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Speaker 1: Jeff Jonnyac along with my broadcast parner from news Radio
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Speaker 1: Tom Fairtom Good evening Jimmler away out of the country.
Speaker 1: I hear so and hopefully enjoined some good vacations, so
Speaker 1: he says, so, he said, we really don't have a
Speaker 1: GPS on him, so he could be in Michigan. Just
Speaker 1: enjoy a little downtime, now, Jim. He wouldn't He wouldn't
Speaker 1: miss the show for anything. But it is good to
Speaker 1: be with everybody, and we're gonna have a couple of
Speaker 1: nice guests tonight. Kret White, junior, the rookie running back
Speaker 1: out of Lacsahatchee, Florida and Flora Atlantic University. He'll joining
Speaker 1: us at around six h eight and then the one
Speaker 1: and only Anthony Spice Adams coming up time at six thirty.
Speaker 1: A good chuckle to be had, for sure. But I
Speaker 1: want to get somewhat serious about football with double A
Speaker 1: as well, because I think that gets lost in the
Speaker 1: shuffle a little bit in his entertainment side of his career.
Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent. I was talking to him,
Speaker 1: I was talking about it a little bit ago, that
Speaker 1: Spice Anthony has become more famous after football, but I
Speaker 1: think it is lost in the shuffle that he was
Speaker 1: such a good football player, and regardless of the system
Speaker 1: that he grew up in the NFL or in college,
Speaker 1: I do think his game could translate to today's type
Speaker 1: of defensive football because, like we said, you have those
Speaker 1: numbers A thirty four or forty three, But you know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: as long as you've been around the NFL, now that's
Speaker 1: really not the case, because you're really playing a defensive
Speaker 1: front that as match up a bowl against the personnel
Speaker 1: that they have on offense depending upon down and distance.
Speaker 1: So I do think I'd like to hear Anthony talk
Speaker 1: about how his game would translate into today and where
Speaker 1: would he play in what position? Would he play most.
Speaker 1: I have a good feeling I know the answer to that.
Speaker 1: But more more than anything, it is all about matchups
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball for that matter. So
Speaker 1: big time, we're just really you know, real quick, you know. Now,
Speaker 1: let's let's transfer it to the modern day. And Eddie Goldman,
Speaker 1: you know, Eddie Goldman had to expand his game from
Speaker 1: what you know he was featured as initially, which was
Speaker 1: a big, you know, heavy duty nose guard because they
Speaker 1: make him play up and down the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and you know, um so I think Spice would have
Speaker 1: been able to do the same one month away really
Speaker 1: from the first practice of training camp July twenty seventh
Speaker 1: and bourbon At for the eighteenth consecutive season. I was
Speaker 1: with Kyle Long today Tom for a bit and had
Speaker 1: a good conversation. And his anticipation, the team's anticipation, which
Speaker 1: we've been alluding to weekly on this show, is really
Speaker 1: at an all time high. And for him just the
Speaker 1: fact that he's healthy and he feels good and he's
Speaker 1: been through the ringer that part of football, what you
Speaker 1: all have as you played the game, you've overcome stuff,
Speaker 1: and he overcame some significant injuries, but he also had
Speaker 1: to endure some losing season, so he got to experience
Speaker 1: and taste what winning felt like in a very unique
Speaker 1: way last year, and so everybody's very jacked about it. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we have positive anticipation for Kyle Long because
Speaker 1: you know, he's the type of guy that could be
Speaker 1: as dominant as any offensive lineman in the NFL today,
Speaker 1: and with a solid positive offseason behind him, where he's
Speaker 1: not rehabbing, he's getting stronger, he's you know, he's able
Speaker 1: to sharpen his craft. He's able to go out there
Speaker 1: at practice every day with Harry and the rest of
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman out there. So it's really exciting for
Speaker 1: the Bears fans because you know, last year you kind
Speaker 1: of had to think, oh, what are you going to
Speaker 1: get out of Kyle? How healthy is he going to be?
Speaker 1: And so if he can have a season and put
Speaker 1: together a sixteen game stretch, and then you think about
Speaker 1: Cody Whitehair going to left guard, you know, you talk
Speaker 1: about the interior of an offensive line that could be
Speaker 1: as good as any in the NFL. And when you
Speaker 1: talked about last year, before they got to play the Rams,
Speaker 1: there was more talked about the interior the Rams defensive
Speaker 1: line than there was about the interior of the Bears
Speaker 1: offensive line and the Bear's interior. The offensive line had
Speaker 1: a better against those guys than a lot of teams
Speaker 1: did throughout the whole year. And those two combatants are
Speaker 1: gonna remember it when we go to La to take
Speaker 1: on the Rams this coming season. That's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big showdown game. We're gonna hear from Harry heastand we're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from James Daniels in today's program to Shake
Speaker 1: townsend Mark de Leone, the inside linebackers coach, got a
Speaker 1: bunch of topics to address all coming up here on
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Speaker 1: as we battle through the I'm never gonna say it again.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say any word like vacation time off,
Speaker 1: none of that, because they're still guys up here working.
Speaker 1: The parking lot was full of players, and you know
Speaker 1: there's a lot, a lot of good stuff going on
Speaker 1: for everybody, but some guys are from taking a break
Speaker 1: and getting some time away as well. But a lot
Speaker 1: of people football camps going on too. You know, you're
Speaker 1: Teriq Cohen and you have Mitch Mitchell Trubisky having his
Speaker 1: camps and you know, bringing a little bit of that
Speaker 1: positive energy from the pros down to the kids that
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Speaker 1: get out there. That's top there. I'm Jeff Jonik, and
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Speaker 1: dot com. Jeff joni Ik and Tom there, Jim Miller
Speaker 1: away for this week's show, but good to have you
Speaker 1: with us. Later on, we'll take some phone calls three
Speaker 1: one two, sty four sixty seven, sixty seven as we
Speaker 1: have a couple of guests for you here in the
Speaker 1: next few minutes and we'll break things down with the
Speaker 1: rookie running back Kareth White and Spice. Adams will join
Speaker 1: us at around six thirty tonight. Time you mentioned offensive
Speaker 1: line play and James Daniels in particular. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: in something that you know is a shock that he's
Speaker 1: moving to center at all. He played that way at
Speaker 1: a high level at Iowa, but during the OTAs, during
Speaker 1: the mini camp, we had an opportunity to visit with
Speaker 1: him and a lot of conversation about making that move
Speaker 1: from guard the center, and he trusts his coaches. But
Speaker 1: if the coaches think it's the best best way to
Speaker 1: help the Bears win, I know that that's they wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that just because. So I just know that the
Speaker 1: that the coaches believe at me playing center and Code
Speaker 1: playing guard. So I'm just ready to just do it.
Speaker 1: Nothing's really changed nothing, I'd say everything's about the same.
Speaker 1: Only differences on the field is like I can make
Speaker 1: the calls and like even even like if I do,
Speaker 1: like may have a bad call, Cody, Cody always like,
Speaker 1: oh James, it's this, or he'll just say, like I say,
Speaker 1: the call would be wrong to Koy'll correct me. So,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's about the same. Good to
Speaker 1: have that backup though with a guy who played the
Speaker 1: last few years at a high level. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what too is life is important to James. He goes
Speaker 1: back to college this offseason, graduates, where's his bear's jersey
Speaker 1: actually underneath his robe as he's walking out with the
Speaker 1: rest of the graduates out there. And then football. We
Speaker 1: saw last year how important it was to him because
Speaker 1: he had to get prepared quickly. And so you're, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're playing left guard because they don't want to put
Speaker 1: too much on your plate initially. But then he's also
Speaker 1: working with Cody, who's not going through struggles, but he's
Speaker 1: going through a change in the way he snaps the
Speaker 1: football to Mitch. And so now you put James in there,
Speaker 1: back at center, and he goes to a more conventional
Speaker 1: style of the shotgun snap to Mitchell Chrubisky, and I
Speaker 1: think that's going to help Mitchell Trubisky. So rather than
Speaker 1: focusing on the flight of the football and where it
Speaker 1: came back in a knuckleball style, James is going to
Speaker 1: bring it back to the quarterback more in the spiral style.
Speaker 1: So that's going to allow Mitch to keep his eyes
Speaker 1: in the area of the field that is going to
Speaker 1: help him most, but it's also going to allow Cody
Speaker 1: to play stronger. And James, if you go back and
Speaker 1: you look at what he was able to do during
Speaker 1: his college years at center, he's really good. He's a
Speaker 1: multi talented football player and he's got the body style
Speaker 1: for both. And so I do think this is the
Speaker 1: best move for the Bears, for the best move for James.
Speaker 1: But I think the Bears and Harry He's stand the
Speaker 1: offensive line coach, was really smart in the way he
Speaker 1: went about making this transition for James to come in
Speaker 1: as a second year starter and to have not too
Speaker 1: much on his plate to absorbit the responsibilities that you
Speaker 1: have at center. What did you see of him during
Speaker 1: last offseason at the pivot along with some training camp snaps.
Speaker 1: You know, he understands of the position really well. He
Speaker 1: understands how to earn leverage immediately upon the snap of
Speaker 1: the ball, whether the Mitch is underneath center or in
Speaker 1: a shotgun position, and he's got the length in his
Speaker 1: arms to be able to keep that separation between defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: But he also has the ability to scan the defensive
Speaker 1: line and how when they're gonna move in stunts or
Speaker 1: he's got to go up to the second level. He's
Speaker 1: got that athleticism. But you taught he said, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: if I ever make the wrong call, Cody and Kyle
Speaker 1: or the rest of the offensive guards will be there
Speaker 1: to make the correction. He's not gonna make mistakes because
Speaker 1: when we've watched this offensive line develop, everybody has an
Speaker 1: opportunity to understand the system equally as well. Charles Leno
Speaker 1: is really intelligent at the offensive tackle position like Bobby Massey,
Speaker 1: and that information can transfer into the middle. So it's
Speaker 1: not like I said. When they had to get to
Speaker 1: the actual game action, James was ready to play guard.
Speaker 1: I think he could have played center also. However, again,
Speaker 1: don't force feed him too much information and allow him
Speaker 1: to play with speed and confidence. And I think he'll
Speaker 1: have the same this year at center. Over the years,
Speaker 1: when we analyze matchups and we see a rookie center
Speaker 1: on the schedule, whether it be Week one or Week
Speaker 1: sixteen against a very good defense, you always had some
Speaker 1: trepidation about that when you alize the other teams, and
Speaker 1: maybe it was players specific based on their abilities or whatnot.
Speaker 1: But even young players can have some difficulty against really
Speaker 1: good defenses. What are the trappings of that position against
Speaker 1: a really good defense if you're a rookie, you know
Speaker 1: in that position, he's not a rookie anymore, but he's
Speaker 1: going to be a first year starter at center. You know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: let's go back in our memory bank of brought games.
Speaker 1: We broadcasted with the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton mannag I
Speaker 1: was going to bring that right, that was the one
Speaker 1: and they had young offensive lineman there and they kind
Speaker 1: of brought up that mug style defense to create confusion
Speaker 1: from the time they broke the huddle into the snap
Speaker 1: of the ball. Fortunately, they had great linebackers up there
Speaker 1: and Brian or Lacker and Lance Briggs that had a
Speaker 1: great understanding of each other and what their responsibilities were
Speaker 1: after the ball. After the snap of the ball. But
Speaker 1: now you questions, you put question marks into the heads
Speaker 1: of the young offensive lineman. Now if they're just really seriously,
Speaker 1: like a quarter steps a quarter second slower than you
Speaker 1: have these experienced offensive lineman quarter second slower is getting
Speaker 1: you out of position at the snap of the ball.
Speaker 1: Whether the linebackers came or they didn't. It just put him,
Speaker 1: you know behind, you know that slower retreat of Peyton Manning,
Speaker 1: and it allowed the Bears to take advantage of the
Speaker 1: offensive line. And you know, all throughout the course of history,
Speaker 1: I think all defenses look at how much experience anybody
Speaker 1: has at the position. And unfortunately, when you get that
Speaker 1: rookie center, and then if you play him at home
Speaker 1: inside the Bears stadium, when the crowd has been incredibly
Speaker 1: loud as of late, that it's really distracting to this
Speaker 1: young guys because they're trying to think of their responsibilities
Speaker 1: when they're breaking the huddle. They're trying to make sure
Speaker 1: they remember the snapcoud and then they have to make
Speaker 1: the directional calls sometimes whether it's runner passed, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibilities on the shoulders of young guys
Speaker 1: who are still thinking the offense rather than playing the offense.
Speaker 1: Continuity is king, and Harry Heston will tell you that
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach, it's critical. I mean, it's deal
Speaker 1: with the ham at you're dealt so whichever way it goes,
Speaker 1: you make the best of it. Having guys that have
Speaker 1: played together is critical to the success of the group,
Speaker 1: and the best lines are always the ones that have
Speaker 1: the most continuity and have the most consistency, and day
Speaker 1: in and Dad are working together, and it's just you
Speaker 1: can't argue that. And sometimes you don't have the luxury
Speaker 1: of having that happen, so you make the best of it.
Speaker 1: But it's absolutely the best thing. And the best lines
Speaker 1: in the history of our game are the ones that
Speaker 1: you know, stay healthy and play together and playing and
Speaker 1: play out and they know that this is happening. We
Speaker 1: know how to handle it, and there's no hesitation. You know,
Speaker 1: they can do it right now. And the less they
Speaker 1: have to communicate, like verbally and change, they just kind
Speaker 1: of kind of look, say somebody's name, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: go what a little work and booth They're going. It's there.
Speaker 1: They they're They're in. They're in the vicinity play after play.
Speaker 1: They're not like relearning something or starting over. And this
Speaker 1: is they all know exactly where their hands should be.
Speaker 1: They all know exactly where their eyes should be. And
Speaker 1: then that's what they work on daily because they're not
Speaker 1: always where they're supposed to be. But they know, ope,
Speaker 1: I gotta get back inside, I gotta get hands here,
Speaker 1: I gotta do that. Oh, you know which you guys
Speaker 1: is starting unit back in your day. Excel that you
Speaker 1: had the fortunate ability to be able to stay health
Speaker 1: easy group for the most part, and play together for
Speaker 1: several years. You know what, Jeff though, when you listen
Speaker 1: to Harry talk about what it takes to be an
Speaker 1: offensive line, I guarantee Am Boards, j Becker, Van Horn,
Speaker 1: jimbo Covert, we could get together today and even the
Speaker 1: other guys that were in the room with us, we
Speaker 1: could speak a language amongst ourselves that no one would
Speaker 1: have any idea what we are talking about, but we
Speaker 1: knew exactly what we are saying, whether it's someone three
Speaker 1: bodies away or someone that's standing right next to us.
Speaker 1: Because even when you break the huddle and you can't
Speaker 1: approach the line of scrimmage and start talking about the
Speaker 1: play because defensive linemen are too smart and they pick
Speaker 1: up on that stuff. We have a whole series of
Speaker 1: words about how to communicate the snapcout that you would
Speaker 1: have no idea what we are saying. And that was
Speaker 1: the beauty of it. The longer you could stick with
Speaker 1: each other, the longer that you could be around with
Speaker 1: each other, the more of these languages that you can
Speaker 1: make up and start and that where you can understand
Speaker 1: only each other and no one knows anything what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. Well, they're gonna face some really good defensive
Speaker 1: fronts this year. There's some really good defenses on the schedule.
Speaker 1: You look at what they're gonna face with the LA
Speaker 1: Rams on the road, the Dallas Cowboys coming into Soldier Field,
Speaker 1: two of the better defensive teams in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting through the LA Chargers in there.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of a lot of really
Speaker 1: impressive defenses. And as as you look at it from
Speaker 1: a Bears perspective, there's gonna be a lot of offensive
Speaker 1: lines that are going to be sweating it out playing
Speaker 1: the Bears defense. This you know, it was just within
Speaker 1: the own division. I mean, you can't even talk over
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings because they have so much talent, and
Speaker 1: when you when they play on the road in Minnesota
Speaker 1: and they have that crowd support. Last year, the Bears
Speaker 1: were able to earn the crowd out of the game,
Speaker 1: and I think this is what you know, the Bears
Speaker 1: are going to have to do in Green Bay, in
Speaker 1: Detroit and in Minnesota within the division. All right, time
Speaker 1: to take a break here on Bears Zoe Access with
Speaker 1: Tom there, Jeff Joniac. Thanks for listening, everybody, three one, two,
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Speaker 1: will join us at around six thirty tonight. Hope to
Speaker 1: have him for a couple of segments as we break
Speaker 1: down what's remaining of this Bears off season. And getting
Speaker 1: ready for the start of training camp. In one month,
Speaker 1: they will be less than a month they will be
Speaker 1: reporting and getting back to practice and out of the
Speaker 1: practice field. So it's a great time to be a Bear.
Speaker 1: I said that today with Kyle Long. It's just a
Speaker 1: convergence of unique momentum based on what has been accomplished
Speaker 1: here in the last couple of years in procuring some
Speaker 1: really good, talented players that are budding, so to speak
Speaker 1: Tom in terms of their abilities, their star quality, their swag,
Speaker 1: their charisma. It feels like a fun bunch of guys.
Speaker 1: As we've learned last year that it was but a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys that are ready to take that hunger
Speaker 1: and turn it into something special. And what this year
Speaker 1: means all of it coming together, it's it's a real
Speaker 1: convergence here. But you know it all starts up top Jeff,
Speaker 1: because you know the message that was delivered by Matt
Speaker 1: and Aggie at the start of last season when we
Speaker 1: didn't know a lot about him. He gave these players
Speaker 1: the option to be themselves and guys. They took it
Speaker 1: and ran with it, but they had to also be
Speaker 1: professional and they had to understand what their responsibilities were
Speaker 1: when they got on the practice field, and we saw
Speaker 1: Matt interject his personality out of the practice field if
Speaker 1: he was dissatisfied with the effort that he was getting
Speaker 1: out of them. So this isn't something that you can
Speaker 1: come out here and just have fun with it. You
Speaker 1: got to be professional first. You got to perform at
Speaker 1: it a really high playoff to super Bowl level, and
Speaker 1: then you got to go out there and figure out
Speaker 1: where you fit into that locker room and how you
Speaker 1: can make the atmosphere better. So you know it is
Speaker 1: I think he puts a lot of responsibility onto the players,
Speaker 1: but he is the message clearly from day one about
Speaker 1: what he expects out of them in their preparation to
Speaker 1: be the best well. And he also lets his coaches
Speaker 1: take center stage as well at times. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: to have the same voice all the time, so these
Speaker 1: guys can step up and be heard in various ways,
Speaker 1: even if challenged. Players that do the same thing. It's
Speaker 1: a team that does police itself. I think you have
Speaker 1: plenty of leaders spread all over the place. There's not
Speaker 1: just one guy that right now is the face of
Speaker 1: the team. Even though Mitch Trubisky is the quarterback, that's
Speaker 1: an assumed responsibility and he's certainly taking that baton and
Speaker 1: running with it and will continue to develop that with teammates.
Speaker 1: They know who's in charge there at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: But it does take a village at times when you
Speaker 1: don't have that Hall of fame superstar that's just lining
Speaker 1: up every day, as we saw with Brian or Lacker
Speaker 1: on the Bears defense, and Olan Creutz on the Bears
Speaker 1: offense or what you guys had a bunch of Hall
Speaker 1: of famers on your teams. So I bring up a
Speaker 1: guy like you know, we talk about budding stars, and
Speaker 1: Roquant Smith I think fits that category. I think there's
Speaker 1: a high expect that he will have a big jump
Speaker 1: from last year when he was Pro bowlworthy. Actually there
Speaker 1: were there was a lot that he did in a
Speaker 1: very short time because he wasn't with the team in
Speaker 1: the offseason. Mark da Leone is his new inside landbackers coach,
Speaker 1: and Tom feels the same way. He's got high expectations
Speaker 1: for this individual player and he can make the biggest jump,
Speaker 1: maybe out of anybody this year. I think he has
Speaker 1: all the tools, all the skill set and the personality
Speaker 1: trades to be elite and one of the premier players
Speaker 1: at his position in the game. He has the skill set,
Speaker 1: the talent level, and the personality traits to be that
Speaker 1: player were you had on real Quan. You know, I
Speaker 1: think he's really fortunate to have grown up with a
Speaker 1: guy like Vic Fangio and then to move on to
Speaker 1: a guy like Chuck, Chuck Pagano and Mark de Leone,
Speaker 1: you know, all the players that are gonna kind of
Speaker 1: mold his career because the experience of improvement doesn't only
Speaker 1: happen with one guy, one coach, and one system. I
Speaker 1: think when you hear Mark talk about the traits of
Speaker 1: role Kuan Smith, He's got everything that you need to
Speaker 1: do develop into that Pro Bowl type of linebacker. He's
Speaker 1: got traits that carry over to Danny Trevathan and the
Speaker 1: outside linebackers he's playing along with. Along with the guys
Speaker 1: up front. He's got a great desire to be a
Speaker 1: great player, which I think is the most important trait
Speaker 1: that Ryan Pace picked out when he decided to pick
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith. So I'm really excited to see what he
Speaker 1: can do with an entire offseason with the Bears. Have
Speaker 1: you know, how does Chuck Pagano see his traits to
Speaker 1: fit into some of the past experiences he's had with
Speaker 1: great linebackers. He's been able to coach and I think
Speaker 1: when you mentioned it that coach Naggie allows the coaches
Speaker 1: to be great coaches to develop this talent. And it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see how Roquan is in
Speaker 1: a system that probably has different subtleties than the one
Speaker 1: he's already played in. But again, he's still the same
Speaker 1: great player that we are introduced to last year. And
Speaker 1: it's a middle of the defense. You know, you want
Speaker 1: that to be strong up the middle, and the Bears
Speaker 1: certainly that right now. With Eddie Jackson on the back end.
Speaker 1: You got a keeman Eddie up front, you know when
Speaker 1: the front can be morphed into a passing third down front.
Speaker 1: You got got big guys up front that can really
Speaker 1: handle the inside position, and then you got the inside
Speaker 1: landbackers real Quin and Danny Trevithan. So that's where you
Speaker 1: want to see. It'll be interesting because I think there's
Speaker 1: probably a lot more teams that are watching defensive tape
Speaker 1: of Chuck Bagano's past and then now, how does you
Speaker 1: you know, insert the past of Chuck Bagono's experience into
Speaker 1: the more of the modern day NFL offenses, and that's
Speaker 1: going to start Week one with the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: because if McVeigh is the mentor of the young coach
Speaker 1: up in green Bay, that is a really good offense
Speaker 1: when and when we study that offense of the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, and there's a lot of ability
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. But now, how do both
Speaker 1: of these coaches counteract each other with the personnel you're
Speaker 1: going to see at the line of scrimmage the early season,
Speaker 1: unknown of the two opponents you're gonna face. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an awesome display of how teams are
Speaker 1: gonna look at the Bears and how the Bears are
Speaker 1: going to look at their opponents. That's time there. I'm
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Speaker 1: that race at Soldier Field. The Bears five K Anthony
Speaker 1: Spice Adams kind enough to join us tonight, the entertainer
Speaker 1: extraordinaire and outstanding defensive tackle with the Chicago Bears from
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven through two thousand eleven. Double A.
Speaker 1: You got your running shoes on July thirteenth? You in
Speaker 1: that thing? Sir? No, sir, I did it. I think
Speaker 1: it was two years ago. And my shins hurt, my
Speaker 1: back was hurting, my calves were hurting. It's about a
Speaker 1: little hills that you don't see until you're actually on it.
Speaker 1: What's long as you've ever run at one time? Uh?
Speaker 1: Probably about five miles. That's impressive. We had to do
Speaker 1: that in college, and Uh, I used to pride myself
Speaker 1: and beating little guys. I didn't care how little they were,
Speaker 1: or you know, if they were two sixty two fifty
Speaker 1: whatever or maybe some wide receivers. But what I found
Speaker 1: out was we ran on Saturdays. And what I found
Speaker 1: out is a lot of the guys went out Friday night,
Speaker 1: so then it didn't it didn't make sense. Man, did
Speaker 1: you ever did you ever have a real strenuous um
Speaker 1: preconditioning test in the NFL for any of the any
Speaker 1: of the teams you were around? String you is no, No.
Speaker 1: I mean once you come from college, it's just like
Speaker 1: you're laughing at everything in the NFL because basically it's
Speaker 1: it's really just technique, you know. But we had shuttles,
Speaker 1: like three shuttles, three times shuttles where you know, you
Speaker 1: run fifty yards, come back, go back down, go back down.
Speaker 1: I think it's like a total of six times or
Speaker 1: whatever like that was our condition to test. How would
Speaker 1: you hand in with the niners? We had this thing
Speaker 1: called the beat tests where you would run I think
Speaker 1: it was like fifty yards or something like that, and
Speaker 1: then like you had to make beats and then it
Speaker 1: would go down to forty yards and thirty yards and
Speaker 1: twenty yards and ten and five or whatever, and you
Speaker 1: had to cross the line before the beat. And the
Speaker 1: guys used to win all the time. We're like the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: of course, they didn't do much. How would you handle
Speaker 1: this five weeks in between the end of mini camp
Speaker 1: before the beginning of training camp, I would work out
Speaker 1: like a monster, and you know, try to eat clean
Speaker 1: and you know, just come in and just be in
Speaker 1: tiptop shape, because it's nothing worse than coming in into
Speaker 1: camp and letting all your teammates down. I've seen guys
Speaker 1: who they've held out of practice because they weren't doing
Speaker 1: what they were supposed to do in the time before
Speaker 1: coming into camp, and it's first it's embarrassing, and then
Speaker 1: you get fined. I didn't know coming from the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, it was just like if you made plays,
Speaker 1: they really didn't care how much you weighed. So when
Speaker 1: I got here, I think I was maybe five pounds over,
Speaker 1: eight pounds over or something like that. And Coach Smith
Speaker 1: made a big deal about it, like he came into
Speaker 1: our defensive line needing rooms, like, hey, guys, we don't
Speaker 1: play with fat guys. I just want to let you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm and ab Alex Brown. Of course he's looking around.
Speaker 1: He's like, who's fat somebody now, And I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is how y'all doing it, Like I didn't know,
Speaker 1: like okay, But I end up losing the five pounds
Speaker 1: the next practice and then you get fine. I think
Speaker 1: it was when we played it was five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: per pound per day. So if you Steve came in
Speaker 1: over five pounds, if you didn't lose about the next day,
Speaker 1: then you have to pay twenty five hundred. Again, that's significant,
Speaker 1: my friend, significant man. Second round pick in two thousand
Speaker 1: and three by the forty nine ers. We've touched down
Speaker 1: this before, the fact that you were a second round
Speaker 1: pick out of Penn State. Many felt that you should
Speaker 1: have been a first round pick, and you made this
Speaker 1: sport last for a while for yourself, and I think
Speaker 1: the scouts had a better idea about you maybe than
Speaker 1: the general population about your abilities. Are you proud of
Speaker 1: the fact you were second round pick? Proud of the
Speaker 1: fact you had a pretty long NFL career with two teams? Yeah? First,
Speaker 1: I didn't. There never was my dream to like play football.
Speaker 1: I always wanted to play basketball. You know, I'm from Detroit,
Speaker 1: so we had the bad Boys Isaiah, Joe Dumars, John Sally,
Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman, you know. So that's all we played in
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. And then I couldn't play literally because I
Speaker 1: was too big. I was like at twelve, I was
Speaker 1: probably like three hundred pounds, so there was no way
Speaker 1: I was playing, literally, but my mom dropped me off,
Speaker 1: which I'm glad she did. And you know, I had
Speaker 1: been playing ever since I was fourteen, So when I
Speaker 1: got to college, I never like had a dream that like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play in the NFL. But what happened was
Speaker 1: my junior year, I started seeing guys that I had
Speaker 1: good games against get drafted. So then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I got a shot because if they drafted
Speaker 1: this guy, I know they've seen the Penn State game.
Speaker 1: So I started buckling down and everything and just like
Speaker 1: maybe I got a shot. And I'm real competitive, so
Speaker 1: I never like want to lose or whatever. So my
Speaker 1: whole goal when I got the Pending State was to start,
Speaker 1: and then I wanted to win the national championship. I mean,
Speaker 1: which didn't happen, but that's that's what drove me. And
Speaker 1: you know, for me to get they I was projected
Speaker 1: to go foreth round and for me to go second round,
Speaker 1: then that's when I knew, like these people don't know
Speaker 1: what they're talking about and they haven't seen me yet
Speaker 1: but once I get down on that field, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make my presence know, and I did that for nine years,
Speaker 1: and I was I was fortunate enough to play with
Speaker 1: the Bears in that locker room. Man. I just put
Speaker 1: something up on Instagram right now about how fun that
Speaker 1: locker room is. I mean it was. It was so
Speaker 1: it was a breath of fresh air to walk into
Speaker 1: that locker room and get boxed up, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like to see people in playing basketball, playing baseball.
Speaker 1: You know how it is, Jeff coming there when the
Speaker 1: media is supposed to come in there, and you know,
Speaker 1: you got a duck because somebody's throwing a baseball at you.
Speaker 1: We had a blast. Well, you know, I was just
Speaker 1: talking to somebody about it today. And that oh six
Speaker 1: team and that two thousand ten team, Um, there are
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of really impressive players that you
Speaker 1: played with that that carried over from O six, um
Speaker 1: that don't really get a lot of attention. Just almost
Speaker 1: at every position on defense, including some of the backups,
Speaker 1: are really good football players. That's a really good football team. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They they did a great job and you know, getting
Speaker 1: a lot of high character guys that could that could ball.
Speaker 1: You know, I think about um I am Badajo playing
Speaker 1: special teams, and we had people who wanted to play
Speaker 1: special teams, you know, who wanted to be out there
Speaker 1: blocking for for hester and you know, sometimes you look
Speaker 1: at it as punishment, like, oh, man, I gotta go
Speaker 1: on special teams. I'm onna punt return and kickoff blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. But I mean you have people who were
Speaker 1: fighting to get on special teams. And then I just
Speaker 1: talked to Chris Harris not too long though, he's doing
Speaker 1: pretty well out there with the Chargers, and we had
Speaker 1: a long conversation just about the things we used to
Speaker 1: do in the locker room and all the ping pong
Speaker 1: tournaments we had and people playing Madden and all types
Speaker 1: of stuff we used to do. Man, it was I
Speaker 1: had a blast. Hey, how come when you guys always
Speaker 1: talk about the Bears and the good teams the Bears had,
Speaker 1: it only talks about the defense. I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: eighty five, that's all you talk about. If it's your team,
Speaker 1: all as you talk about as a defense. How about
Speaker 1: bragging about the offensive line and some of the influence
Speaker 1: that they had in that locker room, Because I know
Speaker 1: there's a couple of guys that were pretty serious about
Speaker 1: the way they conducted themselves. That meant a lot to
Speaker 1: the interior when the locker room doors closed. But no,
Speaker 1: the conversation always gravitates to this defensive player. This defensive players,
Speaker 1: you know, bring up, bring up some offensive players there.
Speaker 1: But you know, I always had a blast with the
Speaker 1: offensive line. And for me to play with a guy
Speaker 1: like Olan Cruz, who you know, he would come up
Speaker 1: to me and ask me different things before practice and everything.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, this dude is an all time great
Speaker 1: and he's talking to me because he's going up against
Speaker 1: Duayne Robertson or something who's had the same like body
Speaker 1: type or whatever. So he's like, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you attack when you're you know, when you're in a
Speaker 1: tilted position, or you know, if you're shooting a gap,
Speaker 1: what's the first thing you go for? Whatever. Like we're
Speaker 1: having this conversation before practice and then after practice, like,
Speaker 1: you know, can you stay up after practice do some
Speaker 1: couple reps from me? I'm like, what, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a perennial All pro pro bowler and I'm just like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's something different about this squad man and then in camp, Oh,
Speaker 1: we had a great time. In camp. Man Fred Miller
Speaker 1: would be on a grill, and if you were a veteran,
Speaker 1: they let you stay on the first floor at camp
Speaker 1: or whatever. And so the offensive line they had all
Speaker 1: the rooms on the first floor and they were going
Speaker 1: get burger king and everything. And so in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night they used to always ask hey, double a,
Speaker 1: do you want something? I say, nah, man, I'm good.
Speaker 1: And then coming about one am, two am, they would
Speaker 1: hear like some fit and falon like going on with
Speaker 1: the bags and everything, and Roberto Garza would come out
Speaker 1: and he say, oh, the raccoon strikes again. It would
Speaker 1: be be like going in trying to get some whoppers
Speaker 1: and stuff. So they nicknamed me the raccoon. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you talk about all and asking you
Speaker 1: those types of questions. As a broadcaster, when I see
Speaker 1: you and I see you come to the Bears, I
Speaker 1: think a Jerry Ball who was a hell of a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman for the Detroit Lions, and I played against
Speaker 1: him a bunch, And so when I think about a
Speaker 1: player and I'm watching his style a player, I now,
Speaker 1: who does this guy remind me of that? I played
Speaker 1: against that the way I would think about how you played.
Speaker 1: And so you know, and I and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you ever knew who Jerry Ball was, but he
Speaker 1: was a head of a player, and you know he
Speaker 1: had the skills to play up and down the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. He wasn't only a nose guard. He stayed
Speaker 1: in a nickel. He moved over to the guard. He
Speaker 1: was a good pass rusher. So you know, you think
Speaker 1: of Olwen using your the intelligence you have in your
Speaker 1: body style to help him prepare for a player. It's
Speaker 1: the same way in broadcasting when I see you come aboard,
Speaker 1: what what do you make me think of it? And
Speaker 1: I think of Jerry Ball. You know, Jerry Ball was
Speaker 1: very underrated. Um, you know, just a big dude who
Speaker 1: was athletic. He could dunkle basketball. And so to get
Speaker 1: compared to Jerry Ball, man, that's that's huge for me. Man.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know about that. But you
Speaker 1: know I studied all of those guys, Colepepper from Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay and even um the grave Digger, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean we didn't have the same He was of course,
Speaker 1: like way bigger, but you know, just to see how
Speaker 1: he was man in those gaps and even you know
Speaker 1: later in his career, you know he did it well
Speaker 1: right on the one and only Gilbert Brown, the Great
Speaker 1: Big He's a burger king guy. We haven't even scratched
Speaker 1: the surface on your very much. We gotta go to
Speaker 1: break double A. But when we come back, I gonna
Speaker 1: talk about your post career life because that could take
Speaker 1: a whole hour, but and maybe two. We don't have
Speaker 1: that kind of time. This is Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Back with you
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access here in Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score good to be with you, Jeff, Jony Act,
Speaker 1: Tom Fair, and our special guest Anthony Spice Adams. You
Speaker 1: can watch him on Inside the Bears with Laurence Screeden
Speaker 1: each and every week, even throughout the off season and
Speaker 1: the off season that is winding down getting ready for
Speaker 1: the regular season. How much have you enjoyed on that show?
Speaker 1: And did you ever envision yourself doing a show like
Speaker 1: that for for the Bears or any team? Never? And
Speaker 1: the fact that you don't watch it makes me want
Speaker 1: to go harder. You know, I gotta get you to
Speaker 1: watch it, like that's that's my goal. Like whenever I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of things I'm gonna say, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: I wonder what Jonik would think about what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say right now. But listen to me, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just I can try to make you watch it. Listen
Speaker 1: to me and time, you know, you know me, I
Speaker 1: just like to ruffle your feathers a little bit. So
Speaker 1: don't think for a minute that I'm I'm telling you
Speaker 1: because I tell you, I tell you one thing. I
Speaker 1: would just have eyes in the back of your head.
Speaker 1: You know. I know you probably have a pretty good
Speaker 1: peripheral vision as a basketball player and as a defensive
Speaker 1: stud in the national football the great athlete that you are.
Speaker 1: But you know, whether it's Kareem Biggins, whether whether it's
Speaker 1: coach Done Done, whether it's uh the iron Man, whoever
Speaker 1: it is, you got me good. And I'm not forgetting
Speaker 1: about this really fast. Hold on, hold on, y'all gonna
Speaker 1: ask me questions. But I just want to commend you
Speaker 1: and sayre for the job y'all did at the hundredth
Speaker 1: and not only that, just from all the years of
Speaker 1: being on TV and radio, you guys are probably one
Speaker 1: of the greatest one two punches the NFL as scene.
Speaker 1: I want to give y'all y'all props. I'm gonna hang
Speaker 1: up and let you guys talk right. You know why
Speaker 1: because it makes Time break out into a complete full
Speaker 1: body sweat when he hears any compliments. So we'll take it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We know it comes from the heart.
Speaker 1: I know you mean that, so we appreciate it. But
Speaker 1: you got me good. When you're talking about Screeten's wedding.
Speaker 1: You're talking about I should be on the top of
Speaker 1: her wedding cake. Oh yeah, you said it, So don't
Speaker 1: tell me. I don't watch the show, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you back somehow somewhere. You watch the snippet. Somebody
Speaker 1: sent that to somebody set me up. I mean, you
Speaker 1: got me good. I said that that was like two seconds,
Speaker 1: and I said it so that it would get back
Speaker 1: to you so that you could watch it. Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, you got the whip that I don't have.
Speaker 1: You got me good. Hey, Anthony, do you have to
Speaker 1: do two autographs now? Are you Anthony Adams and one
Speaker 1: and Spice and the other? Or how like the people
Speaker 1: that follow you? What do they ask for when you
Speaker 1: sign something? Oh, it's it's crazy now. And my mom
Speaker 1: wrote a book based off of my character, Cream Bigghams,
Speaker 1: So I'm signing books as Cream Bighams. It's crazy. I
Speaker 1: was at it. I was at a track me because
Speaker 1: my kids run track along with Johnny Knox's kids and
Speaker 1: Rashida Davis, like, all of our kids are doing really
Speaker 1: well in track. And this lady comes up to me,
Speaker 1: who you know, she was a parent to one of
Speaker 1: the kids out there, and she's like, you look familiar.
Speaker 1: And so I didn't want to set myself up and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, okay, you know me for a defensive
Speaker 1: tackle or the Bears, and so I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you might know me from. And
Speaker 1: she said, she knows me from YouTube if you do
Speaker 1: all the grilling videos and you do songs and you
Speaker 1: dance and you do the laugh and everything. So I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe she knows me from inside the Bears, maybe she
Speaker 1: knows me from the Great American Bacon Show or whatever.
Speaker 1: And she says she knows me from YouTube. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of layers when it comes to Spice Adams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you guys know already, but you know I'm
Speaker 1: a big deal. Yeah, you are a big deal. Anybody
Speaker 1: forget it. When you were working the Orange carpet at
Speaker 1: the hundred years celebration is as soon as Naggie and
Speaker 1: Ryan Pace, you went right down and you did a
Speaker 1: kind of a interview right right. Forgive you thirty plays,
Speaker 1: not in a row, but I can get it thirty. Well,
Speaker 1: you know the whole list of characters that you got
Speaker 1: to meet that night. You know it had to be
Speaker 1: kind of a cool thing for you too, is you know,
Speaker 1: because you know, I don't care if Dick Buckus walked
Speaker 1: up to you when he was as a player or today.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy is still intimidating. He's neat guy
Speaker 1: to meet. But all the entire history of all the
Speaker 1: players you had a chance to meet. It's always good
Speaker 1: to see RoboCop, always good to see Richard Dent. And
Speaker 1: I remember when Tony Madlin, mister Medlin gave me number
Speaker 1: ninety five, because at first I was supposed to be
Speaker 1: seventy three. I still have the tag with my name
Speaker 1: on it, and he gave me ninety five, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh no, I can't wear this like this
Speaker 1: is the sack masters, Like I don't even feel comfortable
Speaker 1: wearing this, and so you know I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: like how I looked within the seventies and anything like that.
Speaker 1: You know, a number doesn't define me or whatever. But
Speaker 1: you know, he said, no, no, you got to wear
Speaker 1: this or whatever. So I saw Richard Dent at a
Speaker 1: game and I said, I hope I'm doing you proud,
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, man, you represent in double A.
Speaker 1: Keep doing your thing. And so for him to give
Speaker 1: me that voter confidence for wearing his number, like, I
Speaker 1: was forever grateful. So to see him anytime, whether it's
Speaker 1: orange carpet or anywhere, you know, it's always good to
Speaker 1: see some people. I talked to Nathan Vasher the other
Speaker 1: day and he said he saw him at Bears Fit,
Speaker 1: Like on the app machine. I'm like, what they're doing apps?
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I got to get up in there now, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're starting to drop a few. You find those apps.
Speaker 1: Yet they in there somewhere. They shot and what you
Speaker 1: call the introvert Anthony Anthony Spice Adams our guest here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Jeff Jonny
Speaker 1: Ac time they were with you to the top of
Speaker 1: the hour. So out of all your alter egos and
Speaker 1: all your different variations of your personalities, here which of
Speaker 1: them was the original? And how many of these particular
Speaker 1: individuals did you come up with during your playing career
Speaker 1: and just will holding them back a little bit to
Speaker 1: one day you're gonna do something with him. Well, I
Speaker 1: was very notorious for making up characters in college, and
Speaker 1: you know, all my whole teammates called me like, oh man,
Speaker 1: you got to bring this guy back out, this guy
Speaker 1: back out or whatever. So and they they're just basically
Speaker 1: what I observed growing up in Detroit. My uncles or
Speaker 1: friends of the family who you know, will come over
Speaker 1: to the house and you know, have a good time
Speaker 1: and come around during the holidays, and it's basically everything
Speaker 1: I observed. But the favorite character I like doing his
Speaker 1: cream victims because he's he will not make a shot,
Speaker 1: but he just does not lack confident. You know, if
Speaker 1: he goes one for four hundred and eighty five shooting
Speaker 1: the ball, he's talking about that one he and you
Speaker 1: know he always sees a silver lining and everything. So
Speaker 1: so did you know people like that if somebody right
Speaker 1: now at the park who's just like Cream Bighams. I
Speaker 1: promise you he has on goggles, he has on a
Speaker 1: tight outfit with his socks all the way up and
Speaker 1: some Chuck Taylor's. I guarantee you there's a Cream Bighams
Speaker 1: in every state in America. Hey spice all over the world. Actually,
Speaker 1: So when you when you see a movie like Coming
Speaker 1: to America or I know there was one that just
Speaker 1: came out where the guy played all the characters in
Speaker 1: the movie, could you ever see yourself doing something like that,
Speaker 1: because that would be I think a guy that has
Speaker 1: just an abundance of humor and Coming to America with
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy and his part is it's one of the
Speaker 1: best movies ever out there. But these guys play, you know,
Speaker 1: five or six characters in the course of the movie. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: like you know, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Richard Pryor you know,
Speaker 1: I watched all those guys growing up. They're they're the funniest,
Speaker 1: you know. I would love to do something like that.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys who like influenced a lot of
Speaker 1: the videos that I make on social media. So if
Speaker 1: the opportunity presented, itself to do a movie or a
Speaker 1: series or something like that. Then oh yeah, I'm hopping
Speaker 1: on it for sure. I would love to do that.
Speaker 1: I love to play, Jeff Joniac. I would love to
Speaker 1: call a game and say, Devin Hester, do all ridiculoize.
Speaker 1: That's about the extent of what you'd be doing for me.
Speaker 1: I guess you know. Damn pomp Pay captured the essence
Speaker 1: of you and his article in The Athletic Amy twelve. Um,
Speaker 1: what kind of reaction did you get from that article?
Speaker 1: For those that didn't know your entire history and your journey.
Speaker 1: I thought it was cool, um that we got a
Speaker 1: chance to talk about me kind of um starting another
Speaker 1: career because when I was done, you know, I still
Speaker 1: had one year left on my contract, and I still
Speaker 1: wanted to play. And you know, once you reach thirty
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you know you're you're considered old. So
Speaker 1: I knew that it would be selfish with me to
Speaker 1: keep trying to chase this dream, knowing that I have
Speaker 1: to uproot my family and we have to go to
Speaker 1: you know, Seattle for three weeks, and then I would
Speaker 1: get released and then have to go to Charlotte or something,
Speaker 1: and then have to go to the Texans or whatever
Speaker 1: and to you know, just just to be selfish like
Speaker 1: that and to keep chasing these dreams and everything like that,
Speaker 1: I just just decided to give it up and not
Speaker 1: knowing what I was going to do next. And you know,
Speaker 1: through all the relationships that I made, the Bears to
Speaker 1: come to me and say, hey, can you co host
Speaker 1: this show called Inside the Bears? I don't think people
Speaker 1: know that story. And so for me to do that
Speaker 1: for the athletic and Dan POMPEII, who didn't have me
Speaker 1: as one of the hundred Bears of all time, I
Speaker 1: thought it was cool and I thought it was great
Speaker 1: to share that story. Hill. Well, there's still time to
Speaker 1: crack somebody's one hundred. You got a long career left
Speaker 1: in you, and before we let you go, and we
Speaker 1: appreciate taking all this time tonight. I know you. I
Speaker 1: never saw it. I never heard it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're able to do it, but it apparently used
Speaker 1: to do Olier imitation. Do you have it in you
Speaker 1: to rondo out the show to night? You got about
Speaker 1: thirty seconds give us a little walle okay, So I
Speaker 1: had to say something up for you. So make it quick. Okay.
Speaker 1: So while he was just he would complain about things.
Speaker 1: So let's just say you show up at practice and
Speaker 1: they say, okay, we got a conditioning test. This is
Speaker 1: Wallet's reaction. Oh my god, Dumble, why why aren't we
Speaker 1: having a conditioning test? I'm too old for this. That's
Speaker 1: Wallet nice and Neaton simpled. Or at the show, why Jolie,
Speaker 1: why do you have to get off the show because
Speaker 1: it's it's time to hand the ball off to the score.
Speaker 1: Tip of the hour Anthony double A Spice Adams Uh
Speaker 1: a television host, an actor, a comedian, more importantly in
Speaker 1: Chicago Bear defensive tackle. Thanks double As Anthony Adams for
Speaker 1: top there. I'm Jeff Johnny Ac. Thanks for listening to everybody.
Speaker 1: Thanks to herb Lawrence, Seawan Anderson and Shane Rearden and
Speaker 1: the guys. This has been Bears All Access on Chicago
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