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Speaker 1: Welcome in. As the Bears get ready to take on
Speaker 1: the Lions at Soldier Field on Sunday, we will break
Speaker 1: it down for you and take a temperature of this
Speaker 1: team after that horrible loss to the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Jonnyac, my broadcast partner from WBBM, and the
Speaker 1: former Chicago Bears Super Bowl winning guard Tom fare Good
Speaker 1: even time. How you doing, buddy, Big Jeff, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: Just you know, thinking about this game Detroit Chicago, there's
Speaker 1: so much conversation outside the realm of football that it's
Speaker 1: almost taking on a life of its own. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what locker room can handle
Speaker 1: the different pressures, pressures that each have coaches have on
Speaker 1: them that will take them into the game Sunday, Big Tim,
Speaker 1: what do you think about some of this conversation as
Speaker 1: it pertains to the Bears. I think you're alluding to
Speaker 1: just a firing Naggi on earlier the week after the game,
Speaker 1: well placed. You know, he was ticked off about how
Speaker 1: things where players are ticked off. Everybody's ticked off. But
Speaker 1: I'll put in the same beame. Remember, now, this is football.
Speaker 1: You know, guys sometimes get yelled at or get told
Speaker 1: that they're not playing well enough. And I think that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty fair, isn't it. Yeah, But you know the
Speaker 1: thing about a locker room of professional type a personality
Speaker 1: football players is they have to have thick skin because
Speaker 1: at some point time in your career, whether it's Pop Warner,
Speaker 1: high school, college or professional, you're gonna get criticized in
Speaker 1: front of the general public, and you're gonna get criticized
Speaker 1: in front of your teammates and your peers, and it's
Speaker 1: all how about you grow from that? Now? If you
Speaker 1: go if we go to the game Sunday in the
Speaker 1: defense is absolutely lifeless, then you're gonna see that message
Speaker 1: didn't really resonate. But if you're gonna see energy fill
Speaker 1: tackling machine really stop at the point of attack and
Speaker 1: covered the passing game. Well, then you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: message that got across and it did exactly what Matt
Speaker 1: intended it to do, all right. Coming up on our show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be joined here shortly by Lomas Brown, the
Speaker 1: former NFL tackle an analyst that does what Tom does
Speaker 1: for us for the Detroit Lions radio network. Good friend
Speaker 1: of ours and able to talk to him about the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Just who is available, Well, Kenny Galladay play
Speaker 1: the Santa Rita's star receiver that makes a big difference
Speaker 1: in tilting the field. Also joined by Bears center Sam
Speaker 1: Mustafer at the bottom of the hour at six thirty
Speaker 1: after his performance and returned to the lineup for an
Speaker 1: offensive line with his remade and six different group of
Speaker 1: linemen this year. And we'll hear from some Cordell Patterson
Speaker 1: for our Bears Game Day live feature player profile you'll
Speaker 1: here and see on our show with Luke Anellis, myself
Speaker 1: and Tom on Sunday morning at ten thirty on Fox
Speaker 1: thirty two Chicago. Here's a little clip from to Sean
Speaker 1: Gibson todaytime after Matt Nage's meeting with the defense, which
Speaker 1: he does every single Wednesday, drops in kind of sets
Speaker 1: the tone for the week in terms of practice. But
Speaker 1: this after his criticism and coming down hard on the unit.
Speaker 1: He never know how certain guys might take certain things
Speaker 1: or how certain guys might read into it, and he
Speaker 1: clarified it won't want to specifics, but just let us
Speaker 1: know yet our back end and whatever the comments. However,
Speaker 1: Day was taking that the guys who know him, and
Speaker 1: you know, obviously guys know him longer than I have.
Speaker 1: I've only been here a year, man, but I have
Speaker 1: a great deal of respect for him. So just pretty
Speaker 1: much let us know, man, Like it wasn't a finger
Speaker 1: point session, and that's nothing that he you know, for
Speaker 1: it to be that, you know, we would have been
Speaker 1: kind of caught off bass for him letting us know, Man,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a finger point session. Man. It just was
Speaker 1: him talking about the game, frustrations and things like that.
Speaker 1: But making a mistake about him. Man, he still he's
Speaker 1: still believing everything that we can't do as a defense man.
Speaker 1: And you know, it wasn't nothing personal. So like I said, man,
Speaker 1: we got a mature people on defense, and I don't
Speaker 1: personally think nobody and I talked to was personally offended
Speaker 1: and brought up the comments. So honestly, Hetty not even
Speaker 1: saying nothing. I don't think that it was. It was
Speaker 1: something that people would have lingered on and thought about,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, But like I say, him
Speaker 1: being the guy that the years, he got in front
Speaker 1: of it just in case there was anybody who had
Speaker 1: any ill wheel towards the comments. So no, everybody's saying
Speaker 1: the same thing here, and Gibson included used the word
Speaker 1: embarrassing on how they played defensively, and you know, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta chalk it up. It was not a good
Speaker 1: day at the office. And now it's about moving forward.
Speaker 1: Though we're already talking about the same stuff from Sunday
Speaker 1: that here on Thursday, when you got the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: on the schedule coming up here in a few hours. Basically, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the thing about it is Matt didn't point
Speaker 1: out anybody. He pointed out the unit as a whole.
Speaker 1: And I think he would be a little naive if
Speaker 1: he didn't to address the performance of the defense on
Speaker 1: last Sunday. But again, let's talk about it moving forward
Speaker 1: and how it will be when they face the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of question marks that they don't
Speaker 1: even know the answers too yet, because this is a
Speaker 1: there's such a different team from the Bears and from
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions that faced each other the first week of
Speaker 1: the season, and no bigger imprint left than what Daryl Bevill,
Speaker 1: the new head coach, is going to be able to
Speaker 1: do with Matthew Stafford, a talented offensive coordinator and a
Speaker 1: talented quarterback. Yeah, they both teams losing by the same
Speaker 1: scores coming into this game, giving up forty one points
Speaker 1: one to Houston on to Green Bay and four and
Speaker 1: six sens that week one meeting. But Daryl Bevil has
Speaker 1: been preaching fun. We'll find out more about that from
Speaker 1: Thomas Brown here in a couple of minutes. Reflect back
Speaker 1: on your career, Tom, did you ever remember walking into
Speaker 1: a buzz saw with an in seasoned firing for a
Speaker 1: team that you played that you may have east back
Speaker 1: a little bit because they were in turmoil and then
Speaker 1: you got burned. Oh man, that's a good question. Um,
Speaker 1: You know, I really don't recall a team firing their
Speaker 1: staff or head coach or any of their personnel. The
Speaker 1: week leading up to our game, because you know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: we never really thought outside our own bubble. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: prepared for our next opponent, but we were so concerned
Speaker 1: for our own job in the evaluation of our own coaches,
Speaker 1: that we didn't worry that what was going on with
Speaker 1: another team. And I think some of the coaches that
Speaker 1: I played for, they would only message the only message
Speaker 1: that they would deliver this week about how you can
Speaker 1: prepare as a Chicago Bear to be better to play
Speaker 1: against the Detroit Lions. And Matt Nigge does that too.
Speaker 1: It is about what they do, not about what the
Speaker 1: Lions are doing, and that seems to be his approach
Speaker 1: every single week. Today had practiced Acheam Hicks back on
Speaker 1: a limited basis. That's good news. Sixteen days after leaving
Speaker 1: the Vikings game with a hamstring injury. Clil macmissed his
Speaker 1: second day with a back precautionary only in nature, so
Speaker 1: the expectation they'll play left tackle Charles Letto Junior limited today.
Speaker 1: Did not practice yesterday with that sword tow and it
Speaker 1: looks like Nick Foles would be the backup quarterback after
Speaker 1: his return from a hip injury at full practice today.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, Lomas Brown will join us, the Lions
Speaker 1: analyst and former great offensive lineman for Detroit. This is
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Speaker 1: Joniak mcbroadcast partner Tom thare as we break down Bears Lions,
Speaker 1: joined now by Lions radio analysts and a first round
Speaker 1: pick in the eighty five draft of year. Big Tom
Speaker 1: and his guys stormed the NFL lomis and won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You had to deal with that bunch as
Speaker 1: a young man opening day left tackle and eleven year careers,
Speaker 1: the sixth overall pick from Florida. How'd you handle that? One? Man?
Speaker 1: How did you do it? I still I still wake
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night with swits thinking
Speaker 1: about dirty Din Richard bent Umber ninety five. Man. That
Speaker 1: was Jimman Wilber Marshall, my former teammate. Man. That was
Speaker 1: the most out tell people to this day, best defense
Speaker 1: I ever played against, ever played against. Man. Best defensive
Speaker 1: old time man. That was awesome. So I'm still after
Speaker 1: all these years, I'm still having chiels thinking about those guys.
Speaker 1: YEA ever wake up in a cold sweat having a nightmare,
Speaker 1: because I tell you, you know, I don't know what
Speaker 1: did you So when you got there, your draft weight
Speaker 1: listed draftway was two eighty two, which in those days
Speaker 1: and at six four, I mean now you could be
Speaker 1: I saw a tight end at Iowa State the other
Speaker 1: day at two seventy, so you know, things change as
Speaker 1: you'd have to be in the three three bills range here.
Speaker 1: So what was the highest way you ever got too? Well,
Speaker 1: actually that they cheated on Man, I was Muxley. The
Speaker 1: highest I got up to was three fifteen, So that
Speaker 1: was the highest my first my first six years. I
Speaker 1: was Hooper in a while there, but my last twelves
Speaker 1: in the league, you know, I was pretty much around
Speaker 1: the two eighty round that mark because I had to
Speaker 1: the quick story class eighty five. So you know, you
Speaker 1: guys wrote the refrigerator. Perry he was the original big
Speaker 1: guy to come to the league. I think he might
Speaker 1: have been one of the biggest guys to come in
Speaker 1: the league. Man back in nineteen eighty five. Hey Lomas,
Speaker 1: when you talk about waking up with cold sweats thinking
Speaker 1: about dirty Dan from eighty five, tell you take me
Speaker 1: into the mind of DeAndre Swift and what's going through
Speaker 1: his mind, because you know, I think he was treated
Speaker 1: on fairly at the end of the Bears Detroit game,
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's easy to back into an
Speaker 1: end zone with hands flying in front of your face
Speaker 1: and then catch a fireball from Matthew Stafford. I know that. Again.
Speaker 1: I thought he was treated on fairly in Chicago. How
Speaker 1: was he treated in Detroit? Man, I'm telling you, that's
Speaker 1: just years of frustration. That's all that is, man. I
Speaker 1: think about it. It's been we got one playoff victory
Speaker 1: since the sixties. Think about that, man, These fans and
Speaker 1: you got some passionate layal fans that eat, they live,
Speaker 1: and they die Detroit football. And that's just all that
Speaker 1: frustration coming out. That's all that deals and stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, how this season has
Speaker 1: gone for the Lions. The best thing for them has
Speaker 1: been COVID because you hadn't had fifty sixty thousand people
Speaker 1: in the stands boring you because of how they played
Speaker 1: throughout this year, so you're known. It was unfearing boy,
Speaker 1: and we see that that first game that he had
Speaker 1: the Chiders man, he is a weapon that we could
Speaker 1: just keep him healthy. He could be a weapon for
Speaker 1: Detroit for a lot of years. So it's unfortunate the
Speaker 1: first game of the season things ended the way it
Speaker 1: did for him. But he is gonna be a mainstay
Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions for a lot of years. All right,
Speaker 1: let's speed up until today. You're talking about a team
Speaker 1: at one end of the spectrum where they have multiple
Speaker 1: offer some lion changes and multiple quarterback changes. Or else
Speaker 1: we go to the Detroit Lions, they have a change
Speaker 1: in the mid season firing of a head coach. So
Speaker 1: you've been around the NFL long enough. What team is
Speaker 1: has the biggest advantage and what team has the biggest
Speaker 1: disadvantage coming into this game. Well, I'm telling you it
Speaker 1: should be you, guys, Chicago, it should be I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been watching sim and it's amazing just the struggle
Speaker 1: that you're saying that you've had up from and on
Speaker 1: the office the side of the ball, not only getting
Speaker 1: guys over. So Mitchell Trubisky can have a bigger win
Speaker 1: through to throw the ball to, which would help build
Speaker 1: his confidence. You know, you got some great I love
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson, you know, a hometown guy back here, so
Speaker 1: I and I know I love his mom, Tracy, So
Speaker 1: I love Alan, and to me, he's your best weapon
Speaker 1: over there. But you know, you have to design, I think,
Speaker 1: to get these guys open more. You know the window
Speaker 1: that I've seen that Mitchell's time to throw balls in.
Speaker 1: And believe me, so, I mean it's decision making hadn't
Speaker 1: been good either, but he's having a lot of tight
Speaker 1: windows to trying to get the ball into. And when
Speaker 1: you're not really accurate or you're not a very constant
Speaker 1: and guy, you know, that's hard. That's a hard ass.
Speaker 1: So I just think maybe the play calling can help
Speaker 1: him a little bit more. At a course, the best
Speaker 1: thing for a quarterback is a running game, So definitely
Speaker 1: got to get that going in time knows that, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's the best thing for everybody, offensive lineman, everybody
Speaker 1: when you got a run game going. Other Bears ran
Speaker 1: the ball pretty good against the Lions in the opener
Speaker 1: and squeaking out that way getting out of town. Lomas Brown,
Speaker 1: our guest here, on Bears All Access brought to you
Speaker 1: by IGS Energy. So I noticed, and we've met and
Speaker 1: been aware of Darryl Bevill when he interviewed for the
Speaker 1: Bears job long ago. He's matured more since, got more
Speaker 1: under his belt, and he seems to be He's talking
Speaker 1: and walking like a head coach. What are they Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions getting with Daryl Beboy as the interim head coach
Speaker 1: after the dismissal of Matt Patricia. You know, I love
Speaker 1: coach Beville. Man, It's just I just love his personality.
Speaker 1: And that's what I think they're gonna get. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to get his personality. You know,
Speaker 1: it's more outgoing this guy. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a free for guy's gonna be able to play freer.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be able to open it up
Speaker 1: a little bit more. That's the thing. From a defensive
Speaker 1: perspective from Chicago, I would be worried about how the
Speaker 1: Lion's offense is gonna look, you know, because now it's
Speaker 1: as you can say, is no more shockles on coach Beville.
Speaker 1: You know, so he could call what he really wants
Speaker 1: to call, So it'll be interesting to see if he
Speaker 1: tried to unleash Matthew Stafford or you know, just how
Speaker 1: the game plan it is gonna be again, um and
Speaker 1: on the defensive side the ball, he says that he
Speaker 1: has full trust and Corey Underland, our defensive coordinator. So again,
Speaker 1: I want to see how these guys play. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've been on the team where the coach has been
Speaker 1: dismissed and you know, you could go one way or
Speaker 1: the other way. You know, you could, you could five games.
Speaker 1: Look in the season, these guys can pack it in,
Speaker 1: you know when call themselves getting ready for next season.
Speaker 1: But as we know, you have to audition each and
Speaker 1: every week in this league, or they're gonna come out
Speaker 1: and they're going to demonstrate that, you know, that things
Speaker 1: are different, that they're having fun as they say that
Speaker 1: they wanted to have more fun. We're just gonna see.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of with you, guys. I'm I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see what type of team we get out there
Speaker 1: on Sunday ourselves. I'm keenly interested in the availability of
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay, hasn't played much this season. The Saint Rena
Speaker 1: product here Saint Rita tremendous player. Obviously puts fear in
Speaker 1: the defense what his status and what you're understanding on
Speaker 1: if in fact he has any chance. He has practice
Speaker 1: yet this week, Ryan exactly, and you know that's not
Speaker 1: a good sign, especially with tomorrow being Friday. That's just
Speaker 1: not a good sign of you know, Kenny's availability. And
Speaker 1: you know, the deeper it gets into the season, you
Speaker 1: wonder if he's gonna come back at all. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't know the severity of the hip injury, you know,
Speaker 1: so you just don't know. So to me, like I say,
Speaker 1: the deeper you get into the season, you're tom five
Speaker 1: games left, you know, the more and more you start
Speaker 1: to think whether he's even going to come back. But
Speaker 1: it should have given by some of our younger guys opportunities.
Speaker 1: You quintest cesus. You know, you're Marvin Hall. You know
Speaker 1: t J. Howkinson has had a big year because Kenny
Speaker 1: hadn't been there. Matthew has targeted him a lot. So
Speaker 1: hopefully some of these other guys will being able to
Speaker 1: step up. It hadn't been a lot of productions that
Speaker 1: we've been able to get out of the rest of
Speaker 1: the guys, but hopefully you know they're that this is
Speaker 1: the opportunity and hopefully we'll be able to get big
Speaker 1: games out of them. On Sunday. You know you missed
Speaker 1: Danny Shelton. He got hurt this weekend. But you know,
Speaker 1: when I was going back and I was looking at
Speaker 1: the flip chart I made for week one, there's more
Speaker 1: names in place in Detroit than there is in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and so it seems like, you know, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the atmosphere that Darryl Bevil needs to work with, is
Speaker 1: the experience has been developed since a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys have been missing games. And you know when he
Speaker 1: made the comment during the week that he wanted to
Speaker 1: bring back more fun to the organization. What was it
Speaker 1: an unhappy atmosphere or was the work level getting given
Speaker 1: to these guys are in practice? Was it just overboard? Man? Look,
Speaker 1: you know me, no way a player in this day
Speaker 1: and age that toil to me and tell me they
Speaker 1: being come on to come on, come on? Is the
Speaker 1: old way with what we went through two days practice,
Speaker 1: padded up, both days, hidden both man, It's no way.
Speaker 1: So now if we're talking a tired from a mental
Speaker 1: perspective or from a duration meaning having them in the
Speaker 1: building all day long. I could buy that, I really
Speaker 1: can buy that. Maybe mental fatigue I could buy that,
Speaker 1: But it's no way I could buy physical fatigue with
Speaker 1: how these thugs are being taken care of, and how
Speaker 1: the need and the msl PA just taking care of
Speaker 1: these guys, and how they say they put safety in
Speaker 1: the forefront. So, you know, I'm looking at it from
Speaker 1: a different perspective of maybe maybe you're right, maybe it
Speaker 1: was a mental fatigue. And then you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of times you start feeling the pressure that your coach
Speaker 1: is under, you know, him and Bob Queen, they were
Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure here. Man. Things hadn't worked out,
Speaker 1: and they came in with big expectations, and the more
Speaker 1: things that were got, the more precious though that coming
Speaker 1: down though on coach Patricia and then jim Ball Quinn
Speaker 1: and I have to think that the team had to
Speaker 1: seal some of that, you know. So you know, maybe
Speaker 1: it was a combination of that and maybe the mental fatigue,
Speaker 1: But it couldn't have been a physical fatigue that these
Speaker 1: guys were dealing with it all right, Almost when I
Speaker 1: talk about I think the most important player in Detroit
Speaker 1: is Matthew Stafford. Whenever you hear about a quarterback that
Speaker 1: has a thumb injury, the concern is can he hold
Speaker 1: on the ball tight enough to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands and throw it like we we know
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford being able to throw it. And also is
Speaker 1: there any fear that he shows and throwing the ball
Speaker 1: and making sure he doesn't hit the helmets in front
Speaker 1: of him, because I think to a quarterback with the
Speaker 1: thumb problem, that could be a huge issue. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right about that. Also, was about under undersind taking
Speaker 1: understand the snaps, you know, I think that had to be.
Speaker 1: We watched them closely last week and you could just
Speaker 1: tell he was taking the ball under center a lot
Speaker 1: differently than he was kind of almost protecting that thumb.
Speaker 1: So even things like that, even the handoff handed the
Speaker 1: ball off, that just has to be uncomfortable, all those
Speaker 1: different things that you do, and that involves your hand
Speaker 1: and I know with the thumb and where the thumb
Speaker 1: is located at, it has to get banged up. So
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, not a long we're looking at helmets
Speaker 1: and all the other things that you have to deal with. Yes,
Speaker 1: so it has to be a concern from Matthew. He's
Speaker 1: been playing it through though. He's so tough. Man. He's
Speaker 1: just such a tough guy, man, no complaints. The guy
Speaker 1: goes out there each and every game. He just beat
Speaker 1: down and he comes back for more. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I was talking to hand a guy like him behind me, man,
Speaker 1: that's what you had one like that, you know. But
Speaker 1: I was trying to have a tough guy like that
Speaker 1: behind me, man, because it makes a world a different
Speaker 1: with your attitude when you go out there on the
Speaker 1: field to take the game. Thomas brought our guest remaining
Speaker 1: moments with the former Lions tackle a great one in
Speaker 1: NFL history and certainly in that Lions organization. And now
Speaker 1: they're a radio analyst. You mentioned Matthew Stafford, Tommy did.
Speaker 1: And the first thing that happened after Patricia's dismissal was
Speaker 1: looking at the future of this quarterback with five games
Speaker 1: to go, and if he's being asked questions about whether
Speaker 1: or not he'd be part of that future, what is
Speaker 1: your opinion about that? Well? I do. I like what
Speaker 1: Sheila Hampford said, which was she's going to let the
Speaker 1: next coach make the decision, and I just think that's
Speaker 1: a great football move. I just think that's what you
Speaker 1: said you should do. You shouldn't, you know, I you know,
Speaker 1: and Matthews great, believe me. I Like I said, I
Speaker 1: wish I had a quarterback like Matthew Stafford by if
Speaker 1: we either had him back in the eighties, man with
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders and Herman and all the guys we had,
Speaker 1: we'd had a team. Man. So I'm not taking anything
Speaker 1: away from math do, but I just do think that's
Speaker 1: the right decision. If you're gonna bring somebody in new,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna change the culture, if that's what you want,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want the direction of the organization
Speaker 1: to go in another way, then he should be allowed
Speaker 1: to make the decision on whether you keep math Dow
Speaker 1: or not. You know. So I have no problem with
Speaker 1: her saying that. And you know, if I'm a competitor,
Speaker 1: you know, and I know Mathew staff or this, you know, Hey,
Speaker 1: look at it as the challenge if you want to.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, that's what competitors. Competitors do,
Speaker 1: either they're gonna shy away from it, or they're gonna
Speaker 1: step up to the challenge. If that's how it's perceives.
Speaker 1: So to me, I think she's making the right choice,
Speaker 1: letting the next coach make the decision. Hey, Longs, have
Speaker 1: you guys had any outdoor cold weather natural surface games
Speaker 1: as of yet? As of yet no, the Lions having no,
Speaker 1: they haven't had any of those. This would be their
Speaker 1: first experience unless they went outside the day and practice
Speaker 1: outside somewhere up here in Michigan. I think this would
Speaker 1: be their first experience of some cold weathers games. And man,
Speaker 1: I remember those days too, how it's so cold there
Speaker 1: so that shield? Man, why you guys were just amazing
Speaker 1: to me. We only had to deal with it once
Speaker 1: a year, but you guys had to play eight games
Speaker 1: their home web ten. But then you know, just the
Speaker 1: cold weather games there. Man, Just how you did that
Speaker 1: each and every week. Man, It's just I got two
Speaker 1: more chills just thinking about that. We never had an
Speaker 1: indoor facility, so we never had the opportunity to do
Speaker 1: anything but go outside. See and Wayne, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: even though we had the Silver Dome, Wayne would never
Speaker 1: let us practice inside the Silver Dome. He always made
Speaker 1: us practice outside so we wouldn't be able. So we
Speaker 1: basically an indoor team that practice outside, so if we
Speaker 1: be cold and we would be outside too. That was
Speaker 1: Wayne's philosophy. Not did I like it? No? A Southern
Speaker 1: Miami Oh No? And Tom, can I please? Can I
Speaker 1: please know where this came from? Where did the unwritten
Speaker 1: rule come from that lineman, don't wear sleeves when they
Speaker 1: get cold? Who created that rule? Right now? Because that's
Speaker 1: what I was greeting with in nineteen eighty five when
Speaker 1: I got into Detroit locker room. Lineman, don't wear sleeves,
Speaker 1: We don't care how cold it is. What in the
Speaker 1: world where was that in the rule book? At who
Speaker 1: wrote that rule? You know that that goes back to
Speaker 1: like Bud Grant and and like that era of coaches
Speaker 1: where they didn't want to give heaters to the team
Speaker 1: on the other side, so they didn't have heaters on
Speaker 1: their side alone. So that was kind of the psychological
Speaker 1: challenge any opponent. But I believe, I believe it has
Speaker 1: some effect that I'm interested to see how it'll affect
Speaker 1: the Lions onside. Well, won't be super cold, but it'll
Speaker 1: be a little little bite in the air along Chicago's
Speaker 1: beautiful lake front Lomas. We're gonna let you go. Appreciate
Speaker 1: it so much. Always love talking to you and thanks
Speaker 1: for the time and good luck to you guys. Absolutely, guys,
Speaker 1: take care, appreciate it. Lomas Brown the great tackle of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Now the radio analysts coming up next,
Speaker 1: we'll be joined by Bears Center Sam Mustafer will break
Speaker 1: things down as the Bears get ready for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score. This segment of Bears All Access is
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Speaker 1: because Tom got me good. Sam Mustifer joining us now
Speaker 1: the Bears Center out of Notre Dame. Tom. Excuse me, Sam,
Speaker 1: see I'm all ruffled now because Tom and I do
Speaker 1: a skype while we're doing the show, so we could
Speaker 1: have some good visual communication. You know. He he's an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, so he likes that. But he's got his
Speaker 1: ducks and his laughing. I didn't know it, so he
Speaker 1: just shot me, shot me a look, so he got
Speaker 1: me off guard there, big Sam's how are you doing?
Speaker 1: You're doing all right, I'm doing well. How about yourself
Speaker 1: doing okay, doing okay, just uh, you know, like you
Speaker 1: you know, we're all trying to move on from Sunday night.
Speaker 1: And I know it's already late in the week and
Speaker 1: still a lot of conversation about Sunday Night. But it's
Speaker 1: odd because reporters only get a certain amount of time
Speaker 1: to get get with players and coaches throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the week. So today we got the coordinators and
Speaker 1: you know, it just rehashing a little bit. But for
Speaker 1: a player and what you guys are going through, you
Speaker 1: gotta get your mind fixated on what's next, not what happened? Correct?
Speaker 1: And is that hard to do after a loss like that? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's not too hard to do. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, you got to move on. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: this is only my second year in the NFL, but
Speaker 1: you know, I understand that these seasons are along and
Speaker 1: you know, to move on to preparing for the next opponent.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's good in the NFL, and that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's an adjustment a lot of guys have to make.
Speaker 1: But that's something I've been able to understand early on. So,
Speaker 1: you know, moving on and getting ready for Detroit. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty pretty easy. And the other aspect
Speaker 1: of that too, you know, the season is far from over.
Speaker 1: There's five games and a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: path you can take here and terms of turning this
Speaker 1: thing around. And that's the under rated aspect of things,
Speaker 1: you know, because of a loss like that, everybody throws
Speaker 1: up their hands a says, oh, but you guys got
Speaker 1: to roll up your sleeves instead and go to work. Absolutely. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, earlier during our off season Zoom meetings, we
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to uh speak with Doc Rivers and
Speaker 1: that's something that he spoke about is uh he went
Speaker 1: whitewater rafting. And when you do that, the instructor tells
Speaker 1: you to lean in and through trouble and turbulent times
Speaker 1: like we're going through right now, all we can really
Speaker 1: do is lean into each other. And I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a strong knocker room, we have
Speaker 1: a cohesive unit, and uh, we're gonna be there for
Speaker 1: each other. Hey, Sam, I want to take you back
Speaker 1: a couple of games ago, because you and I had
Speaker 1: a kind of a similar introduction to the NFL. I
Speaker 1: was sitting on the bench kind of pouting that I
Speaker 1: wasn't playing and the offensive line coach came over and said, hey,
Speaker 1: Kurtpecker got hurt. You're in the game, and you you
Speaker 1: go here. You're second year player Cody White, I mean
Speaker 1: Cody Cody White here. He never misses a play, he
Speaker 1: never misses a game. All of a sudden, Sam, you're
Speaker 1: in tell me, tell me that instant, that a couple
Speaker 1: of seconds when you realized, all right, man, here's here's
Speaker 1: my time. It was. It was crazy. Um So I
Speaker 1: was on the sideline and during the game, just to
Speaker 1: say connected, I get the Microsoft Surface tablet and I
Speaker 1: write down the plays on the tablet. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: we're running it too, and you know, I get a
Speaker 1: chance to look at every defense, which is nice. So
Speaker 1: I was writing it down and I believe I was
Speaker 1: staying at Tyler Bray and he looks at me and
Speaker 1: he says, damn, you're up. Cody's down. And so I've
Speaker 1: dropped the tablet right on the ground luckily like they
Speaker 1: have some covering and protecting around them, and put my
Speaker 1: helmet on sprinting right in the game. No warm up snaps,
Speaker 1: know anything. So yeah, it was definitely one heck of
Speaker 1: the introduction. So leading up to this point in the
Speaker 1: season through last year, you know, it takes you a
Speaker 1: long time to digest all the information. Were you exclusively
Speaker 1: and only well, you can't only learn the center position
Speaker 1: because you have to know what your guards are doing,
Speaker 1: But we were you just learning the center position that time?
Speaker 1: Because it's when I look at the offensive line today,
Speaker 1: I see everybody has played a different position at one
Speaker 1: time or the other. For your roots and everything in
Speaker 1: the league. Was it center specific? Yeah? It was center specific.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like I could play guard as well,
Speaker 1: but you know, at the center position, you've got your
Speaker 1: hand a lot of different pots and you're able to
Speaker 1: lead a unit. And I feel like that's something that
Speaker 1: I've been coached to do in college, and I feel
Speaker 1: like it's harder definitely an NFL, especially being a younger center.
Speaker 1: But um, I have a great room full of good
Speaker 1: vets and guys who have been in my position, and
Speaker 1: it definitely helps, you know, playing next to somebody who's
Speaker 1: played center at a high level in the NFL. And Cody,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna I have I'm gonna have a
Speaker 1: Notre Dame question for you before we let you go.
Speaker 1: But going you know, I always felt going back to
Speaker 1: our time at Notre Dame, you really get prepared for
Speaker 1: a high football environment, for a lot of pressure, for
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibilities on your shoulder. So the preparations
Speaker 1: that you went through at Notre Dame, do you think
Speaker 1: it helped you be more prepared? You know, even though, um,
Speaker 1: you know how you came into the NFL. Absolutely, Um
Speaker 1: you're like you said, you're in a lot of high
Speaker 1: pressure situations. Every game televised, you have multiple primetime games
Speaker 1: a year, So I think that definitely helped prepare me
Speaker 1: in that sense. Nothing can compare to, you know, the
Speaker 1: level of talent that you have at the NFL level,
Speaker 1: but in the sense of knowing how many people are watching,
Speaker 1: understanding what's at stake, Notre Dame definitely helped me prepare
Speaker 1: for that. All right, I want to go back to
Speaker 1: that moment again when you threw the pad down and
Speaker 1: went out on the field, because Tom's got a great story,
Speaker 1: and I know he's told it many times, but because
Speaker 1: like he said, see Tom's a powder There's no question
Speaker 1: about if he doesn't get his way, he thinks, you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be mad about things. So Tom tell him
Speaker 1: what lesson you learned from that because you really weren't
Speaker 1: ready for that moment. Well, just real quickly, Sam, I
Speaker 1: hadn't played it down other than kickoff return the first
Speaker 1: two games, and so I was disappointed that I wasn't
Speaker 1: playing at all. And so I go, all right, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna take the last bus and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take my ankles. I'm not gonna worry about
Speaker 1: taping my hands and wrists. So I just went out
Speaker 1: there to take part on kickoff return. And then man,
Speaker 1: I got hit like a pie in the face. It's
Speaker 1: the middle of the second quarter, there's an injury, and
Speaker 1: I go in, So you know, I had to go
Speaker 1: in at a half time. I had to get my
Speaker 1: ankle's tape, gets spat, and get different shoes on and
Speaker 1: take my hands and everything. So it was just an
Speaker 1: important lesson because like that instant that you went through, Man,
Speaker 1: you got a guy in front of you who's a
Speaker 1: rocket Gerbalta. All of a sudden he comes limping off
Speaker 1: and Sam, you get no more time you're in. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. It's trucible, Yeah it is, but you know,
Speaker 1: and Tom never missed another snap. I mean he was.
Speaker 1: He was the starter from that moment on. So it
Speaker 1: is a great lesson and you just never know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. But for the average person who thinks
Speaker 1: it's just so easy to just come in and a
Speaker 1: game like that ice cold and not really getting ready
Speaker 1: the preparation that must be done over the course of
Speaker 1: the week and to stay connected, because hey, we're human,
Speaker 1: it's easy to think you're never going in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just but you can't think that way.
Speaker 1: And I know that's that seems so simple, but it's
Speaker 1: not so simple as it's sam. Even with you know,
Speaker 1: a minute to go in the game, something could happen
Speaker 1: on a game winning drive and it could make or
Speaker 1: break the game. Yeah. Absolutely, you're right. It's not easy,
Speaker 1: and we are all human. Um. Really, it's just staying
Speaker 1: ready so you don't have to get ready. I kind
Speaker 1: of live by that motto, and you know, it's done
Speaker 1: wonders for me thus far in my life. But you're
Speaker 1: you're right, it is hard. You can't as much as
Speaker 1: you want to replicate a pressure situation like that against
Speaker 1: the defense that's as talented as that one. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's difficult. The imagination can only go so far. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, I think coach Caestio, coach Riola, coach Naggi,
Speaker 1: coach Lazer, they do a great job of, you know,
Speaker 1: replicating those situations as best we can in practice, and
Speaker 1: I feel like they have me for that stage. Sam
Speaker 1: must have her our guest here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: a few more moments with the Bear starting centers. Sam,
Speaker 1: could you take the temperature of the team for us?
Speaker 1: What's the mood like right now? You know, it's good.
Speaker 1: Like you said earlier, we have a lot of season,
Speaker 1: a lot of ball left to play, and you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: at this point, it's taking it one day at a time,
Speaker 1: putting all of our effort into preparing day in and
Speaker 1: day out. And you know, it's a great locker room.
Speaker 1: I love the vets that are in their offense and defense,
Speaker 1: and there's so much I can learn and soak up
Speaker 1: from guys who have been in similar situations like this before.
Speaker 1: And I've come out on the other side and be
Speaker 1: better because of it. And I'm lucky to be a
Speaker 1: part of a team like this. Sam is a kind
Speaker 1: of surreal though. When you break the huddle, you run
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage. You have a teammate from
Speaker 1: college and actually at the right guard, but then you
Speaker 1: have the former center at the left guard. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of information that you and Cody can
Speaker 1: give each other or at a moment's notice that can
Speaker 1: help both positions. But you know from Alex, you know,
Speaker 1: college teammate on one side in the former center on
Speaker 1: the other side of way you're starting in the center.
Speaker 1: Is it you know, is it sunk in er yet?
Speaker 1: For you that you know this this could be something
Speaker 1: that could be a long term solution, you know with
Speaker 1: what I loved at absolutely um to take hold of
Speaker 1: this opportunity to having fun of me, it would be
Speaker 1: this would be a dream come true, especially you know,
Speaker 1: in a place like Chicago and to be a Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear and then in terms of football, it doesn't get
Speaker 1: much better than that. But um, it's it's been awesome
Speaker 1: being out there with those guys and learning how to
Speaker 1: mesh as a unit, and uh, you know, really last
Speaker 1: week and you know, Cody kind of talked to me
Speaker 1: about this. He was like, we haven't played a snap
Speaker 1: of us three together and we were talking about it
Speaker 1: last week before the Packers game. He's we haven't played
Speaker 1: a snap in these positions before together, and you know,
Speaker 1: you get caught up in the moment and wanted to
Speaker 1: be perfect and wanted to execute at the highest level
Speaker 1: that you forget that. But it's been so nice to
Speaker 1: have a center next to me and then a guy
Speaker 1: that is that I've played multiple that thousands of snaps
Speaker 1: next two before that. It's been a great situation to
Speaker 1: walk into. Can Notre Dame beat Clemson with that quarterback?
Speaker 1: He's talented, man, but he's talented. But I have ultimate
Speaker 1: faith in coach Reese, Coach Lee preparing those guys, Coach
Speaker 1: Quinn on the old line, you know. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that that they come out with the victory and
Speaker 1: I'm very confident that they will. And you know, this
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but I'm most excited about the fact that
Speaker 1: there's a possibility for the Notre Dame offensive line to
Speaker 1: bring home the Joe Moore Award. That's home wherever belongs. Well,
Speaker 1: explain to what that award means, because it does it
Speaker 1: carries great distinction throughout college football for the best offensive
Speaker 1: line in college football, right yeah, yeah, And uh, fortunately
Speaker 1: I was on the offensive line who was able to
Speaker 1: win that award, And you know Joe Moore being at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame and then all the guys you talk about,
Speaker 1: Aaron Taylor, you talk about, like the history of Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Offensive line play is something that you know, all of
Speaker 1: us take great part in. You know, you think of
Speaker 1: jimbo Covert, Bill Freylick rons all the offensive lines that
Speaker 1: he's coached at pitt when he was there, and he
Speaker 1: developed some of the greatest offensive lineman in the history
Speaker 1: of the NFL. So, I mean, it is an awesome
Speaker 1: record setting offensive line. That's you know, people don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to a lot of the Atlanta the stats provided
Speaker 1: by the offensive line, but those guys have done a
Speaker 1: great job of sticking together and having a lot of
Speaker 1: consecutive games together. And the only stat that matters is
Speaker 1: the win column unbeaten. So there you go, and hey,
Speaker 1: and you know what, the last year at the bowl game,
Speaker 1: you know you're you're irish, thump my Iowa State Cyclones.
Speaker 1: But we're coming. We're now in the top ten first
Speaker 1: time ever, So I'm excited. I had that conversation today
Speaker 1: with David Montgomery right before I let you go tell
Speaker 1: your brother PJ tore it up. I saw at a
Speaker 1: little love from you on Twitter. He was the player
Speaker 1: of the week after that went over Michigan. I know
Speaker 1: they finally got one under their belt, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: be more proud of them than the team. All right,
Speaker 1: very good. We'll let you go appreciate it, good love
Speaker 1: with the preparation of the rest of the week and
Speaker 1: go get those lines. All right, thank you, Sam. All righty, Sam,
Speaker 1: Sam Mustiver, You're quite welcome, Sam Mustiver for the Bear
Speaker 1: starting center. We'll they have more. We'll hear from Cordarrell
Speaker 1: Patterson coming up next. This is Bears All Access on
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Speaker 1: to Jordan trud and Dan BURRELLI love that that perspective
Speaker 1: from Sam must especially when you're throwing into a game
Speaker 1: like that, uh, you know, you just you can't really
Speaker 1: ever envision the moment. I do like what he had
Speaker 1: to say, though, Well, it's unpredictable. When you come in
Speaker 1: the league as an undrafted free agent, you don't know
Speaker 1: if your time will ever come. And then there's a
Speaker 1: short amount of time. You know, I'm telling I just
Speaker 1: see him going to take the place of Cody. It's
Speaker 1: almost like when we are introduced to Cody and you know,
Speaker 1: just his his readiness, his you know, he's never injured.
Speaker 1: He's there, and then Alstin Cody comes lip it off field.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just that that moment, they had a
Speaker 1: lot of players face It's it's pretty incredible. How do
Speaker 1: you look and how do you think the offensive line played?
Speaker 1: They got a lot of praise from Matt Naggie and
Speaker 1: from Bill Lazier this week. You know, I mean in
Speaker 1: segments they played better, They played more organized, they were physical,
Speaker 1: they did a nice job in their past protection responsibility.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's something that and it took him
Speaker 1: four series at the beginning of the game to get
Speaker 1: twenty eight plays. Within the last two series of the game,
Speaker 1: they had twenty eight plays. And so when these guys
Speaker 1: know that the Bears have to throw a majority of
Speaker 1: the times because I think they they ran it a
Speaker 1: couple times each of those drives for six yards a carry.
Speaker 1: That's when they pass block their best and so when
Speaker 1: the other team knew what they were doing, that's when
Speaker 1: the guys held up against that type of fire. So
Speaker 1: I'm encouraged about what's going forward. I'm you know, I
Speaker 1: hope every one of these guys can improve, they can
Speaker 1: communicate better. But I mean, it's definitely not a finished product.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're gonna give them a grade, you're
Speaker 1: gonna give them an average grade at but at least
Speaker 1: their arrows pointing up. Cordell Patterson is our pro player
Speaker 1: profile feature this week on our Bears Game Day Live
Speaker 1: show at ten thirty in the morning on Sunday before
Speaker 1: the Detroit game on Fox thirty two Chicago. Here's a
Speaker 1: snippet of our interview with a man who's willing to
Speaker 1: do just about everything. I just like having fun out there, man,
Speaker 1: and you know, playing this football game is it's so
Speaker 1: much fun to me. Man. A lot of guys can't
Speaker 1: say that, man, but I know I can. Bro It's
Speaker 1: it's so much fun, you know, just just playing the
Speaker 1: game and just being out there with your teammates, man,
Speaker 1: and the excitement the football braining to the and the
Speaker 1: love of the game. Man, it's just it's it's untalk
Speaker 1: about the ball. How you can say that. There's just
Speaker 1: so many It's just so fun, man. That's that's all
Speaker 1: I can say. It's just just exciting feeling, man. And
Speaker 1: it has always been the case from the time you're
Speaker 1: a little kid, ever since I was five or six
Speaker 1: years old, man, ever since I picked at the football.
Speaker 1: Just my mama, Man, she I was getting on her
Speaker 1: nerves as a as a little kid, and she said,
Speaker 1: you gotta get out of my house. You gotta go
Speaker 1: do something. I still remember this like it was yesterday,
Speaker 1: So you gotta go ahead and do something. So she
Speaker 1: got me in the football. Man. I didn't look back
Speaker 1: every since. So it's been fun every since five six
Speaker 1: years old. You're a zero to one hundred guy. Man.
Speaker 1: You hit every hole, every return. It's full speed ahead
Speaker 1: and it's like you're blowing up bodies along the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't beat everybody all the time, but you're leaving
Speaker 1: a mark. You're leaving a mark on somebody trying to
Speaker 1: tackle you. I'm a big guy, man, My favorite part
Speaker 1: playing the game is when defensive allown me were like, boy,
Speaker 1: you run so hard, so I'm okay, I like this that.
Speaker 1: I gotta run a little harder so you can feel
Speaker 1: my present even more so. I love that stuff, man,
Speaker 1: I love I love the content. I love getting hit.
Speaker 1: That's just it's a part of the game, having fun
Speaker 1: with the elite return man of your era. And you're
Speaker 1: the longest return touchdown on a kickoff in Bears history,
Speaker 1: and now you're knocking at the top of the heap
Speaker 1: here as you try and separate yourself from the other
Speaker 1: returners of years gone by. I know it's a lot
Speaker 1: to embrace because you still got a lot of career left.
Speaker 1: But it means something, right, Please tell me it means something,
Speaker 1: Oh man, it means the world, man, Honestly, it means
Speaker 1: everything is as a little kid, a little kid playing
Speaker 1: this game and because everything you dreamed though, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know as a little kid you always want
Speaker 1: to be something. You always want to leave your mark
Speaker 1: on something. And now I get opportunity go out and
Speaker 1: try to do that, and you know, be one of
Speaker 1: the great returners like all these other guys. Man, it's
Speaker 1: just so many names out there, you know, and people
Speaker 1: look up to me as as a good return. Though
Speaker 1: it feels amazing, man, But I ain't. I'm not done yet.
Speaker 1: Though I'm not done yet. Let's get into you a
Speaker 1: little bit. One of the best quotes I've read about you.
Speaker 1: I think it's hilarious. At the time of the article.
Speaker 1: I don't know where I read it, because I've collected
Speaker 1: these notes over the years. But the topic was tattoos.
Speaker 1: To this point, you do not have a tattoo on
Speaker 1: your body? Is that still a fact? It's not. It
Speaker 1: ruins the whole quote. Okay, so what changed? Because at
Speaker 1: one time, here's the quote everybody from Quardill Patterson quote,
Speaker 1: you don't put a bumper sticker on a ferrari a.
Speaker 1: What happened? That was many years ago, man, that was
Speaker 1: many years ago. I got all these kids now, man,
Speaker 1: and I just had to get some some tattoos seeing
Speaker 1: all them guy had tattoos, though, but I think I
Speaker 1: need some, man, And I got one, and it was like,
Speaker 1: I can't stop, I can't stop. Fair enough, fair enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's all right. He's a fun loving guy. I
Speaker 1: loved that quote. I was just hoping, but yes, he
Speaker 1: is three kids another on the way, so he's he's
Speaker 1: honoring all of them. We do have some similarities, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm the youngest of a big family. My mom used
Speaker 1: to say all the time, get out of the house
Speaker 1: and go play. You're driving me crazy. But you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't have any tattoos. So that's that's one
Speaker 1: thing that I've been able to maintain. You can't um. Today,
Speaker 1: I was watching the first game of the year Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions Chicago Bears, and I was watching David Montgomery, and
Speaker 1: I was watching Tariq Callen, and I was watching Cordarrel Patterson.
Speaker 1: And I've come to the conclusion after watching that game,
Speaker 1: if we only had if David Montgomery was injured, and
Speaker 1: we only had one running back, I would play Cordarrel Patterson,
Speaker 1: and I would give him his thirty five touches a game.
Speaker 1: I would give him his thirty carries because I do
Speaker 1: believe with the explosiveness in which he runs with it
Speaker 1: will take a toll on defenders as the more carries
Speaker 1: he gets. He doesn't shy away from line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: confrontations that you have to have sometimes when the offensive
Speaker 1: linemen aren't moving guys out of the way. But the
Speaker 1: power in which he runs, with the speed in which
Speaker 1: he can carry the deceptiveness with an open space head
Speaker 1: fake is pretty impressive. And so you know, I just
Speaker 1: went back and he caught my eye a lot during
Speaker 1: that game. Hey man, listen, I'm David Montgomery's biggest fan.
Speaker 1: But if there was ever a way that they had
Speaker 1: to go to Tarik getting injured and just they needed
Speaker 1: a one guy running back system, I think Cordarrel could
Speaker 1: handle the load well. Interesting, before this year began, he
Speaker 1: was number one in NFL Street in terms of yards
Speaker 1: per carry at over seven. Now that was for a
Speaker 1: minimum one hundred carries. Wasn't a huge sample size, but
Speaker 1: the guy, he's a people mover. So well, we'll pick
Speaker 1: it up on the other side. Our final segment coming
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Speaker 1: before we turn it over to Hubbarkish on six seventy
Speaker 1: the Score talk more Bears football. He was on those
Speaker 1: conference calls today, those zoom calls today and Chuck Paganell.
Speaker 1: He's been hilarious the last couple of weeks. But not
Speaker 1: so funny was the fact that obviously defense didn't play
Speaker 1: like there used to play it, and he took a
Speaker 1: lot of their responsibility. And he's been asked repeatedly time
Speaker 1: over the course of this year about the run defense,
Speaker 1: because while it has been overall impressive, there have been
Speaker 1: times when it is not. They've given up chunks, they've
Speaker 1: given up ten plush yard carries. Again, asked today if
Speaker 1: the defense missus Eddie Goldman, nobody will ever forget it.
Speaker 1: We've all spots when the fortunately the Space Shuttle. You know,
Speaker 1: I know exactly where I was when that thing happened
Speaker 1: nine to eleven and twenty twenty and Sunday Night football
Speaker 1: at Lamball. I'll never forget it. Scars, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't ever forget the scars, you know, and and the
Speaker 1: bad things that happened. So um, yeah, we'll never make
Speaker 1: any excuses. And those guys are really good players, and
Speaker 1: their teammates to tell you they're really good players and
Speaker 1: we'd love to have them on the field. We don't
Speaker 1: have them on the field. Yeah, And that's been the
Speaker 1: stance off season long, and that's the approach you gotta
Speaker 1: take here. Yeah, so you know I would be more
Speaker 1: we're interested is well, how many yards per carry did
Speaker 1: they give up when a Keem Hicks is not on
Speaker 1: the field, Because yeah, you don't have Eddie Goldman and
Speaker 1: he's a missing piece of the puddle since the start
Speaker 1: of the year. But when you look at the stats
Speaker 1: contributing to the other night's performance and you see a
Speaker 1: Keem Hicks not in the lineup, and then you look
Speaker 1: at how it affects a linebacker business, and he's a
Speaker 1: big part of it. And so it's more hoping that
Speaker 1: the defensive linemen that are playing play up to the
Speaker 1: level of the guys in front of him being a
Speaker 1: Keem Hicks and you know, yeah, we got thirty seconds
Speaker 1: left up give me a key, a key that you're
Speaker 1: thinking about over the course of this week. I know
Speaker 1: we talked about this on Monday and Tuesday, but now
Speaker 1: it's Thursday night. What are you thinking? Do not let
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford had a good outdoor stadium drive opening drive
Speaker 1: of the game, because if you give Darryl Bevil and
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford some of that first scripted confidence, you're asking
Speaker 1: for trouble. He's had his issues at Soldier Field. Bears
Speaker 1: have gotten to do him. Swipe the Boy'll give it
Speaker 1: to you every now and again. Don't know if any
Speaker 1: gave not looking good swifted in practice today either working
Speaker 1: through a concussion. Time. We're out of time. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you on the radio on Sunday night AM Pregame
Speaker 1: with Ron, Jim and Jam the kickoff at noon on WBBM.
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