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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Johnny ac along went broadcast partner Tom There
Speaker 1: from news radio seven eighty one or five point ninew BBM.
Speaker 1: How you doing this evening? I'm doing good to Big Jeff,
Speaker 1: how you doing. I'm fantastic. Chiefs coming into town, rolling
Speaker 1: in for a Sunday night matchup. Glad they kept the
Speaker 1: start time at seven twenty. The reasons are obvious. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of good reasons. One is that these guys
Speaker 1: got to stay dialed in. This is not going to
Speaker 1: be a playoff here obviously in twenty nineteen. But for
Speaker 1: each and every one of those guys that are going
Speaker 1: to play on Sunday night, they it's about pride in
Speaker 1: themselves and pride for the football team and where they're
Speaker 1: headed down road. You know, it's still about the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and that's the one thing about this year. I know
Speaker 1: there's been some difficulties, but I don't ever want to
Speaker 1: lose that phrase out of the conversation of improvement, because
Speaker 1: if you have any other goal other than winning your division,
Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs and winning the super Bowl, we're
Speaker 1: all kind of wasting our time here. So I think
Speaker 1: it is about the Bears getting better these next two games.
Speaker 1: It's about the continuous improvement of Mitchell Trubisky, finding a
Speaker 1: little bit more details out about guys like Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: Jasper Horstead, you know, just just to name a few,
Speaker 1: Kevin Tolliver and stuff. So, I you know, I know
Speaker 1: it's a different season, but I don't think you ever
Speaker 1: lose your focus and ultimately what your goal is do accomplish.
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Speaker 1: you alongside. Cordarrol Patterson will be our guest tonight here
Speaker 1: in studio, so I'll be looking forward to to talk
Speaker 1: to him then waiting off season long. He's a very
Speaker 1: interesting guy, terrific, high character individual, who loves the game
Speaker 1: of football, and you can see it each and every
Speaker 1: time he takes the field. So we'll get into him,
Speaker 1: but right now, let's let's take a look at what
Speaker 1: the Bears are going to be facing in Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: The inevitable comparisons. You heard it all this week about
Speaker 1: the comparisons of he and Mitchell Trubisky, Matt Naggie and
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. We're gonna hear about Dave Tobe, We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear about Chris Tabor. You're gonna hear a lot. But
Speaker 1: that Chief's team is a powerful team. It's a fast team,
Speaker 1: speedious offense. I've seen on tape all season long, and
Speaker 1: maybe in a long time. I go back to watch
Speaker 1: and when the Tampa defense or even the Bears defense
Speaker 1: at times during love here, it was loaded with speed
Speaker 1: at different areas of the field. But they've got it
Speaker 1: all over the field offense and defense. Well, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: So what do you do? I mean, you don't let
Speaker 1: him have the luxury of time. You try to take
Speaker 1: that away from him. You try to put pressure in
Speaker 1: the face of Patrick Mahomes as quickly as you can.
Speaker 1: You try to address the situation at the offense at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. I'm talking about receivers and running
Speaker 1: backs and stuff as a imediately as you can, so
Speaker 1: it's not like you're going to play passive football. You've
Speaker 1: got really nothing to play for, so you can be
Speaker 1: as aggressive as you want and nothing scares a team more.
Speaker 1: That's getting ready for the playoffs is having a home
Speaker 1: opponent with a hostile crowd, and then as the aggressive
Speaker 1: as you have the possibilities of being. Like all quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: they do dissolve a little bit under pressure. He Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: his percentage completion percentage is drastically different under pressure, but
Speaker 1: he still makes big plays under pressure because he's got
Speaker 1: that guns linger mentality. Where do you see him being
Speaker 1: attackable by the Bears defense? You know, I think it's
Speaker 1: they're kind of fortunate to play back to back games
Speaker 1: against Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Holmes because I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the philosophical thinking of how you attack great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks starts with the way you attack Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: can filter to Patrick Mahomes. So I think the direction
Speaker 1: that you want to put pressure on him, which way
Speaker 1: do you want to force him to be the most
Speaker 1: vulnerable when he's trying to gay pressure and trying to
Speaker 1: advance the ball forward. I don't I think that you
Speaker 1: have a contained rush that you try to keep him
Speaker 1: inside a small area to work with, even though he's
Speaker 1: got the arm talent that is as good as anybody
Speaker 1: out there. I do think that you can when you,
Speaker 1: you know, get him on an outdoor, natural grass field cold,
Speaker 1: see the way his receivers are running, if if it's
Speaker 1: if the atmosphere is you know, blustery and stuff. So
Speaker 1: I think he didn't care about that. Said, but you
Speaker 1: have see that NFL films. Yeah, but you have to
Speaker 1: take everything into account when you're thinking about how you're
Speaker 1: attacking him. That's supposed to be forty eight degrees too.
Speaker 1: You know, you would like a little snowstorm or something
Speaker 1: like that little holiday. Well, I mean, look at the
Speaker 1: evidence that they have. Last week they're playing in a
Speaker 1: snowstorm against the Denver Broncos, and that's like the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos aren't there and is only the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: having fun. Well, he has fourteen passes of forty yards
Speaker 1: or more, nine for touchdowns. That's number one in the league.
Speaker 1: And that's certainly what his m as, no question about it.
Speaker 1: But he's got all this speed. Obviously this is a
Speaker 1: track team a little bit. But then you at that
Speaker 1: tight end Travis Kelsey, and we keep talking about the
Speaker 1: tight end position all year long, and you see what
Speaker 1: zach Ertz does in Philadelphia, what Kelsey does for this
Speaker 1: system with Andy Reid, and you know that's what Mattnegie
Speaker 1: wants for the Bears eventually. Yeah, you know what. And
Speaker 1: I know when you talk about the two tight ends
Speaker 1: from Philly and from Kansas City, you're talking about guys
Speaker 1: that have been around for a long period of time
Speaker 1: and to have put up some great numbers. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in watching the career development of Jesper
Speaker 1: Horstead because when you look at his ability to catch
Speaker 1: the ball, I think he has the hands that are
Speaker 1: good enough to qualify him to be a contender in
Speaker 1: the tight end position. As he gets bigger and stronger,
Speaker 1: he develops into a better blocker, I think that's going
Speaker 1: to provide more opportunities for him to catch the ball.
Speaker 1: So the position they've been searching for the most, I
Speaker 1: do think there's a guy there that they really have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to develop. So I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: panic situation about the tight end position. I think it's
Speaker 1: about the development of JP Holtz and Jesper Horstead. Defensively,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones outstanding defensive line. Gotta block him. He can
Speaker 1: bad dude, he can wreck a game. Yeah, he's so
Speaker 1: quick in the middle that he can put pressure on
Speaker 1: a quarterback into in a backfield on a running place,
Speaker 1: so with such immediacy that he allows the other guys
Speaker 1: to you know, kind of tackle around him. But his
Speaker 1: snap count efficiency, his innate ability to stay on sides
Speaker 1: within then come off the ball with explosiveness, and the
Speaker 1: honey Badger he's he's playing well. Tyren Matthew playing very
Speaker 1: well for them in that secondary. So you're gonna wait
Speaker 1: and see what you're gonna trying to exploit. Obviously against
Speaker 1: these Chiefs. Well, that's why I think the defense is better.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting because I think as much as
Speaker 1: you taught look at a comparative comparison between Mitch and Mahomes,
Speaker 1: how does each head coach, how does each play caller
Speaker 1: call the game? Because I think that's what you're gonna see. People.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come back and say, oh, did you see
Speaker 1: what Andy Reid did on third down when his back
Speaker 1: was up against the goal line. Oh, did you see
Speaker 1: what he did in the red zone at this particular point. So,
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot of comparisons there
Speaker 1: of of the overall efficiency and the style of attack
Speaker 1: by the office. Looks like a team's gonna play good good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just wanted to be healthy. The Chiem Hicks,
Speaker 1: He's another guy that we sit up here and we
Speaker 1: talk about the defensive tackle for Kansas City Chiefs and
Speaker 1: Chris Jones and how good he is. You look at
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman they're back there talking about how powerful
Speaker 1: a Chiem Hicks is and what he can add to
Speaker 1: the interior the Bears defensive line that helps expose opportunities
Speaker 1: to Khalil Mack and Leonard Floyd. All right, when you
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Speaker 1: a load of the Pro Bowler, an All decade member
Speaker 1: of the USA Today team. How about a big loud
Speaker 1: welcome in a big hand for Corderoll Patterson everybody? How
Speaker 1: about that stuff? Man? All? Yeah, the Pro Bowl is nice,
Speaker 1: this will be your third but all decade, all decade
Speaker 1: with Kalel Mack's right. Yeah, but you know what certainly deserving.
Speaker 1: You've been the best. You've been the best in the
Speaker 1: return game, man, and you've expanded your game over over
Speaker 1: years to become, you know, this season, arguably the best
Speaker 1: gunner in the National Football League. It's been a pleasure
Speaker 1: to watch you on special teams and then the stuff
Speaker 1: you do on offense as well. So congratulations for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a town that had Devin Hester.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, he's a Hall of famer. He'd better be
Speaker 1: a Hall of famer. But you know, to be an
Speaker 1: all decade performer in any era is a significant accomplishment.
Speaker 1: What do you think of it? Yeah, I really haven't.
Speaker 1: I've just seen it an hour ago and the Bears
Speaker 1: posted in it. You know, it still haven't hit it
Speaker 1: me yet, man, because you know, you got grace like
Speaker 1: Devin Heister and guess there's all those guys who changed
Speaker 1: the game, you know, who paid the way for me.
Speaker 1: So growing up as a kid, you know, looking up
Speaker 1: to those guys you know now get to play in
Speaker 1: safe field they played on this. It's kind of just outstanding, man.
Speaker 1: You know, I remember I really wanted an interview you
Speaker 1: ever since you return the kickoff against the Bears for
Speaker 1: the touchdown, and you know that it was such a
Speaker 1: big play that came back to haunt the Bears all
Speaker 1: throughout the offseason. But you know, that's that's where your
Speaker 1: talent lives. You know, you're one of the most threatening
Speaker 1: kick returners in the history of the NFL. So now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with the way kickoff
Speaker 1: returners are now because I enjoy that you return it
Speaker 1: all the time. That's what that's what I want to see.
Speaker 1: So when the ball is kicked off, do you follow
Speaker 1: the flight of the ball the entire way, or do
Speaker 1: you have a chance to peek at the coverage and
Speaker 1: then refocus on the football. I'm not really worrying about
Speaker 1: the coverage and stuff because I trust those ten guys
Speaker 1: that's out the blocking for me. And you know, in
Speaker 1: Tave's he give me the green Like each and every
Speaker 1: time the ball is kick he say, if you can
Speaker 1: get to the ball, we're gonna return it, don't matter
Speaker 1: no matter where is that if it's kicking on deep
Speaker 1: or whatever. And he always say when we're playing at home,
Speaker 1: is they got to kick it in the river for
Speaker 1: us now to return the ball? So we're gonna always
Speaker 1: return the Thank goodness because what the league has done
Speaker 1: with the rules of the game. And I'm an old
Speaker 1: fashioned guy. I love the way the game was born
Speaker 1: and how it was meant to be played. And it
Speaker 1: includes kickoffs. It includes you know, on sight kicks, it
Speaker 1: includes all of that, everything that you're good at. Were
Speaker 1: you worried at any point in your career when things
Speaker 1: started changing with the kickoffs, They basically saying this a
Speaker 1: precaution reason or tournamentimize concussions and stuff like that. But
Speaker 1: you know, some guys they only play special teams, and
Speaker 1: you know that's that's the only job. And you know,
Speaker 1: some people, we just go out there give it our heart.
Speaker 1: You know, you're trying to take the fun out of
Speaker 1: the game for some of us gots. So every chance
Speaker 1: we get out of get out there, we just try
Speaker 1: to make a play. Every game I've ever played in
Speaker 1: in the NFL, I was on kickoff return from a
Speaker 1: first game to my last game, and you think how
Speaker 1: specifically choreographed blocking scheme is on the kickoff return. Um
Speaker 1: The one against the Chicago Bears that you return, it
Speaker 1: seemed like they had a creaset open and you were
Speaker 1: gone there. I mean it was, it was evident. So
Speaker 1: when you you got to read your first blockers to
Speaker 1: your second level, to your third level. Is when you
Speaker 1: talk about an offensive running player, there's a line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and everything beyond it. When you talk about a
Speaker 1: kickoff return, you're reading blocks for almost thirty five yards.
Speaker 1: Is that something that you you just do on the move,
Speaker 1: or because of the way the returns are choreographed, you
Speaker 1: know kind of how to pre predict what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in front of you. It all starts that practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Coach days. He gives us every look that's possible, what
Speaker 1: that coordinated and did over every year. So he's out
Speaker 1: there for twenty minutes just going over kickoff return. So
Speaker 1: he gave us a good, good insight on you know,
Speaker 1: what they expect from those guys. So and it's all
Speaker 1: about your instinct, man. You just gotta you know, you
Speaker 1: just gotta go out there and just be ready. You know,
Speaker 1: some guys they don't trust the eight blocks, you know,
Speaker 1: and I trusting these guys one hundred percent. So every
Speaker 1: time the ball is kid, we're gonna bring it out.
Speaker 1: So after the flyer play that you didn't get the fumble,
Speaker 1: that was an obvious fumble. I saw you right after halftime.
Speaker 1: You walked out of the locker room when you walked
Speaker 1: right up to an official. Were you still talking to
Speaker 1: the official about that play? Of course? Man? First that
Speaker 1: got did I got a locker room. Man. I went
Speaker 1: straight to my cell phone. You know, my girlfriend she
Speaker 1: sent me a video of it, and I just watched
Speaker 1: it like thirty times, like no, no, lie, I watched
Speaker 1: it like thirty times, just Washington, Washington watching it, and
Speaker 1: I started on coach tays and everything, and it was
Speaker 1: like that was a good play. So what did you
Speaker 1: address to the official at that time, just how you
Speaker 1: knew that he was wrong, or did you kind of
Speaker 1: explain the A to B two C type of play there? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: I would never tell officially wrong even though when they wrong, right,
Speaker 1: she can't tell him that. So I just went up.
Speaker 1: So I was like, hey, what was going on at
Speaker 1: that play? He was like, you got there too early?
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I didn't. I just I
Speaker 1: just watched the film over and over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over, and I got there so as he
Speaker 1: caught the ball and I made a play. If you
Speaker 1: brought him a doughnut, you think he would have honestly, Man,
Speaker 1: this week, I think I'm going to bring my four
Speaker 1: dozen and dough nuts ball? All right? So I'm kickoff,
Speaker 1: returning to following the flight of the ball. And so
Speaker 1: now on a punt team, do you ever get a
Speaker 1: chance to track the football or is it all you're
Speaker 1: following the kick returner and how he's reacting. Oh, you
Speaker 1: definitely got to watch the ball, but you can't look
Speaker 1: at it too too long because you know you got
Speaker 1: no great returners out there. They they trick in with
Speaker 1: the things they do. So I just try to get
Speaker 1: a good field for what the ball was, Pattio's kicking it,
Speaker 1: and just how to look at returns. Is he gonna
Speaker 1: catch it? In Cordell Patterson our guest here on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This is a Bears
Speaker 1: All access from PNC Studios at had us all brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy. I want to say what
Speaker 1: I have to say about that play. So when when
Speaker 1: when it happened, I lost my mind, I really did.
Speaker 1: I could not believe that that was a reversal or
Speaker 1: they wouldn't say that it's Bears football, because that's the
Speaker 1: underrated aspect of this that no one's It was a
Speaker 1: possession change into the Bear's hands of a great field position,
Speaker 1: and then you got a penalty and a thirty five
Speaker 1: yard line start for the greatest quarterback arguably in the game.
Speaker 1: That's tough duty for your defense. Talk about sudden change,
Speaker 1: that's that is like a turnover by the offense. That's
Speaker 1: that's essentially what it was. But what was the explanation
Speaker 1: they gave you? That's the part I'm looking for beyond
Speaker 1: saying that. But you say, you know, oh, you're you
Speaker 1: didn't give him room, but you reacted and he never
Speaker 1: put his hand in the air. That's that's a veteran
Speaker 1: in Tremont Williams. Yeah, it's kind of no answer they
Speaker 1: can give. You know, I feel like once they make
Speaker 1: a call, they're gonna stick to it because you know,
Speaker 1: they're just like any human being. Whatever they say go
Speaker 1: if they don't want to be wrong. So whatever they
Speaker 1: call the States And yeah, all right, Tom talked about instincts.
Speaker 1: You talked about instincts in the return game, but you're old.
Speaker 1: Coach George Stewart with the Minnesota Vikings said, the man
Speaker 1: was blessed with great vision. And when I used to
Speaker 1: interview Devin Hester, that's right, don't we love Devin Hester? Everybody?
Speaker 1: He always used to tell me, because you know, you're
Speaker 1: trying to dig into the mind of a great player,
Speaker 1: and he always told me he just looked for color,
Speaker 1: the opposite team's color. And that's what his vision was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily lanes and green grass. It was color,
Speaker 1: and so you see color, you run the other way.
Speaker 1: He made it that simple. Is it that simple? When
Speaker 1: you got ahead of steam as an explosive a player
Speaker 1: as you are. I mean, David hust anything simple for him, man,
Speaker 1: because the great things he did. You know, if he's seen,
Speaker 1: you know the cluer. He goes all the way. And
Speaker 1: I'm a guy I just look at the end zone
Speaker 1: when I see the zone, just trying to get to
Speaker 1: the endzone every time I get the ball in my hands,
Speaker 1: no matter what. One of the best plays of the season,
Speaker 1: the one of the most exciting plays, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if I ran in the locker room that week
Speaker 1: or whatever, was when you sprinted to the ball on
Speaker 1: the punt and it became an exciting play. You chasing
Speaker 1: the ball so it wouldn't go on the ends. And
Speaker 1: one game was that again, when you're down that punt
Speaker 1: inside first Detroit game, that was one of the most
Speaker 1: exciting plays of the season. I literally was out of
Speaker 1: my mind. Is he gonna get there? And he got
Speaker 1: there and touched the ball down. That's fun stuff. When
Speaker 1: you talk about exciting plays, people just want to dismiss
Speaker 1: special teams as a necessity. Like our guy Doug Collette
Speaker 1: always says, it's the most important down on football is
Speaker 1: fourth down. That was a great play, an underrated, ridiculous play.
Speaker 1: You chasing a football to down it. But because you're
Speaker 1: so fast and so explosive, that became an exciting play.
Speaker 1: People were out of their seats with that one. Do
Speaker 1: you even have that kind of excitement for that play? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: That play? It was amazing. Man, Patio, he'd been doing
Speaker 1: hell of a job. Pattle down everybody, patal down it.
Speaker 1: He's been doing heck of a job all year, given
Speaker 1: us gunners, you know, opportunities to make plays each and
Speaker 1: every Sunday, Thursday, Monday. So whenever he put the ball
Speaker 1: or we just had to go out and get in,
Speaker 1: there's no way I couldn't get to that ball because
Speaker 1: it balanced it perfectly and it just landed where only
Speaker 1: I could have gotten the ball. At the time, you know,
Speaker 1: it looked like you and Sheriff McManus had a really
Speaker 1: fun competitive flyer type of competition after betting. Then Shrik
Speaker 1: got hurt. Now you got Deon Bush out there. We
Speaker 1: had Shrik on here a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: he talked about the competitive fund that you guys could have. Specifically,
Speaker 1: he was, you know, he's a he's a great special
Speaker 1: team player that's made a career at it at a
Speaker 1: high level. Do you have to kind of poke the
Speaker 1: guy whoever takes over for Sherick McManus to try to
Speaker 1: get that enthusiasm out of him, or Dion Bush stepping
Speaker 1: up to the plate, does he approach it with the
Speaker 1: same enthusiasm that you and Sherrik were doing. I mean, Dion,
Speaker 1: he already knew what what's that stake, So he knows
Speaker 1: Shri was the ace of our special team. So he
Speaker 1: he's not trying to be better than him. He's not
Speaker 1: trying to be him. He's just trying to go in
Speaker 1: and just just feel the rule and just playing a part,
Speaker 1: you know, just not trying to be somebody you're not.
Speaker 1: Cordelle Patterson our guest. We're gonna take a break here
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Speaker 1: Jeff and Tom with you and pleased to be joined
Speaker 1: by our special guest this week, the Pro Bowler, third
Speaker 1: time named to the Pro Bowl, Cordarrel Patterson, and what
Speaker 1: has been an outstanding year for him? Number two and
Speaker 1: average and kick return but number one in yards and
Speaker 1: I believe still you're the only player in the league
Speaker 1: to have three one hundred plus yard return days. And
Speaker 1: you know you started looking at those things. Hey, it's
Speaker 1: like running backs. You know, you only get so many opportunities.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a pretty good number right there too.
Speaker 1: I always ask the returners who happened to be the
Speaker 1: returner for the whole see how many looks like a
Speaker 1: guy who misses sacks, And they think about how many
Speaker 1: they missed and not the number they got. And sometimes
Speaker 1: those numbers can really I should have had twenty five sacks,
Speaker 1: you know they have ten or something. How many kick
Speaker 1: return touchdowns do you think you left down the table
Speaker 1: this year or you not in your own doing obviously,
Speaker 1: but you think that way. No, I don't think that. Okay,
Speaker 1: you think that you start stressing up, Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: think Yeah, have you ever been stressed out in your
Speaker 1: years playing the NFL? No, it's it's never. It's football.
Speaker 1: You know, you're one of the rare ones. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just blessed get this opportunity to play this game.
Speaker 1: So why would I be scressed playing this game? Do
Speaker 1: you know guys that are and do you help them?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys that's chriss planet. You just
Speaker 1: just got to talk to him, man, because that's my
Speaker 1: seven year and it feel like I'm still on my
Speaker 1: second year. So it go byself fast. You just gotta
Speaker 1: take take advantage of it. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people looking up you're There's not a lot of
Speaker 1: people as talented as you are to do what you
Speaker 1: do too, So I think there's a lot of people.
Speaker 1: You know, I was drafting the fourth Rong, but every
Speaker 1: single day I came suspicious if I still had a job,
Speaker 1: you know, because you do, you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of insecurity. Cor Darryl. You could sit them down on
Speaker 1: a couch right now and have a field day. You
Speaker 1: talk about a guy that's stressed, but you play without.
Speaker 1: You play with other guys like single single, Terry or Walter,
Speaker 1: they don't have a great deal of stress because they
Speaker 1: know they're at they're perfect at their job. So it's different.
Speaker 1: Guys have different But do you think it's more because
Speaker 1: you were an offensive lineman? That's how offensive lineman think
Speaker 1: in general? Yeah? Yeah, I mean because you know, if
Speaker 1: you if you play seventy five offensive plays and you
Speaker 1: give up a sack and a tackle for a loss,
Speaker 1: the whole game's bad. No matter if you had sixty
Speaker 1: eight other pancake blocks, it's still a bad game. So
Speaker 1: stress the different. One thing about Pro Bowl or do
Speaker 1: you have you did you ever go to a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl in Hawaii? And are you would you rather go
Speaker 1: back to Hawaii or do you like in Florida. I
Speaker 1: went my rookie year. It was in Hawaiian I feel
Speaker 1: like they should take it back to thank you and
Speaker 1: and and not just because of the great weather and
Speaker 1: it's an exotic vacation, but Tom spends a big trunk
Speaker 1: of the year in Maui. But you you feel because
Speaker 1: of their love of football on the islands and the
Speaker 1: types of players that have come from Hawaii. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: more obvious than Olan Creutz, the great center we had
Speaker 1: here that it's it's important to that environment there, that culture, right,
Speaker 1: that culture, that community, the fan base out there. It's
Speaker 1: you know, high school football, college football is big out there.
Speaker 1: But I think it's more, you know, the attraction to
Speaker 1: the players. It was kind of like, Wow, you're an
Speaker 1: All Star and you're going overseas to play in an
Speaker 1: All Star Game with some Now that you have experience,
Speaker 1: you probably met most of the guys, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you're a young guy going there for the first time,
Speaker 1: it is like you're going to Fantasy Island to play football.
Speaker 1: And I know it's the Pro Bowl, but it's still
Speaker 1: quite a reward. Of course. Man, I just like just
Speaker 1: being over there to get away from all my family.
Speaker 1: You know, in Florida, they could just drive up six
Speaker 1: hours away, So why you just can't get in a
Speaker 1: car and drive there. So there they already bugging you
Speaker 1: about this one. Man, Oh my god. Really they already
Speaker 1: say they already got their rooms and stuff. Though, Well,
Speaker 1: I see that it's a good thing that that's a
Speaker 1: lot of love right there for their guy. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get the sense it gets it too expensive for Cordero.
Speaker 1: Patterson's well, you're one away from an NFL record tying
Speaker 1: eighth touchdown in the return game, and that's something even
Speaker 1: Devin Hester didn't accomplish when you put it in those terms,
Speaker 1: And I know you and I wanted to sit you down,
Speaker 1: you know, after number seven, but you said, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. But you know, I'm glad you're talking.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're sharing your story and because you appreciate
Speaker 1: greatness and we're seeing it. We appreciate the guys who
Speaker 1: love the game and self made players. And your journey
Speaker 1: to get here was not simple. It just wasn't, you know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like you stayed four years at one college
Speaker 1: and we first round pick. You had to work your
Speaker 1: way get to Tennessee. You got to be a first
Speaker 1: round pick. But this is, you know, your third team,
Speaker 1: and it's not like it's been just a straight line
Speaker 1: like some guys. And your story, though, is interesting, and
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the fact that you're putting in the time.
Speaker 1: I am the effort because you love the game and
Speaker 1: I heard you say that today. Your love of the
Speaker 1: game is something that's significant. You just said it yourself.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like you've been around for seven years.
Speaker 1: You know. It is a kid's game, but it's a
Speaker 1: man's game too. And where did that love begin for
Speaker 1: this game? I would say like six six or seven,
Speaker 1: you know, just growing up under my mama's wings. You know,
Speaker 1: she the smile and the joy she had on her face,
Speaker 1: you know, just kicking us out of the house, telling
Speaker 1: us go out and do things outside instead of being
Speaker 1: in the house. And you know, I got introduced to
Speaker 1: football and then you know, I didn't look back every
Speaker 1: since because she was always there. You know, every game,
Speaker 1: every practice is just just just doing what mothers do,
Speaker 1: you know, single mother, you know, raising three kids. So
Speaker 1: that's that's why I'm always happy enjoying this game and
Speaker 1: I'll never looked back. You know. There was a guy,
Speaker 1: Rob Nickovic who went to Jolia Junior College and then
Speaker 1: went on to play for the New England Patriots and
Speaker 1: have a lot of success. You went to a junior college,
Speaker 1: what changed in you as an athlete from your senior
Speaker 1: year in high school through two years of college junior college,
Speaker 1: because then you go to Tennessee for one year and
Speaker 1: you declare eligible for the draft. Where this kind of
Speaker 1: a weird question where you're talented after high school that
Speaker 1: you knew that that's where you could grow into and
Speaker 1: what did happen during those junior college years to turn
Speaker 1: you into the player you became As I was a
Speaker 1: little as a little kid, I was always the fast guy,
Speaker 1: you know, the fastest guy on the field. And you know,
Speaker 1: going up in high school, you know, I didn't play
Speaker 1: my knife in tenth grade year. I sought out those
Speaker 1: two years. I played my eleven and twelfth grade year.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a crazy story, man. So and I
Speaker 1: to my twelfth grade year. You know, I sought out
Speaker 1: another year because I was going to a junior college.
Speaker 1: But you know I wanted to go to a prep
Speaker 1: school that was closest to home, you know. So I
Speaker 1: tried to go to that and it was all bogus.
Speaker 1: So I saught out that year. Then the following year,
Speaker 1: the junior college I was supposed to go to, he
Speaker 1: called me up and told me you still got a
Speaker 1: place here, you know. So I went there and did
Speaker 1: my two years, and you know I was there. People
Speaker 1: was saying, and you can go to the NFL and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, So did you think it was real?
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was real because I never expected
Speaker 1: to be playing football that long and you know, being
Speaker 1: that good, you know, and then you start got all
Speaker 1: these people telling you you got a chance, you got
Speaker 1: a chance. Then you started believing it yourself. So how
Speaker 1: do you get from A to B to develop that
Speaker 1: trust and the people that are telling you because they
Speaker 1: could have been just talking, talking, talking and not really
Speaker 1: giving you the reality. But you know, you you had
Speaker 1: thirty six touchdowns in those two years at Hutchinson, broke
Speaker 1: records and tore it up, so you clearly we're on
Speaker 1: people's radar. But did since you didn't think you were
Speaker 1: gonna be playing football that long? Where where did the
Speaker 1: trust kick in? Was there an individual you really trusted
Speaker 1: and said, Okay, I believe what he's selling me. I
Speaker 1: mean I always just you know, leaning back on my
Speaker 1: mom because you know, and doing that period in junior college,
Speaker 1: she really taught me how to wash the laundry and
Speaker 1: fold laundry because you know, I never did large on
Speaker 1: my own until I got the junior college, and it
Speaker 1: was it was a nightmare, man, because you know, you
Speaker 1: can't put I still do it now put colors with white.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, welcome to this. So I just lead on
Speaker 1: my mama and my junior college coach, you know, and
Speaker 1: he always one of the guys that always believed in me,
Speaker 1: always told me just trusting myself and I would just
Speaker 1: never look bad. You know. The crazy thing. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go to a break here in a minute. But the
Speaker 1: power of women as it relates to football, I'm not
Speaker 1: kidding around here. Like the moms, the ants, the grandmas,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Guys, over the twenty three
Speaker 1: years of me being a part of this organization and
Speaker 1: doing interviews, it's always I mean, there's obviously dads too,
Speaker 1: but the moms, the grandmas, the ants are reasons that
Speaker 1: you guys play the game when you think about it.
Speaker 1: At the same time, there's moms out here now and
Speaker 1: I get it that are afraid for their kids to
Speaker 1: play because of head injuries and whatnot. But it's it's
Speaker 1: sure is interesting to hear how powerful women are in
Speaker 1: your life and a lot of your guy a lot
Speaker 1: of your teammates lives, a lot of these NFL players lives. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: women so powerful it's an understatement, you know. The things
Speaker 1: they do behind closed doors, you know, and do everything
Speaker 1: for us. Man cook, clean, you know, laundry, just do
Speaker 1: what everybody push you to play. Of course did the
Speaker 1: same time. My first two years of popcorner football, I
Speaker 1: cried every day on my way to practice because who
Speaker 1: wants to be an offensive lineman in the middle of
Speaker 1: August going to Pershing Field to practice football. Nobody. So
Speaker 1: I used to be crying every day I'm a way
Speaker 1: to practice, we get close to the practice field, my
Speaker 1: mom would push me out the car and she'd say,
Speaker 1: you'll stop crying when you see your friends. You put
Speaker 1: your helmet on. By the time you walked up and
Speaker 1: got face to face with them, the tears would dry
Speaker 1: up and you'd go to practice. But if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for her and just the relentlessness of finding me wherever
Speaker 1: I was hiding and dragging me to practice, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't know if you can imagine the missed opportunity
Speaker 1: if you didn't. Oh my goodness. Two great athletes right here,
Speaker 1: Tom there and Cordell Patterson. I'm not a great athlete,
Speaker 1: but I'm Jeff Jonik, and this is Bears All Access
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joni Act, Tom There live audience here at PNC Studios, sweetholders, sponsors,
Speaker 1: you name it there here, guys, you've done a nice
Speaker 1: job tonight. Give him a nice hand right here. It's
Speaker 1: got a nice cross section of Bears fans. So we
Speaker 1: signed some autograph signed how I feel guilty because I'm
Speaker 1: not an NFL player, but I do appreciate the invitation. Everybody,
Speaker 1: did you practice your autograph over time? I used to
Speaker 1: try to write my whole name out. Forget about it.
Speaker 1: There's no time, no So I'll just do the cepat now.
Speaker 1: Just it's colored today. Tom's very thorough, and I think
Speaker 1: we both agree that the best autograph we've ever seen
Speaker 1: was Gail. He took his time. And I remember it
Speaker 1: was Singletary's Hall of Fame induction. I was at in
Speaker 1: Canton and I had a little tiny football and I
Speaker 1: went up to him. He was kind enough to do it.
Speaker 1: And it's just it took like five minutes to right
Speaker 1: Gail Sayers. But he took it nice. And but it's
Speaker 1: it's a goat and then you got er lacker. Brian
Speaker 1: just does be in a slash and you do what
Speaker 1: you gotta do, right because you're signing a lot of autographs.
Speaker 1: But Tom's very particular about that. Well, I just want,
Speaker 1: you know, I want people to be able to read them.
Speaker 1: But Tom also the whole room on the helmet to
Speaker 1: sign because he really like, he really likes his autograph
Speaker 1: everybody right, right, he really likes that iograph. Have you
Speaker 1: ever seen I was watching highlights the other day of GAYL.
Speaker 1: Sayers and then when he returned all the touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the money field at Wrigley Field. Have you ever seen
Speaker 1: just the highlights of that of GAYL Sayers returnability as
Speaker 1: a Chicago Bear. Of course, yeah, it really is, you
Speaker 1: know because I just because I saw the highlights of
Speaker 1: it yesterday. It's so fresh in my memory at thirty
Speaker 1: four years old. Induct him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Short in his career of anybody. And when you see
Speaker 1: you talk about vision in your vision as a returner,
Speaker 1: you see his vision on display as a kick returner
Speaker 1: on a punt returner. He had vision, but he also
Speaker 1: had the ability to anticipate his cut so aggressively that
Speaker 1: it put defenders defenders out of position and an off
Speaker 1: bounce when they try to make a tackle. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he knew it. He knew where to go before
Speaker 1: anybody else knewhere he was going. He had that type
Speaker 1: of ability, you know, to set two or three guys up,
Speaker 1: make a missing just gets an end zone the Lambeau field.
Speaker 1: Is that an asset to you? Or is it a
Speaker 1: slippery field to you? Because we heard a lot of
Speaker 1: conversation both ways about it being slippery in some instances,
Speaker 1: but if you know where you're going, maybe it's not
Speaker 1: as slippery. How did you feel it was? It wasn't
Speaker 1: too bad. It's just you gotta put like some seven
Speaker 1: still cleaks on. So you gotta change from being in
Speaker 1: your regular molded cleats. You wear molded cleats on our
Speaker 1: field every field you do. Now, molded cleats are just
Speaker 1: rubber ice bottom seven step seven bottom studs. Are you
Speaker 1: grew him? Actually screw him in and out of the shoe?
Speaker 1: Why do you sound surprised? Because I know in a game,
Speaker 1: in a game, I never felt competent, confident wearing a
Speaker 1: rubber bottom shoe. I always wanted to have spikes that
Speaker 1: dug in the field. And it was interesting because Walter
Speaker 1: Payton always wore those kangaroo kangos they called kangaroo shoes
Speaker 1: that he had the screw and spikes, but on the
Speaker 1: front of his shoe he always wore the three quarter
Speaker 1: inch spikes to have better grip and more control, you know,
Speaker 1: And you see the evidence of it when he ran
Speaker 1: and hit somebody. But there's not a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that were, because there are most of them are half
Speaker 1: inch cleats, but Walter were ones that were longer to
Speaker 1: have more grip on the field, and it's just not
Speaker 1: widely worn. Cordaro Patterson our guest here on bears All Access,
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy. I know there is
Speaker 1: a backstory. I don't know if I have it all right,
Speaker 1: but I'll let you tell it. The name Cordero where
Speaker 1: to come from? I forgot? You forgot? Really? You're so
Speaker 1: full of it? Man? No? Really? Is it too funny?
Speaker 1: I think I do. I don't know. Mom something like that,
Speaker 1: her two favorite shows One Life to Live and Walker,
Speaker 1: Texas Ranger. Is this true? So there you go. A
Speaker 1: couple of the characters. Cordaryl Roberts, a smooth talking, tall,
Speaker 1: dark and handsome cowboy. And the other was corddel Walker,
Speaker 1: a ranger, former Marine Marshall expert, and all around tough
Speaker 1: guy played by Chuck Norris. There's Corderyl right there. Do
Speaker 1: you think your teammates know that story? So, you know,
Speaker 1: going from team to team, And I look at a
Speaker 1: guy like JP Holt, he gets dropped in parachute into
Speaker 1: a season, and you know when he was here in
Speaker 1: the early days, sitting in his locker like this, and
Speaker 1: I realized for a minute, They're like, man, it's hard,
Speaker 1: like you don't know anybody. And you know when you
Speaker 1: dropped in a bunch of guys that it's like going
Speaker 1: to a new school and you don't know anybody at school.
Speaker 1: Did it ever feel that way for you, even though
Speaker 1: you were a free agent and you had the whole
Speaker 1: offseason that to spend with these guys, h Condor, I
Speaker 1: think it's like that everywhere you go. Man, you're just
Speaker 1: trying to adjust to that environment they have. You don't
Speaker 1: really know what they spect. You don't know you know
Speaker 1: how to come out your element. At first, you got
Speaker 1: to feel everybody else is a locker room, no matter
Speaker 1: what team you're playing for the same it's always to
Speaker 1: say it is. There's not much different. If I walk
Speaker 1: into New England right now or I walk into Minnesota,
Speaker 1: it's not much different. The same. Yeah, interesting, I didn't
Speaker 1: think it would be. So do you find it's like
Speaker 1: water finding its own level? Do you find your guys
Speaker 1: pretty quickly? Oh? Guys, you always stick to You're a
Speaker 1: guy like your receiver, so always go right to those
Speaker 1: guys have if they've tapped. You know, everybody talks about
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson and his experience and how guys like Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: Lena and him, or they forget that. You know, you're
Speaker 1: a veteran receiver too in this league. Have you used
Speaker 1: that influence to help those guys and your experience to
Speaker 1: help those guys if they ask you questions about the game,
Speaker 1: especially on the office and side of the bar, of course.
Speaker 1: But Allen Robinson, he's one of the best you know
Speaker 1: in this NFL right now that I haven't been a
Speaker 1: part of him, you know, just getting to watch him
Speaker 1: day in day out. Man, how hard he worked at practice.
Speaker 1: In the games, he never come out, he never's come out.
Speaker 1: He defines professionalism. Yes, man, he takes every advantage of
Speaker 1: his opportunity. So if they expand your role in the
Speaker 1: future with this offense, you know, it's kind of weird
Speaker 1: because you're such a great returner that it's almost like
Speaker 1: you don't want to lose that ability and that threat
Speaker 1: with you. But if you expanded your role in this
Speaker 1: offense would have come at receiver or running back, both
Speaker 1: really both. I mean so because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of us were surprised but impressed with the role that
Speaker 1: you took as a running back. But I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people were surprised when you came onto the
Speaker 1: campus here at Hollis Hall to see how big you are,
Speaker 1: because I think even when when we got to learn
Speaker 1: about you in Minnesota and through the Raiders and stuff,
Speaker 1: we never got a close up look at you because
Speaker 1: we didn't really know what Cordarrell Patterson was. But then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you show up here and we're going, Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy is a lot bigger than a lot of
Speaker 1: us thought. So, you know, did you did you morph
Speaker 1: into a running back over time or is that just
Speaker 1: something you kind of had the skill set because you're
Speaker 1: such a good returner that translated to a running back position.
Speaker 1: I I just felt like I just always wanted the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, every time I get the ball, I just
Speaker 1: trying to make something special happening for my team. So
Speaker 1: no matter if I'm at running back, kid, return, wide receiver,
Speaker 1: when I get the ball in my hands, I just
Speaker 1: trying to do something special. They did this with you
Speaker 1: at Tennessee too, right, Yeah, yeah, so this was not
Speaker 1: like some new new rent innovation, right, because this is
Speaker 1: always all the teams are trying to do the same
Speaker 1: thing with you. Yes, sir, Yeah, Where did you feel
Speaker 1: the most comfortable on the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: among all these teams? Oh? Like, were you just fit
Speaker 1: and you just had a connection? Maybe in the backfield? Yeah? Really, no, kids,
Speaker 1: just see that that stuns me because of all that
Speaker 1: you know, lightning speed, you know, run a route and
Speaker 1: run away from somebody, and like the couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago when you had that catch and run, it's you
Speaker 1: have this gear. There's a gear and you just hit
Speaker 1: the gear and their tail lights gear your tail lights.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know, right, don't you think you
Speaker 1: have gears? You can say that, Yeah, it steaks you.
Speaker 1: Cardell Patterson our guest. One more segment to go. This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access Hot Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Jeff Jony Actomp there Cordell Patterson our guest here on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The scores the Bears get
Speaker 1: ready to meet the Kansas City Chiefs. And of course
Speaker 1: we've known Dave Tobe for a long time, great respected
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator, and that's where Chris Tabor, you know,
Speaker 1: worked as well here with the Bears, and they think
Speaker 1: a lot of each other. Their coverage units are really
Speaker 1: really they're they're very good, they're lead both both teams
Speaker 1: are in the top ten in special teams this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the you know, that's why Andy Reid
Speaker 1: hired Dave Tobe when he left Chicago. He's been a
Speaker 1: great specialty in his coach there throughout his whole career.
Speaker 1: He's a great leader, he has a he's ski he's
Speaker 1: a good schemer against a pony and if they have
Speaker 1: vulnerabilities there. But Chris Taber has learned a lot from
Speaker 1: him too, and Tabs has developed into one of the
Speaker 1: more knowledgeable special teams coaches in the league, and that
Speaker 1: he will be for a long time. So. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anybody knows this, but Cordero, he calls your
Speaker 1: pony the pony. Did you know that? Yeah? Every day? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did he was? That? Was that? Ever? Were you ever
Speaker 1: referred to as the pony before? Never? Do you like
Speaker 1: the nickname? Yeah? I love it, haven't. I haven't unleashed
Speaker 1: the pony just yet, but you got a couple of
Speaker 1: games to go before I unleashed that pony. Uh six two?
Speaker 1: Are you still about two twenty? No? A little heavier? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's college man. Really really, it's a good food or
Speaker 1: hard work. It's a good food. Man. So if at
Speaker 1: your new weight, would you still run a four two?
Speaker 1: Of course? Would you do better than a four two? No?
Speaker 1: I won't do better, but I still think I can
Speaker 1: run the same speed. Do you think you're the fastest
Speaker 1: guy on this team? No? Turball, No, Tarik Maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: Well that doesn't leave. That's about it right there. You're
Speaker 1: the You're the trio. Although yeah, yeah, you're the trio.
Speaker 1: I'd say sometimes it looks like Anthony Miller's running a
Speaker 1: four two because he explodes off that line of Scrimm
Speaker 1: and dunnee. Now, what what what are your conversations with
Speaker 1: a guy like that? Because this is a very very
Speaker 1: emotional player. That's a that's a good thing to have
Speaker 1: on Sundays, and he has a great belief in his ability.
Speaker 1: He brings up that Memphis grind where he grew up
Speaker 1: in all the time. So what kind of conversations you
Speaker 1: have with a young Anthony because he's tearing it up
Speaker 1: right now. It's really the conversations you can have with
Speaker 1: Anthony Man. He's like, he's like Russell Westbrook on the field.
Speaker 1: He has no friends, So you don't even talk to
Speaker 1: him because he really he's in that zone that you
Speaker 1: just got a backup, even on your own in your
Speaker 1: own huddle. Yeah, you gotta leave him alone because that
Speaker 1: is interesting. Yeah. Have you seen guys like that before
Speaker 1: as a young guy? No, he's interesting. I like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why because it's different. You don't see that in a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. He got that that documentality, yeah, and
Speaker 1: that that you can tell them when he grew up
Speaker 1: and he taking it out on a football field. His
Speaker 1: youth keeps you young. You know, it's nice to be
Speaker 1: around young guys, you know, and being a veteran now
Speaker 1: of the NFL, it's nice to be around enthusiastic young guys. Hey,
Speaker 1: what do you think of clubbed up? Just so? Do
Speaker 1: you participate in it? Because you know they show the
Speaker 1: highlights after and I never see a I'm always on
Speaker 1: the outside there because I don't want to aboud to
Speaker 1: see me. Is it a surprise? It is too yet,
Speaker 1: because what you've been through in your life, and to
Speaker 1: consider the different teams you've been with the success and
Speaker 1: stuff of them, is it Is it a crazy atmosphere
Speaker 1: in there? It's funny what you're getting in the music
Speaker 1: already blasting and it's different. What kind of what kind
Speaker 1: of relation to the club double? Was it like to
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl? Though you're one of the few
Speaker 1: guys in that room that won a super Bowl? It
Speaker 1: was amazing, man. You know, I never in a million
Speaker 1: years go to fishing myself win a super Bowl. You
Speaker 1: know this, it's just a dream come true. You know,
Speaker 1: something we work hard for each and every day. That's
Speaker 1: what we do it for, you know, that's what we
Speaker 1: show up every morning, late nights just just to win
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. When you when you did accomplish that
Speaker 1: with the Patriots, did you have a did you have
Speaker 1: a personal look in the mirror like wow, I did it?
Speaker 1: Like this is like now do you just you just
Speaker 1: want the next one obviously, but you don't know if
Speaker 1: you'll ever be in that position again, just like Tim's
Speaker 1: team one and eighty five and they never had another
Speaker 1: bite at that apple. First thing I did after the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, you know, my kids in the hotel room
Speaker 1: laying down. I just went in there and start yelling
Speaker 1: and tell him you're dad is a super Bowl at
Speaker 1: chemp So the first thing I did, and you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to get another one now, man, and you
Speaker 1: feel good to get one, but what was one? Went out? Two?
Speaker 1: With that experience? Who left a bigger impression on your
Speaker 1: Belichicker Brady, Oh gotta be Belichick. Is it just the
Speaker 1: way he carried the whole team? You know, because a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, the Bears went in practice against
Speaker 1: the New Yealand Patriots for a week and we had
Speaker 1: a chance to go sit and on as press conferences
Speaker 1: and it's a really uneasy period because I feel bad
Speaker 1: for those guys that are sitting in the audience getting
Speaker 1: ready to ask him questions. I'm sure he's a different
Speaker 1: person in front of you players exclusively than he is
Speaker 1: in front of the media. So I mean, is there
Speaker 1: anything that you've carried with you from him or is
Speaker 1: every experience a new experience for you. It's just the
Speaker 1: respect that you get that guy because everything's he doesn't accomplish.
Speaker 1: You know him and Tom, and you know, he's a
Speaker 1: funny guy. Man. You know a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: see it, but he's always making jokes and meeting and stuff.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, he's serious. He's about his business.
Speaker 1: You know what he loves. He loves the tradition of
Speaker 1: the game. He loves the history of the game. When
Speaker 1: we did practice against them a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: I took the opportunity was coming off the practice field
Speaker 1: to just say because I know he collects football books
Speaker 1: and I like collecting football books also teaching the history
Speaker 1: of the game, and I can never get enough of it.
Speaker 1: I just love the old you know where it all started,
Speaker 1: and boy, you get into it, he stops. He'll drop
Speaker 1: everything to talk about that. Because his father had a
Speaker 1: huge collection as well that they donated to the Naval
Speaker 1: Academy Library. But he brought up the history of the
Speaker 1: Great Lakes Naval Station here and after the war, how
Speaker 1: the West Coast offense came to the Midwest and the
Speaker 1: East coast, you know, the Philadelia, the Philly, Pennsylvania area football,
Speaker 1: and that's where it all kind of grew. It kind
Speaker 1: of mushroomed into all these different schemes and philosophies. And
Speaker 1: to me, that's interesting for a coach. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: uber interesting the exers and os and how it all
Speaker 1: hall it relates, and how the ideas came about, because
Speaker 1: no matter what's going on now, it started somewhere, you know,
Speaker 1: football and all the different plays and whatnot. Are you
Speaker 1: are you that in tune with the game in that
Speaker 1: way or do you just love playing? Do you love
Speaker 1: the exs and o's of football? Some guys don't. I
Speaker 1: just love playing football, man, And you know I wouldn't
Speaker 1: never stop playing. I think they'll have to kick me
Speaker 1: out the league because that's how much I love a game,
Speaker 1: and I would just keep playing it. So I can't
Speaker 1: play no more, man, because I carry along. It's fun.
Speaker 1: It's fun just being out here. You know, each and
Speaker 1: every day it's a new opportunity for me and just
Speaker 1: be a part of this organization. Well, you are the
Speaker 1: pony to many in the building, but you're also see
Speaker 1: flash p eighty four on your Twitter handle. Why that,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I came up with flash so
Speaker 1: in junior college, I was at a banquet and this
Speaker 1: guy was saying, we got flashy players like me. So
Speaker 1: ever since then I just stop, didn't Hey it works,
Speaker 1: Cordaill Patterson, really appreciate you joining us tonight. Job how
Speaker 1: about it, Cordarell Patterson. Everybody a pro bowler and an
Speaker 1: all decade member of the USA to eight team, and
Speaker 1: all was play on Mac. It's the Bears in Chiefs
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Quick thought time on the matchup. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I want the Bears fans to be supportive. I want
Speaker 1: to have the same atmosphere there was against the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys a couple of weeks ago. I want the Bears
Speaker 1: to conclude the season with two wins, and I want
Speaker 1: to see the offense continue improvement, and you know, the
Speaker 1: team hicks back in the lineup, show the fans what
Speaker 1: the future is coming here? All right? We'll have it four.
Speaker 1: You're starting with a four o'clock pre game and a
Speaker 1: seven twenty kickoff on news radio seven eighty and one
Speaker 1: h five point nine FM WBBM. For Dan BURRELLI, our producer,
Speaker 1: pause ranger, engineer. Are great fans. Here are sweetholders for
Speaker 1: Tom Thayer, Cordarelle Patterson. I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks for listening
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