands and you
Speaker 5: have time to either your you're catching it on the
Speaker 5: run or you have a chance to turn and get
Speaker 5: your shoulders upfield, good luck tackling Cole comeback because you
Speaker 5: are tough with the ball in your hands.
Speaker 9: To me, that's underrated.
Speaker 5: And guys just slip off when you have a chance
Speaker 5: to get the winds going right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, would you agree with that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I know that's something I know that loves about me.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
Speaker 11: So you know, I tell these guys, I mean, even
Speaker 11: if you just get me on a screen pass and
Speaker 11: you know, get eight to ten yards to start a
Speaker 11: series off, like they bring some juice and you know,
Speaker 11: I'm always always gonna be falling forward whether I'm getting
Speaker 11: tackled or not. And yeah, I do think that's part
Speaker 11: of my game that I've done pretty well at and
Speaker 11: look to continue to excel at.
Speaker 5: You know, talking to Ryan Poles a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 5: and I didn't think of this, but it's the.
Speaker 9: Draft driven team.
Speaker 5: You're a draft drafted bear, and a lot of teams
Speaker 5: are now starting to look at that because you have
Speaker 5: to pay a franchise quarterback. You're blowing out the budget,
Speaker 5: so you got to draft, Well, you gotta draft guys.
Speaker 5: But organically they they kind of take over the locker room.
Speaker 5: So you're on the first phase of that, obviously pre
Speaker 5: dating Ryan Poles with Ryan Pace drafting you. But do
Speaker 5: you feel that natural progression where the younger guys are
Speaker 5: starting to own that room with no disrespect to the
Speaker 5: veterans that've been here a while, You agree, Yeah.
Speaker 10: No, absolutely.
Speaker 11: I mean I think there's something to say about guys
Speaker 11: who are in the same locker room for a long time.
Speaker 10: And I remember when Jason Peters is here.
Speaker 11: You know, the main thing with people in the league
Speaker 11: love guys that have been in a certain area the
Speaker 11: whole time, and there's something to that. So you know,
Speaker 11: you kind of listen to those older guys when they
Speaker 11: say those type of things, and yeah, and it's it's
Speaker 11: important to have guys that you've you know, drafted be
Speaker 11: here and and be able to excel here and and
Speaker 11: and be you know, eventually become leaders.
Speaker 9: In the locker room, all right, you know, the homegrown thing.
Speaker 5: And you know we sat down with your other homegrown brothers,
Speaker 5: the Hometown Heroes piece we did back late in the spring. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and the reaction that I got from it, and me
Speaker 5: being a hersy guy a little guy too, helped, you know.
Speaker 9: But these guys are really like, genuinely loved being Bears,
Speaker 9: and well, yeah, well would you expect they grow up?
Speaker 9: All you guys were Bears fans.
Speaker 5: So when we said for that, I mean, you learned
Speaker 5: probably something about those guys that they didn't know about you,
Speaker 5: and vice versa. But you know that says a lot
Speaker 5: about what's in your heart and mind.
Speaker 11: About the Bears asolutely agree, absolutely, And I think they're
Speaker 11: just something about it. You know, the guys that you
Speaker 11: bring here, they kind of understand the environment here in Chicago,
Speaker 11: how to deal with things, and you know, how people
Speaker 11: think about things here and and all those type of things.
Speaker 11: So they know how important Chicago is. The Bears are
Speaker 11: to Chicago and to these people here, and you know,
Speaker 11: I know all of them, you know, We're honored every
Speaker 11: every moment we get to step on the field with
Speaker 11: to see on our oland.
Speaker 9: You know, you wouldn't want it any other way.
Speaker 5: You will want to play in a place that the
Speaker 5: fan base has no passion, right. You know there there
Speaker 5: are Bandwagon fans out there in certain cities. When things
Speaker 5: are going well, they flock and they bring it and
Speaker 5: they buy the merchandise.
Speaker 10: Here, you know what you get, absolutely what you can.
Speaker 11: There's some guys that I think have come in here
Speaker 11: that you know, whether they hear the booze early after
Speaker 11: you know, it's drive or whatnot. But like, I'd rather
Speaker 11: play that knowing what the outcome can be when we
Speaker 11: do our part and do the things right.
Speaker 10: Because the atmosphere, uh, it can't be beat, you know.
Speaker 11: I think you know, we're the largest market that has
Speaker 11: that has only one one team in the city, and
Speaker 11: you know, the people want to rally around the Bears.
Speaker 11: So when we get this thing going and the atmosphere
Speaker 11: and the environment in Chicago is going.
Speaker 10: To be incredible.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: There's Jeff Joniac with Col Kobat. I think he does
Speaker 2: want to adopt Col Cobat.
Speaker 3: And really good stuff. I love the way you have
Speaker 3: a conversation with them. It's not just Q and A,
Speaker 3: Q and A.
Speaker 2: They are conversations. It's what Wattle and I tried to
Speaker 2: do on the Wattle in Sylvie show. I want to
Speaker 2: talk about it as a group with Cole Comett. We
Speaker 2: also got to get Thayer's notes from watching the game film.
Speaker 2: We are live at House Haltz, Wattle and Sylvie joining.
Speaker 2: Theyre in Joniac. This is Bears Weekly on ESPN one
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Speaker 1: This is Bear's Weekly with a voice of the Bears
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Speaker 2: we just heard the Cole Comett interview.
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Speaker 5: at Wattle right right.
Speaker 4: Well, you've already got the game.
Speaker 5: I like how you you call him t Wattle. You're
Speaker 5: teeth Thayer, but you're Tommy to me.
Speaker 6: You know what, I think, Cole Comett is one of
Speaker 6: one of my favorite people up here. And I think
Speaker 6: Cole Comet is a guy you want on your football team.
Speaker 6: And I think last year Luke Getzi finally put him
Speaker 6: in position to take advantage of the stuff that he
Speaker 6: does well. Not to be overly critical, but I never
Speaker 6: thought that Cole was one of these tight ends that
Speaker 6: you split out like George Kittle or even Hockinson, the
Speaker 6: kid that plays up in Minnesota now and we'll threat
Speaker 6: in the middle of the field with his speed and athleticism.
Speaker 6: To me, he's an in line white tight end who's
Speaker 6: really good in the run game. At times he can
Speaker 6: give you something in the red zone and just they.
Speaker 4: Use him correctly, or they used him correctly last year.
Speaker 7: I thought that, you know, you know, the whole game
Speaker 7: has to speed up for the Bears offense, and Cole included,
Speaker 7: you know, the first play of the game, they have
Speaker 7: a lateral point of attack. So they got Cole lined
Speaker 7: up to the right hand side outside the right tackle.
Speaker 7: He comes across the formation and he's going to cut
Speaker 7: Preston Smith. You know, you really can't cut in the
Speaker 7: hole because then Preston Smith is able to push him
Speaker 7: down with his hands, and now you have a body
Speaker 7: in the hole, and then you have a tackle for
Speaker 7: a one yard loss. To me, I want to use
Speaker 7: Cole power going straight ahead. I think he's a great athlete,
Speaker 7: and it's like, you know, there's another play, the thirty
Speaker 7: second play of the game. If you throw it to
Speaker 7: Cole Kmet two seconds sooner than you threw it to him,
Speaker 7: now he's going to be in an advantage of me
Speaker 7: running over Sylvie and I just mean a big guy
Speaker 7: against the defensive back you put Cole.
Speaker 6: Can you actually can you do that? Can you show
Speaker 6: us up? I would like to see a live demonstration.
Speaker 7: I think you know it's like that one the one
Speaker 7: throw they threw to him down in the red zone.
Speaker 7: The advantage was to the defensive player already, And when
Speaker 7: Jeff asked him about these low shots on him, I
Speaker 7: kind of win speed before it in during his call.
Speaker 7: But you know, when Justin started talking about making quicker
Speaker 7: decisions and thinking sooner even you know there's there's a
Speaker 7: play the you know, the thirty second play was to
Speaker 7: coal and then they had one to blasting game that
Speaker 7: if he throws it three seconds earlier to an outlet
Speaker 7: past the blasting game, it's a completion for a fifteen
Speaker 7: eighteen yard game. Instead it was an incompletion. So when
Speaker 7: you talk talk about what can the Bears do within
Speaker 7: a week's time to make sure there are a much
Speaker 7: better offensive football team than they were just a couple
Speaker 7: days ago, it's just the timing of plays. You know,
Speaker 7: for the opening play of the game, you're at home.
Speaker 7: Rather than having a lateral point of attack, you have
Speaker 7: a point of attack.
Speaker 8: The best block on that play was by Nate Davis.
Speaker 7: And I know that te Watta, you know that the
Speaker 7: guys are being critical of him, but I think it's
Speaker 7: a little but bit unfair. If I was going to
Speaker 7: have a designated point of attack going into the next week,
Speaker 7: a lot of the times I would want to follow
Speaker 7: behind Nate Davis and Darnell right, because you got to
Speaker 7: give these guys the off, the opportunity to explode straight ahead.
Speaker 7: If you think you're gonna do it Laterally, you're playing
Speaker 7: right into the hands of a quick defense like Tampa
Speaker 7: Bay or what Green Bay was this past weekend.
Speaker 8: At home.
Speaker 7: You can hear the snap count, so that's what should
Speaker 7: be ingrained in the head. But it's got to be
Speaker 7: a cadence that they've become accustomed to listen to Justin
Speaker 7: so they can almost anticipate it. Just an instant, just
Speaker 7: an eighth of a second quicker than a defensive lineman
Speaker 7: can get off the ball, and just subtle things like
Speaker 7: that can change it. And you can take advantage of
Speaker 7: the power blocking of Cole come out on the line
Speaker 7: of scrimmage, or you know, just a quarterback seeing the
Speaker 7: play an instant quicker. So you got a lateral point
Speaker 7: of attack on the first play of the game, the
Speaker 7: first play of the third quarter. Now you say, okay,
Speaker 7: you guys are got twelve minutes. We're going to make
Speaker 7: some adjustments. The first play of the third quarter, Justin
Speaker 7: playfakes with his back to the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 7: they have an unblocked tackler coming right at him and
Speaker 7: it results in a sack. So anytime you're going to
Speaker 7: take a chance of throwing the ball with the quarterbacks
Speaker 7: back to the line of scrimmage. There's things going on
Speaker 7: that he's not even aware of. And it happened a
Speaker 7: couple times in the game that you know, you got
Speaker 7: to allow justin to be able to see what's in
Speaker 7: front of him.
Speaker 3: I have a two part question about Braxton Jones. What
Speaker 3: happened in.
Speaker 2: Game one with him with the penalties and because I
Speaker 2: love the dependability, I loved his rookie year, So what
Speaker 2: what happened with the uneven performance? And then the second
Speaker 2: part of that question Tom for you is there was
Speaker 2: a play when they sort of pulled him which some
Speaker 2: people on on these film breakdown said they pulled a
Speaker 2: left tackle, which some said they've never seen before.
Speaker 7: Oh, that's crap, that's a pet Joe tu you saw
Speaker 7: Joe Gibbs made a living off that play. Oh God,
Speaker 7: Joe Jacoby pulling from the tackle. That is a bunch
Speaker 7: of bologney. So so, no, Braxton Jones can pull. You
Speaker 7: can have a right guard or a left guard and
Speaker 7: a left tackle pulling leading a sweep. They have a
Speaker 7: counter O T that's Oh is the guard? T is
Speaker 7: the tackle? There's a there's plenty of play. Is where
Speaker 7: tackles pull excuse me to me Brex and Jones and
Speaker 7: the penalties that he did.
Speaker 8: He was trying to.
Speaker 7: Get that that just if of a second jump on
Speaker 7: the count in a couple of times he just jumped
Speaker 7: half a second early, and the official note.
Speaker 5: Mortgan said only one of those or a false start.
Speaker 5: The snap didn't happen on the second.
Speaker 8: Exactly, that's exactly right. One of it wasn't his fault,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 7: So it's when when you because of they don't have
Speaker 7: And that's one of the things you talk about chemistry,
Speaker 7: is the chemistry of the offensive line is understanding the
Speaker 7: tempo of the cadence and how it is to the
Speaker 7: center quarterback exchange, and if there is any hesitancy by
Speaker 7: the center, the other offensive linemen are gonna look, you know,
Speaker 7: ill timed, off timed and stuff. And so that comes
Speaker 7: with reps, and that comes with going out there and
Speaker 7: using the cadence as a weapon, especially at home. Now
Speaker 7: on the road, it's probably not going to be the
Speaker 7: same because Tampa has a supporting crowd.
Speaker 4: Jeff, that you mentioned you talked to Morgan abouts.
Speaker 5: Not me, It was it was all the media.
Speaker 6: Did you get a feeling for how he felt his
Speaker 6: group played as a group.
Speaker 5: You know, he basically says the same thing every time
Speaker 5: he talks because he is an offensive line coach. He's
Speaker 5: an offensive lineman. It's everything I asked him about, you know,
Speaker 5: the kid darn all right, and what's he need. He
Speaker 5: went through every single down and distance situation, past blocking,
Speaker 5: run blocking time, and the game all you gotta work
Speaker 5: on it all. It's all so he doesn't pinpoint anything
Speaker 5: like that. But uh, I I like the way he
Speaker 5: approaches it though he doesn't really he doesn't spill the beans. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, but he does. He does. Uh, he does
Speaker 5: coach well. I do believe that.
Speaker 7: You know, if I looked at the offensive line, I
Speaker 7: would say, Okay, the right side to me displayed they
Speaker 7: have the ability to be a run behind offensive line
Speaker 7: point of attack style run. You know, I need to
Speaker 7: see more power out of the left hand side of
Speaker 7: the offensive line in Braxton to me. And there's some
Speaker 7: pass protect since he needs to play lower and and
Speaker 7: then that's the think about it. I asked Jeff to
Speaker 7: ask him, please stop admitting what your weaknesses are at
Speaker 7: the podium. Just keep that to yourself and work on
Speaker 7: them in practice, because I don't think Pracxicton Jones has
Speaker 7: ever shied away from any work that he needs to
Speaker 7: do on the practice field. So I'm not sitting there
Speaker 7: going to make wholesale changes with the offensive line. I'm
Speaker 7: just gonna, Like I said, you've got to go back
Speaker 7: and you watch tape and you correct them.
Speaker 5: This is an acute need though on Sunday, an acute,
Speaker 5: acute need to have proper identification on all these blitz
Speaker 5: package wherever pressure package they got, or what kind of
Speaker 5: stunts they do, because they all they they're great at
Speaker 5: stunts and twists inside too, every one of those guys
Speaker 5: up front and then most importantly in my opinion, but
Speaker 5: I'm not an offensive lineman. Be de Beya. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: you know, Beavey has got to be slowed down because
Speaker 5: he can collapse the whole game.
Speaker 8: Play right on pass protections.
Speaker 7: If you don't know it by now, then I have
Speaker 7: some concerns because you should know all of your assignments
Speaker 7: by now, especially these guys have been around for a
Speaker 7: couple of years, well, not Nate and Darnell, but you know,
Speaker 7: direction of protection is pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you guys when we come
Speaker 2: back about how the defense gets more pressure on Tampa
Speaker 2: coming up next, all right, so Joniac can there with us.
Speaker 3: It's Wadalin Sylvie.
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Speaker 8: It's an honor. It is an honor too.
Speaker 2: We've had fun so far with the game day and
Speaker 2: the pregames and everything that we do.
Speaker 5: And you haven't told Tom something though. You might as
Speaker 5: well try no, you know what.
Speaker 7: So so I didn't know that you had that step stool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and so I perfectly.
Speaker 7: I could see someone and I thought Keith was in
Speaker 7: the booth or I thought I'm going.
Speaker 5: Like a tall guy, who is that?
Speaker 7: And and I look and then finally I go, I
Speaker 7: gotta look, and I look, and I oh, it's it's Sylvie.
Speaker 5: And something to tell you? Not ask you tell me?
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm going to ask you tell I got
Speaker 2: to ask So I'm taking the family to Kansas City
Speaker 2: with my wife and my two kids of a nine
Speaker 2: and a seven year old.
Speaker 8: They can't come in the booth.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: And nor would I ask that, nor would I tell you.
Speaker 6: Sylvie wants you to babysit the kids on Saturday night
Speaker 6: so he can go to dinner.
Speaker 3: I hear you're great with the nephew's.
Speaker 8: Baby sitting in my great nephew tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: They see. I hear you're great with that. Nor would
Speaker 3: I ask you that. I would not impose that.
Speaker 2: So they're going to be out and doing their thing
Speaker 2: because they know that I gotta work.
Speaker 5: It's best cut through the chaser.
Speaker 2: So I gotta work. So I'm gonna be with them.
Speaker 2: It's a bucket list item for me to go to
Speaker 2: Kansas City. You have never seen Arrowhead. I want to
Speaker 2: see what this is all about and the tailgating and
Speaker 2: everything like that.
Speaker 8: So I've got to host pregame in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: In Kansas City, so I we'd like to host the
Speaker 2: pregame show from the booth.
Speaker 8: Don't look at me.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be on my couch.
Speaker 5: What the what he told me? He's asking you that's
Speaker 5: a sign of love. That's gonna be.
Speaker 8: Better and brisket or something.
Speaker 3: What do you want, I'll take your or you want?
Speaker 7: So that means so the four hours before two hours.
Speaker 3: Now think about this.
Speaker 2: Let's do this analytically, all right, You are on half
Speaker 2: the segments. You're on with me when we talked to you,
Speaker 2: Dion and Lance. You are on when we cross talk
Speaker 2: with Jeff and you and Jay Mack. And then there
Speaker 2: two other segments when joniak is interviewing uh Ryan Poles
Speaker 2: and man Eberflus. Those are four segments right when I'm
Speaker 2: not even in anybody's way.
Speaker 5: You are a heck of a salesman.
Speaker 3: So now we're.
Speaker 2: Only talking about like three or four other segments where
Speaker 2: I'm sort of stepping on your toes.
Speaker 8: Have you ever have you ever met little Z?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 8: How big is the booth?
Speaker 5: It's not big there, it's pretty small windows.
Speaker 3: Have I bothered you yet? Have I have I sort of?
Speaker 5: Well you don't. You don't want the answer to We'll
Speaker 5: pick it up. You're pick We'll pick it up another.
Speaker 8: We listen, Sylvie, listen, he started hyper listen. We're all
Speaker 8: part of.
Speaker 7: Each other now hundred percentage.
Speaker 3: I will bring the brisket.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 7: You know what, I have a buddy in Kansas City
Speaker 7: that owns a place that was featured on Diners, Drivings,
Speaker 7: and Dives, and we're gonna go there the night before
Speaker 7: the game. So I'm gonna still be full from that.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, So the answer is still know it's.
Speaker 8: Not you're all good good.
Speaker 7: I know about defense, right, I was hoping you weren't
Speaker 7: bringing the family along, and you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 7: we're you know, playing uh you know, hula hoopers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely all right.
Speaker 2: So the defense very little pressure, very little pressure in
Speaker 2: game one. How do they get more pressure in Baker
Speaker 2: Mayfield in Tampa in game two?
Speaker 5: Well, you know what, he loves getting in rhythm number one.
Speaker 5: That's so get him off his rhythm, get off his spot.
Speaker 5: He does make plays on the move, but he certainly
Speaker 5: is not the threat of a of a legitimate mobile quarterback.
Speaker 5: But he does just enough with a little bit of
Speaker 5: grit to uh annoy you a little bit when he
Speaker 5: he scrambles.
Speaker 6: So he's got a couple of nice targets out there
Speaker 6: as well, Mike Chris Godwin.
Speaker 4: So you do definitely have to harass him.
Speaker 7: Listen, You're you're gonna have to be willing to take
Speaker 7: some chances. Eventually, you're going to try to have to
Speaker 7: get them off balance. When you evaluate the Tampa Bay
Speaker 7: Bucks offensive line, where are their vulnerabilities? Is a Tristan
Speaker 7: Wurfs who had a real hard time mentally going from
Speaker 7: right tackle to left tackle? Is he perfectly in place
Speaker 7: like he was as a right tackle in this league
Speaker 7: for as long as he's been here?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 7: Is Ryan Jensen, who is their most physical, their leader
Speaker 7: of that whole offensive unit at center, who's on IR
Speaker 7: for the year. Are they vulnerable up the middle right there?
Speaker 7: Can you put in a linebacker that you feel can
Speaker 7: anticipate the snapcount, because now that you're gonna be able
Speaker 7: to hear the rhythm of Baker snapcount, if you can
Speaker 7: go out there the first series and say, Okay, he's
Speaker 7: pretty consistent with with this snapcount. Now let's see if
Speaker 7: we can bring a blitz, you know, from the corner.
Speaker 7: Jeff's a big fan of the corner blitz. You know,
Speaker 7: they did it against Kirk Cousins the second play of
Speaker 7: the game with Winfield and he was a sack fumble.
Speaker 7: So eventually you're gonna have to try to think outside
Speaker 7: the box and bring something from an unexpected area. You know,
Speaker 7: you know, And the thing about a Baker is not
Speaker 7: the best athlete at quarterback in the NFL. So if
Speaker 7: you get him into a chase and now you stress
Speaker 7: his fundamental throwing positions, and if he does have a
Speaker 7: bad shoulder, you're gonna have to take a chance.
Speaker 4: Can I flip the around as well?
Speaker 6: Because we know Todd Bowles is a very aggressive defensive mind.
Speaker 6: Do you believe that that may lead to some big
Speaker 6: plays from this Bears offense? Because if you are blitzing
Speaker 6: but you're not staying disciplined in what you're trying to do,
Speaker 6: there are opportunities, whether it's justin in a design quarterback
Speaker 6: run or even in man coverage, there may be some
Speaker 6: opportunities that exist against the Bucks that maybe didn't show
Speaker 6: up against the Packers.
Speaker 7: Well, I hope it would come on first and second
Speaker 7: down because I think one thing about Dj Moore, Cole
Speaker 7: Kmeto or whomever else is playing wide receiver. If you
Speaker 7: do have a suspected blitz coming and you have a
Speaker 7: pass called on first and second down to get yourself
Speaker 7: out of those third and super.
Speaker 8: Longs that you have no chance.
Speaker 7: That's where I would like to see him come and
Speaker 7: then justin talk about maybe he has to take a
Speaker 7: chance and that you're not necessarily have a huge window
Speaker 7: of opportunity, but give your give your receiver a chance.
Speaker 7: And who is gonna cover Cole? I mean they don't
Speaker 7: have defensive backs. If you can get Winfield in a
Speaker 7: coverage responsibility rather than a blitzer responsibility, you're always gonna
Speaker 7: win the size matchup with e Q, with Cole, with
Speaker 7: DJ Moore or you know whoever else. And I think
Speaker 7: Roshan Johnson and the running backs should have more immediate
Speaker 7: opportunities out of the backfield.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know that's another one too, uh, because the
Speaker 5: running backs coach was asked about you know, does he
Speaker 5: earn more reps now because he let them in reps?
Speaker 5: But it was all it was fairly even, and that
Speaker 5: was a plan. The plan was to spread it out.
Speaker 5: Will they continue to spread it out? That'll be an
Speaker 5: interesting discussion, is gonna be. I think it was twenty seven,
Speaker 5: twenty six, twenty one, Rochean had the most carries, followed
Speaker 5: by Khalil Herbert and then down to foreman.
Speaker 7: So when when you look at all the backs, though,
Speaker 7: there was three occasions during the course of the game
Speaker 7: that the ball should have went to the back immediately.
Speaker 7: It's listen, it's No. One two th repassing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: in the passing game. And if you can do that, okay,
Speaker 7: Now you got to spread the defense out a little bit.
Speaker 7: Now you can have seven or eight in the box.
Speaker 7: Now you got to make sure that you have more
Speaker 7: of an effort to stop these guys.
Speaker 5: I got a question because Minnesota didn't even try to
Speaker 5: run the ball, didn't even try to run the ball.
Speaker 5: The fewest rushing attempts. And it's not like they were
Speaker 5: down twenty five nothing or twenty seven nothing. No, they
Speaker 5: just chose Is it because of idevea? Is it because
Speaker 5: of those front seven? The linebackers are swift, they can move,
Speaker 5: they have range, even though you know they're you know,
Speaker 5: obviously Levante David's getting a little older on the other
Speaker 5: side of thirty. And then the bigger question to me
Speaker 5: is are you going to survive the field position battle?
Speaker 5: Because if you're starting drives inside your twenty or you're
Speaker 5: getting a first down sack. Again, he led the league
Speaker 5: in first down sacks last year justin at twenty had
Speaker 5: won in this last game. Or you're getting these first
Speaker 5: down penalties or a special teams penalty, which they didn't
Speaker 5: have many last year, but they did have one to
Speaker 5: start the game. You can't. Position's gonna be vitally important.
Speaker 5: You get that place worked up and those guys lathered
Speaker 5: up on the front, it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you get backed up to one of those end
Speaker 7: zone or by the pirate ship.
Speaker 5: And if I have to hear, you know, I didn't
Speaker 5: realize this all the years we've been there. That cannon
Speaker 5: for a touchdown goes off seven times. Three times for
Speaker 5: the field goal, Yeah every time. Yeah, No one hear
Speaker 5: the no fun No seven. I don't want to hear seven.
Speaker 5: Cannon chucked him before always. Yes, he's a very very
Speaker 5: nice gentleman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tom, I don't know that you can play a
Speaker 6: must win game in week two of the NFL season,
Speaker 6: or can you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, I don't want anybody to come to the
Speaker 7: podium after the game and say, oh, this is only
Speaker 7: the second week of the season. We lost, so we
Speaker 7: got fifteen more games.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 7: With Detroit beating Kansasity at Kansas City, Green Bay already
Speaker 7: beating you at home if you go down zero to.
Speaker 5: Two, Minnesota playing the night Philly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know it's I I do think that, you know, No, but.
Speaker 5: Yes, right now I get what you're saying.
Speaker 7: Like if I see a significantly different team that's flying
Speaker 7: around out there, that they got.
Speaker 6: Energy to boot and they get beat by one, yeah,
Speaker 6: and it's different.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah, Yeah, it's good stuff. You guys brought up
Speaker 2: Roshan Johnson. I want to I want to build on
Speaker 2: that a little bit more. What did you guys like
Speaker 2: and what you see in him? Because it turns out
Speaker 2: I think we liked it at the time. The draft
Speaker 2: pick for Ryan Poles looks really good right now, and
Speaker 2: what we all like about Roshan Johnson. We'll build on
Speaker 2: that conversation. Coming up next.
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Speaker 5: Can I do some injuries real quick?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So Carlton Davis outstanding corner, he hasn't practiced, got toe,
Speaker 5: got a toe, so he's got ten of them. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I know, but you know those aren't those aren't fun,
Speaker 5: right to play with, and he's considered their number one corner.
Speaker 7: A Walter Payton's the history, right, and then I I
Speaker 7: don't want to see him, but I think he's gonna
Speaker 7: be a really is Elijah Cantsey the rookie only had
Speaker 7: eleven snaps and he caused some havoc and those eleven.
Speaker 5: Snaps a calf and he's got a calf and he's
Speaker 5: in practice all week. So that's uh. An Aaron Donald
Speaker 5: wanna be because he ran faster at two eighty out
Speaker 5: of the combine the right. Yeah, he's he's a good player.
Speaker 5: He's a good player. So you guys that maybe out
Speaker 5: So here's hoping he doesn't. He's right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's he's like, I'm not, Jeff, I'm not one
Speaker 6: of these guys.
Speaker 4: Is gonna beat the best?
Speaker 6: No, if half your team can't play because you're sick, Fine,
Speaker 6: let's go.
Speaker 4: Let's roll.
Speaker 6: I'm just looking for a dumb to hard to get
Speaker 6: to the cams for everybody.
Speaker 4: Let's go kick it off.
Speaker 2: What makes Roshan Johnson good, especially so like as far
Speaker 2: as a rookie early in his career.
Speaker 7: He can do all three things. He can play first, second,
Speaker 7: third down. He can pick up blitzes, he can catch
Speaker 7: out of the backfield. If he's designated receiver, he can
Speaker 7: line up with wide receiver and still be an option.
Speaker 7: And you saw what he did to a third level
Speaker 7: defender coming up and trying to lay a shoulder to him.
Speaker 5: Runs behind his paths, and he finishes runs. That's what
Speaker 5: I love about him. I love his attitude, his desire
Speaker 5: to be great, and they're never more important than what
Speaker 5: you're gonna tell you.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I mean I thought that the interception that
Speaker 6: that Justin threw obviously very unfortunate. But if you look
Speaker 6: at the play closely, Roshawn Johnson tries to make the
Speaker 6: tackle early. Obviously he needs to wrap, okay, but he's
Speaker 6: not a defensive player. The point I'm making is is
Speaker 6: he didn't get I think it was Kuay Walker, Rightwalker
Speaker 6: couldn't get him on the ground.
Speaker 4: He didn't quit.
Speaker 6: He got up and sprinted his tail off all the
Speaker 6: way to the end zone and put another hit on
Speaker 6: kuay Walker. So just you know, in the middle of
Speaker 6: a bad play, to see a young player do what
Speaker 6: he did was was I thought was inspiring and something
Speaker 6: I hope the coaches pointed out to everybody in that building.
Speaker 8: And he was wide open. They should have thrown it.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, he was standing by himself on the left side.
Speaker 5: What do you like about him?
Speaker 7: Mark?
Speaker 3: Like everything? Like, what what have you said?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Since he's become a Bear, that what he he uses
Speaker 2: his body as a weapon.
Speaker 5: He says it. Yeah, he's doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what he likes, is like and and just
Speaker 2: the book on him since he's come out of Texas
Speaker 2: is is what.
Speaker 3: He stands for too?
Speaker 2: Right that everyone always said that he could have transferred
Speaker 2: and didn't. He was still a leader even though he
Speaker 2: was back up there.
Speaker 4: He was playing behind b Jean Robinson like and I.
Speaker 2: Saw like after he started to run, even though the
Speaker 2: Bears were losing, I kept my eye on him, Jeff,
Speaker 2: when I was in the booth and he went to
Speaker 2: the sideline and was trying to get the guys into
Speaker 2: the game, trying to get the crowd back into the game.
Speaker 2: It was it was the makeup of him seems good
Speaker 2: in a train to what he does tangibly on the field.
Speaker 5: Little thing like I may have told this story before
Speaker 5: during rookie minicamp meeting room. Uh, everybody leaves, They left
Speaker 5: all their bottles of water. He cleaned up the whole room,
Speaker 5: didn't ask anybody, just did it. I mean that those
Speaker 5: little things tell you about the man.
Speaker 3: Are you're going to clean up after us here?
Speaker 6: Absolutely says a lot about you, says everything about you.
Speaker 8: I washed clothes this morning.
Speaker 6: I gotta go home and do laundry as well. My
Speaker 6: wife's out of town again. It's about time I do
Speaker 6: it while I'm drinking though.
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