WEBVTT - All Access: Sowell, Mongo talk Bears 100 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:08.600 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.600 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.239 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.720 Access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:25.280 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by CDW, 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.680 Miller Lite and Kulu jam Pack. Show for you tonight 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.560 as we come to from Havasa, Jeff Joniac along with 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.440 Tom Thair and man a packed weekend coming up. I mean, 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.760 we've had a good time getting ready for the Bears 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.680 one hundred celebration. It's significant in its team history, significant 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:45.760 to everybody in the building getting ready for it. A 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:47.800 lot of work has been put in from every single 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.800 department for you, the fans who are coming out. We 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.839 invite you to still get a ticket, come out and 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.480 enjoy the opening festivities Tomorrow night, then Saturday and Sunday. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.160 Lots to do in the big Convention Center in Rosemont. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.679 It is all blue and orange and it looks great. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.040 The stage, the video screens, time and a lot of 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.039 even active stuff for fans and lots of great conversation 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.360 about Bears history. Well, the thing for the Bears fans, 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.920 it's exciting to see the ex players, guys that you 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.360 haven't seen in twenty thirty forty years. But the thing 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.760 about it is, as much as you think you know, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.240 even though you're a lifelong Bears fans, there's a lot 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.200 you don't know. And I never realized this in the 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.319 last few months of doing the preparation for this whole event. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.440 There's so many things that you learn about the nineteen 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:40.000 forties football game, about the nineteen sixty three NFL Championship game, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.760 the different career paths players have taken throughout their life 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.880 and their career. I think it's gonna be so informative. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.960 But yeah, the excitement is there on a weekly basis 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.120 when you play the games during the regular season, but 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.520 the history of the Bears, and I think we're so 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:01.280 fortunate to have Virginia McCaskey because she is a lifelong 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:07.240 experienced Chicago Bear herself and from the volume of information 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.679 that she has understood, been able to absorb and knows 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.600 more than us. It's just incredible that the Bears have 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.160 this opportunity to celebrate the hundred year existence of the 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.639 Bears and the different information they're going to learn from 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.920 the different players of the different eras they're having going 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.600 to have a chance to see an ear about the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.960 first Lady of sport, Virginia McCaskey, and she's put herself 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.800 out there making herself available doing stories for the papers. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.040 And O Peyton Manning was at Wrigley Field today and 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.400 sat her down and they did something for his upcoming 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.960 shows on ESPN coming up to make the history come 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.239 alive over the course of the entire season league wide. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.239 Couldn't actually think of a better guy to do it, 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.959 because he's got a great personality and he really brings 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.200 a lot to the table. And I can't wait to 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.520 hear what they talked about as well. You know, for 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.920 me is being a lifelong Bears fan. I just wish 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:00.760 I would have been able to see Bears game at 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.800 Wrigley Field, because you know, that's the one thing that 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.200 kind of hangs over you never went you were not, yeah, 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.680 OK and everyone, But I learned a lot about playing 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.160 at Wrigley Field by some of the videos I watched 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.280 from the sixties and stuff. And you think of George 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.560 hallis all the success he had in Wrigley field, got it. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.400 It would just be a great just another great component 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.079 to being a Bears fan if you could have been 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.680 a part of a Wrigley Field game. This is Bears 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.639 All Access will be joined by Jim Miller as well. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.720 We also are going to be hearing from Bradley saw 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.400 the Bears new tight end making the move from tackle, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.000 and Steve McMichael. Hope to have him for a couple 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.160 of segments. You know, we won't have to twist his 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.160 arm to say a few words, that's for sure. It's 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.440 all coming up here on Bears All Access on Chicago 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.520 Sports Radio six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.960 All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.880 partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.000 home warranty products two over one million customers across the country. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.880 Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.120 Joni Actom there, Jim Miller, How you doing? My friend? 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:06.040 Who are you talking to? Jim Miller? Friends? All right, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:07.840 I know I got big Jim. Here a little echo. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.920 We're in a little echo right now. And then also 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:14.000 joined on the phone by Bear's tight end Bradley Soud 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:18.000 Is it sound comfortable to hear your name attached to 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.200 tight end in twenty nineteen. It's different, It's definitely different 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.320 here in that. But I'm starting to get used to 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.039 this time because, hey, Brad, was there any other time 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.159 throughout your career because you're a good athlete, you're a 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.760 good golfer, you're a good long snapper, and everything else 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.280 that goes along with it, there was there ever a 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.800 time in your career that you work being considered for 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.800 a different position? UM? When I was with the Arizona Cardinals, UM, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.400 Bruce Arian said he had mentioned to media about UM 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.119 potentially just taking up snap and long snap on flawing 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.400 that out. But I was so I wasn't wasn't quite 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.000 ready to see no pack it in and be a 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.080 long stop with this shit. But yeah, he had mented 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.840 something about it at one time, and actually I've back 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.960 going through with it well, Bradley. In terms of the 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.520 install I guess how in depth was it for for 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.159 the tight end position, in terms of coverages and different routes, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.840 how they ran against different coverages and for you to 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.880 you know, I'm sure you're probably always aware of it 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.799 being in the offensive line meeting room and it probably 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.240 interested you. But how much more in depth has it 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:24.200 been now transitioning into the tight end room. Um, yeah, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.440 it's been. Especially in the passing game has been the 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.000 It's been the biggest biggest challenge for me is figuring out, 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.920 you know, when to do certain things. There's certain coverages 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.120 and stuff like that, and um, but as far as 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.680 the run game, I mean, I'm I know everything. I'm 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.960 pretty pretty sharp on that. I kind of went into 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.880 that and knowing everything pretty quickly and then, um, everything, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.320 everything's inform me. She's been studying the passing game and 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.560 I mean, you know, just trying ton of get all 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.839 that down. Bradley saw our guest tonight here on Bears 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.880 All Access coming up later, Steve McMichael, Jeff Jim and 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.880 Tim with you on Bears All Access brought to you 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.440 by IGS Energy. Hey, Brad, when you made that catch 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.160 in the back of the end zone last year, was 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.200 that kind of like the instigator of the reasoning why 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.840 they would take a guy with your height and your 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.080 size and even consider the possibility, Because I think it's 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.840 a fantasy for all of us ex offensive linemen to 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.640 think what else could we do? But you went out 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.440 and did it. So, I mean it had to they 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.000 had to keep that in the back of their mind. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.960 Um that I'm an icing on the cake. But I think, um, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.320 I always found the way to get into the nagie 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.760 and do so thanks. I know he likes to put 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.440 guys in the game and have a lot of fun. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.839 And UM always made it known that I can throw 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.000 and catch pretty well. So um, so that way maybe 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.240 would he would draw something that for man sure enough 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.599 we did might need you. But um, yeah, I think 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.760 I think he kind of he kind of seen early 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.919 on and I'm you know, I can do some athletics stuff, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.120 and but never in my mind I thought I was 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.520 kind of tight end. And then this all season, Um, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.320 we're going to exit meetings and um we just kind 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.600 of talk about it, and you know we ended up 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.560 falling through with it right here and right here before 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.880 it to lose. So well, the number changes on the jury, 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.880 but he has a number changed in terms of your weight. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.760 Have you tried to shed a lot that? Are you 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.719 trying to get quicker? I know you're afic athlete. Every 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.000 team you played on, everybody says what a great athlete 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.320 you are. Yeah, I've lost twenty one pounds of thirty eight. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.680 So when next time you see me, I'm gonna look 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.640 a little bit slimmer. Say I'm down twenty I save 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.520 down twenty two pounds a day, and um, I'm gonna 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.240 go about ten more and get down to about two 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.320 eighty two eighty two seventy eight two eighty somewhere in there. Hey, Brad, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.320 can you feel a difference when you get in your stance, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.200 because you know, when you report to training camp you 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.640 got a couple of extra pounds on in the first 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.000 time your belly gets into a stance, you kind of 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.040 feel it after you trimmed down. Is it easier to 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.320 get in a stance? Yeah, it's It's starting to feel 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.320 really interesting. I'm trying. I'm telling its used to that 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.200 being a little bit lighter out there and have a 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.400 lot more energy out there. I really slight once have 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.720 you been better? But I'm able to run around pretty well, 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.920 and like this week, I'm finally started to feel it. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.040 Us started a movement like really well, and I was, um, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:57.840 it just felt different, you know, being able to come 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.600 out of breaks and you know, just that's like the 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.600 lighter I'm getting, the better I'm saying I've already moved 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:03.960 pretty well, but then you need to be in a 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.840 move at a certain level to play, you know, play 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.040 a skill position in the NFL. And next week that 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.960 one that was when I started really feeling like, man, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.880 I'm started. I can tell my speed's really good enough. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.360 Murmur really getting a lot quicker. So that to the 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.560 nutritionus and everything, and like every every day it feels different. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.480 So um, the lighter I get, the more explosive, more 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.160 athletic I feel. Bradley sal Our guest here on bears 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.320 All Access, kind enough to join us for a little 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.640 bit of time as OTAs are wrapping up this week, 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.240 headed into the veteran mandatory Minicap next week. Done a break, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.280 but the break will not be a true true break 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.360 for you because the process of drop. What was the 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.680 heaviest you've ever played at? And then what were you 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.880 playing at last year versus where you know you said 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.480 you'd like to lose you know, another ten, So that's 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.000 a thirty plus pound weight drop. What's the process of 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.840 that beyond the obvious? You know, how you're eating, what 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.960 you're eating, and what you're doing in the weight room. Yeah, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.160 my heaviest last year was I got I was around 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.200 three twenty one at one time, and then um, I 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.600 think later on I was down three three fifteen, three twelve. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.040 Someone knows that used to like to stay And um, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.600 I mean you should be really disciplined. I mean it's 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.480 it's there's no notes, and I do I do a 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.160 lot of stuff that people don't see too, like on 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.800 the way, I don't take the weekends off. I make 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.839 sure i'm constantly like light conditioning and um, you know, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.559 stuff like that, just to keep keep it going, keeping 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.480 the way burning going and stuff like that. So but 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.040 I mean it's something I was asked to do. It's 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.760 a lot easier to do whenever, um, whenever something you 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.280 kind of I kind of want to see. It's kind 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.840 of a something I want to see if I can 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.760 do it night and and when you know, you change 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.080 your position, there's no turning back, like you have to 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.920 get down, so the motivations there or you know, you 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.559 get in down without a job. So so there it's 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.559 it's really hasn't been a struggle, you know, getting it down. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.280 It's just something I'm really hungry for. And um, you know, 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.600 just have to have to make sure foo because that's 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.960 my position. I'm a tight end, and um, you know 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.240 you have to get down to what a tight end 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:00.719 looks like if you're you know, if you're going to 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.040 be successful at it. So, um, I want to keep 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:04.480 my job. I want to play for the Bears. So 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.480 it's it's it's a no, there's no no messing around 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.160 on this. Well, you're a veteran and yesterday Matt Naggie 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.960 was talking about the unselfishness of many players on this 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.000 football team, whether it be adjusting your contracts or being 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.520 open minded about where you know a guy like Rashad 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.320 Coward and moving from defensive line to tackle and trying 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.600 to learn the position. But you're a veteran, You've been 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.319 around this legal while. You've had more experienced than most 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.760 on this team, to be quite frank, and you've had 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.000 success where you've been. Is this a rebirth for you 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.440 in some respects? A little bit? Yeah, it's I told 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.040 my wife the other day, I was poking around. It's like, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.760 you know what it's it's. Um, it's a new motivation, man. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.640 I mean you have we have Charles and O'bobby Massew 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.640 and those are two Pro Bowl level type tackles and 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.199 I can either sit there and you know, be the 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.040 swing guy and come in and out, or find a 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.480 way to get out there and help the team. And 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.040 you know, just looking at the situation and looking at 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.040 what our team needed, I felt like I wanted the 0:10:58.120 --> 0:10:59.520 challenge to step up and try to do it for 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.480 our team. And I know we need a hy tight end, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.959 a bigger tight end that can, um you help out 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.760 our run game and do something the dirty work, and 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.040 um you know, I approached Naggie about it, and he 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.640 was open minded, and you know he was he was 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:10.959 kind of on board. The two you kind of was 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.200 thinking it, and I was like, yea, let me give it, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.560 give it a hack like work. I'll work super hardld 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.199 lose all the way. I'll do everything. So you know, 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.359 that's where we need it rather than going outside the building. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.920 I really know. Yeah, Bro, what about equipment change? Are 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.720 you you know, like high tops to low tops, smaller 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.720 shoulder pads so you can have more movement, any of 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.320 those types of changes for you, very small, very small 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.839 umm cleats, pleats, similar you know, similar cleats, Maybe a 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.640 little bit smaller pad where I can be a little 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.280 more flexible. But I mean, for the most part um. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.880 You know, I'm going to keep keep all my stuff. Yeah, 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.640 your last thing for me and pre appreciate your type. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.080 I think they should have another mini combine for you, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.440 Dean Pulp and day can they can video it and 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.040 see what your numbers come in at. Now, Bradley, I 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.960 bet you're gonna crush it in your next little combine here. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:11:59.960 I'd be interested to see what I run the four 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.200 and now I think I do a little better than 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.560 my previous numbers. Hey, so lastly, we'll let you go 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:11.160 just for clarifications. So this was kind of your idea. Yeah, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.520 I mean it was it was both. I mean when 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.960 I said something about us meeting and he um, he 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.280 said that him and Pace had discussed it, discussed it 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.480 before as well, so we were turning on. We joked 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.480 about it and stuff like that. But then you know, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.320 when Hope you have an exit meeting with a coach, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.520 you discuss everything like, hey, you what ways canna? Hell? 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.320 Which way is do this out? On the other end, 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.320 we talked about it and and he didn't say for sure, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.839 and then um he didn't tell. You know, we didn't 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.559 really decide until our days and it was just like, hey, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.320 let's give it a try. It was like the days 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.120 while we still can and um, you know, it's it's 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.360 it seems like it's sticking. It's I'm getting kind of 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.600 belting a little roll and um, you know, it has 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.360 been fun so far, well beyond your own performance in 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.360 the trenches. And you play with a nastiness too. You 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.840 are a finisher no matter what you do on the field. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.240 But watching pre game when you throw that tight spiral, uh, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.359 pretty pretty far past every now and then that bar 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.160 arm of yours is showing up big times. So there's 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:08.760 a lot to you, no question, Glad. That's exactly all right. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.280 Thank you very much, Bradley. We'll see you tomorrow night 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.800 on the weekend. Looking forward to that, I'd imagine, Yeah, absolutely, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.079 it's gonna be a great weekend. It's an honored to 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:18.640 be a Bear, and um, it's gonna be a fun 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.520 celebration for everyone in the city and us as well. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.559 All Right, we'll see you tomorrow and I Bradley saw 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.800 kind enough to join us coming up in a couple 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.880 of segments, we'll be joined by Mango, Steve McMichael, Jeff 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.080 Jony Act, Tom Fair and Jim Miller. With you here, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.200 on Bears All Access with Mike Chen and herm Lawrence 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.240 Ben of Dedials helping us out on Chicago Sports Radio 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:44.079 six seventy The Score. The Chicago Bears Network presents Inside 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.319 the Bears, brought to you by Verizon, Anthony Adams and 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.320 Lawrence Greed and cover the world of Bears football on 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.240 and off the field every Sunday night at ten thirty 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.120 five on Box thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.360 Chicago Bears dot Com. Around the Bears official app. Jeff, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.640 Jony Act, Tom There, Jim Milligan. You said one hundred 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.679 celebrations starting tomorrow with the opening ceremonies, and a lot's 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.280 been written Jim and Tom and Dampomp paying down. Pierson 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.920 did a tremendous job with the Bear scrap Book. It's 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.520 going to be available. You gotta check it out. If 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.040 you're going, you gotta pick this book up. Tons of 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.280 history in there, things you never knew, stories told. It's 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.240 not chronological. It all puts each decade in perspective, link 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.200 to other decades and the overall history of the team, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.400 but also within the framework of what's going on in 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.280 society at the time. And to me, it was a 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.520 real historical educational I read the entire three hundred eighteen 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.800 page book. Yeah, I did in twelve hours. I don't 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.160 read much, but it was that interesting. And obviously there's 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.000 a lot of pictures in there. But but Jim just 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.560 dam pomp pays. Subsequently, through the Athletic has been written 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.040 writing some great stories. And Tom had the Gale Sayer's 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.360 story wrote today or a couple days ago, was fascinating. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.640 I don't know if you read I know Tom read 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.000 it this afternoon. Yeah, you know all all the history 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.280 of the Chicago Bear. And like I said, it's about 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.360 the lessons that we're going to learn throughout this hundred 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.120 years celebration because there's a lot of events that have 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.840 taken place that we're not familiar with or are you 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.800 not you need to be reintroduced to. But when when 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.800 the feelings in the thoughts that we have about the 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.520 greatness of Gael Sayers and how beautiful of a runner 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.480 he was and how much he meant to the success 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.240 of the NFL and the Chicago Bears. It is great 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.280 that they've taken the time to make sure there's a 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.920 whole generation of young people that don't really have the 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.560 knowledge of some of the great past Chicago Bears that 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.280 they're going to be able to be reintroduced through pictures 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.880 and stories that you know, they're going to have some 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.800 great lessons that they're going to learn. Well, you know, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.680 you look at guys like Dan Pompey one, He's he's 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.880 been around for a long time. Who knows the history 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.280 of the Chicago Bears. And let's be honest, I think 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.040 we understand a lot of the newspapers that are local, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.920 you know, that have covered the teams, the quote unquote 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.160 beat writers that's changed over the course of the more 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.000 over the last decade. You know, think of writers that 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.400 are no longer in markets that you know, really decide 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.320 who's going to be maybe a Hall of Fame football player. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.880 A lot of those guys have moved to different cities, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.480 so it's hard to get the consistency with writers who 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.080 represent the game and understand the history of the game, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.680 specifically for one team like Dan does. I mean, he 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.800 knows the Chicago Bears and its history. And that's important 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.520 because it you know, for upcoming players, like whether it's 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.040 an old Incrus or who's ever now going to be 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.680 considered for the Hall of fame. That's a big deal 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.800 because that writer has to be fighting for you in 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.080 that room and they need to know the history not 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.920 only of you, but over the organization or like what 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.120 you said right there, Jeff, about the time, the era, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.040 what was going on surrounding that particular moment on that 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.240 particular team. So Dan Pompeii that guys like him are 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.960 are very vital, uh to to really the history of 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.560 both Dick Mccannhall of Fame writers, and was very much 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.920 involved in charting the history. But you know, that's it's 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.080 a great point that Jim brings up because you don't 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.320 have the beat writers that you would see on an 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.520 everyday basis. And I'm probably more familiar with Don Pierson 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.879 throughout my career because Dan is a more of my peer, 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.680 my age of a guy. And you think of all 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.680 the times that you've had a chance to see those 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.479 guys walk in the locker room every single day and 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.919 you could be in the worst mood of the whole season, 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.960 and you don't want you want to make eye contact 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.920 with them, but somehow they break through that. How come 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.000 I couldn't do that with you back in the because 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.639 I lived my career in a bad mood because of 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.760 the pressure, the pressure that you had put on yourselves, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.040 that you had your coaches put on you, the head coach, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.720 the position coach, and just the idea that you wanted 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.960 to be so successful. And if you go out to 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.280 a practice or you're coming off a game field and 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.359 you miss a couple blocks, it's a failure. You could 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.959 have seventy great plays and then you could give up 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.679 a sack and it's the game is not worth anything. 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.840 So these guys that are the writers that see you 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.639 on an everyday basis, they kind of have a chance 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:11.040 to break through and know you on the other side. Yeah, Jim, 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.920 I always have had great respect for not only veteran announcers, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.920 guys who've have charted the game in any sport, to 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.359 play by play, guys that had long tenures at their teams, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.760 but the writers, whether it be baseball writers, NBA writers, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.399 NFL writers that that were there for decades, and you know, 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.639 you gotta respect it. You gotta respect it because times 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.400 were different than they were able to tell different stories. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.320 And you know, even now, the Chicago Tribune as a 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.120 treasure trove of historical artifacts covering the Bears, they were there. 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.919 You know, George Hollis wrote columns in the in the 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.520 Chicago Tribune, and they're doing a great job as well 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.879 with their their own one hundred and putting different you know, Spens, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.840 I don't think Tom likes his ranking in the Tribune 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:02.560 one hundred. Well, I mean it's true, Well, it's true, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.840 It truly is the coverage. I respected everybody that I 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.040 had the ability to work with in the media. It 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.439 is a part of the job. I think we all 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.320