WEBVTT - All Access: Daniel on Trubisky's play 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.600 All right, everybody, Welcome to Bears All Access here at 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.360 fancy Studios at Hollis Hall, brought to you by IGS Energy, Jeff, 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.680 Joniack and Tom there with the fuel up to play sixty. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.960 Crowd set up, bringing a decade. I like it. I 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.680 like it getting getting the body moving, big Tom there. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:19.960 I could take some of that advice about right now. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:21.959 If I could just play sixty every day, I'd be 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.320 a happier individual. You could play thirty, you'd be a 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.440 healthier human being. So focus on thirty first, and then 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.840 we'll work on the sixty. We've got Chase Daniel coming 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.720 up in our next segment and throughout the show tonight, 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:33.920 the Bears quarterback. We'll join the program as the Bears 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.880 get ready for Packer Week, and folks, I was talking 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.400 with Tom earlier. This week we shoot our videos that 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.760 you could see on the website, the Bears website and 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.680 also on w BBM and the Score. And Tom he's 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.040 usually in a very very very very rotten mood during 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.120 Packer Week, but he's generally today, i'd say, very upbeat. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.480 So what's the big switch. I'm angst, I'm very I 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.320 am very accessful. I'm taking my vest off. You know, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.600 it's just diff and it's a Packer week is not 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.319 something that you get ready for because it stays in 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.640 your system your whole life. If you ever play for 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.520 the Bears, you're a bearss fan whatever, It's not something 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.360 you're you know, you're thinking about it three days in advance. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.520 It's something that you prepare for, whether it's you know, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.480 having you know, chili cookoffs, or having friends over that 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.320 are Packer fans, or just having that rivalry that kind 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.920 of heats up throughout the week and you get pretty 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.360 animated and irritated. Though. You know what, though, it's different 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.200 because when I played for the Bears, we never got 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.160 beat by Green Bay, and after all the years now 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.480 never being less invested as a Bears fan, it just 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.119 gets to me that that post podium, we're we're doing 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.520 the post game broadcast and we're either in the broadcast 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.400 booth or leaving the stadium, and you can see those 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.520 guys addressing the podium and I don't want to see 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.720 that anymore. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of I'm 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.400 tired of being around it. And it's so hard to 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.720 leave that stadium, especially last year at the end of 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.680 that game, when the way the way things unfolded, and luck, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.400 you know, thankfully for us that it just pointed the 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.480 barrels the arrow straight up. For the Bears, they learned 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.079 a lot from that, no question, as they have learned 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.400 a lot about the Week one loss this year. So 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.680 many comparisons week fifteen a week one. It would be 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.240 true for any team because week one's the great unknown. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.240 You don't know what you're getting from your team. You 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.560 have no idea, you don't have any idea what the 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.359 season's going to look like. And now here week fifteen, 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.000 we have a pretty good idea of what it's looked like. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.079 This team has been resilient and they've ripped off four 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.400 wins in five weeks. It's been a good start to 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.040 the second half. There's confidence. I heard Mitch Trubiski at 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.200 the podium this week sound he'sas, I don't care who 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.320 we're playing next, just bring him on. That was basically 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.720 his message. I like the attitude, right, I mean, that's 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:44.280 the attitude do you have to have be because you're 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.359 not going to give any one opponent unrealistic amount of respect. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.160 But you know, you talk about the similarities of last 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.560 year to this year. There is no similarities to the 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.120 Chicago Bears team that they're going to be facing Sunday 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.480 that they face at the beginning of the season, and 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.800 I think it's just a completely different football team. And 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.360 there's a lot of differences on the Green Bay Packers. Also, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.320 They're one consistent is that they have Aaron Rodgers and 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.960 he's such an instigator of their success. But I think 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.959 in the path that the Bears have been on, it's 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.360 a it's of improvement and significant improvement in the last 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.639 four or five weeks. What do you see from the Packers. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.200 It's hard to overlook Aaron Rodgers because to me, I 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.640 think that Aaron Rodgers is the best player in the NFL. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.480 So when you see what he's able to do to 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:33.040 contribute to other players maybe you know, benefiting from playing 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.680 with him, some of their offensive lineman benefiting playing with 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.720 from his quick decisions, his arm talent, his accuracy, his 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.200 decision making process. Trying to take a young head coach 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.520 and help him develop because the quarterback is more experienced 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.000 than the head coach. And I see there's a lot 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.480 of responsibilities on the shoulders of Aaron Rodgers. They did 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.920 go out and tap the free agency market. This year 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.480 in the free agency they got Adrian Amos from the 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.320 Bears and the two defensive ends they got. They're super 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.320 talented football players at the Darius Smith in pressing. But 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.160 I will say if you just looked at it from 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.800 something on paper, statistically, they don't shine. But here's where 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.360 they get you, and they always have with Aaron Rodgers, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.360 he's terrific in the red zone. He is terrific on 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.960 third down. They keep themselves typically in really good third 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.880 down situations, but they score points when they have to. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.360 They score points before half, they score points coming out 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.160 of the break. The Bears have done that too in 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.560 the last three weeks very well. And it's creates that 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.599 takeaway a possession and score before they get the chance 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.840 to get the football again. The two for one, which 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.480 Aaron Rodgers has been great at over the course of 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.520 his career, and they're doing that again this year. I 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.039 think they have fourteen touchdowns on opening drives of either half, 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.840 and that's pretty darn good right now. And they take 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.440 advantage of your mistakes and so he doesn't make any 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.680 two interceptions and they do take the ball away. Super 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.520 manipulative with the snapcount at the line of scrimmage, and 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.440 if you do, you get if you jump offside, you 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.400 if you're a little bit off balance, he's going to 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.159 look for a way for someone to go deep and 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.080 try to attack you because of it. But you know 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.320 what's interesting is Mitch is getting good at a two. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.200 His snapcount at home is becoming a verbal weapon. And 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:14.960 I just think that you're going to have to focus 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.320 on the discipline of the defensive line this week not 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.880 to get off balance or off sides, because even if 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.720 you're off or defensive lineman and you kind of jump 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.680 a little bit, but then you're kind of retreating back 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.800 before he snapped the ball, you're rich a pick, you're 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.320 out of position. Yeah. Well, Mitch's third and one hard 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.599 count that was a penalty for a first down, and 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.760 that was on a scoring drive. So I was a 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.680 catch by Alan Robinson. He was terrific after you know, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.560 you brought it up. I talked about it with him too. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.200 After interceptions the last two weeks. You've got it memorized 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.360 by now thirty at thirty eight three eighty six touchdowns, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.760 including one rushing and ten yards of completion. So that's 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.480 a quarterback who says, hey, I made a mistake. I'm 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.200 not going to make another one. Keep moving in the 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.400 right direction. Well, you know, I think that's gonna be 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.680 great to talk to Chase about because you know, to 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.640 get into the mind of a core back, you have 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.880 to ask a quarterback. And I think it's really interesting 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.120 to see when you get someone that's been in that room, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.280 that's been filtering that information to get a line out 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.640 of Now, Chase Daniel coming up next. We're with the 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.360 Fuel Up sixty crew here at Hattis Hall. This is 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.200 BEARS All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy from 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.880 P and C Studios. I'm Jeff Joni Ec with Tom Thayer, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.479 and this is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.520 All right, everybody back at PANC Studios Here at Hattis 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.799 All on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy of the Score 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.200 with Dan Briley, our producer and pause ranger engineer. I'm 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.080 Jeff Joniac almost said little Z, my guy, little Z. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.000 I'm Jeff Joniac with Tom Thare and this has brought 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.400 to you by IGS Energy. We welcome in Chase Daniel, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.440 the veteran quarterback. What is it eleven years thirteen years. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:48.479 Eleven years, yeah, eleven years, eleven years in the league. Man, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.679 I'll tell you, you talk like a coach, you play 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.840 like a coach. You think the game in a very 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.440 unique way, at which I guess a lot of veteran 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.120 quarterbacks eventually become that way. But it's always fun listening 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.080 to you. So thanks for taking the time to join 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.520 us on the show this week. In front of the 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.159 play sixty crew. You know you played more than sixty 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.320 every day. Gotta get everybody up and moving. Remember when 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.360 you were a kid, what'd you do? Because you're you're 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.280 younger than Tim and I play sixty. See we're running 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.160 around from dawn to dusk, you know. But I don't 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:21.960 know if kids all do that anymore. They don't make 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.720 them like they used. They do not chase, they do not. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.040 How's my Missouri buddy there? My Missouri buddy used to 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.240 be a big, big, big eight, big twelve guy like 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:36.160 me at Iowa State, and now you're big time over there. Sec. Yeah, no, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.200 I know, I don't remember what I was like to 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.360 play in the Big twelve. I used to hate Missouri 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.720 basketball young before your time, remember Norm? Yeah? Oh yeah, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.680 they were great. Oh yeah, we had some battles with 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.280 Iowah State, but we're talking football with the Bears quarterback 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.320 Tim take it away, Chase. Jeff just brought some stuff 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.960 about how many years you've spent in the NFL last 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.480 year or last week Before the game, Eli Manning says 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.160 he doesn't want to be an assistant coach and he 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.760 doesn't like being a backup. Would you be a good coach? 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.400 I mean, I think it would be a great coach, um, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.080 But do I want to be a coach? Probably not so? 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.920 All right, So this past two weekends ago, why well 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.240 I figured that was coming, but the why didn't? Um? 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 I just see like how much they work and how 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.960 much they do behind the scenes, right, And I've I've 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.200 given so much to this game already, and I love 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.600 my family too much to be away from them. And 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.360 it takes a special takes a special type of person 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.679 to be away from their family and their kids, and 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.360 and obviously you make it work. But um, you know, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.199 as as of now, I would say no to coaching. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.080 You know, just a couple of weeks ago, I was 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.600 watching the high school state championship games and I was 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.720 looking at the quarterback positions, specifically and that's not a 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.840 bunch of Cam Newton's and Ben Roethlisberger's out there. There's 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.880 a lot more guys that are your size. So I'm 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.760 gonna so in high school, what are the two things 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.200 that high school quarterbacks should learn to do better than 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.520 everybody else in order to start taking their size to 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.840 see how it fits into that position. Yeah, I would 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.200 say I would say the number one thing is work ethic, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.880 Especially in high school. You you have to show everyone, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.760 including your teammates and your coaches, that you want to 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.200 be there, that you want to be the best that 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.560 you possibly can be. Right there's in high school you 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.960 have so many people going out for the team. You 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.080 don't know who's gonna make it. You have to sort 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.679 of separate yourself. And two, you mean you got to 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.760 be able to throw the football. I mean you got 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.439 to be able to be accurate with the football. And 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.760 if you can do that, I think in high school 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.880 that's sort of what separates guys from you know, who 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.760 can throw it to who can't, and that's who sort 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.280 of will succeed, especially at the quarterback position. When you 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.480 looked at your talents at the conclusion of your high 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.920 school career, because you are more than a quarterback. Did 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.560 Missouri have a system in place already that was going 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.560 to fit your talents or did they have to kind 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.160 of tweak it around what you brought to the table. Yeah, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:01.400 I I committed their after my junior year, before my 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:06.640 senior year, and they were in the process of switching 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.520 offenses to really suit Brad Smith, who came before me, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.559 a living legend in his own right. I mean truly 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.640 one of the first of a kind sort of dual 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.240 threat and new age type quarterbacks. And I mean I 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.040 would he's a He's a better person, first of all, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.240 than he as a player. We still stay in touch 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.600 to this day. But they sort of switched it to 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.079 him or the run option RPO types off sort of 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.960 before anyone was doing it. And then you know, when 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.120 I got there my freshman year, that's sort of when 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.120 the switch started to Hey, let's get six and a 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.760 half seven yards deep in the shotgun, let's get the 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.200 ball of our hands, let's go five wide, you know, 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.840 shack the half back back in the backfield, take advantage 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.040 of what the defenses is giving us. And that's why 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.440 we were able to put up so many really so 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.960 much good numbers in college. I mean, it was fun 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:55.800 to play. But also, you know, you look at the 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.480 personnel that I had, Jeremy Macklin, Martin Rucker, Chase Kaufman. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.559 I could go on and on. These guys played long 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.800 time in the league. Um, so that that helps win. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.000 And Brad went wound up and play wide receiver in 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.760 the NFL. Did when you can't got in? Did anybody 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.720 try to switch you to another position? I don't know 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.360 if I could play another position, so I'm glad they didn't. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.080 Uh So, No, for me, it was it was it 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.360 was quarterback all the way. Well, Brad was kind of 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.760 a quarterback that was more of a runner, where you 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.800 were a quarterback that was more of a thrower. Yeah. Yeah, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.000 I mean, there's no question. But at the same time, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.120 in Missouri, I think I ran for over a thousand 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.280 yards in my career, so it was more of a 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.280 scrambling type thing. So, you know, average three hundred and 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.240 fifty yards a year running. Some were called runs. Um 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.200 you know, but it also helps play in almost in 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.920 this same offense that we sort of have now more 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.679 more empty backfield. But um, it definitely helped, and I 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.679 think that's why I've been so good and you know, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.920 six of my eleven years have been in this offense. Um. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.880 You know, whether it's with Matt Naggie or Doug Peterson 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.440 or Andy Reid. Um. So that's what I feel so 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.520 comfortable about this offense. This Year's been an evolution, hasn't it. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.120 It's been something. I mean, whatever expectations may or may 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:11.640 not have been outside, inside, personally, individually, throughout the locker room. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.840 You know, you never know how it's going to unfold. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.800 What are your impressions of how it's unfolded. I could 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.440 ask you a zillion questions of what you thought it 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.920 might be, but just the whole process. And while we're 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.040 at week fifteen of this season, Yeah, it's it's crazy, right, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.600 only promised three more games. And that's sort of in 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.400 the quarterback room been our calling call, right, like our 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.679 calling card is just like, hey, you you're only promised 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.080 three more Wednesdays. You're only promised three more Thursdays. So 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.320 make the absolute best of them. Take it one game 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.559 amount of time. But obviously, if you if you look 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.320 at the arc of the season, it's not where we 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.480 want it to be. Especially to start. You know, we 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.480 had some some tough games, some close games that we 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.040 should have won, and got blown out a couple of times, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.000 like you know, the New Orleans games. That's just that's 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.400 not like us. And one of the things that we 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.720 haven't been super proud of. You know, as of late, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.240 we've protected Soldier field. But at the beginning of the year, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:01.800 we lost some games and told your feel that we 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:06.440 should not have lost. And I just think offensively, uh, 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.400 you look at it, and it's really the tell of 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.040 two halfs of the season. The first eight games, we 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.520 just we didn't have an identity, uh, and sometimes it 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.480 takes a long time to find an identity to find, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.280 you know, a quarterback and a play caller, head coach 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.120 sort of get on the same page. But also see, 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.040 you know, we've had some injuries here and there, we've 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.280 had to have some feelings and offensive line, we've had 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.719 some feelings at receivers and and I think it's just 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.959 it's it's gotten to a point now where you look 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:35.960 at the second half of the season and we're firing 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.280 all cylinders. And I really like to go back to 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:43.440 really the first Lions game. Uh really when we started, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.679 it was at home, and and it just it just 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.120 felt different. We scored three touchdowns that day, our defense played, 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:50.960 you know, really well, and then you know, you go 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.160 to La Mitch got a little hurt. Take that out 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.640 of the equation. But every other game since then, I mean, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.760 we've been firing all cylinders. And the thing that I think, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.720 uh that goes unnoticed is really the first half of 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.800 the season we had like fifty five to fifty eight 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.000 to sixty plays a game. We weren't on the field 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.800 at all, and that's just that's not normal. And we 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.719 were putting our defense in very bad spots where they're 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.120 having to play seventy five eighty plays a game. You 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.400 look at since the Lions game, it's like sixty five, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.560 sixty eight, seventy two, seventy five, Like those are the 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.520 type of games that we want. We want to control 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.480 the tempo, we want to be on the field. And 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.320 guess what the narrative is now, Hey, we're staying on 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.280 the field on third down. We're much better on third 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.080 down and the second half of the season than we 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.280 were in the first half of the season. You know, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.320 a couple of weeks ago, you said you saw Mitch 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.240 Rubisky have the best Thursday practice that he has. Can 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.320 you recognize a good practice as the offense as a 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.200 whole our do you break it down specifically to the 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.560 quarterback position. I think you can tell when everyone's sharp. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.640 But as a quarterback and being around this offense, I 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.000 know what it's like to be sharp in a practice 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.640 as a quarterback. And whether you like it or not, 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.200 this offense starts and ends with a quarterback. So if 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.880 Mitch has a good practice, usually the entire offense is 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.280 going to have a good practice. But yeah, I mean, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.440 there was just something about it and me and me 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.600 and Coach Ragon sort of talked about it and I 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.800 said something and I meant it. I usually don't say 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.480 a lot at the end of the practice, like when 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.400 we break it down with the quarterbacks, but I just 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.120 told him, I just let him know, hey, man, like 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.840 I'm I'm being serious, Like you put together today probably 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.680 one of the best Thursday practices I've seen in quite 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.280 some time. And it just Ball was jumping off of 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.160 his hand, he was sharp, he was jumping around, he 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.200 was using his cadence. It was just all those type things. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.040 And that's continued to progress and he's continued to build 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.760 on that. When you're in practice and you hear the 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.360 play called in the huddle, do you still have a 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.960 quarterback clock in your head when you're watching Mitch run 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.200 the play and you're going, Okay, this is how I 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.120 feel it. Yeah, there's no question, especially because in the 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.040 National Football League you really don't get reps as a backup, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.480 so you have to be able to, you know, go 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.800 out there and run through it and walk through it, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.640 stayed behind it. And so that's what I do every 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.080 single play. I'm right behind it, walking through as up 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.200 I'm playing to play. Chase Daniel our guest here on 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.240 Bears All Access. We're gonna take a break here from 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.640 Hatti Saw at PNC Studios. We're brought to you by 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.120 IGS Energy and this is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:22.680 to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access here at 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.240 PANCY Studios at Hatti Saw, Jeff Johnny Act top there, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.800 and Chase Daniel, the Chicago Bears quarterback, were brought to 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.040 you by IGS Energy and a proud partner of the 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.440 Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.920 to over one million customers across the country. Learn more 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:41.080 about IGS Energy at IGS dot com Chase kind enough 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.560 to join us as we get ready to the Green 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.040 Bay Packer game on Sunday. Let's talk play calling because 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.720 there is an art to it. We know that. And 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.360 Matt Neggee is now deep into a second season as 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.160 the Bears head coach and play caller. And what have 0:16:55.240 --> 0:17:00.480 you picked up in terms of that art? And you 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.760 say you're not going to be a coach, but would 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.280 you have your own style? Yeah? I mean, I mean, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.120 I think, Um, Matt is one of the better play 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.399 colors um that I've had a chance to be around, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.879 probably him, Sean Payton and Andy Reid um. But but 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.960 with with Matt Um, it all comes down to the 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.760 quarterback play caller um relationship. And I think him and 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.399 Mitch have a great one. And I think it's just 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.280 going to continue to grow. It's going to continue to evolve. Uh. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.160 It takes some games in this offense now to see 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.800 what your quarterbacks like, what your quarterbacks don't like, et cetera. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.560 So what I think he's done a really good job 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.040 of these past eight weeks is, first of all, he's 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.679 running the football. Uh. And that's where it starts up 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.920 front with our guys, with with demo and uh, you 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.480 know those big hogs up front, man, they are they're 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.800 doing well. And you know, we might not be running 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.560 for one hundred and eighty yards or one hundred nine yards, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.000 but what we're doing is we are getting almost five 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.520 yards to carry. So so first of all, that's great. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.800 And by the way, we ran for one fifty something 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:58.920 last week, so that's that's huge. That's where this sort 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.280 of this offense starts and everything sort of comes off that. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.200 So we're able to get our under center play actions going, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.520 We're able to get some of our shot plays going, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.920 or our po game. I think he's just done such 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.480 a really good job mixing it up. As a late 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.120 when you watch tape of your opponent, do you look 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.960 at exactly how your scheme fits against the your opponent 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.640 or do you look at vulnerabilities within their defense to say, hey, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.760 you know, keep this play in mind or this area 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.480 of the field open. Yeah, there's no question that the 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.879 first thing we do as quarterbacks when we're watching film 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.320 is we definitely look for weaknesses in their defense, and 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.960 I think the coaches more so look at how we're 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.560 going to exploit that based on our scheme. And so 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.720 what we're doing as quarterbacks. When we're watching film, we 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.320 are not only are we studying the eleven defenders on 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.399 the field, but we're also studying the tendencies and the 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.760 play calls of the defensive a coordinator who is Mike 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.359 Petton in this case. So it's a lot more than 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.200