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Speaker 1: Jeff Johnny Act seated next to my good friend and
Speaker 1: former Chicago Bear quarterback and Sirius XM NFL Radio Moving
Speaker 1: the Chains, co host Jim Miller. Good evening, Tom Fair
Speaker 1: and studio guys. We're talking nothing with football. We're talking
Speaker 1: forty times tonight because it's the first time it's primetime,
Speaker 1: so it's happening as we speak. Yeah, it is. Well,
Speaker 1: you just wonder how the players are going to act, Jeff,
Speaker 1: You know, to you know, players are entertainers from a
Speaker 1: certain aspect of it, and you just you want to
Speaker 1: put on a good show every time you go out there.
Speaker 1: And it isn't in prime time, has never been like
Speaker 1: that before. We're already seen some pretty good forty times
Speaker 1: that Chase Claypool. I mean, he's a legit. He's just
Speaker 1: under or over six fives or just under six five,
Speaker 1: I should say, as a wide receiver out of Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: He busts a four to five four. I mean that
Speaker 1: is incredible for a receiver two thirty two thirty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable when you when you think about a couple
Speaker 1: other good times that are out there. Justin Jefferson from LSU,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver, he helped himself out tonight. Four four
Speaker 1: four is what he's going to run. And excited to
Speaker 1: see the quarterbacks work out tonight and just how they throw.
Speaker 1: We know a couple of guys aren't gonna be throwing
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow obviously from from LSU. But I'm telling you
Speaker 1: man that justin Herbert just to continues to help himself.
Speaker 1: He ran, you know, for him to run a sub
Speaker 1: four seven forty and you watch he's gonna rip it tonight.
Speaker 1: I think Herbert is removing a lot of doubt and
Speaker 1: that is surrounding him at this combine So, Tom Fair,
Speaker 1: do you have the TV on and watching some of
Speaker 1: this stuff in studio? Because there is particular interest obviously
Speaker 1: in what could be a record breaking night for the
Speaker 1: forty time with the receivers. And then the tight end
Speaker 1: position is something of interest of course for Chicago Bears fans,
Speaker 1: because it's possible the Bears will dip into the draft
Speaker 1: for a tight end. I don't know if they will,
Speaker 1: but it's quite possible and some of the times put
Speaker 1: up already by the tight ends, and Claypool himself has
Speaker 1: been asked to work out as a tight end as well. Time.
Speaker 1: So are you watching this stuff with great interest? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Of course I am. Can you hear me, Jeff? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I can hear you? I can hear Okay, Yeah of
Speaker 1: course I am. You know I can. Claypool impressive And
Speaker 1: if he's got the size and the structure and the
Speaker 1: ability to stay within the wide receiver position, I'm not moving.
Speaker 1: They had commit the tight end out of Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: who had a you know, is having a good showing
Speaker 1: for himself. But you know, it's it's kind of weird
Speaker 1: because I message you, you know, hey, what's the most
Speaker 1: productive guy that's ever run the fastest forty time because
Speaker 1: I'm kind of losing interest in the forty because I
Speaker 1: think it's more important what ultimately they developed their specific
Speaker 1: skills into and that's gonna be the judgment day whether
Speaker 1: they can play or not. But again, when you look
Speaker 1: at the size of the wide receiver for position at Claypool,
Speaker 1: I think he made some money for himself by the
Speaker 1: way he ran well. John Ross is the leader of
Speaker 1: all time at four two two and John Cincinnati Bengal
Speaker 1: drafted in the night and the ninth overall pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chris Johnson at four two four at a great career,
Speaker 1: three time pro bowler. Then it starts to dip a
Speaker 1: little bit with some names that people are not going
Speaker 1: to remember, including Jerome Mathis and Drey Archer. And then
Speaker 1: you go down a little bit Stanford route back in
Speaker 1: the day, Champ Bailey, a Hall of Fame career. It's
Speaker 1: hit and miss, as you might expect at that position,
Speaker 1: because it's not how fast you run, it's how fast
Speaker 1: you can carry your bads, and then translate that to
Speaker 1: the football activity, So can you play football and run
Speaker 1: that fast? We'll continue the conversation, we'll be joined by
Speaker 1: the newest Chicago beart Demetrius Harris to enjoy the program
Speaker 1: as well Bears side him. Last week, It's his Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller here in Indianapolis and Tom there in our
Speaker 1: Chicago Score Studios. Tom Whatsu cut your attention so far
Speaker 1: in terms of the conversation regarding the Bears, what you
Speaker 1: heard from genlemanager Ryan Pason, head coach Mattenegge here on
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. You know, I'm glad to hear the word
Speaker 1: competition repeatedly, Jeff, amongst the roster, because I don't want
Speaker 1: anybody concluding the season last year and think, Okay, their
Speaker 1: name is Etch gen Stone in the position they play,
Speaker 1: and when they talk about competition, I think it's really
Speaker 1: motivating to the guys that are at that second tier
Speaker 1: level trying to inch their way up there there, you know,
Speaker 1: to maybe earn a roster spot. So I like the
Speaker 1: competition repeated because it's a factor in the weight room
Speaker 1: in preparation to get ready for the regular season. So
Speaker 1: I was encouraged by Ryan repeating that phrase, but specifically
Speaker 1: the attention gathering Jim the quarterback position. Sure, I think
Speaker 1: you want to bring in legitimate competition. You know, it's
Speaker 1: you know, at every position, because we even saw it
Speaker 1: last year. You know, your starter can go down, your
Speaker 1: backup has got to get in there and play and
Speaker 1: play well and play at a starter level. And you
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about obviously the experience factor. You know,
Speaker 1: can you legitimately draft a young quarterback that's going to
Speaker 1: step in it in challenge. I think we have seen
Speaker 1: it happen thinking last year with Gardner Minshew and how
Speaker 1: it unfolded for the Jacksonville Jaguars and even Doug Morone,
Speaker 1: their head coach, said it's going to be a legitimate
Speaker 1: battle between Nick Foles and Gardner Minshew heading into training camp.
Speaker 1: So whether it's a veteran, I know we've talked to
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, case Keenum there's some veterans out there that
Speaker 1: potentially one you like, the experienced factor that you've got
Speaker 1: a veteran in the building that continue to bring along
Speaker 1: young quarterback in Mitchell Trubisky, but legitimately challenge him and
Speaker 1: would probably be an upgrade to what Chase Daniel brings
Speaker 1: in terms of the competition level and Tom. The conversation
Speaker 1: regarding Mitchell Trubisky certainly was a major topic of the
Speaker 1: session with Ryan and Matt later on with the national
Speaker 1: media at the podium here at the combine. And I
Speaker 1: should also clarify, Jim, I don't know why I forgot
Speaker 1: about this. I think I've been here too long. Tim's
Speaker 1: in Maui, so I keep saying he's in Chicago. So
Speaker 1: Tom's family don't worry. He's safely tucked away on the
Speaker 1: beach front. Sorry, Big Tom. That's all right. But but
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't a surprise the conversation at all,
Speaker 1: because people want to know what's going to happen at
Speaker 1: the position. And frankly, beyond whatever opinions are about Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky and the belief or the lack thereof of people,
Speaker 1: there's a belief in the organization that they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to get this off. It's going to the
Speaker 1: right direction with added pieces and his development. But also
Speaker 1: they don't have anybody on the roster right now, so
Speaker 1: you're going to have to go into free agency to
Speaker 1: get that competition or as you pointed out, and drafted.
Speaker 1: So none of it should be surprising the conversation. No.
Speaker 1: I think the one interesting thing when Met Naggi joined
Speaker 1: us on a serious Sex and NFL radio, I like
Speaker 1: what he had to say about, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: can have too many voices in the quarterbacks here, you know,
Speaker 1: when you got you know here, Bill Lazer's brought on
Speaker 1: board and we're going has moved to the passing coordinator
Speaker 1: and John d Philippo he said, no, he goes, I
Speaker 1: want d Philippo to have that role, and he said,
Speaker 1: now I want to be the supplement to that. And
Speaker 1: he understood that. And I think that'll help Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: as well, that you're not getting too many voices in
Speaker 1: your But to have a savvy veteran I always think
Speaker 1: is important to have a sounding board. You know, I
Speaker 1: look at the quarterbacks, say how how when you look
Speaker 1: at Patrick Mahomes, how he's brought in Alex Smith helped
Speaker 1: him along. Grant it was for a year, and he
Speaker 1: knew when they drafted Patrick Mahomes he was going to
Speaker 1: be moving on. He's a first round draft pick. But
Speaker 1: what they do They went out and got a veteran
Speaker 1: in Chad Henny to bring him along. I bring it
Speaker 1: up about Josh Allen. Do you think about he went
Speaker 1: through his first NFL training camp in OTAs without a
Speaker 1: veteran presence there for the Buffalo Bills, and Sean McDermott
Speaker 1: recognized it went back to a familiar face, Derek Anderson,
Speaker 1: who he knew from time in Carolina, and then they
Speaker 1: brought Derek Anderson on board to help the young Josh
Speaker 1: Allen along. So I do think it's important. I do
Speaker 1: think not only from the veteran experience side of things,
Speaker 1: but a guy who can legitim me challenge push a
Speaker 1: young quarterback to get better moving forward. Time. I even
Speaker 1: think about the Super Bowl ero six, I met many people.
Speaker 1: Forget who was on that roster in terms of the
Speaker 1: quarterback depth chart. You know Brian Greasy, Yeah, okay, you
Speaker 1: know what I do. You know the thing about competition,
Speaker 1: I don't think Mitchell Chubisky has ever shied away from competition,
Speaker 1: and I think competition is good for everybody. I think
Speaker 1: it's very motivating through the course of your career. But
Speaker 1: I still think that is going to walk in the
Speaker 1: building as the number one quarterback and everybody lines up
Speaker 1: behind me day one, rep one, and so I still
Speaker 1: think it's all about how Mitchell Trubisky can improve. Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky don't worry about improve myself better than the guy
Speaker 1: behind me. And you know, to me, I wish there
Speaker 1: was more conversation about Tyler Bray. I don't want him
Speaker 1: to be forgotten about entity because he's got a great
Speaker 1: deal of experience in this system. He does have arm talent,
Speaker 1: and obviously he's had to be developing his game throughout
Speaker 1: the you know, the years of service that he's had
Speaker 1: in this system. So you know, I just don't want
Speaker 1: him to be left behind with no conversation following him. Tom, Tom,
Speaker 1: I know you're watching the XFL quite a bit, so
Speaker 1: you seem to have a great interest in what's going
Speaker 1: on there, as you did with a short lived American
Speaker 1: Alliance of American Football or whatever it was called. Again
Speaker 1: I forgot but and you're always looking at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Any buddy stick out there that you would like to
Speaker 1: maybe take a flyer on. At this point, you know,
Speaker 1: there's two guys. There's I think it's PJ. Walker's his name.
Speaker 1: He's the quarterback for Houston, and then there's the quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Saint Louis team umu or so. I'm not
Speaker 1: really sure how you say it, but this quarterback from
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, he does everything so perfectly. I I you know,
Speaker 1: he's worked hard on his talent, but his passes, you know,
Speaker 1: his passes towards the sideline are direct. There is no
Speaker 1: um you know, jumping or leaping for the receiver catching
Speaker 1: the ball. He's immediately attacking downfield. He's very patient, he's quick,
Speaker 1: he's confident. So I just think that the reps that
Speaker 1: these guys are getting is are is so valuable because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys in the NFL that are
Speaker 1: practice rosters or third team quarterbacks that get no reps
Speaker 1: to improve themselves or impress an audience in front of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially if the CBA passes and it sounds like they'll
Speaker 1: be even less practice time and less in pads is
Speaker 1: what it's going to be so those cross scrimmages are
Speaker 1: going to be huge. But what Time's talking about, I mean,
Speaker 1: those extra repetitions are invaluable. I played over in NFL Europa.
Speaker 1: The Steelers allocated me over there. Unfortunately I broke my wrist,
Speaker 1: but it was still it was more reps. It was
Speaker 1: reading defenses, it was delivering the football, it was adjusting
Speaker 1: in the pocket with live bullets firing around you. And
Speaker 1: I came back that year and ninety five and had
Speaker 1: my you know what was it was only my second
Speaker 1: training camp, but it was it was one of my
Speaker 1: better training camps because I really went from NFL Europa
Speaker 1: straight into training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I
Speaker 1: just felt more growth, more confident, trusting what I was seeing,
Speaker 1: and it was just all those live reps of professional
Speaker 1: football with guys that were competing around the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys we know Kurt Warners has
Speaker 1: come from there, Brad Johnson was with me over there,
Speaker 1: guys that went on and had successful career. So for
Speaker 1: the coaching aspect of it, from the players aspect of it,
Speaker 1: there's there's more jobs, more opportunities, and even for officials
Speaker 1: to get live action calling games I think as big
Speaker 1: as well. All right, time to us change gears a
Speaker 1: little bit away from the combine. Talking a guy who
Speaker 1: has got some time invested in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: now going into his seventh season and newest Chicago Bear
Speaker 1: tight end, one quite familiar with head coach Matt Naggie.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to Bears All Access tight end. Demetrius Harris, Demitris,
Speaker 1: good evening and thanks for joining the show. How you doing.
Speaker 1: Oh so I'm doing fine about the self. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: doing great. We're really knee deep in the in the
Speaker 1: football talk right now here at the combine and excited
Speaker 1: to have you a board. I know you are too,
Speaker 1: because their familiarity breeds success, my man, and you have
Speaker 1: five years in that system in Kansas City with coach
Speaker 1: nag Is that a big, big benefit to you to
Speaker 1: dive right in and help out this football team. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely, because, like you said, I've been in a
Speaker 1: system for five years and and I kind of like
Speaker 1: mastered the playbook there, so I mean I know all
Speaker 1: the ins and outs and where other players are going
Speaker 1: to be or need to be, or the time and
Speaker 1: the like the quarterback timing and stuff. So I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's really good because I know I know the
Speaker 1: system inside out. Hey, Demetrius, your basketball background. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of curious because as we sit here and we watched
Speaker 1: the Combine, you see all these guys that invested four
Speaker 1: years in the football programs or their college or three
Speaker 1: years or whatever, and now they're at the Combine. You
Speaker 1: being a basketball player, how does the NFL gauge your
Speaker 1: interest in rerouting your talents back to the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just you know, that was kind of my dream
Speaker 1: dream of being the NFL. Like that was my first
Speaker 1: love football. So I mean I just went off. I
Speaker 1: got I got signed to Artists State, but my ACT
Speaker 1: score wasn't hot. So I actually took the JUCO around
Speaker 1: and played basketball. JUCO and Arkansas State tried to sign me,
Speaker 1: like after my two years of JUCO, try to sign
Speaker 1: me in the duo scholarship. So I was just I
Speaker 1: just stuck the basketball. So I mean I went up
Speaker 1: to u WM Milwaukee and I played up there, and
Speaker 1: I mean I never knew John Dorsey was coming to
Speaker 1: my games or anything, and he was the player scout
Speaker 1: of Green Bay Packers. So I mean I was just
Speaker 1: playing basketball, and you know, once we and he was
Speaker 1: coming to my games. I never knew, like he used
Speaker 1: to tell me the story, so I mean, I never knew.
Speaker 1: And he just he just called me after my senior year.
Speaker 1: He was just saying, dude, I wanted to try out.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I had like three days to prepare
Speaker 1: for like a pro day for the Chiefs, and it
Speaker 1: was like, I mean, I ain't touched the football and
Speaker 1: since like two thousand and nine at the time, and
Speaker 1: it was like two thousand and thirteen, so I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just it was just a blessing, like a
Speaker 1: blessing journey to be on Demitris. Jim Miller here, Welcome
Speaker 1: to Chicago. And I've always brought him up about it
Speaker 1: being a tight end centric offense. You know, when you
Speaker 1: look at Andy Reid and how the tight end is
Speaker 1: is utilis and you're af this is all that. And
Speaker 1: certainly Kelsey's had had a great career and you've had
Speaker 1: opportunities to get out in the field, like last year
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. You know, they get the injury to joke
Speaker 1: you and you get able to get in there and
Speaker 1: get six games started. Maybe talk about that about just
Speaker 1: an opportunity to potentially showcase your skills as maybe a
Speaker 1: true number one. Oh yeah, I mean I kind of
Speaker 1: had that opportunity last year, but I mean things happened inside,
Speaker 1: like inside the locker room or whatnot, or inside what
Speaker 1: happened the coach they I actually had an opportunity, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I did very well, and I did
Speaker 1: good and I showcase very well, and I just didn't
Speaker 1: get another opportunity to keep playing. And I mean I
Speaker 1: kind of got concussion and was out for a week,
Speaker 1: So I mean that kind of hurting me. But I
Speaker 1: mean I was doing well in Cleveland last year. I
Speaker 1: feel like it was kind of like my best best
Speaker 1: year I didn't have. So I mean, once I get
Speaker 1: the opportunity, that's when I can. I can feel I
Speaker 1: can show everybody and take off, you know, like I
Speaker 1: know I can. So I'm just really want that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Demetrius Harris our guest here in Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score with Jim Miller in Tim there, Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonik with you. We're live at the Combine in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: where workouts are going on right now, and it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of crazy Demetrius. When you think about it, there's
Speaker 1: so many different letters to describe the different tight end positions,
Speaker 1: the why tight end and in this case in the
Speaker 1: say offense, the U tight end, and how they're flexed,
Speaker 1: how they're used. And I'm seeing some of these numbers
Speaker 1: being put up by tight ends these days. It's pretty
Speaker 1: remarkable the type of athleticism now at that position, and
Speaker 1: you realize just how much of a best friend the
Speaker 1: tight end always has been, but now it seems to
Speaker 1: be just more versatile in that regard. With that being said,
Speaker 1: what's the best thing you could do for a quarterback
Speaker 1: like Mitchell Trubisky at your position? I mean, just be
Speaker 1: on the same time, like the just be on the
Speaker 1: same time because I know, like you know, I know
Speaker 1: the offense and I know how it works. So I mean,
Speaker 1: afterla of be reliable and be on time and a
Speaker 1: big reds on target. I mean, I love it being
Speaker 1: a reson So I mean, just a big reson target
Speaker 1: he can count on, you know, just to throw it,
Speaker 1: throw it up or just give me a fifty fifty ball,
Speaker 1: give me a chance and let me go get it.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying To show that ability
Speaker 1: what I got it now haven't really kind of got
Speaker 1: the chance to do it. But I mean I did
Speaker 1: it something, but I just want to have a four
Speaker 1: opportunity to do it. Hey, Demetrius, when you avoided all
Speaker 1: the punishment the four years of college football, do you
Speaker 1: feel even at this stage of your career that your
Speaker 1: body is a little bit fresher than some of the
Speaker 1: other guys that had to absorb that And just with
Speaker 1: the change in the transition of a basketball to the
Speaker 1: physical side of football. I mean at first, like when
Speaker 1: I got in the league that I feel like that
Speaker 1: was advantage of minds, Like when my first two years
Speaker 1: in the league, Like I feel like I had advantage
Speaker 1: of not playing football. But now it's kind of like
Speaker 1: my body is all like everybody else body. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's show it. I mean I go through a full
Speaker 1: season just like everybody else. So I mean going into
Speaker 1: my seventh year, so I feel like, you know, well,
Speaker 1: eighth year, going to my eight years, so I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, my body kind of the same. But like
Speaker 1: beginning of my career, I feel like it was it
Speaker 1: was a difference. Well, you mentioned the comfortability getting back
Speaker 1: in Matt Naggie's offensive offense. You ran in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I guess expectations like give the listeners out there, the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears fans, the type of player that you believe
Speaker 1: you'll be delivering as a Chicago Bear. Just just an energy,
Speaker 1: energy guy and and just a love of have fun
Speaker 1: and just like to win, you know, because I experienced
Speaker 1: some of the NFC Championship and it's nothing like it.
Speaker 1: So I mean I want to I want to get
Speaker 1: back to that position and also get to the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and win. So I mean, I'll just bring that
Speaker 1: energy and bring that fire and show up every day
Speaker 1: and you know, do my job again. We're at tight end.
Speaker 1: Demetrius Harris, the newest Chicago Bear, spent a year with
Speaker 1: the Browns, but fine with Kansas City. But I played
Speaker 1: basketball at u W Milwaukee. I don't know if people
Speaker 1: realize it, but they used to have football there. Remember
Speaker 1: Mike Rhinfeldt, Yeah, Mike Rheinfeldt used to play there, uh,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, at eight year career, was a Houston
Speaker 1: Earlists All Pro safety. But they dropped the football game
Speaker 1: football program in nineteen seventy four. When you were playing hoops,
Speaker 1: I know, you say you still love the game, but
Speaker 1: did you always have an ion basketball? And was the
Speaker 1: NBA ever going to be a possibility? Uh? No, I
Speaker 1: really wouldn't. I had. I had three trials with the Bulls,
Speaker 1: the Bucks and the Timberwolves, and I'm like, I didn't
Speaker 1: take back about that serious. So I'm just like, no,
Speaker 1: So I was actually going overseas, I was about to
Speaker 1: sign with the agents overseas like the like the day
Speaker 1: the day after, like they called like dirty college the
Speaker 1: day before. I was about to sign with an age
Speaker 1: that day for basketball. Wait. Almost definitely didn't have like
Speaker 1: that vision of NBA like I did the NFL. So
Speaker 1: once I heard that took, I took it all right, Demetris,
Speaker 1: We're gonna let you go really appreciate it. We look
Speaker 1: forward to seeing you here on the offseason program gets
Speaker 1: cranked up and welcome to Chicago. Certainly going to um
Speaker 1: you know what Chicago is like. I'm sure you dropped
Speaker 1: in a few times to say hello to the people,
Speaker 1: but a great place to play from football. We're looking
Speaker 1: forward to having you. Yeah, pretty such too. Demetrius Harris
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventies Score with Jim
Speaker 1: and Tom, I'm Jeff. Let's take a break. Well back
Speaker 1: more from the combine after this. Back with you from
Speaker 1: the scouting Combine at the Indianapolis Convention Center, where it's
Speaker 1: much more quieter than it was earlier today when the
Speaker 1: players came running through a totally different setup. Jim Miller here,
Speaker 1: Tom Thair out in Hawaii joined the program, and thanks
Speaker 1: to you for listening tonight. Just her from Demetrius Harris
Speaker 1: before we get into more about him. What do you think, Jim,
Speaker 1: of the new timing. Certainly the morning, first thing in
Speaker 1: the morning, players are talking of the media. They're out
Speaker 1: of here by eleven or noon tomorrow even earlier, and
Speaker 1: that's the primetime show at night. It's very separated. It's
Speaker 1: very different than anyone I've I've been around. I just
Speaker 1: pulling some coaches and scouts in particular. I don't think
Speaker 1: they love it. I don't think they love it. That's
Speaker 1: what I've heard. What have you hear You've talked to
Speaker 1: more of them, obviously, Yeah, No, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe moving forward there'll be less guys
Speaker 1: coming here. We already know John Harbaugh is not here
Speaker 1: from the Baltimore Ravens I think Sean McVeigh didn't even
Speaker 1: send a lot of their staff for the La Rams.
Speaker 1: I think Sean McVeigh was only here for a day
Speaker 1: as well, So maybe they will be watching it more
Speaker 1: on TV because it'll all be broadcasted for him. You know.
Speaker 1: The big part are the informal interviews and the formal interviews.
Speaker 1: They only get forty five guys, so they're less formal interviews.
Speaker 1: Think about it. They used to do a lot more
Speaker 1: than that, so that's been significantly cut down, So it'll
Speaker 1: create more legwork for teams. What do I mean by
Speaker 1: that of maybe who they bring in for their visits.
Speaker 1: Each team gets thirty guys, right, so that maybe change
Speaker 1: moving forward of who they elect to bring in for
Speaker 1: their visits because they don't get as many formal interviews
Speaker 1: as what they have in the past. And the bottom
Speaker 1: line is that it's still about the medical had some
Speaker 1: guy's red flag today. They had the Jones fracture, Thaddeus Moss,
Speaker 1: who's the younger son or as the son I should
Speaker 1: say of Randy Moss lsu tight end, and then he
Speaker 1: had Van Jefferson, who's the son of Sean Jefferson. He's
Speaker 1: a Florida wide receiver. And this guy played well at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. Jefferson lit it up, and he's out
Speaker 1: there playing with a broken foot and he just got
Speaker 1: flagged here for the medical you know. And I think
Speaker 1: it's interesting too, just with the new CBA, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of uncertainty out there, you know, for coaches and
Speaker 1: how it's going to affect free agency. We knew it
Speaker 1: could affect the tags right now. The teams can apply
Speaker 1: both the franchise and the transition tag if they go
Speaker 1: to and this gets approved and it sounds like it'll
Speaker 1: be voted on next week from the player's side of it,
Speaker 1: one of those tags are going to be stripped away.
Speaker 1: So when that opened today, yeah, that that period open today.
Speaker 1: And tight end, I think that position alone, since we're
Speaker 1: talking Chicago Bears, is going to be acted. Because you
Speaker 1: got guys out there like Hunter Henry, I'll expect he's
Speaker 1: going to be tagged. Hooper maybe get the tag for
Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Falcons because why because this is not
Speaker 1: a deep tight end crop. Some did impress today in
Speaker 1: terms of their workouts. Bryson Hopkins. He's the son of
Speaker 1: Brad Hopkins, who's a former Tennessee Titan offensive lineman. He
Speaker 1: ran a four to six four more of an inline guy,
Speaker 1: gets pretty savvy in his route running. Adam Troutman's getting
Speaker 1: a lot of love from Datement Dayton. I think he
Speaker 1: ran a four seven nine and four eight. Oh, but
Speaker 1: he's a former quarterback who converted to tight end. And
Speaker 1: then you mentioned Sullivan also, yeah, Claypool, Like you said,
Speaker 1: some are thinking maybe he is a tight end as well.
Speaker 1: I'm missing somebody. There was one of Oh Commett Comett
Speaker 1: who who Tom brought up the Notre Dame tight end.
Speaker 1: The only thing about him, he's a one year tight end,
Speaker 1: but he is an inline guy and he busted a
Speaker 1: four seven for his size, and he is legit inline
Speaker 1: size in terms of the court or terms of the
Speaker 1: tight end position. Hey, Tim, you check out at all
Speaker 1: the miss Zuri tight end. They call him big Oh Albert,
Speaker 1: Oh big oh Albert o'cua okoy e boonam? Yeah? Is that?
Speaker 1: Did I get that right? Anyway? A four four nine
Speaker 1: today at two hundred and fifty eight pounds, he's uh
Speaker 1: the second fastest in NFL history since two thousand and
Speaker 1: three at that size and weight, behind only Montes sweat.
Speaker 1: It was picked last year and the fastest for a
Speaker 1: tight end since Evan Ingram of the Giants at four
Speaker 1: to four two. I don't know, Tim, if any of
Speaker 1: that impresses you at all, but it does give you
Speaker 1: an insight into a very athletic, big tight end. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what's your true You're gonna try to capture
Speaker 1: the attention of a scout or a coach or a
Speaker 1: team that feels there's some urging certainties about you. And
Speaker 1: if they think one of you are uncertainties is speed.
Speaker 1: And then Alston you bust out of forty. You know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they got you. You know you
Speaker 1: have their attention. Yeah, as much as the punter there
Speaker 1: that put up twenty five reps at two twenty five,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's what is going to be
Speaker 1: the shock number? What's what's gonna be and oppress you
Speaker 1: most to put you on a radar to to even
Speaker 1: consider too more in depth evaluations. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what you do here is you try to open the
Speaker 1: eyes of these scouts in some way, shape or form um.
Speaker 1: I think the combine is still super valuable for the
Speaker 1: players that ultimately want to get in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: I think it's important for the staffs to show some
Speaker 1: respect and be there no matter what time they run
Speaker 1: or you know, do their see. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent time. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the way it's always been, and it
Speaker 1: seemed to be working, then it should be able to
Speaker 1: work now no matter what the format. And I get it.
Speaker 1: You can watch it on tape, you can watch on TV,
Speaker 1: but there's nothing about there's stuff you pick up here well,
Speaker 1: you know, as scouts, as coaches, and as broadcasters as well.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean one again, everything's scoutable. You know,
Speaker 1: how does the guy react in the group when he's
Speaker 1: out there working out? You know, how is he uh
Speaker 1: in the interviews when you ask them certain questions? As disinterested?
Speaker 1: Is you know, is as scripted? What I thought was
Speaker 1: interesting this year pretty much at every position, they've changed
Speaker 1: up the drills a little bit, so players aren't going
Speaker 1: to be as scripted as what they were in the
Speaker 1: past and what they've been able to practice and then
Speaker 1: go out on the field and just hey, I've gone
Speaker 1: through this a million times. That's not going to be
Speaker 1: the case this year in the NFL, didn't release the
Speaker 1: new drills or what they were going to be doing. See,
Speaker 1: I like that Tom weigh in on this because I
Speaker 1: know this is dumb. I'm gonna say it right now.
Speaker 1: You got the Senior Bowl. Would you attend and cover
Speaker 1: every single year gym? And they put pads on, and
Speaker 1: they have practices and what they learn and though especially
Speaker 1: one on ones and whatnot to me is invaluable, but
Speaker 1: when you're an underclassman, you don't have to go through that. Well,
Speaker 1: so you got to challenge him somehow to find out
Speaker 1: what they're all about. And you know, why do they
Speaker 1: have to be in pads and the other ones don't.
Speaker 1: It'll never happen. I know it's dumb, But Tom, what
Speaker 1: do you think about that? Yeah, you know, I think
Speaker 1: whatevery way that you can evaluate these guys to kind
Speaker 1: of see see if they're talented. You know, whether you're
Speaker 1: in pads at the Senior Ball. But you know, I
Speaker 1: like the adrenaline flowing at the combine. You know, when
Speaker 1: I came out of college, you had to go to
Speaker 1: three different combines, but the adrenaline flowed in each one
Speaker 1: of those. I think the NFL has done a nice
Speaker 1: job of simplifying the combine by bringing in in one stadium,
Speaker 1: one event a year and allow all this information to
Speaker 1: transfer to everybody. Yeah, when we come back, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about a ton and not to single them out,
Speaker 1: but it's already gone viral of something that's scoutable, that
Speaker 1: is important, even though without the pads on. Don't let
Speaker 1: me forget it's okay. Well that's Jim Miller, Tom there.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. We're from the Scouting Combine. Time's out
Speaker 1: in Hawaii talking football. This is Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Back with you
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access coming to you from the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Convention Center at the Scouting Combine. Jeff Joniac and Jim
Speaker 1: Miller Tom thare in Hawaii enjoying the Scouting Combine from AFAR,
Speaker 1: talking football. And Jim had a thought about a tight
Speaker 1: end of some interest to him coming into the break.
Speaker 1: So now they're out of the break. What he got? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's about Mitchell Wilcox. And I don't say this
Speaker 1: to single him out. He's a South Florida tight end.
Speaker 1: All right six three little oh just under six four right.
Speaker 1: He played in the East West Shrine game. But here's
Speaker 1: something that you can scout without pads on. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a drill here in the comment they call it the gauntlet. Okay,
Speaker 1: tight end will be run right down the chalk line
Speaker 1: across the width of the field. Okay, and on each
Speaker 1: side you've got quarterback station where one on each side
Speaker 1: will throw you the football. And it's basically one to
Speaker 1: see how straight of a line you can keep and
Speaker 1: how tight you can keep it down the line while
Speaker 1: you're catching these balls reacting one to your right, one
Speaker 1: to your left, and you're going right down the gauntlet
Speaker 1: in between the quarterbacks. So you first you spin around,
Speaker 1: all right. He had four tight ends go ahead of him,
Speaker 1: four four where he could watch that drill, understand what
Speaker 1: was asked of him and what is expected this drill
Speaker 1: after the coach explains it. He got four examples to
Speaker 1: watch it. He comes out of his first break, looks
Speaker 1: at the wrong quarterback, realizes he screwed up, looks at
Speaker 1: the other quarterback, and gets dotted right in the face.
Speaker 1: So if I'm a coach and I'm looking at that,
Speaker 1: or if I'm a GM or a scout and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be you just had four cheat sheets right ahead
Speaker 1: of you go, And how do you screw up the drill?
Speaker 1: Are you not paying attention? What was he doing before
Speaker 1: his opportunity to get up there? Nerves whether it was
Speaker 1: nerves whatever, you know, but just watch the other guys
Speaker 1: in front of you and do what they do. And
Speaker 1: so to me, I mean, there was a lack of
Speaker 1: awareness there, and already everybody's tweeting it out. I think
Speaker 1: it was TMZ just posted out a tight end gets
Speaker 1: dotted in the face, you know, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: an embarrassing moment, which I don't like hearing. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't seeing that. I mean, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: but you do find out everything about somebody. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I think that's important. It's a question to ask. I mean,
Speaker 1: did you did you not see the tight ends go
Speaker 1: ahead of what happened in this drill where it really
Speaker 1: went bad for you, you know, And and now to
Speaker 1: watch him recover the rest of the combine. He came
Speaker 1: back and there was a red zone period, which was
Speaker 1: a new drill where they're making the receivers tap their
Speaker 1: toe for fade stops and fade routes, and he could
Speaker 1: you know, that was the drill right after the Gauntlet
Speaker 1: and it had spiraled out of control for him in
Speaker 1: the Gauntlet and now it kind of carried over into
Speaker 1: the red zone drill. You know. So that's a player
Speaker 1: I'd want to go back and see the rest of
Speaker 1: the workout. Was he able to recover? Can he dig
Speaker 1: himself out? When what Tom and I have always talking about,
Speaker 1: you don't want to get a game to start snowballing,
Speaker 1: where one play leads to a bad series, which leads
Speaker 1: to a bad quarter, which leads to a bad half,
Speaker 1: which could lead to a bad game. And he was
Speaker 1: a guy that was was kind of snowballing for him.
Speaker 1: And I would go back and probably look at his
Speaker 1: workout and see if he was able to recover, could
Speaker 1: he pull himself out of it, and maybe ask him
Speaker 1: in a follow up interview, Hey, what happened here? You
Speaker 1: saw the other tight ends go ahead of you? You know,
Speaker 1: how did you not understand the drill? You know? And
Speaker 1: then just to see his or hear his explanation, what happened?
Speaker 1: All those type of things, And that's a drill. It's
Speaker 1: been out there for years. I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: he probably didn't have an opportunity to prepare for this drill.
Speaker 1: That drill was run here back in ninety four when
Speaker 1: I ran the drill. So it's been around for a
Speaker 1: long time, over twenty years, and it did not go
Speaker 1: well for him. Hey, time, nothing upsets coaches more than
Speaker 1: when you tell them what to do and you have
Speaker 1: it all laid out for you and they keep messing
Speaker 1: it up. Even at training camp. We see that all
Speaker 1: the time, right, I mean, evaluation in the classroom is
Speaker 1: equally as important as evaluation once you get in your
Speaker 1: stance and you put on your cleats. Because the thing
Speaker 1: about it is is not everybody learns at the same pace,
Speaker 1: and every room you're teaching, however, they all have to
Speaker 1: retain the information properly and make sure they can they
Speaker 1: can use it at a second's notice when they're on
Speaker 1: the field and you have those changes. So all of
Speaker 1: these drills that they go through, are you paying attention?
Speaker 1: Are you of filtering the information to understand what we
Speaker 1: need out of you in order to you know, to
Speaker 1: judge you properly. But you know, for so this tight end,
Speaker 1: you almost think that is pro day. This is a
Speaker 1: drill that he should run in front of the scouts,
Speaker 1: just to show everybody that he understands what they were
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish in the combine. Yeah, it's always it's
Speaker 1: always scary though, because there's nothing like a first impression.
Speaker 1: You know, you rarely get a second chance to make
Speaker 1: a first impression. But in this league it is forgiving
Speaker 1: at times, and you know, hopefully that kid will bounce.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example for that. Orlando Brown, third
Speaker 1: round draft pick of the Baltimore Ravens. He's the son
Speaker 1: of Zeus. Obviously, Ozzie Nusson drafted his dad. He self
Speaker 1: admittedly probably had one of the worst combines ever ever,
Speaker 1: But he's the planet theory. There's only so many guys
Speaker 1: on this planet that are that are that big, you know.
Speaker 1: So he and I'll give him credit because after that
Speaker 1: the combine was over and he's been with Baltimore I
Speaker 1: think two three years now is what he's going on.
Speaker 1: And he said, no, how he goes, I did horrible,
Speaker 1: came back his pro day, improved, his bench improved. Everything
Speaker 1: gets drafted by the Ravens. He's a pro bowler. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of guys that have start here and bust
Speaker 1: it out, obviously, so there's the other side of that coin.
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Speaker 1: Jeff and Jim and Tom there with you. Jalen Rigger,
Speaker 1: a TCU wide receiver of note who could be one
Speaker 1: of those four two four three forty guys. Eleven six
Speaker 1: broad jump at a forty two inch vertical jump. He
Speaker 1: called it out too. He did, Pat and I interviewed
Speaker 1: him the day before he was supposed to work out
Speaker 1: and dependent on his bench press. Normally, the explosion number
Speaker 1: you're looking for is seventy or over. That tells your
Speaker 1: explosive players. So what's your bench press plus your broad
Speaker 1: jump plus your vertical And he had a He said
Speaker 1: he'll do a forty two inch vertical and he did.
Speaker 1: And he said, I'll get close to twelve foot broad jump,
Speaker 1: and he did eleven six. So I'll have to go
Speaker 1: back and now add in what he did for his
Speaker 1: bench I guarantee you he's probably close to that seventy number. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I know, you know, some folks don't care about
Speaker 1: all this stuff, but it's it's just happening now, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fire it your away. Jalen Hurts at the
Speaker 1: official cord at the NFL dot Com is a four
Speaker 1: five forty for the Oklahoma quarterback Justin Herbert officially four
Speaker 1: six nine. Jacob Eason four eight three. Yeah, which that
Speaker 1: to me, that's a good number for Herbert for as
Speaker 1: big as he is. You know, he's six six, he's
Speaker 1: got a big army. He proved that down at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. And I give him credit because you know,
Speaker 1: we know some other guys aren't working out. Obviously Joe
Speaker 1: Burrows is not working out. But Herbert said, no, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come there. I'm gonna do everything. Uh. Some questioned, uh,
Speaker 1: you know as leadership and an old statement. How fierce
Speaker 1: of a competitor he is. He bawled out at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, and I think he's stacking it up here.
Speaker 1: That's a good time for a quarterback of his size
Speaker 1: to move like that. And I guarantee you he will
Speaker 1: rip the football tonight on National TV. All right, Tom,
Speaker 1: I go back to de Matris. Oh, I'm sorry, Well,
Speaker 1: I got I got one question for you. So there's
Speaker 1: there was some attention pay that people wanted Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: to run as a wide receiver. So if he goes
Speaker 1: out in the wide receiver line and he runs a
Speaker 1: four or five forty, I think, you know that's why
Speaker 1: he said, Look, I'm a quarterback. That's what I'm gonna play.
Speaker 1: And four or five forty is good for a quarterback,
Speaker 1: but four five forty is not great for a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting that Jalen Hurts is is convicted in
Speaker 1: his talent as a quarterback and he should be, you know.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson said that as well. Some of the thought
Speaker 1: that he would play another position national football. He said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a quarterback. I've always been a quarterback and that's
Speaker 1: what I want to be at the next level. Trace
Speaker 1: McSorley last year, he was drafted by Baltimore coming out
Speaker 1: of Penn State. A lot of people want to work
Speaker 1: him out at the safety position, and even Baltimore said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna utilize him. We're going to utize him as
Speaker 1: a slot receiver. We will try him at safety, but
Speaker 1: he ended up because Griffin got hurt in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Trace played really well at the quarterback spot. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are looking at Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: like that. So let's say if they if they don't
Speaker 1: work out a deal with Griffin, maybe Baltimore is a
Speaker 1: landing spot for Jalen Hurts because if you're gonna have
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks like that, you probably want three of them.
Speaker 1: M Kyler Murray is as another guy. He's been in
Speaker 1: that spread, wide open offense. Cliff Kingsbury runs it and
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts because he played so well for Oklahoma last
Speaker 1: year and how he threw the football. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna do just fine. And there's some teams out there
Speaker 1: that are going to value that at the quarterback. What
Speaker 1: if Kyler Murray goes down, they don't want their offense
Speaker 1: to change. His legs are a big part of it.
Speaker 1: Maybe Jalen Hurts as an answer out there in the desert.
Speaker 1: And I like the fact he's played in big games.
Speaker 1: So he's twenty two are he's twenty six and two
Speaker 1: as a starter at Alabama and he went twelve what
Speaker 1: was the twelve and two last year at Oklahoma? Hey,
Speaker 1: he's a winner. Hey. Switching gears to Demetrius Harris once again,
Speaker 1: because he talked about the red zone, Tom, and that's
Speaker 1: obviously tight ends can own the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: they can own the scene, but the red zone for
Speaker 1: me is the pay dirt portion of it for a
Speaker 1: tight end. And while he's only had eleven catches in
Speaker 1: the red zone, is creative him have been for touchdown.
Speaker 1: So you know, you think about a guy that can
Speaker 1: post up, he can also be in line blocker for
Speaker 1: you and help you out. Those are values that we
Speaker 1: thought we were getting out of the tight end group
Speaker 1: that didn't materialize in twenty nineteen. Well, you know, that
Speaker 1: is the one position on the field that you can
Speaker 1: use basketball skills of the most because body positioning in
Speaker 1: the small window of a red zone sometimes is what
Speaker 1: gets you open. And that was one of the questions
Speaker 1: that I had interested in asking Demetrius about how is
Speaker 1: basketball skills can benefit him from the ten yard line.
Speaker 1: In all right, Tim, we're gonna talk offensive line and
Speaker 1: running game when we come back. Adams Dozinski is here
Speaker 1: along with Sean Anderson helping out the show today producing it.
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Speaker 1: and Jim Miller here in Indie. Tom is in Hawaii
Speaker 1: breaking it downtom did anything about what Ryan Pace and
Speaker 1: Mattnege discussed on Tuesday spark your interest in terms of
Speaker 1: the run game, the offense line, and just who'll be
Speaker 1: in charge of it. It sounds like Bill Laser will
Speaker 1: be coordinating the offense obviously in that position, overseeing the
Speaker 1: work of the offensive line coach A one Castillo and
Speaker 1: the run game in general. Well, you know, yeah, I
Speaker 1: like that right, or that Matt already's already has a
Speaker 1: relationship and a familiarity with Juanca Steo because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of new voices, a lot of new bodies, a
Speaker 1: lot of new football minds in that room, and I
Speaker 1: think you have one that is such an important facet
Speaker 1: of your and the entire review offense. And you're talking
Speaker 1: about the offensive line play. Wan's got plenty of experiences,
Speaker 1: He's seen every defense that he's possibly gonna face. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think as is an important in terms
Speaker 1: of what they need to be successful at this year
Speaker 1: for the whole team to improve, because I thought it
Speaker 1: was an element that really held him back. So I
Speaker 1: don't think it's necessarily going to be a redesign of
Speaker 1: the running game. I'm just gonna you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit of better understanding by young running back in David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: better quarterback played by Mitchell Trubiskian. But it all starts
Speaker 1: up front. So I like what Matt's talking about in
Speaker 1: terms of improvement and also having an attitude inside that
Speaker 1: room with so much knowledge that you know, respecting the
Speaker 1: input from everybody. How about what you're looking for and
Speaker 1: if you are going to go into the draft and
Speaker 1: draft an offensive lineman, maybe you won't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But in terms of you say, the running game, you
Speaker 1: don't suspect will change in terms of scheme and style.
Speaker 1: How about the substance upfront? What would you like to
Speaker 1: see happen? You know, just more bread and butter, Because
Speaker 1: I think no matter where you play, if you're going
Speaker 1: into a hostile environment or you're playing at home, you
Speaker 1: always have a situation or three during the course of
Speaker 1: the game that you have the gain yards no matter
Speaker 1: what defense they're playing, no matter what the crowd noise
Speaker 1: is contributing. So it's just you know, to you know,
Speaker 1: start with the fundamental basics of the running game. Be
Speaker 1: great at that, and then everything after that will improve.
Speaker 1: So you know, you have to start with the little things,
Speaker 1: perfect those and just keep building that tree. Is it
Speaker 1: better for Mitch at this point to keep Cody at
Speaker 1: center and have James Daniels at guard's It seemed to
Speaker 1: complement the situation a little bit better. It definitely helped out,
Speaker 1: you know, whether that's just comfortability with Mitch and being
Speaker 1: with Cody and reuniting those two again in terms of
Speaker 1: making the calls and just the comfortability of it seemed
Speaker 1: like Mitch wanted to go in that direction. It didn't.
Speaker 1: I thought it benefited the offense towards the back end
Speaker 1: of the season. You know, like anything else, the run
Speaker 1: game's got to be better. I think everybody knows that
Speaker 1: they got to get more production. So yeah, I want
Speaker 1: tough guys like like Tom saying, I want some maallers
Speaker 1: that are out. There's a really good tackle draft. A
Speaker 1: lot of these tackles can play guard as well. They
Speaker 1: have that flexibility like again, if you were to tap
Speaker 1: eye again. Worf's is a very solid player on the
Speaker 1: has a wrestling background. He's he won't be there for
Speaker 1: the Bears, no, I know. But there's there's some guys
Speaker 1: that are mixed in here that let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: because and Tom you're gonna watch him on all these workouts,
Speaker 1: is in my imagination or some of these guys a
Speaker 1: lot bigger than what we've seen in here. I mean,
Speaker 1: start with Beton for one, and Beckton is George You
Speaker 1: ever see that movie Monsters Versus Aliens. I've called him.
Speaker 1: His name is Gigantor. Guy's got a seven foot wingspan,
Speaker 1: He's three hundred and sixty four pounds and he can move.
Speaker 1: He can. I think he'll be the first tackle taken
Speaker 1: if you interview that kid. I'm saying giants at four.
Speaker 1: He's impressive, man, he is impressive. But the other guys
Speaker 1: are are impressive as well. You know, obviously Andrews getting
Speaker 1: a lot of love at the tackle position. But Jedrick
Speaker 1: Wills is a solid player from Alabama. Beckton that we
Speaker 1: talked about, Josh Jones, the Houston tackle is getting a
Speaker 1: lot of love. He's got very light feet and a
Speaker 1: powerful punch, and the tackles are really he does admit too,
Speaker 1: you know. They said, hey, you know, and Tom, you're
Speaker 1: gonna love hearing this, because any offensive linement says, hey,
Speaker 1: they got a lot of work to do. I don't
Speaker 1: care if they're ten years in the league or twenty.
Speaker 1: But he says, yeah, he goes, I got a lot
Speaker 1: to learn, you know. But his athleticism and the size
Speaker 1: and being a maller is only as good as your
Speaker 1: athleticism with it, right, Tom, Yeah, exactly, Jeff, And I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up because you know, Jeff, a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when we when the Bears went
Speaker 1: out and they practice for a week against Denver, I
Speaker 1: remember standing there on one on ones and watching von
Speaker 1: Miller and I'm watching this guy and I don't care
Speaker 1: the size of the offensive tackle he's playing against. If
Speaker 1: they can't move or bend to Von Miller's strengths, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna block him anyway. So it's you can admire
Speaker 1: the size of some of these prospects, but you gotta see, Jim.
Speaker 1: You talk about foot movement, you gotta look at knee. Ben,
Speaker 1: you gotta look at our extension and their ability to
Speaker 1: focus in punch properly, because if you get a guy
Speaker 1: out there who's six nine that can't move, von Miller
Speaker 1: will have six sacks by the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's always you gotta respect the competition
Speaker 1: you're gonna be playing against. Also, all right, we'd like
Speaker 1: to break this down in great detail, but time has
Speaker 1: run out. Tom appreciate it. I hope you're enjoying Hawaii
Speaker 1: of course, yes, simple as that. And Jim, I know
Speaker 1: you still got a lot of work to do tomorrow
Speaker 1: here at the Combine. Always good to see you running
Speaker 1: around Indianapolis. You're a man about town and you're a
Speaker 1: man about this serious XM Radio studios here, and thank
Speaker 1: you for the serious XM for letting us use the
Speaker 1: studios today. You've been here all day, every day. It's
Speaker 1: been it's been fun watching your work. Absolutely, Jeff, I
Speaker 1: love it, man. You know that's football. Let's go, all
Speaker 1: right for Jim Miller toom there. I'm Jeff, Joni K.
Speaker 1: Thanks Adams Sazinski and Sean Anderson. Thanks to our guest
Speaker 1: Demetrius Harrison. Thanks most of all, to you for listening.
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