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Speaker 1: Jeff Jonnyak brought to you by IGS Energy. As we
Speaker 1: approach Jim Miller's arrival as well and our next segment,
Speaker 1: he'll join us as our guests for a few segments.
Speaker 1: We got a full show again, did I? Kiro Santos,
Speaker 1: the freshly resigned Bears kicker, would join us at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, and we'll touch base with him
Speaker 1: and talk about a lot of different things about the
Speaker 1: Bears moving forward. Good to have you alongside Sean Anderson,
Speaker 1: our producer tonight and our Score Studios. Good even Tommy,
Speaker 1: how you doing? I'm doing good, Jeff. You know it
Speaker 1: seems like each week we get a chance to talk
Speaker 1: like this and the season picks up a little momentum
Speaker 1: and whether we're talking about the rebound from a COVID
Speaker 1: filled year last year, and maybe there'll be some fans
Speaker 1: in the stands, But now they're starting to talk about
Speaker 1: the draft and the Pro days that are going on
Speaker 1: at such a rapid rate, and free agency is still
Speaker 1: a topic. So there's a lot to talk about in
Speaker 1: the NFL, a lot to talk about. With the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: they've brought on some new personnel that it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to put those guys in place and see
Speaker 1: how they fit in this team. And there's young guys
Speaker 1: that are still developing that it's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how they come into their second and third
Speaker 1: years in their career. Right just in the last week
Speaker 1: or so, some names that will touch on and discuss.
Speaker 1: But today we heard from new cornerback Desmond Trufon, was
Speaker 1: with the Lions last year, had a hamstring problem, so
Speaker 1: he was out after six games. But a veteran, a
Speaker 1: guy's on the other side of thirty. Earlier today, had
Speaker 1: a zoom call with the media and we were or
Speaker 1: not me, but they the media asked what the recruiting
Speaker 1: pitch was by the Bears. For this veteran player who
Speaker 1: took other visits as well, including to the Washington Football Club.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they loved my game, but they say
Speaker 1: it ain't too many guys walking around like too little Matt,
Speaker 1: So I know you want to play with him, So
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that was right. I mean you don't
Speaker 1: get too many opportunities to play with a guy like him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a you know, Hall of Fame type player,
Speaker 1: you know, so none but respect for what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do. I know he's gonna continue to do
Speaker 1: what he does, and that makes my life easier, you know,
Speaker 1: as a corner you know, when you got guys up
Speaker 1: front that's getting pressure like that. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for this opportunity and I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of it. For sure. Hey, when you
Speaker 1: got an asset like Khalil Mac, yeah, you throw that
Speaker 1: on the table. Because it's all about marrying pressure and coverage.
Speaker 1: And you get a primetime player like that, cornerbacks around
Speaker 1: the league certainly will get their attention. So what this
Speaker 1: means he's a you know, loved him coming out of college.
Speaker 1: He's had a nice career He's had some good handles
Speaker 1: on the balls a ball corner, but he's also had
Speaker 1: some injuries. He's in his thirty plus age and a
Speaker 1: great experience with a young guy on the other side
Speaker 1: in Jalen Johnson. I'm sure they will do more to
Speaker 1: try and reinforce that position. You can never have enough
Speaker 1: depth at the corner position, as we know. But Kyle
Speaker 1: Flier was a very durable piece to the puzzle after
Speaker 1: a slower start to his career, but really settled in nicely.
Speaker 1: But Toufont is a big corner. He's north to six feet.
Speaker 1: That's what I like, and he wants to be physical,
Speaker 1: and that's also what I like. You know, he's six feet,
Speaker 1: he's one ninety. He can run man to man coverage
Speaker 1: with you, with any receiver down the field. He has
Speaker 1: a good ability to work with defensive backs and multiple
Speaker 1: offensive receiver formations. He knows how to play his zone coverage. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: these defensive backs they got to be ready to be
Speaker 1: considered the point of attack at times when they throw
Speaker 1: those screens at him. And he's got the size and
Speaker 1: the strength to withstand the types of blocks that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to fight through and he's been around the
Speaker 1: league for a long time. I think the first thing
Speaker 1: when a cornerback compliments the outside rusher they're going to
Speaker 1: be working with. You know, it's it's pretty high praise
Speaker 1: for Khalil Mack, but it's also the defensive back understanding
Speaker 1: that the effect of Khalil Mack is going to be
Speaker 1: able to work some of these receivers into his skill set.
Speaker 1: And you got to look for you know, health, and
Speaker 1: you got to look for interceptions. And I think the
Speaker 1: Bear Sports science department will get into that hamstring immediately.
Speaker 1: They'll know how to feed them, they'll know how to
Speaker 1: hydrate them, and out of the weight room, they'll know
Speaker 1: how to work that part of his body. So if
Speaker 1: he stays healthy, I expect him to pick up in
Speaker 1: this defense exactly where he's left off in some of
Speaker 1: his brighter moments. It was a discussion point today and
Speaker 1: what hampered him last season? Yeah, I mean pretty much.
Speaker 1: You know, I just was dealing with the hemmy. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a it was just a lingering injury for me.
Speaker 1: I think I came back a little too early the
Speaker 1: first time I tweeked it and it kind of just
Speaker 1: lingered on play on a run of like four or
Speaker 1: five games, play pretty solid and then you know, and
Speaker 1: then it went out on me again. So it just
Speaker 1: one of those years. Bro. It's hard to explain, but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm doing different things with my recovery and
Speaker 1: you know, just training those areas, my hits, my hamstrings,
Speaker 1: just a whole pelvis area, you know, to have more
Speaker 1: strength endurability. But you know, I'm healthy now, I'm working grinding,
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm I'm looking forward and ready to
Speaker 1: make an impact. You know what I like about this too?
Speaker 1: He says he's hungry and that that's what I You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta now back it up when you show up
Speaker 1: a training camp and the way you play anching every week.
Speaker 1: But you know, from Atlanta now to Detroit now, Bear,
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear that hunger still be there for
Speaker 1: a guy who's you know, just hit thirty years of age.
Speaker 1: Oh me too. You know one thing you understand, you
Speaker 1: have to have balanced body and strength if you're going
Speaker 1: to stay away from those types of injuries, especially when
Speaker 1: you do get on the other side of thirty. And
Speaker 1: I think sometimes nowadays in the NFL in the offseason,
Speaker 1: you have these guys that work with these talented body personnel,
Speaker 1: that they understand how to get an area of in
Speaker 1: m in tune to go through the rigors of an
Speaker 1: NFL season, but how to get your strength and balance.
Speaker 1: And I think that's it's better that you know it
Speaker 1: well in advance so you can put yourself in a
Speaker 1: position when training, training camp starts. You are a competitive
Speaker 1: cornerback in this team. He's gonna lead by example, he says.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what your your role is as a
Speaker 1: veteran player and a guy you're replacing in Kyle Fuller,
Speaker 1: who definitely led by example. Less about his voice and
Speaker 1: his style which was one to be one in his
Speaker 1: iPad constantly and that's how he led. And many people
Speaker 1: that have played with him say the same thing about
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller. Wish him well in Denver. All right, well
Speaker 1: come back. Jim Miller would join the program This is
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Speaker 1: All Access. Good to have them along from serious x
Speaker 1: MFL radios Moving the chains with Pat Kerwin. What was
Speaker 1: on your docket today, Big Jim? What was the big topic?
Speaker 1: A lot of one year deals be inside right now,
Speaker 1: That's what's going on. So but you know what, there's
Speaker 1: no surprise about that, you know, I'm really you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because obviously this is a whole this is
Speaker 1: a domino of the salary cap, but it's not just
Speaker 1: this year. Maybe a little more acute here because a
Speaker 1: lot of deals now it's it's gonna be a one
Speaker 1: year deal. That's the way it's gonna be. And I
Speaker 1: feel bad for veteran players, I do, but we knew
Speaker 1: it was coming. The agents shouldn't be surprised yet I'm
Speaker 1: reading and hearing a lot of discord from them, But
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is everybody knew what the
Speaker 1: score was here. Yeah, I mean, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: because you know they're going to sign a one year deal.
Speaker 1: And I think for a player you do, you want
Speaker 1: to secure yourself, at least secure yourself an employer and
Speaker 1: hopefully you can get you know, as much you can
Speaker 1: get guaranteed deal if that's the case, so it guarantees
Speaker 1: you a roster spot, and some players are able to
Speaker 1: do that. But you're just trying to get to free
Speaker 1: agency next year. I mean, that's really what it is.
Speaker 1: And you hope that the market forces may be changed
Speaker 1: a little bit a year from now. The landscape is
Speaker 1: different with the salary cap going down. And you're right,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a it's a surprise at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at some of the guys that are
Speaker 1: still out there right now. Look at the running back position.
Speaker 1: You've got Leveon Bell, You've got a ton of guys
Speaker 1: that are still out there looking for work. And you're
Speaker 1: probably going to see some more players released here in
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, you know what. You know,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's interesting because when you look at
Speaker 1: some of these one year deals, the guys like somebody
Speaker 1: has sent a benchmark whatever position we're talking about, And
Speaker 1: I know there's a fluctuation between Mitch getting two and
Speaker 1: a half million and some of these guys getting ten
Speaker 1: million per year. They're a little difference of an opening there.
Speaker 1: But when you talk about the receivers, and you talk
Speaker 1: about the running backs, these guys have to be willing
Speaker 1: to accept a certain amount because they're not going to
Speaker 1: break the bank. But but some higher profile players in
Speaker 1: front of them have already taken deals that they're not
Speaker 1: going to get more than. Yeah, I don't know about
Speaker 1: you guys, because I know the Bears were in the
Speaker 1: mix for Kenny Galladay. I was shocked at what he
Speaker 1: got from the New York Giants. Absolutely shocked that deal
Speaker 1: where he got eighteen million, this guy coming off an injury. Now,
Speaker 1: I do think he's a really good receiver, and I
Speaker 1: think the Bears were in the mix for a one
Speaker 1: year deal, but for him to get the multi year
Speaker 1: and what the well just and it tells you that
Speaker 1: they had targeted a certain guy because Daniel Jones need
Speaker 1: needs help. I mean, I think they're more desperate for
Speaker 1: that situation, probably why they were willing to pay more.
Speaker 1: But I think at some point they were kind of
Speaker 1: bidding against themselves because I don't think Baltimore or Chicago
Speaker 1: We're going to go any higher with with their offers
Speaker 1: were what I thought were fair offers. You know, one
Speaker 1: year tend to tend to eleven million, dollars from a
Speaker 1: guy coming off injury. I think that's a pretty good
Speaker 1: offer for a guy who who has to show that
Speaker 1: he's healthy and can prove himself. And and that's why
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be for him a
Speaker 1: kind of a prove it deal. But the Giants ultimately
Speaker 1: ended up paying him, and I thought overpaid a little
Speaker 1: bit for his services. Jim and Jeff. I would have
Speaker 1: a question for both of you guys, do you think
Speaker 1: that he could have possibly gotten more money if they
Speaker 1: would have had a hands, hands on approach to the
Speaker 1: evaluation of his injury, because I don't know how investigative
Speaker 1: and how in depth of that investigation that they can
Speaker 1: get with these players through the COVID situation and free
Speaker 1: agency as it is today. Yeah, well they did. I
Speaker 1: mean he did take visits, visited the Bears, he visited
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. I don't know if he want
Speaker 1: anywhere else, Jim, but yeah, they did have a chance
Speaker 1: to take a look at him. I don't know. Are
Speaker 1: they giving him physicals, well, that's what I'm saying. Are
Speaker 1: they are they putting him MRI too? Yeah? And X
Speaker 1: rays and everything that they used to do years ago.
Speaker 1: If you're in the building, they can give you a physical.
Speaker 1: Because I can give you an example because Kyle Rudolph,
Speaker 1: who was also signed by the Giants, he did not
Speaker 1: pass their physical. They found an injury to his foot
Speaker 1: that's going to need surgery. So if they're in the building,
Speaker 1: you are able to give them a physical. And even
Speaker 1: prior to them signing. Say, if a guy's not visiting
Speaker 1: your and you strike a deal, that deal, even though
Speaker 1: the players signed it, it is not official until the
Speaker 1: team gets the full physical on the player and then
Speaker 1: it's basically you know, completes it. The completes the contract
Speaker 1: from that standard. He here's the weird part of this
Speaker 1: whole thing because obviously with a second wave of free
Speaker 1: agency and the visits, you can do that. The first
Speaker 1: wave you're just you're not You're hoping you're getting good
Speaker 1: merchandise and that they are but a pass your physical
Speaker 1: before they make that contract official. But it is really
Speaker 1: an interesting thing when you come down to it in
Speaker 1: free agency because you're you're circling some guys and you're
Speaker 1: hoping your agents are telling the truth. Right. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: I think first and foremost, I mean every player, even
Speaker 1: in the first way, they will get a physical by
Speaker 1: by the team that signs him. I mean that this
Speaker 1: goes back to even remember Roger Saffold of the LA Rams.
Speaker 1: He signs the big deal with the Raiders, and I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, mister Davis, Well wasn't Al Davis at that point.
Speaker 1: It was his son who took over the team. At
Speaker 1: that point, they were getting killed because they gave a
Speaker 1: guard and tackle money and I think Davis started to
Speaker 1: have buyer's remorris and so they didn't ask Roger on
Speaker 1: his physical and his rights went back to at that point,
Speaker 1: the what were the Rams back in Saint Louis, And
Speaker 1: they ended up giving a long term deal. He didn't
Speaker 1: get near as much what he got for the Raiders,
Speaker 1: but he got close. But stuff like that happens all
Speaker 1: the time. Happened last year or two years ago with
Speaker 1: Michael Brocker's Baltimore signs him to a big deal, They
Speaker 1: find an injury, he didn't pass his physical, thus his
Speaker 1: rights go back to the LA Rams. He ended up
Speaker 1: signing a big deal with the Rams, and thus he
Speaker 1: was just because they have no salary cap room, they
Speaker 1: just traded him to the Detroit Lions. So the Bears
Speaker 1: will be facing Michael Brockers on the defensive line of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions this year, so it definitely happens. All
Speaker 1: players will get a physical to make sure that deal
Speaker 1: is good. You want to make sure your goods that
Speaker 1: you purchased are wholesome. How do you guys feel about
Speaker 1: the addition of Damian Williams, Because when he was let
Speaker 1: go by Kansas City, and not just because he was
Speaker 1: familiar with the chief system and whatever the Bears are
Speaker 1: planning on doing. And Matt Now he did not coach
Speaker 1: him in Kansas City. He was there in eighteen with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I thought that was an ideal got to
Speaker 1: go after because he did opt out because of COVID concerns.
Speaker 1: So the tread on the tires. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fresh guy who can do multiple things, very productive in
Speaker 1: both in the ground game but also as a guy
Speaker 1: out of the backfield catching the football. Will start with Tommy,
Speaker 1: you know, I like it just because he is a
Speaker 1: running back. That's exactly what he does. His skill set
Speaker 1: is very similar to David Montgomery. He's not an investigative
Speaker 1: Swiss army knife like Cordarrell Patterson, where you don't put
Speaker 1: him at receiver as much as we liked him, And
Speaker 1: then when you put him at running back, he's specific
Speaker 1: about what his role is at that position. So I
Speaker 1: think that you have two very similar players in Williams
Speaker 1: and Montgomery that can be interchangeable. I don't think that
Speaker 1: you're going to fall into a pattern with one of
Speaker 1: these guys or the other. David Montgomery is still going
Speaker 1: to be the workhorse. However, I think that makes a
Speaker 1: position more powerful when you have two guys that you're
Speaker 1: not giving indicators to your defensive coordinator when the player
Speaker 1: comes in the game. Yeah, would he elected to opt
Speaker 1: out last year for the Kansasee Chiefs. We a pet Kerwin,
Speaker 1: my partner on Serious sexm We interviewed Damian the next
Speaker 1: the next day, and I just want Bears fans at
Speaker 1: all of Chicago to know the type of player that
Speaker 1: you're getting, what a high character guy is. He didn't
Speaker 1: opt out because he didn't want to play football. Okay,
Speaker 1: he opted out because his mom had stage four cancer.
Speaker 1: This guy has his priorities in order, and realistically, I
Speaker 1: know Patrick Mahomes got the MVP of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Damian Williams was the MVP of that football game. He
Speaker 1: drove it home, he sealed the deal, and he drove
Speaker 1: that team through the playoffs. It's a quality player, quality
Speaker 1: football player, a quality man who definitely has a great
Speaker 1: head on his shoulders and that his priorities are in
Speaker 1: line with what he needs to do. And I think
Speaker 1: he'll come back and be a focused player and Bears
Speaker 1: fans are gonna like what they get out of this
Speaker 1: player from Kansas City. One hundred and thirty three total
Speaker 1: yards in that game and two touchdowns and a big
Speaker 1: run that will go down in Kansas City, Laura for
Speaker 1: sure for one of that Super Bowl. But I love
Speaker 1: what he does in the passing game as well. He's
Speaker 1: been very productive and a nice thick back and he's
Speaker 1: not he's not small. He's a two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: pound back. Love the size, love the grind, love the grit.
Speaker 1: An excellent addition Tommy DeAndre Houston Carson keeps coming back
Speaker 1: my man as now it's gonna be six years. Does
Speaker 1: an outstanding job on special teams, but really made some
Speaker 1: key key plays as a dime defender last year in
Speaker 1: back to back games, we complimented his end of game
Speaker 1: play and that's somebody that's going to be quite useful
Speaker 1: and familiar to Sean Decay, like an extra coach on
Speaker 1: the field and a very smart player, you know, But
Speaker 1: he's come to a pivotal point in his career. The
Speaker 1: Bears did go and signed DeAndre Houston Carson. But if
Speaker 1: you're ever really going to be considered to come in
Speaker 1: here and compete as a starter, then this has got
Speaker 1: to be the year. He's got plenty of experience in
Speaker 1: the NFL around multiple defenses, around the coaching staff, and
Speaker 1: they've seen what his traits and his qualities are, so
Speaker 1: I think he's got he should put a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on himself, just like other players that do that
Speaker 1: want to come in and be considered to be competing
Speaker 1: as a starter. He is a starter on special teams
Speaker 1: on all on every special teams the Bears have, and
Speaker 1: he's super competitive. And then what he does have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play regular snaps. He's always mentally and physically prepared.
Speaker 1: But you know, just like every other guy in the NFL,
Speaker 1: when you sign them to your team, you want these
Speaker 1: guys to have the attitude to come in here as
Speaker 1: a competitive starter, not being content with having a role
Speaker 1: on special teams and being a backup. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know right now to Sean Gibson is still out there, right,
Speaker 1: so you got you need some safety help to protect yourself.
Speaker 1: And with resigning to Dion Bush and now DeAndre Houston
Speaker 1: Carson and what he does on the special team's aspect
Speaker 1: of it, I don't think the Bears are done there,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, we'll see what'll work because that's
Speaker 1: you know, because I think as the draft approaches, you're
Speaker 1: starting to see that some positions that need to be dressed,
Speaker 1: and I would think that secondary would be one of them.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what work they do prior to the draft,
Speaker 1: but we'll see what happens during the draft as well,
Speaker 1: because I think corner safety definitely is maybe in the
Speaker 1: mix for from this where it stands at this point
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, outside of things like the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: the full back position in the league I'm talking now, kicker, punter.
Speaker 1: The list of unrestricted free agents on the street right
Speaker 1: now is still a significant number. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys out there that can fill some some holes on
Speaker 1: your roster still if you're having the room and you
Speaker 1: can really get some good deals out there on some
Speaker 1: still some really good football players, many of which still
Speaker 1: intend on playing here in the National Football League. Weren't
Speaker 1: oh you want to say one more thing, big time see,
Speaker 1: I would be interested. So if last year's um taxi
Speaker 1: squad was going into the future, you know you're really
Speaker 1: sounding old right now when you call it the taxi squad? Well,
Speaker 1: I right, Okay, practice when you have to practice squad
Speaker 1: like last year, where you have a veterans on the
Speaker 1: practice squad that they could become a valuable immediately. Would
Speaker 1: some of these guys fill those holes if they went
Speaker 1: back to that plan of the practice squad? Yeah, everything
Speaker 1: you're on table. I don't know what the eligibility will
Speaker 1: be and if the COVID protocols will extend that opportunity
Speaker 1: even further for the Bears. We'll get into all that
Speaker 1: coming up next bottom of the hour. Cairo Santos joins
Speaker 1: the program as well with Jim Miller in town there,
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Speaker 1: Bear as a Jim good news. Oh no, not good,
Speaker 1: not good news for you if you had FI aspirations
Speaker 1: my bed, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Let me rephrase that
Speaker 1: you're out of luck on the big CBS gig. Jim
Speaker 1: Nance's resigned, So no no super Bowl on TV for you.
Speaker 1: Why am I not surprised? You know, all the rumors
Speaker 1: were he one come back, not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: make a kind of money of Tony Romo, your quarterback buddy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: good good luck to Jim Nance. I think of the
Speaker 1: deal that Romo had signed, uh, you know, and good
Speaker 1: for Tony. He's done it, and obviously Jim Nance didn't
Speaker 1: like that aspect of it. But I'm surprised at the
Speaker 1: money being thrown around. I think there's a market correction
Speaker 1: going on there as well. Well. I thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna be big ten NCAA basketball tournament. Wow there too.
Speaker 1: I thought you were buttering them up. Yeah, that that
Speaker 1: that was tough. That was tough. Your brackets probably blown
Speaker 1: out of the water. You got loyala in the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was out early. I was knocked
Speaker 1: out early. You guys know my Spartans were knocked out,
Speaker 1: and then Ohio State and now the you know, Oral
Speaker 1: Roberts and all these upsets and my my bracket got
Speaker 1: blown up pretty quickly. Let's just put it that way, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a heck of a tournament, always fun,
Speaker 1: and I think this year there were so many unknowns
Speaker 1: and however got to where they were that you never
Speaker 1: knew what was going to happen. All right back here
Speaker 1: on the Bears all actually show kiro Santos coming up
Speaker 1: in moments touch on the offensive line. They went out
Speaker 1: and brought into Elijah Woke and Tom what do you
Speaker 1: know about him from Denver? He's good, plenty of starts
Speaker 1: in his career and nearly fifty games over on that
Speaker 1: all starts. But with the Denver Broncos, both at the
Speaker 1: inside and outside positions, you know, he's an interesting guy
Speaker 1: because he just recently had a newborn, so he's taken
Speaker 1: that as internal pressure on himself to be more dedicated
Speaker 1: and successful as a football player. And sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: young fathers can go a couple of different directions. And
Speaker 1: I think he's amplifying how much important it is for
Speaker 1: him to be a good provider and his way to
Speaker 1: being a great provider as being a great football player.
Speaker 1: And I like to see that dedication in him in
Speaker 1: an interview. But here's a guy that he's really got
Speaker 1: the skill sets to play on the inside, you know,
Speaker 1: at right or left guard, probably more balanced to play
Speaker 1: at the right guard position. He does have some experience
Speaker 1: at the tackle position, and you never know how an
Speaker 1: offensive line coach wouldn't want Castillo asked he as he
Speaker 1: gets to see him on his feet a little bit,
Speaker 1: then he's got a better understanding of where his skill
Speaker 1: set will fit in. He's almost six six three twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: He's a big guy. You know, you see the highlights
Speaker 1: of him on YouTube where he's in the weight room,
Speaker 1: and he knows his way around the weight room, and
Speaker 1: that's another element that you want to see. I always say,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have to introduce a free agent
Speaker 1: to the weight room. That's not the guy I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: So I like his attitude, I like his work ethic.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's versatile. But he's coming
Speaker 1: to an offensive line that has a lot of talent
Speaker 1: on the inside and it has versatility. So it's going
Speaker 1: to be interesting to see where Juan Castillo feels his
Speaker 1: role is going to be. And go ahead, Jim Well,
Speaker 1: I just think for him, Yeah, I just think he's
Speaker 1: played both garden tackle and I would think he would
Speaker 1: be signed to be a swing tackle for the Bears.
Speaker 1: That's where I seem for all the things that Tom
Speaker 1: just said on the inside, and here's what I'll say too.
Speaker 1: Obviously was coached well out there. You gotta believe Mike Munchak.
Speaker 1: Look at how that offensive line has improved for Denver.
Speaker 1: And Tom can probably speak more about Mike Munchak and
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer and how good a job he's coached,
Speaker 1: because look at their left tackle, Garrett Bowls. I mean,
Speaker 1: many considered him a bust. He probably had his best
Speaker 1: season as a tackle in the NFL. Actually, many thought
Speaker 1: for him. He could have been easily been on the
Speaker 1: All Pro ballot. That's how well Garrett Bowls played at
Speaker 1: the left tackles. So I do think k Munchack his
Speaker 1: coaching definitely definitely reflects on the players and how they respond.
Speaker 1: And here I think Elijah really was soaking that all
Speaker 1: up over the past couple of years, and I think
Speaker 1: it'll be good now. But I see him in more
Speaker 1: of the swing swing tackle roll. That's how i'd see Wilkinson.
Speaker 1: All right. A lot of reinvestment on the Bears here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and one of those guys that
Speaker 1: they have reinvested in is joining us now, is veteran
Speaker 1: kicker Cairo Santos joining Bears. All access here brought to
Speaker 1: you by a GS Energy. Cairo, Good evening, you're with
Speaker 1: Tom there, Jim Metter and Jeff Joe Good. Good to
Speaker 1: have you along and congratulations once again. And for you,
Speaker 1: you know, this is a perfect example of opportunity, you know,
Speaker 1: taking advantage of whatever opportunities could go for any walk
Speaker 1: of life, let alone NFL football. But you've had quite
Speaker 1: the journey coming back from injury to secure the opportunity
Speaker 1: to try and prove yourself all over again, knowing full
Speaker 1: well that you could do it, but you still got
Speaker 1: to convince people, and then you did it in a
Speaker 1: grand way. How does it feel actually to anchor down
Speaker 1: now here with the Chicago Bears. Good evening, everyone us.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to talk to you, Jeff and all
Speaker 1: you guys, So thanks for having me. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned exactly what was in my mind a year ago
Speaker 1: when I was released from the Titans mid season in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and you know, just kind of waiting for
Speaker 1: a call that never happened in twenty nineteen, and then
Speaker 1: the pandemic hit, NFL wasn't allowing workout, so you just
Speaker 1: kind waiting for that opportunity and uh, and you just
Speaker 1: have to have faith that when it comes, Uh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna come, and when it comes, you have to be ready.
Speaker 1: So that opportunity, first, it came at a kicking camp
Speaker 1: that John Carney, uh kicking legend U put up in
Speaker 1: San Diego and a lot of free agents went out
Speaker 1: there and the Bears were one of the teams that
Speaker 1: were scouting in the camp, and I did really well.
Speaker 1: And then a couple of days later, I got a
Speaker 1: call that they were assigning me. They needed, you know,
Speaker 1: a COVID guy and in the NFL had allowed workus
Speaker 1: and then that was the opportunity that was looking for
Speaker 1: right there. And for me, it was a very familiar
Speaker 1: face organization, obviously from being back there in twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: with Um with Ryan Pace Uh, you know, still still
Speaker 1: there as a gym and Maggie as a head coach,
Speaker 1: new coach Tabes and o'donna in scale. So it was
Speaker 1: a very familiar spot to to step in and which
Speaker 1: allowed the process of entering as late as I did
Speaker 1: in the process, and you know, a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: later you're told that you'd be the guy, you know
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks giving them Eddie's injury, and
Speaker 1: every game was an opportunity for me to show the
Speaker 1: league again that I was I was. You know, that
Speaker 1: was just a hiccup what happened to Tennessee and then,
Speaker 1: and it didn't define my career. How it was the kicker,
Speaker 1: and I took each game to prove that. In Chicago
Speaker 1: just more and more starting to become a very special
Speaker 1: place in my life, you know, given that career, the
Speaker 1: year I had there and records I was able to break,
Speaker 1: and my son being born in Chicago in November, So
Speaker 1: everything I was rooting for to fall into place and
Speaker 1: be back there as the Chicago Bear for a couple
Speaker 1: more years. Yes, congratulations on fatherhood for you as well, Cayro.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because when injuries hit a player,
Speaker 1: some guys don't bounce back from that because there may
Speaker 1: be opportunities, but they don't see the opportunity, or maybe
Speaker 1: they just to feel, you know, if there's some swings
Speaker 1: and missus M and yours is a unique position. Obviously,
Speaker 1: with the kicking position, you guys are never truly locked in,
Speaker 1: apparently because you always have to be ready for the
Speaker 1: next move. Um, but did you ever at any point, honestly,
Speaker 1: did you ever think you were going to be the kicker?
Speaker 1: You were in Kansas City and there were there any
Speaker 1: down moments when you're like, oh man, I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is gonna work out. Um. You know, it
Speaker 1: was more physical, I thought, than than mental or technique
Speaker 1: like for a lot of you know, years after my
Speaker 1: I tore my growing there in Kansas City and Chicago,
Speaker 1: I saw, you know, there's still the good kicker, accurate
Speaker 1: but good ball striker in me. But it's just the
Speaker 1: body which is sort of know, kept tearing apart with
Speaker 1: the scar tissue that I had with you know, just
Speaker 1: losing a lot of power because of the surgery. And
Speaker 1: it's just a grind to get myself physically to the
Speaker 1: point where I was at before. And I had to
Speaker 1: so to overcome UM. You know that that thought of
Speaker 1: like my ever, is my body not going to be
Speaker 1: the same I'm not going to be able to work
Speaker 1: with the same machine that I was able to work
Speaker 1: And can that allow me to be as good as
Speaker 1: I was? UM? And I had to try to, you know,
Speaker 1: I try to change steps, try to do things that
Speaker 1: would take less pressure from the growing UM as I
Speaker 1: was to continue to fight for jobs out there with
Speaker 1: the teams, and I was being able to get the
Speaker 1: opportunities to to to sign and play for UM. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of doubts if I was ever
Speaker 1: ever physically going to be able to get there, because
Speaker 1: I knew if I did, I could get back to
Speaker 1: you know, being even stronger mentally, kicker, uh and physically
Speaker 1: because of all the lessons I learned through UH, through
Speaker 1: having those UH down years where I you know, I
Speaker 1: learned how to take better care of my body, how
Speaker 1: to get stronger and kick more quality practice sessions instead
Speaker 1: of quantity. Do a lot of mental work to prepare
Speaker 1: just for a little moments at a time instead of
Speaker 1: no just having to be relying on a long warm
Speaker 1: up to get myself ready. You know, just kind of
Speaker 1: every every moment when I'm up there and out, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, every kick, it's like I take it as
Speaker 1: a as a game kick. So I'm always fired into
Speaker 1: perform in an least amount of kicks if you will. Hey,
Speaker 1: kyro Um, you know, since Jeff and I and Jim
Speaker 1: haven't had an opportunity to meet you, we have never
Speaker 1: interviewed at you after a negative moment from NFC Special
Speaker 1: Teams Player of the Week to big kicks that you
Speaker 1: may now getting earning a new contract like this. So
Speaker 1: when you go back into Soldier Field and it's a
Speaker 1: regular season game and now you're absorbing the excitement of
Speaker 1: the crowd because the crowd's waiting to see a kicker
Speaker 1: like you now for a couple of years, how are
Speaker 1: you going to keep from being too excited and over
Speaker 1: kicking it or just you know, you're not. It's a
Speaker 1: different routine than having a crowdless stadium that you face
Speaker 1: this past year. Yeah, I think, you know, I'll just
Speaker 1: rely on the routine that I put on put in
Speaker 1: at work a practice every day, you know, just from
Speaker 1: a moment really I run onto the field, I'm replicating
Speaker 1: something that I practice over over during the week. It's
Speaker 1: just like, you know, how I go in and kind
Speaker 1: of you know, pick the spot with with O'Donnell and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the wind briefly, how I want the
Speaker 1: ball lean and so all that is just part of
Speaker 1: the routine that kind of isolates my thoughts, you know,
Speaker 1: towards the crowd, the noise, the pressure, and just like
Speaker 1: it's something that I'm doing that I do every day
Speaker 1: at practice, So when I'm out there, it's just a
Speaker 1: part of a practice routine, so it just doesn't feel different.
Speaker 1: So I think it's important to keep focus on that
Speaker 1: because I can't control that the crowd. You know, I've
Speaker 1: done it enough to to to know how to perform
Speaker 1: in those moments. Um, it was very weird you this year,
Speaker 1: not having um that crowd noise, but we also had
Speaker 1: a lot of uh, you know, trash talk from the
Speaker 1: players that we didn't normally hear that close from the
Speaker 1: sideline that we didn't normally hear, so that all that
Speaker 1: was different too. And then he kind of tested you
Speaker 1: in a in a different way that you weren't tested before.
Speaker 1: So uh, and that put a lot of more answers
Speaker 1: into and just know you try to stick to your
Speaker 1: routeam to you know, the thoughts that you can control. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the fans because you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't get to be a part of the you know,
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bear fan base when I was your back
Speaker 1: in seventeen. Just played for two games, um, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to the atmosphere. So I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be something that it's going to be more exciting than
Speaker 1: than daunting us. And I know that I have it
Speaker 1: in me to the form at the same level, and
Speaker 1: I just got to take care of that and keeps
Speaker 1: them happy. Well, Tyro Jim Miller here, welcome back. I'm sorry, Tom,
Speaker 1: but uh, I just want to go back because here,
Speaker 1: like you said, you're coming off injury. It's an opportunity
Speaker 1: for the Bears. Did you realize the situation what was
Speaker 1: going on? Because I think you're going to get a
Speaker 1: thunderous applause from Bears fans and here's why, because twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen we all know the double doin right, and Cody
Speaker 1: Parkey unfortunately had had a rough year that year, Bears
Speaker 1: trade for Eddy Pinero. He comes in, he has he's
Speaker 1: got the nerve issue, and then last year he's got
Speaker 1: the growing issue, which gives you what your opportunity to kick.
Speaker 1: And you know here you you plow through and you
Speaker 1: have a terrific year and you resign for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: What I'm asking is, did you did you realize because
Speaker 1: Bears fans were at their wits end? Bro, is my
Speaker 1: point to you in terms of the field goal and
Speaker 1: here you had such a great year last year. I
Speaker 1: think you'll get a thunderous applause. Did you did you
Speaker 1: realize what the situation was when you stepped in as
Speaker 1: a kicker for the Bears? Um? So I did, because
Speaker 1: you know something that it happened to me. Um, you
Speaker 1: know in the opposite side, back in with the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: You know, when I got hurt, they brought in Harrison Butker,
Speaker 1: Um you know it was it was they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: hoping just to get them because they got him off
Speaker 1: a practice squad at least three games and kind of
Speaker 1: judge from there, um, and and I was released, so
Speaker 1: I was like, man, like, you know, it kind of
Speaker 1: stinks just to lose your job because of the an injury.
Speaker 1: So I felt for Eddie there, but also felt that,
Speaker 1: like it was for Harrison back then, um, an opportunity
Speaker 1: for just to kind of prove one game at a
Speaker 1: time and then if it's not with the Bears, it
Speaker 1: could be with another team. But whatever how many games
Speaker 1: I'm given, UM, I'm gonna take that opportunity. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of like I could see what could beat the end,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I could make myself in Chicago at
Speaker 1: home for me, but ultimately it was just I just
Speaker 1: needed to focus one game at a time because he
Speaker 1: was just like at that point, it was just building
Speaker 1: one week resumes that would help me get back on
Speaker 1: track and to keep playing the NFL. And so I
Speaker 1: wasn't rooting to take anybody's job per se, but it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I just wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: take care of my opportunities to land somewhere. And they
Speaker 1: turned out that I really enjoyed kicking for the Bears,
Speaker 1: kicking in Chicago with that group of men and women
Speaker 1: in the organization. So that was the main thing about
Speaker 1: coming back was a getting to work with those people.
Speaker 1: Well just about your position in general. And Jeff and
Speaker 1: Tom and I have had this conversation. Are you surprised
Speaker 1: more kickers aren't in the Hall of Fame? And here's
Speaker 1: the reason why. Who decides more games? Who decides the
Speaker 1: outcomes more than kickers in NFL games? You your thoughts absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think uh and and two with the you know
Speaker 1: opportunities that you know receive many great quarterbacks, receivers you know,
Speaker 1: and that have beautiful careers, um and you know they
Speaker 1: can drop a pass here and there, can complete a
Speaker 1: pass interception here and there. But they've given so many
Speaker 1: opportunities that it can kind of wipe out those no
Speaker 1: bad you know games and years of their long careers.
Speaker 1: The kickers, you're given them. You get that one shot
Speaker 1: to to do your job, and it's terribly when you don't.
Speaker 1: And you may not get in on the kick that
Speaker 1: that week, and you have to wait a whole week
Speaker 1: thinking about that miss and and and that can go
Speaker 1: on if you just don't catch a streak. And then
Speaker 1: that's something that I I talked to my my kicker
Speaker 1: buddies that I you know in the league that I
Speaker 1: we kind of have a um a group. We've had
Speaker 1: this group going the chat, going for it for years
Speaker 1: and and we talk about each other and and we
Speaker 1: always thought that, like, man, I just speaking for myself,
Speaker 1: I just needed a streak to get me going again.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just like, you know, you have to do
Speaker 1: games one BA game to good games, and that's just
Speaker 1: kind of like you just need to catch fire to
Speaker 1: just keep keep burning, you know. And that's that's what
Speaker 1: I was sort of searching for, um, you know, since
Speaker 1: my injury, just to get an opportunity that I felt,
Speaker 1: you know, comfortable to catch a streak and then I
Speaker 1: think that would just kind of sort of propel my
Speaker 1: my career on track again. Um. But I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: kickers should get more credit. Um just how important are
Speaker 1: you know, our jobs are, and in the stress and
Speaker 1: the pressure that you know, the task is given at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, we don't need to learn
Speaker 1: a hundred of plays you know, a game and and
Speaker 1: that sort of deal. And so I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: that takes a lot of pressure in itself too to
Speaker 1: be able to remember all that. The quarterbacks, so they
Speaker 1: get all the praise and then they deserve it because
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot that they need to carry
Speaker 1: to h you know, to get to the team, to
Speaker 1: to perform at the full capacity. So um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of perspectives that you can look
Speaker 1: at and as far as kickers being the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: but I think you got to respect, no, what what
Speaker 1: we need to do to h to perform as you know,
Speaker 1: when when performing well, Hey, kiro So, as an ex
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, every offseason you try to get bigger and
Speaker 1: stronger and it kind of adds confidence to the game
Speaker 1: that you want to go out and play. As a kicker,
Speaker 1: what are your benchmarks for you know that you're getting
Speaker 1: better or you know that your body's ready to go
Speaker 1: to work for a full season. Are there different plateaus
Speaker 1: that you want to reach? Um, I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about like an offensive lineman trying to bench five hundred,
Speaker 1: but it's what are the what are the marks that
Speaker 1: a kicker looks at to know he's ready. Hey, don't
Speaker 1: sell Cairo word on the bench. I'm not I know it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm on the gunbelt bench and roaching coaches
Speaker 1: are kind of I was going too hard on the
Speaker 1: bench press, so they kind of uh, down me down
Speaker 1: to the dumbbells. But um no, I think for me
Speaker 1: it is a I've been able to learn to take
Speaker 1: care of my body more to you know, wait till
Speaker 1: I start kicking more in the mid April um to
Speaker 1: late our yeah, mid to late April um just because
Speaker 1: you don't use this time to to get stronger to
Speaker 1: and add masks. I think that helps me kicking and
Speaker 1: and I can really feel it when I start kicking
Speaker 1: the ball um where I want to be noticed as
Speaker 1: far as how I feel like my leg is starting
Speaker 1: to fatigue at how many balls H in that session
Speaker 1: and if it's getting fatigue too too fast, I probably
Speaker 1: need to do more cardio and you know kind of
Speaker 1: leg speed things. Uh. If I want to and I
Speaker 1: feel like kickoffs and not reaching where I wanted to reach,
Speaker 1: probably need to bump up the squats a little more.
Speaker 1: And that that can be done, you know when I
Speaker 1: start kicking, and because we have probably another month or
Speaker 1: two before, I think the focus should just be to
Speaker 1: maintain the body and just kick. So I think by nowledge,
Speaker 1: just trust they you know that you have to put
Speaker 1: an be accountable that you're going the weight room and
Speaker 1: you're getting stronger every day. Um. But the real test
Speaker 1: I think is U. You know, when you start kicking
Speaker 1: and you see how far, how far the ball fly,
Speaker 1: how how fast your leg is moving, how much you're
Speaker 1: being your in burns uh is holding it up throughout
Speaker 1: the kicking sessions. Um? Yeah, So I mean I I
Speaker 1: don't go to too crazy in the weight room to
Speaker 1: avoid getting hurt, but I'd like to push myself every
Speaker 1: year and every off season to um putting the work now,
Speaker 1: so when I start kicking, I surprise myself to know
Speaker 1: how farm stuff all right, Kiro, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Great year thirty to thirty two, ninety four percent of
Speaker 1: franchise record for consecutive made field goals. Got the twenty
Speaker 1: seven and one of the playoff game. Pick up where
Speaker 1: you left off man, Thanks for joining us. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you down the road. Thank you, guys, see you
Speaker 1: a couple of months, Yes, Sir. Cairo Sanchos, the veteran
Speaker 1: kicker back with Jim Miller in time after this break
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Speaker 1: NFL radios moving the chains back with you a couple
Speaker 1: segments before let you go. Jim A couple of thoughts. So,
Speaker 1: the NFL not requiring at the moment of COVID nineteen vaccine,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like much like the NBA trying to
Speaker 1: incentivize everybody to do it. How do you think that's
Speaker 1: all going to play out from a player perspective and
Speaker 1: what you're thought on? Yeah, I think, you know, like anything,
Speaker 1: I think most players will come down to their own
Speaker 1: personal decisions that they'll be allowed to make. I mean,
Speaker 1: some won't take it for you know, their specific reasons.
Speaker 1: You know, if they don't feel that they're at risk,
Speaker 1: because again, there a lot of these players are young,
Speaker 1: they're healthy, all those type of things, and some people
Speaker 1: are just flat out against getting vaccinated. I think everybody
Speaker 1: respects that from that standpoint, but you know, they'll try
Speaker 1: to do things to promote and I see they're doing
Speaker 1: it for the draft as well, teams that will be
Speaker 1: able to have ten people in their draft room if
Speaker 1: they're all vaccinated. They'll be different protocols. If teams have
Speaker 1: the vaccination and then guys that are allowed in that
Speaker 1: draft room and what they'll be allowed to do versus
Speaker 1: teams that won't that don't have that, and they'll have
Speaker 1: to go buy a different set of protocol guidelines like eating, drinking,
Speaker 1: those those type of things in the social distancing aspect
Speaker 1: of it. But you know, I mean from my perspective,
Speaker 1: I think players it will be their personal decision. Is
Speaker 1: my take, Tom, What is your best advice for players
Speaker 1: who opted out and returning this year, because you could
Speaker 1: look at it like as if they suffered an injury,
Speaker 1: but they're not rehabbing the injury. They're staying in shape.
Speaker 1: And but what are you expecting from that group of players,
Speaker 1: including Eddie Goldman. You know, they they got to be ready.
Speaker 1: They have to be ready to go as if they're
Speaker 1: you know, day one of the future of their football career.
Speaker 1: And if they're young guys, no matter how old they are,
Speaker 1: how much experience they are, they have, they have to
Speaker 1: make sure when they get in front of the rest
Speaker 1: of their peers, coaches and players that they show evidence
Speaker 1: that they've been staying prepared for whatever team they play for.
Speaker 1: And you know, however, you may do it every offseason
Speaker 1: you go through getting back into the work shape with
Speaker 1: the rest of your teammates. There's nothing like So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard, it's gonna be strenuous, but you got
Speaker 1: to put an effort to show the team that you're
Speaker 1: you're prepared to put yourself in there. Sho say you
Speaker 1: had to step away for a personal reason and could
Speaker 1: not play a season, Just play with me here. I
Speaker 1: know you wouldn't do that because you always put football
Speaker 1: first no matter what. You're one of the rare guys
Speaker 1: that way, That's for sure. That was your mentality. Would
Speaker 1: you feel rusty or would you feel fresh to play
Speaker 1: that next season? You know, I in terms of the
Speaker 1: weightlifting part of it, the running part of it, the
Speaker 1: conditioning part of it, I would feel fresh. But as
Speaker 1: soon as I got in a three point stance with
Speaker 1: equipment on, I would feel rusty. I would feel like
Speaker 1: the speed of the game has changed. I would feel
Speaker 1: like I've gotten slower and the players have gotten faster.
Speaker 1: And then things would start to even out a little bit,
Speaker 1: the more reps that you could get underneath your belt.
Speaker 1: But you know, you have a guy that you know
Speaker 1: four months ago, you know he was playing competitive National
Speaker 1: Football League play, and now and and you've been working
Speaker 1: out and doing less, it would be different. Jim, how
Speaker 1: about yourself before we let you go, how would you be?
Speaker 1: I think the younger the player are, you could probably
Speaker 1: respond pretty quickly. Like down at the Reesas Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: those players had opted out as only took him a
Speaker 1: couple of days and they were back in the mix.
Speaker 1: And then look at older players Alden Smith, remember he
Speaker 1: dismissed five years for the Dallas Cowboys with all his
Speaker 1: troubles off the field, he started with the you know,
Speaker 1: just broke out of the blocks fast. He had five
Speaker 1: sacks early in the season. He sputtered off down the stretch.
Speaker 1: So I think it had affected him in terms of
Speaker 1: the conditioning of the long haul. The older the player
Speaker 1: you are, Jim, good to have you along once again.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. Appreciate it all right, guys,
Speaker 1: going to be with you. Dad's Bears quarterback Jim Miller
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Speaker 1: Desmond troupon Today Tommy on what he is bringing to
Speaker 1: the table as a Bear's cornerback. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of experience in this game, played against a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, great players, had had a lot of success
Speaker 1: in his league as well too, So anything that they
Speaker 1: need as far as you know it's technique, you know,
Speaker 1: just anything off the field, just you know, the longevity
Speaker 1: at the game, you know, just anything. I'm here, I'm
Speaker 1: a resource for them, and that means the other cornerback
Speaker 1: sound the team good to have a veteran influence. Oh,
Speaker 1: it is, especially with that type of speed. If you
Speaker 1: have a guy that wanted to travel with both sides
Speaker 1: of the field and cover the bona fide number one
Speaker 1: receiver of the opponent, especially if he has extreme speed,
Speaker 1: Trufont can do that responsibility, and then maybe you give
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson a variety of opportunities and options depending upon
Speaker 1: where you want him in the defense. It's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to see the structure of the defensive backfield
Speaker 1: and how new defensive coordinator Seawan Decide distributes his personality
Speaker 1: if they're more movable than they've been in the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. All right, seventeen games season, aren't Rooney
Speaker 1: the second of Pittsburgh basically saying yep, that's going to
Speaker 1: be the case. With one less preseason game doesn't give
Speaker 1: a little breathing room to the season for players and coaches.
Speaker 1: If you know what I'm saying, No, it just amplifies,
Speaker 1: it just adds up. Jack's up the pressure. Now you
Speaker 1: need to be good for seventeen games, get yourself through
Speaker 1: training camp healthy, and when you hold down that starting position,
Speaker 1: try to be there week one as week seventeen. All right,
Speaker 1: that's our traveler music, Big Tom. We'll talk to you
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