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Speaker 1: Coming up tonight, we'll be joined by a new Bears
Speaker 1: outside linebacker, Trevis Gibson, one of the three fifth round
Speaker 1: picks of the Bears, the defensive and turned outside linebacker
Speaker 1: for the Bears out of Tulsa. So we'll be joining
Speaker 1: him at about six ten, So that'll be a good conversation.
Speaker 1: Good looking young player for the Bears added to their
Speaker 1: rotation up fronts. Good evening time there, How are you big,
Speaker 1: Jeff doing good? Excited to talk to Trevis. I think
Speaker 1: he's an interesting candidate this year to kind of fill
Speaker 1: a Cole comment role on defense because we're not necessarily
Speaker 1: asking you to be a finished product this early in
Speaker 1: your career. We're asking you to come in and be
Speaker 1: part of that pass rush rotation and then learn how
Speaker 1: to play the run along the process of all this.
Speaker 1: So you know Jeff and you got Cole commenting what
Speaker 1: he's able to earn and get the evaluation to be
Speaker 1: a first round, second round draft choice. When you look
Speaker 1: at a player like Trevis that went to college and
Speaker 1: gained sixty pounds throughout his college time, man, that's really
Speaker 1: interesting to me because there's a couple different ways that
Speaker 1: he's going to gain that weight and he doesn't look
Speaker 1: like he's gained a heavy chubweight. He's gained a muscle
Speaker 1: strength size that's led to speed, led to speed. So
Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for. Are in this type of
Speaker 1: this type of weight gah chub weights only for guys
Speaker 1: like me me offensive lineman, offensive lineman. They offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: interior or defensive lineman. They can gain chubweight and it
Speaker 1: can be an asset outside rushers, outside linebackers, doubt defensive rushers.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna gain chubweight. I tell you if you
Speaker 1: pop them on. And I know you were watching him today,
Speaker 1: I was as well. And he's just a he's a finisher,
Speaker 1: you know, he may not be a finished product as
Speaker 1: you say, but he's a finisher as a tackle, very aggressive,
Speaker 1: and we'll be looking forward to talk to him. Also,
Speaker 1: I want to hear how these rookie minute camp orientations went.
Speaker 1: It sounds like everything's going well. It's a different way
Speaker 1: to learn, different process. And tomorrow Matt Naggie's going to
Speaker 1: meet the media by way of zoom and we'll learn
Speaker 1: a little bit more how what he's seeing and what
Speaker 1: he's hearing. But I think it's a very different way
Speaker 1: to get to know your players time. Unlike these guys
Speaker 1: all being together in the weight room, are these guys
Speaker 1: hanging out in the locker room. There's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good ways to investigate the process and try and
Speaker 1: get everybody to learn each other. In this method, it's
Speaker 1: very different. Yeah, I think they can do it with
Speaker 1: less pressure on them because, yeah, you're starting to learn
Speaker 1: your contemporaries by facial recognition throughout the whole meeting process,
Speaker 1: and then you're going to be challenged on these meetings
Speaker 1: by coaches making sure that you in the corners paying attention,
Speaker 1: you in the third row, and your zoom meeting, you
Speaker 1: understand what we're saying here. And so those types of
Speaker 1: challenges are still there. And then when these guys finally
Speaker 1: get to go through these meetings and come into the
Speaker 1: same room, the same meeting room together, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: familiar with each other. I think the angst of the
Speaker 1: initial meeting is going to be over because a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys will be familiar with each other by
Speaker 1: meeting them through meetings, and you're also going to be
Speaker 1: able to get a judgment on their preparedness. Don't have
Speaker 1: I don't have a guy that I have to ask
Speaker 1: them three times to pay attention or three times to
Speaker 1: give me the right answer of the same material. Well,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's part of the evaluation that they
Speaker 1: are able to conduct in these meetings to make sure guys.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's like being in the classroom
Speaker 1: and somebody calls on somebody to answer a question, and
Speaker 1: you know you and I didn't want to answer those questions,
Speaker 1: not in the classroom anyway. Educationally, you know, we all
Speaker 1: live that through the process of professional football, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of unique because whether you're in the business world
Speaker 1: or you're in the sports world, you're sitting in a
Speaker 1: roomfull a room full of your peers and they're being
Speaker 1: asked the same questions and they have the same challenges.
Speaker 1: So you know, you're kind of you know, rooting for
Speaker 1: the guys as much as you're being you know, getting
Speaker 1: prepared yourself. And that's I gotta say that there's got
Speaker 1: to be some similarities in the world of business when
Speaker 1: they're under you know, a pressure filled meeting whatever their
Speaker 1: business of choices. Yeah, well, it's definitely a different process,
Speaker 1: but you know, there are no excuses, so everybody's on board, everybody,
Speaker 1: but he knows what's what's got to be done here.
Speaker 1: And you know you're not gonna hear that. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna hear it, honestly, from the front office. You're not
Speaker 1: going to hear it from the coaching staff because you
Speaker 1: didn't hear it a year ago. They don't, they don't,
Speaker 1: they don't do that. They're about solutions, right. Well, you
Speaker 1: know one thing about it, because the times are so
Speaker 1: unique in the circumstances in which they're working. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna make it easier on anybody. They're gonna try to
Speaker 1: challenge these guys. They're gonna see what types of you know,
Speaker 1: mental preparation challenges that can we put in front of
Speaker 1: you in a group atmosphere that's gonna put similar pressures
Speaker 1: on you on the live practice field or in game scenarios.
Speaker 1: And that's what it's about. It's you know, coaches are
Speaker 1: there to teach you, but they're also there to challenge you,
Speaker 1: and then they do get some a little bit better
Speaker 1: understanding how you're gonna deal with instant decisions you have
Speaker 1: to make in pressures, pack situations. Tom, if you had
Speaker 1: a chance to sit here in id the roster a
Speaker 1: little bit, the depth chart and just you know, obviously
Speaker 1: it's it's guesses right now and who's where behind the starters,
Speaker 1: But what is going to unfold when they do get
Speaker 1: on the field, Because I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good competition set up here, Gosh, Jeff, I mean a
Speaker 1: lot quarter in corner, quarterback, cornerback. If you look at
Speaker 1: two of the most important positions on each side of
Speaker 1: the ball, you're talking about competition at those two positions
Speaker 1: specifically that you can talk about all off season. They
Speaker 1: have the candidates there for the cornerback position to kind
Speaker 1: of figure out who's gonna you know, the cream rises
Speaker 1: to the top, and then every Bears fan, every coach,
Speaker 1: every player in that building, they want to get a
Speaker 1: better understanding of this quarterback competition. So when you look
Speaker 1: at this roster, yeah, I could sit there right now
Speaker 1: and probably go to a training camp roster and you
Speaker 1: get a high percentage of the guys that you think
Speaker 1: will be in the roster in the long run. But
Speaker 1: I think when you look at starting compet Titian at
Speaker 1: key positions, I think it's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: fun to see how it works itself out. How about
Speaker 1: your whole line, you know they're you know you're talking
Speaker 1: about first of all, the philosophical teaching and coaching of
Speaker 1: a new offensive line coach. And when you have some
Speaker 1: guys like Bobby Massey, Charles Leno Jr. That they've been
Speaker 1: around for a few years now, they may have to
Speaker 1: change some things about themselves in order to get the
Speaker 1: job done in accordance to what Juan Castile wants to
Speaker 1: And then when you talk about the podium visit by
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie at the beginning of the offseason, and he
Speaker 1: says he wants the offensive line to have a more
Speaker 1: physical of a reputation. That's gonna be a great challenge
Speaker 1: right there, because I think guys like Cody are up
Speaker 1: to that challenge. I think James is up to that challenge.
Speaker 1: So I think the rest of these guys, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. If you're in a new position, how do
Speaker 1: you fit in, if this is a new team for you,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this system? And then about
Speaker 1: you know about the Charles Lenno and the Bobby Massey,
Speaker 1: two of the elder statements. They have to come off
Speaker 1: this year with a new coach and have a better
Speaker 1: season than they finished last year with. That's Tim Fair.
Speaker 1: Jim Miller will be along as well from sirius XM
Speaker 1: NFL or Radio, moving the chain to former Bears quarterback
Speaker 1: and coming back. We'll be joined by a fifth Ron
Speaker 1: draft choice, Trevis gibsoner Bears outside linebacker out of Tulsa.
Speaker 1: It's all coming up. Our producer tonight is Mike Chen
Speaker 1: and this is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The score
Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back, everybody. This is Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: along with Tom Thare Jim Miller, joined the program now
Speaker 1: as well as one of the Bears members of the
Speaker 1: seven man draft class for twenty twenty. He is outside
Speaker 1: linebacker Trevis Gibson. Good to have you alongside the Tulsa
Speaker 1: Golden Hurricane? Now is Chicago Bear? Is that sounding familiar
Speaker 1: now to you? Trevis? It? Does it sound good? Hello? Yeah, Trevis?
Speaker 1: How does it feel to be a Bear? Right now?
Speaker 1: You guys are already gotten through your rookie mini camp
Speaker 1: virtually anyway? Does it feel real now? Oh? Yeah? If
Speaker 1: it was? Amazing? Man? You know, I'm really anxious to
Speaker 1: get up there and get a feel for the environment
Speaker 1: and amazing fans and just get ready to spend the
Speaker 1: next couple of years of my life there in Chicago. Hey, Trevis, um,
Speaker 1: I was reading a little bit about you and they,
Speaker 1: and I was looking at the stats between your junior
Speaker 1: and senior year. But in between your junior and senior
Speaker 1: year you went to the pass rush camp at Von Miller.
Speaker 1: What did that help you a lot? To teach you
Speaker 1: something that you could take and use throughout your senior
Speaker 1: season and you'll use throughout your NFL career. Most definitely,
Speaker 1: you know that that pass or something was truly a
Speaker 1: blessing from God just because it was some of the
Speaker 1: greatest pass users in the game currently that was obviously
Speaker 1: had there in attendance. And I learned so many things
Speaker 1: from watching funds and new techniques and you know, so
Speaker 1: many little things that I didn't really think of beforehand.
Speaker 1: And that definitely helped me my senior year to nearly
Speaker 1: double in my sets. So I was really appreciative for that.
Speaker 1: You know, you you talk about double in your stats,
Speaker 1: but you almost doubled your size. You gained sixty pounds
Speaker 1: throughout your college career. You know, not how to obviously
Speaker 1: had to be weight room, good diet, but how did
Speaker 1: you put the weight on incrementally to make you feel
Speaker 1: good as a football player and not too heavy along
Speaker 1: the journey. It was really just making sure I ate
Speaker 1: the right pools, and I obviously put the right liquids
Speaker 1: in my body. You know, I was on protein SHAKEE
Speaker 1: milk SHAKEE, peanut butter jellies throughout the night like this.
Speaker 1: Little stuff like that help many gain weight. And then
Speaker 1: obviously putting on the weightlifting behind it obviously helped me
Speaker 1: transform my body. So that was a really long process,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I knew it was something that I
Speaker 1: needed to do in order to be able to compete. Well,
Speaker 1: Trevis Jim Miller here, Welcome to Chicago and congratulations obviously
Speaker 1: a dream of yours to play in the National Football
Speaker 1: League and with a great organization for for you. I mean,
Speaker 1: how is this your your approach? You know, I know
Speaker 1: you can't be with your teammates right now and all
Speaker 1: those things in all this virtual world and everybody's how
Speaker 1: everybody's conducting things. But how have you been able to,
Speaker 1: you know, to really transfer and make this transition to
Speaker 1: try and give yourself the best chance of success in
Speaker 1: the National Football League? Um, I would say, honestly, is
Speaker 1: this you know, being as fun, taking into life stuff
Speaker 1: from the right people that's already been a part of
Speaker 1: the league, and just making sure that you know their
Speaker 1: mistakes that they made. I try to avoid those myself.
Speaker 1: So it's really just been being open to the new environment,
Speaker 1: you know, getting to know the people that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be around. Um, you know, Khalil magit me up, ask
Speaker 1: me if I need anything. Man, he was there for
Speaker 1: me and little just a little stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 1: just getting the field for everybody and being all lives
Speaker 1: a standpoint in terms of learning that defense and to
Speaker 1: give your stance yourself the best chance of success. I
Speaker 1: know about all the weight you've gained and things like
Speaker 1: that to get stronger in this conversion. For you, I've
Speaker 1: been able to maintain that as well, you know, in
Speaker 1: terms of what's going to be expected at the next
Speaker 1: level because you have grown so much. You're a lot
Speaker 1: like Roy Robertson Harrison all the way he's put on
Speaker 1: and has had a lot of success for the Chicago Bears. Man,
Speaker 1: it's really just saying in shaving, making sure that my
Speaker 1: body is gonna be ready. Now. I don't really have
Speaker 1: to gain weight anymore. I'm at the way that the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears want me yet, and it's really just about
Speaker 1: you know, finding fine tuning my body up, you know,
Speaker 1: getting more cut up. And besides that, it's really just
Speaker 1: staying and sha making something ready so when my name
Speaker 1: is called, So, I mean, I'm just taking the day
Speaker 1: by day, really just staying on top of my workouts,
Speaker 1: continue to learn to playbook and it's overall anxious. Trevis
Speaker 1: Skipson our guest here on Bears All Access Jeff Jonnyac
Speaker 1: along with Tom Thare, Jim Miller. This is to Score
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy and this is Bears All Access. Trevis,
Speaker 1: You're a high adrenaline player, relentless. That that's the name
Speaker 1: I just keep popping in my head when I watch
Speaker 1: your tape. Where does that come from? Is that something
Speaker 1: that you acquired over a time or have you always
Speaker 1: played the game that way? Um? I think I've always
Speaker 1: played the game their way. I think after realizing they
Speaker 1: only had one Division one offer coming out of high
Speaker 1: school that it's sort of a guy worse Like I
Speaker 1: just felt like I had lots of proved and I
Speaker 1: think that sort of turned it up and not for me. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, now that I'm at the NFL level and
Speaker 1: I'm working hard to stay here, is this is our key?
Speaker 1: Keep getting more some worries I'm gonna keep but becoming
Speaker 1: more descmined, Hey, Travis, under your highlight tape after you
Speaker 1: finish sacks or tackle for loss, I saw you give
Speaker 1: us this little roll in the dice kind of celebration.
Speaker 1: Then I saw one phishing task of a fishing celebration
Speaker 1: that Willie Young used to be here, used to do
Speaker 1: all the time. What did you What is your post
Speaker 1: sack tackle for lost celebration? You know, the one that
Speaker 1: I'm going to carry with me into the NFL. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be the thamous one. Is like where
Speaker 1: I dropped the last ring or last own into my hand.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all caught that one or not,
Speaker 1: but right, I mean, I really just do the celebration
Speaker 1: just for this, for fun man, just to keep the
Speaker 1: game finn you know, oh yeah, I love it. Well, Travis.
Speaker 1: What you know when you go through the draft process,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure all the coaches, uh you know across
Speaker 1: the league, you know the poking holes in your game, criticism,
Speaker 1: maybe things you need to get better at. What specific
Speaker 1: thing do you think you need to work on and
Speaker 1: get better at or what has been a common question
Speaker 1: that coaches have asked you or gms throughout the process
Speaker 1: and now what the Bears are going to ask you
Speaker 1: to do to get better. My thing is really my
Speaker 1: main thing is fun in my placeability. But a lot
Speaker 1: of coaches, in their opinion, think that I'm all. So
Speaker 1: it's really just trying to take any techniques, learn new taken,
Speaker 1: opened up my pass rush arsenal obviously, and really just
Speaker 1: become more flexible because if I do, that make me
Speaker 1: a better football player. Travis Gibson out to tell us
Speaker 1: our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score,
Speaker 1: Jeff Time, and Jim. I got a couple questions. One,
Speaker 1: I think you alluded to Batman. You're a big Batman fan, right,
Speaker 1: that's number one. And just so you know, your teammate
Speaker 1: Roy Robertson Harris loves Star Wars. You guys get together
Speaker 1: on that one. And then so tell me about the
Speaker 1: Batman connection. And then tell us about your grandpa Time
Speaker 1: because he's got NFL experience on his resume with the
Speaker 1: old Raiders of the Seventh Man. As far as the
Speaker 1: whole Batman thing, you know, my dog's name is actually
Speaker 1: Bang and that was actually my favorite movie. So I
Speaker 1: named my dog after the Vidda. So I mean I
Speaker 1: like Batman, I like Bang, but if I had to
Speaker 1: choose one, I'm more I'm more of the Bang kind
Speaker 1: of guy, just because I feel like, you know, he
Speaker 1: has a lot of people against him, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I know he's trying to do bad stuff, but I
Speaker 1: just feel like, obviously, as I spoke earlier about the
Speaker 1: one offer coming out, I just feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of people doubted me and we're against obviously what I
Speaker 1: hadn't playing, So that was that was my main thing
Speaker 1: that hold tweet. I just I'm just ready to dominate
Speaker 1: and show everybody what I can do. And as far
Speaker 1: as my grandfather, I mean, I was really young when
Speaker 1: he passed away, so I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: really really get to meet him. But from what I heard,
Speaker 1: I mean he played, I know he played defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: and I know that at least from what I heard
Speaker 1: that he was a pretty good football player. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to bring that legacy back and just continue
Speaker 1: to all work that I'm doing. You know, Travis, you
Speaker 1: talk about the beginning of your legacy and a lot
Speaker 1: of the complimentary reports I read about you in colleges,
Speaker 1: your willingness to play special teams, you know, that's a
Speaker 1: lot probably the way you're gonna have to identify yourself
Speaker 1: immediately here in the NFL. So, I mean, you seem
Speaker 1: to be a guy that played him in college, and
Speaker 1: you obviously have to look forward to this opportunity here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: special teams played a real big part of my college career,
Speaker 1: especially the first two years when I wasn't playing defensively much.
Speaker 1: And I'm really excited to basically start the whole process
Speaker 1: over again. You know, learn new stuff obviously, as I
Speaker 1: said earlier, more techniques, just a whole new level of
Speaker 1: the game. So I'm really anxious for that, and it'll
Speaker 1: be I'm sure it'll be a real a real good
Speaker 1: adjournal at Rush Rush from running down on kickoff well Trevis,
Speaker 1: I mean and Jeff touchdown. You're from just a family
Speaker 1: of athletes. Your dad played basketball at Texas, your mother
Speaker 1: ran track at North Texas, your brother played basketball professionally.
Speaker 1: And here you say, hey, you know, I didn't get
Speaker 1: any offers coming out. It really only had one offer.
Speaker 1: Were you just one of those late bloomers for you
Speaker 1: in terms of because your athleticism it runs throughout your
Speaker 1: whole family, is what it is. Were you just one
Speaker 1: of those late bloomers when when it comes to your
Speaker 1: maturity and your body developing, You know, I would honestly
Speaker 1: think so, just because I mean only came out of
Speaker 1: high school laying about two hundreds and two hundred and
Speaker 1: five pounds, So you know, obviously the last four years
Speaker 1: I was able to put on basically sixty pounds, and
Speaker 1: I mean, it isn't no other really explanation for it.
Speaker 1: And my brother was obviously way a bigger in high school,
Speaker 1: and he's obviously has about an answer or to army,
Speaker 1: And it was just a matter of me basically getting
Speaker 1: the late ghostbart and thankfully I did. Travis Gibson here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score of the
Speaker 1: Bears outside linebacker making that transition. You know, they kind
Speaker 1: of felt you played a bit out of position, giving
Speaker 1: your skill set, size and your ability to bend the
Speaker 1: corner and get on the edge of guys. So the
Speaker 1: Bears have a vision for you. They have a plan
Speaker 1: for you, and that's usually means a very good thing,
Speaker 1: because if you don't have a plan for a draft pick,
Speaker 1: sometimes you get kind of tend to get lost in
Speaker 1: the shuffle a little bit. Is that encouraging to you?
Speaker 1: And it really seems to bother you that you had
Speaker 1: that one scholarship because even in the fourth round comes
Speaker 1: your old teammate Reggie Robinson gets picked in the fourth round.
Speaker 1: I think that tweet came out in the fourth round
Speaker 1: at Travis Gibson on Twitter. If you're interested and following Travis,
Speaker 1: I can feel the chip on my shoulder growing. So
Speaker 1: are you going to play with that chip the rest
Speaker 1: of your career? Oh? Man, I'm gonna I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: with that ship. But the time to hang the place,
Speaker 1: so man, And I mean, you know, I'm respectful to
Speaker 1: everybody's opinions and stuff, but I just felt like, um
Speaker 1: opportunities for passing by, and obviously emotions can get played.
Speaker 1: But I just know that the results of the chip
Speaker 1: that I had last time when I did get passed
Speaker 1: up in high school, it obviously propelled me to expect
Speaker 1: that I'm comfortable with, which is now giving myself an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play in the NFL. So the names gold
Speaker 1: up to try to get in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: and that's the next that's the next destination. You know, Travis,
Speaker 1: everybody has a list of strength and weaknesses under them,
Speaker 1: but I run a strength where it said reactive agility
Speaker 1: is your best strength. I think that's probably the highest
Speaker 1: compliment you can get now days as an end man
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage because of all the RPOs
Speaker 1: and the different type of pass rushes you're gonna face.
Speaker 1: So is that a process of learning your position or
Speaker 1: is it just becoming more familiar with the way college
Speaker 1: offenses are run today. It's really just becoming familiar with it.
Speaker 1: But obviously you have to have um quick initial instincts.
Speaker 1: So um, I think it's really just you know, knowing
Speaker 1: knowing the offense that you're going to be playing. That
Speaker 1: obviously gives you a one up in the game because
Speaker 1: then you get to know the tendencies that they have,
Speaker 1: and you know what they'll run on third down, what
Speaker 1: they'll pass on third down, just a little stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So really knowing the playbook and knowing you're upon it
Speaker 1: obviously helps in that situation. Well, how is that part
Speaker 1: going for you? Then? In this virtual world that we
Speaker 1: live in, and how these the defenses, whether it's a
Speaker 1: base defense that the Bears are introducing How is how
Speaker 1: is that installed going for you? In terms of grasping
Speaker 1: the terminology and everything that you're asked to do assignment wise?
Speaker 1: How's that going for you? You're going pretty good. Um.
Speaker 1: Coach Monachino, he's he's obviously my position coach and Coach Showey,
Speaker 1: but you know they're great guys and they're making sure
Speaker 1: there being a pay so with me. And then obviously
Speaker 1: Coach Bagano is helping me out a lot. So it's
Speaker 1: really exciting and you know, I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: every day. All Right, Travis, We're gonna let you go.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you taking some time out. I know you grew
Speaker 1: up he played high school football six miles from von
Speaker 1: Miller's alma mater. But now you're with Khalil Mack and
Speaker 1: that man knows how to force fumbles and I know
Speaker 1: you got you had seven in your last two years
Speaker 1: eight year career. There's nothing like a guy screaming off
Speaker 1: the edge. He goes for that bar and forces a fumble.
Speaker 1: So I think he's got a few tricks to show
Speaker 1: you as well. Buddy. Oh yeah, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, a lot of fun. Looking forward to
Speaker 1: meet you and have a saw one of these days.
Speaker 1: Good luck in your process here, yeah, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: have a good day. All right. That's a Bear's fifth
Speaker 1: round pick Travis S. Gibson coming up at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour. It'll be joined by Rashad Coward. He's
Speaker 1: got something unique going on this weekend. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: about it as we break it down. Bears on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access with Tom Thayre and Jim Miller. I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonych on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score and
Speaker 1: welcome back to Bears All Access Jeff jony Ech along
Speaker 1: with Tom Thayre, Jim Miller from Sirius XM, NFL Radio,
Speaker 1: and Big Jim. Before we get to our next guest,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you it's so interesting with all this
Speaker 1: dead time right now and there's nobody really able to
Speaker 1: get to no facilities are open, So well, what's with
Speaker 1: the quarterback position getting all the attention? So, first of all,
Speaker 1: tomorrow Aaron Rodgers speaking at two pm. Okay, you tell
Speaker 1: me about the scrutinization of every word and syllable in
Speaker 1: that one. That's tomorrow. You know, all the national media
Speaker 1: are gonna jump on that conference call. Then today you
Speaker 1: get a rumor that, you know, the Browns Seattle one
Speaker 1: time and a couple of years ago almost allegedly traded
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to Cleveland. Is this really the down period
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about stuff like that. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about two year old news. Is that what we're doing?
Speaker 1: I mean eight, Seattle gave him an extension for a
Speaker 1: reason when you look at Russell Wilson. So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Let's let's focus on the season that's coming up above
Speaker 1: from whether it's the Bears draft picks, teams around the league,
Speaker 1: divisional opponents, what they've done to improve what you know,
Speaker 1: maybe areas the Bears can use to it to attack them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just it's like Rumorville Central out there
Speaker 1: where people are just grasping as straws to write things
Speaker 1: and come up with stories that realistically aren't even true. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had to tea you for that one, because I'm
Speaker 1: sure you got your fill of it on serious Sex
Speaker 1: m NFL radio. So just to have a little fun
Speaker 1: with a former quarterback yourself. All right, We're gonna be
Speaker 1: joined now by Rashad Coward, our good pal and Bears
Speaker 1: offensive lineman joining the program, mister Coward, How are you
Speaker 1: doing tonight, Jeff Joni? Time there, Jim Miller, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on last late notice like that you're on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access. You got something cool going on this weekend,
Speaker 1: a camp digitally. Now we're all used to this now
Speaker 1: with the way we're doing business nowadays, but what did
Speaker 1: this uh where did this idea come from? For you
Speaker 1: to do this free ninety minute clinic online for social
Speaker 1: media outlets to really jump on and for fans and
Speaker 1: kids to basically have a camp with you online on zoom.
Speaker 1: I got it from BAMD fam organization. They came with
Speaker 1: me with the idea because we usually run from camps
Speaker 1: together in the summer, and he had a great idea
Speaker 1: about it, and I was like, okay, let's try it.
Speaker 1: And then before you know that, the camp was sold out,
Speaker 1: no kidding, how many? How many campers? Are you gonna have?
Speaker 1: Two hundred campers? And then you got some offer social
Speaker 1: media and legister is gonna follow on Instagram and Twitter feed.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Now, these drills are football focused, correct, So
Speaker 1: how are you gonna work that? Because I know for
Speaker 1: your own self that when you made the transition from
Speaker 1: D line to O line, you constantly we're working on
Speaker 1: your footwork and your technique in your living room wherever.
Speaker 1: You had your girlfriend helping you out, so you're used
Speaker 1: to this kind of stuff. But this will be football drills, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so both of them. Hey, we're shad have congratulations on
Speaker 1: the success and the transition you made last year. I
Speaker 1: it's really an impressive feat at this at the NFL level.
Speaker 1: But have you had to become more creative about the
Speaker 1: drills that you have to invent for yourself because you
Speaker 1: don't have a coach pointing the direction or a group
Speaker 1: of teammates to follow. Uh. Yeah, my coach send me
Speaker 1: clips on drills and to doing my free time. So
Speaker 1: I start finished working out, I'll go on my backyard
Speaker 1: in my garage and just work on it. He sent
Speaker 1: me like how to pass pro the sets, the steps,
Speaker 1: and how you want to us a round block this year.
Speaker 1: So he's been seending me clips and just you know,
Speaker 1: keeping us active and focus. He said, you must want
Speaker 1: it because it's really hard. Right now, you know how
Speaker 1: to have motivation we need in the house all the time.
Speaker 1: Well from that standpoint, Richt, has it truly been for
Speaker 1: you just doing it over and over again where it
Speaker 1: becomes rope memory, Because like Jeff said, I watched the video.
Speaker 1: I saw you just doing pass sets after pass sets
Speaker 1: in your you know, in your living room, just working
Speaker 1: on your technique, and it seems like it is it
Speaker 1: has just really started to really come in place for
Speaker 1: you and you've had a lot of positive success from
Speaker 1: that standpoint. Oh yeah, doing it in the house. Just
Speaker 1: like older guys will tell me, just stay relax and
Speaker 1: stayed congous. Old line. You can't be as agglessive as
Speaker 1: you are a D line because if you overdo it,
Speaker 1: you might get be because you're being too agglesses. So
Speaker 1: they're like teaching me how to stay in random and
Speaker 1: relax more and just trusting technique, which has been getting
Speaker 1: better with that. Hey, Rochet, you know you have an
Speaker 1: important message that you can bring to the all the
Speaker 1: people that are going to participate in your camp because
Speaker 1: I think what you've gone through, you know, I keep
Speaker 1: bringing up because as a former offensive lineman, I know
Speaker 1: the difficulty of it. So going into this season, are
Speaker 1: you one person or are you still an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: from the right hand side of the line. So what
Speaker 1: a question is are you coming in as a guard
Speaker 1: or are you coming in as a multidimensional player. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play all positions right now other than its dinner,
Speaker 1: because you know I can make I don't know all
Speaker 1: the calls yet, but I've played center in high school.
Speaker 1: But i' gonna played both sides, but right not. My
Speaker 1: main focus is right guard. Out of my coach asking
Speaker 1: to focus on. So I've been working on my guard.
Speaker 1: Said it's more often than my tackle, says Chet Coward,
Speaker 1: our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access with Tom Fair and Jimla.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff jonihac Chet caught enough to join us. It's
Speaker 1: got a free camp coming up this Saturday and night,
Speaker 1: a minute free fitness clinic, five football centered centered drills
Speaker 1: at home and a fifteen by fifteen foot space. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have drill equipment cones instead of household items for
Speaker 1: those who don't have the proper drill equipment. Kids are
Speaker 1: getting camp shirts, masks, and it is sold out. But
Speaker 1: you're gonna answer questions after the fitness session, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're gonna get a lot of questions about how
Speaker 1: you got to where you were and when you talk
Speaker 1: to young people, but use there's gonna be young people,
Speaker 1: no doubt. What do you tell them? What do you
Speaker 1: tell them about yourself and your journey and how you
Speaker 1: got from where you were to where you are right
Speaker 1: now and what you're competing for. I was just like,
Speaker 1: I'll tell them just you know, having discipline, having a routine,
Speaker 1: and just being consistent with what they want to do.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not gonna happen overnight, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell them that it's the truth. You know, just keep
Speaker 1: working at it's gonna happen. And you gotta trust whatever
Speaker 1: you're learning is whoever's coaching. You gotta trust them enough
Speaker 1: because trust their technique and know they're gonna put you
Speaker 1: in a like positions. Well, Rossett, everybody talks about things
Speaker 1: happening quicker inside at guard. Do you do you know
Speaker 1: anything anything different than what you've experienced? And you've had
Speaker 1: the transition from D line to old line, but you know,
Speaker 1: normally tackles that move from outside inside always talk about
Speaker 1: things happened faster inside at the guard position. Did you
Speaker 1: experience that at all in your ten stars plaster Like,
Speaker 1: what what changed for you? The stings I Kyle Long
Speaker 1: taught me. You know, it's a it's a fight in
Speaker 1: a phone booth and less is more when it comes
Speaker 1: to foot words, less is more into the fight in
Speaker 1: the phone boats mean you're gonna have to be really
Speaker 1: quick with your hands and the first person to get
Speaker 1: the hands on each other's is gonna end up being
Speaker 1: a winner of the let That's what he's talking to me.
Speaker 1: M hey, Rochad, It's it's kind of fun and again
Speaker 1: talking about your cap that you're gonna have, so as
Speaker 1: just come to that. You know, the kids are gonna
Speaker 1: be Are they gonna be fatigued from the effort that
Speaker 1: you're gonna put them through? Is it gonna be something
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a judgment of their own work ethic
Speaker 1: throughout this camp that you're gonna have, Because listen, I'm
Speaker 1: really impressed that you're you're doing it. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna really you know, benefit these kids. But what is
Speaker 1: the tone that you want these kids to set for themselves? Well, um,
Speaker 1: you know, to be watched themselves, or do you want
Speaker 1: to get them to you know, have some breathing about it.
Speaker 1: Uh no, like push themselves. No, I just want them
Speaker 1: to stay active and have fun too and understand those
Speaker 1: that you know, you gotta push thisself. It's not Everything
Speaker 1: is not gonna be easy. You go hand it to
Speaker 1: you and I feel like this camp will make them
Speaker 1: understand that. Like it takes hard work and you got
Speaker 1: to be consistent in what you do because you know
Speaker 1: one day it's not gonna make a differences. You're gonna
Speaker 1: make it a happy to do it every day, Like
Speaker 1: you know we're in the house what every all day?
Speaker 1: Now you know you can find yourself a routine and
Speaker 1: get yourself to have a pushing yourself. You know it's
Speaker 1: hard because it's really no motivation right now, so you
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen. Richette Coward our guest are
Speaker 1: remaining moments with the Bears offensive linemen. So you're virtual
Speaker 1: learning right now. How are you liking that and how
Speaker 1: how is it going for you? Every player's probably a
Speaker 1: little bit different. And then you know, you pop on
Speaker 1: Twitter or you pop on any of the social media
Speaker 1: and you're seeing players trying to be creative with their workouts.
Speaker 1: I mean right down to pushing cars and trucks and
Speaker 1: pulling cars and trucks and doing whatever. Some guys to
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money before the virus really deepened
Speaker 1: in our country and put full gyms in their garage.
Speaker 1: What exactly are you doing to get ready physically, because
Speaker 1: that's a big part of the offensive lineman and the
Speaker 1: guys in the trenches process and how you adapt into
Speaker 1: the learning style right now, right now, so zoom is
Speaker 1: pretty cool. You know, we're getting to know each other more.
Speaker 1: You know, guys, we're pretty much learning about ourselves like
Speaker 1: personal stuff now and not just football stuff. And I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty cool. Were learning each other's past and
Speaker 1: just getting to know each other. I guess bond stronger.
Speaker 1: So I like that's really cool. And I feel like
Speaker 1: the classroom and the classes like you've been doing, it's
Speaker 1: like making it interesting. We're talking to each other more,
Speaker 1: or I'm trying to understand plays. You can sit there
Speaker 1: and go through film and understand, Okay, this is what
Speaker 1: you gotta do, and then he'll replay to play over
Speaker 1: and over again to let you know, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: what he wants, it's not what he wants. And we
Speaker 1: have enough time to do so without you know, getting
Speaker 1: up and go to the bathrooms. You bring a iPad,
Speaker 1: which is puting Michael mute. But we've been really focused
Speaker 1: on just learnning our new plays and learning like you know,
Speaker 1: learning the technique a new coach want us to learn,
Speaker 1: and working out. I got a gym in a garage
Speaker 1: right now, and I just put down some turf in
Speaker 1: the garage where I could just walk on my kick
Speaker 1: fied and kickstop. Well, let me answer this for a shot.
Speaker 1: Last question for me. We appreciate your time. Has it
Speaker 1: been hard to find your routine this offseason? You know
Speaker 1: here you mentioned routine earlier and getting you know everything
Speaker 1: reachers of habit and all those like type of things
Speaker 1: and making good habits. Have you been able to find
Speaker 1: a good read routine for yourself even though it's different
Speaker 1: here in this off season how you got to prepare it.
Speaker 1: I still do the same things. I get up five
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning to getting my day sorted, like
Speaker 1: go work out, Get up five thirty, go work out.
Speaker 1: If you got meetings at ten, I have time at
Speaker 1: tens and then what else I do? I watched them
Speaker 1: for like an hour, then I work on my drills
Speaker 1: there's something so simple just having my routine and just
Speaker 1: like I've been doing better, like my diet. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is the best ship I've been in, like
Speaker 1: this time of the year than ever because of this,
Speaker 1: you know, not eating bad. We got to cook all
Speaker 1: the food now, So it's been really I've really been
Speaker 1: benefited for something. Honestly, This segre that bears all access
Speaker 1: is brought to you by CDW. People to get it
Speaker 1: learn more at CDW dot com. Last question from all
Speaker 1: of us were shutting and thank you for jumping on
Speaker 1: and we hope you have great success with your your
Speaker 1: camp on line on Saturday. Overall, what's been the feeling
Speaker 1: you have now with a new offensive line coach, because
Speaker 1: you know, last year you got thrown in there and
Speaker 1: managed to start a bunch of games and learn after
Speaker 1: being on the defensive side of the ball. Now you
Speaker 1: got a brand new um coach that you know may
Speaker 1: have different style and and what he's asking you to do,
Speaker 1: he's just uh, he just wants us the words technique
Speaker 1: and just have energy and be together. Like you know,
Speaker 1: he comes with energy. He wants you to be excited,
Speaker 1: he wants you to have a good time. He wants
Speaker 1: you to take care of your family. Those the key
Speaker 1: things he said. I want to put you in the
Speaker 1: best position where you can feed your family. You ain't
Speaker 1: gotta worry. He just wants you to be great. And
Speaker 1: I say, he said, negative reinforcement is not going to
Speaker 1: help you get better. He wants you. He wants you
Speaker 1: to be comfortable and play hard for him, which I
Speaker 1: like what he's doing so far, so I can't complain
Speaker 1: at all. Well, I should be a fun, fun ride
Speaker 1: for everybody. Lots of great petition, and we wish you
Speaker 1: luck throughout the offseason and looking forward to getting back
Speaker 1: up to house. I'll hope everybody's safe in your family
Speaker 1: and good luck with your camp this weekend. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for Chet Coward, offensive lineman for the Bears.
Speaker 1: As we get you set for a little surprise coming
Speaker 1: up here at the I found out Jim Miller a
Speaker 1: story that just knocked my socks off. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're aware of it, but we're gonna tell everybody
Speaker 1: about it together, so we'll have a good chuckle at
Speaker 1: Tom Thare's as big Tom. I mean, I hope you,
Speaker 1: you know, I hope that you find some humor in
Speaker 1: this because I laughed really hard today coming up at
Speaker 1: six forty five, Frank commet, the former Chicago Bear and
Speaker 1: the dad of Cole commet with a Tom Thayer tie in.
Speaker 1: That is just too much. I made this happen today
Speaker 1: just for you, Big Tom. This is Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: com to find a location nearest h Jeff, Joni, k
Speaker 1: Tom there, Jim Better just heard from a shad coward
Speaker 1: as he you know, gets ready to have the competition
Speaker 1: of his life. Fellas because a starter last year Rock
Speaker 1: given his defensive line experience, but you know, thrown in
Speaker 1: there and I thought, you know, for that kind of
Speaker 1: situation with not a lot of prep time. He remember
Speaker 1: now he started as a tackle learning the tackle position,
Speaker 1: got shoved inside and Tom and Jim, I thought he
Speaker 1: had some really good moments in there, but now there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of competition. Jermaina Fettie brought in, you got
Speaker 1: Alex Bars. You got other players that are going to
Speaker 1: be in the mix here to try and get that
Speaker 1: offensive line squared away. You know, I think one thing
Speaker 1: about rant or Shad Coward that he can develop the most.
Speaker 1: He has the willingness to be the most physical of
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman, and I think if he can be
Speaker 1: understand the position to do things well in full speed,
Speaker 1: I think he can bring that element of a physical
Speaker 1: style of play to the Bears offensive line. And I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be one of the judgments that want
Speaker 1: Castile is gonna put every one of these offensive lineman through.
Speaker 1: So I think it's an asset that can really help
Speaker 1: Rochat in the future. Yeah, that's credit to me. He's
Speaker 1: worked hard. He's a very good athlete and we'll see
Speaker 1: where it goes from there. There, that's Jim Miller as
Speaker 1: he has to be on the phone today. So again,
Speaker 1: a little feedback right now. That's probably messing you up
Speaker 1: a little bit while we sort that out a little
Speaker 1: bit before, joined by Frank Commett. Got to play some sound.
Speaker 1: This was from a week ago in advance of the
Speaker 1: twenty ten game at Minnesota University of Minnesota, when Devin
Speaker 1: hester I set the NFL record for return touchdowns as
Speaker 1: a Bear. We got to talk a little bit. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: how would you prepare in today's environment, virtual learning and
Speaker 1: not having the ability to be in the weight room
Speaker 1: to get ready for your season is His answer was
Speaker 1: quite revealing. It's tough, you know, because for me, I'd
Speaker 1: go to the gym about four days at the week, oh,
Speaker 1: just standing shape. But it's harder to do it at
Speaker 1: home than to For me, it's more of a for
Speaker 1: a guy. For me as a male, that's my way
Speaker 1: of getting out, you know, having my free time. I
Speaker 1: go there from about nine to about eleven thirty, so
Speaker 1: that's my free time to get out and do what
Speaker 1: I want to do before the kids and the wife
Speaker 1: put me to work. So as an athlete, you know,
Speaker 1: when you don't have that facility to go to where
Speaker 1: you're around your peers and you're around your teammates, or
Speaker 1: you're around your trainers and you're doing you're not training
Speaker 1: by yourself. But it's a group of years about twelve
Speaker 1: fifteen of year guys, and y'all copinea gets each other,
Speaker 1: making each other better. That's what they're lacking right now.
Speaker 1: Because when I played football, it was. It was still
Speaker 1: hard for me to push myself when I'm in there
Speaker 1: doing it by myself. It was always hard for me
Speaker 1: to push my now if I see some guys in
Speaker 1: there that play on other teams, you know, because I
Speaker 1: went to facilities where I trained where it was not
Speaker 1: is Chicago Barts, but it was guys from can't see
Speaker 1: it in Minnesota, you know, lower league. It was about
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty of us. So I always competed because those guys,
Speaker 1: and make sure those guys know that, Hey, I see
Speaker 1: why he's so great. You know heat When we do
Speaker 1: the running drills, he outruns us. When we in the
Speaker 1: weight room, he outlifts us, you know what. So in
Speaker 1: my mind I always wanted to come out with always
Speaker 1: a low key computer like I always compete against the
Speaker 1: guys around me, so that I always sold them that
Speaker 1: I'm better than you in this, Jeff, So you ever
Speaker 1: ready no time this is when you step on the field.
Speaker 1: That's missing a little bit right now, guys, Well, you
Speaker 1: know the thing about it, Jeff, is listen, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna try to perform in the weight room for as
Speaker 1: a professional athlete does, then you need spotters there because
Speaker 1: the one thing you're you're gonna have to do is
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to push yourself in every lift of failure,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna need that person that's gonna take
Speaker 1: you out of that position of failure and help you
Speaker 1: make those gains that you have to make throughout a career.
Speaker 1: All right, Jim Miller, we have a special guest on
Speaker 1: the line now, now, got it. I found this story
Speaker 1: out today. I didn't read it originally. Somebody told me
Speaker 1: about the story. And the story was done by Larry Mayer,
Speaker 1: the senior writer for Bears dot com and does some
Speaker 1: great work, and he told the story. He interviewed Frank Comet,
Speaker 1: the dad of Cole Comet, the Bears second Round Pick
Speaker 1: and the tight End. And Frank's joining us on the
Speaker 1: line right now. Good evening, Frank, the former Chicago Bear,
Speaker 1: My fellow Hersey Husky, good to talk to you. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the late notice. This is a story I just
Speaker 1: could not resist. Are you doing? First of all, special guest?
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that you are a special guest, because
Speaker 1: here's the story. Here's the story, Jim and Tom, so
Speaker 1: I'm back in ninety three. Frank was on the Bears
Speaker 1: practice squad, return to the team for the offseason and
Speaker 1: training camp in ninety five, but in ninety three, Tom
Speaker 1: there is released by the Bears, much to his dismay.
Speaker 1: He goes down to Miami with Dan Marino, but the
Speaker 1: next day Frank is switched from defensive line to offensive line.
Speaker 1: And then what happens is that Jim Harbaugh's the quarterback,
Speaker 1: Jim and Frank and Tom, and he gives the entire
Speaker 1: offensive line Rolex watches little thank you and he gives
Speaker 1: one to Frank and Frank, you were so so nice
Speaker 1: about it. You didn't want it. But essentially what we're
Speaker 1: saying here is you took Tom Thayre's Rolex, didn't you.
Speaker 1: Oh well, first of all, I did want it. I
Speaker 1: was just trying to be nice about But no, it
Speaker 1: was I'm sure it was set out for Tom, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately he got cut. The day before they brought me
Speaker 1: in there, I sat down and within you know, the day,
Speaker 1: hardback came in with a bunch of boxes that were
Speaker 1: I actually think they were unwrapped, and I didn't really
Speaker 1: know what it was. And I started open mine up
Speaker 1: and realized what it was, and I was shocked and
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. Everybody was excited about getting to watch,
Speaker 1: but I was really like, you know, I don't even
Speaker 1: deserve this. But then, you know, Jim was really gracious,
Speaker 1: came in and talked to me and said, no, I
Speaker 1: want you to keep it, enjoy it, and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And you know I told you. Tom
Speaker 1: Tarre calls me up the next day saying that was
Speaker 1: his watch. Honestly, it's one of the greatest NFL stories
Speaker 1: of all time. And you know what, Frank, Tom is
Speaker 1: only too happy to tell he's one degree of separation
Speaker 1: from any NFL player in the last one. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you he's never told this story. And so I
Speaker 1: had to read about it. So I called him up.
Speaker 1: I go, did this happen? So Tom, take it the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. No, Frank, I'm glad you have it.
Speaker 1: I really am. Um. This is why I remember it
Speaker 1: was so insincere. No I am since I am since here.
Speaker 1: Because the funny thing about it is is when I
Speaker 1: went down to Miami, I'm down there practicing and I
Speaker 1: still keep in contact with the guys that on the
Speaker 1: old line. Horn was still there, Jerry Fontino was there,
Speaker 1: and so and so. I think right after the meeting,
Speaker 1: they both called me and told me what happen, and
Speaker 1: they're both bragging about their new Rolex watches, and I'm going, well, hey,
Speaker 1: there's gotta be one coming my way. And sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't just get booted and then today to see it
Speaker 1: later next ups. But hey, you know what, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: happy for. I'm happy for Frank. I'm still I've never
Speaker 1: gotten a gift from an offensive player that I've been
Speaker 1: on a team with other than Maury buford our punter
Speaker 1: giving me a really nice hand carved pocket knife that
Speaker 1: you wore after the Super Bowl for snap of punch
Speaker 1: to him in practice. Are you kidding me? Oh, Frank,
Speaker 1: is that a beauty Jim? If you're anything like that
Speaker 1: in your life, Yeah, it's unbelievable. But I just want
Speaker 1: to know this, Frank. Is this true about the story
Speaker 1: as well? Tom Flayer's name is engraved on the underside
Speaker 1: of No. No, it was just his number, that was it. Frank.
Speaker 1: Please tell me you have that one watch to this day.
Speaker 1: You know, I still have to watch. But there's more
Speaker 1: to the story with the watch. Um, all right, So
Speaker 1: that watch comes in obviously and everybody finds out about it,
Speaker 1: and everybody's you know, checking out the watches. And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, the most angered guy out of the
Speaker 1: bunch was Tom Waddle. He was shocked he didn't get
Speaker 1: a watch for all the work he put in and
Speaker 1: all the hits he cook And I remember, and the
Speaker 1: way he paid me back was I remember I had
Speaker 1: to take out the offensive line to Bob Chin's for dinner,
Speaker 1: the entire offensive line. I had no money, and I
Speaker 1: remember the bill was like thirty five bucks or something
Speaker 1: like that, and I'm going to pay, and then they
Speaker 1: take my credit card and they take the receipt back
Speaker 1: and say, I'm sorry, We're gonna add this on. Somebody
Speaker 1: else came in to take a order and I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I was like who everybody left, so I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out who it was. So as I was leaving,
Speaker 1: I see Waddle signing an autograph but with a with
Speaker 1: a go box, so obviously he came in ordered his
Speaker 1: food and put it on my bill. Nice they you know,
Speaker 1: they really taken advantage of the little guy, don't they. Hey,
Speaker 1: real quick before we let you go. H Cole and
Speaker 1: the family and being a homegrown talent to play for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, the team he cried. He told me
Speaker 1: that he cried at the Super Bowl and oh six
Speaker 1: and when the Bears lost. I mean, unbelievably lucky and
Speaker 1: fortunate for it to fall the way it is. And
Speaker 1: how proud are you right now? You know? This has
Speaker 1: been really special, I'll be honest. As the draft was unfolding,
Speaker 1: even you know, even prior, we really, my wife and
Speaker 1: I really put this out of our heads because we
Speaker 1: just couldn't believe this whatever happened. So we were kind
Speaker 1: of getting tied to different places that we're hearing that
Speaker 1: he might go and stuff, and really putting the Bears
Speaker 1: on the back burner because we just thought it was
Speaker 1: too good to be true to ever happen like that,
Speaker 1: and we didn't want to get our hopes up and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But when they actually when the draft
Speaker 1: started unfolding and when the call started coming in, we
Speaker 1: actually thought he was going to be going to the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and Coach Naggie's face popped up on the phone while
Speaker 1: the Jaguars pick was coming in, so we thought for
Speaker 1: sure that he was going there. But then when we
Speaker 1: saw it was Coach Nagie. We were thrilled. So it's
Speaker 1: really been such a blessing in so many ways for
Speaker 1: him to be back around here. Obviously, the Notre Dame connection,
Speaker 1: just the whole thing has been absolutely great. I mean
Speaker 1: Tom can talk about obviously, the idea of going from
Speaker 1: Julia Catholic to Notre Dame to with Chicago Bears. It's
Speaker 1: it's rare and it's special. So I'm really just blessing
Speaker 1: a dad to have it happened to my son, right.
Speaker 1: I think a lot about my dad and my mom
Speaker 1: when I hear the reaction of your wife in the
Speaker 1: background of Cole's call, and it was really emotional for me,
Speaker 1: and I'm really happy for both you guys as parents
Speaker 1: to enjoy his success. Well, I appreciate that a lot
Speaker 1: of time. It means a lot. All right, Frank, we'll
Speaker 1: see you're on all right. Thanks for joining it real quick.
Speaker 1: I just gotta sat out to my friend Eric Dorshing,
Speaker 1: who's a huge Bears, and I just want to say that, Okay,
Speaker 1: a mission accomplished. We'll be talking you down the road.
Speaker 1: That is, Frank at the former Chicago Bear, former produce
Speaker 1: bottle maker and Hersey High School stand out. We have
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Speaker 1: We're out of time, Fellas quick thought, Tom There, Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: I really pressed with talking the rash Had Coward. The
Speaker 1: more I talk to him, the more mature he gets him.
Speaker 1: That I hope he becomes a player. We hope, Jim,
Speaker 1: Jim and I just I just think it's encouraging to
Speaker 1: hear just how excited the players are and how they're preparing.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a different time, but going and their
Speaker 1: work done that they need to get done. It's it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how in shape players come back
Speaker 1: once training camp and everything opens up and coaches are
Speaker 1: actually able to get their hands on these players to
Speaker 1: get them going. All right, Fellas will talk to you
Speaker 1: next Thursday for Tom There, Jim Miller, also Frank Comet
Speaker 1: and Roche had Coward along with us. Gipson, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us, Thanks for listening. This has been bears All Access,
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