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Speaker 1: Bowl Week couple of a couple of weeks away. Here
Speaker 1: as we wrap up the week before getting settled, gonna
Speaker 1: be weird seeing teams not really partaking in the whole
Speaker 1: festivities coming in on Saturday, one team having to fly.
Speaker 1: Tom Fair, Jeff Jonniak with you on Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: senior ball already. Looking ahead to the draft prospects, I
Speaker 1: know I'm starting to do high research. I call my
Speaker 1: good buddy up, Tom Thare and say, hey, you got
Speaker 1: to hear about this guy. You gotta hear about that guy,
Speaker 1: and I'll be anxious to go back on NFL Network
Speaker 1: later today and see some of the practice tape. So
Speaker 1: how you doing tonight? To good You know you started
Speaker 1: this segment by saying, it's a fun of the super
Speaker 1: Bowl week and the only fun for me this week
Speaker 1: is reminiscing about the thirty five year anniversary of the
Speaker 1: eighty five team. But there's always that lingering envy, that lingering.
Speaker 1: It's not jealousy, because I envy the position these guys
Speaker 1: have worked themselves into having this opportunity. Whether you're in
Speaker 1: it for the second time around in Kansas City or
Speaker 1: you're in it for the tenth time around, like Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: there's always that remembrance of what a great time it is.
Speaker 1: And like you were right, you addressed the fun of
Speaker 1: the super Bowl because that's what it is. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of hard work, but there's a lot of fun opportunities,
Speaker 1: a lot of fun introductions and meetings that you have
Speaker 1: to you get to have in those couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But and again, like you said, unlike any other super
Speaker 1: Bowl preparedness, this is different. Yeah, very different. First one
Speaker 1: to twenty five years. I won't be at no. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about that. I was talking to some people
Speaker 1: about that because they said, oh, I bet you. Jeff
Speaker 1: Joni X really excited because he gets to go to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl Bowl every year and I go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is excited when he gets to go. But this
Speaker 1: is kind of a different monster here, just because if
Speaker 1: they don't have the mass media radio role and all
Speaker 1: those other things going on there. Yeah, I'll be done
Speaker 1: virtually this time around. But well, we'll get you all
Speaker 1: the information you need. We'll break it down. Maybe not
Speaker 1: so much this week's show, but next week as we
Speaker 1: preview the matchup between Tampa Bay and the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Chiefs trying to repeat as champions. Coming up, we'll be
Speaker 1: talking to our good buddy, Jim Miller, the former Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears quarterback from Serious Sexam NFL Radio. He'll be coming
Speaker 1: up here shortly for a few segments tonight, and we're
Speaker 1: expected to hear from Charles Peanut Tillman tonight as the
Speaker 1: NFL did a very nice thing including all thirty two
Speaker 1: teams and they're sending some vaccinated healthcare workers to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in Tampa. That'll be fun for them. They'll
Speaker 1: be among the twenty two thousand that will be allowed
Speaker 1: in that stadium. Tommy, right, And you know that's another
Speaker 1: other thing that's different, because I think when you're an
Speaker 1: active player and you go to the Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: think when we went, I think everybody got maybe twenty tickets,
Speaker 1: and so you had twenty tickets to distribute amongst family members,
Speaker 1: and I got to assume the number is going to
Speaker 1: be similar for the players this year, to get their
Speaker 1: family and their support systems involved. But when you talk
Speaker 1: about the presentation to the healthcare workers that have put
Speaker 1: in so many dangerous hours over this past year, I
Speaker 1: wish all twenty thousand was healthcare workers from around the
Speaker 1: country and the guys that have sacrificed so much and
Speaker 1: the you know, seven days a week hours that some
Speaker 1: of these support healthcare workers that put in. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of the players. I'm happy for the players,
Speaker 1: but I'm also glad that there is a reflection of
Speaker 1: the appreciation from the country to the people that put
Speaker 1: a lot on the line over the year. Well with
Speaker 1: you and Miller and Peanut, three Super Bowl participants, two
Speaker 1: of you were winners, including Jim and Super Bowl xxxx
Speaker 1: and a World Bowl. Remember the World Bowl, the World
Speaker 1: Bowl champion in nineteen ninety five. We'll talk to Jim
Speaker 1: about that coming up as well. Senior Bowl Week though
Speaker 1: really getting a lot of attention, as is the coaches
Speaker 1: that are being added to the Bears defensive staff. The
Speaker 1: acknowledgement today that Chris Rump leaving the Houston Texans for
Speaker 1: the Bears. He was linebackers coach there, tim and he'll
Speaker 1: be defensive line coach here. But the bulk of his
Speaker 1: experience is in college, and you coach at the following universities.
Speaker 1: From Tennessee where he's co defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach,
Speaker 1: and then a d line coach at Florida, at Texas,
Speaker 1: at Alabama, at Clemson, you pretty much coached NFL players
Speaker 1: because a bulk of those guys are in the National
Speaker 1: Football agre have been over the course of his eighteen years, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's earned this opportunity because he's coached every
Speaker 1: element of the defensive side of the ball, from defensive line,
Speaker 1: the linebackers to defensive backs. He was a high school
Speaker 1: head coach back in the early portions of his career,
Speaker 1: and he he's a guy when you have, you know,
Speaker 1: eighteen years in the college ranks, I mean, you're paying
Speaker 1: your dues, You're doing exactly what's asked of you when
Speaker 1: you want to put your name in the hat to
Speaker 1: be evaluated for a coach at the professional level, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad that the Bears have gone out there and
Speaker 1: researched and brought in a player that has big experience
Speaker 1: around big players, but he also has big experience himself.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad to see that for Seawan decide to
Speaker 1: get his staff started, that they bring in a defensive
Speaker 1: line coach that you know, has experience with all three
Speaker 1: courses of defensive play and a player himself at South
Speaker 1: Carolina back in his college days. Also reports out there
Speaker 1: that Bill McGovern, who worked on the Eagles and Giants
Speaker 1: staffs and was a defensive coordinator at Boston College when
Speaker 1: Shawn Decide was the special team's coordinator, also reportedly headed
Speaker 1: to the Bears, his inside linebackers coach. He spent last
Speaker 1: season as a defensive analyst at Nebraska. Not official from
Speaker 1: the team just yet, but things to keep an eye on,
Speaker 1: but coming up next well. Be joined by Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: the bears former starting quarterback in that two thousand and
Speaker 1: one playoff season and a host on sirius x M
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Speaker 1: six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: adds up to a better world. With Tom Thayer, I'
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonnyac joined by our good pal Jim Miller, the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for your two thousand and one playoff team,
Speaker 1: your Chicago Bears. Unfortunately could not finish that game, got
Speaker 1: banged up a little bit. I was looking for the
Speaker 1: upset big Jim. Was that Hugh Douglas. Oh good lord,
Speaker 1: he's thirty grande later in the pocket. But I give
Speaker 1: very big to play that game, you know, keep on going,
Speaker 1: final game, Soldier Field. I thought we had that one
Speaker 1: in the bag. Felt very good about going into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: break down that play for us. What happened, Well, it
Speaker 1: was we called it was a play called tool Weight
Speaker 1: where I roll out to the right and it's a
Speaker 1: curl flat concept. So you got Marty in Dez White
Speaker 1: out there in a two receiver to that side. Marty
Speaker 1: was on the inside, he ran the quick flat. Des
Speaker 1: was the outside receiver. He's scheduled to run a curl.
Speaker 1: But the Philadelphia corner sat on the curl route. So
Speaker 1: des did the right thing. He threw up his hand
Speaker 1: and started to run to the back of the end
Speaker 1: zone because we had already driven down the field. We
Speaker 1: were in the regime, we were at a score on
Speaker 1: this particular play, and I underthrew that ball. I hesitated.
Speaker 1: I should have thrown it to the back corner of
Speaker 1: the end zone. I think we would have had a
Speaker 1: touchdown on the play. I underthrew it because you know,
Speaker 1: something like that is just reaction. It hadn't happened all year.
Speaker 1: But Dez did the right thing, and I just reacted
Speaker 1: too slow to it. Under threw the football and then
Speaker 1: of course it gets intercepted and I've run into the
Speaker 1: sideline to make the tackle and Hugh picked me up
Speaker 1: in body slamming and six years surgeries later, my shoulder
Speaker 1: finally got right. It's amazing the detail here remembers Tommy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Jim. But getting back to that, and let's
Speaker 1: update it because I was reading this article about Davante
Speaker 1: Adams talking about how he and Aaron Rodgers have a
Speaker 1: telepathic relationship. Tell me a little bit about the relationship
Speaker 1: with your relationship from with receivers in the course of
Speaker 1: your career that there's no time for verbal communication. So
Speaker 1: it's eye contact, it's a hand motion, it's some type
Speaker 1: of movement that you can tell that player. Look, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm expecting for you. Now let's work it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just on that play for for Dez because
Speaker 1: the inside technique of the corner, it was just going
Speaker 1: to be it would have been too difficult for Dez
Speaker 1: to try and cross the dbat's face and try and
Speaker 1: come down a stem on the curl route. So we
Speaker 1: have a code a rule in football. Hey, if it's uh,
Speaker 1: if they're giving you the go route, raise your hand.
Speaker 1: That'll be the signal for the for the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: it again that that situation hadn't come up all year.
Speaker 1: We'd run that play numerous times. That play is pretty
Speaker 1: much in the game plan every single week, and that
Speaker 1: never happened where a team had played it defensively like that,
Speaker 1: And you know, so you kind of takes you by surprise,
Speaker 1: and I reacted a little too late, unfortunately. And bottom
Speaker 1: line is when I throw the football, just deliver it
Speaker 1: to the back piline of the end zone. But does
Speaker 1: gave me the signal, Hey man, I'm taking it, Jim,
Speaker 1: throw it out here. Is basically what he's telling you
Speaker 1: is telling the quarterback what to do myself. And I
Speaker 1: didn't put enough on it to throw it to the
Speaker 1: to the back of the end zone. And it's still
Speaker 1: you know, you remember things like that, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those guys that I don't know how
Speaker 1: you were, Tom, But when I at the end of
Speaker 1: a game, all I think about are the bad plays.
Speaker 1: How do I correct this? How do I And they
Speaker 1: just they eat at you. You know, You're like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm better than that. I can't believe I because I
Speaker 1: know I can make that throw in my sleep. You
Speaker 1: know what where that ball needed to be on that
Speaker 1: particular play. And you don't forget things like that. Do
Speaker 1: you each have one moment in your career you want back?
Speaker 1: Just one one? You know? We we were playing the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns opening week of this one season, and early
Speaker 1: in the game I gave up a sack to Sam
Speaker 1: Clancy and I said to myself, right there, I go,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm on pace to give up sixteen
Speaker 1: sacks this year. And I still remember because it's it's
Speaker 1: still haunting because the first game of the season, early
Speaker 1: in the game, you give up a sack. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: he's more athletic than your town a basketball player out
Speaker 1: of pit. He was longer. That was it. I'm but
Speaker 1: but again, it's one of those plays that you know,
Speaker 1: you're reminded of every time you see it happen on
Speaker 1: the field today. Um, for me, it would be back
Speaker 1: in college. We were playing Penn State and we were
Speaker 1: up thirty seven to ten, and it was the second
Speaker 1: half of that game. All these things went wrong. I
Speaker 1: remember Bobby Ingram. Bobby Ingram was on that Penn State
Speaker 1: team and Carry Collins was the quarterback. We had a play.
Speaker 1: We're up, like I said, thirty seven to ten, and
Speaker 1: late in the game there was a play a currroute,
Speaker 1: almost a similar situation, and I threw the ball maybe
Speaker 1: two maybe about a foot too high, and it goes
Speaker 1: It was a wet day because it was late, it
Speaker 1: was late in November, and the ball went through the
Speaker 1: receiver's hands and I'm thinking, how did I not put
Speaker 1: that on that receiver's chest? And I just remember that play,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the momentum change. They threw
Speaker 1: a bomb and then they are punter. We went out
Speaker 1: and we had a three and out and our punter's
Speaker 1: knee hit the ground, so they called him down when
Speaker 1: he was trying to punt. They were now in a
Speaker 1: red zone. They score another touchdown. Carrie Collins and Bobby
Speaker 1: Ingram throw another touchdown. They end up winning the game
Speaker 1: thirty eight to thirty seven to the day. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: if you put that ball on that player's chest, we're
Speaker 1: walking out and we would have went to I think
Speaker 1: that was a year we would have went to the
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl if we win that game. I think it's
Speaker 1: what was. Oh it was so yeah. That'll leave him Mark,
Speaker 1: That'll leave him Mark, my friend. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the news of the day, really, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be this way the entire off season. I know he
Speaker 1: did something for with Bob Sochi, the Voice of the
Speaker 1: Patriots today on his podcast, just talking about the quarterback
Speaker 1: carousel and everything you're reading and hearing is, you know,
Speaker 1: people are making all these projections about the chess match
Speaker 1: and or checkers, whatever game you want to apply. You know,
Speaker 1: there could be fifteen or eighteen different moves that all
Speaker 1: start really with one of the dominoes. Falling, and it's
Speaker 1: it's I guess dealer's choice on which one of those
Speaker 1: dominoes will fall first and where it all lands. But Jim,
Speaker 1: how do you classify or characterize or put an adjective
Speaker 1: on what this quarterback carousel in twenty twenty one is
Speaker 1: gonna be? Like, Yeah, there's gonna be a ton of movement.
Speaker 1: You know, you already know Stafford wants out of Detroit.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson that's out today, he wants out of Houston.
Speaker 1: And you know, for the players, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have a lot of compensation, and you're taking on those
Speaker 1: contracts which are big in a season where the salary
Speaker 1: cap is going down, the Deshaun Watson deal is gonna
Speaker 1: get crazy. I can see why the Jets should be interested.
Speaker 1: The Jets have the number two pick. We know that
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence probably will be number one by Jacksonville. I
Speaker 1: just you know, we can't we can I don't want
Speaker 1: to say we can predict these things. I mean this
Speaker 1: is how it's looking right now. Yeah, educated guesses. But
Speaker 1: because you would think the Jets have the draft compensation
Speaker 1: to give Houston, you know that's literally going to be
Speaker 1: three number one picks for Deshaun Watson, and I think
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be a couple more. It may be
Speaker 1: three ones and two twos, and that's all well and
Speaker 1: good time. But Deshaun Watson has no trade class, so
Speaker 1: he could turn down something he doesn't want. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm interested, so is Cam Newton. Have forgotten about entity
Speaker 1: in this whole quarterback deal because he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: big salary that's attached to him. He could go out
Speaker 1: there and find a team that he believes that his
Speaker 1: talent is a good fit for the supporting cast around him.
Speaker 1: And I know the biggest names, Matthew Stafford. Look, I
Speaker 1: admire the guy. He's got all kinds of arm talent,
Speaker 1: he's super intelligent, he's dedicated to the game. He was
Speaker 1: rarely supported in Detroit, but he misses games and he's
Speaker 1: got health issues, and so you know, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what they're expecting to get out to Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: So and Deshaun Watson. I would do everything in my
Speaker 1: power if I was the Texans not to let him
Speaker 1: go anywhere, and I would try to keep him in
Speaker 1: the mix. That what a disaster going on in Houston.
Speaker 1: Right now, you bring up paid, there's gonna be other
Speaker 1: quarterbacks available. I mean, what's gonna happen with Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: They can't get a long term deal. I can't believe
Speaker 1: Dallas can franchise tag him again with the cap that
Speaker 1: would be forty million dollars alone. You hear Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: They can't. He can't return to Pittsburgh. He's scheduled to
Speaker 1: make a forty million dollars hit against the cap to Pittsburgh. Well,
Speaker 1: he said today he will make he will give up
Speaker 1: whatever it takes. Well, I think that sounds good. Hey Ben,
Speaker 1: will you play for League Minimal? Do you think you
Speaker 1: look at it? Dart Bear. I don't want to put
Speaker 1: words in his mouth, but it certainly sounded like he'd
Speaker 1: like one more crack at it in Pittsburgh. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: probably will. That'll probably stay there, And you know, you
Speaker 1: look at their their GM Kevin Colbert, he's kind of
Speaker 1: tied to Big Ben. He's just been signing year to
Speaker 1: year deals. So you would likely think that Ben would
Speaker 1: return there and they'll work it Outum, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: pick up that conversation after a break with Tom there
Speaker 1: and Jim Mella. I'm Jeff joningy ACC and this is
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Jeff, Jonnyac, Tom
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Speaker 1: Bears official apt Peanut Tillman at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: hour to join us as well. Jim, Senior Bowl going
Speaker 1: on in mobile. I know you're watching it. What's sticking out?
Speaker 1: What's the big story right now? Because obviously is going
Speaker 1: to be quarterbacks again, at least the senior quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: the kid from Alabama might have sprained his ankle today
Speaker 1: so may not play in the game, which to me,
Speaker 1: the practice is more important than the game, as it
Speaker 1: is every year. But what's the overreaching big story right now?
Speaker 1: From the senior boy Tom, Tom will appreciate this. What
Speaker 1: I'm about to say, because here you've got the big
Speaker 1: offensive lineman down here, like Alex Leatherwood of University of Alabama.
Speaker 1: He's got his teammates Dickinson, Dickerson, excuse me, Landon, he's
Speaker 1: got the torn acl he can't participate, but he is here.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are terrific offensive whyman that are down here.
Speaker 1: But it's a small school guys that are really showing up.
Speaker 1: There's a kid from Wisconsin, Whitewater Quinn Miners. This guy
Speaker 1: played left guard. He opted out here in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: didn't play, so he hasn't played for a year. Goes
Speaker 1: down there. They asked him to play center. He gets
Speaker 1: a text a day before he arrives says, hey, we
Speaker 1: had some centers cancel. Can you move to center? He's
Speaker 1: never played center, says yeah, I'll do it. He breaks
Speaker 1: his hand today, finishes the practice. He's going to play
Speaker 1: in the game. He's been probably one of the best
Speaker 1: offensive lineman down here. Also, you look at Spencer Brown
Speaker 1: North Dakota State. He's been terrific with how he's played.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really the small school offensive lineman that
Speaker 1: have really shown up. A Dylan ran Dunce Here's here's
Speaker 1: a young player that to me, he looks like the
Speaker 1: best left tackle you know, and he's looked terrific down
Speaker 1: here in Mobile. So it's been a you know, I
Speaker 1: think the old lineman had been great, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that minors, he pancaked three guys drive blocked him
Speaker 1: Tom ten yards down the field. Good players, these are
Speaker 1: the top players in the country. Three times that happened
Speaker 1: in the first practice. Tell him, tell him, tell him,
Speaker 1: tell him what we talked about for about a half
Speaker 1: hour yesterday. Quinn miners right. It's just so I Jeff
Speaker 1: had sent me some of the highlights from the practices,
Speaker 1: and so you do get a chance to watch him
Speaker 1: and I first there was a still shot. I saw
Speaker 1: them and it wasn't real appealing. It was a big
Speaker 1: gut sticking out of this half jersey. That's his name, Gut,
Speaker 1: that's his name name, he told me today I interviewed him.
Speaker 1: His nickname was Gutt in high school, it was Gutton College,
Speaker 1: and it's Gut down in Mobile. You know, when when
Speaker 1: you look at these smaller schools, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think I think talent can grow anywhere. Because
Speaker 1: Jim during our or probably maybe at the beginning of
Speaker 1: your area. At the end of my era, there's a
Speaker 1: guy named Tom Newberry. He was from one of these
Speaker 1: University of Wisconsin. He was lacrosse or Whitewater or something,
Speaker 1: but he became a Pro Bowl offensive guard with with
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams back then. And so when you
Speaker 1: get these guys and they happened to have a growth
Speaker 1: spurt during college, or they went to a program in
Speaker 1: high school that didn't attract very many recruiters, and then
Speaker 1: they end up going through a successful, healthy college program
Speaker 1: and then getting invited to these bowl games. And then
Speaker 1: it only takes them a matter of a couple of
Speaker 1: snaps of practice to realize they belong and they can
Speaker 1: go out there and they can be as equally as
Speaker 1: competitive of those guys from Clemson, Alabama, Notre Dame, wherever
Speaker 1: wherever you want to you know, big school you want
Speaker 1: to say they're from. So I get I get excited
Speaker 1: to watch some of these small college kids, not you know,
Speaker 1: well the lesser known college kids that come in here
Speaker 1: and have an unbelievable week or it is it Hassan
Speaker 1: Riddick is either linebacker from Temple. Yeah, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago after Senior Bowl practice is watching him and
Speaker 1: him just fly around the field and really finally starting
Speaker 1: to come into his own at the NFL level. But
Speaker 1: you know you sometimes these guys they get on the
Speaker 1: center of the radar and they never lose it once
Speaker 1: they start playing against some of that better talent, Jim.
Speaker 1: That happened with Ali, Mark Pett and Ben Bartsch last year.
Speaker 1: These are Division three programs, and the and the wrinkle
Speaker 1: this year is a guy like Miners. He didn't play
Speaker 1: last season. There was no season. So these small schools,
Speaker 1: the naias, the Division two, the threes, the FCS programs. Heck,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna get started here in March. That schedule's
Speaker 1: coming out for all these small school conferences. But this
Speaker 1: is his chance, Like this is the chance with no
Speaker 1: traditional combine this week is critical. And I know I
Speaker 1: read this, but I also agree with this, Jim, and
Speaker 1: maybe you could echo it biring injury of some significance
Speaker 1: or some off field issue. I would say, all these
Speaker 1: guys at the Senior ball are gonna get picked this
Speaker 1: year because you're gonna know more about them than anybody else.
Speaker 1: Yet they are a known commodity. There's no doubt, the
Speaker 1: importance of this game is like none other. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's at an all time high. And Jim Naggy, the
Speaker 1: executive director, has done a great job, you know, adjusting
Speaker 1: these rosters, even allowing players that opted out during the
Speaker 1: year to play down There's a couple of Michigan players.
Speaker 1: Nico Collins, who I think is impressed at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. He's on the national squad. He's about six
Speaker 1: foot four, two hundred and twelve pounds, I think the
Speaker 1: corner of the Nichol slot corner. Andrey Thomas, he has
Speaker 1: been outstanding down there. He also has opted out. So
Speaker 1: not only for these guys not to play for as
Speaker 1: long as they have, just how they're performing. And Minuts
Speaker 1: is one of them. There's a couple others as well.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a This is probably the most talented
Speaker 1: roster I've seen since we covered the receiver the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: At the receiver position alone. You know, when you look
Speaker 1: at Cadarius Tony, nobody can cover this guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tony has been outstanding from Florida, so I think Rogers
Speaker 1: as well, from from Clemson. Nobody's been able to cover
Speaker 1: him as well. I interviewed him today. He's a he's
Speaker 1: a pleasant young man. Well one just for Naggie to
Speaker 1: pull this off. I mean, these players have been tested
Speaker 1: every day. They've kind of kept a bubble down there,
Speaker 1: and they were worried about a breakout. The last guy
Speaker 1: he invited to the Senior Bowl tested positive. He was
Speaker 1: the last player off the plane, and they were able
Speaker 1: to show that player and they had to have a
Speaker 1: backup player there. But really one hundred and thirty five
Speaker 1: on one hundred and thirty five they were able to
Speaker 1: pull it off down there, which is simply amazing. It
Speaker 1: really is me. I think you're gonna tell more about
Speaker 1: the scouting departments of NFL teams this year unlike any
Speaker 1: other year, because these college scouts haven't been traveling around
Speaker 1: to some of these smaller schools or even some big
Speaker 1: ones from guys have opted out and sitting there, have
Speaker 1: eyewitness account of practice habits during the college season, or
Speaker 1: how do you perform and maybe a game that doesn't
Speaker 1: have the profile on it during the course of a
Speaker 1: conference a conference year. So you know, you're gonna learn
Speaker 1: a lot about scouts and how they perform and how
Speaker 1: they evaluate and what is there determinate determinating levels of
Speaker 1: if these guys can really play or not. Ye don't think,
Speaker 1: got to rely on the tape and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have face to face conversation, you know, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be zoom and you get to know
Speaker 1: somebody that way, but you will be missing the face
Speaker 1: to face unless things change. Obviously getting him on a
Speaker 1: board and finding out maybe what's inside of them that
Speaker 1: you may not otherwise find out until they actually put
Speaker 1: pads on, and he's already a member of your team.
Speaker 1: Well can pick up the conversation in a minute, but
Speaker 1: first a break, and then Charles Peanut Tillman, the outstanding
Speaker 1: Bears cornerback, will join us. This is Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: up momentarily. Charles Peanut Tilman, Hey, you know, oh he
Speaker 1: is ready to go. Okay, very good, Charles. It's it's
Speaker 1: always a rare treat to have you on talking a
Speaker 1: little football, talking about what's going on out of your life.
Speaker 1: So welcome in with Tom and Jim. How you doing,
Speaker 1: my friend, I am doing awesome. How you guys doing
Speaker 1: doing fantastic? Doing the best we can, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And you made a lot of people happy recently here, Charles,
Speaker 1: because I think it's a fantastic initiative and one that's
Speaker 1: quite important by the National Football League and sending frontline
Speaker 1: hospital workers and healthcare workers to the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: TAPPA and you are part of that from a bear's angle.
Speaker 1: Tell us about it with Advocate Healthcare and how that
Speaker 1: all went down. Well, essentially, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I had the easy part. I just
Speaker 1: had to let people know they were in Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think the healthcare officials, the healthcare workers that I notified,
Speaker 1: I think they had the hard shot. Basically, they have
Speaker 1: been working non stop. They didn't work in eight days
Speaker 1: a week, in twenty five hours a day through this
Speaker 1: whole pandemic, just you know, catering to people, giving tests
Speaker 1: and taking care of the people that have and affected
Speaker 1: by COVID. I think the NFL really wanted to do
Speaker 1: something nice for the healthcare community, and what better way
Speaker 1: than to reward them with an all expensive trip pay
Speaker 1: too Super Bowl. And I was just happy that I
Speaker 1: could be the bearer of good news considering it's been
Speaker 1: such a crazy year, recognized by everybody. So this person
Speaker 1: before they were notified that they were getting this opportunity,
Speaker 1: did they know it before Charles Tillman presented himself or
Speaker 1: was it a surprise after this person had a chance
Speaker 1: to meet you and see you. Honestly, I didn't even
Speaker 1: introduce myself. I was just so I think one of
Speaker 1: their it was a hospital, a hospital representatives would say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, thank you so much for all you've done.
Speaker 1: But some guests, we have a special guest that wants
Speaker 1: to tell you something. And then I would come on
Speaker 1: and then obviously I would break the news in a
Speaker 1: good way, but I never say, hey, I'm trying someone
Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears. I just was like, hey, just
Speaker 1: what you're going to su the bus roll? And I
Speaker 1: mean I would say everything else, but I never introduced myself.
Speaker 1: And then I think someone from the Bears is like,
Speaker 1: you might want to introduce yourself because they think you're
Speaker 1: just a regular stranger. I think when you retire, you
Speaker 1: get old and then people don't know what you did.
Speaker 1: So I was just like, I'm an old retart guy.
Speaker 1: I will just give you the good news and never
Speaker 1: really introduced myself. Well but you well, once you start
Speaker 1: to tell them who you were, Charles, how did they
Speaker 1: react then this? I'd like to hear how interesting that guy?
Speaker 1: So forgive me. I don't know the first young lady's name, Um,
Speaker 1: she's sitting down and she was one of the first
Speaker 1: was a black lady. I think she had glasses on.
Speaker 1: She's a Nurst practici And when I told her, she said, wow, wow, Wow.
Speaker 1: Are you staying wow wow? And then she actually apologized
Speaker 1: for not having any other words in her vocabulary other
Speaker 1: than wow, And I said, hey, no, you can. You've
Speaker 1: been working your butt off. You can say whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Just don't curse because it's you know, obviously this thing recorded,
Speaker 1: so h yeah, do you boom? Do you just you know?
Speaker 1: But she was extremely excited about going to Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and I believe there was one other gentleman I had
Speaker 1: to tell him I was like, look, this is not
Speaker 1: like any other trip like you. This is this is
Speaker 1: not like he's gonna be sitting up in the nose
Speaker 1: mets like you're gonna get a nice ticket, a nice experience,
Speaker 1: alcohol drinks, apple juice whatever. It's all paid for about
Speaker 1: the NFL, and they got a pretty big munches, They
Speaker 1: got deep pockets in shorthands. Okay, so beat up, drink up,
Speaker 1: drink all the apple juice. You won't have a great
Speaker 1: time because you have truly, truly, truly earned him. And
Speaker 1: not just the Chicagle healthcare representatives, but I guess all
Speaker 1: the other thirty one teams they that have you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know the criteria of how they chose those people,
Speaker 1: but shout out to all those people just in the
Speaker 1: healthcare field in general, and for those who have it
Speaker 1: or will not get the ability to go, just know
Speaker 1: that I appreciate you, and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: other people out there that do appreciate all that you
Speaker 1: all have been doing this past year. Yep. And then
Speaker 1: when it's time get the vaccine, do it. That's the
Speaker 1: NFL's message. You. You in particularly you and your your
Speaker 1: lovely missus and your family have a unique appreciation given
Speaker 1: what you experience when your three month old daughter, Tiana,
Speaker 1: who's a big girl now right, you know, back in
Speaker 1: the day, diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, and that was a very
Speaker 1: stressful period in your lives. But the work that was done,
Speaker 1: I think you always have appreciated that at a level
Speaker 1: that most of us can't even envision. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing that I will tell you is I
Speaker 1: love doctors, and doctors are amazing, and they get all
Speaker 1: the credit for everything. But a special shout out to
Speaker 1: all the nurses out there, all the r ends and nurses,
Speaker 1: assistants and all those people who actually sit with the
Speaker 1: patients on a twelve hour shift for three days a
Speaker 1: week NonStop. I'm gonna give a special shout out to
Speaker 1: all those uh nurses out there that do that. I
Speaker 1: truly think they get left out. And everybody wants to
Speaker 1: thank the doctor, but I really think that the nurses
Speaker 1: aren't what's up. They They they do some good stuff
Speaker 1: and I don't think they get enough recognition and don't
Speaker 1: get paid nearly enough. Came on, you said, these guys
Speaker 1: are working eight days a week, twenty five hours a day,
Speaker 1: and that's that's the truth of the matter is how
Speaker 1: many hours are putting in. But did you get a
Speaker 1: chance to hear any of their personal stories of why
Speaker 1: they're even being considered by the NFL for these tickets,
Speaker 1: or what are some of the you know, what are
Speaker 1: beyond the human approach that some of these guys had
Speaker 1: to do in order to you know, be in the
Speaker 1: same room with you and being presented this opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I spoke to um. I think one of the
Speaker 1: one of the gentleman that I spoke to was a
Speaker 1: custodial engineer, and the healthcare representatives said, this gentleman is
Speaker 1: picked because his attitude is so bright and so positive
Speaker 1: all the time, Like he just he might have a
Speaker 1: bad day, but you don't realize that he brings so
Speaker 1: much joy and energy and positivity to his job every
Speaker 1: single day, and it's it's contagious, and that's the kind
Speaker 1: of contagious you want, especially in a time like this.
Speaker 1: So that was why they were warded that gentleman. And
Speaker 1: then I believe there were two doctors. They were a
Speaker 1: married couple and they had treated I don't know at
Speaker 1: lead over a thousand people that they had taken care
Speaker 1: of these two doctors, and I think that alone speaks
Speaker 1: volumes and just how special these two doctors were. And
Speaker 1: I simply said, man, y'all got hundreds of thousand dollars
Speaker 1: with that, but yet you take care of over a
Speaker 1: thousand people who were diagnosed with COVID in your hospital, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you guys are working non stops. So
Speaker 1: I believe that was why these two doctors. I believe
Speaker 1: that's why they were chosen as well. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: if the Bears wanted to or if the healthcare representatives,
Speaker 1: they could have probably nominated being kind of hospital, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure they are all worthy of going. I don't
Speaker 1: know how they chose these individuals, but I'm glad I
Speaker 1: didn't have to choose, because I'm sure there are a
Speaker 1: ton of people that were more than worthy of going. No,
Speaker 1: it couldn't be pretty wanted to better buy you because
Speaker 1: you're the Walter Payton Man of the Year and you
Speaker 1: display that as well. Let me let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: are you going to the Super Bowl? And let me
Speaker 1: ask you about the game in general? Is two great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going to be lighted up. I'd like to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on both Charles. Yeah, so I personally
Speaker 1: will not be going to the super Bowl, but I
Speaker 1: will be watching. And I'm I'm very I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm very For one, I'm a Bruce Aarons fan. I'm
Speaker 1: a one. I'm his fan because I love how divers
Speaker 1: his coaching staff is. You know, I love that he
Speaker 1: goes outside the box and he hires people of color
Speaker 1: and all major coordinator positions. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: he's done that he's giving these these men a chance
Speaker 1: to showcase their talent um. But I also like too
Speaker 1: of what Eric Munity is continue to do with Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, these are crafty who know the game
Speaker 1: and they coach well. And you see the product of
Speaker 1: what they've been able to do with Pastrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Tom Bree. Uh what else can we say about Tom Brady?
Speaker 1: Is it? Can we just say he's the goat of
Speaker 1: all times quarterbacks? And ye? Can we just say that?
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't think. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's not another quarterback out and ever is
Speaker 1: he is the greatest of all times? Clearly he is
Speaker 1: the greatest of all times. End of discussion. No rebuttal, no,
Speaker 1: no debate, no argument. He is the greatest of all
Speaker 1: time until somebody beats what he has done. Shut up.
Speaker 1: He can do though. I'm really how did to see
Speaker 1: what he can do. And I think his experience has
Speaker 1: really taken effects when he came over to Tampa. You know,
Speaker 1: his culture and how he practices and how he plays,
Speaker 1: and just his overall work ethic in his wisdom and
Speaker 1: just experience that I think that has really helped this
Speaker 1: U Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense. Now on the flip side,
Speaker 1: you look at Kansas City. I think they're a younger team.
Speaker 1: They have way more weapons, but I think they're they're
Speaker 1: weapons with Tariq and Kelsey and and uh Levon, and
Speaker 1: I think their weapons have helped them. I think Tom's Brady,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's experience has helped Tampa Bay and then Kansas
Speaker 1: City's weapons, uh fast paced. I think of a high
Speaker 1: Howard offense. I think that's what helped them get to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowls. And obviously they have two good defenses.
Speaker 1: Charles p ut Tillman our guests for a couple of
Speaker 1: more moments here. You know you only played Tom Brady
Speaker 1: once and you swiped them twice, Yes, sir, well, so
Speaker 1: I played him in when I went to Carolina. I
Speaker 1: got that down count. I'm only talking about Bears, buddy. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm kid. I'm kidding him. Kid, tell your story. But
Speaker 1: I count it though. I mean, I know it's preseason
Speaker 1: and it doesn't count what I picked him off three times?
Speaker 1: Hanging up in my mind? Do you really? Because that
Speaker 1: game was six go off three times? So it makes
Speaker 1: me I know, I can you know, pa my chest
Speaker 1: just a little bit, just a little bit. Oh yeah, Charles.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you about Jayalen Johnson. When
Speaker 1: you look at yourself going back to your rookie year
Speaker 1: and you had the full offseason, you had the lengthy preseason,
Speaker 1: you had all the games and everything, and then you
Speaker 1: inserted in the lineup, you think of what he was
Speaker 1: able to accomplish under the circumstances of this past offseason.
Speaker 1: Would would you have made the transition as smoothly as
Speaker 1: you did or without all the preseason activity that you
Speaker 1: were able to take part of what it had what
Speaker 1: it had been different for you early in the season.
Speaker 1: I will always bet on me to succeed. I think
Speaker 1: I could have made the transition I think I could
Speaker 1: have made a smooth transition. Um. I like the way
Speaker 1: Jalen's played. I like what he's been able to do.
Speaker 1: If I could only if I could critique him on
Speaker 1: one thing, it would be tackling. And when the quarterback
Speaker 1: is outside the tackle box, you don't have to cover
Speaker 1: your guy. Just push from just push them. You can
Speaker 1: get you can jam them again. That's my biggest complaint
Speaker 1: about all dbs throughout the NFL, especially Patrick Mahomes. I
Speaker 1: think that's like one of the biggest keys. He is
Speaker 1: a scrambling quarterback and when he scrambles and he gets
Speaker 1: outside of the tackle box, you can hit that. You
Speaker 1: know what. Out of Travis Kelsey, out of tih you
Speaker 1: can you can you can re engage with the receiver.
Speaker 1: And I would love it if Tampa Bay would do that,
Speaker 1: or vice versa. If the Kansas City I'm sorry, Kara
Speaker 1: City Chiefs would do that to Tampa Day's receivers to
Speaker 1: like Mike Evans or someone like that, Like I wish
Speaker 1: they would do that. That That to me, that's just
Speaker 1: when you when you do that, you're kicking your game
Speaker 1: to another level. You know, it's called work smarter, not harder. Oh,
Speaker 1: mahomes a scrambling. I am not sitting alone with this
Speaker 1: speed demon. Okay, I'm gonna just hit Tarik. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit a one time and he gonna fall down and
Speaker 1: then house mahomes gonnead to look for somebody else. Oh
Speaker 1: travelers k oh, he on the ground too, Like that's mine.
Speaker 1: That's what I would teach my dvs. And obviously they
Speaker 1: got to cover. But you can. You can, like it's
Speaker 1: a you can eliminate the play if you just do
Speaker 1: that one thing. To me, that's the easy, It's so simple.
Speaker 1: Almost broke my damn with more control. When I see
Speaker 1: dds not doing that, we gotta go. And thanks to
Speaker 1: Jim Mellow will doctor next week, Big Jim and and Peanut.
Speaker 1: It warms my heart that you're actually watching football, because
Speaker 1: you always told me when you grew up and playing,
Speaker 1: you didn't watch football. So I'm loving that I watch.
Speaker 1: I just like to play. But now that I'm out
Speaker 1: of it, oh my god, I'm missus so much. I
Speaker 1: watched it all the time. I've obsessed. I still do
Speaker 1: bentasy football though, let's I can't do that. I can't
Speaker 1: get down with that. Appreciate by Hey, love he's coming
Speaker 1: back Houston Texans defensive coordinator. That's the rumor. Oh, I
Speaker 1: guess I might have to make a trip to Houston.
Speaker 1: And it's Charles pen at Telmo. Thanks for all your time, buddy,
Speaker 1: Thanks Jim. We'll talk him next week. And uh we'll
Speaker 1: continue with Tom and I on Bears All Access on
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Speaker 1: and the official chip of your Chicago Bears Gold Bears. Tom, there,
Speaker 1: we got one segment to go, and I love talking
Speaker 1: to Charles put Tillman. Yeah. I was always flabbergasted at first.
Speaker 1: I always thought he was pulling my leg, that he
Speaker 1: didn't watch full never watch a growing up played at
Speaker 1: a high level. Nobody was more tickled to be drafted
Speaker 1: by the Bears in round two. When he came into
Speaker 1: the league and developed into you could say, the top
Speaker 1: corner in Bears history. The numbers will prove that, the
Speaker 1: longevity proved that just a terrific career, But now he's
Speaker 1: watching football. And I, like you said, you love the
Speaker 1: coaching points. But most of the kids grown up and
Speaker 1: when we read their bios before they get into the NFL,
Speaker 1: most of these guys are multiple sport players. So they're
Speaker 1: not just dedicating themselves to only watching football, investing year
Speaker 1: round into football. I mean, as soon as the football
Speaker 1: is over, they go onto basketball, they go on to wrestling,
Speaker 1: and then in the springtime they're in baseball. Are there
Speaker 1: in track? Right when I'm talking about watching a game
Speaker 1: on a Sunday watching football, you did it. But I know,
Speaker 1: but kids are different, you know, back then when they're
Speaker 1: involved in multiple sports, if that's not something that you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's not what they're dedicated to. Look, when you're
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, you don't have a lot of sports choices.
Speaker 1: It's offensive line play, it's wrestling, and then it's it's
Speaker 1: the summertime. Hey, you played first base, you know in baseball?
Speaker 1: Come on, you were a three sporter. You know. I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I got struck out early in my career and I
Speaker 1: shied away from baseball because of it. However, um, but
Speaker 1: I think these multiple sports athletes. They're different. They spend
Speaker 1: their time wisely. Hey, we gotta say, uh God bless
Speaker 1: and uh stay healthy to Ron Rivera. So Stephanie, his wife,
Speaker 1: and his daughter Courtney both on Twitter today they had
Speaker 1: their final visit cancer free for Ron Rivera. So uh
Speaker 1: way to go. Prayers up, continue to stay safe. He
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with squamaself cancer back in August, completed the
Speaker 1: treatment in October and never missed a game. You know,
Speaker 1: Ron's an amazing guy, he really is. Because when he
Speaker 1: came to the Bears, and he was a high draft
Speaker 1: choice and he had the high expectations, but the Bears
Speaker 1: had a great defense on the field. You know, he
Speaker 1: was not too big in order he cut his teeth
Speaker 1: playing special teams and they and he got into the
Speaker 1: linebacker rotation, you know, and then he's grown into the
Speaker 1: NFL figure that he is today. He's really an unbelievable,
Speaker 1: well spoken and super intelligent family man. That is a
Speaker 1: real positive for the Washington football team. All right, I
Speaker 1: brought this up with Jim Miller, but I frankly was
Speaker 1: not aware that this was going to happen, and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you did until today. So three hundred and ten
Speaker 1: schools in thirty five conferences are going to be playing
Speaker 1: college football this spring at the FCS Division two, Division
Speaker 1: three NAI levels and then they're gonna throw New Mexico
Speaker 1: State in there. They're an independent, they're an FBS team.
Speaker 1: They're gonna start with seventeen programs played only one game
Speaker 1: in the fall, and more than a hundred teams will
Speaker 1: begin the seasons in either February or March. Knock on
Speaker 1: wood with COVID and whatnot. But the NCAA approved a
Speaker 1: spring playoff. There's going to be four rounds of playoffs.
Speaker 1: The national championship will be May fifteen in Frisco, Texas.
Speaker 1: The ni NAIA also will have conferences offering football. They'll
Speaker 1: begin their seasons in the same time frame. How great
Speaker 1: is that? Number one for these kids? And I wish
Speaker 1: we had more time with Jim because are some of
Speaker 1: these kids draftaball or not? Or that is that? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works, but it's a great,
Speaker 1: great moment. But how does that affect then the next season? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you have a supplemental draft. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something about college football. When these college football kids
Speaker 1: they go through springball, I think you got forty days
Speaker 1: to put get in thirty practices something like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the exact number. But when you
Speaker 1: go to spring ball, every single practice, Jeff is live.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's strap it up, tape it up, you
Speaker 1: get ready to go out there in every single drill,
Speaker 1: every single period is live. So now you put these
Speaker 1: guys and you give them games at the end of
Speaker 1: the rainbow. So now the practices are more constructed like practices,
Speaker 1: so you're developing ability, you're teaching a system, You're allowing
Speaker 1: these kids to understand what they weren't able to capitalize
Speaker 1: on in the fall. So to me, I just think
Speaker 1: it's it's probably a safer way to go through football
Speaker 1: rather than having thirty practices where if you go out
Speaker 1: there and you don't have the college recruits coming in,
Speaker 1: although some kids leave after their senior year to come
Speaker 1: in early and or early as a freshman. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad I like it because the abuse that you used
Speaker 1: to go through in spring practices, I think these game
Speaker 1: opportunities will be more beneficial for their future, for their
Speaker 1: families and their own love of the game. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's great, and I'll tell you a lot more
Speaker 1: people will watch because you don't get a chance for
Speaker 1: really to watch these small school players. And with the
Speaker 1: draft being what it is nowadays, you can find as
Speaker 1: we discussed with the Wisconsin Whitewater gentleman who plays guard
Speaker 1: and center at the Senior Bowl, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: great players in there. And also excited about the HSA,
Speaker 1: you know, getting players back. I know your brother's heavily
Speaker 1: involved still in high school football Joliet. So these kids
Speaker 1: and I know Olin Kreutz has been on this to
Speaker 1: get him back, get him back, get him playing right,
Speaker 1: you know, the basketball, the kids playing basketball. The kids
Speaker 1: are gonna have an opportunity to get back on the
Speaker 1: football field again, because it's bigger than just the individual.
Speaker 1: Because when my brother and I were playing sports and
Speaker 1: we had the support of my mom and dad and
Speaker 1: my family and everything, it was a great It was
Speaker 1: a great part of all of our lives, all right.
Speaker 1: Last thing that thirty seconds another word on Sean to said,
Speaker 1: super smart, very intelligent guy, paid his dues longest tenured
Speaker 1: coach of the Bears, your defensive coordinator. I like Sean.
Speaker 1: I liked what the stages of learning he's been through
Speaker 1: to develop to create this opportunity. He's created this opportunity
Speaker 1: for himself. He's not being gifted anything. This has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with nepotism. This is Sean Decide, paying his dues,
Speaker 1: being there every morning in the building at five o'clock,
Speaker 1: preparing all the information he needed for the coaches that
Speaker 1: he worked with. So Man, I am really pulling for
Speaker 1: him and earning trust and respect from his players and
Speaker 1: fellow coaches. That's gonna wrap us up this week. Appreciate
Speaker 1: your time, everybody, for Jim Miller and for Tom Thair
Speaker 1: and Charles put Telban. I'm Jeff Jonny at Chris Ronji
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