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Bears All Access is 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.000 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:31.000 Physical Therapy and Art Van Furniture and Mattress and a pleasant, 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.919 good evening everybody, and welcome into a combine version of 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.280 Bears All Access presented by IGS Energy, live from Indianapolis. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.360 Jeff Johnny Act seated next to my good friend and 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:46.600 former Chicago Bear quarterback and Sirius XM NFL Radio Moving 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.360 the Chains, co host Jim Miller. Good evening, Tom Fair 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.440 and studio guys. We're talking nothing with football. We're talking 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.480 forty times tonight because it's the first time it's primetime, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.920 so it's happening as we speak. Yeah, it is. Well, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.640 you just wonder how the players are going to act, Jeff, 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.440 You know, to you know, players are entertainers from a 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.280 certain aspect of it, and you just you want to 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.000 put on a good show every time you go out there. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.600 And it isn't in prime time, has never been like 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.200 that before. We're already seen some pretty good forty times 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.800 that Chase Claypool. I mean, he's a legit. He's just 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.959 under or over six fives or just under six five, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.920 I should say, as a wide receiver out of Notre Dame. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.240 He busts a four to five four. I mean that 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.520 is incredible for a receiver two thirty two thirty eight. Yeah, 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:28.840 it's unbelievable when you when you think about a couple 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.120 other good times that are out there. Justin Jefferson from LSU, 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.959 the wide receiver, he helped himself out tonight. Four four 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.480 four is what he's going to run. And excited to 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.720 see the quarterbacks work out tonight and just how they throw. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.200 We know a couple of guys aren't gonna be throwing 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.440 Joe Burrow obviously from from LSU. But I'm telling you 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.640 man that justin Herbert just to continues to help himself. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.000 He ran, you know, for him to run a sub 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.000 four seven forty and you watch he's gonna rip it tonight. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.440 I think Herbert is removing a lot of doubt and 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.320 that is surrounding him at this combine So, Tom Fair, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.800 do you have the TV on and watching some of 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.680 this stuff in studio? Because there is particular interest obviously 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.040 in what could be a record breaking night for the 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.040 forty time with the receivers. And then the tight end 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.200 position is something of interest of course for Chicago Bears fans, 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.680 because it's possible the Bears will dip into the draft 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.720 for a tight end. I don't know if they will, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.720 but it's quite possible and some of the times put 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.000 up already by the tight ends, and Claypool himself has 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.399 been asked to work out as a tight end as well. Time. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.000 So are you watching this stuff with great interest? Yeah? 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.119 Of course I am. Can you hear me, Jeff? Oh yeah, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.680 I can hear you? I can hear Okay, Yeah of 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.839 course I am. You know I can. Claypool impressive And 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.240 if he's got the size and the structure and the 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.400 ability to stay within the wide receiver position, I'm not moving. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.040 They had commit the tight end out of Notre Dame, 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.120 who had a you know, is having a good showing 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.200 for himself. But you know, it's it's kind of weird 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.400 because I message you, you know, hey, what's the most 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.480 productive guy that's ever run the fastest forty time because 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.080 I'm kind of losing interest in the forty because I 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.760 think it's more important what ultimately they developed their specific 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.160 skills into and that's gonna be the judgment day whether 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.040 they can play or not. But again, when you look 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.320 at the size of the wide receiver for position at Claypool, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.560 I think he made some money for himself by the 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.440 way he ran well. John Ross is the leader of 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.640 all time at four two two and John Cincinnati Bengal 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.320 drafted in the night and the ninth overall pick. Yeah, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.920 Chris Johnson at four two four at a great career, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.280 three time pro bowler. Then it starts to dip a 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.160 little bit with some names that people are not going 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.080 to remember, including Jerome Mathis and Drey Archer. And then 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.040 you go down a little bit Stanford route back in 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.400 the day, Champ Bailey, a Hall of Fame career. It's 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.720 hit and miss, as you might expect at that position, 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.960 because it's not how fast you run, it's how fast 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.320 you can carry your bads, and then translate that to 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.440 the football activity, So can you play football and run 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.080 that fast? We'll continue the conversation, we'll be joined by 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.240 the newest Chicago beart Demetrius Harris to enjoy the program 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.920 as well Bears side him. Last week, It's his Bears 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.800 All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.440 Welcome back to Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.200 Radio six seventy. This Score brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.640 a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.120 and home warranty products to over one million customers across 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.279 the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff, Jonny, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.480 Jim Miller here in Indianapolis and Tom there in our 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.640 Chicago Score Studios. Tom Whatsu cut your attention so far 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.000 in terms of the conversation regarding the Bears, what you 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.280 heard from genlemanager Ryan Pason, head coach Mattenegge here on 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.920 Tuesday morning. You know, I'm glad to hear the word 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.040 competition repeatedly, Jeff, amongst the roster, because I don't want 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.120 anybody concluding the season last year and think, Okay, their 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.960 name is Etch gen Stone in the position they play, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.880 and when they talk about competition, I think it's really 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.159 motivating to the guys that are at that second tier 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.839 level trying to inch their way up there there, you know, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.880 to maybe earn a roster spot. So I like the 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.320 competition repeated because it's a factor in the weight room 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.159 in preparation to get ready for the regular season. So 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.880 I was encouraged by Ryan repeating that phrase, but specifically 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.240 the attention gathering Jim the quarterback position. Sure, I think 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.880 you want to bring in legitimate competition. You know, it's 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.960 you know, at every position, because we even saw it 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.080 last year. You know, your starter can go down, your 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:28.640 backup has got to get in there and play and 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.320 play well and play at a starter level. And you 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.039 you know, we've talked about obviously the experience factor. You know, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.200 can you legitimately draft a young quarterback that's going to 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.360 step in it in challenge. I think we have seen 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.920 it happen thinking last year with Gardner Minshew and how 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.279 it unfolded for the Jacksonville Jaguars and even Doug Morone, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.360 their head coach, said it's going to be a legitimate 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.040 battle between Nick Foles and Gardner Minshew heading into training camp. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.480 So whether it's a veteran, I know we've talked to 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:58.080 Andy Dalton, case Keenum there's some veterans out there that 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.560 potentially one you like, the experienced factor that you've got 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.960 a veteran in the building that continue to bring along 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.160 young quarterback in Mitchell Trubisky, but legitimately challenge him and 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.520 would probably be an upgrade to what Chase Daniel brings 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.960 in terms of the competition level and Tom. The conversation 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.359 regarding Mitchell Trubisky certainly was a major topic of the 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.280 session with Ryan and Matt later on with the national 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.320 media at the podium here at the combine. And I 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.040 should also clarify, Jim, I don't know why I forgot 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.559 about this. I think I've been here too long. Tim's 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.440 in Maui, so I keep saying he's in Chicago. So 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.960 Tom's family don't worry. He's safely tucked away on the 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:41.479 beach front. Sorry, Big Tom. That's all right. But but 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.880 you know, it wasn't a surprise the conversation at all, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.160 because people want to know what's going to happen at 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.760 the position. And frankly, beyond whatever opinions are about Mitchell 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.920 Trubisky and the belief or the lack thereof of people, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.320 there's a belief in the organization that they're going to 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.520 be able to get this off. It's going to the 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.279 right direction with added pieces and his development. But also 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.000 they don't have anybody on the roster right now, so 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.160 you're going to have to go into free agency to 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.800 get that competition or as you pointed out, and drafted. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.280 So none of it should be surprising the conversation. No. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.120 I think the one interesting thing when Met Naggi joined 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.480 us on a serious Sex and NFL radio, I like 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.360 what he had to say about, you know, sometimes you 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.320 can have too many voices in the quarterbacks here, you know, 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.800 when you got you know here, Bill Lazer's brought on 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.600 board and we're going has moved to the passing coordinator 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.000 and John d Philippo he said, no, he goes, I 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.920 want d Philippo to have that role, and he said, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.280 now I want to be the supplement to that. And 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.640 he understood that. And I think that'll help Mitchell Trubisky 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.040 as well, that you're not getting too many voices in 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.320 your But to have a savvy veteran I always think 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.160 is important to have a sounding board. You know, I 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.200 look at the quarterbacks, say how how when you look 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.240 at Patrick Mahomes, how he's brought in Alex Smith helped 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.080 him along. Grant it was for a year, and he 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.920 knew when they drafted Patrick Mahomes he was going to 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.400 be moving on. He's a first round draft pick. But 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.440 what they do They went out and got a veteran 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.880 in Chad Henny to bring him along. I bring it 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.000 up about Josh Allen. Do you think about he went 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.920 through his first NFL training camp in OTAs without a 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.640 veteran presence there for the Buffalo Bills, and Sean McDermott 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.680 recognized it went back to a familiar face, Derek Anderson, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.400 who he knew from time in Carolina, and then they 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.800 brought Derek Anderson on board to help the young Josh 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.080 Allen along. So I do think it's important. I do 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.960 think not only from the veteran experience side of things, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.040 but a guy who can legitim me challenge push a 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.640 young quarterback to get better moving forward. Time. I even 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.160 think about the Super Bowl ero six, I met many people. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.520 Forget who was on that roster in terms of the 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:47.600 quarterback depth chart. You know Brian Greasy, Yeah, okay, you 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.439 know what I do. You know the thing about competition, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.520 I don't think Mitchell Chubisky has ever shied away from competition, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.000 and I think competition is good for everybody. I think 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.760 it's very motivating through the course of your career. But 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.880 I still think that is going to walk in the 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.960 building as the number one quarterback and everybody lines up 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.320 behind me day one, rep one, and so I still 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.880 think it's all about how Mitchell Trubisky can improve. Mitchell 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.560 Trubisky don't worry about improve myself better than the guy 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.319 behind me. And you know, to me, I wish there 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.880 was more conversation about Tyler Bray. I don't want him 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.320 to be forgotten about entity because he's got a great 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:30.560 deal of experience in this system. He does have arm talent, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.040 and obviously he's had to be developing his game throughout 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.959 the you know, the years of service that he's had 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.080 in this system. So you know, I just don't want 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.760 him to be left behind with no conversation following him. Tom, Tom, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.280 I know you're watching the XFL quite a bit, so 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.280 you seem to have a great interest in what's going 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.680 on there, as you did with a short lived American 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.680 Alliance of American Football or whatever it was called. Again 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.559 I forgot but and you're always looking at the quarterback position. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.920 Any buddy stick out there that you would like to 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.640 maybe take a flyer on. At this point, you know, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.719 there's two guys. There's I think it's PJ. Walker's his name. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.240 He's the quarterback for Houston, and then there's the quarterback 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.960 for the Saint Louis team umu or so. I'm not 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.319 really sure how you say it, but this quarterback from 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:24.640 Saint Louis, he does everything so perfectly. I I you know, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.160 he's worked hard on his talent, but his passes, you know, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.360 his passes towards the sideline are direct. There is no 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.000 um you know, jumping or leaping for the receiver catching 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.679 the ball. He's immediately attacking downfield. He's very patient, he's quick, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.360 he's confident. So I just think that the reps that 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.800 these guys are getting is are is so valuable because 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.000 there's a lot of guys in the NFL that are 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.360 practice rosters or third team quarterbacks that get no reps 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.640 to improve themselves or impress an audience in front of them. Yeah, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.000 especially if the CBA passes and it sounds like they'll 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.520 be even less practice time and less in pads is 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.280 what it's going to be so those cross scrimmages are 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.559 going to be huge. But what Time's talking about, I mean, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.319 those extra repetitions are invaluable. I played over in NFL Europa. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.760 The Steelers allocated me over there. Unfortunately I broke my wrist, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.360 but it was still it was more reps. It was 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.559 reading defenses, it was delivering the football, it was adjusting 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.559 in the pocket with live bullets firing around you. And 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.319 I came back that year and ninety five and had 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.520 my you know what was it was only my second 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.400 training camp, but it was it was one of my 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.800 better training camps because I really went from NFL Europa 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.920 straight into training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.600 just felt more growth, more confident, trusting what I was seeing, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.679 and it was just all those live reps of professional 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.000 football with guys that were competing around the National Football League, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.840 and a lot of guys we know Kurt Warners has 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.440 come from there, Brad Johnson was with me over there, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.440 guys that went on and had successful career. So for 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.520 the coaching aspect of it, from the players aspect of it, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.559 there's there's more jobs, more opportunities, and even for officials 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.559 to get live action calling games I think as big 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.120 as well. All right, time to us change gears a 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.160 little bit away from the combine. Talking a guy who 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.880 has got some time invested in the National Football League, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.920 now going into his seventh season and newest Chicago Bear 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.320 tight end, one quite familiar with head coach Matt Naggie. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.119 Please welcome to Bears All Access tight end. Demetrius Harris, Demitris, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.160 good evening and thanks for joining the show. How you doing. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.840 Oh so I'm doing fine about the self. Yeah, we're 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.240 doing great. We're really knee deep in the in the 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.760 football talk right now here at the combine and excited 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.680 to have you a board. I know you are too, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.319 because their familiarity breeds success, my man, and you have 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.199 five years in that system in Kansas City with coach 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.559 nag Is that a big, big benefit to you to 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.400 dive right in and help out this football team. Oh yeah, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.400 most definitely, because, like you said, I've been in a 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.760 system for five years and and I kind of like 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.839 mastered the playbook there, so I mean I know all 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.080 the ins and outs and where other players are going 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:08.880 to be or need to be, or the time and 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.640 the like the quarterback timing and stuff. So I mean 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.040 that's that's really good because I know I know the 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:19.559 system inside out. Hey, Demetrius, your basketball background. I'm kind 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.560 of curious because as we sit here and we watched 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.240 the Combine, you see all these guys that invested four 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.319 years in the football programs or their college or three 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.920 years or whatever, and now they're at the Combine. You 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.400 being a basketball player, how does the NFL gauge your 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:39.640 interest in rerouting your talents back to the NFL. I mean, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.720 I just you know, that was kind of my dream 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.240 dream of being the NFL. Like that was my first 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.480 love football. So I mean I just went off. I 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.040 got I got signed to Artists State, but my ACT 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.120 score wasn't hot. So I actually took the JUCO around 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.520 and played basketball. JUCO and Arkansas State tried to sign me, 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.240 like after my two years of JUCO, try to sign 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.880 me in the duo scholarship. So I was just I 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.040 just stuck the basketball. So I mean I went up 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.560 to u WM Milwaukee and I played up there, and 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.560 I mean I never knew John Dorsey was coming to 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.560 my games or anything, and he was the player scout 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.520 of Green Bay Packers. So I mean I was just 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.480 playing basketball, and you know, once we and he was 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.080 coming to my games. I never knew, like he used 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.480 to tell me the story, so I mean, I never knew. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.400 And he just he just called me after my senior year. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.200 He was just saying, dude, I wanted to try out. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.200 So I mean, I had like three days to prepare 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.400 for like a pro day for the Chiefs, and it 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.120 was like, I mean, I ain't touched the football and 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.080 since like two thousand and nine at the time, and 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.520 it was like two thousand and thirteen, so I mean, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.800 it was just it was just a blessing, like a 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:51.120 blessing journey to be on Demitris. Jim Miller here, Welcome 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.360 to Chicago. And I've always brought him up about it 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.000 being a tight end centric offense. You know, when you 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.280 look at Andy Reid and how the tight end is 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.880 is utilis and you're af this is all that. And 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.320 certainly Kelsey's had had a great career and you've had 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.400 opportunities to get out in the field, like last year 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.680 in Cleveland. You know, they get the injury to joke 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.600 you and you get able to get in there and 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.080 get six games started. Maybe talk about that about just 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.960 an opportunity to potentially showcase your skills as maybe a 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.760 true number one. Oh yeah, I mean I kind of 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.160 had that opportunity last year, but I mean things happened inside, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.440 like inside the locker room or whatnot, or inside what 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.640 happened the coach they I actually had an opportunity, and 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.000 I feel like I did very well, and I did 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.800 good and I showcase very well, and I just didn't 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.920 get another opportunity to keep playing. And I mean I 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.640 kind of got concussion and was out for a week, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.160 So I mean that kind of hurting me. But I 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.120 mean I was doing well in Cleveland last year. I 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.200 feel like it was kind of like my best best 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.720 year I didn't have. So I mean, once I get 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.160 the opportunity, that's when I can. I can feel I 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.440 can show everybody and take off, you know, like I 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.520 know I can. So I'm just really want that opportunity. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.200 Demetrius Harris our guest here in Chicago Sports Radio six 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.360 seventy the Score with Jim Miller in Tim there, Jeff 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.480 Jonik with you. We're live at the Combine in Indianapolis 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.440 where workouts are going on right now, and it's it's 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.240 kind of crazy Demetrius. When you think about it, there's 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.480 so many different letters to describe the different tight end positions, 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:21.920 the why tight end and in this case in the 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.840 say offense, the U tight end, and how they're flexed, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.040 how they're used. And I'm seeing some of these numbers 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.120 being put up by tight ends these days. It's pretty 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.400 remarkable the type of athleticism now at that position, and 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.120 you realize just how much of a best friend the 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.080 tight end always has been, but now it seems to 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.200 be just more versatile in that regard. With that being said, 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.600 what's the best thing you could do for a quarterback 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.880 like Mitchell Trubisky at your position? I mean, just be 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.480 on the same time, like the just be on the 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.000 same time because I know, like you know, I know 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.400 the offense and I know how it works. So I mean, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.520 afterla of be reliable and be on time and a 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.440 big reds on target. I mean, I love it being 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.240 a reson So I mean, just a big reson target 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:08.919 he can count on, you know, just to throw it, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.400 throw it up or just give me a fifty fifty ball, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:12.840 give me a chance and let me go get it. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.600 And you know what I'm saying To show that ability 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.960 what I got it now haven't really kind of got 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.640 the chance to do it. But I mean I did 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.920 it something, but I just want to have a four 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.919 opportunity to do it. Hey, Demetrius, when you avoided all 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.439 the punishment the four years of college football, do you 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.920 feel even at this stage of your career that your 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.879 body is a little bit fresher than some of the 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.960 other guys that had to absorb that And just with 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.639 the change in the transition of a basketball to the 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:43.000 physical side of football. I mean at first, like when 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.840 I got in the league that I feel like that 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.160 was advantage of minds, Like when my first two years 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.560 in the league, Like I feel like I had advantage 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.080 of not playing football. But now it's kind of like 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.440 my body is all like everybody else body. I mean, 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.000 it's show it. I mean I go through a full 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.560 season just like everybody else. So I mean going into 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.600 my seventh year, so I feel like, you know, well, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.600 eighth year, going to my eight years, so I feel like, 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.720 you know, my body kind of the same. But like 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.360 beginning of my career, I feel like it was it 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.240 was a difference. Well, you mentioned the comfortability getting back 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.120 in Matt Naggie's offensive offense. You ran in Kansas City. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.840 I guess expectations like give the listeners out there, the 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.199 Chicago Bears fans, the type of player that you believe 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:30.080 you'll be delivering as a Chicago Bear. Just just an energy, 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.879 energy guy and and just a love of have fun 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.520 and just like to win, you know, because I experienced 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.199 some of the NFC Championship and it's nothing like it. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.160 So I mean I want to I want to get 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.760 back to that position and also get to the super 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.000 Bowl and win. So I mean, I'll just bring that 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.000 energy and bring that fire and show up every day 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.320 and you know, do my job again. We're at tight end. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.320 Demetrius Harris, the newest Chicago Bear, spent a year with 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.880 the Browns, but fine with Kansas City. But I played 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.119 basketball at u W Milwaukee. I don't know if people 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.679 realize it, but they used to have football there. Remember 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.560 Mike Rhinfeldt, Yeah, Mike Rheinfeldt used to play there, uh, 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.320 nineteen eighty three, at eight year career, was a Houston 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.000 Earlists All Pro safety. But they dropped the football game 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.480 football program in nineteen seventy four. When you were playing hoops, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.080 I know, you say you still love the game, but 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.239 did you always have an ion basketball? And was the 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.280 NBA ever going to be a possibility? Uh? No, I 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.480 really wouldn't. I had. I had three trials with the Bulls, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.720 the Bucks and the Timberwolves, and I'm like, I didn't 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.199 take back about that serious. So I'm just like, no, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.119 So I was actually going overseas, I was about to 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.680 sign with the agents overseas like the like the day 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.399 the day after, like they called like dirty college the 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.160 day before. I was about to sign with an age 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:53.040 that day for basketball. Wait. Almost definitely didn't have like 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.119 that vision of NBA like I did the NFL. So 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:02.360 once I heard that took, I took it all right, Demetris, 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.679 We're gonna let you go really appreciate it. We look 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.800 forward to seeing you here on the offseason program gets 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.720 cranked up and welcome to Chicago. Certainly going to um 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.280 you know what Chicago is like. I'm sure you dropped 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.359 in a few times to say hello to the people, 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.480