WEBVTT - Justin Fields expected to start against Lions | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.679 Right, what justin middle of a field forty five fifteen 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:04.400 bring Russ in front of them. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:05.720 Leaving Lions in his way. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.800 I am Jeff jonihacklitsus on donc Pour. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:13.800 What was like playing for coache Gooddom. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.560 I don't want to answer any questions like that. Sixty 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:17.400 one yards? 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:26.720 What's Sunday stroll for? Justin Field? Ye Bears, et cetera. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:33.239 With the voices of the Chicago Bears Jeff Joniac we're 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.840 up to episode number thirty four. What a great number 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:39.760 in Bear's history. Walter Peyton and the Peyton Center all 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.040 in his honor. As we get you set for Bears 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.080 Lions with Tom Thayer, I'm Jeff Joniak. We come to 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.280 you each Tuesday and Thursday. We got the Lions on 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.000 the schedule this week up at Ford Field. Can't wait 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.320 to bring that game to you and Tom. This would 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.200 be the exact perfect game that Walter would have loved 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:59.280 to play in the division raucus environment, on the road 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.600 against a really good Detroit team right now, and in 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.480 a game that could be very well won on the ground. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.800 Both teams are a very good run in the football. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.160 I mean it's gonna be a physical nasty game. He'd 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.680 be delivering shots, he wouldn't be running out of bounds untouched. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.760 Uh huh, it would be that kind of game. Are 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:18.399 you feeling me? 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.360 Well, that's why you would need Walter Payton, because if 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.319 there's not a guy that leads by example of physical 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.520 style of play, you're going to have a really difficult 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.320 time competing in this game. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.600 And Walter Payton is the guy. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.880 No one's too big, no one's too fast, no one's 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.640 too tough. Walter Payton can show you examples of every 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.320 single one of those things I just said, and he 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.479 can be the leader in the clubhouse from beginning to end. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.160 And Barry Sanders was that kind of cat too, man, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:53.200 that guy steel belted, tired legs, I mean, unbelievable, darting, 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.559 quick suddenness that you think you had them but you didn't. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.400 Both in the Hall of Fame, both highly regarded, and 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.600 it's and we're going to touch on his late part 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.400 of his career anyway, documentary dropping soon on his decision 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.200 why he left the game early. Lomas Brown, the former 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.359 outstanding left tackle for the Detroit Lions and now in 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.760 the radio crew. Our good friend will join us as well. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.440 He's a great storyteller too. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.400 Tommy love Lomas Brown. I loved him as a player. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.000 I love him as a guy within the division. I 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.000 had tons of respect for He's a guy that was 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.119 respected by the Chicago Bears when he played against him, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.240 played underneath some difficult circumstances for the Detroit Lions when 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.880 they didn't have great crowd support and weren't a great team. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.520 But he was still a Pro Bowl caliber player. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.800 So I think that's why Lomuce brown And is still 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.200 an endeared part of that organization. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.400 For all your journeys ahead, go with a partner who's 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.440 been on your team from the beginning, the one members 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.000 and communities have trusted for over eighty five years, the 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.560 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, always standing by you, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.840 with you, for you through it all. Let's get the 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.080 status from Hollis and. The status is as we anticipated 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.800 and probably expected, justin fields trending towards getting the start 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.679 against the Lions in Week eleven after a four and 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.440 a half game absence. He was at the podium today. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.840 We'll hear from some of that in a moment, but overall, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.160 tom the thumb is ready to go. What are the 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.640 challenges he faces with that recovery. He can grip the 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.080 football and throw it. And what did you take away 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.760 from his conference with the media today. 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.440 He doesn't have any challenges. He's not going to think 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.720 about the thumb. It's not going to play and role 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.520 of anything that Luke Getsy wants him to do. He's 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.400 going to go out there and he's going to play 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.640 a Justin Fields brand of football. And I think that 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.880 the experience that he went through on the sidelines of 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.200 watching Tyson Bagent use the offense the way Luke Getsy 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.440 got the team ready, listening to Luke Getsy coach on 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.000 the sideline, and he says that he didn't interfere with 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.520 Luke Getsy at all during the course of the game. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.200 That he just sat back, paid attention. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.920 To the game plan, and looked at as a student 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.800 of the game. And I think that's probably some of 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:09.960 the most beneficial parts of rehabilitation that you can go through. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.280 And almost is the cliche with young quarterback to young 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.200 players that may have had an injury and they get 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.000 to watch and I always hear these questions, do you 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.360 think you learned anything? It was it good for that player? 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.000 It's only good if they take what they saw and 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.960 apply it, though, And you know, and every quarterback and 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.800 every player, regardless of position, does things a different way. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.480 They handle things a different way. Do you think, though, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:40.520 in this particular instance, especially with timing of plays, release 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.200 of the football, what you see sometimes is not what 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.599 you get from a defense. Do you think those things 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.520 could that gap be closed a little bit? Given how 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:50.800 Beagent played the game? 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.680 Yeah, well, I think Justin made reference to the point saying, yeah, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.560 I watched the way Beige it used the information that 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.880 he was fed, and how he looked at plays, and 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.520 maybe some of the results of his reads, and the 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.080 way he looked at the football out of his hands. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.360 All those things can help you. It's the same thing, Jeff, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.120 if we are watching a team in preparation and we 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.160 are playing against the defense, and maybe they had a 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.320 Pro Bowl lineman on their football team, and you kind 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.680 of watch some of their techniques and some of their 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.119 fundamentals and the way they would go out and block 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.880 whomever we are getting ready to play against, and you 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.040 didn't necessarily try to emulate them. You tried to learn 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.440 from what you are seeing from them. And so I 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.960 don't think there's a much difference in it, whether you're 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.640 a quarterback or an offensive lineman or whatever position you play. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.920 And then they asked Justin about did you go back 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.280 and study the games that you've already played. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.159 And he said, no, I didn't. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.599 I was looking forward and I was studying the next opponent. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.160 I was taking notes. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.440 I was giving Tyson any information that I thought that 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:58.960 was beneficial. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:05:59.920 To me that he could use. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.680 So I liked Justin's approach moving forward through the injury, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.920 because there's nothing he can do about the past opponents. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.240 You're not going to see again. 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.039 It's about going forward and watching the tape of the 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.120 guys they're getting ready to play as if you were 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.400 preparing to be the starting quarterback. And I think that's 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.239 the role that Justin needed to be in the most. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.000 Here's a chunk of the press conference with fields back 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.400 of the podium with the media just as your. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.880 Grip strinth doing right now on how you tinkered with 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:31.920 glove tape. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.840 Yeah it feels pretty good, you know. So I'm just 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.239 getting back. Anything feels good to throw, arm feels fresh, 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.440 but yeah, feel good, and you know, take it up 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.240 today I practice, so we'll see how I was feeling 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.320 on Sunday to whether I need tape or not. But 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.720 I'll try to glove at first, just because you don't 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.360 have to grip the ball as much, you know, without 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.679 a glove or with the glove. So but I didn't 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.120 really feel too comfortable with the glove on. So yeah, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:06:58.600 so you. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.680 Want to play every game obviously, but now you're actually 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.000 getting an opportunity to do so. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.200 Just how excited are you about getting it back out 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:04.560 there again? 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.159 Yeah, I mean, of course, I'm really excited. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:07.320 You know. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.640 I feel like the longer I was out, the more 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.640 you know, I was I wanted to play. But I'm 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.560 really excited to get back, you know, this week and 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.000 get back on the field of the guys. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:21.200 For sure. Playing against Carolina was there consideration. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.559 Yeah, it was real consideration, but I wanted to play, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.160 but uh, you know, the head trainer said it was 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.480 my best, you know, for the best for the future 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.240 long term to just wait it out one more week, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.360 especially you know, coming out a short week and stuff 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.040 like that, and you know, if it would have got 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:38.960 hit or something like that, it probably would have postponed 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.360 another two or three weeks. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.320 So yeah, are you looking at these next seven games 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.880 any differently for you even if thinking big picture of 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.040 the evaluation of what the Bears are doing for you 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.640 as a quarterback, or are you just kind of approaching them. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.960 Okay, let's just try to win out these last games. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.000 I mean, it just starts with Sunday and just taking 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.640 the day by day. So yeah, I mean that's my 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.680 focus right now, is just you know, focusing on Sunday, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.160 get prepared for that, you know, going out there, playing hard, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:07.800 playing to the best of my ability. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.000 Justin in what ways are you going to have to 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.239 make sure that whether you're in the pocket or running 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.000 with the football, that it doesn't affect ball security. 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.240 I mean, I wouldn't be playing if it was going 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.000 to affect that. So I don't see that see that 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.680 as a problem. You know, comes Sunday. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.679 So it's fair to say that this is the longest 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.280 stretch within a season ever in your. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.200 Football life that you haven't been able to play. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:30.680 It might be close. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.800 I'd say I missed about the same amount of time 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.240 my senior high school. So yeah, pretty similar with those fingers, Yeah, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.319 with my index finger. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.640 Yeah, what's just. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:44.120 Been like kind of sitting impatiently, patiently whatever you want 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.000 to call it for the last five weeks to try 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:46.839 to figure out when the. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.000 Opening was going to come in. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:49.920 Yeah, I mean, of course, you know, when I was out, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.360 I was trying to you know, just you know, be 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.840 the same leader I was when I was playing, you know, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.400 helping of course, helping Tyson out with you know, anything 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.560 he asked for. I would write extra notes about scattering 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.120 ports on bbs and safeties and linebacker and stuff and 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:02.880 just send it to them. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.280 But yeah, and you know. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:06.600 Just being on the sidelines, I feel like you look 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.760 at the game from a different perspective and you know, 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.320 just kind of just seeing the game from a different view. So, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.400 you know, definitely learned a lot from you know, just 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.280 being on the sideline and just just really just looking 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.400 at the game from the sideline. Just body language, you know, 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.920 just you know, different alignment cells and stuff like that. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.800 So anything you need to be cognizant of if you 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.000 get hit or sacked. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.559 About protecting your hand. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.760 Just protect the ball, that's number one. So my hand 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.560 gets hurt in the process, it's sorry. The ball protected, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.880 you know, that's all that matters. But not really out 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.839 there thinking about my hand. You know, if I was 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.680 out there like it's like a mental block. There's no 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.400 mental block with my thumb and you know, playing playing 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.079 normal football. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:53.240 So yeah, the. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:54.800 Last time we talked to you, you said there was 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.520 still a little bit of pain in your hand. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.040 Is that all the way gone or is that something 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:58.920 you have to play through? 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.120 Talking about last week. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.600 When I first came back, Yeah, yeah, I mean it's 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.400 not one hundred percent, but you know, feels feels good. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.520 There's still a little bit of healing left, but it's stable. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.560 Uh, you know, like I said, it's it's good. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.280 There's huge implications for any player in their third season. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.920 What do you hope to prove individually during the final 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.360 seven games of this regular season? 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.920 Just go out there and you know, win games. Not 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.280 good to prove anything to anybody. I'm playing for my teammates, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.760 playing for the coaches, and you know, that's that's it, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.000 and everything else will take care of itself. So uh, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.240 you know, not necessarly trying to prove anything to anybody. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.280 Let's just go out there with my brothers and go 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:44.920 out there and perform. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.439 So, justin with regard to being an observer the last 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.040 few weeks, was there anything you saw from Tyson pages 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.680 that you can apply to your game. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.480 Yeah, I mean I think really just looking at all quarterbacks, 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.240 I feel like Tyson. Of course, Tyson quarterbacks run the league, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.679 quarterbacks in college, like, we all play the game differently, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.200 So you know, things that Tyson did well, you know, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.600 I'm definitely going to try to, you know, emulate that 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.679 of course in my game. But you know, at the 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.680 end of the day, we're different quarterbacks. We don't do 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.400 the same thing. So but of course there's bits and 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.120 pieces that we do do differently that he did well 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.520 on the field, and of course I'm going to try to, 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.040 you know, add that to my game for sure. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.280 Is there something in particular that really compliments the way 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:23.600 you play? 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.960 Like you said, you are different quarterbacks, but sometimes that 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.600 can emerge. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.679 It too and it helps. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.680 Is there anything he did he did he feel like 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.520 can compliment your skills. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.720 Yeah, a lot of stuff. For sure. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.800 Most the experience I can kind of be on the 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.080 sideline here coach gets call in those players, not in 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.400 the moment where you got to kind of just go 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.760 precurre to say that, to execute, actually be able to 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.360 kind of evaluate why he's calling. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.800 You have a different perspective or different experience here. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:49.280 It that way. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.840 I think the Sunday night game, I was trying to, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.800 you know, just play the game in my head. I 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.600 think I got a call down from upstairs and saying 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.200 that the camera kept showing me called the play calls, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:57.880 so I couldn't. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.160 I had to stop doing that. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.040 But yeah, I think, you know, just like you said, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.480 just seeing the game from a different perspective, and of course, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.280 you know, I don't want to mess with Luke too 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:07.959 much during the game. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.280 Of course he's locked in too, so. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.400 Definitely just seeing what he's calling certain plays, and you know, 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.080 there were a few times where you know, I wanted 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.000 to ask him, you know, what were you thinking on display, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:20.040 like what was your mindset? 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:20.880 Like what was your goal? 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.600 And to call in his play, But like I said, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.640 I didn't want to mess with his mojo because he's 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.400 he's locked in, you know, game that I think. I 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:27.760 tried to talk to him one time, and I mean 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.720 he just, you know, he's so locked in he didn't 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.320 even hear me. But yeah, definitely, like I said earlier, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.240 just you know, seeing the game from a different perspective 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:36.839 and kind of just a bigger picture of things. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.200 When Tyson had some success, I think there were some 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.800 people that wanted to create a quarterback controversy. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:42.679 Did you hear any of that? 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.600 And then yeah, I mean, of course, But that's the 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.360 world we live in nowadays. You know, everybody wants you know, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.880 everybody wants to cause a stir, cause media attention, boom 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.920 boom boom, comments stories. So that's just you know, that's 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.840 just what comes with it. But you know, I knew 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.120 that was going to happen from the get go, So 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.120 it came to me as no surprise. But you know, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:06.880 like I said, I was coming in the building every 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.200 day being the same guy was you know before I 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:11.679 was hurt and you know, just trying to be the 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:12.400 best leader I can be. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.000 All right, So now he's got seven games knock on woods, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.319 stays healthy, to put some good things on tape and 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.840 have people thinking that this is going to be something 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.960 that we can expect consistently from Justin Fields. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:26.839 Is this the most important part of his career? 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.560 It is, But it's not like he's just jumped out 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.720 of an airplane and he pulled the ripcord on a parachute. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.920 It's more like you got to go out there and 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:39.680 play football like you've been playing throughout your career. You 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.360 have to understand the decisions you have to make according 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.280 to the down and distance, run pass, RPO, play action pass, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.720 and Justin Fields has to continue on that trajectory of 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.800 improvement that we all expect from him and I think 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.360 he expects from himself. Once you get back in the 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.680 saddle again and you are the starting quarterback, you think 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.640 of the those incremental times of practice between Wednesday, Thursday 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.720 and Friday and the growth and development that you would 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.720 like to show yourself each and every day. I think 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.040 it's important that he has a solid performance this week 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:18.160 in practice only because you're coming back from a thumb injury. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.880 Team is healthy as it's been and it's going to 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.600 be pretty much healthy all the way across the board. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.479 Still don't know about Tremaine Edmunds did not practice on Wednesday, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.840 but Nate Davis is back. He's going to get the 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.680 start at right guard. That will move Tevin Jenkins to 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.560 left guard, and unfortunately, as you indicated in Tuesday's podcast, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.600 this means Cody white Hair is not in that starting lineup. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.440 He's got to stay ready, of course, and he can 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.120 play all those different positions. That's something that you anticipated 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:50.080 it does give the Bears that comfort that Nate Davis comfort. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.680 He's played that right side his entire career, so that's 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.800 where he goes, and we certainly have seen the left 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.200 guard spot handled by Tevin Jenkins. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:14:59.640 How do you feel about this? 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.600 Well, you know, the most shocking thing that when I 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.440 heard Matt Eberflus make the announcement that Nate is not 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.920 going to be on a snap count. And when you 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.000 are recovering from what they said was a high ankle 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.920 sprain or an ankle sprayin, you. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.240 Know how much conditioning were you able to do? 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.000 And so Nate has to go out on the field 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.040 once he gets out there for the first play and 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.680 play equally as energy g filled on the last play. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.600 And so that's something that I'll be paying attention to 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:31.200 all game. Is do I think conditioning is affecting Nate's 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.400 game at all? And if it's not, I think he 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.080 and Tevin at the combination of offensive guards can really 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.480 help this offensive line. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.120 Listen, it doesn't take. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.160 Away from my admiration for Cody Whitehair and what he's 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.080 done throughout his career, and I got to imagine he'll 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.720 be as ready as any player on that team to 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.960 go in and play wherever they need him the most 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:55.000 at a moment's notice. However, that's the challenges you go 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.200 through as a football player throughout the course and time 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.560 of a lengthy career. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.200 Tay Foreman limited with an ankle, Sandborn limited with an 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.440 ankle klip, Herbert limited with his return from an ankle 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.000 injury is twenty one one day window coming off ir 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.880 is still open. There's an anticipation that he could be 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.840 back for this game. There would have to be a 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.880 corresponding roster move, Cary blasting game expected back Terrell Smith 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.120 back in the secondary of the young rookie who has 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.600 put on some good tape. So that's the story from 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.880 Hallis Haws to get ready for a Lions team Tom 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.800 that is on a six game NFC North winning streak 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.160 for the first time since nineteen ninety five, a win 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.560 for them, and that's seventh straight for the first time 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:39.040 in division play since nineteen seventy. Things are turning in 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.920 a right direction for the Detroit Lions. Let's pick it 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.680 up with our friend Lolmas Brown, the former Lion left 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.720 tackle and one of their radio analysts for the Detroit 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:48.840 Lions Radio network. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.560 Our good palace back. We missed him since last year. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.400 Lomas Brown one of the analysts on the Detroit Lions 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.400 radio network and does a lot of great stuff there 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.240 in the Detroit area with Tommy and I here on 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:58.760 the Bears, Etc. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:16:59.600 Podcast. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.480 So I don't know about you, but we we have 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.680 now trickled into the podcast universe this year and Tom 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:06.720 is actually having fun. 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.280 Lomas, he's having fun. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.520 Well, I'm glad to hear Tom is having fun. Man. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.400 That's the old offensive lineman. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:18.320 Man. We need to have fun in our ages right now. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.760 So I'm glad to see he's having fun. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.240 They need to hear more of us offensive lineman. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.760 That's right, that's where the wisdom come from. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.840 You know, A long time ago, I was an intern. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.359 I was covering Brown's training camp you speak of this, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.479 and I did a feature you remember you guys all 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.040 both Tom and I. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.080 Had many a meeting with him. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.800 But Doug Deacon, the former offensive lineman and former Browns analyst, 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.359 and it was Bob Golick And I was a young 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.560 kid intern and I was doing a story on the 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.720 difference between offensive and defensive linemen, and these two got 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:52.760 into a comedy act. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.000 It was absolutely hilarious. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.840 I hope to find the tape one day because you know, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.119 that kind of is the thought offensive lineman. You know, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.800