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Speaker 1: Physical Therapy and CDW. A great couple of days up
Speaker 1: here at Hollis Hall Bears opening training camp pads. Aren't
Speaker 1: I yet till Monday, but a pleasant, good evening to everyone.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Johnny ac Well. I'm a broadcast partner Tom
Speaker 1: Fare from news Radio one oh five nine w BBM.
Speaker 1: Welcome at everybody to six seventy The Score, brought to
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Speaker 1: Press Tonight handling things at the Score, Big Tom Fair.
Speaker 1: A lot to break down, a lot of things to
Speaker 1: look yet I'm gonna start the whole proceedings though with
Speaker 1: Luke Getsy today on the progress of Justin Fields. So
Speaker 1: far from where we started, for sure, we still have
Speaker 1: a long way to go, though UMU as far as
Speaker 1: like attacking the system and the knowledge of the system,
Speaker 1: what's going on around him. I think he's done a
Speaker 1: great job with that part of it. Now it's just
Speaker 1: getting the experience in those reps and the and the
Speaker 1: cool part about it is, you know, in a couple
Speaker 1: more days we get to put pads on, this thing
Speaker 1: gets to be real. You know, these these helmet practices
Speaker 1: are great because you get timing and rhythm and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But um, this game is a fuel game,
Speaker 1: and the only way you get the real feels if
Speaker 1: it's the real thing. And so these these reps that
Speaker 1: will be coming down the road, you will be will
Speaker 1: be super important for him, and they sure will. Tommy's
Speaker 1: so basically echoing what you say all the time. Right, Well, Lucas,
Speaker 1: exactly right. I'm not a fan of no pad and football. However,
Speaker 1: from what we've seen carry over from the OTAs of
Speaker 1: the mandatory mini camp now in a training camp, the
Speaker 1: speed in which they're playing with they're practicing with is
Speaker 1: impressive and I think everybody can benefit from that. Even
Speaker 1: though they're not in pads, they are being a little
Speaker 1: bit as they are being as as aggressive as you
Speaker 1: can be without pads on. And I think once next
Speaker 1: week gets here. It's gonna be interesting to watch the
Speaker 1: whole process that Luke talks about about the temple of practice,
Speaker 1: about the readiness of the team once they break the huddle,
Speaker 1: and the understanding by everybody. So you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get guys like Riley Reef have a better understanding of
Speaker 1: the system by the time they get into full pads.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's a lot of competition out there,
Speaker 1: a lot of specific competition at positions, but there's nothing
Speaker 1: like padded football, because that's what everybody wants to see.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm encouraged at the speed in
Speaker 1: which they're practicing at. Yeah, Riley Reef at left tackle
Speaker 1: a little bit today, rotating with Braxton Jones. Tevin Jenkins
Speaker 1: not at practice today at right tackle, and then Senator
Speaker 1: Lucas Patrick left. Uncertain reasons why, but we'll learn more
Speaker 1: maybe here in the coming days. Overall time, execution offensively
Speaker 1: not as move today, but there were also some big
Speaker 1: places and we're gonna talk to Justin Fields coming up
Speaker 1: at around six ten. A couple of segments for about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes with Justin Fields, our interview with him. Overall time,
Speaker 1: Luke Ketchy wants to see the execution clean up. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: so coach created really good situations for us. So what
Speaker 1: we've done, we've done situational football, but we've kind of
Speaker 1: isolated those situations. But coach did a great job today.
Speaker 1: It was putting them in to like in the middle
Speaker 1: of the practice, spontaneous, so the guys didn't have a
Speaker 1: chance to prepare you know if you will, And so
Speaker 1: those were great reps. You saw we jumped twice and
Speaker 1: we came back and did a third time, and we
Speaker 1: did we executed it really well. That's something that we
Speaker 1: talked about as a staff that we want to do
Speaker 1: more of. Instead of just putting it at the end
Speaker 1: of practice and saying, hey, this is how we do it,
Speaker 1: let's actually put it in the middle of the practice
Speaker 1: and let these guys react to it. So that's that's
Speaker 1: that's exactly why we did that. Did that so we
Speaker 1: can make sure that these guys can stay poised, not
Speaker 1: let that chaos that happens when you're trying to beat
Speaker 1: a replay or was it a catch not a catch,
Speaker 1: or we're trying to run and then the defense makes
Speaker 1: a call on the front trying to get you to
Speaker 1: jump and then that's what we did. We did jump
Speaker 1: and hurrying up to get to the last scrimmag chop
Speaker 1: tempo tempo tempo. Yeah. But you know, I like the
Speaker 1: way the coaches are scripting the practices, Jeff, because I
Speaker 1: think everybody, every segment, no mare, where you're on the
Speaker 1: field with the down a distance, everybody can benefit from it.
Speaker 1: Because once the players go home, that's really when the
Speaker 1: coach's meeting starts, and then they have to get together
Speaker 1: and they have to script the plays they want to
Speaker 1: see run the next day, and then they can put
Speaker 1: the players in some pressure I situation that they can
Speaker 1: get an evaluation of how they react to it. Is
Speaker 1: it an immediate snap count, is it a one decision
Speaker 1: read by justin fields? Are they putting pressure on an
Speaker 1: isolated cornerback. Is there a mismatch between a tight end
Speaker 1: and maybe a linebacker and a safety. So it is fun,
Speaker 1: but you really have to pay attention to practice to
Speaker 1: look at the countless hours these coaches are putting in
Speaker 1: to making sure these scripts are not only putting pressure
Speaker 1: on the players, but they're gonna benefit them in the
Speaker 1: long run. We talked about Cole Commett all the time
Speaker 1: about breakout season for him again, top tenant yards, targets,
Speaker 1: and catches over the last week nine to week seventeen
Speaker 1: of the season last year. Back shoulder throw on the
Speaker 1: team today from Justin fields it's something significant. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a throw. We've been working a lot this
Speaker 1: all season, so it's it was pretty cool to ask
Speaker 1: you that today on the field. Yeah, knew exactly reason
Speaker 1: to throw that with the leverage I had on the guy,
Speaker 1: and that was really cool to see. So we'll definitely
Speaker 1: build on that and build on the money relationship. So
Speaker 1: you got Commet, you got money. That's where Justin is
Speaker 1: going right now with some clarity and some chemistry talents. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Jeff, you talk about Cole Commett, you talk about
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney, talk about Jalen Johnson, talk about Eddie Jackson.
Speaker 1: Because these out of the guys that are going to
Speaker 1: have the coverage responsibilities against these talented receivers. So when
Speaker 1: I go back in practice, not necessarily watching teamwork, watching
Speaker 1: one on ones, see how Cole Commet and Eddie Jackson
Speaker 1: play against each other and who's the most disruptive force
Speaker 1: when they're going wide receiver, defensive back, one on ones,
Speaker 1: just like I think it's going to be incredible battles
Speaker 1: between Jalen Johnson and Darnell Mooney through the training camp practices.
Speaker 1: In another one, pay attention to this one Valis Jones
Speaker 1: verse Kyler Gordon, because I think you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: significant amount of reps and when the pads come on
Speaker 1: it is I listen, man. I've never been a big
Speaker 1: fan of one on ones with wide receivers and defensive
Speaker 1: backs because it's kind of unrealistic. But these battles that
Speaker 1: are developing in the early stages our camp are going
Speaker 1: to be fun to watch, and they're playfully john with
Speaker 1: each other a little bit. Those two Vennis Jones Junior
Speaker 1: and the second round cornerback a couple of big places
Speaker 1: today Eddie Jackson with a pick six and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: six two two o eight. Noticed him in mini camp.
Speaker 1: The body is just ideal for that position. He's long, athletic,
Speaker 1: a second year men out of Nebraska free agent added
Speaker 1: to the rush or in twenty two Here, Tom, you
Speaker 1: pointed him out too to me today, right, you know
Speaker 1: the young kid out of Nebraska defensive back six two,
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds plus but then you got Harry, the
Speaker 1: wide receiver that they recently brought in. These are a
Speaker 1: couple of interesting guys to pay attention to see if
Speaker 1: they're gonna earn their opportunity to win jobs in this field.
Speaker 1: And Nikkil Harry big guy is going up can high
Speaker 1: point the ball can run through defensive back coverage. And
Speaker 1: when you talk about how important it is for Justin
Speaker 1: to have these types of targets, I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of competition out there on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Time for break Tam. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll visit with Justin Fields. QB one joins
Speaker 1: us here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score
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Speaker 1: better world. Training camp underway with Tom there, I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonahak and please to be joined by the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: in your Chicago Bears, Justin Fields. I know your time
Speaker 1: is valuable, so we appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I know saying something like being excited as an understatement,
Speaker 1: but how excited are you? Because you're the guy and
Speaker 1: this is your team now, Yeah for sure. I mean
Speaker 1: if there was a skill, I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: I can you know, name that skill. I think everybody
Speaker 1: in the buildings, you know, very excited to get things going.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, I think everybody's had a great
Speaker 1: break and you know, I've been working very hard, so
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's just decided to, you know, finally get
Speaker 1: to play some real football out. Did you need a
Speaker 1: little bit of time just to reset a little bit
Speaker 1: after the offseason, a lot to learn, a lot of people,
Speaker 1: to get to know you, got so many new teammates,
Speaker 1: and just put yourself in the right frame of mind
Speaker 1: to begin this process. Yeah, for sure. I think you know,
Speaker 1: a good reset is always needed, especially you know with
Speaker 1: the length of this season. So, um, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's finally time to lock in now. So again, everybody's here,
Speaker 1: everybody's focused, and um, everybody's ready to get going. Just
Speaker 1: and I gotta ask you one fun question before we
Speaker 1: get to the serious football. When you stood at home,
Speaker 1: played at Wrigley Field and you hit a home run
Speaker 1: out of that stadium, did that surprise you? Because for
Speaker 1: you and the rest of the guys that were able
Speaker 1: to hit home runs. I've been in that park my
Speaker 1: whole life growing up in this area. Did it surprise
Speaker 1: you when you were able to take it out of
Speaker 1: the out of the park? All right, So I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: like everything that went down. So I think I was
Speaker 1: the fourth guy to go, and then I saw three
Speaker 1: guys that you know, didn't really Cole went before me,
Speaker 1: but I knew Cole was the only guy that like
Speaker 1: played baseball seriously. But when I saw like two other guys,
Speaker 1: you know, they were hitting ground roll doubles like one
Speaker 1: hop in the fance, I was like, all right, I
Speaker 1: might be able to get one out. So, um, after
Speaker 1: I saw that, you know, I hit my first one,
Speaker 1: it was it wasn't that deep. In the second one
Speaker 1: that I hit it, I mean it went, you know,
Speaker 1: out of the stadium, like you said. So it was
Speaker 1: it was just crazy being there, crazy having that experience,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it was just an awesome moment
Speaker 1: for you know, everyone on the team. So yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was crazy for sure. Well impressive because
Speaker 1: it's something I know I couldn't do. But one of
Speaker 1: the similarities my first year with the Bears. I came
Speaker 1: to the Bears after they got beat in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game, and really, my first year was so competitive,
Speaker 1: you're trying to earn a position, trying to respect. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of fun. It was just hard work.
Speaker 1: Is this year do you feel it can gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot more fun because of what you went through
Speaker 1: last year? Uh? Yeah, I think you know, if you're
Speaker 1: not having fun playing football, then kind of you know,
Speaker 1: just have to take a step back because excuse me,
Speaker 1: but kind of just have to take a step back
Speaker 1: because you know, we've we've pretty much everyone on this
Speaker 1: team has been playing footballs, you know, since since a
Speaker 1: young age. So um, you know, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of guys once they started stop having fun with it,
Speaker 1: then you know, they you know, start playing a game
Speaker 1: for the wrong reason. But um, yeah, just you know,
Speaker 1: being able to have fun, you know, being able to
Speaker 1: get out there and you know, feel like a little
Speaker 1: kid again and just just just kind of play play
Speaker 1: with your teammates and you know, build that relationship throughout
Speaker 1: the season and you know, at this time, this point
Speaker 1: in time, right now, I think it's you know great
Speaker 1: for everyone. So um, you know, I'm excited for this year,
Speaker 1: and you know, just the just the laid backness of
Speaker 1: the coaches and just kind of how they, you know,
Speaker 1: go about things. When it's time to work, it's time
Speaker 1: to work, but they also know, have fun at the
Speaker 1: same time. So I think we have a great culture
Speaker 1: here for sure. Bears quarterback Justin Fields our guest here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is
Speaker 1: Bears All Access and it's brought to you by IGS Energy.
Speaker 1: With Tom there Jeff Jonik. I want to go back
Speaker 1: to the baseball thing for a minute, because talk about
Speaker 1: being a little kid. I watched the Bears do the
Speaker 1: documentary nineteen twenty Football Drive. I do the voice over it,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get to go to Wrigley Field with
Speaker 1: you guys. But it wasn't just the home run derby.
Speaker 1: It was bags. It was stacking of the cups and
Speaker 1: just seeing the raw enthusiasm and the childlike reaction to
Speaker 1: being somewhere other than a football field really stuck with me.
Speaker 1: That you guys, and I think you alluded it earlier
Speaker 1: this week at the news conference here at Hollis Hall,
Speaker 1: that you feel the team is closer this year which
Speaker 1: is strange to say a little bit, because there's only
Speaker 1: twenty seven guys still here from the sixty three that
Speaker 1: wound up on the roster at the end of last year.
Speaker 1: So was that a terrific experience just for off the
Speaker 1: field bonding and just to be just the raw fun
Speaker 1: of being a kid again. Yeah, I mean it was
Speaker 1: a great experience, you know, kind of like kind of
Speaker 1: my first you know, time doing something like that. Just
Speaker 1: being in that environment, being at Wrigley, Um, it was.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, you know. Uh, just kind of hanging
Speaker 1: out with their people there too, and kind of learning
Speaker 1: the history there. We got to go to the locker
Speaker 1: room and stuff like that. So again just having everyone
Speaker 1: you know in the locker room, on the field, um,
Speaker 1: you know, all just bonding with each other. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was, it was, it was. It was awesome time.
Speaker 1: And we should doubt your ability to to knock the
Speaker 1: ball out of the park because you were an excellent
Speaker 1: baseball player. Did you have visions of being a pro
Speaker 1: baseball player ever? Uh? I did? You know, Um, my
Speaker 1: late years of high school, I didn't play baseball my
Speaker 1: senior year in high school, but my junior year I did,
Speaker 1: and then of course I graduated high school earlier to
Speaker 1: go play football. But um, you know, my dad really
Speaker 1: pushed me as a baseball player, probably more than I
Speaker 1: wanted to be pushed, you know. I think football was
Speaker 1: kind of you know, my my, uh, you know, first love.
Speaker 1: But um, you know baseball. I grew up playing baseball
Speaker 1: since a young age too, and you know, doing traveling
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So um, you know, just of
Speaker 1: or it's just you know, having that and you know,
Speaker 1: being playing I guess at the top level. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: baseball kind of all my life. You know, you you
Speaker 1: kind of do have those aspirations of you know, I
Speaker 1: could be a major league baseball player. Did you pitch?
Speaker 1: I pitched a little bit, but I stopped pitching around
Speaker 1: fourteen years old. So yeah, come at with something. I mean,
Speaker 1: he he looked like Mickey Mantle up there. I mean
Speaker 1: he hit him out with these I mean, just seeing
Speaker 1: cold up there. I didn't I definitely didn't didn't see
Speaker 1: that coming for sure. Well, I will say as an
Speaker 1: ex off with Sublime, and I'm more impressed with Tevin
Speaker 1: Jenkins being able to crush one out just to give
Speaker 1: the big guys a little bit of their due. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, Jesse, when I this off season, when I
Speaker 1: was watching the speed in which the defense was playing
Speaker 1: in all of OTA's and mini camp and any everything,
Speaker 1: how how beneficial was that for you in order to
Speaker 1: practice against the defense that as playing at that that speed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's one, uh, one of our
Speaker 1: team qualities is you know, always play fast and finished fast.
Speaker 1: So you know, just seeing a defense, you know, always
Speaker 1: trying to punch the ball out, always trying to create
Speaker 1: turn on was that's definitely gonna help me. It's gonna
Speaker 1: help you know, everyone on offense just kind of see
Speaker 1: their energy and um, you know, of course, you know
Speaker 1: once that season rose around, you know, them having uh,
Speaker 1: you know, most of the turnovers a game and you know,
Speaker 1: creating chaos for the other teams often that's just gonna
Speaker 1: help the whole team. From from the first play you
Speaker 1: called at the beginning of OTAs until the last play
Speaker 1: you called at the end of the mandatory mini caamp
Speaker 1: did it seemed like an entirely different operation. Because you
Speaker 1: became more familiar with it, you started to understand the talent,
Speaker 1: You understood what the help that you were getting out
Speaker 1: of the offensive line and you know, you got Mooney,
Speaker 1: you got a Cole, you got Montgomery, guys that you're
Speaker 1: familiar with. Didn't feel like a different operation at the
Speaker 1: end of the OTAs a mini caamp than it did
Speaker 1: at the very first day. Yeah, for sure. You know,
Speaker 1: Luke Getzy, he kind of threw a lot at us,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole OTA's whole mini caamp. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, towards the beginning of it, guys were kind
Speaker 1: of swimming, Guys were just trying to find their way,
Speaker 1: you know, just you know, making sure they know everything
Speaker 1: to do. But of course as we got along through OTAs,
Speaker 1: through mandatory mini camp, you know, guys were feeling more
Speaker 1: and more comfortable. So I think that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: biggest part of part of camp is just you know,
Speaker 1: building every day, getting more and more comfortable and making
Speaker 1: sure you know, guys are you know, luck and the
Speaker 1: whole time, and you know, just just staying healthy. So um,
Speaker 1: but I think, you know, the more you know we're
Speaker 1: in this offense, the more reps we get, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's just an inevitable, uh, just the you know
Speaker 1: the amount of comfort that we're gonna fill in this
Speaker 1: offense and stuff like that. So Justin fields our guests
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score, Tim
Speaker 1: and Jeff with you. I will have Justin for another
Speaker 1: segment as well, wrapping up this one. Uh, can you
Speaker 1: describe what you're welcome to? The NFL moment was that
Speaker 1: you can build off? Everybody knows that one, but uh,
Speaker 1: it was the second preseason game last year Bills. I
Speaker 1: put a double move on the backside and you know,
Speaker 1: was hot and the linebacker came and crushed me. I
Speaker 1: mean that the hit definitely looked worse on TV than
Speaker 1: it felt, but that was definitely, you know, welcome to
Speaker 1: the Uh. The NFL moment from that was the smelling
Speaker 1: thoughts that you didn't need right right, but you know
Speaker 1: you've taken some pops. I mean everybody goes back to
Speaker 1: the college tape and we remember the big games, that
Speaker 1: Clemson game for example, But you know, you are you know,
Speaker 1: coach talk today about being resilient. Ryan Poles talked about
Speaker 1: being resilient. Do you feel you are? I am? You know,
Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot of things thrown on
Speaker 1: me in my life, and of course there's going to
Speaker 1: be more things that are thrown on me in the future.
Speaker 1: But you just gotta you know, pursue through us things,
Speaker 1: get through those things, and you know, just keep a
Speaker 1: a mindset that you know you're never going to be
Speaker 1: faced by anything, and you know, whatever you may go through,
Speaker 1: um you can get through it and you are going
Speaker 1: to get through it. So you you you have to
Speaker 1: be really resilient to you know, whatever you know might
Speaker 1: might come to your life, whatever challenges you might face.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, our guests, let's take a break with Tim.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff and this is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: feeling better tomorrow. Justin Fields, our guests for one more
Speaker 1: segment here on Bears All Access, and we're brought to
Speaker 1: you by igsm Jelson. I can't let you get away
Speaker 1: without this. I went to Notre Dame. You went to
Speaker 1: Ohio State, first game of the college season, game of
Speaker 1: the year. What do you expect there? You know, no
Speaker 1: name's got a new head coach, I've never been to
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I know the historic horseshoe and everything, But
Speaker 1: what do you think about that game? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that you know, but guys are at least gonna win
Speaker 1: by fourteen points, so the scrited to you know, see
Speaker 1: my boy CJ out there balling out. Of course, my
Speaker 1: guy Jackson Smith and Jake Bore going crazy. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely think you know, the buck guys gonna take
Speaker 1: that one home for sure. First game. Have you been
Speaker 1: back to a college game since you been in the NFL?
Speaker 1: I haven't, But I think we might have that day
Speaker 1: off so I might be able to make it back
Speaker 1: to Columbus to to make that one. So as long
Speaker 1: as you know, we don't have anything on our schedule,
Speaker 1: we don't have an anything to do here, I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, try my heart to to to get back
Speaker 1: there and catch that one for sure. Well here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw something on the table for you guys.
Speaker 1: So you guys are dog lovers, you have the same
Speaker 1: kind of dogs in Ohio State win. I'm babysitting. He's
Speaker 1: gonna take care of business. He's gonna walk the ducks
Speaker 1: for a week. Maybe you know. And you know, man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be too busy to this, dun So anytime,
Speaker 1: anytime you need someone to take care of your dogs, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm there for you. I got they can come
Speaker 1: in here and hang out with my three Frenchies and
Speaker 1: we'll have a great time. What is it with the Frenchies?
Speaker 1: Why do you too love that particular breed? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I got you know, and uh my sophomore year in college,
Speaker 1: so I think you know, I was just how cute
Speaker 1: they were, and I kind of like small dogs because
Speaker 1: you can kind of treat them like puppies. Their their
Speaker 1: their whole lives, so um. And there of course you
Speaker 1: don't have to pick up their poop. That's you know,
Speaker 1: human size, so um. It's it's not too bad. Just
Speaker 1: just just you know, I just love Frenchies for some reason.
Speaker 1: I no idea, how about you. You know I got
Speaker 1: introduced to them from the space I was limited downtown Chicago.
Speaker 1: I knew that you didn't have to have go on
Speaker 1: those extreme walks with them. They are just great companions
Speaker 1: and and fun to be around. Yeah, just so I
Speaker 1: have another question. So you know, as an ex offensive Lineman.
Speaker 1: If we went through a coaching change, I could still
Speaker 1: watch my games from last year because I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at specific offensive line techniques, traits and fundamentals. As a quarterback,
Speaker 1: do you go back and watch the tape from last
Speaker 1: year or do you watch instructional tape that your new
Speaker 1: coaches have brought aboard to kind of look how the
Speaker 1: offense is gonna look and how it's gonna work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I actually went back and watched last year too,
Speaker 1: just you know what decisions I made, you know, what
Speaker 1: what I would maybe do this year compared to last year.
Speaker 1: And of course you know just how I played, you
Speaker 1: know what mistakes I made and stuff like that, just
Speaker 1: to learn from. But I'm also watching instructional tape, you know,
Speaker 1: from our new coaches here, just you know, stuff from
Speaker 1: Green Bay. The protections that you know we have now
Speaker 1: versus last year, and stuff like that. So, um again,
Speaker 1: the coaches have done a great job, you know, teaching
Speaker 1: me and teaching everyone else, just our protection and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Justin fields our guest here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access,
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into the roster a little bit because your weaponry, a
Speaker 1: lot of new faces. The bond that you and Darnell,
Speaker 1: you know, I was impressed with him the moment I
Speaker 1: shook his hand. Yeah, he's a professional already, is a
Speaker 1: young guy. He's a professional. So you guys are bonding
Speaker 1: that way. I believe you're the same exact way. You
Speaker 1: guys both want to be great. You've stated it, and
Speaker 1: I know a lot of players do that when they
Speaker 1: come into the league. But there's there's an action that's
Speaker 1: involved with it. He's putting it to action. You're putting
Speaker 1: it to action. Now you got a guy like Nikkil
Speaker 1: Harry uber talented. I mean, he's as big as ro
Speaker 1: Kuan smith fest you know, getting a second chance bonding
Speaker 1: with a guy like that, all these different veterans coming in,
Speaker 1: and then you got the tight end group, some newbies
Speaker 1: whole commit big takeoff year for him, maybe more red
Speaker 1: zone opportunities and whatnot. You fitting in in this offense
Speaker 1: with your mobility. You are an outstanding outside the pocket
Speaker 1: quarterback Last year and making plays down the run. You
Speaker 1: were the number one rated quarterback in the NFL. You
Speaker 1: didn't get as many opportunities, but you were number one
Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus. How do you blend all
Speaker 1: that together and you own this? This is your your team,
Speaker 1: this is the Bears offense with all these different pieces
Speaker 1: to the puzzle and just working together. Yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a lot of guys that have
Speaker 1: a lot of playmaking ability, you know, the potential you
Speaker 1: know VBA players. So I think at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's going to be you know, finding out
Speaker 1: what we do best as a team, what we do
Speaker 1: best as the offense. You know, running those plays and
Speaker 1: getting even better at them, and you know, executing those
Speaker 1: plays in games in situations and um, you know, just
Speaker 1: just making those plays when it when it when it
Speaker 1: you know, comes down to it, when it's third down,
Speaker 1: when it's a two minute before they have two minute
Speaker 1: at the end of at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: So it's just you know, uh, practicing those situations in practice,
Speaker 1: you know, going through it and seeing what guys can do,
Speaker 1: what what we do best as an offense, and you know,
Speaker 1: going out in the game and executing those plays, just
Speaker 1: just like me doing practice. The coach talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough camp put it in everybody's
Speaker 1: head the moment he got hired. What did you do
Speaker 1: or have you added any I know Rod Marinelli came
Speaker 1: to speak to you guys as well, talked about putting
Speaker 1: on the armor. You're you're a gym rat anyway. You
Speaker 1: love the weight room. But are you shaped any different
Speaker 1: way or are you heavier lighter? What is it? I'm
Speaker 1: lighter and I lost about from the time we left,
Speaker 1: I lost about two percent body fat, so I'm way
Speaker 1: about what two twenty one to twenty two now and
Speaker 1: I have about eight percent body fat. So I lost
Speaker 1: a little bit of body fat and I actually didn't
Speaker 1: lift as much. You know this obviously not kind of
Speaker 1: just you know, got my mobility better, and you know
Speaker 1: it was just just running really. So it's just so
Speaker 1: when you look at the course of practice, you have
Speaker 1: one on ones with your receivers, you have seven on
Speaker 1: seven with your receivers, and then you have teamwork with
Speaker 1: all eleven. Does the all eleven teamwork benefit you the
Speaker 1: most because the Russia is involved, or do you learn
Speaker 1: little intricacies about the receivers you're working with through one
Speaker 1: on ones and seven on seven as much as teamwork? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think one on ones there's a you know, good
Speaker 1: example or good you know, uh test for the receivers,
Speaker 1: just just to see, you know, how well they do
Speaker 1: when one on one matchups, because of course, you know,
Speaker 1: playing in the NFL, there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: one on one matchups, so you know, seeing what guys
Speaker 1: can win one on one and seeing what guys I
Speaker 1: can just throw the ball up to fifty fifty chances
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully they come down with it most of
Speaker 1: the time where it's just the incomplete pass. But you know,
Speaker 1: just seeing you know, those guys you know, make plays
Speaker 1: and making tests the catches, I think, you know one
Speaker 1: on one, seven on seven and team I think you
Speaker 1: know all of them. Uh, you know, I can learn
Speaker 1: from them, learn how you know they're thinking, and kind
Speaker 1: of just just learn the different ways because in seven
Speaker 1: on seven you're not getting that much blitzes. So of course,
Speaker 1: when you know blitzes have happened when we go eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven, you know, there's there's stuff that the receivers
Speaker 1: will do if somebody blitzzes from their side. So I'm
Speaker 1: just seeing if you know they're grasping that, you know, grasping,
Speaker 1: you know, just the way our offenses ran and just
Speaker 1: seeing if they're you know, executing it on the field.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you can learn a lot from
Speaker 1: one on one, seven on sevens and you know, of
Speaker 1: course eleven or eleven two, So just all of those
Speaker 1: in practice, and you know, just just seeing those guys performance,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna be great. It's just learning them.
Speaker 1: You know, receivers, man, they can talk a lot, like
Speaker 1: the defensive bats and soul. Is there any receivers where
Speaker 1: you gotta hey, man, I got you. I understand that
Speaker 1: they want to talk to you every time they come
Speaker 1: back to the line of scrimmage after your run of play.
Speaker 1: Or is it kind of digest all the new information
Speaker 1: that you're being fed and just kind of get a
Speaker 1: better understanding of it before what is it September eleventh,
Speaker 1: the first regular season game? Yeah, I mean, we we
Speaker 1: all talk, of course, and you know, it's the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is is just being on the same page. So uh,
Speaker 1: if you know we might not connect on one route
Speaker 1: or they were thinking a different thing, we'll just you know,
Speaker 1: walk up to each other after the playing. Of course,
Speaker 1: you know, I would, I would see what he was thinking.
Speaker 1: Of course, get my input on what I was thinking
Speaker 1: or what I thought, you know, the receiver would do,
Speaker 1: and you know, we we go back to the drawing
Speaker 1: board and face it and us. It's really just that
Speaker 1: simply just kind of making sure that we're in the
Speaker 1: same page, so I know what they're doing, and you know,
Speaker 1: of course they know what I'm thinking. Remaining moments with
Speaker 1: Justin Fields kind enough to join us here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score
Speaker 1: time there, Jeff Joni Yak. All right, a couple of
Speaker 1: wrap ups and then we'll do some quick hitters, fun stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, just kind of put a bow on this.
Speaker 1: What do you tell the fans about what's next for
Speaker 1: the team, because they don't know the team. We don't
Speaker 1: know the team. Heck, you guys don't even know. It's
Speaker 1: all gonna look like so many new faces. But everybody
Speaker 1: I've spoken to that is putting on a helmet and
Speaker 1: pads has had the same thought. Just watch, just wait,
Speaker 1: don't knock us down the road a little bit here,
Speaker 1: just wait and see what we got for you. How
Speaker 1: would you put it? I mean, yeah, I can promise
Speaker 1: the fans is just one thing, you know, just the
Speaker 1: culture and kind of our mindset of our team. It's
Speaker 1: it's all the same. And you know, we don't care
Speaker 1: you know what everybody else is saying, because we know
Speaker 1: what we do in the building, We know what we
Speaker 1: can do as a team. And um, as long as
Speaker 1: we get all three phases going offense, defense, and special
Speaker 1: teams and you know, just the effort and the finish
Speaker 1: that we're gonna play with, UM, they're gonna see that.
Speaker 1: And you know, at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 1: you know who can execute when it's time to execute,
Speaker 1: and you know who's going to make plays when it's
Speaker 1: time to make plays. So again, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: the fans are going to see that regardless on you
Speaker 1: know who's gonna make plays, and we're going to make plays.
Speaker 1: We're going to cost turn numbers. On defense, we're gonna
Speaker 1: score uh, we're gonna be uh masters that situational football.
Speaker 1: So all of that, just putting all of that, you
Speaker 1: know in you know, our game and making sure that
Speaker 1: you know we're executing at you know, all three phases.
Speaker 1: I think you know, the sky's a limit for our team.
Speaker 1: And you know what we can do. And what does
Speaker 1: Justin Fields want? I want a super Bowl. That's that's
Speaker 1: all I want. I don't care if you know, I
Speaker 1: don't care what happens. I want to super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: of course I want to beat the beat the Packers,
Speaker 1: So I you know, that's really the only thing I
Speaker 1: want in life right now, in my last year. All right,
Speaker 1: quit five, we do this with all the guys. All right,
Speaker 1: you got a bucket list at them, like just for anything,
Speaker 1: you're what life? Life? Super Bowl? Super Bowl? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean again, that's the only thing I want right now,
Speaker 1: just just one. And of course once I get that one,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win another one. But right now, it's just
Speaker 1: one super Bowl. That's that's that's all I want. If
Speaker 1: you had a moment in your life that you were starstruck,
Speaker 1: I don't think I have. Actually, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think I've been star struck by anybody. But the funny
Speaker 1: thing is when little kids come up to you and stuff,
Speaker 1: they're starstruck, I know, And I love seeing the reaction
Speaker 1: because kids are so funny when you know, of course,
Speaker 1: they see someone they look up to and just you know,
Speaker 1: because they don't think about what anybody's thinking. They just
Speaker 1: you know, full of exciting and full of happiness. So
Speaker 1: it's always good seeing kids, kids, me people that they
Speaker 1: look up. I just saw a picture of time of
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly as a little boy going up to Terry
Speaker 1: Bradshaw for a for an autograph. It's a great picture.
Speaker 1: Favorite meal, favorite meal, you see. I can't you know,
Speaker 1: choose choose that one because I like too many foods.
Speaker 1: And of course, uh, you gotta give me one, give me,
Speaker 1: give me something, you gotta. I gotta have a dish.
Speaker 1: I've been eating a lot of asau bos lately. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's not a you know, or mill, but
Speaker 1: you know those those are really good. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of my go to snack for sure. Do you have
Speaker 1: a prize possession? Prize possession? Um, just my dog? Really
Speaker 1: I like it? Yeah? Simple yeah, simple, simple but important.
Speaker 1: All right, Thank you so much, have a great year,
Speaker 1: stay healthy, and we'll be looking forward to see what
Speaker 1: it all looks like with Tom Fair Jeff Jonny acc
Speaker 1: will continue with Bears All Access after this on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score See your Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: had told your peel down. August night for the Meyer
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears dot com. Jeff Jonny ac time pair from
Speaker 1: hattisall getting you ready for the Bears twenty twenty two season.
Speaker 1: Couple of practices in the books today Tom Eddie Jackson
Speaker 1: had a couple of nice plays. This is what he
Speaker 1: told media today what he wants from this season. I
Speaker 1: just want to be better than I was last year.
Speaker 1: That's that's it. And be a better leader, you know,
Speaker 1: go out there and make plays, you know, and win.
Speaker 1: I really eliminated the personal goals this year. You know.
Speaker 1: It was just more overall like helping the team, you know,
Speaker 1: come in, be a better version of myself. And I
Speaker 1: know I'm a bet now, you know, one of those
Speaker 1: guys in the room. So a lot of young guys
Speaker 1: look going to me, and that's I gotta leave from
Speaker 1: the front. How I prepare, how I work, I'm in meetings,
Speaker 1: how I walk around the building, how attack the waiting room.
Speaker 1: It's all of that type of stuff, and I feel
Speaker 1: like everything else to fall in line. Tom, you like
Speaker 1: what you're hearing? Yeah, I do, because I want Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson to return to that playmaking a guy that we
Speaker 1: got to know him early in his career, and I
Speaker 1: do think it can benefit the defense obviously, and I
Speaker 1: think they'll put him in a position to be that playmaker.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you leave these all these personal goals behind,
Speaker 1: because the only goal that's important, like Justin talked about
Speaker 1: a moment's ago, is winning a Super Bowl. And that's
Speaker 1: the greatest achieve in sports that any individual can have.
Speaker 1: And so if Eddie's actions lead to that defense playing
Speaker 1: better in getting themselves in condemntion to win a division
Speaker 1: and win the super Bowl, that's all I care about.
Speaker 1: I like what he has to say when you know,
Speaker 1: lead from the front, because right even though he's on
Speaker 1: the back end of the defense, he knew he kind
Speaker 1: of had to take some control of the situation here.
Speaker 1: It's a Clint slate for him, just like everybody else's.
Speaker 1: He's in the in the midst of a big contract.
Speaker 1: But you know some of those guys up front, those
Speaker 1: a big personalities like the Akeem hickses o the world.
Speaker 1: Not that kdel mac had a outward personality in terms
Speaker 1: of being a robroy guy, he was a big personality
Speaker 1: amongst the team so a guy of his experience and
Speaker 1: a two time Pro bowler, Eddie Jackson is a good
Speaker 1: guy to help some of those young guys transition. Heck,
Speaker 1: you know he was brisker once. Not that long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But you know, Jeff, when when the early competition comes
Speaker 1: into the soldier field or in away game, they're gonna
Speaker 1: challenge Eddie Jackson because they're not gonna listen to his
Speaker 1: interviews and they're gonna say, oh, man, this guy. I
Speaker 1: assume that he's going to be a completely different player
Speaker 1: if they're gonna go after him and say, okay, if
Speaker 1: we have a successful interior run and that running back
Speaker 1: fullback gets to the third level, is Eddie Jackson wills
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson willing to step in the way and make
Speaker 1: a big tackle if we challenge him with the tight
Speaker 1: end or our third receiver, and he has coverage responsibility
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage canny coverage, and is he
Speaker 1: willing to break up the pass before it turns into
Speaker 1: a completion. So, no matter what he says now early
Speaker 1: in this preseason, he's still gonna be tested throughout the
Speaker 1: regular season. Play a lot of man snaps last year
Speaker 1: twelfth highest in the league. But the Colt safeties obviously
Speaker 1: in a covered two situation and in this defense play
Speaker 1: zone a heck of a lot more probably a triple
Speaker 1: the amount that or double at least. And that's really
Speaker 1: we're going to see across the board a lot more
Speaker 1: man excuse me, a lot more zone whereas you know,
Speaker 1: even Jalen Johnson last year played, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of man eyes are gonna be on the football and
Speaker 1: that's hopefully going to lead to more takeaways, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And here's another thing too. You talked about the buy in.
Speaker 1: Obviously you have to have it if you want to
Speaker 1: have a successful a team and a team that's dialed in.
Speaker 1: And it appears to be the case, and there was
Speaker 1: that pretty quickly according to Jackson, type of coaches we have,
Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent. I feel like it's me and
Speaker 1: everybody we bought in a one hundred percent. You know,
Speaker 1: we went through the OTAs phase. You just seem like
Speaker 1: the first month we was here, just like how the
Speaker 1: coaches is. You know, they have to invest interests like
Speaker 1: coaches seeing you up actually not a family, you know,
Speaker 1: just that'sing on stuff outside of football. So that right,
Speaker 1: there's that's you know, someone saying they care about you,
Speaker 1: and when you're going to meeting room, it's more easier
Speaker 1: for when they you know, they say have messages or something,
Speaker 1: it's it's easier for you to take that message in,
Speaker 1: you know, running with it. But I feel like right
Speaker 1: now it's one hundred percent they got our trust and
Speaker 1: that trust hopefully will pay off. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: the team, the Chicago Bears, fans, Chicago Nation face suffered
Speaker 1: last year because of what they went through. And I
Speaker 1: think when you'd have this change of a culture and
Speaker 1: you bring in the Ryan Poles and the Matt eber
Speaker 1: Flus and you know, these guys that are paid their
Speaker 1: dues to be awarded the position that they've they've been
Speaker 1: put in, they're here to win, They're here to win divisions,
Speaker 1: They're here to win Super Bowl. So listen, Matt. I
Speaker 1: you know, as soon as Matt eber Flus the first
Speaker 1: time at the podium talked about running shoes, I wanted
Speaker 1: to see if it was going to carry through all
Speaker 1: the way into and through training camp, and it has
Speaker 1: so far. So the message was clearly delivered, it was
Speaker 1: believed by the players, and now it's being delivered, and
Speaker 1: I think it builds more faith and trust in what
Speaker 1: they see going forward. Yeah, may it been only an
Speaker 1: hour in a thirty minute practice something like that. Today
Speaker 1: it'll get longer and they when they get into the
Speaker 1: pads portion of it. But this is the ramp up period.
Speaker 1: And you know, just talking to Darnell Mooney today and
Speaker 1: the guys were gassed. I mean even though they got
Speaker 1: there already. You know, they were running a lot today. Dude.
Speaker 1: It's NonStop. I don't you know. You go back from
Speaker 1: coming off of six weeks of a mini vacation before
Speaker 1: the season starts, and day one practice you're running for
Speaker 1: a solid ninety plus minutes. And some of those guys
Speaker 1: stay out after practice and put in a little extra work.
Speaker 1: It's super fatiguing. But then Monday, when they come out
Speaker 1: there and they got five pads in, knee pads, in
Speaker 1: shoulder pads on, a little bit more air in your helmet,
Speaker 1: your fingers taped up, it's gonna even be more exhausting.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be thankful that they put into work
Speaker 1: thus far, so they're able to get through the practice
Speaker 1: with the equal amount of effort that they have so
Speaker 1: far this preseason. All right, speaking a moony and the
Speaker 1: connection with Justin fields there is a respect for way
Speaker 1: Justin is leading out of the gate to start this
Speaker 1: season as the number one quarterback, with him being more
Speaker 1: vocal and uh just having the you know, understanding that
Speaker 1: he is the guy and that this is his team.
Speaker 1: So um and he uh he brings in you know,
Speaker 1: and like we were just outside after practice just throwing
Speaker 1: routes and knee everybody's just seeing, well you have some
Speaker 1: guys to see him walking over and just see him
Speaker 1: walk over, just get more reps. You You can't just
Speaker 1: like walk up the field. You have to see him like, okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta get some reps in with him because the
Speaker 1: way he moves, everybody else I mean has to has
Speaker 1: to go with him or we won't go anywhere. So
Speaker 1: I mean just as a good guy, a great great player,
Speaker 1: great work ethic and uh me, he can't do it
Speaker 1: all by so we gotta gotta work with him, everybody.
Speaker 1: I love that line. Wherever he moves, we gotta go
Speaker 1: with him. So if Justin wants to stay after practice,
Speaker 1: guys should stay after practice. Now the first couple of days,
Speaker 1: last two guys off the playing field, way way after
Speaker 1: everybody else left. Justin fields. Darnel Money also cold commenting
Speaker 1: that mix as well. But you know another reflection from
Speaker 1: receiver to quarterback Jeff and we were on the field
Speaker 1: and Darnell Mooney caught a pass for about twenty seven
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards, and then he ran an extra thirty
Speaker 1: thirty five yards after the catch and the defensive backs
Speaker 1: were chasing him. He wanted to get into the end
Speaker 1: zone because he wanted to complete that pass all the
Speaker 1: way into the end zone. It's kind of that mentality
Speaker 1: that you get ingrained in your head. Those are the
Speaker 1: type of conditioning extra efforts that helps everybody. You got
Speaker 1: the defensive backs chasing him, you got Darnell Mooney running
Speaker 1: full speed, you have a great over the middle type
Speaker 1: of catch. So those types of efforts, it's not only
Speaker 1: for Justin, it's not only for Darnell Mooney, it's for
Speaker 1: the entire team. And so it is really exciting to
Speaker 1: see what you do during practice, but then that extra
Speaker 1: effort that you give after practice to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're on the same page and every minor detail of
Speaker 1: this offense, it's gonna be beneficial in the long run,
Speaker 1: another guy dialed in to kill Harry Luke getsy the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator impressed, beat about eat about a guy, right,
Speaker 1: and you're in the draft process and then you and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But he gets in front of you
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, dude, he's a big thing. Dude,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's an impressive guy, but even more
Speaker 1: impressed with like his mentality, how he came in here,
Speaker 1: like he came in here with a purpose, and to
Speaker 1: be here for like a week basically, uh, and grab
Speaker 1: that playbook and be as far long as he's already
Speaker 1: very impressed with how he's approached, this thing could be
Speaker 1: a heck of an acquisition. Tom. Well, you know what, Jeff,
Speaker 1: we got to hold a roster on our hand during
Speaker 1: practice because you're just not one hundred percent familiar with
Speaker 1: every single number. And the Bears ran a screen out there,
Speaker 1: and I watched one of the wide receivers come in
Speaker 1: and make an impressive block and I did have to
Speaker 1: look down at my roster and it was nikkil Harry,
Speaker 1: And so yeah, if he's a target catching passes down
Speaker 1: the field, that is where you want to probably see
Speaker 1: him the most. However, this offense is never gonna get
Speaker 1: going if you don't have the willingness for these big
Speaker 1: wide receivers to throw blocks down field. So as an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman going out and make blocks on screens, that's
Speaker 1: what we're paid for. But now when you see these
Speaker 1: wide receivers go out in the willingness to put their
Speaker 1: body in front of a defender to give David Montgomery
Speaker 1: an extra six to eight yards on a screen, man,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. All right, we're gonna take our
Speaker 1: last break of the show. Tom there, Jeff Joniac here
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Speaker 1: get it in final moments with Top there, Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: here on Bears All Access. And let's talk Cole Comet,
Speaker 1: because we've been talking a lot about Cole Commet. What
Speaker 1: he likes about the offense unveiled today. Well, we hit
Speaker 1: people next week, so we'll know pretty soon. What I
Speaker 1: like about is that you can do a lot of
Speaker 1: things off the run for the past, and I think
Speaker 1: that sets up well for tight ends and receivers and
Speaker 1: you get eyes on your heels, you guys run in,
Speaker 1: you get you're getting off the ball um and it's
Speaker 1: a fun it's a fun run system. I mean you
Speaker 1: can see that with San Francisco. You know how Minnesota
Speaker 1: has been running it UM. So definitely friendly for not
Speaker 1: only tight ends but the offensive line as well, and
Speaker 1: it can help your series get open the asking. Hey,
Speaker 1: lex being Ay said that before he likes digging in
Speaker 1: the dig out some guys too in the blocking scheme
Speaker 1: of it. Tommy also, uh knows what it's going to
Speaker 1: take to get to the next level. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: just progressing every day. It's just taking a step every day, UM,
Speaker 1: knowing what I'm doing this offense and estabbling myself with
Speaker 1: the coaches here and obviously with Justin. That's that's my
Speaker 1: main part, main thing and doing that every day, And
Speaker 1: I think I can get to where I want to
Speaker 1: go if if I if I stayed to that and
Speaker 1: keep progressing, I think for me, I'll know with my
Speaker 1: communication with coaches and Justin like that's that that's the
Speaker 1: main thing there it is. But first of all, you
Speaker 1: gotta run the ball. Well. All these big ideas and
Speaker 1: all these big goals of this offense. It's predicated on
Speaker 1: the fact that there's run concerned by your opponent. If
Speaker 1: they're concerned with stopping the running game, then it's gonna
Speaker 1: open all these downfield opportunities for Cole, for Justin In,
Speaker 1: every receiver on that team. So that is gonna be
Speaker 1: instrumental in the overall success of this offense. We don't
Speaker 1: have time, but the nickel position is going to be
Speaker 1: a nice battle as well. Kylie Gordon playing outside but
Speaker 1: also kicked inside today. Time for a few reps as well.
Speaker 1: He's an exciting player. He's got a good athleticism, he's
Speaker 1: got good feet. You get the knowledge of this defense,
Speaker 1: and I think that it's a position to be earned.
Speaker 1: Tom are out of time. Thanks Buddy darn We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week. That's gonna do it for us. Thanks
Speaker 1: to our special guest quarterback Justin Fields, our producers Jordan
Speaker 1: tru Up, Dan Brilly, and Caesar Perez down the line
Speaker 1: with Cody Decker coming up next, followed by an eight
Speaker 1: ten pregame start with Zach Sieman and the fellows for
Speaker 1: Cubs Giants in San Francisco. Have a great night, everybody,
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