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Speaker 1: Great Unknown as the Bears get ready to meet the
Speaker 1: Titans in Nashville on Sunday, because right now they just
Speaker 1: don't know who's going to be available, especially on the
Speaker 1: offensive line as they deal with COVID nineteen. Jeff, johnny
Speaker 1: Ak and Tom there with you as we walking me
Speaker 1: into another edition of Bears All Access, brought to you
Speaker 1: by GS Energy. So it's kind of been a weird day,
Speaker 1: weird week for the Bears because of the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Today they had to move the deck a little bit
Speaker 1: at practice yesterday, then they could not practice Todaytom they
Speaker 1: decided to shut on the building. There was a positive
Speaker 1: test for an unnamed player at the moment, and they
Speaker 1: are just waiting to find out what that means for
Speaker 1: the other players and or staff. That may or may
Speaker 1: not be affected. So they're on hold right now until
Speaker 1: the league comes through with this. Yeah, you know they
Speaker 1: are on hold, Jeff, but they're never on hold. Thank
Speaker 1: goodness for the technology of today. They can leave Hallis
Speaker 1: Hall and still be in the same room together and
Speaker 1: learn the game. You just imagine if this was twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago when you're talking about real to real tape,
Speaker 1: and that's how the players got prepared, and there is
Speaker 1: no way to everybody get together in the same room
Speaker 1: and still be able to teach the group of guys
Speaker 1: that might be in place on the offensive line for
Speaker 1: the game that you can still get the message across
Speaker 1: and you can still teach, and you can still have
Speaker 1: open dialogue of conversation of improvement. Our producer tonight, Julio
Speaker 1: says Jordan trentup Dan really helping us out as well.
Speaker 1: Earlier this evening, Matt Naggie explain what's going on, Just
Speaker 1: waiting for answers. That's all we can really do in
Speaker 1: the meantime. The one good thing is you can have
Speaker 1: a bunch of meetings, a lot of time to be
Speaker 1: able to meet, and sometimes you miss out on that
Speaker 1: a little bit when you're when you're out the facility.
Speaker 1: So it's funny some of us have been talking about
Speaker 1: it's kind of we know the zoom thing now, we
Speaker 1: know these other ways to communicate FaceTime, etc. And it's
Speaker 1: nice to be able to to really get get some
Speaker 1: other stuff done. And Tom, if they did practice today,
Speaker 1: there would be six players that would not practice. Added
Speaker 1: to the list for the first time this week, a
Speaker 1: rookie ted En Cole came met working through a groin injury. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw that in an injury report and it was
Speaker 1: disappointing because, you know, it just it just came upon us.
Speaker 1: And that's the one thing that concerns you because if
Speaker 1: you if it was lingering from the game, we would
Speaker 1: have probably seen evidence of it. But maybe it's something
Speaker 1: that appeared in practice Wednesday and just didn't feel good
Speaker 1: enough to go to work on Thursday. So it's it's unfortunate,
Speaker 1: but again, uh, you know, venitive with him is probably
Speaker 1: the best case scenario. And Mitchell Trubisky does have a
Speaker 1: right shoulder injury. We heard this yesterday that it was
Speaker 1: similar to the twenty eighteen version that that shoulder left
Speaker 1: one last year. So he according to nag he did
Speaker 1: go out to LA to get a second opinion. So
Speaker 1: it leaves a season kind of up in the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm so disappointed for Mitch. I'm not disappointed in
Speaker 1: what happened on the one play, just the fact that
Speaker 1: the luck of Mitchell Trubisky, you know, it just seemed
Speaker 1: to have run out on that play. And then you know,
Speaker 1: to hear people refer to it as him being used
Speaker 1: in a wildcat offense. He's a quarterback. He's not a
Speaker 1: running back that's gone back there to take the snap
Speaker 1: to run this one time. He was a quarterback that
Speaker 1: had a design running play and that's what they did.
Speaker 1: And just super unfortunate how awkwardly he got tackled in
Speaker 1: the result of this injury. Because we don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, including to right guard Jermaine Effettia
Speaker 1: to the positive test for Jason Spriggs, he might be
Speaker 1: able to play on Sunday, but he is deemed high
Speaker 1: risk close contact. That again, got to wait and see
Speaker 1: if there's any sort of issues that crop up post
Speaker 1: analysis of that. So it's gonna put guys like Arlington Hambright,
Speaker 1: it's gonna put guys like Pig Simmons. It's gonna put
Speaker 1: guys really in the crosshairs here, and up to those
Speaker 1: offensive line coaches to shuffle the deck. It's up to
Speaker 1: the offensive line coaches to be able to shuffle to
Speaker 1: the deck. There's also probably twenty five plays I could
Speaker 1: think off the top of my head that an offensive
Speaker 1: could offensive line that's unorganized could run powerfully, could run organized,
Speaker 1: could run well. So it's not like just because you
Speaker 1: do have a group of guys and you're facing the
Speaker 1: worst case scenario. It is about getting the best selection
Speaker 1: of plays that you can powerfully run and then running
Speaker 1: them repeatedly. And so would you keep it on the ground. Yes,
Speaker 1: everything would go through David Montgomery. It would start with
Speaker 1: the threat of the running game. But I would not
Speaker 1: you know, the shots that they took to Darnell Mooney
Speaker 1: and the shots that they've been able to take all
Speaker 1: year with Alan Robinson and hopefully more of an involvement
Speaker 1: for Anthony Miller. I'm still you know, I'm still would
Speaker 1: like to go downfield. This is not a defensive line
Speaker 1: that I think the Bears, you know, should you know,
Speaker 1: change their game plan because of the offensive line issues.
Speaker 1: What that Titans defense does do well though they get
Speaker 1: their hands on the football. In the passing game, they
Speaker 1: broken up a league high forty four passes. That leads
Speaker 1: to a lot of tip passes and a lot of interceptions,
Speaker 1: so they've got a plus eight turnover ratio. That's something
Speaker 1: the Bears got to stay away from on the road
Speaker 1: against a team that plays very physical. Really, just like
Speaker 1: their head coach, Mike Vrabel played as a player with
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots in his great career, he coaches
Speaker 1: the same way. It's a tough minded outfit. At five
Speaker 1: and two, the Bears going in at five and three.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll talk more about it with a familiar
Speaker 1: name in Bears history, Dave McGinnis, the former Bears assistant
Speaker 1: now part of the radio crew for Titans Radio with
Speaker 1: Mike Keith. He'll be joining us day and coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour, Charles Peanut Tilminal Reminisce
Speaker 1: walked down memory laying out his peanut punch, the legendary
Speaker 1: four forced fumbled a game against the Titans. It's all
Speaker 1: coming up next. You're on six seventy the score. It's
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Speaker 1: here on Bears All Access in Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the scorer brought to you by IGS Energy. Please
Speaker 1: to welcome the radio analysts of the Tennessee Titans, but
Speaker 1: more probably known as longtime Bears assistant, Cardinals head coach
Speaker 1: and a veteran of many, many decades of professional football.
Speaker 1: The guy would call coach Mac Dave McGinnis, stave, how
Speaker 1: are you doing, Jeff? How are you doing? Man? Great
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Tom Thayer there with you? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, virtually, but he's here. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I could not be any halfy. You know. I'm a
Speaker 1: broadcasting guru now and I could not be any happier
Speaker 1: to talk to any more two people than you guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. I like hearing that, Big Dave.
Speaker 1: I like hearing that. You tell that to all the
Speaker 1: announcing crews, don't you. I do not, I absolutely do not.
Speaker 1: How are things going for you down there? And you
Speaker 1: enjoying it now? You've been doing it for several years.
Speaker 1: You have the gift of analysis, but you also are
Speaker 1: a great communicator. So it's a natural fit for a
Speaker 1: guy that loves the game. Keeps your foot in it,
Speaker 1: doesn't it? You know what it really does? Yeff, I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. Of course. I love doing it with
Speaker 1: Mike Keith. You know. When I was I was out
Speaker 1: in La you know, after I mean, I was out
Speaker 1: there with Jeff Fisher, and when Jeff Fisher got let
Speaker 1: go at the Rams, I still had time on my
Speaker 1: contract out there, so I was just kind of chilling
Speaker 1: on Malibu Beach out there, and the Titans called and
Speaker 1: asked if I would be interested in doing it and
Speaker 1: I and I said, you know, I would be interested
Speaker 1: back here because of Mike Keith. And then plus, you know,
Speaker 1: I work Tier as a coach, you know, with Jeff
Speaker 1: Fisher as his assistant head coach and linebacker coach for
Speaker 1: eight years. And I really enjoyed the organization. I love Nashville,
Speaker 1: and this is my fourth season doing it. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love it, and it's really morphed into more than I
Speaker 1: thought it would. I thought I was just going to
Speaker 1: come back here do some games, they flew me back
Speaker 1: and forth to LA in the first year I was
Speaker 1: doing it, and then they said, you know, they asked
Speaker 1: if I would move back here. And now, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm on four radio shows. I've got my own show.
Speaker 1: I got my own show, back talk for an hour
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. And I mean, guys, I love doing this,
Speaker 1: I really do. I mean it's so much fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love it. Hey, Big David's good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on with us. Hey, um, Big Dave.
Speaker 1: And So, if you're on the sidelines and you're coaching,
Speaker 1: and you have the stadium atmosphere you have, or you
Speaker 1: look at it the atmosphere you have from the broadcast booth,
Speaker 1: what would be different about your style of coaching on
Speaker 1: the sideline under these circumstances, and and how is it like,
Speaker 1: how do you get repped up into the game with
Speaker 1: the silent stadiums that we're going through now you know
Speaker 1: what time it is through. I mean we're traveling still
Speaker 1: and now we traveled separate from the team as Titans Radio,
Speaker 1: but still being in that first ball game we did
Speaker 1: when we went up we did, we did Denver and
Speaker 1: it was very, very eerie and Mike Keith, you know
Speaker 1: who's you know, been doing this forever. It's a Hall
Speaker 1: of famer here in Tennessee doing this. He does it
Speaker 1: with the windows open. So I mean to get the
Speaker 1: feel of the fans and the stadium and the atmosphere
Speaker 1: that you're talking about time that you know, you and
Speaker 1: I both experienced as a coach and a player all
Speaker 1: the years we were in this league. It was very eerie.
Speaker 1: It was very strange. Once the game started, you could
Speaker 1: feel the competitive energy on the field from the players,
Speaker 1: but there is some element that the fans truly bring
Speaker 1: to this game, and and you miss it, you really do.
Speaker 1: And even when you know they put the noise in
Speaker 1: at the seventeen, at the le level of seventy five,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it still was not like and you
Speaker 1: know what it felt like the first game here when
Speaker 1: we were able to have eighty five hundred people in
Speaker 1: the stands, it felt like they were eighty five thousand,
Speaker 1: you know, because at least you had live people making
Speaker 1: noise again, and so it was very strange. I think
Speaker 1: we've all kind of gotten used to it a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I can't wait for the day as to win
Speaker 1: these things were packed again. Tom, Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just says you know, it's an all
Speaker 1: time first as long as we've been around the NFL
Speaker 1: or football in general, from Peewee to high school on up.
Speaker 1: It's it's just the first time for us that we've
Speaker 1: gone through something like this. You know, I was reading
Speaker 1: some comments by Vrabel the other day and they said,
Speaker 1: at this point in the season, teams are going in
Speaker 1: two different directions. They keep getting better or not. And
Speaker 1: last year they kind of improved throughout the season, and
Speaker 1: then you look at where they're at right now. You know,
Speaker 1: they cut a guy last week, they lost a couple
Speaker 1: of games. But it seems like Rabel is always the
Speaker 1: guy right now that's in control of what's going on
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. And that statement about getting better or not,
Speaker 1: I think sends a clear message to what he expects
Speaker 1: out of his guys. Tom, I promise you I know
Speaker 1: how you were as a player, and again much respect
Speaker 1: for you as a player. I mean, I mean that
Speaker 1: group that I first started out with in Chicago thirty
Speaker 1: five years ago. I mean, you guys were real and
Speaker 1: you you were all professionals, and you understood what it took.
Speaker 1: That's what Mike Rabel is. I mean, you know, he
Speaker 1: just he's real. He understands it, he gets it, he
Speaker 1: gets the National Football League on all the all different levels.
Speaker 1: And he's one hundred percent right. I mean, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: he and John Robinson both, I mean they made some
Speaker 1: moves today, you know, you know, sitting here, you know
Speaker 1: as a you know, as a five and two football team,
Speaker 1: and you know they just they just signed a player
Speaker 1: this year is what a year? A free agent for
Speaker 1: nine and a half million. He wasn't producing. They let
Speaker 1: him go, They cut him so and you know it's
Speaker 1: not about the money. It's about what's best to make
Speaker 1: the football team better this week and the week moving forward.
Speaker 1: I promise you this, Tom Fair, I know you very
Speaker 1: well you would love playing for Mike Vrabel, I promise you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they both look at the game from a very specific,
Speaker 1: angry lens on game day. Don't you think they set
Speaker 1: their job a little bit? Both of these guys. Dave McGinnis,
Speaker 1: the long time NFL coach and now radio analysts for
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, joining us here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy. All Right, it's easy to
Speaker 1: just say that these Tennessee Titans are all about Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry and that's it. At everything offense, defense, special teams
Speaker 1: revolves around that rugged running back. That is not the case.
Speaker 1: But boy is he a big part of this. Can
Speaker 1: you crystallize exactly what he does for the entire football team? Honestly? Yeah, Jeff,
Speaker 1: And let me just say this, Uh, this football team,
Speaker 1: you know, was if you came together last year when
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel you know, made a move. I've been ahead
Speaker 1: coach in this league and he made a movement that
Speaker 1: was very tough to make. He took basically the face
Speaker 1: of the franchise in the third quarter at Denver last
Speaker 1: year and benched him and put a new quarterback in.
Speaker 1: And we all know the ramifications of that. Ryan Tanneyhill
Speaker 1: had come here and agreed to be a backup after
Speaker 1: being an eighty eight game starter in a first round pick,
Speaker 1: you know, in Miami, and since then just because of
Speaker 1: that move that Mike Vrabel made, you know, and Ryan Tanneyhill.
Speaker 1: Ryan tanney Hill is a huge part of this success too.
Speaker 1: But I think just the combination of Mike Vrabel and
Speaker 1: the attitude that he and John Robinson and Amy Adams
Speaker 1: strunk you know who's now the controlling owner of this franchise.
Speaker 1: The atmosphere of the they've created around here of making
Speaker 1: football the most important thing for this organization has been huge.
Speaker 1: On the football field. Derreck Henry, Derek Henry has come
Speaker 1: on and look, every everybody watches the tape and they
Speaker 1: know that that's the things offensively that the Titans are doing.
Speaker 1: It generates off that outside zone run. But all the
Speaker 1: play action and everything happens when that outside zone or
Speaker 1: inside zone run can work. The thing about this run
Speaker 1: game here is Arthur Smith who is calling this. He
Speaker 1: is patient enough to turn it, turn around and hand
Speaker 1: it off time and time again because sooner or later
Speaker 1: Tom look, Tom Blocks are one of the greatest running
Speaker 1: backs in the history of the Nights to Football League.
Speaker 1: And every run wasn't a big run, but every run
Speaker 1: counted because sooner or later you're going to be able
Speaker 1: to dent the defensive front and you're going to be
Speaker 1: able to take their will. That's what this offense does.
Speaker 1: But Ryan Tannehill and his play action passing game, it's
Speaker 1: been a huge part and a great compliment to what
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has done. Hey, Dave, when you look at
Speaker 1: the injury or are the issues that the Bears are
Speaker 1: having the offensive line through injuries in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks in the COVID protocol, is this something that
Speaker 1: this defense needs this offensive line at this time in
Speaker 1: their season, because you know, they're a good defense, but
Speaker 1: they're not as productive in terms of sacks and everything
Speaker 1: that a Rabel led defense you know, probably is used to. Yeah, Tom,
Speaker 1: let's let's just go back. Let's just go back to
Speaker 1: last week in the game that the Titans have just
Speaker 1: lost to the Cincinnati Bengals, they were in the same shape,
Speaker 1: may be worse offensive line wise, And all week on
Speaker 1: all the programs, I was on an analysis that I
Speaker 1: gave during the week, I said, don't be fooled by
Speaker 1: this because here's what happens, and especially nowadays in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, you know how much of the game
Speaker 1: has spread out with wise in the National Football League
Speaker 1: now it's a different game. And of what they did,
Speaker 1: they went to the quick passing game, empty the backfield
Speaker 1: really because you know they're not a heavy running team
Speaker 1: up there at Cincinnati. They took the offensive line prominence
Speaker 1: out of the ball game and just started spreading it around.
Speaker 1: And then what they did was they would get the
Speaker 1: third down, and then the Titans could not get them
Speaker 1: out on third down, so they were able to continue
Speaker 1: the drives eat up a lot of clock. So when
Speaker 1: the Titans offense got ahold of the foot of the football,
Speaker 1: normally what they've done is driven down and scored points. Well,
Speaker 1: they stopped him twice from not storing points, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've got score separation and you're chasing it.
Speaker 1: So the first thing or the last thing that this
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans team is going to do is fall into
Speaker 1: the trap of thinking that they've got a deficient offensive line.
Speaker 1: At the Bears they're playing against this week, I promise
Speaker 1: you that. Dave McGinnis, our guest here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the score and this is Bears All Access,
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy. A word on the defense,
Speaker 1: because it does take the ball away. They get their
Speaker 1: hands on more balls than any team in the league
Speaker 1: right now, forty four pass breakups. But that third down
Speaker 1: number is that the Achilles heal Right now, it's in
Speaker 1: an crazy hemisphere of sixty. Yeah, Jeff, it really is,
Speaker 1: and I mean Mike Ravel has been very pointed about that.
Speaker 1: And look, all of us have been around the game
Speaker 1: long enough, you guys, myself, all your listeners included. You
Speaker 1: can't live like that the National foot League because the
Speaker 1: National Football League, you know, is about is about several things.
Speaker 1: But when you want to break it down and really
Speaker 1: dig down inside a National Football League game, series by series,
Speaker 1: it's about being able to steal possessions by making your
Speaker 1: opponent punt. I mean, that's what it's about. That's where
Speaker 1: all field position generates from. That's where everything germinates from,
Speaker 1: is being able to limit possessions. And it's not all
Speaker 1: about sacks, but it's getting them out. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's fighting to get him the third down, and then
Speaker 1: it's getting them getting them out on third down and
Speaker 1: getting possessions for your offense at sixty one percent clip,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's historically not good, and so clearly
Speaker 1: that is something that Mike Grabel is very pointed about. Look,
Speaker 1: he's got three Super Bowl rings as a player. He
Speaker 1: understands what it takes to be able to be successful
Speaker 1: and allowing your opponent to convert sixty one percent of
Speaker 1: the third downs. That's not being successful. So when you
Speaker 1: look at a guy like Derek Henry, you know, it
Speaker 1: seems like every offense that we look at in the NFL,
Speaker 1: it always starts with the conversation of the quarterback and
Speaker 1: what type of quarterback he is, and Ryan Tannehill. He's
Speaker 1: a good quarterback, he's got a good arm, he's a
Speaker 1: good athlete and stuff. But the influence of this offense
Speaker 1: is Derrick Henry. Even when you look at the receivers
Speaker 1: and stuff, and the way they benefit from play action
Speaker 1: when they can have max protection and run two guys
Speaker 1: out in routes, and the value that they have. So
Speaker 1: it is it seems to me that the full effort
Speaker 1: of concentration is to stop Derrick Henry and get the
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill if he can. Yeah, Tom, and the look
Speaker 1: last year, Derrick Henry had more yards per carry than
Speaker 1: any back in the league against an eighth man plus front,
Speaker 1: because that's what you're gonna get. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: it's no secret. You know they know here they're gonna
Speaker 1: see an eight man front all day. The key to
Speaker 1: it is and look, you you were an offensive linement
Speaker 1: for Walter you you know, you know what the key was.
Speaker 1: It was you have to be able to still be
Speaker 1: willing to stick with the run when it's not successful
Speaker 1: at first, you know that, and you had to continue
Speaker 1: to let your offensive lineman get their cleats to the
Speaker 1: ground and continue to push and work at it, and
Speaker 1: sooner or later, you know, you begin to be able
Speaker 1: to dent and to crack. You know. The defensive front. Now,
Speaker 1: the defensive front the Chicago has, I'm very very impressed with.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know me. I mean, I'm thirty one
Speaker 1: years all about defense in this league, and I know
Speaker 1: a good defense when I see it. Chicago has that.
Speaker 1: So it's going to take a maximum effort to everybody.
Speaker 1: But believe me, just because you have eight people up
Speaker 1: there doesn't mean they're not going to run the football. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to ask you about the linebackers too,
Speaker 1: because you know, Khalil Mack, if he's not getting sacks,
Speaker 1: people don't think he's making a big impression yet in
Speaker 1: the league right now, dare you to find two other
Speaker 1: three other guys that are getting more pressure on the
Speaker 1: quarterback than Khalil Mack is doing right now? And underrated
Speaker 1: against the run. So your thoughts on Khalil and then
Speaker 1: I am on the wagon right now with Roquan Smith
Speaker 1: playing at a pro Bowl level because he covers a
Speaker 1: lot of territory every blody ask and that's exactly what
Speaker 1: you need to do against this team. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you what what they traded for. What they traded to
Speaker 1: get Khalil Mac. He's worth every bit of it. I
Speaker 1: love Khalil Mack because here's what I love about it.
Speaker 1: And you know, of course I still do the draft.
Speaker 1: We do a big draft show here. I've always done
Speaker 1: the draft. You know, I've prevented two hundred players a year.
Speaker 1: I love the draft. I love and the one thing
Speaker 1: that I remember writing down about Khalil Mack was whether
Speaker 1: or not he is involved in the play. He's doing
Speaker 1: something violent every snap and I love that, and that
Speaker 1: is extremely, extremely important because that guy is a disruptor.
Speaker 1: He's a disruptor and it's just not sack numbers, you know,
Speaker 1: he makes his presence felt a lot like some of
Speaker 1: those linebackers I had the privilege to coach when I
Speaker 1: was at the Bears. When you got Otis Wilson and
Speaker 1: Wilma Marshall lined up. They may not be sacking them
Speaker 1: all the time, but I promise you they knew they
Speaker 1: were on the field. That's the way it is with
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack, I mean, and Roquan Smith. I loved him
Speaker 1: coming out of Georgia. I love the player because of this.
Speaker 1: He can run. He is Here's what he is. He
Speaker 1: is a second level a racer. And and when I
Speaker 1: write that down, I'm bout a linebacker that I'm that
Speaker 1: I'm vetting coming out. It means that regardless of where
Speaker 1: the play ends up, he's got a great GPS to
Speaker 1: the ball. Some guys don't have as good a GPS
Speaker 1: to the ball as others. His is excellent. Dave, you
Speaker 1: know when you say that, you file the draft and
Speaker 1: you kind of evaluate these guys coming out of college.
Speaker 1: You know, the one thing over the last twenty years
Speaker 1: that's changed is when you started in the NFL that
Speaker 1: you were, you know, tagged with you are a four
Speaker 1: three style defensive coach or you're a three four style
Speaker 1: defensive coach, period and that's pretty much what you stayed
Speaker 1: in the majority of the time. Now there is no
Speaker 1: rhyme of reason to putting a number of what type
Speaker 1: of defensive coach you are, because you have to have
Speaker 1: such morephability to what you're facing weekend and week out.
Speaker 1: So how do you look at a guy that you
Speaker 1: know when you played with through the days of Singletary,
Speaker 1: and now you look at a guy like Roquan Smith.
Speaker 1: Is Roquan good for any defense? And if you put
Speaker 1: Singletary in these days, is he good for any defense? No? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: First of all, Singletary is good for any defense. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you time what has happened, especially if
Speaker 1: you're talking about the line. It's because you are playing
Speaker 1: against so many years playing against eleven personnel most all
Speaker 1: the time. Now you're either playing against eleven personnel, which
Speaker 1: as you well know for your listeners, it's one type,
Speaker 1: three wide, one back, or and I'm told first down,
Speaker 1: first through third down, or you're playing twelve personnel, which
Speaker 1: is two tights, two wides, and one back. But one
Speaker 1: of those tight ends is a big receiver that's split out. Okay,
Speaker 1: And so what you're doing now, as you well know,
Speaker 1: as you well know, it's a matchup game in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and so you are playing sub package
Speaker 1: most all of the time. Even if you are a
Speaker 1: three to four team when you have got when you're
Speaker 1: going against eleven personnel and they got you spread out,
Speaker 1: you're going to be four man spacing up front because
Speaker 1: you've got cover down with your other people, whether it's
Speaker 1: a sub package nickel with two backers behind the ball,
Speaker 1: or it's a dime with a hybrid safety that's playing
Speaker 1: a hybrid linebacker or playing a hybrid safety. So you know,
Speaker 1: you can say you're if people are gonna line up.
Speaker 1: If you can find people that line up in one
Speaker 1: tight end, two running backs and a white out on
Speaker 1: one side and a white out on the other, then
Speaker 1: you can line up in five man spacing. Okay, But
Speaker 1: most of the time now you're five man spacing is
Speaker 1: coming from five across the board, even against eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: whether you're either going to pressure and play man to
Speaker 1: man or you're gonna fake pressure and fall out and
Speaker 1: play a match zone with it. So it's because of
Speaker 1: what the offenses are presenting and the matchup that it
Speaker 1: presents to your defense as to what you have to
Speaker 1: morph into, which is a good word that you use,
Speaker 1: Big Dave, I felt like I just went to school
Speaker 1: way to God. I love it. I love it, great stuff.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let you go. Good luck on Sunday. Hope
Speaker 1: it all goes well for both teams. And it's always
Speaker 1: a pleasure to talk to you man. Continue success. We
Speaker 1: wish we'd see you down there, but we don't travel
Speaker 1: unfortunately this year, So you guys hold hold the spot
Speaker 1: for us though down the road, will you guys? It
Speaker 1: was my pleasure if always great talking talking to you guys. Jeff, Tom,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Loved it, guys. Thank you. Dave McGinnis,
Speaker 1: the radio analyst for the Tennessee Titans and former Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear assistant coach, will continue on. Coming up next, Charles
Speaker 1: Peanut Tillman reminiscing a little bit about a big game
Speaker 1: against the Titans many years ago. This is Bears All
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Speaker 1: us now the wonderfully it's standing and a guy we
Speaker 1: missed so much around the building at Hallisas and now
Speaker 1: every Sunday is uh the best cornerback in Bears history
Speaker 1: in my opinion, Charles, Peanut, Tim and Charles, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us tonight. How you doing? I'm good? Should I
Speaker 1: have a mask all and talk to y'all? Am? I am?
Speaker 1: I am? I okay talking on the phone without a
Speaker 1: mask because I hear howisall had a bit of a
Speaker 1: had a bit of a breakdown. They I hear HOWI
Speaker 1: fall got to COVID. Well, yeah, that it is going
Speaker 1: around a little bit. So we're gonna get more clarity
Speaker 1: coming up here hopefully tomorrow. We'll get later tonight and
Speaker 1: what's going on? But uh yeah, it's it's more you know,
Speaker 1: if you and we we just had Dave McGinnis on
Speaker 1: the former Bears assistant coach now doing Tightness Radio as
Speaker 1: an analyst, like like our good friend time here. You know,
Speaker 1: if you if you are a player today and dealing
Speaker 1: with all of that's going on and and these constant
Speaker 1: rough changes to your day. How would you adapt or
Speaker 1: would you or as that just the nature of the beast.
Speaker 1: As an NFL player, you adapt No matter what well
Speaker 1: I played defense man, we always adapted. We're always making
Speaker 1: changes and making adjustments. So my first instinct or yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll just say I would have to adapt. You'd have
Speaker 1: to adapt learning how to not play in front of fans,
Speaker 1: you know, so you just this whole season, this whole
Speaker 1: year has been just one big adjustment that the entire
Speaker 1: world has had to make. So yeah, you just got
Speaker 1: to adapt an adjust stam would change anything about your game?
Speaker 1: Would it improve your communications? What do you how do
Speaker 1: you think that you'd go about your business with nobody
Speaker 1: in the stands? Well, it wouldn't be loud, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: That kind of pissed me off because probably one of
Speaker 1: the best things about Soldier Field is third down and
Speaker 1: they used to have the John Candy and what's the
Speaker 1: name of the movie The Great Outdoors. Yeah, the bear
Speaker 1: would come in and he was like stomping on John
Speaker 1: Kenny's back. That's probably one of the greatest, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest memories about Soldier Field. Um, because I would
Speaker 1: sit there and it would get so freaking loud and
Speaker 1: you put your hands up wanting me, Um, you're one
Speaker 1: of the fans to really get into it. That part
Speaker 1: would suck. That's that's that's not cool that fans aren't
Speaker 1: able to be there. So sort of down. You got
Speaker 1: thirty one, you know, two minutes left, you're down. You're
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball back for your offense. And
Speaker 1: I think in some regard it might be a little
Speaker 1: just a percent, it might be a little tough to
Speaker 1: get motivated, just just a percent, because you don't have
Speaker 1: your you don't have that fan support. Because there's plenty
Speaker 1: of times where I was tired and then you hear
Speaker 1: the fans started sharing it. It's just, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just something about that energy, that atmosphere. It's an adrenaline boost,
Speaker 1: you know, and it gets you going. And for all
Speaker 1: the people who say fans don't matter, they do. We
Speaker 1: we feed off that energy, we really do. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: definitely the case. I made that point to Tom. All
Speaker 1: these games this year, with the exception of one in LA,
Speaker 1: have been tight affairs where you would hope that the
Speaker 1: fans would be there because the defense could really use
Speaker 1: them because right now, there's no home field advantage in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. There really isn't because of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that does it. That just is muted. But November of
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, you were on the road in Nashville and
Speaker 1: you did have a home field advantage because every Bears
Speaker 1: fan under the sun came down to watch that and
Speaker 1: partied their butts off and watched one of the greatest
Speaker 1: overall three phase performances by a Bears team in a while,
Speaker 1: putting up fifty one points and you were at the
Speaker 1: forefront of it all with four of your famous peanut
Speaker 1: punch force fumbles. That game is being brought back to life,
Speaker 1: doing part to this game, but a lot's been written,
Speaker 1: there have been features done, and do you feel you're
Speaker 1: back in the spotlight, so to speak here in the
Speaker 1: last week or so since. Yeah, because, um, I think
Speaker 1: now people are starting to catch on that you can
Speaker 1: make the tackle and punch out the ball and guess
Speaker 1: what you get the takeaway and if you're plus once
Speaker 1: and sent chance and winning the game. So I think
Speaker 1: people are finally starting to catch on to the peanut punch.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm excited to watch it every time I
Speaker 1: see it. On TV every time one of the analysts
Speaker 1: are commentators, stay through middle shout out. Appreciate a much
Speaker 1: love ABC or not ABC, excuse me, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network, Fox,
Speaker 1: appreciate all the shoutouts shall give me. But it's it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's kind of cool to see it,
Speaker 1: really is it? Just Feller lets me know that, Hey,
Speaker 1: I just left my mark. I try to leave my
Speaker 1: mark on the game. I left it all out on
Speaker 1: the field. Hey, you know, Peanut, So in that game,
Speaker 1: Brian Biller called you MVP of the league at that
Speaker 1: point in the season. And when you when you think
Speaker 1: about the Peanut budge, you know you're the creator of it.
Speaker 1: But can it Do you think it can be coached,
Speaker 1: it can be learned, or do you just think that's
Speaker 1: a value that you had that it's just hard to
Speaker 1: create and other guys. No, I definitely think it could
Speaker 1: be coached. You just have to know one when to
Speaker 1: do it and to how to do it, and three
Speaker 1: you just kind of have to have the warorthall, meaning
Speaker 1: the hand eye coordination to actually accomplish the punch itself
Speaker 1: and make the tackle. So yeah, I definitely think you can.
Speaker 1: It's we're professional athletes, man, we do some amazing things.
Speaker 1: All every defensive back, every linebacker, they're they're all capable,
Speaker 1: even D R D lineman, they're all capable of doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't care how big, how small, you know, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: In that game, Urlacher had a peanut punch from behind
Speaker 1: on the running back there that created one of the turnover.
Speaker 1: So it's an obvious that Brian gets to see you
Speaker 1: so much down tape, so much in video that you
Speaker 1: know just reenact, you know, the pre thinking of well,
Speaker 1: how you know, what would Charles do and then being
Speaker 1: able to do that. But one thing I got to
Speaker 1: ask you about, and I hope you don't matter me.
Speaker 1: I've been I was a kickoff return my whole career,
Speaker 1: and I got holding calls on kickoff return. You had
Speaker 1: a holding call out of funt return. And I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of the returner at that point, Devin Hester, when you
Speaker 1: had that responsibility for that type of returner, even though
Speaker 1: you caught, you created the four fumbles. Do you even
Speaker 1: remember a play like that or is it completely washed
Speaker 1: out of your system? Completely washed out of my system?
Speaker 1: I think you're lying. I don't even remember that play.
Speaker 1: I watched the game today. Why are you watching that game?
Speaker 1: Why are you watching? Just watch the defense, boo, don't
Speaker 1: know much. I would never in you making that accusation.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember that. Man. I've never even given
Speaker 1: up a touchdown. You know, d You's got short I've
Speaker 1: never even given up a touchdown. I've never had a
Speaker 1: bad play, never in my life. Don't know what about
Speaker 1: I like nothing. I was impressed that you were on
Speaker 1: punt return of that point, Oh man, I've I literally
Speaker 1: was on punt returns since two thousand and three to
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen. When I went to Carolina the
Speaker 1: next year, I was still on punt return. I played
Speaker 1: punt return for thirteen years straight. Wow, non stop. And
Speaker 1: if you look on Devin's plays, I'm on a lot
Speaker 1: of Devin's Uh. I won damn near ninety seven percent
Speaker 1: of Devon's touchdowns. That or just all of his returns.
Speaker 1: Part of nine, part of the caravan leading to the
Speaker 1: end zone, part of the caravan leading to the end zone.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Dave Tobe, one of the greatest first
Speaker 1: teams coach of all time. And you know one thing
Speaker 1: more on like Tim's point that yes, can everybody do it?
Speaker 1: But the one thing is though your body was unique,
Speaker 1: and it was in the age of now, okay, getting
Speaker 1: these big corners. I get still remember Jerry Angelo, I
Speaker 1: love big corners. You love big corners. You had the length,
Speaker 1: you had the arms. You are a wiry guy, but
Speaker 1: super strong. You stayed super fit your entire career. You
Speaker 1: were very much adaptable to any situation. Um, and do
Speaker 1: you don't you think that helped though? That length? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you definitely couldn't do it with alligant arms. You know,
Speaker 1: not to take a shot at Tim Jennings or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but you know Tim was what five five
Speaker 1: nine on a good day. Yeah, yeah, you know the
Speaker 1: length that definitely helped me. Um yeah, the length, the
Speaker 1: height because I didn't have to be super super close
Speaker 1: kind of like a boxer, you know that reach, you're
Speaker 1: you're able to be a little bit fuller away for
Speaker 1: that punch. But and all honestly, I just was in
Speaker 1: Lance never less me forget it. He always brings this up.
Speaker 1: He was, you know, for I think the last force
Speaker 1: phoneble that I punched the ball out on the tight end.
Speaker 1: He was like, man, I gotta give it to you.
Speaker 1: A nut You You pretty committed when you when you
Speaker 1: do those punches, because you're willing to take a hand
Speaker 1: to the face, a stiff arm like you was gonna
Speaker 1: get truck. But I gotta give it to you, man,
Speaker 1: you can get truck and still punch the damn ball out.
Speaker 1: So I sit in my head, see you nutty buddy.
Speaker 1: So I just I don't know. I think you it
Speaker 1: serves you better if you're closer to the guy, if
Speaker 1: you can punch it out, you know, pin if. That's
Speaker 1: a great observation by Lance, because when I was watching
Speaker 1: that tape and the one you punched away from Jared Cook,
Speaker 1: I was amazed at the type of shot that you
Speaker 1: had to commit yourself to taking by putting in your
Speaker 1: body in the right position and then landing with all
Speaker 1: that weight right up directly on your back. So I yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, hats off to you because when you were
Speaker 1: going in there for their commitment, you are you are
Speaker 1: not You were in control of the foot. Ah, but
Speaker 1: you know the brunt of the abuse man was impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Once I commit, I'm comic coage style. I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: committed all the way through, And I don't think I
Speaker 1: took too many l's when when I committed and laying
Speaker 1: it on my back. I don't. I don't think I
Speaker 1: took too many l's. I think I just started more
Speaker 1: punches than than losses. So yeah, it's I think it's
Speaker 1: you gotta know your body and you just gotta be
Speaker 1: willing to put it all out there. You can't. You
Speaker 1: can't go half half speed because then you're really gonna
Speaker 1: get run over kind of like you know, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys ever did taekwondo, You guys ever kicked the boards
Speaker 1: and you gotta punch through the board. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: punch through. You can't. You can't stop when you get
Speaker 1: the board. You gotta just you gotta commit and go
Speaker 1: all the way through. Charles Peanut till with our guests.
Speaker 1: Remaining moments with Charles real quick, because it's cool for me.
Speaker 1: I got two questions actually too, Because when you're going
Speaker 1: through all the notes for every game and the opposing
Speaker 1: team's putting, you know, trying to trump at one of
Speaker 1: their own players or whatever, your name is still coming
Speaker 1: up there as the most touchdown returns since or the
Speaker 1: most fumbles for since, So your name keeps coming up
Speaker 1: it's still living in breathing. So today's younger players get
Speaker 1: to know exactly what you were all about. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just being a punch. You got pick six as you
Speaker 1: got fumble return touchdowns. Like you said, you're always in
Speaker 1: clear view of devon on those uh caravans to the
Speaker 1: end zone. Uh does that mean a lot to you
Speaker 1: that you're you know, it's your name is living on man,
Speaker 1: it's not going away. Yeah. Um, it's just legacy. Um,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's really kind of what I wanted to
Speaker 1: leap behind, leave my mark. Um. Steve Wooks used to
Speaker 1: always talk about time. You know, time is life's most
Speaker 1: precious gift time time, time, and when you die, it'll
Speaker 1: be your birthdate nineteen eighty one dash and then the
Speaker 1: day you pass or what do you represent in that dash?
Speaker 1: Like what have you accomplished? Would have done? Who have
Speaker 1: you helped? You know? What did you teach people? What
Speaker 1: do you tell people? What was your character? So on
Speaker 1: and so forth? And I just I don't know. I
Speaker 1: want my dash to mean something, and I wanted to.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't I didn't go to the
Speaker 1: best school. I didn't you know, I didn't go to
Speaker 1: the best high school, or I wasn't highly recruited. People
Speaker 1: to know who I am when they drafted me. So
Speaker 1: I kind of had a trip on my shoulder. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to prove to people that I was worthy
Speaker 1: enough to be in the league and too worthy enough
Speaker 1: to be the thirty SITH pick or second round draft pick,
Speaker 1: THIRTYITH pick off all and I want I wanted that
Speaker 1: dash to represent or my play to represent my dash,
Speaker 1: and just you know, whatever you do, man, leave your mark.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's what I'm about. I left everything
Speaker 1: on the field. I had some good games. I had
Speaker 1: a few bad games, but I had more good ones
Speaker 1: and bad ones. But in all I gave whatever team
Speaker 1: I was on, was Caroline or Chicago, I literally gave
Speaker 1: you one thousand percent of what I had. And I
Speaker 1: think my success kind of showed that that I literally
Speaker 1: just I just put it all out there. I went out.
Speaker 1: I went all out every single time, and I was
Speaker 1: just about my teammates. If Devin needed me out there,
Speaker 1: if Dave told needed me out there to help Devin
Speaker 1: get in the end zone, or hell that we got
Speaker 1: the greatest returner in the history of the league. I
Speaker 1: will do whatever you want me to do. If I'm
Speaker 1: super tired, I can I can suck it up and
Speaker 1: go another play to help Devin get an end zone.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's just really about team. You know,
Speaker 1: if you want it more than the next person, or
Speaker 1: want it more for a Brian Earl Actor, a Lance Briggs,
Speaker 1: a Devin Hester, Alex Brown or who you know, Mike Brown,
Speaker 1: I wanted it more for them. So if I can
Speaker 1: put it all out there for them, I know they're
Speaker 1: gonna put it all out there for me. Is that
Speaker 1: when you guys, when you have guys, I think like that,
Speaker 1: that's when you know you have a great team. And
Speaker 1: that's that's that's what we had on defense. Guys were
Speaker 1: just putting it all out there for each other, not
Speaker 1: just themselves. It was bigger than me. It was about
Speaker 1: my teammates. Awesome Born in Chicago, raised in Texas, and
Speaker 1: then thoroughly one of the best payers in history, one
Speaker 1: of their top one hundred greatest of all time, and
Speaker 1: a Walter Peyton NFL Man of the Year in twenty thirteen. Charles,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. We ran out
Speaker 1: of time. I'd love to hear your thoughts on another
Speaker 1: thirty three before we go though real quick, Jalen Johnson, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's playing well. I do want to talk
Speaker 1: to him about when the receiver, when the quarterback gets
Speaker 1: outside the pocket, he's still covering the receiver. If you
Speaker 1: can talk to him, tell him just to push the
Speaker 1: receiver down. When the quarterback gets outside the tackle box,
Speaker 1: push the receiver down, you get to hit him again,
Speaker 1: push him out of bounds. Just push him down, Just
Speaker 1: run up and just hit him as hard as you can.
Speaker 1: They're not going to expect it. And yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I would convey to him. Other than that, I think
Speaker 1: he's doing pretty good. But that's just my biggest critique
Speaker 1: with him at a bound, push him back. Understand the rules.
Speaker 1: You can push him down and go cover somebody else.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you the quarterback is going to throw
Speaker 1: the guy the ball who you push out of bounds
Speaker 1: and it's just a free play. And he like, hey,
Speaker 1: what up? All right? Charles, thank you so much, thanks
Speaker 1: for reminiscing with us. Yeah, have a good one, Charles,
Speaker 1: Charles P. Telm and our guest will take a break
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Speaker 1: more tonight about contact tracing to a positive test of
Speaker 1: a yet to be named officially by the organization player.
Speaker 1: I had a minimum tom the offensive line juggled, for sure.
Speaker 1: There's a list of six players that would not have
Speaker 1: practiced today, and it's a complicated situation as they go
Speaker 1: on the road. Yeah, you know, I really applaud at
Speaker 1: Wanka Steel how organized he's been with a minimal amount
Speaker 1: of bodies out there, and then the way everybody else
Speaker 1: pitches in to get practice run efficiently yesterday when they're
Speaker 1: on the field. But like I said, and it sounded
Speaker 1: like Matt was saying the same thing, that they're fortunate
Speaker 1: they have the ability to go face to face during
Speaker 1: the important time of meetings because you know there's other
Speaker 1: guys that are going to probably have to contribute given
Speaker 1: the suspension of Javon Wims. I would hope to see
Speaker 1: Riley Ridley at least on the game day activation to
Speaker 1: possibly get a reperto. So I think the mental part
Speaker 1: of it that these guys should still be held to
Speaker 1: a high standard because they can go through that process.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it. And you know, out of the
Speaker 1: head today, Matt Nag you said, hey, we told these
Speaker 1: guys a long long time ago, be ready at any point,
Speaker 1: including coaches, because there could be new responsibilities based on
Speaker 1: COVID and you might have to play. And it's turning
Speaker 1: out to be true. You mentioned Riley. Really, we all
Speaker 1: been waiting. An offensive coordinator ber Laser this morning, one
Speaker 1: of two coaches to to talk before they shut down
Speaker 1: hallis Hall. He says, you know, we do root for players,
Speaker 1: and they're rooting for Riley Ridley. People don't realize how
Speaker 1: much you pull for these guys. You know, you watch
Speaker 1: them all the time, you see them. You know, you're
Speaker 1: you're always you're just you're just hoping and you don't
Speaker 1: want someone else to get hurt. For them to get
Speaker 1: their opportunity. But as coach, I think naturally you pull
Speaker 1: for them. You want to see them succeed. You want
Speaker 1: to see them step up not just for the good
Speaker 1: of the team, but but also for them personally. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of how I look at it
Speaker 1: with Riley. You know, I'm not only do I know
Speaker 1: we may need him to step up to help us
Speaker 1: win this week, but I'm really pulling for him personally. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, there's a lot of people that you
Speaker 1: pull for through the course or career. However they're making
Speaker 1: their own opportunity. Where what is the one thing that
Speaker 1: is Riley Ridley is not winning on the most What
Speaker 1: is his deficiency? Where is it right now that you
Speaker 1: can do that evaluation. If you could identify that, then
Speaker 1: you can encourage him to do whatever he's not doing
Speaker 1: better And is it just talent or is there something
Speaker 1: that's holding him back? Because I want to see him
Speaker 1: on the field. To me, there is a period in
Speaker 1: training camp that he was really exciting out there and
Speaker 1: Jevon Wims going to service two games suspension without pay.
Speaker 1: He tried to get that appeal, but that appeal was denied.
Speaker 1: That will give the opportunity for Riley Ridley potentially on
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Titans. All right, we're gonna take one
Speaker 1: more break. We're back with some quick thoughts to wrap
Speaker 1: things up before we turn it over the Thursday Night
Speaker 1: football here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody, too, Bears All Access brought to you
Speaker 1: by Igs, Energy, Cheff and Tom wrapping things up here
Speaker 1: on our show. Thanks again to Charles, Peanut, Tillman, and
Speaker 1: too Dave McGinnis. Very good detailed descriptions of what's going
Speaker 1: on with their respective analysis and careers. And it's always
Speaker 1: going to talk to those guys. I was hoping to
Speaker 1: play a bit of our interview that will air on
Speaker 1: Bears Game Day Live on Fox ten thirty Sunday morning
Speaker 1: in advance of the noon kickoff against the Titans with
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson because something really stuck struck with me Tom,
Speaker 1: because you know, it really does tick him off that
Speaker 1: he's the fiftieth picking round two of the draft when
Speaker 1: he very very much should have been a first round
Speaker 1: pick in his might. He will live with that for
Speaker 1: the rest and he goes it's just something I didn't
Speaker 1: do that caused me to be a second round pick.
Speaker 1: There must be something that he's putting it out on
Speaker 1: him more. I mean, that's exactly what I love about
Speaker 1: this guy. He is all about it, man. He wants
Speaker 1: to be something. Well, you know that's why you know
Speaker 1: when you look at Peanut, when I see thirty three
Speaker 1: run on the field, and we just talked to Charles Tillman,
Speaker 1: I see Charles Tillman in the body structure, the skies
Speaker 1: and the jog out to the field of Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 1: But you know what he's been able to face and
Speaker 1: short notice. But you talked about the accomplishment of his
Speaker 1: other college teammates and how well they're playing. Maybe those
Speaker 1: guys fed and believed off of each other and we're
Speaker 1: able to develop skills faster because they had such a
Speaker 1: good supporting cast. I mean, you can make a case
Speaker 1: at least three, maybe four of those quarterbacks would be
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame at this point in their careers.
Speaker 1: It's a different time in their careers. But that bears defense,
Speaker 1: and he was getting attacked. He's the most attack corner
Speaker 1: in the league at this point. He hung in there.
Speaker 1: He's got ten pass breakups, which is some impactful stuff.
Speaker 1: And that quarterback was in like eight low eighties for
Speaker 1: all those quarterbacks, so they really did some great things.
Speaker 1: All right, How you gonna tackle the big boy Sunday?
Speaker 1: You know, you better commit, and you better have multiple
Speaker 1: bodies around him. You better make him make one hesitation
Speaker 1: step before he's a media contact to you. Because we've
Speaker 1: seen running backs of all sizes when they're determined, they
Speaker 1: have their head down, they have their speed going forward.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot of confidence for these defensive backs
Speaker 1: to jump in front of them. So if they can
Speaker 1: get those big guys up front just to make him
Speaker 1: have that hesitation step, I think you'll have a lot
Speaker 1: more help on the back end of the defense. The
Speaker 1: second level and the third level. Gotta set that edge though,
Speaker 1: because they argue he gets going with a head of
Speaker 1: steam turning and the end, forget about it. He is
Speaker 1: gonna hit the gas and go, and that's a tough guy.
Speaker 1: More you make him go laterally, but make him more
Speaker 1: you go laterally to get that edge. I think that's
Speaker 1: the thing that slows him down the most. All right, Tom,
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