Speaker 1: Get ready for Bears training camp July twenty seventh, because
Speaker 1: the offseason program now in the rearview mirror, players and
Speaker 1: coaches off on a summer break. Welcome into another edition
Speaker 1: of Bears All Access. It's brought to you by IGS Energy,
Speaker 1: a two man show tonight when my broadcast partner in
Speaker 1: former Chicago Bear Tom There from news Radio seven eighty
Speaker 1: one to five point at FMWBBM, the starting guard on
Speaker 1: your Super Bowl Bears. I'm Jeff Joniac, and we are
Speaker 1: going to break down what has been a very informative
Speaker 1: three day minicamp over the past week and listen to
Speaker 1: some of the key components that would be the head
Speaker 1: coach and some of the key players and veterans that
Speaker 1: we have yet to hear from, and some of the
Speaker 1: rookies that we have heard from but now a little
Speaker 1: more season as they get ready for training camp twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. Tom, first of all, good, good to see you,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you. And it's been an exciting
Speaker 1: week for us because you get to see eighty nine
Speaker 1: of the ninety players that around this roster on grass
Speaker 1: getting better every day, and some of the sneak peak
Speaker 1: that we'll see in terms of drills at training camp.
Speaker 1: If I could just give a blanket statement, what would
Speaker 1: be your overall takeaway from the week of minicamp up
Speaker 1: at hallis Home An overall impressed with the development of
Speaker 1: the offense, the continuous process of making sure this team
Speaker 1: gets better on the offensive side of the bar, on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, tremendous amount of respect
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton and Nick Folds in the way they've
Speaker 1: embraced the competition with Justin Fields because he's gonna play
Speaker 1: a role on this team. But I'm really admiring these
Speaker 1: guys as veterans that they've taken this young kid under
Speaker 1: his wing and they've been able to feed him a
Speaker 1: lot of information that's going to be beneficial throughout his
Speaker 1: career as the bearers. And then I'm also impressed with
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm the defensive players that have attacked this mandatory minicamp.
Speaker 1: I think it's a reflection of respect that they've shown
Speaker 1: a new defensive coordinator, Seawan decide in some of the
Speaker 1: guys like Danny Trevathan Kim and Eddie Jackson and Khalil
Speaker 1: that these guys have come out here and played at
Speaker 1: a speedy, high level of enthusiasm, and I do think
Speaker 1: that's what they needed to show. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys have been around through the voluntary stages, but
Speaker 1: when they showed up through the mandatory part of this competition,
Speaker 1: they were ready willing and they were able to go well,
Speaker 1: and it clearly looked like they did work. They worked
Speaker 1: in the offseason. They get themselves right. Hey, everybody nowadays
Speaker 1: they want to work with some of their own folks,
Speaker 1: whether it be a speed coach or a drill coach,
Speaker 1: or some new way to reinvent themselves for the next season.
Speaker 1: I look at a Kim Hicks. Kim looked very fit.
Speaker 1: He looked like he was lighter real quant Smith is
Speaker 1: a man right now inside all over the field. I
Speaker 1: like the way Eddie Jackson's enthusiasm showed. I liked the
Speaker 1: way kendallville door the young man working in a second
Speaker 1: you're trying to win a spot, opposite jailing out of
Speaker 1: the air side of the ball. And Damian Williams Marquis
Speaker 1: Goodwin demere bird the speed, no question, a very different speed.
Speaker 1: And of course Allan Robinson's overall professionalism, Tom and how
Speaker 1: he cares about his body, what he worked out of
Speaker 1: the officeas give us a little sneak peak. You're not
Speaker 1: on Twitter, so he didn't see it, but his workouts.
Speaker 1: He did a collage of his workouts and then basically said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm ready to roll and his overall professionalism,
Speaker 1: not letting the contract situation bother his own personal and
Speaker 1: team goals for twenty You know, I've never had a
Speaker 1: lack of faith in Alan Robinson when I watched him
Speaker 1: address the media today after practice, and he addressed the
Speaker 1: issues and what he's been working on to become a
Speaker 1: better football player. Both that's how it's gonna benefit the
Speaker 1: Bears organization and how it's gonna benefit himself. Listen, man,
Speaker 1: this guy he doesn't have to say anything to prove
Speaker 1: to me that he's the type of veteran that shows
Speaker 1: leadership every time he's on the field. He's tough, he's
Speaker 1: competitive Individually he wants to be great, what also wants
Speaker 1: to be great for his teammates. All Right, we got
Speaker 1: lots to talk about With the quarterbacks. Obviously, Andy dunned
Speaker 1: the number one. Let's not go anywhere else with that.
Speaker 1: He is the number one until prove it otherwise. Justin
Speaker 1: fields is the backup and Nick Foles is the number three.
Speaker 1: With that being said, Matt Maggie this week was asked
Speaker 1: what this is all going to look like in this
Speaker 1: particular twenty twenty one bears offense for the average fan
Speaker 1: to notice, we got to decide, okay, our identity and
Speaker 1: I know and you talk about that every year and
Speaker 1: we know what we want to be. And but to
Speaker 1: your point, also, when two of your three quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: new to the system, now it's about making sure that
Speaker 1: we do some things that we want to do. That
Speaker 1: Taylor who they are, and they've done a great job
Speaker 1: of that. Andy we knew going into this that Andy
Speaker 1: is very open. He's also opinionated in a good way
Speaker 1: because he's had a bunch of experience and so he's
Speaker 1: done a lot of this. But then he'll give his
Speaker 1: opinions on how he sees things as well. Justin's completely
Speaker 1: knew you know this whole part. So for him it's
Speaker 1: a lot more listening. But again, as they grow they
Speaker 1: become more confident or have any concerns in a play
Speaker 1: that you get more vocal and so well we're doing
Speaker 1: in our coaching staff the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I think they're doing a really good job with tailoring
Speaker 1: all of this to those guys strengths, and now we'll
Speaker 1: just have to kind of see and make sure that
Speaker 1: we're letting our guys play fast. That's probably the ultimate goal. Tom.
Speaker 1: What sticks out there is very important, Taylor, the offense
Speaker 1: to the strength of your players because then in turn,
Speaker 1: as you know, if you're put in a position of strength,
Speaker 1: you're going to not worry about what you're being told
Speaker 1: to do. You're just going to understand what you have
Speaker 1: to do. And I think that's a big, big part
Speaker 1: of this future success of this offense. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: But you know, Matt he has to understand also he
Speaker 1: has an enormous role in the development of this football
Speaker 1: team because if you're going to gain an identity, it's
Speaker 1: going to be because of the types of plays you're calling.
Speaker 1: As a play caller, you have certain assets that are
Speaker 1: gifted to you by Andy Dalton. You have certain assets
Speaker 1: that are gifted to you through the running game of
Speaker 1: Daved Montgomery, Damon williams Our, Tavis Paris and now Khalil
Speaker 1: Herbert and the rest of the cruise. You have assets
Speaker 1: that you're gifted through the tight end position between the
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham cole commit and the rest of the guys
Speaker 1: and the wide receiver group. So I think when you
Speaker 1: put it all together, that's going to be the development
Speaker 1: of the offense. And scoring points is paramount. We talk
Speaker 1: about it every day. We're gonna talk about it every
Speaker 1: day until the point production goes up. This will be
Speaker 1: a battle. So that being said, a huge emphasis on
Speaker 1: the final practice of the week on red zone and
Speaker 1: red zone will be a prominent piece of training camp.
Speaker 1: According to Naggy, Yeah, well, we're going to really emphasize
Speaker 1: the red zone in training camp. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be important to look at that and to continue
Speaker 1: to hit conceptually what we have and what our players
Speaker 1: do well, and know when you get down in there,
Speaker 1: you can't kick field goals. You got to have touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It's just you have to score points. And so there's
Speaker 1: some concepts that will keep, there's some concepts that will add,
Speaker 1: and I think schematically for us, we'll keep that with us.
Speaker 1: But I do like where we're at and being able
Speaker 1: to kind of see the why part and then look
Speaker 1: at teams too that do a good job or running
Speaker 1: stuff in the red zone and what's they're wise and
Speaker 1: why is it? Is it just guys making good plays
Speaker 1: or is it schematics? And so yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a combination of both. And we're excited and
Speaker 1: training camp to really put an emphasis on that. Sorry
Speaker 1: step down, Matt, but it is it is a combination
Speaker 1: of both. And you know, go back into the lab
Speaker 1: because one thing is for certain. Yes, the Bears have
Speaker 1: had struggles with scoring points. Now they do have the
Speaker 1: weapons to be a successful red zone offense, both in
Speaker 1: the run game and in the past game. Would you agree, oh,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent? You know, Jeff, Have you take into
Speaker 1: consideration the OTAs and the mini camp they've just gone through.
Speaker 1: They probably have run more plays in the red zone
Speaker 1: thus far this preseason than they did last year than
Speaker 1: in the pandemic season. Because Cole Commet had nothing other
Speaker 1: than two weeks of training camp, Darnell Mooney had nothing
Speaker 1: other than what he had in training camp. They've already
Speaker 1: ran more plays in the red zone than they did
Speaker 1: last preseason. And with he said, two new quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: Eddie Dalton and Justin Fields. At the top of the
Speaker 1: depth chart, that's Tom Thayre. I'm Jeff Joniac, we're gonna
Speaker 1: step away for our first break. Coming up, we will
Speaker 1: hear from Jimmy Graham, the Bears veteran tight end. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from quarterback Justin Fields, the rookie weighing in as well.
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Speaker 1: seventy the Score. Thanks to our producers Dan Barelli, Jordan Tredup,
Speaker 1: and Katie Tuber helping us out after the mini camp,
Speaker 1: the Mandatory Manning Camp. Now with the radar Tom. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, we heard from tight end Jimmy Graham,
Speaker 1: and I do I do really respect what he's accomplishing
Speaker 1: his career, what he's doing as a Chicago Bear, leading
Speaker 1: the way for Cole Commet, but also just being one
Speaker 1: of the overall veteran leaders on this team, and what
Speaker 1: he is looking at here. He's looking at nothing but
Speaker 1: a championship. That's why he's coming back. And the interesting
Speaker 1: aspect of him is that after that New Orleans game
Speaker 1: when he caught the touchdown pass and he went up
Speaker 1: the up the tunnel, maybe that was it. And yes
Speaker 1: he did consider retirement. UM, oh yeah, and I certainly
Speaker 1: did at first second there, um, you know, for a
Speaker 1: little bit, and um, a lot of unfinished business. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it was very difficult for me obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: you know to go back in uh in the dome,
Speaker 1: and you know, especially to lose. And I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: a pretty fiery person. I'm a pretty uh enthusiastic person,
Speaker 1: and uh, I hate losing, as simple as that. And UM,
Speaker 1: so you know there's a lot of frustration there, you know,
Speaker 1: because I, um, you know, I want to ring and
Speaker 1: you know that's all I think about. So you know,
Speaker 1: you know, just knowing that, you know it's another year,
Speaker 1: and so you know I was interested going to do
Speaker 1: but you know, UM, talk to Ryan and you know,
Speaker 1: talk to Um, talked to Matt and and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm on board and you know, I'm ready to whatever
Speaker 1: it takes to, you know, to get back in that position,
Speaker 1: you know, and so move forward and you know hopefully
Speaker 1: it's to make a run. And you know that run
Speaker 1: includes his teammate Cole Commet, Tom and I think there's
Speaker 1: no better veteran, especially a guy like Cole He he's
Speaker 1: looked up to, did Jimmy Graham since he was a
Speaker 1: little kid. You know one thing about when you look
Speaker 1: at veterans like Jimmy Graham, you just have to look
Speaker 1: at the eye test. Every year he comes in a
Speaker 1: great physical condition, so you know that he's still dedicated
Speaker 1: to the sport. What Jimmy Graham has done for Cole Commet,
Speaker 1: his experiences, his advice is invaluable because, like I said,
Speaker 1: Cole Commet had a condensed preseason last year. The information
Speaker 1: that could be fed to him by Jimmy Graham and
Speaker 1: his preparedness in the body of work and the evidence
Speaker 1: that he sees out of him is inspiring to Cole Commet.
Speaker 1: And so I want to see Cole Commet continue to
Speaker 1: develop to become the blocker and the receiver he needs
Speaker 1: to be so this offense runs efficiently. But when you
Speaker 1: talk about the last segment in the red zone, you
Speaker 1: talked about the first downs that Jimmy Graham is responsible
Speaker 1: for I don't think, um, he's going to leave anything behind.
Speaker 1: And I still think that he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: value to this football team into that position, and he
Speaker 1: loves playing with Cole. Really just my world health. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a guy who you know, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that you know I
Speaker 1: can I can make it through a season and make
Speaker 1: it through through another playoff front. You know, That's kind
Speaker 1: of the biggest you know thoughts that I always have.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, I never want to out live
Speaker 1: my time, and um, you know, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: I can still be used. I can still be a weapon,
Speaker 1: and I can still be a leader, you know for
Speaker 1: a team and help these young kids, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to make run and you know, to share from my
Speaker 1: knowledge of what I've been through in this league and
Speaker 1: you know, the wins and the lessons I've learned and
Speaker 1: He's learned plenty. There, There's no question about it. So
Speaker 1: I think the tight end position is in good hands
Speaker 1: with those two right there. And then you know it's
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of guys, then that's going They're going
Speaker 1: to fill other roles at that tight end position and
Speaker 1: try to build some of that depth through competition time
Speaker 1: and training camp. It is an area that I'm looking
Speaker 1: at like as a key. Okay, what in addition to
Speaker 1: those two gentlemen, the bear is going to be able
Speaker 1: to bring to the table at the tight end position.
Speaker 1: Would you agree that as one area you're going to
Speaker 1: have circled beyond Jimmy and Cole. Yeah, you know, Cole
Speaker 1: Comment and Jimmy Graham are capable of doing anything that's
Speaker 1: asked of him in a Matt Maggie let offense. But
Speaker 1: I also gained a lot of a ton of respect
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years for JP Holts and
Speaker 1: Jesper Horsehead because when you look at the continuous development
Speaker 1: of those two guys in the same example that they're
Speaker 1: witnessing when they look at Jimmy Graham, it's not exclusive
Speaker 1: to the development of Cole commet Jimmy Graham's experience as
Speaker 1: affects the entire tight end position. So I think all
Speaker 1: these guys can benefit from the lessons learned in the
Speaker 1: classroom and on the practice field. All right, let's flip
Speaker 1: it to last year's outstanding rookie, Jalen Johnson, Jalen did
Speaker 1: not play a full season. He had the shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: but he did not have to have surgery, so he
Speaker 1: did his rehab. There was nothing structural wrong. He's had
Speaker 1: a history of shoulder problems obviously, way back to Utah.
Speaker 1: But he feels very very good about the situation. But
Speaker 1: because Kyle is now in Denver, Kyle Fuller, He's considered
Speaker 1: if you look at the depth chart and you look
Speaker 1: at how these things are awarded, the he is CB
Speaker 1: one time, he's going in as the guy. So how
Speaker 1: does this guy feel about it? Exactly what you might expect.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's time. I've been work from one year.
Speaker 1: Of course, looking years the hardest. Of course, I'm just
Speaker 1: being able to learn from that and it's going to
Speaker 1: take on my preparation through my years of playing football
Speaker 1: and being a leader, through a high school, through alcoholida.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's no different now being in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's been able to take what I've
Speaker 1: been knowing my whole life, just being able to perform
Speaker 1: and bringing others along. You teach them the things that
Speaker 1: I learned from last year and just don't help everybody
Speaker 1: and prove this. But I can See that's another thing
Speaker 1: about that rookie class last year, when you include him
Speaker 1: and Darnelmoney. There are leadership qualities to these guys already
Speaker 1: right out of the game, and now without Kyle, you
Speaker 1: gotta have it. Yeah, but you know this is the
Speaker 1: first time these guys can actually take a breath because
Speaker 1: you realize, Jeff, when they went onto the practice field
Speaker 1: last year, in all the protocol they are facing through
Speaker 1: the pandemic, they immediately became starting a regular season against
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and Jayalen Johnson, he was the guy that
Speaker 1: was gonna be attacked and challenged. Jayalen Johnson has now
Speaker 1: been able to take into account everything he faced last year.
Speaker 1: You get a chance to watch video during the offseason
Speaker 1: and see where you can help your own development. Look, man,
Speaker 1: this guy deserves to be CB one. And I don't
Speaker 1: know best Chicago Bear one, Cornerback one, or how you're
Speaker 1: identifying that CB, but I think when you look at
Speaker 1: this guy, he's up to the challenge. He's always been
Speaker 1: a physically gifted player, and again that's evidence to me
Speaker 1: that he puts him the time in the weight room,
Speaker 1: which I'll pay dividends for him and He's gonna have
Speaker 1: a huge role in the defensive backfield this year for
Speaker 1: the Bears, and made a ton of place on the
Speaker 1: ball last season as we know, and we'll be expecting
Speaker 1: that now. Turn him over, get those takeaways under Sean
Speaker 1: de Si. We're gonna get in a lot about Sean
Speaker 1: de Si because they know him. He's been there for
Speaker 1: a long time. This is his big chance to be
Speaker 1: the first time defensive coordinator. But it's not from a
Speaker 1: lack of anything other than understanding in preparation and getting
Speaker 1: to know guys and knowing what all eleven guys do
Speaker 1: on defense. Yep, his background in the secondary, but he's
Speaker 1: got the overall view of the defense now. Jalen was
Speaker 1: asked just what it might look like, how is it
Speaker 1: going to change with the sy It is a little
Speaker 1: time he's spent with him there on the practice field
Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator here in twenty twenty one, I'll
Speaker 1: definitely say he's bringing a lot more assistant to detail
Speaker 1: to everything I we're doing. I thought that's a big,
Speaker 1: a big focused point in all aspects of our defense,
Speaker 1: in terms of every position, just being more detail oriented
Speaker 1: in our technique and our disguisingess thing like that. So
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just about just getting better each and
Speaker 1: every day of the technique and just kind of learning
Speaker 1: the defense as is possible so we can being able
Speaker 1: to play together better and then turnovers. I thought we
Speaker 1: didn't turn the ball over as much, and I thought
Speaker 1: that's the beginnings about being able to take the ball
Speaker 1: away and create turnovers and get the ball backs off.
Speaker 1: That's all Tom, that is number one. Got to get
Speaker 1: those takeaways because that's how that defense thrives. Every defense
Speaker 1: would and that's was the case in twenty eighteen. I
Speaker 1: think that aggressiveness, that attention to detail is really a
Speaker 1: significant theme that almost every defender, veteran or young Jalen
Speaker 1: indicated over the past week. And they understand this defense
Speaker 1: because we saw a think on Thursday, or make that
Speaker 1: Wednesday of the practice week, the enthusiasm about the plays
Speaker 1: they were already making when they hadn't been together all offseason,
Speaker 1: real quantity. Reportedly anyway, the only defensive starter to really
Speaker 1: be a part of it. The other ten were not.
Speaker 1: They were doing their own thing in that voluntary period.
Speaker 1: So I think you felt it. You felt that swag
Speaker 1: Danny Dravathan mentioned it as well. You know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool for me when Jalen Johnson was meeting with
Speaker 1: the media and he was talking about Sean Desai and
Speaker 1: what he's expecting out of these guys. To me, it
Speaker 1: was like he was talking about George Allen, my first
Speaker 1: head coach, who was one of the greatest defensive coordinators
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL, because he always preached
Speaker 1: the guys, it's about the little things, it's about the details,
Speaker 1: it's about the little points of importance that take your position,
Speaker 1: and they increased the role of the overall scheme and team,
Speaker 1: and so I'm excited to see what I Sean, and
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna import how it reflects on the
Speaker 1: young guys. That's Tom there. I'm Jeff Jony Act. Time
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Speaker 1: The Score with Tom Fair. I'm Jeff Joni App breaking
Speaker 1: down veteran mandatory minicamp, the offseason program, now history back
Speaker 1: in late July to start training camp twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and time with fans. There will be a limited number
Speaker 1: of tickets. How that goes, how they go about bringing
Speaker 1: those fans in or what the buying will be will
Speaker 1: be interesting to see. But I'll tell you there'll be
Speaker 1: a lot of Bears fans jacked about seeing these guys.
Speaker 1: The addition of Justin Field has certainly pumped a lot
Speaker 1: of life in the Bears family, both inside the building
Speaker 1: and the fan base, and just the overall hope and
Speaker 1: change that will come to the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: football in general. But I think training camp is going
Speaker 1: to be real exciting to see there, especially with fans
Speaker 1: not able to do any of that a year ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, hey, listen, since my day's back
Speaker 1: in Platteville. The role that the fans play in training
Speaker 1: camp is as important as some of the guys on
Speaker 1: the field because they create the enthusiasm, They create the
Speaker 1: buzz around the field. They have a reaction to great plays,
Speaker 1: whether it's two offensive lineman or a long bomb down
Speaker 1: the length of the field. So yeah, the fans have
Speaker 1: a huge role in the momentum and the excitement of
Speaker 1: training camp. Well Fields was at Wrigley Field a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back. The place went bananas. That is the expectation.
Speaker 1: One pick. If they were in a Bulls game and
Speaker 1: they showed, they'd be doing the same thing, Hawks, you
Speaker 1: name it. That's the universal love of the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: in this town by all sports fans. It is the team, right,
Speaker 1: it is the team. But the enthusiasm is also about
Speaker 1: kind of a shiny new toy, and everybody wants to
Speaker 1: see the new toy. That was a topic of conversation
Speaker 1: this past week when asked if something were to happen
Speaker 1: to Annie Dalton Tom who would be a starting quarterback?
Speaker 1: Would it be justin field, so that was an opportunity
Speaker 1: for Matt Neggie to kind of let it flow and
Speaker 1: how it's going to be so that the question doesn't
Speaker 1: get repeatedly asked. It will, but here's his answer. So
Speaker 1: so i'd say two things to that. So number one,
Speaker 1: as y'all know, UM, and I understand too, like that
Speaker 1: when you draft a quarterback in the first round and
Speaker 1: you trade up and get the guy, I completely understand
Speaker 1: that the questions that are going to come, you know,
Speaker 1: each day and just kind of wanting to know who's
Speaker 1: the guy going to be at this day or that there,
Speaker 1: this week or that And so I get that, Um.
Speaker 1: And to answer your second question, I would say this, Um,
Speaker 1: when you're the number two quarterback in that situation that
Speaker 1: you're presenting to me, then yes he would be the guy.
Speaker 1: But when you talk through this, that's where it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, these quarterbacks, all three guys, just because they're
Speaker 1: in that spot right now, we've explained, and I specifically
Speaker 1: have explained to each each one of those guys that
Speaker 1: you're doing everything you possibly can to be as competitive
Speaker 1: as possible and be the starting quarterback and the best
Speaker 1: quarterback you can be for the Bears. And so I'm
Speaker 1: taking a little bit of time here to say this
Speaker 1: because I know that these questions could go on and
Speaker 1: on each and every day, but out of just politeness
Speaker 1: for me and respect as we go here moving forward,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna like, I'll give you updates as we
Speaker 1: go as to how the guys are doing. But as
Speaker 1: far as the depth chart goes, this is where we're
Speaker 1: at with Andy as the one, with Justin as the two,
Speaker 1: with Nikkas the three, but all three of those guys
Speaker 1: know that you need to produce, you need to play well,
Speaker 1: you need to compete, you need to be the best
Speaker 1: quarterback you can be. And then it's going to be
Speaker 1: really pretty easy for us to be able to see
Speaker 1: who that is and how that goes, and then there'll
Speaker 1: be a process and a plan we're going to stick
Speaker 1: to that. It's not going to change tomorrow. That plan
Speaker 1: is not going to change tomorrow. The plan is not
Speaker 1: going to change in training camp. The plan is a
Speaker 1: is a plan and it's been thought out and so
Speaker 1: as we go. I'm just taking some time in this
Speaker 1: question because I think you know this could go every day,
Speaker 1: and I just want you to know that that that's
Speaker 1: kind of as we go here where I'm at, you know,
Speaker 1: and so m depth chart wise, Tom, what do you
Speaker 1: think of that answer? I think that's a great explanation.
Speaker 1: But I'm i'm I feel bad that they're only talking
Speaker 1: about the quarterback position because, you know, Jeff, when we
Speaker 1: look at the depth chart at the beginning of training camp,
Speaker 1: when we sit there and study all the performance of
Speaker 1: these guys, I want every single number two fighting to
Speaker 1: be number one, and that's how you're gonna make this
Speaker 1: football team better. I know we're talking about the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: I'm not denying that. However, when you create competitiveness, that's
Speaker 1: how you create a division championship, and that's how you
Speaker 1: lead yourself deep into the playoffs. So whether we're talking
Speaker 1: about the quarterback position or right guard, you know. And
Speaker 1: so again, I want Justin Fields to come in here
Speaker 1: and say, hey, Andy Dalton, you better pay attention because
Speaker 1: I'm coming for you. And I want Andy Dalton to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I got a rear view mirror and I'm going to
Speaker 1: keep you back there. I know that's just I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about the fun of inter competition conversation. But every
Speaker 1: single position out there, that number two has got to
Speaker 1: be fighting to be number one. Beyond that obvious is
Speaker 1: that you don't always have a guarantee that those competitors
Speaker 1: are going to play along and help the young guy.
Speaker 1: But that's not the case. Out of twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: bears Andy Dalton Nick Foles praised by the rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: for the help they're getting. I mean, yeah, I've I've
Speaker 1: learned a lot of things. I couldn't even name off
Speaker 1: a few things, but I mean he's starts to me
Speaker 1: a lot. I was a dinner with him inte his wife,
Speaker 1: so he talked a lot there, and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: just his background and stuff like that in their story.
Speaker 1: But I mean, ay, and they've they've been awesome to
Speaker 1: probably do even you guys, even though just just yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's completely taking me under his leaing
Speaker 1: any question that I have for him, He's he's gonna answer,
Speaker 1: And even when I'm throwing I think there was one
Speaker 1: day out after OTAs I was throwing extract facts and
Speaker 1: he stayed out there specifically just you know, seeing mabe
Speaker 1: what I was doing wrong, and he was just trying
Speaker 1: to help me out. So I mean he's gonna do
Speaker 1: so for sure, how significant is that I've gained new
Speaker 1: admiration today for Andy Dalton because he is a competitor
Speaker 1: out in the field as an athlete, but as a
Speaker 1: human being, he's got compassion. He's trying to bring this
Speaker 1: young man along. Who know that's gonna be he put
Speaker 1: in a position to succeed talking about Justin Fields, but
Speaker 1: allowing him to be involved in each other's lives and
Speaker 1: being able to learn different increments of the life in football.
Speaker 1: Hey man, thumbs up to Andy Dalton for how he's
Speaker 1: embracing the relationship in that quarterback room. And I have
Speaker 1: new admiration as well for Justin Fields for this reason.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't know him yet. We've heard the
Speaker 1: news conferences in the short time. We've never met the man,
Speaker 1: but every reaction is the same. And for that matter,
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton and Nick Foles as well, they're all
Speaker 1: workers and Justin Fields we have heard the reputation. He
Speaker 1: is a gym ratt. He loves the weight room, and
Speaker 1: he is very serious. He's very serious as a competitor
Speaker 1: and very serious about picking up the nuance of the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. So when asked what he planned on doing
Speaker 1: the next five weeks during the summer break. This is
Speaker 1: his answer to the Bears media. Not for me getting
Speaker 1: better in one way, whether it's you know, mentally physically,
Speaker 1: I feel lazy and I feel like I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: doing enough to you know, accomplish what I compliss. So
Speaker 1: for me personally, I have to do something you know,
Speaker 1: football related, whether it's studying my place for forty five
Speaker 1: minutes an hour, working out, I have to do something
Speaker 1: to feel like I'm just you know, being productive, because
Speaker 1: I don't feel like i'm I love to feel like
Speaker 1: I'm being productive and I don't like feeling that I'm
Speaker 1: being lady because that's one thing that I can't control
Speaker 1: is my work. So I like to do something every
Speaker 1: day just to have that piece of mind knowing that
Speaker 1: I'm getting better every day. Well, Tom, that sounds like
Speaker 1: a guy no old number fifty seven, Tom there, because
Speaker 1: you eat, sleep, and breathe football. You were always working
Speaker 1: on your craft, and it sounds like this will be
Speaker 1: what justin Field is all about, because that's all he knows,
Speaker 1: you know. It's the same point of emphasis that Jay
Speaker 1: Hilgenberg and I were talking about thirty years ago. This
Speaker 1: part of the year was the most important part of
Speaker 1: the season. Four. It's something that we were lucky enough
Speaker 1: to be in the same offensive system for quite a while,
Speaker 1: so we didn't have to sit there and spend any
Speaker 1: time studying the plays. We knew that, but we lived
Speaker 1: in the weight room. We lived out in the field
Speaker 1: doing our running and conditioning, because when you came to
Speaker 1: the practice field, you had to be ready to go.
Speaker 1: That's top there. I'm Jeff Joninghak and this is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access. Another break here on Chicago Sports Radio six
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Speaker 1: feeling better tomorrow. We're feeling good right now about the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Bears. Now with a break until training camp,
Speaker 1: and it will be one of the most anticipating training
Speaker 1: camps toime. We almost say that every year. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: know what the plan is going to be. You know,
Speaker 1: in the days of Levy Smith, it was the same
Speaker 1: guys on defense coming back every year. You knew it
Speaker 1: was going to be a couple of additions here and there,
Speaker 1: offense always been kind of a moving target and trying
Speaker 1: to figure that all out how the development comes at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. And that's still the case here in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. But given the pandemic, given the protocols,
Speaker 1: given the lack of access both from players with US
Speaker 1: and US two players, and it sounds like it's heading
Speaker 1: in that direction. We'll have more interaction, the fans are
Speaker 1: going to be there, and then just a competition across
Speaker 1: the entire offense and defense. There are some positions that
Speaker 1: you know are definitely yet to be determined in some
Speaker 1: very significant ones. And when you agree with all of
Speaker 1: that one percent, you know, I sit here with the
Speaker 1: roster in front of me from a mandatory mini camp.
Speaker 1: There's six guys there with double digit years of service,
Speaker 1: two of them are quarterbacks. And when you look at
Speaker 1: how competitive this young man game is today, you're talking
Speaker 1: about a group of guys that are going to go
Speaker 1: out there and they are going to be fighting their
Speaker 1: tail off once training camp agin. So it is going
Speaker 1: to be an exciting time for the Bears. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in there that they're upside as
Speaker 1: yet in front of them, Yeah, I'd say, you know
Speaker 1: the obvious battles. Obviously, who's going to start office at
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson. What's oude of the field with Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: play had some reps at right corner and left corner.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care which side he plays. The slop position.
Speaker 1: To me, that is probably as significant a battle a
Speaker 1: training camp. The right player in that position can make
Speaker 1: a defense lethal, and it is a significantly important position
Speaker 1: in this era in the National Football League. The safeties
Speaker 1: love the safety collection. As Eddie Jackson and to Sean
Speaker 1: Gibson back together and he said it the first time.
Speaker 1: Eddie said it the first time since Adrian Amos back
Speaker 1: to back years with the same safety. That's significant. How
Speaker 1: that front on the defensive side of the ball comes
Speaker 1: together opposite Khalil Mack. Where is Robert Quinn healthwise? And
Speaker 1: then on the offensive side of the ball, the left
Speaker 1: tackle position, Tevin Jenkins battling for that job as a
Speaker 1: young man making the switch from the right side primarily
Speaker 1: in his college career. How the positions stack up at
Speaker 1: receiver and how many carries are tethered out to the
Speaker 1: running backs, that's just scratching the service. Do you have
Speaker 1: any others that you're keeping an eye on. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it's you know, you have different guys. How are
Speaker 1: they going to be used? How are the backup Titans
Speaker 1: going to be used? That? What role is Ryan All
Speaker 1: gonna have that's different than JP holds. Eddie Jackson looks
Speaker 1: bigger in a single digit number than he did his
Speaker 1: number thirty nine. You talk about the role of the
Speaker 1: slot receiver and how it fits into this offseason because
Speaker 1: what I saw out our Marquise Good, when what I
Speaker 1: see out of Damon bird Man, these guys are flyers
Speaker 1: and then are they almost have the exact same template,
Speaker 1: and so how are they inserted in this offense? And
Speaker 1: you know, the second year role of Cole commet in
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney because Darnel Mooney burst out of the scene
Speaker 1: and I don't think he gained the type of respect
Speaker 1: throughout the whole season that he's going to demand this year.
Speaker 1: He's going to be able to change coverages of the
Speaker 1: opponent because he was such a factor in this offense.
Speaker 1: And then when they start balancing their coverages towards Darnell,
Speaker 1: hey man, it's gonna open up a rod. It's gonna
Speaker 1: open up cole commits, So you know, there's got to
Speaker 1: be a lot of these little tools that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to work with in this offense. A couple
Speaker 1: other observations, and you made a great one with Marquis Goodwin,
Speaker 1: a veteran player, did not play last season, but ready
Speaker 1: and still rolling fast and an Olympic sprinter in his day.
Speaker 1: But he's got the eighty four in us back. Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss Cordell Patterson, no question, premier kick return
Speaker 1: men in his era right now. But who is that
Speaker 1: kick returner? But you and the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: things made a great observation about the guy wearing number
Speaker 1: eighty four right now, mat I. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: I've grown so accustomed to look at a really fast,
Speaker 1: enthusiastic player wearing that number in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: But then you kind of amped up the speed a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, you got a little bit smaller, but
Speaker 1: that eighty four is still fast. He's the type of
Speaker 1: guy if you want to blow the top off a defense,
Speaker 1: and you could put this guy in an isolated position
Speaker 1: with that proper technique. He's the type of guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna make safeties start backpedaling at the snap of the ball.
Speaker 1: You get those guys a backpedal to snap a ball,
Speaker 1: It's going to open opportunities for David Montgomery and the
Speaker 1: run crew. All Right. Would you notice in terms of
Speaker 1: Sam Mustafer, I feel he's a lot bigger. So the
Speaker 1: strength in the weight room clear clearly has been happening there.
Speaker 1: Three hundred and eleven pounds. He's gotten great enthusiasm to
Speaker 1: play the game all He's already had an enormous amount
Speaker 1: of pressure placed on his shoulders after taking over last year,
Speaker 1: and he's been able to help the development in the
Speaker 1: interior that offensive line. James Daniel, Cody Whitehair. You mean,
Speaker 1: that's a significant big man on that inside, and it'll
Speaker 1: be needed week one against a guy like Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: But they're also going to be able to stretch their
Speaker 1: skills to the outside and be able to help the
Speaker 1: offensive tackle position. Jermaine Effetti, big man. He's going to
Speaker 1: be able to continue as improvement at the right tackle position,
Speaker 1: and I think they'll be able to help out the
Speaker 1: development of that left tackle position. Whomever it is. Put
Speaker 1: tight ends around him. Hvacs good blocking running backs, and
Speaker 1: Cody Whitehair is a guy that can do a lot
Speaker 1: of things to help that left tackle position by you know,
Speaker 1: also taking care of his own responsibilities. All right, let's
Speaker 1: flip it to defense. Ro Quan Smith. A lot of
Speaker 1: praise from head coach Mattney is about actions and not words.
Speaker 1: With Roqun it's real simple. I mean, this guy, he's
Speaker 1: pretty good. He's a pretty good player. And when you
Speaker 1: when you know that, and we all know that, and
Speaker 1: he is practicing and showing up in meetings right now
Speaker 1: like he's a rookie. It's special. You know, it really is.
Speaker 1: And it's not it's not talk. It's real. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's out there. Everything's one hundred miles an hour. He
Speaker 1: wants to learn, he's willing to be a sponge. He
Speaker 1: doesn't think he knows everything. Um, he's extremely motivated internally.
Speaker 1: It's either you have that or you don't. And it's
Speaker 1: not fabricated, it's not false, very organic. And this is
Speaker 1: one of the best sideline of sideline guys around, best,
Speaker 1: one of the best twenty five and under players in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and one of the best cover linebackers in
Speaker 1: the National Football You know, I don't care what defensive
Speaker 1: scheme you're gonna play with down and distance. It is
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith has the ability to be one of the
Speaker 1: top three interior linebackers in the NFL, and I still
Speaker 1: think he has a challenge to be one of the best,
Speaker 1: and he is and he shows significant improvement each and
Speaker 1: every year. And I think the more information that the
Speaker 1: linebackers coach and defensive coordinator Seawan decide can feed to
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith, the more responsibilities they want to get him.
Speaker 1: He's up to the challenge and all the responsibilities they
Speaker 1: want to offer him. Danny Trevathan is running buddy inside,
Speaker 1: getting his first taste of the twenty twenty one defense
Speaker 1: this week with Sean de Side, but has high hopes
Speaker 1: as he always does, always the optimist, always believe in
Speaker 1: the guys he's running with. You know, eighteen is a
Speaker 1: totally different years. Those aspects and those standards were set,
Speaker 1: so we know where we need to get to and
Speaker 1: we know that we have the guys that are kicking
Speaker 1: ball doing that. We just want to be the best
Speaker 1: defense that we can be and in the league. You know,
Speaker 1: we know we're gonna handle where every team sawed us.
Speaker 1: We got the right guys and right positions and guys
Speaker 1: out here communicating and everybody knows one another now. And
Speaker 1: it's not too many new guys on the team, but
Speaker 1: the new guys that came in, they buy in. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's what you love to see, especially when
Speaker 1: you're a bit like I am. Like to see guys
Speaker 1: buy in. He makes it much more easier. I'm glad
Speaker 1: we gotta out here to come. I'm glad we came
Speaker 1: out here and showed them you know how we do it. Um.
Speaker 1: There was no flat we was find around and you know,
Speaker 1: it was definitely fun being back out there. You know,
Speaker 1: Danny Trevathan, it's almost like he turned back father time
Speaker 1: because last year, because of the condensed training camp and Detroit,
Speaker 1: everybody want to see boy Danny Trevathan slowing down and
Speaker 1: maybe lost a step. For somewhere on the way, Danny
Speaker 1: Tremathan gained a couple of steps because when I look
Speaker 1: at the enthusiasm that the defense carried through the Mini CAAP,
Speaker 1: he was one of the leaders of that enthusiastic group.
Speaker 1: But he's also a leader in speed. He ran well,
Speaker 1: he was fast. He was covering guys out at the sideline,
Speaker 1: he was running down field with the receivers and running backs.
Speaker 1: So thank you Danny Tremathan for showing up in giving
Speaker 1: this team what they're expecting from you. Right over thirty
Speaker 1: now and somebody brought that up. He is, We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it is. Confident. He's confident. On there,
Speaker 1: Bears All Access with the thirty and over Tom There,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniak, brought to you by IGS Energy in
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Speaker 1: Trudup and Katie Tuber and the folks at six seventy
Speaker 1: the Score, Tom. The vaccination process will under way the
Speaker 1: final interview with the media this week, Matt Naggie was
Speaker 1: asked about it the different challenges of getting an entire
Speaker 1: human body of teammates vaccinated. Much of the coaching staff
Speaker 1: will be vaccinated by the time training camp starts in
Speaker 1: late July, and he feels they're headed in the right direction.
Speaker 1: We all have an opinion. We all have a belief
Speaker 1: of what we want to do, so I start there.
Speaker 1: The next part is is that we just take the
Speaker 1: education that we get from the experts, and then we
Speaker 1: were the conduit to the players. And I think what
Speaker 1: I've learned is that you can not talk about it
Speaker 1: and hope that people understand the why or why nots
Speaker 1: and and everything that goes with it, or you can
Speaker 1: talk about it a lot. And We've decided to really
Speaker 1: try to hit it every day with these guys. And
Speaker 1: you never know, there's some questions that guys don't have
Speaker 1: or that that have that don't want to ask. And
Speaker 1: so I don't know why other than I do know this.
Speaker 1: If you don't get your vaccination, it's pretty simple. You're
Speaker 1: going to be going and following the exact rules that
Speaker 1: we find last year in twenty twenty. And I can
Speaker 1: tell you right now that wasn't fun. And it's a pain.
Speaker 1: It's a pain in the tail, and no better words
Speaker 1: could be spoken. It is. But everybody has their right
Speaker 1: to do what they wish. But from a competitive standpoint
Speaker 1: and just a team standpoint, it would make a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. Yeah, But you know, it's like Matt says,
Speaker 1: it's about the education of the topic. See it gets
Speaker 1: yourself as educated as possible and then you're gonna make
Speaker 1: an adult decision and you yeah, you hope it benefits
Speaker 1: the team. But like Matt said, going through the protocol
Speaker 1: of what these guys faced last year, and I really
Speaker 1: admire every one of these guys in the system that
Speaker 1: Andre Tucker put in place to keep Palace Hall a
Speaker 1: healthy atmosphere. So it's about education, you know, get yourself,
Speaker 1: you know, with a good understanding of the decision you're
Speaker 1: gonna make. We mentioned at the top eighty nine out
Speaker 1: of ninety guys. There were some tryout guys as well,
Speaker 1: but Eddie Goldman was not a part of it. It
Speaker 1: was an unexcused absence in terms of that because of
Speaker 1: the mandatory aspect of it. But Maneggie says he feels
Speaker 1: good that Eddie will be there for training camp. Danny
Speaker 1: Trevathan also weighed in Eddie. He's a silent killer man,
Speaker 1: works to sell off. He loves his job. He's one
Speaker 1: of the guys just does his job, don't really talk
Speaker 1: too much, but it works to sell off. Unfortunately we
Speaker 1: didn't have him last year. It's gonna be great to
Speaker 1: have him this year. Um, I know he's gonna be here,
Speaker 1: he's gonna working it. So he looked totally different. Um.
Speaker 1: I've been communicating with him as much as possible. He's
Speaker 1: too a guy to get in content with what he
Speaker 1: loves us. He loves the Bears organization, he loves the defense.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna come here ready to work. How significant
Speaker 1: will his return be? And Uh, it is something we're
Speaker 1: certainly it's an expectation. Now you gotta be here. Well,
Speaker 1: it either is or it isn't. You know, he's either
Speaker 1: has been working out, and you're gonna see the evidence
Speaker 1: within his body and the template that he's gonna present
Speaker 1: to the Bears once they bring him here for a
Speaker 1: training camp, physical or else. You're go to see evidence
Speaker 1: of not being in shape, not being in condition to
Speaker 1: the point where you can come out here and you
Speaker 1: can be a multiple play asset for Sean to sigh
Speaker 1: in this defense. You know, I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of other guys that realize the importance of their role
Speaker 1: with his absence, and so you know there's gonna be
Speaker 1: guys chopping at the bit to be in that stance.
Speaker 1: Week one against the Rams, listen. I hope it is
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman. I hope he's going to show a reflection
Speaker 1: to this team how important his life and his future
Speaker 1: as in his desire to play professional football. Helon Nichol
Speaker 1: is dealing with a little bit of foot problem. Precautionary,
Speaker 1: He'll be ready to go for training camp and expecting
Speaker 1: a huge year out of him as well. A player
Speaker 1: to watch, a player to circle upfront for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: And so is Alan Robinson putting his contract issues aside.
Speaker 1: He's had plenty of that. He's now just working on
Speaker 1: his game and how it benefits himself, but also in
Speaker 1: the larger picture, a team that he wants to see
Speaker 1: win you better. You know, have to be ball of
Speaker 1: being able to have creating more muslim endurance, you know,
Speaker 1: so when I'm catching the ball, you know, being able
Speaker 1: to hold my speed longer and things like that, you know,
Speaker 1: just making some getting in and out of my brains,
Speaker 1: you know, um um, focusing on some people are out.
Speaker 1: You know, the transitions. You know that those specific aspects
Speaker 1: of my game being able to add you know a
Speaker 1: few more yards to my per cash average. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll be able to arm some you know a yard
Speaker 1: catches in the twelve yard cases create more first downs,
Speaker 1: you know, and also focusing on myself for in the
Speaker 1: rai zone, being able to make sure I'm home, honing
Speaker 1: in on not only just a physical standpoint, but just
Speaker 1: honing in on what teams are trying to do to
Speaker 1: us in the rai zone. How I can be better
Speaker 1: and howking you know, help assist my team more in
Speaker 1: the raisin when we'll be down here. That's really impressed
Speaker 1: hit what he laid out. Tom A. Robb is one
Speaker 1: of the most well prepared, courageous wide receivers the Bears
Speaker 1: I've had here in a long time. He could never
Speaker 1: address the media again, and I would have all the
Speaker 1: respect in the world for him. So, hey, Rob, you
Speaker 1: don't have to prove anything to me. I know that
Speaker 1: you're a valuable commodity to this offense and to these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and to first down catches over the middle or
Speaker 1: one handed catches on the sideline. All right, here we go,
Speaker 1: Tom offensive line, you're you have your first taste of
Speaker 1: professional football trying to compete to win the left tackle job.
Speaker 1: You're Tevin Jenkins. You're a guy who played primarily on
Speaker 1: the right side at Oklahoma State, and now you have
Speaker 1: five or six weeks to get ready for the start
Speaker 1: of training camp. Point it's going to be nothing but
Speaker 1: a grind, and you're gonna be facing that defense day
Speaker 1: in and day out. You're gonna be in one on ones.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be contact, your footwork and your technique will
Speaker 1: be tested. What are you going to work on? This
Speaker 1: is his answer, and Tom take it out of the answer.
Speaker 1: I'll say, for me is knowing the playbooks, and for
Speaker 1: me that is the biggest part of football for myself,
Speaker 1: So I'm not afraid of making them says, there's already
Speaker 1: know where to go, how these things were a place called,
Speaker 1: So I'll go and play on instead of pushing myself.
Speaker 1: Pay boom, Thank you, Tevin Jenkins. You gotta go to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage knowing what you're gonna do, not
Speaker 1: thinking about what you might have to do. You can't
Speaker 1: go there thinking as a snap count on two. It
Speaker 1: is that I want is that I'm three. You're already
Speaker 1: behind in the play Get in your tablet, stay involved
Speaker 1: in your assignments. That will be the most important development
Speaker 1: and help you speed up your development of anything else.
Speaker 1: You can do. I also was impressed with Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: Tom and he talked about an interception thrown on the
Speaker 1: red zone. Christian Jones swiped it on Thursday's practice and
Speaker 1: it was total Kate, don't don't do that again. In
Speaker 1: terms of the particular player and the technique to it.
Speaker 1: He says, you know, I'm a one mistake kind of guy,
Speaker 1: and I'm a quick learner. I don't make the same
Speaker 1: mistake twice. That's a very bold answer, but not everybody
Speaker 1: can say that. So I'm impressed with that kind of mentality.
Speaker 1: You kind of went half the battle with that kind
Speaker 1: of mentality. Yeah, you know, it's kind of weird because
Speaker 1: we're big fans of cheese and when he's burst back
Speaker 1: on the season, he gets an interception. We talk to
Speaker 1: him and All Access earlier this year and we talked
Speaker 1: about his lack of career interceptions and how he needs more. However,
Speaker 1: I like the answer of Justin Fields. I don't repeat mistakes,
Speaker 1: and that's what coaches want to see and that's what
Speaker 1: they want to hear. Tom arout of time a lot
Speaker 1: more to discuss, but yeah, I know I left some
Speaker 1: of your nuggets on the table, but we got plenty
Speaker 1: of shows throughout the offseason to fill on the banks, Tommy,
Speaker 1: but I think we're all on the same page. We're
Speaker 1: excited about football's return here in twenty twenty one as
Speaker 1: normal as we can possibly make it. Tom, thanks for
Speaker 1: all your time. Appreciate you'll listening thanks to our producers
Speaker 1: Dan Bally, Jordan Trentup, and Katie Tuber. For Tom, There,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Jonahiak. You've been listening to Bears All Access
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