WEBVTT - All Access: Amos on defensive dominance 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.760 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.760 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.760 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.440 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. Your all 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.919 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.480 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by CDW, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.720 Miller Lite and Hulu. We got a lively group here 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.240 at Hallis Hall Fuel up Place sixty our guests, our 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.639 final live show of the year here on Bears All 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.360 Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score Jeff, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.519 Jonny Akin Tom there and our guest tonight is double A. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.199 Not that one, because you know who gets all the 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.520 love is double A Anthony Adams. This is Adrian Amos. Everybody, 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:54.440 and give him a nice hand because you know this 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.840 is this is a busy time of year. Yeah, it's 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.480 it's the holiday season and all that, but it's football 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.120 season and it's just really getting started right now. Three 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.120 games to go, and you know you give it up 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:05.920 an hour of your time on a on a weeknight. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:07.880 It's not simple to do. You guys been working all 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.200 day and you got lots to do. So we appreciate 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.600 you coming by. Can you believe how far this team 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.520 has come since Week one? When you last that game 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.800 in the Green Bay Packers, Man, it's it's you know, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.600 it's like you know, night and day, but it's it's 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.360 the process of a season. And UM, how we learned 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.120 from that first game and just took that upon ourselves 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.240 to finish every game. UH, finish every opportunity, finishing in practice. 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.400 That became a model earlier in the season. Um and 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.840 uh coach just reminded us that this week this morning, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.679 about just just finishing each and every game. So I 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.440 feel like that was a we we took a lot 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.560 from that, just that learning experience. Does this season seem 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.280 to go fast? So this is your fourth year being 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.600 A lot has changed for you in those four years, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.960 in those three years, as as this season going faster 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.880 because of the success you guys are enjoying. I think 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.840 so because you know when you three and whatever, three 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.040 and ten at this point of the season the last 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.720 couple of years, UM, you know, it's just a different 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.840 vibe and different feeling. You know, practice a little harder, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.680 game seemed a little longer just because you're losing. But 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.280 you know when you're having fun. When you're winning, it's fun. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.919 You're having fun. This team is fun and you know it. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.919 Just you know, when you're having fun, it's like you know, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.640 the time just you know, slip right away from you. So, um, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.799 you know winning that that cares a lot. I was 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.960 looking at an old interview between you and Jeff a 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.600 couple of years ago, and it said that you said 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.240 that you take care of them now you don't look ahead. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.120 Has it been harder to do that this year because 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.760 of the excitement you guys are generating or are you 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.720 still staying in the now weekend and week out? I 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.400 think it's more even more important right now just have 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.239 to focus on each week. Because we let this week 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.000 slip away from us, it's gonna make the following week harder. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.840 So if we just focus on right now, this practice, 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.240 this game, UM, I think you know that future would 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.360 take care of itself. What you recall from that week 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.960 one that that gnaws at you a little bit, um, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.720 just that we got after them early. Um, we came out, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.440 we were playing well, playing shot um. Then a couple 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.320 plays U in the second half got away from us. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.200 And you know, let a team like that hang around 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.880 and then m just come up short in the end. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.800 You know, everybody just you know, we were it was 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.360 promising that we know what we are capable capable of, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.720 but at the same time, when you lose a game 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.120 like that, it's like, dang, we just got finished. Oh 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.440 you know, you guys have been resilient. It's a good 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.600 word to use for these guys time, because you know, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.560 you lost four games by combining fourteen points, but it's 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.640 how you lost those games that gnaw at you guys 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.000 a couple over times that come back by the Green 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.960 Bay Packers. I mean, it's crazy when you really think 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.680 about what you guys have accomplished this year, but in reality, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.840 you haven't accomplished anything yet until it actually says NFC 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.440 North Champion or you know, a playoff clinching. And I 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.800 think that's why Matts kept the focus small. Just take 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.040 care of each day at a time. Is that work 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.880 for a young team like this because you know you're 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.719 still a young player, but you've been around a while. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.520 You know, over the years, I've just learned that, you know, 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.920 the margin fora air in this league is real small, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.919 so you know, each game it could be one or 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.479 two players that could decide the game. And then during 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.200 the season, the good teams they win their close games, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.279 you know what I'm saying, and then the bad teams 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.320 they don't. You know, you can have a team that's 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.800 you know, two teams that's very similar, but one team 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.880 wins those close games. One team doesn't win those close things. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.440 And those come from little mistakes, you know, little mistakes, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.840 little details that separate you know, those good teams from 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.400 those bad teams. You know, So you're a strong safety, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.839 Eddie Jackson, the free safety. Can you give all of 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.760 us a little description the differences between a strong safety 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.480 and a free safety. And then because we're all thinking 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.719 of Aaron Rodgers and like, what is the differences between 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:14.080 your guys's job obligations? Well, um, with with with Vick 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.720 he likes to switch it up a lot so um 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.360 over the course of the season, and you know last year, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.400 Um we go back and forth pretty much. But you know, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.200 the strong safety is just more towards you know, uh, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.600 in traditional defenses, more towards the tight inside um it's 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.400 supposed to come down more often. A free safety plays 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:39.279 in more space, um, over the top, in little holes 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.680 and different things like that. So um. Traditionally, Yeah, the 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.599 strong safety is more in the box more um more 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.800 of it's the next linebacker, if you know, if you 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.480 want to put it like that, Are you guys interchangeable? Now? 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.080 Have you you with the experience that you have and 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.720 what Eddie's capable of doing? So? Can you guys, you know, 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.320 stay in the position and play each other's position? Almost? Yeah, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.960 more this year than last year. We've been, you know, 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.360 switching a lot, so you can't really, you know, get 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.720 a game plan on where each person is going to be, so, 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.800 you know, it helps for disguise. You don't know which 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.120 one's gonna come down sometimes, and I think that plays 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.280 with quarterbacks, you know. I was watching the tape of 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.480 Kyle Fuller's interception the other day. When you're a defensive back, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.960 you can be anywhere from four to fifteen yards off 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.440 the line of scrimmage, and it seemed like, you know, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.760 the head of Jared Golf It's stuck in one position 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.359 and it never rotated the field. Can you really see 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.640 the eyes or face or the head of a quarterback 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.440 while you're going through all your other duties of watching 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.600 the way things are coming off the line of scrimmage. Yeah, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.320 that's easier when you're in a zone coverage. I mean 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.360 you're in the zone, it's easier to watch a quarterback 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.200 and see where his eye is going. But when you're 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.960 a man, you're more locked in to your receiver and 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.920 the routes that you're looking for. So um, but but yeah, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.000 that play, you remembering that play, his eyes was standing 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.839 all the time. And then I think we were like 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:08.800 in quarters and I had inside help on Kyle, and 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.400 Kyle made a great play. He sat on the route 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.360 and then broke down and finished on the play. So 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.920 I mean that was kind of his own concept where 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.160 he see the quarterback, But it's more just him just 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.560 making a great play, knowing where his help was and 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.360 knowing where he could be aggressive. Well, they talk about 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.680 the game slowing down for the quarterback. Does the game 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.800 slow down for you as you gain more experience and 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.400 the more offenses, is the more formations and everything you see? Yeah, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.440 it slows down in the way because it's mental. You know, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.280 as a as you get older, you know, you see more, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.960 you start to feel more. You start to if you 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.240 know what they're doing, you can get that faster. You 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:51.840 know what I'm saying it makes you play that much 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.560 faster just because you know where they're going. And when 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.280 you're confident in your teammates and what they need to do, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.640 you're not hesitant as in, well, maybe I need to 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.040 help him, so I'm not gonna I'm gonna sacrifice doing 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.160 my job to help this person. So um, that's how 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.960 the game slowed down for everybody. Adrian Amos, along with 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.280 Jeff and time here on bears all access from PNC 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.000 Studios at how To's all brought to you by IGS Energy. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.200 At the times point too, do you do you come 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.720 into this game from the college game already with your 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.920 eyes trained or do they develop at the NFL level 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.000 at a really elite level. I think, um, yeah, I 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.160 think that's something that has to develop, um with experience 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.240 in the league. In college, I know, I played more 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.240 corner and nickel, where my job was just to cover 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.480 one man that was my guy. I got him and um, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.160 which sounds easy now right, Yeah, now it does. But 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:51.200 now in the NFL, everybody's more athletic, everybody's you know, 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.319 NFL player, so um, and then I'm moving too safety 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.600 where I have to know where other people are supposed 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.840 to line up. I have to sometimes get other people 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.960 lined up. Um, we'll basically get people lined up every play, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.040 you know, because you have to communicate back there in 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.960 the back end. So it's just a lot more to 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.439 look at. Uh. You have to learn how to watch film, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.920 and I don't think in college coaches teach players how 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.840 to watch film. Um what you're looking for when you 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.800 watch a film? What are you supposed to be studying? 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.920 You know, that's something that I'm still working on. Um. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.520 You know I'm learning new things, you know, every year, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.800 just just how to improve my game. You know. I 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.800 was reading up about you and they said that the 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.400 combine you're ran a four or five forty, and then 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:35.960 you went to your pro day and you're run like 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.920 a four three seven. How did you decrease? How did 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.120 you take off that amount of time or did you 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:42.760 feel better at your pro day than you did at 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:47.400 the combine? Um? Well, combine is like is a hectic time, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.360 Like you really don't sleep much? You you know it. 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.600 You know, in my atmosphere, we had three different combines, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.880 and so it's better now that you guys have the one. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.599 But I just see that adjustment you made, and it's 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.720 home feel the advantage. Yeah at Penn State hopefully. Yeah, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.240 but um, but yeah, when we just got back to school, Um, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.640 you know, I just went and I was just like, 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.600 all right, I'm gonna run again. I didn't have to 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.080 run it again. Actually my agent didn't want me run again, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.200 but I said, I know that I'm gonna run four 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.920 three here. So, um, you know, I just went and 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.440 I just lined up and ran. I think at the combine, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.280 it's just you know, jit as you trying to I 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.559 was the first one to run and everything too, but 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.400 I feel like I still ran a good time for 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:35.280 my position. Yeah, I had to go first. You have 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.439 to sit in front front of the class all through 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.439 grade school and stuff because you have the double A. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.160 Yeah probably, yeah, yeah. And then so I'm getting up 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.640 there up there at the combine, legs shaking, nervous about 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.520 to run the foard and yet just then when you 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.640 get back to your pro day, he's just more relaxed. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.560 It's people, you know there. Um. I mean it's the 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.200 same amount of scouts and things like that, but it's 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.320 just a different atmosphere. Just feel a little bit better, 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.840 you can breathe safety. Adrian Ames, fourth year, Chicago Bear 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.760 first place outfit, ready to try and finish the job 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.120 in the NFC North on Sunday at Soldier Field against 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.319 the Green Bay Packers. Time for our first break here 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.560 on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:21.719 to Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.400 you by IGS Energy, are proud partner of the Chicago Bears, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.320 providing electricity, natural gas, and home warrmpty products to over 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.560 one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.960 Energy at igs dot com. Jeff and Tim here at 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.280 PNC Studios at house. So we got a lively bunch 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:41.520 fuel up to place sixty you know, sixty minutes a daytime, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.679 that's all you need. You know, let'sten. Did you get them? 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.720 That's it's a minimum. Did you guys? Were every one 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.839 or you work out today? Just say yeah, just quick time? 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.000 Did you work out today? I know Adrian did and 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.040 not me, not yet, but the day is still young. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.920 We have Damn Briley, our producer, Bob Boxer, our engineer 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.199 here from the UPNC Studios on Bears All Access on 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.800 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score, Uh the News 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:10.079 on Bryce Callahan broke my heart. He's having an outstanding year. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.960 Broken foot, gonna be out for the rest of the year. 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.679 But if you could put into perspective just how in 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.080 context how difficult that position is to play. I talk 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:21.520 about it all the time. It may be one of 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.560 the most difficult on defense because of the variety of tasks, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.840 the variety of responsibilities and what you have to do. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:34.440 And he's a slightly built guy, but an explosive athlete 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.200 who is tough as nails. Yeah, man, that's a that's 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.440 a tough loss. That's a that's a hard position to play. UM. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.640 I think nicol and probably know what's God with Eddie 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:51.760 Goldman plays um out of two most underappreciated positions UM 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.280 in defense in football. So um, Yeah, he does a 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.920 lot in there. UM covers a lot of the slots. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.200 UM he's you know, left by hisself, phone slice a lot. UM, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.040 he blitzes UM, he comes up and can tackle UM. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.640 But man, uh, injuries a part of the game. You know, 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.760 it's sad to see him, you know, after having a 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.360 great year like this, and then you know, as for 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.680 for us to lose him, but we got sherek filling in. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.760 Um A veteran who's been there, has been playing, knows 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.040 the system. Um, so UM, he's gonna come in and 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.239 do great. Will anything change for you without giving up information? 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.720 Will anything change for you? Or is it you know 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.360 what you've been doing and nothing will change without Bryce 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.160 or with Sherek being in there. Um? I don't think, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.400 UM much will change, you know, as far as you 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.120 know the scheme and anything like that. Um, you know, 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.200 just just keep on pushing next man up. Just going 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.800 to have to communicate with Sherek Moore instead of Bryce. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.800 You know what I'm saying, Me and Bryce hu said 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.679 have you know, kind of goes back and forth, pre 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.319 snapping things like that. So I have to shift over 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.280 and get on that same page with Shared because of 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.320 your versatility. Was it ever discussed about possibly you filling 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.480 that role? Oh? Yeah, I mean emergency I'm you know, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.000 I have to learn well I think you know, because 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.760 you played corner in college and you have experience everywhere 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.560 in the defensive backfield, so it's one of those characters 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:24.320 that can play anywhere, right Yeah, so um in emergency situations? Yeah, 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.240 you know, UM, I have to learn everything, so you 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.920 know I might have to fill in. Um, here there, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.840 So I'm just prepared. You know, when we were watching film, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.040 when we when he talking to the Nick, who act 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.040 like he talking to me? You know, think about Sherik, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.200 and we've seen guys time and I've been here obviously 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.840 a long time, and guys that have been just known 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.440 as special teams players that also wanted to play defense. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.200 We never got the opportunity. The one guy I always 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.480 thinking of was Corey Graham just the other night watching 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.600 him play again. He's still playing the game and has 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.560 gone to a couple of Super Bowls. So when you 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.880 finally get that opportunity, no matter how deep it is 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.000 into your career, you know you welcome in. And a 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.640 guy like him, he's he's a very quiet guy, not 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.280 unlike yourself, not unlike it's a quiet secondary except for Prince, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.280 I guess Prince and Eddie. But with with wanting to 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.640 do that and not really being trusted completely by your 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.360 defensive coaches to do that on a regular basis or 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.000 but Vic Fangio does trust this man. He puts him 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.760 in packages, he's putting him on the field and getting 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.360 him out there the blitz and so forth. So it'll 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.960 be interesting to see Sherik with this kind of responsibility 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.080 because with Nickel now with three wides and four wide, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.720 you guys are out there in that instead of base 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.520 almost the whole time. Right. Um yeah, one thing about vic. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.520 If he don't trust, you're not going out there. So, um, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.800 you know, it's just next man up. It's not we're 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.520 not sitting here talking about um, you know in meetings 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.760 like oh man, what we're gonna do? Um, and sheriffs 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.840 just filling in. Um, you know he's been practicing Nickel 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.200 all year as well. It's not like you know, he 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.600 hasn't had any rest and he's just filling in there. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.680 So he's gonna come in and then we stick to 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.840 our terminology, you stick to our game plan and then 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.480 get in and get after it. Um. You know Shark 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.120 has been doing the dollars stuff with blitzing and different 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.000 things like that. He's been covering all year. So um yeah, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.640 he's a trusted everybody trusts him. So we're going into 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.560 this nice game confidence. Can you feel the pass rush 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.760 because you know we can see it. It's evident to us, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.280 say there as an ex offensive lineman or just fans 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.120 of the Bears, and you can see how aggressive is. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.440 But now you're a defensive back and the quarterback has 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.280 to make decisions at a little quicker pace than maybe 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.760 they did a couple of years ago. So can you 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.480 feel that rush? Yeah, I think, um, I think it 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.560 works hand to hand for sex, for interceptions with them 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:51.000 with the secondary, you know, making the quarterback double pump. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.560 You know, they get the sack, or we might have 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:59.360 a breakdown in the secondary and Mac or a team 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.240 get in there and break and tip of ball or 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.120 get to sack, you know and bail us out. So, um, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:06.800 I think it goes hand to hand, and it's just 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.479 it's just great to have that balance. And when you 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.280 had that balance of that, um, you know, you get 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.680 played games like last game where you got takeaways, you 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.360 got four interceptions, you got sacks, you got you got 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.360 it all. At the beginning of the year, Prince put 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.600 out a pretty heavy duty number out there, talked about 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.080 ten interceptions for himself. But you know how you see 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:26.400 what Kyle, do you see what you have been able 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.439 to do, Eddie Jackson, Prince himself, everybody's got involved in 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.199 the mix. You know, to me, it seemed like a 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.680 big number given the amount of interceptions that you got 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.480 the last couple of years. But now every everything's coming 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.280 into play, and the defensive backs are complimenting the pass 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.720 rush equally as well. Yeah, you know, Prince, he just 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:46.400 said one of his goals. You know what I'm saying. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.399 So um, I think I think every defensive back. You know, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.240 when you write a goal sheet the beginning to get 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.520 you want some crazy. You want to write something down 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.639 that nobody will believe you're gonna get. So you know, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.880 everybody does that? Have you done to do? Yeah? Every 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.119 single year I've got, I got a goal sheet and 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.720 just I'm not gonna say all my goals. Throw one 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:12.520 on there. Well, all right, playoffs, Yeah, that's not a 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.320 crazy one at off? Yeah, how about this. I didn't 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.840 know this until today, but tie by the Bears or 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.160 a Washington tie or lost Bears are in the playoffs 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.600 no matter what. Now they have bigger fish to fry. Obviously, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:30.679 Time shaking his head the room. I'm not I'm not 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.720 let her as a player, and now as a fan 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.080 as a broadcaster, I never want someone else to get 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.960 me into the playoffs. You got to get into the 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:42.159 playoffs of your your own abilities. You know. Naggie's an 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.399 unbelievable guy, isn't he. You know, from the dancing and 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.320 the postgame locker room celebration to everything he's ever said 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.040 at the podium since the minute he was hired has 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.600 come true. And it's got to be interesting for a 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.760 player to listen to because you know, he's telling you 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.600 how things are going to go, and he's stuck to 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.400 his word. Everything's coming up like like he's described to us. 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.240 Yeah he um. You know he's a great coach. He 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.080 came in, Um, he earned you know, respectum early on. 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.679 And then you know he's a coach. He wants us 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.520 to have fun. So he almost forces you to have fun. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.720 You know what I'm saying. He forces you to dance. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:22.480 He you know, he makes everybody, don't you know. I'm 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.280 not gonna say too much. I mean it's it's fun 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.680 because a lot of people, you know, play better when 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.120 and loose and you know, having fun. And then we're 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:33.160 winning as well, so you're winning. Um, you have time 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.320 to have fun. Is actually a lot of time, so 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.960 you're supposed to have fun right here. So um, So 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.800 that combination that just it brings the team close together. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.359 And this, you know, the closest team that you know, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:47.800 I feel like I've ever been on. I was just 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.080 talking to somebody the other day and I was just saying, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.840 it's the funniest the team I've ever been on, just 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:56.040 because people so loose. People, people say things that you 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.120 never heard them say before. I didn't even know you talked, 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.280 so you know what I'm saying. So, Um, you know, 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.440 it's just a better vibe when you win in energetic 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.080 and you know, everybody just loose, you know, between you 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:08.840 and Alan Robinson, he was on here a couple of 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.520 weeks ago with us and Jeff and I asked rob 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.520 Alan Robinson, I said, are you surprised at Adrianames his 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.439 success at this level of football? And he was not 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.240 surprised because you guys were close in college and they 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.439 understood the abilities you had there. Are you surprised at 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:28.879 his success at this level? Um, you know because of 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:33.160 what you saw him do in college. Um. People don't 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.280 really like me talking about Abra because they think I'm 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.320 biased because that's you know, it's been my boy. So 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:43.240 but um, really, I I'm not surprised. I really expect more, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.840 you know, because you know I've seen him day to 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.479 day and not seeing how he worked, how I prepared, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.240