Speaker 1: It's the final week of the twenty twenty one season
Speaker 1: of the Bears, off to Minnesota on Sunday. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it coming up here on Bears All Access. It's
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Speaker 1: Radio six seventy The Score with Tom Thayer, Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: Special thanks to our producers all season long, Dan BURRELLI,
Speaker 1: Jordan trut Up, Katie Tuber, and the great producers here
Speaker 1: at the Score. Good evening, Tom, how you doing. I'll
Speaker 1: do a good Jeff. I'm kind of sad to say
Speaker 1: it's the last week of the season, but as a player,
Speaker 1: it's quite an accomplishment when you can get through the
Speaker 1: regular season, you can improve along the way, you can
Speaker 1: finish the season healthy, and now you can get ready
Speaker 1: to embark on a tiring off season. Coming up on
Speaker 1: tonight's show, we'll be joined by Bears running back David
Speaker 1: Montgomery and one of the longest tenured sideline reporters in
Speaker 1: the NFL, Greg Coleman, a former punter and all around
Speaker 1: good guy the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network, retiring after long
Speaker 1: career in football as one of the Vikings greats. On
Speaker 1: their twenty fifth and fortieth anniversary teams, we'll talk Vikings
Speaker 1: and his career. So the news of the day Justin
Speaker 1: Field looking forward to returning after missing two games with
Speaker 1: an ankle injury, and here he pops up on the
Speaker 1: COVID list, so not likely to play on Sunday. Super unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I was so disappointed when I heard that, because this
Speaker 1: is one of the things that I was focusing on
Speaker 1: the last week of the season. I wanted to see
Speaker 1: what type of game plan they could formulate for Justin
Speaker 1: Fields in this type of environment, how he looked employing it,
Speaker 1: and then where do you go from the very first
Speaker 1: day of the off season till the beginning of OTAs.
Speaker 1: And with that said earlier today, Bill Laser, as you
Speaker 1: analyze the rookie year, and what's the takeaway for the
Speaker 1: young man that I want him to come out of
Speaker 1: this with confidence. I want him to realize that, you know,
Speaker 1: we were behind against the Steelers in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and he was able to take the offense down and score.
Speaker 1: We were behind against the Ravens and he was able
Speaker 1: to go down and score. That he was on the
Speaker 1: big stage of Monday Night Football, of whatever situation we
Speaker 1: were in, and was able to perform. And I know
Speaker 1: it sounds silly because he's done it right for his
Speaker 1: whole life, but still, we're all human. You get to
Speaker 1: this point and now, okay, here, this is my rookie year.
Speaker 1: Well I want him know what to step away and
Speaker 1: say yes, you know, just like they were telling me,
Speaker 1: I can do this and this is going to be
Speaker 1: a great story. You know. You use that confidence to
Speaker 1: kind of propel him into how the future goes. He
Speaker 1: is a confident guy to begin with. What would your
Speaker 1: takeaway being what did you think about bills? You know, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm all about developing the self confidence of every single
Speaker 1: one of these young players that need to develop self
Speaker 1: confidence to really ultimately be as confident as they can be.
Speaker 1: But in Justin's case, it's gonna be about how does
Speaker 1: he assist with Chicago Bears in victories? And that's one
Speaker 1: of the defining lines for any quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: When you look at the first staff they put up
Speaker 1: after they've had a decade long career, it's how many
Speaker 1: touchdowns have you on? How many games have you won?
Speaker 1: So I think every one of these experiences that Justin
Speaker 1: has had throughout his rookie season. How is that going
Speaker 1: to compute and carry over to victories or you win
Speaker 1: the division and get your team to the playoffs. One
Speaker 1: thing Laser discussed was just the type of guy Fields is,
Speaker 1: how he's the same all the time we've heard about it.
Speaker 1: Nothing rattles him, it appears and he is the same
Speaker 1: guy no matter what he thinks. That's a positive moving forward.
Speaker 1: Think of the people who are themselves and are sincere
Speaker 1: and authentic, and think of the people who put on
Speaker 1: airs when they're around the boss or act differently to
Speaker 1: try to fit in with different groups. I think people
Speaker 1: see through see through that over time, and I think
Speaker 1: in the end, this guy's going to be in stressful,
Speaker 1: tough situations and if if you're not being yourself, you know,
Speaker 1: you're putting up some false persona, it's going to crack
Speaker 1: and then people will know that you weren't just being authentic.
Speaker 1: So I think it's I think it's helpful and that
Speaker 1: when you're in such tight quarters and so often in
Speaker 1: stressful situations with your teammates and coaches, that they can
Speaker 1: trust who you are. And I think he's earned that
Speaker 1: as a guy who's been in many, many, many locker
Speaker 1: rooms over the course of a long football life. Would
Speaker 1: you concur with that assessment if that whole process is
Speaker 1: evaluate and explore during the pre draft type of exploration
Speaker 1: process of the individual, and then it is how does
Speaker 1: that happen during the regular season. Again, we talk about
Speaker 1: self competence. We talked about the reason Justin was drafted
Speaker 1: where he was, and how highly thought of after his
Speaker 1: rookie year. All those things go into the mix. But listen,
Speaker 1: because of so many individual interviews that he's been through
Speaker 1: in the pre draft process, if he wasn't himself, he
Speaker 1: changed his persona in front of different characters of different organizations,
Speaker 1: I think it would have been exposed at that point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: guys do it all the time though, you know, they
Speaker 1: get coached up or whatever. But now that he's here,
Speaker 1: and just from your own experience in locker rooms, what
Speaker 1: was your take on different types of players? Could you
Speaker 1: see through some of the Of course, you could see
Speaker 1: guys that were just happy to have a helmet. Then
Speaker 1: you can see guys that are happy to have a
Speaker 1: uniform and they want to be part of making the
Speaker 1: whole organization better. And that's what I see out of
Speaker 1: Justin his winning experience up into this stage of his life.
Speaker 1: He wants to carry that over into his pro life.
Speaker 1: So I have way higher expectations of justin going forward,
Speaker 1: even though I did at the beginning. He's raised that bar.
Speaker 1: What do I expect from him and what his contributions
Speaker 1: need to be coming up next? David Montgomery joins the program.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access with Tom Thayer, Jeff Jony Keen.
Speaker 1: This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome
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Speaker 1: With Tom Thayer, Jeff Joniak, welcome again our third year
Speaker 1: running back David Montgomery. That Bears All Access. David, thanks
Speaker 1: for taking the time. How you doing, buddy? Getting ready
Speaker 1: for the finale here? It's got to feel bitter sweet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely getting ready, but it definitely is a better
Speaker 1: seed at the same time, knowing that the season is
Speaker 1: coming to the end, um, knowing that I had help
Speaker 1: for us, Yeah, you know, the high hopes included h
Speaker 1: you know, not only personal a team, and you know
Speaker 1: the way the thing has gone this season, there's always
Speaker 1: been some start and stop of some sort yourself included
Speaker 1: with an injury and and just the news of today
Speaker 1: the Justin Fields is in the in the COVID protocols,
Speaker 1: so an opportunity for him to leave one more last mark.
Speaker 1: But you guys have really pulled together as a team
Speaker 1: and really given your all here in the last a
Speaker 1: few weeks and have played some good football win or lose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just really go back to us sticking together,
Speaker 1: you know, knowing that we got to finish this thing out,
Speaker 1: and you know it shows the kind of carricter that
Speaker 1: we had with those with the guys on this team. Hey, David,
Speaker 1: I was reading a headline from a game, I think
Speaker 1: it was after the Arizona game, and it says Montgomery
Speaker 1: sets the tone with ugly, angry runs. David, I think
Speaker 1: that's the highest compliment of running back and get paid.
Speaker 1: When you talk about what's expected you and how physical
Speaker 1: that you do play, you do you just do you
Speaker 1: consider that description a compliment to you? Uh? Definitely, Um,
Speaker 1: you know I want to kind of not kind of,
Speaker 1: but I definitely want to um follow the same footstep
Speaker 1: that Walter Payton has UM and just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: run angry and having that wild or not go down
Speaker 1: and wild or not quit mentality. UM that Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: you carry itself. So UM, I try to think about
Speaker 1: that every opportunity I get out there to kind of
Speaker 1: on the ball. You know, it's kind of funny you
Speaker 1: bring up Walter's name because I was thinking about you
Speaker 1: and in Walter during in Walter's last game, he threw
Speaker 1: his last touchdown pass and it was last touchdown run
Speaker 1: into the stands, and then I saw a highlight of
Speaker 1: you handing a ball off to someone in the stands.
Speaker 1: Is that just anonymously picked? Because you're probably making the
Speaker 1: greatest day that person will ever have in their sports history.
Speaker 1: Did you do it? Did you recognize someone? Or were
Speaker 1: you just man? This is Dave mcgomery and I'm complimenting
Speaker 1: a fan in the stands, the first in Arizona, the
Speaker 1: first one that actually score one. I gave it to
Speaker 1: a random fan just because you know they pay harder
Speaker 1: and ready to come see his play in performing. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I try to make somebody's day every chance
Speaker 1: I get the second one that um, they said wasn't
Speaker 1: a touchdown, but it really was. I gave it to
Speaker 1: my mom. Um. I had never gave one of my
Speaker 1: mom and I see my mom what she was and
Speaker 1: I was able to jump up there and give it
Speaker 1: a ball, which is what I wanted to do my
Speaker 1: whole life. So it was good to be able to
Speaker 1: fulfill that dream. And how did she responded that? What
Speaker 1: did she say to you? And was at a special
Speaker 1: moment for her? Definitely a special moment. Um she cried
Speaker 1: after just because she understood how hard I work and
Speaker 1: how hard I worked to get to this point, and
Speaker 1: you know how hard I'm going to continue to work. Um,
Speaker 1: And for you know, her to see her son actually
Speaker 1: doing it was pretty good for her to see. So um,
Speaker 1: she she was just at all the understanding that she
Speaker 1: was happy they were able to happen. David montgomer I
Speaker 1: guest here on Bears All Access with Tom There Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: One of the byproducts of a team that really respects
Speaker 1: it's running back and and it's died hard. Type of
Speaker 1: mentality that you have you do not go down easy,
Speaker 1: you never have gone down easy, is that they're starting
Speaker 1: too and have done. You know, more often than not,
Speaker 1: when you're drawing attention three or four guys trying to
Speaker 1: bring you down, they're coming in to push the pile
Speaker 1: because they're respecting you continuing to drive your legs and
Speaker 1: making that extra effort. Have you noticed that and is
Speaker 1: that a sign of respect? Definitely have noticed that. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's a sound of respect for me. But
Speaker 1: you know that we have for each other as well. Um.
Speaker 1: Of course the season it looks like how it looks
Speaker 1: in it, and it is what it is. But we
Speaker 1: all know that, you know, we were We don't fight
Speaker 1: for each other regards of you know, where we are
Speaker 1: in the season. And I appreciate those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing how hard I try to go and they and
Speaker 1: they want to mess or even go over that. And
Speaker 1: it's a blessing to be a part of somebody or
Speaker 1: be a part of a team who sees that. You know, David,
Speaker 1: another thing I was watching is you miked up in
Speaker 1: one of the games. Um. And throughout the whole course
Speaker 1: of my career, I always wish that I was miked
Speaker 1: up one game so I could have that track just
Speaker 1: to think about, listen back to and listen to me
Speaker 1: being me at that point at that part, do you
Speaker 1: listen back to any of the your micd up segments?
Speaker 1: And is that the Dave Montgomery Because Jeff and I
Speaker 1: are more exposed to you from practice we see all
Speaker 1: the time. You know, you don't really know who we are,
Speaker 1: but we get a little bit more exposure into Dave
Speaker 1: Montgomery when you're miked up? Is that is that you?
Speaker 1: And do you enjoy that? Um? It definitely each time
Speaker 1: I've been mic up, like definitely forgot that I was
Speaker 1: miked up. Um, But each time like it happens, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of it's a surreal moment to understand that this
Speaker 1: is the raw, uncontinuine David Montgomery that people you know,
Speaker 1: being able to show that showcase that without trying to Um,
Speaker 1: it's definitely good because most people are most fans say
Speaker 1: like they they don't know much about me. They always
Speaker 1: know that I'm serious. Yeah, I'm pretty serious, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, I have fun and you know, I
Speaker 1: understand what needs to be done, and I'm just a
Speaker 1: hard worker. I want to come to work every day
Speaker 1: and try to help as much as I can so
Speaker 1: I can be a bear for the rest of my career.
Speaker 1: You know, David, I feel like I have to ask
Speaker 1: an Iowa State question before Jack does. But you know,
Speaker 1: when when we get introduced to day Monk, I'm Ray
Speaker 1: from Iowa State, and then we kind of pay attention
Speaker 1: to those college teams and we see a lineage of
Speaker 1: great running backs that come out of Iowa State. Is
Speaker 1: it the program that brings the Iowa the running back
Speaker 1: to Iowa State or is there a really good recruiter
Speaker 1: that identifies quality talent that brings you guys in one
Speaker 1: after another. Well, I definitely think it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. M definitely a little bit of both. Understanding. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know there's somebody there who's always willing me because
Speaker 1: I wasn't highly recruited coming out, and most of the
Speaker 1: guys can go to Iowa State weren't highly recruited, um,
Speaker 1: and you know they come in with chips on their shoulders,
Speaker 1: just like Brief. He's a great talent coming out this year,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll be the first BAC taking But
Speaker 1: you know, you got that chip in that edge on
Speaker 1: your shoulder. You know that you want to prove everybody wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I kind of that's what I
Speaker 1: lived in and I still live at this moment right now.
Speaker 1: Understand it. I know my capabilities and what I can
Speaker 1: be for you know, Chicago Bears, and I understand what
Speaker 1: I can be. I have any scratched service or what
Speaker 1: I can be, but I will be that by time
Speaker 1: I'm done playing ball, and I decided to understand that
Speaker 1: I get to do that for you know, the organization
Speaker 1: and for myself as well. David montgomer here with Jeff
Speaker 1: Johnny Ack in Time there and Bears All Access in
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score another one of
Speaker 1: those running backs can a wand Will from the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings who burst down the scene as a kick returner
Speaker 1: of note here this season the Bears and Vike. He's
Speaker 1: coming up Sunday at Soldier Field have the pregame and
Speaker 1: nine kickoff a new nine News Radio one or five
Speaker 1: nine w BBM. David, this is something you and I
Speaker 1: talked about, but you know, going back to your high
Speaker 1: school days and it'll be a part of a feature
Speaker 1: you'll see on Bears Game Day Live on Sunday morning
Speaker 1: at ten thirty. Is that you're you were you were
Speaker 1: basically justin fields in high school, running that read option
Speaker 1: to a spectacular version and throwing the football. You know,
Speaker 1: this week on the Bears Coaches Show, I alluded to
Speaker 1: you that Bill Laser says you have the best arm
Speaker 1: on the team, regardless of who, and he's insistent upon that.
Speaker 1: And I could see why because your accuracy the few
Speaker 1: times I see you through it. But the ability the
Speaker 1: magician that was David Montgomery to get out of trouble
Speaker 1: when seemingly you were penned in five or six guys
Speaker 1: ready to attack you. I know it's high school, but
Speaker 1: that's hard to do no matter what level of football.
Speaker 1: You were really something. You were really something in high school,
Speaker 1: and I could see why you are who you are.
Speaker 1: But I don't see why you weren't recruited very highly.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it. O. Yeah. Um, first, I
Speaker 1: would like to say I can never Justin's He's a
Speaker 1: different kind of beast, so I wouldn't even you know,
Speaker 1: I think I was pretty good, but Justin I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say anywhere near what he was in high school. Um.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, in high school when I was playing quarterback,
Speaker 1: it was definitely fun and it's pretty iron And you
Speaker 1: asked that because on Sunday last Sunday, I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to showcase how good of a quarterback I was going.
Speaker 1: I knew that that's the role that my coach needing me.
Speaker 1: He was the quarterback. I had a leadership, you know, attributes.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say the characteristics, and I kind
Speaker 1: of just ran with it, and I'll played with it confidently,
Speaker 1: and I just was able to go out there and
Speaker 1: just kind of be me and have fun doing it. Well,
Speaker 1: you certainly show that you have fun playing this game.
Speaker 1: Will continue our conversation with David Montgomery after a quick
Speaker 1: break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score.
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Speaker 1: question in pointment, didn't Clint or virtually and start feeling
Speaker 1: better tomorrow? With Tom there, Jeff Joniakin Bears running back
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. You know David, and it seems like after
Speaker 1: every game I always asked Matt Naggey about the amount
Speaker 1: of carries that you got in the running back as
Speaker 1: a whole but carries or catches. What does David Montgomery
Speaker 1: want more as your career goes on, Because you know, David,
Speaker 1: I think that you have the ability to be a
Speaker 1: wide receiver from the line of scrimmage and be number
Speaker 1: one in the progression of the read. But I also
Speaker 1: love running back. So what does David Montgomery want out
Speaker 1: of his future? Really to be available, you know, as
Speaker 1: much as I can and as best as I can
Speaker 1: for my teammates, or be reliable. And while I'm here
Speaker 1: in Chicago, hopefully hopefully for my entire career, I want
Speaker 1: to be able to grow into that that person who
Speaker 1: you know, just reliable and get the job done. When
Speaker 1: you look at the atmosphere this upcoming Sunday in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: does that does the atmosphere, the warmth the stadium itself?
Speaker 1: Does that open up your body more? Because you know,
Speaker 1: when we talk about in the off season, you spent
Speaker 1: learning how to be a better runner. Does this type
Speaker 1: of atmosphere this late in the season help you be that? Uh? Definitely,
Speaker 1: even coming into this season. That's kind of how I
Speaker 1: try to view myself and just kind of trying to
Speaker 1: work the corrrespondent of the off season work to put
Speaker 1: it in to transition for the season. I tried to
Speaker 1: do that throughout the whole year, and you know so
Speaker 1: I kind of look at it like everything that's going
Speaker 1: in and being investing, I can be trusting myself, being
Speaker 1: confident in every run in every past that I did.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery, our guest here on Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score before the Cleveland game,
Speaker 1: we said, now we did a long form feature on you,
Speaker 1: and I wrote as the intro, I said, two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty miles south of Cleveland, started molding himself under
Speaker 1: the young man he years today. Nothing easy about growing
Speaker 1: up just outside of sinc but callous to meet the
Speaker 1: rigor demands tied to achieving greatness. An emerging leader and
Speaker 1: a go to talent, Montgomery fills his role with a seriousness,
Speaker 1: save for old school NFL running backs on uncommon relentlessness.
Speaker 1: Did I capture the essence of you? I think you
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job. You know, a pretty good job.
Speaker 1: You know he did a great job. What would you add? Selfless?
Speaker 1: Really don't want the attention or want to be the
Speaker 1: best person he can be every day and help everybody
Speaker 1: else around him. But let me ask you this, how
Speaker 1: do you balance being a leader, because with leadership comes
Speaker 1: opportunities like this to visit and for people to hear
Speaker 1: you and your voice to be heard with not wanting
Speaker 1: the spot. Like that's an interesting dynamic, there isn't it? Definitely?
Speaker 1: But you know every great leader, you know, I had
Speaker 1: to learn how to follow first, and you know, even
Speaker 1: with the opportunities for me to lead now, I still
Speaker 1: know when to follow now. So I'm I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: taking it one day at a time and just trying
Speaker 1: to grow into the leader and the person that everyone
Speaker 1: needs them to be. Well, what's what do you have
Speaker 1: when you look at a season and you look at
Speaker 1: it behind you, what is your off season going to be? Like?
Speaker 1: Are you still concentrating on a running program or are
Speaker 1: do you think of different values that you can contribute
Speaker 1: to yourself by what you do in the off season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this season will be a lot similar, but I'll be
Speaker 1: implementing a lot more different things as far as I
Speaker 1: strengthening and a living stuff like that, for like injury
Speaker 1: prevention kind of things so that I can you know,
Speaker 1: be stronger and other places so that I can go
Speaker 1: through a whole entire season. You know, it's unfortunate that
Speaker 1: I missed those four games and being absolutely in my team,
Speaker 1: and I don't never want that to happen again through
Speaker 1: my career. So I just need to figure out different
Speaker 1: ways I can just stay healthy and strange and different
Speaker 1: areas of my buddy. You know, when you look at
Speaker 1: a guy like you said, you're not comparable hold to
Speaker 1: Justin from your quarterback background to what he's been able
Speaker 1: to show you in the time you've been together. What
Speaker 1: is this offense? Is this a more movable offense? Is
Speaker 1: this is a point of attack offense? Or is this
Speaker 1: a you know, a wide open offense with a guy
Speaker 1: like Justin and the other examples of quarterback play you've
Speaker 1: seen around the league of with the players of his
Speaker 1: type of traits. Oh yeah, definitely, Um, Justin especially like
Speaker 1: I said before, UM, you know, just having him we
Speaker 1: can do we can do a whole lot of things.
Speaker 1: And you know he's a rookie. Um, so you know
Speaker 1: rookie has a rookie moments. But um, I think next
Speaker 1: year with us coming back, UM, he'll get completely different
Speaker 1: person and he'll help his beastly be the leader you
Speaker 1: know that we need is gonna be fun. David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: our guest, Our final Moments. David, you know, Justin's been
Speaker 1: so successful his entire life that I saw something about
Speaker 1: his competitive us and how he does not like losing.
Speaker 1: Have you in any way help pick him up because
Speaker 1: of the losing that young men experience on teams sometimes,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, definitely, UM, understanding that, Um, there's season is
Speaker 1: in your life. UM, and God places different moments and
Speaker 1: UM situation and life that you just got to learn
Speaker 1: how to handle. And you know, you go through it
Speaker 1: and you learn from it, but UM, you just grow.
Speaker 1: You just continue to get better and understand that. UM.
Speaker 1: You know you want to be the winner. You gotta
Speaker 1: have that winner mentality, but you also gotta there's just
Speaker 1: rare cases where you gotta handle losing. And unfortunately we
Speaker 1: had to handle a lot more than this winning this year.
Speaker 1: It was new and it was different for all of us. UM.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'll just continue to let him know that, UM,
Speaker 1: we need you. We're gonna need you, UM for this,
Speaker 1: for this franchise and for this organization, and you gotta lead.
Speaker 1: And he took charge that he's coming here every day
Speaker 1: with a great mentality and great attitude and and to
Speaker 1: smile on his face. Who motivates who? Because you know
Speaker 1: you're obviously a self motivate, motivated guyles you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to experience what you do. And Justin seems like
Speaker 1: from the first day we were we saw him in
Speaker 1: OTAs and stuff, he's a super motivated guy, and you
Speaker 1: know that's the type of energy a football team needs.
Speaker 1: And who's picking up? Who? Here? Are you picking up Justin?
Speaker 1: Or is he starting to pick you up a little bit?
Speaker 1: It definitely goes both ways. He picks me up and
Speaker 1: I picked him up some situation streeting him being able
Speaker 1: to be so young and doing he's definitely especially well.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see what he's becoming. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to be able to, you know, be here and go
Speaker 1: through with him. All right, David, we'll wrap it up
Speaker 1: with a couple of quick hitters whatever comes to your mind,
Speaker 1: and will say goodbye. You got some work to do
Speaker 1: here today, all right? M biggest pet peeve? What would
Speaker 1: it be when people need a toilet seat up? Guilty pleasure?
Speaker 1: Do you have a guilty pleasure? I do, none? Do
Speaker 1: I don't think I do a prized possession. UM prized
Speaker 1: possession my first touchdown football that I got here when
Speaker 1: I was I scored in Denver. Do you remember the play? Yes,
Speaker 1: tell me about it. Way it was, I jumped over
Speaker 1: the pow. Probably they said I didn't score, but I
Speaker 1: definitely didn't score. UM first record season game. It was
Speaker 1: like an inside own play. I didn't have anywhere to go,
Speaker 1: but I'm thinking, like I cannot not score, so I
Speaker 1: jumped over the power and happened to get in. So
Speaker 1: it was pretty It's pretty aad great moment to Walter
Speaker 1: Payton asked diving over the top. Have you ever had
Speaker 1: a starstruck moment in your life? In my life? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say a couple weeks ago when
Speaker 1: we played Seattle and I was able to go a
Speaker 1: Bobby just growing up watching him playing, being able to
Speaker 1: play getting was pretty cool. And then lastly, give me
Speaker 1: one bucket list item, one bucket list item to play
Speaker 1: with the Bears my entire career. Awesome. That is a
Speaker 1: great way to end this interview. We all that comes true,
Speaker 1: my friend. I know you're gonna do everything in your
Speaker 1: power to make it happen. Appreciate it all the time. David,
Speaker 1: very very happy for you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Benntgomery our guest here on Bears All Access. Coming up,
Speaker 1: Tom and I visit with Vikings analysts Greg Coleman as
Speaker 1: the Bears get ready to meet the Vikings Sunday in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This
Speaker 1: portion of Bears All Access is brought to you by CDW.
Speaker 1: People to get learn more at CDW dot com. Jeff
Speaker 1: joni Ac along with Tom there here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to Score. We got a special guest
Speaker 1: this week. Usually we talked to our guy because he's
Speaker 1: from Chicago. Greg Pete Burr stitches out all the time.
Speaker 1: We shoved him to the background because it's a proper
Speaker 1: goodbye to a veteran voice of the Minnesota Vikings, not
Speaker 1: only as a player, but as a long time broadcast
Speaker 1: and sideline reporter. Greg Coleman. Thanks for joining us, Greg.
Speaker 1: These are the final final minutes in days of your
Speaker 1: football life, at least with the Minnesota Vikings. How is that?
Speaker 1: How's that coming along for you? Because when the end comes,
Speaker 1: we are so addicted to this game, no matter if
Speaker 1: you played it or you talked about it, that it's
Speaker 1: hard to say goodbye. Jeff. You know, there's nothing like
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and obviously there'll be aspects of
Speaker 1: it that I'll miss, the same as when I was
Speaker 1: a player, but this one is a little bit different
Speaker 1: because you know, the journey of a broadcaster lasted a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot longer than the player. But also
Speaker 1: in life, there's a lot more journey behind me than
Speaker 1: it is ahead of me. So I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that we do some of the things that we
Speaker 1: want to accomplish that the Good Lord has called us
Speaker 1: to do. There will still be a voice that will
Speaker 1: be heard, but just in a different arena. But there
Speaker 1: is nothing like the National Football League. And as as
Speaker 1: you mentioned counting down the last days and moments, I
Speaker 1: don't know what they're going to be like. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll be filled with emotion, elation, and sadness in some aspects,
Speaker 1: but also some joy in excitement looking at the next
Speaker 1: chapter of our lives, just the transformation of the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings and the time you've been there, to where they
Speaker 1: were when you got there, and to where they're at
Speaker 1: right now when you see the difference in the stadiums,
Speaker 1: the difference in the crowd support, the different types of
Speaker 1: head coach is that this team went through. Are they
Speaker 1: stronger now when we're at this end of the Vikings
Speaker 1: or do they have a stronger reputation when you came
Speaker 1: aboard the Minnesota Vikings, Tom, That's great, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I'll put it in this perspective. In terms of success
Speaker 1: on the field, I think there were some amazing runs
Speaker 1: with the earlier days with the Purple People leaders. I
Speaker 1: got to play with some of those guys at the
Speaker 1: beginning of my career in Minnesota, talking about the Tarkington's
Speaker 1: and Marshals and Ellers and Rashads and Tingle Hawfs and
Speaker 1: all of those great legendary players. But in terms of facilities,
Speaker 1: I mean, when I got to Minnesota, we had one
Speaker 1: universal gem and I said, man, is this the National
Speaker 1: Football League? My high school has more stuff than this.
Speaker 1: But as you tend to migrate over the years with
Speaker 1: the Metrodome, then US Bank Stadium, the TCO Training facility,
Speaker 1: in terms of facilities in technology and all of those things,
Speaker 1: it is second and then but I will say this
Speaker 1: and this is one of the things that really made
Speaker 1: me pause and look at time I have been associated
Speaker 1: and had a relationship with every head coach of the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, with the exception of Norm Van Broccoli, and
Speaker 1: that that kind of put it in perspective for me.
Speaker 1: And you're talking Bud Grant, Jerry Burns, Less Stecko, Denny Green,
Speaker 1: Brad Children's, Mike Tice, Leslie Frazier, Uh, you know in
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer and it's it's it's just been a blessing
Speaker 1: to see the evolution of the organization, the things that
Speaker 1: they have stood for in the community. When Denny Green
Speaker 1: came on and started to put in community Tuesday, that
Speaker 1: was something that the organization had not done, and that
Speaker 1: meant that every player and coach would get out into
Speaker 1: this community and give back something in the place where
Speaker 1: they call home, even if it was not their permanent home.
Speaker 1: But I've seen so many amazing things, and I've seen
Speaker 1: this the will family just really take the reins of
Speaker 1: this organization and take it to a whole other level.
Speaker 1: Thirty two years as part of the broadcast twenty one
Speaker 1: as a sideline reporter punter from nineteen seventy eight to
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. But that's putting in a box because
Speaker 1: you're a heck of an athlete who could throw the
Speaker 1: football as well and dropped that coffin corner punt. But
Speaker 1: when you think about it, you've been touched by royalty
Speaker 1: in National Football League terms, because you were drafted by
Speaker 1: Paul Brown and then you and you played for that
Speaker 1: blue eyed wonder Bud Grant, I mean, and a lot
Speaker 1: in between that you saw. So we don't have enough
Speaker 1: time to tackle your journey. But what was that like
Speaker 1: to deal with those two gentlemen first and foremost? Well,
Speaker 1: obviously with in Cincinnati, things didn't work out the way
Speaker 1: that I wanted. I made a mistake of running the
Speaker 1: forty and I was just coming off a track season,
Speaker 1: so I clipped out of fourth four and I ran everybody,
Speaker 1: with the acception of maybe Isaac Curtis and Archie Griffin
Speaker 1: because we were drafted in that seventy six class. So
Speaker 1: Paul Brown sees this and he says, hey, man, we
Speaker 1: gotta try you at wide receiver. It's a guy, man,
Speaker 1: I've never played wide receiver. We'll go over there with
Speaker 1: Chip and let Kenny Anderson throw the ball to you.
Speaker 1: As a courtis, teach him how to do a fly rodding,
Speaker 1: you know. So that didn't work. And then they switched
Speaker 1: him to the defensive back. And you know Ken Riley,
Speaker 1: the rattler who I happened to drive up to training
Speaker 1: camp with because he was from Jacksonville at that time,
Speaker 1: and he said, teach him how to how to back pedal.
Speaker 1: That didn't work. And after all of those things, I
Speaker 1: still had to compete with the other punters and kickers.
Speaker 1: Long story short, didn't work. Got a shot with the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. The following year, had a fairly decent year,
Speaker 1: but al art Model goes back into draft and drafts
Speaker 1: another punter by the name of Johnny Evans out of
Speaker 1: North Carolina State, but the previous year he drafted Tom
Speaker 1: Scola Daney out of Ohio State. He didn't want a
Speaker 1: punt in Cleveland. Forrest Brown said, Forrest Gregg, who was
Speaker 1: a coach of Cleveland, said hey, can you handle this?
Speaker 1: I said, Coach, all I need is an opportunity, So
Speaker 1: I put it for the Cleveland Browns. In seventy seven,
Speaker 1: Forrest gets fired. Sam Martigliano comes in. I said, Sam,
Speaker 1: please let me go out. Know how this thing goes,
Speaker 1: Let me try out with somebody else. He said, no,
Speaker 1: the best guys to get the job leading the entire
Speaker 1: league that preseason. The Friday before the first game, I
Speaker 1: get cut. I say, Sam, I told you, okay. So
Speaker 1: I tried out Jeff with four or five other different teams,
Speaker 1: never got a shot. I watching a game. We're still
Speaker 1: living in Cleveland, my ninth floor apartment window. I go
Speaker 1: to my ninth floor apartment window after watching the game
Speaker 1: between the Rams and the Vikings, and I opened the
Speaker 1: window and I'm screaming at God. I said, you lied
Speaker 1: to me. You said that if I would pray and
Speaker 1: I will do the things that you would give me
Speaker 1: the desires of my heart. Where are you? I said,
Speaker 1: I want to play football, and I want to play
Speaker 1: football so bad that I'll even play for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: And I closed the window, and I got a call
Speaker 1: from the Minnesota Vikings and I spent the next ten
Speaker 1: years as a punter. Unbelievable story. So let's greg. Let's
Speaker 1: speed up to modern day Minnesota Vikings football. Because I
Speaker 1: look at the team and I see talent. You know,
Speaker 1: at every level. Who's the MVP of the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: going to the last regular season game. Oh Man, that's
Speaker 1: a key question because Budd always talks about being durable.
Speaker 1: If you durability is the most important trade of a
Speaker 1: football of a football player, and if you're not durable,
Speaker 1: I can't count on you, I can't depend on you.
Speaker 1: And this year for the most part, I would say
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook for the most part. But I have to
Speaker 1: lean toward Justin Jefferson because he has not missed a game.
Speaker 1: He's been ready, he's been prepared. Fortunately, you have to
Speaker 1: depend on a quarterback to get that receiver of the ball.
Speaker 1: But I would think that Dalvin Cook is a straw
Speaker 1: that stirs the offensive drink for the Minnesota Vikings. We've
Speaker 1: missed him because of injury a few games. Also, he
Speaker 1: got bit by the COVID bug. But man, the disappointing
Speaker 1: part of it is that there's so much talent on
Speaker 1: this football team, and you create habits when you don't
Speaker 1: win early on those close games. They're fourteen games that
Speaker 1: have thirteen games that have been decided in the last
Speaker 1: play or the last quarter of the game, and you
Speaker 1: either develop habits of winning the close games where you
Speaker 1: develop a habit of losing him. Unfortunately, they've migrated to
Speaker 1: the latter, which is unfortunate. You know, Greg, you bring
Speaker 1: up the word COVID, because I mean, there's a thousand
Speaker 1: conversations we could have. I don't think you and I
Speaker 1: ever came from an era that we left football with
Speaker 1: enough money for generations to come, like the quarterback position can.
Speaker 1: So you have a quarterback that's not vaccinated. Now he
Speaker 1: can dictate the fate of the money other guys can
Speaker 1: make if they don't make the playoffs, if they make
Speaker 1: their bonuses, all the complications that involved. So going to
Speaker 1: Green Bay last week and knowing that your quarterback, one
Speaker 1: of your team and MVPs is not going to be there,
Speaker 1: how did that resonate in the locker room? And you know,
Speaker 1: how did you feel about it personally? I think it's
Speaker 1: been an issue all year because at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season, Mike Zimmer talked about that, He addressed it,
Speaker 1: the team talked about it. He's respecting the rights of players,
Speaker 1: but also looking at the overall picture of team and
Speaker 1: this is exactly what he did not want to happen
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch, that some of his key players
Speaker 1: would get bit by the COVID book. Harrison Smith unvaccinated,
Speaker 1: got bit by in Baltimore. We lost that game. Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: we got bit by in the Rams game, we lost
Speaker 1: that obviously. What happened last week in Green Bay bit again.
Speaker 1: So those are three Pro Bowl players, three leaders on
Speaker 1: your football team chose not to get vaccinated, got bit
Speaker 1: by it, but cost the team. I think it's unfortunate
Speaker 1: because Jeff thom As, you know, there was a different
Speaker 1: level of belief, there was a different level of trust
Speaker 1: with the men that you played at because you depended
Speaker 1: on each and every one of those guys to do
Speaker 1: whatever it took that was for the best of the
Speaker 1: team and to have guys, for whatever reason they believe
Speaker 1: that they have the right. I look at it as
Speaker 1: as a selfish piece, because if if you're so concerned
Speaker 1: about the COVID vaccine, then why do you take ask
Speaker 1: for when you have a headache, why do you get
Speaker 1: a flu shot during the winter, because those things are
Speaker 1: done to protect you. Granted, it's been politicized like never before,
Speaker 1: so a lot of it got caught up in politics,
Speaker 1: personal beliefs, and all of those other things. But ultimately
Speaker 1: it cost a lot of teams a lot of games.
Speaker 1: Great Coleman, our guest here on Bears All Access with
Speaker 1: Tom Fair, Jeff Jonah on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: the score. Where is the meaning in this last regular
Speaker 1: season game? From a Minnesota perspective? Obviously, wins of change
Speaker 1: are flying through the air everywhere in a lot of
Speaker 1: NFL cities and including Minnesota's Mike Zimmer that question post game,
Speaker 1: and he said, these men are professionals, and I understood.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to dig too much deeper than that,
Speaker 1: this is a profession that you don't win, not played
Speaker 1: because but would always say Greg, I can get anybody
Speaker 1: to come off the street put on a purple jersey
Speaker 1: and a helmet with horns on it. But we're in
Speaker 1: a sports entertainment business and we're paid to win games.
Speaker 1: And when you don't win changes or me. Unfortunately, that's
Speaker 1: the nature of the Beast. And these guys are playing
Speaker 1: for their future, they're playing for their lives. Coaches are
Speaker 1: coaching for their lives. But there will be changes with players,
Speaker 1: with coaches, with staff. That's just the nature of the Beasts.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate. I'm not sure what the wills are going
Speaker 1: to be uh, you know, thinking about after this game,
Speaker 1: after this season. But obviously there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: conversation about changes being made in Minnesota. Greg. Because of
Speaker 1: all your experience in the punting game, I don't want
Speaker 1: to let you retire without asking you this question. The
Speaker 1: way the punting game has changed in turns hated. I
Speaker 1: hated all right, you know, because Jeff brought Jeff brought
Speaker 1: up the phrase coffin corner, and that was some of
Speaker 1: the most exciting punts that I've seen grown up as
Speaker 1: an NFL fan. Now they have the Rugby style version.
Speaker 1: So I guess you gave me the answer that I
Speaker 1: was anticipating. Jef. Here it is time. Here, let me
Speaker 1: lay it out for you. Putters are paid according to averages.
Speaker 1: If you go to the corner, simple, plain and simple,
Speaker 1: you sacrifice average. So I don't fault they Assi rule
Speaker 1: punters because Darren Bidet bought it in from San Diego
Speaker 1: many many years ago. It affords a guy just to
Speaker 1: put a backwards spin on it, just like him. You know,
Speaker 1: a crisp pitching wedge with a little backspin on it,
Speaker 1: and hope that you get the nose down first to
Speaker 1: get the backwards rotation, and that's why a lot of
Speaker 1: kids have gone to that. It really is a lost
Speaker 1: art of going to the corners, getting that nose over,
Speaker 1: pointing it down. I used to call it a pass
Speaker 1: off of your foot to the left corner or to
Speaker 1: the right corner. Had a special team's coach at Florida
Speaker 1: and m by the name of Pop Kids in practice
Speaker 1: one day down at FAM you just put him down
Speaker 1: the middle. He's said, well, baby, why are you kicking
Speaker 1: it right to him? I said, well, hell, Pop, that's
Speaker 1: where he's standing. He said, well, baby, don't make it
Speaker 1: easy on him and make him earn his supper. Take
Speaker 1: it to the right, take it to the left, And
Speaker 1: if you do it on a consistent basis, I guarantee
Speaker 1: you they'll find a place for you at the national
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And I was stupid enough
Speaker 1: to believe him. So that was my fourteen kicking it
Speaker 1: to the right and kicking it to the left. Outstanding story.
Speaker 1: So why didn't a lot more punters make Devin Hester
Speaker 1: earn his supper? Because they kicked it right to him
Speaker 1: a lot and he and I want to know what
Speaker 1: your Hall of Favor thoughts are on the revolutionary impact
Speaker 1: he made on the game, and how teams then built
Speaker 1: their special teams units to try and stop him from
Speaker 1: doing what he did, and they still couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: You know what, I wouldn't have needed a team. All
Speaker 1: I wouldn't need was a sinner on my punt team.
Speaker 1: Everybody else could could have sat down because I am
Speaker 1: not putting the ball in the field of play against
Speaker 1: Devin Hester. Okay, you gotta remember I came up during
Speaker 1: the days of Billy White, Chiefs Johnson in some of
Speaker 1: the great return men, and if you could catch it
Speaker 1: out of bounds and run with it, that's what you
Speaker 1: were gonna do. I never would have kicked the ball
Speaker 1: to it, no way, shape or for him, but this
Speaker 1: man deserves to be in that final group in Canton.
Speaker 1: He changed the game. You also had another young man
Speaker 1: there whose career is not over, Corderell Patterson, an amazing
Speaker 1: kickoff return didn't return punts. But I wouldn't have kicked
Speaker 1: it to him as well. I would have kicked it
Speaker 1: out of bounds and taken my chances on the thirty five.
Speaker 1: Because those game changing plays, they make all the difference
Speaker 1: in the world. They can flip the field and change
Speaker 1: momentum in a New York minute, Greg Coleman, our guests
Speaker 1: gonna wrap things up here, Greg, appreciate it a lot
Speaker 1: on your resume and good luck in retirement. How are
Speaker 1: you gonna do some public speaking? You've done that in
Speaker 1: your past as well with a professional speaking business, and
Speaker 1: do some work. But the traditionally black college universities where
Speaker 1: you came from, obviously, and remember of the twenty five
Speaker 1: and fortieth anniversary teams in the Minnesota Vikings and a
Speaker 1: long established prominent career and broadcasting as well. You've done
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot. So congratulate, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tom. You appreciate your brother. Thank you. That's
Speaker 1: great Coleman. Tom and I continue our conversation on Bears
Speaker 1: Vikings after this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: the future pieces at least he hopes. I love what
Speaker 1: he said at the end. Man he wants to be
Speaker 1: a bear. He really is. As long as I've talked
Speaker 1: to him as a bear, He's always brought up Walter,
Speaker 1: and that must that must warm your heart as an
Speaker 1: ex bear and a good friend of the late Walter Payton.
Speaker 1: I think of a list of running backs that we've
Speaker 1: been around with the Bears, the dearly departed Gael Sayers,
Speaker 1: Walter Payton, Neil Anderson, Thomas Jones, Matt Yes, Mad four takes.
Speaker 1: But that whole of guys that are three down backs
Speaker 1: are dedicated professionals. Beck and Harry Beck can carry, you know,
Speaker 1: two hundred times plus, have all the receptions during the
Speaker 1: course of the year, all those types of benchmarks. David
Speaker 1: Montgomery is right there with any of them. Heard from
Speaker 1: Seawn de Side today. Talked about a lot of things
Speaker 1: about the flexibility of the defense, what he's learned over
Speaker 1: the course of the season, about being flexible and just
Speaker 1: playing to win every week. It's been good of late
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson in particular. He got a lot of praise
Speaker 1: from the Bears defensive coordinator today. I think it's been awesome.
Speaker 1: I think like you said, you know, he's made a
Speaker 1: conscious effort at it and it's shown up in a
Speaker 1: positive way. His play speed, I think is helpable on
Speaker 1: the tape over the last whatever six or seven weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, since he's been back, which is a credit
Speaker 1: to him. You know, the consistency at the effort at
Speaker 1: which he's running to the ball, and we've seen it.
Speaker 1: He seems reinvigorated and at the outset of that. Obviously
Speaker 1: talking he was asking about his tackling, which has improved.
Speaker 1: He'd be flying around right now. Yeah. You know, the
Speaker 1: bears of the nice job, including Sean de Si and
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson, putting the self in the position to succeed
Speaker 1: against the quarterbacks they're playing against and the conditions they're
Speaker 1: playing in. In Seattle a couple of weeks ago, Seattle
Speaker 1: was trying to run the ball, So Eddie Jackson played
Speaker 1: at or near the liest scrimmage. You knew what you
Speaker 1: were getting with Mike Glennon and the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: and Eddie Jackson played a lot about that linebacker depth.
Speaker 1: But he did it physically, he did it immediate, and
Speaker 1: he was still able to get back in his pass
Speaker 1: coverage lanes. When he had those responsibilities. Certainly three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Seans I put together a great game plan against the
Speaker 1: Vikings and not prevail, but they did shut them down.
Speaker 1: They got nothing in the passing game, and they held
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook in check. And that was without any starter
Speaker 1: on the defensive secondary, including Jalen Johnson who gets a
Speaker 1: second crack of Justin Jefferson, who was held on ten
Speaker 1: targets to just four catches against the Bears. He did
Speaker 1: score a touchdown. I mean, I feel for us, it's
Speaker 1: really impressive just to keep get better throughout the year,
Speaker 1: and I mean I was a goal that we wanted
Speaker 1: to set and just really being able to find again
Speaker 1: where we put four complete quarters together and I thought
Speaker 1: that's what we did this past weekend. So I mean,
Speaker 1: just being able to continue to prepare the right way
Speaker 1: and just keep attacking every opportunity that we have. I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't have too many left the season, so just
Speaker 1: enjoying the moment with the guys, and I mean just
Speaker 1: really standing in a moment. He did a lot of
Speaker 1: work on Jefferson that he did in DeVante before the season.
Speaker 1: He knew you you know, as it turns out, the
Speaker 1: Bears have faced a lot of the top receivers in
Speaker 1: the league. I think the top five receivers in the
Speaker 1: league they've played seven times when you consider Jefferson and
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams twice. And they faced top running backs, some
Speaker 1: of the top quarterbacks, almost all the top quarterbacks, including
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in terms of passing yards anyway, so he's
Speaker 1: faced a lot already. Well, I'm interested to see how
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson reacts to the competition on Sunday. It'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how he if he follows around Jefferson.
Speaker 1: But I'm also interested to see Thomas Graham again because
Speaker 1: that's when he burst out of the scene being knownst
Speaker 1: to us, getting an opportunity to play. He really had
Speaker 1: a game that everybody else in the national media talked
Speaker 1: about all week. But now, Jalen Johnson, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be the number one for us going forward, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna be the reason the Bears defensive backfield is so
Speaker 1: solid next year, it begins with you, young man. So
Speaker 1: hey man, I'm interested to wait on how you finish
Speaker 1: up the last game of the regular season, because you
Speaker 1: are on a major stage and a major fast track
Speaker 1: against one of the best receivers in the National Football
Speaker 1: League the last two years. Limited cantry it allowed this
Speaker 1: year by Jalen Johnson had to pick against Cincinnati. I
Speaker 1: know he wants more hands on the football quickly. Just
Speaker 1: three things you want to see you have to see
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Vikings in the finale. Number One
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney and Kolcomet getting some positive touches. Number two
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson and Trevis Gibson making some big plays when
Speaker 1: they're giving the opportunity to accord the defense called number
Speaker 1: three Tevin Jenkins Larry Boram. I want to see if
Speaker 1: they're our future. Well said. We will talk to you
Speaker 1: on the radio on Sunday, nine am pregame noon kickoff
Speaker 1: on WBBM. Enjoy the rest of your evening, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be sad to see the season put to bed.
Speaker 1: We'll have a lot to look forward to in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Gold Bears for Tom There, David Montgomery, and
Speaker 1: Great Coleman. I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks everybody for helping out tonight,
Speaker 1: all of our producers, and thank you for listening. This
Speaker 1: has been Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio. Six
Speaker 1: seventy to score good Night Everybody,