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Speaker 1: National Football League. It's been a long, long journey and
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Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy of the Score with Jeff Jonnyact,
Speaker 1: Tom Bear, and our special guest, the rookie ride receiver
Speaker 1: out of Memphis, Anthony Miller, a guy who Tom talked
Speaker 1: to the media today. I could just hear it. I
Speaker 1: could see the rainbows opening up the blue skies. It's
Speaker 1: it's time to play. Definitely, Hi. Feeling about it. Feeling good,
Speaker 1: feeling good. Um. You know, the team's been preparing well
Speaker 1: for this opportunity, and I believe we're gonna take full
Speaker 1: advantage of it. You know, it seems like you've been
Speaker 1: ready to go since the moment you got here, when
Speaker 1: you go from being a walking into your college program,
Speaker 1: then you get drafted the second round in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's a heck of an accomplishment, first of all. But
Speaker 1: does the jump seem as big from high school to
Speaker 1: college now from college to prom? Kind of sort of,
Speaker 1: But it's really the same thing. You can't make football
Speaker 1: more than what it really is. But when you get
Speaker 1: to this level, you know most definitely like the details change.
Speaker 1: You know, the speed of the game is different. You know,
Speaker 1: everything's just different at the professional level, you know. And
Speaker 1: so in twenty fifteen in college you have forty seven
Speaker 1: catches and none in sixteen you have ninety five. What
Speaker 1: happened in that short period of time? And do you
Speaker 1: see that the same thing being able to trap said
Speaker 1: here at this level even though it is the NFL.
Speaker 1: UM And like with that change, uh, we had a
Speaker 1: coaching change. Um. But between those years, so, um we
Speaker 1: had coach Norville come from Arizona, Arizona State, and uh
Speaker 1: he brought that West Coast offense and uh, of course
Speaker 1: in that offense it's passed first. So um, I was
Speaker 1: able to eat pretty well and that you use that
Speaker 1: word a lot like today today, there's guys are gonna
Speaker 1: eat and when people have to understand that, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get to fed the ball a little bit, right,
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna spread around that much? And and
Speaker 1: that's exciting to hear because that if that's happening, you're
Speaker 1: putting defense on its heels. You know, you're moving the
Speaker 1: ball and you're you're working every blady grass horizontally and vertically. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely, Um, with this offense, you know, everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to touch the ball. Um. We have
Speaker 1: so many weapons that we could use and um that
Speaker 1: people are definitely going to see about it Sunday. You know,
Speaker 1: your your position coach talks about you understanding the concept
Speaker 1: of this offense and how do you how do you
Speaker 1: explain the concept of this offense through the eyes of
Speaker 1: a wide receiver or a multiple receiver position player as yourself. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: every receiver on this team, they have to know every
Speaker 1: position because, uh, within our offense, you know, we have
Speaker 1: certain formations, certain schemes where you know, a player could
Speaker 1: be anywhere on the field at any time, So you
Speaker 1: got to know what you're doing at all times and Um,
Speaker 1: I believe we've been working at that pretty well, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's really gonna work out this season,
Speaker 1: I think ahead. I was just say, you know, we
Speaker 1: always talk about the talented receivers here, but I don't
Speaker 1: think if you if you don't block, you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to play here. You get those cluster formations,
Speaker 1: you get those quick passes, and sometimes you guys got
Speaker 1: to go downfield and make a first, second, or third
Speaker 1: level block. Did you do a lot of that in
Speaker 1: college or were you the superstar war? No? In college,
Speaker 1: you know, it was the same thing. You know, we
Speaker 1: had to block. Uh. We actually took a lot of
Speaker 1: pride in blocking at Memphis. Um My coach David Johnson,
Speaker 1: he always harped on, you know, blocking. If we didn't block,
Speaker 1: we didn't touch the field. And I believe it's the
Speaker 1: same thing here. Um. You know, everybody's gonna help each other,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as uh getting getting there signed
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. If I had to block
Speaker 1: for Taylor Gabriel on the play, That's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do because you know, I want to see him succeed,
Speaker 1: you know, just like he would want to see me succeed. Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a lot of note riot if you
Speaker 1: do that. You know, no question time player to the
Speaker 1: gay Dennis McKinnon was an outstanding blocking receiver in this town.
Speaker 1: And um, you know then it was a running offense
Speaker 1: with the with the Bears of that vintage, and Walter
Speaker 1: Payton was here obviously so but boy he got a
Speaker 1: lot of good recognition for that, didn'ty timmy? Right? But
Speaker 1: you know this offense too, you have Jordan Howard. If
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard isn't successful, it's gonna be tough for this
Speaker 1: offense to be successful downfield. So there are a lot
Speaker 1: of similarities to success. It has to start with a
Speaker 1: powerful running game between Jordan and Tariq and Benny Cunningham
Speaker 1: and all the guys that can touch the ball from
Speaker 1: the backfield. Yeah, definitely. Uh, I just believe we have
Speaker 1: a complete offense, a complete team, you know, uh, you
Speaker 1: know defense as well. Um, yeah, they're really good. Come on, seriously,
Speaker 1: you love the game. You're sitting around on Saturday morning
Speaker 1: and bam, news hits. Everybody's been asked about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I it's Mine's a long story that no
Speaker 1: one needs to hear, but I couldn't believe it. I was,
Speaker 1: and he was texting me NonStop over here in my
Speaker 1: friend time there and it's like, where are you? Have
Speaker 1: you heard the news? So did you get the same thing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the first thing I saw when I opened
Speaker 1: my eyes. Uh, you know, Khalila mac And I was
Speaker 1: at first, I couldn't really believe it because you know,
Speaker 1: we got so many weapons already on defense and you know,
Speaker 1: just add him to the force, you know, is incredible.
Speaker 1: And I'm excited to watch them play on running around
Speaker 1: on the field so far, does it look like a
Speaker 1: guy that hasn't had a practice during the offseason. No,
Speaker 1: he's incredibly fast off the ball. He's everything that they've
Speaker 1: advertised them to be. We're with Anthony Miller here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access from the PNC studios at hadisall brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy, Jeff Jonning, Ackend, Tom Fair
Speaker 1: with rookies and sometimes in this particular system, going back
Speaker 1: Tom and Anthony to thinking about Kansas City and Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and reading stories about their rookie receivers, trying to digest
Speaker 1: the enormity and the volume and the complexity of this
Speaker 1: offense it can get a little overwhelming at times that
Speaker 1: any point in this process for you, has it been
Speaker 1: where you had to take a day say, okay, now
Speaker 1: I gotta stop thinking like this because this is exactly
Speaker 1: what I gotta do. It just was it in any
Speaker 1: way like that? Yeah? Really, my first couple of weeks here,
Speaker 1: it was kind of difficult, you know, learning the new system. Uh,
Speaker 1: like coach Nagis, you know, Uh, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that you gotta know. Um. But you know, over time,
Speaker 1: you just gotta find what's best for you. Um. Like
Speaker 1: as far as learning, um, and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Me and coach my coach, um, coach Mike Perry. You know,
Speaker 1: we just uh do one on one sessions, you know,
Speaker 1: each and every day. UM, so I could get a
Speaker 1: better understanding what I gotta do, get getting you in
Speaker 1: the classroomunt of bad. Yeah, and uh you know that
Speaker 1: really helps me out. But you know, other guys they
Speaker 1: learned differently. Other guys might want to go out on
Speaker 1: the field and walk through it or you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's just different types of things that guys could do
Speaker 1: to get a better understanding. And UM, I believe I
Speaker 1: got a good grasp of things. Uh, as far as
Speaker 1: right now it's concerned. Well, what about how was the
Speaker 1: Denver experience for you? Because I know in college you
Speaker 1: probably you don't have joint practices with other schools, but
Speaker 1: then you so you practice against your own teammates for
Speaker 1: quite a while. You know, I see you talk to
Speaker 1: the defensive backs, you talk to that Hontell and stuff,
Speaker 1: and now you got Denver and now you get to
Speaker 1: go against some other NFL talent. How did you come
Speaker 1: away with that experience? Even after the little scuffle against
Speaker 1: in the specialty period? That was crazy. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: definitely exciting. I'm a guy that loves competition. You know,
Speaker 1: I live for that. So you know, when I get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go against the guy that you know
Speaker 1: has no idea about me. You know, I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: a rookie. Um, I just feel like I gotta make
Speaker 1: my mark. So um, you know when you saw me
Speaker 1: out there, I was going hard every day, every play,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Got in a little scuffle,
Speaker 1: but you know that's that's a part of it. I
Speaker 1: even fired I think I fired up practice a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, getting fight in college. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a physical game. It's a physical game, and you know,
Speaker 1: nobody likes to get No grown man likes to get
Speaker 1: pushed around, you know what I mean. Or that that's
Speaker 1: what happened on that play. Uh, you know, we got
Speaker 1: in to the scuffle because we had ended up putting
Speaker 1: the guy on the ground, you know, on his back
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he didn't like it. Didn't like it.
Speaker 1: He didn't like it. Yeah. Well, you know that is
Speaker 1: a tough draw. You know, tempers are gonna flare in
Speaker 1: the heat of deniver at that time. So you know,
Speaker 1: it does point though to a larger picture of you know,
Speaker 1: your no rookie who's gonna cower. Yeah, you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: dig your heels in and you're gonna let them know
Speaker 1: you're there. Yeah. Yeah, most definitely that That would be
Speaker 1: the advice I give to any guy, you know coming
Speaker 1: into the league. Uh, you know, for the guys next year,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, when you come in, you know,
Speaker 1: dive in head first. You you're gonna make mistakes, and
Speaker 1: you know that that's a fact because it's so much
Speaker 1: to digest. But uh, as long as you go on
Speaker 1: one hundred percent and uh, you you have the will
Speaker 1: to learn, you know what I mean? Then, uh, you
Speaker 1: know the coaches they're gonna miss with you there, they're
Speaker 1: gonna like you. So um, you know that's that's my
Speaker 1: men's out of the every day you know, walking you
Speaker 1: walking in college? Second round draft choice where you bummed
Speaker 1: you weren't a first rounder first because I think we
Speaker 1: all think that we're going to be drafted higher than
Speaker 1: we were. I was a fourth rounder and I'm still
Speaker 1: bitter about it. So yeah, you know when and the
Speaker 1: talents they talked about you, the numbers they talked about involving.
Speaker 1: So did you go into the draft thinking, Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: be happy with whatever happens, or look, man, I know
Speaker 1: I'm a talented guy. I'm ready to go high. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I definitely expected to go high. Um, you know I
Speaker 1: wanted to go first round, right, but you know that's
Speaker 1: that's not how the ball roll. But that's that's all right. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think during the draft process, a lot
Speaker 1: of people looked at my foot injury and we're kind
Speaker 1: of scared to you know, take Well, it wasn't really
Speaker 1: a chance to take because my foot was really healed.
Speaker 1: But you know, teams get a little ansty when it
Speaker 1: comes to injuries and stuff like that. So I believe
Speaker 1: that's why I feel um as far as I did well,
Speaker 1: it can't be from what they saw on tape. That's
Speaker 1: for Doug on share because Tom knows I talk about
Speaker 1: it all the time. I just for me, it's entertainment
Speaker 1: to go put on your highlight reel and watch you
Speaker 1: get balls that I just don't think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: and you somehow get there, whether it be one handed,
Speaker 1: acrobatic or you know, blown by guys and maybe faster
Speaker 1: than you at corner and you're out running them. Your
Speaker 1: route running is so advanced for a young player. Is
Speaker 1: that all come natural? In addition, I mean obviously you
Speaker 1: work at a bit. Some of that is instinctive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of that is instinctive, but it's a lot of
Speaker 1: hard work that goes into it. I don't mean to
Speaker 1: minimize that, yeah, because I know you're a worker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I heard an interview with you and we talked
Speaker 1: about one time I thought, I want to if I
Speaker 1: remember this quickly Ochocinko receiver that you paid attention to
Speaker 1: because you thought that he has the greatest feet of
Speaker 1: any receiver. You saw a play and when that interests
Speaker 1: me too. And when you think of receivers, why did
Speaker 1: you gravitate towards Ochocinko? Was it because of his feet
Speaker 1: or um profile? I mean both. Man, he's he's a
Speaker 1: he's a fun guy to be around. Plus you know,
Speaker 1: he's great at what he does. Uh still today, you know,
Speaker 1: I could go on his Instagram with Twitter and he
Speaker 1: might be posting the video him playing soccer or you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, doing drills with you know guys
Speaker 1: who are playing currently right now. Like he's still capable
Speaker 1: of you know, running routes and stuff like that. He
Speaker 1: hadn't lost it one bit. And uh you know, if
Speaker 1: you just watch his highlights, he's incredible with his feet,
Speaker 1: like at the top of his routes. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: at the line. You know, nobody could really guard nine
Speaker 1: out of ten people probably never pay attention to the
Speaker 1: receiver's feet. They watch him by a receiver. To me,
Speaker 1: that's one of the best parts of that position because
Speaker 1: it's the interesting because he's just like you're playing the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Hand placement, footwork, the slightest little detail makes
Speaker 1: the difference between a winning play or being stalemated or
Speaker 1: losing the play footwork off the line of scrimmage press
Speaker 1: coverage versus winning at the top of the route, which
Speaker 1: is more important. Um, off the line because if you
Speaker 1: don't get off the line and there's no route. So
Speaker 1: I definitely off the line would be the most important
Speaker 1: part to get down. Got Alan watching Alan Robinson against
Speaker 1: press coverage. He's got a huge birth, a huge get
Speaker 1: off you know size, and where he can if a
Speaker 1: guy comes up and they miss him, he can get
Speaker 1: around him, and then if he gets shoulder to shoulder
Speaker 1: he gets on the other side, it's over. He's definitely good,
Speaker 1: especially for his size. He has incredibly quick feet, you know,
Speaker 1: at the line, and I pay attention to some of
Speaker 1: his moves. I actually steal the couple. I mean good. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's definitely a great receiver. This is our guest,
Speaker 1: Anthony Moller, the Bears rookie receiver, getting ready to meet
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: You can hear the game on a news radio seven
Speaker 1: eighty and one or five point nine f WBM, starting
Speaker 1: with a four pm pregame show and a seven twenty
Speaker 1: kickoff with Tom and myself with Paul's arranger, engineer and
Speaker 1: our producer. Damn really, I'm Jeff Joniac and Tom there
Speaker 1: with Anthony Miller here on Bears All Access on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears
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Speaker 1: Jonyac and Tom there with you and with Anthony Miller.
Speaker 1: Bears rookie wide receiver from Memphis and not only from
Speaker 1: the university, but also from that town. And we've talked
Speaker 1: to you about this, We've touched on we've touched on it.
Speaker 1: Let's get deeper into Memphis. And how is it that
Speaker 1: it's just intertwined through your body, the blood pumping through
Speaker 1: your veins is all Memphis? All Memphis? Tell us your story? Well, really,
Speaker 1: like if you talk to anybody from me, if is
Speaker 1: you know, they take a lot of pride in the
Speaker 1: city because you know, it's hard, you know coming out
Speaker 1: of there. Um, you know, not a lot of people
Speaker 1: make it up. So um, you know, we just take
Speaker 1: pride in hard work and um, you know, not being
Speaker 1: given anything, you know, I mean we we take advantage
Speaker 1: of our opportunities. Um, you know, full advantage whenever you
Speaker 1: can get them. Yep, whenever we can get them. So
Speaker 1: how you gonna keep from getting spoiled out? You know?
Speaker 1: You got look at the clothes you wear, Look at
Speaker 1: the facility you're pulling into, the meals that are being
Speaker 1: provided for you every day, the equipment in your locker.
Speaker 1: How do you keep that? The Anthony Miller or work
Speaker 1: ethic that we've all become, it we've all been introduced to.
Speaker 1: How does that stay with you when you work like
Speaker 1: that for so long? Um, you know, like I've been
Speaker 1: working for this for so long, it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to change. Like, I don't see myself turning into that
Speaker 1: guy you know, that spoiled you know, I can't even
Speaker 1: see myself being like that. I see a lot of
Speaker 1: I feel a lot of you in the same way
Speaker 1: I felt about it, that the most important thing was this,
Speaker 1: This as a job, and all the things are provided
Speaker 1: for you. If you didn't continue to give the effort
Speaker 1: and have the work ethic and everything that's expected of you.
Speaker 1: You know, it might it's not gonna last as long
Speaker 1: as you want. But I think you're more You're more
Speaker 1: entrenched in the investment you have to make for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely. Uh came too far to you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just let it all go. So
Speaker 1: you strike me as a guy who it doesn't take
Speaker 1: no for an answer. Yeah. How many times did you
Speaker 1: hear no? Oh? No, I've heard no plenty times, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But I don't hold it against
Speaker 1: those who said no. You know what I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's their loss at the end of the day. Um,
Speaker 1: it can't. I don't let you know their answers, you know,
Speaker 1: affect you know my mindset. So um, you know I
Speaker 1: just show up every day and work. Was there ever
Speaker 1: did you ever hit bottom with football and trying to
Speaker 1: get traction and trying to get you know, recognition to
Speaker 1: get that next. Well it's not a job, but you
Speaker 1: treated like a job that next, whether it be high school,
Speaker 1: the college experience, or where you're at right now. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, in college, you know, I was red
Speaker 1: shirted right off the bat. Uh. First of all, I
Speaker 1: walked on then you know, Uh, coach Winte. He read
Speaker 1: shirted me my first year and I ended up getting
Speaker 1: a scholarship, you know that next semester. Uh, I believe
Speaker 1: in the spring and um, you know, I ended up
Speaker 1: getting hurt the year I was supposed to play, so
Speaker 1: I was out for that season for that next season.
Speaker 1: So I hadn't played football for like two years, and
Speaker 1: it was it was eating me up. But I knew
Speaker 1: I had to keep going, you know, with my rehab
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Um, you know, I knew it
Speaker 1: was all gonna pay off one day, and it did.
Speaker 1: You know. You you said you went from me. You know,
Speaker 1: you had forty seven catches one year ninety five and
Speaker 1: next there's a coaching change. If they would have kept
Speaker 1: that old regime in there with the forty seven catch
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller, would would you have been able to develop
Speaker 1: into the player you became or to that next offense
Speaker 1: you became a part of. Was that the development of
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller? Yeah? Definitely. Uh. With Paxson Lynch and coach Winte.
Speaker 1: You know, I believe we had a great system. Um
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's just with coach Norvelle,
Speaker 1: he he spread it out a lot more. But within
Speaker 1: coach Winte system, you I could have still made plays,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But UM, you know, when
Speaker 1: I had those forty seven catches, Um, it wasn't just me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't the main target. I don't think in that offense. UM,
Speaker 1: I believe it was. We had we had we had
Speaker 1: other guys you know, that were getting a lot of touches,
Speaker 1: um when when I was there. So I believe that
Speaker 1: played the fact that the forty seven catches was twelve
Speaker 1: twelve games and three starts, and then the ninety five
Speaker 1: catches was only thirteen. It was only one more game.
Speaker 1: So it's like, oh my gosh, here's a guy that
Speaker 1: did really good things. Then the next year went on
Speaker 1: to did an incredible, explosive great things. So that I mean,
Speaker 1: that's where the coaching change can help a guy like yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can. It definitely can. Um. You know, I believe
Speaker 1: if you know a guy's an athlete, you use them.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever he can do, well, you know that's
Speaker 1: that's that's what you have him do. UM. If you're
Speaker 1: if you're a coach, if I was a coach, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? UM, And coach Norville He just
Speaker 1: gave me every opportunity in the book to make plays.
Speaker 1: But now they're talking about a rookie having so much
Speaker 1: on your plate. Now you're slot receiver, wide receiver, could
Speaker 1: come out of the backfield, you know, could come out
Speaker 1: of four different positions. I mean, that's a lot on
Speaker 1: your plate for the short amount of time you've been here. Really,
Speaker 1: you know, really when you're thinking about football increments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's that's what I wanted coming in. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to be a guy you know that goes in
Speaker 1: like every three or four or plays, or shoot, every
Speaker 1: every six seven plays. You know what I mean. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to be treated like a rookie.
Speaker 1: So that means, you know, I gotta stay in my playbook. Uh,
Speaker 1: carry myself as these veterans, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So I could get out on the field, Uh, you
Speaker 1: know and perform. Was there any other NFL teams courtn ya?
Speaker 1: Um that we're really saying, Anthony, and we're really interesting
Speaker 1: to look for us on draft Day, And um, I
Speaker 1: believe the Panthers and uh I forgot, but this is
Speaker 1: the right offense for you to Yeah, I'm so Glad
Speaker 1: I came here. I wouldn't ask for anything else. So
Speaker 1: Glad I'm here. Was there a takeoff game for you
Speaker 1: in college? I wanted to put you on the map.
Speaker 1: You started now hearing things. Yeah, that forty seven season
Speaker 1: we've played Old miss. Uh. They came to Memphis. It
Speaker 1: was a it was a pack house. It's probably like
Speaker 1: sixty sixty plus in their sixty thousand plus and um,
Speaker 1: you know I ended up having I think it touch
Speaker 1: down in one hundred thirty some yards. Yeah, well that's
Speaker 1: the year they beat Alabama, right, Yeah, yeah, they had
Speaker 1: the Kimdici brothers. Right. We ended up beating them and
Speaker 1: wild it was a huge day. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: the journey of Anthony Miller, Bears rookie receiver, as he
Speaker 1: gets the set to go into lambeau Field to take
Speaker 1: on the Green Bay Packers. Jeff Joniyak and Tom Thearry
Speaker 1: with you on Bears All Access on Chicago's Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score. This segment of Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: how it's done. I guess that's what we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: about Anthony Miller when he scores his first NFL touchdown. Tommy,
Speaker 1: I just might say, this is how it's done. We
Speaker 1: have big, big hopes for your future. I know you
Speaker 1: do as well. And it gets started against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers on Sunday night. I've asked many guys about this,
Speaker 1: and tom you know, we've been into that place so
Speaker 1: many times, and you've played there so many times. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bones in that field, a lot
Speaker 1: of blood, sweat and tears every time. I like going
Speaker 1: to see the guys walk in the stadium that particular
Speaker 1: place because they take it in, you know, I remember
Speaker 1: all and Crews here and Big cal William just taking
Speaker 1: it in. They sit there and soak it in before
Speaker 1: anybody's even in the stadium. It's that type of place.
Speaker 1: And do you think that will matter to you when
Speaker 1: you go to some of these NFL stadiums, places you've
Speaker 1: never been before, particularly this place, place like Soldier Field
Speaker 1: obviously is like that. Yeah, when I walk in the stadium,
Speaker 1: I'll see a football field. It doesn't matter where I'm at.
Speaker 1: You know, we could be in a corn field, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, as long as the football fields there,
Speaker 1: you know, I know it's time to strip it up
Speaker 1: and play. I can't let that wherever we're at, you know,
Speaker 1: effect you know my mindset. So are you a fan
Speaker 1: of the game outside of what your requirements are alive?
Speaker 1: There's a start. The NFL arts on Thursday night and
Speaker 1: then it goes from here. If you're a guy, you
Speaker 1: have free time other than watching your tablet or going
Speaker 1: over new information, will you watch college or pro football? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Most definitely. I'm a big fan of huge fan of football,
Speaker 1: my favorite sport. So, um, I'm gonna watch it any
Speaker 1: chance I get, whether it be you know, D one
Speaker 1: or D three football. You know, if I can catch
Speaker 1: it on TV, I'm gonna watch it. You know, we
Speaker 1: keep talking about all these other guys, but Steve Smith
Speaker 1: is and then we keep coming back to and right
Speaker 1: before the draft, I was catching him on NFL Network
Speaker 1: and he was just blown. Praises your way as a
Speaker 1: guy to keep an eye on this. I think he
Speaker 1: saw a lot of him, and you do. You see
Speaker 1: a lot of you and him most definitely. You know,
Speaker 1: Steve Smith is a guy. Um, he wasn't very big,
Speaker 1: but you know, he played big and I feel like
Speaker 1: that's how I play He didn't let anyone push him around.
Speaker 1: You know, he was the force most of the time.
Speaker 1: And uh, that's something I definitely admired in his game.
Speaker 1: Ball up his fists a little bit too. Yeah, hey, guy,
Speaker 1: you didn't mess with Steve Smith. Remember the playoff game
Speaker 1: it Soldier field yew caught eleven passes, tore up the Bears.
Speaker 1: They could not stop him. And he's very confident, right,
Speaker 1: do we know? Steve Smith? Outspoken, very confident guy. So
Speaker 1: I see him at the Super Bowl that year. I
Speaker 1: don't remember where it was at, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: introduce myself because that was one heck of a performance.
Speaker 1: He turns around and goes, I don't know what you
Speaker 1: all were mad about in Chicago. Knew it was gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and he just said it dead pan faced. He believed
Speaker 1: that he knew no one could stop him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: some of that I see in you. Yeah, as the
Speaker 1: mindsets you gotta have. You can't go into a game thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, I might kissed this ball. I don't know.
Speaker 1: This guy's kind of good, so I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do again. You gotta go in the game
Speaker 1: with the mindset of no one's gonna stop me. Somebody
Speaker 1: keeps you up at night. No, any good conversations here
Speaker 1: with the defensive backs that helped, because I see you
Speaker 1: have a lot of conversations with those guys. Is there
Speaker 1: any body here that you know that they have the
Speaker 1: experience that you can talk to about and specifically what
Speaker 1: they see out of you your balance, your head, all
Speaker 1: your routing stuff. Um. I talked to Kyle Fuller and
Speaker 1: Prince you know a lot um you know on the daily,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Those those are two corners
Speaker 1: who have been in league for quite some time. And
Speaker 1: you know they they they're so smart out there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they definitely trust their instincts out there and
Speaker 1: uh any slight little movement that the receiver may have,
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna catch on to it. And uh
Speaker 1: So I asked them about stuff like that, and you
Speaker 1: know they give me pointners here and there to me
Speaker 1: what I could do better. Um, and you know I
Speaker 1: use it out there well, you know to going back
Speaker 1: to your college days when they hold up the post
Speaker 1: or on the sideline and kind of tells all of
Speaker 1: your assignments. Now you start from the huddle. You hear
Speaker 1: the commands of Mitchell, Trubisky or Chase or whomever you're
Speaker 1: in the huddle with. Is how has that transition part
Speaker 1: been for you of you know, having to have knowledge
Speaker 1: of the offense what they're saying to you, rather than
Speaker 1: someone maybe ignite a thought in your head from the sideline. Yeah, um, well,
Speaker 1: being in the huddle um, and just hearing the play
Speaker 1: uh called out. You know, it's it's kind of simpler
Speaker 1: than you know, having to read hand signals and boards
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, because when he calls out the play,
Speaker 1: he's saying what you have within the play. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna say, like, um, for instance, I played what we
Speaker 1: call the zebra. He's gonna say zebra, so and so zebra.
Speaker 1: You listen for what applies to you, and you know,
Speaker 1: don't you don't really listen for anything else. So that's
Speaker 1: that's that's how it is in the huddles. Are you
Speaker 1: Are you okay with supreme crowd noise that the support
Speaker 1: of the Green Bay crowd is. You know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be deafening when you're outing offense. So all those types
Speaker 1: of things you hear it in the huddle. Boom, you
Speaker 1: go back to the line scrimmage, you're offense. What's going on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely. And we've been practicing with crowd noise out
Speaker 1: there and it's been really loud, so we've we've been
Speaker 1: working on you know, how we were gonna huddle up
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and UM, what I find helpful is, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just looking at Mitch's mouth and um, you know,
Speaker 1: reading his lips and but I could hear what he's saying,
Speaker 1: but you know, just just looking at him so I
Speaker 1: can make sure. Um, that helps me out. You know,
Speaker 1: it'll be fun when you guys all have time together
Speaker 1: where a look will be all you need to know
Speaker 1: how to break your route off beyond the play call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: same thing you know with you guys right and on
Speaker 1: the you get once that takes route, that's when you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be, you know, really an explosive, deadly offense.
Speaker 1: Obviously that takes time. But did you have that in
Speaker 1: college because of the constant YEA, Yeah, definitely, me and
Speaker 1: Riley Ferguson that was my last quarterback. We had so
Speaker 1: much chemistry it was it was crazy. And I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the same way with Mitch. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: every day. You know, even the coaches, we're learning as
Speaker 1: a group. Um you know, um as far as plays
Speaker 1: and you know, schemes and stuff like that, we're all
Speaker 1: learning so um. You know when it when it all
Speaker 1: comes together, I know it's gonna be a unstoppable for us.
Speaker 1: Did you did you ever take the time to look
Speaker 1: up the background of Mike Fury? Oh? Yeah, I've seen
Speaker 1: some tape on him. He was a decent receiver. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you also know what else he did? He was
Speaker 1: also a defensive back. I didn't see that. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: played dB and receiver. I'm gonna have to talk to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about it. I always asked Mike, he's the only
Speaker 1: guy that he's the only coach that could do more
Speaker 1: reps of two twenty five as a coach that he
Speaker 1: could as a player. He still does all that, all
Speaker 1: those reps and stuff like that. I said, Man, you
Speaker 1: need to check out he's he's yoked out right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he definitely is. And matter of our guests will continue
Speaker 1: more conversation with the Bears rookie receiver with Tom there
Speaker 1: and Jeff Jonah Yakire on Bears All Access on Chicago
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Speaker 1: All Access Jeff and Time with Anthony Miller. Enjoying our
Speaker 1: conversation with the wide receiver from Memphis. Beyond your play
Speaker 1: in the field, you really handle yourself well in interviews.
Speaker 1: You're very, very accommodating, your your very cerebral you give.
Speaker 1: You give some good thought to the questions you're asked about.
Speaker 1: Have you always been that easy with the microphone in
Speaker 1: front of you, because it's not always easy for guys,
Speaker 1: especially rookies. Yeah, I think that definitely came over time.
Speaker 1: It's starting in high school. You know. I've been in
Speaker 1: front of camera since high school doing interviews and stuff
Speaker 1: like this, So I believe it's just getting better and
Speaker 1: better every time I, you know, get in front of
Speaker 1: a microphone. Are you famous in Memphis? Now? I don't
Speaker 1: like being called famous, but you know, well, you're recognizable
Speaker 1: because of your talent, not because you know anything else.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, earned it. Yeah, I'm well known me so yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. What's it mean to you though? To be
Speaker 1: able to represent that town like you do, it means
Speaker 1: it means everything. Um, you know, it's not a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that make it to the league and you
Speaker 1: know exhale um is guys like it's actually guys that
Speaker 1: motivated me, like uh done, Terry Poe, he came from Memphis.
Speaker 1: Uh he's now with the Panthers right now. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Paxton Lynch, does he put any more pressure on you? Who? Paxton?
Speaker 1: You know, because he hasn't had the success that they
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna have and then now you're the
Speaker 1: next biggest draft choice. They have no no, no, no pressure,
Speaker 1: no pressure. And with that situation, you know, I I
Speaker 1: believe he's he's gonna do great. Um, you know, he
Speaker 1: just I know what he can do and he's a
Speaker 1: great quarterback in my eyes. So um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just waiting on it to popform. You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny as Jeff and I were standing off to
Speaker 1: the side in Denver and they were in the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: the Denver quarterbacks were going through these like skill competitions,
Speaker 1: just having fun with each other, and he was the
Speaker 1: guy that always won. Yeah, and you know he was
Speaker 1: the happiest. He was you know, thrown at the hardest,
Speaker 1: the most accurate and everything. It gets kind of weird
Speaker 1: that things having transcended for him, like they thought. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I said before, you know, I'm just waiting on
Speaker 1: things to come together for him because I know he's,
Speaker 1: you know, a great quarterback. He has a lot of skills, um,
Speaker 1: you know, long rangy guy, very smart, um. So you know,
Speaker 1: I just I just know things will come together. Fun.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get you get drafted into a system that
Speaker 1: just doesn't work for you. So you gotta find you know,
Speaker 1: just like you find your way. You know, Hey, Josh mccollin,
Speaker 1: he didn't really get quarterback credibility until fiftwelfth year, in
Speaker 1: the twelve thirteenth year in the league. But you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of determination, a lot of hard work, a
Speaker 1: lot of guts go into that. What motivated you? Why
Speaker 1: did you feel the need to write a letter to
Speaker 1: all thirty two NFL teams, which is that's called the
Speaker 1: Player's Journal or something to that effect, right, and players
Speaker 1: in all sports are using the players Tribute. I think
Speaker 1: it is what it's called. Um, extremely well written. You
Speaker 1: basically opened it up by saying, I believe I'm the
Speaker 1: best receiver in this draft. Yeah, tell me the genesis
Speaker 1: of that whole thing. Oh well, really, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to find find a way to you know, um, you know,
Speaker 1: express myself to myself to the gems. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: how how hard I've worked for this, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and how that work is going to continue when I
Speaker 1: get to wherever I'm at, and um, you know, I
Speaker 1: just thought it was a great idea and it turned
Speaker 1: out to create a little buzz, you know, through throughout
Speaker 1: the league. When was that published? Was that published before
Speaker 1: or after the combine? I believe before? Okay, so did
Speaker 1: they ask you? Did did these teams then ask you
Speaker 1: about the letter? Or when you went on visits, did
Speaker 1: they ask you about the letter? Or was it not
Speaker 1: even a conversation? A couple a couple of coaches did, um,
Speaker 1: you know they and they really liked it. Um. They
Speaker 1: wanted to see if, um my words were really yours?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, And I told him straight up there yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like this. Did you have an encouraging force behind
Speaker 1: that letter saying hey, you know yeah, um, you know,
Speaker 1: my parents they loved the idea. Um. Also my Asian
Speaker 1: gel Se he loved the idea. So, um, you know
Speaker 1: everybody was all in on it. Where are your parents
Speaker 1: right now in terms of their mind watching their son
Speaker 1: making the jump from walk on at Memphis hometown hero
Speaker 1: to Chicago. Well, my parents they liked me. Um. Well
Speaker 1: I'm like them, okay, you know, um, you know they've
Speaker 1: always believed in me from day one and uh me
Speaker 1: making it to this level. It's it's what they've they've
Speaker 1: all already seen, you know in their mind. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. They're my number one fans and um,
Speaker 1: you know they know what I could do, and this
Speaker 1: this Sunday, they expect me to do what I've always
Speaker 1: been doing. And if I don't, you know, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have some words for me. Especially my dad. Play. Yeah
Speaker 1: he played, Um he played in high school. He played
Speaker 1: at Memphis a matter of fact, Um, and he was
Speaker 1: he was there for I think about two two years,
Speaker 1: three years. Uh the year he was about to start.
Speaker 1: I think the head coach died in the plane crash. Um.
Speaker 1: I forget his name, but um, it's like the coaching
Speaker 1: staff that died in the plane crash, and uh the
Speaker 1: new staff came in and you know, they got got
Speaker 1: rid of all the old players and um, you know
Speaker 1: it's just a bad situation. But like tight end slot receiver.
Speaker 1: Uh So with the back to the player's tribute article,
Speaker 1: and you know, the thing about it is the word
Speaker 1: the words that have been used to describe you in
Speaker 1: some cases where you know you're extremely confident but not cocky. Um.
Speaker 1: The article is very representative of what your work has
Speaker 1: been like. But it's not arrogant. It's Uh, it's like
Speaker 1: a fine line to walk, isn't it a little bit
Speaker 1: because if you go the other way, you could put
Speaker 1: people off. Yeah. Um, you know, I believe you gotta
Speaker 1: be confident, especially at this level, um, in your ability.
Speaker 1: If you're not, yea, I don't think you could play.
Speaker 1: Um because there's so many guys who've been doing this
Speaker 1: for so long. Um, when they come out there, they
Speaker 1: they know what they want to do to you, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Uh, corners tell you that every day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they they they know, you know what I mean. They've
Speaker 1: been this game for a long time and they're not
Speaker 1: about to let you come out there and you know,
Speaker 1: just walk all over them. So you gotta have a
Speaker 1: little sway, you know what I mean, You gotta have
Speaker 1: that mentality when you get out there. Who talks more trash?
Speaker 1: The deep dbs or the wide receivers. We talk a
Speaker 1: lot of trash. Man. It's probably a tie between both
Speaker 1: well and this team. If you're beginning in with Josh Bellamy,
Speaker 1: he's chatting. Yeah, we we both said, me, me and him.
Speaker 1: That's that's my partner in crime. Man. I'm glad he's
Speaker 1: on this team. He's fiery man. Yeah, he's He's definitely
Speaker 1: taking me under his wing, you know, on end off
Speaker 1: the field, you know what I mean, that's my guy.
Speaker 1: He's been showing me the Rooks a lot of different
Speaker 1: skills of this wide receiver group. You know, all of
Speaker 1: you guys have you know, between Alan Robinson's different in
Speaker 1: size and the speed of Taylor Gabriel and the effectiveness
Speaker 1: of you lining up in multiple spots, the hope and
Speaker 1: the desire for Kevin White to have a good solid
Speaker 1: health a year. It's really vane. Yeah, John Wims too,
Speaker 1: I mean, and all all the guys out there. It's
Speaker 1: an interesting group of wide receivers because that you have
Speaker 1: a lot on your plate when you think about the
Speaker 1: offense that coach Naggy brought in here. The first thing
Speaker 1: he said is the vertical passing game has to be
Speaker 1: a big influence in the success of his offense. It's
Speaker 1: got to be fun to hear when you have all
Speaker 1: those different skill sets of the line of scrimmage for
Speaker 1: all you guys. Yeah, and it definitely makes things easier. Um,
Speaker 1: you know as far as getting open, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, whether I run a decoy route or someone
Speaker 1: else does. You know? Um, if you see Taylor Gabriel
Speaker 1: running full speed down the middle of the field, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to account for him because you know, he's
Speaker 1: just too fast, you know what I mean. If you
Speaker 1: see Alan Robinson doing the same thing, it's it's the
Speaker 1: same thing, you know what I mean. So, Um, the
Speaker 1: crazy thing about Gabriel, he's got long strife five eight guys.
Speaker 1: What's what's that all strife? Yeah, that's that's confusing for
Speaker 1: a dB, I would think, I mean, he looks fast.
Speaker 1: He is fast, and he looks fast when he runs
Speaker 1: down the field, you know. So you know that's again
Speaker 1: one of his asset is is different than each one
Speaker 1: of these guys. Smarngert sport. Yeah, one pregnacy ran twenty
Speaker 1: four miles an hour and like no nobody else ran
Speaker 1: over like twenty one miles an hour that day, which
Speaker 1: top out at. I don't know. I don't pay attention.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know how fast I ran because
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll run that fast. Yeah, I got you,
Speaker 1: So I focused more on my feet, you know. And
Speaker 1: because I'm that type of guy. I'm not that guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna, you know, run deep all the time. But
Speaker 1: I will run deep though, and you will get the football, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you did in college. This is Anthony Miller, our
Speaker 1: guest here, our bears All Access. We're back with more
Speaker 1: with time after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score this second Affairs All Access orchestrated by c
Speaker 1: W C d W. People will get it. Jeff, jo
Speaker 1: the actime, bear with you and Anthony another round our
Speaker 1: final segment here. You mentioned Joel Siegel is your agent
Speaker 1: in our last segment that just so happens to be
Speaker 1: the same agent for Khalil Mack and your journeys. While
Speaker 1: I'm not same, they're similar. You know his story? Do
Speaker 1: you know his story at all? Because one year in
Speaker 1: high school football down in Florida, four Myers. He gets
Speaker 1: recruited by only a University of Buffalo and Liberty. That's it.
Speaker 1: He was a two star recruit, goes to Buffalo and
Speaker 1: tears it up, tears it up. So he wore number
Speaker 1: forty six because apparently in the NCAA video game he
Speaker 1: was the forty sixth ranked linebacker or defensive player or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that really burned him up. He got his blood
Speaker 1: up a little bit. You see some similarities there between
Speaker 1: the two of you in terms of your journey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: slight similarities, except you know, I had no offers. I
Speaker 1: don't mean to keep bringing it up. You go on
Speaker 1: the website. I didn't have a picture. You know, I
Speaker 1: had no stars. So you know, it's not about where
Speaker 1: he st. They say it all the time. It is
Speaker 1: baffling though, how things can be overlooked. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: understand it. Sometimes when you got talent, time you got
Speaker 1: I mean, it is hard to overlook until you get
Speaker 1: to that next level. Then you start achieving success, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you start become researched and
Speaker 1: a little bit more game plan for and then you know,
Speaker 1: you keep climbing the ladder. You know, that's what you did.
Speaker 1: You had faith in yourself, and that's what Klill's doing.
Speaker 1: You know. One thing, a question that you brought up
Speaker 1: last time is some of the assistant routes, or a
Speaker 1: lack of a better term, distraction routes where the other guys.
Speaker 1: So I see one in the preseason where Daniel Brown
Speaker 1: makes a big catch, but because of the routes that
Speaker 1: you guys ran on the opposite side of the field
Speaker 1: is the reason the play was so successful, so much
Speaker 1: running room after it. And I think that's the neat
Speaker 1: thing about you guys are going to have to run
Speaker 1: routes full speed knowing that you're probably not going to
Speaker 1: get the ball, but you're going to open an opportunity
Speaker 1: for someone else. That's that's a type of discipline you
Speaker 1: have to develop when you come to this level because
Speaker 1: every time you're gonna be covered because you're the start
Speaker 1: of the team. Now you're gonna try to open up
Speaker 1: possibilities for other receivers. Yeah, most definitely. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and with with our routes, um, you know, it's always
Speaker 1: a possibility that you can get the ball right, it's
Speaker 1: just based off how the defense plays but um, you
Speaker 1: know you gotta run run your routes full of speed,
Speaker 1: so you know the play can develop how how you want. Well,
Speaker 1: it's neat. You know, you guys help each other run
Speaker 1: successful routes and then you can see a defensive line
Speaker 1: run a successful stunt. There's guys helping set guys set
Speaker 1: free and it's interesting to see the different aspects. How
Speaker 1: this year this training camp, being able to watch just
Speaker 1: the receivers do that. Yeah, it's all the same thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we play as a team. You know we're
Speaker 1: gonna win as a team, and um, you know I
Speaker 1: wouldn't rather be with no other group of guys. So
Speaker 1: give us a little sneak peek at what you learn
Speaker 1: about the Green Bay Packers so far. Oh, you know
Speaker 1: they got Aaron Rodgers. You know that it starts everybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that guy's incredible. Um, you know he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's the general when he's out there. And but we
Speaker 1: we got a defense for him, so you know, I
Speaker 1: hope he's ready. Um, but you know the Packers there,
Speaker 1: you know, they they've always been a pretty decent team. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know with that crowd behind him, I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be uh, you know, a crazy atmosphere, but
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna be ready. You know, the most
Speaker 1: high profile game that you've played into thus far in
Speaker 1: your football life, you're gonna surpass it this Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Most I mean, you played in front of big crowds
Speaker 1: in college, yeah, everybody does. But when you go to
Speaker 1: lambeau Field and you think of the history between the
Speaker 1: two teams, the Bears and the Packers, Yeah, this this
Speaker 1: the biggest game I've ever been in, Probably the biggest
Speaker 1: game I'm gonna be in if if if we don't
Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl, But you know that's the plan, right,
Speaker 1: super Bowl is the plan. But this is the biggest
Speaker 1: game by far. Did Uh? How long did it take
Speaker 1: you to get over? And maybe it took no time
Speaker 1: at all. Uh. You walk into an NFL locker room
Speaker 1: and you're seeing guys you watched on television, and then
Speaker 1: you go on from the back practice field. Now you're
Speaker 1: playing against him on Sunday. You're gonna walk cross field.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see number twelve. Yeah, you're gonna see Clay Matthews.
Speaker 1: Is it is? It? Is? It a quick moment and
Speaker 1: then you're pasted it. Tom always talks about walking in
Speaker 1: the huddle and there's Walter Payton. It's like a wild moment. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna I might shake his hand, but after that,
Speaker 1: you know, now no friends at all. He did the enemy.
Speaker 1: So you know when I when I stepped out there,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be worried about Clay Matthews or whoever
Speaker 1: whoever else they have, you know what I mean, Um,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta play him, you know, like he
Speaker 1: would regularly do. Yeah, listen to the huddle call. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's all. You gotta listen to my call, you know,
Speaker 1: do what I know I can do. Sometimes times rookies
Speaker 1: are too hype they get in the game. Are you
Speaker 1: that way or are you pretty standard every single time
Speaker 1: you play the game. I believe I've mellowed out a
Speaker 1: little bit, um simply because you know, you gotta think
Speaker 1: while you're out there. Um, you can't just you know,
Speaker 1: run out there and expect to you know, just just run.
Speaker 1: One day you will yeah you won't be thinking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one day I won't be thinking. But um, right now,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just focused on all my assignments and
Speaker 1: what I gotta do are your early buss or later buss.
Speaker 1: I'm the early buss early buss because I gotta get
Speaker 1: in the locker room. I gotta get out on the field,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta do. If we got a noon start,
Speaker 1: he'll be there at five thirty in the morning. Really
Speaker 1: he's crazy. But anyway, he's got some issues. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got some good ones, good ones. All right, we're at
Speaker 1: the time. Thank you so much. Nothing but great success
Speaker 1: to you, man, the best. It's gonna be fun to
Speaker 1: watch you guys, the entirety of the offense and this
Speaker 1: football team. Tight locker room, a lot, a lot of
Speaker 1: exuberants and a lot of excitement in that locker rooms.
Speaker 1: That's gonna wrap us up for Bears All Access. This
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