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Speaker 1: Bears All Access. Good evening. Hope everybody's doing great out there.
Speaker 1: You and I haven't been face to face out of
Speaker 1: the show for several weeks, you know, obsessed with obsessed
Speaker 1: that the term of the year for the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: from coach Naggy. Obsessed with OTAs and mini camps. And
Speaker 1: now it's the downtime a little bit. So good to
Speaker 1: see you, big Tim and Jim when you're making your
Speaker 1: way back to town. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1: I will be back probably in a few weeks. I'll
Speaker 1: be back, and I will be out of training camp
Speaker 1: down there in Bourbon, a lovely Bourbon. A hope to
Speaker 1: show up there towards the end. Of July, probably the
Speaker 1: twenty sixth through the twenty eighth. No, the Bears started early.
Speaker 1: But you know what, could he says, Football's finally here.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for it. He's the only Jim rolls
Speaker 1: with a private pilot. He doesn't. He does a roll
Speaker 1: with a limo driver or maybe drive his own self
Speaker 1: here for god knows four and a half hours. Jim
Speaker 1: as a private pilot lands is close to the practice
Speaker 1: fields around the NFL landscape as he can. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing,
Speaker 1: but but I've had you know, adult cocktails with that pilot.
Speaker 1: You know when he's coming. So probably I'm the only
Speaker 1: one stupid enough to trust him as a buddy of
Speaker 1: mine to fly with him. But he's always appreciate itself.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's a great guy. But you know, I
Speaker 1: believe this, And as I've been pouring over the stuff
Speaker 1: or you know, you're gonna be looking on all these
Speaker 1: players now, just not just the fifty three you think
Speaker 1: you're gonna make this roster, but the ninety guys. Learning
Speaker 1: little nuggets about everybody over the course of the next
Speaker 1: five weeks or so, so you can hit the ground running.
Speaker 1: But you know, a year ago, I always said I
Speaker 1: honestly thought it was something along the lines you just
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect this year. You could say that,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to add, you miss a little, you
Speaker 1: can miss a lot because this is going to change
Speaker 1: rapidly from one day to the next. I believe this
Speaker 1: team will grow. You guys agree, Well, you know the
Speaker 1: thing about it last, no matter what we all want
Speaker 1: to sit here and think in the nice rosy pitcher
Speaker 1: we painted, there was the divide at the beginning of camp.
Speaker 1: When you have Mike Glennon and your draft Mitchell Trubisky.
Speaker 1: There's no secret, no denying that. So that would really
Speaker 1: created a little bit of angst at the beginning of
Speaker 1: camp because the reality of it is is you want
Speaker 1: to turn this thing around and start winning football games, divisions,
Speaker 1: playoff games, right, So you didn't know who really gave
Speaker 1: you the best opportunity even at the conclusion of camp.
Speaker 1: I think right now, at the end of OTAs the
Speaker 1: end of mini camp, going into camp, you know exactly
Speaker 1: what you got at that position, and I think it's
Speaker 1: really important. Yeah, And we always talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: here the limited practice time and how your break up reps,
Speaker 1: because yeah, a lot was dedicated to reps to you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Glennon, but here you're still trying to bring along
Speaker 1: a young quarterback that you know, at some point in
Speaker 1: time he's your franchise face the franchise and going to
Speaker 1: be your quarterback of the future, and they want to
Speaker 1: give him work as well. That's not the case this year.
Speaker 1: So I think, like where you're talking about Jeff the growth,
Speaker 1: it's great for Mitchell Trubisky that he basically has gotten
Speaker 1: every rep with the ones, learning a new system, learning
Speaker 1: the nuances, and has his feet wet already from playing
Speaker 1: in year one. So I do expect rapid growth from
Speaker 1: his standpoint as well. And that growth has to come
Speaker 1: for this team to make the next step, and it
Speaker 1: will take some time. There's no question. A new offense
Speaker 1: and a completely new designed offense with all the coaches,
Speaker 1: all the players learning at the same time, which I
Speaker 1: do think is a bonus as well. We're gonna remind
Speaker 1: me to bring up Kyle Shanahan at a news conference
Speaker 1: I guess this week talking about how teams are going
Speaker 1: to defend the read option now have they figured it out?
Speaker 1: And he had a great answer, So I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it a little bit later as it pertains
Speaker 1: to Mitchell Trubisky, because I think he checks all the
Speaker 1: boxes of how to operate that offense, because it's not
Speaker 1: just about read option. It's what you do off of
Speaker 1: the read option if they stop it, and what you're
Speaker 1: able to do beyond that to open up the entire field.
Speaker 1: And I thought he had a great answer to that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about Prince of Mukamara coming up
Speaker 1: as well in our next segment. The veteran cornerback is
Speaker 1: a big piece to that defensive puzzle, and we oftentimes
Speaker 1: lose sight of the defense because we're only focused on
Speaker 1: this offensive. Head coach a great staff. He's put together
Speaker 1: the development of Mitchell Trubisky and all these new pieces.
Speaker 1: But I was just downstairs at WBBM, and you know,
Speaker 1: Keith John says, Hey, how aggressive, how developed is this
Speaker 1: defense going to be? And that's the question I haven't
Speaker 1: got very much asked about. Okay, on the other side
Speaker 1: of Prince of Mukamara, we need to talk about the
Speaker 1: whole division because there's so many coaching changes within the division.
Speaker 1: Not only you're gonna have a hard time predicting about
Speaker 1: what the Bears are actually gonna be offensible. You're gonna
Speaker 1: a little bit about them defensively. Each team has home
Speaker 1: has had so much transition within the division on their
Speaker 1: coaching staff. There's gonna be a lot of changes all
Speaker 1: over the map. And I think that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: most interesting with our division is what is Detroit gonna
Speaker 1: be all about? Is Matthew staff are going to come
Speaker 1: back when Matt Patricia is he offensive minded coach. Even
Speaker 1: though they got jim By kuber Coutter, it's still an
Speaker 1: you know, he's still the head coach, and so all
Speaker 1: the other you know, offensive defenses and within this division,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. Yeah, it's a It's a good
Speaker 1: point because at Detroit, I think they made a conscious
Speaker 1: effort that they need to run the football better. I
Speaker 1: think we see that with Kerrie on Johnson, and they drafted,
Speaker 1: they signed with Garrett Blunt, they addressed their offensive line.
Speaker 1: They feel that's better. How about Mike Burton is now
Speaker 1: a Bearer as a fullback. Detroit couldn't even offer that
Speaker 1: personnel group in a year ago. They didn't even have
Speaker 1: a fullback on the roster. And so they drafted a
Speaker 1: guy in the seventh round. He already tores acl Nick Boughton,
Speaker 1: I think it's his name, Boden, and he tores ACL.
Speaker 1: So they moved Nick Blore the line backer over the
Speaker 1: fullback for Detroit. So they are they're gonna have different
Speaker 1: person no groupings that they're going to present. And as
Speaker 1: Tom just alluded to think of Matt Patricia, I'm here
Speaker 1: in Motown. They're talking hybrid defense all over the place.
Speaker 1: They're gonna run four three three four, So they're gonna
Speaker 1: be different. And how you attack them offensively, Green Bay.
Speaker 1: You bring up a great point there as Mike Penton,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a more of a press pressure guy,
Speaker 1: press man in terms of their cover. That's why they
Speaker 1: drafted Jayer Alexander and Josh Jackson out of Iowa. They
Speaker 1: feel that those guys can man up. They'll be on
Speaker 1: an island outside. Bring back Joe Philbin. He'll help McCarthy
Speaker 1: with the game plans how they used to do it
Speaker 1: to prepare Aaron Rodgers. And then Minnesota as John d
Speaker 1: Filippo stepping as their new OC, he's a first time
Speaker 1: play caller. Sounds great that they got kirk Cousins for
Speaker 1: eighty four million. But gonna take time for that offensive
Speaker 1: get up and running. Why they get suited with each other?
Speaker 1: I do like that coach though, I do like coach
Speaker 1: d Philippo. Outstanding offensive mine. All right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break. Coming back, Prince and Mukamara, the Bear's veteran cornerback,
Speaker 1: would join us. This is Bears All Access, brought to
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Speaker 1: enjoined now by Bears veteran cornerback Prince A Mugamara. Good evening,
Speaker 1: my friend, How things I'm doing well? How are you
Speaker 1: guys doing great? Doing great? Hey? I know you got
Speaker 1: a camp coming up this summer in Glendale. A lot
Speaker 1: of guys are doing this obviously around football. Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: just had his and mentor. And we'll get into that
Speaker 1: as we talk in the conversation, but before we do, Prince,
Speaker 1: just want to get your feel about wanting to come
Speaker 1: back to Chicago. You took a chance on yourself a
Speaker 1: year ago, in a one year, did a great job,
Speaker 1: go back to back year. That's what I'm saying. Why
Speaker 1: why come to Chica? I'll go, my friend, why why
Speaker 1: even with the coaching change? Yeah? UM, I think there's
Speaker 1: there's many there's many different factors that I feel like
Speaker 1: I've been asked this question so many times and I
Speaker 1: feel like my my answer has changed every different time.
Speaker 1: But UM, but I I would say the main point
Speaker 1: and on the quick bullet punch are UM one wanting
Speaker 1: to win another championship in my career and UM flourishing
Speaker 1: in this defense and UM and just the coaches. So
Speaker 1: start number one, like wanting to win the championship my career.
Speaker 1: I feel like the championship starts with the quarterback. Like
Speaker 1: if you look at all the Super Bowl Championship teams,
Speaker 1: like they have a great quarterback and and I feel
Speaker 1: like we have that in in in the Metell Trubisky,
Speaker 1: I mean, Mitchell, Mitchell knows this and and we all know,
Speaker 1: um that I've been around the game and played and played.
Speaker 1: Is that like he still has to go out there
Speaker 1: and prove it. But just what he shows, how he
Speaker 1: just the leadership in maturity he demonstrates, Like even when
Speaker 1: he was backing up planning, like this guy was like
Speaker 1: an hour after practice throwing and then I seen I
Speaker 1: just seem paced like gazing at him like man, and
Speaker 1: and I was gazing at him too, like man, this
Speaker 1: is crazy. This guy like just out of college, like
Speaker 1: staying after in an hour after after practice, is still
Speaker 1: throwing the while still making great passes, and he would
Speaker 1: think that that's coming, but that's not coming. Like some
Speaker 1: guys think they've already came here, they've made it. And
Speaker 1: he was still working. So I saw that from early
Speaker 1: on and then now his second year, just how he
Speaker 1: approaches practice and how he takes charge of the huddle
Speaker 1: and how he takes charge of the offense. I love that.
Speaker 1: So just to trust to Mitchell Trubisky and then flourishing
Speaker 1: in this defense, I feel like, um Vick Sangio is
Speaker 1: a mastermind. I can't I can't, um, I can't rave
Speaker 1: about him so much like he's he's he's just a
Speaker 1: simple mastermind with how he calls the defense. I feel
Speaker 1: like he always puts us in great and great positions
Speaker 1: UH to make plays. And that's and that's not um.
Speaker 1: And you don't see that a lot in a lot
Speaker 1: of defense. You see a lot of great players making plays,
Speaker 1: but you don't see like the actual defensive coordinator calling
Speaker 1: great plays for the for the defense to make plays.
Speaker 1: So and I feel like that's helped my career a lot.
Speaker 1: And and just with the coaches um um coach Donntel,
Speaker 1: I mean it's been amazing for my career and younger
Speaker 1: guys career just as passion and how he cares for
Speaker 1: the players and and us ask people and just wanting
Speaker 1: us to be better man. And then when I met Naggie,
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was it was easy. Like
Speaker 1: as a player, you kind of always want to look
Speaker 1: for a players coach. However, there are other coaches that
Speaker 1: um that can fit UH, that can fit teams also
Speaker 1: that players like, and those other coaches. I mean, I
Speaker 1: love Coughlin, but I don't know if everyone anyone would
Speaker 1: describe as a player coach. And this is no shot
Speaker 1: at Coughlin. This is just as coaching style. But I
Speaker 1: feel like Naggie compliments and um and I really like
Speaker 1: that a lot. Hey Prince, last year, at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, there were so many question marks in
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield, and now a lot of those questions
Speaker 1: have been answered with yourself and Kyle Fuller, Adrian Amos,
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson and the rest of their crew back there. Callahan,
Speaker 1: that's been helping is can you can there be more
Speaker 1: vers versatility in the defensive backfield when you guys are
Speaker 1: in the same system, you've been around each other, and
Speaker 1: you know the opponent's quarterbacks in this division aside from cousins, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think that that call Neudy helps a lot. I
Speaker 1: mean if you look at all the great defenses from
Speaker 1: like Seattle, I mean Denver, San Francisco, when when when
Speaker 1: Vick was there, like they all had a consistent cool
Speaker 1: group of guys, whether's Patrick Lewis and and and the
Speaker 1: safeties or Seattle with Earl Thomas cam and um and
Speaker 1: Richard and Denver with Um Chris Harris Acute and and
Speaker 1: there'ss like you always have a consistent group of guys
Speaker 1: and um And before I got here, the defense was
Speaker 1: already h trending trending upward, and I'm just here to
Speaker 1: compliment that and help that. And now we can actually
Speaker 1: start to learn to be inside each other's bodies. So
Speaker 1: there might be a route where um Eddie, Eddie might
Speaker 1: see and he might avoid, he might go away from
Speaker 1: this coverage to go make a play and um and
Speaker 1: and actually take my responsibility and just stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You start to work and sink and kind of cover
Speaker 1: each other, and when a defense starts to do that,
Speaker 1: it gets scary. A prince Jim Miller here, good to
Speaker 1: talk to you, my friend. And you mentioned that Super
Speaker 1: Bowl year as a giant super Bowl forty six, you
Speaker 1: went in and Eli as you mentioned the leadership that
Speaker 1: Mitchell's is displaying. Eli Manning at that point it already
Speaker 1: won world championship, and that was Super Bowl forty two,
Speaker 1: and that was his third year in the league, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, for for Eli. The reason the reason
Speaker 1: why I'm asking this question, how did you get a
Speaker 1: feel for those teams? I know Tom's talked about it before.
Speaker 1: I've talked about it before of teams I've been on
Speaker 1: coming out of, like you know, during the OTAs and
Speaker 1: when you're practicing out there during spring ball and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: this team's got a chance. We got a good bunch
Speaker 1: of hard working guys that love to play football, and
Speaker 1: just how a team gels. Do you get that sense
Speaker 1: about this year year's barrass team because it just seems
Speaker 1: like everybody works well together and everybody's busting their fanny
Speaker 1: to turn this around. You had some some my first
Speaker 1: year with the Giants, I didn't really get because of
Speaker 1: my injury. I didn't really get reunited with them into
Speaker 1: like week ten. So I'm so I'm just a lot
Speaker 1: of like chemistry and in team building that was being
Speaker 1: done there. And I think our year was kind of
Speaker 1: um different than most because we were we were just
Speaker 1: trying to fight to get in. But we knew once
Speaker 1: we got in, like it was gonna be scary because
Speaker 1: I teams just catch on a street and you can
Speaker 1: tell what what teams, what teams those are. UM. During
Speaker 1: during the season, they just start to they just start
Speaker 1: to approach the game differently and UM and when you
Speaker 1: start watching foom, you start to see, wow, like this
Speaker 1: this this team is going to be a problem. And
Speaker 1: I and I feel like that was the type of
Speaker 1: UM that was a type of character that we've displayed
Speaker 1: that year we won Super Bowl. Prince Amukamara our guest
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Speaker 1: Prince July fourteenth, The free camp for ages eight to
Speaker 1: seventeen out in Glendale, Arizona at Apoto High School. You
Speaker 1: can register at Others Foundation dot org. I know it'll
Speaker 1: be well attended. Have you done this before? And what
Speaker 1: is the Others Foundation all about? Yeah? So this is
Speaker 1: this is my second year. Um do it during this camp.
Speaker 1: And and I've never been to a kid camp when
Speaker 1: when I was young. And also um, and also I've
Speaker 1: never got to like meet and and and touch and
Speaker 1: get taught by a current or former NFL players. So
Speaker 1: the fact the fact that the fact that I can
Speaker 1: bring this uh environment and bring this atmosphere for the
Speaker 1: kids and in the in the city and town that
Speaker 1: that I grew up in, I'm extremely excited about that.
Speaker 1: And um, Others Foundation. Others Foundation is a foundation that
Speaker 1: me and me and my wife and a friend of
Speaker 1: mine started. Uh. Like I mean I'm young, just turned
Speaker 1: twenty nine, but um, like the last decade of my life,
Speaker 1: like I really feel like, uh life should really be
Speaker 1: about others. I feel like, especially as an athlete, a
Speaker 1: college athlete and now professional athlete, I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: I've been taking. I've been taking a lot a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff UM's been offered to me, and um, I
Speaker 1: really just want to be I really just want to
Speaker 1: give back and just give to others. And even after
Speaker 1: just being the father, even being married, just realizing like, hey,
Speaker 1: like life is not about you anymore and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so I kind of want to spread and share that message. Well, congratulations,
Speaker 1: It's an awesome opportunity for the kids out there and
Speaker 1: where all the players are wherever their hometowns and doing
Speaker 1: the camps. I think it's a great thing. Hey, Prince,
Speaker 1: real quick before we go always, I saw you get
Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions this offseason, and that that's what
Speaker 1: the Bears fans want to see. But give us a
Speaker 1: snapshot of the Bears offense from day one to the
Speaker 1: last day of training camp. Did it pick up speed,
Speaker 1: did it pick a momentum? Is Trey Burton going to
Speaker 1: be the weapon that I thought I saw him being
Speaker 1: out there? Or what's going to happen with this offense.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to evaluate. The offense as a
Speaker 1: whole without in Allan Robinson because I mean because I played,
Speaker 1: I was with him two years ago and and he
Speaker 1: brings such a different dynamic, a different field to the offense.
Speaker 1: But um, but evalue in the offense now, I feel
Speaker 1: like they're very very creative. They're they're um, they're they're explosive. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's calling the plays, Nagie or coach Helfric,
Speaker 1: but the plays like they definitely keep you on on
Speaker 1: your toes. And it's great for us as a defense
Speaker 1: to get those different looks with the teams that we
Speaker 1: have on our on our schedule. So um, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to kind of uhcause at the dB UM,
Speaker 1: especially during through going through practice, you kind of see
Speaker 1: like a repeat of plays but with but with coach
Speaker 1: Nagie and health again and their offense, it's kind of
Speaker 1: hard to um to trying to narrow those plays down.
Speaker 1: You you might get one formation you and and you
Speaker 1: might get a play out of that look, and then
Speaker 1: the next play you get the same formation but um
Speaker 1: and say motion but complete different look. So that's what's
Speaker 1: a little challenging for for the for the for the
Speaker 1: defense for that offense. But um, they're they're very, very
Speaker 1: high as an offensive. The last day there's there's some
Speaker 1: trash talking going on, and um, and we're just excited
Speaker 1: to put pads on in a month and go at
Speaker 1: it well, just for the love of football. And I
Speaker 1: thank you for holding that camp because here in my area,
Speaker 1: my boys are playing flag football now and the local
Speaker 1: high school where there will be going just one of
Speaker 1: the state championship and football numbers have never been as
Speaker 1: great as what they are right now. And I'd like
Speaker 1: to know how how are your numbers in terms of
Speaker 1: attendance out there in Glendale, Arizona, because the game's never
Speaker 1: been safer with all the rules changes, and obviously to
Speaker 1: preserve and protect the game that I'm sure you love,
Speaker 1: Prince in the game I love for all my life.
Speaker 1: I'm a lifer in football. So I'd like to hear
Speaker 1: how's your attendance out there? Yeah, it's great to hear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean as soon as I as soon as I
Speaker 1: posted out the flyer, I mean it was it was
Speaker 1: probably it was filled up within within four to five hours,
Speaker 1: and and and and that's kind of the speed it
Speaker 1: filled up last year and that's when I you like, Wow,
Speaker 1: Like these these kids, they're they're they're craving something like this,
Speaker 1: Like they're they're excited for something like this, and this
Speaker 1: is something that that they're looking that they're looking forward to.
Speaker 1: So again, I'm just really um uh privilege that I
Speaker 1: can bring that experience to them. Prince and Mukamar kind
Speaker 1: enough to join us tonight. Prince, We're gonna let you
Speaker 1: go appreciate it, enjoy your next five weeks, and then
Speaker 1: it should be a lot of fun in bourbon A.
Speaker 1: Good to have you. Thank you so much. That's great
Speaker 1: to have you. Bears cornerback. Prince and Mukamar, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of his comments tonight about a lot of
Speaker 1: things about the Bears offense and such as. We take
Speaker 1: a break first here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: get there right, Eli, Yes. Eli used to work with
Speaker 1: me over at BBM. He knows what I'm all right,
Speaker 1: So anyway, he's handling the board today. So let me
Speaker 1: just say this real quick about Prince Jim, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a rare athlete, especially in the NFL nowadays. He
Speaker 1: gives his honest appraisal of things. He's been that way
Speaker 1: since we met him here two years ago. And he'll
Speaker 1: give you opinion about what is and what's going on
Speaker 1: or how he feels about somebody without being negative or
Speaker 1: trying to be demeaning. But he I love He's honest.
Speaker 1: What we've got to known about Prince of Mukamara is
Speaker 1: very respectful. I mean both in the way he answers
Speaker 1: your question, the way he treats everybody. I've ever seen
Speaker 1: him around and we've been events with him. People love
Speaker 1: him right. But the thing about it is, before Prince
Speaker 1: got here, there was always suspicion because he has some
Speaker 1: injuries in his past. So we think of him as
Speaker 1: a football player first, and then we get to meet
Speaker 1: him as a person second. And so everything that we
Speaker 1: have gotten to see out of Prince, he is a
Speaker 1: quality character guy and I think he means a lot
Speaker 1: to some of these young teammates that need his influence. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean he's respectful, he is from royalty, I mean
Speaker 1: why he's named Prince. But I agree with that definitely.
Speaker 1: What Jeff talked about is just his his honesty, you know,
Speaker 1: and I just don't think, you know, when you get
Speaker 1: that many players saying stuff about Mitchell Trubisky, his leadership
Speaker 1: I think is genuine. You know. I just don't think
Speaker 1: you can fake that or really pooh pooh it of
Speaker 1: what this young man has done in terms of work,
Speaker 1: and he knows it's in there. I think everybody knows
Speaker 1: it's about the young quarterback and the jumps that he
Speaker 1: makes for the Chicago Bears, and so consistently, whether it's
Speaker 1: from Prince the other teammates, how Mitchell's been attacking this offseason.
Speaker 1: That that's good to hear because it sounds like he's
Speaker 1: won over his teammates and they truly do believe in him.
Speaker 1: So we'll see where it goes. I think Mitchell said
Speaker 1: it the other day at his camp or on a show.
Speaker 1: I think he was on one of these shows, these
Speaker 1: morning shows on NFL network or somewhere. He said, I
Speaker 1: can begin from day one and be the leader I
Speaker 1: want to be. That's also critical in this case. Forget
Speaker 1: about the performance and all that for just a minute.
Speaker 1: We believe he's going to be an outstanding quarterback, but
Speaker 1: he can feel comfortable being that guy. Is that important? Yes?
Speaker 1: It is important because last year, no matter how much
Speaker 1: he wanted to show his leadership and where he was
Speaker 1: draft in the position he played, he didn't have that
Speaker 1: luxury because of Mike Glennon, And you kind of got
Speaker 1: to respect where you go into a locker room. If
Speaker 1: he was the guy that was drafted and brought here
Speaker 1: to be a starter and Mike Glennon wasn't waiting in
Speaker 1: the wings, he would have carried more cloud, but he
Speaker 1: had to respect Mike Lennon. Yeah, you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: now everybody's turning to him. They're looking to Mitchell for answers,
Speaker 1: and when he first arrived last year that that just
Speaker 1: wasn't the case. You know, He's just he's a raw player.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to learn the NFL game. And that's
Speaker 1: all changed, like I said, since since the moment that
Speaker 1: season ended and Mike Lennon was shipped out and now
Speaker 1: signed with the Arizona Cardinals. Mitchell knows Hey, I'm the guy.
Speaker 1: Now I need to you know, this is my responsibility
Speaker 1: with the keys to the car. And I think he's
Speaker 1: generally taken serious. It's important to him. He wants to
Speaker 1: prove it to his teammates. And I think he's shown
Speaker 1: that again because what everybody's saying the same thing. It's
Speaker 1: one thing to do the regurgitated Oh he's the first guy,
Speaker 1: had last guy to leave. That's one that it's not.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been that way. You can just tell there's
Speaker 1: a genuine excitement about the leadership he's displaying. But he
Speaker 1: knows he's the guy and he's got to get it done.
Speaker 1: And I think he drives from that role and it's
Speaker 1: almost like he braces it. Jim, you don't have the
Speaker 1: luxury of being here. But I've known Tom a very
Speaker 1: long time now, and he gets this grin on his
Speaker 1: face and he's been grinning. So he's got something for me.
Speaker 1: Jim was last to leave because they had free beer
Speaker 1: in the equipment room. That's why he was last to leave.
Speaker 1: But no, that would be the video that so I
Speaker 1: grab a couple of pops and go down to lots
Speaker 1: some tape. Absolutely, what is it? Did you wanted to
Speaker 1: you or No, I was grinning because that devilish No,
Speaker 1: I was just I wanted you to rehash because you
Speaker 1: said you brought up a question to Jim and I
Speaker 1: before and we didn't answer it like he wanted to
Speaker 1: answer on the defense. Oh no, I just what do
Speaker 1: you guys feel the next step is for this defense?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be as aggressive as the reputation
Speaker 1: of vic fan Joe has been. If they're top ten
Speaker 1: last year, I realistically think it's top five. It's hard
Speaker 1: to reach. Granted, they gotta stay healthy and the ball
Speaker 1: has to bounce their way and things like that. I
Speaker 1: think they'll have to carry the offense early until the
Speaker 1: offense gets fired up and scoring points and gels together
Speaker 1: and all those things. But yeah, I've got high hopes
Speaker 1: for this defense. If they're top ten a year ago
Speaker 1: with all the injuries, I'm thinking sky's the limit. Why
Speaker 1: can't they be top five? I think they have the
Speaker 1: ability to do it. I really do, you know? Again,
Speaker 1: just to continue to repeat myself, because it's just something
Speaker 1: I've been paying attention to the offseason, and just like
Speaker 1: last year, when we are so concerned about the defensive
Speaker 1: acts and they came and they proved everything to us
Speaker 1: with coach Donnitel and Vic and the whole crew there
Speaker 1: and Kyle Fuller. Again, it is about these guys in
Speaker 1: the nineties, and I keep saying, it's Jonathan Bullard, it's
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman, it's Aaron Lynch, it's Royal Robertson Arris because
Speaker 1: those guy and Leonard Floyd, they have a connection to
Speaker 1: the success and failure of this defense. So you know,
Speaker 1: you got Keim another name I know, I know, I
Speaker 1: know A Kima. I'm not worried about him. A Kim
Speaker 1: is a guy that I you know, I'm glad is there,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that Sam Macho is there too. That's
Speaker 1: why I don't include him. But there's these other group
Speaker 1: of young guys and they're still kids on this football team.
Speaker 1: Is they have to come here in in the short
Speaker 1: time they've been around the NFL. They have to have
Speaker 1: a career year this year for the Bears defense to perform.
Speaker 1: Feeling that how great would it be if an offense
Speaker 1: comes together and I don't know when it will, what
Speaker 1: quarter of the season it will, but to have an
Speaker 1: offense that can get you the lead, so you can
Speaker 1: play defense on the lead, which that defense hasn't, but
Speaker 1: you also have to compute time of possession with it
Speaker 1: because one thing you want to do for your defense
Speaker 1: is you want to be able to score points and
Speaker 1: keep your offense on the field. And that's why I
Speaker 1: think coach Naggie a couple of weeks ago in his
Speaker 1: press conference, he realized that you haven't seen the importance
Speaker 1: of a guy like Jordan Howard. You have because of
Speaker 1: the perphial aspects they were trying to introduce to this offense. Now,
Speaker 1: if you do have that power guy and you can
Speaker 1: sustain that time of possession later in the game, yeah,
Speaker 1: SCOREFF thirty early. And that's another good point because I
Speaker 1: think the Bears with the Billy granted, Kyle Long's got
Speaker 1: to come back healthy and all those things, but I
Speaker 1: think they legitimately can they run the football to dominate
Speaker 1: for a time of possession like that. I think early
Speaker 1: in the year that's going to be relied upon as
Speaker 1: the passing game grows as the season goes along, and
Speaker 1: then by the end of the season, say week eight,
Speaker 1: week nine, I would think that passing games should be
Speaker 1: starting to get pretty confident where they feel that they
Speaker 1: can get more aggressive and fling the ball all around
Speaker 1: the field. So I think ground game early and then
Speaker 1: it'll just continue to grow and they'll continue to score
Speaker 1: more points and by the end of the year it
Speaker 1: should be humming would be my take. But I think
Speaker 1: they can dominate the time of possession with the running
Speaker 1: game early with that one two punch with Cohen and
Speaker 1: obviously what Jordan Howard. Last year, when I looked at
Speaker 1: the schedule, the game that scared me most was two
Speaker 1: weeks Week two in Tampa. Now this week, the first
Speaker 1: two weeks of the game are night games, So you're
Speaker 1: not going to have that abusive heat early in the
Speaker 1: season where the conditioning jumps on your back the most
Speaker 1: within the first couple of games as an offense, and
Speaker 1: so if you can have those cool games, it's gonna
Speaker 1: help you contribute to keeping that offense fresh and where
Speaker 1: you want it to be in the latter part of
Speaker 1: the game. What will the threat of a zone read
Speaker 1: with Mitchell Trubisky and Tarik Cohen and the presence of
Speaker 1: a speechter like Taylor Gabriel and how a defense reacts
Speaker 1: to it all these RPOs, how will that impact the
Speaker 1: run game? That's gonna put so much pressure on the
Speaker 1: exterior of the defenses in which they face because they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna have more area of responsibility at the
Speaker 1: immediate snap of the ball. It's not just blow a
Speaker 1: field and try to get to that point where the
Speaker 1: quarterback is. It's gonna be rushing with respect, keeping my
Speaker 1: outside arm free, making sure that you don't try to
Speaker 1: bait me to the inside. So these the exterior players
Speaker 1: of the defenses they're gonna face, they're gonna have so
Speaker 1: many responsibilities. It's going to be tougher for them. Jim
Speaker 1: Kansas City last year finishing the top five and outside
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Is that doable? M Yeah, I think it's doable.
Speaker 1: See because like what you're saying, when you're doing RPOs
Speaker 1: or the spread option and things like that, you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're like here we were talking about can you
Speaker 1: dictate to a defense? Yes, you're dictating to them. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to make a decision at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. So let's say you're isolating the defensive end
Speaker 1: with a you know, a spread option run with Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky and you know, an inside run. Let's say an
Speaker 1: inside zone run to Jordan Howard. The defensive end has
Speaker 1: to make a decision or whatever however they call it
Speaker 1: defensively to you know, whether the defensive end crashes to
Speaker 1: take the inside run or they blow it up with
Speaker 1: the back or coming up to blow it. And now
Speaker 1: the defensive end is going to have to decide and
Speaker 1: making the decision one. Am I going after the quarterback?
Speaker 1: Am I taking that inside zone run? Or potentially there
Speaker 1: could be a slanting coming behind me with the X receiver.
Speaker 1: And so I think the Bears will have the ability
Speaker 1: to dictate some things with some good athletes that can
Speaker 1: put a defense in the bind. And they got to
Speaker 1: prepare for a lot more defensively with what the Bears
Speaker 1: are going to do with that stuff. You know what
Speaker 1: too real quickly is within the quarterbacks within the Bears division,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get the other teams running a
Speaker 1: lot of RPO because they're gonna preserve Aaron Rodgers. They're
Speaker 1: gonna stave Matthew Stafford, and I don't think Kurt is
Speaker 1: really that RPO guy. Good point. Thank You'll continue on
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Speaker 1: Five weeks of dead time. Hey, everything's haze in the
Speaker 1: barn for the NFL right now. I don't believe there's
Speaker 1: anymore mandatory mini camps. Everything's been done. All thirty two
Speaker 1: teams put it away as of today. Is that right? Right?
Speaker 1: But that's when the trouble starts, right, That's what That's
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, but I didn't want to
Speaker 1: be the one saying it first. So, you know, guys,
Speaker 1: officially summer vacation with an asterisk, because just like Matt
Speaker 1: Naggie said, don't start stopping your workouts. Hey, if you
Speaker 1: think this, if you if you think this is a vacation,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be talking. You're gonna be cut. It's just good.
Speaker 1: It's gonna decide your own faith. And that's the whole
Speaker 1: weeding out process of the NFL is when you give
Speaker 1: these guys a little bit of leash, what do they
Speaker 1: do with it? You know? And so you know, the
Speaker 1: facility is still open. You can go to any one
Speaker 1: of your facilities and lift weights and some of the
Speaker 1: top weight facilities in the country. And if you think
Speaker 1: that you're gonna go and you know and vacation and
Speaker 1: work out, you're gonna have a tough time when it
Speaker 1: all gets going. Yeah, you gotta be disciplined. And I
Speaker 1: don't know about utile. I always said this was kind
Speaker 1: of the time where I cranked it up even or
Speaker 1: you know, got more throws in to get ready for training. Again,
Speaker 1: we were doing two a days back then, so you
Speaker 1: threw a lot more, but you kind of crank it up,
Speaker 1: you know. Accelerate not decelerate, is what I would say
Speaker 1: for somebody who were you throwing too back in those days?
Speaker 1: Who'd you who'd you pull into your offseason high school
Speaker 1: field workouts? Yeah, I had a whole bunch of guys
Speaker 1: would just go up to the local high school here
Speaker 1: or even my old high school, and we just you know,
Speaker 1: mark off all the distances you're throwing. You know the
Speaker 1: route tree on both sides, both left side and right side.
Speaker 1: And so high school players that you know, because a
Speaker 1: lot of the local high schools will have their workouts
Speaker 1: because their training camps just around the corner as well,
Speaker 1: So they'd go up their minimum three days a week
Speaker 1: because they'd have, you know, their sprinting programs to keep
Speaker 1: up with what they're gonna have to do for their
Speaker 1: two A days. So I'd have a ton of high
Speaker 1: school kids i'd throw to or just local friends, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even make them run routes. I say, hey,
Speaker 1: just stand there like an outroute with your hands out
Speaker 1: like this, because a lot of them couldn't run with
Speaker 1: So I I'd do my normal drop and know the
Speaker 1: timing of the throw when i'd have to get it there.
Speaker 1: But I'd just be working on my accuracy and velocity
Speaker 1: and arm strength and all those type of things. If
Speaker 1: they couldn't simulate the speed of the receivers you're running
Speaker 1: within the NFL at the time you lived in the
Speaker 1: weight room, Jim did not. But now I was a joke.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure, but you did live in the
Speaker 1: weight room. But did you also take the time in
Speaker 1: the whatever a little time you had in the off
Speaker 1: season and work on footwork. Well, yeah, because we had
Speaker 1: a whole process kind of Clyde Emrick ran everything for
Speaker 1: the offseason, the off season conditioning and the weightlifting part
Speaker 1: of it. And he's he's one of the smartest guys
Speaker 1: in the history of weightlifting. Go look up as bio
Speaker 1: if you don't believe me, Clyde Emerck. But anyways, he
Speaker 1: would take control of the weightroom, but when we would
Speaker 1: go outside, it would kind of transition to camaraderie conditioning.
Speaker 1: Everybody would have a hand in it. They could suggest
Speaker 1: the type of running they wanted to do that day.
Speaker 1: They would have a lot of it to do with
Speaker 1: foot movement, high feet off the ground, alternate movements one
Speaker 1: way or the other, coming out of your stance. But
Speaker 1: so it was it was conditioning, but you know it's
Speaker 1: it's also a kind of a period where you're transitioned
Speaker 1: into a really bad mood for a month straight leading
Speaker 1: up to the beginning of training camp because there's nothing
Speaker 1: fun about it, and you kind of know it as
Speaker 1: an offensive Lineman. There's doubly nothing fun about it, and
Speaker 1: so that's that's the process of it. You get ready
Speaker 1: to go in there and be ultra competitive. Oh Tom,
Speaker 1: how many how many times did you ask yourself this?
Speaker 1: Because that, to me I hated because you always knew,
Speaker 1: no matter what the training camps a day closer, I
Speaker 1: could never get away from thinking about it, and I'd
Speaker 1: just I'd be sitting there on my couch watching something.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, somebody else is doing more. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd go outside again, start throwing more and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You do, your mind plays tricks on it because you
Speaker 1: know it's ready. Never leaves your mind. I mean you
Speaker 1: don't sleep, and if you do wake up in an instant,
Speaker 1: it's because if you're reminded about something, and then again
Speaker 1: once the process start, every time you go to sleep,
Speaker 1: the next thing you wake up to. But the camaraderie
Speaker 1: and the fact that's all because that's the thing everybody misses.
Speaker 1: Every guy I've ever interviewed, I missed the locker room,
Speaker 1: I missed the fellas. Does that ease the pain. The
Speaker 1: pressure of earning the job overwhelms all the goodness of
Speaker 1: the sport provides you. You know, you get to come
Speaker 1: in after practice and sit there with your buddies and
Speaker 1: bitch and moan for thirty five minutes. You know why
Speaker 1: you're getting ready to go to meetings and stuff, So
Speaker 1: that that's the good thing about it, But it is,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever you choose that sport for your life,
Speaker 1: you know you think about really what you want to
Speaker 1: get out of it. And I play with a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys that all wanted to be starters. Jeff Jonkap there,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller with you on Bears All Access presented by
Speaker 1: Igs Energy Fellas every writer that I've read about the
Speaker 1: Bears and what the training camp is going to reveal
Speaker 1: and what questions need to be answered, most of them
Speaker 1: contained the development of Mitchell Trubisky being one of the
Speaker 1: top five questions that need to be answered. Would you
Speaker 1: what are your respective must answer questions once training camp begins?
Speaker 1: And ultimately the first press conference of this offseason, Ryan
Speaker 1: Pace called Mitchell Trubisky the most important asset on this
Speaker 1: football team. So yeah, you got you have to start
Speaker 1: with there, but you also, Mitchell Trubisky needs support, and
Speaker 1: you know, you think of what the receiver position did
Speaker 1: not provide last year for the offense. So Alan Robinson,
Speaker 1: Taylor Gabriel, Kevin White, the whole crew. Guy's got to
Speaker 1: come in and help Mitchell in that portion of it.
Speaker 1: And then you think of the inclusion of the tight
Speaker 1: end position specifically, they got nothing out of it last
Speaker 1: year after Zach Miller got hurt. So they got Trey
Speaker 1: Burton in here. You got Adam Sheheen, you got Dian Simms,
Speaker 1: Daniel Brown, Ben Bronicker and the rest of the crew.
Speaker 1: So you just need to provide a lot of help.
Speaker 1: And don't say, Okay, Trubisky, he's going to be the
Speaker 1: reason we succeed. No, it isn't. It's gonna be because
Speaker 1: everybody on the offense understands their role and on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, and special teams as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: growth of the receiver, growth of the Mitchell Trubisky, the
Speaker 1: health of the receivers, because obviously Kevin White and Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson factoring from that standpoint in the development of young
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller, we do think obviously they've improved greatly in
Speaker 1: this area, but obviously their health is going to be important.
Speaker 1: And a couple of guys are coming off injury, and
Speaker 1: I think again that tight end spot's going to be critical.
Speaker 1: This is a tight end driven offense at least everywhere
Speaker 1: else it's Ben has been so Trey Burton, can you
Speaker 1: know young Adam Sheheen make another jump? Deon Simms, I
Speaker 1: don't think Deon Simms has played to his potential. I
Speaker 1: really I expected more from him out of Michigan State.
Speaker 1: That is a talented tight end that I think truly
Speaker 1: needs to push himself to reach the heights of what
Speaker 1: he actually could play as an NFL player. So I
Speaker 1: think those are all going to be critical. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears offensively, What do you suspect because it's
Speaker 1: not chiseled out yet? Even Matt Naggie said it the
Speaker 1: other day last week at the end of the mini camp,
Speaker 1: what the identity of this team is going to be?
Speaker 1: If you had a guest, we wrap this up, you know,
Speaker 1: after the regular season and hopefully there's a playoff trip
Speaker 1: attached to it, and this team made major input, what
Speaker 1: would be the identity? What do you think the identity
Speaker 1: of this team is going to be high octane offense
Speaker 1: with power when I think they have the ability to
Speaker 1: be a high octane offense on the outside, including the
Speaker 1: tight ends. But if they need power out of a
Speaker 1: running back, you have Jordan Howard. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a one dimensional team, but I think the emphasis
Speaker 1: is high octane. Yeah, I agree with that, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, for defensively, and I'm going to say it again,
Speaker 1: I think they have the ability to be a really
Speaker 1: good defense where they can you know, they really can
Speaker 1: close the door on some teams. Again, some thing's got
Speaker 1: to emerge, Leonard Floyd. We've talked about all of it
Speaker 1: in terms of the past rushtional those things. Turnovers started
Speaker 1: to come a lot more frequently last year. That should
Speaker 1: go in a better direction as well. So overall, a
Speaker 1: mentally tough, hard nosed football team that can maybe you know,
Speaker 1: overpower and surprise some people with their ability to play.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking for. A nasty, physical attitude, offensively aggressively,
Speaker 1: defensively aggressively, special teams aggressive. How come we haven't even
Speaker 1: mentioned the name Roquan Smith. We'll do that on the
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Speaker 1: Get Even, Brian. Hey, guys, I'm enjoying your show immenseally.
Speaker 1: I love this time of year when we start talking
Speaker 1: about the Bears. Me too, Brian. Why wouldn't you right by? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the momentum just searches in it and it's great. My
Speaker 1: question is, what won't it be exciting if Kevin White
Speaker 1: Abbott actually turns out to be able to stay healthy
Speaker 1: number one and number two, if he turns out to
Speaker 1: be the player that we drafted him to be. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be great? Brian? That would be awesome. And I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of people that have high hopes
Speaker 1: for Kevin White because he is a good kid and
Speaker 1: he's important around the locker room. But you know, that's
Speaker 1: the thing about it is you gotta stay healthy and
Speaker 1: there's guys that you know that have a hard time
Speaker 1: doing it. Kevin's prepared, he understands his commitment to the
Speaker 1: offseason to get through the season. But I think that'll
Speaker 1: be probably one of the most highly anticipated watches of
Speaker 1: this NFL season to see if a guy like Kevin
Speaker 1: White can make it through healthy. Just want him to
Speaker 1: experience some success for a change. Yes, you know, just
Speaker 1: so many whether it's happenstance and these injuries and things
Speaker 1: have happened. Injuries happened. I think we know that. But
Speaker 1: this want him to experience something good for his confidence
Speaker 1: because there's still a set of doubt in his mind,
Speaker 1: Hey can I do this? Because he hasn't done it yet.
Speaker 1: You know, he hasn't experienced that. So he's got that
Speaker 1: set of doubt and hopefully he can just shedder right
Speaker 1: right through that glass that's been holding him down. Back
Speaker 1: of the owners meetings, sitting right next to Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: and Orlando said, why, what a great story it would be,
Speaker 1: and what a great challenge it is for a new
Speaker 1: coaching staff to get him to reach his potential and
Speaker 1: give him some you know, with the Good Lord, give
Speaker 1: him some luck. Who's healthier right now, Kevin White or
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson, And it's gonna be Kevin White because Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson is coming off of a knee injury. So I
Speaker 1: think that's a little bit more why you need Kevin
Speaker 1: White to succeed when you look at his size and
Speaker 1: his structure in going through the paces in the in
Speaker 1: the OTAs in mini camp. Hey, he runs well, looks fresh,
Speaker 1: looks big as a receiver, So he's gonna provides He's
Speaker 1: gonna have to provide some comfort to that position. Well,
Speaker 1: there's players of know him on that team. Jim aid
Speaker 1: your names was his roommate in college. You heard Prince
Speaker 1: of Mukamara earlier tonight in our second segment. He said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'll be able to evaluate the offense once Allen Robinson's
Speaker 1: in it because he's he's a number one. That's a
Speaker 1: bold statement. I'm surprised to hear Prince say that. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you bring up a good point because Kevin's
Speaker 1: always been a true X. I think Allen's a true
Speaker 1: X receiver. For the listeners out there, that's you're you're
Speaker 1: split at what's the workload? You know? Are they gonna
Speaker 1: make you know? All Robinson coming back. You gotta believe
Speaker 1: they're not gonna throw him out there and say, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: take every rep so they'll be all to spell each other.
Speaker 1: Why Alan continues to get healthy. So I think that's
Speaker 1: a big part of it as well. You know, earlier
Speaker 1: tonight I had set the table a little bit about
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan to wrap up news conference during mini camp
Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers, talking about his system and
Speaker 1: what it's done for running backs in the system and
Speaker 1: just in general, and somebody said, hey, I asked him
Speaker 1: our defenses have they figured this out yet? And he says, no,
Speaker 1: it's a sound scheme. There are answers to everything that
Speaker 1: a defense tries to take away, and then you have
Speaker 1: to make them pay for taking that away. Do you
Speaker 1: believe that is the case with readoption offenses and these
Speaker 1: RPOs that we're talking about. I think if you call
Speaker 1: a play in the huddle, you go to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and you see the initial lineup of the
Speaker 1: defense and you know that someone's terribly out of position
Speaker 1: to influence him to a bigger, gaping hall, then I
Speaker 1: think you go with it. Yeah, So I think it
Speaker 1: is you're gonna have to break the huddle, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to do a bunch of evaluation. Usually we
Speaker 1: watch quarterbacks and Jim talks about watching the safeties and
Speaker 1: how they moved. To tell you a little bit, I
Speaker 1: think with a run pass option, it's more of looking
Speaker 1: at like the exterior of your team. And if you
Speaker 1: have a defensive man that is good, maybe doesn't anticipate
Speaker 1: the napcount very well, he doesn't have great change in direction,
Speaker 1: and those are the type of evaluations that the offensive
Speaker 1: coaches will make. Yeah, you got to have you know,
Speaker 1: and basically what he was saying, you got to have
Speaker 1: the right guy to run it right. The quarterback has
Speaker 1: to be a threat to run to make them commit
Speaker 1: to stop it, and you got to protect them too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, so you do need a certain like
Speaker 1: you're obviously not going to run that with a quarterback
Speaker 1: like me. You know, I'm not going to be able
Speaker 1: to get to the corner and do all those things
Speaker 1: that Mitchell and some of these athletic quarterbacks are able
Speaker 1: to do. You know. Conversely, it just depends on what
Speaker 1: system you run, you know, because if you've got more
Speaker 1: of a pocket guy, they're just as challenging. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: can audible any play at the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: get you in any play. He wants to that to
Speaker 1: take advantage of what the defense they're presented. So again,
Speaker 1: it takes a certain guy. I don't think you want
Speaker 1: to major in it offensively. I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a if you go golf. It it's a club
Speaker 1: in your bag that you want to use if you're
Speaker 1: able to provide it because you know what about that though,
Speaker 1: that club though, has to be defense. So you, like
Speaker 1: Tom said earlier, the beauty of it is you gotta practice.
Speaker 1: You gotta practice. Yeah, you got to dedicate time to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do. Offensively they do to stop it. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm so yeah so again, And I think that's
Speaker 1: it's nice to have more clubs in your bag when
Speaker 1: you want to pull that certain club when it's when
Speaker 1: it's needed. You know, you're you're not if you don't
Speaker 1: have a sand wedge and you're in your in your bag,
Speaker 1: you know, well, good luck in the sand trap. You
Speaker 1: know I've seen, so you you're beat. It makes you
Speaker 1: more multiple as an offense, which I always think is
Speaker 1: better because it makes the defense have to defend more
Speaker 1: and prepare for more. So it's always good to be more.
Speaker 1: You gotta be you gotta be eleven on all well,
Speaker 1: you know, going back to Notre Dame when we used
Speaker 1: to play the academies in that whole week of practice,
Speaker 1: when we would try to simulate what the academies were on,
Speaker 1: but then our defense and you look at the expressions
Speaker 1: on their face when we're we're you know, blocking them low,
Speaker 1: when they're they're at the advantage because they have sigh
Speaker 1: and strength. But because of the techniques the academies were using,
Speaker 1: air force beat us two years in a role because
Speaker 1: of it. And I think there's similarities to the way
Speaker 1: defensive ends maybe that don't have the flexibility and the
Speaker 1: athleticism and they know they're playing a team that is
Speaker 1: going to have a run pass option. You know they're
Speaker 1: gonna be on high alert. All right, Fellas gonna wrap
Speaker 1: up here shortly, real quick. We want to get the
Speaker 1: position groups each week. This will wrap up the offense.
Speaker 1: Quick thought on the offensive line and where it's at. Well, obviously, Harry,
Speaker 1: he said, the new offensive line coach here, He's a
Speaker 1: guy that constructs an offensive line that's powerful at the
Speaker 1: point of attack, and I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that you're going to be able to see out
Speaker 1: of it, use the power of Jordan Howard, but be
Speaker 1: able to have the athleticism and the offensive line for
Speaker 1: all the pass protections you need for Trubisky. So again,
Speaker 1: Earl Warford a guy that they brought in here. How
Speaker 1: do you say his name? Watford? Watford? You brought him
Speaker 1: in here, number seventy one. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: add a lot of competition to the interior offensive line.
Speaker 1: He's got versatility and without you know, still and a
Speaker 1: little bit unknown about Kyle Long. It's nice that they
Speaker 1: brought Earl in here because I think he can be
Speaker 1: a competitive starter from day one. Yeah, agree with that.
Speaker 1: I like the versatility on the interior of the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think Charles Leno has been nothing but a pleasant
Speaker 1: surprise with how he's performed. So I like how it's
Speaker 1: coming together. I really do. I think all those guys
Speaker 1: again got need to stay healthy. That you know, you
Speaker 1: don't want Cody white Hare to be moving from center
Speaker 1: to guard and bouncing all around. So do think you
Speaker 1: know ed guys like James Daniels in the draft and Watford.
Speaker 1: You know these guys walk, Cush is there. Cush is
Speaker 1: a good player and soul has that you know they have,
Speaker 1: you know guys that could branch out. You've been mentioned
Speaker 1: in his name credit. Well, you know what. I've been
Speaker 1: in the weight room to watch these guys and there's
Speaker 1: a whole different way that they're going about developing strength
Speaker 1: on this team. And I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: keys that's going to help the offensive line. And I
Speaker 1: think Herons Grossue is one of the guys that stands
Speaker 1: out to me the most of this offense that's gained
Speaker 1: the most size and strength because of the program. But
Speaker 1: as we've fold them again, good job Jim Miller, Tom there.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. This week on Inside
Speaker 1: of the Bears, I sit down with Bears new tight
Speaker 1: end Trey Burton at a Keem Hicks faces some tough
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