Speaker 1: All right, everybody, Welcome to Bears All Access here at
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Speaker 1: Joniack and Tom there with the fuel up to play sixty.
Speaker 1: Crowd set up, bringing a decade. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it getting getting the body moving, big Tom there.
Speaker 1: I could take some of that advice about right now.
Speaker 1: If I could just play sixty every day, I'd be
Speaker 1: a happier individual. You could play thirty, you'd be a
Speaker 1: healthier human being. So focus on thirty first, and then
Speaker 1: we'll work on the sixty. We've got Chase Daniel coming
Speaker 1: up in our next segment and throughout the show tonight,
Speaker 1: the Bears quarterback. We'll join the program as the Bears
Speaker 1: get ready for Packer Week, and folks, I was talking
Speaker 1: with Tom earlier. This week we shoot our videos that
Speaker 1: you could see on the website, the Bears website and
Speaker 1: also on w BBM and the Score. And Tom he's
Speaker 1: usually in a very very very very rotten mood during
Speaker 1: Packer Week, but he's generally today, i'd say, very upbeat.
Speaker 1: So what's the big switch. I'm angst, I'm very I
Speaker 1: am very accessful. I'm taking my vest off. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just diff and it's a Packer week is not
Speaker 1: something that you get ready for because it stays in
Speaker 1: your system your whole life. If you ever play for
Speaker 1: the Bears, you're a bearss fan whatever, It's not something
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're thinking about it three days in advance.
Speaker 1: It's something that you prepare for, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: having you know, chili cookoffs, or having friends over that
Speaker 1: are Packer fans, or just having that rivalry that kind
Speaker 1: of heats up throughout the week and you get pretty
Speaker 1: animated and irritated. Though. You know what, though, it's different
Speaker 1: because when I played for the Bears, we never got
Speaker 1: beat by Green Bay, and after all the years now
Speaker 1: never being less invested as a Bears fan, it just
Speaker 1: gets to me that that post podium, we're we're doing
Speaker 1: the post game broadcast and we're either in the broadcast
Speaker 1: booth or leaving the stadium, and you can see those
Speaker 1: guys addressing the podium and I don't want to see
Speaker 1: that anymore. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of I'm
Speaker 1: tired of being around it. And it's so hard to
Speaker 1: leave that stadium, especially last year at the end of
Speaker 1: that game, when the way the way things unfolded, and luck,
Speaker 1: you know, thankfully for us that it just pointed the
Speaker 1: barrels the arrow straight up. For the Bears, they learned
Speaker 1: a lot from that, no question, as they have learned
Speaker 1: a lot about the Week one loss this year. So
Speaker 1: many comparisons week fifteen a week one. It would be
Speaker 1: true for any team because week one's the great unknown.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you're getting from your team. You
Speaker 1: have no idea, you don't have any idea what the
Speaker 1: season's going to look like. And now here week fifteen,
Speaker 1: we have a pretty good idea of what it's looked like.
Speaker 1: This team has been resilient and they've ripped off four
Speaker 1: wins in five weeks. It's been a good start to
Speaker 1: the second half. There's confidence. I heard Mitch Trubiski at
Speaker 1: the podium this week sound he'sas, I don't care who
Speaker 1: we're playing next, just bring him on. That was basically
Speaker 1: his message. I like the attitude, right, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the attitude do you have to have be because you're
Speaker 1: not going to give any one opponent unrealistic amount of respect.
Speaker 1: But you know, you talk about the similarities of last
Speaker 1: year to this year. There is no similarities to the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears team that they're going to be facing Sunday
Speaker 1: that they face at the beginning of the season, and
Speaker 1: I think it's just a completely different football team. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of differences on the Green Bay Packers. Also,
Speaker 1: They're one consistent is that they have Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: he's such an instigator of their success. But I think
Speaker 1: in the path that the Bears have been on, it's
Speaker 1: a it's of improvement and significant improvement in the last
Speaker 1: four or five weeks. What do you see from the Packers.
Speaker 1: It's hard to overlook Aaron Rodgers because to me, I
Speaker 1: think that Aaron Rodgers is the best player in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So when you see what he's able to do to
Speaker 1: contribute to other players maybe you know, benefiting from playing
Speaker 1: with him, some of their offensive lineman benefiting playing with
Speaker 1: from his quick decisions, his arm talent, his accuracy, his
Speaker 1: decision making process. Trying to take a young head coach
Speaker 1: and help him develop because the quarterback is more experienced
Speaker 1: than the head coach. And I see there's a lot
Speaker 1: of responsibilities on the shoulders of Aaron Rodgers. They did
Speaker 1: go out and tap the free agency market. This year
Speaker 1: in the free agency they got Adrian Amos from the
Speaker 1: Bears and the two defensive ends they got. They're super
Speaker 1: talented football players at the Darius Smith in pressing. But
Speaker 1: I will say if you just looked at it from
Speaker 1: something on paper, statistically, they don't shine. But here's where
Speaker 1: they get you, and they always have with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: he's terrific in the red zone. He is terrific on
Speaker 1: third down. They keep themselves typically in really good third
Speaker 1: down situations, but they score points when they have to.
Speaker 1: They score points before half, they score points coming out
Speaker 1: of the break. The Bears have done that too in
Speaker 1: the last three weeks very well. And it's creates that
Speaker 1: takeaway a possession and score before they get the chance
Speaker 1: to get the football again. The two for one, which
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has been great at over the course of
Speaker 1: his career, and they're doing that again this year. I
Speaker 1: think they have fourteen touchdowns on opening drives of either half,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty darn good right now. And they take
Speaker 1: advantage of your mistakes and so he doesn't make any
Speaker 1: two interceptions and they do take the ball away. Super
Speaker 1: manipulative with the snapcount at the line of scrimmage, and
Speaker 1: if you do, you get if you jump offside, you
Speaker 1: if you're a little bit off balance, he's going to
Speaker 1: look for a way for someone to go deep and
Speaker 1: try to attack you because of it. But you know
Speaker 1: what's interesting is Mitch is getting good at a two.
Speaker 1: His snapcount at home is becoming a verbal weapon. And
Speaker 1: I just think that you're going to have to focus
Speaker 1: on the discipline of the defensive line this week not
Speaker 1: to get off balance or off sides, because even if
Speaker 1: you're off or defensive lineman and you kind of jump
Speaker 1: a little bit, but then you're kind of retreating back
Speaker 1: before he snapped the ball, you're rich a pick, you're
Speaker 1: out of position. Yeah. Well, Mitch's third and one hard
Speaker 1: count that was a penalty for a first down, and
Speaker 1: that was on a scoring drive. So I was a
Speaker 1: catch by Alan Robinson. He was terrific after you know,
Speaker 1: you brought it up. I talked about it with him too.
Speaker 1: After interceptions the last two weeks. You've got it memorized
Speaker 1: by now thirty at thirty eight three eighty six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: including one rushing and ten yards of completion. So that's
Speaker 1: a quarterback who says, hey, I made a mistake. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to make another one. Keep moving in the
Speaker 1: right direction. Well, you know, I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: great to talk to Chase about because you know, to
Speaker 1: get into the mind of a core back, you have
Speaker 1: to ask a quarterback. And I think it's really interesting
Speaker 1: to see when you get someone that's been in that room,
Speaker 1: that's been filtering that information to get a line out
Speaker 1: of Now, Chase Daniel coming up next. We're with the
Speaker 1: Fuel Up sixty crew here at Hattis Hall. This is
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Speaker 1: and this is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody back at PANC Studios Here at Hattis
Speaker 1: All on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy of the Score
Speaker 1: with Dan Briley, our producer and pause ranger engineer. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac almost said little Z, my guy, little Z.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac with Tom Thare and this has brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy. We welcome in Chase Daniel,
Speaker 1: the veteran quarterback. What is it eleven years thirteen years.
Speaker 1: Eleven years, yeah, eleven years, eleven years in the league. Man,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, you talk like a coach, you play
Speaker 1: like a coach. You think the game in a very
Speaker 1: unique way, at which I guess a lot of veteran
Speaker 1: quarterbacks eventually become that way. But it's always fun listening
Speaker 1: to you. So thanks for taking the time to join
Speaker 1: us on the show this week. In front of the
Speaker 1: play sixty crew. You know you played more than sixty
Speaker 1: every day. Gotta get everybody up and moving. Remember when
Speaker 1: you were a kid, what'd you do? Because you're you're
Speaker 1: younger than Tim and I play sixty. See we're running
Speaker 1: around from dawn to dusk, you know. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if kids all do that anymore. They don't make
Speaker 1: them like they used. They do not chase, they do not.
Speaker 1: How's my Missouri buddy there? My Missouri buddy used to
Speaker 1: be a big, big, big eight, big twelve guy like
Speaker 1: me at Iowa State, and now you're big time over there. Sec. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I know, I don't remember what I was like to
Speaker 1: play in the Big twelve. I used to hate Missouri
Speaker 1: basketball young before your time, remember Norm? Yeah? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they were great. Oh yeah, we had some battles with
Speaker 1: Iowah State, but we're talking football with the Bears quarterback
Speaker 1: Tim take it away, Chase. Jeff just brought some stuff
Speaker 1: about how many years you've spent in the NFL last
Speaker 1: year or last week Before the game, Eli Manning says
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to be an assistant coach and he
Speaker 1: doesn't like being a backup. Would you be a good coach?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it would be a great coach, um,
Speaker 1: But do I want to be a coach? Probably not so?
Speaker 1: All right, So this past two weekends ago, why well
Speaker 1: I figured that was coming, but the why didn't? Um?
Speaker 1: I just see like how much they work and how
Speaker 1: much they do behind the scenes, right, And I've I've
Speaker 1: given so much to this game already, and I love
Speaker 1: my family too much to be away from them. And
Speaker 1: it takes a special takes a special type of person
Speaker 1: to be away from their family and their kids, and
Speaker 1: and obviously you make it work. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: as as of now, I would say no to coaching.
Speaker 1: You know, just a couple of weeks ago, I was
Speaker 1: watching the high school state championship games and I was
Speaker 1: looking at the quarterback positions, specifically and that's not a
Speaker 1: bunch of Cam Newton's and Ben Roethlisberger's out there. There's
Speaker 1: a lot more guys that are your size. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna so in high school, what are the two things
Speaker 1: that high school quarterbacks should learn to do better than
Speaker 1: everybody else in order to start taking their size to
Speaker 1: see how it fits into that position. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say I would say the number one thing is work ethic,
Speaker 1: Especially in high school. You you have to show everyone,
Speaker 1: including your teammates and your coaches, that you want to
Speaker 1: be there, that you want to be the best that
Speaker 1: you possibly can be. Right there's in high school you
Speaker 1: have so many people going out for the team. You
Speaker 1: don't know who's gonna make it. You have to sort
Speaker 1: of separate yourself. And two, you mean you got to
Speaker 1: be able to throw the football. I mean you got
Speaker 1: to be able to be accurate with the football. And
Speaker 1: if you can do that, I think in high school
Speaker 1: that's sort of what separates guys from you know, who
Speaker 1: can throw it to who can't, and that's who sort
Speaker 1: of will succeed, especially at the quarterback position. When you
Speaker 1: looked at your talents at the conclusion of your high
Speaker 1: school career, because you are more than a quarterback. Did
Speaker 1: Missouri have a system in place already that was going
Speaker 1: to fit your talents or did they have to kind
Speaker 1: of tweak it around what you brought to the table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I committed their after my junior year, before my
Speaker 1: senior year, and they were in the process of switching
Speaker 1: offenses to really suit Brad Smith, who came before me,
Speaker 1: a living legend in his own right. I mean truly
Speaker 1: one of the first of a kind sort of dual
Speaker 1: threat and new age type quarterbacks. And I mean I
Speaker 1: would he's a He's a better person, first of all,
Speaker 1: than he as a player. We still stay in touch
Speaker 1: to this day. But they sort of switched it to
Speaker 1: him or the run option RPO types off sort of
Speaker 1: before anyone was doing it. And then you know, when
Speaker 1: I got there my freshman year, that's sort of when
Speaker 1: the switch started to Hey, let's get six and a
Speaker 1: half seven yards deep in the shotgun, let's get the
Speaker 1: ball of our hands, let's go five wide, you know,
Speaker 1: shack the half back back in the backfield, take advantage
Speaker 1: of what the defenses is giving us. And that's why
Speaker 1: we were able to put up so many really so
Speaker 1: much good numbers in college. I mean, it was fun
Speaker 1: to play. But also, you know, you look at the
Speaker 1: personnel that I had, Jeremy Macklin, Martin Rucker, Chase Kaufman.
Speaker 1: I could go on and on. These guys played long
Speaker 1: time in the league. Um, so that that helps win.
Speaker 1: And Brad went wound up and play wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Did when you can't got in? Did anybody
Speaker 1: try to switch you to another position? I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could play another position, so I'm glad they didn't.
Speaker 1: Uh So, No, for me, it was it was it
Speaker 1: was quarterback all the way. Well, Brad was kind of
Speaker 1: a quarterback that was more of a runner, where you
Speaker 1: were a quarterback that was more of a thrower. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: in Missouri, I think I ran for over a thousand
Speaker 1: yards in my career, so it was more of a
Speaker 1: scrambling type thing. So, you know, average three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards a year running. Some were called runs. Um
Speaker 1: you know, but it also helps play in almost in
Speaker 1: this same offense that we sort of have now more
Speaker 1: more empty backfield. But um, it definitely helped, and I
Speaker 1: think that's why I've been so good and you know,
Speaker 1: six of my eleven years have been in this offense. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's with Matt Naggie or Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: or Andy Reid. Um. So that's what I feel so
Speaker 1: comfortable about this offense. This Year's been an evolution, hasn't it.
Speaker 1: It's been something. I mean, whatever expectations may or may
Speaker 1: not have been outside, inside, personally, individually, throughout the locker room.
Speaker 1: You know, you never know how it's going to unfold.
Speaker 1: What are your impressions of how it's unfolded. I could
Speaker 1: ask you a zillion questions of what you thought it
Speaker 1: might be, but just the whole process. And while we're
Speaker 1: at week fifteen of this season, Yeah, it's it's crazy, right,
Speaker 1: only promised three more games. And that's sort of in
Speaker 1: the quarterback room been our calling call, right, like our
Speaker 1: calling card is just like, hey, you you're only promised
Speaker 1: three more Wednesdays. You're only promised three more Thursdays. So
Speaker 1: make the absolute best of them. Take it one game
Speaker 1: amount of time. But obviously, if you if you look
Speaker 1: at the arc of the season, it's not where we
Speaker 1: want it to be. Especially to start. You know, we
Speaker 1: had some some tough games, some close games that we
Speaker 1: should have won, and got blown out a couple of times,
Speaker 1: like you know, the New Orleans games. That's just that's
Speaker 1: not like us. And one of the things that we
Speaker 1: haven't been super proud of. You know, as of late,
Speaker 1: we've protected Soldier field. But at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: we lost some games and told your feel that we
Speaker 1: should not have lost. And I just think offensively, uh,
Speaker 1: you look at it, and it's really the tell of
Speaker 1: two halfs of the season. The first eight games, we
Speaker 1: just we didn't have an identity, uh, and sometimes it
Speaker 1: takes a long time to find an identity to find,
Speaker 1: you know, a quarterback and a play caller, head coach
Speaker 1: sort of get on the same page. But also see,
Speaker 1: you know, we've had some injuries here and there, we've
Speaker 1: had to have some feelings and offensive line, we've had
Speaker 1: some feelings at receivers and and I think it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's gotten to a point now where you look
Speaker 1: at the second half of the season and we're firing
Speaker 1: all cylinders. And I really like to go back to
Speaker 1: really the first Lions game. Uh really when we started,
Speaker 1: it was at home, and and it just it just
Speaker 1: felt different. We scored three touchdowns that day, our defense played,
Speaker 1: you know, really well, and then you know, you go
Speaker 1: to La Mitch got a little hurt. Take that out
Speaker 1: of the equation. But every other game since then, I mean,
Speaker 1: we've been firing all cylinders. And the thing that I think,
Speaker 1: uh that goes unnoticed is really the first half of
Speaker 1: the season we had like fifty five to fifty eight
Speaker 1: to sixty plays a game. We weren't on the field
Speaker 1: at all, and that's just that's not normal. And we
Speaker 1: were putting our defense in very bad spots where they're
Speaker 1: having to play seventy five eighty plays a game. You
Speaker 1: look at since the Lions game, it's like sixty five,
Speaker 1: sixty eight, seventy two, seventy five, Like those are the
Speaker 1: type of games that we want. We want to control
Speaker 1: the tempo, we want to be on the field. And
Speaker 1: guess what the narrative is now, Hey, we're staying on
Speaker 1: the field on third down. We're much better on third
Speaker 1: down and the second half of the season than we
Speaker 1: were in the first half of the season. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, you said you saw Mitch
Speaker 1: Rubisky have the best Thursday practice that he has. Can
Speaker 1: you recognize a good practice as the offense as a
Speaker 1: whole our do you break it down specifically to the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. I think you can tell when everyone's sharp.
Speaker 1: But as a quarterback and being around this offense, I
Speaker 1: know what it's like to be sharp in a practice
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. And whether you like it or not,
Speaker 1: this offense starts and ends with a quarterback. So if
Speaker 1: Mitch has a good practice, usually the entire offense is
Speaker 1: going to have a good practice. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: there was just something about it and me and me
Speaker 1: and Coach Ragon sort of talked about it and I
Speaker 1: said something and I meant it. I usually don't say
Speaker 1: a lot at the end of the practice, like when
Speaker 1: we break it down with the quarterbacks, but I just
Speaker 1: told him, I just let him know, hey, man, like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm being serious, Like you put together today probably
Speaker 1: one of the best Thursday practices I've seen in quite
Speaker 1: some time. And it just Ball was jumping off of
Speaker 1: his hand, he was sharp, he was jumping around, he
Speaker 1: was using his cadence. It was just all those type things.
Speaker 1: And that's continued to progress and he's continued to build
Speaker 1: on that. When you're in practice and you hear the
Speaker 1: play called in the huddle, do you still have a
Speaker 1: quarterback clock in your head when you're watching Mitch run
Speaker 1: the play and you're going, Okay, this is how I
Speaker 1: feel it. Yeah, there's no question, especially because in the
Speaker 1: National Football League you really don't get reps as a backup,
Speaker 1: so you have to be able to, you know, go
Speaker 1: out there and run through it and walk through it,
Speaker 1: stayed behind it. And so that's what I do every
Speaker 1: single play. I'm right behind it, walking through as up
Speaker 1: I'm playing to play. Chase Daniel our guest here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access. We're gonna take a break here from
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Speaker 1: to join us as we get ready to the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packer game on Sunday. Let's talk play calling because
Speaker 1: there is an art to it. We know that. And
Speaker 1: Matt Neggee is now deep into a second season as
Speaker 1: the Bears head coach and play caller. And what have
Speaker 1: you picked up in terms of that art? And you
Speaker 1: say you're not going to be a coach, but would
Speaker 1: you have your own style? Yeah? I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think, Um, Matt is one of the better play
Speaker 1: colors um that I've had a chance to be around,
Speaker 1: probably him, Sean Payton and Andy Reid um. But but
Speaker 1: with with Matt Um, it all comes down to the
Speaker 1: quarterback play caller um relationship. And I think him and
Speaker 1: Mitch have a great one. And I think it's just
Speaker 1: going to continue to grow. It's going to continue to evolve. Uh.
Speaker 1: It takes some games in this offense now to see
Speaker 1: what your quarterbacks like, what your quarterbacks don't like, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So what I think he's done a really good job
Speaker 1: of these past eight weeks is, first of all, he's
Speaker 1: running the football. Uh. And that's where it starts up
Speaker 1: front with our guys, with with demo and uh, you
Speaker 1: know those big hogs up front, man, they are they're
Speaker 1: doing well. And you know, we might not be running
Speaker 1: for one hundred and eighty yards or one hundred nine yards,
Speaker 1: but what we're doing is we are getting almost five
Speaker 1: yards to carry. So so first of all, that's great.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we ran for one fifty something
Speaker 1: last week, so that's that's huge. That's where this sort
Speaker 1: of this offense starts and everything sort of comes off that.
Speaker 1: So we're able to get our under center play actions going,
Speaker 1: We're able to get some of our shot plays going,
Speaker 1: or our po game. I think he's just done such
Speaker 1: a really good job mixing it up. As a late
Speaker 1: when you watch tape of your opponent, do you look
Speaker 1: at exactly how your scheme fits against the your opponent
Speaker 1: or do you look at vulnerabilities within their defense to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, keep this play in mind or this area
Speaker 1: of the field open. Yeah, there's no question that the
Speaker 1: first thing we do as quarterbacks when we're watching film
Speaker 1: is we definitely look for weaknesses in their defense, and
Speaker 1: I think the coaches more so look at how we're
Speaker 1: going to exploit that based on our scheme. And so
Speaker 1: what we're doing as quarterbacks. When we're watching film, we
Speaker 1: are not only are we studying the eleven defenders on
Speaker 1: the field, but we're also studying the tendencies and the
Speaker 1: play calls of the defensive a coordinator who is Mike
Speaker 1: Petton in this case. So it's a lot more than
Speaker 1: just turning on the film and just watching. Hey, that
Speaker 1: looks like man verage. Hey, that looks like single high zone. Hey,
Speaker 1: that looks like you know, cover two. Uh, it's what
Speaker 1: does he do on third and two? What does he
Speaker 1: do on third and eight? Okay, we're in the red
Speaker 1: zone here? How does this call is different? I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's very intricate. Uh. And and we have these
Speaker 1: these sort of routines at the quarterback room that we
Speaker 1: like to follow, Like today is really for us a
Speaker 1: a base install day, meaning first and second down, run, play, action,
Speaker 1: pass screens, whatever. It's it's normal around the league that
Speaker 1: does that well. Tonight as quarterbacks, Um, we like to
Speaker 1: get a head start on tomorrow. Tomorrow for us is
Speaker 1: third down. So tonight we just literally just came from
Speaker 1: h Mitch, myself and Tyler Bray. We will watch third downs.
Speaker 1: So we'll break it up by third downs and see
Speaker 1: what they do and see what we can expect, and
Speaker 1: then you know, later tonight we'll get to play call
Speaker 1: sheet for tomorrow for third downs. So that's sort of
Speaker 1: how the week goes, so forth and so on. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: would be red zone and Saturday sort of review. So
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a crazy week. Is it fair
Speaker 1: to say in eleven years you've seen everything or do
Speaker 1: defense is still surprise even you? Yeah, I think defense
Speaker 1: is evolved, just like offenses evolved. Um, you know the
Speaker 1: big thing this week and really you know this sort
Speaker 1: of flavor of the week slash flavor of the year
Speaker 1: is this what we called simulated pressure, meaning they're bringing
Speaker 1: one but they're dropping one and they're playing shell coverage
Speaker 1: behind it. That's sort of the flavor of the year
Speaker 1: for defensive coordinators. So um, and all this like linebackers
Speaker 1: mugged up in the A and B gap. Right, So
Speaker 1: if you told me, you know, five years ago that
Speaker 1: this would be happening, I'd say you're crazy, Like, no
Speaker 1: one does it. It's a four two box. These guys
Speaker 1: are like just boom boom boom, and you know you're
Speaker 1: playing cover three. Uh so they're they they have to
Speaker 1: just confused half the audience. Yeah, I know, I'm getting
Speaker 1: a little too interested. There are some people out there
Speaker 1: that that get it, but it's uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you're you're really studying tendencies out there. With that said,
Speaker 1: so when they start driving now as six defensive back
Speaker 1: a dime which is becoming very popular. Also, it seemingly
Speaker 1: would take away every possible viewing lane you have. What
Speaker 1: are the challenges as a quarterback when you see dimond? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this this team plays a lot of dime u there.
Speaker 1: I think their first in the National Football League at
Speaker 1: at number of dime snaps. So what that means out
Speaker 1: there they have four d lineman, one linebacker, and they
Speaker 1: have six defensive backs, so six small people that try
Speaker 1: to cover our guys. And it is different because you know,
Speaker 1: they have a couple of dime backs that they bring
Speaker 1: in the game. They take a linebacker out that they
Speaker 1: feel really comfortable in coverage, maybe whether it's covering Treat
Speaker 1: Cohen or you know, Yesper or you know a number
Speaker 1: of our tight ends. So it does it does make
Speaker 1: it a little more difficult to prepare just because you're
Speaker 1: not sure how they will play us. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: they can do just about everything. It's it's it's another
Speaker 1: corner out there instead of a linebacker. So it's not
Speaker 1: the norm. But you know, with them, you know, we
Speaker 1: got to be prepared for it. With the with the
Speaker 1: change that center between Cody and James. The flight of
Speaker 1: the football from a snap by Cody. Does does it
Speaker 1: change your eyes at all? Or have you become consistent
Speaker 1: with the flight of the football where you know exactly
Speaker 1: where it's going to be. I think because Mitchen and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Cody have worked together now all of last
Speaker 1: year and then almost half of this year, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely, Um, they got it down and um
Speaker 1: it does it? Does it? No, that's a fair question
Speaker 1: because it definitely changes from center to center. Like when
Speaker 1: I'm taking a snap under center from from James, my
Speaker 1: hands are much higher on his on his bottom, you know,
Speaker 1: from Cody, it's much lower. I'm sure you guys really
Speaker 1: want to know that. But it does. It does change,
Speaker 1: There's no question. Um. And I think the comfort level
Speaker 1: of Mitch and Cody really played into that decision of
Speaker 1: of switching the two. Yeah, well, you know, I think Cody,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a good settlement on that inside because
Speaker 1: he can help develop the talent of Rashad Coward and
Speaker 1: still continue the development of James Daniels. And I don't
Speaker 1: think James Daniel's ability to play center is out of
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility going in the future in his career.
Speaker 1: But I think they're really fortunate to have a guy
Speaker 1: who's talented as Cody that can make those changes and
Speaker 1: still you know, hold up to the leadership that's expected
Speaker 1: of them. I totally agree. And and it just so
Speaker 1: you know, it's it is not easy to move from
Speaker 1: guard to center right in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cody had not snapped a ball since the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles game because we knew sort of then that
Speaker 1: he was probably gonna make the switch, so he wanted
Speaker 1: to playoff game. Yeah, playoff game yeah, um uh. And
Speaker 1: so it's it's not easy. So a credit to them
Speaker 1: for for being able to do that and do it
Speaker 1: so well. It's Chase Daniels, our guest here on Bearzo Access,
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy. Do you ever have
Speaker 1: a good time with James Daniels and Chase Daniel and
Speaker 1: the whole Daniels Daniel thing. What's that dynamic in the room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think, uh, for for me, obviously there's
Speaker 1: well say, obviously there's no S on my name. There's
Speaker 1: an S on Daniel's name, James's. So I still to
Speaker 1: this day, Missouri fans, Bears fans, whatever you call it,
Speaker 1: they will still put an S on my name, and
Speaker 1: I try to tell them there's only one of me,
Speaker 1: there's not multiple, No s please, um. But it's still
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's part of the deals. I
Speaker 1: three First, many people still call it soldiers Field. Yes,
Speaker 1: right here in the great state of Illinois. It's inherent.
Speaker 1: As you look at your season. I know in training
Speaker 1: camp you said you felt like you were the most ready,
Speaker 1: most prepared, best playing the best football of your career
Speaker 1: eleven years in and that's certainly the way you'd want
Speaker 1: want it to be. You still feel that way fifteen
Speaker 1: weeks later, Yeah, there's no question. I just I felt like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to play in a couple games
Speaker 1: last year, and then just building on the preseason and
Speaker 1: building on the games this year, it all helped. Right.
Speaker 1: So for me, I have a really really, really good
Speaker 1: routine that's sort of time tested, over eleven years, I
Speaker 1: haven't really changed much. Maybe I've changed more in the
Speaker 1: recovery aspect of it. As I get older, my body
Speaker 1: needs to recover more. That's just science. So maybe instead
Speaker 1: of one massage, I'll get two massages in a week.
Speaker 1: I'll eat much healthier. You know, I have a big
Speaker 1: sweet tooth. I don't eat as much sugar as I
Speaker 1: used to, which is hard. But uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: definitely feel like I've played my best football to date.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I've been in eleven years, only
Speaker 1: have five starts. So the more I get a chance
Speaker 1: to start, the more I have to come in and start,
Speaker 1: the better I'm gonna get. You envision that as a
Speaker 1: possibility when you entered the NFL. You know, I entered
Speaker 1: the NFL undrafted. So my whole goal and my whole
Speaker 1: mentality was just do anything and everything I can to
Speaker 1: make the team for the first few years, and then
Speaker 1: I was able to back up Drew two or three
Speaker 1: years and then move on to Kansas City and listen,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a backup quarterback, and I tell these guys,
Speaker 1: other backup quarterbacks that asked me a lot, like how
Speaker 1: have you seen league? So long. How have you done this? Um?
Speaker 1: You know you you have to be able to push
Speaker 1: through and you have to have that belief that you
Speaker 1: will be a starting quarterback. If you're not, then you're
Speaker 1: in the wrong profession. If you just are okay with
Speaker 1: being a backup quarterback. UM, it's not good enough. I
Speaker 1: was a wonder do you have to take a break
Speaker 1: or can we go? No? That's ah, we're breaking. I
Speaker 1: didn't see the breaks winded question. We'll save it big time,
Speaker 1: save it for the other side. As we get you
Speaker 1: Set for Bears Packers with Chase Daniel here from P
Speaker 1: ANDC Studios at Hallis Hall. This is Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: with Tom There. I'm Jeff Jonnyak, and our guest this
Speaker 1: week is Bears quarterback Chase Daniel. As you look at
Speaker 1: things in the way they've they've gone, and the constant,
Speaker 1: the constant pressure of playing quarterback in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: but in a city like this, I'm not saying every
Speaker 1: city isn't like this, but it definitely is rare and
Speaker 1: this is a unique place to play quarterback. You've felt it,
Speaker 1: you've seen it, you've seen it from the inside out.
Speaker 1: How challenging is that? You know? Sorry, all I heard
Speaker 1: was Cabo San Lucas. Yeah, your name, my name, My
Speaker 1: name wasn't on there. Man. I'm sure there's still time
Speaker 1: ten degrees outside right now and five on Sunday. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: So I heard something about pressure, and um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean listen in this town, especially a great sports town
Speaker 1: like Chicago, right, Chicago, Bears. I mean you you grew
Speaker 1: up watching first of all them and the Packers play,
Speaker 1: and it's not an easy town to play in because
Speaker 1: there is a lot of pressure to be great, and
Speaker 1: when you're not great, fans are going to criticize you.
Speaker 1: That's part of the job, right, And I always tell
Speaker 1: Um Mitch, I always tell any quarterback that I'm with,
Speaker 1: and he knows this, but when you win, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get way too much credit, and when you lose, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get way too much blame. You have to stay
Speaker 1: even kill and it's almost cliche to say it, but
Speaker 1: everybody does. There's certain things about football that just continue
Speaker 1: to come back and you think, wow, that's just lip service,
Speaker 1: but in reality that that is the case. And because
Speaker 1: this league is so crazy, right, it's ever changing. Stuff
Speaker 1: changes every single week. It is a what have you
Speaker 1: done for me lately? Leak? And if you do not
Speaker 1: live up to that, if you do not score enough
Speaker 1: fantasy points, if you do not do X, Y and Z,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's always going to be um, something wrong
Speaker 1: with you and Um. You know, especially in this in
Speaker 1: this day and age of social media and Twitter, right,
Speaker 1: everything's out there. Everyone has a voice. I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm the worst at it. I'm on Twitter,
Speaker 1: so you can't shut it off? Yeah, just because why
Speaker 1: why do you like I enjoy. I enjoy the interaction,
Speaker 1: the interaction with fans. I enjoy um listening to sort
Speaker 1: of the narrative of each week and how the fans
Speaker 1: are portraying our team, and it's just it feels like
Speaker 1: a connection to me with the fans, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not naive not to think there's there's some
Speaker 1: bad stuff out there, but you got to filter it, right,
Speaker 1: Like the only the only thing I think. I think
Speaker 1: the Bill Belichick quote, if you if you didn't see it,
Speaker 1: the Bill Belichick quote, if you didn't see it, Um
Speaker 1: about the fifty three men in the locker room. Those
Speaker 1: are the opinions that matter. That that rings true, man,
Speaker 1: that that really does at the end of the day. Um,
Speaker 1: these are the guys you got to make happy. Now,
Speaker 1: you took my quest, you took all my fire because
Speaker 1: going into the break, you're gonna let me ask where
Speaker 1: you're sending an autograph? So sorry, but that's what was that?
Speaker 1: Where are you going? Because I was about more though,
Speaker 1: well I was watching some of the Belichick and Nick
Speaker 1: Sabe and they were talking about it. I think the
Speaker 1: cell phone has killed camaraderie on a team because when
Speaker 1: you go to these facilities and they're so super in
Speaker 1: size and everything. And when these guys get out of
Speaker 1: meetings and I saw there was a player that UM
Speaker 1: on another professional team that text message somebody during practice.
Speaker 1: He was sitting out practice because he's injured. He's on
Speaker 1: the practice field and the text message a response to someone. UM.
Speaker 1: You know. And the only reason I ask you because
Speaker 1: you have the most experience of anybody, and you were
Speaker 1: around a generation before the whole social media industry was
Speaker 1: so prevalent. Do you think it's it's hurt the camaraderie
Speaker 1: of of of a team, of the con relationship that
Speaker 1: you have with the guys in the locker room, because
Speaker 1: that's all you had. There's no question. I think it's
Speaker 1: hurt more than camaraderie of the team. I think it's
Speaker 1: hurt hurt our culture. Um. You never see when you
Speaker 1: go out to eat anymore. And I'm a big story
Speaker 1: because I know when to turn it off. Like, but
Speaker 1: when you go out to eat with my wife and
Speaker 1: I look across the restaurant, what do you what do
Speaker 1: you see? No talking? Oh? Well, shouldn't you be where
Speaker 1: your feet are? That's a Chuck Bagano quote And it's
Speaker 1: never rang more true. And and and uh, you know
Speaker 1: for me, Um, like like you said, we didn't grow
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up in the cell phone culture. But
Speaker 1: but I'm living in it right now, correct, So so
Speaker 1: I have a really good view of both things. I
Speaker 1: didn't get a cell phone until I was seventeen years old.
Speaker 1: I saw like an eight year old with a phone
Speaker 1: the other day that note that knew how to use
Speaker 1: it better than me. I mean, true, true story. So
Speaker 1: it goes, it goes. Have you ever seen the little
Speaker 1: kid who you know, they they don't know how to
Speaker 1: turn a book? Yeah, because they they they're sliding over
Speaker 1: like there's gonna it's a fun. There's there's no question.
Speaker 1: And listen, we have a two year old kid and
Speaker 1: and you know all these kids have these iPads these
Speaker 1: days and NonStop and don't know how to talk. We
Speaker 1: are very very strict on that. But to get back
Speaker 1: to the question, that's that's just a little aside. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no question. And I think Matt has done a
Speaker 1: really good job here because he has truly installed a
Speaker 1: no cell phone rule in meetings at all. You are
Speaker 1: gonna hang out with your buddies, um, And I think
Speaker 1: it's helping. You really just don't. You don't see him anymore. UM. Now,
Speaker 1: it is a good escape for guys to go on
Speaker 1: and you know, serve social media or text some people, sure,
Speaker 1: but there's no question that it that it has hurt
Speaker 1: the camaraderie, you know, on the one area I think
Speaker 1: will help. In nineteen eighty seven, we went on strike
Speaker 1: and we had no ability to mask communicate what was
Speaker 1: really going on there. The message was lost in the
Speaker 1: trans transition, translation, whatever you want to say. You know,
Speaker 1: when you talk about nowadays and you talk about the
Speaker 1: new collective bargaining agreement that's coming up, So considering where
Speaker 1: you are in your career, do you think about helping
Speaker 1: a generation after you through these negotiations Because I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people have brought it up, But I
Speaker 1: do think that the social media will help these guys
Speaker 1: be more in contact and understand what the message is
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, there's there's a that's a that's a
Speaker 1: great question, and um, there's no question about it. So
Speaker 1: if you guys don't know, I'm I'm the NFL Players
Speaker 1: Association rep for our team. I've I've been going to
Speaker 1: these conferences for UM, eight years now. And all that
Speaker 1: all that says is that the the NFL players have
Speaker 1: a union, right, and so I help represent I'm one
Speaker 1: of thirty two representatives of union. And and what thank
Speaker 1: thank you, um, just because just because I care about
Speaker 1: I care about the business side of football and taking
Speaker 1: care of players, right, Like the average careers three years
Speaker 1: to me not good enough. So the average guy is
Speaker 1: retired at twenty four years old, right, what are they
Speaker 1: going to do after sports? Your your rookie contract, after taxes,
Speaker 1: after agent fees, a couple hundred thousand dollars over three years,
Speaker 1: over three years, a couple hundred thousand dollars. You want
Speaker 1: to buy your mama car? All right? Fifty grand? You
Speaker 1: have one hundred fifty You want to buy a house?
Speaker 1: No money? You're you're broke. I mean, it's it's insane
Speaker 1: about the number of people that are broke. But there's
Speaker 1: no question, which is what in other things interesting is
Speaker 1: that if I if I end up playing two more years,
Speaker 1: which I plan on doing, I will have played through
Speaker 1: three CBA's right, which is very just It's not normal.
Speaker 1: I've been through a lock at year, so I get
Speaker 1: everything that's going on and there's no question that the
Speaker 1: former players are are very high on our priority list,
Speaker 1: and they do have a voice because of social media.
Speaker 1: Now their kids might be helping them out right to tweet,
Speaker 1: but absolutely there's no question that they do. How about
Speaker 1: the future players though, at the same time, because there
Speaker 1: aren't times and I don't want to get it in
Speaker 1: a whole NFLPA and ownership and which side of end
Speaker 1: type of argument, But there are some in some cases
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna names. I hear things that disturb
Speaker 1: me over the years from these these um these meetings,
Speaker 1: and this vitriol that comes out is that it's it's
Speaker 1: almost a me for I don't I don't care about
Speaker 1: the future. I care about now, And that would bother
Speaker 1: me because if you don't grow this game, the game
Speaker 1: will be in trouble. There's no question. You don't know
Speaker 1: when that trouble comes. Yeah, And and I really love
Speaker 1: where our team's at um right now. With that, we
Speaker 1: actually just had an NFL Player Association meeting. Some people
Speaker 1: from the union came down and we talked about the
Speaker 1: multitude of issues. Um. You know, the Collective Bargaining Agreement
Speaker 1: which is called the CBA. It's what the NFL and
Speaker 1: the NFL Players Association, the rule, the handbook that they
Speaker 1: play under. It's it's expiring in twenty twenty. And they
Speaker 1: came and talked to us about a day and you
Speaker 1: would be surprised at our team, how many people talked
Speaker 1: about the future of the game. Not only do we
Speaker 1: want to get a better deal for us, but we
Speaker 1: want to look out for those guys that are in
Speaker 1: high school right now, that are in college right now.
Speaker 1: We want them to have better benefits than us. We
Speaker 1: want them to get paid more than us. And not
Speaker 1: only are you trying to take care of of us,
Speaker 1: you are trying to take care of former players and
Speaker 1: the future of the game. That's Chase Daniel will continue
Speaker 1: here from have Us Hull panc Studios. It's Bears All
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Speaker 1: Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of Bears All
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Speaker 1: There and Chase Danuel our guest Bears Packers on Sunday
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field. It's great to have the magnitude of
Speaker 1: a game like this, I know, and I talked to
Speaker 1: Buster Screen in the locker room today, just no matter
Speaker 1: what following coach resorders, keeping it one game of it
Speaker 1: at a time, just focusing on this. But the undeniable
Speaker 1: fact is it's it's a playoff game. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a playoff game. There's no question. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you know obviously we talked about it earlier in their show.
Speaker 1: We didn't start the season like we wanted to as
Speaker 1: of late four out of five, I think, and gain
Speaker 1: in some momentum, and we've made this game a game
Speaker 1: that matters. Not that it didn't or it wouldn't if
Speaker 1: we weren't in because it's Bears Packers, I get that,
Speaker 1: but it matters, and so you know, it matters for
Speaker 1: both teams, and I think both teams realize that anytime
Speaker 1: you get the Bears and the Packers together, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be there's gonna be some fireworks. And for us, the
Speaker 1: only thing we can control is how we prepare on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, on a Thursday, on a Friday, travel Saturday
Speaker 1: and play Sunday. We can't, I get it. We need
Speaker 1: some help here and there. Whatever, Well, if we don't win.
Speaker 1: The help doesn't matter when you talk about the preparation
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Thursday and stuff being here for a period
Speaker 1: of time, not having indo our facility on these in
Speaker 1: these cold weather practicing conditions. Where do you get the
Speaker 1: best concentrated work when you get an indoor facility where
Speaker 1: it's temperature controlled and you have you know, all the
Speaker 1: field side you need or are you a guy that
Speaker 1: you like to go outside because those are conditions you
Speaker 1: know me, you know, just for the preparation, I think
Speaker 1: mentally probably made a little bit more concentration the warmer conditions.
Speaker 1: There's no question, especially on Wednesday, because Wednesday's are really
Speaker 1: first big work day, and so what that means is
Speaker 1: there are a lot of plays thrown at players that
Speaker 1: are new, right, so we need as much mental focus
Speaker 1: that we can possibly get, way more than the physical. Now,
Speaker 1: I would say tomorrow, you know, we're gonna go outside,
Speaker 1: we're gonna practice. But but Wednesdays sort of as of late,
Speaker 1: it's been a more of a mental day for us
Speaker 1: because the you know, sixteen games, seventeen weeks throughout the season,
Speaker 1: your body is going to feel bad, regardless of what
Speaker 1: position you are. It's a long time to be doing it.
Speaker 1: We've been working since you know, the middle of July,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I mean for me personally, I would
Speaker 1: have loved been outside today because that's the sort of
Speaker 1: the weather we're gonna get on Sunday. It's looking like,
Speaker 1: you know, a high of fourteen love two um truly
Speaker 1: yea truly football won't be until nightfall, exactly, it's gonna
Speaker 1: ben It's gonna be sunny though. It's gonna be sunny,
Speaker 1: so that that will help maybe some You can help
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Speaker 1: Salvation Army Jeff Joni Act top there Chase danuear guest here,
Speaker 1: the Bears quarterback. If you could put into context how
Speaker 1: Matt Neege has shepherded you guys through the difficulties this
Speaker 1: year to where you stand today, well, i'd I'd say
Speaker 1: the first and most glaring thing from a player is
Speaker 1: he's never changed. He never changed when we you know,
Speaker 1: lost two or three in a row. He never changed
Speaker 1: when we weren't meeting inside expectations. Um. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a true leader of a coach. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: you have to demand excellence but understand your players at
Speaker 1: the same time. And um, of course, I mean listen,
Speaker 1: he he took blame for some of it that really
Speaker 1: wasn't his fault. So he showed accountability and and uh
Speaker 1: in the team and in himself. And I think that
Speaker 1: just the team, I mean, the team loves him. He's
Speaker 1: he's a great guy. The team's loved him ever since
Speaker 1: his intro meeting April third or second of twenty eight team,
Speaker 1: when he first got introduced to the to the team. Um.
Speaker 1: And Matt is a guy that is forever uh an
Speaker 1: optimist uh and and so am I. So he's never
Speaker 1: had a bad day. He really, he really doesn't ever
Speaker 1: get in a bad mood. And I think the team
Speaker 1: has sort of taken that on. He's it hard to
Speaker 1: have fifty three optimists sometimes. Yeah, there's no question. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear excuse you, I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear complaints. Well, and I and I and what I
Speaker 1: love about it and and this is this is a
Speaker 1: pretty young team right like age wise, it's a very
Speaker 1: young team actually, But what I love is the accountability
Speaker 1: factor that the players have for one another. And I
Speaker 1: think that's truly when a team can take off when
Speaker 1: it doesn't come from the head coach. It comes from
Speaker 1: Danny Trevathan or a team Hicks or Khalil Mack or
Speaker 1: Mitch or Alan Robinson, the leaders on the team, gathering
Speaker 1: the players and saying we're not going this way, which
Speaker 1: is bad. We're going the opposite. We're going good and
Speaker 1: we're going to stay that level. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of closed door team only meetings, but
Speaker 1: you guys, there was brought up a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago about you guys have in one, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: there was only one, because I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: message that you want to just keep getting in where
Speaker 1: they we got to figure out what's going on here,
Speaker 1: and it's only amongst the players, so it had to
Speaker 1: be a strong personnel led player meeting. But I got
Speaker 1: to imagine, as much as you talk about those other guys,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of eyes that had to gravitate towards you.
Speaker 1: And you know, whether it's a young guy with no
Speaker 1: experience looking for Chase for answers, or it's a guy
Speaker 1: with a minimal amount of experience that needs Chase to
Speaker 1: tell them what's going to happen here. Yeah, no question.
Speaker 1: And in that so called players meeting, it lasted a
Speaker 1: grand toll of about a minute and a half. Good, So, um,
Speaker 1: you know we're we were never in panic mode. It
Speaker 1: was just more of a let's get right, let's move on, done, break,
Speaker 1: move on. But at the same time, I am in
Speaker 1: an interesting position, right I'm a backup quarterback, but I'm
Speaker 1: also the longest tenured UM player in the NFL on
Speaker 1: this team, So I will get guys that will come
Speaker 1: up and ask for you know, you know, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. And I do try to give leadership, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, I know that I am not
Speaker 1: the starter, like this is Metche's team forever and and
Speaker 1: so I have to sort of not walk the line,
Speaker 1: but also like not make my leadership known out there,
Speaker 1: because that would be stepping on on Ten's feet and
Speaker 1: that's not who I am and and that's not the
Speaker 1: relationship Ten and I have. How how would you describe it? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, for me, it's more of a lead by
Speaker 1: example and trying to do do all the right things,
Speaker 1: whether it's um, you know, getting here at five forty
Speaker 1: five in the morning studying an extra film, or staying
Speaker 1: later or staying after with some of the receivers to
Speaker 1: help a little bit of everything behind the scenes type thing.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, listen, I'm not the only
Speaker 1: all the all backup quarterbacks will do that, right, That's
Speaker 1: there's nothing special about that. But you know this matters
Speaker 1: to me. The game matters. I don't just play it
Speaker 1: just to play it. There's a reason, right, and it's
Speaker 1: I love the game, and I love being here. I
Speaker 1: love being a part of the Bears US. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite organizations. Who gets you out of your seat?
Speaker 1: You know, during my career we were playing and Barry
Speaker 1: Sanders was on the other side, or Dan Marino was
Speaker 1: the other side, it kind of got you out of
Speaker 1: your seat to go and watch. Who has brought you
Speaker 1: out of your seat to watch throughout your career? Oh man, Um,
Speaker 1: obviously you know, I get a lot of crap for
Speaker 1: this in the quarterback room, but but you know, it
Speaker 1: starts and ends with with Drew Brees, just because I
Speaker 1: was with them for so long and he sort of
Speaker 1: taught me the ropes of being quarterback, but man, it
Speaker 1: was it was something special to watch him. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: not only during games when he was carving guys up,
Speaker 1: but he was the same guy in practice too. Man,
Speaker 1: it was remarkable to watch. You know, this could be
Speaker 1: trouble for people, but the first thirty eight games of
Speaker 1: his career, in Mitch's career, their numbers or have you
Speaker 1: seen this? I I've seen. I've seen everything I have
Speaker 1: early startling. And the only reason I bring it up again,
Speaker 1: it's not to say Ten's gonna be Drew Brees, maybe
Speaker 1: he'll be better, yeah, okay, or that David Montgomery is
Speaker 1: not going to be Walter Payton, but you never know.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is that there's every game
Speaker 1: is a referendum on a quarterback. And to me, that's
Speaker 1: the most I don't care what. Every game's a referendum up,
Speaker 1: he's not this or he's going to be this, And
Speaker 1: to me, that is the roller coaster struggle that even
Speaker 1: I have a hard time with as an analyst of
Speaker 1: observing it all. Yeah, and listen back in the day
Speaker 1: and when Drew was putting up these numbers through the
Speaker 1: first thirty eight games. He wasn't getting what say Mitch
Speaker 1: or anyone else who will struggle a little bit of
Speaker 1: their career. I mean, it's thirty eight, it's a blip.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go on to start three hundred games in
Speaker 1: the league. I mean, come on now, like, give the
Speaker 1: guy a chance to to get his feet wet to play.
Speaker 1: And but you know, that's that's the culture we live
Speaker 1: in today and and he understands it and all these
Speaker 1: other guys. There's multiple quarterbacks around the league. Sort of
Speaker 1: happened with Marcus Mariotto when he was playing a little
Speaker 1: bit and got sort of replaced by Ryan Tannehill. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: it's it's out there, and that's why this league has
Speaker 1: turned into such a what have you done for me lately? League?
Speaker 1: That's Chase Daniel, Thank you so much. Always a pleasure,
Speaker 1: thank you, very very very good to talk to you.
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