WEBVTT - Jesper Horsted on making Bears roster | All Access 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.000 Welcome in everybody with another edition of Bears All Access 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.200 with Tom Thare I' Jeff Joning Act from News Radio 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.960 seven eighty and one or five point nine FM w BBM. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.440 As we get you set for the opening kickoff Sunday, 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.040 September twelfth. That was we wrap up this week. I 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.840 can't take it anymore, Big Tim. I just want football. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.799 I want real football, to see how the last six 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:23.840 weeks have unfolded and what it all means for the 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.120 Bears fans here in twenty twenty one. Well, Jeff, when 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.520 you talk about real football, it's something that starts on 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.400 Wednesday of this week, because that's when real football starts, 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.760 and every single football player throughout the course of time 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.040 they talk about the realism of that first practice that's 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.199 dedicated to game planning for an opponent. So it's not 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.240 something we're waiting till next Sunday night. It's something Jeff, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.320 that when you get out of the practice field, it's 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.800 got to be for real. Well, the guys who haven't played, 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.200 there are two days in the year when the speed 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.040 cranks up. It's opening week of the season and the 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.639 opening week of the postseason. That's when the reality will 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.080 hit him, no question. Yeah, yeah, But you know, the 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.960 reality that's got to soak in in preparation for the 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.640 game is understanding that. Listen, you've got to be ready 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.520 for four quarters. This is not something that you're going 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.160 through three preseason games and you may play five snaps, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.360 you may play two series of things. Go well, look, dude, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.600 it's a whole different frame of mind when you're ready 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.480 for four quarters of seventeen weeks of football. What is 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.320 your frame of mind? As now things are laid out. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.280 We still don't know some starting roles yet to be 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.000 defined on the defensive secondary, but we pretty much know 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.680 what the offense is going to look like. And let's 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.240 take it one step at a time. Let's start on 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.240 the offense. How do you feel about its positioning as 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.280 it goes up against this Rams outfit. I think this 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.640 is the right way to go about business for Week one. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.960 You have the most experienced quarterback on your staff. You 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.800 got a running back that you're really confident and is 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.360 willing and has the role of all three phases of 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.720 the running back game. You got playmakers and your wide 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.120 receiver position. When Darnell Mooney, A Robinson and the rest 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.520 of the crew, and then you have a heavy, deep 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.520 room of tight ends, the guys that can really be 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.239 involved in every fast of your offense from short yardage 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.079 to long distance. So I like what they put out there. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.880 I just need to see the development of the continuity 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.840 of the offensive line to see how they can increase 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.840 their role of importance on this offense. Like let's talk quarterback. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.040 Ryan Pace was asked at his news conference earlier this 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.079 week what the best case scenario for twenty twenty one 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.760 will be the Bears. The best case scenarios is to 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.840 win games with the roster that we have, and we 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.840 feel that we can, Like you know, we feel like 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.680 we've gotten strong in a lot of areas. We feel 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.720 like you have increased competition a lot of areas. So 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.280 we believe we can win games with Andy and then 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.840 grow Justin at the right rate, and Justin would be 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.480 Justin fields Andy Dalton zeroed in on this first start. Yeah, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.880 I mean, I'm in a great opportunity right here. I 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.120 knew that coming in that I'd get a chance to 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.840 start here, and that's my focus is on this year. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.600 The rest of my career is going to take care 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.359 of itself. But you know, my focus on what I'm 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.480 doing now, and um, you know, this is a big 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.200 year for me, and it's gonna for me. I've got 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.520 to go just play like an Oaken play and he 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.560 can do a lot because he's seen a lot time 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.840 and he's hoping for a quick start for this offense 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.519 in twenty twenty one. Yeah, I think just some of 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.639 the stuff that we've done in practice and some of 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.920 the stuff that we've been implementing, and the way our 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.720 guys have been been practicing and playing, I think that's 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.760 been big for us to know the potential of what 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.680 we can be and to be excited about what we have. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.440 And you alluded to all that about what they have. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.800 He sees it, players see it in him as well. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.720 And again the idea that he has seen everything and 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.480 now he's eleventh year. You know, Andy dald he's prepared 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.920 for what he's gonna see in the rams. He's prepared 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.600 for the atmosphere. When you talk about the difference in 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.120 the cadences from you know, last year with no crowd 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.440 to this year going in there in there and yeah, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.080 I don't know how hostile an environment it's gonna because 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.040 I think it's gonna be a Barras heavy crowd. But again, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.760 it's got to be complimentary football, Jeff. This is not 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.520 solely that what the offense is going to do. The 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.120 offense has to start fast and put points on the 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.200 board to allow their defense and Sean to sign new 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.520 defensive coordinator to be a little bit more aggressive. So again, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.440 whether it's through the legs of David Montgomery in the 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.479 running back room or downfield through the receiver tight end game. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.800 So I do think that it's got to be a 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:25.120 real complimentary atmosphere from the Bears. So while that's going on, 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.400 Justin Fields is getting ready because should there be a 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.720 snap when Andy Dunton gets dinged or something happens, he's 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.680 got to get out there and run the offense like 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.480 he is prepared to do so. So the scout team 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.360 aspect of it is part of the processes. Matt negu 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.919 lad out this week, that's real and so for him, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.080 what we'll have to do is number one, mentally, you 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.840 have to make sure mentally that you are completely prepared 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.520 within the game plan with whatever that is. So calling 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.160 the place understanding now that you're that we're rolling like, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.920 so you know, something happens or there's a shoelace or 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.719 something whatever, you got to go in there like there's 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.440 no there's no setback and it's go time. Um So mentally, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.400 you got to prepare yourself. That's easy. He can do 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.160 that through through film and video and you know, whatever 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.320 it is that he does physically is where you got 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.400 to be able to, um, stay on top of that 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.000 because you don't get the reps and so where do 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.440 you get those reps? Well as your technique and fundamentals 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.280 can still happen on the look team. That's where he's understanding. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.040 He stepped his game up with that. So now he's 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.080 playing like a real quarterback and looked team. So he 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.600 gets it. He understands the why that's that part it 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.120 looked him. But Dan, we got to be able to 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.640 go in between periods and he's got to get those 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.640 physical reps and then post practice get the mental and 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.120 the physical. And we do some things with our younger 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.600 guys anyway that we started last year where we're able 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.400 to get some to get some reps for them of 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.680 our game plan. So all of that said, every week 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.520 that goes by, every play in minute that goes by, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.880 he just keeps growing and then we gotta Flip has 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.680 a great plan ready for him. What do you think 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.479 He's still gonna have to go out there, run the 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.880 scout team and try to be as challenging to the 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.240 defensive defensive players as he possibly can. But he's also 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.960 going to have to live in that Bears classroom in 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.760 being able to absorb this offense that they're going to 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.320 continue to install throughout the regular season and make sure 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.920 he has a competent and complete understanding of it. Until 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.039 he goes in and he's the starting quarterback, he's gonna 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.760 have multiple roles throughout the early portions are doing throughout 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.600 the season. That's Tom there. I'm Jeff Joniak. Coming up, 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.240 We'll be joined by veteran tight end. Veteran tight end, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:37.960 but a man who made the fifty three for the 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.960 first time out of the gate, Jesper Horsted, will join us. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.920 Thanks for listening, everybody. Thanks to our producers Jordan trent 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.600 Up and Dan Briley. This is Chicago Sports Radio six 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.520 seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.880 to you by IgGs Energy. Choose clean energy for your 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.480 home at IGS dot com because every good choice adds 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.800 up to a better world. Please to be joined with 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.880 Tom there with Jesper Horsted veteran tight end. I love 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.520 saying that young man's been here since twenty nineteen. Thanks 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.320 for taking the time out and you made the fifty 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.400 three for the first time right out of the gate. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.960 What does that mean to you? I sure did, and 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.080 thank you for having me. It means a lot. I think, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.960 you know, when I come here, that's obviously the goal, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.480 and then it's just like tantalizing to be on the 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.160 practice squad and have it be so close to practice 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.239 against the team every day and travel with the team 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.320 but not really be a part of the team and 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.120 not really contribute on game day. And so it's just 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.679 something that's absolutely been my goal obviously since I wanted 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.320 to join the NFL, and it feels very very good 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.240 to achieve it. Finally, you know, I really felt Saturday 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.480 going into the game that you had made the fifty 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.240 three man roster. Did you feel that you needed the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.600 performance that you had to make the fifty three? I did, yeah, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.640 And I think part of that's just kind of my mindset, 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.560 and I knew that if I had a performance like that, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.640 I'd be on the safer end. But I did not, 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.360 by any means feel like I was a shoe in 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.120 on the roster. You know, I just wasn't happy with 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.320 my performance the previous game, So I just felt like 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.520 I needed to put good stuff on film in a 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.360 game that third preseason game, and I knew I'd have opportunities. Right, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.280 You got ninety two catches as a junior in college 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.080 and he got seventy two as a senior. Was it 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.080 better coverage against you or were you not? Or what 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.520 was the difference between that year? The difference was I 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.840 think we averaged winning games by like thirty five points. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.200 So I barely played in the second half of my 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.640 senior year. We went ten to Oh really, well, that's 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.360 the first undefeated Princeton team since nineteen sixty four. Now 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.160 it's hard to go on beating no matter what level, Right, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.440 So what was it about that experience? It's something you 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.280 and your buddies from that team will never ever forget. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.960 They can never take that away from you. Yeah, for sure. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.080 It's a quirky schedule to only play ten games and 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.760 not have any playoff f that. So most time, unless 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.760 you're the absolute best team, you're going to eventually lose 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.679 a game, you know, for better for worse. I think 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.520 we all would have liked to compare ourselves to other 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.560 talent in the FCS and even in Division one football. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.199 But yeah, it's really something special to go ten and 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.520 know that was a really close team and a really 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.040 talented team that has you know, other guys in NFL 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.680 rosters as well, So we're constantly staying in touch. So 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.400 does seventeen games sound like a lot to you? When 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.679 you think about ten and oh, in college you bent 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.160 through a sixteen game season and now a seventeen game 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.560 Does that numbers sound like a lot off the bat 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.360 in comparison to what I did in college? I would 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.640 say yes, But I also did baseball in college, and 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.559 that's a completely different ball game as well, where you're 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.000 playing games, you know, almost every single day. When you 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.720 look at those minor league and they're playing one hundred, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.760 fifty hundred and sixty games, so it's all reference. But 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.320 to me, seventeen games is absolutely a lot, and that's 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.080 not even counting playoffs. Jesper Horsted our guest here on 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.800 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score with Top There, 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:01.280 I'm Jeff Jonahak tell us your background from Roseville, Minnesota 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.200 clearly a sports junkie. Right, growing up you did everything 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.280 And do you think all that and tell me everything 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.880 you did in addition to baseball made you a better 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.480 football player. Yeah, I've kind of been pounding the table 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.120 for cross training as I talked to younger athletes, because 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:21.440 I just think there's so much you can only develop 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.840 yourself so much for a certain sport by just doing 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.920 the same stuff over and over. You know, it builds 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.880 incredible hand ie. When you're playing baseball and seeing thousands 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.319 pitches every day that are coming in at ninety plus 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.160 miles per hour with some crazy curve, like, you have 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.959 to learn how to track the spin of a ball 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:36.880 in a way that you might not just get if 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.439 you're just running routes or playing catch with a quarterback. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.120 And in basketball, it's about high pointing and body positioning 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.640 and finding open spaces and getting in front of a 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.560 defender to block. It's very similar to like a kickoff 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.120 return play. So I think that I'm always pulling in 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.800 skills that I've developed in other sports as I'm out 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.079 there playing, and I'm always just preaching to younger people 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.000 like I know there's gonna be a lot of pressure 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.200 from coaches to get you to specialize, and I know 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.800 that it just constantly seems like we're going in that direction. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.079 But you can really, really, you know, expand your skill 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.400 set by playing other sports. But you know, when you 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.280 see guys like Adam feel in another Minnesota sports superstar. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.640 Now now you come in going you go from the 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.960 IVY League to the NFL. Do you track a guy 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.480 like that or was he off your radar? And you know, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.559 the Minnesota I mean, that's a heck come an accomplishment 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.719 for what he did and now what you're doing, Oh 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.360 are you kidding me? I was at his very first 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.920 preseason game. I've never met him personally, but like that 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.000 was the guy that I looked up to and frankly 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.960 still do. His story is unbelievable and I love the 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.760 way that he approaches the game of football. So there 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.880 were a lot of times when I had to remind 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.360 myself of like how he was able to get where 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.959 he is now despite a lot of setbacks and kind 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:54.120 of just say you know what, like I got to 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.120 just you know, stay on track. It worked for him, 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.280 like maybe to work for me too. When you talk 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.680 about what you've been able to accomplish special teams. Was 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.760 that in your role in college or were you exclusively 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.840 such a high performing receiver that you didn't have to 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.120 go to those lengths because that's the way that you 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.200 were going to build your NFL careers. Frankly, was being 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.640 on special teams just like the same thing for me. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.160 I was on a kickoff return my whole career exactly, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.360 and I didn't play much in high school nor college. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.760 Part of it was an injury my freshman year when 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.400 I think I would have contributed in those phases. But yeah, 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.160 that was a big you know, learning jump too, and 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.400 something that I feel like I'm exponentially better at than 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:37.760 when I came in here two years ago. And you're 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.120 you're so right, like that is so fundamental for me 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.640 to show what I can do in those phases to 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.280 actually get to step on the field as a tight end. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.480 It totally comes second to being able to be competent 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.400 and special teams and more than competent. Ted and Jesper 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.120 Horsted our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.160 The Score. This is Bears All Access with Tom There, 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.640 Jeff Joniac We've been there together, Tom and Ike for 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.880 twenty five years doing this. Tim obviously eleven year NFL 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.840 career as a player. And a lot of guys try 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.199 out for football as undrafted free agents. They think they 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.640 want to play, they think they can do it, but 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.400 then the reality starts to hit and the erosion starts 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.600 to take impact. Almost from the rookie mini camp and 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.000 on down, maybe some doubt themselves and they don't want 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.359 to do it anymore. Clearly, you are just the opposite. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.000 You came in as a converted receiver, projected to be 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.679 a tight end with a two hundred and twenty pound frame, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.120 and now you've packed on another twenty six twenty eight pounds. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.400 You had to really want to do this. Am I 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.480 on the right track? Or was there ever anything in 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.480 your mind saying cash, I don't know, I'm an Ivy 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.000 League guy. I mean I could be doing a lot 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.040 of different things now. I don't think that ever really 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:48.960 crossed my mind, because inevitably, in football you can't play 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.480 it the rest of your life, like there will always 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.000 come times or I'll be able to fall back on 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.440 my education and you know, sit at a desk and 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.840 do all that stuff. But I my goal was always 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.080 to keep playing sports as long as possible, and so 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.360 it never really my mind, even on the worst days 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.440 of camp or you know, yeah, at the worst times. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.640 I enjoyed your answer when you joined us in the 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.319 postgame show after what is grab some headlines. You're three 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.520 touchdown performance obviously, and the catches were just phenomenal. We'll 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.640 talk about those in our next segment. But with that 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:21.440 kind of impact and that kind of direction that you 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:25.720 are getting from Clancy Barrone and Matt Nage, your answer 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.360 about that, yeah, I deserve a spot of the roster. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.640 I need guys to hear that if I want them 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.000 on my team. And that's what you gave us on 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.360 Saturday night. So that's been bubbling up in you for 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.280 a while, hasn't it. It has. Like I said, it 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.080 was something I have worked harder for than you know, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.600 just about anything else I can think back on. And 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.280 I really wanted my efforts to show on the field, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.520 and when they did, I wanted it to be recognized 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.240 that like I was here because I felt like I 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.560 can contribute to this team and I feel like I'm 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.720 now at a level that I can, you know, help 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.480 the Bears win games. Five tight ends on the roster 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.760 right now. That's up some what rare in the national 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.280 football They got know miamis five. Another team has five 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.240 right now, but plenty, plenty of time on the field 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.200 to get the ball into the hands of the playmakers, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.280 and the tight ends are playmakers on this team. We'll 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.080 continue on with Jesper Horstead after a break with Tom There, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.080 Jeff Joni Act on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.360 This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.520 by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit Athletico dot com to request 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.160 an appointment in clinic or virtually and start feeling better 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.320 tomorrow with Jesper Horstead. Kind enough to spend another ten 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.760 minutes with Tom and Jeff here on Chicago Sports Radio 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.800 six seventy the score and advance of a weekend off 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.080 and time to get back at it against the La 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.960 Rams Sunday night, September twelf. It's gonna be a fun 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.120 week up here at hallis Hall. All right, let's talk 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.520 about all you know when you did the game tape. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.360 I don't know, did you guys watch the game tape 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.600 at all? Even as a tight end group, or is 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.560 that history, because it's a heck of a performance. Five catches, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.360 a hundred and four yards, three touchdowns, and he drew 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.160 a pass interference penalty that seems to be forgotten as 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.680 well because that's that's the hidden yardage? Or did you 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.800 take they'll look at what you did. We did not 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.560 as a group or team watched that film. I think 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.920 after that last season game, you really shift the focus 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.520 to what really matters and that week one regular season matchup. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.120 But I certainly watched the film the good and the bad. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.400 You know, I was out there for a lot of 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:18.120 snaps and there's a couple I would like back whateverall, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:19.640 I was really happy with the performance, you know, and 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.480 I'm looking at more than just the five catches, but 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.240 I show what I could do on special teams. I 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.040 actually had some good blocks in there too, which I'm 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.720 really proud of. So I watched it, but I don't 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.320 think we did as a group. The skills that you 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.480 develop as a wide receiver, how much has that helped 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.080 you into this level of football? And is your speed 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.920 significantly different from a wide receiver body to a tight 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.000 end body. Wide receiver skills I think are totally transferable 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.400 as I'm running routes out there. It's the same stuff 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.480 that I was coached on in high school and college, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.040 and now to have you know, Clancy and Matt be 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.440 able to even further that education, it's been Yeah, I'm 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.320 certainly a better receiver than I was when I played 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.840 at Princeton or Roseville. I think maybe I lost half 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.800 a step, but I think that's inevitable when you're putting 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.080 on twenty five pounds on the body, and it's a 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.920 little bit different coming out of that three point stance. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.040 But for the most part, I lost a lot less 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.800 speed than I expected, and I still feel like I'm 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.440 pretty fast, and that's an advantage I have as a 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.480 tight end out there. How long did it take you 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.160 to learn a three point stance? Because there's a real 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.920 question because I'm an offensive lineman, Jesper, I live out 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.640 of a three point stance still, when you're a wide receiver. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.040 When you're a wide receiver and you transfer that type 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.760 of size into a three point stance, how long did 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.119 it take for you to feel comfortable in a stance 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.160 and out of a stance? Longer than I expected? Frankly, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.080 it's an unusual stance. You know, I had done, like 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.120 I said, other sports and track, and I've come out 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.159 of stances before, but it's different when you need to 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.080 be powerful immediately out of the stance and quick out 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.159 of it too, because otherwise the defender is going to 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.320 have a step on you. So I would say like 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.359 I didn't necessarily feel comfortable throughout that first year, and 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.920 then in that offseason, I was like, this is something 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.560 I need to be like confident and comfortable out of. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.520 So I spent more time coming out of the stants. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.080 You know, anytime I was running on my own, I 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:07.119 was just like, all right, I guess I'm going to 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.240 do it out of a stance this time last year. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:10.879 Really honed in on in the practice squad and now 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.760 feel very comfortable. But it took longer than I thought, really. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.560 Jesper Horsted our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.680 seventy the score, Jeff Joni Act Tom There. So the hands, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.160 the hands are big. That's the aspect of your game. Yes, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.280 you can use your body to seal off a defender. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:27.760 You can run the right routes, but if you don't 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.320 have good hands, they don't have a place for in 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.800 the National Football League? Were they always good or have 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.280 you spent a significant amount of time working on those hands. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:37.879 I mean, it's a given you're gonna work out it 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.840 no matter what. But tell me about that story. Yeah, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.880 I think it's kind of been my strength as an 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.720 athlete from the beginning. And I go back to the 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.920