WEBVTT - Montgomery on playing with will not quit mentality | All Access 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.279 It's the final week of the twenty twenty one season 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.640 of the Bears, off to Minnesota on Sunday. We'll talk 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.400 about it coming up here on Bears All Access. It's 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.119 brought to you by IGS Energy. Here on Chicago Sports 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.360 Radio six seventy The Score with Tom Thayer, Jeff Joniac 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.240 Special thanks to our producers all season long, Dan BURRELLI, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.840 Jordan trut Up, Katie Tuber, and the great producers here 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.160 at the Score. Good evening, Tom, how you doing. I'll 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.160 do a good Jeff. I'm kind of sad to say 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.120 it's the last week of the season, but as a player, 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.800 it's quite an accomplishment when you can get through the 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.879 regular season, you can improve along the way, you can 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.080 finish the season healthy, and now you can get ready 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.120 to embark on a tiring off season. Coming up on 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.160 tonight's show, we'll be joined by Bears running back David 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.000 Montgomery and one of the longest tenured sideline reporters in 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.360 the NFL, Greg Coleman, a former punter and all around 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.680 good guy the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network, retiring after long 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.360 career in football as one of the Vikings greats. On 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.560 their twenty fifth and fortieth anniversary teams, we'll talk Vikings 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.680 and his career. So the news of the day Justin 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.560 Field looking forward to returning after missing two games with 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.880 an ankle injury, and here he pops up on the 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.600 COVID list, so not likely to play on Sunday. Super unfortunate. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.280 I was so disappointed when I heard that, because this 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.560 is one of the things that I was focusing on 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.320 the last week of the season. I wanted to see 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.120 what type of game plan they could formulate for Justin 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.319 Fields in this type of environment, how he looked employing it, 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.119 and then where do you go from the very first 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.120 day of the off season till the beginning of OTAs. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.520 And with that said earlier today, Bill Laser, as you 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.160 analyze the rookie year, and what's the takeaway for the 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.120 young man that I want him to come out of 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.240 this with confidence. I want him to realize that, you know, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.240 we were behind against the Steelers in the fourth quarter 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.680 and he was able to take the offense down and score. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.960 We were behind against the Ravens and he was able 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.160 to go down and score. That he was on the 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.080 big stage of Monday Night Football, of whatever situation we 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.560 were in, and was able to perform. And I know 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.880 it sounds silly because he's done it right for his 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.680 whole life, but still, we're all human. You get to 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.720 this point and now, okay, here, this is my rookie year. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.480 Well I want him know what to step away and 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.840 say yes, you know, just like they were telling me, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.079 I can do this and this is going to be 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.800 a great story. You know. You use that confidence to 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.480 kind of propel him into how the future goes. He 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.400 is a confident guy to begin with. What would your 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.840 takeaway being what did you think about bills? You know, listen, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.919 I'm all about developing the self confidence of every single 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.840 one of these young players that need to develop self 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.160 confidence to really ultimately be as confident as they can be. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.560 But in Justin's case, it's gonna be about how does 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.799 he assist with Chicago Bears in victories? And that's one 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.200 of the defining lines for any quarterback in the NFL. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.160 When you look at the first staff they put up 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.040 after they've had a decade long career, it's how many 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.480 touchdowns have you on? How many games have you won? 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.440 So I think every one of these experiences that Justin 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.840 has had throughout his rookie season. How is that going 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.359 to compute and carry over to victories or you win 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.040 the division and get your team to the playoffs. One 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.920 thing Laser discussed was just the type of guy Fields is, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.080 how he's the same all the time we've heard about it. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.600 Nothing rattles him, it appears and he is the same 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.000 guy no matter what he thinks. That's a positive moving forward. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.480 Think of the people who are themselves and are sincere 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.200 and authentic, and think of the people who put on 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.160 airs when they're around the boss or act differently to 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.920 try to fit in with different groups. I think people 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.560 see through see through that over time, and I think 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.720 in the end, this guy's going to be in stressful, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:53.080 tough situations and if if you're not being yourself, you know, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.280 you're putting up some false persona, it's going to crack 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.960 and then people will know that you weren't just being authentic. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.680 So I think it's I think it's helpful and that 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.880 when you're in such tight quarters and so often in 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.520 stressful situations with your teammates and coaches, that they can 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.760 trust who you are. And I think he's earned that 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.440 as a guy who's been in many, many, many locker 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.400 rooms over the course of a long football life. Would 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.920 you concur with that assessment if that whole process is 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.600 evaluate and explore during the pre draft type of exploration 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.039 process of the individual, and then it is how does 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.680 that happen during the regular season. Again, we talk about 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.120 self competence. We talked about the reason Justin was drafted 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.440 where he was, and how highly thought of after his 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.200 rookie year. All those things go into the mix. But listen, 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.360 because of so many individual interviews that he's been through 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.520 in the pre draft process, if he wasn't himself, he 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.359 changed his persona in front of different characters of different organizations, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.560 I think it would have been exposed at that point. Yeah, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.200 guys do it all the time though, you know, they 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.720 get coached up or whatever. But now that he's here, 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.920 and just from your own experience in locker rooms, what 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.000 was your take on different types of players? Could you 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.120 see through some of the Of course, you could see 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.520 guys that were just happy to have a helmet. Then 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.359 you can see guys that are happy to have a 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.560 uniform and they want to be part of making the 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.640 whole organization better. And that's what I see out of 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.719 Justin his winning experience up into this stage of his life. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.680 He wants to carry that over into his pro life. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.960 So I have way higher expectations of justin going forward, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.800 even though I did at the beginning. He's raised that bar. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.919 What do I expect from him and what his contributions 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.000 need to be coming up next? David Montgomery joins the program. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.680 This is Bears All Access with Tom Thayer, Jeff Jony Keen. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:54.960 This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.120 back to Bears All Access. It's brought to you by 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.359 IGS Energy here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy Score 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.960 and choose clean energy for your home at IGS dot 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.359 com because every good choice adds up to a better world. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.200 With Tom Thayer, Jeff Joniak, welcome again our third year 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.880 running back David Montgomery. That Bears All Access. David, thanks 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.840 for taking the time. How you doing, buddy? Getting ready 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.520 for the finale here? It's got to feel bitter sweet. Yeah, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.440 I'm definitely getting ready, but it definitely is a better 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.720 seed at the same time, knowing that the season is 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.599 coming to the end, um, knowing that I had help 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.600 for us, Yeah, you know, the high hopes included h 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.240 you know, not only personal a team, and you know 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.880 the way the thing has gone this season, there's always 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.640 been some start and stop of some sort yourself included 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.840 with an injury and and just the news of today 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.200 the Justin Fields is in the in the COVID protocols, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.080 so an opportunity for him to leave one more last mark. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.720 But you guys have really pulled together as a team 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.200 and really given your all here in the last a 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:57.040 few weeks and have played some good football win or lose. Yeah, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.599 this is just really go back to us sticking together, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.000 you know, knowing that we got to finish this thing out, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.479 and you know it shows the kind of carricter that 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.400 we had with those with the guys on this team. Hey, David, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.680 I was reading a headline from a game, I think 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.840 it was after the Arizona game, and it says Montgomery 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.240 sets the tone with ugly, angry runs. David, I think 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.920 that's the highest compliment of running back and get paid. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.680 When you talk about what's expected you and how physical 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.800 that you do play, you do you just do you 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:32.960 consider that description a compliment to you? Uh? Definitely, Um, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.560 you know I want to kind of not kind of, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.440 but I definitely want to um follow the same footstep 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.280 that Walter Payton has UM and just kind of you know, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.120 run angry and having that wild or not go down 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.120 and wild or not quit mentality. UM that Chicago Bears 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.080 you carry itself. So UM, I try to think about 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.960 that every opportunity I get out there to kind of 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.760 on the ball. You know, it's kind of funny you 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.800 bring up Walter's name because I was thinking about you 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.280 and in Walter during in Walter's last game, he threw 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.040 his last touchdown pass and it was last touchdown run 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.280 into the stands, and then I saw a highlight of 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.160 you handing a ball off to someone in the stands. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.320 Is that just anonymously picked? Because you're probably making the 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.600 greatest day that person will ever have in their sports history. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.840 Did you do it? Did you recognize someone? Or were 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.840 you just man? This is Dave mcgomery and I'm complimenting 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:35.240 a fan in the stands, the first in Arizona, the 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.959 first one that actually score one. I gave it to 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.480 a random fan just because you know they pay harder 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.120 and ready to come see his play in performing. Um. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.520 You know, I try to make somebody's day every chance 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.880 I get the second one that um, they said wasn't 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.320 a touchdown, but it really was. I gave it to 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.640 my mom. Um. I had never gave one of my 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.680 mom and I see my mom what she was and 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.280 I was able to jump up there and give it 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.920 a ball, which is what I wanted to do my 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.560 whole life. So it was good to be able to 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:11.480 fulfill that dream. And how did she responded that? What 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.160 did she say to you? And was at a special 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.360 moment for her? Definitely a special moment. Um she cried 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.400 after just because she understood how hard I work and 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.240 how hard I worked to get to this point, and 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.640 you know how hard I'm going to continue to work. Um, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.840 And for you know, her to see her son actually 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.000 doing it was pretty good for her to see. So um, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.560 she she was just at all the understanding that she 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.280 was happy they were able to happen. David montgomer I 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.120 guest here on Bears All Access with Tom There Jeff Joniac. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.000 One of the byproducts of a team that really respects 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.600 it's running back and and it's died hard. Type of 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.880 mentality that you have you do not go down easy, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.840 you never have gone down easy, is that they're starting 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.960 too and have done. You know, more often than not, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.800 when you're drawing attention three or four guys trying to 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.640 bring you down, they're coming in to push the pile 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.280 because they're respecting you continuing to drive your legs and 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.000 making that extra effort. Have you noticed that and is 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.719 that a sign of respect? Definitely have noticed that. Um, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.720 I think it's a sound of respect for me. But 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.600 you know that we have for each other as well. Um. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.320 Of course the season it looks like how it looks 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:29.960 in it, and it is what it is. But we 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.679 all know that, you know, we were We don't fight 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.720 for each other regards of you know, where we are 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.680 in the season. And I appreciate those guys, you know, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.240 seeing how hard I try to go and they and 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.200 they want to mess or even go over that. And 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.800 it's a blessing to be a part of somebody or 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.400 be a part of a team who sees that. You know, David, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.440 another thing I was watching is you miked up in 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.520 one of the games. Um. And throughout the whole course 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.760 of my career, I always wish that I was miked 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.680 up one game so I could have that track just 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.640 to think about, listen back to and listen to me 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.880 being me at that point at that part, do you 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.800 listen back to any of the your micd up segments? 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.120 And is that the Dave Montgomery Because Jeff and I 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.920 are more exposed to you from practice we see all 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.040 the time. You know, you don't really know who we are, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.920 but we get a little bit more exposure into Dave 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.720 Montgomery when you're miked up? Is that is that you? 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:32.840 And do you enjoy that? Um? It definitely each time 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.200 I've been mic up, like definitely forgot that I was 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.559 miked up. Um, But each time like it happens, I'm 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.480 kind of it's a surreal moment to understand that this 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:47.320 is the raw, uncontinuine David Montgomery that people you know, 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.280 being able to show that showcase that without trying to Um, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.600 it's definitely good because most people are most fans say 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.360 like they they don't know much about me. They always 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.319 know that I'm serious. Yeah, I'm pretty serious, but at 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.720 the same time, I have fun and you know, I 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.719 understand what needs to be done, and I'm just a 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.480 hard worker. I want to come to work every day 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.360 and try to help as much as I can so 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.360 I can be a bear for the rest of my career. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.840 You know, David, I feel like I have to ask 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:17.600 an Iowa State question before Jack does. But you know, 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.000 when when we get introduced to day Monk, I'm Ray 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.600 from Iowa State, and then we kind of pay attention 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.720 to those college teams and we see a lineage of 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.719 great running backs that come out of Iowa State. Is 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.880 it the program that brings the Iowa the running back 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.000 to Iowa State or is there a really good recruiter 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.360 that identifies quality talent that brings you guys in one 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.200 after another. Well, I definitely think it's a little bit 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.640 of both. M definitely a little bit of both. Understanding. Uh, 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.640 you know there's somebody there who's always willing me because 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.040 I wasn't highly recruited coming out, and most of the 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.679 guys can go to Iowa State weren't highly recruited, um, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.800 and you know they come in with chips on their shoulders, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.240 just like Brief. He's a great talent coming out this year, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.000 and I think he'll be the first BAC taking But 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.120 you know, you got that chip in that edge on 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.760 your shoulder. You know that you want to prove everybody wrong. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.599 I mean, you know, I kind of that's what I 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.080 lived in and I still live at this moment right now. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.520 Understand it. I know my capabilities and what I can 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.040 be for you know, Chicago Bears, and I understand what 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.120 I can be. I have any scratched service or what 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.680 I can be, but I will be that by time 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.280 I'm done playing ball, and I decided to understand that 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.199 I get to do that for you know, the organization 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.240 and for myself as well. David montgomer here with Jeff 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.440 Johnny Ack in Time there and Bears All Access in 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.920 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score another one of 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.000 those running backs can a wand Will from the Minnesota 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.840 Vikings who burst down the scene as a kick returner 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.719 of note here this season the Bears and Vike. He's 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.120 coming up Sunday at Soldier Field have the pregame and 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.240 nine kickoff a new nine News Radio one or five 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.960 nine w BBM. David, this is something you and I 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.600 talked about, but you know, going back to your high 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.079 school days and it'll be a part of a feature 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.760 you'll see on Bears Game Day Live on Sunday morning 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.959 at ten thirty. Is that you're you were you were 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.199 basically justin fields in high school, running that read option 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:18.480 to a spectacular version and throwing the football. You know, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.000 this week on the Bears Coaches Show, I alluded to 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.800 you that Bill Laser says you have the best arm 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.640 on the team, regardless of who, and he's insistent upon that. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.840 And I could see why because your accuracy the few 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.000 times I see you through it. But the ability the 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.520 magician that was David Montgomery to get out of trouble 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.800 when seemingly you were penned in five or six guys 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.360 ready to attack you. I know it's high school, but 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.920 that's hard to do no matter what level of football. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.520 You were really something. You were really something in high school, 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.000 and I could see why you are who you are. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.840 But I don't see why you weren't recruited very highly. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.560 I just don't get it. O. Yeah. Um, first, I 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.280 would like to say I can never Justin's He's a 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.600 different kind of beast, so I wouldn't even you know, 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.040 I think I was pretty good, but Justin I wouldn't 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.320 say anywhere near what he was in high school. Um. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.120 But um, yeah, in high school when I was playing quarterback, 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.480 it was definitely fun and it's pretty iron And you 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.160 asked that because on Sunday last Sunday, I wasn't able 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.400 to showcase how good of a quarterback I was going. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.920 I knew that that's the role that my coach needing me. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.360 He was the quarterback. I had a leadership, you know, attributes. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.760 I guess you could say the characteristics, and I kind 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.200 of just ran with it, and I'll played with it confidently, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.560 and I just was able to go out there and 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.080 just kind of be me and have fun doing it. Well, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.320 you certainly show that you have fun playing this game. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.120 Will continue our conversation with David Montgomery after a quick 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.640 break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.320 Welcome back to Bears All Access. You're on Chicago Sports 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.840 Radio six seventy the Score. This segment brought to you 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.800 by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit athletical dot com. The re 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.360 question in pointment, didn't Clint or virtually and start feeling 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.640 better tomorrow? With Tom there, Jeff Joniakin Bears running back 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.680 David Montgomery. You know David, and it seems like after 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.280 every game I always asked Matt Naggey about the amount 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.040 of carries that you got in the running back as 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.840 a whole but carries or catches. What does David Montgomery 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.240 want more as your career goes on, Because you know, David, 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.040 I think that you have the ability to be a 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.880 wide receiver from the line of scrimmage and be number 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.880 one in the progression of the read. But I also 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.080 love running back. So what does David Montgomery want out 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.960 of his future? Really to be available, you know, as 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.680 much as I can and as best as I can 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.840 for my teammates, or be reliable. And while I'm here 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.480 in Chicago, hopefully hopefully for my entire career, I want 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.640 to be able to grow into that that person who 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.240 you know, just reliable and get the job done. When 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.720 you look at the atmosphere this upcoming Sunday in Minnesota, 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.760 does that does the atmosphere, the warmth the stadium itself? 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.480 Does that open up your body more? Because you know, 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.080 when we talk about in the off season, you spent 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.760 learning how to be a better runner. Does this type 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.840 of atmosphere this late in the season help you be that? Uh? Definitely, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.359 even coming into this season. That's kind of how I 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.760 try to view myself and just kind of trying to 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.640 work the corrrespondent of the off season work to put 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.920 it in to transition for the season. I tried to 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.760 do that throughout the whole year, and you know so 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.440 I kind of look at it like everything that's going 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.880 in and being investing, I can be trusting myself, being 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.200 confident in every run in every past that I did. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.560 David Montgomery, our guest here on Bears All Access on 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.720 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score before the Cleveland game, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.959 we said, now we did a long form feature on you, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.800 and I wrote as the intro, I said, two hundred 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.160 and fifty miles south of Cleveland, started molding himself under 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.840 the young man he years today. Nothing easy about growing 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.600 up just outside of sinc but callous to meet the 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.280 rigor demands tied to achieving greatness. An emerging leader and 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.480 a go to talent, Montgomery fills his role with a seriousness, 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:11.760 save for old school NFL running backs on uncommon relentlessness. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.520 Did I capture the essence of you? I think you 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.120 did a pretty good job. You know, a pretty good job. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:25.000 You know he did a great job. What would you add? Selfless? 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.479 Really don't want the attention or want to be the 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.520 best person he can be every day and help everybody 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.560 else around him. But let me ask you this, how 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:37.040 do you balance being a leader, because with leadership comes 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.080 opportunities like this to visit and for people to hear 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.600 you and your voice to be heard with not wanting 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:49.119 the spot. Like that's an interesting dynamic, there isn't it? Definitely? 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.760 But you know every great leader, you know, I had 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.880 to learn how to follow first, and you know, even 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.359 with the opportunities for me to lead now, I still 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.560 know when to follow now. So I'm I'm just you know, 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.680 taking it one day at a time and just trying 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.840 to grow into the leader and the person that everyone 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.800 needs them to be. Well, what's what do you have 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.560 when you look at a season and you look at 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:15.000 it behind you, what is your off season going to be? Like? 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.920 Are you still concentrating on a running program or are 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.359 do you think of different values that you can contribute 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.520 to yourself by what you do in the off season. Yeah, 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.879 this season will be a lot similar, but I'll be 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.800 implementing a lot more different things as far as I 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.040 strengthening and a living stuff like that, for like injury 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.439 prevention kind of things so that I can you know, 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.560 be stronger and other places so that I can go 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.960 through a whole entire season. You know, it's unfortunate that 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.960 I missed those four games and being absolutely in my team, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.360 and I don't never want that to happen again through 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.280 my career. So I just need to figure out different 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.960 ways I can just stay healthy and strange and different 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.560 areas of my buddy. You know, when you look at 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.240 a guy like you said, you're not comparable hold to 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:05.240 Justin from your quarterback background to what he's been able 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.240 to show you in the time you've been together. What 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.240 is this offense? Is this a more movable offense? Is 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.119 this is a point of attack offense? Or is this 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.520 a you know, a wide open offense with a guy 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.200 like Justin and the other examples of quarterback play you've 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.159 seen around the league of with the players of his 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:27.840 type of traits. Oh yeah, definitely, Um, Justin especially like 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.680 I said before, UM, you know, just having him we 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:32.160 can do we can do a whole lot of things. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.439 And you know he's a rookie. Um, so you know 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.640 rookie has a rookie moments. But um, I think next 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:42.240 year with us coming back, UM, he'll get completely different 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.520 person and he'll help his beastly be the leader you 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:50.320 know that we need is gonna be fun. David Montgomery, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.280 our guest, Our final Moments. David, you know, Justin's been 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:59.080 so successful his entire life that I saw something about 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.680 his competitive us and how he does not like losing. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:06.240 Have you in any way help pick him up because 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.120 of the losing that young men experience on teams sometimes, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:15.119