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Speaker 4: Off season training activities underway around the National Football League
Speaker 4: twenty nine of the thirty two teams, including the Bears,
Speaker 4: as they kick off a three week period at hallisa
Speaker 4: on the mix of veterans and rookies and some new
Speaker 4: faces blend in What's going to go to training camp
Speaker 4: here in mid July. So it's a get acquainted session
Speaker 4: for everyone. Good to be back with you. A short
Speaker 4: turnaround from last Thursday night with Super Bowl winning Bears
Speaker 4: guard Tom Fayre. Jim Middle will be along in just
Speaker 4: a moment. I'm Jeff Joniac coming up shortly. Our teammate
Speaker 4: and former Bears fullback Jason McKee. Our sideline report around
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Speaker 4: Dan Barrelli, Jordan Treadup, and in studio today Sean Graeney.
Speaker 4: The executive pretty Sure to the Bear's Radio Network is
Speaker 4: Eric Ostrotski. So we went over the schedule released last
Speaker 4: week Big Time and University loved and how it lays out.
Speaker 4: Now it's time to roll up the sleeves, get down
Speaker 4: to business. And this period really, I would I would
Speaker 4: imagine for everybody involved is sharpen your skills and develop.
Speaker 2: Get ready.
Speaker 5: It is sharpen your skills and develop. But the Bears
Speaker 5: have a lot more on their plate during this off
Speaker 5: season because of the amount of new bodies there in place,
Speaker 5: a new system in place, a new defensive coordinator in place.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 5: You have to become familiar with everybody's coaching style, you
Speaker 5: have to become familiar with responsibilities. You have to have
Speaker 5: continuous conversation amongst your positions to try to become familiar
Speaker 5: about with all the infra that you have to be
Speaker 5: able to digest during this ota period because really, when
Speaker 5: you come to training camp, the addition of football pads
Speaker 5: really increases just the importance of a daily practice.
Speaker 4: And Tommy, from what I've heard, attendance throughout this offseason
Speaker 4: has been outstanding. It's exactly what we want to hear.
Speaker 4: I'm sure not everyone makes it for whatever reasons throughout
Speaker 4: all the OTAs. It is voluntary, but given where this
Speaker 4: team is at, the excitement in the building, I would
Speaker 4: imagine almost everybody's going to be on hand.
Speaker 5: Well, if you're not on hand, then what's your excuse?
Speaker 5: And I know there's veterans that are secure in what
Speaker 5: they've been able to earn over the course of over
Speaker 5: the course of a career. But you know this there,
Speaker 5: you know nobody has that opportunity this year.
Speaker 7: This is about all for one and one for all, and.
Speaker 5: So if there is someone that's missing with regularity, I
Speaker 5: would as a position coach, as a coordinator, as a
Speaker 5: head coach, as a general manager, I would like to
Speaker 5: know the reasons behind it, because every single facet of
Speaker 5: this football team it needs continuity and development to ultimately
Speaker 5: get where you want to get, and that's winning your
Speaker 5: division to earn a spot into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: All right, And so we got a rookie quarterback here
Speaker 4: and I thought something in SI dot Com Albert Breer
Speaker 4: wrote over the past sixteen draft cycles, starting with two thousand,
Speaker 4: well through the twenty three class, forty eight quarterbacks drafted
Speaker 4: in the first round, and only two Jake Locker in
Speaker 4: twenty eleven and Jordan eleven twenty, failed to start a
Speaker 4: game as a rookie. Pat Mahomes started one in his
Speaker 4: rookie year. But the days of having a guy sit
Speaker 4: long gone. All these guys are gonna find time and
Speaker 4: they're gonna start.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 5: You know, I think Peyton Manning has really led the
Speaker 5: way that argument. He says you're not gonna develop by
Speaker 5: sitting on the bench, And when you look at the
Speaker 5: performance that he had his rookie year and how many
Speaker 5: interceptions he threw, maybe there is value to getting on
Speaker 5: the field as soon as possible. But you know, you
Speaker 5: don't have unrealistic expectations because of Peyton Manning. But then
Speaker 5: you have unrealistic expectations because of CJ.
Speaker 7: Stroud and somewhere in between.
Speaker 5: There is the performance of the rookie quarterback and that's
Speaker 5: what you want to get. But that's the indicators that
Speaker 5: you're gonna get throughout OTA OTA meetings and an on
Speaker 5: the training camp, all.
Speaker 7: Right to tell you.
Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna take our first break early because when
Speaker 4: we come back, we'll be joined by Jason McKee, our
Speaker 4: sideline reporter and former Chicago Bear and the head coach
Speaker 4: at Armel High School on Mondoline. Jim Miller will join
Speaker 4: us as well with tant there. I'm Jeff Joniak and
Speaker 4: this is Bears Weekly on ESPN one thousand and the
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Speaker 4: VNFL Radio and our partner in crime, Jason McKee. I've
Speaker 4: been ringing this guy, Tom and Jim for a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks now. He's he's been away, he's been busy,
Speaker 4: he's got other things going on. But Jay Mack, how
Speaker 4: you feeling, man, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Feeling good? Glad to join the show. Talks and Bears Football.
Speaker 3: As you know, you guys always do a great job.
Speaker 3: And excited to be back and excited about the season.
Speaker 3: You know, here again with you guys, you know, covering
Speaker 3: the Bears.
Speaker 4: Well, what makes you most excited about twenty four out
Speaker 4: of the gate here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just you know, as it has been the past
Speaker 3: few years, the offseason has been you know, exciting, you know,
Speaker 3: just because of the moves that that Ryan Poles has
Speaker 3: made and the positions he's put this team in terms
Speaker 3: of competing and be able to be able to make
Speaker 3: moves in the off season. And we see that with
Speaker 3: the draft. I mean obviously Kayla Williams bringing Romo Doonze
Speaker 3: and you know, Keenan Allens and there's a lot of
Speaker 3: promise on the team that really you know, showed some
Speaker 3: upside to end the season last year. So I'm just
Speaker 3: excited to see what these new pieces, how they can
Speaker 3: put together, new coordinators, new stuff, and I'm excited to see,
Speaker 3: you know, what this offense is going to look like
Speaker 3: under the tute religious Shane Waldron. You know, you've got
Speaker 3: a lot of weapons, but you know, you can have
Speaker 3: all the ingredients in the world, but you still got
Speaker 3: to cook it and it has to taste good. So
Speaker 3: if you're not putting things together the right way, it's
Speaker 3: not going to be you know, the presentation is going
Speaker 3: to be what it needs to be So I'm excited
Speaker 3: to see how, you know, they go about developing you know,
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, how this offense is going to be rand
Speaker 3: you know who who's going to be featured in what ways,
Speaker 3: and you know how he's going to attack defenses and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. And then on the defense side of
Speaker 3: the ball, I'm looking forward to seeing, you know, Kender's
Speaker 3: defense continue to pick up, to pick up where they
Speaker 3: left off. You know, we're missed some pieces still, but
Speaker 3: I think we've got a lot of young talent and
Speaker 3: we added some talent last year. So there's definitely an
Speaker 3: exciting time to be a Airs fan, but it's also
Speaker 3: exciting time to cover them as well.
Speaker 5: Hey, Jason, let me ask you something personally. So the
Speaker 5: schedule comes out last week and you have a chance
Speaker 5: to take a look at it, But you're also a
Speaker 5: head coach that is getting a team prepared into the
Speaker 5: ind of your training camp and then into the regular season.
Speaker 5: When you see a trip in there, like the London
Speaker 5: trip or the other games, does that affect how you
Speaker 5: have to put your work, high school itinerary together.
Speaker 7: According to the release of the NFL schedule.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. You know, everybody's looking at the
Speaker 3: schedule in terms of Bear stands and trying to book tickets,
Speaker 3: and you know, I know we're looking at it and
Speaker 3: trying to see where we're going to be at and
Speaker 3: get ready to cover the game. But you know, I've
Speaker 3: got my high school itinerary and I've got the Bears itinerary,
Speaker 3: you know, brought up side by side to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 3: how am I going to make this work? How am
Speaker 3: I going to make sure my coaching staff is ready
Speaker 3: to be prepared, you know, if I'm absent a few
Speaker 3: practices and it happened like that last year. But you know,
Speaker 3: having a great coaching staff and you know, having a
Speaker 3: great system and a good level of expectation and our
Speaker 3: kids understand, you know, what's required of them, and then
Speaker 3: able tous have a good seating. So it's a challenge
Speaker 3: in that regard. But at the same time, you have
Speaker 3: good people around you, and you have a good system
Speaker 3: to place, and you understand what it takes to win,
Speaker 3: and you can manage two things at one time, and
Speaker 3: there's less to be in a situation I'm in right now.
Speaker 5: You know, Jay, you talk about having a system in
Speaker 5: place and the Bears really don't have a system in place.
Speaker 5: Plus they have a new quarterback and they have a
Speaker 5: lot of you know, new guys on the team. So
Speaker 5: when you think about the classroom sessions of OTA and
Speaker 5: the on the field sessions of an Ota, do you
Speaker 5: think that you put more emphasis in the classroom sessions
Speaker 5: or do you want to get them up on their
Speaker 5: feet and moving as a team as much as classroom sessions.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you got to have some balance there
Speaker 3: because it's one thing to go on the grease board
Speaker 3: and to diagnose plays and route concept is based against
Speaker 3: you know, based upon what coverages you're seeing, but it's
Speaker 3: another thing to go out there and actually to go
Speaker 3: through that the quarterback to go through that progression, you know,
Speaker 3: against different coverages in terms of the rock concerts they're running.
Speaker 3: So I think you gotta have balance there because some guys,
Speaker 3: as we know tom Are, they're good in the classroom,
Speaker 3: but then they get out there on the field and
Speaker 3: they can't they can't process or they can't run full
Speaker 3: speed what they've digested in the classroom. So I think
Speaker 3: you gotta have balance. And I think when you have
Speaker 3: a new offense, and especially when you have a new
Speaker 3: quarterback at rookie quarterback, I think as an offensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: you may have all these ideas. You may be excited
Speaker 3: because you've added so many weapons and there's so much promise,
Speaker 3: but at the same time, you do have to remain
Speaker 3: humble enough to only go as far as the quarterback
Speaker 3: can go. So as he grows within the offense, he
Speaker 3: has an understanding of what you're putting in and he's
Speaker 3: able to go out there and execute it a practice. Well,
Speaker 3: then you grow as he grows. You can't go out
Speaker 3: there and just give him the whole playbook and expect
Speaker 3: him to go out there and light the world on fire.
Speaker 3: You have to be pacer with him because you have
Speaker 3: the rookie and it is a different.
Speaker 4: Jason McKee our guest here on ESPN one thousand or
Speaker 4: the Bad Radio Network, Jeff and Tom Jim Miller would
Speaker 4: join us here in just a minute, and we've got
Speaker 4: Jason McKee talking Bears football. Jmac, is there a big,
Speaker 4: big training camp practice scenario brewing here because of the
Speaker 4: talent on offense, the weaponry that we're all thinking, Okay,
Speaker 4: how are you gonna stop this bunch?
Speaker 7: No matter who's quarterback?
Speaker 4: And you got so much talent there for a defense
Speaker 4: that fell in its oats there the last half of
Speaker 4: the season, put up some unbelievable numbers and really for
Speaker 4: that secondary to really it's like, it's gonna really challenge
Speaker 4: each other here, right, don't you think so? Young guys
Speaker 4: like Tyreiek, Stevenson, Kyder, Gordon, Jakwan Brisker, they're gonna get
Speaker 4: tested there, and just like they're gonna test the other
Speaker 4: guys on the other side of the wall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, they're gonna get tested. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I think, you know, there's gonna be growth with those
Speaker 3: guys as well. You know, they had opportunity as rookies
Speaker 3: to see a lot of things. They were tested as
Speaker 3: rookies as well, and I think, you know, second year
Speaker 3: in the league, I think the game is gonna really
Speaker 3: slow down for them. You saw it started to slow
Speaker 3: down towards the end of the season for those guys,
Speaker 3: and they were able to make a lot of plays
Speaker 3: the timely moments for this Bears defense. So I think
Speaker 3: they're going to be more confident. You know, obviously they're
Speaker 3: working hard to on their fundamentals to make sure that
Speaker 3: they're ready to take another step. But you know, I'm
Speaker 3: excited to see, you know, how they've grown in their
Speaker 3: second season within this defense. And I'm also curious to
Speaker 3: see if coach Matta elus are going to give these guys,
Speaker 3: you know, more of an expanded role.
Speaker 4: Jim Miller and now ready to join us from serious
Speaker 4: section m NFL Radio's moving to change big Jim. You know,
Speaker 4: you and Jmack were two ships passing in the night.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately you were not teammates, because I think you guys
Speaker 4: would have hit it off very well what you were
Speaker 4: in Dallas when Jim was with the Bears, and then
Speaker 4: you arrived after Jim left. But so, Jim, you would
Speaker 4: have loved the tank back there at fullback in the
Speaker 4: form of Jamack, don't you think.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I'm well aware of Jason McKee's work and
Speaker 6: how well he was as a player, and Jason obviously
Speaker 6: how the Bears ran the ball last year, and from
Speaker 6: my perspective, they've done a nice job what I call
Speaker 6: insulating a young Caleb Williams, you know, with these blue
Speaker 6: chip players, Roma Doonzay, you know, Keenan Allen. DJ Moore
Speaker 6: thinks Swift will be great in the backfield, and I
Speaker 6: think the old Lion's better than what people think. But
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, Caleb Williams has to
Speaker 6: be able to do a coming out period, has to
Speaker 6: be able to execute a two minute drives, third down conversions.
Speaker 6: You know, there are certain situational things that maybe they
Speaker 6: can take the load off of him, but he still
Speaker 6: has to be able to execute those key moments in
Speaker 6: terms of situational play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jim, you hit it on the head. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's football is about situations. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 3: of situations that, yes, Caleb Williams have been has been
Speaker 3: any situations in college, but you know, the stakes are higher.
Speaker 3: This is the NFL. NFL defense is going to be
Speaker 3: faster and more sound than the defenses he's he's played against.
Speaker 3: And yes, he has a skill set that everybody's been
Speaker 3: salivating over. That's why he's the number one pick in
Speaker 3: the draft. But at the same time, you know, we're
Speaker 3: talking about Shane Waldron, Like I think they have to
Speaker 3: do a really good job of really practicing situations. The
Speaker 3: only way you're going to get better at executing in
Speaker 3: timely moments is you practice those situations over and over again.
Speaker 3: Like you said, coming out two minute even for minute offense,
Speaker 3: you know, shorty ard theer's all of those things that
Speaker 3: going that you're going to encounter into a game. And
Speaker 3: if you want to be good in those situations, you
Speaker 3: have to practice them. And Tom talked about being in
Speaker 3: the classroom. Yes, you're gonna go over you know, keep
Speaker 3: things in terms of situations on the grease for two
Speaker 3: minute jow Hey, receivers, make sure you're handing the ball
Speaker 3: to the rep. Don't throw it to the rest. We
Speaker 3: know the rest can't catch that clock's running. You know,
Speaker 3: little nuances like that, it's going to help you excel
Speaker 3: in those situations. And then you have to be to
Speaker 3: be able to go out there and practice in full speed.
Speaker 5: You know, I got a question for both you guys,
Speaker 5: Jim and Jason, because I think you need to take
Speaker 5: this in consideration like we all do, because it's you know,
Speaker 5: it's a really important part of quarterback development. Jim as
Speaker 5: a quarterback, Jason as a coach. We don't know who
Speaker 5: the center is gonna be. We don't have a center
Speaker 5: that has an extensive amount of experience that's been through
Speaker 5: every scenario that they can face on a field. So
Speaker 5: how many snaps before the start of the regular season
Speaker 5: do you want to get with whomever they choose to
Speaker 5: be center. When you talk about the role, the importance
Speaker 5: the velocity of a shotgun snap, the quickness of a
Speaker 5: directly under center snap, and every team that goes in
Speaker 5: because we talk a lot about the seven on seven game,
Speaker 5: but I think the role of the center can play
Speaker 5: an equally important role. Jason, and as a coach, how
Speaker 5: many snaps would you like to see those two get
Speaker 5: before the regular season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean in terms of preseason, you know, I
Speaker 3: think you got to be smart. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: you know, you have a new quarterback, you have a
Speaker 3: new center. They got to get a feel free to
Speaker 3: other and you know, as many as many snaps as
Speaker 3: you can with them with being smart to make sure
Speaker 3: that they're available for the regular season. But you know,
Speaker 3: the snap is like in terms of you know, them
Speaker 3: getting comfortable within the offense. Like you said, they've got
Speaker 3: to be able to be on the same page because
Speaker 3: communications are going to be different. You know, I don't
Speaker 3: know if they're going to enable the center to make
Speaker 3: all the calls, especially when you have a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 3: So that chemistry is huge. You know, I've got the
Speaker 3: quarterback haves to know what the offensive line is doing.
Speaker 3: In the center is the quarterback of the offensive line,
Speaker 3: so they've got to be on one accord. You know,
Speaker 3: we saw protection breakdowns last year with justin fields and
Speaker 3: the offensive line in it, and that led to disaster.
Speaker 3: But the more that you can get on the same
Speaker 3: page with the guy that you're going to be you know,
Speaker 3: taking snaps from and that offensive line that you're going
Speaker 3: to be playing with, the better this offense will be.
Speaker 3: And the accelerated growth that you could see in this offense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well to me, they're both again, those guys are
Speaker 6: both veterans. Ryan Bates, who was with the Bears now
Speaker 6: went up there with the Bills, and you know, obviously
Speaker 6: the Bears liked his play and wanted him back, and
Speaker 6: I think Coleman Shelton I would say the same thing about.
Speaker 6: You know, last year. Obviously Brian Allen gets hurt, he
Speaker 6: fills in at center nicely and really look at the Rams,
Speaker 6: they wanted to sign him back. So he did a
Speaker 6: really nice job. And their north and south running scheme,
Speaker 6: what they have with kyn Williams. So I think that'll
Speaker 6: be sorted out pretty quickly, quite frankly. But to me,
Speaker 6: they're both veterans, they both have played. Bates has been
Speaker 6: more guard center, you know, in terms of his combinations,
Speaker 6: and Coleman has been pretty much a center. So I
Speaker 6: think it'll sort itself out pretty quickly. But again, they're
Speaker 6: both veterans, and once those pads come on, they'll know quickly,
Speaker 6: and I think it'll sort itself out with a cremo
Speaker 6: rise to the top.
Speaker 4: Jason McKee our guest here on Bears Weekly on FDN
Speaker 4: one thousand of the Bears Radio Network. So you spent
Speaker 4: a lot of time with Devin Hester, both in your
Speaker 4: career and his friends recently on the golf course with him.
Speaker 4: Where is his head that as he approaches August, first
Speaker 4: the Bears get there with the preseason game and then
Speaker 4: a couple of days later induction into the Pro Football.
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I actually spend time with him this weekend. He was
Speaker 3: up in Chicago for an appearance as well. But he's
Speaker 3: he's excited. But it's funny because you know, being around him,
Speaker 3: you see how much work is going into this behind
Speaker 3: the scenes. He's he's been back and forth forth to Canton.
Speaker 3: You know, they've been designing his his bus for the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. He's also putting together his his Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame party, and they're working out the details in
Speaker 3: terms of his itinerary for the time he's going to
Speaker 3: be up there. So I think he's just excited. He's
Speaker 3: taking it all in. But you know, he's traveling back
Speaker 3: and forth from South Florida to Canton quite often, and
Speaker 3: he's been on the golf course as much as he
Speaker 3: as he can be. So it's it's pretty neat to
Speaker 3: see that, you know, you have another teammate getting this opportunity. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, I had this opportunity to see another teammate
Speaker 3: going like Brian Urlacker. But it's pretty cool to see
Speaker 3: a guy who, you know, who came here as a rookie, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, a young rookie, and then to see the
Speaker 3: career that he put together and then him actually just
Speaker 3: receiving the accolades you know that he's receiving from his
Speaker 3: stellar career. So it's definitely exciting, you know, the teammates standpoint,
Speaker 3: but it's even more exciting as it being one of
Speaker 3: your closest friends.
Speaker 4: You gotta make sure Thayre's on that guest list for
Speaker 4: that party. Now, Hey, yeah, Tom, you know he'll be
Speaker 4: at Themichael party for sure, but you got to get
Speaker 4: him on the Hester party. I think you have some pull,
Speaker 4: don't you.
Speaker 3: Definitely gonna We're gonna just get fair to Mike at
Speaker 3: the party and let him just tell his stories, right, John.
Speaker 5: Jay Mac, I want to hear a story from you
Speaker 5: because your instrumental on the sideline reporting of the game.
Speaker 7: And now they brought back the kickoff return and.
Speaker 5: Before you could almost say, okay, they're going to kick
Speaker 5: it out of the end zone, let me get myself
Speaker 5: set up at the whatever yard line they're going to start.
Speaker 5: You have any thought process of how you're going to
Speaker 5: position yourself to, you know, get a good line of
Speaker 5: sight on the return game, the blocking game, the development
Speaker 5: of the type of blocking strategies and the kicking strategies
Speaker 5: that are going to develop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the funny thing is, I haven't thought about where
Speaker 3: I would position myself. Normally, I'd be in the back
Speaker 3: of the end zone. Don I mean, you know, like
Speaker 3: we you know, during the game, we don't even pay
Speaker 3: attention to it. You know, I'm so used to Joni
Speaker 3: Ackke saying, oh another one through the end zone. But
Speaker 3: now we're going to have the excitement. But I'm really
Speaker 3: excited to see how these Special Teams coordinators and how this,
Speaker 3: you know, how they're going to put packages and schemes
Speaker 3: together with the new rules. And I'm also excited to
Speaker 3: see who's going to take that that return the kickoff
Speaker 3: return position, because I mean, it's it's going to create
Speaker 3: an opportunity. It's going to bring, you know, the excitement
Speaker 3: back of the kickoff return to open the game.
Speaker 2: So I'm just.
Speaker 3: Excited that the NFL found a way to bring this
Speaker 3: play back into the game. And I've got to find
Speaker 3: my spot to figure out how I'm gonna break it down,
Speaker 3: and I know Johnny ack will be on the call,
Speaker 3: but it's going to be exciting time so we can
Speaker 3: find a return of that can take advantage of this
Speaker 3: new rule of the new kickoff return format.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's going to be interesting because I've been talking
Speaker 6: to a lot of Special Teams coaches and they think
Speaker 6: it's going to be more of a hand to hand
Speaker 6: combat play and it'll be interesting to see who they
Speaker 6: slough off you know, is it L one? Is it
Speaker 6: R one? Because you know, if you start, you know,
Speaker 6: you start running twists and stuff up front. I mean
Speaker 6: that thing could go to the house in a hurry,
Speaker 6: is my take on it. So really gonna be interesting
Speaker 6: how it plays out. Not to mention Jason, all the
Speaker 6: trick plays you can run if you've got a guy
Speaker 6: back there to run a reverse or a throwback pass.
Speaker 6: I think special teams coaches are going to get very
Speaker 6: aggressive and plus during preseason, I guarantee it. Nobody is
Speaker 6: going to show anything. I mean that they may do
Speaker 6: a couple of kicks just to the goal line to
Speaker 6: see if their coverage is sound, but you know they're
Speaker 6: not going to give anything away of what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Well, would you guys? Yeah, everyone assumes you're just gonna
Speaker 4: have the big guys on the line of scrimmage. But
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a whole collection of talent.
Speaker 4: I mean, speed's got to be a factor in this.
Speaker 6: Right j Mack and Jim Yeah, absolutely absolutely it is.
Speaker 6: And how a team covers it, Yeah, how a team
Speaker 6: covers it. If a team is bad, say the first
Speaker 6: month of the season, in their coverage units, trust me,
Speaker 6: they'll be kicking the ball through the end zone again
Speaker 6: because they've got more work to do. Because I just
Speaker 6: talked to Mike Westoff, obviously a long time special teams
Speaker 6: coaching is the assistant head coach of the Broncos, and
Speaker 6: he says he's not even sleeping that night. He said,
Speaker 6: there's so many things that they're going to be able
Speaker 6: to do that you better be ready for. He called
Speaker 6: it a dirty ball. Here's what he thinks a lot
Speaker 6: of teams are going to do. Where the kicker drives it,
Speaker 6: where it bounces right into the landing zone and it
Speaker 6: will be a tough return ball for either returner that's
Speaker 6: back there. And that's how he called it a dirty ball.
Speaker 6: He goes, I want to see how these returners handle
Speaker 6: these dirty balls that we're going to be kicking left
Speaker 6: and right.
Speaker 4: Fashionating stuff, fellas fassionating stuff. We're going to enjoy it.
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Speaker 4: Bears Weekly. A quick turnaround from last week. Jim, you
Speaker 4: know Tom brought this up to me earlier today and
Speaker 4: you guys can just chop it up between the two
Speaker 4: of you here, what do you feel the time frame
Speaker 4: for a learning curve is with offensive coordinator Shane Waldron
Speaker 4: because everyone's really starting fresh. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: this is a carryover from the scheme really constructed by
Speaker 4: the Shanahan get a tree with the guy in La
Speaker 4: y Am. I going blank on Sean McVay. But that's
Speaker 4: the family of offenses, right, the family of offenses. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't know what the language differences are. The play
Speaker 4: calls are obviously going to be constructed differently. That's a
Speaker 4: field thing. But you guys have at it there on
Speaker 4: what this might be.
Speaker 2: For this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think for the veterans, a lot of these guys
Speaker 6: are they know this offense all right?
Speaker 2: D J.
Speaker 6: Moore is familiar with it to all the offensive linemen
Speaker 6: to me, should be pretty much familiar with it. Keenan Allen,
Speaker 6: I would probably say, is the one exception, but he's
Speaker 6: a true vet, He's a double digit guy. He'll pick
Speaker 6: it up early. DeAndre Sweat's been in it, so I
Speaker 6: don't have any problems the two guys that's going to
Speaker 6: be roam with. Dudes, a and it's going to be
Speaker 6: Caleb Williams. You know, these are the guys that are
Speaker 6: gonna have to pick it up. And again those guys
Speaker 6: that are there, those veterans to help bring them along,
Speaker 6: bring him along in them along, you know, to learn
Speaker 6: this system. But a lot of it, to me, should
Speaker 6: be a lot of carryover from Comet to you name it.
Speaker 6: A lot of these guys have been exposed to this system,
Speaker 6: is my opinion. Time, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 5: You know, Jim, I don't have a concern because I
Speaker 5: know eventually they're all going to learn it.
Speaker 7: If you don't learn it, then you don't play.
Speaker 5: But the thing, you know, when Jim, you come into
Speaker 5: a system and two of the quarterbacks have already been
Speaker 5: the quarterback room, or the running backs, or the receivers
Speaker 5: or whatever position. I come into a team like the
Speaker 5: eighty five Bears and all the offensive linemen have been
Speaker 5: around there before, then I can ask questions, and I
Speaker 5: can have conversation, and I can get a better understanding
Speaker 5: of the terminology more quickly because every single guy I'm
Speaker 5: talking to has plenty of experience in the meeting rooms
Speaker 5: of this system. And the only thing I was thinking, Okay,
Speaker 5: Shane Waldron comes in and he starts introducing his language
Speaker 5: to everybody at the same time. And it's not like
Speaker 5: these guys can have, you know, conversations about the reputational
Speaker 5: use of the terminology because they're all starting from scratch basically.
Speaker 5: And so I do think that it is about trying
Speaker 5: to spend more free time on your tablet and in
Speaker 5: your tablet, because when you look at the plays from practices,
Speaker 5: they have the terminology written in a the play that
Speaker 5: they're running. So it's not only something that Okay, I
Speaker 5: know what this place is by sight. It's almost like
Speaker 5: you have to look at the terminology. You have to
Speaker 5: look at the formation, then you recognize the play. So,
Speaker 5: you know, Jim, it's just kind of and I was
Speaker 5: thinking kind of primarily the quarterback position because all these guys,
Speaker 5: all these quarterbacks, they're starting from ground zero and there
Speaker 5: is no conversation of experience.
Speaker 6: No, I agree with that. To me, it's all about
Speaker 6: the quarterback because you know, when you look at Luke
Speaker 6: Getzy and Matt Lafleur, who up there in Green Bay
Speaker 6: where Luke Getzy came from. They come from the same
Speaker 6: place it's Sean mcvay's system, okay, and that's where that's
Speaker 6: the world of Shane Waldron. So really, as a play caller,
Speaker 6: you can only call what your quarterback can handle, all right,
Speaker 6: And I think we learned that last year. You know,
Speaker 6: when you look at some things in the in the offense,
Speaker 6: say whether it's Bryce Young down there, or you look
Speaker 6: at the excess of c J. Stroud, they could open
Speaker 6: it up because he could handle a lot more. And again,
Speaker 6: every guy is different. Every guy is different in what
Speaker 6: they can handle, and even justin fields. When he arrived
Speaker 6: with the Bears, I remember that third preseason game when
Speaker 6: he got rocked by the Buffalo Bills and he wasn't
Speaker 6: aware of a Sam Mike blitz and he got his
Speaker 6: helmet basically just shelled in the last preseason game, and
Speaker 6: I said, he's not ready. He didn't know, he didn't
Speaker 6: recognize the Sam Mike blitz. So you can only call
Speaker 6: plays of what your quarterback can handle. And so you know,
Speaker 6: you can only do so much to protect him. So really,
Speaker 6: Caleb Williams is going to dictate a lot of that,
Speaker 6: or say Tyson Bige and if he were out there,
Speaker 6: I mean there's only so much he can do. If
Speaker 6: a quarterback's going to get himself killed because he doesn't
Speaker 6: know what blitzers are coming or how to protect himself,
Speaker 6: and you're always calling max protections to help him out,
Speaker 6: there are ways to go about it, but a lot
Speaker 6: of it will be on Caleb Williams and what he's
Speaker 6: able to do. I think the rest of the guys
Speaker 6: will be fine other than a doonsday and Williams, who
Speaker 6: will be obviously huge contributors and going to play right away.
Speaker 7: You know one thing about the group of the offensive lineman.
Speaker 5: With the five guys that are up there playing at
Speaker 5: any one time, you want to minimalize the amount of
Speaker 5: conversation at the line of scrimmage because that's exactly what
Speaker 5: linebackers and defensive linemen are listening for. So when I
Speaker 5: continuously harp about the valuability of the offensive line in practice,
Speaker 5: that's where they develop that. No need verbalization at the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage to make sure that everybody's on the
Speaker 5: same page. And then if you have a defensive adjustment
Speaker 5: during the cadence, you have to make sure that everybody
Speaker 5: is still on the same page because you're not looking
Speaker 5: at anybody talking to anybody, and you.
Speaker 7: Don't have that time.
Speaker 5: So that's it's you know, one of the points of
Speaker 5: interest that I'm gonna have during training camp is watching
Speaker 5: the development of position segments, but you know, guys up
Speaker 5: front and making sure that all five guys, I guess
Speaker 5: you have to include the tight ends for that matter,
Speaker 5: that they're all on the same page without needing to
Speaker 5: communicate once they break the huddle.
Speaker 4: You know, one of the fascinating things I'm going to
Speaker 4: refer back to Albert Breer today. He had a conversation
Speaker 4: with some of the people involved with the drafting of
Speaker 4: the of the top three quarterbacks. But once the Bears decided, okay,
Speaker 4: moving on from Justin and they're gonna go and draft
Speaker 4: Caleb Williams, they used their time that each team could
Speaker 4: have three one hour zooms with the quarterback before the draft. Okay,
Speaker 4: this typically be a get to know you well, since
Speaker 4: he was number one and they had already determined that
Speaker 4: was the route they were taking. One was, according to
Speaker 4: Albert Breer, the terminology that they went right into the
Speaker 4: terminology what to call formations, motions and all that with
Speaker 4: Shane Waldron, the second one they installed their base the
Speaker 4: normal first and second down plays, third down during the
Speaker 4: third one they put in red zone and third down place.
Speaker 4: What a fantastic advantage to get even those just those
Speaker 4: three hours that he could then go back Jim and memorize,
Speaker 4: think about it, put it into action, and when he
Speaker 4: gets to Ricky Minnicamp of the OTAs, he's ahead of
Speaker 4: the game a little bit here, would you.
Speaker 6: Agree, well, he should be. He met with only one team.
Speaker 6: He didn't have to do that for eight other teams, right,
Speaker 6: Think of those other quarterbacks. They did that for say
Speaker 6: any team after number one. So if anything, it was
Speaker 6: simplified for Caleb Williams because he only basically reduced it
Speaker 6: to one team. It's much easier to learn a system
Speaker 6: of one rather than say the top ten teams who
Speaker 6: potentially could take you, and they're all being exposed to that.
Speaker 6: He was exposed to basically one. So we should have
Speaker 6: passed that with flying colors.
Speaker 5: You know one thing that would I would have interested in.
Speaker 5: I think Jim kind of brought it up before, is
Speaker 5: when you go through the installation period of putting in
Speaker 5: your playbook, how much can the quarterback handle because you
Speaker 5: don't want to put too much on his plate where
Speaker 5: he goes out there, then he has a confused three
Speaker 5: hour practice. You want to make sure that you give
Speaker 5: him enough information so he can go out there and
Speaker 5: know exactly what he's saying in the huddle. And I
Speaker 5: would believe in that type of meeting that you have
Speaker 5: with these young quarterbacks nowadays, you can get an indicator
Speaker 5: of how much they can absorb and still have an
Speaker 5: efficient practice, because the worst thing you do is give
Speaker 5: him too much and go out there and then it
Speaker 5: affects the entirety of everybody on the practice field.
Speaker 7: So I think that's a good indicator.
Speaker 4: Opportunity ahead, Coach Maddy this article saying that the guy's
Speaker 4: a worker, he wants to learn, he asks great questions,
Speaker 4: and he's a really good learner. So that's important at
Speaker 4: the quarterback position, without question. All Right, we're going to
Speaker 4: take a break. When we come back, a portion of
Speaker 4: our interview for our Beers Etc. Podcast last week with
Speaker 4: cornerback Tyreek Stevenson with Jim Miller and tomp There. I'm
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Speaker 4: Tom and I've been doing it here for the last
Speaker 4: year plus. Sat down last week with Tyreek Stevenson, who
Speaker 4: echoes what everyone feels in the building and outside of
Speaker 4: the building right now about the Bears and that it
Speaker 4: is flat out excitement about the future.
Speaker 2: I feel it. I feel like everybody else feel it.
Speaker 8: You know, last year it was talk of it because
Speaker 8: of the mindset that we pushed to everybody.
Speaker 2: But I feel like everybody can feel it.
Speaker 8: Everybody can feel the desire, everybody can feel the envy
Speaker 8: to win, like the agreed to go get it. I
Speaker 8: feel like everybody feels that. I feel like the guys
Speaker 8: on the team won't it. I know the offense wants
Speaker 8: to prove theirself and the offense want to go out
Speaker 8: here and be like we put all this together. We're
Speaker 8: not no bus and I know this and I know
Speaker 8: this defense want to stand on top of what we
Speaker 8: already said, like we felt like we are the best
Speaker 8: defense in the league, and we got to come out
Speaker 8: this year and step on stunt on that same stepping stone.
Speaker 4: Tyrek Stevenson's coming in hot. It's coming in hot because
Speaker 4: he finished the year really strong. You look at the
Speaker 4: numbers and the sixteen pass break number one among rookie
Speaker 4: I mean, just a lot of great stuff.
Speaker 2: The interceptions.
Speaker 4: I'm still trying to think of how you made that
Speaker 4: play on David and Jokuh. I mean that was stellar instincts,
Speaker 4: length and awareness. Reminding people with that play was he
Speaker 4: was open? Yeah, until he wasn't because you got in
Speaker 4: the mill.
Speaker 8: I'm being honest. I told my mom this and she's
Speaker 8: looked at me so scary. I was like, I don't
Speaker 8: remember that play. I don't remember. The only thing I
Speaker 8: remember is like realizing where no joke who was, realizing
Speaker 8: that the ball was in the air. And then the
Speaker 8: only thing I remember is like and tackle like because
Speaker 8: Boja was like get off of them, and I like,
Speaker 8: get off who?
Speaker 2: Like get off who?
Speaker 8: And I got up and I had the ball and
Speaker 8: got the video. I go to the end zone and
Speaker 8: I don't know how to celebrate because I don't. I
Speaker 8: still watch it to this day because I seriously remember
Speaker 8: what happened like it was a simple blur, but its.
Speaker 2: Reaction it felt it felt good. Though.
Speaker 4: That's when you know you're playing at a high level.
Speaker 8: That's when it just yeah, I feel like that's when
Speaker 8: your instinct kicking, like your football instinct. And that's exactly
Speaker 8: what happened. I don't remember the running, I remember the cutting,
Speaker 8: the spin. The only thing I remember is like breaking
Speaker 8: towards the ball and on the ground when they getting
Speaker 8: a pole off me. And the rest is history. Like
Speaker 8: even when I got to the sideline, everybody was like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, oh shit, I'm like, what happened? Like what,
Speaker 8: I'm like, what happen? Like they're like, you know, you
Speaker 8: don't know, you don't know, And I didn't realize. I
Speaker 8: got on the bus and like people just and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 8: I just want to remember, man. Yeah, I'm like, oh
Speaker 8: my god, Like I got I got that. I got
Speaker 8: that picture on my phone just so I can I
Speaker 8: can trotter. I don't remember it well.
Speaker 4: Now you set yourself a new new floor right in performance,
Speaker 4: so as you took stock of what you did. And
Speaker 4: I don't know what you have been doing this offseason
Speaker 4: in terms of getting ready and so forth, and if
Speaker 4: you've dug into your tape anymore, but you faced a lot.
Speaker 4: I mean, he had one hundred and ten targets and
Speaker 4: he had one of the best in the NFL on
Speaker 4: the other side, Jalen Johnson, and congrats on his pay day.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you're more than just a second
Speaker 4: your player because you almost had a couple of years
Speaker 4: in one last year because you played like a veteran.
Speaker 8: I felt like I've been here for I feel like it,
Speaker 8: and I feel like the guys feel it too. But
Speaker 8: like you said, I evaluated my game a lot. I
Speaker 8: feel like during the season I took like year one year,
Speaker 8: two year, three steps just because of having one of
Speaker 8: the best corners in the nation on the other side.
Speaker 8: So it gave me that room to operate and you know,
Speaker 8: take all the time. I was the second most targeted corner,
Speaker 8: I was the second I think I was the first
Speaker 8: or second like corner that gave what the most receptions.
Speaker 8: I was right guards top five for testdowns allowed like yards,
Speaker 8: I was the top five yards, so it's just and
Speaker 8: still end up coming out for interception sixteen pvus eighty
Speaker 8: some tackle. So it just like I feel like I'm
Speaker 8: more than a second year player coming in. I feel
Speaker 8: like I'm on your four or five and this and
Speaker 8: this year I got to prove myself, you know, all
Speaker 8: pro six interceptions. No, I'm I'm putting that out into
Speaker 8: the world because that's what I'm aiming for.
Speaker 4: Nice love to hear that. Kevin Byern back in the
Speaker 4: back end, a veteran, tremendous ballhawk in his career, very
Speaker 4: business like approach, hard hitter. You know you got Kyler
Speaker 4: in his third year, jaquant, I.
Speaker 2: Mean this is really guy hives.
Speaker 4: I meant, dudes back there in that secondary so behind
Speaker 4: you know, two of the best inside linebackers in this
Speaker 4: league right now. And Tremaine Edmunds and t J.
Speaker 2: Edwards. Let's talk about you.
Speaker 4: The big thing that we just learned is you graduated.
Speaker 4: You got your degree from Miamia, Florida. And I know
Speaker 4: parents always want their athletes to go back and get
Speaker 4: their make promises. Tell me how this is all unfolded
Speaker 4: and what it means.
Speaker 8: So career started off at Georgia, spent two years there,
Speaker 8: and what people what most people don't know is I
Speaker 8: was supposed to graduate a year early. I was on
Speaker 8: a three year program once I got to Georgia, but
Speaker 8: once I decided to transfer and go back home to Miami,
Speaker 8: I lost seventeen credits.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so it was yeah, so it was.
Speaker 8: Like so it was like I got every I got
Speaker 8: all my classes took away from me. So it was
Speaker 8: like a restepping stone. I didn't want to do it,
Speaker 8: but I promised my mom that, you know, I graduated,
Speaker 8: and that was the end goal. You know, she only
Speaker 8: things she really asked me to do is graduate high school.
Speaker 8: You know, everything right now is just estra and she's
Speaker 8: just so happy and I'm so blessed, you know, to
Speaker 8: be in this position. But you know, once I graduated
Speaker 8: high school, I had an opportunity. I told her, I said,
Speaker 8: I'm gona make a promise you. I'm gonna graduate college.
Speaker 8: You know, you asked me to graduate high school. I'm
Speaker 8: gonna make you a promise to graduate college. So anything.
Speaker 8: Even last year when I got here, I left early.
Speaker 8: I couldn't do spring because I was training, and you know,
Speaker 8: I spoke to the people at school and let them
Speaker 8: know that this is something I want to do. You know,
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, I'm a football player,
Speaker 8: but I want to be a alumni of one of
Speaker 8: the most prestigious universities. And I also have my mom
Speaker 8: proud of that, you know.
Speaker 4: And if I'm not mistaken, first in your family, yeah,
Speaker 4: first myself. So how does that get you as a
Speaker 4: young man?
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know, to be honest, I try to
Speaker 8: look at just the positive of it, you know, like
Speaker 8: being the first to graduate high school in my family,
Speaker 8: being the first first.
Speaker 2: To graduate high school. Also you're kidding me, Yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: the first to NFL, the first to you know, make
Speaker 2: some money. It's just the first everything.
Speaker 8: So I always try to take that as a positive
Speaker 8: thing and always wear on my shoulder, you know, not
Speaker 8: like a chip, but more like a more like a badge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you're gonna pay. You're paving the way for
Speaker 4: others in your family to come and and and you
Speaker 4: know from your community.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just told my cousin.
Speaker 8: I had to talk with them when I went down,
Speaker 8: and I was like, you know, we we we're not
Speaker 8: fortunate enough to have some male role models.
Speaker 2: So you know, I took that upon myself to be
Speaker 2: the male role model for y'all.
Speaker 8: You know, it was heart going out with out of
Speaker 8: that growing out without God and is growing up without
Speaker 8: knowing this and that is not right. So I want
Speaker 8: to take that upon myself to be that dude to
Speaker 8: pave the waight, no matter how, no matter if it's rain, sleep,
Speaker 8: you know, whatever it is, I'm out there, you know,
Speaker 8: paving the way so we all can walk together.
Speaker 4: A great stuff from Tyreek Stevens and Tom and Jim.
Speaker 4: I know Tom really appreciates that that angle to the
Speaker 4: the end of that conversation, but I just love the
Speaker 4: guy's enthusiasm, confidence, commitment, and we appreciate him being a Bear.
Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, I gotta tell you, Jeff, it's one
Speaker 5: of the best interviews I've ever heard from a Chicago
Speaker 5: Bear because everything he said was hugely important to him,
Speaker 5: to his teammates, to his family, and to his future.
Speaker 5: But you know, everybody assumes that the toughest guy on
Speaker 5: the football team is the guy that stands six eight
Speaker 5: and three hundred and fifty pounds, and it's got that
Speaker 5: look on his face like you know can make people scared.
Speaker 5: He's one of the toughest guys on the Bears football team.
Speaker 5: He's a hard hitting football player. He got dinged up
Speaker 5: a couple times in games last year and was able
Speaker 5: to come back. And now to hear that interview, my
Speaker 5: impression of him has changed totally and I'm glad that
Speaker 5: Bears fans have had a chance to hear it.
Speaker 6: It's a tall, lean corner who's big and physical. Like
Speaker 6: Tom said, he is not afraid to strike, and like
Speaker 6: you mentioned, Jeff, for him to finish in the top
Speaker 6: ten for cornerbacks, I think says it all. Bears identified
Speaker 6: it early, That's why they selected him when they did,
Speaker 6: and I think he proved exactly who he is and
Speaker 6: he's only going to get better and better and better.
Speaker 3: In my opinion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of publications and people who scot these
Speaker 4: things and right about these things have him as one
Speaker 4: of the breakout players for twenty twenty four, potentially in
Speaker 4: the NFL. So Tyreek Stevenson love the way he plays
Speaker 4: the game, always bringing something to the table, and he's
Speaker 4: not afraid to say what went wrong last year and
Speaker 4: also embraces what went right when we come back our
Speaker 4: final thoughts, some thoughts on Tom's most important backups per position.
Speaker 4: Maybe Jim's got the thoughts as well. Our remaining momentaried
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Speaker 4: be able to get an in by igs energy remaining
Speaker 4: two minutes or so most important backups, Tom, Let's start
Speaker 4: on defense. You've nailed corner Terrell Smith, linebacker Jack Sanborn,
Speaker 4: and defensive end Austin Booker.
Speaker 5: Why because I think they're role on this football team
Speaker 5: something of the most important position, defensive backs. I think
Speaker 5: Terrell Smith gives those guys a good cornerback that can
Speaker 5: fill in, good size, a good cover guy. Everybody knows
Speaker 5: what Jack Sanborn has been about in special team. To
Speaker 5: a backup linebacker on this football team, I think he
Speaker 5: really gives the defense a lot of versatility when they
Speaker 5: want to go to three linebacker set. And to me,
Speaker 5: I think everybody's still searching for that compliment in the
Speaker 5: pass rushing in Austin Booker.
Speaker 7: I hope can be included in that role. Jim, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't find fault with those at all unless you
Speaker 4: got somebody else to throw on there. Otherwise I can
Speaker 4: move on to offense with Tom thinking because injuries do happen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would think, yeah, I'm good with those. And
Speaker 6: I think you would think the backup nickel to Spider
Speaker 6: Man Kyler Gordon, right, Josh Blackwell is a Greg Stroman.
Speaker 6: There'll be a nice competition there, So I'd add that
Speaker 6: one into the mix.
Speaker 4: Tyson bag In at QB Batas Jones junior wide receiver,
Speaker 4: kick returner, tight end Tommy Sweeney just signed last weekend
Speaker 4: and Karna, I'm a Guyji Tommy.
Speaker 5: You know, I just think there's an experience in that
Speaker 5: third tight end role Vayalas Jones that he can be
Speaker 5: on that. If he is dynamic and kickoff returns, maybe
Speaker 5: that will give him some self confidence in the receiver role.
Speaker 7: We saw what he could do out of the backfield
Speaker 7: as a running back.
Speaker 5: In some sweeps, and everybody knows Tyson Bagent Roshan Johnson.
Speaker 5: They have to get into the second year of this
Speaker 5: program and really be an important part because especially guy
Speaker 5: like Rochean could get some snaps.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a gaji Tommy Jim In their final thirty seconds,
Speaker 4: I'd say anybody available on the offensive line because that
Speaker 4: group has to be ready to jump in at any moment.
Speaker 4: They got a lot of veteran depth.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I am concerned about receiver if say the DJ
Speaker 6: Moore and Keenan Allen were to be out Tyler Scott,
Speaker 6: Dante Petis, Velis Jones Junior. You know those guys have
Speaker 6: not done enough yet, so they need to work hard
Speaker 6: here this offseason.
Speaker 4: Jimmy, thank you so much. Talk to you next week.
Speaker 4: That's gonna do it for us. For Tom and Jim,
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