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Speaker 1: Well more challenges for the Bears, this time of the
Speaker 1: offensive line. As we got ready to see the La
Speaker 1: Rams it sold your field on Sunday at noon. Welcome
Speaker 1: into Bears ETCA podcast number ninety seven, and this episode
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Speaker 1: Bears guard Tom Sayer. I'm Jeff Joniac. Darnell Wright has
Speaker 1: a back issue. Not saying he's out, but he's not
Speaker 1: going to practice on Wednesday. We'll see how the rest
Speaker 1: of the week goes.
Speaker 2: But now you're back in the shuffle mode and figuring
Speaker 2: out the best fight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know again, their fortune to have a guy
Speaker 5: like Matt Pryor, who I think he's got the versatility
Speaker 5: and the power to play any position. And then if
Speaker 5: you have a guy like Nate Davis have missed a
Speaker 5: little action last week, he's got to be inserted back
Speaker 5: in the lineup and the line has to expect not
Speaker 5: to miss a beat. And so that's just part of
Speaker 5: the process of professional football, because if you look around
Speaker 5: the NFL, there's a lot of offensive linemen that are
Speaker 5: missing time right now, and you can't blame results on it.
Speaker 5: It's just a matter of That's why you have ninety
Speaker 5: guys at the start of training camp, fifty three guys
Speaker 5: on a game day roster, and a practice squad of
Speaker 5: guys waiting for their opportunity.
Speaker 1: One of the interesting names we're going to hear is Karanamagaji,
Speaker 1: the rookie out of Yale from Hinsdale. He has not
Speaker 1: been able to get into games yet working through that
Speaker 1: quad injury, but he's been practicing. He's been getting reps
Speaker 1: of practice, and that's say consideration.
Speaker 2: Right there as well, what's your thought on that.
Speaker 5: Well, it's only the physical part I have to make
Speaker 5: my determination on because he's been around meetings since he's
Speaker 5: got drafted here with the Bears, so mentally he's going
Speaker 5: to be up and ready to go. It's just a
Speaker 5: matter of you put him in a comfort zone where
Speaker 5: he could be the most confident football player he can
Speaker 5: possibly be at this level after playing in the IVY League.
Speaker 5: So I have a lot of faith in his athleticism,
Speaker 5: what I've seen out of him and where his career
Speaker 5: is going. But there's nothing like getting over the first
Speaker 5: experience of playing at an NFL level.
Speaker 2: But he also move inside at guard.
Speaker 5: He's got the skill set, he's got the temple, and
Speaker 5: he's got the frame, he's got the feet that he
Speaker 5: could play anywhere on the offensive line. It's just that
Speaker 5: I think you have to go through an evaluation process
Speaker 5: with Chris Morgan in the entire offensive staff to see
Speaker 5: where do you think that he is the most confident
Speaker 5: football player, because there's other guys out there that can
Speaker 5: If he's okay, if he's not one hundred percent confident
Speaker 5: at tackle and he's got the ability to play on
Speaker 5: the inside, then who is the next man up at
Speaker 5: the tackle position? And it's just some explora tour work
Speaker 5: that you have to do. And that's the one thing
Speaker 5: about Chris Morgan is he does it since the beginning
Speaker 5: of their evaluability and he's got a pretty good feel
Speaker 5: on who fits the best wearer.
Speaker 2: Matt Pryor played right guard last week. Big dude.
Speaker 1: He also has tackle ability. What was robral analysis of
Speaker 1: the big guy up front?
Speaker 5: You know, the more reps he gets, the better he's
Speaker 5: going to be. Wherever he plays, he gives you a
Speaker 5: definite impact and a powerful run blocking philosophy, whether it's
Speaker 5: having a single block at the point of attack or
Speaker 5: being involved in the double team. He's got the athleticism
Speaker 5: to go up to the second level to block anybody
Speaker 5: from a defensive back to a linebacker. So the Bears
Speaker 5: are fortunate to have Matt Pryor. He's got a lot
Speaker 5: of experience, and like you said in his introduction last week,
Speaker 5: he's a mountain of a man, and so he takes
Speaker 5: up a lot of space. And I think he can
Speaker 5: really put a center if he plays offensive guard, or
Speaker 5: he can put a guard or a tight end into
Speaker 5: a powerful comfort zone. It all matter where he does play.
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Speaker 1: we have every Wednesday and we always have to play
Speaker 1: it is Caleb Williams, the Bears quarterback. Always interesting thoughts.
Speaker 1: A guy who's always in the moment when it comes
Speaker 1: to taking the microphone, whether it be an interview and
Speaker 1: a sit down or at the podium, lots to say
Speaker 1: about one of his favorite quarterbacks in the NFL, Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: Let listen in and hear what he had to say
Speaker 1: about the Rams starting quarterback and more on the Bears offense.
Speaker 3: I've really started watching Megatron obviously all the I mean
Speaker 3: getting triple covered and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: And then I got a little older and kind.
Speaker 3: Of realized how good Matthew Stafford is at his job.
Speaker 3: And so I think that started at a young age, but
Speaker 3: it originally started watching and I guess seeing the highlights
Speaker 3: of Megatron.
Speaker 6: And then what about Stafford's games?
Speaker 3: You really, yeah, he out first I'll say he controls
Speaker 3: the game as a as a quarterback. He knows how
Speaker 3: to get in and out of things efficiently, efficiently. He
Speaker 3: knows where people are going to be, knows where the
Speaker 3: defensive players are going to be, so he can move
Speaker 3: them on a string. And so, uh, you know, watching
Speaker 3: him be able to move defenders, you know, be able
Speaker 3: to you know, move and maneuver in the pocket and
Speaker 3: still deliver you know, some some nice passes down the
Speaker 3: field or you know, even just getting the ball to
Speaker 3: your back and allow him to go to work, you know,
Speaker 3: keeping the ball in play and you know a bunch
Speaker 3: of different arm angles and you know things like that.
Speaker 3: So you know he's been doing it for a while
Speaker 3: and so watching something like that, that that's you know
Speaker 3: how the you know success that he's had, you know,
Speaker 3: they want to learn from that. So you know it's
Speaker 3: gonna be exciting to go again some coming.
Speaker 6: On a Sunday.
Speaker 5: You expressed the need for constant communication as this offense
Speaker 5: tries to find itself.
Speaker 6: What does that require from you? And and what do
Speaker 6: you hope that looks like from the group at large
Speaker 6: as you guys figure.
Speaker 2: This thing out.
Speaker 3: Rub Yeah, so at first starts with me, you know,
Speaker 3: able to be a better communicator too, you know the
Speaker 3: the you know, the coaches, the players and things like
Speaker 3: that about you know, I guess I would say a
Speaker 3: little bit more things that you know, I I I
Speaker 3: like a little bit more for certain situations or you know,
Speaker 3: being a little bit more communicative and and and talking, uh,
Speaker 3: you know to those those guys that are out there,
Speaker 3: you know, with us, what they're seeing and things like that.
Speaker 3: And then you'll get to the sideline and being able
Speaker 3: to handle things properly on the sideline, and and and
Speaker 3: understand that, you know, we have another drive. We have
Speaker 3: this and that when we're in practice, when we're in
Speaker 3: throughout the week, and things like that in our off
Speaker 3: time throughout the week, making sure we communicate properly to
Speaker 3: make sure that we're you know, running things that work
Speaker 3: well with us, you know, myself included in that, and
Speaker 3: and and things that you know that we haven't may
Speaker 3: have had too many reps on the routes or things
Speaker 3: like that over you know, these past three or four
Speaker 3: months of being here. You know that we we communicate
Speaker 3: that and just making sure we're running things that we're
Speaker 3: all comfortable with that are obviously good plays that work
Speaker 3: well against other teams, but you know, more importantly, things
Speaker 3: that you know, we know and that that we feel
Speaker 3: comfy running.
Speaker 6: And Shane asked you for that.
Speaker 7: Input ors that have to come from you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, so Shane and I have talked about it.
Speaker 3: And We've talked about it throughout the weeks, but just
Speaker 3: been a little bit more in depth. I would say,
Speaker 3: as what is what we've kind of come to after
Speaker 3: this past game, been a little bit more in depth
Speaker 3: about it, I would say, is the you know, kind
Speaker 3: of what kind of the adjustment we've made since after
Speaker 3: this last game.
Speaker 7: Is it hard to feel comfortable doing that as a rookie.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't say it's it's uncomfortable. He has to
Speaker 3: call the plays and I have to go out there
Speaker 3: and execute.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: We have alerts and stuff like that that I can
Speaker 3: change and route concepts that I can change depending on,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever case may be. But he does have
Speaker 3: to call him and I also have to go out
Speaker 3: there and execute. So to be able to go out
Speaker 3: there and you know, make decisions and split seconds you know,
Speaker 3: hesitation and and and and being you know, not being decisive.
Speaker 3: I think that that leads into the first part about
Speaker 3: it is not being comfy and so uh for for
Speaker 3: certain plays or whatever case may be, or certain routes,
Speaker 3: I think that that's the biggest thing. And so me
Speaker 3: being able to communicate with him is important to understand that,
Speaker 3: and I have to do consistently.
Speaker 6: What do you encourages you most about where the offense
Speaker 6: is right now? Yeah, I think I think we're constantly
Speaker 6: getting better.
Speaker 3: I think, Uh there's a lot of new and as
Speaker 3: we all know, wide receivers, running backs and quarterback and
Speaker 3: feel offensive lineman and all these different you know parts
Speaker 3: and things like that, and you know, us us constantly
Speaker 3: having the encouragement mindset, but also the positivity that we
Speaker 3: see on the actual film you know, if you if
Speaker 3: you actually watch it and you know, not get into all.
Speaker 6: The emotions of the game.
Speaker 3: Uh, the positivity that we have and the growth that
Speaker 3: we're you know, the slow growth that we're having.
Speaker 6: Yes, we do need to get it going a little bit, you.
Speaker 3: Know, more efficiently than we are, you know, but the
Speaker 3: growth and positivity that we have within the film that
Speaker 3: we've seen and things like that over these past couple
Speaker 3: of weeks.
Speaker 8: Is a guy who likes to be involved in the
Speaker 8: offense even though he's a defensive guy. What has his
Speaker 8: role bean in his last week or so and trying
Speaker 8: as you're trying to get this offense, you know, get going,
Speaker 8: how how much influences he had and what's his roleman?
Speaker 2: And trying to get this going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's in the room. He's but he's
Speaker 3: been in the room since training camp, new new quarterback,
Speaker 3: new OC and things like that. Uh, he's been in
Speaker 3: the room helping out as much as he could, whether
Speaker 3: it's you know, us asking him how he sees this,
Speaker 3: you know what what works best with this. So it's
Speaker 3: I think he's been helpful, you know, throughout my time
Speaker 3: here of just being in the room because of how
Speaker 3: much knowledge he has of.
Speaker 6: Of the defense and defenses that you know that that
Speaker 6: he's seen. So he's been great. He's been helpful. The
Speaker 6: good Keenan back practice. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3: I mean to have a guy obviously, as we know
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen back, it's gonna be you know, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be great for our offense.
Speaker 6: It's just something else that the defense has.
Speaker 3: To worry about throughout this week and obviously on game day.
Speaker 6: And so it's gonna be great for us.
Speaker 3: You know, his his special talent of getting open and
Speaker 3: you know in the phone booth is it's gonna be
Speaker 3: great for us.
Speaker 7: It's it been like for you to process information after games,
Speaker 7: to look through game film, and I assume it's a
Speaker 7: lot more corrections than what you had on a typical
Speaker 7: day after game in college. What's it been like for
Speaker 7: you to take all of that higher volume and try
Speaker 7: to apply.
Speaker 3: It to practice to the next game or which is
Speaker 3: moving forward?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I would imagine that there, am
Speaker 7: I is that correct as far as just a basis
Speaker 7: of the question, that there's a lot more to go
Speaker 7: through than what you had after a game.
Speaker 3: Uh, give and take, we probably ran more plays in college, Yes,
Speaker 3: corrections and things like that. I think, Uh, I think
Speaker 3: both places are are very detailed that I've been in
Speaker 3: uh here and I guess you could say three, but
Speaker 3: I was with Lincoln for all three of those, so
Speaker 3: you know, both places here and and and being with Lincoln,
Speaker 3: I think both places are detailed, you know, having detailed
Speaker 3: coaching and and corrections after games and things like that.
Speaker 3: So you know, there may be you know, more motions
Speaker 3: and things like that. But other than that, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think I think both places are you know, well coached.
Speaker 6: I think both.
Speaker 3: Places are detail oriented. And uh, you know, I think
Speaker 3: I think from me taking the information and you know,
Speaker 3: the constant growth throughout the season is really important for me.
Speaker 6: One in my career and then two, uh for Chicago Bears.
Speaker 6: And so.
Speaker 3: You know, just just being coachable in any any way
Speaker 3: possible that I can be want to be coached. Being
Speaker 3: coached one of details, you know each week, and so
Speaker 3: I just have to go out there and execute, do
Speaker 3: my job and help Chicago Bears win games.
Speaker 4: You just said after or just again in terms of
Speaker 4: like how fast you are processing and what the protection
Speaker 4: can execute as a work in progress, what can you
Speaker 4: do from from your perspective to get those two in sick?
Speaker 6: Yeah, one I can.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 3: I can keep communicating to it offensive line and and positivity,
Speaker 3: constructive criticism, things like that to them.
Speaker 6: And then uh, you know how I how I am.
Speaker 3: Maybe in the pocket, how I feel about you know,
Speaker 3: certain things in the pocket.
Speaker 6: So they just have it in mind when they're conscious.
Speaker 6: And then.
Speaker 3: That's a cool thing about football is that everything is
Speaker 3: a work in progress. You know, we all haven't been
Speaker 3: together for two three years, and so uh, you know,
Speaker 3: to get in the live battle with these guys and
Speaker 3: go out there and you know, fight with them is
Speaker 3: really important for I think the confidence of all of
Speaker 3: us to get up now after a bad play, go
Speaker 3: and celebrate with them. After a good play. You know,
Speaker 3: I think I think those things. I think those things
Speaker 3: go a long way. And then off the field wise,
Speaker 3: you know, hanging out with them, being with them, I
Speaker 3: think it builds a connection throughout.
Speaker 6: The year, and I think it's gonna keep growing. You
Speaker 6: were pretty surprised.
Speaker 2: You're pretty surprised on Sunday when we told you through
Speaker 2: the ball two times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but as you guys try to get the running
Speaker 1: game going, do you have to kind of fight the
Speaker 1: feeling that you have to put this entire offense on
Speaker 1: your shoulders until you can effectively.
Speaker 3: No, I don't fight any feelings of that. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm more of a guy that And I said this.
Speaker 3: I was talking to Shane this more I mean, and
Speaker 3: like you, like I just said before, communication wise, just
Speaker 3: talking to him this Morning's like I gotta throw the
Speaker 3: ball fifty times.
Speaker 6: I got to throw the ball fifty times.
Speaker 3: But if we're in a flow and we're running the ball,
Speaker 3: we're getting four yards of pop on the on the
Speaker 3: play and things like that. You know, let's keep let's
Speaker 3: keep handing the ball off to our running backs and
Speaker 3: being let them be special. So, like I said, you
Speaker 3: know whatever, like I said on you know, Sunday after
Speaker 3: the game. Whatever it takes to win the game is
Speaker 3: what I'm gonna do and what I'm happy to do.
Speaker 6: That's what it's. What I'm here to do is win games.
Speaker 6: So we've got to get it going.
Speaker 3: I've got to get the offense going, got to get
Speaker 3: the run game going, and things like that.
Speaker 6: I gotta be better.
Speaker 3: Would not turn the ball over and and and and
Speaker 3: a lot more. So you know we're gonna be better.
Speaker 3: We're excited for this week. I'm gonna go against the
Speaker 3: l A Rams, you know, at our hometown. I know
Speaker 3: everybody's gonna be happy and rowdy to you know, to
Speaker 3: be there.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 1: I know he loves Tom Brady. I know he loves
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. He sought out both in conversation. But he's
Speaker 1: always had uh A great respect for Matthew Stafford, how
Speaker 1: he controls a and his name has come up repeatedly,
Speaker 1: and he's not wrong. Matthew Stafford's in charge has been
Speaker 1: since his rookie year. He's had a long career. He
Speaker 1: gets rid of the ball quickly and he plays from
Speaker 1: that pocket. What else about Stafford's game? Before you get
Speaker 1: into what else Caleb said about the Bears sticks out
Speaker 1: to you as it pertains to this game against the
Speaker 1: Bears on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Okay, And this is a real sticking point for me,
Speaker 5: Jeff in this game is the intelligence of Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be the most challenging game
Speaker 5: for the defense so far this year. Manda Man, scheme
Speaker 5: to scheme level to the level, because you are not
Speaker 5: going to fool Matthew Stafford at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5: He's going to understand exactly what he sees across the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage from him, He's going to know how
Speaker 5: to stick with the player, make the change. He's going
Speaker 5: to take advantage of your vulnerabilities. So if he is
Speaker 5: making a determination through the course of the week of
Speaker 5: tape study that hey, this aspect, this element of their
Speaker 5: game is not as strong is I think our offensive
Speaker 5: firepower is, and then you're going to look to be attacked.
Speaker 5: But Matthew Stafford is a guy that he's going to
Speaker 5: come into the Bears stadium Sunday, no matter how loud
Speaker 5: the crowd is, He's going to be in control of
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage because of experience, intelligence, and he's
Speaker 5: played there before, and.
Speaker 2: With Caleb, you know you can't.
Speaker 1: So much is expected obviously, and he does not shy
Speaker 1: away from it one bit. He does not make excuses.
Speaker 1: He does not look like this is going to be
Speaker 1: too big for him. But you can't be everything right now.
Speaker 1: You just can't get everything right right now. You fight
Speaker 1: for it every single rep, every single day in practice.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting at week four at home to feel like, okay,
Speaker 1: the start of maybe getting into a comfort zone a
Speaker 1: little bit, because you learn something new every single game,
Speaker 1: and he learned a lot in the last game throwing
Speaker 1: fifty two passes. What did you hear from him today?
Speaker 1: That gives you confidence for Sunday.
Speaker 5: Everything I'm gonna do going forward is going to be
Speaker 5: for Caleb, and whatever happens, however it goes. Whatever I
Speaker 5: have to do to make Caleb the most complete quarterback
Speaker 5: I can possibly make him, then that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: When Caleb Williams, you know, evaluates his performance through the eyes,
Speaker 5: the ears, the play calling of Shane Waldron and how
Speaker 5: he feels himself and how he looks at his next
Speaker 5: opponent in his past opponent. Everything I'm doing going forward.
Speaker 5: The rest of the year is going to do everything
Speaker 5: to play into the improvement of Caleb Williams and how
Speaker 5: his future is going to fit into the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of strings you have to pull, and
Speaker 5: there's a lot of different ways that you're going to
Speaker 5: face opponents week to week. But you know, when Caleb
Speaker 5: walks away from the podium each week, I'm as impressed
Speaker 5: as I was the last week because he knows exactly
Speaker 5: what he's saying. He knows how his improvement factors into
Speaker 5: the Bears as a football team, but now as a
Speaker 5: coaching staff from Matt Aberflus and being in the room
Speaker 5: and helping him understand defenses better to Caleb understanding more
Speaker 5: about NFL defenses the more he plays them. Whatever you
Speaker 5: can do to increase the performance of Caleb, that's what
Speaker 5: I'm going to look at week and week in and
Speaker 5: week out.
Speaker 1: You know what, It's interesting, he doesn't have he's twenty two.
Speaker 1: He doesn't he doesn't have the luxury of being twenty two,
Speaker 1: right Like, mentally, he's not twenty two good. This is
Speaker 1: a mature adult in a very challenging position. The job
Speaker 1: is hard, as he says, to be the quarterback. The
Speaker 1: job is hard to be quarterback of the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: in a town starving right now. And it's interesting because
Speaker 1: you wonder how often this crosses his mind, because, let's
Speaker 1: be honest, man, for fans in this town, he's the hope,
Speaker 1: he's the long term hope, and he's embraced it without hesitation. Tom,
Speaker 1: But I wonder in his private moments, does it ever
Speaker 1: cross his mind just how big this is.
Speaker 5: I don't think it does, because every single decision he's
Speaker 5: made about his football future since he's come out of
Speaker 5: high school, he's had the most pressure on himself. And
Speaker 5: that's you know, when you talk about his relationship with
Speaker 5: Lincoln Riley, what he did in college and then he transferred,
Speaker 5: and then how successful he was throughout that time, and
Speaker 5: then being in the one of the most major star
Speaker 5: studded markets in the history of high school football, college football,
Speaker 5: professional football, the LA market is incredible. And you know,
Speaker 5: having the chance to play against the Rams the Raiders,
Speaker 5: but playing against USC and looking at the stars that
Speaker 5: fill the sidelines of USC or the Raiders, it's an
Speaker 5: incredible learning experience for a guy like Caleb. And then
Speaker 5: the football is equally as important as that developed. So
Speaker 5: you have a chance to develop your personality when you
Speaker 5: have a chance to develop your professional side. And like
Speaker 5: I said, I am totally impressed with his you know,
Speaker 5: podium and how he answers the questions respectfully, thinks about
Speaker 5: him before he answers them, and you know, he says
Speaker 5: what's on his mind and when what he's thinking at
Speaker 5: that specific second.
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Speaker 1: dig in a little bit. Let's start with the offense. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the run game's got to get better. Keenan Allen a
Speaker 1: hopeful return. We'll add another piece to that puzzle. But
Speaker 1: against this Rams defense, from what you've seen on tape,
Speaker 1: how does it marry up? Is our matchups to exploit
Speaker 1: and can the Bears whatever they cobble together on the
Speaker 1: offensive line help wise stop what is a very gritty
Speaker 1: and active three to four defense, Jeff.
Speaker 5: The Rams had twenty seven total pressures again against the
Speaker 5: offensive line for the forty nine ers in brock Purty.
Speaker 5: So you can't talk about who you're gonna look at
Speaker 5: downfield and who is going to be your guy that
Speaker 5: you're going to try to get involved in terms of
Speaker 5: the targeting, it's about making sure that you have protection
Speaker 5: at the offensive line, whether you have to keep in
Speaker 5: a back, whether you have to add an extra tight end,
Speaker 5: whether you have to put a tight end at fullback,
Speaker 5: to make sure that you can provide protection for Caleb
Speaker 5: Williams to get the ball out of his hands. If
Speaker 5: you think you're gonna go out there and have a
Speaker 5: one on one matchup against this group, I think you're
Speaker 5: going to put pressure on Caleb too quickly and you're
Speaker 5: not going to give him the luxury of being able
Speaker 5: to find the target, the proper target downfield. And so
Speaker 5: with that being said, start with protection and then we'll
Speaker 5: try to see who Keenan Allen, DJ Moore, Roma, Dnsday,
Speaker 5: Cole kamet Gerald Everett is that the backs out of
Speaker 5: the backfield after they have a protection responsibility awareness. So
Speaker 5: there's going to be a lot of different things that
Speaker 5: come into play, but the most important key that in
Speaker 5: this game is Halo's going to be in charge of
Speaker 5: the cadence, and he's going to allow the offensive line
Speaker 5: and the blockers to have that month of a second
Speaker 5: so they can start the contact against their opponent rather
Speaker 5: than having to set back on the offensive line because
Speaker 5: they can't hear the cadence. And I think that can
Speaker 5: play an important role in how successful this offensive line
Speaker 5: can be. And if you talk about the passing game,
Speaker 5: you can't ignore the running game, because a running game
Speaker 5: has to have a certain component where it opens up
Speaker 5: different portions of the passing game. Rather than just exclusively
Speaker 5: becoming a drop back, downfield passer, you have to incorporate
Speaker 5: the screen game, the play action game, the rollouts, and
Speaker 5: the different types of protections that you can use in
Speaker 5: this type of passing game that starts with the success
Speaker 5: of a running game.
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Speaker 1: was a walk on and then transferred over to wake Forest.
Speaker 2: But he was a fine in the third round.
Speaker 1: He played nose tackle last year, because of course Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald is going to be your three technique, right.
Speaker 5: You know, you can't compare him to Aaron Donald, because
Speaker 5: no one's going to be compared to Aaron Donald. But
Speaker 5: when you when you look at their template, you talk
Speaker 5: about six two two ninety seven, He's got a couple
Speaker 5: solo tackles in one sack. But what he does is
Speaker 5: he makes sure that you have to have a blocker
Speaker 5: dedicated to him. Maybe that sets you up for a
Speaker 5: one on one to the outside. If you have that
Speaker 5: explosiveness and a three technique defensive tackle, then you have
Speaker 5: to make sure that you get that stalemated at the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage before he gets into the backfield and
Speaker 5: then speeds up the thought process of the quarterback and
Speaker 5: makes the entire backfield dysfunctional. So Kobe is done a
Speaker 5: nice job in there, but you know it's kind of
Speaker 5: gonna be like for the rest of their time as
Speaker 5: an organization, they could always be looking to try to
Speaker 5: replace a guy like Aaron Donald, because I don't know
Speaker 5: how many of those guys come along in a lifetime.
Speaker 1: And then offensively, of course, we mentioned Matthew Stafford, who's
Speaker 1: backed up by Jimmy Garoppolo, who served a two game suspension,
Speaker 1: now back in the backup role. But they're offensive line
Speaker 1: also in flux. We don't really know who's playing where
Speaker 1: they've already had. They're under their third starting guard in
Speaker 1: after three games. So up front, they got a rookie
Speaker 1: center in Bowl Limer, a guy that I liked at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. He's almost six five three twelve strong guy.
Speaker 1: He's been a big weight room guy his whole career.
Speaker 1: And then who's healthy at receiver Cooper cup is likely
Speaker 1: not going to play, but too too out well a
Speaker 1: diminutive receiver Tom I. He's taller than I am, and
Speaker 1: he's a lot lighter at one sixty five.
Speaker 2: I don't remember ever being one sixty five Tom. But
Speaker 2: he can scoot.
Speaker 1: And of course you've got Jordan Wootington, a young man
Speaker 1: who surprised as a six round pick out of Texas.
Speaker 1: And then the tight ends. Kobe Parkinson is a guy
Speaker 1: that's a free agent coming over from Seattle. And then
Speaker 1: the run game, Kyron Williams Blake Krum from Michigan. He's
Speaker 1: only had eight attempts, but they can do a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything here and Stafford using all his weapons
Speaker 1: because he's the guy that can figure out what works
Speaker 1: and what.
Speaker 5: Doesn't right, because he knows everything so well. He's got
Speaker 5: this system ingrained in his system. He understands the pass
Speaker 5: protection where it can hold up the most and where
Speaker 5: the most vulnerabilities are. They have loaded lines of scrimmage
Speaker 5: so they can outnumber you to one side and make
Speaker 5: sure his point of protection has a maximum amount of
Speaker 5: guys in front of him where the pocket can be
Speaker 5: sustained for a certain period of time. And that's the
Speaker 5: thing about it. When you talk about offensive lineman, you
Speaker 5: talk about receivers, you talk about all these other position
Speaker 5: players that have to be inserted into the lineup. The
Speaker 5: one guy that hasn't had to be inserted in the
Speaker 5: lineup as Matthew Stafford. And he understands every moving part
Speaker 5: to this offense. And if you put these guys out here,
Speaker 5: Jeff and Blank Jerseys, I think he would still be
Speaker 5: as efficient as he is if he had Cooper Cup
Speaker 5: and Puka Nakua and the rest of the guys that
Speaker 5: he's kind of come into the system with one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: You know what shocked me does it shock you that
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford has only been named not again, it's just
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, I get it, he's only been named twice.
Speaker 5: Well, you look at all those years of service in Detroit,
Speaker 5: that the kind of the team went nowhere, So he
Speaker 5: wasn't going to get the you know, the notoriety that
Speaker 5: he deserved once he came to the Rams. And you
Speaker 5: know my feeling about the Pro Bowl, I'm not a
Speaker 5: I'm not a big fan of it. I'm not a
Speaker 5: you know, the fan of the choices. And I have
Speaker 5: a tremendous amount of respect for Matthew Stafford. So whether
Speaker 5: he's been to the Pro Bowl once or never, you know,
Speaker 5: he's got a Super Bowl ring. He's a great competitor.
Speaker 5: He's played hurt, he's played hard, He's played with some
Speaker 5: dysfunctional teams in Detroit. And you know who's still standing?
Speaker 2: What is he?
Speaker 5: Thirty six years old? Six thirty six years old and
Speaker 5: still standing. We didn't know if he was going to
Speaker 5: still be standing after a couple of years in Detroit.
Speaker 5: So congratulation to his conviction of being an NFL player
Speaker 5: in this successful.
Speaker 2: For this long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you know that's fair because he was injured.
Speaker 1: I mean he got injured, he got injured by the
Speaker 1: Bears or right career. So, but twenty fourteen he had
Speaker 1: an unbelievable year and then they got twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, So only two times in his career, but
Speaker 1: fourth year of the Rams and his career interception percentage
Speaker 1: just two point three percent. So yeah, he's thrown some
Speaker 1: pick sixes, and I guess that's been a wrap on
Speaker 1: hom in his career, but he's settled down. He had
Speaker 1: twenty interceptions as a rookie and that has never been
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the worst right there, and so you
Speaker 1: don't want anybody to throw twenty interceptions in any season.
Speaker 1: But again, you start slow and you finish strong, and
Speaker 1: he's certainly doing that.
Speaker 5: One quick thing, Jeff is I find it funny that
Speaker 5: Caleb Williams attraction to watching Matthew Stafford is because of
Speaker 5: Calvin Johnson, and you know, he refers to him as Megatron,
Speaker 5: and to update a lot of the guys in the
Speaker 5: media room that weren't around back then, Calvin Johnson is
Speaker 5: one of the best receivers in the history of the league,
Speaker 5: and a.
Speaker 2: Quarterback watching a quarterback because of a receiver. I find
Speaker 2: it interesting, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I wonder what a tomp there who he'd been watching
Speaker 1: to try to emulate when you were growing up.
Speaker 5: Listen John Hannah. When I was coming out of college,
Speaker 5: John Hannah was an offensive guard for the New England
Speaker 5: Patriots that was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and
Speaker 5: they called him the best. And I imagined what it
Speaker 5: would be like to be good enough in National Football
Speaker 5: League to be called the greatest offensive lineman of everybody
Speaker 5: and be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. That will
Speaker 5: run through my head for the rest of my life.
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Speaker 5: I'm just interested to watch him play an experienced quarterback
Speaker 5: like Matthew Stafford, because when you think of the quarterback
Speaker 5: position up into this point, even though CJ. Stroud was
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year, they've played against inexperienced quarterbacks. Whether
Speaker 5: you want to talk about Will Levitz or Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: And second quarterbacks three second year quarterball, Right, That's that's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But now you're talking about a thirty six year old
Speaker 5: quarterback that has played against the Bears before as a
Speaker 5: divisional opponent, understands what the best thing is for his
Speaker 5: team against a really good defense. So if the Bears
Speaker 5: really good defense can still be real good, I think
Speaker 5: it's gonna really upgrade their respectability around the league. And
Speaker 5: don't It's not because what receivers aren't there. It's because
Speaker 5: the intelligence of the quarterback who is there.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's been blitzed much so far. Is
Speaker 2: that danger if if.
Speaker 5: You feel that you can get to him before he
Speaker 5: can identify his hot receiver. I don't know if it's
Speaker 5: a danger because he doesn't have great escapability in a
Speaker 5: Montese sweat runs great. Darryl Taylor runs great, Austin Booker
Speaker 5: runs great. Uh Gravon Dexter on the inside is really
Speaker 5: runs well along with DeMarcus Walker. Billings has been a
Speaker 5: better pass rusher than we thought. Daniel Hardy if he
Speaker 5: ever gets an opportunity to get a fresh rep in there,
Speaker 5: he's fast, too around the edge. So let's see if
Speaker 5: these guys in some of the creativeness of the blitzing
Speaker 5: of both the interior linebackers and Gordon, you know, color Gordon,
Speaker 5: if they can.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, he's such a quick processor. You could
Speaker 1: get burned, right.
Speaker 2: Right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: If he understands but he's processing that information before you
Speaker 5: blitz him, and once you bring up blitzer, he knows
Speaker 5: where his hot read is. If he gets to his
Speaker 5: final drop step and his arm is already in forward motion,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe we shouldn't blitz him, Maybe we should
Speaker 5: make him we should play coverage. Let our ford down
Speaker 5: lineman work and see if they can expedite his process
Speaker 5: of throwing and that we can have another body in
Speaker 5: the coverage lanes.
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Speaker 5: I'm Jack. I am so excited already, and I gotta
Speaker 5: temper it a little bit, because I guess when you
Speaker 5: go through what you did in Indianapolis, you want to
Speaker 5: get right back to those games