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Speaker 1: Studios at Hollis Hall, Jeff Jonnyac along with Tom Thayer
Speaker 1: a Hollis Hall version of this week's show and joined
Speaker 1: by our special guest, veteran cornerback Prince Samuka Mara. The
Speaker 1: dancing full on the practice field along with the rest
Speaker 1: of the secondary throughout the course of practice. That's part
Speaker 1: of the side show everybody, as the Bears get ready
Speaker 1: to play the Colts here on Saturday night. Is that
Speaker 1: you guys dance so much? The secondary does? What the
Speaker 1: heck's going on there? You guys are moving to the music.
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, history of the secondary probably is
Speaker 1: more rhythm than anyone on the team. I mean, it
Speaker 1: would be a toss up between us and the wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Mitch can move a little bit too, that that'll be
Speaker 1: that'll surprise you a little bit. But um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think we're all just trying to have
Speaker 1: fun out there throughout the dog days of its distractive exercise.
Speaker 1: About that, you like that distractive exercise? That's what I
Speaker 1: have the same question run down. Are you antsy or
Speaker 1: are you always trying to stay loose? Because even in
Speaker 1: Kaka key version, as as exhausted as I think you
Speaker 1: would be, you're always just moving your hips, You're always
Speaker 1: jumping around. Are you as an antsy? Are you just
Speaker 1: trying to stay loose? Yeah? I think more just trying
Speaker 1: to stay loose. And then also just like I think
Speaker 1: like if you always hear they probably didn't have music,
Speaker 1: did they? Okay, so just they just the music and
Speaker 1: um and yeah it just like makes you move. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed music. And then um, like these kids, the millennials,
Speaker 1: they always come out with new dances. So you're just
Speaker 1: trying to pray who fits in that category. I'm the team.
Speaker 1: I mean, like Duke Josh Josh Woods is the er
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in practice. So you're gonna laugh it
Speaker 1: this side. You know, I'm not. I don't know your music.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have no idea. I'm a country guy, right,
Speaker 1: So I ask Aaron. Aaron one of the prs um
Speaker 1: so me goes, I got that right, So I said,
Speaker 1: working me. He goes, no, it's working me. So that's
Speaker 1: one you guys all you know. So Josh Woods knows
Speaker 1: all the machinations of working me. So he's got it down.
Speaker 1: It's like a whole you know, choreograph deal going on.
Speaker 1: And I see you out there, dude, doing the same.
Speaker 1: So and that's and then Drake God's plan. Yeah, everybody
Speaker 1: on that day. Nick Williams, Tom the big muscled up,
Speaker 1: big bicep defensive lineman, is is all aoud God's plan
Speaker 1: is a dancer. Yeah, it's true. I'm almost in the
Speaker 1: same boat with you. But I know them. I just
Speaker 1: don't know who sings it. So like even in the
Speaker 1: locker room, like I always have my zam out and
Speaker 1: I get made fun of, but I'm trying to um
Speaker 1: figure out. Man, like, Okay, this is catchy, like who
Speaker 1: sings is? But yeah, those guys, yeah they know it
Speaker 1: to a team. They can act it all up. It
Speaker 1: is fun though. It is fun to watch. It's fun
Speaker 1: for those guys. You gotta you gotta reduce the monotony
Speaker 1: of the day to day and they still stay focused
Speaker 1: on the task at hand though, And if it didn't,
Speaker 1: the music would stop it. So this this is Bears
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Speaker 1: Tom There and Prince Umukamara our guest here at PNC Studios.
Speaker 1: It has the pink the pink shoes. Are you wearing
Speaker 1: them because they're comfortable in your locker? First ones? What's
Speaker 1: what's up with that? Yeah, definitely wearing them because they're
Speaker 1: they're comfortable. Um, my first year's, second day at practice.
Speaker 1: Like I broke my foot, like stress fact, I had
Speaker 1: a stress fracture. Broke my foot. It is called a
Speaker 1: Jones fat fracture. So broke my it's like my pinky
Speaker 1: toe and they put a screw in there. First broken
Speaker 1: bone on my body and um, and then from that
Speaker 1: point on, it's like, Okay, I'm I'm just gonna Once
Speaker 1: I find the shoe like that model, I'm staying with it.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's the heaviest shoe, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't care if it looks the dorkis like, I just
Speaker 1: want something comfortable that I can stay in. And and
Speaker 1: those Adida's models, Adidas get gets mad at me because
Speaker 1: they're like the year. They're like four years ago, three
Speaker 1: years ago models, and those are ones that I spared
Speaker 1: and um, but when I get to season, I'm working
Speaker 1: to something more comfortable. Are you a spiker molded cleat? Um? Molded?
Speaker 1: I like molded. The benefit of that is, um, I
Speaker 1: feel like they have they have better traction in there.
Speaker 1: They're just comfortable in your feets. The spikes do work,
Speaker 1: and especially on certain fields like San Francisco, like that
Speaker 1: was like sometimes teammates like but Santo teammates said, hey,
Speaker 1: like you're wearing you're wearing spikes. You're you're you're not
Speaker 1: going out on the field. And so I bet the
Speaker 1: bullet and put those on. And those worked well. Do
Speaker 1: you as the molded cleats that you wear. Molded cleats
Speaker 1: are it's all one bottom, and the spikes are where
Speaker 1: you can screw them out and off and you can
Speaker 1: even change the lengths. So nowadays with the transfer from
Speaker 1: natural grass at Soldier Field the sports Turf in New
Speaker 1: York to the sports Turf in Indianapolis. Do you are
Speaker 1: the same bottoms on both surfaces? No? So Team Team
Speaker 1: Met will say like, hey, like, no, no screwings for
Speaker 1: for the for the turf. The molded ones are the best, um,
Speaker 1: the best ones for the turf. Team Met. By the way,
Speaker 1: long time equipment man Tony Medlin, who got the heistood
Speaker 1: up to the shoulders off and what was that all about?
Speaker 1: Said again he's oh, no, I didn't. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't see that. I didn't see that. It was funny.
Speaker 1: Team Met today though. We walked in the locker room
Speaker 1: and um, I was like, teamto are you crying because
Speaker 1: of you know the video we saw of h you
Speaker 1: guys weren't in there. Oh, this is new. So we
Speaker 1: saw a video of you know, the four Ladies of
Speaker 1: the NFL. We saw Missus mccaskey's her little her little debut,
Speaker 1: her little part in there, and so's like flashbacks of
Speaker 1: I mean, just the whole history from her with with
Speaker 1: her dad and then the sons are coming on and
Speaker 1: then talks about Piccolo how you passed away, and then
Speaker 1: walk how you passed away. So when I looked at
Speaker 1: Team I'm thinking like, like he's probably having flashbacks like
Speaker 1: because he knew, um, he knew he knew some of
Speaker 1: those guys that were showing up. And I said, team,
Speaker 1: and are you crying? And he never answered he was crying,
Speaker 1: but he did. He did. He said, man like, it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, it was emotional and stuff like that. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: man like, the number of guys he's seen, or the
Speaker 1: number of number of ball number of situations, like he's
Speaker 1: been around for a while. So so let me just
Speaker 1: say one thing about that. So that is the the
Speaker 1: the NFL Films production, correct, Greg Miller, our producer, and
Speaker 1: that is going to debut later this month. Right, there's
Speaker 1: rewinding down here in August. So he got the four
Speaker 1: pillars that remain in the NFL that can speak fluently
Speaker 1: about the one hundred years, and I hear it's must viewing,
Speaker 1: so great conversation about things that they only know and
Speaker 1: no one else could possibly. So when you see a
Speaker 1: little snippet of history through the eyes of Virginia McCaskey,
Speaker 1: are you glad that you had a chance to take
Speaker 1: part in the hundred year celebration just to kind of
Speaker 1: learn a little bit about the overall history the NFL,
Speaker 1: not only the bay. But then you think you have
Speaker 1: one of the you know, the foremost powerful people you
Speaker 1: know of the NFL, and Virginia mccaski here, yes and
Speaker 1: um and just think just knowing that, Okay, like she
Speaker 1: actually knows ball. Like Charles Tuman was on there and
Speaker 1: he was saying he was trying to talk to her
Speaker 1: during like a play, and then one of her sons
Speaker 1: is like, no, like like only during commercial break, like
Speaker 1: she's she's paying attention and stuff like that. And then
Speaker 1: after it went to commercial break news, hey hate Charles
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So she's very serious about ball.
Speaker 1: But then also I learned about like because everyone was
Speaker 1: surprised when we got the bobble heads and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're gonna mention what those bubble heads or four and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but we're like, who is this seventy seven?
Speaker 1: Like who's grain Granger? Granger? And then and then and
Speaker 1: then they brought him range Man. Yeah, and then they
Speaker 1: brought him up in the videos like oh he was
Speaker 1: like the best back or like he was one of
Speaker 1: the least one. He was one of the greats here,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, can now that makes sense why
Speaker 1: he's on there and like we're not. We don't have
Speaker 1: our own that's yet to come in. There might be
Speaker 1: don't sell yourself short, prince. I heard they have max um.
Speaker 1: Some some lucky people are getting max Yeah, each each
Speaker 1: week of the season, the home games. Uh, that'll be
Speaker 1: one of the giveaways. So I don't think Tom and
Speaker 1: I may have you ever had a bubblehead going back
Speaker 1: to college days or have you? No? No? God, that
Speaker 1: would be one for me to keep right there. Well,
Speaker 1: you mean i'd be using it for practice in some sort.
Speaker 1: You could take a bald guy and put it on
Speaker 1: anybody's jersey and it looked like the guy as long
Speaker 1: as he was a bad Prince and mokamar O guest
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Speaker 1: As the preseason winds down, as it seemed longer than
Speaker 1: it normally does, because even though last year was longer
Speaker 1: in terms of days with the extra game and whatnot,
Speaker 1: just has that feel a little bit. I think because
Speaker 1: of where you guys are at as a team, it
Speaker 1: just feels like, let's get to day one, let's go.
Speaker 1: We're ready to go. I think you guys are ready
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, I agree with that, and it does
Speaker 1: feel a little long, especially because we haven't played uh yet,
Speaker 1: So it's like we've been practicing like OTA's mini camp
Speaker 1: training camp all to play um uh on on, I
Speaker 1: mean in September and and so just because we haven't
Speaker 1: played yet, I feel like that's why I feel so long.
Speaker 1: Has the experience of the off season? How is that
Speaker 1: bent for you? As you get more mature in the
Speaker 1: in your experience of the NFL, you conclude the season
Speaker 1: the way you did, but your expectations are through the rough.
Speaker 1: How is how is the transition of your off season?
Speaker 1: Do you and do you have any time to relax
Speaker 1: or is it getting right back on the horse. Definitely
Speaker 1: have time time to relax. I try to use off
Speaker 1: season as a time to um to seek out other
Speaker 1: interests that um that that interests me, like so whether
Speaker 1: it be like real estate or or acting and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But then um still try to find time
Speaker 1: to work out, but I usually and then also to
Speaker 1: like travel. I'm sure there's like a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that my
Speaker 1: just serve r knows that's not me because if it
Speaker 1: were the big guy here Tom Theaters blushing would be
Speaker 1: all over. That's the second ten man, I'm gonna find you.
Speaker 1: We gotta have some kind of fine. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to a break. We'll pick up your offseason interests when
Speaker 1: we come back. Paul's ranger engineer Greg Miller, our producer
Speaker 1: here today filling in on Bears All Access on Chicago
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Speaker 1: Joniak and the phone ringing Tom Thayer along with Prince
Speaker 1: and Mugamara, who called was in the last sevement. If
Speaker 1: you're just joining us, So the seven time consecutive pro
Speaker 1: bowler called Prince, you might have thought it was Jay
Speaker 1: Cutler or j J. Ratl. Those were two choices. But
Speaker 1: now those two offensive linemen and line up against it,
Speaker 1: went with each other all those years there. They're as
Speaker 1: thickest thieves, so they they talk more than two people
Speaker 1: probably should. But Jay, you will when you finally retire
Speaker 1: and your years away from the NFL, you kindle those
Speaker 1: relationships and friendships that you know are always going to
Speaker 1: be a part of your daily existence. Good. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: before the break, you're talking about your offseason interested you'll say,
Speaker 1: So one, you said real estate, So now does that
Speaker 1: mean you were doing that this summer? Are learning it?
Speaker 1: Number two? You said acting? So were you doing some
Speaker 1: of that as well? Were you volunteering at the community
Speaker 1: Playhouse in Glendae? I mean what were you doing Glendell, Arizona? Yeah? So,
Speaker 1: um so real estate. I've done my feet wet a
Speaker 1: little bit just right now, just um, I've done some
Speaker 1: flips and then right now, I own some condos in
Speaker 1: um in Jacksonville where I played, and um own some
Speaker 1: in um in Arizona, and now I'm I'm in Uh.
Speaker 1: I dabbled in in La. So I'm just just getting
Speaker 1: my my feet wet and just trying to diversify my assets,
Speaker 1: uh somehow, like because everyone always asked me, okay, like
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do when you stop playing? What
Speaker 1: do you do when you stop playing? And um, right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it could be two years, but
Speaker 1: when you look at other people, I mean it could
Speaker 1: be eight years, so just not knowing when when that is,
Speaker 1: but I do know the window is slowly closing. So
Speaker 1: just trying to make the most of my opportunities. And
Speaker 1: what about real estate intrigues you aside from the obvious,
Speaker 1: the investment is typically good and you're gonna make money.
Speaker 1: So just what real estate? I just get like a rush.
Speaker 1: It's like another adrenaline, like like football, Just like finding
Speaker 1: like those deals and like great cap rates and um
Speaker 1: or value ads and just trying to um just trying
Speaker 1: to get a win out of those. Well you can
Speaker 1: you know, parlay that into your acting and b a
Speaker 1: million dollars listing? You know if you've seen the show.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're flipping TV you got million dollars
Speaker 1: listing or the World Poker Championship, what are you watching?
Speaker 1: Probably a million dollars listing? Yeah, probabi. So is that
Speaker 1: does the is this is this a textbook thing or
Speaker 1: is it information off of you know, a computer or
Speaker 1: is this a conversation that will even go into the
Speaker 1: locker room to young guys where you can say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, this may be something that you should take
Speaker 1: some interest in. Yeah, I think it's was definitely not textbook.
Speaker 1: So I've been learning from friends who've who are former
Speaker 1: players and now real estate agents, so they actually know
Speaker 1: um a lot and they've been helping me out a lot.
Speaker 1: But I think the conversations definitely flow into the locker
Speaker 1: room because, Um, I mean, look at um what's his name,
Speaker 1: fry or Elliot Fryer, former kicker like he was he
Speaker 1: is a financial advisor, Like he was a financial advisor
Speaker 1: before playing, Like he was telling me his journey got
Speaker 1: into aff AAF and he Steve Spurrier was was his
Speaker 1: coach and he got to look there good and now
Speaker 1: he gotta look at a try. But before that he
Speaker 1: was he was a financial advisor. He is, And so
Speaker 1: guys just letting guys know, like like you're more than
Speaker 1: an athlete, like the ball is gonna stop bouncing or whatever.
Speaker 1: Sometimes so like what are the interests do you have?
Speaker 1: He would scare me, and it does actually even for
Speaker 1: me at my age. You know, what if this were
Speaker 1: what do you do? And I'm later in life, much
Speaker 1: later in life, as you can see him by my
Speaker 1: gray hair. But a guy that you know gets cut
Speaker 1: after three years or a serious injury, you can't overcome it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're still a very young and you're going
Speaker 1: to be a very young man when you retire. What
Speaker 1: is it that you're going to do so you're not
Speaker 1: day to day boredom all right, Hodia like or just
Speaker 1: to even make a paycheck, you know. So it's it's
Speaker 1: a legitimate question, and I think a lot of guys
Speaker 1: probably choose not to think about it right right, right,
Speaker 1: and probably because they might think like that's distracting, like
Speaker 1: the saying or the phrases like plan B distracts you
Speaker 1: from Plan A. So they probably just want to focus
Speaker 1: U all in on football. But I feel like that's
Speaker 1: why you see a lot of guys struggle when they
Speaker 1: do step away from the game. It's like, okay, like
Speaker 1: I've been in this routine, like I'm never like my
Speaker 1: Thanksgivings and and Christmases were planned out for me like
Speaker 1: the last twelve to fifteen years in my life. Now
Speaker 1: what do I do during a run this time? So
Speaker 1: you don't you don't want that to be new to you,
Speaker 1: and um, you want to have a plan. So I
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for a guy I said,
Speaker 1: played like Trace Armstrong, who's now Matt Naggi's agent, Mark
Speaker 1: Helfrich and David Gohing's agent, and he's gone into that realm.
Speaker 1: He was here last week and just realizing he had
Speaker 1: a fifteen year playing career from multiple teams. Got better
Speaker 1: as he got older as a pass rusher, his numbers
Speaker 1: went up, and then he got involved with the players
Speaker 1: Union and now he's an agent on the other side
Speaker 1: of the fence, helping coaches and some players and media.
Speaker 1: And he's still a young man. So he's had multiple
Speaker 1: careers in a in a period of time. That and
Speaker 1: you know, raise three kids. The neat thing about acting, though,
Speaker 1: I think because you play football and you have that
Speaker 1: adrenaline rush every time you go to a game, you
Speaker 1: need that in your life. And I do see it
Speaker 1: from guys that they have they have no excitement in
Speaker 1: their life anymore. So it's you're just surfing. Well, yeah
Speaker 1: it is, Well, that's what it is. That's what keeps
Speaker 1: me alive, that's what keeps your blood going. But I
Speaker 1: think the same thing can happen through and you know
Speaker 1: something so different in acting that is is not football, right,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think it's a neat interest for
Speaker 1: you to have, right, I agree completely, and I'm like
Speaker 1: every team I get on, Like, man, I hope hard
Speaker 1: Knucks like comes comes here just so do I would
Speaker 1: love that problems. You would have to still be yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah you you would, you would, but um, I mean
Speaker 1: I would just I would like I would make sure
Speaker 1: there's an exaggerated version. So get back. Are you getting?
Speaker 1: Are you taking lessons? Yeah? So I haven't have you
Speaker 1: what have you done? I have dabbled in some lessons,
Speaker 1: but um, I'm very prideful when I feel like I've
Speaker 1: wrought talent and can just like get a script and
Speaker 1: just go. But I know that my my roles would
Speaker 1: be um, would be smaller, just because like if I
Speaker 1: could have it as I want to, I would want
Speaker 1: to be like the Ryan Gosling and notebook right, I
Speaker 1: would want to I'd want to be like a heartthrob.
Speaker 1: But but I I read like I told my wife,
Speaker 1: I said, there's no way like I could like kiss somebody,
Speaker 1: I couldn't separate like the kissing from yeah, from reality,
Speaker 1: like I would. I would want to keep practice. There's
Speaker 1: no way I wouldn't want to keep practicing and practicing
Speaker 1: to Rachel McAdams or whoever, like every every single time
Speaker 1: called Thomas Jones. He's big now really? Oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: does he do? I don't have the exact show. If
Speaker 1: somebody wants to write it down for me, i'd have
Speaker 1: to look it up on my phone. But he's an actor, man,
Speaker 1: he and he's killing it. Thomas Jones, who was beloved
Speaker 1: here with this. Uh and it surprised me because he's
Speaker 1: got that such a tough guy persona weight room guy.
Speaker 1: But now he is, you know, transferred that holy just
Speaker 1: like Eddie George, you know, taking his skill set him
Speaker 1: you know, doing Live Broadway and the other acting that
Speaker 1: he's been able to do. Yeah, so you know he's involved.
Speaker 1: He's done a lot right now. I meant straight out
Speaker 1: of Compton, number out of Compton. Yeah, a violent man,
Speaker 1: uh Luke Cage, Corbin Nash. And I know he's in
Speaker 1: a series too. And forgive me, Thomas, I don't exactly
Speaker 1: know who it is, but he's done. He's done great
Speaker 1: and I would have never guessed it either. Are you
Speaker 1: talking about a tough, you know, very focused guy on
Speaker 1: just he's all about his body, you know, he's yoked
Speaker 1: up still and he's just he's been a very committed athlete.
Speaker 1: Now he's a very committed actor. But what from football
Speaker 1: can help you be a good actor? I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: offensive learning an offense is memorization of all the plays
Speaker 1: and everything. Don't do you have the same amount of
Speaker 1: memorization for your defensive requirements that you do, because it
Speaker 1: seems like that's a lot of the requirement of being
Speaker 1: able to memorize what you gotta say, but not be you,
Speaker 1: you know, be be this facial expression or this person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and even just from like communicating right and
Speaker 1: just like improving like on a play or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And then just also like working on a team and
Speaker 1: just knowing how to interact with different people and like
Speaker 1: in kind of like different actors, Like someone's gonna be
Speaker 1: here today and someone and the new guy will be
Speaker 1: here the next day. So I think football sets me
Speaker 1: up for it tremendously. Are you funny? Could you have
Speaker 1: no job? No? I don't. Actually, I feel like my
Speaker 1: humor is like it's just on the run, like organic, yeah,
Speaker 1: and somewhat dry. Frinza Mukamara, our guest here on Bears
Speaker 1: l Access, will take a break here on Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: Mukamara our guest as the Bears. Moving to Week three
Speaker 1: of the preseason, they'll be in Indianapolis on Saturday to
Speaker 1: take out of the colt. You can hear it on
Speaker 1: News Radio seven eighty and one or five point nine
Speaker 1: FM WBBM, Tom Thare and myself at the mic starting
Speaker 1: at five kickoff at six local time. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: be playing though, pretty much guaranteed for this, which is
Speaker 1: totally made people crazy a little bit in the league
Speaker 1: and even locally and fans, I mean, the league itself
Speaker 1: is promoting on NFL Network or on Serious XM's NFL Radio.
Speaker 1: Week three of the preseason is when the starters play
Speaker 1: into the third quarter. It's the dress rehearsal for the season.
Speaker 1: Throw it all out the window because people are suggesting
Speaker 1: that Matt Nagy because what he did last year and
Speaker 1: how the team performed that this is the new way.
Speaker 1: It may be, it may not be. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about it as a veteran? I love it. I'm
Speaker 1: not you won't hear any complaints from me. I've I
Speaker 1: really really loved the schedule and how and how coach
Speaker 1: Nagi's going about things. And I think I've read I've
Speaker 1: seen like la do it. Um. Then Sean McVeigh, Uh,
Speaker 1: they're they're doing it, And to be honest, he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you put the veterans aside, I feel like it
Speaker 1: hurts like the guy. It helps the guys who are
Speaker 1: trying to make the team because now they're going to
Speaker 1: have more opportunities to get on film than anybody UM
Speaker 1: in the league. And I feel like that only helps them,
Speaker 1: UM secure a roster spot. Their snaps have gone up exponentially.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are now basically full time guys for
Speaker 1: four weeks and that that that cannot well, I guess
Speaker 1: it could hurt some guys and it could it could
Speaker 1: rediscover some others. So there's a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: the new collective bargain agreement. That's he's eventually going to
Speaker 1: come up, So you have you treat the preseason and
Speaker 1: the fashion you're treating it now where you get very
Speaker 1: little playing time. So if they wanted to redo this
Speaker 1: whole thing. And when I was in the USFL, we
Speaker 1: had no preseason games, We had an inter squad, we
Speaker 1: had a scrimmage with another team, then we played eighteen
Speaker 1: regular season games. Would you even be open to that
Speaker 1: as a conversation if you want it, Because you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of experience in the NFL, you've been here
Speaker 1: a while. Would you even take that into consideration if
Speaker 1: you if you were in the conversations at the table, No,
Speaker 1: just simply because I mean, there's just has to be
Speaker 1: a time because if I'm looking for if I'm at
Speaker 1: it from like a coach or GM or from an
Speaker 1: owner's perspective, like there has to be a way where
Speaker 1: I can evaluate these guys, and I feel like those
Speaker 1: preseason games they allow you, they allow you to do
Speaker 1: that the young guys. Yeah. Well, and I was just
Speaker 1: talking about this with Tom today watching practice. Is that
Speaker 1: as a player who you're going to need to count
Speaker 1: on as your teammates, whether it be on special teams
Speaker 1: or a guy that fills in. If somebody gets hurt,
Speaker 1: you need their true You have to trust them a
Speaker 1: little bit. That trust has to be carved out at
Speaker 1: some point, and it's the effort that results in a play.
Speaker 1: I mean, I look at a guy, you know, he's
Speaker 1: a definite long shot to make this team, Matthew Betts
Speaker 1: out of Canada. He was rushing the pastor the other
Speaker 1: day with such aggressiveness and getting on the edge of
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman and drawn Khalil Max's attention and they're
Speaker 1: high five and is you guys know, when you see
Speaker 1: a player, and when a player is starting to emerge
Speaker 1: a little bit, you want them on your team, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know guys you don't want on your team, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the black and white of it. And
Speaker 1: this does allow for that to happen. I think they
Speaker 1: gotta dip their toe in the water to see what
Speaker 1: it's really like. Yeah on game day, yeah yeah, and
Speaker 1: especially if you haven't especially if you haven't played in
Speaker 1: the game yet. And I mean when you talk about uh,
Speaker 1: that's like another person that comes to mind is like Duck.
Speaker 1: Like Duck Ducks cornerback. He's made so many plays in
Speaker 1: practice it's like okay, Like now, like to be honest,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you do in practice, like all that
Speaker 1: matters what you're doing in games. It's like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: see what we're doing in games. Then he gets that
Speaker 1: that pick on the one or two yard line from
Speaker 1: in from New York and um and yeah, and that
Speaker 1: gets us excited. We're like okay, like he's shown it
Speaker 1: in practice and he's doing it in games. Um, that
Speaker 1: really shows a lot. You know, when you have take
Speaker 1: all the cornerbacks and there's your guys are all built
Speaker 1: in different sizes and shape because Kevin Tolliver is different
Speaker 1: than Duck and You're different than both of them. So
Speaker 1: when these young guys that don't have a great deal
Speaker 1: of experience, when they come up and ask your advice,
Speaker 1: does does what you do transfer to their abilities? Or
Speaker 1: is each guy's traits handled a little differently? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say it has to be catered to their um,
Speaker 1: to their tangible so like whatever, like if they're tall, strong,
Speaker 1: or fast, for me, how I play corner Um, I
Speaker 1: don't think a guy like Duck or um, like a
Speaker 1: guy like Duck can can do it how I do
Speaker 1: because I like to be I like to be man
Speaker 1: and man like um in your face and like I'm
Speaker 1: ready to run with you, I'm ready to fight with
Speaker 1: you or whatever. But like a guy like Duck or Duke,
Speaker 1: they might want to play off just because they're they're
Speaker 1: they're a little they're a little smaller and um and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I would just tell them, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is how I do, and these are things I do,
Speaker 1: and and if they can take um some things from
Speaker 1: me or um, I would strongly suggest, like, hey, go
Speaker 1: look at somebody that kind of fits like your type
Speaker 1: and fits how they play and fits how you play,
Speaker 1: and see if you can and incorporate some of that.
Speaker 1: Prince Samu Kamara our guest here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score Jeff and
Speaker 1: Tim and Prince kind enough to join us here. Today
Speaker 1: is the Bears wind down Week three of the preseason
Speaker 1: and they'll meet the Colts on Saturday night. Yeah, can
Speaker 1: you give me a little thumbnail on each guy in
Speaker 1: your secondary? Are you able to do that for me?
Speaker 1: What do you mean my thumbnail? You know what their
Speaker 1: strengths are and how they're fitting in and maybe who's
Speaker 1: come the furthest so far in this offseason from your perspective, Uh,
Speaker 1: We'll go with Kyle Kyle Fuller. Yeah, yeah Kyle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kyle's is skipped to be um. I
Speaker 1: mean I think he's gonna have a better year this year,
Speaker 1: uh than he did last year. I mean last year
Speaker 1: he was all world and um even with last year
Speaker 1: as great as great of a season as he had,
Speaker 1: I know he'll agree with us, like he still feels
Speaker 1: like he's like he missed some plays, but um, I
Speaker 1: feel like he's gonna turn it up again this year.
Speaker 1: Kevin t U T I'm I'm excited for for Kevin. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's uh he's a big, strong and fast, fast guy
Speaker 1: like myself and UM yeah, I'm I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: um things from him. He's gonna be great for us.
Speaker 1: Duke is really impressed Tom and I and Duck because
Speaker 1: it's not too big for him. They come with the
Speaker 1: requisite attitude for a corner and a nickel position in particular.
Speaker 1: Would that be fair to say very true? Yeah, Duke
Speaker 1: definitely has that um, that dog that people would say
Speaker 1: that they want in a player not afraid of anybody,
Speaker 1: is not afraid of line up any against anybody and
Speaker 1: has great balls. Man buster, you know what cops in
Speaker 1: my head? He every time he goes after the ball,
Speaker 1: somebody's on the ground like he's hitting. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be that. He puts people on
Speaker 1: the ground. You think that's how he plays. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he I'm sure, and I know he's gonna be compared
Speaker 1: to Bryce Um probably this whole first season, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it was a it was a great it
Speaker 1: was a great grab just from our management, just because
Speaker 1: they're similar. He's Um, he's experience, and he's like just
Speaker 1: as fast and as athletic as brother. He talks about
Speaker 1: this being the front seven he's ever played with, the
Speaker 1: best front seven he's ever played with. You know when
Speaker 1: you said that too, Yeah, that's what are you in
Speaker 1: agreement with this? Because you've you've been around some pretty
Speaker 1: good front sevens, But what do you think of this one? Yeah? These,
Speaker 1: I mean, these these guys are are yeah, extremely talented,
Speaker 1: and I know that the clock, the clock in a
Speaker 1: quarterback's head is going to be shortened, and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna make our jobs a lot of easy. John Franklin,
Speaker 1: you played running back made corner, he played quarterback and
Speaker 1: now trying to be an NFL corner. Um probably probably
Speaker 1: one or if not the fastest guys on on our team.
Speaker 1: And the strikes he's made from last year to this year,
Speaker 1: Um has has been grades, been making plays on on
Speaker 1: the balls. But still learning. Um still learning the game
Speaker 1: and as sweet goes very o Michael Joseph Chicago born
Speaker 1: and brag grib listening in time there. I like I like,
Speaker 1: I like like if I if I could choose, if
Speaker 1: I could trade spots with somebody like athleticness and how
Speaker 1: I feel like I would want Like Michael Josie, he
Speaker 1: just seems like a prototypical like corner, just very limber, thin,
Speaker 1: can move, can move well, and and just has great
Speaker 1: ball skills. I feel like he has all the tangibles.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna step away another break. A couple
Speaker 1: of more segments to go with Prince Simulcamara, the veteran
Speaker 1: cornerback for Chicago Bears twenty nineteen season about to commence
Speaker 1: with the Packers on September fifth, Thursday Night Football will
Speaker 1: get into that. Coming up next on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to the score, Kick off the bears one
Speaker 1: hundredth season at the middle of night. Chicago Bears Black Party, Saturday,
Speaker 1: August thirty, first in Logan Square, open from noon to
Speaker 1: ten and free for all ages. That's ten pm by
Speaker 1: the way. Enjoy activities including food, alumni autographs, photo opportunities,
Speaker 1: and music from Lovely the Band and more. Tom and
Speaker 1: I have been to those over the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: Good time had by all. Everybody enjoys getting out with
Speaker 1: this great August weather in Chicago, the final spasms of
Speaker 1: the heatwave. I guess it's starting to cool down a
Speaker 1: little bit with September coming, and that means Bears football
Speaker 1: will open a season on September fifth, the league's opening game.
Speaker 1: And how often do you think about it Week one
Speaker 1: against the Packers. I mean, I'm starting to thinking about
Speaker 1: it a lot, a lot more now. I mean just
Speaker 1: just there's just gonna be some much emotion just in
Speaker 1: that game. I mean, from for this being our one
Speaker 1: hundred year and um us opening a game here for
Speaker 1: for the uh uh and for the first game of
Speaker 1: the season, the NFL's one hundred and then of course
Speaker 1: what happened last year um in um at Green at
Speaker 1: Green Bay's plays. So there's gonna be so much, so
Speaker 1: much emotion and then I mean even just from how
Speaker 1: we how we finished the season last year. So um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big game for for both teams,
Speaker 1: and um, there's gonna be a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of excitement. But um, we're I feel like we're gonna
Speaker 1: be ready. The adjustment to a new defensive coordinator is
Speaker 1: like being on a new team, or just like being
Speaker 1: on a new defense. When you think of coach Pagato
Speaker 1: and you know him, you know him in pract this.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm an OTAs you know, I'm a training
Speaker 1: camp preseason games. But like you said, it's different for
Speaker 1: you in a regular season game, just like it will
Speaker 1: be for him. Yeah, it's I feel like it's like
Speaker 1: me just being just getting a new a new defense. Um.
Speaker 1: And I say that well him, him and in coach
Speaker 1: Vick have similarities. Um, I think they're both Italians. And
Speaker 1: but Vic I always always telling him Vick is, Um
Speaker 1: it's not as vocal, but you still know how he
Speaker 1: feels and and Chuck after being um a head coach,
Speaker 1: just as presidents, he still carries himself, UM like he's
Speaker 1: like he's a head coach, and I mean just like
Speaker 1: the presidence and the respect that that he demands and
Speaker 1: he's very confident and um and but we're excited for
Speaker 1: him to be our DC. He definitely challenges us in
Speaker 1: every ways and he and he teaches like life lessons
Speaker 1: and always comes up with these like quirky sayings like
Speaker 1: skin like armadillo and like so what now what just
Speaker 1: different different things, and um, I can't I can't wait to, uh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to How does he challenge you guys?
Speaker 1: Give me an example, give me something living and breathing
Speaker 1: that give me an example of a challenge to Prince
Speaker 1: and Mukamara. So he one thing, one thing he one
Speaker 1: thing he doesn't want us to do is like as
Speaker 1: a defense with all the success that we experienced last year,
Speaker 1: is like don't like, don't settle, like like we can
Speaker 1: be better. So even he doesn't, he doesn't want us
Speaker 1: to go through the through the motions and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And he'll he'll always say, um, like today, today's Thursday. Thursday,
Speaker 1: Today's Thursday. So he'll always say like, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the best Thursday in all of Thursdays.
Speaker 1: In history, or this is gonna be the best walkthrough
Speaker 1: and and all of walkthroughs in histories. So just to
Speaker 1: get our mind thinking positive, like, hey, like, no matter
Speaker 1: what we're doing, whether it's full speed or it's has
Speaker 1: to be whether there's no speed, like this is gonna
Speaker 1: be the best rep that I have, um that I've
Speaker 1: ever had ever. What you don't know, and this would
Speaker 1: be true for anybody, is that Vic is a great coach.
Speaker 1: Pagano's a great coach. But the way they call games
Speaker 1: and how it all you know, the play callers, whether
Speaker 1: it be offense or defense, that's what you don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what you're gonna have to adjust to
Speaker 1: because when is he gonna dial up the pressure or
Speaker 1: what circumstances, how's it gonna play out? You know, in
Speaker 1: terms of what he sees in the bigger scope and
Speaker 1: you know, puts in your head over the course of
Speaker 1: the week. What's he got up his sleeve? You know
Speaker 1: that's the part that you that'll be the fun part. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be that will be the that would be the
Speaker 1: fun part. Yeah, And just with Vic, just with being
Speaker 1: with him when I was with him for two years,
Speaker 1: it's like I could kind of get his sense. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is the time of the game, this is the
Speaker 1: down and distance. Um, I think I'm gonna get covered
Speaker 1: too right here, and and I would just know and
Speaker 1: um yeah. And so with Chuck now is just like
Speaker 1: man like he kind of don't kind of don't know
Speaker 1: what he's gonna call me. Um, but um, I feel
Speaker 1: like defensive coordinators have a great great of course they
Speaker 1: should have a great eye for the game. And um.
Speaker 1: And one thing with Vick is like it could be
Speaker 1: thurning long and I'm thinking, Okay, we're gonna get We're
Speaker 1: gonna get covered two to keep everything inside and in
Speaker 1: front of us. But then if if they convert on
Speaker 1: that there and long, that covered two is going out
Speaker 1: the window, Like we're not going to see h covered
Speaker 1: two like the whole game and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: I'm sort of Chuck is similar, so not looking ahead
Speaker 1: or thinking ahead, but I am. So you figure, if
Speaker 1: I'm a guy I get cut by the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: and then they bring me into the Chicago Bears and
Speaker 1: then they start picking my brain about what we do
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. So now you
Speaker 1: you played a couple of years for Vic Fangio, you
Speaker 1: know as well, you know, as way of thinking and
Speaker 1: what you're telling us, is there anything that you can
Speaker 1: tell Mitch or tell Matt to say, Hey, in this scenario,
Speaker 1: this is the way he thinks, or this is something
Speaker 1: that we used to do regularly on this down a distance,
Speaker 1: this field position for a week two you mean, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be some kind of show. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean, I think I think they would
Speaker 1: go to they would go to a couple of guys
Speaker 1: before they go to me, Like I think that they
Speaker 1: would go they would go to Kyle because Kyle Kyles
Speaker 1: was here the longest. But then also, I mean, should
Speaker 1: we have his we have his film, I mean we
Speaker 1: have his we have we have his uh practice film
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But I'm sure vis Vix a
Speaker 1: smart guy, and I'm sure he's gonna um, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he will do different stuff and I mean thinking, thinking
Speaker 1: in the right time frame. I mean, I'm sure Amos
Speaker 1: is probably singing, singing right now as we're talking. But
Speaker 1: but of course it's not like we have it's not
Speaker 1: like we have the same defense quote unquote. But um,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure amos. They have amos in there right now,
Speaker 1: like hey, like and stuff like that. But that's just
Speaker 1: that's just how the league works. Like and you'll see
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you guys, we'll see. You'll see guys
Speaker 1: get guys. Guys are gonna get cut from here. That's on.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be maybe Green Bay or there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a team that's gonna say we I remember we did
Speaker 1: that when I was in New York, like we like
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles had had kind of guy during
Speaker 1: the season. They had cut a guy and we're gonna
Speaker 1: play him that week and we picked up We picked
Speaker 1: up that guy exactly, sell him rainbows and sunshine and ye,
Speaker 1: you're out of here, my man. But that's the competitiveness
Speaker 1: of this league and it's happens all the time. To
Speaker 1: Shake Townsend. I'm intrigued by him as as your secondary
Speaker 1: coach because it comes with the built in respect of
Speaker 1: the fact that this guy was a very successful defensive
Speaker 1: back of the Pittsburgh Steelers, doesn't it. Yes, I enjoy
Speaker 1: having him, and I mean, one thing that's unfortunate for
Speaker 1: me is like before, like I could always like get
Speaker 1: away with stuff. But he's a former player, so he
Speaker 1: like know what he means, what are you trying to say?
Speaker 1: I mean, just like I don't even know, like nothing
Speaker 1: comes to mind, but even just like just like little stuff.
Speaker 1: But he's he's already been there. It's like you're It's
Speaker 1: like it's like he's my dad and I'm his son,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to do stuff that he did when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and so so nothing and that's
Speaker 1: what's so tough about having him as a coach. It's
Speaker 1: just nothing gets nothing gets past him and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and so he can't take advantage of of of of
Speaker 1: a coach a substitute team exactly, That's exactly. It's it's
Speaker 1: harder to kind of squeezing that veteran's day off. He
Speaker 1: never got a veteran's day off, you know. But you
Speaker 1: know that's that's the good that's the good influence of
Speaker 1: him and I you know, it's probably the you know,
Speaker 1: you know from us from the sidelines looking in and
Speaker 1: we see the work ethic of Khalil Mack, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean as an ex player, he's kind of inspiring
Speaker 1: because I see the effort that he gives and if
Speaker 1: they're running um a gas er in between. He's still
Speaker 1: he still does it the fastest. You know. He has
Speaker 1: to be out there and win where they put the
Speaker 1: ball down to start the next team. Him and Leonard
Speaker 1: pretty much. But he beats him every time. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not beating this guy. Yeah, it's it's uncanny. Talk
Speaker 1: about competitive. Yeah, he wins everything. He's super competitive. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll pick that up when we come back. You got
Speaker 1: a good relationship with Khail Mac, don't you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about when we come back. Here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to
Speaker 1: score final segment with Bears cornerback Prince and Mukamara. Here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access, brought to you by Igs Energy
Speaker 1: from panc Studio at Hollis Hall, Jeff, Joni, Act Tom
Speaker 1: there with Paul's Ranger engineer and Greig Miller, our producer today.
Speaker 1: Prince kind enough to give us the hour here today
Speaker 1: as he gets ready for a trip to Indy to
Speaker 1: take out of the Colts gearing up for that season
Speaker 1: opener against the Packers. So we left, we're talking about
Speaker 1: Kalail Mack and how inspiring ment guy is to watch
Speaker 1: and just what he does on the sideline, teaching other players,
Speaker 1: how he takes a moment to just play catch with
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd and just really in a different way leading.
Speaker 1: He's not He's not a raw rod act that I
Speaker 1: can tell. He's not going to be, you know, spewing
Speaker 1: a lot of fiery comments. But he just leads by example.
Speaker 1: And I know that's cliche, but you need guys like
Speaker 1: that too on your team, don't you. Yeah, you do,
Speaker 1: you do. I mean we have a good share of
Speaker 1: vocal guys, but we also have guys just like you said,
Speaker 1: just just lead by example, and just like you were
Speaker 1: naming um earlier earlier, like him him running the springs
Speaker 1: and even even just him um, like I do see him.
Speaker 1: I see him him talking to Chuck. I think Chuck harrisy.
Speaker 1: He's a former I call him from University of Buffalo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I call him little baby Mac or whatever. And um yeah,
Speaker 1: just him him teaching him that and and he you
Speaker 1: like around the league that there are some guys who
Speaker 1: who won't give um information like sometimes oh, like they'll
Speaker 1: think like, oh, this guy's trying to like replace me,
Speaker 1: or this guy's trying to take food off my table.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know what, there was a guy
Speaker 1: used to be or Brian Robinson. You know he passed
Speaker 1: away years ago, but uh, defensive lineman, you tell me
Speaker 1: playing for the Rams, Saint Louis Rams. They wouldn't tell
Speaker 1: him anything. They just didn't want to. But he was
Speaker 1: going to change that and he was going to be
Speaker 1: the guy that you could come to. I see it
Speaker 1: more nowadays that guys are willing. Yeah, maybe it wasn't
Speaker 1: that way five ten years ago. Well you don't for you,
Speaker 1: I'm when did you guys? You guys just keep everything
Speaker 1: to yourself. Well, I don't know. See I just now
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, because I see a Keem
Speaker 1: Hicks living in the back pocket of blah Micheles and
Speaker 1: he's constantly And last week in the sidelines of the game,
Speaker 1: you saw Clill Mack with voters and Isaiah Irving going
Speaker 1: over specific type of pass Russian counter moves fantastic. Is
Speaker 1: there is there a young guy that seeks because you
Speaker 1: and Kyle are two different cornerbacks, I mean there's you know,
Speaker 1: you guys play a different style. Are there guys that
Speaker 1: gravitate towards you? And you know I need to ask
Speaker 1: you specific questions whether it is much as a route
Speaker 1: being run at you as your responsibility to a defense
Speaker 1: going forward. Yeah, I would say me and Mike Joseph
Speaker 1: probably uh talk talked to Most and Um like he's
Speaker 1: very astute like and he he just like watches me like,
Speaker 1: hey man, like I've seen you played this way or
Speaker 1: do this when you pressed like like why did you
Speaker 1: why did you do that? And stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: he actually is UM is more active and like asking
Speaker 1: me questions and just wanting um, just wanting better insight
Speaker 1: and insane with Franklin on that whole background, Sorry are
Speaker 1: you going you want? I just want to finish it
Speaker 1: because it's it's a weird concept to me because so
Speaker 1: watching Monday Night Football, they got that segment it's called
Speaker 1: you Got Most and Last. Yeah, do you talk about
Speaker 1: that stuff in the locker room? If you see yourself
Speaker 1: on a national type of media coverage, do you talk
Speaker 1: about that or do you just try to leave that
Speaker 1: so far behind you don't even want to bring it up. No,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. And even even after the play,
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, hey, um, one thing that
Speaker 1: my defensive back his name is Peter Jina. He's a
Speaker 1: defensive back coach for the Saints. I said, one thing
Speaker 1: he told me is don't let a bad play turn
Speaker 1: into a bad day. So yes, that guy, um made
Speaker 1: a play, But um, you can still like, you can
Speaker 1: still play hard and you can still sounds like something
Speaker 1: exactly and so and and he did. He finished the game. Um,
Speaker 1: he finished the game pretty well. But yeah, but I mean,
Speaker 1: even if it's a good a good top ten that
Speaker 1: he's on is like, I don't think the guy who's
Speaker 1: on it is gonna say, hey, did you see him
Speaker 1: on on top ten? But I think guys would, uh,
Speaker 1: guys would bring it up. And I'm sure over time.
Speaker 1: He's been there now for two years. He was on
Speaker 1: the practice squad all of last season and maybe not.
Speaker 1: But you know his background, I mean he didn't even
Speaker 1: start in his high school football. I don't know baground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he grew up in Oswego, which is in the Southwest suburbs,
Speaker 1: and so he grew up a Bears fan. And you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't play. He had all he just couldn't crack
Speaker 1: the line up for whatever reason. So he goes and
Speaker 1: plays flag football at University of Dubuque in Iowa, like
Speaker 1: in like intermurals. Oh yeah, he just he and he worked.
Speaker 1: He went in the weight room, he added a bunch
Speaker 1: of strength, and then he got the chance to get
Speaker 1: on that team and he became one of the best
Speaker 1: small school cornerbacks in college football two years ago. So
Speaker 1: his journey is from nothing like he's you're helping him
Speaker 1: and he's trying to help you win the super Bowl
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen if he makes this football team. So
Speaker 1: you know those kinds of and you're in your first
Speaker 1: round pick and you're you know, you're sharing this information
Speaker 1: with a kid who's that's why he's Thursday. Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. One thing I did here when
Speaker 1: I was um, I did it. I did an interview
Speaker 1: on a cylinder in the Panthers game. Someone said he
Speaker 1: was five town is correct? What what when? Ye higher? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, okay, like my wife is like five foot.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say wait better, but I'm thinking, like
Speaker 1: my wife, this guy was like that first year. You
Speaker 1: talk about somebody that's invested in himself, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a great story. I love those stories. I mentioned Mac.
Speaker 1: You got a camp. You have a camp every year
Speaker 1: and everything can how'd you get him the cop man?
Speaker 1: I paid him. No, I'm getting but I could not
Speaker 1: believe listen like I was. So I was. I was
Speaker 1: so flattered and um and honored. But yeah, he came.
Speaker 1: I just simply I just imply asked him, and um,
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, he's gonna come and and with my camp.
Speaker 1: I don't say who's coming because I don't want to
Speaker 1: falsely advertise and I don't want those kids to come
Speaker 1: for them. I want them, Yeah, I want them to
Speaker 1: know like I'm good and I'm I'm enough and um. So,
Speaker 1: but every year I always ask different guys and yeah,
Speaker 1: Matt came, and I was like, wow, people, did the
Speaker 1: kids gravitate to him? Because yes, everybody, everybody loved him
Speaker 1: and he and he's just one of those guys that
Speaker 1: that's gonna sign every autograph and take every every picture.
Speaker 1: Didn't big guy nobody? And then um it was cool,
Speaker 1: Like I had my friends help me with the camp,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, like, Okay, who who can I give,
Speaker 1: like like the um the privilege to like to like
Speaker 1: be with camp, be with be at camp with mac
Speaker 1: working uh uh um, like an exercise or whatever. And
Speaker 1: then I gave it to one of my good friends
Speaker 1: who who's a who's a Raiders fan. Um, but I
Speaker 1: knew he would still enjoy it. But yeah, Mac was amazing,
Speaker 1: and UM, I'm trying to get him out again if
Speaker 1: he comes to learn about the guy that maybe we
Speaker 1: don't see. Oh man, he's um a lot, a lot funnier,
Speaker 1: he has great, a lot funnier than than you would think.
Speaker 1: Has great, great personality, UM, very very like welcoming, just
Speaker 1: like just hospitable, like opens his house, um, just like
Speaker 1: um invites and um. And and Mac has some business
Speaker 1: ventures also that um that he's not shy on on
Speaker 1: including and um he just he You just wouldn't think
Speaker 1: like with guys like that, even my stereo talking. I'm
Speaker 1: sure fans are too. And maybe you guys too, Like
Speaker 1: you think this guy's a prima donna or like a
Speaker 1: diva or like a guy with like who's accomplished as
Speaker 1: much as he's accomplished, but he's more like he wants
Speaker 1: every everybody to win, and he wants to talk about
Speaker 1: everybody else. He does not want to talk about himself.
Speaker 1: And he's never going to be that guy. So Chicago.
Speaker 1: I mean to me, he's he's lak er esk in
Speaker 1: that regard humility of of a star player that you
Speaker 1: wouldn't or narrowly suggest would be the case exactly. And
Speaker 1: I even but when when I found out like he
Speaker 1: red shirted, I started a crack on him. I'm like, man, Wow,
Speaker 1: for one time in your life, you weren't. You weren't
Speaker 1: as good as everybody like you. You red shirted, So
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty funny. Last thing for me,
Speaker 1: what do the kids want to know? Like when you
Speaker 1: go to a camp and you're surrounded by kids, whether
Speaker 1: Khalil's they are or not, and you're there, what what?
Speaker 1: What is the kid? What are the kids need? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I always get two personal I always get two
Speaker 1: tough questions. Number one, who's the best guy you you've guarded?
Speaker 1: A Number two like how can I get to where
Speaker 1: to where you are? So I would say those two
Speaker 1: questions I get mostly all right, Well, your ball skills
Speaker 1: have escalated at a very crazy rate. I think you
Speaker 1: easily had double digit interceptions over the course of training camp,
Speaker 1: and you're including you had one yesterday, pick six. And
Speaker 1: I learned from another interview that I did with you
Speaker 1: earlier this year that no one ever taught you really
Speaker 1: how to catch a football until Ed Dontel, which to me,
Speaker 1: you played football your whole life. That's a stunning statement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but thank goodness it finally happens, right right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: just when he and I And that's one thing I
Speaker 1: loved about Coach Edar is like, and you see what
Speaker 1: the Shay two is like, they actually care for you
Speaker 1: as players. And I was just yeah, well when he
Speaker 1: told me that I had to put my index fingers together,
Speaker 1: in my thumbs together and actually look the ball in it.
Speaker 1: And the term you use, or the phrase he used
Speaker 1: was just stop the ball, like don't catch it, just
Speaker 1: just you were trying to grab it. Yeah I was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just trying to catch it either with my
Speaker 1: body or just Yeah, you would think just by natural
Speaker 1: osmosis happen. But I'll tell you what, You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a big year. Yeah, thank you, Princeton Mulcamara, I guest,
Speaker 1: thank you joining us. Man appreciate it. Always a good
Speaker 1: time with Tom there. I'm Jeff Jonny Aac. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Pause Rang and Greg Miller. I'm Jeff Jonnyac on Chicago
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