WEBVTT - Thomas Graham Jr. on competition in secondary | All Access 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hope you're having a great Monday night. Beautiful couple of 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.400 days here in the Chicago area as July approaches. Can't 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.200 believe it, hard to believe how fast the calendar's flipping. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.680 And we're talking Bears tonight on Bears All Access here 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.440 in Chicago. Sports Radio six seventy The Score with my 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.639 buddy from Sirius XM NFL Radio is moving the chains. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.480 The former Bears quarterback mister Jim Mellery's down in Mobile, Alabama. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.560 Tell us what you're doing down there, and you're we're 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.400 pinch hitting because no time there tonight he's on VACA. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.040 How about that? Yeah, well day Tom well earned on 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.160 his parts from a little vacation. But no, I'm down 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.479 here at the Resa Senior Bowld their Hall of Fame induction. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.280 So it's really a special night last night. Guys like 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:43.159 Philip Rivers von Miller, tremendous linebacker, obviously two time world champion. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.320 Other guys like Kevin Falk who I played with the 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.879 New England Patriots, so tremendous player, who's a running back 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.120 from LSU. So they all got inducted last night. And 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.320 how about the Rookie of the Year Creed Humphrey, who's 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.800 a starting center for the Kansas City Chiefs. He got 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.240 inducted for the Rookie of the Year. Was a tremendous player, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.040 left handed center. He's the only left handed center I've 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.480 ever seen can snap the ball and he'd snaps at 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.680 every time. Clean to Patrick Mahomes. So truly a great night. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.800 They're out golfing right now today, and so a nice 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.000 round of golfing. It's a beautiful day here in Mobile. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:13.440 All right. Did you get a chance to talk to 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.959 Humphrey by the way, Yes, I did, any any change, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.240 any insights, any insights on maybe the Ryan Poles connection. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.839 Well no, I think for him one him and Trey Smith, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.600 imagine him. Both those guys got drafted last year by 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.000 the Kansas City Chiefs. Made every single regular season game. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.720 Both played all the way through the playoffs. Didn't miss 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.600 a snap. So think about that, the impact of young 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.280 draft picks and how they can instantly come in and 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.560 impact your team. So two five guys of their offensive 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.280 line never miss a snap as rookies. So yeah, it's important. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.120 Drafting doesn't matter what round you go in, whether it's 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.000 the first through the last round, the seventh round, these 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.360 guys were impact, impactful players for the Kansas City Chiefs 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.520 coming up at the bottom of the hour. Tom and 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.920 I did catch up last week with second year cornerback 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.240 Thomas Graham. You'll enjoy that interview. He's got great character 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.560 and he's very excited about his royal Jimmy, you are 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.280 not involved in that interview, but when we hear it 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.200 later on, you're gonna hear a confident guy and he 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.280 has a great opportunity here and maybe maybe maybe one 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.600 of the underrated stories possibly of training camp will be 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.480 Thomas Graham. Well, he's got an opportunity. I think he's 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.359 gonna have an opportunity to carve out a nickel slot role. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.359 You know, you think about him late in the year 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.520 for the Bears, he got some you know, to me, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.560 it's invaluable when you get in there, every snap, every 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.120 snap that you get is valuable. And I thought he 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.280 had impactful snaps for the Bears last year. Now you've 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.200 got a new coaching staff evaluating him. He's from the 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.800 old regime and already obviously he's made a good first 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.360 impression and going to have an opportunity this fall in 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.320 camp for the Bears and He'll tell you that this 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.960 defense is more reflective what he played in his junior 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.320 year at Oregon, and so he loves the idea of 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.679 eleven guys going after the football. Yeah, well, I mean 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.919 that's the key. I mean a coach Matt Eberflus has 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.280 really preached that that that's the standard. Guy's got to 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.240 be able to run. They've got to fly to the football. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.200 And you know when good, good things happen when you 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.359 do that. You know, the ball, you never know when 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.720 the plays over, could it be a forced fumble? You know, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.960 if you're just flying to the ball almost like a 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.680 swarm of bees, you gotta be almost like a killer 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.120 bee mentality. And it sounds like that that's what they're 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.120 trying to generate for the Bears this ball. Now, the 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.600 old Dolphins had some killer bees right now, but hey, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.960 you know, maybe you just we got the new version 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.840 of the killer bees, hopefully. I told any I started 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.560 coaching flag football with my son Manny, and I had 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.000 all the kids buzzing like bees. For that very reason, 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.080 I go, hey, what do bees do? They go towards 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.200 the honey right these so they all before the snap 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.440 of the ball, you hear them all just buzzing, right. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.880 It's that ball snap. You gotta be a killer bee 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.080 and fly to the honey. Now I like it. I 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.560 like it. We had barking back in the Otis Wilson days. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.280 Now we're buzzing for the Bears of twenty twenty two. Jim, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.280 you're onto something here. See you're an idea man, just 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.160 like there. Got to keep it simple, right, and the 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.360 kids they loved it. They followed it, and they did 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.080 they always got the honey, and good things were gonna happen, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.720 all right, little honey for Cotter Gordon in terms of 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.680 his first pro contract, that helping over the weekend the 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.800 second round pick side his four year contract. You know, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.479 you don't realize these things until you think a bottom 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.000 more in context for what's ahead. You know, on draft 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.400 day we all have notes on players, but you know 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.680 what occurred to me that last year was the first 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.599 time he was a full time starter, and now he's 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.800 an expected sixteen game starter in the National Football League 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.320 as a rookie. He's got to earn that job. But 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.440 you know, everybody's kind of penciled him in at the 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.280 other cornerback spot opposite Jalen Johnson. There will be competition, however, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.360 and he's gonna have to earn it. But that's a 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.240 big ask for a guy, isn't it. Yeah, I mean 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.080 certainly for him. You know, obviously, expectations are gonna be there. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.640 He's gonna make his sure of mistakes. This is a 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.599 big corner. Now. He's six foot two hundred pounds, so 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.080 the physicality's there. Now, he's got to learn the nuances 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.440 of the position. He's gonna have to grow from the 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.480 mental side of the game. Again, He's gonna make his 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.280 share of mistakes, and as a player, you can't get 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.160 intimidated by that. You've got to have that short term 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.120 mentality where you just shelve that play, put it behind you, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.479 and go on to the next. So every rep in 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.840 practice in training camp is going to be important for him. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.039 The walkthroughs are going to be important. It's learning, learning, learning, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.360 and it's gonna come at him fast, all right. But 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.640 you know, for him, he's got to be able to 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.279 have thick skin, put it behind him and move forward. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.280 It's always about the next play. And I'm excited for him. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.919 This is a talented young player that's going to have 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.840 an opportunity for the Chicago Bears, and we'll see how 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.640 he stacks up. But physically he can stack up against 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.720 the best. It's how quickly he learns the mental part 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.480 of the game. The other stuff I love about him, 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.440 the intangibles. Of course, he is a competitor. He competes, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.400 he's tough, and he's very smart. Okay, So Jiquon brisk 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.040 are the only unsigned rookie in that twelve man class 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.320 that'll get taken care of. And I was just going 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.400 through what was written today this morning about the Bears 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.000 from over the weekend, because you know, even though it's 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.760 this dead period, there's always kylemnches being written, and so 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.760 there was a lot about Jakwan Brisker from our own 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.440 Larry Mayor from Chicago Bears dot com. Patrick Finley did 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.120 a whole piece on Mattieberflus's desire to limit penalties. That 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.479 was a topic at the end of the veteran minicamp. 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.600 Two of the last three seasons, the Colts were the 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:24.360 least penalized defense in the NFL. And interesting to note, though, Jim, 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.200 that these two rookies were just talking about Brisker and Gordon, 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.760 they did not have a single penalty in their final 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.719 two years in college. So well that'll transition. Well yeah, 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.880 that well, one, it talks about their discipline, right, and coaches, right, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.360 I mean, people forget about the penalties because that's what 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.200 we call hidden yardage, right. I mean anytime say when 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.719 a kickoff return, say is to the twenty yard line 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.719 or the twenty five yard line. Anytime you get a 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.520 yard further or say if it's the twenty six, twenty seven, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.560 twenty eight yard line, all the way up to thirty 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.719 one percent. Every time the yard it leads to points, 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.560 that percentage always increases. And so if you don't give 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.680 up the hidden yardage, you get better opportunities where you 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.560 can lower that percentage. I mean, it's just cheap yardage 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.120 that you're giving an offense, and it gives them more 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.920 of a percentage to score. So I think it tells 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.320 about how discipline these players are and what they were 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.480 in college. And yeah, I do think it'll translate to 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.280 the NFL because they've already trained themselves not to do 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.720 though with such foolish things. Yeah, you think about the corners, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.520 the safeties and a deep play. Maybe it's third and 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.040 sixteen and Aaron Rodgers has just throwing it up there 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.520 to see what he can get, and you get that 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.160 first down off a third and long and a Those 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.880 are the ones that rip your heart at or on 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.560 the offensive side of the ball. The potential here for 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.000 two young tackles, maybe even a rookie tackle. Those guys 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.120 get their share of holding penalties. Well, you bring up 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.080 a good point. I mean, think about that. I mean, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.640 I thought the NFL was going to address the past 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.680 interference rule, because you're right, that becomes a spot foul, 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:54.720 you know's what it is. I wish it was just 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.160 a fifteen yard due, which is still a killer. Yeah, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.440 it's a killer killer, but I hate it. I hate 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.880 it the other I mean, imagine me as a quarterback. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.960 He brought up Aaron Rodgers. If I'm at the fifty 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.880 yard line and I throw it up to the one 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.680 yard line, that ball, if it's a pass interference call, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.640 it goes to the one yard line. It's a spot foul. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.240 It's devastating to what it can do not only for 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.560 your football team, but the psyche of your team. All Right, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.240 we got a bunch of stats to throw you coming 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.960 up at our next segment here about justin fields from 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.240 other analysts out there that do all the analyticals and 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.520 throw some interesting comments in there about what's next for 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.360 Justin Fields and the Bears, which Jim Miller. I'm Jeff Joniac. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.280 This is Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.240 six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.679 brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.200 your home at IGS dot com because every good choice 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.680 adds up to a better world. Former Bears quarterback Jim 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.120 Miller from sirius XM NFL Radios, Moving the chains with 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.200 us from Mobile, Alabama. Who else did you rub shoulders 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.880 with over the weekend. I had a great conversation with 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.520 Brett fav this morning. He looks in great shape. He's 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.679 into triathlons now, he's into biking and all that stuff. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.760 But he brought up great things about you know, when 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.000 he played and how to play through things, and you know, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.079 just his sheer toughness. Obviously we know the toughness of 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.680 Brett Fire. The guy started consecutive over two hundred games. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.480 And I talked to Philip Rivers as well. Think about 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.160 Philip Rivers started two hundred and forty consecutive games in 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.840 the NFL, just that availability that they're always there for 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.360 their teammates. They just want, you know, their fellow teammates, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.120 their coaches to know that, Hey, I'm going to be 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.840 the guy. I will be here every single Sunday. And 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.720 I think that's something that Justin Fields He's gonna have 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.600 to prove that, right. He got a little beat up 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.240 last year, took some big shots. He's got to be 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.520 smarter and how he approaches his game because he's got 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.320 to be there every single week for his teammates and 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.240 hopefully for all Bears fans that he's able to line up, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.720 say over two hundred consecutive games. All right. I saw 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.120 this on sports social media, something called sis football, and 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.880 they did some analytics on Justin Fields. When he was 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.800 contacted behind the lines scrimmage, he got a first down 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.520 twenty nine point four percent of the time, that's first 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:07.080 in the NFL. And then his stuffed percentage was thirty 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.120 five point three, that was second lowest in the NFL. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.160 So the idea here is Jim, which we certainly know 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.240 from that forty nine Ers game on that memorable play, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.840 that's a glimpse of the future being able to create 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:23.280 something out of nothing, and that will be one of 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.400 the intangible elements that will continue to shine as he 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.319 gets more and more comfortable back there, won't it. I mean, 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:34.400 these stats are interesting given his frankly small amount of 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.640 playing time ten games or so last season. Yeah, I 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.880 think is his improvability is special. You know, It's something 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.360 that you can't coach, whether it's you know, the coaches 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.920 Luke Getzi or Mattieberflus. You don't want to coach that 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.400 out of him. That's what makes justin Field so special. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.480 But at the same point, what you can coach in 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.920 him is the risk reward. No, when to go down. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.720 It's okay some times to take a sack. You can't 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.880 make a play every single play, you know, because it 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.320 could be a negative play, whether you're you know, because 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.760 he's so strong physically, it could lead to a fumble 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.679 or things like that. So there are times where he's 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.600 gonna have to know, hey, I just need to get 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.920 down here. You know, the take in the sack is 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.560 the best play, it's the only play. Or if he 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.960 decides to take off and scramble and utilize his skill 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.560 set which are so special, when to get down, when 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.600 to get out of bounds. You know there are certain 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.560 situations where he's gonna have to give up his body. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.560 Maybe it's a third and one where he scrambles and 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.120 has to lower his shoulder and get a first down. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.640 So the risk rewards or what he's gonna have to weigh, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.040 and how the coaching is. You know that they're communicating 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.960 to him or when those situations are, and he will. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.880 He's too smart of a player, he's too special of 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.480 a player. And he's got all the speed, he's got 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.360 all the toughness. We know that about him, and I 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.800 think he'll just continue to learn and get better. So 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.000 last year he ran the Boss seventy two times, whether 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.800 these are scrambles or design plays four and twenty yards 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.120 five eight three to carry in a couple of touchdowns. 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.719 What do you envision in this style of offense with 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.640 Luke Getzy for justin fields in terms of maybe design runs. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.280 We know what he can do on the scramble. But 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.720 do you see less of that, more of that or 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.920 about the same. No. I think you're going to see 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.840 more of it. It It will be more incorporated than what 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.439 it was a year ago. I think you'll see an 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.000 RPO influence that he'll be able to attack the line 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.000 of scrimmage with his legs. I do think you're going 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.400 to see a lot of the bootleg game because they're 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.960 focused on that outside zone run. The bootleg is really 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.280 just a natural play action that comes off of that, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.880 and you can do half rolls and things like that 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.160 that will set up the play action passes with the bootlegs, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.720 whether it's waggle routes and things like that, or even 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.800 dash plays out of the shotgun. I think they'll all 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:51.439 be incorporated, and they need to be consistent throughout an 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.160 entire game, no matter what the score is. I think 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.600 the Bears have to be consistent with their play calling 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.000 to let that, to let the opponents know that that's 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.520 going to be a threat throughout an entire game. He's 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.680 a weapon that they need to utilize. Now, you had 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.880 a long career in the NFL. What challenges await a 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.000 second year quarterback? We always know what challenges await a 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.880 rookie quarterback, and certainly one that did play now and 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.920 he knows what the feel and speed of the game is. Granted, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.760 new offense seemingly more comfortable in it. What challenges await 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.719 justin fields for me, my second year was getting to 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.400 know defenses a lot more. You know, really your rookie ye, 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.200 you're kind of focused on your offensive side of the ball, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.680 and here Justin's learning a new offense and it will 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.920 have changes to this offense, but there'll be things that 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.040 carry over. But now it's about learning the defensive side 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.200 of the ball. Cover three, what's a cover two? What's 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.880 single high? Safety's a man and man? What's blitz zero? 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.480 All these things that he's going to have to learn it. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.680 You know, if you learn it, now you know where 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.600 the weaknesses are and you can start to attack those 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.960 weaknesses on the defensive side of the ball. So knowing 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.920 his offense like the back of his hand, now he'll 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.640 be able to get in a lot of things that 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.240 maybe he can check to understanding what defenses are doing 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.080 and how to attack them. Then kind of year three 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.480 is where it all comes together. You know the offensive 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.600 side the ball, you know the defensive side the ball. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.000 In year three, that's where you should kind of be 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.199 coming into your own as a quarterback, where you really 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.600 know the game very well and how to attack it. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.960 So I expect big things from Justin fields, but it's 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.040 really on the defensive side of the ball. He needs 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.240 to know what they're doing in order to take advantage 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.880 of it. I know he's a worker. I mean, there's 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.480 videos already this morning about him in the weight room 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.160 working out. Somebody took videos of him working out here 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.440 in this downtime, which is important for everybody. Stay, stay ready. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.200 But I think the conquered part, the intangible part of 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.840 understanding what it takes to be a pro at this level. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.920 There's no way he didn't get to know that last season. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.600 So that part of it, Okay, that's already to me, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.680 you know, tail lights like, okay, we're moving forward, right Yeah, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.800 well yeah, I think any player you got to get 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.480 in a routine, you know, and me, the routine was, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.080 you know, you shall say you play on Sunday. You've 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.600 got to shelve that, put it behind you. It's onto 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.960 the next week, it's onto the next ref, it's onto 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.080 the next game. You've got to stay in the now. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.680 And every day when you show up at hallis Hall, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.640 you've got to attack that day. Every meeting's important, you know, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.440 getting all the things that the coaches want to accomplish 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.600 in terms of the game plan, and you're kind of 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.240 got to compartmentalize everything. But it's getting in that routine 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.720 of how you study, how you prepare, because again, preparation 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.720 is everything, and I think he's he prepared himself well 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.720 in college. Now it's getting the preparation for the pros 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.600 weekend and week out. That's really a big part of 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.120 what a quarterback needs to do. Bears Running Game and 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.120 Cole comment our next topic when we return with Jim 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.040 Milleri'mjeff Jonny Ac. Thanks to our producers Jordan Trudup, Dan 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.520 Brilly and the folks here at the score for producing 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.480 tonight stick around More ahead here on Bears Out Access, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.120 brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.080 six seventy The Score. This segment of Bears All Access 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.400 is brought to you by a Letico Physical Therapy. Visit 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.400 Athletico dot com to requested employment in clinic or virtually 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.120 and start feeling better tomorrow. Former Bears quarterback Jim Miller 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.960 our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.360 Score from Sirius XM NFL Radios. Moving the chains down 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.240 in Mobile, Alabama, Rub and elbows with Heck former teammates, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.200 Hall of Famers, Future Stars how many people there today 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.720 for this chair. There's a ton think about former NFL 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:30.040 linebacker Robert Brazilsils here. Yeah, Robert Brizi play a great linebacker. 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.880 Ozzie Newsom's here, obviously, he's a Hall of Fame tight end. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.680 He's a Hall of Fame GM. He's a little bit 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.880 of like Charlie Chaplin on radio, though silence is golden 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.240 with him. But Ozzie's always a great guy to talk to. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.000 So you led me in right into a topic of 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.000 tight ends. A tight end you wrapping up over the week, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.560 and I guess and they had a good time with it. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.480 But Scott Pioli, a former NFL executive and now does 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.120 a tremendous job with his analysis work. This was a 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.160 comedy said about Cole Comet. This guy has all the 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.280 tools and is a complete tight end. He's one of 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.719 the top young talents at the position in the league. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.320 High praise obviously, so there are expectations, and we've talked 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.040 a lot about Cole Commet being an integral part of 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.399 this growth process with a young quarterback. What would in 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.040 your opinion, a breakout year from Cole Commet mean for 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.440 the Bears right now? I think it'll be huge. Again. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.399 I go back to the outside zone run play, you know, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.960 because that's the foundation of the Bears and what they're 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.040 trying to do. He's going to be key on the edge, 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:28.800 you know, we talked about it last week, depending on 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.080 the techniques or the end man on the line of scrimmage. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.800 At times he's gonna have to skate that guy out 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.840 and put him on roller skates. At times he's gonna 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.080 have to hook him. And he's two hundred and sixty pounds, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.240 I mean, let's be honest with Cole Commet. But he 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.600 can move, so that bootleg game for him on over 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.320 routes or shallow crosses. And you think a guys like 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.640 George Kittle that play in this exact offense out there 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.520 for the forty nine ers, it's going to be in 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.360 an impactful position for the Bears. So I expect him 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.720 to be heavily involved in the run game in terms 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.600 of the point of attack at the line of scrimmage 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.800 and block. But I expect him to be a big 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.600 part of the Bears play action game. The ball is 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.800 going to be force fed to Cole Comet. He's going 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.320 to get a lot of opportunities, and he's too athletic 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.760 not to make plays. He's got nice soft hands, he 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.040 can run after the catch, and he's allowed to bring down. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.399 I mean, this guy truly can be a special player, 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.399 and I think the Bears and Luke Getzi are going 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.679 to try to attack that and really force feed him 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.480 to football. All right, Luke Keetzi in Green Bay with 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.719 the Green Bay Packers bringing some of that and his 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.159 own touch on this offense. And Tom wanted us to 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.520 talk about this. You wanted me to look at what 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.520 they did on the ground last year and what the 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.399 Bears potentially could do and what you'd be happy with. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.160 So went through the statistics with a fine toothcomb. So 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.280 Packers average twenty six point two rushing attempts a game 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.320 last season. Not obviously this is a little bit apples 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.720 and oranges. Because they got Aaron Rodgers, they could do 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.320 whatever up there, and one hundred and eleven yards on 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.760 the ground four point three Kerry Bears ran it more 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.040 twenty seven point nine a game, that's eleventh most. And 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:04.040 the other big running teams that relate to this offense. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.360 San Francisco ran at four hundred and ninety nine times 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.880