Speaker 1: Welcome in Tom Bears Weekly powered by IGS Energy by
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears Network production. Bears Weekly is brought you by
Speaker 1: Advocate Healthcare, Athletico Physical, Apparently, C D. Gallady, Connie's Piazzer,
Speaker 1: IGS Energy, and Meller Liked. Here are your hosts, Jeff Chiliac,
Speaker 1: aka the Mayor of Bearsville and his sidekick, Tom the
Speaker 1: Surfmaster Thayer.
Speaker 2: Well A week from tonight in Canton, Ohio playing the
Speaker 2: Houston Texans the Bears in the Hall of Fame game
Speaker 2: heard right here at ESPN one thousand of the Bears
Speaker 2: Radio Network. Seven o'clock the kickoff and Tom Thayer is
Speaker 2: ready to go. The Super Bowl winning Bears guard here
Speaker 2: as we begin the march of the regular season with
Speaker 2: pads coming on tomorrow morning on day six of training camp.
Speaker 2: And thanks to our producers Dan Brilly and Jordan Treadup
Speaker 2: and in the ESPN studios Kendra Smith, the executive producer
Speaker 2: of the Bears Radio Network is Eric Ostrotski. Coming up,
Speaker 2: We'll visit with for Bears running back DeAndre Swift in
Speaker 2: our second segment and we'll get the latest from practice today.
Speaker 2: Time is grinning ear to ear because pads come back.
Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna say, Jeff, slow your role because
Speaker 3: you're already talking about the Hall of Fame game, which
Speaker 3: is gonna take place next Thursday. But in the schedule
Speaker 3: of events and their role of importance, tomorrow is probably
Speaker 3: the most important day since the draft took place, since
Speaker 3: OTA started mandatory mini camp, the beginning of training camp.
Speaker 3: But now finally we get to see what this is
Speaker 3: all about. We get to see real padded football where
Speaker 3: collisions conclude the play and not just a whistle or
Speaker 3: somebody running by with no pads on.
Speaker 4: Are they teases nowadays?
Speaker 2: Don't they a lot of practices before the pads come on?
Speaker 2: And it's league wide, it's not, it's not anything different,
Speaker 2: but wow, they do tease you a little bit. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, some false some false security, I would think
Speaker 2: in certain situations by without the pads, because that's when
Speaker 2: you learn, how do guys carry their pads? Are they
Speaker 2: as quick? Do they run as fast? Are they as
Speaker 2: physical with the pads on? And all these things are
Speaker 2: going to make a difference now, and that's where your
Speaker 2: evaluation comes in. The first thing you do, you go
Speaker 2: right to the one on ones between the offense and
Speaker 2: a defensive line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just starting from the point of the players. For me,
Speaker 3: it took me three days of practice to become comfortable
Speaker 3: in my paths, no kidding, because there's so many difference
Speaker 3: of feelings. The way your helmet feels with your shoulder pads,
Speaker 3: on the way you can bend and get in your stance.
Speaker 5: Not as easy as when you're out of pads.
Speaker 3: And then all just breaking in your helmet that got
Speaker 3: reconditioned or it's a new helmet from the offseason. You
Speaker 3: need to get a little sweat into your shoulder pads
Speaker 3: so they form fit around your body.
Speaker 5: So those types of things.
Speaker 3: It takes a couple of days, and I hope it's
Speaker 3: hot and sweaty out because it helps those pads kind
Speaker 3: of form to whatever your body shape is. And then yeah,
Speaker 3: then you talk about the reality of real football.
Speaker 5: I love I want to see one on ones.
Speaker 3: There's guys that I have a peak interest in, and
Speaker 3: I think Jabon Dexter Senior is probably the most talked
Speaker 3: about guy in training camp thus far this season outside
Speaker 3: of Caleb, because he has such a high expectations. But
Speaker 3: now we're gonna see the performance portion of it and
Speaker 3: how all the details and everything he did inside the
Speaker 3: weight room throughout the offseason pertains the actual football.
Speaker 2: And then nine one seven or Undro's that's also a
Speaker 2: big one. Can't really determine how the running game is
Speaker 2: without that.
Speaker 3: It's probably the most physical portion of team practice. It
Speaker 3: is nine on seven because it's the amount of offense
Speaker 3: and defensive players. It used to be nine offensive players
Speaker 3: against seven defensive players. And then when Buddy Ryan introduced
Speaker 3: the forty six defense and he hadded the straw and
Speaker 3: the safeties, and then it became more of a nine
Speaker 3: on nine drill. So it has changed a little bit.
Speaker 3: But once you get the teamwork, there's more of a
Speaker 3: tempo to teamwork. But one on ones nine on seven's
Speaker 3: it's more of a super aggressive period that you can
Speaker 3: get the finer details of interplay between offense and defensive lineman,
Speaker 3: tight end and linebacker.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: So that being said, in phase a stack of practices,
Speaker 2: coach Eberfluchle likes to refer to the miss stacks.
Speaker 4: What was accomplished, In your opinion.
Speaker 3: They understand the speed of the game with the understanding
Speaker 3: of all the mental part of it that they've been
Speaker 3: teaching these guys now for a couple months. You got
Speaker 3: to put that into practice, and so I expect the
Speaker 3: speed of the practice to continue as it was with
Speaker 3: no pads on, and I do have high expectations for
Speaker 3: that because it's not where they're going back to relearn
Speaker 3: the mental part of it.
Speaker 5: They've just been able to reinf force it over the
Speaker 5: last week.
Speaker 3: But now it's it's in the UH in the real football,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of time instances that change in
Speaker 3: full pads. So I'm excited to see it tomorrow and
Speaker 3: I hope the crowd that surrounds the field is enthusiastic,
Speaker 3: and I hope they contribute to the volume of noise
Speaker 3: that the players can hear.
Speaker 4: Today. Kader Gordon not available.
Speaker 2: He's working through some uh some stiffness in his body.
Speaker 2: They don't have to tell you where or what what
Speaker 2: what the issue is. And Braxon Jones is still rotating
Speaker 2: at left tackle as he's ramping himself up. Other than that, no,
Speaker 2: nothing serious in the injury department, thank goodness. Knock on wood.
Speaker 2: Uh Kayla Williams getting high marks for overall accuracy and
Speaker 2: how he's moving in the pocket so far. A lot
Speaker 2: of work in the red zone today, UH and so
Speaker 2: there were wins. There were wins by the offense, there
Speaker 2: are wins by the defense, and a lot of pressure
Speaker 2: from Montese Sweat today.
Speaker 4: That's for sure good.
Speaker 3: But again, you know, but you know my argument with
Speaker 3: no pads between offensive defensive linemen. I think no pads
Speaker 3: gives defensive line a false sense of security and it
Speaker 3: makes offensive linemen a little bit more insecure. So when
Speaker 3: you add the physical element of pads, do it. I
Speaker 3: still expect Montes Sweat to shine unlike a lot of others.
Speaker 3: But I think when you add what Darnell Wright can
Speaker 3: do in full pads and you allow him to be
Speaker 3: the big body, talented athlete football player that he has has,
Speaker 3: it'll be more confrontational.
Speaker 2: Got to also give a thumbs up to the secondary
Speaker 2: overall from the time this started, they're they're playing at
Speaker 2: a very high level. If they are completing passes, it's
Speaker 2: in small windows. They are on it at every at
Speaker 2: every stage, at every level of the field, and every
Speaker 2: stage of practice.
Speaker 5: Yep. And again I like it too.
Speaker 3: I like it because I think the receivers that they're
Speaker 3: going up against the first tier and all the backups
Speaker 3: that they're going up against, our quality group of receivers.
Speaker 3: But I think it benefits the receivers in the quarterback
Speaker 3: position and everybody else to practice against quality players. We'll
Speaker 3: see some practices with Cincinnati and the Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: game with Houston, and so on and so forth with
Speaker 3: the other preseason games. But when you have that good
Speaker 3: competition against your own team for multiple practice, it really
Speaker 3: benefits you to make yourselves better.
Speaker 2: And coach is always talking about playing at game speed
Speaker 2: at practice, So practicing at game speed and so the
Speaker 2: windows can be a little more realistic than unrealistic when
Speaker 2: you're a rookie quarterback throwing the football or a receiver
Speaker 2: that's being covered by a dB, a safetyer corner. So
Speaker 2: I think there is you know, that's a requirement. That's
Speaker 2: what he's demanding, and they are playing like that. There
Speaker 2: was a great play today by Kevin Byerd, who is
Speaker 2: looking quite quick and triggering quickly on the back end
Speaker 2: of the defense. He almost had an interception, but it
Speaker 2: went out of bounds. I don't think he got his
Speaker 2: feet in, but that that excites me too, because he's
Speaker 2: a ballhawk and he knows defense.
Speaker 4: He's a vent. He's communicating well, helping settle the back end.
Speaker 3: Well, that's why I think these nopad practices are going
Speaker 3: to be beneficial to the padded practices, because when we
Speaker 3: went to training camp, we drove the platfell, we put
Speaker 3: our equipment on, and we went to work and then
Speaker 3: the pace of practice seemed so slow for a couple days,
Speaker 3: and then it started to pick up the pace. I
Speaker 3: think they're going to be the pace is going to
Speaker 3: be picked up immediately starting tomorrow because they've had the
Speaker 3: benefits of OTA mandatory mini camp in a week of
Speaker 3: unpadded practices.
Speaker 2: Time for our first break on the other side, will
Speaker 2: be joined by running back DeAndre Swift. This is Bears
Speaker 2: Weekly on ESPN Chicago and the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 1: This Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears for
Speaker 1: twenty three years, Jeff on the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 2: This segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you by
Speaker 2: igs Entergy, Jeff Joniak and Tom Payer with you a
Speaker 2: fifty year running back, a pro bowler in Philadelphia last year,
Speaker 2: and a guest of ours earlier today on the birthdate
Speaker 2: of the late Walter Payton. With Swift now wearing a
Speaker 2: Bears uniform, here's a logical question to begin the interview.
Speaker 4: Does that resonate with you in any way, first and foremost.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, somebody I used to watch coming up,
Speaker 7: great great, great, great talent, great talent in the field,
Speaker 7: so as well as you probably know, just a great
Speaker 7: person probably to block four to be a part of
Speaker 7: but somehow, but I've really really watched growing up.
Speaker 2: Tell them the story about when you first got to
Speaker 2: the Bears. Because Tom played in the United States Football
Speaker 2: League USFL in the original version, and so he played
Speaker 2: a whole season, went to the playoffs, got in his car,
Speaker 2: came to Bears training camp when they had two a
Speaker 2: days and with Mike Ditka, and then played the whole
Speaker 2: way all the way through the Super Bowl. So he
Speaker 2: played how many games in one calendar year?
Speaker 4: Forty four?
Speaker 2: Forty four games in one calendar year. Yeah, he's Deandre's
Speaker 2: sitting here a little stunt. But talk about that first
Speaker 2: time because he grew up in Juliet, South suburbs of
Speaker 2: Chicago and grew up a Bears fan. So when you
Speaker 2: first walked in the huddle time with Walter Payton.
Speaker 6: It was amazing.
Speaker 3: You know, I had a hard time being overly excited
Speaker 3: about seeing him because I hero worshiped him and I
Speaker 3: grew up in this area. And so there I was
Speaker 3: standing in the huddle with Walter Payton and then they
Speaker 3: call a play that your block is instrumental in his
Speaker 3: success or failure.
Speaker 5: So it kind of puts that excitement, you know.
Speaker 3: That's one of the things like when you went to Philly,
Speaker 3: but you also went to prep high school in Philly.
Speaker 5: I kind of liked the pressure and everything of it.
Speaker 3: Did you like that part of it as having where
Speaker 3: you grew up around you?
Speaker 8: One hundred percent. I looked at it.
Speaker 7: I had no other option but to perform at a
Speaker 7: high level being somewhere I'm familiar where I grew up
Speaker 7: when I played ball at and had a great mentality
Speaker 7: every day I woke up and went to work.
Speaker 3: Back in nineteen eighty one, I played at Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: We played Georgia for the national championship game. We got
Speaker 3: beat and that was herschel Walker's freshman year. So when
Speaker 3: you consider all the talent you played around in college,
Speaker 3: was the reason you went to Georgia to stay inside
Speaker 3: that the competition that's unlike any other in the college atmosphere.
Speaker 8: One hundred percent that played a part in it.
Speaker 7: Wanted to get out of Philly and kind of do
Speaker 7: something a little different, had the opportunity to do so,
Speaker 7: but the competition down there. I not wanted to play
Speaker 7: SEC ball, wanted to play in the best conference there
Speaker 7: was just Yeah, joining the running back group with Sony Michelle,
Speaker 7: Nick Chubb, guys like those, I don't. I'm never the
Speaker 7: won a shot from competition. I kind of run to it.
Speaker 8: So that was definitely played the part in it too.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Six point six yards per carrying college is pretty impressive,
Speaker 3: especially when you're playing in the biggest conference in college. Also,
Speaker 3: the second thing is when you're taking considerations some of
Speaker 3: the running backs that have played on the pro teams
Speaker 3: that you've played for. When you look at Walter Payton
Speaker 3: and Gale Sayers, and you look at Barry Sanders, you
Speaker 3: look at Wilbur Montgomery and Ricky Waters and those kind
Speaker 3: of guys, it's an oppressive room group history of running
Speaker 3: backs that you've been around, not only in college but
Speaker 3: also at the NFL level.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my first year I was in the room with
Speaker 7: Adrian Peterson. I didn't think I'd never been a somebody
Speaker 7: like one of the running backs that I grew up
Speaker 7: a big fan of. So just having them vet guys
Speaker 7: around early, you know, I feel like it helps you
Speaker 7: in your career, especially seeing how it's supposed to be
Speaker 7: done as far as the nutrition aspect of the reheab
Speaker 7: So I was I was fortunate enough to be a
Speaker 7: part of that. Uh, kind of watch and take some
Speaker 7: of those things that I learned, you know, implement them
Speaker 7: in my own routine.
Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson, Uh, no matter where your allegiances lie as
Speaker 2: a fan, right, we called so many of his games
Speaker 2: when the Vikings came to town and we went to Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Just a unique, vicious runner, ran tall, but boy he
Speaker 2: was something else, something else, and you have so you know,
Speaker 2: you think about a guy like that, that's a guy
Speaker 2: like he was just born to.
Speaker 4: Be big and strong.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't even know what he did to enhance that,
Speaker 2: but everybody has to. But do you appreciate that when
Speaker 2: some guys are just born and built to play the
Speaker 2: game at a level that is almost unattainable.
Speaker 7: I appreciate even more of seeing how they worked, just
Speaker 7: seeing the hard work day in and day out. Know
Speaker 7: they have natural boring ability and talent, but the work
Speaker 7: that goes into it is something you appreciate you much more.
Speaker 2: Andre Swift, our guest here on Bears Weekly on the Spno.
Speaker 2: One thousands of the Bears Radio Network. All right, let's
Speaker 2: get into into the room. First of all, you're you're
Speaker 2: running back coach Chad Morton. He's insane, Like I mean,
Speaker 2: I love the way he coaches the sprint. You gotta
Speaker 2: tell me where all this started with the sprint thing?
Speaker 2: Did you know this was gonna be his thing from
Speaker 2: the first time you saw him in the offseason and
Speaker 2: as it elevated to a level that is absolutely unique
Speaker 2: every single day.
Speaker 4: Break it down for me.
Speaker 7: When I first met you, I didn't think he was
Speaker 7: as energetic and the personality has It's like when he's
Speaker 7: on the field, it's a whole different way. But like
Speaker 7: you said, you seem sprinting, trying to beat us to
Speaker 7: every trail.
Speaker 8: And stuff like that.
Speaker 7: This whole thing is about finished. But he has fun
Speaker 7: with it too. He makes it funk of you on
Speaker 7: play for.
Speaker 2: Yeah in that room now with you and Khalil Herbert,
Speaker 2: Roshawn Johnson, Travis Homer, who has a history with Shane Waldron,
Speaker 2: and the undrafted rookie out of Howard University, Ian Wheeler
Speaker 2: number thirty three. When you come to training camp tomorrow
Speaker 2: for first padded practice, you're gonna notice this guy.
Speaker 4: He puts in a lot of effort for every touch
Speaker 4: he gets. He's not getting as many obviously.
Speaker 2: And then Carrie blashing game, give us a little snapshot
Speaker 2: on each and how that room is operating right now.
Speaker 7: Oh man, these guys, the way we work, the mentality
Speaker 7: we have like Lil Herbert, it's no drop off for
Speaker 7: whoever's in there. Ian just the way he approaches every
Speaker 7: single opportunity KB is his attention to detail on the
Speaker 7: RYK game, his blocking responsibilities, home or well he finishes,
Speaker 7: ro shun, well he finishes if the speed he breaks
Speaker 7: with is not in the day with the guys who got.
Speaker 2: In the room, And that's when what's your snapshot? You know,
Speaker 2: you got to give yourself something. What do you what's yours?
Speaker 7: Being able to do it with them makes you do
Speaker 7: it the best of my beliefs. Man, Just trying to
Speaker 7: focus on being consistent, coming here, coming tomorrow, being better
Speaker 7: than I was the day.
Speaker 8: That's what don't focused on, you.
Speaker 3: Know, DeAndre, this is your third system in three years.
Speaker 3: But all you guys together in that running back room
Speaker 3: with the Chicago Bears, it's the first year in this system.
Speaker 3: How long does it take you to feel comfortable with
Speaker 3: the terminology of these modern day offenses so to where
Speaker 3: it becomes second nature?
Speaker 5: And then does it go hand in hand.
Speaker 3: With the way you read and understand your offensive line
Speaker 3: in terms of knowing the terminology and know how it
Speaker 3: fits to your offensive line.
Speaker 8: It's something that takes time.
Speaker 7: It takes time, but uh, coach, you do a great
Speaker 7: job with installing the detailed install So how I look
Speaker 7: at it is how I've approach it. I try to
Speaker 7: make sure I'm one hundred percent for that day, So
Speaker 7: I look at the please with install and making sure
Speaker 7: I'm fine for that day, and at the end of
Speaker 7: the week, I go the whole week, but making sure
Speaker 7: whatever is put in the night before, get that down,
Speaker 7: focus on the day, one day at the time, and
Speaker 7: then collectively kind of study that way.
Speaker 8: That's kind of how happened.
Speaker 3: You know what's amazing for me is I've been around
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears for almost forty years and we are
Speaker 3: a run oriented offense. When I was here, and it's
Speaker 3: kind of a run oriented offense. But now I see
Speaker 3: the development of the importance of the passing game through
Speaker 3: the running back with this offense. It amazing thing about
Speaker 3: you running backs is the variety of passes that you
Speaker 3: have to catch, whether it's a swing pass, whether it's
Speaker 3: a play action, whether it's an immediate bubble screen or
Speaker 3: a slow screen, or if you're running a route off
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. Your pass catching ability is it
Speaker 3: are you are you naturally gifted at it or is
Speaker 3: it something that you've had to learn throughout your NFL career.
Speaker 8: I will say both.
Speaker 7: I'm naturally I've been naturally gifted at it, be able
Speaker 7: to have hands, but some not work at like time
Speaker 7: and and time out every single day.
Speaker 8: Something I don't take light because I full as dough.
Speaker 7: Like I said, the more you can do at the
Speaker 7: running back position, the more valuable you are. So when
Speaker 7: you ask to line up out wide and run anything
Speaker 7: they asked you to do, when you do it at
Speaker 7: a high level and have success at it, is only
Speaker 7: only helps.
Speaker 2: You hands one thing 'ro out running a whole another right,
Speaker 2: gotta be crispy, Yeah, I mean, and that's a skill too,
Speaker 2: as a skill too, So Tommy today at corner out
Speaker 2: in red zone from Cata Williams. This man working on
Speaker 2: Jakwan Brisker makes the grabt for the touchdown and everybody
Speaker 2: went Bears win, Bears win.
Speaker 4: So you get in the end zone.
Speaker 2: I think twenty of your rushing touchdowns have come inside
Speaker 2: the ten here in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: You have a nose for the end zone.
Speaker 2: Is that something you're one of the most things you're
Speaker 2: proud of about you in your career?
Speaker 8: One hundred percent.
Speaker 7: The more you're able to do, is it helps you
Speaker 7: being able to run the ball any yard line, anywhere
Speaker 7: in the field, red zone, backed up, it only helps
Speaker 7: you and then be able to make people miss.
Speaker 8: It's something I take very very well. Don't take lightly.
Speaker 7: And being able to catch the ball to bag for
Speaker 7: run routes, catch the ball, protect the ball. That's something
Speaker 7: you want to be able to do as a back
Speaker 7: in this league.
Speaker 3: Do you feel that this is the most highly explosive
Speaker 3: weapons that you've played with in your NFL career in
Speaker 3: terms of if you put everybody on the field at once,
Speaker 3: is this is this the best group of guys that
Speaker 3: you played with, or is it in comparison to the
Speaker 3: other teams.
Speaker 8: It's up there for sure. It's up there for sure.
Speaker 7: Look, you got Dj Moore, Keenan Island Roan, Cole Gerald, Efverett,
Speaker 7: you got Caleb back there saying, so it's it's it's
Speaker 7: a great group we got.
Speaker 8: It's up there for sure.
Speaker 4: And how's that going with Caleb.
Speaker 2: He's got some rare skills obviously, he's got humility, and
Speaker 2: he wants to work and he's crazy passionate about winning.
Speaker 2: Uh uh, that's that's all you need. And now you
Speaker 2: got to work and grow, right, So how's that. How's
Speaker 2: that adaptation coming?
Speaker 8: It's been good.
Speaker 7: That's what you want to see, especially early on in
Speaker 7: the young guys, correct the quarterback position. Just the urge
Speaker 7: to get better, to earth, to learn and command the
Speaker 7: offense something you have to do.
Speaker 8: And it's tough.
Speaker 7: It's tough when you get thrown in there early on,
Speaker 7: new group of guys, being able to in.
Speaker 8: A huddle with ten other men. You got to command
Speaker 8: that huddle.
Speaker 7: And he's doing a great job at it, getting better
Speaker 7: every single day, taking the day by day.
Speaker 4: Tom Last question from you, Tommy, last question from you?
Speaker 6: Ready for padded practices?
Speaker 3: Well, if you have a different feeling walking into the
Speaker 3: building tomorrow morning when you know that there's gonna be
Speaker 3: uh full equipment rather than the practices that you've been
Speaker 3: going through since you got here.
Speaker 7: One hundred per I feel like you don't turn your
Speaker 7: music up a little bit louder in the car on
Speaker 7: the way over here, and you do yourself with disservice,
Speaker 7: and you gotta be a little different when you wake up.
Speaker 4: All right, last question.
Speaker 2: You got the hard knocks cameras around, I understand from
Speaker 2: coach everflues players even admitting it, you don't really notice it.
Speaker 2: It's just a part of the they're doing their thing,
Speaker 2: They're getting what they need to do.
Speaker 4: And have you have you noticed anything?
Speaker 2: Have you noticed guys you know, looking for the camera
Speaker 2: and and have you been miked up yet?
Speaker 8: Y'all was miked up Monday.
Speaker 7: I was miked up Monday, I believe. Yeah, But you
Speaker 7: don't really notice it. They do the job of kind
Speaker 7: of staying out the way. The only thing Tommy noticed
Speaker 7: is we look up, you see the microphone over your head.
Speaker 8: But other than that, they've been good. They're not the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll it'll be a fun to take a look
Speaker 2: at it when it's all set and everything.
Speaker 8: On the fool and what they put into these episodes.
Speaker 4: And the most fun you've had so far in training camp?
Speaker 4: What would it be?
Speaker 2: Would it be in when the auditorium at team meeting,
Speaker 2: rookies getting up there, what do you got?
Speaker 4: What's what's the most fun so far? What's made you laugh?
Speaker 8: What's made me laugh? Yeah? Uh? In the auditorium, the
Speaker 8: rookie singing, Kayla.
Speaker 7: I don't know why he thought there was gonna be
Speaker 7: the lyrics, like you've sing the song, and the rookie song,
Speaker 7: the lyrics is going to be shown. He was just
Speaker 7: gonna be able to follow the lyrics like he thought
Speaker 7: it was gonna be that way, like he didn't have
Speaker 7: to know the song that was.
Speaker 4: Funny, no lyrics, and he was going to karaoke.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, brother, you remember the song.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time, Deandre's if you're
Speaker 2: delightful and we can't wait to see in pads tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But when the regular season kicks off against the Tennessee Titans,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: For your time, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: That's DeAndre Swift. We'll continue on Bears weekly after this breakout.
Speaker 2: He has been one thousand of the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 1: This is Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears
Speaker 1: for twenty three years, Jeff Jony on the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 2: And this ligment of Bears Weekly is brought to you
Speaker 2: by Athleticophysical Therapy. Visit Athletico dot com to request it
Speaker 2: in clinic or virtual appointment and start feeling better tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Jeff and Tom with you here on ESPN one thousand
Speaker 2: of the Bears Radio Network. We'll get the Tom's thoughts
Speaker 2: in a minute. First of all, as I mentioned, as
Speaker 2: we mentioned in the interview with DeAndre, number thirty four
Speaker 2: of the flag flying at Hallis Hall today with Walter
Speaker 2: Payton's birthday, the late Walter Payton, and they put out
Speaker 2: a quote, the most complete player in the history of
Speaker 2: the game. Happy birthday, sweetness, And we cannot argue with
Speaker 2: that whatsoever, not at all.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I just I recently ran into a neighbor of mine
Speaker 3: here down in Joliet, and she sent me a bunch
Speaker 3: of pictures of Walter Peyton when he visited my family,
Speaker 3: sitting in the backyard, and you see Walter.
Speaker 5: And Pads, and you see his greatness.
Speaker 3: On the football field, and we all know what he
Speaker 3: was like around the Bears facility. But when I look
Speaker 3: at these pictures of Walter Peyton the greatness, it's amazing
Speaker 3: how he ingratiated himself with so many different people. And
Speaker 3: when you see the people in these pictures and they
Speaker 3: all have smiles on their faces, They're just amazing. And
Speaker 3: if I was on social media, I would share them
Speaker 3: with everybody, but I'm not, so maybe I'll.
Speaker 2: Give him to you and you can there, you go,
Speaker 2: we can make that happen, Tom, we can make that happen. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: I know Treach Stevenson is both of one of our
Speaker 2: favorite players on this team.
Speaker 4: We love Ethic and uh uh.
Speaker 2: He was at the podium today up here at Halla
Speaker 2: saw talking to the media for the first time. Uh
Speaker 2: He's asked if he feels different in practice covering the
Speaker 2: quality of receivers that the Bears are putting on the
Speaker 2: field at every snap.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, these receivers bringing out different problems. So just
Speaker 7: just covering them, covering different covering room, covering Keenan, covering
Speaker 7: DJ covering Tyler, just give you a different aspect of
Speaker 7: the game of what they bring to the table.
Speaker 6: So pretty much in the receiver.
Speaker 7: I see this year already done, seeing the best of
Speaker 7: the best in practice and keen keenham. Just just the
Speaker 7: fact that he can stop me route, change his whole route,
Speaker 7: or just the fact that he gives you something different
Speaker 7: than what you what you're expecting, like he might break inside,
Speaker 7: but he's just doing that just to see on the
Speaker 7: next play how he can get you on the route
Speaker 7: that has coming to him. DJ just gonna be DJ,
Speaker 7: DJ gonna run arout and not gonna stop it pretty much.
Speaker 5: So it's like a mind game almost.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because just just just watching him practice and watching
Speaker 7: just watching he plays, like even if he ain't getting
Speaker 7: the ball, he runs a whole different route or he
Speaker 7: does something different not even let you know that route
Speaker 7: is there. So if you come back to it or
Speaker 7: they run that same play, you go to where he
Speaker 7: where you thought he was last time, and it's a
Speaker 7: whole different.
Speaker 9: Route going against Rome.
Speaker 5: What is what has struck you about his building?
Speaker 9: What do you think he brings to the sload of
Speaker 9: the group.
Speaker 7: He's sneaky fast, like like like like off the line,
Speaker 7: you might not you know, you might not realize he's
Speaker 7: closing the cushion is fast, but once he owned, he
Speaker 7: owned you. So just the fact that he's able to
Speaker 7: run the whip routes, he's able to break down and
Speaker 7: run the digs or if you let him here, run
Speaker 7: right by you. So just the fact that he's you know,
Speaker 7: he can pretty much do every rode on the route.
Speaker 10: Tricking the other day about the not only collect the
Speaker 10: confidence of the secondary starters, with the trust that you guys.
Speaker 6: Have that everybody's gonna handle their business.
Speaker 10: How do you describe kind of what that is right now?
Speaker 10: Like Cohet, let you guys know, as a group of five, all.
Speaker 7: The guys want to win, and all the guys know
Speaker 7: we the best secondary in the in the in the nation.
Speaker 7: So just the fact that we come in and film
Speaker 7: and we check each other, or like after practice, like
Speaker 7: I ain't like that, could you help me here? Just
Speaker 7: knowing that certain coverages we might need help, Like you know,
Speaker 7: cover fours, I got to help the safety, I gotta
Speaker 7: take some weight off the safety, or cover two I
Speaker 7: have to take care.
Speaker 6: Of number one. So just knowing that we're.
Speaker 7: Going we going to these meeting rooms that we really like,
Speaker 7: you know, get on each other, not not harsh, but just.
Speaker 6: Let let each other.
Speaker 7: Know that you know just what I need you to do,
Speaker 7: so I can play confidence and it's just a vice
Speaker 7: versus thing.
Speaker 6: Charles a couple of practices. They've seen him talking to you.
Speaker 6: What's that been like working with him?
Speaker 9: Were you a big fan of his when he played?
Speaker 9: And like, what type of advice does he give me?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: He just giving me be a doll. You know, every
Speaker 7: time you step out on the field, just play your game.
Speaker 7: You know, if your game is press coverage, press coverage,
Speaker 7: if your game is off man, off man, whatever your
Speaker 7: game is, use it to the best of your ability.
Speaker 7: Because at the end of the day, you got it's
Speaker 7: a team sport. You not only got on the field.
Speaker 7: So if you can use your ability and turn that
Speaker 7: into a superpower and all the other guys turn that
Speaker 7: into a superpower, then you know we want to stop
Speaker 7: up with defense.
Speaker 6: I wonder do you want to return punts?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yes, that's been going all right.
Speaker 7: I had some hiccups today, but definitely, you know I'm
Speaker 7: not up on the list. You know we got other
Speaker 7: fast guys, but definitely just want to be back there.
Speaker 7: My number is ever called is no house win?
Speaker 11: You learn you learned some hard lessons. Last year's part
Speaker 11: of the process of getting the europ corning up at
Speaker 11: the end. I know they say you have to have
Speaker 11: a short memory, but in reality, how difficult was that
Speaker 11: to kind of get through that? And do you think
Speaker 11: that those moments actually made you better?
Speaker 6: And I definitely agree it definitely made me better.
Speaker 7: It was a hard pill to swallow, coming from being
Speaker 7: one of the dominant corners in college and just coming
Speaker 7: here and giving up passes, giving up deep giving up
Speaker 7: stuff that I normally do not give up.
Speaker 6: So it was a hard pill to swallow.
Speaker 7: And just looking back on it, I just take those
Speaker 7: examples and teach myself not to do those examples, and
Speaker 7: teach myself to be in a better position.
Speaker 6: Use my hands, use.
Speaker 7: My feet, you know, look at the quarterback read three steps.
Speaker 7: So just taking those and just stacking them and learning
Speaker 7: them and just keep pushing forward.
Speaker 11: So are there things like that happened last year that
Speaker 11: you just know that either weren't happening at the end
Speaker 11: of the year or just won't you know, you just
Speaker 11: be from your knowledge of the game, you know won't
Speaker 11: happen this year.
Speaker 6: Where's the improvement? I guess.
Speaker 11: He gave a blast year that you won't this year.
Speaker 6: What kind of things hang on? We say all day.
Speaker 7: I'm a big critic on myself, but I would say
Speaker 7: far as like just some time, I would say, you know,
Speaker 7: just that you'll play tackling, just coming with a certain levers.
Speaker 7: I know some players, I missed some tackles. I take
Speaker 7: Cleveland game, you know the Joku on the overall, if
Speaker 7: I would have tackled him, it would have been you know,
Speaker 7: we put the defense in a better spot. Just the
Speaker 7: fact that I missed that tackle put us in the
Speaker 7: worst spot. So just tackling, making sure I come with
Speaker 7: the right leverage, making sure I use the hamscreening drills
Speaker 7: that we using out there, and just tackle the best
Speaker 7: way I can.
Speaker 4: So that's one aspect of it.
Speaker 2: And he has always been brutally honest with himself, and
Speaker 2: he's Yes, he was the most targeted corner in the
Speaker 2: NFL last year one hundred and twelve times. Tommy, do
Speaker 2: you suspect that won't be the case until well, I
Speaker 2: guess they might test him until he can prove that
Speaker 2: he can con instantly shut you down, because you look
Speaker 2: at what he did. He had four of his picks
Speaker 2: in the final seven games of the season, and he
Speaker 2: also had seven pass breakups in the final seven games
Speaker 2: of the season. So he's very tough, very physical, but
Speaker 2: you think he'll be less attackable with this.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a double edged sword.
Speaker 3: If the Bears can provide enough pressure on the quarterback
Speaker 3: with a media se they're going to try to get
Speaker 3: the ball out of his hands as quickly as possible.
Speaker 3: And if they feel Cherique Stevenson is the best option
Speaker 3: that they can go at instead of Jalen Johnson are
Speaker 3: one of the safeties, then he may face that challenge
Speaker 3: again early in the season. However, when you're going against
Speaker 3: these types of receivers that are saying such great catchers
Speaker 3: of the football, it makes you become a better coverage
Speaker 3: cornerback because of what these receivers are capable of doing.
Speaker 3: So I think his potential he has still has a
Speaker 3: tremendous upside. John Holk is a great coach for him
Speaker 3: in the early parts of his career, but he's not
Speaker 3: going to be able to do it single handedly if
Speaker 3: there's not pressure on the quarterback from the pass rush.
Speaker 3: So every great cornerback can really talk about the type
Speaker 3: of pass rush that's up there helping him with a
Speaker 3: limited amount of time at the receiver as a chance
Speaker 3: to get open.
Speaker 4: Time for another break. Here on Bears Weekly, when we.
Speaker 2: Come back, we'll hear from Gerald Everett, the Bears new
Speaker 2: tight end coming into a system that he knows offensively,
Speaker 2: his excitement about what's next as well. This is Bears
Speaker 2: Weekly on ESPN one thousand of the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 1: This is Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears
Speaker 1: for twenty three years, Jeff Jonyik on the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 4: Calling all Bears fans.
Speaker 2: You want unforgettable access to see the Bears play at
Speaker 2: Soldier Field this season? Well, BP official ticket packages.
Speaker 4: Are now available for every home game.
Speaker 2: Unlack access to exclusive ticket packages that may include entry
Speaker 2: to in stadium hospitality lounge. You pregame Sideline credentials and
Speaker 2: the Chicago City Pass. Visit Chicago Bears VIP dot comic
Speaker 2: Call eight sixty six two oh two fifty seven to
Speaker 2: fifty five for more information. Again, that's Chicago Bears VIP
Speaker 2: dot Comic Call eight sixty six two O two fifty
Speaker 2: seven to fifty five. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity with
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears VIP Jeff and Tom breaking things down here
Speaker 2: on Bears Weekly. We'll get to Gerald Evert in a
Speaker 2: moment first time for Tom's thoughts, Tom, well, you shared
Speaker 2: some thoughts.
Speaker 4: With me earlier today.
Speaker 2: You feel we should be talking about kicking, kick return
Speaker 2: and punt return game. I do.
Speaker 3: It's it's gonna be such an It's just an enormous
Speaker 3: difference of all the techniques that they've been teaching in
Speaker 3: the NFL for one hundred plus years, and now you
Speaker 3: have such a faster paced play with the blocking schemes
Speaker 3: of guys that they don't do that with regularity. When
Speaker 3: you have defensive guys that are on kickoff return in
Speaker 3: just the fact that they're only five yards apart, it's
Speaker 3: just a whole amazing transition of such a big play.
Speaker 5: And I just say it for reference.
Speaker 3: I was on kickoff return my whole career, and I
Speaker 3: played back in the wedge, so I would line up
Speaker 3: on the twenty five yard line. After the ball was kicked,
Speaker 3: you wanted to make sure you saw it being kicked.
Speaker 3: So you saw it being kicked, and then you dropped
Speaker 3: in a retreat for fifteen yards. You positioned yourself appropriately
Speaker 3: in front of the deepest ball carrier, and then whoever
Speaker 3: you were working with or you had a single block,
Speaker 3: then you started approaching a guy that was maybe twenty
Speaker 3: five yards away, and then you had to make sure
Speaker 3: that you stayed in the right position, you kept the
Speaker 3: right angle on them, and you tried to make sure
Speaker 3: that you could create that scene for kickoff return. Then
Speaker 3: the guys in the front line, they were retreating back
Speaker 3: after the ball was kicked about twenty five to thirty
Speaker 3: five yards and then trying to get in a position
Speaker 3: to make their block. All right, Jeff, throw all the away.
Speaker 3: Whenever you've been calling the Devin Hester returns and all
Speaker 3: the great returners in the history of the NFL, that
Speaker 3: is all forgotten about. Now you have two guys lining
Speaker 3: up five yards away from each other. The ball is
Speaker 3: kicked off, and then by the time the kicker or
Speaker 3: the returner catches the ball, there's not a great deal
Speaker 3: of separation between the first line of tacklers and the
Speaker 3: position the ball is in. So if one of the
Speaker 3: blockers gets beat immediately, it's immediately going to change the
Speaker 3: position and the route of the return. So after we
Speaker 3: finally get a chance, they get into training camp and
Speaker 3: you get to see these eleven on eleven kickoff simulated
Speaker 3: kickoff returns. I've never been more excited about a play
Speaker 3: that's been introduced into.
Speaker 5: The NFL after one hundred years.
Speaker 3: Then kickoff and kickoff Rey and I think it's just
Speaker 3: gonna be amazing, and it's gonna be such a factor
Speaker 3: in some big, big games.
Speaker 2: I just hope that teams just don't take the easy
Speaker 2: way out and just kick it out of the back
Speaker 2: of the end zone and the ball will be at
Speaker 2: the thirty. They'll give up the five yards and put
Speaker 2: their defense on the field.
Speaker 4: I mean they could in the beginning.
Speaker 3: I would have if I was a kickoff coverage I
Speaker 3: would have more faith in a couple of my guys
Speaker 3: being able to defeat an attempted block immediately and make
Speaker 3: a tackle from inside the thirty. Rather than just saying,
Speaker 3: all right, let's kick it into the end zone, let
Speaker 3: them catch it and take it out. I would rather
Speaker 3: challenge that group of ten men that are right there,
Speaker 3: so close to each other in that fighting position, to
Speaker 3: see how that's gonna work out.
Speaker 2: All right, So I would imagine length and strength at
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage. You're looking for, big, big, guys
Speaker 2: with length and speed everywhere else.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me let me rephrase that on
Speaker 2: the coverage unit, speed and size and length A.
Speaker 3: Speed, size, length, escapability. And that's the thing about defenders. Linebackers,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be more used to it because they're usually
Speaker 3: approached and blocking by offensive linemen coming up that four
Speaker 3: yards or running backs, and they know how to get
Speaker 3: in a position where when we call ola, where they
Speaker 3: can just arm over or have immediate escapability and then
Speaker 3: be in an open field ready to tackle or reposition
Speaker 3: the returner. So you know, but then there's gonna be
Speaker 3: offensive players that are gonna have to develop those types
Speaker 3: of skills, just like defensive players that are gonna have
Speaker 3: to develop blocking skills.
Speaker 2: All right, here's one thing that worries me because of
Speaker 2: the safety of the game and the league's constant talking
Speaker 2: about that. That's why the kickoff rules have changed to
Speaker 2: begin with. The first time a prompt a kicker gets
Speaker 2: hurt on a breakaway back, a breakaway returner, he tries
Speaker 2: to be the last line of defense, and you know,
Speaker 2: breaks a leg, tears an acl you know what's it's
Speaker 2: just it's gonna bring a.
Speaker 4: Lot of it. I know where you're going. Don't say it, but.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I mean, these are that's in play.
Speaker 2: Just watching some of these XFL returns, Uh, there was
Speaker 2: a lot of last line defense and it's the kicker.
Speaker 3: So but you know, there's there's gonna be some special
Speaker 3: teams coaches that aren't going to have kickers kicking off. True,
Speaker 3: they're going to have a talented athlete kicking off to
Speaker 3: be a part of.
Speaker 5: The tackling crew.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, remember when Martin Gramatica jumped up to
Speaker 3: celebrate a field goal and he blew his knee out.
Speaker 5: And Tapa Bay.
Speaker 3: Yes, listen, there's always a chance that if you leave
Speaker 3: your feet that you could get hurt. So you know,
Speaker 3: don't worry about the you know, worry about every position player,
Speaker 3: not just the kickers.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: Gerald Everett, new tight end with the Bears, asked today
Speaker 2: what he brings to the offense as we listen.
Speaker 12: In Well, for one playoff experience, I still consider myself young,
Speaker 12: even though I'm thirty years old going in the year eight.
Speaker 12: But we have Marceides in the room, but you know,
Speaker 12: find myself in the middle of the group.
Speaker 6: So we can all learn from each other.
Speaker 12: I mean, I don't think that I'm too good to
Speaker 12: learn or I can't learn from anybody or can't teach anybody.
Speaker 6: I think we all had that good characteristic.
Speaker 12: We're allster students of the game, so I think it'll
Speaker 12: really translate well for us.
Speaker 9: What was most appeeling for you coming to Fairs.
Speaker 12: The potential, I would say the potential for sure, and
Speaker 12: also what they were trying to do and turn it
Speaker 12: existing around one of the ways in which.
Speaker 10: You think you can be a playmaker in the offense.
Speaker 12: The same way as that I've been before, just being
Speaker 12: interchangeable with the receivers and the tight ends and even
Speaker 12: the running back. I mean, I don't think there as
Speaker 12: many titands that's kept doing chet sweeps or catching screens.
Speaker 6: So hopefully to.
Speaker 12: Implement that as well as I did any other year
Speaker 12: that I've been in the league, So I think it'll
Speaker 12: be progressive this year.
Speaker 9: You mentioned that you're thirty, but yeah, in your own
Speaker 9: room and in the league like more than a decade, right.
Speaker 9: What's it been like working with Mercedes?
Speaker 12: Well, it's kind of too soon to say, but I
Speaker 12: met him my rookie year when he's playing in Jacksonville.
Speaker 6: After I scored my first touchdown and I just chopped it.
Speaker 5: Up with him.
Speaker 6: I kind of got some wisdom from him then.
Speaker 12: But to be playing with him now, we're going to
Speaker 12: have a fun year and just off the field stuff
Speaker 12: up to this point is what we've talked about. But
Speaker 12: obviously the guys played almost twenty years, so I'll definitely
Speaker 12: be picking his brain.
Speaker 9: You guys are playing in the NFL at forty.
Speaker 6: I can imagine it. I don't know if I'll do it,
Speaker 6: but I can imagine it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: Now you defensive practices and can you start to see
Speaker 9: what if you and Cole and Keenan and DJ are
Speaker 9: all really good types of things to do the defenses.
Speaker 6: It's scary. It's scary. I'm sure you guys have seen it.
Speaker 12: But even today we get the defensive to look at
Speaker 12: something they probably weren't ready for it. But like I said,
Speaker 12: being interchangeable, even with DJ and Keenan and the guys
Speaker 12: in the receiving room, and we're going to want to
Speaker 12: play all the spots, so whether it be right direction
Speaker 12: or that direction, we're all going to be flying over
Speaker 12: the field.
Speaker 2: What are your early impressions of Caleb and how he's
Speaker 2: handling everything.
Speaker 12: He's a complete pro, I mean from college to now,
Speaker 12: just being able to see him from Afar. Obviously we
Speaker 12: both played in LA last year, but him at the
Speaker 12: amateur level of me at the professional. I kind of
Speaker 12: caught a few of his games, not knowing that he'd
Speaker 12: be my quarterback this season. But I can't say enough
Speaker 12: about him. He's a He's a great guy and even
Speaker 12: better football player.
Speaker 6: So we'll see.
Speaker 9: Surround him with patrons, whether it's you, whether it's Keenan Swift.
Speaker 9: That's that's a pretty unique situation for rookies for sure.
Speaker 12: I don't think it's ever happened in the NFL a
Speaker 12: guy coming into a situation like that, being up rowing overall.
Speaker 12: But I think he's gonna take it, and he's gonna
Speaker 12: roll with the punches and it'll be a great year for.
Speaker 9: Us do a sensible kind of leader. Caleb is gonna
Speaker 9: be on the field, in the room.
Speaker 6: Yet I have a sense of it.
Speaker 12: I can't put my finger on it just yet, but
Speaker 12: he's very vocal and as he's still coming into his
Speaker 12: own as an NFL quarterback in his rookie year, but
Speaker 12: he's not shying away from it. You can tell he's
Speaker 12: doing his confidence day by day.
Speaker 11: Tell is it hard to tell what a quarterback hands?
Speaker 11: I guess what they call the in factor? Do you
Speaker 11: see that? And I mean, of course what I mean
Speaker 11: with a guy like Caleb, it's a big part of
Speaker 11: his game.
Speaker 6: Of course.
Speaker 11: Can you see indications of that?
Speaker 1: Is evident?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 12: For sure, he definitely has that in factor as a
Speaker 12: door at quarterback. He's not afraid to run, and he's
Speaker 12: definitely got the armstrend. So he's shown that from Otia
Speaker 12: so now even while he was trying to grasp the playbooks.
Speaker 12: So to see his confidence build day in and day out,
Speaker 12: it's a sight to see.
Speaker 9: When he does take off and look down field. What
Speaker 9: are you learning about him in terms of how you
Speaker 9: need to get open? You know, beyond just kind of
Speaker 9: your basic scrambled grills.
Speaker 12: I learned that from him last year just catching a
Speaker 12: few of his games at s see, just keeping the
Speaker 12: play alive and keeping his eyes down field. He's got
Speaker 12: great poise and his pocket presence is phenomenal, and I
Speaker 12: don't see why it wouldn't translate to this, to this level.
Speaker 9: That's something that's difficult for a lot of quarterbacks to do,
Speaker 9: is to just still think past even when they're running away.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 12: For sure, some guys happen naturally, some guys have to
Speaker 12: be coaching. But Caleb seems like he naturally has it.
Speaker 12: So I think him being coached by Shane and carry out,
Speaker 12: I don't think. I don't see why he couldn't keep
Speaker 12: going further and further.
Speaker 2: Gerald Evert would know he was coached by Shane Waldron
Speaker 2: as well played with him with the Rams from seventeen
Speaker 2: to twenty in Seattle in twenty one, So with Gerald
Speaker 2: Everett coming aboard Tom, it's really the first time for
Speaker 2: cole Kmet to have a guy with that kind of
Speaker 2: past catching ability lining up next to him. Okay that
Speaker 2: it just adds a dynamic to the passing game. And
Speaker 2: the three years the number two Bears tight end as
Speaker 2: a combined twenty nine catches, So I mean we're talking
Speaker 2: about a big difference. His best season was twenty two
Speaker 2: fifty eight, five point fifty five and four touchdowns for
Speaker 2: Gerald Everett, but what he's done in his career would
Speaker 2: already rank in the top twenty of all time receiving
Speaker 2: in Bears history.
Speaker 5: Well, so I have a couple concerns.
Speaker 3: Gerald Everett is the smallest tight end that the Bears
Speaker 3: have on the roster six three, two forty. I'm glad
Speaker 3: Shane Waldron has some experiences with him because I want
Speaker 3: to see the type of packages they envisioned for Gerald Everett.
Speaker 3: Is it gonna be two of the two tight ends
Speaker 3: and a short yardage and goal line set or is
Speaker 3: that Mercedes Lewis or Steven Carlson or Bates you know,
Speaker 3: the bigger era mix and sweet? Uh? Is it Tommy McSweeney,
Speaker 3: Tommy Sweeney, Tommy Sweeney. So all these guys that they
Speaker 3: have size, are they going to be more competitive blockers
Speaker 3: than Gerald Everett? So I just I'm glad that Shane
Speaker 3: is here because I'm interested to see what type of
Speaker 3: packages are design and designated for his type of skill sets.
Speaker 5: And I think we'll start seeing more of that as
Speaker 5: pads come on.
Speaker 2: All right, our final segment coming up next here on
Speaker 2: Bears Weekly on ESPN one thousand of the Bears Radio.
Speaker 1: Nocus Bears Weekly with a Voice of the Bears for
Speaker 1: twenty three years, Jeff n on the Bears Radio Network.
Speaker 2: This segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you by
Speaker 2: CDW IF a little to get it Jeff and Tom
Speaker 2: at our final moments the Bears on their Twitter page
Speaker 2: at Chicago Bears just posted a video about an hour ago.
Speaker 2: Tommy is a play that I forgot to talk about today.
Speaker 2: It was Caleb Williams rolling to his left, throwing against
Speaker 2: his body and a pinpoint pass to Keenan Allen in
Speaker 2: the end zone and he got himself square enough. But
Speaker 2: it's that armslought in, that unique ability that he has
Speaker 2: to get the ball where it needs to be with
Speaker 2: a spiral on time and easy to catch for a touchdown.
Speaker 4: As a heck of a heck of a play.
Speaker 5: You know it is.
Speaker 3: It's also trusting your balance, because the worst thing a
Speaker 3: quarterback can do is try to throw a difficult style
Speaker 3: of pass and be an off balance and then you
Speaker 3: have a less velocity on it and then you make it,
Speaker 3: you know, almost bait out there for defensive players. If
Speaker 3: you trust your balance and your athleticism and your core,
Speaker 3: you can throw passes like that.
Speaker 2: Well, his feet were not on the ground when he
Speaker 2: threw it out. Yeah, I mean it was something else.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's look at some other topics of conversation
Speaker 2: before we depart and get you up here to I
Speaker 2: know you need a good night's sleep, he as DeAndre
Speaker 2: Swift told us.
Speaker 4: You gotta crank that.
Speaker 2: Radio up a little higher, Oh man, on the way
Speaker 2: here tomorrow morning, I'm gonna have ESPN one thousand playing
Speaker 2: at the loudest level I can possibly hear, and show
Speaker 2: up angry time, show up with a little attitude, get us,
Speaker 2: get us going for the start of the real part
Speaker 2: of football, all right. Jonathan Owens talked today getting ready
Speaker 2: for his trip to Paris here at the end of
Speaker 2: the month with some owned Biles, who's won thirty four
Speaker 2: medals in major competitions, twenty seven World Championships, seven Olympic
Speaker 2: medals and going for her fifth gold. So that's that's
Speaker 2: a fun story for the organization too.
Speaker 5: Now, Oh, it's awesome.
Speaker 3: I'm super happy for him, and I'm glad the Bears
Speaker 3: have given him the respect to the opportunity to go
Speaker 3: there and watch his wife perform. And you see the
Speaker 3: commercials of what her athletic ability is.
Speaker 5: There's nobody in the world that can do it.
Speaker 3: And Jonathan brought that up at the podium and It's
Speaker 3: just amazement and I couldn't imagine being there in supporting
Speaker 3: white family member, whatever the case would be, in that
Speaker 3: talent of a stage.
Speaker 2: Minnesota cornerback Mackay Lackman towards Aco in the first practice
Speaker 2: of training camp awful.
Speaker 3: I feel bad for him, but you know it happens
Speaker 3: every year in football because of the unpredictable body movement
Speaker 3: that you have to put out there.
Speaker 5: And you hope that you did a.
Speaker 3: Lot in that's six weeks off to be in shape
Speaker 3: for whatever you're is going to be.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be challenged with.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the new hairstyle of one Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: who will be here at Bear's training camp before the
Speaker 2: Bengals game in one practice session?
Speaker 5: Love it? You know, anytime that you can, any time
Speaker 5: that you can cut your hair that short, knowing it's
Speaker 5: gonna grow back. I envy that. I wish that I
Speaker 5: could do that.
Speaker 4: He became a blonde.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 3: Well, that's another good fortune of having hair. You can
Speaker 3: do those kind of things and get away with it. Hey, listen, man,
Speaker 3: there's no one that inspired hair News better than Nick
Speaker 3: Mahon back in his days when he would come in
Speaker 3: with mohawks and spiked hair.
Speaker 4: You're right about that. He'll be fun to watch.
Speaker 5: Tom.
Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow up here at Alasau. Thanks for listening, everybody.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Kendrick Smith and Studio for Dan Brilli and
Speaker 2: Jordan Treadup and our special guest DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 4: I'm Jeff Joniyak. Thanks for listening, everybody.
Speaker 2: This has been Bears Weekly on the new radio home
Speaker 2: of the Chicago Bears ESPN Chicago.
Speaker 4: Good Night, everybody. Black and Abdallah are coming up next.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the Chicago Bears Network presentation
Speaker 1: of Bears Weekly, coasted by the Mayor of Bearsville, Jeff
Speaker 1: Juniat and Surfmaster Tom Thayer. Podcasts are available on the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears Official Bears Weekly has been brought to you
Speaker 1: by Apple Podcasts, Bet Rivers, Eye, G G Has Energy,
Speaker 1: and Miller Lite