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Speaker 1: Physical Therapy and CDW. What started with George Floyd's death
Speaker 1: continues with the police shooting of Jacob Blake and Kadosha
Speaker 1: this week, and what continues is the conversation, thoughtful discussion
Speaker 1: by Bears team leaders and a culture of trust created
Speaker 1: by Bears General manager Ryan Pason, head coach Matt Nage,
Speaker 1: with support from the McCaskey family, Virginia McCaskey and Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Board George McCaskey. Good even, everybody, and welcome
Speaker 1: into this week's edition of Bears All Access, brought to
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Speaker 1: Good to be with you from WBM News Radio seven
Speaker 1: eighty and one oh five point nine FMWBB here on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score time it comes
Speaker 1: down to this, It's trust and it's willing to listen.
Speaker 1: So there was listening going on and discussion today. We
Speaker 1: were out there waiting for practice to begin, about five
Speaker 1: minutes before practice, got the sense that they weren't going
Speaker 1: to and the media was asked to leave the facility
Speaker 1: as the players sorted things out, and the communication came
Speaker 1: later in the day. And I'll read that statement from
Speaker 1: the players at this time, in the wake of what
Speaker 1: has taken place in our backyard of Kenosho over the
Speaker 1: last couple of days, we as a team have a
Speaker 1: lot on our mind. Today we decided to pause our
Speaker 1: football activities to voice to each other, our coaches, and
Speaker 1: our staff where we stand on the real issues around
Speaker 1: race and police brutality in our country. We had a
Speaker 1: productive discussion, but we all agreed that talks and discussions
Speaker 1: are simply not enough anymore, and we need action. We
Speaker 1: are putting in plans to take action in our communities,
Speaker 1: and together we believe we can make a real different
Speaker 1: We need action not only today but in the days
Speaker 1: to come. End quote. That's a player's statement. They're standing
Speaker 1: on that statement today, Tom and we'll visit with them
Speaker 1: when the time is right. Yeah, you know, one thing
Speaker 1: about the locker room, Jeff. It's a great sounding board
Speaker 1: for the positives and the negatives in life. And so
Speaker 1: right now we're in the conversation of a lot more
Speaker 1: negatives than we are in the positives that surround this
Speaker 1: locker room and these players. But I think it's really
Speaker 1: important and a conscious effort to keep this conversation alive.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's kind of new to all of
Speaker 1: us because as sports broadcasters for generations or decades, you
Speaker 1: kind of always concentrate on the sport itself. But now,
Speaker 1: for the last four or five months, we've been talking
Speaker 1: a lot a lot more about social issues because of
Speaker 1: the pandemic and the social injustice that's been going on
Speaker 1: that it has turned into a discussion point that we
Speaker 1: have to address. Some of the guests that we have
Speaker 1: had on the show, we talked to them more about
Speaker 1: the social issues than we do about their sports careers. Right,
Speaker 1: this is not how we drew it up. Right when
Speaker 1: we went into this, uh, into this business of of sports,
Speaker 1: which in many respects is a release for many who
Speaker 1: grind it out every day go to work. UH may
Speaker 1: have problems in their life that no one is aware
Speaker 1: of or in our own respective lives, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's the it's the break from the reality of life
Speaker 1: a little bit and the fun and enjoyment of it,
Speaker 1: and and watching some great athletes, UH do their thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's really come to our attention the
Speaker 1: kind of pain that's going on here. And you know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned to you earlier today because I've never really
Speaker 1: talked to you about it. You know, just your ten
Speaker 1: year NFL player, you grew up in Joliet. You've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in your lifetime too. It Joliet
Speaker 1: Catholic and a Notre Dame, your roommates with the late
Speaker 1: Dave Douers and a Notre Dame, and that eighty five
Speaker 1: team as flamboyant and as crazy and as fun and
Speaker 1: as superbly talented as it was, and the years to
Speaker 1: follow and even more successful despite not you know, winning
Speaker 1: the entire thing. You guys had a great bond. It
Speaker 1: was a very tight group, especially that offensive line. I
Speaker 1: asked you, did you discuss these types of things going
Speaker 1: on back in those days as a younger man. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the thing about it is is there was
Speaker 1: discussions about important points, but you usually talk to them
Speaker 1: with your smaller peer groups. We've never had issues in
Speaker 1: that our worldwide concerns that take the whole locker room
Speaker 1: into one topic. Yeah, there has been negotiations that were
Speaker 1: device that could be divisive when we're talking about collective
Speaker 1: bargaining agreement's about going on strike, about the different personality
Speaker 1: clashes you would have, and those type of business discussions
Speaker 1: that were affecting your football life. I would never shy
Speaker 1: away from talking about a topic to any one of
Speaker 1: my teammates. I had so much love and respect for
Speaker 1: every one of them. That was the one thing that
Speaker 1: I always enjoyed about walking into the locker room every morning,
Speaker 1: whether it was seeing the smiling face of William Perry,
Speaker 1: or the seriousness of Mike Singletary, or just the concerns
Speaker 1: of a guy like Gary Fensick. The locker room is
Speaker 1: so diverse, but our locker room was also really close.
Speaker 1: Every one of us cared about each other, And to
Speaker 1: me is when I was playing for the Bears and
Speaker 1: we had a passing of Freddie Washington was a young
Speaker 1: man that had a great future ahead of them. We
Speaker 1: were sitting in the sauna the night before Freddie Washington,
Speaker 1: myself and Terry Price, and we are just talking about
Speaker 1: the events of those guys growing up into their career
Speaker 1: in me being an older player at the time, and
Speaker 1: then walking in the next morning and hearing about the
Speaker 1: death of Freddie Washington in a car accident. It was
Speaker 1: an overwhelming sadness that took that affected the whole locker room,
Speaker 1: and it was a topic of discussion because we were
Speaker 1: trying to trying to help each other heal. It wasn't
Speaker 1: about black or white. It was just about a young
Speaker 1: man who had a beautiful future ahead of him that
Speaker 1: we were concerned about him, about concerned about his family,
Speaker 1: about his friends going forward. And so, yeah, there are
Speaker 1: topics that you don't have time to be aware that
Speaker 1: you don't give a pre awareness of them. You just
Speaker 1: have to take them when you learned it, and I
Speaker 1: learned it as someone from the team telling me, I'm
Speaker 1: going to walk in the locker room that morning. It's
Speaker 1: it's a different topic, but the seriousness of the topics
Speaker 1: that you can put into a conversation form is really important.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that either. I was a young reporter
Speaker 1: and I remember walking up an old Hollis hall, walking
Speaker 1: up the concrete walkway to the practice field, and I
Speaker 1: didn't know what to ask, but you know who the
Speaker 1: first person I walked into, And it may have been
Speaker 1: the only time you ever not get a word, let
Speaker 1: alone something significant from Hall of Famer Mike Singletary. I
Speaker 1: went up to him, I asked him a question. I
Speaker 1: had a microphone in his face. He was speechless. He
Speaker 1: could not say a word. He just stared. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that day. But you know, you talk about what
Speaker 1: they've created in terms of culture and a tight team.
Speaker 1: I think of Eddie Jackson. Eddie Jackson. This was back
Speaker 1: in June, Tom, and I'm assuming your locker room was
Speaker 1: the same way. You guys had the freedom to speak
Speaker 1: your mind, even as tough as Mike Ditko was and
Speaker 1: your coaching staff was on you guys between the White Lions.
Speaker 1: Do you feel you had the freedom to express yourselves?
Speaker 1: Of course, And that was the great thing about the
Speaker 1: locker room, because there were some meetings that were led
Speaker 1: by Mike Singletary that he brought all the players into
Speaker 1: our small meeting room and we sat there, just us
Speaker 1: and having frank conversations about a lot of different events
Speaker 1: that we faced. All Right, here's Eddie from June on
Speaker 1: the support. This was in the aftermath of the George
Speaker 1: Floyd death, when these zoom calls happened during the offseason.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man. One thing I love like, honestly speaking,
Speaker 1: I love about the Bears that you know, we always
Speaker 1: had a support from coach Naggie always, you know, Ryan
Speaker 1: Pace upstairs, mister mccaskie. You know, we always had to support,
Speaker 1: you know, from from them guys. And they always openly,
Speaker 1: you know, opening understanding of about the situation and everything
Speaker 1: that's going on. You know, they're aware of it, and
Speaker 1: you know they don't they don't try to, you know,
Speaker 1: hold us back. You know, they give her the advice,
Speaker 1: they did opinions, but they always like to listen. So
Speaker 1: I feel like that right there was just huge for us.
Speaker 1: And again today he tweeted out quote, I love the
Speaker 1: unity we have as a team, staff and organization and
Speaker 1: those seats planted that's gonna bear fruit for years to come,
Speaker 1: I believe with this team and future teams well, in
Speaker 1: the chances that we've had to be around the Bears.
Speaker 1: In this short training camp, we see the seriousness of
Speaker 1: the management taking care of the players, each and every
Speaker 1: one of them, they've created a safe haven for them
Speaker 1: to come to work and feel that they're walking into
Speaker 1: a safe working environment. That's just part of the issues.
Speaker 1: Now you have the issues of the social injustice that
Speaker 1: they have talked about in regular conversations. And yes, you
Speaker 1: do learn a lot about Matt Naggie because as the
Speaker 1: experiences he doesn't have in running a training camp through
Speaker 1: in a COVID situations, we all don't have a great
Speaker 1: deal of experience talking to our teammates about the issues
Speaker 1: that are going on. But I don't think to a
Speaker 1: man inside that locker room from George McCaskey out from
Speaker 1: Virginia McCaskey on down, nobody shies away from the difficulty
Speaker 1: and the healing that these discussions can have. And when
Speaker 1: those discussions began back then, which seems so long ago,
Speaker 1: but it really isn't. Matt Naggie was doing it on
Speaker 1: zoom calls where you have open discussions but you're not
Speaker 1: actually seeing facial reactions body language. And he brought that
Speaker 1: up this week when asked now about matters like the
Speaker 1: Kenosha situation and how he reads his team. Is it
Speaker 1: a better communicating aspect of his jab it's definitely different,
Speaker 1: just because you can see the second by second headshakes,
Speaker 1: you know, or you know, understanding and agreeing, and if
Speaker 1: anybody wants to talk, they don't have to hit the spacebar.
Speaker 1: So that part's good. And I think all in all,
Speaker 1: with our team going through this before and now be
Speaker 1: unable to understand, how do we react to it now
Speaker 1: and how do we do it together? And just knowing
Speaker 1: too that there's we're we're here. We're all here to listen.
Speaker 1: Every one of us is here to listen. And keep
Speaker 1: that word love, don't talk, don't don't just say that
Speaker 1: when things are going on. Continue to use the word
Speaker 1: love every single day with all of us. And for
Speaker 1: our guys, we're a very mature team. They get that.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought we handled it really well. It was,
Speaker 1: and so they're they're responding really well to all this,
Speaker 1: all this stuff that goes on well. So they chose
Speaker 1: as a team not to practice today. They met as
Speaker 1: a team. I believe that there's just extreme frustration with
Speaker 1: the ongoing racial injustice in the communities where they come from.
Speaker 1: In many cases around the national footballitic sports in general,
Speaker 1: it's it's not always the greatest situations, and they've lived
Speaker 1: it and they've felt it, and we've all heard it
Speaker 1: from our own friends in the business, our scouts, coaches
Speaker 1: that we've known over these past thirty years. Tom, and
Speaker 1: you throught your NFL career in your college career, but
Speaker 1: there's an urgency right now to do more and and
Speaker 1: understanding that it's it's going to take some time because
Speaker 1: the first question you ask, I'm saying you just in
Speaker 1: generic terms, not you specifically, but while you got this
Speaker 1: moment of awakening going on on the sports landscape, landscape,
Speaker 1: what are you What are you gonna do? What are
Speaker 1: you going to do? And that's that's the big question now,
Speaker 1: and that's what the players. They want it. They want
Speaker 1: it now, they like they these these folks want these
Speaker 1: changes to be implemented, and they all know it's going
Speaker 1: to take some time. Yeah, but when guys like Charles
Speaker 1: lel Ju and your and tree Calling they talk about
Speaker 1: getting Moller involved in their community, that's what they can
Speaker 1: do because they have such a strong voice outside the
Speaker 1: locker room. When these young people get a chance to
Speaker 1: see a three hundred and fifteen pound Charles Leno and
Speaker 1: he's bigger than life and then they will listen to
Speaker 1: the message that's coming out of them and see if
Speaker 1: you can start a healing process, if you can start
Speaker 1: a conversation about somebody that you affect outside the locker room.
Speaker 1: That's what these players can do. Each and every one
Speaker 1: of them have a platform to speak on, and sometimes
Speaker 1: their message can get into the minds of some of
Speaker 1: these young people easier than your parents can. So I
Speaker 1: do think that they accept the importance of their role,
Speaker 1: their position, and their opportunities, and I think they'll all
Speaker 1: use it to the best of their abilities. First step
Speaker 1: in the process is underway. They want to help. That
Speaker 1: road is starting to get paved right now. Tree today
Speaker 1: tweeting together we are inseparable, David Montgomery alone, we are nothing. Together,
Speaker 1: we are everything. We're gonna step away. We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from Charles Leno Jr. Busters Screen, and Tari Cohen from
Speaker 1: their Zoom calls over the course of this week, not
Speaker 1: only about what's going on with our society, but also
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little football tonight as well. We're
Speaker 1: also we'll be joined by Detroit Lions radio play by
Speaker 1: play man Dan Miller, who was kind enough to join
Speaker 1: us and we'll be joining him coming up at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. This is Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back, everybody
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Speaker 1: With Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac. Good to be with
Speaker 1: you again. Bottom of the hour, Dan Miller, voice of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, would join us as many tea and
Speaker 1: the Lions kind of started the ball rolling at least,
Speaker 1: you know, and even when you look at it from
Speaker 1: a broader sense, they canceled their practice today. The Jets,
Speaker 1: the Colts, the Packers, the Watching and Redskins. I know
Speaker 1: I'm missing a few few teams, you know. You look
Speaker 1: at Tom two weeks from tonight, the first game Texans
Speaker 1: are going to be going through a scrimmage tonight as
Speaker 1: they get ready, you know, for the season, because that
Speaker 1: is also on everybody's mind, getting started, and also trying
Speaker 1: to balance that with what's going on with their own
Speaker 1: emotions from what they've lived through in their lives and
Speaker 1: the color of their skin. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: you got the COVID pandemic and that's still top of
Speaker 1: mind and today word that. As of right now, there
Speaker 1: is one player in the entire National Football League on
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen reserve list. It's Jaguars tackle Ryan Pope
Speaker 1: with a season to kick off two weeks from tonight.
Speaker 1: Knock on wood. That aspect of things, everybody stays safe
Speaker 1: and everybody's able to pull this off and play football
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Yeah, But you know, during this heart
Speaker 1: these difficult times, and I don't want to say this calsely,
Speaker 1: but it is a relief at when these guys go
Speaker 1: into the building because they are going in there with
Speaker 1: their closest of peers. They're going into an environment that
Speaker 1: Ryan Pace and the whole staff there work to provide
Speaker 1: the safest, most confident working atmosphere they can walk into.
Speaker 1: But now different this year is they're giving an opportunity
Speaker 1: if the work isn't necessarily going to be done on
Speaker 1: the field, it can be done in the meeting rooms.
Speaker 1: That can be done in the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: If they're having a team meeting. And I think that
Speaker 1: when Matt Nagee started this whole message, he said it's
Speaker 1: about listening in love, and I don't think he's ever
Speaker 1: wavered from that one instant. And I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the players and you look at the team
Speaker 1: development from day one to where they're at as of
Speaker 1: yet yesterday, this is a group that's working together according
Speaker 1: to the plan the Bears that have put in place
Speaker 1: for them to get ready for that first football game.
Speaker 1: But now they have some other extremely important issues that listen.
Speaker 1: You can't ignore them. You got to talk about them.
Speaker 1: You have to have everybody there sharing and understanding. That
Speaker 1: isn't about the listening and the love concept. See, sometimes
Speaker 1: we get sucked into this because we're only looking at
Speaker 1: the player and the athlete. We're not looking at that
Speaker 1: player who goes home to his wife or to his family,
Speaker 1: to his kids. He talks to his mom, his dad,
Speaker 1: his grandparents, as aunts, its uncles, from the communities they're
Speaker 1: all coming from, and the amount of pain and their
Speaker 1: stress that they're also absorbing with that while trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, carve out their NFL career, which is a
Speaker 1: small piece of their life in the bigger picture in
Speaker 1: terms of time invested. I mean it's it's it's quite
Speaker 1: the balancing act going on right now. And then and
Speaker 1: then the safety issue, so that has been cleared up.
Speaker 1: Bears have done a great job with their protocols, and
Speaker 1: Charles little Junior, feels comfortable and that's why he's showing
Speaker 1: up and going to work every day. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: one thing. Let's start from the top. We got an
Speaker 1: owner it in Regimaccassie Chairman George mccaski, who is committed
Speaker 1: to making sure our families are safe. And then you
Speaker 1: go down to that, let's go beneath that, a's Ryan
Speaker 1: Pace and Matt Naggi, who are all about family and
Speaker 1: making sure we're safe. And then I'm gonna ended off
Speaker 1: with the ico, Andre Tucker. This guy has done a
Speaker 1: phenomenal job with all the things that he's implemented within
Speaker 1: our organization. I think we have one of the if
Speaker 1: not the best organization when it comes to a mitigating risk.
Speaker 1: You know, precaution procedures, all the different type of steps
Speaker 1: to take for me to go home to my family
Speaker 1: and my newborn and understand like, oh, we're safe. I
Speaker 1: trust these guys and that's the infectious control officer and
Speaker 1: head athletic trainer Andre Tucker whom Charles was referring to.
Speaker 1: But you know, I was concerned when it started, when
Speaker 1: camp started and we were going to start watching and
Speaker 1: the media wasn't by I started watching Padi Pratt, I
Speaker 1: didn't know how players we're gonna feel, and you could
Speaker 1: get a real good feeling from what might be going
Speaker 1: through their head by how they were practicing, or how
Speaker 1: they were interacting with teammates or did it look different,
Speaker 1: But it did not. It looked normal. They had the
Speaker 1: enthusiasm and the energy and the juice and they had
Speaker 1: been fun practices to watch. Well, you know, Jeff, when
Speaker 1: we walked into the facility back in the eighties, we
Speaker 1: were excluded from the outside world because we didn't have
Speaker 1: social media, we didn't have cell phone, we had no
Speaker 1: way of communicating with the outside world. So when we
Speaker 1: walked into Hollis Hall, that was it until we left
Speaker 1: the building. Nowadays, it's different. You can contact the outside
Speaker 1: world constantly by your cell phone. But Arles Leno, he
Speaker 1: talks about how the Bears made sure that it was
Speaker 1: family first, and I do believe that if they know
Speaker 1: that the Bears, the organization is concerned about family first.
Speaker 1: When they do go out to that practice field, they
Speaker 1: have peace of mind. Okay, this next two and a
Speaker 1: half hours, I can concentrate on the reason I'm here,
Speaker 1: and that's to make myself a better football player than
Speaker 1: when I walk down the field because I know my
Speaker 1: family is safe. Then you go back into the building,
Speaker 1: then you get your cell phone, then you start being
Speaker 1: aware of what's going on. But when Charles talks about
Speaker 1: their main concern is making sure your family is safe.
Speaker 1: I think that's important for these players that when they
Speaker 1: do get on the field that they have work on
Speaker 1: their mind. And Matt Neeggie has repeatedly made that statement.
Speaker 1: They will be top of mind. The safety of the
Speaker 1: players and their families will be top of mind because
Speaker 1: they do have to go home. They have to go
Speaker 1: home to their wife and kids and be sure that
Speaker 1: they're not bringing it into the home and vice versa.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a it's a contract, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a verbal contract of trust. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: though on a normal year outside the pandemic, players really
Speaker 1: they don't have a great time to socialize during the
Speaker 1: course of training camp. You're too fatigued, You're too you know,
Speaker 1: um tired from all the events throughout the day. You
Speaker 1: have studying to do once you leave the building. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things on the football side of
Speaker 1: it that have to occupy your mind and attention. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, it is it is about the health and
Speaker 1: safety of their families and the players stuck the little trick.
Speaker 1: Cohen his reaction this week to the Kenosha shooting and
Speaker 1: how it was handled by Matt Nagge. The situation, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you would think, you know, with all the
Speaker 1: notoriety that in attention that it's been getting, you know,
Speaker 1: police brutality, you would think it was slow down a
Speaker 1: little bit and not still be a main topic every
Speaker 1: day when you wake up and see it on the news.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's crazy that we still see those
Speaker 1: same things happening today in today's world. But it's great
Speaker 1: to be on the team who you know openly speaks
Speaker 1: about that and uh, you know, we we have open
Speaker 1: conversations about everything that happens around us, and with that
Speaker 1: being so close, it was definitely a topic today and uh,
Speaker 1: coach Nay know, Coach Nay made it known that we
Speaker 1: all have each other's backs and the way we're going
Speaker 1: to carry ourselves about any situation that happens now Now,
Speaker 1: Terrek mentioned today that, of course, was a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago on a Zoom call we heard Terik Cohen,
Speaker 1: who you know, it's now a veteran. He's trying to
Speaker 1: be one of the leaders in that running back room,
Speaker 1: and he sounded like one this week. Yeah, he does.
Speaker 1: I am really impressed by Terie Cohen because from the
Speaker 1: few times that we've had an opportunity to do personal
Speaker 1: appearances with him, but the times you see him sit
Speaker 1: in front of the at the podium during difficult times
Speaker 1: during the course of last season, or him moved being forward.
Speaker 1: He is a guy that's growing nicely and he's matured.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he understands what he's saying in the
Speaker 1: message that he's delivering. And I really when I see
Speaker 1: these young men grow in front of the microphone, I'm
Speaker 1: really encouraged by the influences they have around him that's
Speaker 1: helping him grow in a positive direction. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you also got to give credit to Ryan and Matt
Speaker 1: about that, because they want to grow leaders. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be one offensive guy, one defensive guy, your quarterback,
Speaker 1: your star defensive player or whatever. And so I believe
Speaker 1: every other day there's somebody else that's emerging as a
Speaker 1: potential leader on this football team, which you know, you
Speaker 1: never could have too many. As they work together and
Speaker 1: they listen, they meet, they visit, they talk with coach Naggy.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of leaders on this football team. You
Speaker 1: don't have a true like Alpha that's running the whole show.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys. I'm doing it without saying much,
Speaker 1: just by the way they operate, right. You know, guys
Speaker 1: feel a little bit more confident showing their leadership role
Speaker 1: as they grow into their potential. For example, if you
Speaker 1: look in this year's training camp, I'm gonna take a
Speaker 1: guy like Javon Wims because here's a guy that for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years we've seen that six four
Speaker 1: frame run fluidly down the field and make these big catches.
Speaker 1: But because of we see the talent that he has,
Speaker 1: we need to see that with consistency, and we've seen
Speaker 1: it this year. We've seen him have a camp and
Speaker 1: then he starts elevating his leadership role on the team. Okay,
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson is going to miss a few practices. Someone's
Speaker 1: got to step up to the front of the line.
Speaker 1: And it has ben Javon Wims. And so for me
Speaker 1: looking at former teammates that have grown in that direction,
Speaker 1: I like it when I'm from the outside and I
Speaker 1: have observations from the outside and watching players like this,
Speaker 1: and he's just one example of many. But again, I
Speaker 1: love to see the growth of these guys into a
Speaker 1: leadership role that they grow also grow into their potential.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to Charles Little Junior as
Speaker 1: he also has thoughts on Kenoshan what he'd like to do.
Speaker 1: You know, me personally just trying to you know, heal
Speaker 1: with the community. I'm going to see what we can
Speaker 1: do with our you know, PR and cr staff and
Speaker 1: how we can you know, help that community because they're
Speaker 1: so close to us. Honestly, this is this has been
Speaker 1: a problem, and we know it's been a problem, but
Speaker 1: we just need more awareness and spread more awareness, and
Speaker 1: within that awareness also spread compassion and understanding for others.
Speaker 1: Um I think does one of the biggest things and
Speaker 1: what that will come love and we need more of
Speaker 1: that in this world. And also I just believe. Please
Speaker 1: training too. Um, I don't know how many hours those
Speaker 1: guys do, but I know we train a lot on
Speaker 1: the football field. I think they need a little bit
Speaker 1: more because they're dealing with lives and they're handling lives
Speaker 1: and every single life is precious. That's the Oakland, California
Speaker 1: native Charles Little Junior. So again, those are some ideas
Speaker 1: they're coming up with conversation, and that's what's got to
Speaker 1: happen right now. Well, you know, Charles was a young
Speaker 1: man with a young family and he's got a great
Speaker 1: future ahead of him and that part of his life
Speaker 1: and so yeah, he has to think outside the box.
Speaker 1: He has to think outside the white lines of a
Speaker 1: football field, and he's got to think about his future
Speaker 1: and his family's future. So Charles is a well level headed,
Speaker 1: thinking young man and he's another guy that we've seen
Speaker 1: him grow into his potential and he's got he's got
Speaker 1: a great upside ahead of him. All right, time to
Speaker 1: tap away and take a break. When we return, we'll
Speaker 1: be joined by Detroit Lions play by play announcer Dan
Speaker 1: Miller to talk about his team up there that the
Speaker 1: Bears will be facing on this thirteenth of September for
Speaker 1: Week one Bears and Lions first to break here in
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Speaker 1: seventy The Score, brought to you by IGS Energy. Welcome
Speaker 1: Dan Miller, voice of the Detroit Lions, and Dan, good
Speaker 1: to have you on the show. It's been it's been
Speaker 1: quite the year, let alone quite the week, and the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions kind of set the tone arguably for all
Speaker 1: of sports by canceling practice this week in light of
Speaker 1: the shooting in Keno show, which is just thirty miles
Speaker 1: away from the Bears main facility at HALLISAU, So it's
Speaker 1: resonating throughout the Midwest here. Yeah, no, appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: having me, and it's been a really powerful week, and
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I'll tell you this really dates back
Speaker 1: to the off season where the Lions started to as
Speaker 1: a team discuss what was going on around the country.
Speaker 1: The social injustice, the issues between black men and police,
Speaker 1: black women and police, and I think it's really been
Speaker 1: mappetriction that set the tone, but there's there's been connections
Speaker 1: that have been hard to miss and they've had to
Speaker 1: really look at them closely. The lines of a number
Speaker 1: of players from Brunswick, Georgia, where the Matt Arebury was from,
Speaker 1: and Tracy Walker is cousins with a mott Arebury. Justin
Speaker 1: Coleman's brother was best best friends with a mott Arbury.
Speaker 1: So these were real life situations for them and life
Speaker 1: and death situations for them, and this hit home with them.
Speaker 1: And Darius slay with he was here, was from Brunswick, Georgia,
Speaker 1: so it was something that really meant a lot in
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia really just opened the Florida in the off
Speaker 1: season and allowed the players to talk, vent their feelings,
Speaker 1: talk about their experiences and just put football aside and
Speaker 1: talk about life. That's set the tone where I think
Speaker 1: Tuesday he did the same thing, turned into a four
Speaker 1: hour conversation, emotional conversation where they just at the end
Speaker 1: of it, I think said, you know what, football practice
Speaker 1: isn't happening today. This is about us trying to bring
Speaker 1: about change, and I think that's the end product you saw, Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: When you have issues like this that are presented in
Speaker 1: a locker room atmosphere, who is the leader of that
Speaker 1: locker room that will instigate the conversation. I think it's
Speaker 1: I know by locker room you mean players, but I
Speaker 1: think you have to give matt Patricia a lout of
Speaker 1: the credit because he is the one that has given
Speaker 1: them the room to do this. He is the one
Speaker 1: that has said, fella's, I'm just going to sit back
Speaker 1: and listen, and I want you to talk. And then
Speaker 1: one after the other they did that, and I think
Speaker 1: within that locker room, I think i'd do a couple
Speaker 1: of guys out there. Dron Harmon is one just came
Speaker 1: over from the Patriots, but he was the first one
Speaker 1: that spoke the other day after the Lions cancel practice,
Speaker 1: and he was very powerful and very pointed in what
Speaker 1: he wanted to say and how he wanted to represent
Speaker 1: the actions taken by the team that day. He did
Speaker 1: the same thing during the offseason very quickly. He's become
Speaker 1: a leader on this team. I think Matthew Stafford and
Speaker 1: Taylor Decker have also been leaders, but I think I
Speaker 1: have to say this. Some of the most powerful testimony,
Speaker 1: if you will, that I have heard in these guys
Speaker 1: talking about it has been from those two and Frank
Speaker 1: rag Now as well, talking about listening to their black
Speaker 1: teammates and where you would think that these guys, as
Speaker 1: professional athletes were leading parallel lives them coming to the
Speaker 1: understanding that that's not the case at all. And Decker
Speaker 1: told a story about the other night he was driving
Speaker 1: home and Romeo o'quara called him up and said, hey, budd,
Speaker 1: you got a headlight out, and him realizing after conversations
Speaker 1: with others, that that experience for him, had he gotten
Speaker 1: pulled over, might be much different than it might be
Speaker 1: for a black teammate. I don't want to intimate that
Speaker 1: every experience that a black man has with the police
Speaker 1: officer ends up bad, but it is on their radar,
Speaker 1: and it is something that has impacted them, and it
Speaker 1: is something that they think about it and it is
Speaker 1: something that they have talked about and as a team.
Speaker 1: I think it's just been a real bonding experience, and
Speaker 1: so many people that have not lived with that on
Speaker 1: their mind or on their family's mind, it has been
Speaker 1: I think an eye opening experience. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: Matt Maggie is a young head coach and throughout the
Speaker 1: topics of the offseason, you're kind of introduced to a
Speaker 1: different side of him outside the world of sports. Have
Speaker 1: you guys been introduced to a different side of Matt
Speaker 1: Patricia because we only see Matt Patricia from afar, whether
Speaker 1: it's success in New England or what he's gone through
Speaker 1: in Detroit as a coach, have you been introduced to
Speaker 1: a different side of his personality? I think it's a
Speaker 1: great question the answers yes, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different levels to it and a lot of
Speaker 1: different layers to it, if you will. I think that
Speaker 1: I've seen change in him as a head coach period
Speaker 1: over the three years in the way that he has
Speaker 1: handled his job. But I think this has even magnified
Speaker 1: it more so when he has really bonded with players
Speaker 1: in allowing them to talk about their life experiences and
Speaker 1: bring those into the family to help bring them closer
Speaker 1: together so that everybody understands what each of them are
Speaker 1: dealing with. So it really starts with Patricia, but it
Speaker 1: has to start with him being willing to do this
Speaker 1: and to put football aside, which isn't always easy for
Speaker 1: a coach to do. But he's done that, and I
Speaker 1: think the players appreciate that great they they've said how
Speaker 1: much they appreciate it, and I think it's real and
Speaker 1: I do think it has brought this team closer together.
Speaker 1: And how does that translate on Sunday. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but right now that's not front of mine for them,
Speaker 1: and I think right now it is about football, but
Speaker 1: it's also about life. Dan Miller, our guest voice of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lyons is broadcast partner is Lomas Brown, familiar
Speaker 1: to Bears fans because he had some real wars with
Speaker 1: Richard Dentz and that was always one of the best
Speaker 1: mandshups in the division that at once amount of time
Speaker 1: was the Black and Blue Division. But a black man
Speaker 1: from Miami and your partner prior to all this and
Speaker 1: during this, what were your conversations like with each other?
Speaker 1: And have you learned more about your broadcast partner through
Speaker 1: through what's going on throughout America right now? Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no question I have. And you know, we did have
Speaker 1: some conversations before this, but they were not in depth.
Speaker 1: And you know, you have conversations about how life is
Speaker 1: different for you know, him is compared to me, But
Speaker 1: nothing illuminated it like the way the last seventy two
Speaker 1: hours has. And we talked at practice the other days
Speaker 1: and then we talked on the radio show that we
Speaker 1: do the other day about this, and Lomas is a
Speaker 1: father and a grandfather, and he was really moved by
Speaker 1: what these players did within the organization that he loved
Speaker 1: in the organization that drafted him and that he played for.
Speaker 1: It meant a lot to him the coach Patricia would
Speaker 1: do that. It meant a lot to him that these
Speaker 1: players would do that visibly moved emotional when talking about
Speaker 1: what had been done by this organization. And you know
Speaker 1: when I asked him about it, he did bring up
Speaker 1: what I mentioned a moment ago. Look, he's a black man,
Speaker 1: he's a father and a grandfather, and he worries about
Speaker 1: there was a time he worried about himself. So worries
Speaker 1: about his children, worries about his grandchildren, and wants voices
Speaker 1: to be heard and some sort of coming together of
Speaker 1: people that can try to eliminate some of this so
Speaker 1: that these aren't concerns. And you know, I hear people
Speaker 1: say all the time, all these guys are rich, what
Speaker 1: they have to worry about. Listen to these players talk.
Speaker 1: They might have nice houses, but there are nights where
Speaker 1: they worry about getting home to those houses. And I
Speaker 1: think we have to respect that. And I know the
Speaker 1: people out there there listening that are just going to
Speaker 1: wave their hand and say, Matt, forget it whatever, But
Speaker 1: I've heard them. I believe them, and I appreciate the
Speaker 1: fact that that the Lions, the Bears, other teams, other
Speaker 1: leagues are trying to make this a better world. And
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. I think that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. Hey damn, So before Tuesday and Detroit
Speaker 1: Canceler practice, how was the process in the development of
Speaker 1: the football team this year? Given that this offseason has
Speaker 1: been like any other that any of us have ever seen.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's funny. You're right, it's it's
Speaker 1: been strange. It's been unlike anything that we've been through before.
Speaker 1: It's it's hard to get a gauge on where they
Speaker 1: are because we didn't see the offseason practices. We're not
Speaker 1: seeing any preseason games where they go against somebody else.
Speaker 1: But what I would say is I don't think that
Speaker 1: my questions or what I feel good about and what
Speaker 1: I have concerned about with this team have changed. I
Speaker 1: think I have to have a chance to be really
Speaker 1: good offensively with a healthy Matthew Stafford and the pieces
Speaker 1: that they've added and the guys that have come back
Speaker 1: healthy like t J. Hockinson. I think my concern is
Speaker 1: the defense, which was a concern last year where they
Speaker 1: couldn't come up with stops, they didn't pressure quarterbacks, they
Speaker 1: didn't come up with takeaways. They have to get better
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. I really believe that's
Speaker 1: the key for this team. If you take me to
Speaker 1: the end of the season, then show me the stats
Speaker 1: and you tell me this defense was thirtieth in the
Speaker 1: league again or something like that, they're going to be
Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble. If you tell me that
Speaker 1: they can get up into the middle of the league,
Speaker 1: I would tell you with what I think this offense
Speaker 1: is going to be that I think they can be
Speaker 1: a factor in this division and a pretty good team.
Speaker 1: So it's hard guys to get a gauge on where
Speaker 1: they are. They could have up with the six new
Speaker 1: starters on the defensive side of the ball. So when
Speaker 1: we take the field against you guys on the thirteen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna learn something about this football team. I don't
Speaker 1: know right now, and I'm looking forward to seeing it. Well,
Speaker 1: I tell you already learned that Kenny Galladay is a
Speaker 1: star rising. Can he be that next great receiver in
Speaker 1: the National Football League? He's something else. I don't see
Speaker 1: anything that prevents that. There's so many good receivers in
Speaker 1: this league right now. I don't know how you separate
Speaker 1: yourself from the pack. I think you just get up
Speaker 1: in the pack and you're one of them, because it's really,
Speaker 1: I think a high water mark for the guys we
Speaker 1: have in this league. But Kenny's in there. He's really good.
Speaker 1: He's a big bodied guy who knows how to get separation,
Speaker 1: catches the ball in traff and he can run around who.
Speaker 1: He can run by you, he can run through you.
Speaker 1: There's really nothing he can't do. And he's just gotten
Speaker 1: better and better and better. And I think you know
Speaker 1: when you look at the weapons around him with Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones is a terrific deep threat, so you really can't
Speaker 1: slap the field just to Kenny's side. Danny Amendola is
Speaker 1: just a heady, smart player and a great safety val
Speaker 1: for Stafford. They're hoping Hopkinson takes the next step this year.
Speaker 1: Kerry On Johnson is back in healthy. DeAndre Swift they drafted,
Speaker 1: is terrific college talent and you hope that just translate
Speaker 1: to the NFL. So there's so much around him that
Speaker 1: I think it opens things up for Kenny. It's hard
Speaker 1: to just concentrate on him, but he is a guy
Speaker 1: that's certainly I think defensive coordinators probably, you know, lay
Speaker 1: in bed a little bit and think about how we're
Speaker 1: going to deal with this guy. Hey, Dan, if Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford's healthy, you have one of the most stable quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL. What is your view of the outside
Speaker 1: looking in and a team that's going through a quarterback
Speaker 1: competition like the Bears. Yeah, I think that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of my question with them. I think that, and you
Speaker 1: know what has the middle of that defensive line without
Speaker 1: Goldman That obviously, you know, to lose an impactful player
Speaker 1: like that is significant. But I think my question, look,
Speaker 1: every time we play the Bears, you know it's going
Speaker 1: to be tough, and it doesn't seem to matter really
Speaker 1: who's wearing that uniform. There's a toughness that seems to
Speaker 1: permeate from that that whatever they're doing over there that
Speaker 1: travels with them regardless. So I anticipate a tough, hard
Speaker 1: nosed game. The question would be, you know, is it
Speaker 1: what's going to happen at quarterback? And I haven't followed
Speaker 1: closely enough to know what's going on in camp between
Speaker 1: Poles and Robisky, but to me, that's really where it
Speaker 1: starts with Chicago is how's that offense going to look?
Speaker 1: Are they going to be balanced? Can they run the ball,
Speaker 1: can they throw the ball? Can they be effective? And
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I would kind of throw guys
Speaker 1: the Lions and the Bears kind of together and say
Speaker 1: there's questions there, but I think also great possibilities. I think,
Speaker 1: if you're being fair, you look at Minnesota and you
Speaker 1: look at Green Bay and you say those are probably
Speaker 1: the teams to beat, and they have less questions to answer.
Speaker 1: But I really believe that you could drop me in
Speaker 1: December right now and tell me that any one of
Speaker 1: these four teams is leading or contending in this division,
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't shock me because I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talent in the NFC and Earth right now agreed.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if we'll see you up at
Speaker 1: Fort Field in a couple of weeks. That's yet to
Speaker 1: be determined. But it's going to be an interesting challenge
Speaker 1: for us as broadcasters and how we strike the right
Speaker 1: tone and given the environment that is currently in place
Speaker 1: around this nation right now and pandemic asite, it's just
Speaker 1: been quite the roller coaster ride. But as they all say,
Speaker 1: adapt and overcome, right, Big Dan, hey man, looking forward
Speaker 1: to those three hours on the Sunday. And you know,
Speaker 1: either way, as you said, we got, we're probably going
Speaker 1: to be doing our jobs in a different way this year.
Speaker 1: But I know you guys feel like I do. You know,
Speaker 1: there's very few people to get to go to work
Speaker 1: and do what we do, so we're blessed to do it.
Speaker 1: So as you said, adapt and overcome, let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: We owe those people the three hours that we give
Speaker 1: them on Sundays, and I'm looking forward to doing it.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan, good to talk to you. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Have a good guys, Appreciate it. He mailer,
Speaker 1: voice of the Detroit Lions. We'll continue after this break
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Hey Bears fans,
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Speaker 1: of conversation regarding all topics. We're going to dig into
Speaker 1: football in a minute. If you're just joining us. The
Speaker 1: Bears did not practice today as a team. They met,
Speaker 1: they decided this was a time to hit the pause
Speaker 1: button a little bit, and they put together a statement,
Speaker 1: a player's statement. I'll reread it. I read it at
Speaker 1: the top of the show at seven o'clock. In the
Speaker 1: wake of what has taken place our backyard of Kenosho
Speaker 1: over the last couple of days, we as a team
Speaker 1: have a lot on our mind. Today we decided to
Speaker 1: pause our football activities to foist to each other, our
Speaker 1: coaches and our staff where we stand on the real
Speaker 1: issues around race and police brutality in our country. We
Speaker 1: had a productive discussion, but we all agree that talks
Speaker 1: and discussions are simply not enough anymore, and we need action.
Speaker 1: We are putting in plans to take action in our
Speaker 1: communities and together we believe we can make a real difference.
Speaker 1: We need action not only today but in the days
Speaker 1: to come, So big tim there. With that being said,
Speaker 1: let's talk about what we've seen. A training camp so
Speaker 1: far hit in some topics, especially this week. So the
Speaker 1: news with the obviously David Montgomery, it scared you a
Speaker 1: little bit about you know, what was wrong, But as
Speaker 1: a groin injury, it looks like a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: to four weeks, we'll see maybe he's even ready for
Speaker 1: the Detroit game. The cornerback position when Artie Burns went
Speaker 1: down that this opens the door for some real competition
Speaker 1: between a young player with some NFL experience and a
Speaker 1: rookie and Jalen Johnson. And when your eyeball in that
Speaker 1: Week one matchup against Gala Day, as we discussed with
Speaker 1: Dan Miller of the Lions Radio, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: very interesting decision who starts at that right cornerback position
Speaker 1: A week one because buster screens in the conversation too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know a buster screen. He's always your ace in
Speaker 1: the hole because he has the ability to do anything
Speaker 1: the team needs him to do, and that's playing insight
Speaker 1: over the slot or the outside cornerback position. He's got
Speaker 1: the versatility to move around and I think the Bears
Speaker 1: can benefit from there. But one of the players that
Speaker 1: I really like watching throughout training camp because to me,
Speaker 1: the highest expectations you can put on a player on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball is cornerback because they
Speaker 1: can be island. They can be isolated where they can say, okay, kid,
Speaker 1: either you can play or you can you can run,
Speaker 1: you can react, you can know your assignments, or it's
Speaker 1: a really difficult position to play. I love what I
Speaker 1: see out of Jayalen Johnson, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: get too overhyped about him, but when I look at
Speaker 1: the traits of a cornerback, he is lengthy, he can
Speaker 1: use his arm in a separation at or near the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. His hips are really flexible where he
Speaker 1: can turn and run in any direction. But the one
Speaker 1: thing that I like most about Jalen Johnson that really
Speaker 1: catches my attention. He reacts away from the ball. So
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is if they throw to a different receiver,
Speaker 1: whether it's underneath him or to the opposite side of
Speaker 1: the field, he's on his way to help make the tackle.
Speaker 1: He never just stands around. And it's really encouraging to
Speaker 1: see because he really has high football intelligence because he
Speaker 1: was fed a lot of information quickly. When you when
Speaker 1: you finally start understanding what you have to learn to
Speaker 1: be a part of a defense, and so if you're
Speaker 1: out there and you're right up to par in terms
Speaker 1: of the intelligence side of it, the athletic side of it.
Speaker 1: I really like what I've seen out of Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 1: It's really encouraging. I'm not to dismiss the talent behind
Speaker 1: him or the talents that's competing with him. I just
Speaker 1: like what I've seen out of this young man. Heck,
Speaker 1: even between plays, he's sprinting horizontally across the field with
Speaker 1: his secondary coach, Dshad Townsend, trying to get that extra
Speaker 1: work in, you know, doing some winsprints. So you're right,
Speaker 1: he's in constant motion and he's working hard. So when
Speaker 1: the running back situation hit before we go to a
Speaker 1: break here. You immediately rallied to our Davis Pierce. You
Speaker 1: rallied to the improvements that are going to happen on
Speaker 1: the offensive line of the run game and how this
Speaker 1: helps David Montgomery and when he comes back and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But with Tariq and also Corderoll Patterson and the presence
Speaker 1: of Ryan Nall, you feel it's in good hands. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm disappointed selfishly for David and Montgomery because
Speaker 1: it's obvious when you look at him, the effort that
Speaker 1: he put into the offseason and how hard he was
Speaker 1: working during training camp. But this run game is not
Speaker 1: going to improve because of David Montgomery. It's going to
Speaker 1: improve because of the play of the offensive line. They
Speaker 1: have a cast of characters back there that can run
Speaker 1: every offensive play offer to the Bears. It's about Juan
Speaker 1: Castillo and his group of men up front that are
Speaker 1: going to provide better running holes for the running backs.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna step away one more brick before
Speaker 1: we wrap things up. We'll talk defense a little bit,
Speaker 1: find out what we know about Robert Quinn so far.
Speaker 1: That's Tom there. I'm Jeff Jonyak, and this is Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of Bears
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Speaker 1: more time. Honest appraisals from everybody involved. From twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: we have heard no excuses about performance. This week we
Speaker 1: heard Charles Lenno honest appraisal of himself started worrying about
Speaker 1: things that were out of his control, says, that's going
Speaker 1: to change. Tarik Cohen said, hey, you know, and I
Speaker 1: didn't play my best ball. I had other things on
Speaker 1: my mind, kind of lost his juice in the body
Speaker 1: last year. So as a recommitment here, and you know
Speaker 1: from Matt Naggie and down at Khalil Mack you can't yet.
Speaker 1: You know, he's also a guy, and you know you
Speaker 1: can see it. You know, you see the evidence in
Speaker 1: these guys that have determined to work harder and put
Speaker 1: more effort into the offseason. Like I said, every one
Speaker 1: of these guys. And it's nice to hear it from
Speaker 1: some of the most important players on your team that
Speaker 1: last year was just not good enough. Seeing a couple
Speaker 1: of rushes in one on ones. But Robert Quinn still
Speaker 1: working out and working every one on one sprinting and
Speaker 1: so forth, getting ready. Do you need to see him
Speaker 1: this week in practice? Well, I would like to just
Speaker 1: see him in practice a little bit working with his
Speaker 1: teammates so they get a little bit of understanding what
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn sees from the opponent's offense. But when I
Speaker 1: do watch him walk working on the other field, he
Speaker 1: still has the same explosive this upfield. He still has
Speaker 1: the pass rush skills and the run stopping intelligence that
Speaker 1: you need from a player because they can be attacked
Speaker 1: from so many different directions. I'm really excited to see
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn once the season starts, but he is getting
Speaker 1: his work on the side that he's needed to be
Speaker 1: in condition. Defense is playing with a hyperactive attitude right now,
Speaker 1: don't you think. And they're chesting those quarterbacks. Chuck Pogano
Speaker 1: letting it, you know, let me know, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: you guys got to face the pressure. Here we go, right.
Speaker 1: Chuck Bocano doesn't shy away from being a little you know,
Speaker 1: instigator out there too. He'll talk to the offensive players
Speaker 1: as they're talking to their defensive backs when they're going
Speaker 1: back to the huddle. Your field is the next stop
Speaker 1: for the Bears, a workout and scrimmage, and so we're
Speaker 1: looking forward to charting that one for you time. We're
Speaker 1: out of time. Thanks for the show tonight, Yeah, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and thanks to Jordan Malley, our producer, as also Jordan
Speaker 1: tread Up and Dan Burrelli. Joe Astroski coming up next.
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