Speaker 1: It is Packer Week and welcome to it, game number
Speaker 1: two oh five of a great rivalry, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: break it down for you here on Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: It's brought to you by IGS Energy with Tom Thayer,
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Bear and long time analyst of this series,
Speaker 1: both as a player watching tape of that team you're
Speaker 1: in and you're out, and then as a analyst on
Speaker 1: the radio side. He's got a lot of knowledge to share.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac coming up in the program, will visit
Speaker 1: with Bears rookie defensive end Dominique Robinson. W Also here
Speaker 1: from Packers radio analyst Larry McCarron, who spent some fifty
Speaker 1: years in that organization as a player and broadcaster. Not
Speaker 1: unlike Tommy over here, I always tease you, but it's
Speaker 1: a reality though too. You do get your game face
Speaker 1: on for this week. You're tired of getting beat twenty
Speaker 1: one and three. The Packers are over the Bears in
Speaker 1: the last twenty four games. Yeah, it's crazy to think
Speaker 1: about because even the preaching points by Mike Ditk in
Speaker 1: the eighties when we are dominating this series, he always mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, a week in advance, you can ever take
Speaker 1: these guys lightly. So it is that cliche, you can
Speaker 1: the records can go out the window. Yeah, they can.
Speaker 1: Because both teams play hard. It means a lot to
Speaker 1: both fan bases. There's a lot of excitement that goes
Speaker 1: along with one franchise that's either sustained a bunch of
Speaker 1: victories or a franchise up and coming. And may you
Speaker 1: turn the page. So, I, honestly, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to expect. I'm encouraged from what I saw to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I still think Aaron Rodgers is a great football player,
Speaker 1: but I think they have a lot of vulnerabilities that
Speaker 1: the Bears as a coaching staff can take advantage of.
Speaker 1: What are they And before you answer that part of it,
Speaker 1: can you explain to people, because you're born in Brett Chicagoan,
Speaker 1: you grew up hating the Packers, you grew up playing them,
Speaker 1: and while respecting them, you dominated them most of your career.
Speaker 1: And then you become an announcer and you are getting
Speaker 1: dominated by Brett Favan, Aaron Rodgers. They thrown one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one touchdown passes by the two of them
Speaker 1: against the Bears. But so when you see green you
Speaker 1: really see red in your ice just because the people
Speaker 1: that are involved in the rivalry. When you know Mike
Speaker 1: Dicka hated Forrest Gray, and then you had a late
Speaker 1: hit of Walter Payton out of bounds. You had the
Speaker 1: seconds after the play was over, late hit against Matt Suey.
Speaker 1: He had Charles Martin at the end of a play
Speaker 1: grabbed Jim McMahon around the shoulders and slam them to
Speaker 1: the ground and injured his shoulders. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of other things. And I remember the first game I
Speaker 1: ever went to as a Chicago Bear fan was Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears against the Green Bay Packers. But it's the violence
Speaker 1: and the voices of the fans from either team, and
Speaker 1: then for us, the disappointment of walking out of that
Speaker 1: radio booth down to the team bus and you look
Speaker 1: at the negative expressions on every single person's face over
Speaker 1: the course and the career of those losses. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I just want to walk out of that stadium with
Speaker 1: my feet ten feet off the ground with a smile.
Speaker 1: That's gonna last the entire drive home, and it's going
Speaker 1: to carry me through the whole week. But you never
Speaker 1: know the outcome. You saw what happened this past week.
Speaker 1: And when I talk about the vulnerabilities and you talk
Speaker 1: about the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers, if
Speaker 1: they have substitutes in there for Jenkins and Boti Are
Speaker 1: you never really know how they're gonna play and they're
Speaker 1: gonna react. They gave up some pressure with the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: But if they take these two guys and they insert
Speaker 1: them in the lineup, so now you think that bat
Speaker 1: the Ari after not playing for a couple of years
Speaker 1: and Jenkins after not you know, playing the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: they're going to be right back to where they were
Speaker 1: and they're all pro lives of their career. And then
Speaker 1: obviously it's hard to ignore Davante Adams. He was targeted
Speaker 1: so many times by Aaron Rodgers that it's impossible to
Speaker 1: ignore when he leaves the football team. That's a relationship
Speaker 1: that takes years to develop. It's not just something that's
Speaker 1: going to take plays over drafting a kid a couple
Speaker 1: months ago, in putting him on the field and all
Speaker 1: sudden he's gonna be Davante Adams. That's impossible. You need
Speaker 1: thousands of reps between a quarterback in a receiver to
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking against every single coverage. Well, Sunday.
Speaker 1: As regards Baktiari, six hundred and twenty five days since
Speaker 1: he tore his ACL in a practice, and it'll be
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty two days since he made an appearance.
Speaker 1: Late last season. He had twenty seven snaps in the
Speaker 1: finale at Detroit, but he's had complications. He was seen
Speaker 1: gingerly walking around at practice, and Matt Lafleur this week
Speaker 1: said he did not have a setback, and even during
Speaker 1: the season, he's not going to practice three straight days.
Speaker 1: This is going to be you know, he's highly regarded. Obviously,
Speaker 1: everybody thinks he's arguably one of the top left tackles
Speaker 1: in football. And then on the other side of it,
Speaker 1: you're looking at Elton Jenkins. I mean that ACL tear
Speaker 1: was week eleven last year, So you're right, these guys
Speaker 1: are not going to be a hondo mentally. Even having
Speaker 1: those guys back, does that give your quarterback a different
Speaker 1: comfort zone? No, it gives you concern because when you
Speaker 1: look at what you have to do, the multiple jobs
Speaker 1: at an offensive lineman is required to do their side
Speaker 1: to side movement. They're back with a little bit of
Speaker 1: force to be able to stop the rusher, the understanding
Speaker 1: how they have to work with the tight ends to
Speaker 1: their left. If you're a left hack on the guard
Speaker 1: to your right. You know, there's so many aspects of
Speaker 1: offensive line player that takes years of developing. Just like
Speaker 1: we talked about Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers, the five
Speaker 1: guys on the offensive line, it takes time for those
Speaker 1: guys to develop their relationships and they're understanding how each
Speaker 1: other works. And it's impossible just to insert a player
Speaker 1: at any position after a significant time off and think
Speaker 1: they're gonna pick up right where they left off. I
Speaker 1: think you can take advantage of it. First of all,
Speaker 1: you got to stop the run. I think coming into
Speaker 1: this game, Jeff, before I said okay, we got to
Speaker 1: stop the relationship of Aaron and Davante, this is stopping
Speaker 1: the running game. And you can do it as a
Speaker 1: pass rusher. I had a defensive line coach, John Tierley
Speaker 1: that always used to say, stop the running back while
Speaker 1: you're sacking the quarterback. And so that means make sure
Speaker 1: you play your run responsibilities and you have to hold
Speaker 1: up to that end of the job, but make sure
Speaker 1: you're almost rushing the passer every time. And when you
Speaker 1: talk about four defensive ends, and when you talk about
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, al Quentin Muhammad, Travis Gibson, and Dominique Robinson,
Speaker 1: there's a variety of rushers there. There's a big arsenal
Speaker 1: that these guys have to be ready for so and
Speaker 1: then you're going to be able to hear the snap
Speaker 1: count from Aaron Rodgers and it may give these guys
Speaker 1: a better jump with secured footing after last week, but
Speaker 1: that snap count's dangerous as we know. Yeah, that's not there.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniya Coming up next. We visited with one
Speaker 1: of those defensive ends. He came on the scenes strong
Speaker 1: in his first game, Dominique Robinson. Coming up next. This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to
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Speaker 1: to a better world. Jeff joni Act Tom there here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score our special
Speaker 1: guest this week before the Bears meet the Packers, Dominie Robinson.
Speaker 1: The six five two hundred and fifty three pounder. We've
Speaker 1: had you on the show before, but not face to face.
Speaker 1: So it's good to meet Canton McKinley, Canton Timpkin product.
Speaker 1: And that's Tom Fair of course, super Bowl Bear. I
Speaker 1: usually lead off the questions, but you know I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna defer to the vet right here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: defer to Tom there to lead the conversation here. So Tom,
Speaker 1: you get first crack at Domedy. Throughout my career in
Speaker 1: the NFL, I used to play against the player for
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. His name was Eric Williams, and he
Speaker 1: did a double hand slap and it was almost so
Speaker 1: much mentally in your mind that you had to think
Speaker 1: about it because he was so good at it. Your
Speaker 1: first sack against mc lynchi was that double hands flap
Speaker 1: he got off balance. Boom, you turned it into a sack.
Speaker 1: Did you know you were gonna use that move before
Speaker 1: you did it? Because it's a reusable move that you
Speaker 1: can use multiple times in your career. Yeah. So when
Speaker 1: I moved to d N that was the first thing
Speaker 1: that I worked on, the double hand swipe. So that's
Speaker 1: something that's I've been I've been repping for two years,
Speaker 1: two or three years now, so I'm that's like my
Speaker 1: go to. I don't even have to think about it
Speaker 1: whenever I get close on the guy that's coming out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when that when he overset, it happened immediately.
Speaker 1: So now let's talk about your other sack. So you're
Speaker 1: going against Trent Williams. He doesn't give up sack man,
Speaker 1: he's a bad guy. Did you know what you were
Speaker 1: gonna do or did you just kind of fall into
Speaker 1: the rhythm of the play in your vision? I fell
Speaker 1: into the rhythm. The tight end was so close that
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to chip. They showed on
Speaker 1: tape that when they're that close, they chipped. So I
Speaker 1: took a step down so that I don't get chipped.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. He didn't chip me. So after that,
Speaker 1: I just converted into my pass rush, put two hands
Speaker 1: on him. He overset a little bit, and then the
Speaker 1: quarterback stepped up and I just felt fell back. You mean,
Speaker 1: I know this, but he didn't give up a sack
Speaker 1: last year. You certainly know it's a nine time consecutive
Speaker 1: Pro bowler. But coach Eberflus on The Coaches Show Monday, night.
Speaker 1: We were discussing that very play, and he goes the
Speaker 1: level rush as opposed to going way outside beyond the
Speaker 1: quarterback like a lot of great pass rushers do, you know,
Speaker 1: feed him to the wolves in the middle of the defense.
Speaker 1: But that level rush made total sense with me as
Speaker 1: tim as an offensive lineman. A level rush the dominique
Speaker 1: did there forced that quarterback to just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: stand in there, and then Trent Williams had to make
Speaker 1: a decision too, right, right right. So that's something I've
Speaker 1: been working on ever since I got here. Coach Trive
Speaker 1: has been on us about level rushing. For d lineman
Speaker 1: has one you know, don't get too high on the
Speaker 1: quarterback and open up a huge B gap to let
Speaker 1: in a quarterback escape. And you know that's gonna be
Speaker 1: big this week. As you know Aaron Rodger loves to
Speaker 1: escape through the B gap, especially with these running quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: We learned I with Justin throughout camp and everything, so
Speaker 1: I can always keep that in the back of my mind.
Speaker 1: I try not to get too high and loop around
Speaker 1: to open up a be gap. That makes the job
Speaker 1: harder for the two inside guys and the guy on
Speaker 1: the other side. Rushing. So you know, I try to
Speaker 1: I try to incorporate everything that I learned time with
Speaker 1: a level rush for an offensive lineman. What does that
Speaker 1: do to you? It makes me paranoid if I'm not
Speaker 1: kicking inside er know where my help's gonna come from? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because as you mentioned there, I think the play before
Speaker 1: you got that sack, there was multiple tight ends lined
Speaker 1: up over you, and the two tight ends locked you.
Speaker 1: So I like your process of thinking, making sure you
Speaker 1: know where where the tackles help can come from, or
Speaker 1: where the chippers can come from against you, right right?
Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm to the point where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know my role in this team, and I going
Speaker 1: into the game, I was like, as long as somebody
Speaker 1: gets to quarterback, I'll be good, you know, whether because
Speaker 1: I know I contributed to at some point, you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's how my mindset is. I know, if I
Speaker 1: don't get past the level of the quarterback and I
Speaker 1: don't let him escape, somebody else is gonna get to him.
Speaker 1: That's how I trust my guys, and that's how we
Speaker 1: are in the room. So when you had the one hand,
Speaker 1: I was talking about it today with Dan Hampton. One
Speaker 1: of the Hall of Fame defensive linemen in the history
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears. When you had that one handed
Speaker 1: grip on Trey Lance, where you're going, okay, I can't
Speaker 1: let him go, And I got a good grip because
Speaker 1: you think of your gloves a little wet, the jerseys
Speaker 1: of the opponents are tight. You don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of material in your hand. So tell me what you
Speaker 1: are thinking. Once you had a grab on him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I literally hooked on to the little cuff in
Speaker 1: the back where his arm comes out of the shoulder.
Speaker 1: So I my fingers, two fingers literally just hooked onto that.
Speaker 1: And in my mind, I'm like, I just got to
Speaker 1: hold on. I was like, even if I accidentally let
Speaker 1: him go, I know I held him for a long
Speaker 1: enough time to wear. My boys can rally and we'll
Speaker 1: get somebody's gonna get the sack. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I just got to hold on, you know. And then
Speaker 1: it was lucky enough that he failed that at that moment,
Speaker 1: I just gotta hold on, just hold on. Well, you
Speaker 1: made people think that you have super strong hands, and
Speaker 1: maybe you do have great grip, because that guy is
Speaker 1: not exactly a tiny quarterback at six four two thirty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say my hand grip is that okay crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know, just tell people about Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what's it's not hilarious but funny though. How quickly in
Speaker 1: the NFL you can become somebody. Right, you were a
Speaker 1: draft pick right, twenty eight reps, you get seven tackles,
Speaker 1: a sack and a half. You can arm Russell real
Speaker 1: quand for the full sack if you'd like. But so,
Speaker 1: there's an interview that's gonna be played later on in
Speaker 1: our show Tonight with Larry McCarron, the veteran analyst on
Speaker 1: radio does time's job for the Green Bay Packers, and
Speaker 1: he goes, I got a question for you. You gotta
Speaker 1: tell me about ninety one this guy Dominique Robinson. Wow,
Speaker 1: he lashed. But you know, and I was reading through
Speaker 1: your bio from other um articles written about you, and
Speaker 1: it's always been that way. Yeah, whatever position, Dominique Robinson flashed.
Speaker 1: Coaches you know, uh, you go to camps. They didn't
Speaker 1: know what to do with you. You're such an athlete.
Speaker 1: But when I told him that you were a former
Speaker 1: quarterback turned wide receiver and have not played the position
Speaker 1: very long, he was flabbergasted. Yeah, yeah, I'll I'll take
Speaker 1: a transition. Man, it's been a it's been a journey,
Speaker 1: and you know, God has different things that had different
Speaker 1: things in store for me, and I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: go along with it. Dominique, your dad was a great
Speaker 1: basketball player. Did anybody ever discourage you from playing football?
Speaker 1: Because you know, there's a lot of different influences in
Speaker 1: the course of our lives. You know, when you're when
Speaker 1: you're kind of built like an offensive lineman, that's kind
Speaker 1: of your only choice in life for you. You're blessed
Speaker 1: with athleticism, size and structure and everything. Did anybody ever
Speaker 1: try to talk you out of it? Man, that's a
Speaker 1: funny story. So, uh, I went to Tempken first for
Speaker 1: two years. They closed my school down and they forced
Speaker 1: everybody to go to McKinley in high school. That first
Speaker 1: year that we moved over, I wasn't going to play football.
Speaker 1: I was gonna play basketball because I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: I was solid at basketball. Don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 1: I thought I was. I thought I was trying to
Speaker 1: make it in basketball. So I literally was not gonna
Speaker 1: play football that season season. I was not gonna play football.
Speaker 1: Got a couple of guys that, you know, no football.
Speaker 1: I thank him to this day. He texts me every
Speaker 1: once in a while. Um he was like he texts
Speaker 1: my dad and was like, Yo, this guy doesn't play football,
Speaker 1: Like he'll get a scholarship for football. At that point,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I gotta put my pride
Speaker 1: aside and you know, go out here and do this.
Speaker 1: So you know what then happened though at Foston Stadium, Tammy,
Speaker 1: where we did our first game, just you and I
Speaker 1: together in Canton at the Hall of Fame game. You
Speaker 1: played the final game October thirty. First you're a quarterback
Speaker 1: and you flipped into the end zone. There's a still
Speaker 1: shot of you in mid air, you know, your head head,
Speaker 1: head over heels type of thing. It was twenty eight
Speaker 1: seconds left. I think we did. We scored. I think
Speaker 1: they kicked off and they tried to go you know,
Speaker 1: a long bond. But other than that, that was the
Speaker 1: last touchdown. I had a lot of touchdown But growing
Speaker 1: up there, does that mean something to you? And you
Speaker 1: certainly saw a lot of great players come through that building.
Speaker 1: You watched a lot of those games, didn't you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: My brother played, Um, I think from he graduated two
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. So great, great teams came out
Speaker 1: of camp. McKinley honestly got a lot of great players,
Speaker 1: you know, many more that should have made it, but
Speaker 1: you know, uh, just circumstances. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm blessed
Speaker 1: to be here and represent the city and everybody there.
Speaker 1: So were you blessed with the body you have or
Speaker 1: did you have to get into weightlifting from the basketball
Speaker 1: transition to get the size that you that you have it.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised at the way that Jeff introduced you ask
Speaker 1: because everybody as they get to know you, you know,
Speaker 1: they it's hard to see your size when you're in
Speaker 1: the jersey and stuff up against the other football players.
Speaker 1: How did that transition go for you? Yeah? So my
Speaker 1: dad is six six. As you said, he played basketball. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know he was. He was a solid basketball player.
Speaker 1: I coming out of high school, second team All American
Speaker 1: coming out of high school play basketball. BG had a
Speaker 1: shout out the NBA. You know, things and work out
Speaker 1: for him. So I got my frame from him, honestly,
Speaker 1: So putting on and taking off weight, it's not hard
Speaker 1: for me. While I played quarterback coming came out of
Speaker 1: high school. I think at two twenty five. When I
Speaker 1: moved to right receiver, I got up to two thirty four.
Speaker 1: When I moved to d N I got up to
Speaker 1: two fifty two, and now I'm at two sixty. So
Speaker 1: two sixty yeah, smoking, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's feel good.
Speaker 1: Does it feel good? It's up in Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel I feel normal. Nice. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break. We got one more second to go.
Speaker 1: With Dominique Robinson sack and a half and seven tackles
Speaker 1: in the opener against San Francisco, will tap his brain
Speaker 1: on how he feels about heading up to legendary lambeau
Speaker 1: Field to take on the rival Packers. It's all just
Speaker 1: ahead here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score
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Speaker 1: better tomorrow. Tom There Jeff Joni act with Dominique Robinson
Speaker 1: out of Miami of Ohio. The rookie defensive lineman showed
Speaker 1: out against San Francisco and his twenty eight reps. It
Speaker 1: leaves you hungry for more, I'm certain, But you know,
Speaker 1: they want the rotation, they want fresh bodies. They'd love
Speaker 1: to have a two deep of guys just coming at
Speaker 1: the offense and making it really difficult for those offensive linemens.
Speaker 1: So you know, whatever the role becomes, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: it's going to be partially that captain mind, right, that
Speaker 1: you guys got to stay fresh. Yeah. Yeah, So you know,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of people didn't didn't like the
Speaker 1: decision in college that I wasn't the starter. But I
Speaker 1: knew my role on the team, you know. I we
Speaker 1: did the same thing in college, were looking forward defensive
Speaker 1: ends that were great at the position. They didn't do
Speaker 1: anything wrong, they were capable of playing the position, and
Speaker 1: we rotated well. So I came into this year and
Speaker 1: knowing that I wasn't going to start, and I knew
Speaker 1: my role, and I know my role now. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's great that I had that experience in college to
Speaker 1: come into this and knowing that when I get on
Speaker 1: the field, I gotta you know, handle my business. Bull
Speaker 1: tank you well, yeah, you know, Dominique. So the first
Speaker 1: game you play at home, you got a really supportive crowd,
Speaker 1: you really can't hear the cadence of the opponent's quarterback,
Speaker 1: so you just got to watch the ball. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the exact opposite in lambeau Field. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a quiet crowd when Aaron Rodgers is going through his
Speaker 1: cadence and he's got one of the most difficult cadences
Speaker 1: that have discipline against. Have have you talked about it
Speaker 1: yet in meetings? And is it something that you've ever
Speaker 1: experienced in your college life with a quarterback that really
Speaker 1: can take advantage of a silent crowd, so you don't
Speaker 1: listen to the count, you just watch the football. I
Speaker 1: have not experienced that in college, and we have talked
Speaker 1: about that in the meeting. And you know, our our keys,
Speaker 1: our main thing on defensive lineman assignment, key and technique.
Speaker 1: So our key as d lineman, we try not to
Speaker 1: watch the ball. That's what our coach teaches us. We
Speaker 1: watched the opponent, you know, So when I'm in my stance,
Speaker 1: I watched the knee of that opponent and whenever he moves,
Speaker 1: I move. So I try not to even listen to cadence.
Speaker 1: So if you're watching the knee of the opponent. How
Speaker 1: do you dissect pass the run so quickly? Because I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the determining factors of what your
Speaker 1: overall ability can be throughout your career. You got to
Speaker 1: play the run as much as you're a pass rusher.
Speaker 1: A lot of that has to do with stance. Some
Speaker 1: of that has to do with the formation. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of look at diagnostic formation to see
Speaker 1: what they can do from certain formations. But I mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tell a lot of tips. You
Speaker 1: look at the don't give us an age, just no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. You gotta look at the yardage. You know,
Speaker 1: if it's third and eight, you know us they're gonna pass,
Speaker 1: so you know certain things. Uh, but they get off
Speaker 1: is still the same they get off doesn't change. Um,
Speaker 1: you still have to strike if it's run and if
Speaker 1: he's if it's passed and you get into your pass rush.
Speaker 1: You know what. I tell you what. I love that answer,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know how you were going to answer
Speaker 1: it because it's one of the most difficult things for
Speaker 1: defensive linemen of being disciplined to pay attention to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: our coaches, I've been on a coach Drivis taught since
Speaker 1: we got here. He tried to tell us, don't watch
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, try to watch your man, because
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes the ball doesn't the move, the man
Speaker 1: typically moves first. Uh, if you watch a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of players, they get out of there. Man,
Speaker 1: those tackles get out of there, and the ball hasn't
Speaker 1: even moved yet, but the refs aren't calling it. So
Speaker 1: if you watch your man, you move on your man,
Speaker 1: you move when when when somebody else moves? Oh? Dommedy
Speaker 1: Grabbinson our guests here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy score.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access. They went into the locker
Speaker 1: room today and talk with Robert Quinn about a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. But he was unaware that you played
Speaker 1: wide receiver just a couple of years. I mean, you
Speaker 1: would think that would be coming up in the meeting room.
Speaker 1: Hey did you did you know that? This guy? You know?
Speaker 1: But no, it didn't. As an offensive guy in a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you had to know the game. You gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: know defenses. So I'm assuming that transition to defense and
Speaker 1: how you look at offenses started way back when when
Speaker 1: you were a QB. Yeah, it's slowed thing down. Its
Speaker 1: slowed things down a lot for me and made things
Speaker 1: a little easier, especially with tight ends and how they're
Speaker 1: set in the formation with them coming back and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. It's easy tells. So, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: really the most with it. Nothing easy about going up
Speaker 1: to lambeau It's kind of cool when you're in a
Speaker 1: Bears Packers rivalry for the first time. There's gets a
Speaker 1: lot of attention out of the longer year here. It
Speaker 1: becomes more meaningful time he's angry already on Monday. He's
Speaker 1: got a smile on on the zoom call right now.
Speaker 1: But believe me, he takes these things seriously because he
Speaker 1: was in the war so to speak with the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packer for so many years. I know Flus's big messages,
Speaker 1: don't you worry about us? Right? And it does begin there.
Speaker 1: But you'll appreciate this more as you're in this much longer,
Speaker 1: you know, not just your rookie year, but you'll never
Speaker 1: forget the first time going to Lambeau Field. Are you
Speaker 1: excited about facing a future Hall of Famer and a
Speaker 1: legendary QB. Of course. I think it was during one
Speaker 1: of the combine interviews, I said that I wanted to
Speaker 1: sack Aaron Rodgers. There was one of the questions like
Speaker 1: which quarterback do you want to sack the most, and
Speaker 1: I said Aaron Rodgers because at the time time Bertie was,
Speaker 1: I think, was about the retire so I said the
Speaker 1: next best and now I got a chance to do it,
Speaker 1: So it'll be cool, happy hunting. What were you what
Speaker 1: was going through your mind in the pregame warmups. Did
Speaker 1: you feel you had the right cleats on? Did you
Speaker 1: have good footing? Were you confident in your getoffs? Because
Speaker 1: one thing about Lambeau they got the most perfect playing
Speaker 1: conditions that you may ever be a part of. So
Speaker 1: what were you thinking pregame in Chicago on Sunday, I
Speaker 1: had everything right. It was it was perfect. I mentioned
Speaker 1: I stood out there. It was raining. I was going
Speaker 1: out to, you know, do my regular pregame warm up.
Speaker 1: They're pulling the tarps off the field, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's porn it's coming down and I think it's me,
Speaker 1: Brian Pringle and Pettis We're kind of just standing there
Speaker 1: watching the rain come down, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. It was this is crazy. And then
Speaker 1: once they got the tarp stuff and I stepped out
Speaker 1: there and I got the moving around. It was perfect.
Speaker 1: You know, I knew, I knew I had had a
Speaker 1: good feeling. I talked to Khalil Herbert too today, Tommy
Speaker 1: as well, and you know, I didn't see anybody slipping
Speaker 1: even with the puddles. That that thing, it really held up.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a good service for you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the puddles, I mean, that's that's a whole I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys did look like a bunch of kids playing
Speaker 1: out a slipping slide. Right did you go? Did you go?
Speaker 1: Full body? I went full body on one of the
Speaker 1: players that uh Trey Lance got out the got out
Speaker 1: of the pocket. Me and uh Row kind of doubled
Speaker 1: up on him, try to hit him on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: That's one of one of them. And then I did
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. Yeah, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah, I did. I did. Once I tried
Speaker 1: to see I can't I can't swim, so I don't like,
Speaker 1: I don't like water getting in my face. So when
Speaker 1: I did mine, I like turn my shoulder and went
Speaker 1: kind of on the shoulder so the water didn't splashing
Speaker 1: my face even a puddle. May you crazy? Oh man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: really bad experience or what happened? No, you're just you're
Speaker 1: just afraid to go in there. Oh yeah yeah. Interesting. Interesting. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: not everybody knows how to swim. I'm another one who's
Speaker 1: in that category. So but but the funny thing is
Speaker 1: watching Justin. I just thought he was running to the
Speaker 1: locker room when I'm calling the game and finishing up,
Speaker 1: and there he goes, and then it's just one afternoon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's going So everybody needs that still photo and keep
Speaker 1: it for posterity, because that was a snapshot moment that
Speaker 1: you guys are never gonna for the statement. What was
Speaker 1: the statement we were having. We knew, we knew from
Speaker 1: the jump that we were gonna win. You can say, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't do that, you don't do that if it
Speaker 1: was an upset, you know, if it was one of
Speaker 1: those things where it's just like, oh man, that was
Speaker 1: supposed to happen. They knew, we knew. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a big exhale, you know, because everything you guys
Speaker 1: went through and OTAs and throughout training camp and Matt
Speaker 1: never took it easy on you. Guys. Then you go
Speaker 1: out there and play in those conditions. No one picked you,
Speaker 1: guys to win. You win the game, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of what it's like. Okay, let's exhale, let's have our
Speaker 1: twelve twenty four hours of celebration and then get back
Speaker 1: on track for Green Bay. So I'm glad you guys
Speaker 1: were able to do that. If I would have done it,
Speaker 1: I would have probably hit face mask first and stopped writing.
Speaker 1: So you know, the lot goes through your money, and
Speaker 1: you may never in your career. You may never play
Speaker 1: the game under those conditions again. Yeah, that is You're right,
Speaker 1: very unlikely. So can you bottle that potion and reserved
Speaker 1: for the other sixteen games this year? That feeling? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been telling people all week. I didn't do anything
Speaker 1: throughout this throughout that game though, it was like strat
Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. You know, I did. I do
Speaker 1: the same thing in practice. Um, it wasn't that wasn't
Speaker 1: nothing new. You know, I didn't have to do I
Speaker 1: didn't have to go to this level to play the
Speaker 1: way I did, you know, So hopefully, you know, prayerfully
Speaker 1: I can do I can put to put that together
Speaker 1: each week and I'm even talking about the team. You said,
Speaker 1: you know, you guys just knew you had to win.
Speaker 1: You guys knew you were gonna win. Can you bottle
Speaker 1: that up? Honestly, this is the most levelhead of team
Speaker 1: I've been on sore where it'll it'll be bottled up.
Speaker 1: Where do you think that comes from? All the coaches? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, since since since I've been here, we've been
Speaker 1: preaching the same thing over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: taking it one day at a time, be where your
Speaker 1: feet are. It is interesting because I even Tevin Jenkins
Speaker 1: the other day, everything Maddieberflus has been telling us is
Speaker 1: starting to come true. Yea, literally, you know that's Tommy.
Speaker 1: That's a powerful statement. Yeah, you know That's why I
Speaker 1: like when we got to see Matt Aberflus in the
Speaker 1: locker room after the game. That I wasn't an overreaction
Speaker 1: of excitement. It was just, hey, congratulations, count on each other.
Speaker 1: This is a foundation of what we want to build here,
Speaker 1: and let's move this thing forward and increase our in
Speaker 1: the expectations of the team. And so I think it's
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to get back to work and nationally
Speaker 1: televised Sunday night game, Dominique. Everybody that you know in
Speaker 1: your past is going to be watching this game and
Speaker 1: watching for ninety one specifically. It'll be fun. It'll be fun.
Speaker 1: I'm looking I'm looking forward to the experience and being
Speaker 1: able to be a part of this drivery all right.
Speaker 1: Last thing, I know you're a few credits away from
Speaker 1: your master's in educational psychology. I like to give a
Speaker 1: shout out to that. You know, the whole COVID. You
Speaker 1: know era, you guys didn't play a lot of game,
Speaker 1: but you guys could still go to school and you know,
Speaker 1: and was that a big reason that you're able to
Speaker 1: add the masters to the mix? And what do you
Speaker 1: want to do with that one day? So yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a huge reason. Um, because I my last year,
Speaker 1: that last season, I only played three games. You know,
Speaker 1: the COVID they granted us another year, so I was like,
Speaker 1: I might as well started, and you know, I'll be
Speaker 1: able to finish it at some point. And what I
Speaker 1: played on doing with it is getting back into schools.
Speaker 1: You know, I see back home, I just see how
Speaker 1: much being a male in the schools or and being
Speaker 1: able to talk to kids and help them understand life.
Speaker 1: You know, it's because it's it's it's not easy. It's
Speaker 1: not easy. And I had I had so many people
Speaker 1: in my corner that helped me out. So I kind
Speaker 1: of want to be that guy that's, you know, in
Speaker 1: the schools, helping people out, being that guy in the
Speaker 1: corner when they don't have anybody. And I'm certain, because
Speaker 1: you alluded to it earlier in this interview, that there
Speaker 1: were a lot of guys, maybe as talented as you were,
Speaker 1: as athletic as you were, that that did not find
Speaker 1: the right path right And it clearly bothers you that
Speaker 1: that's the case too. Yeah, I mean, it's so much,
Speaker 1: it's so much talented. It's crazy, it's so much talented
Speaker 1: camp but you know, you can't you don't see it
Speaker 1: all the time. It's been good talking to you, Hope.
Speaker 1: We talked to you down the road again. You got
Speaker 1: it all put together. You're a married man with a
Speaker 1: college degree, looking for a master's and in your first
Speaker 1: NFL game. You're a story. Whether you say you know
Speaker 1: it's nothing I haven't done, didn't expect to do, you're
Speaker 1: still a story. And congratulations, good luck keep it going.
Speaker 1: That is Dominique Robinson. Coming up next, Tom and I
Speaker 1: talk with the color analyst of the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next with Larry McCarron. This is six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score and this is Bears All Access back
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Speaker 1: seventy the Score. This segment of Bears All Access is
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Speaker 1: Larry McCarron, the legendary figure in Green Bay Packer's history
Speaker 1: both as player and analyt, I gotta tell you, I
Speaker 1: saw what the Packers did for you for fifty years
Speaker 1: of service to that organization. I don't know them during
Speaker 1: training camp to share how it made you feel as
Speaker 1: a former player, but also as somebody who's been a
Speaker 1: part of that for over five decades. No, Jeff, it
Speaker 1: was right at the end of training camp, kind of
Speaker 1: their last training camp practice, and they kind of gave
Speaker 1: me a game ball. They didn't kind of they gave
Speaker 1: me a game ball because all of a sudden had
Speaker 1: donned somebody that that was my fiftieth Packer training camp,
Speaker 1: and maybe it means I'm not such a swallow guy,
Speaker 1: but I have no life, but it was my fifties.
Speaker 1: So they had a game ball painted up and everything
Speaker 1: like that, and Matt Lafleur said some kind words. And
Speaker 1: then here was the hard part. Jeff like, I had
Speaker 1: no idea this was going on. And one of the
Speaker 1: public relations guys says, coach wants to see after practice.
Speaker 1: I said, what's he need? He goes, well, you just
Speaker 1: want us to see you. So I said, well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll wait over here, you know, and you know they're
Speaker 1: having the team huddle. That's none of my business. That's private,
Speaker 1: and he goes, no, no, he needs to talk out here.
Speaker 1: And I'm walking out there and I've seen some people
Speaker 1: look at me, and then I see one of our
Speaker 1: digital camera people kind of buy me, and I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: this this may not end well. And so they have,
Speaker 1: you know, the coach the floor says some really nice things,
Speaker 1: and the guys you know, I've been around forever. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, they're good at me and they got involved.
Speaker 1: Then they go speech speech, speech, so I blurted out
Speaker 1: whatever came to mind. I hope it wasn't too stupid.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but it was a thanks for bringing
Speaker 1: it up, Jeff. It was a very humbling moment. And
Speaker 1: I didn't I couldn't, Jeff, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I really couldn't get over it for quite a while.
Speaker 1: Like I just I was walking around in a days.
Speaker 1: They can I can't believe they just did that. I
Speaker 1: just can't believe they just did that, because you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of these kids, they have no idea if
Speaker 1: you were a player, if you've been around, or if
Speaker 1: you're just a pain in the net fucking them after
Speaker 1: games or after practice. So it was real nice. I
Speaker 1: appreciate acknowledging it, but very humbling as well. And h
Speaker 1: it's been a privilege. It's been a great ride. As
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's not something everybody has access to
Speaker 1: or or the opportunity to be around all the time.
Speaker 1: So it's very nice. I've learned more and more every year.
Speaker 1: Some of these guys, you know, just in passing in
Speaker 1: the lunchroom or whatever. You know. I've never been to
Speaker 1: an NFL game. You know, I don't watch football. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of players. I mean, Pean at
Speaker 1: Tillman for years used to tell me, swear to me
Speaker 1: that he never watched a football game. I tell on television,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up. And I'm like, gosh, you know,
Speaker 1: we have such passion for it. They have passion to
Speaker 1: play it, but we assume too much because a lot
Speaker 1: of them, ay didn't have the means to go to
Speaker 1: an NFL game. It is costly. And secondly, you know,
Speaker 1: you just assume they have that kind of love of
Speaker 1: the game. But they love playing the game. They love
Speaker 1: the competitive aspect of it. But I'm sure you've run
Speaker 1: across that too in your career, from just casual conversation.
Speaker 1: That's another humbling thing. You know, you think you you've
Speaker 1: made some kind of mark. And after this is burial, Jeff,
Speaker 1: after something like that little ceremony, you know, I had
Speaker 1: more than one young fella come up to me. I
Speaker 1: didn't know you played really? Wow, Yeah, when what's that?
Speaker 1: And I say, when were you born? You know, tell
Speaker 1: me the year And I say, but twenty years before
Speaker 1: you were born. So don't worry about it. We'll just
Speaker 1: move on Larry mccarre and our guest here the veteran
Speaker 1: analyst of the Green Bay Packers. So this is a
Speaker 1: meeting two oh five, they tell us, hard to imagine
Speaker 1: the longest running rivalry in the NFL, and I always
Speaker 1: feel it's the best whether it's there or here. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you think the theme of meeting two oh
Speaker 1: five might be? I think, Jeff, already we're at the
Speaker 1: point where they got to worry about the team in
Speaker 1: the mirror. And we cannot assume because last year they
Speaker 1: laid an egg in their opener and got hammered by
Speaker 1: New Orleans and then repeated that this year got hammered
Speaker 1: by Minnesota, that we cannot assume that all things will
Speaker 1: work out because we did it last year. No, you
Speaker 1: can't assume that. You got to look at the team
Speaker 1: in the mirror. And I appreciate the rivalry and I
Speaker 1: agree with everything you say about it, but they got
Speaker 1: to look at the team in the mirror and fix
Speaker 1: their problems and right their wrongs before they can worry
Speaker 1: about meeting. What'd you say to five? Hey, terrific? Some
Speaker 1: of these guys that they don't know anything about the
Speaker 1: previous two four But I'll tell you what we're reading
Speaker 1: two o five. You got to take care of your
Speaker 1: own business, do your own job well, and try to
Speaker 1: get this thing back on track against the Bear team. Hey,
Speaker 1: I started watching the table. They were impressive. They were
Speaker 1: opportunists against the San Francisco forty nine ers and a wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful win for the new regime. I mean, you couldn't
Speaker 1: ask for a better scenario. So they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: you know, a tiger by the tail. So we say,
Speaker 1: as the Bears come in here in your tape review,
Speaker 1: what caught your attention about the Bears? You know what?
Speaker 1: I've got number one, Jeff, and and this is kind
Speaker 1: of a selfish thing for our business, as Wow, they
Speaker 1: have a lot of new guys, you know, before you
Speaker 1: get down with the lineup and it's like, oh I
Speaker 1: remember this, I remember that, and and and in the
Speaker 1: just preliminary stuff I've done Dominique Robinson, Now, is that
Speaker 1: young fellaw for real? I want to know, Jeff, just
Speaker 1: between us, does that get for real? Because we we
Speaker 1: had issues, We've got hurt people up front, and at
Speaker 1: this point, you know, I don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 1: be back, but we allowed four sacks and number of
Speaker 1: hits against the Viking. So this Dominique Robinson is he
Speaker 1: for real? Well, if you haven't done your total homework yet,
Speaker 1: you may be surprised to learn that he's just three
Speaker 1: years removed from being a quarterback. He was a quarterback
Speaker 1: and wide receiver, so he's raw. He has played very
Speaker 1: little defensive line, but he's got some natural stuff. Now.
Speaker 1: As a former offensive lineman, you had to appreciate going
Speaker 1: up against Mike McGlinchey at right tackle, the hand swipe,
Speaker 1: the cut across your face, get to the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: then taking out a nine time consecutive pro bowler, getting
Speaker 1: him on his heels a little bit and getting a
Speaker 1: half a sack with real quant smith. Yeah, he impressed.
Speaker 1: And I think he's just scratching the surface, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. No, he just kind of jumped off
Speaker 1: the table, just jumped off the table, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: and I had no idea of the backstory that he
Speaker 1: is just a kid, just a babe when it comes
Speaker 1: to rushing the passer and playing defensive line. Had no
Speaker 1: idea And I'm sure I'll steal that for during the
Speaker 1: brook comes to you tonight, it's all yours, buddy. This
Speaker 1: is Larry McCarron, Green Bay Packers analyst here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score.
Speaker 1: All right, So you got a young group of receivers
Speaker 1: and he got a veteran quarterback, and it's always painted
Speaker 1: as though he doesn't have the patience for the development.
Speaker 1: Is that real or imagined? Oh? I think some of
Speaker 1: it is real. It's not like he doesn't provide positive
Speaker 1: reinforcement to him. He does. He gives them a lot
Speaker 1: of individual attention. It's not like he just seeks his head,
Speaker 1: walks away and throws up his hands and say, why
Speaker 1: can't they get some people in here that I can
Speaker 1: work with? Now? He's not that way at all. He's
Speaker 1: really a good leader in that regard. But every once
Speaker 1: in a while he will say something and say it
Speaker 1: publicly because I think it encourage his accountability. Like they're
Speaker 1: aware of what's being said. They know what number twelve
Speaker 1: says because it's all over the place. So if he's
Speaker 1: not happy with an individual or a group's approach, and
Speaker 1: that's what gets the more than anything. It's not so
Speaker 1: much production, it's the approach. Are you a professional? Are
Speaker 1: you doing the little thing? Are you coming to work prepared?
Speaker 1: Do you take time on your own time and look
Speaker 1: at film and do everything possible that you can to
Speaker 1: be ready for that moment when it comes. And for
Speaker 1: Christian Watson and as I'm sure you're right, that moment
Speaker 1: came on the very first play. And Jeff, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just one play, but it's not just play. It
Speaker 1: might have been a little different game. Who knows, you know,
Speaker 1: it could be a crazy thing. And momentum's an interesting commodity.
Speaker 1: It could have been a different game. I don't know
Speaker 1: that Minnesota. They beat us in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: but on that very first play, I think I think
Speaker 1: Christian Watson kind of knew it was going to come
Speaker 1: to him. I think it had been better off if
Speaker 1: you knew, you know, they were just going to be
Speaker 1: a read. They thought they had something, they went after it.
Speaker 1: It was their beautiful throw in the drop. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Hey, you subscribe to the theory as
Speaker 1: a veteran NFL analyst and player, at five or six
Speaker 1: plays determined every outcome And you're right, that's seven off
Speaker 1: the board. And at what would have been a tight
Speaker 1: game from the stretch, from the start, and instead it
Speaker 1: became something other than that. So are the Vikings a
Speaker 1: problem right now for the NFC North? Oh? I think
Speaker 1: they're better than folks give them credit for because they've
Speaker 1: had a couple of losing seasons and they had a
Speaker 1: big regime change. Jeff, I didn't realize this that this
Speaker 1: is one of those dorky stats I come up with
Speaker 1: when I didn't see what happened or something. But the
Speaker 1: Vikings on that team, they got eleven guys who've been
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl one year or another. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those dorky stats that I realize that
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of players and I don't think
Speaker 1: that end of it is given enough credit. And you
Speaker 1: look at their offense. They got a quarterback. Yeah he
Speaker 1: may not be he may not be Tom Brady, but
Speaker 1: he's not bad. They got a running back, they got
Speaker 1: a receiver, and their offensive line they've invested two number ones,
Speaker 1: three number two's that has a chance to get better,
Speaker 1: although I'm not totally sold on it yet, but that
Speaker 1: has a chance to get better. And then defensively they've
Speaker 1: got some players there too, So add it all up,
Speaker 1: and I think the Vikings are a little bit better
Speaker 1: than given credit for. How do you feel about mobile
Speaker 1: quarterbacks these days and how it impacts the Packers defense?
Speaker 1: How do they handle those those guys more and more
Speaker 1: coming into the league, and what's your opinion a Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, I was watching him because Luke Getsy. I'm
Speaker 1: sure brought a lot of the Packers offensive package. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he put his own wrinkles on it, but a
Speaker 1: lot of the Packers offensive package with him. But the
Speaker 1: thing I noticed is taking advantage of Justin Fields athleticism, mobility,
Speaker 1: that that's a bigger part, a significant part of the offense.
Speaker 1: And that's a dimension you can't help but appreciate. You know,
Speaker 1: when you talk about defending the entire field, I mean
Speaker 1: that's a whole another You're not playing against ten guys,
Speaker 1: you're playing against a full eleven. Because the quarterback is
Speaker 1: not going to be a stationary target. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's in the mix when it comes to running the ball,
Speaker 1: when it comes to gadget treat he's in the mitch.
Speaker 1: He's a piece of the puzzle that you have to
Speaker 1: account for it. You just can't say, well, this guy
Speaker 1: can't hurt us with his feet, justin fields can. And
Speaker 1: I remember watching him last year. I mean the consistency
Speaker 1: maybe not there yet, but there was times when he
Speaker 1: threw that ball It's like, Wow, that is a big
Speaker 1: time throw. And he's still got that going for him.
Speaker 1: So he is like, is he the finished product? As
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd agree, Jeff, Not by a long shot.
Speaker 1: But does he have some tools that are really fascinating
Speaker 1: and intriguing and for a defense can be challenging. You bet, Jeff,
Speaker 1: appreciate it as always, and we'll see you up there Lambo.
Speaker 1: All right, Jeff, thanks for having me every good week.
Speaker 1: Larry McCarron our guest here on Bears All Access. Coming
Speaker 1: up next, we'll break down what it's going to look
Speaker 1: like potentially on Sunday night in Green Bay. Tom rejoins
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Speaker 1: Joniac just heard from Larry McCarron, the color analyst for
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, who was very impressed with Dominique Robbinson.
Speaker 1: Tom as, we were let's peel back the onion a
Speaker 1: little bit because we've got perspective here while we've analyzed
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and you've known people that have worked with
Speaker 1: him in that building in the past, former friends, Bears, whatever,
Speaker 1: Tom Clement's back there as quarterback coach. The former quarterback
Speaker 1: coach Luke gets he was asked about doing that peel
Speaker 1: back the onion a little bit on what Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is all about. He challenges you every day to be
Speaker 1: on it right your details. There's no like maybe kinda
Speaker 1: sortas you know, you gotta bring in, you gotta know it,
Speaker 1: and the dude's intelligence level is really high, so you
Speaker 1: better bring it at the same time, but he loves
Speaker 1: to have fun and so do I. So that was
Speaker 1: refreshing to like, here's the best in the business. I'd
Speaker 1: like to have fun and can always kind of come
Speaker 1: back and be centered and focused and stuff, and so
Speaker 1: like that was really cool. You know, he's a young
Speaker 1: coach getting up there early on in my career and
Speaker 1: being able to you know, just be that's really cool.
Speaker 1: You can do this and I still have a lot
Speaker 1: of success and people, you know what the good teammate
Speaker 1: that he was like all that stuff is just I
Speaker 1: relate to that a lot. So what he's trying to do,
Speaker 1: and that was in reference in context to what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do with Justin Fields, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: it's all about the know when we always talk about
Speaker 1: we probably joke about it every show if you think
Speaker 1: you're beat, and that's the no part for a guy
Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers. And he developed that relationship with Davante
Speaker 1: Adams where he's trying to go through those countless amount
Speaker 1: of practice reps to develop that knowing relationship with all
Speaker 1: of his receivers. So when you're Luke Getzy and you're
Speaker 1: a young quarterback coach that's coming in to work with
Speaker 1: the mind and the brain and the arm talent of
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, it's got to be super beneficial. But you
Speaker 1: got to know every single guy you coach is not
Speaker 1: going to be like Aaron Rodgers. Earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: the topic of tackling and finishing your blocks at Big
Speaker 1: One for Matt Eberflew so despite how well the Bears
Speaker 1: finished and beating the forty nine ers, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of meat left on the bone. Is he getting
Speaker 1: all the way up to the runner, okay, hitting with
Speaker 1: the proper pad level, rapping and running his feet three
Speaker 1: hard steps, you know, pulling in the hamstrings and then
Speaker 1: finishing the tackle. Well, we saw a couple of those yesterday.
Speaker 1: We didn't see enough there. There was some lunging going on.
Speaker 1: There was some some things going on there. So we
Speaker 1: have to improve that. And that's typical of the first game.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like guys finishing blocks, you know, when
Speaker 1: you finished blocks on the backside. Great example that would
Speaker 1: have been EQ on the touchdown with Dante Pettis. He
Speaker 1: finished that block, came all across the field and finished
Speaker 1: and it was legal. You know, he did it a
Speaker 1: legal way, you know. So and Dante set it up
Speaker 1: with a nice stem inside into the pylon. So you know,
Speaker 1: this thing's like that. It's just fundamental those details to that.
Speaker 1: And no, we want to get better. And there is
Speaker 1: an unbelievable example almost Matt by example. So on the
Speaker 1: sideline they throw a pass towards Jalen Johnson. Jalen Johnson
Speaker 1: hits the receiver with the right shoulder and hits them
Speaker 1: out of bounds. If you look right on the sideline,
Speaker 1: there's Matt Eberflu's telling him to wrap up and come through.
Speaker 1: It's almost like he's coaching and teaching all his fundamentals constantly.
Speaker 1: And that's what you need to beat a team like
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Jeff, you're not gonna do it with
Speaker 1: a half hearted effort. You're gonna do it by doing
Speaker 1: every single thing they've been teaching you since they got
Speaker 1: here perfectly. All right, let's tick down four or five things,
Speaker 1: real quick, short answers from both of us. Here. I
Speaker 1: got to throw the turnover thing on the table. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Bears want to take the ball away. That is
Speaker 1: their culture now. They want to hang out of the football,
Speaker 1: But Green Bay has an interesting way of making it difficult.
Speaker 1: So against the Bears of late major theme with the turnovers,
Speaker 1: they are plus twelve against the Bears with thirteen takeaways
Speaker 1: and giving a ball away once. Do you need to
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle or at least stay even with
Speaker 1: them on Sunday Night. You can't give Aaron Rodgers extra
Speaker 1: opportunities to leave his offense on the field because that's
Speaker 1: a recipe for a disaster, and I think the running
Speaker 1: back's got to secure it the wide receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends after they make the catch in Justin with his
Speaker 1: downfield vision, Where do you rate that home field advantage
Speaker 1: because they've won thirteen in a row at home, significant
Speaker 1: it's a hostile environment unless you're beating the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers by double digits. Towards the end of the game.
Speaker 1: The crowd is going to stay in the game. They
Speaker 1: are going to be loud and violent. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be an unbelievable look into the line of scrimmage disciplined
Speaker 1: by the Bears, both on the offensive line and the
Speaker 1: defensive line. I don't want to steal your thunder because
Speaker 1: typically in this matchup, you give a number that has
Speaker 1: to be obtained by either the Bears or what the
Speaker 1: Packers can't do. And I'm thinking it's going to be
Speaker 1: related to the running game for both teams. What do
Speaker 1: the Bears have to get to and what do the
Speaker 1: Bears have to do in terms of yards for scrimmage
Speaker 1: because frankly, all four running backs that will be involved
Speaker 1: from both sides of the fence, Montgomery and Herbert, maybe
Speaker 1: Ebner and then Dylan and Aaron Jones. All can catch
Speaker 1: the football, all can pile up pretty significant yards from
Speaker 1: scrimmage throughout the course of a game. What do you
Speaker 1: need to see on paper at the end in the
Speaker 1: run games of stopping it and then also producing and
Speaker 1: it by the Bears, David Montgomery has to trust the
Speaker 1: point of attack and be able to hit holes like
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert did to get those significant six to eight
Speaker 1: yard games. So the Bears need one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five yards rushing minimum, and they need to keep the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers down to sixty to eighty yards rushing
Speaker 1: between the two of them. Give me one more key.
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson's got to get an interception. You set it
Speaker 1: as soon as he got It's the first interception he's
Speaker 1: adding a long time, and the Bears are eleven at
Speaker 1: all when he picks off of the quarterback. So Eddie Jackson,
Speaker 1: give us one from a rob You know you don't
Speaker 1: have to take it to the house. Just give the
Speaker 1: Bears an extra possession, All right, big time, we'll talk
Speaker 1: down the radio. Our pregame gets underway at four o'clock
Speaker 1: with Ron, Jim and Jay kickoff at seven twenty on WVBM.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thanks to our producers. We got
Speaker 1: Dan Billy and Jordan Trent up the folks at the score.
Speaker 1: Also to our guest Dominique Robinson the Bears defensive end,
Speaker 1: and Larry McCarron up there and north of the border
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to down the radio Sunday night from green Bay.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to everybody. For Tom Thayer, I'm Jeff Joniak.
Speaker 1: Have a pleasant evening.