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Speaker 1: We're looking at the training camp with producers Jordan trent
Speaker 1: Up and Dan Bareali. We've pleased to join us today,
Speaker 1: everybody with training camp around the corner. There's a ramp
Speaker 1: up going on, rookies and COVID testing and the veterans
Speaker 1: and the quarterbacks all getting ready for the twenty twenty season.
Speaker 1: Coming out. We're gonna hear from Matt Naggie, Ryan Pace
Speaker 1: from their conference call with reporters earlier this week, and
Speaker 1: then the quarterbacks the Derby, the one that everybody talking
Speaker 1: about around the league. Tom I was watching NFL Network
Speaker 1: this week and almost every day was something about Mitch
Speaker 1: Dubisky and Nick Foles and the quarterback derby, and that's
Speaker 1: the going to be the story here. It's the most
Speaker 1: high profile position in the NFL. In the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: are one of the most widely concerning franchises in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Everybody around the country has interest in this battle. And
Speaker 1: I know there's other high profile quarterbacks that are already
Speaker 1: inserted with starters, but it's really unusual, Jeff, to have
Speaker 1: a quarterback competition that was announced months in advance, have
Speaker 1: this COVID incident hit like it's hitting. But then they
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have to refocus their attention and kind of put
Speaker 1: the football blinders on. It may be impossible, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see how this battle works
Speaker 1: itself out. Well, you know, if you're looking what Menneggie
Speaker 1: has said along transparent and honist Ryan Pace has said
Speaker 1: the same thing. Really from this entire offseason right through
Speaker 1: this week, Mitch and Nick were as transparent and honest
Speaker 1: about the quarterback competition as it relates to themselves, but
Speaker 1: in the framework of team and that is the one
Speaker 1: takeaway that I think is arguably the most important thing,
Speaker 1: because they both know that if this gets the sideways
Speaker 1: for any reason other than team first, then it's going
Speaker 1: to be something that brings an entire team down. It's
Speaker 1: happened many times before in the NFL world, it happens
Speaker 1: all the time in college football. And so they are
Speaker 1: two professionals. They're not going to let this happen. You're right,
Speaker 1: you want the competition not to be destructive to the team.
Speaker 1: So what this team can overall be. You talk about
Speaker 1: it having a championship style defense, and you have the
Speaker 1: competition at the quarterback position. There's other positions with the
Speaker 1: competition you can ignore. However, when you're talking about the quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's very fragile because you don't want to start developing
Speaker 1: factions here. You want it to be all for one
Speaker 1: and one for all. And I think Nick said some
Speaker 1: of that in his press conference and the way he
Speaker 1: answered his questions. And you've got to admire the resiliency
Speaker 1: that we've learned. We've learned about Mitchell Trubisky throughout his
Speaker 1: time here. So I do think he have two great competitors.
Speaker 1: You have a quarterback room of coaches that really understand
Speaker 1: the players what they need to do to change and
Speaker 1: be better. And then overall how it fits into the
Speaker 1: rest of the talent on this team. Now, let's look
Speaker 1: at some of the news of the week. He's too
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman. Eddie Goldman opting out that you heard from
Speaker 1: coach Naggie and Ryan Pace about it there in his corner.
Speaker 1: There's a personal decision. Throughout the league, there's a growing
Speaker 1: number of players doing that. What was your takeaway on
Speaker 1: on Big Eddie. I think it's unfortunate because I think
Speaker 1: his potential is ahead of them. And when you have
Speaker 1: the chance to play on a defense that could be
Speaker 1: as explosive as this could, it cannot only open up
Speaker 1: opportunities for Robert Quinn, Khalil Mack and a team, but
Speaker 1: it could also open up other opportunities, more opportunities of
Speaker 1: single block Daddie Goldman, and I think he could turn
Speaker 1: that into sacks and tackle for loss. But I do
Speaker 1: believe that these guys that are opting out, they take
Speaker 1: everything into consideration, their health, their family's life, and how
Speaker 1: it'll affect him if he can't concentrate on football. We
Speaker 1: need to have that next guy up mentality. One of
Speaker 1: the next guys up might be John Jenkins. He brought
Speaker 1: him back. He was with the Bears a short time ago,
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. The big body, you know,
Speaker 1: definitely fits the profile of a traditional nose tackle given
Speaker 1: his size. He's on the sidelines right now with the
Speaker 1: COVID restricted aspect of things, and he'll be back. But
Speaker 1: you know, there's others that we're going to throw in
Speaker 1: there and see how they work. The versatility aspect of
Speaker 1: that front. With Jay Rodgers and the tutoring of guys
Speaker 1: like Badal Nichols, the tutoring of Brent Irvan, You've got
Speaker 1: Roy Robertson, Harris, there's some undrafted guys that may also
Speaker 1: you be hearing from right. Let's not forget about a
Speaker 1: guy like Abdullah Anderson. Here's a guy that has perfectly
Speaker 1: built for that position. He's got a low center of gravity,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of power, he's got athleticism and
Speaker 1: versatility to play up and down the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And when you mentioned Roy Robertson, Harrison, blow Nichols, Jeff,
Speaker 1: these guys are just scratching the surface of ultimately what
Speaker 1: they can accomplish in the NFL. They should really be,
Speaker 1: you know, excited about their opportunity. It's unfortunate what Eddie's
Speaker 1: going through, But you know, and this next four months
Speaker 1: they have to selfishly look at their own opportunity. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like the rookies have done a very good
Speaker 1: job right out of the gate time because the number
Speaker 1: one thing that Matt Naggi has reinforced that you very
Speaker 1: know your playbook, and so there's been a few walkthroughs
Speaker 1: and it sounds like they have done a nice job exactly.
Speaker 1: You know. I think Mitch even reiterated that point today
Speaker 1: a little bit at his press conference about what the
Speaker 1: rookies have been able to absorb what they're prepared for,
Speaker 1: because this has been preached to them countless amount of
Speaker 1: times and all the Zoom meetings they faced. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think one of the things they've touched about is
Speaker 1: the Bears have put together a confident protocol plan that
Speaker 1: when these guys do get to the facility, they don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about the protocol plan in place. They
Speaker 1: can only think and worry about the football aspect that
Speaker 1: they have to learn and prove and start to absorb
Speaker 1: all right, time for our first break on Bears z
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Speaker 1: Bears quarterback will get the first of the snaps when
Speaker 1: the off season continues into the training camp portion of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season. Stick around here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to score. Welcome back to bear z
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Speaker 1: Jonny Eck and Tom fare As we break down the
Speaker 1: week that was and the lead up to what is
Speaker 1: going to be a ramp up to middle of the
Speaker 1: August when they'll get on the field and in pads
Speaker 1: the start of the twenty twenty training camp for the Bears.
Speaker 1: But a lot to get to. Let's start with Mitch
Speaker 1: Drubisky right now. Mitch spent his entire time Tom in
Speaker 1: the Chicagoland area. He was getting help from Jeff Christiansen,
Speaker 1: who is a quarterback coach and runs a quarterback academy
Speaker 1: called Throw It Deep. He was working on his body.
Speaker 1: He's getting stronger, He's worked on his footwork. He's worked
Speaker 1: on a mental aspect of the game, reading coverages and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And overall, Trubisky looks like he did a lot of
Speaker 1: self scouting Tom and before we placed some of this
Speaker 1: sound just your overall take on how he worked on
Speaker 1: himself in the off season, Well, I like it. He
Speaker 1: talked about the work that he had through his core muscle.
Speaker 1: So you're in better control of your body, you have
Speaker 1: a chance to stay healthier. You're able to do some
Speaker 1: constructive work on your core that carries up into the shoulder,
Speaker 1: makes your shoulder stronger on the surgically repaired shoulder, and
Speaker 1: it will get him out of that harness, get him
Speaker 1: more of a comfortable player. And then going to Je listen,
Speaker 1: I've known Jeff Christiansen for years, and going to another
Speaker 1: outside observer to make these subtle adjustments, changes and observances
Speaker 1: of what he's known his whole life. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's always good to get that extra set of eyes
Speaker 1: on what you're trying to accomplish. Well, now he's got
Speaker 1: Bill Aisier, the offensive coordinator, and Jen d Philippolo, the
Speaker 1: quarterback coach, new eyes and voices also to tend to
Speaker 1: him and try and get things right in the right direction.
Speaker 1: While all this is going on, He's competing for a
Speaker 1: starting job. He believes that he will be able to
Speaker 1: secure and then lead while competing, and that's a big
Speaker 1: aspect of things for me. It's easy, um just with
Speaker 1: every everything everyone's said about me and not being in
Speaker 1: a quarterback competition every day, I'm just trying to bring
Speaker 1: that edge and hopefully that edge and since the urgency
Speaker 1: I'm bringing rubs off on on the young guys and
Speaker 1: everyone else to where they got. They gotta pick it
Speaker 1: up and get to my tempo. And we're just out
Speaker 1: there competing at every single spot, offense, first defense, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. And I think this acclimation period is going
Speaker 1: to go a lot faster than a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys things. So everybody better dive into the playbook being
Speaker 1: taking care of your bodies and being smart when you're
Speaker 1: away from the facility and taking those precautions with all
Speaker 1: the testing and stuff going on. So I think me
Speaker 1: just bringing that edge and having that sense urgency and
Speaker 1: bring it every day is going to help get these
Speaker 1: guys going in and everyone should feel that since urgency.
Speaker 1: Tommy talks, he talks like the leader he believes he
Speaker 1: is and that the players believe he is as well,
Speaker 1: because that's how he has to go about this. He
Speaker 1: has to attack it exactly the way he just spoke there. Well, Jeff,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, this is the first time Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky has been in a competition. When he came here
Speaker 1: to back up Mike Glennon, it wasn't a competition. It
Speaker 1: was how long it would take Mitchell Trubisky to get
Speaker 1: up the speed to possibly play during that rookie season.
Speaker 1: Chase Daniels was not a competitor. He was a backup.
Speaker 1: He was not a guy that was going to light
Speaker 1: a fighter under Mitch Trubisky. Because they're going out there
Speaker 1: and they're judging every single play against the guy that's
Speaker 1: taking the next step. And I think it's a great
Speaker 1: opportunity for every professional athlete through their competitive life that
Speaker 1: has that competition that really can dictate your fate. And
Speaker 1: I think I've never seen shy away from competition. He's
Speaker 1: a hard working guy in the building, but when you
Speaker 1: look at this stage of his football life, this is
Speaker 1: the first real competition that he's gonna face, and I'm
Speaker 1: really excited to see how it affects both of these players.
Speaker 1: One of the significant aspects of what he needs to do,
Speaker 1: and that's from Matt Naggie's mouth really from the season end,
Speaker 1: it is to be better at id and coverages. I
Speaker 1: think definitely recognizing coverages just from watching so many different
Speaker 1: defenses this offseason. And then I think just seeing the
Speaker 1: mistakes I made last year and just knowing that all
Speaker 1: of them are easily correctable. I think that gives me
Speaker 1: confidence going into the future. So I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of ball over the over over this past year and
Speaker 1: over the summer um. You see the mistakes, you see
Speaker 1: really good plays, you see some really bad plays, and
Speaker 1: you see some just dumb things that shouldn't happen. But
Speaker 1: I think everyone just being on the same page doing
Speaker 1: their job, and then me making smart decisions. I think
Speaker 1: that's where you see a lot of the good plays happen.
Speaker 1: So I think all the bad mistakes, they're easily correctable,
Speaker 1: and I think you just talk through those things to
Speaker 1: get on the same page with your guys and get
Speaker 1: and for me getting on the same page with a coach,
Speaker 1: Nagy and our other coaches. So where I'm just going
Speaker 1: out there and playing fast and recognizes and where I
Speaker 1: need to go to football earlier and just making your decisions.
Speaker 1: You know, Jap when you talk about recognizing the defense
Speaker 1: is quicker. I think that's one of the things that's
Speaker 1: going to really help his accuracy because the quicker you
Speaker 1: know where you're going with the ball, the quicker that
Speaker 1: you can implement that footwork, that core strength that you
Speaker 1: put in your throwing motion and your accuracy. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what every quarterback that comes in the league is
Speaker 1: going to be the dividing line if whether he's going
Speaker 1: to be a good player or an average player, identifying
Speaker 1: coverages is the thing that's going to help him most.
Speaker 1: So Mitch Rubisky ready to go. As the Bears get
Speaker 1: ready for their quarterback competition twenty twenty, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: the other competitor, the newcomer Nick Foles, just a couple
Speaker 1: of days in Chicago after spending the entire off season
Speaker 1: in California. Yet this is Bears Are All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. To score this segment of
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Speaker 1: x out. They're good to have you alongside a lot,
Speaker 1: but damn really enjoyed tread up. As we break things
Speaker 1: down the quarterback derby underway between mister Trubisky and Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: how it all breaks down, Tom, what are you going
Speaker 1: to most be interested in with no games, how these
Speaker 1: guys act day to day. What are you going to
Speaker 1: be keying on yourself as the analyst of this situation,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch how Nick Folds reacts against the pressure
Speaker 1: of the Bears defense last year, Jeff, when we sat
Speaker 1: out there in training camp, we watched an aggressive defense
Speaker 1: coming at the quarterbacks at a record pace and making
Speaker 1: it very difficult to complete passes. And one thing about
Speaker 1: Matt and Maggie has talked about all offseason, how the
Speaker 1: eleven on eleven, the nine on seven, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit more live action. So Nick Folds doesn't
Speaker 1: understand this defense yet as well as Mitchell Trubisky does,
Speaker 1: and I do think it's going to be an eye opener.
Speaker 1: I love everything Nick Foles has said. I think he's
Speaker 1: a really experienced quarterback in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: from the versatility of the offenses he's played in his
Speaker 1: own skill set. But again, when you take it to
Speaker 1: the practice field in mid August and they go to
Speaker 1: those padded practices, nick Foles is gonna be He's gonna
Speaker 1: be seeing a championship a playoff style defense in practice
Speaker 1: every day, and I think it'll help him as much
Speaker 1: as it will help Niche. So Fols this week really
Speaker 1: made it clear that the mental part of this process
Speaker 1: is very critical. He is getting to the mindset to
Speaker 1: where it does not make a difference. That would be
Speaker 1: like saying, hey, if you're not the starter of this game,
Speaker 1: but you get thrown in in the fourth quarter because
Speaker 1: you're not the starter, you don't need to play good
Speaker 1: because you're not the starter. Well, that's not how this is.
Speaker 1: I've been thrown into the fourth quarter of some big games.
Speaker 1: I've been thrown in when I wasn't the starter. Did
Speaker 1: I have the luxury of just saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's just what it is. No, you gotta play at
Speaker 1: that level that we get so much into all. This
Speaker 1: guy's a starter, this guy's a back of whatever. I mean.
Speaker 1: If you're out there playing like execute the play, you
Speaker 1: gotta build those relationships with teammates. That's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: that's not talked about building the camaraderie's building the culture.
Speaker 1: I mean, players make plays, you watch film. You're not
Speaker 1: running routes on paper. There's a five step route that
Speaker 1: I've thrown in games that turns into a three step
Speaker 1: route because the guy played and he did his thing.
Speaker 1: He didn't run it on paper. For you to rant
Speaker 1: it on paper, it would not have worked. Players make plays,
Speaker 1: Naggie'll tell you the same thing. So it's not just
Speaker 1: speech like this is me focusing in on one's coming.
Speaker 1: Because competitions, though they are I mean competitions fourth quarter
Speaker 1: over time, like you gotta be at your best, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but competitions are really good. I love competition in practice,
Speaker 1: I love competition and whatever. But sometimes competitions, if you
Speaker 1: approach from the wrong way, become very toxic for a
Speaker 1: team and an organization because then it becomes about me
Speaker 1: and not about the team. So the hardest thing is
Speaker 1: how do I make it about the team and then
Speaker 1: enjoy it in a qv room when I'm competeting with
Speaker 1: the guys, And the biggest thing is having great conversations
Speaker 1: with Mission tyler us realizing we're in this together though,
Speaker 1: that we are competing from the outside. Who's gonna be
Speaker 1: the starter, who's gonna be at back or whatever. That's real.
Speaker 1: We don't have to like you sit over there, I
Speaker 1: sit over here. We're not talking until this is done. No, Like,
Speaker 1: let's talk through how can we make this offense better?
Speaker 1: How can we do that? And whoever's the best person
Speaker 1: at executing this offense that can help the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: win games and lead this team should be the starter,
Speaker 1: and then the other guys will be there to support them.
Speaker 1: And if for some reason that starter gets hurt, then
Speaker 1: the guy who's behind him will go in and he
Speaker 1: will lead the team and then the other guy. That's
Speaker 1: That's how the best teams play. That's how the best
Speaker 1: teams work. I don't just say that from not if
Speaker 1: I've been on those teams. I've seen how it works,
Speaker 1: and that's how I approach it. And that's what's important
Speaker 1: to me. And as you can see, I'm pretty passionate
Speaker 1: about that. I'm pretty passionate about helping people. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: passionate about developing relationships. I've seen it done very well
Speaker 1: and i've seen it done very poorly, so I can
Speaker 1: pull from each way. But for me. I choose to
Speaker 1: look forward to helping Mitch. I look forward to helping Tyler.
Speaker 1: I look forward to them throwing touchdowns and practice and
Speaker 1: meet youring them on. And then I want to go
Speaker 1: out there and execute as well. And at the end
Speaker 1: of this whole thing, we'll see what the coaches say,
Speaker 1: and whatever the coaches say that's best for the team,
Speaker 1: and then we roll as the Chicago Bears when we
Speaker 1: get this thing going. Fortunately, we'll be able to do
Speaker 1: that because as we've seen in twenty twenty, you don't
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. Tom, how important is that
Speaker 1: three minute statement by Nick Foles right there to the
Speaker 1: entire team, Jeff. It's filled with wisdom, It's filled with
Speaker 1: so much experience as positive and negative, but always turning
Speaker 1: them into the positive. In his press conference today, he says, look,
Speaker 1: if they call a play and I know a little
Speaker 1: bit a little bit how to run this play officially,
Speaker 1: I'm going to share it with Mitch and with Tyler.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to hold that information back. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I became more of a Bears fan after listening to
Speaker 1: Nick and his presentation, and Nick or Mitchell Trubisky has
Speaker 1: to turn Nick folds into his greatest asset, and I
Speaker 1: think they can do it together. The competitiveness, the camaraderie,
Speaker 1: the fun off the field, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: seriousness will take place on the field, but the conversations
Speaker 1: you can have off the field, Jeff, it can help
Speaker 1: develop a young mind like Mitchell Trubisky at a really
Speaker 1: sped up pace. Well that's nine years and five teams
Speaker 1: have experienced, Shannon right there. A little more here from
Speaker 1: Nick on how not to overhype the details, the minute
Speaker 1: by minute, the daily process of trying to impress coaches
Speaker 1: to win the job. Yeah, I mean, I think that's
Speaker 1: the biggest challenge for any person and athletes is when
Speaker 1: you have a timeline and you have to do something
Speaker 1: and someone's analyzing you, like in this situation, like what
Speaker 1: do I do? It's easy to stress out about it,
Speaker 1: every single little thing and worry and and try to Okay,
Speaker 1: how do I how do I do this? How do
Speaker 1: I do that? And the advice I would say is,
Speaker 1: and this is how I'm approaching, is alleviate all that
Speaker 1: stress because at the end of the day, what they decide,
Speaker 1: the way you control it is being the best you.
Speaker 1: You can be today. Like I said, in this next meeting,
Speaker 1: that's all I have to worry about. I had to
Speaker 1: go in there. I'm gonna listen. Hopefully you have some
Speaker 1: great conversation. We'll talk through football, we'll talk through jobs,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to reads, we'll talk to why we're doing it.
Speaker 1: I'm a big why guy. You gotta tell me why.
Speaker 1: If you don't tell me why, I'm gonna talk and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a conversation until we figure out why.
Speaker 1: And so those little things add up to where all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're honed in the football, you're honed
Speaker 1: in the plane, and you just forget about all the
Speaker 1: other bloney. I mean, that was the mindset going in.
Speaker 1: You know, do the playoffs in seventeen. Everyone want to
Speaker 1: know how the heck do you handle the situations. It's
Speaker 1: like anything else in life. I'm human, like everyone else where.
Speaker 1: All those distractions do affect me at a moment. You
Speaker 1: can ask my wife. There's times where I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm freaking out, and then she's like all right,
Speaker 1: and then I'll take a breath and we'll have a conversation.
Speaker 1: But all right, I know how to home back in.
Speaker 1: I know how to eliminate the clutter. So I spend
Speaker 1: time eliminating stuff that shouldn't be in my mind that
Speaker 1: I shouldn't focus on. Then I home back into the
Speaker 1: moment and I say that to say, there's people that
Speaker 1: I'll see this interview, say, like kids that are going
Speaker 1: through that, and it's like, hey, we as professional athletes
Speaker 1: deal with that, but we might not talk about it
Speaker 1: all the time. While I'm talking about it, And this
Speaker 1: is how you handle it. You got to eliminate the
Speaker 1: clutter and just focus on the simple things and try
Speaker 1: your best to enjoy it. Because we enjoy something, you
Speaker 1: usually do it better time. Is that easier said than done.
Speaker 1: And if you have been in that situation where you
Speaker 1: worried so much about everything every single day that it
Speaker 1: stunted your ability to perform day to day, you know
Speaker 1: I still do. But that was something that the head
Speaker 1: coach instilled on me. But I do think it's probably
Speaker 1: the most valuable advice that a player can give to
Speaker 1: another player at the same position. Through the experiences that
Speaker 1: Nick has lived through, he understands that there's competition, but
Speaker 1: you can dwell on mistakes. You have to think through
Speaker 1: the play, how to correct it, and then put yourself
Speaker 1: in a more comfortable and confident reaction. Even if you
Speaker 1: do make a mistake, because it's something you have to
Speaker 1: improve on. If you just sit there and dwell on
Speaker 1: the mistake, you'll never improve what the factors were about it.
Speaker 1: If you think about why you made the mistake, it's
Speaker 1: not going to happen again. So that piece right there, Jeff,
Speaker 1: is some of the best advice I've ever heard. If
Speaker 1: it was Nick was giving it to a high school
Speaker 1: quarterback or to a competitive offensive lineman, I think it's
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Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the season. Tom, Let's let's break
Speaker 1: things down from a Naggy and Pace perspective. First of all,
Speaker 1: the safety plan and this has been something work done
Speaker 1: for months and months, and they took it quite seriously,
Speaker 1: and Ryan Pace believes that their plan is a top notch.
Speaker 1: Trust it really comes down to more about actions than words.
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited with our veterans get here. They
Speaker 1: walk in the building and they see everything we've done
Speaker 1: because I truly believe, you know, we've gone above and beyond,
Speaker 1: and they're going to feel that when they get here.
Speaker 1: I really believe we have the best set up in
Speaker 1: the NFL in regards to how we're handling this now.
Speaker 1: You know he thinks that then, and you know we
Speaker 1: heard this from Nick Foles this week. Yeah, he feel
Speaker 1: a lot better about seeing what they've done. They've gone
Speaker 1: beyond the recommended protocols to make sure that everybody stays safe.
Speaker 1: Are there going to be scenarios, yes, are they going
Speaker 1: to have to deal with stuff? Yes? But boy, how
Speaker 1: perfect is the timing for the expansion of halisall at
Speaker 1: the level that they did expand because they got a
Speaker 1: lot more usable space to pull this off. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's the first comfort zone that you want
Speaker 1: to put the entire team in, because whether it's a
Speaker 1: rookie talking on the phone back to their parents or
Speaker 1: their support system to tell them about how safe they field,
Speaker 1: or a guy like Nick Foles is coming here for
Speaker 1: the first time with a young family himself, that whole
Speaker 1: gap that needs to be covered has to be a
Speaker 1: gap that has a safety net involved in it. And
Speaker 1: what they put together, I think the protocol, the plan
Speaker 1: in place a separation will allow these guys to walk
Speaker 1: into the building with great confidence. How we talked about
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman opting out, and Ryan's perspective on it was
Speaker 1: one of you know, understanding, you just recognize it. This
Speaker 1: is personal for everyone, and you're just very respectful and
Speaker 1: supportives of that decision. And so you know, both Matt
Speaker 1: and I talk to Eddie. You can relay that to Eddie,
Speaker 1: and you know, Eddie's an important part of our team
Speaker 1: and our family, and we're going to welcome him back
Speaker 1: at the appropriate time. You know, he's only twenty six
Speaker 1: years old. Tommy, Yeah, you know, you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: little disappointed because again, I like to see the process
Speaker 1: of Eddie Goldman throughout his career, where he started and
Speaker 1: what he's become. And I think Jay Rogers is a
Speaker 1: really good coach to get him to the best level
Speaker 1: he can play. And selfishly, I'm thinking about the Bears. However,
Speaker 1: I don't want any players in the building that are
Speaker 1: not competent with the situation they're giving. I don't need
Speaker 1: I just want positive conversation once they get in there.
Speaker 1: So Eddie will be back and we look for the
Speaker 1: Bears will look forward to having them. We put a
Speaker 1: lot in the quarterback decision and the process in this
Speaker 1: show and Ryan Pace weighed in at it, and the
Speaker 1: emphasis is they're going to take every snap, every play
Speaker 1: evaluated as a group. You know, it's going to be
Speaker 1: an evaluation to the entire process, not just each practice.
Speaker 1: And I think let it play out naturally, let it
Speaker 1: come to us. And with that it's it's constant dialogue,
Speaker 1: constant communication, constant collaboration between him and High and his
Speaker 1: coaching staff and personnel staff. So like everything we do,
Speaker 1: it'll be a collaborative decision. And I think what makes
Speaker 1: it easy is just our costic communication. You know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: one thing about the competition to me, an offensive player,
Speaker 1: quarterback or right guard will be an easier position to
Speaker 1: decide the competition because when you you say the verbiage
Speaker 1: in the huddle, there's an exact to it. You don't.
Speaker 1: Your job doesn't. Your job doesn't have a variances to it.
Speaker 1: And so if you're trying to decide whether the right
Speaker 1: guard's doing the right thing or the quarterback made the
Speaker 1: right decision, it's easy. It's probably easier done on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball then defense, and not a
Speaker 1: man naggie And this is music to our ears because
Speaker 1: he's talked about it from the moment the season ended,
Speaker 1: what his plan is, and he's following through on it.
Speaker 1: We want to be smart in this process, but there's
Speaker 1: the balance of having that physicality that we are going
Speaker 1: to be we're going to freaking get after it and
Speaker 1: training him so mindset wise, when we're going and we
Speaker 1: strap it up and go live, we hit, we tackle,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a mindset that we're gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough football from Tommy wants toughness, he wants physicality, and
Speaker 1: he wants mental toughness. Can he pull it off with
Speaker 1: this weird process that this team is about to embark
Speaker 1: on it? If the plan is still in place when
Speaker 1: they get the full pads, don't ever leave the locker
Speaker 1: room thinking it's going to be an easy practice. Mattess
Speaker 1: puts you on notice, So don't go, oh, coach, I
Speaker 1: was surprised. I thought we were going to half speed today.
Speaker 1: He's already made it been known from the first visit
Speaker 1: to the podium at the conclusion of the season untill
Speaker 1: the zoom call the other day when we are in
Speaker 1: full pads, this is gonna be live, good hitting football,
Speaker 1: all right. So how has Matteggie processed the quarterback battled himself.
Speaker 1: He's done it with honesty and transparency, and that is
Speaker 1: continuing to be the theme, open communication, the key in
Speaker 1: this quarterback battle. If one of the quarterbacks is thinking
Speaker 1: it up and he's playing like Craft, we're gonna tell
Speaker 1: you you're playing like Craff, right, And if you're playing
Speaker 1: really well, and we're going to tell you that in
Speaker 1: front of the other one, they're both going to know
Speaker 1: was someone's playing good, and someone's playing good or someone's
Speaker 1: playing bad. Is someone's playing bad, They're going to know that.
Speaker 1: So when the time comes that we inevitably need to
Speaker 1: make a decision, trust me, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: a surprise at them. You know, Jeff, this is not
Speaker 1: a solo mission for Matt Maggie. He's got some really
Speaker 1: watchful eyes in the in this quarterback room that have
Speaker 1: seen Mitch on the practice field and have seen Nick
Speaker 1: on the practice field. So I think Matt's is gonna
Speaker 1: Matt is gonna have a lot of help this year
Speaker 1: in the observances of this quarterback battle. All Right, So
Speaker 1: that's the week that was. Let's tackle some other things
Speaker 1: around the league that just found very interesting this week.
Speaker 1: Number one, how teams are going to plan for COVID issue.
Speaker 1: So you got a rookie coach in New York, the Giants,
Speaker 1: Joe Judge saying they're gonna have a succession plan for
Speaker 1: every coaching player if they get infected, including himself. And
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. I'm only thinking about the players.
Speaker 1: You got to think about the coaches, you know, Jeff
Speaker 1: I played a season where Mike Dicka had a heart
Speaker 1: attack in the middle of the season. They had no
Speaker 1: plan in place for that, so they had to quickly
Speaker 1: organize a plan and everything went according to plan. We
Speaker 1: didn't skip a beat and it kept on going. It
Speaker 1: was really unfortunate that we had to live through that
Speaker 1: at that time. But there's a lot of times during
Speaker 1: the course of the season, and you see it as
Speaker 1: much as anybody. You have something thrust in front of
Speaker 1: your face with little or no notification, and you have
Speaker 1: to make an adjustment, whether you're a player, a coach,
Speaker 1: or someone in the front office. All right, Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: sineis contract and quote this week. I don't plan on
Speaker 1: spending any contract money. I'm gonna live off my marketing money.
Speaker 1: I'll let the contract money a crew in the bank.
Speaker 1: Sounds good as a very young man out of LSUE,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. He's getting good advice somewhere. I admire him
Speaker 1: for speaking that frankly about it, and hopefully he'll be
Speaker 1: able to be productive for Cincinnati in all the NFL.
Speaker 1: All right, so you heard, obviously at the course of
Speaker 1: this week major League Baseball having a COVID issue the
Speaker 1: Brewers owner Mark at Naciacio. I think that's how you
Speaker 1: pronounce his name. Quote. The NFL is watching us closely
Speaker 1: because they know they got next. What can they learn
Speaker 1: from baseball in our final forty seconds to this segment.
Speaker 1: You know, I think everybody's always said it is you
Speaker 1: gotta understand what do you do when you're outside the building,
Speaker 1: because you're going to be in a protected atmosphere. If
Speaker 1: you want to go out and do something that can
Speaker 1: be destructive, self destructive or team destructive, those are the
Speaker 1: going to be the issues that will decide the fate
Speaker 1: of this season. All right, Coming up next, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Green Bay Packers with Milwaukee writer Tom Silverstein.
Speaker 1: It's coming up next at Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score, Welcome back to Bears all Access, Jeff Johnny
Speaker 1: act Tom there and please to be joined at Tom
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packer Football. But my old friend Tom Silverstein
Speaker 1: and Tom it's been a crazy year to say the least,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a crazy football season by
Speaker 1: all interpretations of what's going on and how things are
Speaker 1: about ready to get going with training camp or whatnot.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest storyline as you always prepare your buy
Speaker 1: lines up north, and what's what's the big story for
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers for twenty twenty? Well, I think
Speaker 1: I think it's getting through training camp. Just like every
Speaker 1: other team right now, it's can they stay healthy? Can
Speaker 1: they you know, how well can they incorporate some of
Speaker 1: their rookies given the no off season? And how do
Speaker 1: they pick their roster? Do they you know, they're traditionally
Speaker 1: a team that keeps a lot of rookies, UM both
Speaker 1: undrafted and drafted a lot of young players. But can
Speaker 1: they do that this year given lack of off season?
Speaker 1: So I mean number one is can they make it
Speaker 1: through without having vast amount of guys test positive for coronavirus?
Speaker 1: Wisconsin is knee deep in this thing, and UM it
Speaker 1: has not been receding. And you know, the more your
Speaker 1: community is seat in this virus, the harder it's going
Speaker 1: to be for you to succeed. So I think that's
Speaker 1: that's going to be a real test. Hey, Tom, this
Speaker 1: is This is Tom there along with Jeff and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, talking a little bit about the football team,
Speaker 1: because you know, Green Bay was an organization that didn't
Speaker 1: bring in a lot of free agents and then they
Speaker 1: become affectionately known as the Sniff Brothers, the pass rushing
Speaker 1: dynamic duo of the Packers. Just would that invite them
Speaker 1: to maybe go out there and look at the free
Speaker 1: agent market a little bit more than they'd done in
Speaker 1: the past, just because of the production of those two guys.
Speaker 1: And let's throw Adrian Amos into that group of guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was you know, that was highly unusual for them
Speaker 1: to go out and spend as much as they did
Speaker 1: on Adrian Amos. You know, they overpaid for him. They
Speaker 1: overpaid for Billy Turner guard from Denver, and then they
Speaker 1: paid through the teeth for Zadarius and Preston Smith and
Speaker 1: they got good production really from all four guys. Billy
Speaker 1: Turner has a ways to go to be a really
Speaker 1: good starter, but Amos solidified their secondary and the two
Speaker 1: Smiths were you couldn't ask much more from those two.
Speaker 1: But I think it was sort of an aberration or
Speaker 1: probably a better word for that, because they had they
Speaker 1: had a situation where they had some cap room, you know,
Speaker 1: they got they no longer had Clay Matthews and Nick
Speaker 1: Perry and they had cleared out some room and so
Speaker 1: they had a lot of cap room to do some deals.
Speaker 1: But now with you know, Aaron Rodgers deal is starting
Speaker 1: to kick in with really high cap numbers, the Smith's
Speaker 1: numbers are going to increase. You know, Amos's number is
Speaker 1: going to increase. Devanty Adams as a high number on
Speaker 1: some of their David Bactieri has to be resigned. Their
Speaker 1: left tackle Aaron Jones needs to be resigned. They're running back.
Speaker 1: So I think they're going to be limited in what
Speaker 1: they can do or they'll have to get really creative
Speaker 1: in some of the deals that they do. But I
Speaker 1: think that was a big expenditure to give Matt Lafleur
Speaker 1: the team he needed and to give him the defense
Speaker 1: he needed. And now I think, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of what they'll do will be through the draft. Tom
Speaker 1: Silverstein Green Bay Packers beat Ryder up north at the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He's been covering that team a very
Speaker 1: long time as a lot of NFL insight. The Packers
Speaker 1: running game obviously was very very good hand last year
Speaker 1: with Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams. Now you had aj Dillon,
Speaker 1: there was all sorts to talk about. Is this going
Speaker 1: to become more of a ground game team? Offensively? What's
Speaker 1: your interpretation of their backfield right now? What they've done
Speaker 1: even at the tight end position of the offensive line
Speaker 1: to make this more balance and offense. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you could read it any differently, I know,
Speaker 1: you know, taking what do you mean? Kind of tacked
Speaker 1: with us when he didn't draft a single wide receiver
Speaker 1: and what was probably what some people have thought as
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver class in two decades and signed
Speaker 1: one free agent Devin Francis, who has since opped it
Speaker 1: out of the season. So you know, he drafts they
Speaker 1: each back in the third round and a running back
Speaker 1: in the second round, and a couple of offensive linemen,
Speaker 1: and I think you know you're going right back to
Speaker 1: the Lombardi Packers. I think he really wants to run
Speaker 1: the ball, and he really wants to throw the ball
Speaker 1: off the run. I think he wants to change their
Speaker 1: culture that way. I think they've been a pass first
Speaker 1: team for two decades, you know, all the way back
Speaker 1: to the early nineties with Mike Holmgren, and he wants
Speaker 1: to change that. That's the you know, San Francisco La
Speaker 1: Ram's philosophy is you run the ball, you make a
Speaker 1: team stop the run, and then you throw off of it.
Speaker 1: And I believe that's what Gudukunst is doing for Matt Laflores,
Speaker 1: given him those kind of guys. Tom, does there need
Speaker 1: to be like, I don't know what the right word is,
Speaker 1: a re a redirecting the culture in Green Bay because
Speaker 1: you know, for the last twenty years, whether it's not
Speaker 1: Brett Farb or now and the Aaron Rodgers and his greatness,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the first element of the Packers you've
Speaker 1: talked about, regardless of who the head coach was. Does
Speaker 1: this head coach now have to take recontrol of the culture,
Speaker 1: because in watching a Twitter interview with Aaron Rodgers, he's
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't look as excited. Is that they
Speaker 1: would have went out and given him a couple of
Speaker 1: wide receivers because there is confusion about the value of
Speaker 1: his contract, the length of it, and they went and
Speaker 1: drafted a quarterback. He's lived through it before with he
Speaker 1: and Brett Farr. But as there have to be a
Speaker 1: change of culture that is as controlled by the head
Speaker 1: coach here. Yeah, that's a great question, and I've talked
Speaker 1: about this a lot. I really sort of compare it
Speaker 1: to when McCarthy came in after Mike Sherman and Farr
Speaker 1: was kind of had been running rough shot over their organization.
Speaker 1: He was unsure if he was going to play every year,
Speaker 1: and he was kind of holding him hostage each off season.
Speaker 1: They didn't know what he was coming back, and they
Speaker 1: he and Ted Thompson came in and it was very
Speaker 1: blatant that they decided they were taking back the franchise.
Speaker 1: It's not that it's not that Farv went out and
Speaker 1: took it. It's not a he was given it, and
Speaker 1: he had been, you know, the savior and and the
Speaker 1: top dog for so long that he just accepted all
Speaker 1: that responsibility and everything was centered around him. And McCarthy
Speaker 1: came in and changed a lot of that and Thompson
Speaker 1: didn't get him any free agent. You know, he was
Speaker 1: really mad after the OH five season and they went
Speaker 1: four and twelve and Thompson wouldn't sign any free agents.
Speaker 1: But what happens if he comes back and in two
Speaker 1: thousand and sudden they go to the NFC Championship Game.
Speaker 1: So a year, you know, second year into Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: he goes the NFC Championship Game doing it McCarthy's a way.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's going to happen with Rogers,
Speaker 1: is that Lafour has sort of I think he's flexed
Speaker 1: a little bit of muscle after last year. He gave
Speaker 1: Rogers a lot of leeway to do a lot of
Speaker 1: the things that he liked to do. And I think
Speaker 1: he's taking back some of the offense, you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's that's part of the reason they probably didn't
Speaker 1: draft receivers or they've gone heavy into the run game,
Speaker 1: is that they're going to show him how that offense
Speaker 1: can benefit him in his waning years. And I do
Speaker 1: think that this is an attempt of Lafloor to get
Speaker 1: the culture back. This is bears all Access brought to
Speaker 1: you back its energy. Jeff Jonny account there and our
Speaker 1: remaining moments here with Tom Silverstein, the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: beat room Border up North for the Milwaukee Journal. Sentine.
Speaker 1: All right, last question, got a minute to go. What
Speaker 1: intrigues you about the twenty twenty Chicago Bears um? I
Speaker 1: I would say that, I mean, their defense always um
Speaker 1: and there's always something that the Packers have difficulty with.
Speaker 1: And I just want to see if they're going to
Speaker 1: have the same type of um pressure that they've had
Speaker 1: in the past years. I think that and you know,
Speaker 1: with the ninety seven tight ends they have on the roster,
Speaker 1: how tough are they going to be to run the
Speaker 1: ball and both play action as well? I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I think they have the right idea with tight ends,
Speaker 1: and I think that floor is figuring that out as well,
Speaker 1: that you can really we make some hay with tight ends.
Speaker 1: And I just want to see whether you know, they
Speaker 1: make a jump this year that you know, that's sort
Speaker 1: of time for them to do that, and you know
Speaker 1: tis times of wasting and this has got to be
Speaker 1: one of their years or there a year. All right, Tom,
Speaker 1: We'll let you go. Hey. Simply put, we all want
Speaker 1: to see ball come back everybody stay healthy. But let
Speaker 1: the games begin. How about it down? Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I hope both you guys are doing well and I
Speaker 1: am here and let's see what happens. Thank you Jopson,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, Thanks for joining us. Training camp
Speaker 1: on the way. But the green Bay Packers are trip
Speaker 1: through the NFC North now complete. We've done Minnesota, Detroit
Speaker 1: and Green Bay. All right, Tom, Tom Silverstein, you know
Speaker 1: you had the best question in my opinion, that was about,
Speaker 1: you know, how things are going to be moving forward,
Speaker 1: about who's taking control of that situation. Head coach appears
Speaker 1: to be and it's not Aaron Rodgers. But you know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: we learned a great lesson from Nick Foles today when
Speaker 1: he was talking about the decisiveness that a quarterback battle
Speaker 1: that can create in the locker room. And you got
Speaker 1: to tell me that every one of those veterans are
Speaker 1: going to sidle up to next to Aaron Rodgers, even
Speaker 1: though they traded up for a first round quarterback, and
Speaker 1: it could be a destructive dynamic if you can't get
Speaker 1: everybody on a complimentary competitive page, and that's what Green
Speaker 1: Bay's gonna have to do, then that's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be controlled by a young man at the head coach position.
Speaker 1: All right, Tom, must some quick hitters here before we
Speaker 1: get you out of here. Let's see if I can
Speaker 1: run down a list of things that might tweak your
Speaker 1: curiosity a little bit. Okay, yeah, you asked me this week.
Speaker 1: You asked me if a Rob was faster than Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald or vice versa, because Larry wasn't about speed, He's
Speaker 1: just about sheer ability, and he was fast early in
Speaker 1: his career. What hangling that there? Because I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: all the receivers after Chicago Bears have and I'm going
Speaker 1: to include Jimmy Graham into that group of people. Because
Speaker 1: when you identify a number one receiver, it's not about
Speaker 1: having world class speed. It's about making sure that you're covered.
Speaker 1: And so when I think of a Rod a Rob,
Speaker 1: excuse me, and then I think of Larry Fitzgerald, I
Speaker 1: think of the similarities in them. They're not burners, but
Speaker 1: if you don't cover them, they will kill you for
Speaker 1: double digit catches and yards. And so I just wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of reinforce to myself that a Rob is
Speaker 1: a number one receiver, number one receiver on the Bears
Speaker 1: and he is a coverage concern for all opponents. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and hopefully more guys can become in that situation like
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller and Raley Ridley and the Fellows as we
Speaker 1: look forward to their time with the quarterbacks, getting that
Speaker 1: continuity and that timing down. I know Mitch has worked
Speaker 1: with Alan and then many other receivers throughout the offseason
Speaker 1: into something that Nick was not afforded to the opportunity
Speaker 1: given he has been in California. Hey, Bears fans, and
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