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Speaker 1: in front of a leading Lions in.
Speaker 2: This way, I am Jeff Joniyacklitz is not donig up.
Speaker 1: What was like playing for coach Bogdom.
Speaker 3: I don't want to answer any questions like that. Sixty
Speaker 3: one yards? What's Sunday stroll for? Justin field?
Speaker 1: Ye Bears, et cetera.
Speaker 2: With the voices of the Chicago Bears. Jeff Joniac new
Speaker 2: Blood comes to the Bears that they open up another
Speaker 2: practice up there at HALLI saw walking into Bears, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Times Chicago. Good to have you alongside Jeff, Joniack and
Speaker 2: Tom Thayer and a couple of veterans added to the
Speaker 2: Bears roster big time. The significance to me lies in
Speaker 2: the type of players they are and the leadership they
Speaker 2: bring to the table.
Speaker 1: Let's begin at the edge.
Speaker 2: Unique in goc Way eight sacks a season on average
Speaker 2: in his career. This is his six different team in
Speaker 2: eight seasons, but coming off in nine and a half
Speaker 2: sack year with Indianapolis last year worked under a similar
Speaker 2: system with Gus Bradley worked in Vegas the year before
Speaker 2: that and had ten sacks for his defensive line coach
Speaker 2: right here, Travis Smith, and he worked under Rod Marinelli.
Speaker 2: Impressions of signing a man of this magnitude in terms
Speaker 2: of rushing the passer.
Speaker 4: You know, Jeff, anybody I've ever called across in my
Speaker 4: football life that can compliment the fact that they've been
Speaker 4: able to work for a guy like Rod Marinelli.
Speaker 3: I'm just pointing him out.
Speaker 4: Because he's a guy that still inspires me with his
Speaker 4: expected work ethic and his compliments. And he even pointed
Speaker 4: him out that he feels that Rod Marinelli had a
Speaker 4: big impact on his career. And he's the type of
Speaker 4: guy that stays friends with a coach like that. So
Speaker 4: you kind of tell me, this is a guy that football.
Speaker 3: Is important to them.
Speaker 4: You have those certain coaches in your lifetime that they
Speaker 4: leave an impression on you and they also give you
Speaker 4: an understand that you have the ability to be a
Speaker 4: quality football player in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, experience is huge here. He is a worker, says
Speaker 2: he's been working hard at home. Certainly, what he has
Speaker 2: in his weight room in his house is different than
Speaker 2: what happens on the practice field. But they asked him today, Tommy, Hey,
Speaker 2: would you be ready to go tomorrow? When he put
Speaker 2: on pad, he said, absolutely, gotta get it, gotta do it,
Speaker 2: gotta do it right now.
Speaker 4: Listen, man, you had me right there hook line and sinker.
Speaker 4: And I was watching the press conference, but just hearing
Speaker 4: that one answer.
Speaker 3: Bad.
Speaker 4: Look, man, if I got to put on pads tomorrow
Speaker 4: and play a game or go to practice, I'm ready
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 3: And he says, you gotta stay ready.
Speaker 4: And that is the mantra of every guy that has
Speaker 4: a long term career in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And the other edition is an agreed to terms y
Speaker 2: got that signed. Marcedes lewis now entering his eighteenth NFL season.
Speaker 2: That's er passes all the experience at tight end in
Speaker 2: NFL history, Jason Witten prior to that, and Tony Gonzalez
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. He has a lot of experience obviously
Speaker 2: with Lukeetzi and Green Bay, known for his inline blocking
Speaker 2: more than his past receiving later on in his career time,
Speaker 2: but he's been ever present a part of the Green
Speaker 2: Bay offense over the years. A big guy that can
Speaker 2: help lead that room as well.
Speaker 3: Well, you know Marcedes Lewis. He kind of falls.
Speaker 4: Into the line of an Aaron Donald for me because
Speaker 4: I didn't know what to expect out of Aaron Donald
Speaker 4: when he came into the NFL, and I didn't know
Speaker 4: that he was.
Speaker 3: Going to have this dominance.
Speaker 4: But I remember when Marcedes Lewis came out of college
Speaker 4: and I was curious what type of career this guy
Speaker 4: was going to have. Wasn't it going to be an
Speaker 4: injury played career because he's such a big guy, And
Speaker 4: it hasn't been. It's been a very constructive, very I'm
Speaker 4: not going to say dominant, but a very profitable career.
Speaker 4: So whenever you can bring experience into a position like that,
Speaker 4: and you're almost bringing in an offensive tackle that can
Speaker 4: catch the football, and that's what I like about the
Speaker 4: impact he can have on this offense.
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Speaker 2: what happened at practice today. But you were you were
Speaker 2: cooking up something special today? Did you Did you finish
Speaker 2: the job?
Speaker 3: Tom?
Speaker 1: Did you finish the job in the kitchen?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 3: And I talk.
Speaker 4: About, you know, having a bear employee, hobby Air tell
Speaker 4: me about a Puerto Rican recipe called I think It's paraneal,
Speaker 4: And yeah, I was cooking it. And you know, that's
Speaker 4: one of my favorite pastimes. And as long as I
Speaker 4: don't eat too much and distribute it, it's probably better
Speaker 4: for me than my appetite and how it can take over.
Speaker 4: So it's been a productive day between hallis Hall and
Speaker 4: practice and you know now being down here with the
Speaker 4: dogs and getting them going and making sure everything's running.
Speaker 2: I expect a little slice of that at some point.
Speaker 2: So don't don't leave me out in the dark, all right.
Speaker 2: Listen in Goatkway, his name came up prominently throughout the
Speaker 2: offseason as a possibility. No he was looking for a
Speaker 2: long term contract. Heard him on other radio shows nationally.
Speaker 2: He'd like to settle down someplace and hey, who's saying
Speaker 2: it won't be here. He's still in a perfect age range.
Speaker 2: He has been in this league. He's been experiencing all
Speaker 2: sorts of different successes and failures in his career, but
Speaker 2: he seems like he's mentally tough. Let's listen in to
Speaker 2: some of his news conference here today up at halisav
Speaker 2: excited to be here.
Speaker 5: I've been a part of the system before, and I
Speaker 5: would just love everybody so far. I've met and you know,
Speaker 5: coach Travis, my position coach. We have history back in
Speaker 5: Las Vegas, and I just love a style of coaching
Speaker 5: and I know that he can raise the level of
Speaker 5: the bar of all of us in the locker room
Speaker 5: as well as in the d Loma room.
Speaker 1: So right here, why Chicago, just.
Speaker 3: Feel like it was a great fit.
Speaker 5: Like I said, going back to you know what this
Speaker 5: culture means here, just the history here, and also it's
Speaker 5: a great transition, easy transition with my position coach and
Speaker 5: my defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: How were you navigating in the last four plus months
Speaker 4: when you know free agency starts in March and you've
Speaker 4: got to try to figure out what's.
Speaker 3: Next and it gets to the stitch. How did you
Speaker 3: kind of keep yourself calibrated throughout.
Speaker 5: It, working out, working out, keeping my mind clear, and
Speaker 5: spending time with family. I feel like that's the best
Speaker 5: way that I was able to navigate through all the traffic.
Speaker 3: Oh eager motivated? Are you to turn this into.
Speaker 4: Finally a home and you know you know where you can?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can spend some time.
Speaker 5: I feel like it was meant for me to be here.
Speaker 5: You know, I actually have a bartatte on my hands,
Speaker 5: so I feel like that's a sign to me that
Speaker 5: I was always meant to be a Chicago Bear.
Speaker 1: How much you have impacted Rod Marinelly have on you, I.
Speaker 2: Understand he basically told you the potential to be a
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer at some point.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean I just a guy that, uh, like
Speaker 5: I said, he loves the ball, a guy that saw
Speaker 5: something in me. You know, I've been to a few
Speaker 5: few places, and that was a position coach that I
Speaker 5: feel like, when I'm done playing a game, that I
Speaker 5: will always have a great relationship where we talk all
Speaker 5: the time. So he's he's definitely a legend in himself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if I know that, you're also a kind of
Speaker 4: a student of the history of your position. Talk a
Speaker 4: little bit more about the Chicago Bears history at defensive
Speaker 4: end pass rushers and where.
Speaker 3: You see yourself.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I would. It's a guy that I really love
Speaker 5: to watch with Julius Peppers when he had to stop here,
Speaker 5: you know, a guy that was a great power rusher,
Speaker 5: guy that had great speed off the edge. And coach
Speaker 5: Marinelli was also a guy that coached him. So he
Speaker 5: used to tell me, we have a lot of the
Speaker 5: same attributes and I just have to tap into that
Speaker 5: skill set and just show the world.
Speaker 1: Tom.
Speaker 2: You listened in, you came away with a lot of
Speaker 2: positive feelings about him, I'm sure. And Goatway has faced
Speaker 2: the Bears a couple of times in his career, three
Speaker 2: sacks and two games, one as a Raider and that
Speaker 2: game in twenty twenty one out there in Vegas. He
Speaker 2: is just known for putting his hand on the ground
Speaker 2: and going to get the quarterback. But Matt Eberflu says, hey,
Speaker 2: you know he's got to handle first and second down
Speaker 2: as well, and that means stop on the run a
Speaker 2: little bit too.
Speaker 4: Listen, that's the priority of any defensive lineman wherever you
Speaker 4: play at the end or are you playing the inside. However,
Speaker 4: I look at some of the young talent here at
Speaker 4: the Chicago Bears, Travis Gibson and Dominique Robinson, and how
Speaker 4: much they can learn from an experienced veteran that has
Speaker 4: an arsenal of moves that these guys can learn how
Speaker 4: to emulate. And so I'm interested not only to watch
Speaker 4: a veteran come in here with immediate leadership and an
Speaker 4: immediate asset to the defensive scheme and the defensive line.
Speaker 4: But you know, one thing you have to think about
Speaker 4: a talented defensive end, Jeff, is how it thins out
Speaker 4: the protection along the opponent's offensive line. And that's going
Speaker 4: to be something to pay attention to and watch because
Speaker 4: whenever you have a legitimate NFL pass rusher, now you've
Speaker 4: got to start picking out where is your linebacker responsibility
Speaker 4: Like you always see the quarterback point to the mic,
Speaker 4: but now you got to know the direction of where
Speaker 4: your most dominant pass rusher is and that's going to
Speaker 4: open up opportunities for other guys not only on the inside,
Speaker 4: but on the opposite side from them. But how about
Speaker 4: the conclusion of the press conference, do you think we
Speaker 4: will see Dominique Robinson in a different number come tomorrow's practice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Gokway really wants that number. It's one he's
Speaker 2: carried through throughout his career. Oh, I think there could
Speaker 2: be some significant cash involved at some point for Dominie.
Speaker 4: For you know, out of the respect of the you know,
Speaker 4: the role that Ikui will play on this football team
Speaker 4: and what he's been able to accomplish. Dominique Robinson really
Speaker 4: doesn't have a foundation in that number yet, So maybe
Speaker 4: he can go and explore other opportunities and change his look.
Speaker 4: Maybe he'll look thicker, maybe he'll look longer in a
Speaker 4: different number.
Speaker 2: Now it's somebody that could, you know, conceivably take a
Speaker 2: few snaps away from you as well. So given your
Speaker 2: fifty seven number, would you have given it up rather easily?
Speaker 4: It depends what year I was in, because I listen,
Speaker 4: when I came to the Bears, that was the number
Speaker 4: that was given to me. If there was a guy
Speaker 4: that had war fifty seven for a period of time,
Speaker 4: I would have given to him. So here's the same example.
Speaker 4: When I went down to the Miami Dolphins, they gave
Speaker 4: me fifty seven. That's the number of the Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame or one of the greatest centers in the history
Speaker 4: of the NFL Dwight Stevenson. I actually carried the jersey
Speaker 4: is he back to our equipment manager in Miami? And
Speaker 4: I asked him if he made a mistake, and said,
Speaker 4: do you really want me to wear this? This is
Speaker 4: Dwight Stevenson's number, and there's other numbers that I would
Speaker 4: have picked out. He says, no, you're a veteran. You
Speaker 4: have you know, you have a certain amount of years
Speaker 4: of service in the NFL.
Speaker 3: We want you to wear the number. And I felt
Speaker 3: honored to do so.
Speaker 1: Hall of famer. I mean, that's a Hall of Famer. Bro.
Speaker 3: Listen this, dude.
Speaker 4: Well, you go back and you watch tape of Dwight
Speaker 4: Stevenson unconventional style, but the superior quickness of a player
Speaker 4: that dominated his position in one of Dana Marino's greatest
Speaker 4: protectors of all time.
Speaker 1: And let's go back to moves past rush.
Speaker 2: Everybody has to have a toolbox and Gotway says he's
Speaker 2: naturally developed one move, which has been some move that
Speaker 2: he has been associated with throughout his career, and that's
Speaker 2: the cross chop. As an offensive lineman, how do you
Speaker 2: stop that? And what effectiveness does that cross job give?
Speaker 3: Well, first of.
Speaker 4: All, you know, an offensive lineman's goal is doing anticipate
Speaker 4: the snapcount, put both of their arms out evenly, and
Speaker 4: try to get in your hands inside the framework of
Speaker 4: the body to control and then to be in control
Speaker 4: of the maneuverability of the defensive lineman as he comes
Speaker 4: along with a cross chop and he either gets one
Speaker 4: of your arms down or both of your arms down,
Speaker 4: your immediately your immediate balance goes forward and he's in
Speaker 4: control of the rush. So now every single time you're
Speaker 4: a pass blocker going against the player that has a
Speaker 4: move that he can use each and every time, you
Speaker 4: gotta be careful because if you give him an indication
Speaker 4: that you're throwing both of your hands on the inside
Speaker 4: of his body, he's going to be able to chop
Speaker 4: both of them down and be in control of you.
Speaker 4: So it is going to be interesting, but I think
Speaker 4: it's going to be super beneficial for the offensive tackles
Speaker 4: and every level of the bears that go against him,
Speaker 4: because now there's a guy coming aboard that has a
Speaker 4: move that you're going to be able to formulate your
Speaker 4: plan against. Make sure that you don't get caught up
Speaker 4: if somebody else uses it around the league.
Speaker 3: Nobody as good as him though.
Speaker 1: This is Bears Etc.
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Speaker 2: practice today. They are color coded by coach on the
Speaker 2: media today. This was a red day practice, so no pads,
Speaker 2: a little lighter in terms of what they were doing
Speaker 2: in terms of volume of plays. That'll go to yellow
Speaker 2: tomorrow in pads, and then the big green light at
Speaker 2: Soldier Field on Sunday and the fan Fest practice which
Speaker 2: will also be a padded practice, and it'll be it'll
Speaker 2: be fun to see those guys in Soldier Field. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's varying degrees of intensity. They still do
Speaker 2: get a lot of miles in with the running that
Speaker 2: they do. But overall today, anything that catch your eye
Speaker 2: in practice, yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Know, it's it's the continuous speed of the practice. You know,
Speaker 4: when you look at the defensive backfield, you know, this
Speaker 4: is one of the most impressive segments to me because
Speaker 4: they're young, they have a lot of depth, They play energy,
Speaker 4: and not only do they have a top tier of
Speaker 4: the first line guys right now, but they're developing important
Speaker 4: depth and guys that have an enormous role on this
Speaker 4: team when you talk about their inclusion and special teams.
Speaker 4: But then if there's any injury interruptions that you can
Speaker 4: come up here and play the exact same defenses, never
Speaker 4: skip a beat, and have guys that are up to
Speaker 4: the task. So I'm excited to see that segment grow.
Speaker 4: But like you said, I'm happy. You know, I went
Speaker 4: back and looked at the schedule because I was a
Speaker 4: little disappointed when they.
Speaker 3: Were in no pads.
Speaker 4: So they did have this on the schedule as a
Speaker 4: no best So now I got to start paying attention
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 3: They cooled me down a little.
Speaker 4: Bit on the ride up there, but I'm excited to
Speaker 4: see pads in the next two days and I think
Speaker 4: it's going to be a real reward for the Bears
Speaker 4: fans inside Soldier Field to sit at a close proximity
Speaker 4: and see the different work, the different drills, and then
Speaker 4: the team efforts that they go through in the day.
Speaker 2: All had some highlight today, justin Field's hooking up twice
Speaker 2: for touchdowns with Chase Claypool Tommy. They did a lot
Speaker 2: of red zone low red zone that's inside the you know,
Speaker 2: the ten yard line area, so again, there's no reason
Speaker 2: that Chase Claypool can't be that kind of target.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, man, I've been kind of preaching this that
Speaker 4: I really like what Chase Claypool has done through training camp.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of question marks before he got here,
Speaker 3: but when.
Speaker 4: You look at you know, we talked about it the
Speaker 4: other day, the interior physical blocking on inside run plays
Speaker 4: by a wide receiver who's six for two hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty five pounds, and he's hitting safeties and he's hitting
Speaker 4: linebackers with the carelessness of an offensive lineman. And I'd
Speaker 4: love to see it because he can either get defenders
Speaker 4: off balance or he can point. He can be a
Speaker 4: blocker at the point of attack. So Claypool, you know,
Speaker 4: he's caught my eye and he's still he's still catching
Speaker 4: my eye.
Speaker 3: Whether you're in no pads or full pads.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, they got a block. They have to or
Speaker 2: you're not going to play for take Tolbert. And I
Speaker 2: heard Dan Campbell up in Detroit saying the same thing
Speaker 2: yesterday about his guys. So that's what you're going to
Speaker 2: expect from the defense, to have receivers blocking you. From
Speaker 2: Detroit expected from Bears receivers here in the division as well.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot of guys that jump to the
Speaker 4: front of the line when they say, Okay, what are
Speaker 4: you're going to do? You're gonna be the widest wide
Speaker 4: receiver to the left hand side. You're going to come
Speaker 4: in slow motion. So now the defense is aware that
Speaker 4: you're on the move. And now as you see off
Speaker 4: safety a linebackers start pressing the line of scrimmage, that's
Speaker 4: your responsibility. Do you take the proper angle? Are you're
Speaker 4: an illegal hitting position? And then when the collision comes,
Speaker 4: are you willing to do it. I've seen examples of
Speaker 4: that by Claypool in a couple days in a row
Speaker 4: and a couple times, and they were vicious hits. So
Speaker 4: I think the other's a couple of other guys that
Speaker 4: have the ability and the opportunity to take that. For
Speaker 4: an example, whether it's e Q Saint Brown or Vailist
Speaker 4: guys like that that can come in and be big
Speaker 4: physical blockers.
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Speaker 2: full compliment of offensive lineman again, Tommy.
Speaker 1: Several players out today, So.
Speaker 2: That continuity we're hoping for throughout the course of the
Speaker 2: offseason and into training camp lasted just over a week
Speaker 2: or so, but still known. Nate Davis and no Tevin
Speaker 2: Jenkins today. Cody Whitehair also, that's an opportunity though. It's
Speaker 2: opportunity for Lucas Patrick to get in the pivot and
Speaker 2: snap the football. It's an opportunity for Alex Leatherwood, who's
Speaker 2: in a battle for a job with Jatari Carter, the
Speaker 2: second year player. So what's your thought on all that?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, that kind of gets into my wheelhouse
Speaker 4: of aggravation because one thing, if you're going to form
Speaker 4: the camaraderie, that continuity amongst the offensive line, you need
Speaker 4: to have repeated practices together and that's under very tiring,
Speaker 4: exhausted circumstances. So when you're challenged, everybody's challenged together. So
Speaker 4: I need to see Nate and Tevin on the field
Speaker 4: as much as they possibly can. Cody I'm not worried
Speaker 4: about the guy shows up. However, when you're talking about
Speaker 4: Jatari Carter and Alex Leatherwood, here's two guys that every
Speaker 4: snap they get as meaningful because there's still question marks
Speaker 4: behind both of those guys. I like what I saw
Speaker 4: out of Jatari Carter last year. However, when you look
Speaker 4: at all the elements of ability and fundamentals, Alex Leatherwood
Speaker 4: has those, but can he get that mindset that he's
Speaker 4: willing to go out there every single day if he
Speaker 4: has to get in a competitive battle to earn this position.
Speaker 4: So I think Jatari Carter and Alex Leatherwood are probably
Speaker 4: two guys that we should really pay attention to throughout
Speaker 4: the preseason because they are going to fight for game
Speaker 4: day avaluability, game day jersey, and a roster spot.
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Speaker 2: Tommy Team Mongo, hashtag Team Mango.
Speaker 1: Check it out on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Your old teammate Steve Mongo McMichael hospitalized last night. He
Speaker 2: was in the ICU unconscious for a while, but they
Speaker 2: got him some antibiotics and now awake. Vito's better. I know,
Speaker 2: his wife Misty at his side and encouraging that Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame committee to get him enshrine because frankly, that's
Speaker 2: what he's living for right now, and praying that he
Speaker 2: gets through this.
Speaker 4: Indeed, you know, I can't say enough about Misty and
Speaker 4: what she's under took since Steve was understood that he
Speaker 4: was fighting the ALS disease. Steve had an incredible attitude
Speaker 4: at the beginning of this, and Misty has really taken
Speaker 4: over for him.
Speaker 3: However, every one of us, from.
Speaker 4: A fan to anywhere anybody around the NFL landscape to
Speaker 4: his former teammates is he's probably He's in our thoughts
Speaker 4: every single day, and you know, it's it's hard to,
Speaker 4: you know, say any thing, just because I feel so
Speaker 4: badly for what Ming is going through. And you know,
Speaker 4: I can't say enough how much we love that guy
Speaker 4: and you know, continue to support he and his family.
Speaker 1: Tremendous fighter, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: How he's managed to do this for this long with
Speaker 2: this disease is certainly something that we're never going to forget,
Speaker 2: and it is really tough to see. I know it's
Speaker 2: emotional for all all his friends and teammates and family,
Speaker 2: so out of respect, we'll flip the page. Saw Jared Payton.
Speaker 2: He also had had a shout out for Steve today.
Speaker 2: He and his family and Connie Payton up in the
Speaker 2: viewing suite looking at practice with one of our sponsors
Speaker 2: here the State of Illinois. Visit Illinois, and it was
Speaker 2: a fun conversation to have with him as well. He's
Speaker 2: looking at practice and wishing he was out there. You know,
Speaker 2: he played that college game played up in the Canadian
Speaker 2: Football League. I had a chance with the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 2: with Jeff Fisher back of the day and Jerry Azuma
Speaker 2: going through his career, and I brought it up again
Speaker 2: because I go, hey, did you ever, now this far
Speaker 2: along after your career have regrets about not being the
Speaker 2: running back you entered the league as and the bear
Speaker 2: switched into being cornerback. He goes, oh, thought about it
Speaker 2: every day because he felt he could be an NFL
Speaker 2: running back. I dicked Geron in that crew, thought he's
Speaker 2: going to make a good cornerback, and he played nickel
Speaker 2: and he did a nice job. Returning kicks and made a.
Speaker 1: Career out of it.
Speaker 2: But boy, that would be hard if you knew you
Speaker 2: wanted to be something A and they made you into B.
Speaker 2: It did give you a life in football, But man,
Speaker 2: in your mind, could I have done this?
Speaker 1: Could I have done X, Y and Z as a
Speaker 1: running back?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, I remember one of the first players I've
Speaker 4: ever saw Jared Payton run, was against my high school.
Speaker 4: He went to Saint Viner. They were playing Jolia Catholic.
Speaker 4: They threw easy pitch out and he went seventy one
Speaker 4: yards for a touchdown. And I was sitting in the
Speaker 4: stands with Walter for that game, and I remember Jerry
Speaker 4: Azuma was throughout his career.
Speaker 3: It was almost exhausting how much.
Speaker 4: Jay Hilgenberg used to say, Jerry Azuma is the best
Speaker 4: running back on this team.
Speaker 3: He deserves to be a ball carry. And he just
Speaker 3: kept talking about and in.
Speaker 4: Jay is the type of guy that gets to an
Speaker 4: id in his head and he's not going to lose it.
Speaker 3: But you know, hey, listen.
Speaker 4: I admired the experiences that Jay has had throughout his
Speaker 4: NFL life from his uncle Wally playing eighteen years for
Speaker 4: Detroit in the Minnesota Vikings, but you know, he was
Speaker 4: always sure that Jerry Azumo was one of the best
Speaker 4: running backs on the team at that time.
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Speaker 2: a couple Let's go back to the ngatway. First of all,
Speaker 2: can you spell in gatway?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Give it a shot, you know, give a shot?
Speaker 3: I know, n g.
Speaker 5: U A.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to because I was a little apprehensive
Speaker 4: about saying it, and I was sitting here trying to
Speaker 4: practice it to make sure I could say right, because
Speaker 4: if he asked me to phonetically read it, it's not
Speaker 4: going to sound anything like it's properly enunciated. But I
Speaker 4: I will practice it. And uh, yes, that's why you
Speaker 4: you always say Marcedes lewis.
Speaker 2: Not Mercedes exactly, Marcedes, that's that's that's that's his name.
Speaker 2: And uh yennik and got way. Uh you got the
Speaker 2: first two right, n G And it's a k oh
Speaker 2: u E. So I think you had some of the
Speaker 2: vowels in there, so a nice effort by you, Tommy,
Speaker 2: I put you on the spot right there. But aside
Speaker 2: from his name and one of the Nigerian players, one
Speaker 2: of many that have entered the NFL. And you'll see
Speaker 2: the rosters when you start digging into the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 2: and the Colts and every they there are so many
Speaker 2: Nigerian players in the league right now and their names are.
Speaker 1: Not easy to say.
Speaker 2: They really are not, but they are outstanding athletes and
Speaker 2: that is really a growing grow every year, growing in
Speaker 2: numbers Nigerian players.
Speaker 1: Tommy good I love it.
Speaker 4: I you know it's it's just an opportunity for a
Speaker 4: sports life that you, you know, you may not have
Speaker 4: under any other circumstances. And then you look at their
Speaker 4: contribution to the NFL and every way from the front
Speaker 4: offices to the playing field, from behind the scenes, all
Speaker 4: good man and I love watching these athletes come in.
Speaker 4: You know, you're you're never going to be the same
Speaker 4: athlete at the end of your career than you are
Speaker 4: at the beginning of career. How much do you absorb,
Speaker 4: how much do you learn, how much do you understand?
Speaker 4: How much do you pay attention to your playbook. You know,
Speaker 4: all those super signs of significant improvement throughout the years
Speaker 4: in the league.
Speaker 1: It's evident, all right.
Speaker 2: So as a reminder and it was as a it's
Speaker 2: a reminder of the need. Bears defensive linemen combined for
Speaker 2: seven and a half sacks as a group last season,
Speaker 2: twenty overall of the team. That's certainly not going to
Speaker 2: get it. That's not going to cut it, right. But
Speaker 2: you now, Adam, you add in gotway to vets like
Speaker 2: rashiem Green, de Marcus Walker, the man in the middle,
Speaker 2: Andrew Billings, Justin Jones, and you got the young bucks
Speaker 2: Girevon Dexter, Zach Pickens, Dominique Robinson, Trevis Gibson. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just that's a nine man rotation right there. That's
Speaker 2: a good mix of veterans and young guys to try
Speaker 2: to cobble something together here to get that quarterback down.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
Speaker 2: Because almost like the addition of Dj Moore at receiver,
Speaker 2: you've now kind of put guys in slots and compete
Speaker 2: for those spots and compete for reps each and every week.
Speaker 2: Because they'd love to have two waves of guys getting
Speaker 2: after it and you got to stop the run.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm glad that Ryan Poles has gone and
Speaker 4: got a couple of dynamic type A personalities, a couple
Speaker 4: of alpha males, because when I see Walker walk out
Speaker 4: on the field, and you know, you talked about this
Speaker 4: guy before the seasons never started, and so I get
Speaker 4: to pay attention to him a little bit, and I
Speaker 4: he's not a trash talker.
Speaker 3: He's kind of an instigator. And I really like that.
Speaker 4: About because you got to have that volume going back
Speaker 4: and forth between the offense and defense. He got to
Speaker 4: have a little bit of that trash talking going because
Speaker 4: I think it really it helps everybody. And then when
Speaker 4: you talk about all the other guys that they brought in,
Speaker 4: I think once they start teaming up together, I think
Speaker 4: the defensive line is going to carry a little bit
Speaker 4: more clout for this football team than you mentioned the
Speaker 4: stats of last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not trying to leave out there's a
Speaker 2: bunch of guys too. There's guys competing. Terrell Lewis, who
Speaker 2: had a very very very highly recruited high school career
Speaker 2: leading him to Alabama and he's sixty five two sixty
Speaker 2: two wearing number fifty two. Keep an eye on him
Speaker 2: as well. Jalen Harris undrafted out of Arizona, and de
Speaker 2: Anthony Jones is flashed from Houston as well. And of
Speaker 2: course Travis Bell, the kid from Kennesaw State six feet
Speaker 2: three ten who just loves the game and he's just
Speaker 2: going after it every snap out there.
Speaker 4: And I didn't know this till today, and I feel
Speaker 4: bad about it. Do you know who Jalen Harris is?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 2: I do not want to Oh Sean okay, okay, former
Speaker 2: aras Okay, okay, that's right. I actually I just escaped me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I mean we're getting old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sean Harris, former number fifty seven too. But you know,
Speaker 4: I'm glad that someone brought it to my attention because
Speaker 4: if I do, you know, you get that off time
Speaker 4: or you get a chance to shake his hand and
Speaker 4: meets you meet him, you know, fun to see the kids,
Speaker 4: like seeing Jared today, seeing the kids of the men
Speaker 4: that we played with and were teammates.
Speaker 3: Of ours are people we broadcasted for.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always like Sean Harris too. He was a good
Speaker 2: football player, good good man indeed, So we'll wish Jalen
Speaker 2: Harris and the rest of the guys trying to make
Speaker 2: this roster the best of luck. Okay, so Saturday Sunday practices.
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Speaker 5: M hmm.