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Speaker 1: final live show of the year here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score Jeff,
Speaker 1: Jonny Akin Tom there and our guest tonight is double A.
Speaker 1: Not that one, because you know who gets all the
Speaker 1: love is double A Anthony Adams. This is Adrian Amos. Everybody,
Speaker 1: and give him a nice hand because you know this
Speaker 1: is this is a busy time of year. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's the holiday season and all that, but it's football
Speaker 1: season and it's just really getting started right now. Three
Speaker 1: games to go, and you know you give it up
Speaker 1: an hour of your time on a on a weeknight.
Speaker 1: It's not simple to do. You guys been working all
Speaker 1: day and you got lots to do. So we appreciate
Speaker 1: you coming by. Can you believe how far this team
Speaker 1: has come since Week one? When you last that game
Speaker 1: in the Green Bay Packers, Man, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you know, night and day, but it's it's
Speaker 1: the process of a season. And UM, how we learned
Speaker 1: from that first game and just took that upon ourselves
Speaker 1: to finish every game. UH, finish every opportunity, finishing in practice.
Speaker 1: That became a model earlier in the season. Um and
Speaker 1: uh coach just reminded us that this week this morning,
Speaker 1: about just just finishing each and every game. So I
Speaker 1: feel like that was a we we took a lot
Speaker 1: from that, just that learning experience. Does this season seem
Speaker 1: to go fast? So this is your fourth year being
Speaker 1: A lot has changed for you in those four years,
Speaker 1: in those three years, as as this season going faster
Speaker 1: because of the success you guys are enjoying. I think
Speaker 1: so because you know when you three and whatever, three
Speaker 1: and ten at this point of the season the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, UM, you know, it's just a different
Speaker 1: vibe and different feeling. You know, practice a little harder,
Speaker 1: game seemed a little longer just because you're losing. But
Speaker 1: you know when you're having fun. When you're winning, it's fun.
Speaker 1: You're having fun. This team is fun and you know it.
Speaker 1: Just you know, when you're having fun, it's like you know,
Speaker 1: the time just you know, slip right away from you. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know winning that that cares a lot. I was
Speaker 1: looking at an old interview between you and Jeff a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and it said that you said
Speaker 1: that you take care of them now you don't look ahead.
Speaker 1: Has it been harder to do that this year because
Speaker 1: of the excitement you guys are generating or are you
Speaker 1: still staying in the now weekend and week out? I
Speaker 1: think it's more even more important right now just have
Speaker 1: to focus on each week. Because we let this week
Speaker 1: slip away from us, it's gonna make the following week harder.
Speaker 1: So if we just focus on right now, this practice,
Speaker 1: this game, UM, I think you know that future would
Speaker 1: take care of itself. What you recall from that week
Speaker 1: one that that gnaws at you a little bit, um,
Speaker 1: just that we got after them early. Um, we came out,
Speaker 1: we were playing well, playing shot um. Then a couple
Speaker 1: plays U in the second half got away from us.
Speaker 1: And you know, let a team like that hang around
Speaker 1: and then m just come up short in the end.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody just you know, we were it was
Speaker 1: promising that we know what we are capable capable of,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, when you lose a game
Speaker 1: like that, it's like, dang, we just got finished. Oh
Speaker 1: you know, you guys have been resilient. It's a good
Speaker 1: word to use for these guys time, because you know,
Speaker 1: you lost four games by combining fourteen points, but it's
Speaker 1: how you lost those games that gnaw at you guys
Speaker 1: a couple over times that come back by the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. I mean, it's crazy when you really think
Speaker 1: about what you guys have accomplished this year, but in reality,
Speaker 1: you haven't accomplished anything yet until it actually says NFC
Speaker 1: North Champion or you know, a playoff clinching. And I
Speaker 1: think that's why Matts kept the focus small. Just take
Speaker 1: care of each day at a time. Is that work
Speaker 1: for a young team like this because you know you're
Speaker 1: still a young player, but you've been around a while.
Speaker 1: You know, over the years, I've just learned that, you know,
Speaker 1: the margin fora air in this league is real small,
Speaker 1: so you know, each game it could be one or
Speaker 1: two players that could decide the game. And then during
Speaker 1: the season, the good teams they win their close games,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and then the bad teams
Speaker 1: they don't. You know, you can have a team that's
Speaker 1: you know, two teams that's very similar, but one team
Speaker 1: wins those close games. One team doesn't win those close things.
Speaker 1: And those come from little mistakes, you know, little mistakes,
Speaker 1: little details that separate you know, those good teams from
Speaker 1: those bad teams. You know, So you're a strong safety,
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson, the free safety. Can you give all of
Speaker 1: us a little description the differences between a strong safety
Speaker 1: and a free safety. And then because we're all thinking
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers and like, what is the differences between
Speaker 1: your guys's job obligations? Well, um, with with with Vick
Speaker 1: he likes to switch it up a lot so um
Speaker 1: over the course of the season, and you know last year,
Speaker 1: Um we go back and forth pretty much. But you know,
Speaker 1: the strong safety is just more towards you know, uh,
Speaker 1: in traditional defenses, more towards the tight inside um it's
Speaker 1: supposed to come down more often. A free safety plays
Speaker 1: in more space, um, over the top, in little holes
Speaker 1: and different things like that. So um. Traditionally, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: strong safety is more in the box more um more
Speaker 1: of it's the next linebacker, if you know, if you
Speaker 1: want to put it like that, Are you guys interchangeable? Now?
Speaker 1: Have you you with the experience that you have and
Speaker 1: what Eddie's capable of doing? So? Can you guys, you know,
Speaker 1: stay in the position and play each other's position? Almost? Yeah,
Speaker 1: more this year than last year. We've been, you know,
Speaker 1: switching a lot, so you can't really, you know, get
Speaker 1: a game plan on where each person is going to be, so,
Speaker 1: you know, it helps for disguise. You don't know which
Speaker 1: one's gonna come down sometimes, and I think that plays
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks, you know. I was watching the tape of
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller's interception the other day. When you're a defensive back,
Speaker 1: you can be anywhere from four to fifteen yards off
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and it seemed like, you know,
Speaker 1: the head of Jared Golf It's stuck in one position
Speaker 1: and it never rotated the field. Can you really see
Speaker 1: the eyes or face or the head of a quarterback
Speaker 1: while you're going through all your other duties of watching
Speaker 1: the way things are coming off the line of scrimmage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's easier when you're in a zone coverage. I mean
Speaker 1: you're in the zone, it's easier to watch a quarterback
Speaker 1: and see where his eye is going. But when you're
Speaker 1: a man, you're more locked in to your receiver and
Speaker 1: the routes that you're looking for. So um, but but yeah,
Speaker 1: that play, you remembering that play, his eyes was standing
Speaker 1: all the time. And then I think we were like
Speaker 1: in quarters and I had inside help on Kyle, and
Speaker 1: Kyle made a great play. He sat on the route
Speaker 1: and then broke down and finished on the play. So
Speaker 1: I mean that was kind of his own concept where
Speaker 1: he see the quarterback, But it's more just him just
Speaker 1: making a great play, knowing where his help was and
Speaker 1: knowing where he could be aggressive. Well, they talk about
Speaker 1: the game slowing down for the quarterback. Does the game
Speaker 1: slow down for you as you gain more experience and
Speaker 1: the more offenses, is the more formations and everything you see? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it slows down in the way because it's mental. You know,
Speaker 1: as a as you get older, you know, you see more,
Speaker 1: you start to feel more. You start to if you
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, you can get that faster. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying it makes you play that much
Speaker 1: faster just because you know where they're going. And when
Speaker 1: you're confident in your teammates and what they need to do,
Speaker 1: you're not hesitant as in, well, maybe I need to
Speaker 1: help him, so I'm not gonna I'm gonna sacrifice doing
Speaker 1: my job to help this person. So um, that's how
Speaker 1: the game slowed down for everybody. Adrian Amos, along with
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Speaker 1: At the times point too, do you do you come
Speaker 1: into this game from the college game already with your
Speaker 1: eyes trained or do they develop at the NFL level
Speaker 1: at a really elite level. I think, um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's something that has to develop, um with experience
Speaker 1: in the league. In college, I know, I played more
Speaker 1: corner and nickel, where my job was just to cover
Speaker 1: one man that was my guy. I got him and um,
Speaker 1: which sounds easy now right, Yeah, now it does. But
Speaker 1: now in the NFL, everybody's more athletic, everybody's you know,
Speaker 1: NFL player, so um, and then I'm moving too safety
Speaker 1: where I have to know where other people are supposed
Speaker 1: to line up. I have to sometimes get other people
Speaker 1: lined up. Um, we'll basically get people lined up every play,
Speaker 1: you know, because you have to communicate back there in
Speaker 1: the back end. So it's just a lot more to
Speaker 1: look at. Uh. You have to learn how to watch film,
Speaker 1: and I don't think in college coaches teach players how
Speaker 1: to watch film. Um what you're looking for when you
Speaker 1: watch a film? What are you supposed to be studying?
Speaker 1: You know, that's something that I'm still working on. Um.
Speaker 1: You know I'm learning new things, you know, every year,
Speaker 1: just just how to improve my game. You know. I
Speaker 1: was reading up about you and they said that the
Speaker 1: combine you're ran a four or five forty, and then
Speaker 1: you went to your pro day and you're run like
Speaker 1: a four three seven. How did you decrease? How did
Speaker 1: you take off that amount of time or did you
Speaker 1: feel better at your pro day than you did at
Speaker 1: the combine? Um? Well, combine is like is a hectic time,
Speaker 1: Like you really don't sleep much? You you know it.
Speaker 1: You know, in my atmosphere, we had three different combines,
Speaker 1: and so it's better now that you guys have the one.
Speaker 1: But I just see that adjustment you made, and it's
Speaker 1: home feel the advantage. Yeah at Penn State hopefully. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but um, but yeah, when we just got back to school, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just went and I was just like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna run again. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: run it again. Actually my agent didn't want me run again,
Speaker 1: but I said, I know that I'm gonna run four
Speaker 1: three here. So, um, you know, I just went and
Speaker 1: I just lined up and ran. I think at the combine,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, jit as you trying to I
Speaker 1: was the first one to run and everything too, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I still ran a good time for
Speaker 1: my position. Yeah, I had to go first. You have
Speaker 1: to sit in front front of the class all through
Speaker 1: grade school and stuff because you have the double A.
Speaker 1: Yeah probably, yeah, yeah. And then so I'm getting up
Speaker 1: there up there at the combine, legs shaking, nervous about
Speaker 1: to run the foard and yet just then when you
Speaker 1: get back to your pro day, he's just more relaxed.
Speaker 1: It's people, you know there. Um. I mean it's the
Speaker 1: same amount of scouts and things like that, but it's
Speaker 1: just a different atmosphere. Just feel a little bit better,
Speaker 1: you can breathe safety. Adrian Ames, fourth year, Chicago Bear
Speaker 1: first place outfit, ready to try and finish the job
Speaker 1: in the NFC North on Sunday at Soldier Field against
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. Time for our first break here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Did you work out today? I know Adrian did and
Speaker 1: not me, not yet, but the day is still young.
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Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score, Uh the News
Speaker 1: on Bryce Callahan broke my heart. He's having an outstanding year.
Speaker 1: Broken foot, gonna be out for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: But if you could put into perspective just how in
Speaker 1: context how difficult that position is to play. I talk
Speaker 1: about it all the time. It may be one of
Speaker 1: the most difficult on defense because of the variety of tasks,
Speaker 1: the variety of responsibilities and what you have to do.
Speaker 1: And he's a slightly built guy, but an explosive athlete
Speaker 1: who is tough as nails. Yeah, man, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a tough loss. That's a that's a hard position to play. UM.
Speaker 1: I think nicol and probably know what's God with Eddie
Speaker 1: Goldman plays um out of two most underappreciated positions UM
Speaker 1: in defense in football. So um, Yeah, he does a
Speaker 1: lot in there. UM covers a lot of the slots.
Speaker 1: UM he's you know, left by hisself, phone slice a lot. UM,
Speaker 1: he blitzes UM, he comes up and can tackle UM.
Speaker 1: But man, uh, injuries a part of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: it's sad to see him, you know, after having a
Speaker 1: great year like this, and then you know, as for
Speaker 1: for us to lose him, but we got sherek filling in.
Speaker 1: Um A veteran who's been there, has been playing, knows
Speaker 1: the system. Um, so UM, he's gonna come in and
Speaker 1: do great. Will anything change for you without giving up information?
Speaker 1: Will anything change for you? Or is it you know
Speaker 1: what you've been doing and nothing will change without Bryce
Speaker 1: or with Sherek being in there. Um? I don't think,
Speaker 1: UM much will change, you know, as far as you
Speaker 1: know the scheme and anything like that. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just just keep on pushing next man up. Just going
Speaker 1: to have to communicate with Sherek Moore instead of Bryce.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Me and Bryce hu said
Speaker 1: have you know, kind of goes back and forth, pre
Speaker 1: snapping things like that. So I have to shift over
Speaker 1: and get on that same page with Shared because of
Speaker 1: your versatility. Was it ever discussed about possibly you filling
Speaker 1: that role? Oh? Yeah, I mean emergency I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I have to learn well I think you know, because
Speaker 1: you played corner in college and you have experience everywhere
Speaker 1: in the defensive backfield, so it's one of those characters
Speaker 1: that can play anywhere, right Yeah, so um in emergency situations? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, I have to learn everything, so you
Speaker 1: know I might have to fill in. Um, here there,
Speaker 1: So I'm just prepared. You know, when we were watching film,
Speaker 1: when we when he talking to the Nick, who act
Speaker 1: like he talking to me? You know, think about Sherik,
Speaker 1: and we've seen guys time and I've been here obviously
Speaker 1: a long time, and guys that have been just known
Speaker 1: as special teams players that also wanted to play defense.
Speaker 1: We never got the opportunity. The one guy I always
Speaker 1: thinking of was Corey Graham just the other night watching
Speaker 1: him play again. He's still playing the game and has
Speaker 1: gone to a couple of Super Bowls. So when you
Speaker 1: finally get that opportunity, no matter how deep it is
Speaker 1: into your career, you know you welcome in. And a
Speaker 1: guy like him, he's he's a very quiet guy, not
Speaker 1: unlike yourself, not unlike it's a quiet secondary except for Prince,
Speaker 1: I guess Prince and Eddie. But with with wanting to
Speaker 1: do that and not really being trusted completely by your
Speaker 1: defensive coaches to do that on a regular basis or
Speaker 1: but Vic Fangio does trust this man. He puts him
Speaker 1: in packages, he's putting him on the field and getting
Speaker 1: him out there the blitz and so forth. So it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see Sherik with this kind of responsibility
Speaker 1: because with Nickel now with three wides and four wide,
Speaker 1: you guys are out there in that instead of base
Speaker 1: almost the whole time. Right. Um yeah, one thing about vic.
Speaker 1: If he don't trust, you're not going out there. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just next man up. It's not we're
Speaker 1: not sitting here talking about um, you know in meetings
Speaker 1: like oh man, what we're gonna do? Um, and sheriffs
Speaker 1: just filling in. Um, you know he's been practicing Nickel
Speaker 1: all year as well. It's not like you know, he
Speaker 1: hasn't had any rest and he's just filling in there.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna come in and then we stick to
Speaker 1: our terminology, you stick to our game plan and then
Speaker 1: get in and get after it. Um. You know Shark
Speaker 1: has been doing the dollars stuff with blitzing and different
Speaker 1: things like that. He's been covering all year. So um yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a trusted everybody trusts him. So we're going into
Speaker 1: this nice game confidence. Can you feel the pass rush
Speaker 1: because you know we can see it. It's evident to us,
Speaker 1: say there as an ex offensive lineman or just fans
Speaker 1: of the Bears, and you can see how aggressive is.
Speaker 1: But now you're a defensive back and the quarterback has
Speaker 1: to make decisions at a little quicker pace than maybe
Speaker 1: they did a couple of years ago. So can you
Speaker 1: feel that rush? Yeah, I think, um, I think it
Speaker 1: works hand to hand for sex, for interceptions with them
Speaker 1: with the secondary, you know, making the quarterback double pump.
Speaker 1: You know, they get the sack, or we might have
Speaker 1: a breakdown in the secondary and Mac or a team
Speaker 1: get in there and break and tip of ball or
Speaker 1: get to sack, you know and bail us out. So, um,
Speaker 1: I think it goes hand to hand, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's just great to have that balance. And when you
Speaker 1: had that balance of that, um, you know, you get
Speaker 1: played games like last game where you got takeaways, you
Speaker 1: got four interceptions, you got sacks, you got you got
Speaker 1: it all. At the beginning of the year, Prince put
Speaker 1: out a pretty heavy duty number out there, talked about
Speaker 1: ten interceptions for himself. But you know how you see
Speaker 1: what Kyle, do you see what you have been able
Speaker 1: to do, Eddie Jackson, Prince himself, everybody's got involved in
Speaker 1: the mix. You know, to me, it seemed like a
Speaker 1: big number given the amount of interceptions that you got
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But now every everything's coming
Speaker 1: into play, and the defensive backs are complimenting the pass
Speaker 1: rush equally as well. Yeah, you know, Prince, he just
Speaker 1: said one of his goals. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So um, I think I think every defensive back. You know,
Speaker 1: when you write a goal sheet the beginning to get
Speaker 1: you want some crazy. You want to write something down
Speaker 1: that nobody will believe you're gonna get. So you know,
Speaker 1: everybody does that? Have you done to do? Yeah? Every
Speaker 1: single year I've got, I got a goal sheet and
Speaker 1: just I'm not gonna say all my goals. Throw one
Speaker 1: on there. Well, all right, playoffs, Yeah, that's not a
Speaker 1: crazy one at off? Yeah, how about this. I didn't
Speaker 1: know this until today, but tie by the Bears or
Speaker 1: a Washington tie or lost Bears are in the playoffs
Speaker 1: no matter what. Now they have bigger fish to fry. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Time shaking his head the room. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: let her as a player, and now as a fan
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster, I never want someone else to get
Speaker 1: me into the playoffs. You got to get into the
Speaker 1: playoffs of your your own abilities. You know. Naggie's an
Speaker 1: unbelievable guy, isn't he. You know, from the dancing and
Speaker 1: the postgame locker room celebration to everything he's ever said
Speaker 1: at the podium since the minute he was hired has
Speaker 1: come true. And it's got to be interesting for a
Speaker 1: player to listen to because you know, he's telling you
Speaker 1: how things are going to go, and he's stuck to
Speaker 1: his word. Everything's coming up like like he's described to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah he um. You know he's a great coach. He
Speaker 1: came in, Um, he earned you know, respectum early on.
Speaker 1: And then you know he's a coach. He wants us
Speaker 1: to have fun. So he almost forces you to have fun.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. He forces you to dance.
Speaker 1: He you know, he makes everybody, don't you know. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say too much. I mean it's it's fun
Speaker 1: because a lot of people, you know, play better when
Speaker 1: and loose and you know, having fun. And then we're
Speaker 1: winning as well, so you're winning. Um, you have time
Speaker 1: to have fun. Is actually a lot of time, so
Speaker 1: you're supposed to have fun right here. So um, So
Speaker 1: that combination that just it brings the team close together.
Speaker 1: And this, you know, the closest team that you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've ever been on. I was just
Speaker 1: talking to somebody the other day and I was just saying,
Speaker 1: it's the funniest the team I've ever been on, just
Speaker 1: because people so loose. People, people say things that you
Speaker 1: never heard them say before. I didn't even know you talked,
Speaker 1: so you know what I'm saying. So, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a better vibe when you win in energetic
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody just loose, you know, between you
Speaker 1: and Alan Robinson, he was on here a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago with us and Jeff and I asked rob
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson, I said, are you surprised at Adrianames his
Speaker 1: success at this level of football? And he was not
Speaker 1: surprised because you guys were close in college and they
Speaker 1: understood the abilities you had there. Are you surprised at
Speaker 1: his success at this level? Um, you know because of
Speaker 1: what you saw him do in college. Um. People don't
Speaker 1: really like me talking about Abra because they think I'm
Speaker 1: biased because that's you know, it's been my boy. So
Speaker 1: but um, really, I I'm not surprised. I really expect more,
Speaker 1: you know, because you know I've seen him day to
Speaker 1: day and not seeing how he worked, how I prepared,
Speaker 1: where he came from from freshman year of college to
Speaker 1: when he left as a junior. Um and that you know,
Speaker 1: I know, its ability matched up with people I've played against,
Speaker 1: felt so um. You know, I think he's still got
Speaker 1: a lot more, you know, to go. You know, I
Speaker 1: know he had seasons with Pro Bowl and things like that,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think he you know, he still
Speaker 1: has a you know, al ways ago and you know,
Speaker 1: I expect I expect more for myself as well. So
Speaker 1: it's like, um, we hold each other. Is he serious
Speaker 1: or fun? Um? He both real competitive? Right, So when
Speaker 1: it's time to compete and he's like he's locked in
Speaker 1: so um. You know, you can see both sides of it.
Speaker 1: But you know, just because you guys have that group
Speaker 1: of friends, you're the super six, Super six, that of
Speaker 1: six guys in college that they communicate every day, and
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson is one of them. But to see you
Speaker 1: go from one team and then come to the Bears
Speaker 1: this year and you almost have a feeling, Wow, it's
Speaker 1: always like this around here. Now, it's not. This is
Speaker 1: the first year that I think there's been this much
Speaker 1: fun um surrounding your guys's practices, your postgame celebration and
Speaker 1: everything else that Matt and the other free agents have
Speaker 1: brought to this team. Yeah. I was talking to uh
Speaker 1: Roquan and Iggy yesterday and I was like, you don't
Speaker 1: even know how it's big, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So this all y'all see. You know, hopefully it stayed
Speaker 1: like this. So um, yeah, it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a better feeling, a better vibe around the building.
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Speaker 1: only want to say that I'm a C student. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. You know you've made it through lay far
Speaker 1: right regret. Yes, it's just but you know you could
Speaker 1: not be a C student playing football. No, you had
Speaker 1: to be an a student in the football classroom. Well
Speaker 1: it's you can't have mental errors, you know, in sports
Speaker 1: and football especially, mental errors get you cut. Physical mistakes
Speaker 1: get you coached. So that is the thing about it.
Speaker 1: And it's still the same today, isn't it. And he oh,
Speaker 1: he's tells me if you think you're beat, So he's
Speaker 1: got it all covered. He's got every angle covered. Is
Speaker 1: it all true for you too? Yeah? For sure? You
Speaker 1: know them mental errors. You'll never want to get your
Speaker 1: sheet back and see you know, emmy's on your sheets.
Speaker 1: So um, and then everybody relying on you. So those
Speaker 1: mental errors, those are controller booths, you know, in everybody's eyes.
Speaker 1: So you can control your mental errors. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you get beat, but let them beat you, don't
Speaker 1: beat yourself, right, And so didn't one You guys are
Speaker 1: greating papers now instead of check marks on it, just
Speaker 1: emmy mental error, you know, and what it would be
Speaker 1: a nice little jo ay. Did you ever play any offense?
Speaker 1: Because I was reading up about you and it seems
Speaker 1: like all your history, all your background always points to defense.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and um high school. Actually coming in the
Speaker 1: high school, I was a quarterback. I was like five
Speaker 1: two grade. Yeah I could. I could. I could throw
Speaker 1: throw them out. I don't know how accurate I was,
Speaker 1: but I could throw them out. And then, um, when
Speaker 1: I got moved to Corner Um sophomore year in high school,
Speaker 1: and then they let me play both ways junior and
Speaker 1: senior year. Um in big games. They let me play
Speaker 1: both ways at Calvert Calahoa. Yeah, so offense. Actually I
Speaker 1: played some tight end, I played receiver. I was the
Speaker 1: wildcat quarterback. Um, I think that I think that any
Speaker 1: any off conversations with coach Naggie about your offensive abilities. Actually, Um,
Speaker 1: I was getting on coach in London, the running back coach,
Speaker 1: the other day because he was with me in college
Speaker 1: when I was a kick returning and I told him
Speaker 1: he ain't tell him I got skills, um on offense
Speaker 1: to try and get it, get me a play, but um,
Speaker 1: they're probably saving it for you know. Yeah, yeah, at
Speaker 1: the right time. Like you said, they had you in
Speaker 1: the big games. Yea, yeah exactly. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: now probably a pretty hearty conversation in the locker room
Speaker 1: week to week about what's next and who's getting the
Speaker 1: rep and who's doing what. Um. Yeah, we actually just
Speaker 1: be laughing about it. Um, see if you just a
Speaker 1: decoy or not, and so um, you know, you know
Speaker 1: he actually comes in and pulls somebody out sometimes just
Speaker 1: to make Vic mad sometimes, but you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happened, you know, what you know, And when they're
Speaker 1: trying to find out what your future is going to be,
Speaker 1: you you went to the Senior Bowl, which you have
Speaker 1: to be invited to go to. It's an all star
Speaker 1: game where they bring an NFL caliber talent and then
Speaker 1: you practice for a week against the best players in college. Um.
Speaker 1: When they brought you to the Senior Bowl, Um, were
Speaker 1: they trying to determine what position you would best fit
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, that was a thing coming out,
Speaker 1: whether I was going to be more of a corner
Speaker 1: or nickel or move to safety. Um, because you know,
Speaker 1: I know some teams was you know, looking me as
Speaker 1: a nickel type position, nickel corner. Um. But then once
Speaker 1: I got there, and then days went on, I was
Speaker 1: more at safety, um so um, and then started talking
Speaker 1: to teams and they was looking at me more for
Speaker 1: more at safety. What skill is harder to develop? Coverage
Speaker 1: or tackling for a defensive back. I don't know. Um.
Speaker 1: Were you a good tackler when you were a corner? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I played boundary corner. Say playing Um, I was either
Speaker 1: impressed man or I was in like, uh half half corner.
Speaker 1: So I have a lot of run fits um on that.
Speaker 1: So um, I feel like all my life, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been you know, actually my father was big on
Speaker 1: tackling and rapping up and making big hits stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So um, um, I feel like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: one of the other is harder. It's just when you
Speaker 1: playing against better players. I guess, um, in coverage, coverage
Speaker 1: is hard. You know, anybody, anytime you gotta go out
Speaker 1: there and play man on the receiver, you know who's
Speaker 1: one of the best athletes on the field. You know
Speaker 1: you got caught covering them all day. You know that's
Speaker 1: probably harder. So when Kyle was matched up with you know,
Speaker 1: Julio or something like that, they're going to catch balls,
Speaker 1: you know, the Julio Jones, you know what saying he's
Speaker 1: gonna catch some balls. That's hard to do that after
Speaker 1: the catch stuff, right, just make it hard on him.
Speaker 1: Fourteen hundred yards five years in the role for Julio Johns.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's an impressive staff that I just
Speaker 1: right now. He's a man and there's a handful of him.
Speaker 1: I mean what and they had come all shapes and
Speaker 1: sizes at you too, now too. You know, it could
Speaker 1: be a guy who's quick but not fast, and he
Speaker 1: could do as much damage as a guy can blow
Speaker 1: right by you. So they just it's all about technique
Speaker 1: fundamentals in the scheme. Yeah, I mean, then you got
Speaker 1: somebody like Julio, that's all all of them. He's you know, quick, fast,
Speaker 1: you know and big, so um, you know, just go
Speaker 1: out there and make it hard and um. That's why
Speaker 1: you know, corners get paid them big, big dollars because
Speaker 1: that that's one of the hardest positions on the field. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, as Tom knows, and I feel this way,
Speaker 1: and if you're a playoff contender. If you're a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl contender, you gotta have good safety play. It's it's
Speaker 1: not even a question. And in the proper situation, it
Speaker 1: should be a guy who's gonna get some Pro Bowl recognition.
Speaker 1: And certainly Eddie Jackson's getting that right now. Looks like,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll he'll be a Pro bowler this year
Speaker 1: in the second year. What's he meant to you? Because
Speaker 1: the chemistry between the two of you, this is not
Speaker 1: just this year. This was brewing last year, right so
Speaker 1: this this was developing and it's really hitting a crescendo
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I mean, um, he just you know,
Speaker 1: he's a playmaker. Um. You know, he loves to go
Speaker 1: get the ball. You know that. That's the big thing
Speaker 1: with him. Um, he's good in space with um, he's smart,
Speaker 1: knows where the ball is going to be. You know,
Speaker 1: you had just had some players that just got knack
Speaker 1: for the ball that you know, when the balls in
Speaker 1: the air, they just it's just seem to go to them.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just certain people in the league that
Speaker 1: you see like that. You know, like uh, Marcus Peters
Speaker 1: with you don't know why he always has like he
Speaker 1: just has like eight interceptions and recovers. Five fund was
Speaker 1: they just come right to him. Just certain people, the
Speaker 1: ball just fall to them in a leap and then.
Speaker 1: But he's not only that, he also can come up,
Speaker 1: you know, and make tackles as well. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's just he's getting better, you know every day. Both
Speaker 1: of you guys to be starters your rookie year. It's
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Could given the fact that you got to
Speaker 1: come in here compete at a level you're competing, you know,
Speaker 1: ed Donna tells the heck of a coach. Vic Fangiel's
Speaker 1: got a difficult system. But both of you guys earning
Speaker 1: those opportunities early in your career, you know, it had
Speaker 1: to be helpful because the Bears were looking for a
Speaker 1: set of safeties for the last fifteen years almost and
Speaker 1: now they have two guys that are young and they're
Speaker 1: going to grow together for quite a few years. So
Speaker 1: it's gotta be fun. You know, you're a young guy,
Speaker 1: but you're the most experienced out of the out of
Speaker 1: the two, So there they are looking for a lot
Speaker 1: of advice from you. Oh yeah, sometimes I do forget
Speaker 1: that I'm only twenty five years old as well, So Um,
Speaker 1: actually me and man edged the same age, so um,
Speaker 1: yeah I didn't I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah we're
Speaker 1: the same age. So um. You know it's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's a blessing that you know, to have people you
Speaker 1: know around you that's like you get along with that.
Speaker 1: That chemistry is important. I've learned that, um over these
Speaker 1: years that you know, it makes it fun. Like with
Speaker 1: with all of us in the secondary, we've been together,
Speaker 1: we know each other. Um, you know we hang out
Speaker 1: that like, stuff like that is important. You know people
Speaker 1: may not you know, realize realize it, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you hang around people, you it's kind of you know,
Speaker 1: like you don't want to let the next person down.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You don't want to mess
Speaker 1: up and leave him out the drive because then he'll
Speaker 1: look bad. Like the corner, the corner relying you to
Speaker 1: be on the post. Make sure you're in that post
Speaker 1: because you know, if he gets on the post, you're
Speaker 1: messing up. You know how he looks with the player,
Speaker 1: not only the team, but you, you're messing up. You
Speaker 1: know his grade sheet, you know, talked about it. You're
Speaker 1: going to the senior ball talking about not letting your
Speaker 1: teammates down. So these college kids that don't participate in
Speaker 1: their college bowl games there, well, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about that? Because you're you're closely removed from college football.
Speaker 1: But I don't see you a guy of making that
Speaker 1: type of choice. So when you think of these college
Speaker 1: kids now that are skipping ball games, what is your
Speaker 1: opinion of that? I say it both ways because you know,
Speaker 1: people trying to you know, they've been working so hard
Speaker 1: to get to a point where you know, they can
Speaker 1: provide for their families and things like that. So if
Speaker 1: they get hurt and they drop far in the draft,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna, like, it's not gonna be that same energy
Speaker 1: that everybody has when they sit out, when they're calling
Speaker 1: them selfish and different things like that. But when they
Speaker 1: get hurt, it's not the same. You know, all right,
Speaker 1: We're still we're still the refuge. First of all, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, even though you just got you know,
Speaker 1: you just got hurt, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I understand in the way, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could sit out just because I don't like sitting out
Speaker 1: football games, you know what I'm saying. If I got
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play. I just want to play, just
Speaker 1: because I don't like I would't like sitting out of practice.
Speaker 1: Did you feel that you had to go to the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. Um, I know it's more of an all
Speaker 1: star game, not your college game, but it's something now
Speaker 1: if they ask you to come to they're obviously interested
Speaker 1: in your talents. Yeah. Um, I felt the pressure in
Speaker 1: the way just because I had some things with my
Speaker 1: shoulder and I wanted to prove that I could still
Speaker 1: play with my shoulder the way it was. I had
Speaker 1: to get shoulder surgery at the end of that year.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just wanted to. I wanted to prove
Speaker 1: to my approved, to everybody I could still, um play
Speaker 1: through it, you know, with how it was at the time.
Speaker 1: So I think if you got something to that benefits
Speaker 1: you and going, you can go and prove. I want
Speaker 1: to go, proved I can cover receiver as well, so
Speaker 1: and I think I proved that as well when I
Speaker 1: went there. So I feel like if you have something
Speaker 1: to prove to go, I think and they can benefit you,
Speaker 1: I feel like you should. You should go. So after
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, you had your shoulder operating on no
Speaker 1: after my workie year. Okay, okay. Adrian Amos our guests
Speaker 1: along with Tom There Jeff Joniac here on Bears All
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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. Uh. Adrian, you mentioned the tightness of
Speaker 1: the team and we see it in the locker room
Speaker 1: every day. A lot of card games going on, basketball
Speaker 1: shooting while the media is in there and so forth.
Speaker 1: Um is that there's guys sleep? I don't know, how
Speaker 1: are you guys sleeping in there when there's all that racket,
Speaker 1: there's guys getting ready for practice legitimately sleeping, they're sleeping
Speaker 1: on the couch, you're sleeping in their locker. I mean,
Speaker 1: you ever been so tired you sleep through anything? So
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, that's it's the day to
Speaker 1: day ground in this week fifteen, it's a week fifteen.
Speaker 1: It's week fifteen. Uh really like week twenty because you've
Speaker 1: got the preseason and all that. So, um, you're just
Speaker 1: tired and feeling yourself. You just going there? Um yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Well on long days, Um, it takes a couple of
Speaker 1: days to get back to it, and then you refreshed
Speaker 1: by a round from Thursday Friday and then um, you
Speaker 1: feeling ready. Um the Saturday, you relaxed day, and then
Speaker 1: you're ready to go on Sunday. You know, Matt talked
Speaker 1: a lot about the crowd on Sunday Night. I think
Speaker 1: it was probably the most impressive crowd support that I've
Speaker 1: seen here and maybe fifteen twenty years. Where it was
Speaker 1: it evident to you during the introductions or did it there?
Speaker 1: Did there come a point in time, aren't a big
Speaker 1: third down or something where you know the Stay team
Speaker 1: was exploding out there? Yeah? I think the last two
Speaker 1: some of the Sunday night games were really loud. I
Speaker 1: thought the Minnesota game was loud, but then when I
Speaker 1: heard this past Sunday, it was, you know, even louder.
Speaker 1: So um, I noticed, you know, maybe third downs when
Speaker 1: it was just it was just extra loud. So um,
Speaker 1: I was like, this a loudest it's ever been that,
Speaker 1: you know, especially since I've been here. Communication is important
Speaker 1: for defense as well as offense. And now there's been
Speaker 1: so much conversation this week about the Air Raids SIEN
Speaker 1: siren going off on the field. Are you do you
Speaker 1: hear that or is it something that you're not even
Speaker 1: paying attention to the other noise going on because you
Speaker 1: got so much in front of you. Oh no, I
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about that siren, right, I just had
Speaker 1: spent conversation for the last four or five days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't hear it in my headset either, but apparently
Speaker 1: it was. It was pretty loud so before every third down,
Speaker 1: wasn't every snap for all I know, I don't know anyway,
Speaker 1: they try to make it as loud as possible in
Speaker 1: there and the crowd it apparently, and I'm sure the
Speaker 1: Rams didn't. Oh yeah, I'm sure the Packers won't either,
Speaker 1: But you know, it does get the engine running a
Speaker 1: little bit though, doesn't it to hear all that sound?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, it's it's just like energy is infectious,
Speaker 1: you know. You know, just after a big play, it
Speaker 1: just when the crowd going wild, and even before a
Speaker 1: third down, you know, get keen pumping up the crowd
Speaker 1: and you got the crowd going wild, and offense try
Speaker 1: and make the checks and then you know, quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: to be in the exact right call on third down.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the biggest play, you know, biggest play
Speaker 1: the series. So you know, with us disguising the crowd loud,
Speaker 1: they can't really get their cadence right. So that's just
Speaker 1: a big help the Bears needed. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at the weapons that they go and face all around
Speaker 1: the league. When you go to Green Bay, they have
Speaker 1: a loud, supportive crowd. You go inside Minnesota there have
Speaker 1: a loud, supportive crowd. So it's equally as important for
Speaker 1: the Bears crowd to come in here and be loud
Speaker 1: and support because it does it does help or the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball of a lot. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it does help a lot. You know. I feel like
Speaker 1: this year, like it's it's been a real home field advantage, right,
Speaker 1: you know, with the crowd noise, with being at home,
Speaker 1: with our mindset is protecting home field, So you know,
Speaker 1: I think it goes hand to hand. You know, with
Speaker 1: us winning giving them something to cheer about, and then
Speaker 1: you know with them actually chearing. That's the key part
Speaker 1: right there. You know, you keep them on and you
Speaker 1: guys have had a only few situations where you've been
Speaker 1: playing from behind. You know, early in games you've had
Speaker 1: the lead, You had a huge point differential advantage in
Speaker 1: the first half of games and carried it through and
Speaker 1: I think that helps you guys rush the pastor it
Speaker 1: helps you guys quicken that clock and a quarterback's head
Speaker 1: to make and feel pressure to make a play, make
Speaker 1: a completion and so forth. So it has married very
Speaker 1: very well with what you guys are trying to do.
Speaker 1: And you're in every game. You in the Chiefs. The
Speaker 1: only two teams in the league were leading the second
Speaker 1: half all all thirteen games up to this point, so
Speaker 1: that that's different. Yeah, offense and defense, you know, it
Speaker 1: goes hand to hand. So our offense is better this year.
Speaker 1: Um as far as they're making plays, they're keeping us
Speaker 1: off the field and they're getting up and it's forcing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to try to squeeze things in tight windows, hold
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit longer, try to do actual things,
Speaker 1: and that causes more turnover. So, um, just as much
Speaker 1: as it's us getting better, it's them getting better as well,
Speaker 1: and that's helping us. You guys have more interceptions this
Speaker 1: year in the than the last three years combined. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's crazy, you know, and you've been here for
Speaker 1: all that, so you knew what it was like listening
Speaker 1: to you say how some guys just get the ball
Speaker 1: in their area code. You've seen firsthand what it's like
Speaker 1: when you don't have that kind of fortunes. Now, some
Speaker 1: of it's man made, some of its luck too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're down a lot these last couple
Speaker 1: of years, what we've been losing a lot, so get
Speaker 1: down a lot. Teams can just run the ball. They're
Speaker 1: not forcing things as much. Um. You know, we've been
Speaker 1: a solid defense, um, but taking the ball away just
Speaker 1: makes it that much better. You know, you didn't play
Speaker 1: a lot of reps in the preseason, none of the
Speaker 1: starters did. But then the preseason's over Saturday morning, Boom,
Speaker 1: Khalil mack gets dropped on your lap. When did you
Speaker 1: find out about it and what did you think that
Speaker 1: he was going to be able to contribute to the
Speaker 1: football team overall, not only the defense but his leadership
Speaker 1: in the locker room. I think it was like the
Speaker 1: night that all the rumors were going around that, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it might have been like my mother
Speaker 1: or something that mother a cousin and something something like that.
Speaker 1: Somebody texts the group chat and was like, hey, y'all
Speaker 1: just got Khalil mac But it wasn't like official yet,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was just like a man like
Speaker 1: you know, because he's a great player, you know, saying
Speaker 1: when you get another great player and then you you
Speaker 1: look at it. We already coming into this year, we
Speaker 1: was like confident that we was gonna have a great
Speaker 1: defense this year, and then when you add somebody of
Speaker 1: his caliber, then it's like, all right, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: even better than we thought we was gonna be. So um,
Speaker 1: you know he just can amen and then uh he
Speaker 1: fits in. Well, I mean all great players won't fit in,
Speaker 1: but um, personality wise, you know, he he fit in
Speaker 1: the locker room, and um, they feel like he'd been
Speaker 1: here for a while. That's a key component. We'll pick
Speaker 1: up on the after the break on that aspect of it,
Speaker 1: because you didn't have a guy with a huge ego
Speaker 1: come rolling into town, that's for sure. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score
Speaker 1: back with more after this. All right, we're wrapping things
Speaker 1: up here at Hollis Hall at panc Studio, Fuel up
Speaker 1: to play six. Do you have a lively crowd tonight?
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys coming up and having a good time.
Speaker 1: Uh I tell you who had the best penmanship out
Speaker 1: of the three up here? Now we sent all your
Speaker 1: footballs who had it? Now, don't you know, don't don't
Speaker 1: let him politic. Let's get let's let me here a
Speaker 1: loud for Adrian? Thank you? All right, that's it Tom
Speaker 1: there ah, that's baloney about. I watch you on the act.
Speaker 1: Jeff's chicken scratch. Tom wins. Adrian second. I come in third. Everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody is second. The greatest autograph of any Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer for the Chicago Bears, Gail Sayers has the greatest signature.
Speaker 1: You look at his signature anywhere, It's unbelievable. He's not
Speaker 1: telling you a lie that is absolutely accurate. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you Adrian Amos for joining us tonight here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access Roots. Chris would like you to have this
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars gift card to enjoy one of the
Speaker 1: Chicagolan area steakhouses that Tom is always investigating before he
Speaker 1: officially heads off. I could eat this by myself. Uh,
Speaker 1: you have a what's your food vice? What's the one
Speaker 1: thing that you know you shouldn't but you do it anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really have nothing, like really
Speaker 1: you eat that good? No? I eat everything everything. The
Speaker 1: fuel up people here are from that that feed the
Speaker 1: kids in their schools and stuff and run the program.
Speaker 1: So you know, he gotta always say I don't eat
Speaker 1: fest food, but I will eat Chick fil A. I
Speaker 1: go to check Fila. I don't eat much test food
Speaker 1: with Chick fil A. That's that's my spot. So I
Speaker 1: remember a couple of years ago, like my fashion advisors,
Speaker 1: he was looking at my bank statement, it was like
Speaker 1: majority of Chick fil An. That's funny. Hey. Yeah, As
Speaker 1: a calendar turns into the new year in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be busy out and about with a little
Speaker 1: charity bowling tournament. Uh January third. Oh, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a found oution foundation called I'm Still here. Um. It
Speaker 1: helps uh support families with Alzheimer's, you know, as well
Speaker 1: as under privilege youth. So he's just having an event
Speaker 1: on January or third, Um, you know, raise money and
Speaker 1: um to just just get my foundation off running. And
Speaker 1: it's just the first year of your foundation or yeah,
Speaker 1: it's my first just my first year. I'm just kicking
Speaker 1: it off and you know, pretty excited about getting it going.
Speaker 1: So just my first event. Going to do a bowling
Speaker 1: eventum around here in Vernon Hills. So you got a
Speaker 1: game bowling uh here, and now I'm hit him miss
Speaker 1: one day, No, I don't need bumpers. But but one
Speaker 1: day I go in there and I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: lighting it. I'm lightening it up. And then one day mediocre. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: well we'll learn more about it as we get closer
Speaker 1: to it exact time location and check it out. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there'll be a website of some sort. We can
Speaker 1: pass it along to folks and help you out why Alzheimer's. Um,
Speaker 1: me and my grandma are real close. Um so um
Speaker 1: about when I was in college. You know, Um, a
Speaker 1: lot of people my family died, so Alzheimer's came faster
Speaker 1: and sped up. Um. So, um, she really needs help
Speaker 1: with everything. She she forgets everything, she needs help with everything.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm just here and I think about
Speaker 1: it all the time. So I just, uh, I figured
Speaker 1: I start something that's you know, you know, I feel better.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm helping her as well, um as
Speaker 1: other people that's going through that same same problem. Do
Speaker 1: you where are the cleats or do you keep them
Speaker 1: for display? Because they have the cause for cleats everybody's
Speaker 1: everybody's um what they're involved with. What are you the
Speaker 1: guy that wears them or displays them? Um, yeah I
Speaker 1: won him this past game. Yeah, I won him this
Speaker 1: past game. And then, um, you know I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: auction them off. We're working on that now. I might
Speaker 1: auction them off at the bowling event. So, um, just
Speaker 1: you know, just raise more money for the foundation. It
Speaker 1: is a great thing the league has allowed you guys
Speaker 1: to do as a group of players. All Right, we're
Speaker 1: wrapping things up here. Thirty seconds. Give us a sneak
Speaker 1: peek the rematch, the big one Sunday at Soldier Field
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. Man, you know, it's a big game. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just because it's the next game and we
Speaker 1: lost the first game. We feel like that game slipped away, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know we want, you know, start
Speaker 1: turning the tighten this rivalry, you know, saying, start getting
Speaker 1: some wins in this rivalry. So, um, it's the next game.
Speaker 1: But all those extra things, you know, added onto it
Speaker 1: that we can say now that this is that week
Speaker 1: seems like a completely different season. When you think a
Speaker 1: week one and just getting Roquan and Khalil there for
Speaker 1: four days and now having the team that you've been
Speaker 1: able to put together for fifteen weeks, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a It's gonna be an awesome game. Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, just we just build from week one to
Speaker 1: week now, we just so much better, We know so
Speaker 1: much more, you know, and we're a lot closer as
Speaker 1: a team. All right. Well, time to slay slay the
Speaker 1: pack sixteen and four with Aaron Rodgers against the Bears.
Speaker 1: I know that drives Tom crazy. They've come in here
Speaker 1: and won eight straight at Soldier Fields, so it's been
Speaker 1: a while and we look forward to it. Adrian, you're
Speaker 1: having a great year individually, let alone the entire defense.
Speaker 1: It's it's really been fun to watch. I know you've
Speaker 1: had a great time playing with your teammates and uh,
Speaker 1: just continued success. Man, keep it strong. Thank you all right, Adrian,
Speaker 1: name us our guest here on Bears All Access for
Speaker 1: Dan BURRELLI, Bob Boxer Engineering, and for all you find
Speaker 1: folks that fuel up to play sixty. Thanks for coming
Speaker 1: out for Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Chicago
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