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Good to be with you once again, as 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.320 we are each and every week here on Chicago Sports 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.000 Radio six seventy The Score brought to you by IGS Energy. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.080 My name is Jeff Joniac, my broadcast partner, the Super 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.080 Bowl Bear, mister Tom Fair wearing the light clothing over 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.880 there in Maui. I understand you a little bit on edge, though, 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.159 because the news side of me quickly got on the 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.080 phone because there was an earthquake off the coast in 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.080 New Zealand, and every time that happens in your neck 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.200 of the world, you start worrying about tsunami. And sure enough, 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.680 there were tsunami watches, so we good were gonna be 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.279 able to make it through the show. Yeah, I think 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.640 we will. But it's a real and and it's an 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.160 obstant I mean, an honest kind of a way of 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.880 life out here, because I've been out here now for 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.640 a couple of tsunami warnings. And when you have a 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.200 chance that it really does affect the island you're on, 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.200 you can see the rise and fall of the ocean 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:25.080 right before your eyes. So um, it's it is scary. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.440 People do start getting prepared for it, but because of 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.600 the warning system within the South Pacific, they have a 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.520 good ability to judge what could possibly happen or what 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.200 won't happen. And so I hopefully they're standing down by 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.319 now right. Well, yeah, I'd imagine the chatter with all 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.280 you and your friends, and I know you got you 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.120 guys like getting out on the water and surfing. It 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.120 becomes a big conversation though it does, but you know, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.440 it's I don't know, you know, it's just something that's nice. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.920 Like we have in the Midwest. The warning system of 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.240 the storms that are coming through in preparation is the 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.680 key to it. So again, I think everything's gonna be 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.960 safe out here, but it is. It is a reality, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.120 you know, all right, big time coming up on our show, 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.800 We've got our old friend Israel Dednage joining the program 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.880 coming up at six zero eight, and at the bottom 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.480 of the hour, we'll spend a few minutes with Bear 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.840 Gender manager Ryan Pace Tommy. Obviously we heard both Ryan 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.880 and Matt Naggie earlier this week a couple of days ago. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.320 Going through the off season. You know, it's it's it's 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.280 the way it is. It's it's the combine without the 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.399 combine interviews with the coaches and general managers. So they're 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.440 not going to talk a lot about any individual players 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.040 or schemer. It's never gonna happen in rare cast cases 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.120 do they do so a lot of time for all 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.160 those decisions to be made where they keep it close 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.959 to the best. But was there anything from the two 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.640 of them that stood out to you about what the 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.880 plan might be here in the off season. Well, I 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.160 still think there's a lot of uncertainty about the plan. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.440 I think the certainty is though, they got the coaching 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.800 staff in place, and I think that's one of the 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.320 first things they needed to do because of all the 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.600 coaching staff movements around the league that they had to 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.480 get things settled and they have a plan in place, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.799 and I think that's the good thing for a majority 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.040 of the players that have been here and that will 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.280 be here. And I think when you start formulating a 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.760 plan amongst the coaches up in the offense and defensive 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.760 coaching rooms, you got to become familiar with each other 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.480 before you're going to really have the ability to teach 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.680 whatever you're teaching to the new guys, whatever the new 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.280 coaches are teaching to the guy. So that's where they're 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.440 at right now. But you know, to me, it was 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.000 more of a reminder that reality's coming a little bit 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.440 closer each day because when we are doing All Access 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.680 after the season, it was almost talking fantasy football. It 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.000 was so far out there, all these forms and all 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.760 these rumors were starting. But then each week you start 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.320 chipping away a little bit of that big block of 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.960 ice to see what's really gonna happen. What's going to 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.560 happen with free agency, what's going to happen with the 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:03.080 salary cap ramifications, what's gonna happen with some veterans that 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.640 have experience, and you would like to investigate their talent 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.600 where they're gonna want to go because nowadays, which I 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.360 appreciate by the players is they do have an opinion 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.680 of where they want to go, what type of system 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.919 they want to be a part of, what type of 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.039 scheme they want to be, you know, to be exposed to. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.680 So there's a lot of things that the information comes 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.839 weekend and week day in and day out, and this 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.560 and this season clicks a little closer weekend and week out. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.000 That's why fans love it. It's it's definitely it's it's 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.360 not fantasy football, but you try to wander a little 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.560 bit about what you'd like to see on your own team. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.279 You mentioned the coaches. This was Mattneggie. No, there's not. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.400 I mean, you know, the one with vic is you know, uncontrollable. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.360 He goes ahead and you know, gets that that head 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.440 job in Denver, and so that's that, and then you 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.000 have another one where it's retirement, you know what I mean. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.600 So that's just that part. Uh, And then I do 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.080 think offensively for us heading into this second year together, man, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.320 I can't even begin to tell you how much easier 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.200 it is going into watching the film right now in 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.680 the morning together and just everybody knowing it and not 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.240 have to having to have to reteach things, you know. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.960 So now for Sean it's been very important and I 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.159 love this. It's been very important that really all of 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.880 us are in the building together, all by the rules 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:31.040 and all all by the protocol, but being there. As 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.640 much as we love doing these zoom interviews and these 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.400 zoom talks, they're they're they're good, but it's just different 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.440 when you're in the building. It's different when you're together. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.839 And that's kind of the direction that we're going right now. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.520 And I think for Sean now getting back to what 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.520 he wants and some of these because that is you know, 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.080 a lot of new guys on that side, they're able 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.520 to kind of really feel who each other is, their personalities, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.239 have ideas, and not have to click the new button 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.479 every time they want to talk. So that part's been good. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.720 And the offensively, I feel like we're step ahead just 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.360 because we have Bill Laser and now Flip has had 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.120 the quarterbacks and our other coaches. They're heading another fourth year, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.720 so I really feel good. But where we're at now, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.200 we got to put it all together. We just got 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.000 to see where the off season goes. And they have 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.560 scheme evaluations going on or right now. That's part of 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.520 the big part of the off season as they get 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.000 that going and then the other side of it is 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.320 player personnel. Hey time, we're gonna go to Israel to 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.640 donage a bit early here, so we'll bring in our 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.039 old friend, the former Bears defensive lineman and such a 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:33.200 major part of the city of Chicago. What he's working on, philanthropically, professionally, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:35.840 you name it, he's got it going on. Is he? 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.800 How you doing? My brother Joe about it? Good to 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.840 talk to you. Thanks for joining us tonight. You're with 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.800 Tom and I here on Bears All Access brought to 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.640 you by IGS Energy. You know, first thing I want 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.279 to talk about is because I've had a chance the 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.640 last couple of days to visit with a couple of 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:57.640 your old teammates, Rashid Davis and Jason McKee. And every 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.800 now and then, when you get into conversations about that 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.400 oh six team and you really start to think about 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.120 the quality of players on that team, up and down 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.720 that roster, that was one heck of a team. They 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.720 were almost all those guys could play. It. Isn't that 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.720 just guys just hanging out of the bottom of the roster. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.640 Do you ever sit back and think about just how 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.360 good that team really was? Yeah, I mean, especially when 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.960 we get together, right, we while you're in it, you 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.320 never you don't quite understand or you don't quite know 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.160 how special what you have, you know, how unique it 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.920 really is. Right And now that we're you know, a 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.840 number of years removed for that season, it was to 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.720 look back, it was pretty incredible. It was pretty special. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.480 The talent we had, the bonds that we had, the 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.120 way that we played together, it was it was unique, right, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.920 And I actually didn't even realize that. So when I 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.080 had left Chicago, I went to Detroit for one year 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.880 and actually went to New York. It's just different, right, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.520 It's just what we had was on the whole the level. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.680 And it's hard to replicate. Every club, every coaching, you know, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.480 group of coaches, every team, you know, managers, everybody's trying 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.480 to find a way to bring that culture, that chemistry, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.120 that energy to the club. And we were fortunate to 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.080 have it well. And you know what, you could have 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.040 been a Buffalo bill that here and missed the whole 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.480 boat because they did send you do an offer sheet 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.720 and the Bears matched it. Do you remember that whole process? 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.600 And yeah, what was it a real thing that maybe 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.480 you would have you know, gone to Buffalo absolutely I 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.679 flew down to Buffalo. I had a spent way more 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.960 time there than the anticipated and then they called me 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.880 into the office and they made me an offer right 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.559 there on the spot to become a bill and have 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.920 an opportunity, you know, to to really contribute and be 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.079 a part of what they were building there defensively. And 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.720 you know, I had a tremendous amount of love for 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.200 for Jerry Angelo. So I stepped outside, I called, actually 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.880 called Jerry and you know, I just wanted to chatted 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:00.800 with him on what was going on. And he said, hey, 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.560 is he if if if you want to go to 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.240 Buffalo and start and have an opportunity to start, and 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.440 you know by all means you know, we won't match 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.160 the offer, but if you want to become a Chicago 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.520 if you want to stay in Chicago, bear, if you 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.840 you know, think that you know we are fit for you, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.080 you know, as you know, we love you, we have 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.480 a plan for you. You know, I'll might match that offer. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.320 And now he had seven days to match. I told him, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.080 you know, I'll know, yeah, stay in Chicago. And you 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:34.000 know it worked out just incredibly for for the next 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.720 few years, I mean, and the ending up being here 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.920 you know, ten years plus, it was it was pretty special. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.400 Is when you look back at it all and all 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.160 the success you've had in sports because you change your 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.040 body style, you change your career, you moved around positions, 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.200 You did things that has not really expected of a 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.920 guy your size, like your kickoff, coverage ability and stuff. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:10:00.400 What's the most common trait between sports and business sas 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.760 what's the one thing that you need in both? But 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.840 I would say the number one I guess, yeah, trade 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:11.120 or just skill set that really correlates between both sports 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.360 and businesses. Just perseverance. Right, It's just you've you've got 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.920 to be able to continue to work and grind and 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:21.600 just you know, continuing to to to pay that price 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:27.559 to do what's necessary and knowing that eventually the outcome 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.560 is going to happen, right, especially when you're talking about 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.200 startups as an entrepreneurs though, to that work ethic and 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.400 that perseverance are are two, you know, two skills that 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.920 you must have, especially at to play elite at an 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.520 elite level of football. At the NFL, you know, every 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.520 year I was there, they brought in a new starter, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.640 They brought in you guys, they were trying to replace me. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.560 Every year, especially towards the end there you know they're 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.960 bringing in really young talent to guys, and you had 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.920 to just continue to work grind, especially in the offseason. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.600 The easy part is on Sunday, right. The real work 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:05.000 is preparing the body, preparing the mind, and then continuing 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.439 to work when there were setbacks. Right when hey, Corey 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.000 woutin's going to start this week? Right, I'm like, man, Corey, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.920 would's gonna start right, Except it doesn't matter. You show up, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.080 You keep working and you support the guys around you. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.880 That's the same and the life as an entrepreneur. You 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.760 just keep working and grinding. You got to be able 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.160 to pivot change. You know, is he wants you to 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.800 play three technique. The next year you're back to to 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.480 you know end and then you're playing nose. We want 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.199 you to you know play just kick kickoff or or 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.199 kickoff return. You know. It's just it's trying to consistently 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:42.400 find value about it too. He is. The part of 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.680 the success you've had is um you physically. You could 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.120 always go the next day and you could prove yourself 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.040 every day on the practice field, every day in the 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.320 game field. How do you what advice would you give 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.480 to me or anybody else who played football a physical 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.720 sport their whole life, but now they have to go 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.079 and prove their self meant on a regular basis. How 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:06.560 do you make that transition? Well, there's just there's no 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.360 I'm just a really strong believer that there's no magic right, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.200 there's no magic button or no wand to wave right. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:17.679 It's just about the commitment right. No, not about emotions, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.760 not about how you feel. It's about making that commitment 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.080 to yourself that you're going to do what's necessary right. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:24.839 And at the beginning of that journey, it's hard, right 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.679 to get up, to just continue to grind, to work, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.520 to learn, to just be intentional about learning, educating yourself, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.640 win or lose. Right, you make a mistake, you get 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.040 up and you do it again, You do it again, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.520 and with that commitment and that repetition of continuing to 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.640 do it, eventually that becomes your habit, right, that becomes 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.760 your mindset. It's just ingrained in you. But it's it's 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.360 a process. Right at first, it's like work. It's hard, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.800 it's challenging, you don't know if you can continue. Right, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.040 it's you know you're you're doing things that aren't are 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.199 aren't comfortable right getting out of that. You got to 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.520 get out of that comfort zone. And that repetition due 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.040 to that commitment makes that mindset, It locks it in place. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.600 It makes that that thing that you've been doing over 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.960 it turns it into just like your your reaction, right, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.559 you're not thinking about it. It's just how you wake 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.640 up and how you function. And and it starts with 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.920 just that commitment, regardless of external circumstance, that you're gonna 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.880 show up, you're gonna do what's necessary, you're going to 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.400 put into work. Israel dona Ja our guest. You're on 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.240 Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.120 the Score. I got knocked off the air, so I 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.600 don't know exactly what question you asked in Big Time, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.319 but let's dive into what you got going on in 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:39.240 the South Loop right now. Restore Jim the rstr And. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.160 I heard you. Uh, you're like what a third of 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:47.360 the man you used to be? You know, I've lost 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.120 was seventy eighty pounds. You know, we opened up a yeah, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.439 a boutique fitness studio here in the South Loop, and 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.360 you know, ultimately just to help people transform their bodies right, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.680 and and you know, as you know, transform warming the body, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.840 it really starts with the transformation of the mind. How 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.520 you're saying, how you prepare, how you work. So I 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.679 interrupt you. Why did you say, as I know, what 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.680 do I know about transforming a body? I've been the 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.200 same short, stubby guy for as long as I've been 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.800 a lot up. Listen, the last time I saw you, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:20.160 you were looking leaning in me. You're looking good, I 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.480 interrupted you, So keep going. I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.840 so so um, you know, to be able to lead 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.120 others in that journey, you know, you got to be 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.320 right yourself. So I just I just you know, at 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.000 the beginning of the pandemic, I made just commitment to 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.200 continue or just to start to like sharpen my weapon 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.280 and get my body back in fighting shape. And so 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.120 I could just be a better leader in the process 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.600 of leading our members UH to achieve their vision for 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.120 what they wanted to look like physically. And these are 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.960 half hour workouts, thirty minute workouts. Yeah, and that's when 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.640 we began. When we first opened, I just really felt 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.120 that the future of fitness was was going to be 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.880 these thirty minute workouts. And that you good transform your 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.040 body with just a commitment to thirty minute workouts, you know, 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.640 four days, five days a week really specified on on 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:13.280 building muscle on the body, legs, back, chest, arms, right, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.760 and then with some nutrition added to that, you can 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.200 really move the needle and start to see your body change. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.280 You know, Israel, are we spend our whole life trying 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.760 to be stronger the next day than they were then 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.080 we were the day before. When you talk about the 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.280 stages of the bodies that we go through after our 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.680 career is over. This is this a low impact type 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:39.360 of workout or is it a workout that you are 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.040 going to raise your heart rate to the extreme and 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.000 you know, push yourself to the type of exhaustion that 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.840 you faced on the football field, whether a hot training camp, 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.480 practice or even a conditioning session. Yeah, it's it is 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:57.440 low impact but high intensity, right, so you are going 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.000 to get your heart rate up. We have an a 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.680 fault bike like and you know everybody, you're gonna ride 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.000 the assault bike. You're gonna drive for thirty seconds, sixty 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.680 seconds and then go straight into mountain climb bearers or 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.800 other movements. So your heart rate is gonna We're gonna 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.080 drive it hard, You're gonna have short work windows. But 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.200 the beauty of it is like it, we want to 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.040 meet you where you are, right, So you push hard 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.720 as hard as you can, and you know, if you 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.120 need to slow down, slow down right Whenever you're ready 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.120 to get back into it, get back into it. But 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.320 what you find is just gradually continue to push your limit. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.440 You go a little bit longer than next week, you 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.320 go a little bit longer than next week, and before 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.120 you know it, you know you can ride the full 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.040 sixty seconds, so you can do the full workout. But 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.880 you know, we wanted to build something that was low impact. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.160 You know, I had a serious right knee injury throughout 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.240 my career, and you know I didn't want to do 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.360 a workout that every time I finished a class my 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.000 right knee was just torn up and you know, inflamed 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.600 and soul, and so you know, that was like the 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.960 base of where we started. Anybody we have, remember that's 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.440 seventy four years old, right, she does the same workout 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.920 everybody else does, but at her level, and we wanted 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.200 to make sure it was something that could meet everybody 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.840 where they were at, whether a lead athlete or someone 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.760 just getting started, you know, Israel Dnaje, when you get 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.880 to meet a lot of your people, you're always so 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.160 well dressed. You present yourself in a suit. So I'm 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.560 just saying the way you look, your appearance. And then 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.000 sometimes you know, are people more interested in the Israel 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.520 Donaje of all the professional athlete, Israel Adnaje, or Israel 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.719 Adnaje the businessman and the impact you're having, you know, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.159 all over the business world right now, Well, I mean 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.120 it all depends, you know, on kind of where we are, 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.400 where I am or the circle. I will say, it's 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.320 even all these years being removed from the game, you know, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:49.320 I retired officially twenty four team or twenty fifteen officially, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.920 and just a love that I'm fortunate to still get 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.320 in the city and when I travel, it's it's pretty special. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.679 And I'm just thankful to have been a part of 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.920 the club for so many years, you know, ten seasons 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.320 in in Chicago, and and so when any time I get, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.520 you know, love for from that chapter of my life, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.000 it's it's just special. I really just appreciate it. I'm 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.240 thankful to our fans because if not for them, you know, 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.959 we don't have the fortune to do what we do 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.560 day in and day out. Um. And then for the 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.239 work we do in the community, whether it's you know, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.320 with the with the schools, or with you know, the officers, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.880 or or any of the initiatives that we run, you know, Um, 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.639 the support that I get there as well is incredible. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.320 But I always have to press the point that when 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.520 it comes to like impact work and the work we're 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.280 doing in Chicago, I'm I'm a very small part of 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.080 that team. I'm fortunate to be just again on a 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:46.320 team where everybody's bringing their best to like solve some 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.520 major issues in our city. And you know, I'm fortunate 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.919 that I had this platform called the NFL and you know, 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.760 this platform of being a Chicago Bear, and that I 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.919 can bring that to the table and hopefully create some 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.480 value so we can drive awareness to these initiative initiatives 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.439 that we're trying to basically end or solve for the 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.960 city of Chicago. All Right, we're gonna let you go, 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.920 but before we do, I understand you now are a 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:16.280 franchise co owner as well. Congratulations, one of the owners 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:20.840 of the Chicago Red Stars. You know, Yeah, touch on 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.280 that quickly and How exciting is that. No, it's it's 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.840 really special. You know, as you know, Chicago is a 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.639 sports city, you know, from the top to bottom, and 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.399 you know to you know, while I played, actually I 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.679 didn't know much about you know, the Red Stars, right, 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.439 And to have this incredible group of athletes right here 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:45.320 in our city that are just legendary in this league 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.560 that we're in, um the NWSO. And now to be 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.920 able to be a part of an ownership group that's 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.600 working to take this team and really the league to 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.479 the next level, it's pretty special, right. We have some 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.719 great players, we have some incredible talent, and and the 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.359 awareness of our club and what we've done, the history 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.640 of the club and what we're about to do. That's 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.520 what I'm really excited about sharing with the Chicago fans, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.400 with the community, and just getting people out when we can, 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.880 obviously when the world gets back to some normalcy, get 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:19.320 more people out to those games. All right, Israel, appreciate 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.080 you coming on. Everything you touch turns to gold. So 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.359 and get double A and that Jimmy yours will you. 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.800 Hey he's been working hard, man, he's been working hard 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.720 on that and that heavy bag. So yeah, he's doing 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.480 I mean he's offt the town of late too. He's 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.840 doing a great job. Yes, yes, all right, come on 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.240 again talk to us. Will you appreciate it? All right, fellows, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.600 appreciate you. Take care Israel Dona Jay six six, two 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.399 seventy five when he started and who knows what wits 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.119 he played that over the course of his career, but 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:51.719 a long career and a very good one as well, 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.120 twenty nine career. SAX, Gonna take a break, our first 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.600 one to night here and Bears All Access on Chicago 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:01.200 Sports Radio six seventy to score everybody. Jeff in time 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.399 back with you on Bears All the Access brought to 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.880 you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for your home 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.560 at igs dot com because every good choice adds up 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.080 to a better world. You know, we just finished talking 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:12.920 abot Israel. Donagy coming up at bottom of the hour, 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.040 Bears you other manager Ryan pace for about ten minutes 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.200 to join us as well. You know that I keep 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.720 talking about this. It's gonna be fifteen year anniversary of 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:21.880 that twenty oh six team. Unfortunately they did not win 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.480 the Super Bowl. But you know, you think about the 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:26.679 stars on that team, and you think about what it 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:28.919 takes to get to a Super Bowl. It also takes 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:33.440 the collective group of role players. And if you really 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.479 think about a lot of those guys were tremendous football players, 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.159 some of whom went on to win Super Bowls with 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.920 other franchises. And the guys that come to mind are 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:46.320 like Brendan iam Meade, Joe and Corey Graham, Adrian Peterson 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.679 probably an underrated aspect you think about. I was just 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:53.400 talking with Olden Cruz, the Alfonso Boone. I mean, all 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:58.080 these guys that were considered, you know, nice players, but 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.920 in the collective you after towards fifteen years, look, boy, 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.359 almost every player on that defense was a name player. 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:11.959 Offensively that offensive line, name players. When I see some 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:14.720 of those guys because we go out where we watch 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.280 him every single day, We watch him from the beginning 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.639 of training camp to the end of the season. And 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:24.919 sometimes they achieve higher expectations that iv I or we 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.480 have set up for them, and some of them don't 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.400 achieve what we hope they would because we see glimpses 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.600 of greatness, whether it's in a game or in a practice. 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:35.720 And that's one of the things about a guy like 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.280 Izzya Donaje is he was a great athlete. He didn't 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.000 have a lot of notoriety coming in. He was willing 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.280 to do every single thing that was asked of him, 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.439 from losing extreme amounts away to gaining extreme amounts of weights, 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.600 to playing a more physical version of his position than 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:58.879 play of the outside covering kickoffs. The destructive force he 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.199 was on that And you know, you see some of 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.879 these guys and what they're able to mold and build 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.600 themselves into, you kind of get an indication why they're 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:11.480 so successful when they leave the sport in Israel. Donaje 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.440 is a great example of that. They have a lot 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:16.520 of other guys, a great guys on that team, great personalities. 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:20.120 I think it's worth celebrating that this journey that they 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:23.080 all took and what they've done after their careers. You know, 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.080 you talk about Israel, but you can also talk about 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:28.560 a number of players they stayed in the Chicago area. 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.359 They like being here, like being a part still of 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.600 the Bears organization. You got you know, Jason and Rashid 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.800 coaching over at Carmel High squad in Mound the Line 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.720 now giving back a little bit to these kids about 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:44.760 what it takes to be a professional and how go 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:47.320 about the process of being a good football player and 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:50.119 a good student, and on and on and on. We 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:51.800 could go on and on and on, but there's a 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.800 lot of great stories yet to be told because I 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:57.080 every day, you know, in Dan Pompey has been writing 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:00.560 stories about some of your old teammates and things I've 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:03.560 never heard of before, which obviously you've heard all of 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.440 them because you lived it. But there's always something that 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:09.200 you never knew before. And that's what I love about 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:13.680 learning about this stuff, right and you know, the more 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.320 modern day, modern day guys that we get to know 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:19.760 because you know the eighty five Bears, you know, they're 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.160 a team of so long ago. The accomplishments of some 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:25.840 of the young guys that you're talking about, because there's 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:29.520 other ex members of Bears that are coaching college programs 0:24:29.520 --> 0:24:33.000 in high school programs around the country, and everything that 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:36.480 they've invested in theirselves, they're able to pay it forward 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.320 to the young guys and the young girls that they're 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:42.240 coaching in their sports of choice. And I think it's 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:46.400 cool for Israel Adonoge to get involved in the soccer 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:50.040 team in Chicago because I'm telling you, it has an 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:52.760 impact in the area, and the success of that team 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:57.040 impacts the surrounding communities of the stadium and wherever people 0:24:57.119 --> 0:25:00.240 come from to watch it. So I think it's a 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:03.359 pretty cool, a pretty cool endeavor that Israel's taken on. 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:05.560 All Hey, we're gonna take a break up. By the way, 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.720 Jimmy Graham tweeting today that he wanted to get ahead 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:10.920 of it a little bit, but he's okay. He was 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:13.679 in an accident this morning down in Miami, trying to 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.160 avoid a disabled vehicle in the center lane. His car 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:21.600 rolled over, but walked away unscathed. He said one word, simple, 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:25.920 Tom blessings and yes he is fortunate and lucky. So yeah, 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.680 no doubt about it. I'm amen before him. All right, 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:31.520 coming up, Ryan Paced, Bears General manager, to join us 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:33.000 here at the bottom of the hour. This is Bears 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.760 All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:40.040 Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:42.680 IGS Energy. With Tom there, I'm Jeff, Joni Act. Good 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:45.360 to have you alongside along with Adam Stazinsky, our producer 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:48.800 and time now to welcome in Bears General manager Ryan Pays. 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:52.280 Taking time out of what is a extraordinarily busy time 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:55.880 of year. Joined the Zoom crowd earlier this week along 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.560 with Bear's head coach Matt Nage, to get us up 0:25:57.600 --> 0:25:59.800 to date on some things going on in the off season. Ryan, 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:01.440 think for joining us. Good evening. How are you doing? 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:04.960 I'm good, guys. How you guys doing doing? Okay? You 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:07.680 know some are better than others. Because Tom's in Maui, 0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:10.440 so you know he's enjoying the sunshine, so maybe we 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:12.919 should rattle his cage a little bit. Ryan. You know, 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:17.000 we're we're over here grinding and he's on vacation. Get 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:20.680 any surfing in Tom as much as I can, Ryan, 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:22.880 That's that's the reason I'm here, is just to take 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:25.080 advantage of the surf out here and some of the 0:26:25.720 --> 0:26:28.359 nice weather. I do feel guilty when I see the 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:31.920 daily weather reports throughout the month of February and see 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:36.159 what everybody, including my family, is struggling through. But I 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:38.439 think the surfing has taken an important role in my 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:40.880 life and it keeps it going. Yeah, one day I'll 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:47.400 invite us out there, Ryan, for sure. Anyway, so this 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:50.359 time of year is is a challenging one for general 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:52.679 managers and head coaches. This would be ordinarily be the 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:55.360 you know, right around the combine time or after the combine, 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:58.160 but all the teams get in front of the media 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:00.399 and they ask a lot of questions about things that 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.920 you're not going to answer, and that's about personnel decisions 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:06.919 that you plan on making and free agency, trades, draft whatever. 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:11.719 So it's it's very interesting to try and piece together 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:15.240 then what the plan might be. And so it's something 0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:18.800 you acknowledge. But is it hard to answer questions this 0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:21.760 time of year? Yea, death it is, because you know, 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.240 you want to answer the questions and you want to 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:27.240 be forthright, but it's it's hard because it's competitive, you know, 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.000 and everybody's listening to what everybody's saying right now and 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:32.720 trying to read between the line. So you just got 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:34.600 to be careful with it. But but I understand it, 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:36.200 and uh, you know, it's part. It's part of this 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:38.480 time of year. But you know, we had a lot 0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:40.760 of big decisions coming up and we're all in the 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:42.320 office now. It's good to be in here. You know, 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:44.840 this time last year we were all kind of you know, 0:27:44.880 --> 0:27:46.720 getting kicked out of the office. So it's all it's 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:48.760 good to be in here with the coaches, and it's 0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:51.800 going through all our preparation. I want to take you 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:55.159 back to the Super Bowl actually, because with Tom Brady 0:27:55.560 --> 0:27:58.600 winning the MVP for Tampa Bay winning a Super Bowl, 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:01.479 but the defense easily as a unit could have won 0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:04.280 the MVP of that Super Bowl because of what they 0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:07.879 did to an outstanding offense in Kansas City. Do you 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:11.840 look at that at all when you go about, now, okay, 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:15.480 where does this franchise have to get to in terms 0:28:15.520 --> 0:28:19.040 of style and so forth? Because it is a sum 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:22.040 of the parts, it's not necessarily Yes, the quarterback position 0:28:22.160 --> 0:28:25.560 is ultra important. Everyone gets fixated on it. You do 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:29.280 as well as a general manager. But is leveraging the 0:28:29.320 --> 0:28:34.239 importance of what's happening around the quarterback equally important and 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:38.000 maybe overlooked in many respects because this week and the 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:40.640 next week, everybody's going to still be talking about the quarterback, 0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:43.880 But it's what's going to happen around these other franchises 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:49.080 and what's put around the quarterback offensively or defensively. Yeah, 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:50.680 you know, I think there's something to that, Jeff. And 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:54.360 when you watch that at defense, you know, with Todd balls, 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:57.120 as they got rolling, they got better and better as 0:28:57.160 --> 0:29:00.360 the year progressed the Tampa defense and you know there's 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:02.080 a lot of there's a lot of good draft picks 0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:04.360 on there. Jason like did a good job and you 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:06.400 kind of saw it all come to head in the 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:08.440 playoffs and in the super Bowl, and you know, I 0:29:08.440 --> 0:29:09.920 think you look at our defense and a lot of 0:29:09.960 --> 0:29:12.320 the young talent with you know, you can go on 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:16.440 with with blow and Eddie Goldman coming back and Roquan 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:19.400 and Jayleen Johnson and let men go on in Eddie Jackson. 0:29:19.440 --> 0:29:23.280 But it's you know, it's it's accumulation of that talent developing. Uh, 0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:26.800 you know in your own system drafting well, and you 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:29.280 definitely saw it for that defense. But I think I 0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:33.320 think we have a lot of that too. Hey, Ryan, Um, 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:35.640 just a little bit about the coaching staff, because you 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:37.840 don't know what guys are coming or going, and it's 0:29:37.880 --> 0:29:41.040 hard to anticipate that when a coach like Patton comes 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:43.600 on the market. Do you have to react fast or 0:29:44.320 --> 0:29:46.680 is this a process that you can linger on and 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:50.520 think about what direction you want to go in. Yeah, 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:52.360 you know, I think it's a balanced Tom. I think 0:29:52.400 --> 0:29:55.160 you do got to react fast. It's almost like I 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:57.040 look at you know, that that phase when we hire 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.680 coaches almost like free agency, and sometimes even more so 0:29:59.720 --> 0:30:03.080 because they can be multipliers and it's like it's like 0:30:03.120 --> 0:30:05.040 a quiring a player within your division. You know a 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:06.880 lot about him, you know, playing them twice a year, 0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:08.600 So we know a lot about Mike Betton and have 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:10.920 a ton of respect for him, and and and you 0:30:10.960 --> 0:30:12.640 know Matt has a ton of respect for him. So 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.000 when he became available, we you know, we were able 0:30:15.000 --> 0:30:17.320 to act pretty quick, you know. But I think there's 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:19.720 a balance too, because you've got to make sure no 0:30:19.840 --> 0:30:22.080 different than the culture in your locker room. You know, 0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:24.160 we have a culture you know upstairs with our staff, 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:25.520 and you got to make sure it's a good fit. 0:30:25.680 --> 0:30:29.000 And you know, Sean Desai was very involved. And I 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:31.680 think when you get all those pieces together and everybody 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:34.280 balances each other out and we all drop our egos 0:30:34.320 --> 0:30:36.880 and what's best for the team, I'm we're excited to 0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:39.160 have him. So he's a really good addition. You can 0:30:39.200 --> 0:30:41.560 already feel it within the building. He's putting in a 0:30:41.560 --> 0:30:43.400 ton of reports right now in free agency. I was 0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:45.520 just just reading a couple before we get on the phone, 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:49.160 and you know, just his experience and his perspective on 0:30:49.240 --> 0:30:52.680 things is very valuable for us. You know, when you 0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:55.360 Jeff talked a little bit about where you guys would 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:58.680 be if it was a normal NFL year, and you know, 0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:00.880 you got some talent has come in the league. That's 0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:04.240 a redshirt sophomore that's only played a couple of college games. 0:31:04.560 --> 0:31:06.400 And I don't know if this is a silly question 0:31:06.440 --> 0:31:09.200 a reality a real question. When you go back and 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:11.720 you try to look at as much information about these players, 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:14.800 would you ever have to trace the steps all the 0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:17.400 way back to their senior year in high school because 0:31:17.760 --> 0:31:20.080 maybe they don't have enough of a guy playing a 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:23.680 position at the college level but he's eligible for the draft. 0:31:25.160 --> 0:31:27.680 I don't think that's silly at all. We do that, 0:31:27.800 --> 0:31:29.720 we go, we go all the way back, and we 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:32.520 do that in normal years, you know, just especially a 0:31:32.560 --> 0:31:34.800 lot of times for the character too. But you know 0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:36.680 it's hard. I mean, let's if a guy opted out 0:31:36.720 --> 0:31:39.160 in the twenty twenty season, and you know, you're going 0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:41.240 all the way back to twenty nineteen. We talked about 0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:43.480 a guy the other day that was opted out, was 0:31:43.480 --> 0:31:46.760 injured in nineteen, so you're looking at eighteen tape. So uh, 0:31:46.920 --> 0:31:50.280 you know, it's it's it's a difficult evaluation. Our area 0:31:50.360 --> 0:31:53.360 scouts are so valuable in this process because you know, 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:55.000 there are boots on the ground, they're the ones in 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:59.600 the school. But information is harder to obtain this year. 0:31:59.640 --> 0:32:02.360 It's precedent at times, so we got to lean on 0:32:02.360 --> 0:32:04.760 our scouts. We got to lean on different avenues to 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:07.600 collect that information, and that's what we'll do. You know, 0:32:07.600 --> 0:32:09.680 you talk about the coaching staff bringing in the guy 0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:13.880 like Tom Herman this week. He has so much intel 0:32:14.400 --> 0:32:16.480 on these guys in college right now, and it goes 0:32:16.520 --> 0:32:18.240 all the way back to recruiting them, you know, being 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:21.160 in their homes recently. So it's there's a lot of 0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:25.080 different ways we can use different avenues to our advantage, 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:28.160 and this is a year to maximize that. Ryan Pace, 0:32:28.240 --> 0:32:30.400 our guest Bears General Manager for a few more moments 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:32.960 here on Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy. 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:37.360 Building on that your own experience and Ryan's experience, there's 0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:41.040 reasons why there's faith in both of you because of 0:32:41.040 --> 0:32:43.280 the types of people you are, what you've learned along 0:32:43.320 --> 0:32:47.120 the way as younger hires, when you got your first 0:32:47.200 --> 0:32:49.760 big jobs here now in your seventh, you're Matt entering 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:52.440 his fourth. Is there a way also, I'm using that 0:32:52.480 --> 0:32:55.560 word leverage to leverage all of that experience and how 0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:59.280 valuable is that and where does that collective experience benefit 0:32:59.680 --> 0:33:02.360 every process? Do you go about in building what is 0:33:02.360 --> 0:33:05.520 going to be your twenty twenty one team? Yeah, I think, 0:33:05.560 --> 0:33:07.720 you know. I think we both operate with a lot 0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:11.840 of humility, and you learn from mistakes, you learn from experience, 0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:14.440 and you just learn as we go through this together, 0:33:14.480 --> 0:33:16.520 and I think we balance each other well, and we 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:19.600 lean on our staffs and the continuity depth that we 0:33:19.640 --> 0:33:22.600 have in the building with the scouts and the coaches. 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.760 I think it's really valuable and it's really come together. 0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:28.800 I felt it last in last year's draft, and I 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:31.040 think the success of last year's draft when you looked 0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:35.480 at all those picks, is a byproduct from that. So 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:37.480 I feel really good about it. You know, all the 0:33:37.520 --> 0:33:39.959 experiences we've gone through, I feel like we're stronger than 0:33:40.000 --> 0:33:42.280 ever right now, and it just gives you a ton 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:44.840 of confidence going into free agency this year. That's going 0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:48.960 to be another unprecedented event with tons of players becoming available. 0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:50.640 A lot of guys are going to get cut, But 0:33:50.720 --> 0:33:53.360 I feel like we're ready for any direction it can 0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:59.360 go because of our experiences in our time on task together. Hey, Ryan, 0:34:00.080 --> 0:34:02.120 what you were able to experience from the interior of 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:05.400 the offensive line last year when you got Sam Mustifer. 0:34:05.560 --> 0:34:08.279 James is going to come back. Cody had his strongest year. 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:11.680 I think, ever, you still have Alex, you got Arlington Hambright. 0:34:12.440 --> 0:34:15.040 Does that blood of talent give you a little bit 0:34:15.040 --> 0:34:18.080 of freedom on the interior the offensive line, maybe to 0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:22.120 concentrate on the outside because of the development of these 0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:25.319 guys that you really didn't know what expectations to put 0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:27.200 on him when you brought him here a couple of years, 0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:31.680 both as draft choices or free agents. Yeah, Tom, I 0:34:31.719 --> 0:34:33.799 love that question because we feel really good about the 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:36.640 interior of our offensive line. And you know, both white 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:39.840 Hair and James Daniels were second round picks for a reason, 0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:42.719 and they've really grown into their roles. And you know, 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.040 I thought when we put Cody there at left guard, 0:34:45.040 --> 0:34:47.439 I thought he really settled in and played his best 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:51.040 year of NFL football. And getting James back is going 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:53.160 to be huge. You know how much upside he has 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:56.280 and he's been working his tailoff and then you can't 0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:58.839 say enough about Sam Mustifer. We're so lucky to have 0:34:58.960 --> 0:35:03.880 him and his leadership, his intelligence, his ability to calm 0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:08.400 everybody down. It's infectious. You know, he's the guy spreading 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:11.120 twenty yards down field, picking up the ball carrier, you know, 0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:13.920 just just leading the whole group, and it's so natural 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:15.960 for him. And you go back and you look at 0:35:16.040 --> 0:35:18.200 his character and Notre Dame, and you know, he was 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:21.680 the leader that that off the line room at Notre Dame, 0:35:21.680 --> 0:35:23.080 and there was a lot of good players in that group, 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:25.200 and he was a leader. And I think it's just 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:28.600 that's very natural for him, and he settled into that 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:31.600 role very well, and I think it was infectious to 0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:35.400 the entire offense. Ryan, you alluded to the fact that 0:35:35.440 --> 0:35:37.400 we'll let you go here in a moment. You alluded 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:39.360 to the fact that the next couple of weeks and 0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:43.879 maybe even the next month could be crazy. I'm paraphrasing 0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:47.680 what you're saying. Can you kind of put into context 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:51.000 what you think it will be like out there with 0:35:51.120 --> 0:35:55.920 teams cutting salaries or not salaries, but cutting some of 0:35:55.920 --> 0:35:59.240 their assets because of the salary cap and whatever else, 0:35:59.360 --> 0:36:03.279 and maybe it's going to be an unprecedented glut of 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:07.439 people out there that will create opportunities for some really 0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:11.160 smart decisions. I think so, Jeff, you know, talking to 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:14.640 agents around the league, and I think that everyone's expecting 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:17.040 that and we're prepared for that. You know, you had 0:36:17.080 --> 0:36:19.640 the guys that you know are going to be unrestricted 0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:21.880 free agents, and we had those guys graded, and we're ready. 0:36:22.120 --> 0:36:24.600 But there's a lot of you're predicting who's going to 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:26.200 get cut and who's going to be available, and we're 0:36:26.200 --> 0:36:28.680 grading those players and we just mix them in, you know, 0:36:28.680 --> 0:36:31.120 on the board, and you know, especially at the positions 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:34.239 of need that we're focused on and what's realistic for us, 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:36.919 and it's just working through that. But I think there's 0:36:36.960 --> 0:36:39.719 going to be some surprise cuts too. And you know, 0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:43.000 we grade a ton of players. You know, everybody's graded 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:45.160 every every year in the league. And we got multiple 0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:48.440 reports and I think having that many reports in the 0:36:48.480 --> 0:36:52.120 system and all hands on deck with our scouting department, 0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:54.960 our coaches is really going to allow us to maneuver 0:36:55.320 --> 0:36:58.160 and tivot as it happens this offseason, because there's going 0:36:58.239 --> 0:37:00.000 to be a lot of that as these guys are 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:02.360 getting released, and I think We've got to be ready 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:04.959 to react quickly, and we will be. Ryan, we really 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:06.880 appreciate it. Before I let you go, I know um 0:37:07.480 --> 0:37:10.919 Field Yates from ESPN listed all the adjusted salary cap 0:37:11.000 --> 0:37:13.200 numbers for all the teams. He says, we're released by 0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:16.120 the league. Did it create more room for you for 0:37:16.440 --> 0:37:19.279 the Bears. Yeah, you know, we we've kind of been 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:21.920 operating under a couple of different scenarios and you know, 0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:24.319 we're we have a number of mine where we think 0:37:24.320 --> 0:37:26.200 it'll be, and you know, we have a plan in 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:28.000 place to make sure that we can do what we 0:37:28.360 --> 0:37:30.560 need to do with that number in mind. And you know, 0:37:30.680 --> 0:37:33.919 I'm always very complimentary Joey Lane, and there's a reason 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:35.440 for that. We've been together for a long time and 0:37:35.480 --> 0:37:37.480 he's really created with how we do these things. And 0:37:38.160 --> 0:37:40.000 I have a lot of confidence going in free agency 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:42.200 with him by my side and how we handle that. 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:44.600 All right, Ryan, appreciate it so much for coming on. 0:37:44.840 --> 0:37:47.560 I hope to talk to you soon. You guys too. 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:50.560 Thank you. That's Bears gentlemanager, Ryan Pace. We're gonna step 0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:52.560 away for a break. This is Bears All Access. We 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:54.960 brought to you by IGS Energy, and this segment of 0:37:55.000 --> 0:37:57.840 Bears All Access, also brought to you by Athletical Physical Therapy. 0:37:57.880 --> 0:38:00.239 Visit Athletical dot com to request and a point in 0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:04.160 clinic or virtually start feeling better Tomorrow. Back with Tom 0:38:04.200 --> 0:38:06.880 after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score, 0:38:07.760 --> 0:38:10.520 The Chicago Bears Network presents Inside of the Bears, brought 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:13.520 to you by Verizon. Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeden cover 0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:15.640 the world of Bears football on and off the field 0:38:15.640 --> 0:38:17.879 every Sunday night at ten thirty five pm on Fox 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:20.960 thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:24.520 Com around the Bears official app. With Tom There, I'm 0:38:24.560 --> 0:38:27.080 Jeff jonah Yak. Welcome into the program, our producers, Jordan 0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:29.800 trut Up, Dan Billy and in our Score studios Adam 0:38:29.840 --> 0:38:32.600 Stadzinski helping us out along the way. Heard from Israel, 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.440 Dona Je and Ryan Pace Tonight, Tom some other news 0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:39.160 of the day today is the process that we kind 0:38:39.160 --> 0:38:41.480 of alluded to with Ryan is there's going to be 0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:44.360 a bunch of names out there and some are starting 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:48.160 to already get released. I'd hate to be a veteran 0:38:48.200 --> 0:38:51.400 this year, but Ben Roethlisberger is, and now we'll be 0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:53.600 back for an eighteenth year with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:58.120 another chip in that quarterback bingoor, where ever you want 0:38:58.120 --> 0:38:59.759 to call it. He's gonna be in there for twenty 0:38:59.800 --> 0:39:02.160 twenty one, given up some salary, gonna make fourteen million, 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:04.480 which is a bargain for a starting quarterback, and he's 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:07.279 made a lot in his career, But in his he's 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:10.440 positioning it as Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna give up 0:39:10.440 --> 0:39:12.919 a little so we can clear some space to bring 0:39:12.960 --> 0:39:16.600 in some guys that can help us win a championship. Yeah, 0:39:16.600 --> 0:39:19.160 you know, I don't feel sorry for Ben Roethlisberger for 0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:22.120 only getting paid fourteen million dollars. He's made a lot 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:26.200 of money, but is he worth fourteen million dollars? To me, 0:39:26.840 --> 0:39:30.680 I'm a little suspicious of Ben Roethlisberger's help. If I'm 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:34.279 out there negotiating as as part of a negotiator for 0:39:34.360 --> 0:39:38.600 professional football team, my first intentions is finding a guy 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:41.719 for whatever I'm gonna pay him that's gonna make up 0:39:41.719 --> 0:39:48.480 through sixteen games. Ben Roethlisberger, excuse me, Ben Roethlisberger. The 0:39:48.560 --> 0:39:51.400 last couple of years is turned into a day to 0:39:51.480 --> 0:39:55.399 day operation, and it's it's unfortunate, and I know that, 0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:59.040 you know, he's put up on this um Steelers pedestal 0:39:59.160 --> 0:40:02.640 or the pedestal of NFL quarterbacks. But you know, Jeff, 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:05.719 just because he's telling me, I'm willing to reduce my 0:40:05.880 --> 0:40:09.759 salary to that amount, it wouldn't be a foregone conclusion 0:40:09.800 --> 0:40:12.000 that he would be my quarterback. Yeah, but he did 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:14.640 though thirty three touchdowns and just ten interceptions last year 0:40:14.680 --> 0:40:17.560 and won twelve and three and fifteen games. So he did. 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:20.000 He did do a nice job job, right, he did. 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:23.520 But you know he's he's just recovered from elbow surgery. 0:40:23.880 --> 0:40:26.160 They didn't know how long how much he was gonna 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:28.800 be able to play, so he has that same amount 0:40:28.800 --> 0:40:32.200 of uncertainty coming into the season as he did. And listen, 0:40:33.000 --> 0:40:36.279 I'm you know, hey, take a pay cut, congratulations, but 0:40:36.760 --> 0:40:39.960 I need to field a winning football team. So you 0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:42.800 mentioned to me today and we talked about the potential 0:40:42.840 --> 0:40:45.600 that seventeen to eighteen teams might might be having a 0:40:45.600 --> 0:40:48.520 different quarterback. It won't ultimately be that, but there are 0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:52.160 there are situations and scenarios that could happen. We already 0:40:52.200 --> 0:40:54.360 know Indio have a new quarterback. Jacksonville was gonna have 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:57.400 a new quarterback, Washington have a new quarterback Detroit the Rams, 0:40:57.440 --> 0:41:02.080 for sure. Everything else now is potential depending on who 0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:06.120 goes where and why. And you wanted me to throw 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:09.120 that at you. What's your angle today on this whole 0:41:09.160 --> 0:41:12.600 quarterback carousel? I just think it's not going to be 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:15.400 a great year for quarterback play when you have that 0:41:15.480 --> 0:41:18.399 many teams in the league that are changing quarterbacks. What's 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:21.680 the first thing every team says when they change quarterbacks says, Hey, 0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:24.600 we need a process of getting this guy up to speed. 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:27.920 Not everybody's going to be a Tom Brady because Tom 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:30.640 Brady was a lot was allowed to include a lot 0:41:30.719 --> 0:41:35.440 of Tom Brady into Bruce Arians in that offense. You know, 0:41:35.520 --> 0:41:39.000 Philip Rivers did a nice job for Indianapolis. Ultimately they 0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:42.200 fell show short of their goal. And every goal of 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:44.759 every team is to win the Super Bowl. But when 0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:48.200 you have that much turnover and then you have a 0:41:48.280 --> 0:41:51.120 new coach in Detroit with a new quarterback, you have 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:54.920 a new you know, coach in Jacksonville, You're gonna have 0:41:54.960 --> 0:41:58.200 a new quarterback. How is Joe Burrows going to recover 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:00.560 from a knee surgery after he has been such a 0:42:00.600 --> 0:42:04.200 good rookie season, and are they going to fortify the 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:07.279 offensive line so he can be protected, because he's not 0:42:07.360 --> 0:42:09.640 going to be able to have a long sustaining career 0:42:09.680 --> 0:42:12.640 with the abuse that he took during the career last year. 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:17.520 So I question the quarterback position going into this season 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:21.600 because there is so much turnover and that's not even 0:42:21.640 --> 0:42:24.120 counting the other pieces that are going to be missing 0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:27.640 from teams that are good with high salary guys. So 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:32.120 I just this year, does that concern you, even from 0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:37.000 a Bears perspective, then yeah, be just because listen, since 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:39.160 I've been around the NFL, but since I've been paying 0:42:39.160 --> 0:42:41.239 attention to the NFL as a young kid, every time 0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:44.680 a new quarterback has come aboard, they've always have a 0:42:44.760 --> 0:42:48.320 built in waiting game. The only guy in the history 0:42:48.520 --> 0:42:51.520 is with no waiting game so far has been Brady 0:42:51.840 --> 0:42:54.520 this year, that's not there. I'm Jeff jonah Yak and 0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:56.719 it's more segment to go. As we sit away here, 0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:59.680 this is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:04.480 seventy square. Everybody back with you. At the top of 0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:06.120 the hour, we're gonna turn it over to Arld pal 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:09.480 hub Archists. She'll entertain you tonight talking football and all 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:12.680 things sports, maybe even a little black Hawk talk. Black 0:43:12.719 --> 0:43:15.040 Hawks playing some good hockey, big time. They take on 0:43:15.120 --> 0:43:18.040 the Tampa Bay Lightning three out of the next four nights. 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:21.359 You got the Bulls hitting the All Star break with 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:23.880 wins in six out of ten games. You got Cubs 0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:26.959 and Socks baseball cranking it up, but Bears football still 0:43:27.000 --> 0:43:30.280 dominates the headlines. Man, it's the beauty about the National 0:43:30.320 --> 0:43:32.480 Football League, and that's what we're here to talk about. 0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:35.680 A couple of things up one, you know, Matt Nagy 0:43:35.760 --> 0:43:38.440 this week talked about how challenging it is going to 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:41.799 be this offseason. We all know that even from our 0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:46.120 perspectives to scout and analyzed college talent in twenty twenty one, 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:49.160 a big time challenge in so many ways. It's it's 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:53.200 it's definitely unprecedented. H it's real. So now that that 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:55.520 just puts more of the onus on our personnel, It 0:43:55.600 --> 0:43:59.680 puts more of the ononis on our our coaches, and 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:02.640 different phone calls that we got to make just to 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:04.120 make sure, hey, what do you know about this? What 0:44:04.160 --> 0:44:08.239 do you know about that? And then you know, just 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.680 making sure that what you see on tape is real. 0:44:10.719 --> 0:44:12.200 And then you've got some guys that don't have a 0:44:12.200 --> 0:44:14.640 lot of tape because the world went down, So without 0:44:14.640 --> 0:44:17.879 a doubt, this is unprecedented. Do you trust everything from 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:20.520 tape tim and go from there because you still have 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:23.600 to know what makes a guy tick, and unfortunately, in 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:25.560 this situation, you're not going to know until he's in 0:44:25.560 --> 0:44:28.640 your building, on your field iPads and ready to go right. 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:30.839 You know, I would like to give meet a guy 0:44:30.960 --> 0:44:33.120 face to face. I would like to talk to him 0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:36.800 eyeball to eyeball again. If I was making a decision 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:38.520 about someone that I was going to bring in as 0:44:38.520 --> 0:44:41.760 a high draft choice, I would love to go into 0:44:42.080 --> 0:44:44.879 a gym with him and either work out with them 0:44:45.080 --> 0:44:47.880 or watch them work out. That would tell me everything 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:50.879 I knew, because if you had to take a top 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:54.719 talent guy and introduce him to fifty pound dumbbells, then 0:44:54.760 --> 0:44:56.839 you're telling me all I need to know about a guy. 0:44:57.200 --> 0:45:01.880 But if this guy walks me, if this guy walks 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:05.120 me through a workout, and I'm gonna use JJ Watt 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:07.839 as an example, because there's video of him working out 0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:11.960 all the time, and that type of interest in the 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:14.360 physical element that it takes in order to be a 0:45:14.400 --> 0:45:18.040 successful NFL player. If I had a guy that was 0:45:18.200 --> 0:45:21.239 teaching me new things in the weight room, that would 0:45:21.480 --> 0:45:23.400 that would put him up at the top of the ladder. 0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:27.520 And then from your perspective, because you know, as an 0:45:27.520 --> 0:45:32.040 offensive lineman, this is extremely valuable. Is the intelligence of 0:45:32.080 --> 0:45:37.320 the game and understanding leverage and angles and what defenses 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:39.320 are trying to do to you as an offensive lineman. 0:45:39.480 --> 0:45:42.640 How are you evaluating guys coming into the league in 0:45:42.640 --> 0:45:46.919 that regard? Just from one Well, that's what I'm saying. 0:45:47.160 --> 0:45:49.880 That's all I need is do to watch tape because 0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:52.680 then you're going to be able to look at adjusted balance. 0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:56.960 Are they are they coordinated footwork? Do they understand the 0:45:57.000 --> 0:45:59.680 cadence that they're playing with and getting off the ball 0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:02.799 in a reality time where you're not laid off the 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:06.120 ball and given the defensive lineman an advantage depending upon 0:46:06.239 --> 0:46:10.160 whatever position you're scouting. I think if you have a 0:46:10.239 --> 0:46:14.560 series of a few games on tape, you can tell 0:46:14.640 --> 0:46:18.920 the story of the athleticism, the player's awareness, and the 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:22.600 player's commitment to the detail. So are you finishing a 0:46:22.680 --> 0:46:26.080 block or are you avoiding a block? Are you getting 0:46:26.080 --> 0:46:28.640 in the way of an offensive player and finishing the 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:31.160 tackle or are you trying to bounce off of him 0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:33.920 and strip the ball instead of tackling. Are you looking 0:46:33.960 --> 0:46:37.480 for work? Tom? Are you looking for work? Exactly? You 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:41.520 brought that up a lot last year and it is 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:44.760 something that I pay attention to with that that phrase 0:46:44.960 --> 0:46:47.440 in my mind, that's what I'm excited about. That's excited. 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:49.320 Scared to cut you off, but that's what I'm excited 0:46:49.320 --> 0:46:53.200 about with James Daniels, A healthy James Daniels. He was 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:57.239 looking for work last year, and that kind of mentality 0:46:57.280 --> 0:47:00.760 and nastiness is exactly what is needed on that offensive line, 0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:03.719 for any offensive line, not not the Bears offensive line, 0:47:03.719 --> 0:47:05.560 And not that I'm saying it was missing. I'm just 0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:08.600 saying I want those types of guys. But that's what 0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:10.719 I add. That's why I asked Ryan Pace there. You 0:47:10.840 --> 0:47:13.200 got a lot of talent in the interior line, and 0:47:13.320 --> 0:47:15.640 it may give you a little bit of freedom to 0:47:16.560 --> 0:47:19.640 move guys around, maybe to offer guys out there that 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:24.319 have starting ability already you know it, So you're not 0:47:24.360 --> 0:47:27.200 moving Cody Whitehair out of left guards as well as 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:30.680 he played last year in the strength that he displayed, 0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:34.120 and just how well he played and Alex did a 0:47:34.120 --> 0:47:37.200 really nice job at right guard. So the competitiveness of 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:41.080 that interior position, because to me, I'm sticking with Sam Mustafer. 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:44.080 Are you are you hoping the Bears draft and offensive 0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:48.640 lineman if they drafted. Listen, you know there's a There's 0:47:48.680 --> 0:47:51.800 something I had written down and um it was about 0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:55.600 because I see all these reports and they're predicting offensive linemen. 0:47:56.320 --> 0:47:59.120 Um I want I don't. I don't want versatility. I 0:47:59.160 --> 0:48:03.360 want reliable. So don't give me a guard tackle tweener 0:48:03.680 --> 0:48:06.880 that their position is undecided. I want to tackle. I 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:09.680 want an offensive tackle, a guy that's bred to play 0:48:09.680 --> 0:48:12.800 that position. He's got the size, he's got the measurables, 0:48:12.800 --> 0:48:16.320 he's got the understanding. Don't say I'm hiring this offensive 0:48:16.360 --> 0:48:18.720 tackle and if he fails, I can move him to guard. 0:48:19.040 --> 0:48:22.160 I have enough of those guys. I need a guy 0:48:22.239 --> 0:48:26.040 that is a dominant offensive tackle by trade and training 0:48:26.280 --> 0:48:28.480 minus scrimmage is where it's all at. Big time. Thank 0:48:28.520 --> 0:48:30.160 you so much, appreciate it. We'll talk to you next 0:48:30.160 --> 0:48:32.360 week and enjoy the sun there and Maui stays safe. 0:48:32.680 --> 0:48:35.680 Thanks to everybody out there, including Jordan Tredup, Dan Brilli, Adams, 0:48:35.719 --> 0:48:38.520 Dedinski along with Israel Dedana Jay and Bear's gentle manager 0:48:38.600 --> 0:48:41.200 Ryan Pace. We're out of time. Hubbarc Is next. Thanks 0:48:41.200 --> 0:48:43.759 for lisitening everybody. This is Bears on Access, brought to 0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:47.040 you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:47.680 the Score. Good night,