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Speaker 1: A week ago tonights, the NFL Draft first round came
Speaker 1: and went. We broke it down right here on the
Speaker 1: score and now a chance to look back and see
Speaker 1: what happened. I'mjeff Jonnyac along with my broadcast partner from WBBM,
Speaker 1: Tom Fair and Jim Miller from sirius XM NFL Radio
Speaker 1: moving the chains, with Pat Kerwin kind enough to join
Speaker 1: us as well. It was a memorable three day draft
Speaker 1: process indeed for all of us involved in for the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Coming up tonight, we're gonna be joined
Speaker 1: by the new Bears tight end Cole Commet pick forty
Speaker 1: three and the draft from Notre Dame and ain't buyer
Speaker 1: to high school product that'll be around six ten than
Speaker 1: at six thirty to lane. Head coach Willie Fritz will
Speaker 1: be talking speedy fifth round wide receiver Darnell Mooney, and
Speaker 1: we'll hear from some Ryan Pace tonight as well as
Speaker 1: we got him for our Bears Draft twenty twenty show.
Speaker 1: Though Aaron Fox coming up this weekend. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that as well. But say a little my Thulla's right here,
Speaker 1: Tom and Jim. Good to talk to you, guys. You're
Speaker 1: still thinking about the draft, you're still processing, You're still
Speaker 1: thinking about the seven man class and how it's all
Speaker 1: played out so far with the Chicago Bears. Well, you know, Marty, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I'm more interested in what it can be because I
Speaker 1: don't think this is necessarily a draft of guys other
Speaker 1: than Cole Comet that could come in and you know,
Speaker 1: contribute immediately. Although Jayalen Johnson will be in it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to watch how he goes along with the shoulder
Speaker 1: situations from this offseason. But Jeff, within the first five
Speaker 1: guys at the Bears drafted, they have hundred eighty three
Speaker 1: games of total games throughout their college career, and we
Speaker 1: talked about bringing in a group of guys that you
Speaker 1: could cultivate and develop what they've already been doing. And
Speaker 1: you look at these top five, like I said, one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three games of college game. And then
Speaker 1: you'll look at the seventh rounders the offensive linemen. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things you're looking at offensive line
Speaker 1: in that late draft. You're looking at their frame, their feet,
Speaker 1: and their finish. And when you look at both of
Speaker 1: these offensive linemen and you think of new offensive line
Speaker 1: coach Juanca, Still, this isn't something you know, maybe these
Speaker 1: guys will burst out into the scene eventually, but right
Speaker 1: now their projects from the left hand side of the
Speaker 1: offensive line that they can develop competition and hopefully turn
Speaker 1: them in to competitive starters throughout the time in their career.
Speaker 1: Big Jim Miller. How you look at Miller? How and
Speaker 1: doing well? Get good to talk to you, Jeff, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I do think those first two picks can definitely be contributors.
Speaker 1: When you look at Cole Commet, I believe his coach,
Speaker 1: mister Kelly was on there talking today about what Coal
Speaker 1: brings to the table. He sees him as a you know,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey type of player. He does, He's got a
Speaker 1: lot of refinement, He's been utilized. Moore as a receiver
Speaker 1: down there for Notre Dame, but he's got the size
Speaker 1: and the frame to be an inline blocker, but definitely
Speaker 1: as the athleticism to play from the flex set. We
Speaker 1: look at cool comet and I really do like Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson and just what Tom mentioned about the shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is a highly productive player. He
Speaker 1: definitely a press man corner. He can bully wide receivers.
Speaker 1: He's good with off man ability as well. Over six
Speaker 1: foot or close to two hundred pounds, has good numbers,
Speaker 1: but I think he can be a solid contributor for
Speaker 1: the Bears. Absolutely, Tom Bear, Jim Miller, Jeff Joni yak Is.
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Speaker 1: by IGS Energy. And I know I promise six ten,
Speaker 1: but our man got in a little early tonight. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Antre Damer, a Saint Vierter product, a
Speaker 1: Chicago area product, Cole Commet. You called in five minutes early,
Speaker 1: so you're on time. If it were me, I'd be
Speaker 1: going right up at six ten because that's how I roll.
Speaker 1: But my guy Tom there, we're skiping as we're doing
Speaker 1: the show, looking at each other He had a huge
Speaker 1: smile on his face because he always rips me Cole
Speaker 1: for being late when I'm early, but you're early and
Speaker 1: you're not late. So hey, congratulations number one out of
Speaker 1: the gate. Congratulations. It's a wonderful story for a local
Speaker 1: product to put on the Navy blue and orange. And
Speaker 1: I'm a Hersey grad, so you know, we got a
Speaker 1: little rivalry there with Viader over the years, but no more, man,
Speaker 1: we put that out of bed and looking forward to
Speaker 1: see you on the field here in the short order.
Speaker 1: I know you've talked about it, You've talked about it
Speaker 1: on the score. But just as you've had time now
Speaker 1: to digest what has happened to you with the whole
Speaker 1: parade of cars by your house, your parents and all
Speaker 1: your friends enjoying this moment, how are you processing that
Speaker 1: you now are a Chicago Bear. Yeah, it's it's still
Speaker 1: amazing to me. You know. It's been, however, almost a
Speaker 1: week now since the draft, and I'm still just in
Speaker 1: shock every day that you know, I get to stay
Speaker 1: home and that I get to be around here and
Speaker 1: get to play for the Chicago Bears. It's it's just
Speaker 1: really special for me, and I know for my family
Speaker 1: in the community. So we're just all really excited and
Speaker 1: can't wait for the season to get started. Started. Cole,
Speaker 1: when I saw your family receive you and your family
Speaker 1: received the call, I was just listening to the background
Speaker 1: excitement and I'm so happy for your your whole family
Speaker 1: for what they're gonna be giving a chance to experience.
Speaker 1: But I kind of like to go back to Notre
Speaker 1: Dame real quick. So at the end of your season,
Speaker 1: how did Brian Kelly advise you? What did he tell you?
Speaker 1: What did he what were his thoughts about you in
Speaker 1: your future? Yeah, I mean, Coach Kelly we sat down
Speaker 1: quite a bit actually after the last game of the season,
Speaker 1: prior to the bowl game, and we just kind of
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, things that I could improve on
Speaker 1: if I come if I came back. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: he was supportive of whatever decision I was going to make,
Speaker 1: and obviously, you know, he wanted me back in the program,
Speaker 1: and you know thought that you know, there were things
Speaker 1: I could work on to improve and that you know
Speaker 1: that I could come back and you know, we could
Speaker 1: you know, make a run at the national title and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So you know, but he knew that
Speaker 1: um I had a tough decision to make, and he
Speaker 1: was nothing but supportive once I decided to declare, So
Speaker 1: he was he was great, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: awesome to be able to play for him for the
Speaker 1: past three years. Cole Jim Miller here, congratulations and welcome
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Beers. From from that standpoint, could you
Speaker 1: share a couple of things that Brian Kelly did share
Speaker 1: with you of what you what he feels you need
Speaker 1: to work on, or what you personally feel you need
Speaker 1: to work on because probably your best footballs ahead of you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean we talked about just kind of
Speaker 1: you know, we're finding some things. You know, I think
Speaker 1: I have a good a pretty good grasp and over
Speaker 1: in a good overall game, but you know, there was
Speaker 1: little details and things that I definitely could have improved
Speaker 1: on in terms of, you know, blocking technique was something
Speaker 1: that we really really focused on, especially during Bowl prep,
Speaker 1: and I think I really improved actually those those couple
Speaker 1: of weeks that we had when I really was focusing
Speaker 1: on it. And then just some nuances in the route running.
Speaker 1: So you know, those two things were things that he
Speaker 1: really stressed and you know, I knew that kind of
Speaker 1: kind of thinking about that, and I knew that was
Speaker 1: something that I that I still need to work on
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So those were those were conversations
Speaker 1: that we had. But you know, like I said, he
Speaker 1: was he knew that, you know, the opportunity was there
Speaker 1: for me to declare and you know'd be a high,
Speaker 1: high round draft pick. So he was nothing but supportive
Speaker 1: once it made the decision. New Chicago Bear Cole commet
Speaker 1: Bears tight end joined the program. This is Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: Tom There. I'm Jeff Joni ac Cole. When you when
Speaker 1: you digest also the type of offense that Mad Naggie
Speaker 1: and his coaching staff is formulating with his new staff offensively,
Speaker 1: how do you envision yourself fitting in this offense the
Speaker 1: basics of what you know and the framework right now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the offense is predicated on a
Speaker 1: lot of h on a lot of play action and
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of use of the tight end
Speaker 1: moving around and you know, being able to go inline
Speaker 1: and you know in the slot be split out wide
Speaker 1: as a receiver. So there's a lot of things, you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you watched you know a coach now
Speaker 1: you where he was at with Kansas City, and you
Speaker 1: know how we use those tight ends there. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot, there's a lot to be had for
Speaker 1: tight ends and this offense. So that's just it's really
Speaker 1: exciting for me. Exciting for me. So, Cole, when you
Speaker 1: were talking to other teams throughout the combine and maybe
Speaker 1: conversations you've had since the draft, was there any like
Speaker 1: recommended body size for you, whether it's a weight gain
Speaker 1: or weight loss, strength gain or whatever. Was was there
Speaker 1: mentioned between the different groups of people you were um
Speaker 1: meeting with of ultimately what they would, you know, want
Speaker 1: your structure to look like. Yeah, I mean I know
Speaker 1: most teams, you know, I waited in at right around
Speaker 1: two sixty at the combine, and I know most teams
Speaker 1: are pretty happy to see that that's kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit heavier from where I was during the season.
Speaker 1: I was probably way around two fifty six to fifty
Speaker 1: seven during the season, so, you know, just getting a
Speaker 1: couple of pounds during the off season. So I know
Speaker 1: a lot of teams like that, you know, I you know,
Speaker 1: you know my body frame, you know, I have ability
Speaker 1: to put on another five pounds and if I need to,
Speaker 1: and I could also lose um five pounds pretty easily.
Speaker 1: So I kind of have that range right there. But
Speaker 1: most teams are kind of happy. We're happy to see
Speaker 1: me right at that two sixty mark. And you know,
Speaker 1: I moved really well at the Combine, tested well, and
Speaker 1: you know, ran well and the routes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So I now teams are pretty pleased with where my
Speaker 1: weight was at. Well, the Combine seems like centuries ago.
Speaker 1: And at some point, you know, you train differently for
Speaker 1: the Combine that's not so much football shape, and you know,
Speaker 1: and at some point we're gonna be asked to go
Speaker 1: back and play a little football here. We just don't know.
Speaker 1: When what have you been doing to try and keep
Speaker 1: up your your your you know, whether it's your weight
Speaker 1: or your workout routine and things you need to work on,
Speaker 1: because it's it's got to be difficult for everybody out
Speaker 1: there right now with how they're training. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: mean I've just kind of been you know, I got
Speaker 1: weight set up at my gramma's house and I've been
Speaker 1: working with with a trainer nearby that I've been around
Speaker 1: with and uh, you know, obviously practicing the social distancing
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But his name is Brian Leser and
Speaker 1: he's been great. Um, so I've been working with him
Speaker 1: and you know, been been hitting the weights at my
Speaker 1: gramma's house and uh, you know, just doing what you
Speaker 1: gotta do to kind of stay in shape in that way.
Speaker 1: So I got I'm working out with my brother as well,
Speaker 1: who's who's a freshman at unter Dame playing baseball, so
Speaker 1: he's an athlete as well, and we've just been, uh
Speaker 1: you know, we've been working out together and staying in
Speaker 1: shape that way. Cole, come at our guest here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access with John and Jim Jeff Joniac breaking
Speaker 1: things down as you looked at your options and you
Speaker 1: had him You're you're you're the rare athlete that has
Speaker 1: the ability to play two pro sports, and the White
Speaker 1: Sox certainly were very interested in you. We we've read that,
Speaker 1: we've seen that, we've talked about that, and uh, I
Speaker 1: know you love the game of baseball. Uh as you
Speaker 1: look at your football life and your passion for the
Speaker 1: game and passion to get better and it to hopefully
Speaker 1: have a ten to twelve year career in it. Uh
Speaker 1: where did that passion for football begin for you and
Speaker 1: your earliest memory? Yeah, I mean for me, it was
Speaker 1: always just you know, I remember going out to flag
Speaker 1: football my first years, and um, you know with my
Speaker 1: dad playing and and my uncle playing. You know, I
Speaker 1: was when I was young. I was still still fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to watch my uncle play. He had been in
Speaker 1: the league for a while, so kind of just seventeen years, yeah,
Speaker 1: seventeen years. Yeah, so being able to watch him and
Speaker 1: my dad, um was just really really special for me,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, really really kind of sparked that
Speaker 1: interest for football and that passion for it. So you know,
Speaker 1: I come from a football family, and it's it's just
Speaker 1: what I'd love to do. And you know, I love
Speaker 1: to go out and hit people, and uh, it's just
Speaker 1: I've always found the sport a lot of fun. So,
Speaker 1: you know, dating back, you know, I mean really just
Speaker 1: the flag football for me and being able to watch
Speaker 1: my uncle and my dad play is uh, is just
Speaker 1: really special and that's kind of what sparked that interest,
Speaker 1: that interest. When did the commitment to the football weight
Speaker 1: room start, because obviously there's two different you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of struggle with do I want to be a
Speaker 1: baseball body or do I want to be a football body?
Speaker 1: And there's a difference between the two. And so when
Speaker 1: did you make that commitment to the football body? And,
Speaker 1: like you said, the bloodlines between your dad and Jeff Skanina,
Speaker 1: you know those guys, you kind of knew what it
Speaker 1: took to be a football player in the weight room
Speaker 1: through those guys. So when did that change for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean really for me, I mean in
Speaker 1: high school, I really didn't lift much. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I got to college, that's kind of when it
Speaker 1: I really started to you know, get obviously heavier into
Speaker 1: the weights with the program and all that. And you know,
Speaker 1: for me, once I started doing the weights, I kind
Speaker 1: of just got bigger at it naturally. It was funny though,
Speaker 1: but like in the spring, I kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: back off on the weights a little bit for baseball
Speaker 1: and I kind of leaned out. But for me, you know,
Speaker 1: right when I kind of jump in those weights for
Speaker 1: about a month or two, I really see a big difference,
Speaker 1: you know, in my weight and my strength and you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of my body type. So you know, I
Speaker 1: think really in college, you know, coach Bayless matt Alis
Speaker 1: was our strength conditioning coach and utter dame, and he
Speaker 1: did a really good job with me in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, making me a big body but also staying
Speaker 1: lean as well. So you know, I think really that
Speaker 1: from going from high school to college and being introduced
Speaker 1: to that type of weightlifting was really what kind of
Speaker 1: transitioned into that well, Cole from the you know, how
Speaker 1: is everything in this virtual world that we're in right
Speaker 1: now because you know Tom has never been taught this
Speaker 1: way or me? And how you're going to be learning
Speaker 1: things for the Chicago Bears, whether it's a virtual meeting,
Speaker 1: whether it's just with the playbook and how they how
Speaker 1: they send it to you. So how much have the
Speaker 1: been a Bears been able to introduce you to this?
Speaker 1: And I guess everybody learns differently. Some guys can learn
Speaker 1: just by looking at a playbook. How is that settling
Speaker 1: in for you? So to speak? Yeah, So, I mean
Speaker 1: I've had, you know, obviously with the interviews during the
Speaker 1: during the draft process, so you kind of get a
Speaker 1: little taste of that in terms of how it may
Speaker 1: work with the teams and stuff. And you know, they've
Speaker 1: sent me everything that I need in terms of playbook
Speaker 1: wise on an iPad and all that. So you know,
Speaker 1: I've been able to call coach the coaches and stuff
Speaker 1: and you know, get in touch with them. And you know,
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks here when our virtual
Speaker 1: mini camp starts, will really be able to you know,
Speaker 1: kind of sit down and look over look over the
Speaker 1: playbook and kind of get in depth with it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not really too concerned in terms of
Speaker 1: wearing it, and I have a good knack for picking
Speaker 1: up stuff, and you know, I have a pretty good
Speaker 1: sense of you know, look at the playbook and being
Speaker 1: able to digest it and all. And I know, um,
Speaker 1: I know it maybe a little weird virtually, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident I'm gonna figure it out. Cole, come
Speaker 1: at our guest here on Bears All Access brought you
Speaker 1: by GS Energy a couple of more moments with you.
Speaker 1: You know, you're a Chicago kid. So were you obsessed
Speaker 1: with the Bears? And did you have the posters on
Speaker 1: the wall? I mean, what did you did you watch?
Speaker 1: Did you listen to Tom and I did you watch
Speaker 1: a Jim Miller throw the ball around? I mean, what
Speaker 1: was your level of that? And then if I could piggyback,
Speaker 1: have you been watching The Last Dance? Yeah, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so your your first part. Yeah, I know. I mean
Speaker 1: we had a huge in my old house read a
Speaker 1: huge Brian Earlocker fathead in our basement. Um, that was
Speaker 1: something that you know, my brother and I loved and
Speaker 1: we got. So yeah, we were a huge Earlocker fans
Speaker 1: growing up. And you know, obviously when you know they
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl after being the Saints, my
Speaker 1: parents actually they went down to the Super Bowl in Miami,
Speaker 1: so they had a lot of fun with that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, always been a huge Bears fan. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm a big Chicago sports fan. You know, I'm a
Speaker 1: Cub's guy and uh and a bit and a huge
Speaker 1: Bears fan. So those two, those are my two teams
Speaker 1: growing up. And yeah, I know I've been watching The
Speaker 1: Last Dance. It's uh, it's been great to watch, especially
Speaker 1: during right now with everything going on. So uh, it's
Speaker 1: been it's been quite entertaining. Well, it sounds like you're
Speaker 1: ready to roll. Good to talk to you, Good to
Speaker 1: meet you. We're looking forward to meet you face to
Speaker 1: face one of these days and congratulations again, I'm being
Speaker 1: a Bear yep, thanks guys, thanks for having me on
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's Cole Comet impressive as he gets set for
Speaker 1: his maiden voyage in the National Football League. More with
Speaker 1: Tom and Jim coming up after this. Brought to you
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Speaker 1: Joni Ac, Tom there, Jim Betta with you just heard
Speaker 1: from Cole Comet. Impressive. Impressive boy, can you imagine having
Speaker 1: the ability to plate two sports at a highlight level.
Speaker 1: I've been reading stories about the White Sox in their area,
Speaker 1: Scott J. J. Lally, who they looked at him as
Speaker 1: the natural, he could do anything potentially. They The name
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge came to mind because he's a powerful hitter
Speaker 1: and here he's a lefty reliever closure for Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: I mean blessed, blessed athlete, right there. You know, it
Speaker 1: kind of shows you a little bit of a sign
Speaker 1: of the times because there's a lot of support system
Speaker 1: around these kids that they focus them in one sport
Speaker 1: from an early age. And it's it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to sit here and say, because I'm not a parent,
Speaker 1: I'm not struggled with that decision. But you see these
Speaker 1: parents that allow their kids that play multiple sports. I
Speaker 1: think it benefits them in their sport of choice ultimately.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that you should shy away from that.
Speaker 1: I think it should be something that's that's encouraged as
Speaker 1: much as anything. Yeah, a lot of these guys drafted
Speaker 1: excel at a lot of sports, you know. I think
Speaker 1: of even Tristan Worfs, who was drafted out of Iowa
Speaker 1: by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They actually traded up to
Speaker 1: get him. That guy was a state discus record holder,
Speaker 1: he was a state shot put holder, he was a
Speaker 1: state wrestling champion. And so I mean, and for Coal, obviously,
Speaker 1: like you said, he's a great pitcher, played more than
Speaker 1: one sports, and that's that's a good thing. You do
Speaker 1: become a better athlete the most sports that you play,
Speaker 1: and to have choices like that and that's why now
Speaker 1: with him just to having the ability to focus on
Speaker 1: one sport, which is football, there'll be a lot of growth.
Speaker 1: This should be a good spurt for Cole Commet. It
Speaker 1: really his one focus to one sport now, which will
Speaker 1: be his job. And there's still development here Tom, you
Speaker 1: know obviously, and a junior eligible player to come into
Speaker 1: the NFL. Got great bloodlines. Frank Commet obviously was a
Speaker 1: great football player, Perdue was with the Bears, Bills, you
Speaker 1: name it. And Jeff Skinnina obviously with that kind of
Speaker 1: influence in his life. A seventeen year player in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, many Super Bowl appearances. But overall, these
Speaker 1: young guys coming in, you know, receiver, tight end, offensive line,
Speaker 1: sometimes a bit of a ramp up there. So but
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's going to contribute right away. So
Speaker 1: will Jalen Johnson, and so will those three fifth round
Speaker 1: picks in some fashion some fashion. Well, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun, amount of details to the everything that's expected
Speaker 1: of you in that job. However, there's things he does
Speaker 1: as well so well right now that Matt Naggi can
Speaker 1: put him in an advantage position, a lot of it's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot on the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: spread out from the line of scrimmage, and then the
Speaker 1: tight ends coach, the offensive line coach when they start
Speaker 1: putting together these blocking packages, and that's where I'll start
Speaker 1: to refine his skills that Brian Kelly has mentioned in
Speaker 1: a complimentary way, and I think Cole understands that is
Speaker 1: going to be his quickest path to being on the
Speaker 1: field a majority of the time. So the coaches have
Speaker 1: their work cut out for him, but they have a
Speaker 1: big I say this respectfully, a big blob, a nice
Speaker 1: blob of clay to work with in his case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's it's gonna be And we talked to coach
Speaker 1: and Aggie about that. I mean, how good of a
Speaker 1: teacher are you, you know, and how you're you're getting
Speaker 1: these concepts across to the players because as you mentioned, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I don't know how soon of contributors they will be,
Speaker 1: but they will be contributors. Like he said, I think
Speaker 1: a lot is expected of Cole Commet and he will
Speaker 1: be a contributor, much like Jalen Johnson. But it's going
Speaker 1: to be challenging, you know, until they can get out
Speaker 1: in the field and really start, you know, applying these
Speaker 1: concepts that they're going to be taught here shortly. These coaches,
Speaker 1: as Tom just mentioned, I think is imperative how good
Speaker 1: of a teacher you are to get these guys up
Speaker 1: and running as quickly as you can. I got a
Speaker 1: bunch of veteran coaches on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: so I would expect some good teaching going on. That's
Speaker 1: the whole premise behind Matt Naggie's coaching staff to begin with,
Speaker 1: what was really good teachers. A couple of news items
Speaker 1: that will probably be becoming official here in the days
Speaker 1: to come, but reportedly is the best way we could
Speaker 1: describe it. Ryan Pace still busy yesterday. Trevor Davis, a
Speaker 1: wide receiver and return specialists who played with Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Miami and the Raiders. As some juice to them. A
Speaker 1: veteran player Ted Ginn who at thirty five can still
Speaker 1: get down the field vertically, last three years with the
Speaker 1: Saints at thirty catches this past season, including a big
Speaker 1: Week one against the Texans over one hundred yards receiving.
Speaker 1: And then safety Tayshaun Gibson, who's got twenty three interceptions
Speaker 1: in his career, let go this week by Houston. One
Speaker 1: of many safeties on the beach right now street free agents,
Speaker 1: but a guy who put his nose in there, a
Speaker 1: bunch of tackles, a bunch of interceptions and pass breakups.
Speaker 1: Those are not official deals yet, but reported again, filling roles,
Speaker 1: filling blanks that he still sees on this now ninety
Speaker 1: man roster, Hindy man roster. I like the Speedy brought in,
Speaker 1: Speedy brought Okay, got a technical issue right now working through.
Speaker 1: I don't know if these guys can hear me. Tom
Speaker 1: can you can you? I've got you, Jeff Okay, Jim,
Speaker 1: go ahead, big Jim out. Something's going on with Tom
Speaker 1: stuff right now. They'll work out. Sean Anderson, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Ted ginn he does provide speed at thirty five, he
Speaker 1: can still get. I mean, that guy's twenty fifth all
Speaker 1: time in terms of NFL history, in terms of all
Speaker 1: purpose yard. He's more of a glider. I think we
Speaker 1: know that, but he does have that returnability and still
Speaker 1: bring speed to the table and experience at the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: We know they lost the speed with Gabriel, and now
Speaker 1: you add a guy like Ted gin Jr. Who's been
Speaker 1: very productive and then you draft a guy who we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about here in a little bit, Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: who's known for his speed, to kind of help him along,
Speaker 1: really teach him how to be a pro. I would think.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be tough for him to really
Speaker 1: crack the starting roster, going to take some time for
Speaker 1: him to develop. So I think a guy like a
Speaker 1: Ted Gin could really, you know, really come in and
Speaker 1: do a good job for the Chicago Bears. He really
Speaker 1: has been a good player for Carolina, Arizona and the
Speaker 1: most recently the New Orleans Saints and was highly counted
Speaker 1: on to Sean Gibson. Had a little back injury towards
Speaker 1: the end of the year, but did sign a contract.
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a three year
Speaker 1: deal there from the Houston Texans, but comes in with
Speaker 1: a ton of experience and a lot of production that
Speaker 1: you mentioned. So they're not done. Those are areas of
Speaker 1: need and the Bears are still working hard to fill
Speaker 1: all those needs. Coming up here at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, Willie Fritz, the head coach at tonight, to
Speaker 1: talk about fifth round wide receiver Darnell Mooney. This is
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller from Sirius sex M NFL Radio. Please to
Speaker 1: be joining on the line now by Tulane head coach
Speaker 1: Willie Fritz. Good evening, coach, aw you doing, and you're
Speaker 1: here to talk about Darnell Mooney at the fifth round
Speaker 1: pick one of three by the Bears. And I love
Speaker 1: his quote when he met the Chicago media coach. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll you'll get a chuckle out of it too,
Speaker 1: because you know him better than us. His quote, just
Speaker 1: know as soon as I get in, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: a lot of noise. There's gonna be some things to
Speaker 1: talk about. That's a confident young man coming in because
Speaker 1: in it, well, you've got a lot of confidence. He
Speaker 1: usually doesn't stated like that. He says, pretty reserved young man,
Speaker 1: but just in awesome, awesome person. He's with us for
Speaker 1: four years. I we recruited him the last weekend before
Speaker 1: signing day, and there's back when there's only one signing day.
Speaker 1: In February. We got onto him. He's from Gatcheon, Alabama,
Speaker 1: and we brought him over to visit. We offered him
Speaker 1: a scholarship. He's the only Division one scholarship offer that
Speaker 1: he had. He's four year starter for US. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he missed any games, but he and his roommate,
Speaker 1: he's in his best buddies at another kid in Alabama.
Speaker 1: They went four years and they didn't miss anything. They
Speaker 1: didn't miss a class, they didn't miss a tutoring appointment,
Speaker 1: study hall, workout, strength and conditioning, you know, breakfast check,
Speaker 1: lunch check. I mean, this guy's dependable as you can
Speaker 1: possibly get, and he really developed over the years. I
Speaker 1: think he's one hundred and fifty five pounds when he
Speaker 1: first came to US, and now he's up to a
Speaker 1: robust one eighty or whatever he is. He's pretty close
Speaker 1: to that, I think, not off a couple of tens
Speaker 1: and his forty yard dash. So he did a fantastic
Speaker 1: job for he was a pleasure to coach him. They coach.
Speaker 1: First of all, congratulation on all your success, reading your resume,
Speaker 1: is really impressive. But my first question is when you
Speaker 1: have a guy like Darnell, how important is he to
Speaker 1: come through your program and show the rest of the
Speaker 1: kids that size doesn't matter. It's your desire that could
Speaker 1: possibly open an opportunity for you beyond two lane. That's
Speaker 1: big time for us. We talk all about you know,
Speaker 1: recruiting you know, bona fide Division one student athletes with character,
Speaker 1: and we talk about retaining them by having a great
Speaker 1: culturecause nowadays, you know, sometimes things don't go well and
Speaker 1: guys are ready to take off, you know, and we've
Speaker 1: got a great culture two lane by recruiting guys like
Speaker 1: Darnell and then and then you want to develop them
Speaker 1: when you get them there. You know, like I talked
Speaker 1: about him putting on the weight, getting in the way room,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's he's definitely a student of the game.
Speaker 1: He's on the chuck machine, you know, for a half
Speaker 1: hour after every practice. You know, he got faster and
Speaker 1: stronger and smarter. He's always up there, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to learn more. He's a big time Jim Ratt.
Speaker 1: It's a great example for us. We had another kid
Speaker 1: that got drafted by the Chiefs and he's very similar.
Speaker 1: We were the only off and we actually signed him
Speaker 1: two weeks after signing day. You know, when I took
Speaker 1: the job four years ago, I didn't get the job
Speaker 1: till January fourteenth, and signing day was two weeks later.
Speaker 1: So those are two good stories for our younger guys
Speaker 1: to you know, look at and you know, aspired to
Speaker 1: be like Darnell and the other young man to carry
Speaker 1: his keys. Well, Coach Jim Miller here, thanks, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us today, and just for Darnell to come in
Speaker 1: as a freshman and start eight games. You know, we
Speaker 1: know it's a big jump from high school to college
Speaker 1: and now from college to pro, but it wasn't too
Speaker 1: big for him. When you look at mister Mooney, how
Speaker 1: how was he reacting in those games early when he
Speaker 1: played and was counted on so much. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we were we didn't have all the talent in the world.
Speaker 1: When he first got him, he knew there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some freshman we're gonna have the opportunity to play normally,
Speaker 1: the freshman that are able to get out there and
Speaker 1: you know, especially start for you the ones that can,
Speaker 1: you know, learn to sift them quickly and don't make
Speaker 1: mistakes and you know, can get lined up. And we
Speaker 1: knew he was a talent. He's a very good route
Speaker 1: runner and very sure handed kid as well. And for
Speaker 1: a smaller guy, he's gonna battle you. He's he didn't
Speaker 1: get in the middle of you and block, you know,
Speaker 1: which is you know, so important if you just get
Speaker 1: attached to the guy, you know, that allows the running back,
Speaker 1: you know, like a like a former two lane grade
Speaker 1: to play for you up there, Matt fourte and shake
Speaker 1: loose and get up the seal and score. So he's
Speaker 1: also a really tenacious blocker as well. But uh yeah, right.
Speaker 1: The reason he plays a freshman is he he picked
Speaker 1: things up very quickly. Willie Fritz, the head coach out
Speaker 1: of Tillay and our guest here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: with Tom there, Jeff joni Ac and Jim Miller coach.
Speaker 1: How'd you use him in your offense? Oh? We tried
Speaker 1: to move them around a little bit. A lot of
Speaker 1: times we just put him to the boundary and a
Speaker 1: lot of times you can get one on one coverage
Speaker 1: out there. A lot of people like to put their
Speaker 1: best corner out there, and he had some you know,
Speaker 1: some matchups with the kids from Tulsa who got trafted
Speaker 1: fairly high three or fourth round, I believe it. You know,
Speaker 1: so a lot of times into the boundary. But you
Speaker 1: could do a lot of things with him. You know,
Speaker 1: the first couple of years, we run a little bit
Speaker 1: more option, and you know, he was our pitch player.
Speaker 1: On occasion, we played him a little bit in the slot,
Speaker 1: you know, and we also played him in the field.
Speaker 1: So but um, you know, we really changed offense, and
Speaker 1: he played for two different coordinators while he was here,
Speaker 1: and we went from a spread option attack his first
Speaker 1: three years and then last season we got into a
Speaker 1: little bit more pro style type offense. So he's gonna
Speaker 1: be used to, you know, as the routes and the
Speaker 1: progressions that the quarterbacks are looking at, changing routes based
Speaker 1: on coverage and things like that. And you've got in
Speaker 1: that kind of a system. Hey, coach Fritz, when you
Speaker 1: look at one hundred and fifty four catches throughout his
Speaker 1: college career, can you game plan him to keep him
Speaker 1: out of destructive catching areas because of his speed and
Speaker 1: you think one hundred and seventy four pounds, maybe you
Speaker 1: can open those windows of safety a little bit more
Speaker 1: form because of it. Well, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting where they're gonna play. Man. Are they talking about
Speaker 1: playing him at slotter on the outside. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: But you know, I've got a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: are playing in the NFL and they're playing that nickel
Speaker 1: position on the slot aren't much bigger than Darnell. So
Speaker 1: a lot of people are playing, you know, some smaller
Speaker 1: guys in there that spot slots position. But you've got
Speaker 1: a great vertical jump. You really high points the ball
Speaker 1: well to be able to play out in the perimeter.
Speaker 1: He made an awful lot of circus catches for us
Speaker 1: over the years. He made a couple of really big
Speaker 1: ones to help us beat Houston this past season. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's he's a good enough route runner.
Speaker 1: He certainly he's got the speed and the movement to
Speaker 1: be able to get loose and you know, get a
Speaker 1: little space between him and the dB so the quarterback
Speaker 1: and hit it. Well, we'll coach. Everybody's chopping at the bid.
Speaker 1: I know you want to get back to coaching, and
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see where this goes here this fall
Speaker 1: with everything everybody is dealing with, but just the challenges
Speaker 1: for you as a coach to potentially teach players virtually,
Speaker 1: and how you're gonna install plays, how you're gonna explain them,
Speaker 1: how you're communicating to get it done. Maybe just thoughts
Speaker 1: from your perspective of how players, like Darnel Mooney, everybody
Speaker 1: learns different. Some guys learn through walkthroughs, some guys learn
Speaker 1: through watching tape, some guys do learn from from the
Speaker 1: play book. But maybe just a little bit from your
Speaker 1: side of it and coaching guys virtually like this, you know,
Speaker 1: we're our staff's reading the book right now, thinking fast
Speaker 1: and slow. He talks about how men are visual learners
Speaker 1: and how they learned better with color and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So we're always trying to become better teachers,
Speaker 1: you know, on a daily basis. But you know, I
Speaker 1: wish I would have had some stock and zoom, I'd
Speaker 1: be I'll be doing pretty good right now because I'm
Speaker 1: on meetings. I do. I do virtual home visits, you know,
Speaker 1: two three, four times a day. We have a couple
Speaker 1: of times a week. We have team meetings. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I'm I mentioned Matt earlier fourteen and
Speaker 1: and you know, Matt's dad graduated from Tulane and played
Speaker 1: at Tulane as well. And Matt spoke to our team
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. He's got you know, he's
Speaker 1: from New Orleans and h just an unbelievable job. He
Speaker 1: went about twenty minutes with the guys and he's been
Speaker 1: around our team quite a bit. To our guys, you
Speaker 1: know him. But I've had some little guest speakers that
Speaker 1: have come in and talked to the guys and our
Speaker 1: our team this year is going from good to great.
Speaker 1: And you know, Anus Williams is a New Orleans guy.
Speaker 1: We've gotten to know him. He spoke to the to
Speaker 1: the fellas and did the super job. Eli Manning, Archie
Speaker 1: Manning lives right right by this, you know, the stadium
Speaker 1: in our offices, and he's been great help, you know,
Speaker 1: since I arrived here in New Orleans. And Eli eva
Speaker 1: really nice message about how the two thousand and eleven season,
Speaker 1: you know, they had the lockout, and you know, he
Speaker 1: got together with all the guys and said, let's be
Speaker 1: a team that goes ahead and takes advantage of this
Speaker 1: time off. And sure enough that was a years they
Speaker 1: went and won the Super Bowl and then I thought
Speaker 1: it was, you know, uh, something our guys can grab
Speaker 1: a hold of. So there's a lot of different ways
Speaker 1: to teach these guys. My coaches are having meetings, you know,
Speaker 1: three or four times a week, and a lot of
Speaker 1: them are voluntary. The kids are wanting to be because
Speaker 1: you know they're they're bored as well. And you know,
Speaker 1: as a play Division one football, certainly in the NFL,
Speaker 1: you better love football and you better be consumed with it.
Speaker 1: And so it's great to watch. I sit in on
Speaker 1: a lot of these meetings during the day with you know,
Speaker 1: my quarterback coaching, linebacker coach. You know, we had a
Speaker 1: presentation by my d line coach day today on block
Speaker 1: destruction and how to get off of blocks, and you know,
Speaker 1: the defensive line linebackers in the secondary. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's just an unlimited amount of information out there about
Speaker 1: about football. I'm sure as soon as it's legal for
Speaker 1: the bearers to start, you know, having contact with these guys,
Speaker 1: Darnell will dive into that playbook and he'll learn it quickly.
Speaker 1: All right, coach, I got one last thing before we
Speaker 1: let you go. We got to get you out of here.
Speaker 1: But I noticed in the list of names of players
Speaker 1: that you've coached across your long career, including Coffeeville Community College,
Speaker 1: where you coached a young Keith Trailer, a former teammate
Speaker 1: of Jim Miller. And I only bring them up because
Speaker 1: this week all over Twitter, Uh, there's Keith Trailer returning
Speaker 1: a interception and uh, the late and great dick Enburg
Speaker 1: saying the earth is moving and earth is shaking, and
Speaker 1: it was Keith Trailer, and I'm there forget that. That
Speaker 1: was my first year calling games on on the Bears. Uh.
Speaker 1: What was a young Keith Trailer like Bean? Certainly remember
Speaker 1: him his way in the dtackle. You know he when
Speaker 1: we recruited him out Oklahoma at of Uh where is
Speaker 1: he from? He's from Arkansas. When we recruited him out
Speaker 1: of Arkansas, he was probably by two thirty five linebacker,
Speaker 1: great basketball player, and we brought him in there. And
Speaker 1: I actually lived in the resident pall with Keith. There's
Speaker 1: four rooms, and I had just taken the job and
Speaker 1: I was getting married that summer, so I was trying
Speaker 1: to save a little bit of money and I lived
Speaker 1: there with Keith. But he kept getting bigger and bigger
Speaker 1: and bigger by the time he's a sophomore and he's
Speaker 1: an All American force in Coffeeville. He was played two
Speaker 1: fifty great strength, still had great movement, and next thing
Speaker 1: you know, he's uh, you know, he's a defensive end,
Speaker 1: and then he's a three technique and then a little
Speaker 1: bit later he's a he's a nose guard. And I
Speaker 1: was when he was playing for the Chiefs. I had
Speaker 1: some sideline passes. Buddy of mine got me on the
Speaker 1: sideline for the game. I saw him and he started
Speaker 1: coming up and talking to me, and I hadn't seen
Speaker 1: him for years, and he was It took me back
Speaker 1: to recognize him, to see him because you know, you
Speaker 1: know when I first met him, you know, two twenty five,
Speaker 1: two thirty five, somewhere that area. But he was he's
Speaker 1: a great player for us, and he was a great athlete. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was very good. Appreciate all your time, coach, good
Speaker 1: luck and twenty twenty for you and year till lane bucklup.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for having me on roll Away. There
Speaker 1: you go. Sean Anderson, our producer Tonight, this is Bears
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Speaker 1: conversation or Willie Fritchett Jim, you love the old time coaches, right.
Speaker 1: I think Willie's sixty, but he's been, He's been, had
Speaker 1: a lot of places in his career. Yeah, fine coach.
Speaker 1: And like he said, Keith Trailer, believe or not, he
Speaker 1: started out at linebacker. I mean he had a really
Speaker 1: good measurables at the combine. He had I think over
Speaker 1: a thirty five inch vertical. Keith Trailer didn't this, like
Speaker 1: coach said, kept on getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1: And I remember that interception. Wasn't that against Jacksonville, Yep,
Speaker 1: jackson Hill. It was bumbling down the sideline, great athlete,
Speaker 1: great teammate, great player and employ him and uh Ted Washington.
Speaker 1: That was as like the Great Wall of China on
Speaker 1: that defensive line, No doubt changed football a little bit.
Speaker 1: All the big guys, the big defensive tackle, the immovable objects,
Speaker 1: they had a lot to do with changing the philosophy
Speaker 1: of offensive line blocking. A lot of times I don't
Speaker 1: agree with it, but those huge, massive, three three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty pounders. They changed the way coaches thought. I
Speaker 1: wonder what that vertical was. A two thousand and one gym.
Speaker 1: Keith Trailer had the biggest cavs you'd ever seen in
Speaker 1: your life. I'm telling me, he had some hops and
Speaker 1: as like coach said, terrific athlete and what he could do.
Speaker 1: Denver did. They drafted him as a linebacker and when
Speaker 1: he originally started out in the pros and just kept
Speaker 1: on kept on growing man, and he became a pretty
Speaker 1: darn good defensive tackle and run stuffer. You remember, Bob
Speaker 1: Golick was a second round draft choice linebacker out of
Speaker 1: University of Notre Dame for New England. Then he got
Speaker 1: cut by New England and kind of ate his way
Speaker 1: into being a pretty good nose tackle. But he was
Speaker 1: also a two time All American heavyweight wrestler. Yeah he was.
Speaker 1: He was at the Cleveland Browns as a nose tack
Speaker 1: on some of those good Bernie Cosar teams. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was a big boy up front. Yep Um coming up
Speaker 1: on Saturday nine thirty pm on Fox thirty two Chicago
Speaker 1: and against Sunday at ten pm on Fox thirty two Chicago.
Speaker 1: Bears Draft twenty twenty in it sit down with general
Speaker 1: manager Ryan Pace. We'll run a portion of that here,
Speaker 1: breaking down some of the top selections. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's still a ton of upside ahead of him, I think,
Speaker 1: especially as a blocker. I feel like we feel like
Speaker 1: he's gonna make great strides as a blocker going forward
Speaker 1: because he has the right temperament. He definitely has the
Speaker 1: body type. In the past game, Cole's just a big target,
Speaker 1: big target, big catching radius, really soft natural hands. As
Speaker 1: a tight end, you know you're over the middle obviously
Speaker 1: a lot you've got to make toes contested, you know,
Speaker 1: tight coverage catches, which he's shown over and over again,
Speaker 1: and then you've seen you've seen the highlights, and you
Speaker 1: know it's in every game. His run after catchability, just
Speaker 1: his physicality with the ball in his hands, and these
Speaker 1: these traditional, well rounded y tight ends, they're becoming harder
Speaker 1: and harder to find. And I think you can bind
Speaker 1: that with the Bears box makeup that he has that
Speaker 1: we all know about. It just made it a really
Speaker 1: easy pick for us. And you know, our Midwest scout
Speaker 1: Scott Hamill, Jeff Scheiver, Chris Prescott over the top. You know,
Speaker 1: they've been pounding the table for this guy for it
Speaker 1: seems like a year, and so when he was there
Speaker 1: in the second round, we were really excited to get him.
Speaker 1: Another guy who checks your bear's box, I'm certain as
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson out of Utah, I loved this quote after
Speaker 1: the draft process, he says, I'm gonna make every team
Speaker 1: that didn't draft me regret why they didn't. I like
Speaker 1: that attitude. He feels a little bit of that. You know,
Speaker 1: the traditional chip on the shoulder you're gonna hear about
Speaker 1: really almost everybody in your class, with rare exception in
Speaker 1: this twenty twenty class. But it seems to me he's
Speaker 1: got a rugged, physical, aggressive mentality towards playing cornerback. There's
Speaker 1: no question. And Jeff, he's still a young player. I
Speaker 1: think he just turned twenty one years old, so right
Speaker 1: away his size, he's athletic. His instincts and awareness really
Speaker 1: jump out. So just his feeling coverage to anticipate things
Speaker 1: and feel things around him, read the quarterback jump route.
Speaker 1: We really like him in press because he's physical and
Speaker 1: he use his hands. Then you go to man coverage,
Speaker 1: he's got the foot quickness to mirror routes. Are really
Speaker 1: good ball skills. You know a lot of corners sometimes
Speaker 1: they panic when the balls in the air. That's when
Speaker 1: you cepis or they drop the coverage. He's really poised
Speaker 1: and calm and confident when the balls in the air.
Speaker 1: Another guy, as you mentioned, outstanding football makeup, outstanding personal character.
Speaker 1: David Williams, Francis Saint Paul been all over this guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's stories with this guy just just his
Speaker 1: work ethic, his professional approach. You know, he's he's you know,
Speaker 1: graduations about to happen. He's gonna walk in an hour
Speaker 1: for graduation and he's in the fieldhouse doing d dB drills. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's Ryan Pace and that graduation came in two
Speaker 1: and a half years. Tom and Jim, so a couple
Speaker 1: of breakdowns are the first two picks of the Bears
Speaker 1: around two. When we come back, we'll talk about it
Speaker 1: with Tom and Jim. This is Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to scull. Final segment here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access on this Thursday evening. Coming up,
Speaker 1: the see title game from twenty nineteen Chiefs and Patriots
Speaker 1: gonna air on the score here coming up at the
Speaker 1: toime of the hour with Tom Thayer, Jim Miller, Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonahac with E. Sean Anderson as our producer tonight doing
Speaker 1: a great job as always and listening to Ryan Pace
Speaker 1: there again the Bears Draft twenty twenty television show on
Speaker 1: Fox thirty two Chicago, or in nine thirty pm Saturday
Speaker 1: and ten pm Sunday night on Fox thirty two Chicago,
Speaker 1: go through all the picks. Don't have time to do
Speaker 1: that here, but just want to give you a little
Speaker 1: taste of it again. You gotta be passionate and you
Speaker 1: gotta be convicted about who you're picking. So you hear
Speaker 1: the genuine excitement in those two picks of Cole committing
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson, Tom and Jim. Yeah, you know you have
Speaker 1: to go. You have to have the realization that neither
Speaker 1: of these are finished products. Nobody in this draft is
Speaker 1: a finished product, Jeff and So I think that's the
Speaker 1: key element here is Ryan Pace respected the advice and
Speaker 1: what he was getting from the scouts and was able
Speaker 1: to kind of project these guys to get him on
Speaker 1: his radar, watch them through out their senior year. Understands
Speaker 1: like a calmness by a cornerback is rarely talked about
Speaker 1: at this young age. And then how difficult it is
Speaker 1: to find a why tight end and nowaday in these
Speaker 1: college football players, so they have the template of the
Speaker 1: type of players they want to it's about what the
Speaker 1: coaches do within their development over the next two three seasons,
Speaker 1: both in the off season and during the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I just always think it's it's about fit. You know,
Speaker 1: granted you're drafting needs, but it's it's about fit. And
Speaker 1: I think Cole fits a tight end centric offense that
Speaker 1: the Bears are trying to run. We've we've talked about
Speaker 1: it numerous times. They need more production from that position.
Speaker 1: It's why they went out and drafted Jimmy Grant, they
Speaker 1: signed Harris, and we'll see what Cole Commet can develop into.
Speaker 1: We'll have to get better at his run blocking, but
Speaker 1: he can fill out even more and probably when it's
Speaker 1: all said and done, we'll be a good in line,
Speaker 1: all around tight end for the Chicago Bearris and Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: I just think fits the style of defense a lot
Speaker 1: of man sets. Like I said, he bullies wide receivers,
Speaker 1: so I think he as well is just a good
Speaker 1: fit for what the Bears are going to ask him
Speaker 1: to do defensively with Chuck Peggatto as their DC. I
Speaker 1: don't know my math's right, but I think it's ten
Speaker 1: targets to the tight ends last year in the red zone.
Speaker 1: That's it. Four catches and two touchdowns. You point to
Speaker 1: a lack of point production. That's a big area that
Speaker 1: you know, Jimmy Graham, however you may view him, the
Speaker 1: guy's a red zone monster. Cole has a chance to
Speaker 1: be a red zone monster. You gotta get more weapons involved,
Speaker 1: and you got to get to the red zone even
Speaker 1: inside the thirty Those are big production areas. Don't you
Speaker 1: think that aspect of the bears potential on offense has
Speaker 1: escalated with these additions? I do. I know. I also
Speaker 1: think that you can become more threatening within the red
Speaker 1: zone with Mitch's willingness to run the ball, because that
Speaker 1: takes an extra guy out of the defense. It opens
Speaker 1: up windows to throw too, or to capitalize on the
Speaker 1: size you have at the line of image. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: just the lack of production at that tight end position
Speaker 1: last year weather is due to injury. Guy's not getting
Speaker 1: on the field. Just it needs to be better. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham had a good year two years ago out there
Speaker 1: in Seattle, certainly with Russell Wilson. Last year wasn't targeted
Speaker 1: as much in Green Bay's offensive system. But I do
Speaker 1: think it offer some you know, point production down there
Speaker 1: in the red zone, especially just the size of Comet.
Speaker 1: You know, he is a good route runner, and he
Speaker 1: is really good after the catch, like Ryan Pace talked about.
Speaker 1: I mean it is a problem to bring him down
Speaker 1: after bounce off on his hands. Absolutely. I mean a
Speaker 1: couple of games you watch, it takes the whole defense
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Speaker 1: we only have about a minute and a half, but
Speaker 1: I gotta dig into this green Bay selection at Jordan
Speaker 1: Love causing shock waves through the National Football League and
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts select in Philadelphia doing the same. A lot
Speaker 1: of Colin Minch has written about these two situations. Is
Speaker 1: this overreaction or how would you look at this? Especially
Speaker 1: I get the green bait thing a little bit, but
Speaker 1: the Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia. It sounds like it's gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, potentially up end the whole belief in the
Speaker 1: locker room. If you know, Carson Wentz doesn't play well
Speaker 1: at the beginning or bah blah blah. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if you've got an opportunity to draft to quarterback, teams
Speaker 1: usually do it if you're smart. Then Philly's done it repeatedly. Right,
Speaker 1: They've made them tradeable commodities numerous times. From a J feely,
Speaker 1: I could go on and on the quarterbacks. They've traded
Speaker 1: Kevin Cobb, but anyway, I mean they're gonna get both qbs.
Speaker 1: Even Doug Peterson talked about this. It'll be a different
Speaker 1: role for Jalen Hurts. And guy ran for over a
Speaker 1: thousand yards. He had twenty rushing touchdowns at OU last year.
Speaker 1: So this guy is an extremely good athletes. So they're
Speaker 1: gonna use him in some kind of you know, like
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill type of role and it'll be a little
Speaker 1: bit different. Hey, they already paid their quarterback, right, Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere, but they will develop Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: and use his skill sets in a running ability. I
Speaker 1: think for Philadelphia. Jordan Love to me is raw. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why Green Bay Packer fans are upset that they
Speaker 1: feel that they are a win now team. They were
Speaker 1: one game away from the super Bowl. But Jordan Love
Speaker 1: is raw. He is not gonna play, He's not gonna
Speaker 1: be ready to play. He is gonna sit and it's
Speaker 1: gonna take some time. And so I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit overblown. Everybody thinks it's as Aaron Rodgers last
Speaker 1: harah there in Green Bay. Hey, Brett Farr pushed the
Speaker 1: snowball downhill today. He's gonna create more controversy in this
Speaker 1: virtual offseason than any statement made so far. Hey, we
Speaker 1: gotta break, Yeah, we gotta go. Jim, thank you. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you next week. Jim Miller from Serious XM's
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