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Speaker 1: at hattisall. It's time for another edition of Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: Jeff Johnniac, and we will be joined by Prince Amukamara,
Speaker 1: the veteran cornerback for the Chicago Bears. Time I want
Speaker 1: to start right into today's news conferences as the Bears
Speaker 1: try and put the Green Bay game in the rearview mirror.
Speaker 1: I thought Mitch Trobiscuit the Mike was outstanding, getting into
Speaker 1: a lot of detail about his thoughts about particular game
Speaker 1: situation which really define a quarterback, what you're doing in
Speaker 1: the red zone, what you're doing in the two minute offense,
Speaker 1: and was very transparent about what was going through his
Speaker 1: head and how he'd like to see a change in
Speaker 1: the future, what do you think about it? You know,
Speaker 1: Mitch's kind of Mitch and Matt Maggie both are kind
Speaker 1: of like an artist, because when you have a team,
Speaker 1: it's just like one big blab of clay. And then
Speaker 1: after you get to the chance to experience it through
Speaker 1: OTAs and preseason, then you start molding it a little bit.
Speaker 1: But then when you get into the real action of
Speaker 1: the regular season, now you start molding that thing into
Speaker 1: whatever structure you're going to make out of it. And
Speaker 1: so when Mitch goes back and evaluates the tape critically,
Speaker 1: real seriously, with his teammates as coaches and his peers,
Speaker 1: then you start understanding the things, Okay, I didn't need
Speaker 1: to hurry this up, or man, I should have seen
Speaker 1: this downfield. So it's all those types of things, you know,
Speaker 1: when Mitch said today at the podium and probably trying
Speaker 1: to make the point the whole time, Mitch's improvement is
Speaker 1: going to be a constant. He's never gonna get there
Speaker 1: and then and then oh it's all over, I'm at
Speaker 1: the top or else you know, he's so, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's I'm glad mitche realizes that the importance of
Speaker 1: the continuous work and effort he's got to put in.
Speaker 1: As an offensive lineman, you need to see the game
Speaker 1: through the same eyes as a quarterback does, and you
Speaker 1: did for all your years as a guard with the Bears.
Speaker 1: Did you, after watching tape see the game as he
Speaker 1: described it today? Yes, I think. You know, going into
Speaker 1: the first game, your first experience, there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of over anxiousness and maybe you're trying to think too
Speaker 1: fast and all those things that you fall You'll eventually
Speaker 1: you'll fall into the tempo and fall into the rhythm
Speaker 1: of the offense of the game. Those things will start
Speaker 1: to slow down. Because everybody wants to call it his
Speaker 1: second season, which it is, but it's still his first season,
Speaker 1: first season within this system. You know, you want to
Speaker 1: go up and have all these glowing or remarks about
Speaker 1: Mahomes in Kansas City. This is his second year in
Speaker 1: the same system. So it's it's hard to have the
Speaker 1: comparison because Mitch has already forgot which Mahomes is double learning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's common though, that is and that the analysis
Speaker 1: he is immediate. And there was a great question asked
Speaker 1: today and Mitch acknowledging too. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: sport at a position where you're defined, this is who
Speaker 1: we are for the rest of your career on this game.
Speaker 1: Next game you're defined a different way, and the next,
Speaker 1: and this will go on for the next fifteen years
Speaker 1: of the man's life, right, you know. Unfortunately, unfortunately, fortunately,
Speaker 1: that's the benefits of playing the quarterback position. What did
Speaker 1: he say as soon as he walked off the stage
Speaker 1: at the end of his press conference, He goes, I
Speaker 1: have the greatest job in the world. So that is
Speaker 1: the reflection of the respect Mitch has for his opportunity,
Speaker 1: and he also realizes the improvement he has to make
Speaker 1: in what we as fans expect from him because he's
Speaker 1: already set the buy the bar high. He's a good athlete,
Speaker 1: he's dedicated, he's really he's got accuracy, he can throw
Speaker 1: on the move. So all the traits that you need
Speaker 1: to see out of a quarterback, he's displayed them all.
Speaker 1: Third and goal three, hard line, sixteen seconds ago, first quarter.
Speaker 1: The still shot, you've seen it because you've been hitting
Speaker 1: the mobile unit pretty good there this phone. You're finding
Speaker 1: out a lot of stuff these days. You're starting to
Speaker 1: come into the century. So yeah, still shot at Trey
Speaker 1: Burton back there appears to be wide open, right and
Speaker 1: it's still shot. And he explained it perfectly today. His
Speaker 1: first check was Turiko and his first read. Then he
Speaker 1: goes to the check down, takes the five yeard, get
Speaker 1: the points, tend nothing first quarter. He says, that's a win.
Speaker 1: But as you look at it, as he moves forward,
Speaker 1: he wants to be the quarterback that will at the
Speaker 1: first glimpse, boom, when you're not having to think about it,
Speaker 1: throw that pass. What he will, but he will, he will.
Speaker 1: That's the way he's going to develop. But that's not
Speaker 1: a first glimpse read to Trey Burton. The first glimpse
Speaker 1: is to treat and then he was covered immediately in
Speaker 1: the flat. And then when he looked backside Taylor Gabriel,
Speaker 1: he thought that was his name. So now you're talking
Speaker 1: about maybe three three seconds into the course of the play,
Speaker 1: so it's not immediate throw it. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of evaluation. You're you're avoiding the rush, you go
Speaker 1: to the the scrimmage, understand the protection and understand where
Speaker 1: your vulnerabilities lie. So there's a lot more thinking into
Speaker 1: it than pass hunting kid. Absolutely pleased to be joined
Speaker 1: now by the veteran cornerback of the Chicago Bears, fresh
Speaker 1: off the practice field and a shower, Prince Samukamara joining us.
Speaker 1: How are you doing, my friend? Are you sure I showered?
Speaker 1: That's what I was told. Anyway, it wouldn't matter if
Speaker 1: you did or didn't. You know, it's football season. You
Speaker 1: do what you can, right, right? Do you do whatever
Speaker 1: you have to do to get ready? Jay Hilligberg once said,
Speaker 1: the greatest thing about the job as an NFL football
Speaker 1: players you don't have to shower on your way to work,
Speaker 1: and you know you always have fresh clothes hanging in there. Right. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for digging the time, Thank you for taking
Speaker 1: the time. You get a little extra prep work for
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. It's been a head spinner this whole
Speaker 1: preseason and leading into the first game, and it's almost
Speaker 1: right now, a little chance to breathe a little bit
Speaker 1: with this extra preparation. I don't know if that's really
Speaker 1: the way it is for you as a football player,
Speaker 1: but after everything that's gone on, is it a little
Speaker 1: bit of a chance to take a deep breath? Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially with how um especially with how Sunday Sunday ended. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that extra day helped us as a as a team. However,
Speaker 1: it's crazy because we got done Sunday and then we
Speaker 1: had Monday Tuesday UM off and then got back into
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. So that Monday Tuesday, I'm sure guys watched
Speaker 1: the film forgot about it, but he still had to
Speaker 1: watch it with the UM with with with our coaches
Speaker 1: and and where our thick skin uh costume and yeah man,
Speaker 1: so uh coach uh coach Naki went went through UM
Speaker 1: just uh offense and defense as a team with with
Speaker 1: like UM maybe the I don't know if the owners
Speaker 1: were in there, but I know everybody was in there,
Speaker 1: like gems and stuff like that. And he prepared us
Speaker 1: and just say, hey, we're just like sharpening each other
Speaker 1: and UM, I wouldn't say guys got called out, but
Speaker 1: it was. But he was just pointing, pointing plays and
Speaker 1: just going going through the ebbs and flows of of
Speaker 1: of how the game win and guys, guys received it well.
Speaker 1: And you can tell how how guys are attacking UM
Speaker 1: practice practice this week just with a little bit more
Speaker 1: like UM, a little bit more, just doing a little
Speaker 1: bit more and everything, whether it's finishing, whether it's more
Speaker 1: after Um, we just know across the team, guys just
Speaker 1: want to get that bad taste out of our mouth.
Speaker 1: This is one thing that Tom for the twenty two
Speaker 1: years that I've known him in this position, he talks
Speaker 1: about that meeting where you have to have and he's
Speaker 1: well read it. And I don't know if I always
Speaker 1: been that way. Well, you know what, It develops camaraderie
Speaker 1: first of all, because you're challenge in front of your peers,
Speaker 1: and when you talk about having thick skin, you got
Speaker 1: to be able to take constructive criticism from the coach.
Speaker 1: And then you know, as an offensive linement, I could anticipate,
Speaker 1: I'll I gave up a sack or tackle for a loss.
Speaker 1: I look at the guy next to me. Again, you
Speaker 1: gotta stick with me, come on five, you know. Just so.
Speaker 1: But again, that's the way that you build the team
Speaker 1: that ultimately you're going to have at the end of
Speaker 1: this whole journey that you're you're just starting. Exactly. No,
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you, Tom, And it's more like, um,
Speaker 1: there's a singing in football. I'm sure not film like,
Speaker 1: it's never as good it is, and it's never as
Speaker 1: bad as it is on film, So it just to
Speaker 1: remain neutral and um and just keep pushing. It is
Speaker 1: hard to have a twenty four hour rold when you
Speaker 1: had forty eight hours and now you're gonna dig back again.
Speaker 1: And here it is the first day this because today
Speaker 1: is really a Wednesday in the football world of Monday
Speaker 1: through Sunday. But because of the Monday night or so,
Speaker 1: you're still getting questions about what happened in that game.
Speaker 1: Is that a challenge for a player because you are
Speaker 1: trying to set your mind right and you know, the
Speaker 1: media has its obligations. Totally get it, You get it too,
Speaker 1: but it is hard to keep going back when you
Speaker 1: just want to just go forward. Yeah, I mean again,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. It's just more about like that game,
Speaker 1: like all just all the emotions from even from sitting
Speaker 1: down with um, with Missus McCaskey and just knowing everything
Speaker 1: that just went into that game. It's just like boom,
Speaker 1: like you just pop popped the bo loon and um
Speaker 1: just kind of really, um, I'm sure just deflated like
Speaker 1: this whole this whole organization just for just for that night.
Speaker 1: But now, UM, I think everyone has that short term
Speaker 1: memories like all right onto Seattle, like where you know
Speaker 1: they're going to start with the T formation on the
Speaker 1: offensive side. No, and I and I and I didn't
Speaker 1: get I didn't get it until I mean I saw
Speaker 1: on social media on Twitter, um like it was in
Speaker 1: I think in an honor of how this and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I thought, eighteen forties, it's pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one against the Washington Redskins. They opened I
Speaker 1: think they beat him seventy three to nothing that at
Speaker 1: that time. And I just you know, it's the respect
Speaker 1: that you have. You think of Virginia McCaskey sitting in
Speaker 1: the stands and probably the only person to see the
Speaker 1: inception of that idea, that idea run and then you know,
Speaker 1: play still work. Yea seven yards, I'll take seven yards.
Speaker 1: But I hope they use it more and more. And
Speaker 1: you know what, no one met and knowing how these
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators are on these offensive coaches, they'll they'll come
Speaker 1: up with different offshoots from that play and make defense
Speaker 1: is prepare for it, like they have to, right, you
Speaker 1: have to prepare you just because they showed it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have to. Well, I you know, I would like
Speaker 1: to talk to Prince a little bit more about it
Speaker 1: after the commercial, just about his defensive thinking. When you
Speaker 1: have to prepare for an equally balanced play like that,
Speaker 1: maybe after the other that's time their Prince and Mukamar
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Speaker 1: You want to pick up the T formation play that
Speaker 1: started the game against the Packers gained seven yards, right,
Speaker 1: you mentioned gain seven yards, So it's not a play
Speaker 1: that you shelf and never bring out again. But Prince,
Speaker 1: now when you're on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Now you're looking at a backfield that you don't have
Speaker 1: great familiarity with. What do you think what are you
Speaker 1: thinking defensively? So I'm just thinking, okay, there's three backs
Speaker 1: in the backfield. I'm thinking, of course there can be
Speaker 1: some type of toss or direct run. But I'm also thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: he has three guys in a back for there's also
Speaker 1: Max protect, maybe deep some type of deep developing routes.
Speaker 1: So when it's stuff like that or something we haven't seen,
Speaker 1: it's just like, okay, let's when in doubt bellot out,
Speaker 1: like stay stay deep, let it, let it clear out,
Speaker 1: and then and then react after. Okay. So now for
Speaker 1: the fans of us getting ready for Game two, you
Speaker 1: know you have the guys like um, big band, you
Speaker 1: got Marino and even Rogers for some case kind of
Speaker 1: more stationary quarterbacks. Now you're bringing a Russell Wilson. They
Speaker 1: got Dak Prescott, they got a slew of creative quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Does this change your game at all
Speaker 1: when you have more of a stationary quarterback as opposed
Speaker 1: to a Russell Wilson type. Um, the only way it
Speaker 1: changes in my game. And just have to be ready
Speaker 1: for I just have to be well conditioned, just because
Speaker 1: I know Russell's gonna extend the plays I mean similar
Speaker 1: to to Um, the guy we played last week. I
Speaker 1: just don't even want to mention. I just know that
Speaker 1: that their quarterbacks like that are gonna extend the plays.
Speaker 1: So I just have to we called a plaster where
Speaker 1: you get close to your guy, or get close to
Speaker 1: any guy if you're in zone, just because when the
Speaker 1: quarterback starts scrambling, it's like basketball, guys can go any
Speaker 1: any anyway. Aaron Rodgers, Let's just say that that second
Speaker 1: half the frustration level of a defense. If we're watching it,
Speaker 1: I'm frustrated. I can't imagine what it's like for you guys,
Speaker 1: because you gotta stay patient and you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: be there to make the big play. Um, what is
Speaker 1: going on after a first half? For it was complete
Speaker 1: the domination and you pressured him to have then having
Speaker 1: him sit there and just pick away. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: so so the first half is just like wow, like
Speaker 1: we like we really we really punched him in the mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm even when Aaron was in, we punched them in
Speaker 1: the mouth. And then even when they didn't start moving
Speaker 1: the ball until Kaiser got it. When Kaiser got in,
Speaker 1: then they started moving the ball. But then you see
Speaker 1: um Khalil ended that with a sack a sack fumble
Speaker 1: or shack strip and then turn over run down and
Speaker 1: then um. And then when we go to halftime, UM,
Speaker 1: guys were of course um filling themselves excited, but guys
Speaker 1: were still echoing like, hey, like this is four quarters.
Speaker 1: We haven't did anything yet, so guys knew like we
Speaker 1: had to bring it back the second half. The second
Speaker 1: half came, we weren't sure if Aaron was gonna play
Speaker 1: or not, and they ended up he ended up playing,
Speaker 1: and then um, and then they started getting some up
Speaker 1: temple stuff. They started moving and then UM. And then
Speaker 1: when they had the first score, UM, I think I
Speaker 1: think that was on Kyle. They had the first score,
Speaker 1: then it's like okay, they got some momentum and then
Speaker 1: UM and then I come back in from a head
Speaker 1: with a head hit and then and then they have
Speaker 1: and then they have the long play on me and
Speaker 1: then they have the second score. Then it's like like
Speaker 1: it's almost like Ben don't break. It's like okay, like
Speaker 1: like let's get like let's have some and then UM.
Speaker 1: It just felt like once once we stopped bleeding, once
Speaker 1: we started bleeding, we couldn't we couldn't stop in and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and I'm just thinking, like, man, if
Speaker 1: we just held them, because because as we were watching film,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking like, Okay, man, it was really like five
Speaker 1: minutes in the third quarter and it was like twenty
Speaker 1: to three or twenty three. You mentioned that you were surprised. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't. I just couldn't believe. I just couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. And then um and yeah, like we just
Speaker 1: couldn't stopped to stop the bleeding, and um, and they
Speaker 1: just had they just had the momentum and they and
Speaker 1: they just went with it. So I mean, you gotta
Speaker 1: tip your hats to them for not taking it and
Speaker 1: for not and for not giving up. You know, I
Speaker 1: think when you have that saying, desperate times call for
Speaker 1: desperate measures. When he came out of the locker room
Speaker 1: at half time, I think he kind of threw the
Speaker 1: game plan out the window and said, all, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball out of my hands like Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers nose he can. So I think that kind of
Speaker 1: changed the whole tempo of the game a little bit.
Speaker 1: You're a little bit more necessity to protect myself than
Speaker 1: actually doing the device game plan that MacArthur he put
Speaker 1: out there, right, I agree, because he was if you
Speaker 1: if you saw, if you watch him, he didn't really
Speaker 1: put that much weight on that on on that foot.
Speaker 1: So it was just quick dank and dunk and then
Speaker 1: the um and then the line did a great job
Speaker 1: um with with protecting him. And yeah, I mean and
Speaker 1: I mean and there and there was a time when
Speaker 1: they were they were probably we call it the maroons
Speaker 1: on maybe like the thirty yard going in and it
Speaker 1: was we had a great third down and he was.
Speaker 1: I seen him arguing with McCarthy like, hey, like keep
Speaker 1: them back, keep the field goal team back. I want
Speaker 1: to go. McCarthy's like, no, get out, like get him
Speaker 1: out and stuff like that. I'm like, man, like, this
Speaker 1: is not a good sign. This guy feels this. He
Speaker 1: was confident because he did he in his mind. This
Speaker 1: is reminded me a little bit. Not certainly it's Week
Speaker 1: one versus a super Bowl, but when I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: while I'm at the Super Bowl and Atlanta giving away
Speaker 1: its lead and Tom on that day, every single thing
Speaker 1: that happened had to happen, how it happened for that
Speaker 1: to even have a chance to win the game. And
Speaker 1: I believe the same thing happened in this case. It
Speaker 1: had to happen that way if he if he settles
Speaker 1: for a field goal or another field no, there's no
Speaker 1: chance or the Bears are one one, one snap makes
Speaker 1: a difference in that game. Right, that's probably the most
Speaker 1: difficult aspect to swallow, right, right, in any phase. Right. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. You know, um, just
Speaker 1: going back to the preseason a little bit, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of a little bit of talk about interceptions
Speaker 1: this year, and and I it's neat to be talked
Speaker 1: about because it's something that's going to happen. And so
Speaker 1: you started the conversation the preseason. Then we then Clail
Speaker 1: Mac comes here. Does that number in your head go up?
Speaker 1: Or I still got that same number set in your head? Um,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, of course I think I still have that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna have that same number every year
Speaker 1: until until I get as long as I mean, as
Speaker 1: long as I'm playing. And yeah, I said a joke
Speaker 1: like when he when we when I found that we
Speaker 1: we signed him, I was like, yeah, that is looking
Speaker 1: a little bit more uh, prom promising now And stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's no, it's no surprise, the dynamic,
Speaker 1: the type of um energy that he just brings brings
Speaker 1: to our team. I mean I've always watched I've actually honest,
Speaker 1: I never really I never really watched him. I just know,
Speaker 1: I know it acculates. I know he was defensive player year.
Speaker 1: I know he's an All Pro in a pro bowler,
Speaker 1: and I never really watched him. But I mean that well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of like Von Miller and Khalil.
Speaker 1: They're over on the West Coast. You know, the first
Speaker 1: time I sat there and watched one on ones with
Speaker 1: Von Miller a couple of weeks ago and Denver, I
Speaker 1: was going, oh my god, this this guy is shot
Speaker 1: out of a can. And there's a lot of similarities
Speaker 1: between the two. So now we are going to learn
Speaker 1: a lot more about Khalil in the next few years
Speaker 1: with his situation here. But you know, he has a
Speaker 1: great teammate, a great guy to bring in the locker
Speaker 1: room when you're trying to construct construct a positive atmosphere there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy how how fitting he was um to, I
Speaker 1: mean crazy, how grave a fit he was when when
Speaker 1: he came here, because I know pace and and and
Speaker 1: management there's they're so huge on just having great guys
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So the fact that Matt came in,
Speaker 1: um and just molded right in and got along with
Speaker 1: our personalities and and really bought into the culture so fast. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that's that helps our team out alive. Prince mcamara,
Speaker 1: our guest here on Bears All Access pause rank or
Speaker 1: engineer Dan Barelli helping us out here as well as
Speaker 1: Brandon McCarty as the show moves on. Here, Prince, you're
Speaker 1: you're hitting the nail right on the head because you
Speaker 1: don't know when you got a guy who just became
Speaker 1: the richest defensive player in NFL history in terms of
Speaker 1: a contract, you don't know really what you're getting unless
Speaker 1: you're here through the grapevine, right all the grapevine, My grapevine.
Speaker 1: Time's grape fine. He's a fun loving guy, he's pretty humble,
Speaker 1: and you know he's a he's a nasty football player.
Speaker 1: That's all you need to know. And that must be
Speaker 1: comforting because this is an alpha business and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of guys want to be Alpha's not everybody
Speaker 1: can be in alpha, and some guys do it with
Speaker 1: a big, big voice. Others do it by their play,
Speaker 1: and I think he's the latter. He does it with
Speaker 1: his play. Get that you get that impression from him
Speaker 1: and there, Yeah, and now, I mean even before that game,
Speaker 1: he was being more vocal because and I remember watching
Speaker 1: him watching I've seen a picture of him on the
Speaker 1: Raiders team, he had a see on his on his
Speaker 1: chest and in the in the NFL or any team,
Speaker 1: you don't. I don't think you just hand those captains out.
Speaker 1: So for him to be a captain there, and then
Speaker 1: now seeing him on our on our team, how he's
Speaker 1: starting to be vocal now and starting to just speak
Speaker 1: up and lead and lead through actions. I'm starting to
Speaker 1: starting to see him as a captain on what's he saying? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's just making sure we're poise,
Speaker 1: like uh, saying stuff like like come on guys, like
Speaker 1: like let's get one. When he talks to the bes, hey, um, uh,
Speaker 1: cover your guys just for one more second and so
Speaker 1: so I can get in and stuff like that. You know.
Speaker 1: I like his practice habit that he's gonna make guys
Speaker 1: like Rashad Coward better because now he's going against this
Speaker 1: offensive line every day in practice. He's got a really
Speaker 1: serious approach to his effort. In the tempo he uses that.
Speaker 1: Now you see, it's a trick kind of a trickle
Speaker 1: over effect where guys are going to have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to develop and practice against the best in the league.
Speaker 1: And believe me, I know about practicing against the best
Speaker 1: defense in the league and how much better you get
Speaker 1: because of it. That is town there with Prince Amukamara.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Bears All Access. Will continue
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Speaker 1: I mentioned in that little red right there home opener
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field, Matt Nagy has talked about it extensively
Speaker 1: about re establishing a home field advantage. The crowd has
Speaker 1: been sometimes in recent years they have not received the
Speaker 1: payoff with enough victories. So what's it take to create
Speaker 1: the home field advantage other than the obvious putting it
Speaker 1: into the wind coun that makes it a nasty place
Speaker 1: for visitors to come in and deal with. You guys,
Speaker 1: I think it starts with us. It starts with the players.
Speaker 1: It starts with us doing things that's gonna get the
Speaker 1: crowd excited. And that's not jumping and hollering and swinging
Speaker 1: our towels. That's that's our play on the field, making
Speaker 1: making big plays, scoring touchdowns, getting big hits, making interceptions.
Speaker 1: I think the fans feed off of that. And I mean,
Speaker 1: like we're we're entertainers and they want to be entertained.
Speaker 1: So if we give them stuff to holler about and
Speaker 1: to get loud about, I mean a third down and
Speaker 1: the game is close, um they're gonna be loud. But
Speaker 1: if the third down and the game is and we're
Speaker 1: getting blown out, I don't. I mean, it's human nature.
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're gonna care as much. So
Speaker 1: if if we do what we need to do, us players,
Speaker 1: I think the fans are gonna react off of us.
Speaker 1: How hell you know, how helpful is a crowd noise
Speaker 1: helpful to a defensive back. It is to the defensive line.
Speaker 1: It's really slows down the offensive line and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But you know you have the extreme crowd noise and
Speaker 1: you know it is it is great to have as
Speaker 1: an assistant. Does it help defensive backs? Does it confuse them?
Speaker 1: Does it limit your communication with the width of the field? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it it it helps us because now the
Speaker 1: offense can't communicate and they need to communicate more than us.
Speaker 1: But um, the defense it it can't hurt us al
Speaker 1: just a little bit. But we don't care just because
Speaker 1: we do need to communicate verbally. But that's why we
Speaker 1: can use like sign lay guage and we can do um,
Speaker 1: we can do other stuff. I mean, the corner is
Speaker 1: very easy. You can just give me one, two, three
Speaker 1: or four and I know how I know how to
Speaker 1: play those uh those coverages. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: chatter between wide receivers and dbs, at least during my
Speaker 1: time in football. And this week they got a X
Speaker 1: Chicago Bear that has a lot it brings a lot
Speaker 1: of chatter with um do you do you get involved
Speaker 1: in that? Do you stay away from it? Do you
Speaker 1: not have time for it? Or how? How does how
Speaker 1: do you go about that part of your business. I
Speaker 1: never I never start talking first unless, um, unless someone's
Speaker 1: not playing the game the right way and I either
Speaker 1: that's um, do an extra after the whistle or just
Speaker 1: or if they're talking to me, then then I'll then
Speaker 1: I'll pop off after. But other than that, any anything
Speaker 1: in training camp with Anthony Miller because he came in
Speaker 1: here a confident guy and he's a rookie. So now
Speaker 1: Prince Mukamara a seasoned veteran and you gotta you know,
Speaker 1: have a couple of battles with a guy like that. Um,
Speaker 1: it was very It was very little. I mean we
Speaker 1: probably I think, if anything, we just made fun of
Speaker 1: each other. But on the field, um, not not so much.
Speaker 1: I think maybe when I was when I was out
Speaker 1: a little bit with my growing he was he was saying,
Speaker 1: oh okay, you're you're d you get it, you get
Speaker 1: you get some days off and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: Other than that, not not too much. But Anthony's very
Speaker 1: very um, a very confident individual. I mean I'm excited
Speaker 1: for him to get started. You know, when when a
Speaker 1: kid comes in like that, I think it depends on
Speaker 1: the vet. Um, I think most vets would probably want
Speaker 1: to humble him um some somehow or something like that.
Speaker 1: But me, I mean, I coach Naggie started. They're like, hey, be,
Speaker 1: you have some swagger so and I think that's part
Speaker 1: of the swag and him being him. So, UM, I
Speaker 1: just I just let let him be. In your entire career,
Speaker 1: that's your third team. Have you ever felt as empowered
Speaker 1: to be you as you do right now? Or have
Speaker 1: you always been you? Um? I would say, I would
Speaker 1: say this is almost similar to Jacksonville when we had
Speaker 1: Gus Bradley, and Gus comes from the the Seattle like lineage,
Speaker 1: like where um, I mean they're playing music videos in
Speaker 1: the in the in their team meetings and you can
Speaker 1: wear hats inside the building and um, and they have
Speaker 1: a basketball hoop and stuff like that. So that was
Speaker 1: more like that was like public school. That was just
Speaker 1: more like that was I really I felt like how
Speaker 1: like basketball players, we had curfew and stuff, but I
Speaker 1: just felt like basketball players they can stay as long
Speaker 1: as they want. They like they basically can do whatever.
Speaker 1: And I kind of felt like that. Man, I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like how Lebron kind of kind of feels
Speaker 1: just like I felt like a true vet when um,
Speaker 1: when I was there and UM, but those those type
Speaker 1: of systems don't don't work for every team. Some people
Speaker 1: need in one structure. But um, that was just a
Speaker 1: perfect fit for me coming from Coughlin Coughlin School, and
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. Appreciate that in my career because
Speaker 1: I was there for five years and that really like
Speaker 1: straightened me up, being being five minutes early and knowing
Speaker 1: how to be a pro and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: that prepared me for August Bradley and the man Naggie.
Speaker 1: I think Matt has the same expectations from all of
Speaker 1: his players. He just has a more modern way of
Speaker 1: putting it. Because since since the day Matt was hired,
Speaker 1: and every time he stood at the podium, I've always
Speaker 1: respected everything he said about the next message that he
Speaker 1: wants to deliver, And I think that's what players want
Speaker 1: to hear. They don't want to hear a guy that's
Speaker 1: so evasive at the podium that you really don't know
Speaker 1: what he's saying. You're different because you played from Mike
Speaker 1: dit guess, so the messages they came fast and furious.
Speaker 1: But coaches stand there. I've always been told this. Most
Speaker 1: of the coaches that I've talked to, they are talking
Speaker 1: to the media answer that questions, but they're talking to you, guys,
Speaker 1: and if the message is different from what they're telling
Speaker 1: you in the team meeting at the podium, then we
Speaker 1: got to disconnect. Then we got a problem. Am I
Speaker 1: right right? You need to And I don't know that
Speaker 1: you're hearing what he says at the podium or if
Speaker 1: you guys do occasionally read it, and a lot of
Speaker 1: guys on Twitter now, so they are susceptible of hearing
Speaker 1: things that maybe they didn't want to hear before, or
Speaker 1: reading things they didn't want to read before. But the
Speaker 1: message has to be consistent. So I think there's this
Speaker 1: notion that you know, coaches stand there and tell tell
Speaker 1: the media a bunch of a bunch of nonsense just
Speaker 1: to fulfill a commendment, but they are talking to their players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that, But mine is my perspective is
Speaker 1: almost like a vice versa because I feel like what
Speaker 1: he tells us is what he's telling to the to
Speaker 1: the media. And I don't know which one comes first,
Speaker 1: but but anytime he'll tell us something and then I'll
Speaker 1: see a tweeter or a clipping like, oh he said
Speaker 1: what he told them, He told that exactly to us.
Speaker 1: Was this approach any different? You know, it seems like
Speaker 1: you have five months to prepare for your first game
Speaker 1: of the season than you got three days to prepare
Speaker 1: from every game after that was his approach. The same
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this week as it has been
Speaker 1: leading up to the as it was leading up to
Speaker 1: the Green Bay game. But now your time is much
Speaker 1: more condensed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Coach Niki has been very
Speaker 1: even killed and um. And I think from this generation
Speaker 1: of coaches, I've been seeing like they're starting to bring
Speaker 1: the energy and they've learned that players feed off that energy.
Speaker 1: So he's the same coach talking stuff, UM, talking stuff
Speaker 1: to us at at practice. If if the scout team
Speaker 1: offense makes a play, it's a good job, good job offense,
Speaker 1: good job offense. Just to get under the defense the
Speaker 1: defense skin and um, if I drop ball or something, Prince,
Speaker 1: that's that's another ten balls on the jokes for you
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So he's always um, he's always honest,
Speaker 1: always bringing that energy and UM, I think as a
Speaker 1: player we appreciate that coming from the coaches. He's very
Speaker 1: transparent too. He uh, I don't know how players feel
Speaker 1: about this too, but you know, taking responsibility today at
Speaker 1: the podium too, just talking about how he didn't feel
Speaker 1: like he was in a great rhythm as a play
Speaker 1: caller in his first game here as head coach, and
Speaker 1: and have the due had an offensive coordinator or not
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, buy title, but designed the game play call
Speaker 1: the plays as a head coach, especially on third downs
Speaker 1: and so forth. That admission a lot of coaches are
Speaker 1: not going to do. They may say it. I believe
Speaker 1: what he says. He's not just it's not just lip service.
Speaker 1: The players appreciate that. Yeah, I think there's a very
Speaker 1: um I think him him being genuine. I think guys,
Speaker 1: guys can really read off that a player can tell
Speaker 1: for coaches faking it or not. Is this the closest
Speaker 1: and age you've ever been in your career to your
Speaker 1: head coach. Yes, because you know, when you when you
Speaker 1: start closing that gap between the Coughlin and the other ears,
Speaker 1: there is a difference because now you're seeing things similarly.
Speaker 1: You know, he has young kids, and he's you know,
Speaker 1: everything else that goes on with his life there. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can I can definitely uh see that, and I
Speaker 1: think that's why, um it's it's a good fit. Prince
Speaker 1: and Mukamara our guest here on Bears All Access as
Speaker 1: we break down the Bears game to the lost of
Speaker 1: the Packers, look ahead to the Seattle Seahawks, a visit
Speaker 1: from Pete Carroll's guys. He mentioned Gus Bradley, so Prince
Speaker 1: and Mukamore knows a little bit about that defense over
Speaker 1: there in Seattle. Bradley worked there and was kept by
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll his first year back in twenty ten. Eight
Speaker 1: years of great success for the Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and the Fellas coming to Soldier Field Well continue here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access on Chicago's Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: The Score. This segment of Bears All accesses brought to
Speaker 1: you by Ruth Chris Steakhoup. This is how It's done.
Speaker 1: The yum from Tom Bear as Prince Mukamara joins us
Speaker 1: here remaining segments with the Bears starting cornerback getting ready
Speaker 1: for the Seattle Seahawks. I mentioned Gus Bradley, you played
Speaker 1: former Jacksonville. Now he's out in LA with the Chargers.
Speaker 1: As a defensive coordinator, but he comes from that system.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of familiarity here, a little bit about
Speaker 1: exactly what they're they're going to be doing here as well.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of interesting things they do defensively, but
Speaker 1: it's different. I know you're looking at it from an
Speaker 1: offensive perspective. But what did the Legion of Boom do
Speaker 1: to secondaries around the National Football League? Oh? Man, I
Speaker 1: think they they kind of pressed us to try to
Speaker 1: get our get our own name in stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So you see, um, I think, uh, Chris Harrison and
Speaker 1: the Broncos. I think they started like a no no
Speaker 1: fly zone and stuff like that, and um, I mean
Speaker 1: they actually made us kind of more more valuable and
Speaker 1: just and kind of showed the league like, hey, this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you have that continuity, that good
Speaker 1: core of guys that that stayed together. And I think
Speaker 1: for the GMS and stuff, it kind of showed them like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can you can build from within the house, like
Speaker 1: you can find something like I mean Camp Champs. So
Speaker 1: I think it was like a fourth round guy and
Speaker 1: then Sherman was like a fifth round guy, and then
Speaker 1: I mean Thomas was a first and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So when you so, I think it kind of showed
Speaker 1: gams like, hey, you can find some gems and just
Speaker 1: um and mold them and kind of build them from
Speaker 1: with them. But I mean they were just dominant probably
Speaker 1: for I don't I think, well, really, when you know
Speaker 1: he's at six out of eight years winning records, playoffs,
Speaker 1: two super Bowls, win one first two year seven and
Speaker 1: night they made massive changes but on their system early.
Speaker 1: All right, so you get these teams with nicknames and
Speaker 1: then because it starts with Boom and it starts with
Speaker 1: the big hitting safeties. So now you get all these
Speaker 1: rule changes. Do they have to change your tackling tempo?
Speaker 1: And maybe it changes what the reputation of defensive backs
Speaker 1: can be because you can't you can't light up guys anymore,
Speaker 1: starting with the safeties and to thebes, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think guys are and we have been
Speaker 1: practicing how to hit, I mean, how to how to
Speaker 1: move our head. I mean even the defensive lineman. Now
Speaker 1: you can't even it used to be like a bonus
Speaker 1: a chair on top tub put all yours who was
Speaker 1: a Gannon or when he ended his career at the Raider,
Speaker 1: he used to be great to just land on them.
Speaker 1: Now you got to hit him and then like roll
Speaker 1: over and you might get hurt trying to land on
Speaker 1: on your shoulder. And like that. I mean Ben roethlisbergers
Speaker 1: six six and how I mean how much? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, some of these quarterbacks, they're big gags. Cam
Speaker 1: Newton called Pepper. How you planning on bringing that guy down?
Speaker 1: You gotta do by any means necessary, right right right,
Speaker 1: and you can't. Yeah, And that's the thing I think, guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, I hate to bring this up, but we've
Speaker 1: learned from the thing we've learned from the Saints and
Speaker 1: Vikings game is like, I'm it looked like Marcus Williams
Speaker 1: of safety. He looked like he wasn't trying to blow
Speaker 1: him up, like he was just trying to hit or
Speaker 1: get it tackled. But I think for him being so
Speaker 1: worried about that, he missed, he missed the whole play.
Speaker 1: So I think guys are just gonna do what they
Speaker 1: have to do. The playoff Yeah, the playoff game, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, God, you're just gonna have to do what
Speaker 1: they have to do. Make the hit and then boy,
Speaker 1: but you know, if that happens the next morning, you're
Speaker 1: a front page story. Exactly. Well, it's the fundamental challenge
Speaker 1: your whole life. You're preached about the head, part of
Speaker 1: the fundamental of whatever you're doing, blocking, tackling anything. Now
Speaker 1: it's almost like you got to completely get rid of
Speaker 1: your head and think of shoulders and arms and and
Speaker 1: getting it out of the way. So I think the
Speaker 1: defensive back he all, he just unfortunately ducked his head
Speaker 1: too early trying to make a legal hit at the
Speaker 1: end of the play. Yeah, I'm thinking this. If I'm
Speaker 1: in offense, i am work in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field to my heart's contempt, because really the fear of
Speaker 1: getting ripped back there at the tight end position or
Speaker 1: a crossing route or whatever, I think is gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah. I mean, do you feel you might
Speaker 1: start seeing that this year? Yeah? I can. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can definitely see that. Even I mean I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: from our game, even with the those late hits on
Speaker 1: on Mitch, like those those late quarterback quarterback hits. It's
Speaker 1: just like if a guy rolls out, I mean even
Speaker 1: just just throwing the ball, you're more likely to get
Speaker 1: a penalty from that too. But you know the game's
Speaker 1: moving so fat are you actually thinking through this? No, No,
Speaker 1: you can't possible. Yeah, No I can't. Um, Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that. I just have to face
Speaker 1: the repercussions after. Yeah. You know what's weird is and
Speaker 1: talking to Charles Tillman quite a few times about his
Speaker 1: peanut punch and all that stuff, He's that there are
Speaker 1: times where he was in position that he can anticipate
Speaker 1: the momentum of the offensive player coming at him in
Speaker 1: regards to getting the punch in there. How if he's
Speaker 1: gonna be off balance when you know when he's hitting
Speaker 1: the ground and that you know you can just come
Speaker 1: Like last week, for example, didn't Von Miller go up
Speaker 1: and just take take the ball away from the running
Speaker 1: back for Seattle? Unbelievable. It's just the anticipation of movement
Speaker 1: by defensive players because you see it so frequently in
Speaker 1: your life. Yeah. And I think the more you play,
Speaker 1: just the more you're able to be um. Just you're
Speaker 1: more able to react and um and just make great
Speaker 1: plays like Von did. That tape is fun to watch
Speaker 1: if you like pass rushers. Oh my gosh, I see
Speaker 1: how about how about when the tackle gave him up
Speaker 1: and he comes slanting down Russell Wilson never saw him.
Speaker 1: I mean he puts some punishment on that man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they started and Mac could be doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I asked Mac, I said, did you see
Speaker 1: I had to look at I had to look at
Speaker 1: this dats I think for Von think Von had three yep,
Speaker 1: three sex and j Yeah, just that slant he went
Speaker 1: up and then just darted straight in and then it
Speaker 1: was it was a sack fumble. And then the one
Speaker 1: where because Russell X to roll out, Russell's circled back
Speaker 1: and just ran. Well, the first play of the game
Speaker 1: they're in Denver, they run a seven step play action
Speaker 1: fake drop in. Any offensive tackle in the league is
Speaker 1: gonna be get beat. And then at least one out
Speaker 1: of two you got Chubb rushing, you got Derek Wolf
Speaker 1: on the inside, he got von Miller. That's that's a
Speaker 1: silly play to run to start your season. So sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to put some coaching criticism in there when
Speaker 1: you're thinking about the rushers Von Miller one week and
Speaker 1: now this tackle is going to go to sleep all
Speaker 1: week thinking about Mac. Yeah, it's almost like the onlines
Speaker 1: playing the uh the AFC west back to Bay. It's
Speaker 1: funny though today and in the locker room, Max saying,
Speaker 1: you know, I get Aaron Rodgers, won't week now get
Speaker 1: Russell Wilsa. He goes, you know, give me a break
Speaker 1: right right just the eye. I mean, that is one
Speaker 1: thick bodied pass rusher who can really close the distance
Speaker 1: on or he's got the thing. I love watching about it,
Speaker 1: and I love a couple. I love a couple of
Speaker 1: things in football if it doesn't really matter to the
Speaker 1: average listener. But I love running backs. I love variety,
Speaker 1: and I love pass rushers. I love the different toolbox
Speaker 1: of each each pass rusher and how they can make
Speaker 1: plays just on their sheer, athleticism, power, knowledge, instincts and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Those are fun. That's like art rushing the passer, would
Speaker 1: you agree, yeah, yeah, yeah, And just I mean because
Speaker 1: they also use like karate or just something something with
Speaker 1: their hands. It's not a wax on, but it's crazy
Speaker 1: how they how they use their hands. And it's like
Speaker 1: it's almost like you could tee off on that old
Speaker 1: alignment because you can do a bull rush and go
Speaker 1: straight through them, or you could shake them and go
Speaker 1: outside and inside. I mean and but the best part
Speaker 1: about being a D line is that you can have
Speaker 1: a sack one play, run out, get a breather, get refreshed,
Speaker 1: and then go back in. Or you could get blocked
Speaker 1: for seventy seventy yeah exactly. Time would just be cutting
Speaker 1: them left and right. Well, no, you know what he
Speaker 1: liked awful watching watching the Denver Seattle game. The first
Speaker 1: couple plays Denver brought third third tier pressure onto Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: So it did change his way of thinking it thought
Speaker 1: it He kind of putting his head quicker that I
Speaker 1: have to escape rather than sit inside the pocket. So
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to pay attention to when you talk
Speaker 1: about your favorite thing in football, Jeff's favorite towing football
Speaker 1: as a corner blitz, above and beyond all that other garbage.
Speaker 1: He just wanted love Rande Barber corner blitz you know,
Speaker 1: over the years outstanding. Uh, you know, I'd like to
Speaker 1: see them send you every now and again. You've been
Speaker 1: on a blitz at any point in your career? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in my career, but not not much. Yeah you're outside,
Speaker 1: yeah anyway, you're an outside guy. Um thing I want
Speaker 1: to bring up before we go, because the MAC when
Speaker 1: I we sat down, we did a TV interview and
Speaker 1: when he first got here, and I'll be dog on
Speaker 1: if he's not. His whole interview is using his hands,
Speaker 1: and it was, and I'm thinking just the way he
Speaker 1: was talking and how he used his hands because it's
Speaker 1: muscle memory. Yeah, I'm telling you, he's sitting across me,
Speaker 1: he's probably using those same moves on an offensive tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no joke. I can see that. I can see that.
Speaker 1: There's definitely muscle memory, a lot of repetition. You know.
Speaker 1: You go back and you look at Von Miller. One
Speaker 1: of his first rushes, he's got an unbelievable Karate move
Speaker 1: at the offensive tackle, extend his arm. He bats both
Speaker 1: of them down. But the thing about it is is
Speaker 1: Khalil's really good at it. Two he can bat an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman's arms down and still have his momentum feet
Speaker 1: going forward. So they have to be double organized because
Speaker 1: most people when they're using their hands, the first thing
Speaker 1: they want to do is think about stopping their feet.
Speaker 1: And so now he got these great rushers bam. But
Speaker 1: look at look at the coordination of their feet while
Speaker 1: they're coordinated with their hands. I'm thinking Leonard's gonna learn
Speaker 1: a heck of a yeah, yeah, Leonard. I mean Leonard's
Speaker 1: potentials through through the student roof. So all right, Prince
Speaker 1: and Mukamar our guest here on Bears All Access. Another
Speaker 1: segment to go here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Jeff and Tim with Prince and Mukamara get it ready.
Speaker 1: With the Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson Branton Marshall coming to
Speaker 1: down at three catches in a touchdown last week, overcoming
Speaker 1: some tow and ankle issues, said he traveled all over
Speaker 1: the world. Offensive pass interference puts off in the end zone.
Speaker 1: He had here you go. That's good to see where Prince,
Speaker 1: who knows we're he'll lined up. He's more than considered there.
Speaker 1: I think a possession target there. But they got speed,
Speaker 1: that team's speed on both sides of the ball. Tyler
Speaker 1: Locket at a fifty one yard touchdown. They had a
Speaker 1: tight end fourth rounder Will Disley. Coach was calling Dick
Speaker 1: go over. There is a big guy rumbling through tackles,
Speaker 1: breaking tackles on his way to a sixty six yard play.
Speaker 1: So the Seahawks may be rebuilding, but they got some happens.
Speaker 1: What have been the preach points already for you guys, Well, definitely,
Speaker 1: I mean what makes the team goes definitely the uh
Speaker 1: the quarterback. So I mean I've been talking about h
Speaker 1: Russell Russell a lot and um and yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: with Doug, with Doug, I think ball, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna play, But just getting to know
Speaker 1: their receivers from Jeron Brown and um and Marshall and
Speaker 1: Locket who got a nice little pay day this to
Speaker 1: this offseason and um. So yeah, so we're we're just
Speaker 1: introducing ourselves to them and like we did um on
Speaker 1: the field and practice against their stuff and um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they I mean they have a pretty good a pretty
Speaker 1: a pretty good offense from they like they like to run.
Speaker 1: They like to definitely like to run the ball, and
Speaker 1: when they get a chance, like you said, um, they're
Speaker 1: gonna give you those deep shots. I talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about crowd noise before, because there's no more stay
Speaker 1: outdoor stadium in the league right now than Seattle to
Speaker 1: be disturbing for the opponent's offense. So now Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: goes in the Denver, you get a chance to evaluate
Speaker 1: that tape. Is he a different quarterback with crowd support
Speaker 1: than he is at home when he's got complete control
Speaker 1: of the cadence and all the movement of UM personality
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. I would say so, especially if
Speaker 1: being home, I would say, Um, it's more more comfortable.
Speaker 1: He's able to probably get get out more checks because
Speaker 1: he's not he's not being interrupted by UM, by by
Speaker 1: the crowd noise. So I would say it's definitely an
Speaker 1: an advantage when he's UH when he's at home. You've
Speaker 1: been around a long time, so you've experienced a lot
Speaker 1: of highs, a lot of lows throughout the course of
Speaker 1: your career with games, wins and losses with a young team.
Speaker 1: Does anything concern you about a loss like that for
Speaker 1: a young team that's still learning how to win, Not
Speaker 1: at all. And I saw that firsthand today with with
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson. I mean UM encouraging guys to keep keep finishing,
Speaker 1: to UH to the ball even when he broke it
Speaker 1: down today He's hey, Phillas, it was simple. Why we
Speaker 1: lost the game as we didn't finish. So let's let's
Speaker 1: let's continue to do that. Let's let's emphasize it more
Speaker 1: and um, let's exaggerate and let's start doing extra at
Speaker 1: the ball because I don't want to ever feel that
Speaker 1: feeling again. So, I mean, this is Eddie second year.
Speaker 1: I mean, but you understand he came from he came
Speaker 1: from Alabama and stuff like that, and I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: not he's not used to losing. So I mean just
Speaker 1: seeing that, um, seeing his mindset, and I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of guys respect to that. You know, we've been
Speaker 1: here for this entire show. We've never once mentioned ro
Speaker 1: Kuan Smith. So now you have an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: around him for a couple of weeks. Comes from a
Speaker 1: big time program at Georgia that he's a first round
Speaker 1: draft choice because he's a qualified athlete. What have you
Speaker 1: seen in ro Quan in a couple of weeks? Is
Speaker 1: he a conversation guy to the different defensive players on
Speaker 1: the team or is he consistent with his position coach
Speaker 1: and maybe a guy like Danny Trevathan Roquan's um maturity.
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't even seem like he's a he's
Speaker 1: a rookie. I mean, he's so mature, ump, especially off
Speaker 1: the field meet him. Has had a lot of conversations
Speaker 1: off the field, but um, just on the field, he
Speaker 1: just seems like he seems like he knows everything. And
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know how fast. I didn't
Speaker 1: know how fast he was. I mean, he tried to
Speaker 1: try to challenge me in a race we haven't raised,
Speaker 1: but he tried to challenge me. And um, just seeing
Speaker 1: how he flashes on film, Um, our whole our whole
Speaker 1: team's excited. But yeah, I mean, especially like off the field,
Speaker 1: when when we speak just about like, uh, financial stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, this guy already seems like his head,
Speaker 1: his head his own straight. Yeah. He's one of a
Speaker 1: handful of first rounders on that defense. You're one of them.
Speaker 1: He is. Um obviously, Kyle Fuller is obviously, Uh, Khalil
Speaker 1: mack is. You're the nineteenth pick in your draft. Uh
Speaker 1: what's the pressure associated with that? I know it's a
Speaker 1: common question that's asked for a young player, but you're
Speaker 1: not young player anymore. How did you deal with be
Speaker 1: in a first round pick? Man? Um? And how can
Speaker 1: you help those in the same position. Yeah, I would say,
Speaker 1: I mean the pressure is to perform, but to perform
Speaker 1: now like um, like the team, the organization they want
Speaker 1: to see and they're roy they want to see a
Speaker 1: return on on on their investment. So um, so I
Speaker 1: mean I would say their expectations for you is for
Speaker 1: you to to be Pro Bowl first year. It's just
Speaker 1: for you to to show them like why why we
Speaker 1: chose you? And um, you might have a standard for yourself,
Speaker 1: but but they they have a standard for for you.
Speaker 1: So I would so, But as I think as long
Speaker 1: as your standard is higher than their standard, and you
Speaker 1: you put the most pressure on yourself, I don't think, Um,
Speaker 1: their pressure isn't isn't really gonna mean anything to you.
Speaker 1: And I mean, and this is extra information giving you.
Speaker 1: But like when I talk to them, when I talk
Speaker 1: to like you got a platform, he man, when I
Speaker 1: talk to Kevin White, like even I mean even even
Speaker 1: even call Fuller, like look at Kaful last year, like
Speaker 1: his back his back was against the wall like me
Speaker 1: and call me and car actually closer this year than
Speaker 1: we were last year, just because it's kind of awkward.
Speaker 1: But I told calls like hey, like they brought me
Speaker 1: and Coop to take your to take your spot and um,
Speaker 1: and even in training camp there was nothing he didn't
Speaker 1: if we were being honest, he didn't really show anything.
Speaker 1: And then UM, and then I was out for a
Speaker 1: little bit. And then he started to hold his own
Speaker 1: UM in the games and then UM. First two games
Speaker 1: he held us own against Julia, held us own against
Speaker 1: Deshaan and Mike Evans. The next held us own against
Speaker 1: Antonio Danis like whoa, Like we can now I'm back.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, we can't just take this guy out.
Speaker 1: So what like Kyle. Kyle's mindset was just like, man,
Speaker 1: my backs against the wall. I gotta come out swinging.
Speaker 1: They don't they don't really believe I mean, they don't
Speaker 1: believe in me and um and God, sorry trying to
Speaker 1: be so politically correct, but you can't do you can't.
Speaker 1: I'm only saying they don't really believe in him because
Speaker 1: they didn't pick up his fifth year option. So it's like, um,
Speaker 1: so it's like he came out swinging. So I talked
Speaker 1: to Kevin, like, hey, Kevin, you're kind of in the
Speaker 1: same spot. I mean, they brought two guys in pay
Speaker 1: two guys to come in and take your spot. And
Speaker 1: I mean his mindset is great. Like I can only
Speaker 1: control what I can control. I understand the situation. Haven't
Speaker 1: played a lot of games, but I'm gonna do everything
Speaker 1: I can't to show them they made a mistake. And
Speaker 1: I think it's a great conversation. Everybody is worthy of
Speaker 1: their first round pick. A team saw the potential of them.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget again named gains Adam's first round pick.
Speaker 1: He passed away many years ago as the Bears. He
Speaker 1: told me before he passed away. Three months before he
Speaker 1: passed away, I wish I wasn't a first round pick.
Speaker 1: He couldn't live up to those expectations and all of
Speaker 1: the came of that became too much, you know, from
Speaker 1: family to whatnot. And you know, like you said, they
Speaker 1: expect Pro Bowl. If you don't that, you almost feel
Speaker 1: like you're Hey, nice spoons back game coming up against
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. Hope you have a great season, and
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for having me. It's always a pleasure.
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