WEBVTT - Previewing Titans, Catching up with Tillman | All Access 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.440 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.480 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.480 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.160 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.880 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.880 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.920 Physical Therapy and CDW. Turning into a week of the 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:30.920 Great Unknown as the Bears get ready to meet the 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.000 Titans in Nashville on Sunday, because right now they just 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.720 don't know who's going to be available, especially on the 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.200 offensive line as they deal with COVID nineteen. Jeff, johnny 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.000 Ak and Tom there with you as we walking me 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.000 into another edition of Bears All Access, brought to you 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.000 by GS Energy. So it's kind of been a weird day, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.440 weird week for the Bears because of the offensive line. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.400 Today they had to move the deck a little bit 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.160 at practice yesterday, then they could not practice Todaytom they 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.120 decided to shut on the building. There was a positive 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.080 test for an unnamed player at the moment, and they 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.800 are just waiting to find out what that means for 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.360 the other players and or staff. That may or may 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.520 not be affected. So they're on hold right now until 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.000 the league comes through with this. Yeah, you know they 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.520 are on hold, Jeff, but they're never on hold. Thank 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.160 goodness for the technology of today. They can leave Hallis 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.840 Hall and still be in the same room together and 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.680 learn the game. You just imagine if this was twenty 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.759 five years ago when you're talking about real to real tape, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.640 and that's how the players got prepared, and there is 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.959 no way to everybody get together in the same room 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.120 and still be able to teach the group of guys 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.600 that might be in place on the offensive line for 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.360 the game that you can still get the message across 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.480 and you can still teach, and you can still have 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.880 open dialogue of conversation of improvement. Our producer tonight, Julio 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.080 says Jordan trentup Dan really helping us out as well. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.440 Earlier this evening, Matt Naggie explain what's going on, Just 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.560 waiting for answers. That's all we can really do in 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.680 the meantime. The one good thing is you can have 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.400 a bunch of meetings, a lot of time to be 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.919 able to meet, and sometimes you miss out on that 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:10.760 a little bit when you're when you're out the facility. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.560 So it's funny some of us have been talking about 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.280 it's kind of we know the zoom thing now, we 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.760 know these other ways to communicate FaceTime, etc. And it's 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.600 nice to be able to to really get get some 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.520 other stuff done. And Tom, if they did practice today, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.080 there would be six players that would not practice. Added 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.680 to the list for the first time this week, a 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.880 rookie ted En Cole came met working through a groin injury. Yeah. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.800 I saw that in an injury report and it was 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.000 disappointing because, you know, it just it just came upon us. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.280 And that's the one thing that concerns you because if 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.160 you if it was lingering from the game, we would 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.520 have probably seen evidence of it. But maybe it's something 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.119 that appeared in practice Wednesday and just didn't feel good 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:58.040 enough to go to work on Thursday. So it's it's unfortunate, 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.480 but again, uh, you know, venitive with him is probably 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.400 the best case scenario. And Mitchell Trubisky does have a 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.120 right shoulder injury. We heard this yesterday that it was 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.520 similar to the twenty eighteen version that that shoulder left 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.840 one last year. So he according to nag he did 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.320 go out to LA to get a second opinion. So 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.840 it leaves a season kind of up in the air. Yeah, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.240 and I'm so disappointed for Mitch. I'm not disappointed in 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.359 what happened on the one play, just the fact that 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.919 the luck of Mitchell Trubisky, you know, it just seemed 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.720 to have run out on that play. And then you know, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.800 to hear people refer to it as him being used 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.720 in a wildcat offense. He's a quarterback. He's not a 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.160 running back that's gone back there to take the snap 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.640 to run this one time. He was a quarterback that 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.800 had a design running play and that's what they did. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.680 And just super unfortunate how awkwardly he got tackled in 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.160 the result of this injury. Because we don't know exactly 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.880 what's going to happen, including to right guard Jermaine Effettia 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.800 to the positive test for Jason Spriggs, he might be 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.880 able to play on Sunday, but he is deemed high 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.720 risk close contact. That again, got to wait and see 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:13.280 if there's any sort of issues that crop up post 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:18.040 analysis of that. So it's gonna put guys like Arlington Hambright, 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.720 it's gonna put guys like Pig Simmons. It's gonna put 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.240 guys really in the crosshairs here, and up to those 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.320 offensive line coaches to shuffle the deck. It's up to 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.680 the offensive line coaches to be able to shuffle to 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.279 the deck. There's also probably twenty five plays I could 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.880 think off the top of my head that an offensive 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:42.000 could offensive line that's unorganized could run powerfully, could run organized, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.640 could run well. So it's not like just because you 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.880 do have a group of guys and you're facing the 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:52.080 worst case scenario. It is about getting the best selection 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.480 of plays that you can powerfully run and then running 0:04:54.520 --> 0:05:00.560 them repeatedly. And so would you keep it on the ground. Yes, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.719 everything would go through David Montgomery. It would start with 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.760 the threat of the running game. But I would not 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.080 you know, the shots that they took to Darnell Mooney 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.840 and the shots that they've been able to take all 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.440 year with Alan Robinson and hopefully more of an involvement 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.960 for Anthony Miller. I'm still you know, I'm still would 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.559 like to go downfield. This is not a defensive line 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.520 that I think the Bears, you know, should you know, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.000 change their game plan because of the offensive line issues. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.440 What that Titans defense does do well though they get 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.320 their hands on the football. In the passing game, they 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.640 broken up a league high forty four passes. That leads 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.040 to a lot of tip passes and a lot of interceptions, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.920 so they've got a plus eight turnover ratio. That's something 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.480 the Bears got to stay away from on the road 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.080 against a team that plays very physical. Really, just like 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.400 their head coach, Mike Vrabel played as a player with 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.039 the New England Patriots in his great career, he coaches 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.200 the same way. It's a tough minded outfit. At five 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.240 and two, the Bears going in at five and three. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.760 Coming up, we'll talk more about it with a familiar 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.800 name in Bears history, Dave McGinnis, the former Bears assistant 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.120 now part of the radio crew for Titans Radio with 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.200 Mike Keith. He'll be joining us day and coming up 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.880 at the bottom of the hour, Charles Peanut Tilminal Reminisce 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.960 walked down memory laying out his peanut punch, the legendary 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.200 four forced fumbled a game against the Titans. It's all 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.800 coming up next. You're on six seventy the score. It's 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.680 brought to you by GS Energy. This is Bears All Access. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.479 This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.800 by Microsoft Surface and CDW. People will get it learn 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.320 more at CDW dot com. Jeff Jowning act Tom thare 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.240 here on Bears All Access in Chicago Sports Radio six 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.000 seventy the scorer brought to you by IGS Energy. Please 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.440 to welcome the radio analysts of the Tennessee Titans, but 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.719 more probably known as longtime Bears assistant, Cardinals head coach 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.640 and a veteran of many, many decades of professional football. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.080 The guy would call coach Mac Dave McGinnis, stave, how 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.400 are you doing, Jeff? How are you doing? Man? Great 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.200 to hear from you. Tom Thayer there with you? Oh yeah, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.279 you know, virtually, but he's here. Let me tell you something. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.479 I could not be any halfy. You know. I'm a 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.240 broadcasting guru now and I could not be any happier 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.600 to talk to any more two people than you guys. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.480 Oh yeah, that's right. I like hearing that, Big Dave. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.080 I like hearing that. You tell that to all the 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.960 announcing crews, don't you. I do not, I absolutely do not. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.560 How are things going for you down there? And you 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.120 enjoying it now? You've been doing it for several years. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.840 You have the gift of analysis, but you also are 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.200 a great communicator. So it's a natural fit for a 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.280 guy that loves the game. Keeps your foot in it, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.720 doesn't it? You know what it really does? Yeff, I 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.160 really enjoyed it. Of course. I love doing it with 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.080 Mike Keith. You know. When I was I was out 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.200 in La you know, after I mean, I was out 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.160 there with Jeff Fisher, and when Jeff Fisher got let 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.000 go at the Rams, I still had time on my 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.480 contract out there, so I was just kind of chilling 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.720 on Malibu Beach out there, and the Titans called and 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.080 asked if I would be interested in doing it and 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.520 I and I said, you know, I would be interested 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.400 back here because of Mike Keith. And then plus, you know, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.360 I work Tier as a coach, you know, with Jeff 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.480 Fisher as his assistant head coach and linebacker coach for 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.720 eight years. And I really enjoyed the organization. I love Nashville, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.480 and this is my fourth season doing it. I absolutely 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.000 love it, and it's really morphed into more than I 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.440 thought it would. I thought I was just going to 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.920 come back here do some games, they flew me back 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.000 and forth to LA in the first year I was 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.440 doing it, and then they said, you know, they asked 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.440 if I would move back here. And now, I mean, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.680 I'm on four radio shows. I've got my own show. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.720 I got my own show, back talk for an hour 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.720 on Wednesday night. And I mean, guys, I love doing this, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.800 I really do. I mean it's so much fun. I mean, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.280 I love it. Hey, Big David's good to talk to you. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.280 Thanks for coming on with us. Hey, um, Big Dave. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.840 And So, if you're on the sidelines and you're coaching, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.960 and you have the stadium atmosphere you have, or you 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.760 look at it the atmosphere you have from the broadcast booth, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.600 what would be different about your style of coaching on 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.080 the sideline under these circumstances, and and how is it like, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.520 how do you get repped up into the game with 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.280 the silent stadiums that we're going through now you know 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.559 what time it is through. I mean we're traveling still 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.920 and now we traveled separate from the team as Titans Radio, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.040 but still being in that first ball game we did 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.480 when we went up we did, we did Denver and 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.960 it was very, very eerie and Mike Keith, you know 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.120 who's you know, been doing this forever. It's a Hall 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.360 of famer here in Tennessee doing this. He does it 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.679 with the windows open. So I mean to get the 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.800 feel of the fans and the stadium and the atmosphere 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.000 that you're talking about time that you know, you and 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.559 I both experienced as a coach and a player all 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.160 the years we were in this league. It was very eerie. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.920 It was very strange. Once the game started, you could 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.520 feel the competitive energy on the field from the players, 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.120 but there is some element that the fans truly bring 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.720 to this game, and and you miss it, you really do. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.440 And even when you know they put the noise in 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.440 at the seventeen, at the le level of seventy five, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.200 it's you know, it still was not like and you 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.040 know what it felt like the first game here when 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.560 we were able to have eighty five hundred people in 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.400 the stands, it felt like they were eighty five thousand, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.680 you know, because at least you had live people making 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.320 noise again, and so it was very strange. I think 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.800 we've all kind of gotten used to it a little bit, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.839 but I can't wait for the day as to win 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:29.280 these things were packed again. Tom, Yeah, I agree with you. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.120 You know, it's just says you know, it's an all 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.400 time first as long as we've been around the NFL 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.839 or football in general, from Peewee to high school on up. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.080 It's it's just the first time for us that we've 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.040 gone through something like this. You know, I was reading 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.640 some comments by Vrabel the other day and they said, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.640 at this point in the season, teams are going in 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.840 two different directions. They keep getting better or not. And 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.760 last year they kind of improved throughout the season, and 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.520 then you look at where they're at right now. You know, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.400 they cut a guy last week, they lost a couple 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.440 of games. But it seems like Rabel is always the 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.960 guy right now that's in control of what's going on 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.200 in Tennessee. And that statement about getting better or not, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.920 I think sends a clear message to what he expects 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.720 out of his guys. Tom, I promise you I know 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.559 how you were as a player, and again much respect 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.680 for you as a player. I mean, I mean that 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.680 group that I first started out with in Chicago thirty 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.160 five years ago. I mean, you guys were real and 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.800 you you were all professionals, and you understood what it took. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.400 That's what Mike Rabel is. I mean, you know, he 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.720 just he's real. He understands it, he gets it, he 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.120 gets the National Football League on all the all different levels. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.360 And he's one hundred percent right. I mean, you know, uh, 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.600 he and John Robinson both, I mean they made some 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.480 moves today, you know, you know, sitting here, you know 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.959 as a you know, as a five and two football team, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.000 and you know they just they just signed a player 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.920 this year is what a year? A free agent for 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.480 nine and a half million. He wasn't producing. They let 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.360 him go, They cut him so and you know it's 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.600 not about the money. It's about what's best to make 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.120 the football team better this week and the week moving forward. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.199 I promise you this, Tom Fair, I know you very 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:10.520 well you would love playing for Mike Vrabel, I promise you. Yeah, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.959 they both look at the game from a very specific, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.560 angry lens on game day. Don't you think they set 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.400 their job a little bit? Both of these guys. Dave McGinnis, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.880 the long time NFL coach and now radio analysts for 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.000 the Tennessee Titans, joining us here on Chicago Sports Radio 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.160 six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access brought 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.160 to you by IGS Energy. All Right, it's easy to 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.160 just say that these Tennessee Titans are all about Derrick 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.679 Henry and that's it. At everything offense, defense, special teams 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.400 revolves around that rugged running back. That is not the case. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.880 But boy is he a big part of this. Can 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:50.280 you crystallize exactly what he does for the entire football team? Honestly? Yeah, Jeff, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.600 And let me just say this, Uh, this football team, 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.200 you know, was if you came together last year when 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.839 Mike Vrabel you know, made a move. I've been ahead 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.520 coach in this league and he made a movement that 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.040 was very tough to make. He took basically the face 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.760 of the franchise in the third quarter at Denver last 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.200 year and benched him and put a new quarterback in. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.800 And we all know the ramifications of that. Ryan Tanneyhill 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.360 had come here and agreed to be a backup after 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.880 being an eighty eight game starter in a first round pick, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.839 you know, in Miami, and since then just because of 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.360 that move that Mike Vrabel made, you know, and Ryan Tanneyhill. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.800 Ryan tanney Hill is a huge part of this success too. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.520 But I think just the combination of Mike Vrabel and 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.400 the attitude that he and John Robinson and Amy Adams 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.280 strunk you know who's now the controlling owner of this franchise. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.680 The atmosphere of the they've created around here of making 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.640 football the most important thing for this organization has been huge. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.520 On the football field. Derreck Henry, Derek Henry has come 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.920 on and look, every everybody watches the tape and they 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.240 know that that's the things offensively that the Titans are doing. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.080 It generates off that outside zone run. But all the 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.600 play action and everything happens when that outside zone or 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.560 inside zone run can work. The thing about this run 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.240 game here is Arthur Smith who is calling this. He 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.720 is patient enough to turn it, turn around and hand 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.240 it off time and time again because sooner or later 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.040 Tom look, Tom Blocks are one of the greatest running 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.720 backs in the history of the Nights to Football League. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.040 And every run wasn't a big run, but every run 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.600 counted because sooner or later you're going to be able 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.520 to dent the defensive front and you're going to be 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.200 able to take their will. That's what this offense does. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.880 But Ryan Tannehill and his play action passing game, it's 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.000 been a huge part and a great compliment to what 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.920 Derrick Henry has done. Hey, Dave, when you look at 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.800 the injury or are the issues that the Bears are 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.880 having the offensive line through injuries in the last couple 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.760 of weeks in the COVID protocol, is this something that 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.720 this defense needs this offensive line at this time in 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.480 their season, because you know, they're a good defense, but 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.640 they're not as productive in terms of sacks and everything 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:10.040 that a Rabel led defense you know, probably is used to. Yeah, Tom, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.640 let's let's just go back. Let's just go back to 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.640 last week in the game that the Titans have just 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.880 lost to the Cincinnati Bengals, they were in the same shape, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.920 may be worse offensive line wise, And all week on 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:26.480 all the programs, I was on an analysis that I 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.640 gave during the week, I said, don't be fooled by 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.040 this because here's what happens, and especially nowadays in the 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.520 National Football League, you know how much of the game 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.480 has spread out with wise in the National Football League 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.640 now it's a different game. And of what they did, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.280 they went to the quick passing game, empty the backfield 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.960 really because you know they're not a heavy running team 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.320 up there at Cincinnati. They took the offensive line prominence 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.200 out of the ball game and just started spreading it around. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.920 And then what they did was they would get the 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:55.880 third down, and then the Titans could not get them 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.640 out on third down, so they were able to continue 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.360 the drives eat up a lot of clock. So when 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.960 the Titans offense got ahold of the foot of the football, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.800 normally what they've done is driven down and scored points. Well, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.880 they stopped him twice from not storing points, and all 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.720 of a sudden, you've got score separation and you're chasing it. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.040 So the first thing or the last thing that this 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.640 Tennessee Titans team is going to do is fall into 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.200 the trap of thinking that they've got a deficient offensive line. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.560 At the Bears they're playing against this week, I promise 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.440 you that. Dave McGinnis, our guest here on Chicago Sports 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.080 Radio six seventy the score and this is Bears All Access, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.040 brought to you by IGS Energy. A word on the defense, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.440 because it does take the ball away. They get their 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.600 hands on more balls than any team in the league 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.760 right now, forty four pass breakups. But that third down 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.800 number is that the Achilles heal Right now, it's in 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:50.040 an crazy hemisphere of sixty. Yeah, Jeff, it really is, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.440 and I mean Mike Ravel has been very pointed about that. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.680 And look, all of us have been around the game 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.280 long enough, you guys, myself, all your listeners included. You 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.680 can't live like that the National foot League because the 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.880 National Football League, you know, is about is about several things. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.680 But when you want to break it down and really 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.200 dig down inside a National Football League game, series by series, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.359 it's about being able to steal possessions by making your 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.200 opponent punt. I mean, that's what it's about. That's where 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.000 all field position generates from. That's where everything germinates from, 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.400 is being able to limit possessions. And it's not all 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.440 about sacks, but it's getting them out. First of all, 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.439 it's fighting to get him the third down, and then 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.040 it's getting them getting them out on third down and 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.920 getting possessions for your offense at sixty one percent clip, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.640 I mean, that's that's historically not good, and so clearly 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.760 that is something that Mike Grabel is very pointed about. Look, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.679 he's got three Super Bowl rings as a player. He 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.639 understands what it takes to be able to be successful 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.040 and allowing your opponent to convert sixty one percent of 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:55.560 the third downs. That's not being successful. So when you 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.840 look at a guy like Derek Henry, you know, it 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.399 seems like every offense that we look at in the NFL, 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.960 it always starts with the conversation of the quarterback and 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.880 what type of quarterback he is, and Ryan Tannehill. He's 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.840 a good quarterback, he's got a good arm, he's a 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.440 good athlete and stuff. But the influence of this offense 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.600 is Derrick Henry. Even when you look at the receivers 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.320 and stuff, and the way they benefit from play action 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.240 when they can have max protection and run two guys 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.560 out in routes, and the value that they have. So 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.080 it is it seems to me that the full effort 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.800 of concentration is to stop Derrick Henry and get the 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.320 Ryan Tannehill if he can. Yeah, Tom, and the look 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.200 last year, Derrick Henry had more yards per carry than 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.960 any back in the league against an eighth man plus front, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.080 because that's what you're gonna get. I mean, you know 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.560 it's no secret. You know they know here they're gonna 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.119 see an eight man front all day. The key to 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.600 it is and look, you you were an offensive linement 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.879 for Walter you you know, you know what the key was. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.240 It was you have to be able to still be 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.879 willing to stick with the run when it's not successful 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.560 at first, you know that, and you had to continue 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:02.480 to let your offensive lineman get their cleats to the 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.159 ground and continue to push and work at it, and 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.320 sooner or later, you know, you begin to be able 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.120 to dent and to crack. You know. The defensive front. Now, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.439 the defensive front the Chicago has, I'm very very impressed with. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.600 I mean, you know me. I mean, I'm thirty one 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.360 years all about defense in this league, and I know 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.240 a good defense when I see it. Chicago has that. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.119 So it's going to take a maximum effort to everybody. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.159 But believe me, just because you have eight people up 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.640 there doesn't mean they're not going to run the football. Yeah. 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.040 I couldn't wait to ask you about the linebackers too, 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.240 because you know, Khalil Mack, if he's not getting sacks, 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.919 people don't think he's making a big impression yet in 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.960 the league right now, dare you to find two other 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.119 three other guys that are getting more pressure on the 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.800 quarterback than Khalil Mack is doing right now? And underrated 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.280 against the run. So your thoughts on Khalil and then 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.080 I am on the wagon right now with Roquan Smith 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.520 playing at a pro Bowl level because he covers a 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.040 lot of territory every blody ask and that's exactly what 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.400 you need to do against this team. Let me tell 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.919 you what what they traded for. What they traded to 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.320 get Khalil Mac. He's worth every bit of it. I 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.679 love Khalil Mack because here's what I love about it. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:12.879