WEBVTT - Tillman talks Bears, Super Bowl | All Access 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.560 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.640 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.600 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.279 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.040 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.040 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:30.320 Physical Therapy and CDW, and the fund continues with Super 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.880 Bowl Week couple of a couple of weeks away. Here 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.760 as we wrap up the week before getting settled, gonna 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.440 be weird seeing teams not really partaking in the whole 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.960 festivities coming in on Saturday, one team having to fly. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.240 Tom Fair, Jeff Jonniak with you on Bears All Access 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.080 brought to you by IGS Energy. But we got the 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.239 senior ball already. Looking ahead to the draft prospects, I 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.920 know I'm starting to do high research. I call my 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:55.920 good buddy up, Tom Thare and say, hey, you got 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.680 to hear about this guy. You gotta hear about that guy, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.320 and I'll be anxious to go back on NFL Network 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.280 later today and see some of the practice tape. So 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.840 how you doing tonight? To good You know you started 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.039 this segment by saying, it's a fun of the super 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.199 Bowl week and the only fun for me this week 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.200 is reminiscing about the thirty five year anniversary of the 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.920 eighty five team. But there's always that lingering envy, that lingering. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.800 It's not jealousy, because I envy the position these guys 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:27.000 have worked themselves into having this opportunity. Whether you're in 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.920 it for the second time around in Kansas City or 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.640 you're in it for the tenth time around, like Tom Brady, 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.679 there's always that remembrance of what a great time it is. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.920 And like you were right, you addressed the fun of 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.520 the super Bowl because that's what it is. There's a 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.640 lot of hard work, but there's a lot of fun opportunities, 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.640 a lot of fun introductions and meetings that you have 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.639 to you get to have in those couple of weeks. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.240 But and again, like you said, unlike any other super 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:58.040 Bowl preparedness, this is different. Yeah, very different. First one 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.120 to twenty five years. I won't be at no. I 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.080 was thinking about that. I was talking to some people 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.120 about that because they said, oh, I bet you. Jeff 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.360 Joni X really excited because he gets to go to 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.079 the super Bowl Bowl every year and I go, Yeah, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.880 he is excited when he gets to go. But this 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.320 is kind of a different monster here, just because if 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.799 they don't have the mass media radio role and all 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.480 those other things going on there. Yeah, I'll be done 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.000 virtually this time around. But well, we'll get you all 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.320 the information you need. We'll break it down. Maybe not 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.200 so much this week's show, but next week as we 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.600 preview the matchup between Tampa Bay and the Kansas City 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.200 Chiefs trying to repeat as champions. Coming up, we'll be 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.680 talking to our good buddy, Jim Miller, the former Chicago 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.280 Bears quarterback from Serious Sexam NFL Radio. He'll be coming 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.160 up here shortly for a few segments tonight, and we're 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.880 expected to hear from Charles Peanut Tillman tonight as the 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.239 NFL did a very nice thing including all thirty two 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.280 teams and they're sending some vaccinated healthcare workers to the 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.919 Super Bowl in Tampa. That'll be fun for them. They'll 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.079 be among the twenty two thousand that will be allowed 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.000 in that stadium. Tommy, right, And you know that's another 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.760 other thing that's different, because I think when you're an 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.840 active player and you go to the Super Bowl. I 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.480 think when we went, I think everybody got maybe twenty tickets, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.800 and so you had twenty tickets to distribute amongst family members, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.040 and I got to assume the number is going to 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.399 be similar for the players this year, to get their 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.160 family and their support systems involved. But when you talk 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.880 about the presentation to the healthcare workers that have put 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.280 in so many dangerous hours over this past year, I 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.840 wish all twenty thousand was healthcare workers from around the 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.800 country and the guys that have sacrificed so much and 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.800 the you know, seven days a week hours that some 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.600 of these support healthcare workers that put in. So yeah, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.160 I'm proud of the players. I'm happy for the players, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.760 but I'm also glad that there is a reflection of 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.680 the appreciation from the country to the people that put 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.920 a lot on the line over the year. Well with 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.360 you and Miller and Peanut, three Super Bowl participants, two 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:00.400 of you were winners, including Jim and Super Bowl xxxx 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.560 and a World Bowl. Remember the World Bowl, the World 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.119 Bowl champion in nineteen ninety five. We'll talk to Jim 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.640 about that coming up as well. Senior Bowl Week though 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.840 really getting a lot of attention, as is the coaches 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.520 that are being added to the Bears defensive staff. The 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.880 acknowledgement today that Chris Rump leaving the Houston Texans for 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.040 the Bears. He was linebackers coach there, tim and he'll 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.960 be defensive line coach here. But the bulk of his 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:30.560 experience is in college, and you coach at the following universities. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.280 From Tennessee where he's co defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.040 and then a d line coach at Florida, at Texas, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:42.159 at Alabama, at Clemson, you pretty much coached NFL players 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.719 because a bulk of those guys are in the National 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.960 Football agre have been over the course of his eighteen years, right. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.080 I mean, he's earned this opportunity because he's coached every 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.680 element of the defensive side of the ball, from defensive line, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.559 the linebackers to defensive backs. He was a high school 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.240 head coach back in the early portions of his career, 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.200 and he he's a guy when you have, you know, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.400 eighteen years in the college ranks, I mean, you're paying 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.800 your dues, You're doing exactly what's asked of you when 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.680 you want to put your name in the hat to 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.159 be evaluated for a coach at the professional level, and 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.400 I'm glad that the Bears have gone out there and 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.960 researched and brought in a player that has big experience 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.560 around big players, but he also has big experience himself. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.640 So I'm glad to see that for Seawan decide to 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.400 get his staff started, that they bring in a defensive 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.960 line coach that you know, has experience with all three 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.479 courses of defensive play and a player himself at South 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:43.120 Carolina back in his college days. Also reports out there 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.359 that Bill McGovern, who worked on the Eagles and Giants 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.880 staffs and was a defensive coordinator at Boston College when 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:55.000 Shawn Decide was the special team's coordinator, also reportedly headed 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.479 to the Bears, his inside linebackers coach. He spent last 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.920 season as a defensive analyst at Nebraska. Not official from 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.880 the team just yet, but things to keep an eye on, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.159 but coming up next well. Be joined by Jim Miller, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.960 the bears former starting quarterback in that two thousand and 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.040 one playoff season and a host on sirius x M 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.120 NFL Radio. That's all coming up next on Bears All Access, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.000 brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:24.480 six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.039 brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.120 your home at IGS dot com because every good choice 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.680 adds up to a better world. With Tom Thayer, I' 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.000 Jeff Jonnyac joined by our good pal Jim Miller, the 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.520 starting quarterback for your two thousand and one playoff team, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.640 your Chicago Bears. Unfortunately could not finish that game, got 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.919 banged up a little bit. I was looking for the 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:52.800 upset big Jim. Was that Hugh Douglas. Oh good lord, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.240 he's thirty grande later in the pocket. But I give 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.560 very big to play that game, you know, keep on going, 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.040 final game, Soldier Field. I thought we had that one 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.480 in the bag. Felt very good about going into that. Yeah, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.160 break down that play for us. What happened, Well, it 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.920 was we called it was a play called tool Weight 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.360 where I roll out to the right and it's a 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.600 curl flat concept. So you got Marty in Dez White 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:21.000 out there in a two receiver to that side. Marty 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.480 was on the inside, he ran the quick flat. Des 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.240 was the outside receiver. He's scheduled to run a curl. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.480 But the Philadelphia corner sat on the curl route. So 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.640 des did the right thing. He threw up his hand 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.760 and started to run to the back of the end 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.520 zone because we had already driven down the field. We 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.440 were in the regime, we were at a score on 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.880 this particular play, and I underthrew that ball. I hesitated. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.680 I should have thrown it to the back corner of 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.040 the end zone. I think we would have had a 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.520 touchdown on the play. I underthrew it because you know, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.440 something like that is just reaction. It hadn't happened all year. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.040 But Dez did the right thing, and I just reacted 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.080 too slow to it. Under threw the football and then 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.120 of course it gets intercepted and I've run into the 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.280 sideline to make the tackle and Hugh picked me up 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.800 in body slamming and six years surgeries later, my shoulder 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:09.920 finally got right. It's amazing the detail here remembers Tommy. Yeah, 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.160 you know, Jim. But getting back to that, and let's 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.480 update it because I was reading this article about Davante 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.040 Adams talking about how he and Aaron Rodgers have a 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.960 telepathic relationship. Tell me a little bit about the relationship 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.440 with your relationship from with receivers in the course of 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.320 your career that there's no time for verbal communication. So 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.959 it's eye contact, it's a hand motion, it's some type 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.600 of movement that you can tell that player. Look, this 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.440 is what I'm expecting for you. Now let's work it out. Yeah, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.760 you know, just on that play for for Dez because 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.320 the inside technique of the corner, it was just going 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.480 to be it would have been too difficult for Dez 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.360 to try and cross the dbat's face and try and 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.160 come down a stem on the curl route. So we 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.240 have a code a rule in football. Hey, if it's uh, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.000 if they're giving you the go route, raise your hand. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.760 That'll be the signal for the for the quarterback. And 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.000 it again that that situation hadn't come up all year. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.760 We'd run that play numerous times. That play is pretty 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.440 much in the game plan every single week, and that 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.319 never happened where a team had played it defensively like that, 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.680 And you know, so you kind of takes you by surprise, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.760 and I reacted a little too late, unfortunately. And bottom 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.000 line is when I throw the football, just deliver it 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.440 to the back piline of the end zone. But does 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.440 gave me the signal, Hey man, I'm taking it, Jim, 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.320 throw it out here. Is basically what he's telling you 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.120 is telling the quarterback what to do myself. And I 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:36.840 didn't put enough on it to throw it to the 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.080 to the back of the end zone. And it's still 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.200 you know, you remember things like that, you know, you know, 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.920 I'm one of those guys that I don't know how 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.720 you were, Tom, But when I at the end of 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.040 a game, all I think about are the bad plays. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.600 How do I correct this? How do I And they 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.480 just they eat at you. You know, You're like, man, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.760 I'm better than that. I can't believe I because I 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.840 know I can make that throw in my sleep. You 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.920 know what where that ball needed to be on that 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.920 particular play. And you don't forget things like that. Do 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.480 you each have one moment in your career you want back? 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.720 Just one one? You know? We we were playing the 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.480 Cleveland Browns opening week of this one season, and early 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.720 in the game I gave up a sack to Sam 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.559 Clancy and I said to myself, right there, I go, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.880 oh my god, I'm on pace to give up sixteen 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.839 sacks this year. And I still remember because it's it's 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.600 still haunting because the first game of the season, early 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.520 in the game, you give up a sack. Well, you know, 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.000 he's more athletic than your town a basketball player out 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.880 of pit. He was longer. That was it. I'm but 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.840 but again, it's one of those plays that you know, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.959 you're reminded of every time you see it happen on 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.439 the field today. Um, for me, it would be back 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.880 in college. We were playing Penn State and we were 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.800 up thirty seven to ten, and it was the second 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.319 half of that game. All these things went wrong. I 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.840 remember Bobby Ingram. Bobby Ingram was on that Penn State 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.840 team and Carry Collins was the quarterback. We had a play. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.120 We're up, like I said, thirty seven to ten, and 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.199 late in the game there was a play a currroute, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.319 almost a similar situation, and I threw the ball maybe 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.840 two maybe about a foot too high, and it goes 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.640 It was a wet day because it was late, it 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.240 was late in November, and the ball went through the 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.520 receiver's hands and I'm thinking, how did I not put 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.840 that on that receiver's chest? And I just remember that play, 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.560 and all of a sudden, the momentum change. They threw 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.520 a bomb and then they are punter. We went out 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.199 and we had a three and out and our punter's 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.200 knee hit the ground, so they called him down when 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.000 he was trying to punt. They were now in a 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.640 red zone. They score another touchdown. Carrie Collins and Bobby 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.640 Ingram throw another touchdown. They end up winning the game 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.640 thirty eight to thirty seven to the day. I'm thinking, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.760 if you put that ball on that player's chest, we're 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.199 walking out and we would have went to I think 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.360 that was a year we would have went to the 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.720 Rose Bowl if we win that game. I think it's 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:05.400 what was. Oh it was so yeah. That'll leave him Mark, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.920 That'll leave him Mark, my friend. All right, let's talk 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.160 about the news of the day, really, and it's gonna 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.079 be this way the entire off season. I know he 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.240 did something for with Bob Sochi, the Voice of the 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.240 Patriots today on his podcast, just talking about the quarterback 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.840 carousel and everything you're reading and hearing is, you know, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.679 people are making all these projections about the chess match 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.520 and or checkers, whatever game you want to apply. You know, 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.120 there could be fifteen or eighteen different moves that all 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.640 start really with one of the dominoes. Falling, and it's 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.959 it's I guess dealer's choice on which one of those 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.120 dominoes will fall first and where it all lands. But Jim, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.280 how do you classify or characterize or put an adjective 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.400 on what this quarterback carousel in twenty twenty one is 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.600 gonna be? Like, Yeah, there's gonna be a ton of movement. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.120 You know, you already know Stafford wants out of Detroit. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.800 Deshaun Watson that's out today, he wants out of Houston. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.160 And you know, for the players, you're gonna have to 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.480 have a lot of compensation, and you're taking on those 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.640 contracts which are big in a season where the salary 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.120 cap is going down, the Deshaun Watson deal is gonna 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.079 get crazy. I can see why the Jets should be interested. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.480 The Jets have the number two pick. We know that 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.800 Trevor Lawrence probably will be number one by Jacksonville. I 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.719 just you know, we can't we can I don't want 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.280 to say we can predict these things. I mean this 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:31.200 is how it's looking right now. Yeah, educated guesses. But 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.600 because you would think the Jets have the draft compensation 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.559 to give Houston, you know that's literally going to be 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.839 three number one picks for Deshaun Watson, and I think 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.520 it's probably gonna be a couple more. It may be 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.199 three ones and two twos, and that's all well and 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.200 good time. But Deshaun Watson has no trade class, so 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.720 he could turn down something he doesn't want. Yeah, you know, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:57.120 I'm interested, so is Cam Newton. Have forgotten about entity 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.920 in this whole quarterback deal because he doesn't have a 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.760 big salary that's attached to him. He could go out 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.720 there and find a team that he believes that his 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.480 talent is a good fit for the supporting cast around him. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.199 And I know the biggest names, Matthew Stafford. Look, I 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.120 admire the guy. He's got all kinds of arm talent, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.800 he's super intelligent, he's dedicated to the game. He was 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.880 rarely supported in Detroit, but he misses games and he's 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.680 got health issues, and so you know, I don't I 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.040 don't know what they're expecting to get out to Matthew Stafford. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.320 So and Deshaun Watson. I would do everything in my 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.320 power if I was the Texans not to let him 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.360 go anywhere, and I would try to keep him in 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.200 the mix. That what a disaster going on in Houston. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.560 Right now, you bring up paid, there's gonna be other 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.720 quarterbacks available. I mean, what's gonna happen with Dak Prescott. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.640 They can't get a long term deal. I can't believe 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.680 Dallas can franchise tag him again with the cap that 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.240 would be forty million dollars alone. You hear Ben Roethlisberger. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.440 They can't. He can't return to Pittsburgh. He's scheduled to 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.480 make a forty million dollars hit against the cap to Pittsburgh. Well, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.280 he said today he will make he will give up 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.600 whatever it takes. Well, I think that sounds good. Hey Ben, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.520 will you play for League Minimal? Do you think you 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.920 look at it? Dart Bear. I don't want to put 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.360 words in his mouth, but it certainly sounded like he'd 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.800 like one more crack at it in Pittsburgh. Yeah, he 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.680 probably will. That'll probably stay there, And you know, you 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.240 look at their their GM Kevin Colbert, he's kind of 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.200 tied to Big Ben. He's just been signing year to 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.920 year deals. So you would likely think that Ben would 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.080 return there and they'll work it Outum, all right, we'll 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.840 pick up that conversation after a break with Tom there 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.720 and Jim Mella. I'm Jeff joningy ACC and this is 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:43.920 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Jeff, Jonnyac, Tom 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.680 There and Jim Miller from Serious x M NFL Radio 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.120 pack with you on Bears All Access and the Chicago 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.200 Bears Network presents Inside the Bears, brought to you by Verizon. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.040 Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeten cover the world of Bears 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.440 football on and off the field every Sunday night at 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.840 ten thirty five pm on Box thirty two Chicago, or 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.040 watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com or on the 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.400 Bears official apt Peanut Tillman at the bottom of the 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.440 hour to join us as well. Jim, Senior Bowl going 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:14.640 on in mobile. I know you're watching it. What's sticking out? 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.200 What's the big story right now? Because obviously is going 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.200 to be quarterbacks again, at least the senior quarterbacks, and 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.560 the kid from Alabama might have sprained his ankle today 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.640 so may not play in the game, which to me, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.040 the practice is more important than the game, as it 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.200 is every year. But what's the overreaching big story right now? 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.240 From the senior boy Tom, Tom will appreciate this. What 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.360 I'm about to say, because here you've got the big 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:42.680 offensive lineman down here, like Alex Leatherwood of University of Alabama. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.200 He's got his teammates Dickinson, Dickerson, excuse me, Landon, he's 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.720 got the torn acl he can't participate, but he is here. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.680 I mean, these are terrific offensive whyman that are down here. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.680 But it's a small school guys that are really showing up. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:59.000 There's a kid from Wisconsin, Whitewater Quinn Miners. This guy 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.960 played left guard. He opted out here in twenty twenty, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.800 didn't play, so he hasn't played for a year. Goes 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.720 down there. They asked him to play center. He gets 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.520 a text a day before he arrives says, hey, we 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.640 had some centers cancel. Can you move to center? He's 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.160 never played center, says yeah, I'll do it. He breaks 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.200 his hand today, finishes the practice. He's going to play 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.520 in the game. He's been probably one of the best 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.240 offensive lineman down here. Also, you look at Spencer Brown 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:29.080 North Dakota State. He's been terrific with how he's played. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.879 I mean, it's really the small school offensive lineman that 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.200 have really shown up. A Dylan ran Dunce Here's here's 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.000 a young player that to me, he looks like the 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.359 best left tackle you know, and he's looked terrific down 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.960 here in Mobile. So it's been a you know, I 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.760 think the old lineman had been great, but I'm telling 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:53.080 you that minors, he pancaked three guys drive blocked him 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.239 Tom ten yards down the field. Good players, these are 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.840 the top players in the country. Three times that happened 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.520 in the first practice. Tell him, tell him, tell him, 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.680 tell him what we talked about for about a half 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.720 hour yesterday. Quinn miners right. It's just so I Jeff 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.960 had sent me some of the highlights from the practices, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.000 and so you do get a chance to watch him 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.680 and I first there was a still shot. I saw 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.200 them and it wasn't real appealing. It was a big 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.080 gut sticking out of this half jersey. That's his name, Gut, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.400 that's his name name, he told me today I interviewed him. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.120 His nickname was Gutt in high school, it was Gutton College, 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.199 and it's Gut down in Mobile. You know, when when 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.720 you look at these smaller schools, you know, I don't 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.080 I don't think I think talent can grow anywhere. Because 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.240 Jim during our or probably maybe at the beginning of 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.199 your area. At the end of my era, there's a 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.040 guy named Tom Newberry. He was from one of these 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.560 University of Wisconsin. He was lacrosse or Whitewater or something, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.600 but he became a Pro Bowl offensive guard with with 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.239 the Los Angeles Rams back then. And so when you 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.040 get these guys and they happened to have a growth 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.320 spurt during college, or they went to a program in 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.600 high school that didn't attract very many recruiters, and then 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.879 they end up going through a successful, healthy college program 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.720 and then getting invited to these bowl games. And then 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.320 it only takes them a matter of a couple of 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.040 snaps of practice to realize they belong and they can 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:16.760 go out there and they can be as equally as 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:21.359 competitive of those guys from Clemson, Alabama, Notre Dame, wherever 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.800 wherever you want to you know, big school you want 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.280 to say they're from. So I get I get excited 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.159 to watch some of these small college kids, not you know, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.480 well the lesser known college kids that come in here 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.360 and have an unbelievable week or it is it Hassan 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.480 Riddick is either linebacker from Temple. Yeah, a couple of 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.399 years ago after Senior Bowl practice is watching him and 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:48.200 him just fly around the field and really finally starting 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.439 to come into his own at the NFL level. But 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.680 you know you sometimes these guys they get on the 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.440 center of the radar and they never lose it once 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.160 they start playing against some of that better talent, Jim. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.800 That happened with Ali, Mark Pett and Ben Bartsch last year. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.360 These are Division three programs, and the and the wrinkle 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.480 this year is a guy like Miners. He didn't play 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.959 last season. There was no season. So these small schools, 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.920 the naias, the Division two, the threes, the FCS programs. Heck, 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.240 they're just gonna get started here in March. That schedule's 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.760 coming out for all these small school conferences. But this 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.600 is his chance, Like this is the chance with no 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:33.840 traditional combine this week is critical. And I know I 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.000 read this, but I also agree with this, Jim, and 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.480 maybe you could echo it biring injury of some significance 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:43.280