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Speaker 1: the great Chicago Bear offensive guard Tim. There, good evening time,
Speaker 1: Big Jeff. It's gonna be a lot. Like all your dinners,
Speaker 1: we have a lot to digest. And so when you
Speaker 1: think about the beginning of the season, you think about
Speaker 1: the coaches talking today, you think about us getting prepared
Speaker 1: to be at Hollis Hall to watch rookie miniicamp. When
Speaker 1: you take all that in, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of excitement on the table and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: every every step of it. The only thing missing is
Speaker 1: there a total return of normalcy. But we're knocking on
Speaker 1: that door hopefully. But yes, all the assistant coaches, the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator spoke today. When you total it up, some
Speaker 1: two hours, a lot of a lot of questions you
Speaker 1: might suspect about rookie Minicamp and the arrival of Justin
Speaker 1: Fields from Ohio State. We'll start with that right now
Speaker 1: with you and I and the quarterback coach John D.
Speaker 1: Philippo on the first steps for the Ohio State rookie.
Speaker 1: The first thing when we talked about this, you know,
Speaker 1: all we've I guess we've been zooming. I guess last
Speaker 1: two weeks. I guess it is. And I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to share the things that he might share
Speaker 1: in terms of our short term goals, but one of
Speaker 1: them was, I'll tell you one of them was to
Speaker 1: you know, have command of the you know that that's
Speaker 1: you know, show the other ten guys in that huddle
Speaker 1: that you have some commanding. We've been working your butt
Speaker 1: off calling the plays, knowing the cadence, knowing where to
Speaker 1: go with the football. It's not going to be a
Speaker 1: very in depth installation in terms of the the amount
Speaker 1: of plays, amount of formations, shifts and motions in that thing.
Speaker 1: But I want to see him. You know, those building
Speaker 1: blocks of becoming a starting quarterback in the league, and
Speaker 1: you start at the lowest of love. You start with
Speaker 1: the cadence, You start with the huddle, You start with
Speaker 1: knowing your first wide visioning, which is everything that you
Speaker 1: have before you get the ball in your hand, play clock,
Speaker 1: Are we lined up correctly? What's the cadence? Is there?
Speaker 1: Killed with the play? So the mechanics of playing quarterback,
Speaker 1: the mechanics of the first step of knowing our offense
Speaker 1: is what we're trying to build upon to when the
Speaker 1: veteran players come down, and they do have a body
Speaker 1: of work from Ohio State too, and his excellence there
Speaker 1: at Tommy. Yeah, you know what's weird because now when
Speaker 1: we talk about college quarterbacks coming out of their system,
Speaker 1: we have to talk about their presence in the huddle
Speaker 1: because some of these guys Jeff that they don't huddle up,
Speaker 1: they look to the sideline, they look at those big
Speaker 1: poster boards up and then they call a play for there. So,
Speaker 1: like they say, you gotta have command in the huddle,
Speaker 1: you want to have it because the first thing you
Speaker 1: tell every single guy in that huddle is make eye
Speaker 1: contact with the quarterback, see what he's saying, and see
Speaker 1: the quarterback and then kind of filter the information that
Speaker 1: he's getting out how it pertains to you. You talk
Speaker 1: about the past concepts that he's gonna have to learn,
Speaker 1: how he's going to bring the information from the classroom
Speaker 1: out into that huddle. And so we're gonna see evidence
Speaker 1: of that, and all the coaches are going to see
Speaker 1: evidence of that immediately. And I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really exciting because we're talking about the learning process of
Speaker 1: the quarterback position and how it fits into this type
Speaker 1: of athlete and really starting from a square one here,
Speaker 1: because you're stripping it down to the bare wire here.
Speaker 1: And it's big part on the shoulders for Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback at the moment, and Nick Foles, and
Speaker 1: for I think it was Bill Laser that said it.
Speaker 1: It's on the kid the rookie to learn from those
Speaker 1: guys and watch and ask questions as opposed to them
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, teach him how to do it.
Speaker 1: Just watch, learn, listen, and go and go do your
Speaker 1: job and it'll be an interesting scenario when it all
Speaker 1: comes out there in training camp. But this is just
Speaker 1: the baby steps right now, we remiss. We got condolences
Speaker 1: to tarikoh and Tom and his family with the loss
Speaker 1: of his brother this week. Super hard, super difficult for anybody,
Speaker 1: certainly somebody in the spotlight here and rough road after
Speaker 1: an ACL tear last year. He was looking forward to
Speaker 1: getting back and working hard through his rehab to get
Speaker 1: back on the field. But condolences to the Cohens Oh,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, his entire family. I feel so
Speaker 1: bad for him because when you receive information like that
Speaker 1: and you're not prepared for it, you don't know how
Speaker 1: you're gonna handle it. Because Tarik, already in his life,
Speaker 1: has overcome so many stickles. When you talk about everything
Speaker 1: that's always referred to they make reference to his size
Speaker 1: and how that will fit into football, and he's been
Speaker 1: able to come in here and Jeff, we've seen his
Speaker 1: growth process from the first time we ever did an
Speaker 1: interview with him at an event to how he's the
Speaker 1: type of growth that he's shown to us in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. He's a super engaging, intelligent personality
Speaker 1: who I really grown to appreciate. However, he's got to
Speaker 1: be so supportive right now of his family like never before,
Speaker 1: and so prayers and everything that goes out from the
Speaker 1: entire Bears family and us as just individuals, and knowing
Speaker 1: him as the person that he has become. All right,
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show tonight, we've got to Jim
Speaker 1: Miller coming up from Serious Sex, MNFL Radio, the former
Speaker 1: Bears quarterback. He'll spend some time with us as always tonight.
Speaker 1: At coming up at the bottom of the hour, the
Speaker 1: rookie defensive back Patrick Graham out of Oregon will join
Speaker 1: the program as he gets ready for his maiden voyage
Speaker 1: in the NFL as well. Our producers tonight, Jordan Trent Up,
Speaker 1: Dam Brelly, Julio Rosso and the Score Studios were brought
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Speaker 1: Jony Act back with Jim Miller and Moore here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Hey,
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Speaker 1: welcome in our buddy Jim Miller from Serious Sex m
Speaker 1: FL Radio is moving the chains with his buddy Pat Kerwin.
Speaker 1: Happy schedule release day, Jim Miller. It'll become official. We'll
Speaker 1: have it off for you at six forty five. Much
Speaker 1: of it's been leaked out all over the NFL landscape.
Speaker 1: Everybody works very hard on it. I'm sure you guys
Speaker 1: had all the important games today as well, but the
Speaker 1: one that matters the most for US Bears rams to
Speaker 1: open things up against a team that believes it's the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender, no question out there in La. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, for the Bears one, good to be with
Speaker 1: you guys again. And yeah, you know they're facing a
Speaker 1: familiar quarterback who they know and Matthew Stafford. So I
Speaker 1: think that immediately helps the Bears because that's a tough
Speaker 1: road game. There'll be a lot of fans there supposedly, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what the state does out there.
Speaker 1: But so far stadium, they are expected to have fans
Speaker 1: at the game so they can finally christen that stadium correctly.
Speaker 1: So it should be, you know, a tough road game.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's a tough opening game against
Speaker 1: the team that's world coached by Sean McBay and with
Speaker 1: a new quarterback that really can sling it all over
Speaker 1: the lot. But the Bears at least are familiar with
Speaker 1: that style of play for Matthew Staffords and a couple
Speaker 1: of more primetime games leaked out as well. Looks like
Speaker 1: the Bears and lines back on Thanksgiving some night games
Speaker 1: always with the Packers, you're gonna have one of those
Speaker 1: that you can sketch it down at all times. But
Speaker 1: again Tommy and I had around six forty five. Will
Speaker 1: break it on down in more detail, but I you know,
Speaker 1: you kne who the opponents were. Jim and I brought
Speaker 1: this up with Tom earlier today. I just love the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: It's it's quite the collection of quarterbacks from young to old.
Speaker 1: The Bears are gonna face this year from Stafford and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow if he's health, thea Baker Mayfield you got,
Speaker 1: of course, the great Tom Brady. I'm assuming Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: will still be in Green Bay, although Blake Bartle's reportedly
Speaker 1: coming aboard late word here tonight. Kyler Murray, the excitement
Speaker 1: of Kyler Murray, the excitement of Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: I mean, if Trey Lance is going to be in
Speaker 1: the mix by at some point, or Jimmy Garoppolo's battle
Speaker 1: there yet, Derek Carr, I mean, you name it, were
Speaker 1: facing it this year and the Bears defense is going
Speaker 1: to be tested across the board. Fellas, Yes, they really are.
Speaker 1: And you know that's a great group of quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: they're gonna be facing. You know, you just look at
Speaker 1: the overhaul on the AFC side of things. I mean,
Speaker 1: other than you know the veterans say like big Ben Rothisburg,
Speaker 1: I mean almost entirely, the AFC is overturned from all
Speaker 1: older quarterbacks to younger quarterbacks. So and these are talented
Speaker 1: players that are playing right away. They're have an impact
Speaker 1: for their team. And we'll see this year how it
Speaker 1: goes for young Trevor Lawrence drafted by the Jaguars, you know,
Speaker 1: opening day for the Jets, and Zach Wilson is Sam
Speaker 1: Donald gets to face them, tries to get a little revenge,
Speaker 1: but the AFC clearly there has been an overhaul at
Speaker 1: the quarterback spot. But the Bear's schedule, even with those
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, they got some savvy veterans that know how
Speaker 1: to get it done. And it's a tough, tough group
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks they'll be facing me. You know, we talk
Speaker 1: a lot about quarterbacks, but when you talk about the
Speaker 1: Bears opening game and you talk about Khalil Mack versus
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, you're talking about a monster preparation for both
Speaker 1: offensive lines over there. Because now I don't think you
Speaker 1: really have great mobility in Matthew Stafford, so that's gonna
Speaker 1: put more pressure on the Rams offensive line, and you
Speaker 1: have dominance by Aaron Donald, So that's gonna put a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on the Bears offensive line. Three sacks
Speaker 1: in the first game of the year. Throughout his career,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald miss Week one in two thousand and seventeen
Speaker 1: and all those sacks are at home, So yeah, he's
Speaker 1: only has three of them in the first week of
Speaker 1: the season. However, it's going to create some sleepless night
Speaker 1: by the offensive line and where Aaron Donald will line
Speaker 1: up because there's no guarantee he's gonna line up over
Speaker 1: Cody Whitehair or over the right guard. He could be
Speaker 1: camping out over the left tackle, whoever that is, or
Speaker 1: he can even visit the right tackle. Aaron Donald has
Speaker 1: that type of skill in the way his season concluded
Speaker 1: with tears on the sideline during the playoff game. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be an emotional game for Aaron Rodger or
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, just like it should be for Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: And four months they get ready for him, Big Jim
Speaker 1: So he's the defensive player of the year. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: think about him, Tom's already sweating as if he's playing him.
Speaker 1: Tom's already sweating. I could see it on his brow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom would have a sleepless night for four months I
Speaker 1: would think about But you know, it starts this weekend
Speaker 1: with the rookie minicamp. They're already going from phase one
Speaker 1: to phase two. He's starting to break these these rookies
Speaker 1: in and you know, I'm exciting time. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just glad they're they're back in the building. I'm glad
Speaker 1: they're back in their work and everybody's going to be
Speaker 1: able to conduct a full offseason here and yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: have the protocols and everything set up for the players,
Speaker 1: but it's good to see it's already happening this early
Speaker 1: around the NFL. From Sean Desai, first year defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: ninth year with the Bears. He mentioned this the time
Speaker 1: he was promoted to the position. He re emphasized it
Speaker 1: again today what he wants the defense to look like
Speaker 1: moving forward for the twenty twenty one Chicago Bears. You
Speaker 1: I want this defense to be palpable. I want people
Speaker 1: around the city and around the country in the world
Speaker 1: that's watching this defense, whether it's live or on tape,
Speaker 1: to make sure they know the type of defense that
Speaker 1: we are. Whether you're a football fan or not, you're
Speaker 1: gonna field his defense physically and emotionally. And I think
Speaker 1: that's that's that's something that we're hoping to hang our
Speaker 1: hats on. Tom. When you hear that emotionally as well,
Speaker 1: that means he wants these guys fired up, playing with
Speaker 1: the hair on fire, reckless, abandoned the whole bit. And
Speaker 1: you know we've been asking for that. We've been asked
Speaker 1: for a very aggressive make it make it so that
Speaker 1: you dread playing this defense. Do they have the guys
Speaker 1: to pull that off, the kype of mentality he's looking for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have the type of guys that can pull this off,
Speaker 1: and they have growth and development. When you talk about
Speaker 1: Pro bowlers and all three levels, when you talk about
Speaker 1: a Key Hicks and you talk about Khalil Mack, you
Speaker 1: talk about Rokuan Smith, you talk about Eddie Jackson and
Speaker 1: how the other pieces fit into place. But then he
Speaker 1: also talks about the spirit of the defense, the physical approach,
Speaker 1: and the emotional approach, because look, man, you cannot go
Speaker 1: out and play football emotionless. On the side of the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring that we want. Mike Ditka has a
Speaker 1: word and it's called ace, and it's attitude, character and enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: And whether you're Mike Dipke in the eighties, are Sean
Speaker 1: Dasai in the two thousands, emotions they got to be
Speaker 1: at a high point. When you talk about the way
Speaker 1: a defense has to play at this level throughout the
Speaker 1: whole season, all seventeen games, I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's about heart and obviously emotional playing emotional like like
Speaker 1: Tom talked about, but you gotta have that pride, you
Speaker 1: know you as a player got to have that pride
Speaker 1: what you want to accompt here to look at the
Speaker 1: paris they were on be able to often. You know
Speaker 1: what we've talked plenty of a soft season about offensive accountability.
Speaker 1: That the offense has got to do better is cantem
Speaker 1: drops on the board and preserve the defense that was
Speaker 1: really thrown to the Wolves and there were still an
Speaker 1: eleventh overall defense. I think if they don't love as
Speaker 1: many plays as they did defensively, they're definitely a top
Speaker 1: ten defense. Really, all they've lost is the corner in full.
Speaker 1: So I think, you know this is the that can
Speaker 1: be a top ten defense again. But we're gonna need
Speaker 1: to help on an offensive side of the ball some
Speaker 1: account of clue there. But heart and pride is what
Speaker 1: I say, you know will be a little bit more rest.
Speaker 1: Hey Jim, we're gonna have to have you read dial
Speaker 1: because you're losing and you're dropping out on your line.
Speaker 1: Help us out there if you can, we'll get back
Speaker 1: to you. Coming out of a break up, Bill Shoey,
Speaker 1: Tom the outside linebackers coach, now really was asked a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about Robert Quinn and his production and
Speaker 1: that is a big component of this too. It's not
Speaker 1: like there's something broke there. I don't think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's something He's got, the ability, he's got
Speaker 1: the career production. You know, we we and my job
Speaker 1: will be to make sure that he's put in positions
Speaker 1: where he can he can make more plays, and I
Speaker 1: think he's looking forward to doing that. I also think
Speaker 1: it's going to come out and balancing out the reps
Speaker 1: to time we get of the timeliness of getting him
Speaker 1: into the games of the right situations where he construct,
Speaker 1: you know, be at his best. Temmy, what do you
Speaker 1: think I'd be licking my jobs if I was Robert Quinn,
Speaker 1: Because there are extremely high expectations for the reason he
Speaker 1: was signed to come here for the Bears. And when
Speaker 1: you look at that opening opponent for the Rams, I said,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. He doesn't move around that. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be a Kyler Murray. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. So if they can get that push from
Speaker 1: Achima Khalil on the other side, Robert Quinn should be
Speaker 1: open to those sack opportunities. And he talks about how
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn has to finish the play, and you finish
Speaker 1: that play by either strip sacking the ball like he
Speaker 1: did the first opportunity he had the Russia passer this
Speaker 1: past year. And I listen, man, I see Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: out of practice, and he works hard. He's the type
Speaker 1: of guy if he comes in here, if he's healthy
Speaker 1: and physically ready to go, there's gonna be concerns from
Speaker 1: him for him by every offensive coordinator, all right. And
Speaker 1: the topic also of Trevis Gibson learning that position without
Speaker 1: the benefit of a complete offseason last year. That hurts
Speaker 1: players like that. All the coaches agree on that. And
Speaker 1: also you got Jeremiah touch You coming aboard as well,
Speaker 1: pass rusher. When we come back, we'll rejoin Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: Thomas Graham, the Bear's safety excuse me, cornerback coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour as well. This is
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Speaker 1: We're here from offensive coordinator Bill Laser later this afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm not certain you got a chance to hear that
Speaker 1: we're gonna play a chunk right here, but I do
Speaker 1: appreciate one. Coaches like himself say that they feel a
Speaker 1: great responsibility when you got a rot talent like he's
Speaker 1: bringing in here with Justin Fields to help develop up
Speaker 1: balancing that act of you know, having a starting quarterback
Speaker 1: of veteran in uh Andy Dalton and another one on
Speaker 1: the roster and Nick Foles. I probably think more of
Speaker 1: a responsibility to the development player like and I've talked
Speaker 1: to Justin about that. But with every as a coach,
Speaker 1: I think you feel, you know, personally, I feel personal
Speaker 1: responsibilities to these guys. Again, I like working with adults,
Speaker 1: but you can, I think you can still affect people's lives,
Speaker 1: you know, in all seriousness, and so I try, I
Speaker 1: try to have a responsibility to affect their lives in
Speaker 1: a positive way number one outside of football. Number Two,
Speaker 1: I want them to feel like I also have their
Speaker 1: best interests in mind. Even if if the decision I
Speaker 1: have to make or the opinion I have to give
Speaker 1: to Matt and Ryan on personal decisions, it's got to
Speaker 1: start with what's the best thing for us to win
Speaker 1: winning games. But at the same time, I want, hopefully
Speaker 1: I've built the trust with them that they also know
Speaker 1: that that I have their personal development as a player
Speaker 1: in mind and that I'm only going to help them
Speaker 1: as best that I possibly can. And I think the thing,
Speaker 1: the thing that I learned when you come to this
Speaker 1: league from college, is you know, especially when you're a
Speaker 1: young coach, well, how's it going to be dealing with
Speaker 1: some guys that are the same age as you? Right,
Speaker 1: the first time I was in NFL quarterback coach, the
Speaker 1: quarterback was actually older than me by just a little bit, okay,
Speaker 1: And so how do you how do you get them
Speaker 1: to listen to you? Like, all these things go through
Speaker 1: your mind. And someone, a friend who predating me joining
Speaker 1: the NFL told me a start by you know, coaching
Speaker 1: the young guys, we exactly what you know, and you
Speaker 1: just as soon as you show them that you can
Speaker 1: help them be better, that you can make them a
Speaker 1: better player. Like that, the bond, the trust, it all
Speaker 1: falls into place and it's just coaching. And so I
Speaker 1: hope that that that they know and I've described that
Speaker 1: to Justin, but I hope that they know that I
Speaker 1: have their best interest as a player in mind also
Speaker 1: and that I take responsibility and helping them develop. And
Speaker 1: you know, there's only so many things you can focus
Speaker 1: on once, So I let them know I care about
Speaker 1: him as a person, do what I think is better
Speaker 1: for the team to win, and then and then hopefully
Speaker 1: they can feel that I'm trying to help him become
Speaker 1: a better player. And I really think in the development
Speaker 1: the long if I can be focused on those three things,
Speaker 1: and I gotta trust that the big picture is going
Speaker 1: to take care of himself. Boy, I counted about six
Speaker 1: words in their trust Jim Miller about that and that
Speaker 1: trust thing. If for a quarterback comes into a situation
Speaker 1: like this, a veteran, a rookie, is that the number one?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think from the coach said all the
Speaker 1: things I needed to hear. One, am I making the
Speaker 1: player better? You know, players will buy in. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter you know, where you've coached before, or even if
Speaker 1: you haven't played the game of football. A player is
Speaker 1: going to judge their coach by is he making me
Speaker 1: a better player? And if you've got that that call
Speaker 1: buy in, you're gonna work harder and that player is gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, have that trust because he knows that, hey,
Speaker 1: how this guy is coaching me. I feel I've made
Speaker 1: improvements and I bettered my game. And as coach said,
Speaker 1: he takes great responsibility in bringing quarterbacks along, and that
Speaker 1: should be true at any position for any coach, because
Speaker 1: it's a foundational block. When you get to the NFL
Speaker 1: your first year, that's that's your foundation, right and then
Speaker 1: those building blocks are moving on. You know, you keep
Speaker 1: on building every single year with another building block. And
Speaker 1: I think for players, they got to be if you
Speaker 1: teach the player the right tools to equip them to
Speaker 1: go out and play, then you're going to earn it
Speaker 1: that way as well. But clearly they're not going to
Speaker 1: throw justin fields to the wolves. You know. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody should put in a young quarterback who clearly
Speaker 1: is not ready to play when they're ready to play
Speaker 1: that's when you put them on the field. I think
Speaker 1: the Bears have said that every single time, whether it's
Speaker 1: Matt Nagee, whether it's a coach like Bill Laser, who
Speaker 1: both have brought along quarterbacks many a time in their
Speaker 1: NFL careers, and it'll be no different for Justin. But
Speaker 1: they've got to get a feel for the player, what
Speaker 1: he does, what he doesn't do, what the areas that
Speaker 1: he needs to work on, and they'll give him those
Speaker 1: tools for him to build and get better. And of
Speaker 1: course there's got to be to want to buy the player.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields has got to want to be great, and
Speaker 1: he's got to buy in and do all the work
Speaker 1: that is necessary for him to achieve all of his
Speaker 1: goals to be a starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that Bill Fields responsible because I
Speaker 1: think that's the reason he's still coaching in the NFL.
Speaker 1: If you didn't accept that responsibility, especially at the most
Speaker 1: high profile position of any team, he would be in
Speaker 1: the league and not a league. However, when you talk
Speaker 1: about responsibility, you feel to the quarterback position. When you
Speaker 1: walk into the huddle, it affects ten other guys and
Speaker 1: when you get that quarterback prepared. You can get him
Speaker 1: to a certain level where you get him prepared and confident.
Speaker 1: But Coach Stanfield, our offensive line coach, used to tell
Speaker 1: us is I can only coach you so much, and
Speaker 1: then you have to start coaching yourself. Once you learn
Speaker 1: the things you have to improve on, you start coaching yourself,
Speaker 1: it's gonna help you be a better player. That's Tim there,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller. We're gonna step away, break and when we
Speaker 1: come back. Cornerback Thomas Graham of this Bears rookie draft
Speaker 1: class in twenty twenty one, head of the hollis off
Speaker 1: for a weekend of activities rookie mini camp, starting to
Speaker 1: make it feel like the seasons around the corner and
Speaker 1: the schedule he swab the official word six forty five
Speaker 1: stick around. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller from Serious X in NFL Radio, Moving the chains,
Speaker 1: joining US as well. So Charles Lettow Junior was released.
Speaker 1: He's signed in Washington and so now a lot of
Speaker 1: attention Jim will be on Tevin Jenkins. Tevin Jenkins will
Speaker 1: get a chats to compete for that starting left tackle spot,
Speaker 1: and Winca Stio talked about the reputation that we're hearing
Speaker 1: that he's developed over time a finished, physical finisher. He
Speaker 1: just started becoming like that over the last year. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like he was just a nasty guy like that.
Speaker 1: He started developing that confidence and the way you play, well,
Speaker 1: that's the same thing that we're talking about here. Now
Speaker 1: we've used this technique and over years. So now that
Speaker 1: guy's got confidence in what they're doing, it's more natural.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna play a little more physical. We're gonna
Speaker 1: finish finishing as part of when you finish, you play physical.
Speaker 1: And Jim, what do you think? Yeah, I think Tevin
Speaker 1: definitely has that in his background. He's kind of an
Speaker 1: old school type of player. He's kind of a throwback.
Speaker 1: So the notes I had on him, he's got extremely
Speaker 1: strong hands, and that was the note there that he's
Speaker 1: a good finisher because he's got the torque in the
Speaker 1: strength in those strong hands to really kind of man
Speaker 1: handle his opponents. And I think once he realizes that,
Speaker 1: you know, and Tom can echo this, a lot of
Speaker 1: it is steelmates in the NFL, But when you can
Speaker 1: finish physically punish your opponent, and I think Tevin has
Speaker 1: that type of ability. I mean, this guy's a big guy, pounds,
Speaker 1: has the athleticism, but his strength I think is a
Speaker 1: big part of his game and why I kind of
Speaker 1: classify him as an old school tackle that does. He
Speaker 1: does have a nasty level to him that he can
Speaker 1: take to another level, is what I'd say about him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first thing wants said when he came here is
Speaker 1: he wants his offensive line to be physical and he
Speaker 1: wants him to finish. And if Kevin can bring that
Speaker 1: along with him and work alongside whatever left guard he's
Speaker 1: gonna play with, and then the tight end position equally
Speaker 1: as well, then shoot, I like to see the potential
Speaker 1: in this guy and the growth opportunities. And again they
Speaker 1: explain the reason that he didn't have a career at
Speaker 1: left tackle is because the other tackle is hurt and
Speaker 1: so he moved over unselfishly. All right, here's the guy
Speaker 1: we're going to introduce the Chicago tonight. Good to have him.
Speaker 1: Oregon's defensive back Thomas Graham, now a Chicago Bear and
Speaker 1: headed to rookie minicamp this weekend. Welcome to Chicago, Thomas,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joni Act, Tom Fair, two former Bears. You're not me,
Speaker 1: I'm just the broadcaster, but Time Fair, veteran guard, and
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, former quarterback in Chicago Bears, joining us as well.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Chicago. Welcome to Bears all Access. How would
Speaker 1: you describe your excitement level right now about coming into town,
Speaker 1: getting up at the Hollis on actually getting on grass Man.
Speaker 1: It's amazing and it feels good. This is like a
Speaker 1: dream come true for me. I always told myself since
Speaker 1: I was like four years old that I was gonna
Speaker 1: go be able to get a chance to play in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Now I do, so it's just kind of
Speaker 1: hard working and making sure my dream becomes a reality.
Speaker 1: Do you have butterflies? Yes and no. I have butterflies
Speaker 1: just because more like for the fact that being able
Speaker 1: to stop on that still and say, like, I'm in
Speaker 1: the NFL and I'm playing for NFL team, But outside
Speaker 1: of that, I'm ready for the moment. Hey, Thomas, I
Speaker 1: was watching the video when Matt Maggie called you to
Speaker 1: tell you that you were drafted, and I know by
Speaker 1: your reaction you like me. I'm the same way I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be drafted higher. You thought you
Speaker 1: were gonna go hire because you said, they said, Thomas,
Speaker 1: how are you? And you said, it's been a long
Speaker 1: day and I'm frustrated. So I like that about you.
Speaker 1: So what was that the fact there that you know
Speaker 1: that it became a long day because you knew, you
Speaker 1: knew that you want you were gonna go higher. Um, yes,
Speaker 1: I thought I would go higher, but you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I kind of just I felt like my parents were
Speaker 1: just talking me down, just telling me like this gona
Speaker 1: happened to York. Gets a call, just like wait and relaxed.
Speaker 1: But you know, being an ancient kid like I was
Speaker 1: impatient about it. So I was just like, I like,
Speaker 1: you fund me, when am I gonna get it? When
Speaker 1: am I gonna get it? And finally I got the call,
Speaker 1: I knew it was just amazing. Well, Thomas, Jim Miller here,
Speaker 1: welcome to Chicago. Hey, don't worry about that sixth round, dude,
Speaker 1: I got drafted in the sixth round and I made
Speaker 1: it over a decade. You'll be just fine if you
Speaker 1: put in the work and obviously just getting your foot
Speaker 1: in the door to have that operatunity, and you've got
Speaker 1: it here in Chicago. Maybe just let the listeners know,
Speaker 1: tell them about your game, tell them about your attitude,
Speaker 1: the type of player are, and what they can expect
Speaker 1: for you as a as a Chicago fair that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be cheering out. You go get a young man
Speaker 1: that has a very high football IQ. UM. I think
Speaker 1: my dad for that. He always had me around the game.
Speaker 1: He was a coach, so I'm a coach his son.
Speaker 1: So a lot of the things I do, UM, I
Speaker 1: try to not. I try to leave my mind always
Speaker 1: more than I use my physical abilities. But I do
Speaker 1: have them. A very confident young man that's go walk
Speaker 1: around with that swagger. You know, I played corner, so
Speaker 1: it's like that different swagger that we walk around with. Uh.
Speaker 1: But a young man that's come in and work, Um,
Speaker 1: I have to do it when I went to Oregon. Uh.
Speaker 1: I had to do it in high school and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it now. I know that it was always
Speaker 1: hard work. I wasn't always the most athletic and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but I always made plays. Um, but my
Speaker 1: name was caught, So I plan on keep doing that.
Speaker 1: New Chicago Be defensive back Thomas Graham joined the program
Speaker 1: here for a few minutes as he gets ready to
Speaker 1: get to have US Hall and Bears Minicamp this weekend
Speaker 1: with Tom Beare, Jimmler, Jeff Joniac, Thomas. The one thing
Speaker 1: watching all your highlights, and there's a lot of them,
Speaker 1: believe me. I mean, yes, you had to opt out
Speaker 1: your last year, but you have a lot of experience,
Speaker 1: and I look at this, it's it's not by accident.
Speaker 1: You played forty games and you have forty plays on
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean that's hard to do. That timing
Speaker 1: you have just speaks of a lot of instincts right there.
Speaker 1: How would you characterize that aspect of your game and
Speaker 1: how competitive you are at the catch point? Well, my
Speaker 1: favorite player growing up, like no matter what sport it was,
Speaker 1: was Kobe Bryant. So he always talked about just being
Speaker 1: more mentally prepared than your opponent and everything you do.
Speaker 1: So I always kind of just made sure I watched
Speaker 1: the extra film, I did all the little things. He
Speaker 1: always talked about doing little things and just having that
Speaker 1: mindset of just never given up and attacking everything, which
Speaker 1: are all so I think that's kind of what played
Speaker 1: a big key and my opportunity to be able to
Speaker 1: make those plays on the ball. It was on the
Speaker 1: state when we played I was probably one of my
Speaker 1: biggest games my sophomore year was all just being able
Speaker 1: to mentally prepare for that game. I knew exactly where
Speaker 1: route I was getting before they run it, so as
Speaker 1: soon as they run it, I was just like wow,
Speaker 1: like this is how film really works. And I just
Speaker 1: kind of kept going from there. You know, Tommy, you
Speaker 1: had a really impressive list of colleges that were offering
Speaker 1: you full scholarships. You're from California, you could have went
Speaker 1: to anywhere you want. What brought you up to Oregon?
Speaker 1: Coach Taggart, I'll give him a big credit for that.
Speaker 1: Coach Tigger brought me up to Oregon. And then my
Speaker 1: high school teammate Jayleen Red went up there too, and
Speaker 1: Damado Lanori he's now with the San Francisco forty nineties.
Speaker 1: But those two, just those three people all together and
Speaker 1: recruiting me hard, and they was just like let's come
Speaker 1: create a secondary and then coach Taggart was just like,
Speaker 1: let's help rebuild Oregon, and I always like like being
Speaker 1: part of her, like a rebuilt for a program. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I was just like, you know, like letting my
Speaker 1: class be something. So we always went by twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: while I was up there, and it was just like
Speaker 1: kind of a hard decision at first because a coach
Speaker 1: that ended up coaching me at Oregon, Dante Williams, that
Speaker 1: in Nebraska at that time point, and I was just like, dang,
Speaker 1: I really want to get closed by Dante. I don't
Speaker 1: want to stay on the West coast from you. From
Speaker 1: your standpoint, like soot, that's year you gotta be esting
Speaker 1: to get back on. What have you been doing to
Speaker 1: improve your your game? I know you you gotta stay
Speaker 1: and do all things. What have you've been working on?
Speaker 1: Three dropped out um when I trained, uh basically all
Speaker 1: the way until pro day. It was working on just
Speaker 1: my linear speed UM and then kind of just fixing
Speaker 1: my body. I felt like my body wasn't as good
Speaker 1: as I wanted it to be. Uh, And I started better,
Speaker 1: eating better. I think probably was the best thing I've
Speaker 1: probably ever done and give me more like natural energy.
Speaker 1: I'm not always drowsy. Eating fast food in college is
Speaker 1: not the move, so I think that was very big
Speaker 1: for me. And then since then I've been just working
Speaker 1: with coach Dantay too if I've been in California and
Speaker 1: just training on just being able to be on the field,
Speaker 1: change of directions, working on my press, working on the
Speaker 1: little things that he seemed wrong when he was up
Speaker 1: there at organ with me, and just doing all the
Speaker 1: little things right to make sure my game can be
Speaker 1: great and adjust to the next level. Thomas Graham our
Speaker 1: final moments with the Bears new defensive back, You're gonna
Speaker 1: be coached by Deshad Townsend in addition to Sean Desai,
Speaker 1: who's the defensive coordinator. But de Shade Townsend carries a
Speaker 1: lot of weight as an NFL player for many years
Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants. He
Speaker 1: also helped out with coaching there is on the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Does that matter to you that a guy that lined
Speaker 1: up with that kind of organization and a physical team
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what the Bears want to be. Nasty,
Speaker 1: physical defense that fit your profile. Yes, it does. You could.
Speaker 1: Let's go watch the film. I make plays on screens.
Speaker 1: I make plays in the run game. So it's just
Speaker 1: like I like being physical. I think it's no point
Speaker 1: of playing football if you just want to be soft
Speaker 1: and timid the whole time. I know, I played corner,
Speaker 1: and that's the position probably with the least contact, people
Speaker 1: will say, but I always try to make contact as
Speaker 1: many plays as I can. All right, well, we'll be
Speaker 1: looking forward to meeting you, and welcome to Chicago. Enjoy
Speaker 1: your weekend. Hopefully the weather will treat you right and better.
Speaker 1: Yet you'll be an instant impact with your teammates. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that's your personality. It sounds like it is, so
Speaker 1: Welcome to Chicago, Thomas. Thank you, Thomas, Thank you. Thomas
Speaker 1: Graham our guest here on Bears All Access. Another segment
Speaker 1: with Jim Miller. We'll look at the Bear's schedule as
Speaker 1: we come back the opening of the season in LA
Speaker 1: against the Rams. This is Bears All Access on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy to score What's Big Night. The
Speaker 1: schedule is a Chicago Bears single game. Tickets on sale
Speaker 1: right tonight at eight thirty pm, So get yours at
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears dot Com slash tickets, we hope to see
Speaker 1: you at Soldier Field and the other nine trips during
Speaker 1: the regular season. We plan on making this year to
Speaker 1: see Bears fans traveling. So let's let's break it down, fellas. Jim,
Speaker 1: you're ready, Yeah, all right? So it starts with the Rams,
Speaker 1: you know that the first home game Bengals following weeks
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow and the Fellas coming. So I'll just
Speaker 1: I'll kind of do this in quarters at Cleveland with
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and a team that feels they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a title contender, and then home against Detroit with Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: The road team won both meetings a year ago. On
Speaker 1: the October third, I'm throwing the Vegas game because that's
Speaker 1: really the extra game, the seventeenth opponent, as it were,
Speaker 1: because both teams finished in second place. So Derek Carr
Speaker 1: and the Fellas in Vegas. So that takes you October tenth,
Speaker 1: a five pack of games. Jim quick thoughts on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, well, you got a couple of playoff teams
Speaker 1: fen there, right, so they got to be ready for that.
Speaker 1: With you know, the Browns, they feel that they're an
Speaker 1: ascending team, so that's gonna be a tough road game.
Speaker 1: I would think for the Bears to go on the
Speaker 1: road and take on the Cleveland Browns that are kind
Speaker 1: of puffing their chest a little bit. But you know,
Speaker 1: all those other games I think are winnable games for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. You know, I think they easily could
Speaker 1: get off to a good start with that schedule of
Speaker 1: what they have. So you know, can they go three
Speaker 1: out of you know, three and one in that four games? Fan,
Speaker 1: I think that's a legitimate thought process to win three
Speaker 1: out of four and every quarter of the season, and
Speaker 1: I think they're able to do that those five games there,
Speaker 1: there's three road games, and Tom, I look at the
Speaker 1: different types of quarterbacks again, and that first five games
Speaker 1: of the season. All right, let's go to the next group.
Speaker 1: Then it's the Packers here at Soldier Field. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Packers have one nineteen to twenty two Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: with a one fourteen point seven quarterback rating against Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Then at Tampa home to San Francisco, and then at
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for your first make that your second in primetime
Speaker 1: opponent Ben Roethlisberger and the Fellows right before the week
Speaker 1: ten bye week, Tommy, you know, to me, I look
Speaker 1: at all those games, it is going to be a
Speaker 1: rough schedule. They're all gonna be physical and talented. You know,
Speaker 1: when you go to Pittsburgh, they're not going to sell
Speaker 1: tickets to the Bears fans. All those other games, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get in a lot of big,
Speaker 1: big mix of Bear fans in support. So I always
Speaker 1: respecting to going to Pittsburgh, and everybody knows what Tappa's
Speaker 1: going to provide. They got the goat and so it
Speaker 1: could be a hot day. They got to be in
Speaker 1: good condition and you're gonna have to make sure that.
Speaker 1: All the coaches today they talked about the development of depth,
Speaker 1: the development of depth that's going to be on display
Speaker 1: when they play in Tappa, because again, you could get
Speaker 1: one of those eighty five degree days in mid October
Speaker 1: that could really challenge your conditioning. And then oh, go ahead,
Speaker 1: well that second block that that's their toughest stretch. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the schedule. To me, that's their toughest stretch.
Speaker 1: You're facing the world champion that's on the road. Forty
Speaker 1: nine ers are a much better team, and you gotta
Speaker 1: believe Jimmy Garoppolo will be the quarterback for them. They
Speaker 1: still have a really good defense, and offensively they'll rebound,
Speaker 1: I think. And then the Steelers they're a playoff team
Speaker 1: as well. Injuries hurt them down the stretch, So to me,
Speaker 1: that's that's their toughest stretch of games. And then they'll
Speaker 1: have their buy week, can come out and face the Ravens,
Speaker 1: which was another playoff team. So that's really the meat
Speaker 1: of their schedule that they really have to be on point.
Speaker 1: If you're Chicago, right, it does extend into that next
Speaker 1: group because yes, Baltimore then at Detroit on Thanksgiving, so Tom,
Speaker 1: we noticed like there on Thanksgiving, I mean, and then
Speaker 1: you get home and you get Kyler Murray and Arizona
Speaker 1: on the fifth of December, and then you go to
Speaker 1: Green Bay for a primetime game against the Packers, and
Speaker 1: then you got another primetime game against the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins. The Bears have won five of six,
Speaker 1: So that five pack of games plus the four that
Speaker 1: we just mentioned that Jim just broke down, that's nine
Speaker 1: very important games right there. Yeah, you know, Detroit and
Speaker 1: Detroit on Thanksgiving Day, man, that's their season, and I
Speaker 1: think this new head coach that they have up in Detroit,
Speaker 1: along with advisor Chris Spielman, they're going to want to
Speaker 1: capture the emotions of the supporting crowd of Detroit under
Speaker 1: the roof where the crowd noise is going to be
Speaker 1: unbearable at times. So it's gonna be a couple of
Speaker 1: different difficult atmospheres of divisional opponents with Detroit, Green Bay
Speaker 1: and the Vikings. And everybody knows what Kyler Murray, the
Speaker 1: type of athlete he's he is, and what he has
Speaker 1: the ability to be. But you know, the Bears defense
Speaker 1: has to be up to the task. Jim, do you
Speaker 1: believe Arizona feels it's a title contender now with what
Speaker 1: they've done. Yeah. I think they know it's starting to
Speaker 1: heat up on Cliff Kingsbury, and I think they're big
Speaker 1: feel it. It's been an arms racist offseason for the
Speaker 1: NFC West, those teams involving competing. Remember they were the
Speaker 1: first to land JJ watch. JJ Watt was on the
Speaker 1: street what maybe a twenty four hours and he signed
Speaker 1: with Arizona. So they've been pretty aggressive because they've got
Speaker 1: to keep up with the Joneses out there in the
Speaker 1: NFC West. I thought Arizona had a really good offseason
Speaker 1: and they feel that they're going to make a push
Speaker 1: towards the playoffs. All right, then the final three games,
Speaker 1: you gotta go out to Seattle. So not many of
Speaker 1: these short week games obviously, excuse me, you gotta excuse me.
Speaker 1: Falthermore to Detroit. This is the short week, you know,
Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. Then you get a longer break against Arizona.
Speaker 1: But then you got a primetime game against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: and then you go out to Seattle. Hey, we all
Speaker 1: know what the distraction of Christmas Week can be, and
Speaker 1: it's a long trip and a loud stadium the day
Speaker 1: after Christmas at three oh five, start against Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks. Tommy, Yeah, you don't want to blame
Speaker 1: it out a holiday. I like the late start out there.
Speaker 1: It gives you a little bit of chance for your
Speaker 1: body to wake up. However, that is the most disruptive
Speaker 1: crowd in all of the NFL. In if Seattle has
Speaker 1: a pack stadium, you could see a really a challenged
Speaker 1: offense to be as efficient as you will be at
Speaker 1: home or lesser filled up stadiums and Jim two tricky
Speaker 1: games to wrap up in January. Now you play two
Speaker 1: weeks in the two weekends into January the Giants at
Speaker 1: Soldier Field with Daniel Jones. You know, the Giants should
Speaker 1: be improved. We don't know. Obviously, we're doing this off
Speaker 1: from ground zero here. We don't know how injuries and
Speaker 1: development or lack thereof will impact these teams. And then
Speaker 1: to finish up again at Minnesota, and the Bears have
Speaker 1: done very well at Minnesota in that final game of
Speaker 1: the year. Will it matter? Should it matter? With the
Speaker 1: seventeen games? Will it matter? I mean, these are a
Speaker 1: lot of things we don't know the answers to how
Speaker 1: do you shape up those final couple games? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think well, one you mentioned it well that about the
Speaker 1: week eighteen, the Bears feel that they've got copia. They've
Speaker 1: gone up into that building a couple of times more
Speaker 1: than once and taken down the Minnesota Vikings. So I
Speaker 1: do think that will permeate through the locker room because
Speaker 1: there is a belief that they can get it done.
Speaker 1: From that standpoint, that's Giants game, that's a team that's building.
Speaker 1: I thought their first three draft picks when you look
Speaker 1: at a zez Ojulari who they drafted and the other
Speaker 1: two players who they selected, those are all impactful players
Speaker 1: that the Giants added. And yeah, to remember, that's the
Speaker 1: game that Sae Kwon Barkley got hurt, right was against
Speaker 1: the Bears, and he'll probably be back for that matchup.
Speaker 1: So they are a much better team and the Bears
Speaker 1: up beat up on the last time. But it all
Speaker 1: opens up for Shawn to say and the Fellows against
Speaker 1: the Rams fourth straight year playing this LA teen moments
Speaker 1: in each of those games where I'm sure they can
Speaker 1: look back, you know, Sean mcvaine, those guys, and we
Speaker 1: can look back and say, here's where the game kind
Speaker 1: of turned. So I think that that's going to be
Speaker 1: exciting for us to take on that challenge early in
Speaker 1: the year. And then obviously, I mean going up against
Speaker 1: matt for the years I've gone against him, I mean
Speaker 1: he's obviously a special player. So now present another unique
Speaker 1: challenge besides the system that they got there, and they
Speaker 1: got a different quarterback now, so that'll be fun and
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Yeah, fourteen point third quarter was the difference
Speaker 1: in that game for the LA Rams and the victory
Speaker 1: over the Bears twenty four to ten. It is a
Speaker 1: tough schedule, yes, but everybody in the division, Jim has
Speaker 1: the same type of opponents. So the top seven in
Speaker 1: the league for from the division are in the most
Speaker 1: difficult category as we sit here today. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: it changes over the course of the year. Ye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a difficult schedule, but like you said, it's
Speaker 1: the same for everybody in that division. Teams are gonna
Speaker 1: have to wade through injuries. There's gonna be ebb and flows.
Speaker 1: We don't even know if a quarterback is going to
Speaker 1: arrive up there in Green Bay that could factor in.
Speaker 1: And you got a team building in Detroit that's looking
Speaker 1: to start over, so they're trying to do a foundational
Speaker 1: year there and you have to figure out what to
Speaker 1: expect from them. But you know, the Bears are talented
Speaker 1: enough to do it. They'll be prepared to play, and
Speaker 1: you know, you just play the next one that's on
Speaker 1: the schedule. That's all you can do. So no sense
Speaker 1: crying about it. You gotta go light up every single
Speaker 1: week and week and go get it done. Yeah, the preseason, Tommy,
Speaker 1: are gonna be off Saturday, games. There's only three. The
Speaker 1: one that start things off against Miami. It'll be a
Speaker 1: noon start on Saturday the fourteenth, and then Buffalo the
Speaker 1: next Saturday, and then Tennessee on the road a six
Speaker 1: pm start in August twenty eighth, and the season begins
Speaker 1: in September twelfth, so we're in the past. So that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good chunk of time from August twenty eighth
Speaker 1: to September twelfth to get yourself mentally ready for that
Speaker 1: first game of the year. Do you like that little
Speaker 1: break in between there? Yeah, I do. But you know,
Speaker 1: in the preseason, I'm gonna like to see how the
Speaker 1: coaches get themselves organized. There's gonna be have to be
Speaker 1: a line of communication from Sean to said wherever he
Speaker 1: is up when the booth or on the sideline, and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna see how the other, often the new
Speaker 1: coaches on the staff, how they work the sidelines and
Speaker 1: they work during the game. So you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be looking at players how they perform on the field,
Speaker 1: but we're also going to be looking at coaches and
Speaker 1: how they start fitting into their roles. Jimal, before we
Speaker 1: let you go, heard from all the coaches was Ted
Speaker 1: today and almost every single one of them say, Hey,
Speaker 1: nothing beats getting on these guys hands on on the grass.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the constant tuggle war now
Speaker 1: between what the union wants is voluntary, but the more
Speaker 1: they can get guys in and the Ota stubbs better
Speaker 1: they feel about evaluating players. And I agree with them
Speaker 1: with them, Yeah, well you look at the rookies and
Speaker 1: the first year players that the Bears added. None of
Speaker 1: their agents are telling those players to stay away, and
Speaker 1: they won't stay away away because they know they have
Speaker 1: to earn a spot on that roster. So I think
Speaker 1: attendance will be good for the Chicago Bears. For the Bears,
Speaker 1: it's already happening all around the league. These players are
Speaker 1: going to show up and give themselves the best chance
Speaker 1: to make a roster in what better place to do
Speaker 1: it with what happened. When you want James out there
Speaker 1: for the Denver Broncos, he tears as Achilles working out
Speaker 1: away from the facility. If you're away from the facility,
Speaker 1: your contract is not guaranteed. So why not go into
Speaker 1: that beautiful Clydemeric weight room and get your work done
Speaker 1: because your contracts could be guaranteed, Yeah, I guarantee. You know,
Speaker 1: the Bears put together a great working atmosphere in that
Speaker 1: beautiful facility, and that's a positive working atmosphere led by Naggie.
Speaker 1: So let's get these guys coached on the field and
Speaker 1: let them perform during the regular season. Fellas were out
Speaker 1: of time. Good job as always, Big Jim. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you next week. Thanks for guard joining us again.
Speaker 1: Buddy ounds good, I'm good, always good. Good to be
Speaker 1: with you guys, Jim Miller, tamp There, Jeff Johnny App, producer,
Speaker 1: Julio Rosseo, Jordan Trent up Dam Brially. Thanks to Thomas
Speaker 1: Graham and all of you for listening. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: stick you right here. More of this NFL schedule release
Speaker 1: breakdown of the Bears working minicamp from Anthony here and
Speaker 1: ahead on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Good night, everybody,
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