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Speaker 1: Thrett Super Bowl Bear, and Jim Miller, a former Bears
Speaker 1: quarterback on Sirius x M NFL Radio with Pat Kerwin.
Speaker 1: Good to have you alongside once again our hour long
Speaker 1: conversation on Bears football. Going to recap a little bit
Speaker 1: of yesterday with a Chim Hicks, Allen Robinson, Danny Trevathan
Speaker 1: and Matt Naggie at the mic on the Zoom. Calls
Speaker 1: with the media every Wednesday in the month of June
Speaker 1: during the OTA sessions, and it's obviously different right now,
Speaker 1: there is not a typical OTA XS and o's football
Speaker 1: conversation And leading into our six ten segment, Lamar Soup Campbell,
Speaker 1: the Bears director of the Engagement, will join the program
Speaker 1: for a couple of segments to talk about his impact
Speaker 1: on the team, what's going on in that Zoom meeting
Speaker 1: room on a daily basis at this point, given our
Speaker 1: civil rights situation going on right now across the country.
Speaker 1: Felt it's good to have you alongside Tom. How you're
Speaker 1: holding up, Jim, How are you guys? You know, holding
Speaker 1: up as well as everybody else. You know, nothing's fun,
Speaker 1: nothing's exciting, It's all filled with concern. But I like
Speaker 1: the message that Matt and Aggie let off with and
Speaker 1: he talked about the message with his team on that
Speaker 1: meeting Monday was about listening and love, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what has to happen. I think Ears have to
Speaker 1: be open, people have to listen, the conversations has to continue.
Speaker 1: It's got to be about growth and solutions. So I
Speaker 1: like the fact that it was important for Matt and
Speaker 1: Naggie to hold that meeting Monday, that the full contents
Speaker 1: of that meeting was the Tom to allow everybody to
Speaker 1: voice their concerns and opinions. And June, this is in
Speaker 1: the category of two years and one mouth at this point,
Speaker 1: right listen, maybe twice as much as as we speak
Speaker 1: these days. And I've said this repeatedly throughout this process
Speaker 1: that leadership is critical now into in our world is
Speaker 1: the sports world right now, but uh, the leadership at
Speaker 1: the coaching level, the general manager level, the presidential level,
Speaker 1: the chairman of the board level of every one of
Speaker 1: these thirty two NFL teams to allow for it to
Speaker 1: be a safe place for players of all kinds, to
Speaker 1: allow themselves to be heard and not to be judged.
Speaker 1: And and and I think that's the case that a
Speaker 1: lot of NFL teams are going on right now. And
Speaker 1: Matt Nagie was very smart to do that on Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of teams are listening. I think
Speaker 1: the whole nation is listening quite in my opinion, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and I think teams have been very you know, have
Speaker 1: shown that leadership have stepped out. There's been very powerful
Speaker 1: messages sent by not only ownership, whether it's the McCaskey
Speaker 1: family and the Chicago Bears, or look at Bill O'Brien
Speaker 1: down there for the Houston Texans. He was a very
Speaker 1: powerful message from his standpoint. I think the players have
Speaker 1: done it as well. Other coaches like Brian Flores. The
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins have been very vocal about this, and I
Speaker 1: think even today the players meeting there for the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, you know, the tolerance of those players in
Speaker 1: the statement made by by Drew Brees and their players
Speaker 1: in their forgiveness and what they're going to do moving
Speaker 1: forward for Drew Brees to leave, you know, to lead
Speaker 1: to action. And I think that's what everybody's talking about
Speaker 1: right now, as all this talk and all these things,
Speaker 1: statements that are mean, it has to lead to action.
Speaker 1: That's what's been ignored in the past, and I think
Speaker 1: everybody is listening to make sure that that conversation leads
Speaker 1: to that action in the future. The chairman of the board,
Speaker 1: George Hollis McCaskey, with a great statement that was put
Speaker 1: out this week. Tom and Jim really capsualized what he
Speaker 1: feels and what the city feels, and what they've done
Speaker 1: as an organization to support organizations like Build Chicago and
Speaker 1: I Grow Chicago and my Block and my Hood, my
Speaker 1: City and Youth Guidance. There's a lot of communities that
Speaker 1: they are trying to get into and half for many years. Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine it probably had to be one of
Speaker 1: the more difficult emails for George to ever put the
Speaker 1: thoughts together and how you type things correctly, how you
Speaker 1: put all you know, the message out there clearly that
Speaker 1: this is the issue is about supporting everybody. This is
Speaker 1: not a football issue. This is a humanity issue, and
Speaker 1: I think that everybody here has that concerns. And the
Speaker 1: more it's talked about, the more listening that is occurring.
Speaker 1: Along with that listening, there also has to be education
Speaker 1: that goes along with it. Jim, from your conversations on
Speaker 1: your daily work there on Sirius x M NFL Radio,
Speaker 1: you know, are you talking to players and how can
Speaker 1: they because even yesterday and we'll hear from some of
Speaker 1: the comments because this show will also focus on some
Speaker 1: of the football readiness. And when those conversations came up yesterday,
Speaker 1: one or two questions. You heard the excitement in the players,
Speaker 1: you heard it from a team, You hood from Alan Robinson,
Speaker 1: you heard it from Danny Trevathan, you heard it from
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie. Are these guys going to be able to
Speaker 1: make that transition when this process quiets down a little
Speaker 1: bit and you can and then get your mind on
Speaker 1: football A little bit when the time is right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think, you know, football locker rooms
Speaker 1: they are a pretty forgiving place in my opinion. Guys
Speaker 1: have been exposed. Everybody's from all different walks of life,
Speaker 1: and you know, you have to come together to work
Speaker 1: together to acomplish a common goal. You know. So I
Speaker 1: do think players are very understanding for that from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: I do think players are very talent for that. Tolerant
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, I do think players are very forgiving.
Speaker 1: But again, all all talk and no action. Players feel
Speaker 1: like that as players too. You may talk a good game,
Speaker 1: but you got to go out and play a good game.
Speaker 1: You got to show it. You've got to earn it
Speaker 1: from your teammate. And I used to, you know, I
Speaker 1: always remember that that. You know, when Dick Geron, that
Speaker 1: was one of his first statements as a head coach
Speaker 1: about respecting one another in the building. Everybody's got a
Speaker 1: got a purpose there for that common goal, which is
Speaker 1: to what win a world championship? Right, And you know
Speaker 1: he always talk about, you know, respect everybody in the building,
Speaker 1: you know, because everybody's got a job to do, you know,
Speaker 1: even the say the equipment staff where you have all
Speaker 1: these these young men that are interns and come out
Speaker 1: to training camp to to help you. H you know,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot more guys, right, there's ninety guys there.
Speaker 1: They got to clean up all the pads and get
Speaker 1: all the jerseys and whitman, he goes, don't don't leave
Speaker 1: that stuff on the ground in the locker room. You know,
Speaker 1: they work with you, they don't work for you. You know,
Speaker 1: you have to respect what other people, you know, what
Speaker 1: they have to do in order to accomplish their job.
Speaker 1: And you have to respect people their backgrounds, where they
Speaker 1: come from, get to know them. Work with one another
Speaker 1: because if you're able to work with one other, you
Speaker 1: may not always agree, but you have to work with
Speaker 1: one another in order to accomplish that common goal. All right,
Speaker 1: that's Jim Miller, Tom Day or Jeff Joniac. This is
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Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, we'll be joined by Lamar
Speaker 1: Soup Campbell, former NFL player himself, and the Bears Director
Speaker 1: of Engagement. Does a great job up at Hallisaw and
Speaker 1: Lake Forest. Thanks to our producer tonight, Jordan Malley, Jordan
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Speaker 1: for listening as well. Back with more on the score.
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Speaker 1: igs dot com. Jeff Joning act time there, Jim Miller.
Speaker 1: Welcoming Lamar soup Campbell, the Bears director of Engagement, to
Speaker 1: the program tonight for a couple of segments. He'll join
Speaker 1: us here for the next ten fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 1: Soup Bug, good to talk to you. Thanks for taking
Speaker 1: the time out of your busy day to join us
Speaker 1: and talk a little Bears football right now, and just
Speaker 1: your position and how things are going up there in
Speaker 1: the most unique of circumstances. You're not out of the building,
Speaker 1: but here you are meeting with players on a daily
Speaker 1: basis by zoom. And we're gonna talk a lot about
Speaker 1: the meeting on Monday. But first of all, how are you,
Speaker 1: How are you handling everything? And I hope you and
Speaker 1: your family are all well. Good to talk to you. Hey, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely good guys. Good to hear from you guys.
Speaker 1: Good to hear that you guys are well as well.
Speaker 1: Missing you guys around Hollis Hall, looking forward for things
Speaker 1: to get back to normal. But you know, we're moving forward.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm okay, My family is good. You know,
Speaker 1: we're dedicated to pushing forward, dedicated to the cause that
Speaker 1: are ahead of us as a team. And you know,
Speaker 1: just like ANBIA person and life, you got it to
Speaker 1: pushing I think that's what everybody's doing right now. And Lamar,
Speaker 1: you know, in addition to your position here with the Bears,
Speaker 1: you've had for many years, you did play in the
Speaker 1: NFL for the Detroit Lions, a nice six year career,
Speaker 1: so you have a great perspective on what players deal
Speaker 1: with on a daily basis and what they're dealing with
Speaker 1: right now. How is that reinforced your position in terms
Speaker 1: of how you do your job every day? You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's just been more of a you know,
Speaker 1: not having the guys around this time of year, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the time that you build the camaraderie, you
Speaker 1: build a trust. Yeah, you get to know the guys
Speaker 1: on a personal level, but you get to spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time with them, So I've never FaceTime as much.
Speaker 1: I really wasn't a facetimer until COVID nineteen hit, but
Speaker 1: I've been FaceTime and a lot of the guys, especially
Speaker 1: the new guys, get into note them. But also make
Speaker 1: sure the core guys that we had in the building
Speaker 1: says i've been here, are okay, and it kind of
Speaker 1: fits with their era a little bit. They text mentions
Speaker 1: a lot, they FaceTime, so when covidhead, that was something
Speaker 1: that they were very easily adaptable to. And that's what
Speaker 1: we've been doing, is make sure these guys are staying
Speaker 1: in contact. Whether it's a joke, whether it's a motivational quote,
Speaker 1: whether it's something that I know a guy likes to read,
Speaker 1: you know, just making sure that the players and are
Speaker 1: in the right mindset, right because everybody right now we're
Speaker 1: asking you to do usual things and unusual times. So
Speaker 1: just making sure that they're mental because as you guys
Speaker 1: thought that played the game as well, that the mental
Speaker 1: aspect is really the biggest parts of making sure that
Speaker 1: mentally these guys are prepared to go into their ZOOM
Speaker 1: meetings every day and soak up the Notti from their
Speaker 1: coaches that make sure that they're ready to go once
Speaker 1: we get back in the building. Hey, Lamar soup, this
Speaker 1: Tom Fair. It's good to talk to you. I miss
Speaker 1: seeing you myself. Hey, you know, I was reading this
Speaker 1: article in Sports Business Daily and they had your whole
Speaker 1: schedule from the time you wake up at four o'clock
Speaker 1: and you hit the snooze alarm one time. You probably
Speaker 1: don't have that luxury anymore. But in the article they
Speaker 1: talk about how you make sure that these players have
Speaker 1: their minds right and their priorities focused. What is the
Speaker 1: biggest challenged right now to those two elements that you
Speaker 1: know sometimes you have this act of contact with these
Speaker 1: guys right now you don't, But how do you make
Speaker 1: sure their minds and priorities are focused? Ryan? I think
Speaker 1: just having those intimate conversations. I know, you know you
Speaker 1: guys mentioned I had had a chance to play in
Speaker 1: this league and be a part of the brotherhood of
Speaker 1: the NFL. So a lot of times I look at
Speaker 1: the cues that I learned as the former player and
Speaker 1: things that distracted me off the field and kind of
Speaker 1: take those lessons to try to learn as I get
Speaker 1: to know my guys. You know, it's important that you
Speaker 1: know what's going on in their lives. You know, before
Speaker 1: COVID hit. You know, people always have family issues. Nobody's
Speaker 1: really immute to that. You know, people have financial issues.
Speaker 1: Nobody's really immute to that. But when the COVID, when
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen hit, and it's affecting a lot of our
Speaker 1: locker room. I mean our locker room is eighty percent
Speaker 1: African American and especially hitting the hard hit African American communities.
Speaker 1: People are losing jobs and that's that's the entire locker room.
Speaker 1: We have people that are losing jobs. We have people
Speaker 1: that are not working. We have a lot of players
Speaker 1: that may be stuck supporting members of their families and
Speaker 1: they also have to focus on being a professional football player.
Speaker 1: So just having intimate conversations and then helping helping them
Speaker 1: when I can, you know, and those instances. We have
Speaker 1: a great team. We have a great support staff and
Speaker 1: to build them. Myself call a super word director to
Speaker 1: our security job, Tarphy amazing. We all work together. We
Speaker 1: communicated really well, and as I told the guys the
Speaker 1: other day, you know, finding anti racism, focusing on football
Speaker 1: and being a professional athlete. They are mutually exclusive. You
Speaker 1: can do all of those things together, but you have
Speaker 1: to really focus on things one at a time, take
Speaker 1: a one day at a time, and know that together
Speaker 1: we're going to get through it all. Hey, Lamart, you
Speaker 1: know the important each of your role. It's it's a
Speaker 1: face to face, it's a handshake, it is eye contact.
Speaker 1: But you know, like you saw now, it's video screens
Speaker 1: and texting. How have you been able to introduce this
Speaker 1: incoming class, Introduce them to the bears, introduce them to
Speaker 1: the building, and introduce them to the organization. You know,
Speaker 1: I think what coach nagi did early when we started campus,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to really get to know each
Speaker 1: other as a team. Ob the football was a high priority,
Speaker 1: but you know, you need to know what your players are,
Speaker 1: and I think coach Nagie is a lad, did an
Speaker 1: amazing job of introducing himself and the staff or let
Speaker 1: the players kind of feel to be you atmosphere over
Speaker 1: zoom and that really gave you a lot of input.
Speaker 1: You know, I talked to my scouts. I talked to
Speaker 1: them as far as when they look at these guys
Speaker 1: and what their personality types were, and just kind of
Speaker 1: get to know them, you know, the first week of
Speaker 1: my rookie programming. You know, it's really get to know
Speaker 1: you space, get to know the building, get to know
Speaker 1: the people that will impact you every day, whether it's
Speaker 1: the news and staff, to train his staff, the security staff,
Speaker 1: the PR team, how to handle yourself on social media.
Speaker 1: These are the people that will interact with these players
Speaker 1: every day. So it was important for me to make
Speaker 1: sure that they knew all the people in the film
Speaker 1: that I an't going to help them be successful and
Speaker 1: do those meetings. The personalities came through, the smiles came through,
Speaker 1: the jokes came through, and it doesn't and it just
Speaker 1: doesn't happen and zoom. You know. I texted my guys
Speaker 1: every day. We're a constant concert. And it just became natural,
Speaker 1: you know, just the way that things are now. And
Speaker 1: it became a situation where as ball players and as
Speaker 1: an organization to either adapt or get left behind. I
Speaker 1: think everybody bought it to the adapt model. Lamar, Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: here a pleasure to talk to you, and I must
Speaker 1: share this story first because when I was at the Bears,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Joseph was a player development I'll never forget this
Speaker 1: one day. Yeah, he's with the Raiders now. He's a
Speaker 1: great guy. And so I say thank to him, thank
Speaker 1: you to him every time I see him, because it
Speaker 1: was I don't know, it's about them. Literally literally the
Speaker 1: first start of the offseason, he comes down. He says, Jim,
Speaker 1: you got one class to get to get your agree
Speaker 1: And I had already been in the NFL eight or
Speaker 1: nine years, and Dwayne Joseph stayed on my fannie and
Speaker 1: I'd finally just relented because he knew I needed to
Speaker 1: take this class. And I think of every day that
Speaker 1: I got my degree at Michigan State, all due to
Speaker 1: his efforts in his hard work. And I want to
Speaker 1: ask you about that, because you do You've got to
Speaker 1: know how every player ticks. You got to know, almost
Speaker 1: have a scouting report about every player. What is their
Speaker 1: educational background? What can I do to help this player,
Speaker 1: maybe to get his degree. Maybe it's to help him
Speaker 1: with an offseason internship, to think about life after football
Speaker 1: and maybe talk about that challenge from yourself and keeping
Speaker 1: up to date on everything. Yeah. Absolutely, And that's my
Speaker 1: funny quick story about Dwayne Joseph. So, Dwayne was it
Speaker 1: college coach coach and assisive Backstatuan the Russian Wisconsin when
Speaker 1: I was there phil Alpation. So I actually knew Djo
Speaker 1: when I was in college, had a chance to follow
Speaker 1: his career, you know when he got here to the Bears,
Speaker 1: and I remember when I left football, I knew why
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a scout. I had talked to
Speaker 1: the Bears and I remember short about the combine and
Speaker 1: I had a golf shirt and some jeans on and
Speaker 1: I ran into a Dwayne but he made me go
Speaker 1: to the mall to get a slack in the button
Speaker 1: up before I called to Endy and the scout. So
Speaker 1: Duayne Jose has been a mentor of mine. Um I
Speaker 1: looked back to my brief career as a scout. I
Speaker 1: had a chance to come back to Detroit, and the
Speaker 1: day that I got cut in Detroit, I asked for
Speaker 1: a job, and the gym at the time laughed at
Speaker 1: me and said, hey, if you don't get picked up
Speaker 1: this year, you know we'll bring you back. And sure enough,
Speaker 1: you know, in December they called me and I had
Speaker 1: a chance to get my first taste that as a
Speaker 1: scout in the funt office, as a Detroit as an intern,
Speaker 1: you know, So having that scouting background and understanding what
Speaker 1: makes players tick, and you know once they jim, you
Speaker 1: know that when you're in the locker room, you're always
Speaker 1: around a player that reminds you of a player. And
Speaker 1: when I'm in the locker room with these guys, all
Speaker 1: these guys remind me of someone that I eiven played
Speaker 1: with or played against personality wise, and it's cool to
Speaker 1: share stories. And like you said, you need to know
Speaker 1: these things. We're a little older. So right now a
Speaker 1: lot of schools are playing Our pay kids to come
Speaker 1: back and come to school and finish their degrees. So
Speaker 1: they didn't do that when we were playing, but now
Speaker 1: I know a lot of schools will pay for those
Speaker 1: guys to come back. So those are one of the
Speaker 1: first things that I talk about with those guys. And honestly,
Speaker 1: you know why life after football is truly important and
Speaker 1: we spend time on that. I tell these guys from
Speaker 1: day one, if you're not on the football team, I
Speaker 1: can't help you with anything else, right, So it's a
Speaker 1: productive mindset to make sure that not only am I
Speaker 1: helping to focus off being a professional athlete and being
Speaker 1: a good representative representative for the Chicago Bears, but also understanding,
Speaker 1: letting them know that this this is a springboard to
Speaker 1: your future. And if you take care of this and
Speaker 1: take care of all the things that laid out in
Speaker 1: front of you, going back to school will come, Endorsements
Speaker 1: will come, national transitions will come because the shield will
Speaker 1: take care of you and you can carry that shield
Speaker 1: with you towards life. Well, how has this week gone
Speaker 1: in terms of the conversations. They've obviously been very powerful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think everybody is in agreement, and I think everybody
Speaker 1: is is listening. I think Brian Flores made a great
Speaker 1: statement today about hey, it's the first time I think
Speaker 1: everybody has been in agreement. But how have the conversations
Speaker 1: been with the players and what potentially they've shared. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, when you go back to Monday, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you guys have heard a lot of ads etives on
Speaker 1: how to describe. But it was it was powerful, it
Speaker 1: was emotional, it was honest, and then Coach Nagie's leadership,
Speaker 1: you know, it was love right. But I guess if
Speaker 1: I had to use the word, I guess it would
Speaker 1: be transformational. You know, I think a lot of guys
Speaker 1: open up their eyes to what their teammates were going through.
Speaker 1: I think everyone was educated, and for the first time
Speaker 1: this offseason, I felt as though on that call we
Speaker 1: all were in the same room. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: that powerful of a call that you felt like you
Speaker 1: were sitting next to the guys that were on that
Speaker 1: zoom meeting. So when you look at what we want
Speaker 1: to accomplish as a football team and what coach Nagie
Speaker 1: wants to accomplish as a leader of our football club,
Speaker 1: I think we accomplished that with that leadership. I think
Speaker 1: we took a step ahead. I think we're stronger. I
Speaker 1: think we're more open. I guess I want to pay
Speaker 1: diffidences down at on a football field. Souper Campbell, our guests,
Speaker 1: Lamar Souper Campbell, the Bears Director of Engagement, Soup, can
Speaker 1: you hang through a commercial break in and one more
Speaker 1: segment with us? Appreciate you guys, Absolutely, yeah, hang out
Speaker 1: all right, Souper Campbell with top there, Jim Miller, I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniak back with more on the score. This segment
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Speaker 1: Jeff time and Jim with Lamar Souper Campbell, the Bears
Speaker 1: director of engagement. Just as in a side before we
Speaker 1: continue the interview, I went back and looked up your
Speaker 1: stats as an NFL player. You got one career interception,
Speaker 1: and you know, just for just for yucks. I was
Speaker 1: hoping it was against Jim Miller, but it wasn't. Do
Speaker 1: you remember your on a career interception? Because go ahead, Soup,
Speaker 1: I got it from breath Farve. Did you know he
Speaker 1: saw him? Everybody back there and you took it to
Speaker 1: the house forty two yards? Yeah? Nice job, sup. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We played corner safety and all sorts of positions, linebacker
Speaker 1: and everything out of Wisconsin Monday. So when Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: called it the most impressive thing he's ever witnessed in
Speaker 1: any meeting and maybe he'll ever witness again, is that
Speaker 1: putting it? Is that putting it lightly? Because just hearing
Speaker 1: from the players and talking to a couple of guys,
Speaker 1: they heard things about each other that they never knew before,
Speaker 1: and they just it was a safe place to be.
Speaker 1: And well, what have the conversation's been like with the
Speaker 1: guys after the fact. Now, now it's here on Thursday
Speaker 1: about that. The best thing about the conversations with the
Speaker 1: guys after that meeting is that they still want to
Speaker 1: know more. I think there was a hungerful more after
Speaker 1: that meeting. Wanted to get to know their teammates. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I call a player, and not just the
Speaker 1: black players, the white players as well too, Like I
Speaker 1: want to know more about my brother. I want to
Speaker 1: know more about his history. I want to know more
Speaker 1: about where it comes from. You know. So, I think
Speaker 1: what you saw there and I mean, it's just hard
Speaker 1: to put in the words. It was one of those
Speaker 1: moments where he kind of had to be there, but
Speaker 1: it was an amazing moment. I think. I go back
Speaker 1: to my statement, like I really felt like we all
Speaker 1: were in the same role. And when I talked to
Speaker 1: the players after that meeting, because it was a heavy meeting,
Speaker 1: it was an honest meeting. There was a lot getting
Speaker 1: put on the table. Coach Naggy says, leaders bill leaders,
Speaker 1: and I think that was a leadership moment for all
Speaker 1: of us to be in that safe space and be
Speaker 1: able to speak our truth. And I think through that
Speaker 1: truth is going to breach success because now you know
Speaker 1: why your brother was playing this game. You know his why,
Speaker 1: you know his story, you know how he got to
Speaker 1: this place, and how can you not play for a
Speaker 1: man that you respect that much. I could be honest
Speaker 1: with you in that way that we were all Monday. Also,
Speaker 1: I feel that you know Matt's talked about the players
Speaker 1: talked about it. The first meeting he had with the
Speaker 1: Bears in twenty eighteen. It resonated with them and they
Speaker 1: immediately connected. And in a sense, now almost three years later,
Speaker 1: at this meeting, the players seemed to resonated with Matt
Speaker 1: Nagy in a in a very unique and connected way.
Speaker 1: And what already had been a very tight locker room
Speaker 1: to begin with, with a lot of guys of all
Speaker 1: ages and from different backgrounds, which is literally every NFL team,
Speaker 1: but in this case, a bunch of guys that just
Speaker 1: love working together. Um, is that a fair representation of
Speaker 1: what happened? I definitely for representation. I mean, you had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to be as open and raw and even
Speaker 1: talking to people like I said, you got to ask
Speaker 1: what happened after the fact. I've heard from a lot
Speaker 1: of players staff that it was something that they had
Speaker 1: never experienced, something they would never forget. You know, people
Speaker 1: that have been in football for a long time, you know,
Speaker 1: and all the hurt in the world, everything that's been
Speaker 1: going on, and let me just say that on that Monday,
Speaker 1: it was about the Bears family. In those two hours
Speaker 1: we had in that meeting m it was virtual hubs
Speaker 1: going around. It was goud tell them that they love
Speaker 1: each other. You know, you look at such a machines
Speaker 1: most sport and it's no all these tough guys, but
Speaker 1: the real the real tough guys vulnerable. And I think
Speaker 1: for those two hours we were vulnerable football team. We
Speaker 1: were honest with each other, We had real conversations. I
Speaker 1: think you have vulnerability. We became stronger, we became tighter,
Speaker 1: and that's what we wanted at the end of the day. Hey, Soup,
Speaker 1: when you look at the age gap of questions that
Speaker 1: you face in your job from the age of twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty five, are there players that can help give
Speaker 1: you advice to how to handle a situation that maybe
Speaker 1: you're coming across for the first time or in the
Speaker 1: events they have taken place in the last ten or
Speaker 1: twelve days that you know, they these older guys he
Speaker 1: keem hickses and stuff. The well, you know that they
Speaker 1: can help you, right, I hope you know. I wake
Speaker 1: up every day and I realize I hope they learned
Speaker 1: from me as much as I learned from them. Every day.
Speaker 1: I learned from these guys every day, every conversation, every
Speaker 1: time we get a chance to to sit down together,
Speaker 1: it's something new for viewpoint or something that they like
Speaker 1: or some knowledge or and then the best thing about
Speaker 1: it is you kind of watch these guys grow up. Right,
Speaker 1: My first rookie class was Mitchell Rubiski, Terek Cohen and
Speaker 1: Jackson mishand Coward, Isaiah Irving, Adam Shahem like these are
Speaker 1: all guys that were my first class. Or to watch
Speaker 1: what they've become, you know, over the last four years,
Speaker 1: to success that they've had and the conversations that we
Speaker 1: had as rookies, and to see those guys, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what the pinnacle was for me. We all had
Speaker 1: to but that first rookie class, we talked about goals,
Speaker 1: We talked about where we wanted to be in three
Speaker 1: or four years. And those guys put down Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: Those guys put down Pro Bowls, And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what we all went to those when all those guys
Speaker 1: went to the Pro Bowl after our twelve and fourth season,
Speaker 1: and I still had the notes that they wrote down
Speaker 1: about what they wanted to achieve. You know, I sent
Speaker 1: them to those guys and I said, listen, we talked
Speaker 1: about this, you worked for it, and you achieved it.
Speaker 1: And I just felt like a proud big brother because
Speaker 1: to watch those guys write their goals down, to watch
Speaker 1: them go through the adversary that they went through, and
Speaker 1: then to have the opportunity to contribute to a twelve
Speaker 1: and four season and go to a Pro Bowl was
Speaker 1: truly magical for me. Now did very minded. We didn't
Speaker 1: wint a Super Bowl yet, so got worked to do.
Speaker 1: But one goal is better than than no goals. So
Speaker 1: I mean, those are those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that in my role. You watch these guys grow up,
Speaker 1: you know, you watch these guys become fathers. You watch
Speaker 1: these guys become young, mental, grown men, and you watch
Speaker 1: them going they're interested what they're about. So I think
Speaker 1: that's the best thing is to watch them with death
Speaker 1: and to be there to help them solidify and crystallize
Speaker 1: what they want to beat down the line. And that's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest pleasure of my job with these guys.
Speaker 1: You know, it sounds like you go through a lot
Speaker 1: of emotions in your job, so you know as a listener,
Speaker 1: as a mentor, hasn't been a challenge to control your
Speaker 1: emotions in recent events? Yeah, you know, I always teach
Speaker 1: my guys. You know, it's always the battle between logic
Speaker 1: and emotion, right y'all. It's easy to go to the
Speaker 1: emotional route, but to take a step back and go
Speaker 1: to logic bol route is really what I believe sharpens
Speaker 1: you as a man with your responsibilities and especially what's
Speaker 1: going on right now. You know, I try to be
Speaker 1: and I try to make sure, you know, not to
Speaker 1: move more in strategy than emotion, to be that calm
Speaker 1: voice in the room, to really think things through and
Speaker 1: not really react with emotion. And then, you know, with
Speaker 1: everything going as a minority man, as a black mail,
Speaker 1: you know, this apports me to be my best self
Speaker 1: at all times. My best self as a father, my
Speaker 1: best self as a director of player of engagement, and
Speaker 1: the best as a leader of men. And I always
Speaker 1: keep that on my mind whenever things happened, when everything
Speaker 1: start to go crazy, I focused on the calmness and
Speaker 1: try to make sure I'm thinking strategy and logic before
Speaker 1: i think emotions. So, like everybody else, is heavy, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going through it. But when it's been your lifestyle
Speaker 1: and that's something that you do for your life, I've
Speaker 1: been handling pretty well. Like I said, these guys give
Speaker 1: me life. The coaching staff gives me life. I'd be
Speaker 1: going crazy if I didn't have anything to do right now.
Speaker 1: So the fact that I'm constantly talking about players, constantly
Speaker 1: communicating with my coach, is constantly communicating with the city
Speaker 1: of Chicago and what we can do moving forward. It
Speaker 1: keeps me busy, It keeps a smile on my face,
Speaker 1: and it keeps me out of my true north. Well,
Speaker 1: let me piggyback piggyback off that, Lamar, because as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: it is emotional, and the players want to jump in,
Speaker 1: they want to make a difference. We've seen other players
Speaker 1: around the league get involved in the marches. I think
Speaker 1: it was Deshaun Watson was in the George Floyd March
Speaker 1: down in Houston. But in the meantime, there's a pandemic
Speaker 1: going on and guys, yeah, you know about COVID, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, Alabama today. I guess they
Speaker 1: had a practice. Five players I guess tested positive for
Speaker 1: COVID night. How do you balance that because players do
Speaker 1: want to make a difference, they do want to make
Speaker 1: a move the needle and our emotional about social injustices.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, there's a lot going on
Speaker 1: right now in this country. Yeah, I think that, um,
Speaker 1: I really, I think at that point you have to
Speaker 1: trust our staff, right. I think we have a great
Speaker 1: support staff. I think Andre Tucker, our train there along
Speaker 1: with coach Naggie and all the decision make it. As
Speaker 1: far as how we get back to football, I think
Speaker 1: the guys trust them. I take that back. I know
Speaker 1: the guys trust them. They trust us, probably even more
Speaker 1: so after Monday. Like I said, it really took us
Speaker 1: to another level on Monday. I mean, I want to
Speaker 1: get back to the building. I'm missing you guys walk
Speaker 1: by my office on media day. You know, all those
Speaker 1: little things matter, right. So I think for us, as
Speaker 1: we continue to move forward, you know we're going to
Speaker 1: operate from a safety first place. But the love of
Speaker 1: football has not been lost by any of the guys
Speaker 1: in that locker room, any of the guys upstairs, any
Speaker 1: of our staff or ownership. So that's one thing I
Speaker 1: can stay for sure is that nineteen twenty football drive
Speaker 1: will be solid once we start football again. Last one
Speaker 1: for me is from sounds like everything positive within the
Speaker 1: Bearers organization, what is the global perspective from the players,
Speaker 1: whether it's around the league, around this country, around the
Speaker 1: globe of whether the message has been heard right? I
Speaker 1: think I think the overall I think the overall message globally.
Speaker 1: If I had to talk, if I had to, hey,
Speaker 1: no problem, I'm sorry you guys didn't know. We just
Speaker 1: did a community service of a down's house. I'm going
Speaker 1: to car driving back up and everybody's come to down,
Speaker 1: so I apologize for that. I think the global outlet
Speaker 1: is what we can do. Right. We're so proud of
Speaker 1: the city of Chicago, but it's also so much hurt.
Speaker 1: You know, we just had an opportunity to go see that.
Speaker 1: It's so much hurt, so much destruction. And I think
Speaker 1: what I've seen is my phone has been blowing up
Speaker 1: with initiatives on how these guys can help the city,
Speaker 1: what they can do, what they can use their platform for.
Speaker 1: And I think what you have is a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that are grateful for where they are, they know
Speaker 1: what they are. But the global perspective is we all
Speaker 1: have to do better. We all have to fight anti racism,
Speaker 1: I think said all around us. Then I think we
Speaker 1: all understand that. And I think you have ninety guys
Speaker 1: at this point and an entire feeling that are willing
Speaker 1: to go ahead and go out there and do the
Speaker 1: right thing to make sure that the city of Chicago
Speaker 1: that supports us every Sunday that we're going to go
Speaker 1: back out to support them. We love the city. We
Speaker 1: want to make sure that we're taking care of the city.
Speaker 1: They're saying, whether they take care of us, super let
Speaker 1: you go. But that event was the group by the hand,
Speaker 1: is that correct? And uh for Bear Sam Macho a
Speaker 1: part of that. I heard Mitchell Trubisky, Allen Robinson and
Speaker 1: members of the Bulls organization Northwestern raw there give us
Speaker 1: a snapshot of what that was all about them What
Speaker 1: did you guys do? And see? Yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: was amazing. So we all had a chance to get
Speaker 1: together as a group. It was of course us at
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, the Blackhawks, Um, yeah, Bulls, Blackhawks,
Speaker 1: because trying to write a name Lama, but you know,
Speaker 1: Sam did a great job of putting together. You know,
Speaker 1: Mitch A Rob showed up and it was about community talk.
Speaker 1: It was the City of Chicago police was there. We
Speaker 1: had good conversation on what we could do to build
Speaker 1: police relations in those neighborhoods. We actually had a chance
Speaker 1: to take a toward the neighborhood and kind of see
Speaker 1: the destruction that happened over the last week. So you
Speaker 1: can watch it all television, guys, but once you see
Speaker 1: in the person and once you talk to the people
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, you know, it really really hits home.
Speaker 1: And I think what we got out of that was
Speaker 1: an opportunity to not only speak life into the youth
Speaker 1: and that neighborhood, but also give hope, and not only
Speaker 1: hope to them, I think they gave us hope as well.
Speaker 1: Like it was a good drive back that we have
Speaker 1: such good people in Chicago that are so passionate about
Speaker 1: their community. You know, you can't you can't do anything
Speaker 1: but be happy leaving that place, but you also want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're going back to that place
Speaker 1: as soon as we can and do an office to
Speaker 1: make an impact helping that community. To get back to normal.
Speaker 1: Is that on the west side today, Yes, there on
Speaker 1: the west side, Yes, all right, Soup. I know it's
Speaker 1: a lot of time he gave us, but you're an
Speaker 1: interesting guy to talk to. We do miss seeing you,
Speaker 1: and I do miss stopping into your office. It's always
Speaker 1: full though you're always you're always helping out the fellas,
Speaker 1: but you always have a time and a smile for me.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate what you do. And Thayer's Diane
Speaker 1: to ask me one more thing he wants to know
Speaker 1: about Notre Dame in Wisconsin and lambeau this year. I
Speaker 1: think we already know it was going to go down
Speaker 1: with UH Notre Dame in Wisconsin and lamb Hey Man,
Speaker 1: Cole have to have some conversations about that. Me and
Speaker 1: Cole can men have to have some good banter about
Speaker 1: that Wisconsin and UH Wisconsin and Notre Dame matchup. But
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully I can be there.
Speaker 1: The Batters do well when they go to Lambau Field.
Speaker 1: The last time we went there, we took out a
Speaker 1: top ranked LSU team, So I don't know if Notre
Speaker 1: Dame will be right, but I'll be looking for a
Speaker 1: performance from my badges. You good to have a little
Speaker 1: a little laughter and there big time sip. Let you go,
Speaker 1: my man. Thank you for all you do. Appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: and let me just tell you guys, be safe out there,
Speaker 1: take care of yourself. My best to you and your family.
Speaker 1: Continue to do with what you do. We love you
Speaker 1: here at nineteen twenty and I appreciate you guys, Appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Thanks as the super Camp. But one of the great
Speaker 1: guys you're gonna find in the NFL. Trust me when
Speaker 1: I tell you that that's Tim there. Jim Miller back
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Speaker 1: Shoe Jeff, Joni Act, Tom There and Jim Miller with
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Speaker 1: you guys being along to listen to us, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: fellas and we'll start with Jim. You know we're talking
Speaker 1: about a lot about what's going on nationally here and
Speaker 1: the anger and the frustration and the long simmering issues
Speaker 1: this cauldron. But yesterday when the guy spoke and answered,
Speaker 1: I mean, Kim was extremely emotional. I mean I had
Speaker 1: had tears in my eyes. I did. He was, he
Speaker 1: was outstanding. As soon as the conversation turned about football
Speaker 1: and about COVID some of the they're they're concerned about it,
Speaker 1: definitely a Kim definitely. Danny Trevithan a little more worried
Speaker 1: about it. Alan Robinson, what was not um? How how
Speaker 1: do you think players are going to deal with coming
Speaker 1: back from the quarantine and just the specter of COVID nineteen. Jim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think anything. You know, it's going to be about
Speaker 1: the plans that are laid out in terms of the testing.
Speaker 1: Some things probably will be done differently. Like I said,
Speaker 1: there was a report today Alabama had a workout of
Speaker 1: fifty players. Five guys tested positive for COVID nineteen from
Speaker 1: yesterday to today. So social distancing and all these aspects
Speaker 1: are going to be a part of this, right, That's
Speaker 1: been part of the treatment for this already. So you
Speaker 1: may have to stagger meetings and what I mean by that,
Speaker 1: there's going to be more stuff obviously done outside where
Speaker 1: you can spread out on the fields in terms of
Speaker 1: individual work and all that. So maybe say for Tom Thire,
Speaker 1: the group of offensive linemen, maybe their their meeting breaks
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes early. Hey, guys, go get your equipment on,
Speaker 1: head out to the field, and then maybe the D
Speaker 1: line breaks. You may have to do things like that
Speaker 1: to coordinate just to make sure that guys are separated
Speaker 1: and all those type of things where you can go
Speaker 1: out and have the numbers that you need, just not
Speaker 1: overload the numbers in terms of the teamwork and things
Speaker 1: that need to be you that need to be done.
Speaker 1: You know, you can probably still have O and D
Speaker 1: line and things like that, but you may not be going,
Speaker 1: you know, eleven on eleven, and you may have things
Speaker 1: staggered from field to field so that you have the
Speaker 1: distance where maybe what happened at Alabama today, Again, the
Speaker 1: information is fluid. We know what's ongoing. It's changed from
Speaker 1: when we first heard about COVID nineteen to what things
Speaker 1: are being reported now about COVID nineteen. They have more
Speaker 1: facts about a you know, obviously a virus that mutates
Speaker 1: it is weakening from that standpoint and why these states
Speaker 1: around our country are starting to open up. So these
Speaker 1: are all positive things, but you still want to ensure
Speaker 1: safety of moving forward, and I think that's what the
Speaker 1: league throughout, I think teams, that's what I think states
Speaker 1: around this country are still trying to sort out. So
Speaker 1: doctor Alan Sills, who is with the National Football League,
Speaker 1: told Mark Maski at the Washington Post today, tom quote,
Speaker 1: I think that I personally remained very optimistic they were
Speaker 1: going to be able to have a twenty twenty season
Speaker 1: and along the schedule that we planned. So the deal
Speaker 1: is they are determined to play out two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six regulars and games. He also says the prospects
Speaker 1: for fans in the stands is a conversation we continue
Speaker 1: to have with public health authorities. We're certainly looking for
Speaker 1: solutions and ways we can get fans safely in the
Speaker 1: stands to be part of our games. But the chief
Speaker 1: medical officer they're relying on says he's very optimistic. We
Speaker 1: as fans should be Yeah, I think you should be optimistic,
Speaker 1: but again, there's no plan can start the day before
Speaker 1: the players or the coaches or the buildings are supposed
Speaker 1: to open. I think you have to try to get
Speaker 1: the new protocol in place or at least allowed to
Speaker 1: send a message how things are going to be going forward.
Speaker 1: And then the results of groups getting together, whether it's
Speaker 1: in an office building or on a sports field, that's
Speaker 1: going to tell the story. If it would run rampant again,
Speaker 1: I think that would the decision would be made for you.
Speaker 1: If the protocol that they put into place is protective
Speaker 1: to the people working inside the building, both as athletes
Speaker 1: and the support staff. You'll see evidence of that too.
Speaker 1: So I just think that everything is so fluid it's
Speaker 1: it's almost impossible to sit here and tell you how
Speaker 1: things are exactly gonna be. So yesterday, Kim Hicks, in
Speaker 1: addition answering questions for some twenty eight minutes about what's
Speaker 1: going on nationally at the moment and what's going on
Speaker 1: here in Chicago and Minneapolis, was asked what his readiness
Speaker 1: to play is following his elbow injury against the Raiders
Speaker 1: that ended his season in London. I'm ready to play
Speaker 1: football again. It's this has been a it's been a
Speaker 1: long time. Remember I didn't really get to play this season, right,
Speaker 1: So my season kind of you know, it wrapped up
Speaker 1: in October and then I had one last up rock
Speaker 1: right there in December, and I played four games. I
Speaker 1: missed football, so so I'm ready. My body is doing
Speaker 1: as good as it can, but man, being back on
Speaker 1: that field will probably make it feel a whole lot better.
Speaker 1: We seem to forget that a little bit, Jim, that
Speaker 1: you only did play four games. Four games for one
Speaker 1: of the Pro Bowl players in this league. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure he is. He's chopping at the bit and he's
Speaker 1: a hull of a player and he knows he can
Speaker 1: be a difference maker when he's on the field. So
Speaker 1: trust me, I've walked into shoes and I've felt that
Speaker 1: frustration of sitting on the sidelines and just rehabbing, and
Speaker 1: it's not a fun place to be because you do
Speaker 1: feel you can make a difference. And he's a great leader.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. He has an impact from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, and certainly is play. I mean, he's one
Speaker 1: of the more physical defensive linement in the NFL and
Speaker 1: and can definitely impact this Bears defense that I think
Speaker 1: has upgraded. I like the addition of Robert Quinn and
Speaker 1: see if they can get more one on ones with
Speaker 1: a team on the field, whether it's he or Khalil Mack,
Speaker 1: to really have more impactful plays, whether it's pressures on
Speaker 1: the quarterback or leading to a sack, fumble or something
Speaker 1: like that. So understandable why he wants to get back,
Speaker 1: And I think it doesn't matter what line you were.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people they just want to
Speaker 1: get back to work. I've talked to a lot of
Speaker 1: players around the NFL, from Joe Flacco to everyone that
Speaker 1: I've interviewed, that they're ready to go and they want
Speaker 1: to play. Of course, they want safety to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. They don't want to bring home COVID
Speaker 1: to their families or this to run rampant again, or
Speaker 1: to have any spikes. And I think that's why everybody's
Speaker 1: being cautious of not having over a certain amount of
Speaker 1: people of employees in the building right now, as that
Speaker 1: was just ruled by the NFL. And and hopefully maybe
Speaker 1: another month from now, come training camp time, news will
Speaker 1: be a lot better that where maybe it will be
Speaker 1: ready to go and players will be able to return
Speaker 1: to what they love to do and let's play football
Speaker 1: right up to one hundred as if tomorrow thirty one
Speaker 1: of the thirty two are able to do it based
Speaker 1: on local governments to forty nine is the only one
Speaker 1: they're working on that tom Danny Trevathan is extremely excited
Speaker 1: about Robert Quinn being added to an already strong unit.
Speaker 1: Watched him. I knew what He's been doing it for
Speaker 1: a while. He knows what he's doing. He's a recognition.
Speaker 1: Now you gotta watch this side. You gotta watch this side,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch the middle, you gotta watch the back
Speaker 1: in Frank sevenths and dangerous. I feel like right now
Speaker 1: is the time where we create that communication. Right now,
Speaker 1: one another kind of the first people in the history
Speaker 1: of football to have to deal with a situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. First people in the history this
Speaker 1: one hundred plus year history of the NFL. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I mean in two two damaging subjects of the COVID
Speaker 1: and then the social what's what's going on socially around
Speaker 1: the country. So Danny Trevathan, he you know, is a
Speaker 1: well thought out answers that he in front of the
Speaker 1: media yesterday and then when you sit there and he
Speaker 1: talks about football and he understands his teammates, well, he
Speaker 1: understands what he has in front of him, and he
Speaker 1: understands what ultimately the goal they want to accomplish. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's one of the things about being a team.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that Kim Hicks said
Speaker 1: the other night after the meeting was the meeting changed
Speaker 1: his perspective on life. And that's a bold statement from
Speaker 1: one of the boldest guys on the Chicago Bears. And
Speaker 1: then when you think about the cloud that Danny Trevathan
Speaker 1: carries inside that locker room with his teammates, it's exciting
Speaker 1: to hear for the small bit that we do get
Speaker 1: to hear about his excitement for football, because you got
Speaker 1: to remember, Danny Trevathan missed a lot of the season also,
Speaker 1: and he's one of the most exciting guys. When he's
Speaker 1: out there playing with Roquan Smith, he can make that
Speaker 1: whole team, that whole defense look faster. So when you
Speaker 1: have these guys like Hey, rob Mika, Kiem Hicks, and Danny,
Speaker 1: I think they're interesting guys that listen to their perspective
Speaker 1: on wanting to get back to sports, but also what's
Speaker 1: going on in the world. And Alan Robinson preparing for
Speaker 1: what he feels could be a big season and working
Speaker 1: with Mitchell Trubiski the two. Obviously you're here in the area,
Speaker 1: so they're doing four times a week and overall you're
Speaker 1: not going to find Alan Robinson making any excuses feeling
Speaker 1: great shape. I've been extremely productive throughout this quarantine and
Speaker 1: throughout this offseason. So a game for me, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I said before, I know, I know for a
Speaker 1: fact you am on My best days a football are
Speaker 1: on ahead of me, you know what. I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to continue to stay. He's word dating the bank, you know,
Speaker 1: so I can bring that to the table. And he's
Speaker 1: still a young player, Jim. And when he says his
Speaker 1: best days of football ahead of him now injury free
Speaker 1: after dealing with that Aco tire two years ago, that
Speaker 1: that's a significant statement from him. Yeah. Well, I think
Speaker 1: he's dedicated, he's disciplined, and he's extremely confident. I think
Speaker 1: he knows what he's capable of doing as a player,
Speaker 1: and I think he knows he's greater, he's capable of
Speaker 1: greater than what he's already done. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: impressive young man, both on and off the field. Of
Speaker 1: of how he disciplines himself, he understands his role and
Speaker 1: what he can do to impact a team. And you know,
Speaker 1: I take his words for what it is, because I
Speaker 1: do think he'll be ready to roll. That is that
Speaker 1: is a guy who's serious about his job, his business
Speaker 1: and what he represents as Jim Miller, Tom There, Jeff
Speaker 1: joni Act. This is Bears All Access. One segment to
Speaker 1: go before we hand it off to the top of
Speaker 1: the hour. Thanks for listening, everybody. This is Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes to go here with Tom Thare
Speaker 1: and Jim Elrhim, Jeff Joniak and thanks to Jordan Manley,
Speaker 1: our producer tonight thanks to Lamar Soup Campbell real quick yesterday, Jim,
Speaker 1: we only have like a minute here. Matt Naggie was
Speaker 1: asked specifically when you're evaluating the quarterbacks. He went through
Speaker 1: the I don't need to tell you how you need
Speaker 1: to evaluate the quarterbacks, but a lot of it was
Speaker 1: what you might expect, but he got into great detail
Speaker 1: when this competition does take to the field. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard at all, but you know,
Speaker 1: do you agree with what he said in terms of
Speaker 1: it's about decision making, it's about the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: it's about red zone, it's about taking coaching, and it's
Speaker 1: about improvement. Yeah. Well, it's attention to detail overall, you know,
Speaker 1: it really is, and how efficient you are. You've got
Speaker 1: to be able to execute process a lot of information
Speaker 1: to make the correct decisions. You got to understand what
Speaker 1: you're seeing, whether it's a blitz, whatever type of coverage
Speaker 1: it is. Maybe it's a twist, maybe it's a blit zone.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to understand it, and you got
Speaker 1: to understand how to attack it. How do I make
Speaker 1: whatever the defenses lined up, how do I make them pay?
Speaker 1: And if you understand what you're seeing as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you can gut it and you can gut it every
Speaker 1: time and the probabilities will be in your favor to
Speaker 1: gut it if you understand how to attack it. So,
Speaker 1: and that goes from all phases and just understanding situational
Speaker 1: playing a game in a red zone, Hey, I can't
Speaker 1: take a sack here, I can't take us out of
Speaker 1: field goal range. There's points to be made right here
Speaker 1: to to you know, just throwing a ball away. It's
Speaker 1: been more beneficial to punt right now rather than force
Speaker 1: a ball in there and take a risky throw. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, it is about decision making at all times.
Speaker 1: That's probably paramount at the quarterback because you're responsible every
Speaker 1: time you take that football from the center that you're
Speaker 1: going to be making a decision that could improve your
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