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Speaker 1: Well, it's been an emotional and contemplative week at Hallis
Speaker 1: Hall with the entire McCaskey Hallis family, Bears employees, coaches, players, fans,
Speaker 1: ex players, and of course the passing of Virginia Hallis.
Speaker 1: McCaskey laid the rest at the age of one hundred
Speaker 1: and two with Super Bowl winning Bears guard top there.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac and this is episode one of the
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Speaker 1: Our special guest this week is the one and only
Speaker 1: on our Zoom call. It's Nutty Buddy, but it is Peanut,
Speaker 1: Charles Peena Tilmey kind enough to join us. So you doing, Charles,
Speaker 1: Nutty Buddy? Where did this come from?
Speaker 3: Lance Lance Briggs. He he got me. He gave me
Speaker 3: the nickname Nutty Buddy. So when I don't want to
Speaker 3: use my name peanut Tin, I'll just use uh, I'll
Speaker 3: just use Nutty Buddy.
Speaker 1: From what I understand, there was one person who would
Speaker 1: never call you peanut Tillman, and that would be the
Speaker 1: late Missus McCaskey. Always Charles, correct.
Speaker 3: Always Charles. She was man one o two. How about
Speaker 3: can we just comment that. We'll talk about that for
Speaker 3: a second, one o two, one hundred and two years old.
Speaker 3: How about that? How blessed was she? And to not
Speaker 3: only be it, to live the wonderful life, to be
Speaker 3: one hundred and two. She was witted at one hundred
Speaker 3: and two. She could walk and talk and mentally she
Speaker 3: was as sharp as attack. She she yeah, she was,
Speaker 3: she was with it. I I that's that's that's a
Speaker 3: that's a great way to go out. One O two
Speaker 3: family kids grant like that's man. I hope I'm that blessed.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: The thing about yesterday or the service for Virginia McCaskey
Speaker 4: is that everybody that I see because of the people
Speaker 4: that she's brought together throughout her lifetime in my lifetime.
Speaker 4: I enjoy seeing everybody. And it's kind of a weird
Speaker 4: set of circumstances because when I was at my mom's
Speaker 4: service and my dad's service, eventually, every once in a
Speaker 4: while you do get emotionally by the eye contact you made.
Speaker 4: The only person I got emotional with when I saw
Speaker 4: him walk into the building was Virginia McCaskey.
Speaker 5: But yesterday, when I was at that event, the.
Speaker 4: Alumni that came before me, the alumni that came after me,
Speaker 4: I truly enjoy seeing being around, hugging, handshaken, whatever course
Speaker 4: of the conversation it takes you. And she is solely
Speaker 4: responsible for the gratitude inside that room yesterday that everybody
Speaker 4: appreciated absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a funeral service, however she was celebrated, you know,
Speaker 3: like I mean that was that was a feeling that
Speaker 3: I got. I think the service, it was a beautiful service,
Speaker 3: and it was it was a joyous I wish we
Speaker 3: could have been together on a different occasion. However, it
Speaker 3: was a great. It was great seeing my teammates, you know,
Speaker 3: other other owners, the commissioner fellow alone. It was I
Speaker 3: don't want to use the word a joyous occasion. However,
Speaker 3: we were able to We were able to smile and
Speaker 3: celebrate Miss mccaski.
Speaker 4: You know what, I heard a quote the other day
Speaker 4: and it said, with grief, there can be happiness. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and and and it kind of fit the room there,
Speaker 4: because the grief that we are all suffering with the
Speaker 4: passing of Virginia McCaskey, there's also a happiness that goes
Speaker 4: with eye contact of guys you like seeing, and whether
Speaker 4: it's sitting in the pew and getting a chance to
Speaker 4: say hi to a guy like Erlacker, who I have
Speaker 4: such admiration for as the football player that I broadcast
Speaker 4: for for all those years. But then after our careers
Speaker 4: are over, it's almost like we become not he and I,
Speaker 4: but all the guys in that room become better friends
Speaker 4: because everything that we've we've gone through in our in
Speaker 4: our professional lifetime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, the one thing I've learned about the funerals,
Speaker 3: and then I haven't done a ton, but I've been
Speaker 3: to a few, and they always put things in perspective
Speaker 3: and it makes you see, It makes you see the
Speaker 3: bigger picture, you know, And and every every hers was
Speaker 3: missus mccaskey's funeral is no different than your say, and
Speaker 3: it just makes me you want to see the bigger
Speaker 3: picture as far as like, you know, the relationship I
Speaker 3: have with my kids, my friends, being kind, treating people
Speaker 3: with kindness and just you know, just showing love and
Speaker 3: just appreciation for all the things that are more. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm grateful to you have known her. I'm grateful to
Speaker 3: have really really known her. The thing that I want
Speaker 3: people to know about Miss McCaskey is she when my
Speaker 3: daughter went through her heart transplant, Ms McCaskey felt I
Speaker 3: think she felt so bad to where she couldn't do anything.
Speaker 3: So she wrote she wrote me a handwritten letter, great penmanship,
Speaker 3: she wrote this letter. Yeah, she wrote this letter in
Speaker 3: my family and I and essentially just said, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry for what for what you're going through, and
Speaker 3: you know, please I will be praying for you and
Speaker 3: your family and your daughter, especially for speedy and healthy recovery.
Speaker 3: And you know, made the Lord bless you. I mean,
Speaker 3: just a very She was a kind, gentle, sweethearted woman,
Speaker 3: and I was very appreciative of the main owner reaching
Speaker 3: out to myself and my family at that time and
Speaker 3: that meant the world to me.
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Speaker 1: the maternal instinct that really any person that was that
Speaker 1: like a.
Speaker 3: Drop for uh, it was and we got a lot
Speaker 3: of that was that was that was funny. But but
Speaker 3: just throw them in there. Yeah, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: You'll get more of them. You'll get more of.
Speaker 3: It's like you got like advertisement to rents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta spread we gotta spread them out. We
Speaker 1: can't do them all in once.
Speaker 5: Some repeat.
Speaker 1: But but I gotta say that it's it's the maternal instincts.
Speaker 1: And she, in fact, no matter who she came in contact,
Speaker 1: there was a motherly aspect about her. For this woman
Speaker 1: who was a mother of eleven children and as you
Speaker 1: pointed out, the many grandchildren, the great grandchildren, the four
Speaker 1: great great grandchildren, and being at the service at the
Speaker 1: at the way of the day before and spending some
Speaker 1: four hours there and just seeing the line and I
Speaker 1: don't know how many people actually went through that line
Speaker 1: over the course of seven eight hours, but everybody, and
Speaker 1: as Tom you referred to, it did feel like a
Speaker 1: family environment, a family reunion of sorts, even though we
Speaker 1: are not a part of the family. The McCaskey hallis family.
Speaker 1: We are in a sense if you've been around the
Speaker 1: organization for as long time he forty years, pe in
Speaker 1: it a couple decades here myself. Wow, three decades. It's
Speaker 1: a crazy number. And you are welcomed into her family.
Speaker 1: And no matter if you played or in our case, broadcast,
Speaker 1: or if you're in the cafeteria working that line. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the unique aspect of it. She brought people together.
Speaker 3: She did bring people together, and I hope she is
Speaker 3: upstairs with our maker, you know, seeing her hubby, her dad,
Speaker 3: and all the people that she missed out on, and
Speaker 3: you know, her son and her kids. I don't know
Speaker 3: to her kids had pass away, So I hope they're
Speaker 3: up upstairs having a grand old time.
Speaker 4: You know, Charles, I've always wanted to ask you this
Speaker 4: question because there's a little there's some similarities in our
Speaker 4: upbringing with the Chicago Bears. I remember going to the
Speaker 4: Hula Bowl when you played at Maui Memorial Stadium, when
Speaker 4: you are senior in college and.
Speaker 5: I didn't know who you were. I didn't know a
Speaker 5: lot about you.
Speaker 4: I was just watching you guys play football, and then
Speaker 4: you came to the Chicago Bears, and you walk in
Speaker 4: that door as a young kid, you walk out the
Speaker 4: door as a more mature kid. So when I left
Speaker 4: the Bears, I chose to go to the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: When you left the Bears, you chose to go to
Speaker 4: the Carolina Panthers. Was an easy choice for you? Did
Speaker 4: you not want to leave the Bears behind? Because it
Speaker 4: wasn't a just it wasn't a clear cut decision, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going wherever I'm going to go. I had to
Speaker 4: think about it because of we were raised by the Bears. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but then it was a difficult decision.
Speaker 3: It was extremely difficult. It's funny you say that, and
Speaker 3: I haven't thought about that in a while. That's a
Speaker 3: really good question. Yeah, it was a very difficult decision.
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't want to leave. I was I
Speaker 3: was actually scared to leave because Chicago was the only
Speaker 3: thing that I knew and I was very comfortable. I
Speaker 3: liked the situation. I liked the organization. I liked my teammates,
Speaker 3: I liked my house, I liked the area. I liked
Speaker 3: our fans, I liked the team. I like, you know,
Speaker 3: this is the people in the building. I was extremely comfortable,
Speaker 3: so it was it was extremely hard to leave.
Speaker 5: What made it.
Speaker 3: Easier is when they didn't retain my contract and I said,
Speaker 3: all right, cool. That made it a little bit easier
Speaker 3: when they said we're not signing you again. So that
Speaker 3: made it a little easier to leave and go to
Speaker 3: a different team. But initially I was I was scared.
Speaker 3: Thomas Davis tried to get me to to Carolina years ago,
Speaker 3: but I was just like, no, man in Chicago, like,
Speaker 3: I'm cool here. He wanted me to go two years
Speaker 3: prior to that, and I just kept resigning with Chicago.
Speaker 3: He kept tronto. I was just like, no, man, I
Speaker 3: like Chicago. It's the only thing I know. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was definitely definitely a hard decision to leave. You're
Speaker 3: absolutely right, you know what.
Speaker 1: I wish that for this current team, Like the longer
Speaker 1: you stay, the more you obviously grow roots here. You
Speaker 1: have family, you don't want to move your kids. It's
Speaker 1: a great city. And if you're a Bear, your love forever.
Speaker 1: If you're a Bear who wins, you're honored forever. You know,
Speaker 1: if you win a super Bowl like Tommy or just
Speaker 1: if you're one of the greats of the game. You're
Speaker 1: going to always have a place and everybody's heart here
Speaker 1: in Chicago. So I hope, I wish that for guys.
Speaker 1: The constant change obviously is not allowed for that in
Speaker 1: recent years, but I certainly hope that for this particular bunch, right, No, Well, I.
Speaker 3: Think that's probably one of the sad things about the
Speaker 3: sport is guys, and it's it's kind of the average.
Speaker 3: It's kind of just what people do.
Speaker 2: You go.
Speaker 3: Three years, four years, and then you're off to a
Speaker 3: new team. You know, Tom, what I can appreciate about
Speaker 3: your when you played, most of the time, you just
Speaker 3: stayed in your position. Excuse me, you stayed at one
Speaker 3: organization for the entirety of a career. I'd kind of
Speaker 3: like to see that more. But with how the game
Speaker 3: is and contracts, you know, sometimes this is not the
Speaker 3: right fit. So I totally get it, and I totally
Speaker 3: respect it. However, like you said, Jeff, yeah, I hope
Speaker 3: that the nucleus, the core group of these guys. I
Speaker 3: hope they stay together for a while because they have
Speaker 3: a lot of potential to do a lot of amazing things.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's one thing that's I think The most amazing thing
Speaker 4: about you, Charles is the further you become removed from
Speaker 4: the game as a player, the bigger you get.
Speaker 5: Ye, because.
Speaker 4: It's true, Well, it's between Pop Warner, high school football,
Speaker 4: college football, Canadian League, the NFL, the UFL. There's I
Speaker 4: hear Peanut punch week in and week out. There's never
Speaker 4: a weekend goes by that there's not some highlight that
Speaker 4: that is brought up. And then that's the amazing thing
Speaker 4: about you and the success of your career, because I
Speaker 4: still think cornerback is the second most difficult in football
Speaker 4: to play outside of quarterback. And then your unique brand,
Speaker 4: your unique style of playing that position, and then what
Speaker 4: you left in your legacy in the way it's taught,
Speaker 4: coach preached. Now it's amazing because every weekend I watch
Speaker 4: football and I watch highlights.
Speaker 5: I think at Charles Tillman, Well.
Speaker 1: They're talking about it too every time, especially in.
Speaker 4: The postseason, because they make references to them, and it's like,
Speaker 4: oh my god. I mean, there's not a day go
Speaker 4: by that you don't hear about him.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm really honored by that. It's it's funny to
Speaker 3: just that you all say that obviously the New York
Speaker 3: not New York, excuse me, the Eagles. Sirianni. He he
Speaker 3: made the comment and he said, yeah, we watched the Peanuts.
Speaker 3: Tell me. I told my video guy, hey, get every
Speaker 3: punch out that that man had, and he said, I
Speaker 3: showed him to our team. I showed him and I
Speaker 3: thought it was I thought it was great. I'm I'm
Speaker 3: I'm honored by it. And I had a chance to
Speaker 3: talk to one of the linebackers, Bond.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I talked to Bond and he literally is like, hey man,
Speaker 3: we've been watching the film. I'm a huge fan. And
Speaker 3: then him and I we just chopped it up and
Speaker 3: had a conversation and really just I gave him a
Speaker 3: quick tip like, hey man, here's you know. This is
Speaker 3: what I this is how I was successful at it.
Speaker 3: Make it your own. But when a guy does this,
Speaker 3: this is what I'm doing. When he does this, this
Speaker 3: is what I'll do. I'll count with this. So just
Speaker 3: trying to give him some tools to to help himself win.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I appreciate it. I love the fact that
Speaker 3: it's kind of changed the game and people are doing it.
Speaker 3: You know, defensive players are making a cautious effort to
Speaker 3: just not just make the tackle by like with force,
Speaker 3: but they're actually attempting to punch the ball out, not
Speaker 3: the old school get it, rip it and you know
Speaker 3: the thing that they taught in high school back in
Speaker 3: the day when I played. But now they're just like, nah,
Speaker 3: he don't even do this some more, just get in
Speaker 3: there and punch that thing. So yeah, man, I like
Speaker 3: to think I was a guy that bought out thinking
Speaker 3: outside the box. And yeah, it's something that's stuck and
Speaker 3: I'm I'm kind of I'm really proud of I'm really
Speaker 3: proud of my stylog.
Speaker 1: The other thing is catching a good thing, your peanut.
Speaker 1: The peanut punch just rolls off your tongue. That's that's
Speaker 1: something that's going to live forever in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Right if your name was like Larry, it just wouldn't
Speaker 5: work Larry Larry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd have to come up with something different.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You were you were a couple things quick because the
Speaker 1: week included the passing of your first coach, UH coach,
Speaker 1: Jaron Dick, Jaron passing away suddenly at the age of
Speaker 1: seventy two. Just talking to Briner Lacker at the ceremony
Speaker 1: the other day, just that just his face is stunned.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's a lot because he met
Speaker 1: a lot to all of us. That was the first
Speaker 1: year I was the play by play anouncer for the
Speaker 1: Bears with Tom and how Barkish and Dick Guron. You know,
Speaker 1: I asked a lot of advice of Dick Duron about
Speaker 1: that first year and it was a playoff year. It
Speaker 1: was a great year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I was sad to get that that called. You know,
Speaker 3: mis McCaskey died the day before, and I gotta I gotta.
Speaker 3: I got a text message from Vance Bedford, my old
Speaker 3: dB coach, and he was the one who informed me
Speaker 3: that coach Tron had passed away. And yeah, coach coach
Speaker 3: Heran was a soft spoken, uh defensive genius. I mean
Speaker 3: he was a bad man back in his day when
Speaker 3: he played. And I didn't. I didn't know that I was.
Speaker 3: I was clueless to who he was at first when
Speaker 3: I got drafted, and Dwayne Joseph was like, wait, you
Speaker 3: don't know who coach Ryan Man? You better google his name.
Speaker 3: He got a nice resume. And because obviously you know,
Speaker 3: if you know coach Sern, he's not going to brag
Speaker 3: about himself. He's not gonna talk about himself. So I
Speaker 3: had to. I had to school myself on who he was.
Speaker 3: And you know, you can pull up some clips and plays.
Speaker 3: It was an all Pro maate, you know, made the
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl like he was nice with it. He was
Speaker 3: nice with it. And I want dig I'm I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm in Chicago because of dig Giron. You know that's
Speaker 3: that's what I want. Coach Smith, all respect to him,
Speaker 3: he didn't bring me to Chicago. Coach Giron brought me
Speaker 3: to Chicago. I only got a chance to play for
Speaker 3: him for a year, but I'm very grateful that he
Speaker 3: saw something in me to want, uh, I want the
Speaker 3: Bears to draft me, to get coach excuse me, general
Speaker 3: manager ger Angelo to draft me. So I'm extremely grateful
Speaker 3: for for coach Duran and allowing me to start my
Speaker 3: career in such a wonderful friendship.
Speaker 1: Did you ever ask him what it was that you
Speaker 1: he signed you?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I did not. I just remember really
Speaker 3: for the most part, it was him and Coach Blosh
Speaker 3: Uh the DC and they just long, linky, tall guy.
Speaker 3: If I remember Craigically, coach Coach Block said just because
Speaker 3: they needed a taller corner and I was a tall corner,
Speaker 3: that I could play safety or I could play corner.
Speaker 3: Funny thing, what I don't think a lot of people
Speaker 3: know is I don't think people know I played safety,
Speaker 3: and when I got drafted, I didn't know if I
Speaker 3: was a safety or a corner. And then we were
Speaker 3: walking in the hallway to my very first dB meeting
Speaker 3: and I had I was talking to coach John and
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm sorry, coach, I'm kind of new
Speaker 3: to this. I don't I know I'm glateful to be here,
Speaker 3: but I just kind of want to am I am
Speaker 3: I safety? Or am I a corner? Like I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't really have a position. I don't I don't
Speaker 3: know anything right now. And he goes and it's kind
Speaker 3: of like his soft spoken voice was like, Eh, we're
Speaker 3: gonna try out that corner first to see how that goes.
Speaker 3: And I said okay, and yeah, I never I never
Speaker 3: looked back once he said I was a corner. I
Speaker 3: never looked back. I never even thought about failing. I
Speaker 3: just was like, hey, I'm a corn National Football League,
Speaker 3: let's make it work.
Speaker 5: Charles.
Speaker 4: You never had an offensive minded head coach in your
Speaker 4: professional career?
Speaker 3: Did you never all defensive coaches?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think that kind of probably was to your benefit
Speaker 4: early in your career. When you're talking to a defensive
Speaker 4: back about where you best fit, you know, they probably
Speaker 4: have vision and anticipation of what your skill set is
Speaker 4: best best for.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it was a coach drawn coach Smith And no,
Speaker 3: I did have I had one offensive coach twenty thirteen
Speaker 3: and twenty fourteen those two years, George Tressman. Coach Tressman. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I forgot yeah, yeah, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: with Charles Penat Tillman. You're at the Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: know it's an award that many players feel is short
Speaker 1: of the Hall of Fame, is the most honored gift
Speaker 1: as the Walter Payton Man of the Year, which you
Speaker 1: were one. You go every Super Bowl probably for a
Speaker 1: lot of other reasons. But when you walk into whatever
Speaker 1: sound that is going to be this case, it was
Speaker 1: New Orleans and you go down meet Radio Row and
Speaker 1: all that is that still feel wonderful to you that
Speaker 1: you were that man.
Speaker 3: It does because the award of the award has gotten
Speaker 3: a lot bigger. I talked to Marty Lyons. He played.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he was a d N or.
Speaker 5: Detailed defensive in Terror or defensive Lions?
Speaker 3: Tom.
Speaker 5: Did you block him?
Speaker 1: Did you block Marty Lions?
Speaker 5: How'd you fare. I have a little scar on my forearm,
Speaker 5: my right forearm from we.
Speaker 4: Played him December tenth, nineteen eighty five, freezing cold in
Speaker 4: New York.
Speaker 5: I think we beat him ten to nothing.
Speaker 3: But he was part of that New York sack exchange.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, So he won the Man of the Year. I
Speaker 3: want to say maybe nineteen eighty eight ish, something like that.
Speaker 3: But when he won the award, he said it was
Speaker 3: the Miller LT Award, the Miller Miller Lte Man of
Speaker 3: the Year. And the cool thing was, he said, once
Speaker 3: they renamed it after Walster Payton, he contacted the NFL
Speaker 3: and said, hey, I want to I don't want this
Speaker 3: award anymore. I want the new one. If we're doing that,
Speaker 3: I want I want this new one. I don't want
Speaker 3: this because it was it wasn't like obviously, it wasn't
Speaker 3: Walter Payton. It was just like Miller Lite Men of
Speaker 3: the Year. And it might have been like a guy
Speaker 3: drinking a bottle or something. I don't know, but he
Speaker 3: basically just like, I don't want this, I want I
Speaker 3: want that one. You know, it means it meant a
Speaker 3: little bit more. And through the years, the Peyton family Jered,
Speaker 3: Connie and Brittany. They've done a tremendous job of building
Speaker 3: up the award and letting people know how much and
Speaker 3: how important their dad was and how special the Man
Speaker 3: of the Year award is. And I go every year.
Speaker 3: You know, there's only been fifty ever given out and
Speaker 3: mister oh well from my head on, Eric Armstead won
Speaker 3: it this year and he is so worthy of it.
Speaker 3: But just to give a special shout to all the
Speaker 3: thirty two finalists, it's extremely difficult to pick one person
Speaker 3: out of thirty two guys that are extremely kind with
Speaker 3: their time and their energy on their days off. And
Speaker 3: I salute all thirty two finalists from all thirty two teams.
Speaker 3: And it's it's just a really good award, man, it's
Speaker 3: a feel good award. You don't really do the work
Speaker 3: to win the award. You do the work just because
Speaker 3: you just have a kind heart and you want to
Speaker 3: you know, just whatever your philanthropic mission is, that's kind
Speaker 3: of what you do. You do it just for you know,
Speaker 3: you're doing it for the love of why you're doing something.
Speaker 3: You're doing something because it's special to you, right, So
Speaker 3: I just I salute and I applaud all the gentlemen
Speaker 3: that were finalists this year, and it's it's actually a
Speaker 3: great award nationwide. Is on a hell of a job
Speaker 3: of getting the financial means to back up the award,
Speaker 3: to get the word out, to let people know how
Speaker 3: important it is to you know, just attach yourself to
Speaker 3: a charity, but not only that, just to showcase and
Speaker 3: highlight what NFL players are doing. Too many times we
Speaker 3: see a player do one bad thing and everyone seems
Speaker 3: to think that all NFL players are like that, which
Speaker 3: in fact, that's just one small percentage of what we do.
Speaker 3: You got about ninety ninety nine percent of the guys
Speaker 3: that are doing things right, you just don't see it.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of what that award and the thirty
Speaker 3: two nominees, that's what they showcase.
Speaker 4: I really do, you know, Charles, It's one award where
Speaker 4: the nomination could almost mean as much as winning the
Speaker 4: award itself, because if you're being nominated, you are a
Speaker 4: special guy inside your franchise organization, in the city you
Speaker 4: work in, and and even beyond their specific communities. A
Speaker 4: lot of these guys have outreach programs that have a
Speaker 4: lot of tentacles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys are just I got nominated a couple of
Speaker 3: times and I was like, oh wow, you know, and
Speaker 3: and it's not to say that no one else is
Speaker 3: doing anything in their in their on their team. It's
Speaker 3: just like you said, if you've been nominated more than once,
Speaker 3: that's huge. Yep, that's that's your team saying no, we
Speaker 3: recognize you, we see you. We want to celebrate you
Speaker 3: and nominate you and put you on an either bigger
Speaker 3: platform so you can showcase the world and we want
Speaker 3: the world to know all the amazing thing that you
Speaker 3: and your foundation are doing. Right, it's not shout out
Speaker 3: to the teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a popularity contest in this case and
Speaker 1: and your buildings. The Bear's nominee here for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to big big Bill on the inside of
Speaker 1: the Bears defensive line. Pinett, we'd love to talk to
Speaker 1: you for another hour. And I know it's been a
Speaker 1: busy time for you, and it's always busy for Charles
Speaker 1: Peanut Timan hope to see her on hollis Aw soon.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you. Oh what do you guys think about Ben Johnson?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we're very excited, very excited. It's big
Speaker 1: into an offensive coach.
Speaker 5: So what do you feel.
Speaker 3: I think to be successful in this league, you have
Speaker 3: to be a coach who knows how to lead men.
Speaker 3: And I don't know coach Johnson, but I've heard nothing
Speaker 3: but great things about him, And if he knows, if
Speaker 3: he's half as good as what is what I'm hearing,
Speaker 3: I think the Bearls will be I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I just really think at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you got to know how to lead men, and you
Speaker 3: got to have men follow you. You got to have
Speaker 3: those types of guys that are really the one through
Speaker 3: a brick wall for you. And some players, excuse me, coaches,
Speaker 3: they just they have it. I'll call it the IT factor.
Speaker 3: You know. It's just that one thing they have in
Speaker 3: their DNA that separates them from all the other coaches.
Speaker 3: And I've had tons of coaches, head coaches, position coaches,
Speaker 3: assistant coaches, decoordinators, they just have that d factor. And
Speaker 3: Coach Smith he was one, coach Rivera, he was one.
Speaker 3: Steve Wilkes, John Hoak, like those are guys that they
Speaker 3: don't have to do a lot of yelling and row rob.
Speaker 3: They can just tell you something like we're having a
Speaker 3: conversation and you're just like, oh, okay, yeah, let's do this.
Speaker 3: Oh Rod Marinelli, he's another one like they can just
Speaker 3: the way they use their words to elevate you. They
Speaker 3: build you up, and they're simple words. It's nothing, you know,
Speaker 3: extraordinary or extravagant. It's just basic, simple verbiage, and you
Speaker 3: internalize and you believe that and you go out there
Speaker 3: and you put on the most amazing performance in your career,
Speaker 3: you know. So I'm I'm hoping that coach Johnson can
Speaker 3: find a way to motivate these players. And for the
Speaker 3: most part, we gotta we just gotta let how to win.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't I don't think we know how
Speaker 3: to win. I don't think we know how to compete.
Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, I know we're
Speaker 3: professionals and I know what are the highest level. But
Speaker 3: when you lose for a while and you lose a lot,
Speaker 3: you kind of forget how to win. You kind of
Speaker 3: forget how to compete. And it's starting that foundation and saying, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: this is our standard whatever, you know, whatever his identity.
Speaker 3: They have to identify themselves and what they want to
Speaker 3: you know what their foundation is. Every coach has a
Speaker 3: every coach has a saying. Right, they come in, they repaint,
Speaker 3: they paint everything on the wall, holes, they have their saying,
Speaker 3: and you know, whatever coach Johnson's saying is, he has
Speaker 3: to believe it. But more importantly, the team, they have
Speaker 3: to believe. You got to get fifty three guys believing
Speaker 3: in you and what you're selling. And once you get that, man,
Speaker 3: it's scary, it's powerful, it's dangerous. I literally look at
Speaker 3: Detroit and what they what coach Campbell was able to do,
Speaker 3: he said it time and I'm again and he started, Hey,
Speaker 3: we're building something. I won't lie to you. We got
Speaker 3: to go through this. We're almost there. And they were
Speaker 3: close to winning games and they would lose them. They
Speaker 3: didn't know how to compete all the way or they
Speaker 3: didn't quite know how to deal with the adversity. And
Speaker 3: within three years they're in an NFC championship. So I'm
Speaker 3: hoping coach Johnson can do exactly the same thing. Come in,
Speaker 3: start at the ground level, set the standard. The standard
Speaker 3: is the standard, and it doesn't change. This is how
Speaker 3: we play, This is what it means to be a
Speaker 3: Chicago bear. If you want to be a part of
Speaker 3: this team, in this organization, get on board. If not,
Speaker 3: see you later. We can get somebody else to come in.
Speaker 3: And yeah, man, let's let's let's get this thing rolling.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for the players, the new coaches, the team,
Speaker 3: the city, the organization. There's something about when you get
Speaker 3: a new coach, it just kind of breeds like a
Speaker 3: like a new life or rebirth, into the into the
Speaker 3: into the town. So I'm excited. We got a good quarterback.
Speaker 3: We can get this offense jumping and roll, and excited
Speaker 3: about this defense. We retained hot towers are supposed to
Speaker 3: teams coach, so you know he doing this thing out there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, man, offense, defense, sposed teams. I'm extremely fired up.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to meet the coach. You know, I'll whenever
Speaker 3: I get the invite or whatever, I'll all come up there.
Speaker 3: We'll talk with a football tell him how you know
Speaker 3: how great this defense is. I don't care who the
Speaker 3: head coach is. Defense always gonna dominate always.
Speaker 1: See that's been that was instilled in him a long
Speaker 1: time ago. Tommy, just hey, that's just what it is.
Speaker 1: It's sweat.
Speaker 3: I don't care who you bring in, I don't care
Speaker 3: who you Andy Reid, hey, Bill Bellach or not Bill
Speaker 3: Budh And you bring Andy Reid in, Hey, we got
Speaker 3: a great offense, and so we're still gonna kick your
Speaker 3: butt on defense. Coach, Like, that's just that's just the
Speaker 3: attitude you got to have. Like, I don't care who
Speaker 3: you I'm picking you off, Caleb, That's just that's just
Speaker 3: the attitude you have on defense, especially in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Tommy, final thought, you said it all.
Speaker 5: You can't talk that.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna follow that up because i may have
Speaker 4: a different sort of opinion because I'm from the other
Speaker 4: side of the ball. But listen, man, I love I
Speaker 4: love Charles Tillman, and I love listening to Charles Tillman.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Charles, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thanks guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, buddy. You'd be good. We'd love it.
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