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Speaker 1: seventy to score. I'm Jeff Joniac along the broadcast partner
Speaker 1: from Bears Radio News Radio seven eighty and one oh
Speaker 1: five point nine FMWVBM. Mister Tom Thair. Tom, the clock
Speaker 1: is ticking. Drafts just twenty two days away. Getting ready? Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I think this has been an amazing offseason, Jeff,
Speaker 1: because of the way the season concluded last year, all
Speaker 1: the changes for this upcoming season, all of the attention
Speaker 1: that's being paid by one position. I mean, if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for Pits that tight end out of Florida, we
Speaker 1: may not be talking about anybody else but quarterbacks and frankly,
Speaker 1: no offense. To our next guest, Jim Miller, I am
Speaker 1: a little tired of it. I want to see who
Speaker 1: else are we talking about in this draft. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you know not every team is going to pick a
Speaker 1: quarterback in the first round. Well, listen, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a ton of conversation about tackles, my friend, because I
Speaker 1: think that's an area of the Bears will likely focus
Speaker 1: on it at some point early in the draft, whether
Speaker 1: it be first round or second round. And so I
Speaker 1: think you'll get your fill to tackle talking. Just for you, Tom,
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you a little present tonight. We are
Speaker 1: going to talk tackles in our next segment exclusively. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I hopefully you've done a little homework, and I
Speaker 1: know my man Jim Miller from Serious Sex Admit Radio
Speaker 1: has been doing his homework. Jim, are you doing Welcome
Speaker 1: in once again our special guest here tonight. You got
Speaker 1: your tackle already this was We're gonna do quarterbacks too.
Speaker 1: But I mean, are you ready to talk a little
Speaker 1: tack Yeah? I think, Hey, we're gonna give Tom but
Speaker 1: we're gonna create a buffet here where he can just
Speaker 1: pick any tackle that he wants. They come in all
Speaker 1: shapes and sizes, So here'll be plenty fed because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of tackles that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people are underrating in this upcoming draft. You know
Speaker 1: what we have to do right off the top here though,
Speaker 1: And we talk about a lot of people in the
Speaker 1: building at House Hall, and one guy is so beloved
Speaker 1: in that building that we gotta wish a happy ninetieth
Speaker 1: birthday to the one and only, the legend Clyde Emrick.
Speaker 1: I know, Tom, he's one of your closest friends and
Speaker 1: good deceies, in great health and ready to return to
Speaker 1: the building once the green light is given for everybody,
Speaker 1: and a man who just loves what he does, and
Speaker 1: he's always around that rate room and he's made a
Speaker 1: big difference in so many players lives over the course
Speaker 1: of his career, the first strength and conditioning coach in
Speaker 1: NFL history. And Tom, if you could put into some words,
Speaker 1: I know Bred Biggs did a tremendous job and the
Speaker 1: Tribune on an article for his ninetieth birthday, and you
Speaker 1: were heavily quoted in that article, but just in a
Speaker 1: real meaningful way, explain what he means to you. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy in that building no matter if you're
Speaker 1: a player, if you're a broadcaster, or if you're an
Speaker 1: ex has been you never you never avoid eye contact
Speaker 1: from Clyde Emeric because he's a guy throughout your career,
Speaker 1: whether you're a first round draft choice or a seventh
Speaker 1: round draft choice, he pays equal attention to you. He
Speaker 1: cares as much about your career no matter where you
Speaker 1: were drafted or if you're a free agent. He's the
Speaker 1: type of guy that wants you to improve yourself, not
Speaker 1: only for right now, but he wants to improve yourself
Speaker 1: for the future. And so you know, I I there's
Speaker 1: so many sayings that I'm reminded of when I when
Speaker 1: I think of Clyde Emeric, and they they're all meaningful.
Speaker 1: And he had He's had a tremendous impact on hundreds
Speaker 1: of players lives and hundreds of people lives inside that
Speaker 1: facility because, like I said, he is a constant encourager.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jeff, if you have a bad broadcast,
Speaker 1: you don't want to look Matt Maggie in the eye.
Speaker 1: If you have a bad game, you don't want to
Speaker 1: look your position coach in the eye. You never shy
Speaker 1: away from eye contact with Clyde Emrick, because it's always
Speaker 1: going to be a positive reflection. Well, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the one of the coach Jim Miller is that
Speaker 1: tom always tells me, and Clyde's told me too, you
Speaker 1: can't shoot a cannon from a canoe. So maybe he
Speaker 1: told you that once or twice in the weight room. Well,
Speaker 1: what were your experiences with him back when you play
Speaker 1: with the Bears. Yeah, I agree with Tommy. He was
Speaker 1: always positive and one you knew from Clyde because he's
Speaker 1: been with the Chicago Bears for so long. He's seen everything.
Speaker 1: He's seen the ups and downs of seasons. He's seen
Speaker 1: the hot streaks, the losing streaks, how you work yourself
Speaker 1: out of a hole when when maybe things are going
Speaker 1: so well, the adjustments you got to make. I think
Speaker 1: he was always he could always answer all your questions, Hey, Clyde,
Speaker 1: I'm looking to do this in the weight room to
Speaker 1: improve a certain area. And if he'd have just great
Speaker 1: suggestions and really knowledge that he was just going to
Speaker 1: bless and bestow upon you to be better. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, like we all say, he's a great teammate.
Speaker 1: I think for for Clyde, he really touched every player,
Speaker 1: every person in the building the least through through my experience,
Speaker 1: is always in a positive way that Tom had mentioned.
Speaker 1: So it's great role model for everybody to look up to,
Speaker 1: and certainly with not only his off the field exploits
Speaker 1: and what he's done in weightlifting and all that, but
Speaker 1: really was a benefit to everybody inside the entire building
Speaker 1: at hallis all. Jim, what kind of weightlifting did you do?
Speaker 1: I was pretty aggressive in there, at least I believe
Speaker 1: I was, and and Clyde was always there to give
Speaker 1: me some tips, you know, whether it's you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't go in there to squat as much as I
Speaker 1: could or bench as much as I could, but certainly
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to take the pounding and have
Speaker 1: the pliability for the position of quarterback. And I think
Speaker 1: Clyde was very helpful for me and that from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: and actually got me into the pool work and getting
Speaker 1: more a pool for cardio and things like that, and
Speaker 1: more dumbbell work that definitely strengthened my shoulder for areas
Speaker 1: of concern that I had concerning my shoulder. If you
Speaker 1: didn't love the weight room as a player, could Clyde
Speaker 1: bring that love of weight training to you if you're
Speaker 1: one of those guys, yeah, of course, And that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You know, he had such a strong attachment
Speaker 1: to no matter where you were, where you were drafted,
Speaker 1: what type of strength you came to the Bears with,
Speaker 1: you were always going to lead stronger. But it is
Speaker 1: always something he instilled an attitude in you that weightlifting
Speaker 1: and is going to be an important part of your
Speaker 1: life the afterlife of football. He always used to say,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to think about the big picture
Speaker 1: and that was the entirety of your life. Do what
Speaker 1: you can do to become a better, more durable football
Speaker 1: player during your time in the Bears weight room. But
Speaker 1: when you leave the Bears, when people see you, let
Speaker 1: them know that you are an ex football player. Allow
Speaker 1: them to see what you have learned in the weight
Speaker 1: room at the Bears facility and carry it to that
Speaker 1: afterlife and through every one of my nieces and nephews.
Speaker 1: We've talked about weightlifting. In every bit of instructions I've
Speaker 1: ever given another person, it's the instructions that I've learned
Speaker 1: from Clyde Emrick and it's still is as important today
Speaker 1: as it was thirty years ago, and it will be
Speaker 1: that important thirty years from now. No, it's interesting too
Speaker 1: because at age ninety he's still lifting weights, right right,
Speaker 1: We shall be so lucky. And what does he always
Speaker 1: tell Jeff Joniac, Look, you're not a good student, not
Speaker 1: having tough time with you? Now he said, well, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not coachable. That's yes, there you go,
Speaker 1: there you got coachable. Him and Dave Hendrickson from the
Speaker 1: Bears football video operations. I always ask me, Jim, you
Speaker 1: always ask are you coachable today? And some days yes,
Speaker 1: and some days now yeah. Well I can see that
Speaker 1: from both of you and Dave. You guys kind of
Speaker 1: go to the beat of a different drum. And so
Speaker 1: I'm sure Clyde in terms of it all his discipline
Speaker 1: in his Olympic training, I'm sure that wouldn't have floated
Speaker 1: too well with his a weightlifting team that he was
Speaker 1: a part of. Hey, there's still hope for me, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. All right. As we look at what's going
Speaker 1: on this week, I guess you know, we take a
Speaker 1: broad view of things here in our first segment, But
Speaker 1: the Sam Donald trade and what that means to the
Speaker 1: top of the draft Jim Miller, Well, I would say this.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at Carolina to make that
Speaker 1: move to trade for Sam Darnold, it tells you where
Speaker 1: they feel about where the quarterbacks are in this draft.
Speaker 1: Because if we feel that Trevor Lawrence is going one,
Speaker 1: obviously the Jets feel good about about a quarterback at
Speaker 1: number two and that's kind of resetting their football team.
Speaker 1: And then of course San Francisco trading up to number three,
Speaker 1: it tells you that they're taking a quarterback. Now Carol
Speaker 1: sitting at the eighth spot, they feel that they can't
Speaker 1: move with anybody to get up to get to number four.
Speaker 1: Potentially Atlanta's at number four, that would be a trade
Speaker 1: in division, and it tells you that they probably grade
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold higher than what their fourth and fifth quarterbacks are.
Speaker 1: So I think it was very telling what Carolina did.
Speaker 1: It's Jim Miller, I'm Jeff Johnny ac Alongo with Tom Fair.
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Speaker 1: up to a better world. Jeff johnny Ac along with
Speaker 1: Tom Bair and Big Jim Miller from Serious XM NFL
Speaker 1: Radio moving the chains with his partner there. You guys
Speaker 1: do mock drafts every week. Who do you have the
Speaker 1: Bears selecting in around one at number twenty? Should they
Speaker 1: stay there? Well? If if he keeps on going up
Speaker 1: the draft boards, and I do think he is, I
Speaker 1: had him taking the South Carolina cornerback j C. Horn,
Speaker 1: But man, his numbers were terrific on his pro day.
Speaker 1: He's got the NFL bloodlines with his father, who's Joe Former,
Speaker 1: a New Orleans Saint wide receiver, Joe Horn, And I
Speaker 1: guess all his interviews have just been through the roof.
Speaker 1: So I think the way the corners are going right now,
Speaker 1: probably it could be j C. Horn. One Patrick Surtan
Speaker 1: out of Alabama. Two Caleb Farley out of Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1: You don't know about him because he's got a medical
Speaker 1: He had a dyssectomy surgery with his back. Supposedly he's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, but teams are gonna have to get
Speaker 1: all the medical on him. And so a player like
Speaker 1: him could be dropping a little bit, but man, boy,
Speaker 1: that JC horn sure looks like a surefire hot draft pick.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a you know, a no you
Speaker 1: know for him, he's not. There's not any really bad
Speaker 1: marks on him at all. So he's a pure football player,
Speaker 1: all right and self proclaimed pretty well, maybe not self proclaimed,
Speaker 1: but known around the SEC. Is a pretty good trash talker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he can do it. He learned from the
Speaker 1: best his father. We got a lot of father son
Speaker 1: duels that are that are going to be coming in
Speaker 1: this draft. I just talked to Lorenz O'Neill, remember the
Speaker 1: fullback for Baltimore for so many years. His son's a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle at Purdue. But you're going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of sons whose fathers are former NFL players, So
Speaker 1: a lot of bloodlines in this draft. T'm are you
Speaker 1: okay with the Bears going with a corner in round
Speaker 1: one if necessary? I am? You know, the two offensive edges,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at offensive tackle and cornerback. I think cornerback
Speaker 1: is an important role. But you know, I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see where is Trey Roberson. What is already Burns going
Speaker 1: to contribute because when we had small snippets to see
Speaker 1: these guys last year. They look like they belonged in
Speaker 1: an NFL uniform and they have true fond So if they,
Speaker 1: you know, get an evaluation through you know, the weight
Speaker 1: room and through some on field work that these guys
Speaker 1: can come in here and compete. I think both positions
Speaker 1: are desperate for starting caliber players and depth. And so
Speaker 1: when you look at the eight or ten offensive tackles
Speaker 1: that are valuable to you, and Jim mentions the you know,
Speaker 1: the top two guys are not going to fall to
Speaker 1: the Bears at twenty. But if they identify another corner
Speaker 1: out there that Ryan and Matt thinks as a media contributor,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't shy away from that position as well as
Speaker 1: offensive tackle. All right, let's start breaking down some of
Speaker 1: these tackles. We'll start with Jim, because Pennay Sewell out
Speaker 1: of Oregon appears to be the top dog with maybe
Speaker 1: some strong consideration from the local crowd here and Rashaun
Speaker 1: Slater of Northwestern a lot of love for him as well.
Speaker 1: Maybe different players. A little bit Sewell, a little bit thicker,
Speaker 1: a little bit heavier, but by all accounts, just an
Speaker 1: animal there at tackle. Yeah, he looks to be the
Speaker 1: real deal. Penney Sewell and I talked to Paul Alexander,
Speaker 1: who he's a former NFL offensive line coach for thirty years.
Speaker 1: He actually has worked with Penney Sewell out of Oregon.
Speaker 1: Basically six foot four or almost six five, let's just
Speaker 1: put it there. Three hundred and thirty one pounds, did
Speaker 1: his forty and just over five flat thirty three quarter
Speaker 1: inch arms, so he got plenty of arm length there,
Speaker 1: ten and three eights hands, so he passes that drill
Speaker 1: as well. So, but he knocked his pro day everything
Speaker 1: out of the park. He showed his acceleration, his punch.
Speaker 1: He's got a vicious punch that time can talk about.
Speaker 1: But he's just a big, powerful quick man, has high
Speaker 1: production grades from from his standpoint. He's smart on the
Speaker 1: video and he's advanced technically. With the really strong punch
Speaker 1: that I mentioned. He looks like a sheer, you know,
Speaker 1: just a sheer draft pick. Probably the top tackle in
Speaker 1: this draft. Then you'd have to talk about Slater. One
Speaker 1: guy we're going to get into is Christian Darasa because
Speaker 1: he is really flying up the draft boards and we'll
Speaker 1: see where he falls. Maybe it's a person the Bears,
Speaker 1: if they do think about tackle and what Time's talk about,
Speaker 1: maybe they could trade up a couple of spots Land,
Speaker 1: a good tackle and Christian Darassau, who also looks like
Speaker 1: a camp this prospect. You know, one thing about Sewel.
Speaker 1: One thing about Sewel is if you're going to have
Speaker 1: those heavy hands they talk about that big punch, you
Speaker 1: have to have the feet that match up with it,
Speaker 1: because the one of the things that can really destroy
Speaker 1: your confidence. If you go for that punch and you
Speaker 1: miss and you don't have the feet to recover, that's
Speaker 1: going to get you in a lot of trouble. At
Speaker 1: the NFL level. Maybe in college you can recover a
Speaker 1: little bit. But when they talk about the you know,
Speaker 1: the best for a gap scheme, the best for a
Speaker 1: zone scheme, you know, Sewel has got the ability and
Speaker 1: the tangibles that you need for every one of them.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm always concerned about, is how does
Speaker 1: your feet recover from a miss with the hands? And
Speaker 1: that's the one thing I liked most about him at
Speaker 1: this level is his tenaciousness and his ability for his
Speaker 1: feet to keep up. Is it more challenging for us
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in to find the type of
Speaker 1: tackle that would best suit whatever the Bears offensive scheme
Speaker 1: ultimately is going to be. Because it's clearly been tweaked,
Speaker 1: it's it's been adjusted the collaboration of everybody involved with
Speaker 1: those offensive coaches. They're coming up with their new plan
Speaker 1: here for twenty twenty one to have the Bears offense,
Speaker 1: whatever that might look like. Does that does it make
Speaker 1: it a little hard to find guys that could potentially
Speaker 1: plug and play. Certainly at right tackle is one of
Speaker 1: the key spots. Yeah, go ahead, Jim, Oh, well, no,
Speaker 1: I think there are a couple of guys that are
Speaker 1: plug and play candidates here. And you look at their
Speaker 1: coaching background from college, what was their coach's influence on
Speaker 1: their career. If you look at Pat Fitzgerald and you
Speaker 1: look at what he means of the Northwestern program, and
Speaker 1: then you go and you look at Slater, you look
Speaker 1: at his ability to move, how bendable he is out
Speaker 1: of his stance, how intelligent he is at a really
Speaker 1: fast paced system. If they want to go at that
Speaker 1: high octane out there Northwestern. I really like everything that
Speaker 1: he's been able to develop over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: He's gotten bigger and stronger each year. But I do think,
Speaker 1: you know, the influence because we're we we see Pat
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald more than maybe we see the position coach of
Speaker 1: Oregon or the head coach of Oregon. So I like
Speaker 1: the influences that the coaches have put into the minds
Speaker 1: of these guys as their time and development. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there's you know, every guy is going to fit
Speaker 1: a scheme differently because you know, you look at Mayfield,
Speaker 1: who's strictly a right tack a lot of University of Michigan.
Speaker 1: You know they're going to run a little bit more
Speaker 1: power football from that Stamptook point you got. You know,
Speaker 1: you got big centers, guards like a Creed Humphrey who
Speaker 1: he's more of a gap system center, and things like
Speaker 1: like that. Slater, I agree with Tom is probably the
Speaker 1: more athletic type that if you're in a wide open
Speaker 1: offense that truly really does a lot of RPOs and
Speaker 1: things like that. I think is going to have a
Speaker 1: perfect fit in the NFL. And we see more teams
Speaker 1: that are doing that. Other guys that I'm going to
Speaker 1: bring up, like Christian Darisaw from Virginia Tech. This guy
Speaker 1: is probably a can't miss prospect. That's what everybody thinks
Speaker 1: about him. So I wouldn't be shocked if even if
Speaker 1: he goes ahead of Slater. But he's six six three
Speaker 1: or two out of Virginia Tech. He ran a four
Speaker 1: eight five forty yard dash for that size, So this
Speaker 1: is a big, athletic guy who can move. Had a
Speaker 1: ridiculous pro dad that I mentioned. He had a ten
Speaker 1: foot four broad jump. He's got thirty three inch arms,
Speaker 1: so he's just got a great frame. NFL tackle just
Speaker 1: looks like the prototypical tackle, very productive player. His athleticisms
Speaker 1: off the charge, and he only had six pressures and
Speaker 1: no sacks in twenty games that he performed in so
Speaker 1: excellent speed in jumping skills as well. So he's got
Speaker 1: the body and athleticism, all the things that Tom is
Speaker 1: talking about in terms of the left tackle position. And
Speaker 1: there's plenty other guys like him in this draft that
Speaker 1: probably won't be taken till round two. You know one
Speaker 1: thing about this, Jeff, is because you and I have
Speaker 1: talked about it a lot, is that if we're going
Speaker 1: to identify an offensive tackle, that's what I want identified.
Speaker 1: I don't want a tweener. I don't want a gap guy.
Speaker 1: I don't want a guy that say, wow, if he
Speaker 1: fails at tackle, he can play guard. The Bears have
Speaker 1: enough centers and guards, and shall just give me an
Speaker 1: offensive tackle. That's what I'm evaluating, pure and simple, all right.
Speaker 1: It's as important a position as any in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, and it's worthy of another segment. We're gonna
Speaker 1: pick up a tackle talk with Jim and time after
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Speaker 1: Joniac As we break down the tackle position. There's so
Speaker 1: many apparently available in the upper rounds of this year's draft.
Speaker 1: Jim and you were amplifying or about to anyway about
Speaker 1: something Tom said about wanting tackle. You get a tackle
Speaker 1: guy who's played his entire career tackle, not a guy
Speaker 1: that maybe will you know, project as a tackle after
Speaker 1: being a really good guard or vice versa. And I'm
Speaker 1: in line with that as well. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about it? Yeah, well again I think yeah, depending on
Speaker 1: what you're asking them to do. I do think this
Speaker 1: is a really good tackle draft. That we mentioned guys
Speaker 1: who are wide open and guys who are more in
Speaker 1: the power mode. So as we know, they all come
Speaker 1: in different shapes and sizes, but legitimately, you know, just prototypical,
Speaker 1: you want your left tackle to typically be probably about
Speaker 1: six to five and above. You know, that's really the
Speaker 1: starting point. They've got to have long ms, got to
Speaker 1: have quick feet that Tom mentioned, got to have the punch.
Speaker 1: You know, you want him to be the sole quote
Speaker 1: unquote Walter Jones, the dancing bear that has that type
Speaker 1: of athleticism. And there are guys in this draft that
Speaker 1: really check all those boxes. I think I think Sam
Speaker 1: Cosmi of Texas, he checks that box. Six six three,
Speaker 1: fourteen pounds, He's got thirty four inch arms, four eight
Speaker 1: seven in his forty. So here's a guy close to
Speaker 1: three twenty who's running close to a four to eight
Speaker 1: in terms of his forty thirty six on his bench press.
Speaker 1: So this is a strong, big left tackle. Other guys
Speaker 1: that are going to be talked about Tevin Jenkins from
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, very similar from that standpoint in Sam Cosmi.
Speaker 1: Probably the best athlete overall in this draft at left
Speaker 1: tackle is Spencer Brown out of Northern Iowa. And look
Speaker 1: look about to his numbers. This guy's over six eight,
Speaker 1: so he's almost like big Cab Williams. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's almost a six nine guy four eight in his
Speaker 1: forty at almost six nine six nine three kN droll
Speaker 1: with his That's ridiculous for a big guy to have
Speaker 1: the change of direction that he has four to three
Speaker 1: in terms of his short shuttle nine nine in terms
Speaker 1: of his broad jump, twenty nine in terms of his
Speaker 1: bench press. How about this for Spencer Brown, no football
Speaker 1: play boy, He had no football in twenty twenty. He
Speaker 1: had a baseball, basketball. Truly really good athlete from his
Speaker 1: standpoint growing up in terms of all of his numbers.
Speaker 1: But he's tall, long, athletic, Like I said, Miss twenty
Speaker 1: twenty because it was canceled, but he's been working the
Speaker 1: whole time. Last tidbit, I'll tell you about how great
Speaker 1: of an athlete Spencer Brown is out of Northern Iowa.
Speaker 1: Out of all the tackles that have come out since
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, since nineteen eighty seven, now that's over
Speaker 1: one thousand, one hundred and thirty four tackles, he rated
Speaker 1: number one. Number one is what he rates in in
Speaker 1: terms of athletic ability. That's red relative is called the
Speaker 1: Relative Athletic Score raz RAS. He comes out number one
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty seven. Wow, that's a mouthful right there.
Speaker 1: And I was going to bring him up, as you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe a guy like this can sneak into
Speaker 1: the top three rounds of the draft coming out of
Speaker 1: Northern Iowa. But you know, he even neglected some of
Speaker 1: the big numbers thirty four inch arms, eighty two and
Speaker 1: three eight wingspan, massive hands. But Tommy, all that being said,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who played defensive line in eight
Speaker 1: man prep football and then moved to offensive line for
Speaker 1: the first time in his life at UNI. So there's
Speaker 1: not there's still this. Is this a guy that you
Speaker 1: can mold and shape or you know, do you He
Speaker 1: clearly has the feet, he clearly has the athleticism, but
Speaker 1: needs work on technique. You would think, well, so when
Speaker 1: when I see Brown, I think he's one of the
Speaker 1: best big man athletes I've ever seen. And you think
Speaker 1: of the way he can run, you think of his skills,
Speaker 1: you think of his athleticism. But you know, Jeff, I've
Speaker 1: had an NFL GM tell me he doesn't like tackles
Speaker 1: this tall because he doesn't believe they can win and
Speaker 1: gain and earn the leverage game throughout an attire contest.
Speaker 1: So now, if he plays at a six nine frame
Speaker 1: late in the game against a good pass rusher, the
Speaker 1: difficulty of getting his punch in the right position, not
Speaker 1: illegal hands of the face, making sure he can stay
Speaker 1: in that athletic position is really challengeable. So when you said, yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy used to be a defensive lineman, Hey, here's
Speaker 1: a guy that I may think about putting back a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. I know it sounds Hey, listen, they've taken
Speaker 1: defensive tackles and moved him to offensive line. I love
Speaker 1: this guy, but I would like to see a simulated
Speaker 1: game where he's running and see what his bendability is
Speaker 1: in the latter part of the game and in an
Speaker 1: exhausting two minuture role. In those types of evaluations that
Speaker 1: you have to you have to evaluate them by because
Speaker 1: it's not only watching a guy run a forty or
Speaker 1: going through the bench press. It's about how do you
Speaker 1: play with that frame when you're super fatigued well, And
Speaker 1: the big part of it is when you're that tall,
Speaker 1: you're always going to have questions about, you know, the
Speaker 1: pad level and how how you're going to generate power
Speaker 1: with that kind of frame. So that's that's along been
Speaker 1: a discussion point in the National Football League with big,
Speaker 1: big tackles. I'm gonna touch on Tevin Jenkins again for
Speaker 1: both you and Jim. Jim sounds like he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of nasty to him and I always kind of
Speaker 1: crack gravitate to those types of players at certain positions
Speaker 1: in the NFL because they become in the long term.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're alpha, the guy that's gonna say, hey, come
Speaker 1: follow me, and that could be the center, could be
Speaker 1: the guard, could be the tackle. But you know, is
Speaker 1: is there something like that in your opinions that is
Speaker 1: needed on the Bears offensive line right now? We got.
Speaker 1: We got a great selection of interior players, but you
Speaker 1: need a mentality that says, hey, I'm not taking anybody's
Speaker 1: you know, you know what, and I'm going to take
Speaker 1: care of business here on the offensive line. It sounds
Speaker 1: like this guy might be that type of player. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At the Oklahoma State he does. He plays with a
Speaker 1: lot of attitude and you know, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be a big talker. I think
Speaker 1: you talk with your play. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: Tevin Jenkins does. I think that's what say, a protos
Speaker 1: typical tackle and probably the best tackle in football Trent
Speaker 1: Williams does. You know, when he talks, it's like eff hunting.
Speaker 1: You know, if people listen. He talks very rarely, but
Speaker 1: people listening just lets people know, Yeah, I'm the guy
Speaker 1: that really is the best in the National Football League
Speaker 1: and my standard is the standard. And I think Jenkins
Speaker 1: does offer that type of you know, mauling attitude where
Speaker 1: he's respected just due to his tough play and he
Speaker 1: really doesn't have to tell anybody about it. He just
Speaker 1: shows your week in and week out. You know, one
Speaker 1: thing about Tevin Jenkins too, is when he comes because
Speaker 1: because all the measurables. He doesn't have great length, he doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know, have that ideal past the eye test for
Speaker 1: a tackle. You know, can he move you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can move in the guard. He's got everything. You know,
Speaker 1: he's super physical, physical, he finishes blocks really well. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, I want a guy that's coming here knowing
Speaker 1: that he is going to be a career offensive tackle
Speaker 1: and if that's what, you know, the brass and with
Speaker 1: any team that it feels they're going to pick him,
Speaker 1: if they believe that they're bringing in this ten year tackle,
Speaker 1: then then great. Again. I love the way he plays.
Speaker 1: I love his nastiness. He's a big, beefy guy. But again,
Speaker 1: I want a guy that when he lines up first
Speaker 1: day of OTAs or training camp, that he's in that
Speaker 1: position to stay and play as another guy Jim with
Speaker 1: thirty six reps and another sub five forty. Not the
Speaker 1: debt matter, you know, I know that doesn't matter, but
Speaker 1: it's he opted out in November, so he said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get ready for the draft. So a number
Speaker 1: of these guys were talking about in the end for
Speaker 1: this particular situation with a pandemic, these guys built their
Speaker 1: bodies and they got trained a lot earlier than they
Speaker 1: normally would. Do you think that's going to pay dividends
Speaker 1: or are these numbers just maybe because we're not at
Speaker 1: the combine and everything is the same. Are they a
Speaker 1: little Are they going to be a little bit better
Speaker 1: than what they really are? Yeah? No, it's a good
Speaker 1: point because, yeah, they've certainly been training for all these
Speaker 1: things for their pro day, and their numbers could be inflated.
Speaker 1: But for some guys that opted out, this has actually
Speaker 1: been good for them because, like here we were just
Speaker 1: talking about Spencer Brown from Northern Iowa. I mentioned all
Speaker 1: he's been doing is working with former NFL offensive line
Speaker 1: coach Paul Alexander the entire time. So Paul, he's actually
Speaker 1: been getting good coaching what a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: have been doing it in it's for all these guys,
Speaker 1: no matter what facility they're at, they're all going to
Speaker 1: these performance centers and they bring in an offensive line
Speaker 1: coach formerly of the NFL or currently in terms of
Speaker 1: the preps and things that they do to show these
Speaker 1: players the techniques that they're going to be asked to
Speaker 1: do at the next level. So I do think they're
Speaker 1: getting coached up from that standpoint. So they're all going
Speaker 1: to benefit. And I think for these guys, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be big, strong, and as you said, a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys can move because they've trained that way here
Speaker 1: this entire offseason and through the pandemic. All right, Jim,
Speaker 1: we gotta take our break as we rumble through Bears
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Speaker 1: This week. We're going over a bunch of different aspects
Speaker 1: of the draft. With just three weeks to go, we
Speaker 1: focused on tacos. Now we're going to go back to
Speaker 1: Jim's Baileywick. We gotta do it every show. We got
Speaker 1: to talk quarterbacks, and so with the trade by San Francisco,
Speaker 1: am I to believe all the national experts that are
Speaker 1: analyzing this, that the forty nine ers making this move
Speaker 1: to draft Mac Jones. Is this what you're hearing everybody?
Speaker 1: That's what everybody assumes. I'm not so sure of that,
Speaker 1: you know, because when you look at you know, and
Speaker 1: I think he checks all the boxes and all those
Speaker 1: things that I think he could play right away. But
Speaker 1: it sounds like they are, you know, they want to
Speaker 1: keep Sam Darnold or excuse me, Jimmy Garoppolo. They want
Speaker 1: to keep Jimmy Garoppolo. They've been throwing them out there
Speaker 1: for a first round pick. Nobody's going to give a
Speaker 1: first round pick for Jimmy Garoppolo. So everybody assumes it's
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. I personally think it would be Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: I think he's more athletic. I think he's got a
Speaker 1: higher ceiling than Mac Jones from that standpoint, and he
Speaker 1: offers more athleticism. Again, when you look at Kyle Shannon,
Speaker 1: he's coached both sides. He's coached the pocket passer and
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, which really when you look at Mac Jones,
Speaker 1: that's that's what he is. But he typically likes the
Speaker 1: more athletic guys. Even going back to his Dad drafting
Speaker 1: John Elway. You look when they drafted Robert Griffin when
Speaker 1: Kyle was the offensive coordinator in Washington. Now when you
Speaker 1: go back to Jay Cutler, they drafted him in Denver,
Speaker 1: So I think they would prefer in my opinion, Justin
Speaker 1: Fields at number three is how I potentially see it
Speaker 1: playing out, which you know, wouldn't shock anybody if that
Speaker 1: happens because Justin to me, has a higher ceiling than
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. You know, one thing about the quarterback position
Speaker 1: is Mac Jones is more similar to Jimmy Garoppolo. Justin
Speaker 1: Fields doesn't have a lot of similarities to Garoppolo, And
Speaker 1: so Fields can do everything with Garoppolo and Mac Jones
Speaker 1: can do, but Mac Jones can't do everything Justin Fields
Speaker 1: can do in terms of athleticism, running the edge, the RPOs.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be interesting to see what type of
Speaker 1: offense do they want to continue to build in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: because it's two different offenses with Justin Fields than it
Speaker 1: is with Mac Jones and Jimmy Garoppolo. So I think
Speaker 1: it'll tell you a little bit about the future of
Speaker 1: the offense going forward, depending upon if they have their
Speaker 1: sites out of Mac Jones, and that's who they're going with.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a dropback style, pocket protection, get
Speaker 1: the ball out of your hands type of offense, and
Speaker 1: you may not have that edge threat that you would
Speaker 1: have in an RPO offense with justin Fields, Jim, we
Speaker 1: can see as many as five, that's kind of the
Speaker 1: expected number for first round quarterbacks. Out of those five,
Speaker 1: is there a chance one of them is going to
Speaker 1: drop further than people might think? And I'm looking at
Speaker 1: maybe Fields or Lands or are there any other in
Speaker 1: your opinion, potential first round quarterbacks that could sneak in here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think you know. You look at Tampa nor Typically
Speaker 1: teams will trade back into the end of the first
Speaker 1: round and pick a quarterback because you get the fifth
Speaker 1: year option. And I would think for at thirty two,
Speaker 1: where Tampa Bay is selecting, that wouldn't shock me. If
Speaker 1: they take Kyle Trask or the Quarterbaur Mills out there
Speaker 1: at Stanford, it really wouldn't shock me at all because
Speaker 1: to me, they're really two prototypical drop back passers that
Speaker 1: could learn under Tom Brady over the next couple of years,
Speaker 1: and to me, that makes a lot of sense. As
Speaker 1: for your first question about quarterbacks dropping through. It may happen,
Speaker 1: but I do think there are teams that are going
Speaker 1: to be needy already. When you look at Denver, they've
Speaker 1: mentioned they want to bring in competition for Lock. So
Speaker 1: whether it's Trey Lance, who isn't ready to play right now,
Speaker 1: he could go in there and compete at least put
Speaker 1: Drew Lock on notice. And where Denver is selecting at
Speaker 1: the number nine spot, I'm not so sure about Carolina
Speaker 1: taking a quarterback at eight. They tried to say it's
Speaker 1: off the table, but to me, for them to trade
Speaker 1: for Sam Darnold, they're basically going to get Sam Darnold
Speaker 1: for three years. Let's say he plays this year, he
Speaker 1: plays under his fifth year option, which is about eighteen
Speaker 1: million bucks, and then they franchise tag him. They basically
Speaker 1: have him for three years and seventeen million dollars. And
Speaker 1: by them trading for him, I think it tells you
Speaker 1: that it takes them out of the quarterback market because
Speaker 1: those other quarterbacks would have to sit behind him and learn,
Speaker 1: which wouldn't be a bad thing. But I think all
Speaker 1: in all, I think Carolina isn't going to be taking
Speaker 1: a quarterback at eight now and Tim, there is an
Speaker 1: expectation that the Bears would draft a quarterback at some
Speaker 1: point in this twenty twenty one selection process. But Jim,
Speaker 1: and do you want to be sure you're not just
Speaker 1: taking one to take one. I think the Bears are
Speaker 1: in a position they have to take a quarterback and
Speaker 1: they have to think about further development. And it's no
Speaker 1: offense against Tyler Bray, who's been around the NFL now
Speaker 1: for about eight years. I don't there there's ever thought
Speaker 1: that he was going to develop into a competitor, a
Speaker 1: guy that you're going to bring the training camp and
Speaker 1: could be the dark horse in the race at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position and eventually morph into a possible starter. So
Speaker 1: I would want to see a guy I'm not going
Speaker 1: to waste any draft choice. I'm not going to bring
Speaker 1: a guy in here just to fill a quarterback jersey
Speaker 1: in the throwballs in seven on seven, one on ones
Speaker 1: and all the drills you go through. I want a
Speaker 1: guy here that's going to get the equal consideration about
Speaker 1: development for the future that any quarterback that's already on
Speaker 1: the roster. So I don't think Jeff, the Bears have
Speaker 1: the luxury of drafting a project. Drafting a that you
Speaker 1: know has such a muddled college career, whether through injuries
Speaker 1: or whatever, the circumstances are that you hope he's got
Speaker 1: an upside. No, I want a guy that's showing me
Speaker 1: the climb up the ladder through his college career, that's
Speaker 1: ready to take that next step. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: for them that the Bears don't have the assets to
Speaker 1: trade up to get one of these quarterbacks, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be later in the draft. And I
Speaker 1: agree with Tom. Why draft a project? How about a
Speaker 1: guy who's a four year starter, like a Kellen Mahn
Speaker 1: from Texas A and M that pretty much does everything
Speaker 1: that the Bears offense is asking him to do. I
Speaker 1: think Ian Book from Notre Dame potentially could be a
Speaker 1: consideration from the Bears. These guys aren't projects. They played
Speaker 1: quite a bit and there are guys that could come
Speaker 1: in and compete in a guy that you can develop,
Speaker 1: but they come with a ton of college experience. Is
Speaker 1: there a diamond in the rough in your opinions, a
Speaker 1: guy like you know so much conversation was about Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson that you could find and really surprise people. Well,
Speaker 1: I think he's not going to play right away. But
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Stanford product David David Mills or Davis Mills.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. This dude can throw a football now. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just got you know, he doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of starts, which, of course that's going to shy away
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, much like say Trey Lance, who
Speaker 1: only comes with nineteen starts. So I think you got
Speaker 1: to be careful there. But if you run a run
Speaker 1: play action offense, say like Arthur Smith had just got
Speaker 1: the head coaching job in Atlanta, to me, this guy
Speaker 1: would be the perfect guy to draft in the mid rounds,
Speaker 1: to place behind Matt Ryan and just let him marinate
Speaker 1: a little bit. This guy is flawless throwing the football.
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of tape on him, just comes
Speaker 1: with the head, a little bit of an injury history,
Speaker 1: and really just hasn't played a lot. So but he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you can really develop and I think
Speaker 1: will become a starter at some point in his NFL career.
Speaker 1: All right, Jim and Dad, one more break, you go
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Speaker 1: Our producer today Jordan Trenta with Tom Thair and Jim Miller.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. Let's talk about the news of the week.
Speaker 1: Right after our show week ago on Thursday, they had
Speaker 1: the news conferences with Matt nage and also general manager
Speaker 1: Ryan Pace, and with the news Jim Miller that there's
Speaker 1: going to be the play calling back to Matt Nagge
Speaker 1: here for twenty twenty one. Would you well, I think
Speaker 1: from Matt standpoint, I don't think it surprises anybody. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of NFL coaches, Mike McCarthy, he's taken
Speaker 1: back play calling duties. Andy Reid has done it at
Speaker 1: certain times in his career, and this is a passion
Speaker 1: of Matt Naggie. I think we we've talked about it.
Speaker 1: When he arrived with the Bears, he wanted to continue
Speaker 1: the play calling. But what's interesting here is that the
Speaker 1: Bears made that transition to Bill Laser last year and
Speaker 1: they did show some improvement. And now you've got Bill
Speaker 1: Laser who's got a background with Andy Dalton, and probably
Speaker 1: as a certain level of comfortability, you thought it would
Speaker 1: be moving towards that Bill Laser would be calling the
Speaker 1: plays this year. But hey, I get it. I think
Speaker 1: the pressure cooker of the NFL is is lighting up
Speaker 1: a little bit for the Bears. I think they know
Speaker 1: they want to have a lot of success, and I
Speaker 1: think Matt Naggie from his standpoint, you know, he wants
Speaker 1: to have a lot of control from that standpoint and
Speaker 1: how the season plays out. So he's got great joy
Speaker 1: in terms of his play calling and so he'll resume that.
Speaker 1: It's just how quickly he'll develop that relationship with Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: And luckily he's got good insight from Bill Laser that
Speaker 1: he can lean on. But most coaches who are play
Speaker 1: callers before they normally take it back and I think
Speaker 1: that's why Naggie is elected to do it as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like this decision all around, like that Matt Maggie
Speaker 1: is going to be the play caller. I like the
Speaker 1: kind of the pressure that it puts in the entire
Speaker 1: offense because they know the head coach is the designer
Speaker 1: of the offense and he's the guy that's calling the plays.
Speaker 1: And then when they do come off the field, Bill
Speaker 1: Laser can be an immediate attachment to Andy Dalton Nick Boles,
Speaker 1: who never is playing quarterback, so Matt doesn't have to
Speaker 1: transfer a lot of energy from calling plays to go
Speaker 1: and address the quarterback what's needed from the last series,
Speaker 1: or how to look at the tape that they have
Speaker 1: on the sideline to get things corrected. So I like
Speaker 1: that Matt's calling plays. I have nothing against coach Laser.
Speaker 1: I you know, I like the way that he was
Speaker 1: calling plays last year. However, when you look at the
Speaker 1: pressure cooker in which the Bears is this year, I
Speaker 1: think the head coach calling the plays is better for
Speaker 1: the entirety of the team. All right, let's look at
Speaker 1: the defense, and we got you know, obviously a Keem
Speaker 1: Hicks is going to be back inside. You got Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack and those two guys are game wrecords time. Let's
Speaker 1: start with you on where their games could evolve, especially
Speaker 1: with some new pieces coming on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the boss. Certainly at cornerback. We still don't know about
Speaker 1: the other safety spot. Well, you know, talking specifically about
Speaker 1: Khalil and Akim, I don't want their games to get
Speaker 1: stagnant at this stage of their career. It seems like
Speaker 1: you go and you get into the year five six
Speaker 1: years of your career, and now you got to continue
Speaker 1: to still develop new tricks, new moves. You know, was
Speaker 1: it you remember the nighttime practice that the Bears had
Speaker 1: last was a last year a couple of years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was so. I was watching Khalil Mack in
Speaker 1: practice and Bruce Smith, the Hall of Famer that played
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, he used to have this inside
Speaker 1: spin move that was almost unstoppable. He would set you
Speaker 1: up and he would bait you into it. In every
Speaker 1: game he would set you up and he would get
Speaker 1: a sack from it. I saw Khalil use that move
Speaker 1: a couple times in that night time practice, and I've
Speaker 1: even went up and asked him, Hey, why don't you
Speaker 1: show that a little bit more in the game, because
Speaker 1: it puts a lot of paranoia into offensive tackles. So
Speaker 1: when you look at Khalil, yeah, we see what he
Speaker 1: can do coming around the corner, how he can get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and try to become a reckless and
Speaker 1: create those fumbles. I need to see him to put
Speaker 1: more in his pass rushing arsenal and I think it
Speaker 1: could catch a lot of developed offensive tackle experience offensive
Speaker 1: tackles off guard. And I think it's the same thing
Speaker 1: with a Keeam Hicks. To me, I would like to
Speaker 1: see a team Hicks be in the best physical condition
Speaker 1: he could possibly be in. When you look at what
Speaker 1: he can do as a dominator when he's fresh, he
Speaker 1: is unstoppable. But when you get to this stage in
Speaker 1: the career sometimes that's got to be the point of emphasis.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're the best conditioned player that you can
Speaker 1: be at at that destructive body weight that he can
Speaker 1: carry around. So when you talk about the experience of
Speaker 1: those two guys, I want to see more out of them.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've plateaued. I think they have they're
Speaker 1: better to be. But then when you look at the
Speaker 1: influence that he has down the line on Eddie Goldman
Speaker 1: and Belal Nichols and stuff, That's why I think that
Speaker 1: a team has to carry himself at such a high
Speaker 1: performance level. So it's kind of a trickle down effect
Speaker 1: to these young guys that have tremendous upsides and they
Speaker 1: start to feel, you know, what a team means of
Speaker 1: the team, just like what Khalil means of the team. Jim.
Speaker 1: From a quarterbacks perspective, Tom used the word paranoia put
Speaker 1: paranoia in a offensive lineman's mind. What puts paranoia in
Speaker 1: a mind of a quarterback when you got those two
Speaker 1: guys on the field, And is that enough when they're
Speaker 1: playing at a high level to cause enough disruption in
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks team. Yeah. I remember when we beat Washington
Speaker 1: in Washington ten to seven on a fake punt and
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith was still playing that game, Bruce Smith nineteen
Speaker 1: years in the NFL, and that game was just an
Speaker 1: absolute bloodbath for all the things that Tom's mentioning. I
Speaker 1: remember walking in at halftime and I told Bruce Man,
Speaker 1: you still got it. It's your nineteenth year. That dude
Speaker 1: was in my grill every single play and it was
Speaker 1: just a battle in the trenches. So I'd say, what
Speaker 1: puts fear in you as a quarterback when you don't
Speaker 1: have time to throw? You know, you're trying to go
Speaker 1: through your reads and you're you're kind of holding onto
Speaker 1: the football, waiting for the receiver to get there, and
Speaker 1: there's just no time left because those guys are putting
Speaker 1: so much pressure on you where you become indecisive in
Speaker 1: your decision making. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's not always a sack, but they're they're throwing the
Speaker 1: timing off on the plays and minimum you're getting hit
Speaker 1: almost every single play, and those add up over the
Speaker 1: course of four quarters. So I think from the Bear's perspective,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be able to do all that I've
Speaker 1: maintained it. I like the Bears defense. I think they'll
Speaker 1: just be fine in twenty twenty one. You know, they'll
Speaker 1: you know, with the team Hicks and they'll get Eddie
Speaker 1: Goldman back, Tom mentioned below Nichols and Mario Edwards resigning
Speaker 1: him was big. They add Angelo Blackson up front, and
Speaker 1: now your pass rushers stay the same, but Keen Hicks. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when you look on the outside, like for Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: to have more of an impact, but you've got other
Speaker 1: guys that are going to have to step up and
Speaker 1: like a Trevis Gibson and really start to contribute from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, and they should be able to do everything
Speaker 1: that they want to do and really not drop off
Speaker 1: all that much at all. All right, again, less than
Speaker 1: a minute ago, I want to throw one on the
Speaker 1: table real quick. Give me see what you guys think.
Speaker 1: I'm also wondering what the slot receiver position is going
Speaker 1: to be, and in this offense and in every offense,
Speaker 1: it could be a deadly weapon. There's a really good
Speaker 1: group of receivers again that played well in the slot
Speaker 1: that you might be able to get even into the
Speaker 1: mid rounds of the draft. Because we don't know what
Speaker 1: the situation is right now at Anthony Miller, How do
Speaker 1: you guys feel about it? Start with Tom. I think
Speaker 1: it's a position that really has to present and present
Speaker 1: itself inside this offense. And Darnell Mooney has that ability.
Speaker 1: Riley Ridley has that ability. So I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a college guy to come over and take
Speaker 1: off that position, I think you're asking for a little much.
Speaker 1: It's all about what you're developing on your roster. Well,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of talented receivers that are going to be
Speaker 1: in this draft, and plenty of good slot receivers starting
Speaker 1: in the first round. If the Bears were to think
Speaker 1: about that, at twenty. You know you look at Cadarius
Speaker 1: Tony from Florida. I mean, these guys are talented. This
Speaker 1: look at the impact of Justin Jefferson, who everybody thought
Speaker 1: was a quote unquote slot receiver last year out of LSU.
Speaker 1: All right, fellas, we're out of time. As always, we
Speaker 1: can jam so only so much into the bag, but
Speaker 1: we did our best tonight. Thanks as always, Big Jim
Speaker 1: Miller will talk to you next week. All Right, sounds good.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tommy, and thank you all for listening. Thanks
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