Speaker 1: Welcome and everybody. Jeff Joniac along with Tom thare from
Speaker 1: Habisa and Lake Forest. This is Bear's All Access, brought
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Speaker 1: my broadcast partner, the Super Bowl winning Bear from nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five, headed back out to Jersey later this week
Speaker 1: after his Thanksgiving meal. What's on the menu first and foremost,
Speaker 1: because you're one heck of a cook? Number one? So
Speaker 1: what do you bring in? What are you bring into
Speaker 1: the festivities on Thursday? You know, Jeff, I got three
Speaker 1: older sisters and an older brother who's married. So that's
Speaker 1: one thing I'm Thanksgiving. I don't have to cook. I
Speaker 1: just get to enjoy all of what they offer us.
Speaker 1: And my problem is is trying obviously trying not to overeat,
Speaker 1: having some self control. So I'm gonna watch a lot
Speaker 1: of football. I'm gonna eat food and just see how
Speaker 1: the week goes. Three games, tripleheader, that's number one. But
Speaker 1: you guys, when the family was all together mama's house,
Speaker 1: it was a turkey first thing in the morning, right,
Speaker 1: and then another one later in the afternoon. Yes, my
Speaker 1: mom made two turkeys and it was a it was
Speaker 1: a double meal for all of us, but you know,
Speaker 1: we probably had, you know, twenty five to thirty people
Speaker 1: per holiday that would come and eat of when you
Speaker 1: include all the family members. And when my mom and
Speaker 1: dad were alive, it was everybody's priority to be at
Speaker 1: their house. And that's the way my mom wanted it,
Speaker 1: and that was a great thing about the holidays. We'll
Speaker 1: help everybody out there will celebrate with their family, enjoy themselves,
Speaker 1: and enjoy every bit of your Thanksgiving holiday. The Bears
Speaker 1: are not playing on Thanksgiving this year, but we've gotten
Speaker 1: used to it a little bit over the last few
Speaker 1: years with those trips to Detroit, but thankfully not this year.
Speaker 1: It'll be a trip against the New York Jets, a
Speaker 1: team that is six and four. They've played some good
Speaker 1: football tom but last week and a couple of weeks earlier,
Speaker 1: the Patriots of hung some bad juju on them and
Speaker 1: continue to do so. They've lost I think fourteen or
Speaker 1: fifteen in a row now to the Patriots, and that's
Speaker 1: raising a ruckiss out there out east about the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. You know, this is a highly motivated
Speaker 1: coach that it has a high level of expectations for
Speaker 1: every single one of these guys, and so he wants
Speaker 1: these guys to kind of be attached to his personality
Speaker 1: and his desire and willingness and accomplishments. So, you know,
Speaker 1: he puts a lot on these guys, and you know,
Speaker 1: so I think going forward, it's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see the growth and the development of the team
Speaker 1: as a whole. But they got a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks about their quarterback. This is a guy that they
Speaker 1: took really high in the draft, and you know, because
Speaker 1: he didn't answer some questions at the podium. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody is kind of attacking him on the social media.
Speaker 1: But you know, Zach Wilson has a lot of improvements
Speaker 1: to make and I maybe he does have to capture
Speaker 1: the brotherhood of the locker room to make sure they're
Speaker 1: all fighting for the same thing. He ranks last in
Speaker 1: quarterback creating, thirty third in completion percentage, thirty first in
Speaker 1: TD to interception ratio, and thirty first in passing touchdown percentage.
Speaker 1: So it has not worked with a very good defense
Speaker 1: that many are saying is arguably the best in the
Speaker 1: National Football League front to back. Do you agree, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And unfortunately, I know you're gonna bring it
Speaker 1: up at some time during the show because an Iowa
Speaker 1: State product was injured in the whole process in the
Speaker 1: development of the New York Jets. And his name is
Speaker 1: I'm well aware of that. I listened to you compliment
Speaker 1: him all last year and you know, and he's a
Speaker 1: heck of a football player. And so you know, when
Speaker 1: you're developing a young quarterback, you have to have a
Speaker 1: total awareness of what the offense could offer you to
Speaker 1: help a young guy like that grow. And when you
Speaker 1: go up and your draft and what was he the
Speaker 1: second pick in the draft, Zach Wilson is. I don't
Speaker 1: think he ignore him this quickly. So you know, to
Speaker 1: me from out from the way outside, and I still
Speaker 1: think he'll be the starting quarterback this week. Who will
Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback for the Bears, we don't know
Speaker 1: at this juncture. We'll find out more tomorrow when everybody
Speaker 1: gathers up here in have us Hall. With a shoulder
Speaker 1: injury of some nature, he is day to day. That
Speaker 1: would be QB one justin fields. What would you like
Speaker 1: to see happen tom even if it's banged up, If
Speaker 1: he's a you know, he is tough. The kid wants
Speaker 1: to play. He doesn't want to miss it down. He
Speaker 1: was not able to finish last season. He missed five
Speaker 1: of six for a variety of reasons, and you'd hate
Speaker 1: to see that happen again in this key developmental year. Well.
Speaker 1: Number one, if he's not one hundred percent healthy, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be reluctant to play him. If they are going
Speaker 1: to play him and he's less than one hundred percent healthy,
Speaker 1: I'm almost going to encourage him or not let him
Speaker 1: run the ball. And I know that's what everybody wants
Speaker 1: to see out of Justin, But ultimately it's gonna be
Speaker 1: about how he develops as a passer, and that puts
Speaker 1: more stress and straining on the offensive line because these
Speaker 1: guys are great, are really good pass rushers. They have
Speaker 1: multiple guys that can come at you from not only
Speaker 1: the level of the defensive line, but level two and
Speaker 1: level three. So I want Justin to be healthy because
Speaker 1: I think he's a huge part of the future of
Speaker 1: the Bears. And if Trevor Simeon had to come in
Speaker 1: and play, I would be interested to see how he
Speaker 1: interacts with the receivers that the Bears have brought a board,
Speaker 1: so they can develop and they can provide a serious,
Speaker 1: a big man passing attack. The Northwestern product is the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback David Montgomery yesterday. And what it would be
Speaker 1: like with Trevor Simeon versus Justin Fields in this current
Speaker 1: situation would be very different, you know, especially losing a
Speaker 1: guy like that, especially losing Justin and who he is
Speaker 1: and what he means to his team into his office especially. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's going to be super difficult to not have. But
Speaker 1: you know, coach getson um. You know, the offense, we
Speaker 1: prepare all those guys the same. So whether it's Nat
Speaker 1: or trev Or, whoever it is, you know we are
Speaker 1: prepared to roll. You know, Justin's always ready to roll too.
Speaker 1: You know. The thing about it is what you want
Speaker 1: to prevent is losing Justin if he does have some
Speaker 1: type of an injury issue, you don't want to lose him.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to put him in harm's way.
Speaker 1: And you know, the consistent development of Justin Fields is
Speaker 1: where this team is ultimately going. When they're competing for
Speaker 1: the division crown and their division, they're competing in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and stuff like that. It's it's gonna be with justin.
Speaker 1: But if they do have to go in with Trevor Simeon,
Speaker 1: I don't expect anything less. I just think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a different type of format to the way the
Speaker 1: Bears are going to go back, go out there and
Speaker 1: call plays and run this offense. Matt Eberflus earlier this
Speaker 1: week talked about the sting of a losing streak, which
Speaker 1: now the Bears have only had one win since the
Speaker 1: last trip to East Rutherford and MetLife Stadium against the Giants.
Speaker 1: To go through adversity, you have to be hard. You
Speaker 1: have to be mentally tough, you have to be and
Speaker 1: be physically tough to go through that. And we're going
Speaker 1: through it right now. And it's important that guys are
Speaker 1: really good in terms of having their eyes forward. And
Speaker 1: I thought we had a real good response for those
Speaker 1: guys today. And I'm excited about this week in terms
Speaker 1: of preparing for the Jets and getting going here for
Speaker 1: this week of work we have ahead of us. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll be back here tomorrow at hallis how to start
Speaker 1: that process. Thanksgiving, of course we'll be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different day with families involved than visitors, and
Speaker 1: then you know, get right down to it Friday and
Speaker 1: leave Saturday. Yeah. You know, one thing I'm interested in
Speaker 1: is when the Bear sent out the media schedule for
Speaker 1: the week just revised, is Justin is meeting the media tomorrow?
Speaker 1: And you know, if it was a foregone conclusion that
Speaker 1: he isn't gonna play this week, would he still have
Speaker 1: to meet the media. But are they gonna make him
Speaker 1: answer some questions that maybe is you don't want to answer.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little bit I am very interested to
Speaker 1: see what he says when he meets the media tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Conflicting reports from the national NFL media about what that
Speaker 1: could be separated show, They're not a separated show there,
Speaker 1: so we don't know. We're gonna wait, wait and find
Speaker 1: out like everybody else tomorrow. But we want to thank
Speaker 1: our producer, Caesar Perez, our good friend who used to
Speaker 1: work with us on Bears radio broadcast, does a great
Speaker 1: job here at the score and coming up at six thirty,
Speaker 1: we'll be joined by former Bears quarterback Josh mccount. See
Speaker 1: what he's up to you down there in the heart
Speaker 1: of Texas. You know, I gotta say it was great
Speaker 1: talking to Mark Sanchez last week because we you know,
Speaker 1: when we're broadcasters and the guys are active players, we
Speaker 1: don't really get a lot of chances to have post
Speaker 1: career conversations. And I'm looking forward to talking to him
Speaker 1: because you know, yeah, you admire these guys from afar
Speaker 1: and then you kind of get to talk to them
Speaker 1: when they kind of get into the normal realm of
Speaker 1: human life like we all do as ex players. All Right,
Speaker 1: we'll visit with him coming up in just a while.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, everybody. We'll take a break here first.
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Speaker 1: seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access. It's
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Speaker 1: On another Tuesday, as we count you down to Bears
Speaker 1: football against the Jets. Coming up at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, we'll be joined by former Bears quarterback Josh
Speaker 1: McCown and it'll be good to talk to him. He's
Speaker 1: always great to everybody. As an article that I read
Speaker 1: a while back, Damn Pompey Road Time, Josh McCown won
Speaker 1: three Good Guy Awards for three different teams of the
Speaker 1: ninety flight for so well well thought of individual not
Speaker 1: just as just a dude, but a heck of a
Speaker 1: football player as well. So the New York Jets, what's
Speaker 1: the plan of attack for a Bears defense that doesn't
Speaker 1: know who will be the quarterback? They'll probably know a
Speaker 1: little bit more tomorrow, if not for sure, if it's
Speaker 1: going to be the young man, or if it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Mike White you through for a four hundred yard
Speaker 1: game last year, or they go he's the number two. Really,
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco has been inactive the past few weeks, but
Speaker 1: he opened the season and had three pretty good games.
Speaker 1: Whomever it is, I'm gonna take some chances from the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball because you have a lot
Speaker 1: of really interesting moving parts that you can blitz, and
Speaker 1: from the cornerback position, from you know, the safety position.
Speaker 1: Both Jaquon Brisker and Eddie Jackson. Jack Sanborn has proved
Speaker 1: to be a really good power blitzer. They have good speed.
Speaker 1: And Nicholas Morrow I'm gonna I'm gonna encourage my defensive
Speaker 1: line to be more aggressive at the snap of the
Speaker 1: ball and try to get a field. If it is
Speaker 1: Zach will wol and you put him in a compromise
Speaker 1: position where he doesn't have all of his perfect fundamentals
Speaker 1: within each throw, he leaves throw short, sometimes he sails
Speaker 1: him over the top. You can create inaccuracies against him,
Speaker 1: and he has an enormous amount of pressure on him.
Speaker 1: If he is the start starting quarterback this week in
Speaker 1: New York, and if he doesn't have the type of
Speaker 1: effort that the press expects out of him, then he
Speaker 1: will You know, he is going to be questioned and
Speaker 1: attacked on the podium for the way he answered some
Speaker 1: questions last year. And then if it is Mike White
Speaker 1: or Joe Flacco, I'm gonna have the same template of
Speaker 1: attack that I would against Zach Wilson. I want to
Speaker 1: challenge each and every one of these guys, and I
Speaker 1: want to encourage and open up the excitement of the
Speaker 1: defense to allow them to be more of an attacking defense,
Speaker 1: to see if they can produce some pressure that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to be sacks. But if you can compromise
Speaker 1: the throwing position of any of the quarterback, maybe you
Speaker 1: can turn some of that compromise into interceptions. The Jets
Speaker 1: they have a stretch here of difficulty coming up after
Speaker 1: this game, so you can look at their playoff chances
Speaker 1: and say, okay, they're still in pretty good shape. But
Speaker 1: they got road games the next two weeks at Minnesota
Speaker 1: and Buffalo and four their final six around the road,
Speaker 1: so they are at a crossroads what they do at
Speaker 1: that position for sure. Yeah, it's interesting, you know, having
Speaker 1: the same record as the New England Patriots. So the
Speaker 1: message by Robert Salo, their head coach, has gotta be lookuys,
Speaker 1: we're still in this. We can really you know, push
Speaker 1: forward and get to ourselves and keep ourselves in a
Speaker 1: position where we can possibly keep the playoffs alive. So
Speaker 1: the Bears have to take all that enthusiasm away from them.
Speaker 1: They have to go in there and treat the New
Speaker 1: York Jets like the team that played the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots last year. Last week, if you look at their stats,
Speaker 1: they were less than impressive, and they put themselves in
Speaker 1: a position on the offensive side of the ball that
Speaker 1: they had to rely on a punt return for a
Speaker 1: touchdown from the New England Patriots to win that game.
Speaker 1: So I think it's about you know, the attitude of
Speaker 1: both coaches, And I like Matt Eberflus because because being
Speaker 1: the head coach here and he's gonna be back next year.
Speaker 1: And Ryan Poles and making the decision about all these
Speaker 1: guys in the type of effort that they give during
Speaker 1: the game and making sure they're all mentally prepared for
Speaker 1: if they do get an opportunity to play in the game.
Speaker 1: That each one of these guys they're not auditioning for
Speaker 1: the other teams. They're auditioning for the for the leadership
Speaker 1: of the Bears. And here's how the Bears are dealing
Speaker 1: with these losses. The veteran and running back again David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody who's a competitor, you know get you
Speaker 1: don't like losing. Um, so you just kind of it sucks.
Speaker 1: You prepare, you prepared it best way as you feel
Speaker 1: like you should, and um you just fall short. But
Speaker 1: you know, is your professional You still got coming here
Speaker 1: and do your job. Still gotta be a professional. Still
Speaker 1: gotta you know, walking around with your heah, I know
Speaker 1: your job, man. Justin Jones and finding ways to win, Tommy,
Speaker 1: he takes it as an individual pursuit first before a
Speaker 1: team effort. I feel like I feel like winning. It's
Speaker 1: like an extrinsic motivation, Like you gotta have some menu.
Speaker 1: You play this game, you know, go through the uts
Speaker 1: and downs and still be able to work hard and
Speaker 1: still you have to come to work, you know, with
Speaker 1: the spoiling your face. Has got to be some kind
Speaker 1: of intrinsic motivation, you know, to while you played this game,
Speaker 1: and you know when the season not going your way,
Speaker 1: but you like trending in the right direction. You know,
Speaker 1: you still have faith in your team, you know, and
Speaker 1: you just you just want to put the best fool
Speaker 1: forward and keep pushing, you know, so we can go
Speaker 1: get those wins, you know, towards the end. You know,
Speaker 1: it's two different types of personalities of NFL experience. There
Speaker 1: you got David Montgomery, who was drafted by the Bears,
Speaker 1: and that's the only team he's ever been with. But
Speaker 1: the reflection of his work ethic and his desire to
Speaker 1: be great, his power style of running, his ability to
Speaker 1: catch the ball out of the backfield, and his willingness
Speaker 1: to do what's ever asked of them to help this
Speaker 1: team be better. You know, that's Dave Montgomery, who was
Speaker 1: born in bred here as a Chicago Bear in his
Speaker 1: NFL life, Justin has a little bit more experience around
Speaker 1: the league and he understands the ups and downs of
Speaker 1: different organizations and different teams. But he comes in here
Speaker 1: and he's encouraging his teammates to make sure they stay focused,
Speaker 1: They work hard, they put in the effort making sure
Speaker 1: they're prepared. And I think the way that Justin's played
Speaker 1: in the last not you know, since he's been here,
Speaker 1: but most certainly in the last couple of weeks, you
Speaker 1: can see that the game is important to him. But
Speaker 1: to me, I love the leadership of David Montgomery, and
Speaker 1: you know, in these last couple interviews, he speaks as
Speaker 1: as a super confident, you know, football player, and I
Speaker 1: think that's the same reflection that we get out of
Speaker 1: when we when we get to watch him play. The
Speaker 1: game means a lot to David Montgomery, sure does. We'll
Speaker 1: take another break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: the Score. This is Bears All Access and it's to
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Speaker 1: the hour, former Bears quarterback Josh McCown. Stick around and
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joni Actom there coming out at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour. Josh McCown, the former Bears quarterback of veteran
Speaker 1: of nineteen NFL seasons, will join the program. I want
Speaker 1: to touch on something Albert Breer of SI saying that
Speaker 1: he's heard that Justin apologized to his teammates after the
Speaker 1: loss in the locker room and telling them the defense
Speaker 1: gave the offense a chance and the offense didn't get
Speaker 1: it done, and the defense says, no, we got you, Justin,
Speaker 1: we got you. So whether or not that that's something
Speaker 1: that happened, could I could see it. This team is
Speaker 1: very close and they do pick each other up, and
Speaker 1: there's none of the weirdness that's going out apparently in
Speaker 1: New York going out here in Chicago. Yeah, but Justin
Speaker 1: doesn't auto apology to anybody. They understand Justin's commitment. They
Speaker 1: see a reflection of his work ethic on the practice field,
Speaker 1: getting there early and staying late. That you can see
Speaker 1: the expression on his face and how much it means
Speaker 1: to him to be the leader of this football team
Speaker 1: and take them to a new level that they haven't
Speaker 1: seen in quite a long time. When I first became
Speaker 1: aware and I read that, I felt, I mean, I
Speaker 1: I just didn't think Justin was a guy that needed
Speaker 1: to apologize. And I hope someone stopped him and said, Justin, listen,
Speaker 1: we have all the respect in the world for you
Speaker 1: and with you, and we got your back. And one
Speaker 1: of the key connections right now, the work put in
Speaker 1: is starting to bloom in a way that is getting
Speaker 1: him in the end zone. For one is Darnel Mooney
Speaker 1: and Justin Fields the work that's been done there Monday
Speaker 1: out of the Bears coaches showing WBBM, those guys spend
Speaker 1: every practice, you know, forty five minutes afterward on the field,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing and catching, running the routes that we're
Speaker 1: running for that particular week, you know, going through the
Speaker 1: plays and making sure they have their timing down. And
Speaker 1: they've been working every single week, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: Saturday after practice, And I think it's important and it's
Speaker 1: paying off. Tim it is and I'd like to say
Speaker 1: one more aspect of that that justin starting to get
Speaker 1: in a position where he's challenging his receivers to make
Speaker 1: the tough catch. We saw that from cole Comet last week,
Speaker 1: Eberflus on that top. Yeah. I mean those guys are
Speaker 1: really doing a good job. Like I said, we're building chemistry.
Speaker 1: It's important that we keep doing that, you know, and
Speaker 1: we spread the ball around. It's important that we keep
Speaker 1: spreading the ball around to the backs, all the receivers
Speaker 1: and the tight ends. I look at it as trust
Speaker 1: because two examples of it, Darnel Mooney's touchdown catch. Justin
Speaker 1: let that ball leave his hand eleven yards before Darnell
Speaker 1: Mooney was able to make the catch. So he put
Speaker 1: the ball on the spot and he trusted that Darnel
Speaker 1: Mooney would be exactly at that spot when the ball
Speaker 1: was catchable, and Darnell Mooney focused on it and made
Speaker 1: a difficult catch, had a hard landing on his back,
Speaker 1: but ended up with six points. And then it's a
Speaker 1: trust catch for cole Commet. He threw the ball up
Speaker 1: above anywhere a defensive back ultimately could touch it. He
Speaker 1: knew that cole Commet was going to take a little
Speaker 1: bit of a shot from the side, but he knew
Speaker 1: that he was going to be able to excuse me,
Speaker 1: he knew that he was going to be able to
Speaker 1: touch the football and Cole went up and just made
Speaker 1: an amazing catch. All right, So this was also on
Speaker 1: the Coaching Show on Monday night. Mattie Berflus decided to
Speaker 1: show the team the game tape in sequence. Because typically
Speaker 1: offense goes together, defense goes together. You don't see the
Speaker 1: game as it's unfolding in real time. So I pressed
Speaker 1: him on why that was the case, why that was
Speaker 1: benefit when you show it that way in front of
Speaker 1: your peers. I think that's very powerful because guys want
Speaker 1: to perform, they want to do well for the guy
Speaker 1: it's standing next to him. Because we got type football team,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys really care about each other. We
Speaker 1: work hard for each other, and I think it's important
Speaker 1: to him. Jeff twice in my career we did the
Speaker 1: exact same thing. One time we had a snow game
Speaker 1: that we weren't able to travel home, so Dicka put
Speaker 1: us all in the main ballroom and we watched the
Speaker 1: game in real time and he ran the projector. It
Speaker 1: was not easy because we did not win the game,
Speaker 1: and Coach Dick did not take it easy on us
Speaker 1: when we were watching tape under those circumstances. And it
Speaker 1: was only twice in my career, but I remember him
Speaker 1: as if we are sitting there today, I think, man,
Speaker 1: in this case, Matt's idea, well, that's probably part of it,
Speaker 1: was that it is complimentary football. So what happens early
Speaker 1: in a game is as important as what happened late
Speaker 1: in the game when they could not score a touchdown late,
Speaker 1: or they gave up the kick return touchdown, or the
Speaker 1: idea that there have been four return touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last four weeks that have made a major difference in
Speaker 1: the outcome of these last four games. And for us,
Speaker 1: it was criticism in front of your peers made us
Speaker 1: a closer football team, and it developed camaraderie and it understood, okay,
Speaker 1: if you can get criticized by the head coach, no
Speaker 1: matter you're a multi year All Pro, than anybody can
Speaker 1: face criticism. And so it allows the young guys to
Speaker 1: understand that they're not exempt from it, but are either.
Speaker 1: Are the veterans all right? Coming up next, we'll be
Speaker 1: joined by Josh McCown, will be talking to us from
Speaker 1: Texas where he's working with a high school down there.
Speaker 1: A former Bears quarterback and outstanding, outstanding leader and a
Speaker 1: lot of the great qualities that you seek in an
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback in NFL head coach. We'll see where his
Speaker 1: mind is at on that route as well. With Tom there,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff, Joni X Caesar Perez, our producer. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening tonight, everybody. This is Bears All Access and we're
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Speaker 1: Tom there, welcome back to the program, or brought to
Speaker 1: you by IGS Energy. And I'm the line from I'm
Speaker 1: assuming now, I'm assuming big fella down there in Texas, right,
Speaker 1: rush Russ Texas? Is this is this right? Or? Am
Speaker 1: I off base? We're you at these days? No? You
Speaker 1: hit it, squirrel in ahead, I'm I'm in Russ, Texas,
Speaker 1: sitting right outside of the gym. Um, you know, the
Speaker 1: madness never stops. We moved from football to basketball pretty quick,
Speaker 1: so um so yeah, so we're we're already in the
Speaker 1: gym now, but uh. But yeah down here in russ
Speaker 1: how you guys doing doing okay, doing okay, getting ready
Speaker 1: for a nice Thanksgiving. Hope that's the case for you
Speaker 1: as well. Now I might to assume you're also coaching basketball.
Speaker 1: Uh no, I'm not. I took a break from that,
Speaker 1: UMU a few years back. I coached the boys when
Speaker 1: they were younger, you know, kind of doing the little
Speaker 1: dribblers thing and all that business. And we had a
Speaker 1: pretty good, uh, pretty good squad and for the good record,
Speaker 1: so I left it there, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that top whiles ahead, uh and uh and had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun doing that. So I do your mask
Speaker 1: to be bad and moston. Now, I do remember one story.
Speaker 1: You're surprised though I don't know what team it was,
Speaker 1: but you did a three sixty dunk and during your
Speaker 1: NFL days and you raise some eyebrows with some of
Speaker 1: the fellas, you had some hops. Yeah. Well yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: once upon a time, so you know, not not not
Speaker 1: quite so much anymore, but uh but yeah maybe maybe
Speaker 1: back then. Hey, Josh, I'd like to ask you a
Speaker 1: question about your encouragement to the young athletes of today,
Speaker 1: and do you ask your football players to go and
Speaker 1: choose another sport to play or how do you handle, um,
Speaker 1: the encouragement of the rest of their year to either
Speaker 1: get involved in other sports or just stay active in
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. Yeah, I mean to me,
Speaker 1: uh uh, competitors compete. I think that first and foremost,
Speaker 1: and so I would encourage to play as many things
Speaker 1: as you can play. So uh so, you know, for
Speaker 1: me growing up, it was going into the gym as
Speaker 1: soon as as soon as football was over with, it
Speaker 1: was in the gym playing basketball. And and then after
Speaker 1: basketball it's you know, it's track or baseball or whatever
Speaker 1: kind of spring sports you can get your get yourself
Speaker 1: into or then you're in the off season and you're training.
Speaker 1: But um, but even if it's not your specialty, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, so much has lost nowadays with the specialization
Speaker 1: of things to where we're going, well, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: play baseball, I'm just gonna play soccer. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: play football, and I'm gonna I'm gonna work at it,
Speaker 1: you know, year round. And and I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that the thought of it is right, like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get really good at it. But I think
Speaker 1: you're it's detrimental in the sense that the lack of
Speaker 1: you know, just general competing and and then being a
Speaker 1: part of a team. But the neural pathways that you
Speaker 1: can create when you're computing, if you have to free
Speaker 1: throw line, when the games online and you got to
Speaker 1: go shoot the ball, those are good for Those are
Speaker 1: good situations to put yourself in as a competitor, and
Speaker 1: it pays evidence no matter what sport you specialize in,
Speaker 1: her that's your favorite one. And I just think the
Speaker 1: gift of being on a team, you know. Again, so
Speaker 1: many kids go, well, you know, if I'm not going
Speaker 1: to start, then I'm not gonna play. And it's like that,
Speaker 1: that's not really the idea. The idea is to go
Speaker 1: be on a team, be about you know, something bigger
Speaker 1: than yourself and and uh and I think if you're
Speaker 1: a talented athlete and those things, then it's great to
Speaker 1: cross train your body in your mind anyway. So so
Speaker 1: I see tremendute value. So I always encourage people, you know,
Speaker 1: people stop me in an airport or wherever, and you know,
Speaker 1: you want my two cents on that stuff. I tell them,
Speaker 1: play as much as you can without burning yourself out.
Speaker 1: Play as much as you can while you can, because
Speaker 1: it's great for you all the way around. Josh developing
Speaker 1: the mind of a quarterback. So there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of conversations in the last couple of weeks whether Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson didn't want to wear a wristband, but Tom Brady
Speaker 1: wears a wrist band, or you know, you guys had
Speaker 1: the listening device in your helmet that kind of help
Speaker 1: you with the communication. How do you develop that in
Speaker 1: a order back at that age when they haven't been
Speaker 1: around the game that long that can maybe carry them
Speaker 1: to whatever level they're going to be able to play in,
Speaker 1: but make sure they transfer that information correctly. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think those things, you know, when you get into
Speaker 1: kind of uh developing that, I think it's just mastering
Speaker 1: whatever whatever you're being asked to do, you know, to
Speaker 1: start with. So if you're talking about a junior high
Speaker 1: quarterback or you know, and he's starting to learn, you know,
Speaker 1: learn the position or whatever, it's just mastering the things
Speaker 1: that you're asking to do. And then when you get
Speaker 1: into kind of the higher levels of things as you
Speaker 1: talked about with Brady or with and the wristband type
Speaker 1: of things, those are. Those are because we're asking you
Speaker 1: do a lot more now and but still the requirement
Speaker 1: is to master whatever we've asked you to do. And
Speaker 1: um and people, I mean, the wristband thing is just
Speaker 1: it's really you know, the way that guy's mind works,
Speaker 1: and it's special to that player. You know. Some guys
Speaker 1: UM like to hear it called into them and then
Speaker 1: repeat it. I was an audio guy, like I like
Speaker 1: to do that. I like to hear it and then
Speaker 1: repeat it. Some guys want to read it off the
Speaker 1: wrist band. It hits their brain better if they read
Speaker 1: it and they could see it in their mind as
Speaker 1: they read it. So everybody's different. It just really depends
Speaker 1: on the player. But what the player is responsible for
Speaker 1: different than the coaches that whatever we decide, whether it's
Speaker 1: the wrist band or whether it's just calling into the
Speaker 1: audibly and you're repeating what I just told you, whatever
Speaker 1: that is, you have to know the assignment of the play.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I would tell a young player
Speaker 1: is to master the assignment of the play. Master those
Speaker 1: things and then understand how you learn and what's best,
Speaker 1: and then the team can determine, okay, like it's better
Speaker 1: for you to do this on wrist ban or it's
Speaker 1: better for you for us to say it and then
Speaker 1: you repeat it. So I think it's really more, you know,
Speaker 1: up to the player and up to the organization on
Speaker 1: how they're going to approach it. But for the young players,
Speaker 1: more than anything, it's just master whatever their coach is
Speaker 1: asking them to do. Master that to the best of
Speaker 1: their ability, and then all of the other stuff is
Speaker 1: kind of it's just personal preference. Josh. When you begin
Speaker 1: installing a system at the high school level, do you
Speaker 1: begin with the same template that we've learned at the
Speaker 1: NFL level, where you know, you start the basics of
Speaker 1: the playbook and then you keep feeding that information or
Speaker 1: you know, or is is that you know? How what
Speaker 1: is your how how do you feed that information? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've only been kind of responsible for it
Speaker 1: a few times. But uh, but got with our our
Speaker 1: I wasn't not the offensive coordinator. I was just at
Speaker 1: the quarterback coach this year, um, but but I got
Speaker 1: with our offensive coordinator said do you mind, you know,
Speaker 1: do you mind if I put us a book together
Speaker 1: kind of how we you know, kind of how we
Speaker 1: do in the pros where it follows the kind of
Speaker 1: methodology of how we're going to teach everything and uh,
Speaker 1: and he was completely on board with it, and so
Speaker 1: we did that actually this year, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: do it more for my own practice of just how
Speaker 1: how would I bucket plays and the teaching method of
Speaker 1: these plays and how they progress and how one built
Speaker 1: off another and so the learning patterns flow for the
Speaker 1: kids and and it was a great exercise for myself
Speaker 1: and I think it, uh, it paid dividend with our
Speaker 1: guys too, and the kids really enjoyed it and um
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I think it's we don't have the volume,
Speaker 1: you know, at the high school level, you just don't
Speaker 1: have the volume. Um now, I mean, you know, that
Speaker 1: was fun for me to bring my my you know,
Speaker 1: eighteen years and you know, twenty something playbooks up to
Speaker 1: the office and show the highchool coaches like this is
Speaker 1: what this is what it looks like. This is what
Speaker 1: day one install looks like in the West Coast offense,
Speaker 1: you know, and it looks like the whole high school
Speaker 1: offense and one day you know. So um so it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different, but but at the same time,
Speaker 1: the methodology of it is really really really good, so
Speaker 1: similar in that regard, but just not not quite the volume.
Speaker 1: Josh mccaud our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score. This is Bears All Access, brought to
Speaker 1: you by IGS Energy. With time there Jeff Jonik from
Speaker 1: Hattis Hall in Lake Forrest. Josh, that we know you've
Speaker 1: had sons that played yet wanted Colorado, and you've managed
Speaker 1: to find the time, and you always have of trying
Speaker 1: to work your way around some area of football even
Speaker 1: while you're with other teams as a pro, you wanted
Speaker 1: to always keep coaching. Do you ultimately want to be
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Do you want to be a head coach? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I think so. Uh you know, Uh, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I've you look at you look at uh my career
Speaker 1: and the number of stops and so that that old
Speaker 1: saying that you know we're planning god last, I think,
Speaker 1: you know applies to my career as much as anybody's
Speaker 1: and uh and so uh so yeah, I enjoyed coaching
Speaker 1: and being around the game and just just as I
Speaker 1: said with the with the the uh the multi sport
Speaker 1: thing with kids, just being a part of a team,
Speaker 1: being a part of an organization. And uh and and
Speaker 1: you know, getting getting together with a group of people
Speaker 1: and saying, okay, let's go try to accomplish something together.
Speaker 1: Let's go try to do something greater than ourselves, because
Speaker 1: the best version of ourselves always exist in selflessness, and
Speaker 1: selflessness always exists best on teams and so so I
Speaker 1: just enjoyed that part of it. And uh. And if
Speaker 1: that path leads me to be a head coach someday,
Speaker 1: that'd be awesome. Um. But uh, but I just enjoy
Speaker 1: being a part of a team. So I really don't
Speaker 1: care what the role is. Um. I just I just
Speaker 1: enjoy you know, all assets of joining an organization. You know,
Speaker 1: I've done it so many times. But just watching how
Speaker 1: how that team takes shape and uh and then finding
Speaker 1: the pieces of of how you know, where where can
Speaker 1: you plug in something and make it better? How do
Speaker 1: you how do you grow this position? How do you
Speaker 1: get that better? I think that's those are all fun challenges. Um.
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe one day we'll see but uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I do, you know, definitely see you know,
Speaker 1: myself being around the game in the future for sure.
Speaker 1: Did the Jeff Saturday hiring an Indie. What you know,
Speaker 1: it had a lot of reactions in different ways from
Speaker 1: different groups of people. As an ex player who's put
Speaker 1: his whole life in the NFL over nineteen years and
Speaker 1: nine different teams and success along the way, how do
Speaker 1: you feel about that? Yeah, you know, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: every there's thirty two of these things, and every these does.
Speaker 1: These owners have the right to do whatever they want
Speaker 1: with the team, so we kind of always have to
Speaker 1: start with that caveat that they can do whatever they want. Um.
Speaker 1: And I will also follow that by saying we can
Speaker 1: we need to continue to uh examine and make better
Speaker 1: the hiring practices of our league. Okay, so um So
Speaker 1: I think that's that's paramount also. And then that said,
Speaker 1: um and once we understand that, I think the fearlessness
Speaker 1: to step up and go, Okay, I'm gonna go out
Speaker 1: there and do something that's that's never been done before.
Speaker 1: I just appreciate that, And I think that's part and
Speaker 1: parcel to a good leadership. You know, right, wrong or
Speaker 1: different of what you believe about Jim Urse, I just
Speaker 1: think good leadership in general is there's a fearlessness to
Speaker 1: go This is what I believe, and I don't care
Speaker 1: what anybody else thinks because this is what I believe.
Speaker 1: It is the right thing, and I'm gonna move forward
Speaker 1: in this direction. So and their case show was hiring
Speaker 1: that Saturday. So I think that in of itself is
Speaker 1: is respectable. I get probably where the where the coaches
Speaker 1: are coming from, you know very much. So where where
Speaker 1: if you're sitting there and you're uh, you know, an
Speaker 1: assistant coach that's been you know, you for that opportunity
Speaker 1: and you work your butt off for it, I understand,
Speaker 1: you know. I think I think it resonates probably with
Speaker 1: players too, because I've been the quarterback sitting in the
Speaker 1: room where you draft a young kid and that you
Speaker 1: know leap prows you and go straight to the front
Speaker 1: and he's a starter, and You're like, Danga, man, I've
Speaker 1: been waiting for this opportunity for you know whatever. So
Speaker 1: I think I think we do it every year in
Speaker 1: the draft. You know, people, you know, I you know,
Speaker 1: I know that was a big deal with all these
Speaker 1: other coaches and people saying all these other coaches have
Speaker 1: been waiting to turn, waiting to turn. I get that,
Speaker 1: But we do it every year in the draft, and
Speaker 1: we have no problem going an experienced college kid right
Speaker 1: to the front of the line. So um, so I
Speaker 1: think that's part of that's just part of this business unfortunately,
Speaker 1: um now, and I think we do that because we
Speaker 1: see a talent in that person. And so obviously they
Speaker 1: saw a talent and just Saturday that they believed in
Speaker 1: and they made that decision. So so I certainly respect
Speaker 1: the opinions and the feelings of those guys because, like
Speaker 1: I said, you know, players, especially dull or you get
Speaker 1: as a player, you feel it. You know when they
Speaker 1: bring somebody else, they bring somebody else, all those things happen,
Speaker 1: So you understand the perspective of those guys. So I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any right way to do it. But
Speaker 1: like I said, there's thirty two of them. They run
Speaker 1: the teams the way they want to run them, and uh,
Speaker 1: and so you just have to kind of let it
Speaker 1: go the way it goes. But you know, I hope
Speaker 1: the best for Jeff. I hope that's the organization. I
Speaker 1: love Frank Wright, and so I was bummed at that
Speaker 1: happened to him more than anything and sad to see
Speaker 1: that happened. But uh, but you know, um, we'll see
Speaker 1: I mean, it may be changing the landscape of the league.
Speaker 1: You never know. We'll see, We'll see how Jeff does Josh.
Speaker 1: Through all your experiences throughout the NFL, do you have
Speaker 1: a best experience? And uh an experience that was less
Speaker 1: than the best. I'll tell you a good one. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean most of them are less than the best.
Speaker 1: But here's my here's my one. I should I should
Speaker 1: this the other day. And this is because this is
Speaker 1: like probably twenty ten, twenty eleven, I K twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: probably so almost what is that eleven years ago or so?
Speaker 1: It's it's this time eleven years ago, all right. I
Speaker 1: get signed to the Chicago Bears, all right, and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled and U And it's the day before Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: and I ate somewhere out in Lake Forest or Vernon Hills,
Speaker 1: somewhere out there. I ate at a seafood restaurant. It's
Speaker 1: like the only place open for Thanksgiving. But that day,
Speaker 1: this is less than the best. All right. That day
Speaker 1: we're in the scout team practice, all right, and I
Speaker 1: had been there like on a Wednesday. I got there
Speaker 1: on Tuesday evening practice Wednesday, but didn't take any Scout
Speaker 1: team reps. Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, we go in there, we
Speaker 1: have that quick practice you guys know how it goes.
Speaker 1: And we're out there and the weather was bad, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean it was like Chicago weather, which I mean,
Speaker 1: which is probably like a nice day in Chicago, but
Speaker 1: but it was just the winds blowing sideways and and
Speaker 1: I'd been there for a day, so they didn't give
Speaker 1: any reps. So the Thursday, I get out there and
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, take some scout team reps today. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, cool, I can get you know, I've been
Speaker 1: in the league ten years. I can get in there
Speaker 1: and read a car and so it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: probably twenty five degrees and so sure enough, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't have the biggest hands in the world, okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm always I always know exactly what the weather is, okay, um,
Speaker 1: because you know, if there's moisture in there, I just
Speaker 1: I have to I have to prepare it. Right. So
Speaker 1: I get in the huddle in the and the and
Speaker 1: the stinking play on the card that I get in
Speaker 1: the huddle is, uh, it's a fleef flicker, all right.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, crap, man, it's a fleeflicker, which
Speaker 1: is the hardest thing to do when you have small
Speaker 1: hands to grab the ball and get laces right and
Speaker 1: get it down field. So it's a flee flicker. So
Speaker 1: we're balls on the right hash and we run this
Speaker 1: fleef flicker and fall gets flipped back to me and
Speaker 1: the wind is howling. It is gray and cold and
Speaker 1: a little precipitation there and it's howling, and I throw.
Speaker 1: I throw the ball, and I mean, it looks like
Speaker 1: I punted it. It's terrible. And it goes from the
Speaker 1: right hash and I think it lands on the on
Speaker 1: the on the left sideline, like outside the numbers on
Speaker 1: the left side. It's like nobody gets closed and Jeff,
Speaker 1: it's dead, silent like crickets, and somebody I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been lands Briggs, but somebody goes,
Speaker 1: where the hell do you find this guy? You know,
Speaker 1: So that was that was less than the best for me,
Speaker 1: like you know, of all the moments, you you know,
Speaker 1: it was out of the league, trying to get back in.
Speaker 1: I finally get back in with the Chicago Bears, and
Speaker 1: you know, the first pass on the practice field was
Speaker 1: was a while thrown a police liaker so um so,
Speaker 1: but it's I think about that now every Thanksgiving and
Speaker 1: I was sitting in you know, Captain des or some
Speaker 1: some seafood restaurant out in Vernon Hills. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving night by myself eating going, man, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: get cut off that throw. Um. But thankfully it worked
Speaker 1: out and the team was head at the Oakland Uh
Speaker 1: that that weekend. So I'm just looking at the game
Speaker 1: logs right there. And you started later in the season
Speaker 1: the last couple of games against the Packers and the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. Got it all right here right, Hey, would
Speaker 1: you got a lot more to talk to you about?
Speaker 1: Do you do you have the time to give us
Speaker 1: another ten minutes? Yes, yeah, let's do it. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back with
Speaker 1: Josh McCown. Thank you so much for your time. This
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Speaker 1: Another segment graciously from Josh McCown, our guest, the former
Speaker 1: Bears quarterback that eleven through thirteen seasons and then hit
Speaker 1: free agency and kept on going. Man. And I just
Speaker 1: looked this up because I want to. I want to
Speaker 1: get your perspective on today's quarterbacks, including hours right now,
Speaker 1: justin fields, the dynamic escapability and running ability. The most
Speaker 1: you ever ran in a game was in twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: you were with Arizona taken on Carolina six carries and
Speaker 1: career high forty eight yards rushing and a rushing touchdown.
Speaker 1: And the kind of math you're seeing right now. And
Speaker 1: I'm assuming because I know you do watch a lot
Speaker 1: of NFL football, right, I mean, have you watched a
Speaker 1: game with justin Have you watched how some of these
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks are playing the game these days? And what
Speaker 1: do you think about that? So? Um yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I have um so for one real quick, and it's
Speaker 1: just this is the old shameless fuck. Um. I've partnered
Speaker 1: with Underdog Underdog Fantasy, Underdog Fantasy, and I am not
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fantasy player. Uh. People tell me
Speaker 1: I've helped them out that twenty thirteen years with the Bears,
Speaker 1: I've helped a lot of people win and then I've
Speaker 1: helped a ton of people lose. So um, so that's
Speaker 1: my experience with fantasy. But we partnered with Underdog Fantasy
Speaker 1: and what we started doing and you can check it
Speaker 1: out on YouTube just just search Underdog Fantasy in the
Speaker 1: show's scheme all right, and Josh Norris as the host
Speaker 1: and Josh Town myself we break down plays and so
Speaker 1: we did justin a couple of weeks ago. And so
Speaker 1: Bear fans go check that out. I think you really
Speaker 1: enjoy that. Um. And I'll give you the cliff notes
Speaker 1: here is I think he's a terrific player. Um. And
Speaker 1: I think you said it, Jeff. The running, uh, the
Speaker 1: way that the schemes are now that we run with
Speaker 1: these with these young quarterbacks, I think it would certainly
Speaker 1: of help me move the football a little bit better
Speaker 1: as a young player. Um. But uh, what we what
Speaker 1: we have to be careful of, and you know we're
Speaker 1: experiencing this in real time, is just to wear and
Speaker 1: tear that it creates for this, you know the position.
Speaker 1: And I still think you have to win if physics, man,
Speaker 1: I think you have to win throwing it from A
Speaker 1: to B from the pocket and I think the biggest
Speaker 1: runs are always going to come like the big one
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins a few weeks ago. The biggest runs
Speaker 1: are always going to come in the unscripted run game
Speaker 1: and the scramble and off the scramble and uh and
Speaker 1: so you know, so the quarterback still there's a premium
Speaker 1: on throwing it from the pocket and playing from the pocket.
Speaker 1: Now that said, these quarterback driven runs that we're seeing
Speaker 1: more and more, I think can can really benefit uh,
Speaker 1: young young players. And we're seeing it more and more
Speaker 1: with the with with the guys that can that can
Speaker 1: handle it, their bodies can handle it, and we're getting
Speaker 1: more and more players from the college ranks to have
Speaker 1: the physical tool sets to handle it. But um, but
Speaker 1: it does you have to understand it comes with the
Speaker 1: premium and uh, and you want to limit the hits
Speaker 1: that they'll guys take. And I think those guys got
Speaker 1: to be really smart when they carry the ball is
Speaker 1: when they get into the open field to get back down. Um.
Speaker 1: You know on the show I talked about it, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a play he breaks into the secondary against
Speaker 1: Miami and then he quickly slides and I think that's
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. You know, uh in these quarterback
Speaker 1: driven runs. Um. But but I think he's a fantastic player.
Speaker 1: I think the skill set is there, um, you know,
Speaker 1: to to win both from the pocket and to move
Speaker 1: him around and and do some things um outside the pocket.
Speaker 1: But but it's just it's just being judicious about it
Speaker 1: because the ship you know, we want, we want Justin
Speaker 1: skills to be the quarterback for the Bears in the the
Speaker 1: next fifteen years, right. I mean, I think everybody would
Speaker 1: love that. I don't think that those things can be
Speaker 1: realities if we're running these guys too much and over
Speaker 1: the over time that Hits just had up. We see
Speaker 1: it with the running back position, and so you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta be smart about that. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: not just Chago Bears, it's every team that can that
Speaker 1: can utilize a quarterback and utilize the running skills or
Speaker 1: seeing it with with Hurts and Philly uh so um
Speaker 1: so uh so that's my opinion of I think I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, we got to be smart about
Speaker 1: how we develop and how we bring them along. The
Speaker 1: easy thing to do early is to run them to
Speaker 1: generate offense, but you got to be careful not to
Speaker 1: rob Peter to pay Paul and go, Okay, well I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do this, but at what expense? And then at
Speaker 1: years spy six seven, when the guy needs all the
Speaker 1: throwing reps to win the game, we took those story
Speaker 1: reps away because we were running them early. So there's
Speaker 1: a there's a balance. I think Luke gets you know,
Speaker 1: those guys are figuring that out. I believe they will
Speaker 1: figure that out, and hopefully we'll see a healthy Justin
Speaker 1: Fields leading the Bears for many years to come. Josh
Speaker 1: and all the different roles as a quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: whether you're a starter and you have a backup or
Speaker 1: your backup to the starter, and you guys have similar
Speaker 1: traits and you kind of understand the offense through the
Speaker 1: quarterback's eye, would you give advice or what would you
Speaker 1: be If you are Trevor Simeon and you're a backup
Speaker 1: to this system, you don't get very many reps, but
Speaker 1: you're watching Justin Fields in front of you. How do you,
Speaker 1: as a quarterback get ready if you are inserted in
Speaker 1: the lineup this week or even down the road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great question, Tom, I think you have to
Speaker 1: have you have to understand the offense. You have to
Speaker 1: know you have to have your plays ready, right. I
Speaker 1: mean even even way back when you know, backing up Jay,
Speaker 1: I knew like the way that Jay Cutler moves to
Speaker 1: football and the way that I've moved the football are
Speaker 1: gonna be two different things. Because Jay has a whole
Speaker 1: bag of throws. You know, you know that he can
Speaker 1: go to as far as just how he would throw, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, off platform and all these different things. Whereas
Speaker 1: for me, it was like, man, especially at that point
Speaker 1: in my career, I need to be in the pocket.
Speaker 1: I need to I need guys to be where they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be, and I need to be able to
Speaker 1: you know, to to to process play fast and get
Speaker 1: the ball out of my hand. And so you understand
Speaker 1: that as a backup and uh and I think that's
Speaker 1: that's critical. It's just you know, know, the old thing
Speaker 1: knows thyself, know who you are, all right, And and
Speaker 1: I know Trevor Simuon knows that, like he knows, hey, man,
Speaker 1: we're not running quarterback sweep with Trevor Simuyon. Luke gets
Speaker 1: he knows that, you know, Okay, we're gonna move the football.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be different and a skill set that
Speaker 1: Trevor has that's that's kept him in the league just long.
Speaker 1: And I think he's a very he can be a
Speaker 1: very good player. But it's just operating within that. The
Speaker 1: biggest part of it is getting the other guys that
Speaker 1: maybe not have had to execute some of those plays
Speaker 1: as much because they're doing different a little bit of
Speaker 1: a different offense with Justin. Is getting those guys on,
Speaker 1: you know, up to speed because like I said, the
Speaker 1: receivers everybody, it's a holistic approach with like, hey, I
Speaker 1: need you to be if if the route says eighteen
Speaker 1: and in, I need you to be right there right
Speaker 1: on time because because I I have to throw the
Speaker 1: balls in the pocket, Like I'm not gonna run around
Speaker 1: and generate offense. If you're not there and you miss
Speaker 1: and we miss that rep, that hurts our team. So
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest hill to climb when you
Speaker 1: go from a quarterback change in this instance where the
Speaker 1: skill sets are so different, is it's really the guys
Speaker 1: around them that have to really rally and Okay, we
Speaker 1: got to you know, be on top of it with
Speaker 1: the details of these plays because these are the plays
Speaker 1: that are gonna help us win the game. Josh, great stuff.
Speaker 1: If you could just give me thirty seconds and a
Speaker 1: couple of nuggets from an article. Damn Pompey road Rod Marinelli.
Speaker 1: You worked with him when he was the Bear's defensive cording.
Speaker 1: He left notes in your locker to inspire you about coaching.
Speaker 1: Can you give me one note that inspired you about coaching?
Speaker 1: Do you remember, man so so many? One of my
Speaker 1: favorite ones that Rod does the cycle of the snap,
Speaker 1: and it just kind of takes you through the mental process. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I we only have ten seconds, but it just
Speaker 1: takes you through the mental process of how how players
Speaker 1: should digest a snap process what just happened and then
Speaker 1: moved to the next snap. And it was always little
Speaker 1: things like that that Rod was dropping him in my locker,
Speaker 1: and how you need to be thinking about this, you
Speaker 1: need to be thinking about that, and really up until
Speaker 1: that point, and you know, so, I'm so thankful for
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for that miserable Thankgiving day where plays
Speaker 1: greegs make fun of me because I got back in
Speaker 1: the league and I got to be around great men
Speaker 1: like Rod and Lovey and Chris Ballard and and men
Speaker 1: that started just to pour into me and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you should think about coaching. You really need to think
Speaker 1: about this. And then you know, open to that point,
Speaker 1: it really wasn't on my radar. But those little you know,
Speaker 1: encouragements along the way, uh, you know, helped me kind
Speaker 1: of allow me to go into the back half of
Speaker 1: my career. Really, guys with that mindset, like I didn't
Speaker 1: know I was gonna get to play eight or not
Speaker 1: more years. I thought, you know, every day I walked
Speaker 1: into House Hawk, I thought, this is it. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: so thankful to be here. This is my last day
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And so um so the encouragements from
Speaker 1: Rod and those guys, I got to, you know, spend
Speaker 1: you know, from twenty eleven to you know to twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: my last season in the league, thinking about it like
Speaker 1: a coach, approaching every day like a coach and processing
Speaker 1: you know, team meetings and all these things like a coach.
Speaker 1: And so I'm very thankful for those guys encouraging me.
Speaker 1: We're here from coach Eberflus almost every day cycle of
Speaker 1: the snaps, So that's a Marinelli guy as well. All Right, Josh,
Speaker 1: we gotta go about it. We appreciate you. I hope
Speaker 1: we can do this again sometime. We have a lot
Speaker 1: more to talk about and Happy Thanksgiving to you and
Speaker 1: your family. Love it. Likewise, guys, have a great one.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. That's gonna do it for tonight's show, oh man.
Speaker 1: So many people to think and also great seats available
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Speaker 1: to season, Perez and the folks of the Score and
Speaker 1: to Josh. Talk to you Sunday in New York on
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