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Speaker 1: Thursday morning, Thursday, Thursday evening. Everybody, See this has been
Speaker 1: a day today, that's for sure. Tom there, Jeff Jonny
Speaker 1: Ek with you on Bears All Access. It is brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy. Because as soon as my
Speaker 1: feet hit the floor there was there was word of
Speaker 1: issues going on, and you know, I had a just
Speaker 1: so it's been a NonStop day. The Bears did get
Speaker 1: a practice in town, but they had a little bit
Speaker 1: of a disruption today with a COVID positive for DeAndre Carter,
Speaker 1: as it turns out, the new punt returner and wide
Speaker 1: receiver for the Bears. So they had they had a
Speaker 1: The troops set them out of there bringing back they
Speaker 1: got to practice in today. Here's Charles Lenno Junior on
Speaker 1: the ace activities. It was about the same as if
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a training camp. I feel like we
Speaker 1: had a day like that in training camp where we
Speaker 1: all left and came back, so we already been to this,
Speaker 1: so I was like riding a bike. Yeah there you go,
Speaker 1: Tom there, welcome to the program. Yeah, well, training camp,
Speaker 1: you're talking about trying to develop a team in full
Speaker 1: pads and you want to have a really serious practice
Speaker 1: at this stage of the game. The restrictions as has
Speaker 1: loosened up. You don't have pads on you. You're really
Speaker 1: inserting a game plan of information that you've been installing
Speaker 1: now for four or five months. To me, Andre Tucker,
Speaker 1: it's amazing what he's had to go through this year
Speaker 1: and for what he's had to do to readjust his
Speaker 1: schedule to the information he had to get out there,
Speaker 1: get the information out there clearly, and then being able
Speaker 1: to you know, you know, we see Matt and Aggie
Speaker 1: on the zoom call and then three hours later they're
Speaker 1: having a practice when they didn't know if they were
Speaker 1: going to be able to practice. Just so that you know,
Speaker 1: just the turmoil that every every building has been in
Speaker 1: the NFL this year, it's it's amazing that. I'm really
Speaker 1: impressed that it's still going on. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: am too. And here we are in week fourteen, and
Speaker 1: everybody's making sure they check. I keep saying this. Anytime
Speaker 1: anybody asked me how I'm doing, I say, I'm just
Speaker 1: checking boxes. And and that's what they have to do
Speaker 1: when something like this happens, the domino's fall and you
Speaker 1: start checking boxes and your first fear because of the
Speaker 1: three practice squad players and now this one. You know,
Speaker 1: are they interconnected? Doesn't sound like it. Matt Nagge today, Temmy,
Speaker 1: and how good he feels about this thing not spreading
Speaker 1: any further. Pretty good. I think they're doing a good job.
Speaker 1: They're they're they're following the rules, and it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: you know again, when you leave this bubble, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? And but we've our guys, they've they've answered
Speaker 1: all the questions, they've done things as best as they can,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, now it's just about handling it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that is good news. Now they're real good news.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday. It's an important practice day, this is situational day.
Speaker 1: It's third down Thursday. All those things that are normal
Speaker 1: in the national Football League. So I am glad they
Speaker 1: got they got some work done today on the field.
Speaker 1: Oh me too. I'm really glad they're on their feet forever,
Speaker 1: however long it was, because you need to put these
Speaker 1: plays in motion. Yeah, you're not going one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: but you're being able to make eye contact with everybody
Speaker 1: wants the huddle breaks, but you're also being able to
Speaker 1: engage inside the huddle. Make sure you get the plays out,
Speaker 1: make sure you understand what you're calling, make sure everybody
Speaker 1: understands their assignments, and then come Sunday, you got to
Speaker 1: try to put it all together, all right. The injury
Speaker 1: report has Khalil Max still out today with a shoulder.
Speaker 1: So you think about it, what he's gone through this
Speaker 1: year already with a knee, back and shoulder. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of bumps and bruises for the guy that kids nicked,
Speaker 1: hit and bounced around, probably more than anybody on that defense. Right.
Speaker 1: But you know, I kind of wish that Khalil's attitude
Speaker 1: was contagious because when I look out on the field
Speaker 1: and I see players, and I see the seriousness of
Speaker 1: Khalil his approach to the game, you know, he's not
Speaker 1: a jack around type of guy on the field that
Speaker 1: the game is really important to him, and he's a
Speaker 1: highly profiled guy and people have high expectations for him.
Speaker 1: But you know, Khalil is the type of guy that's
Speaker 1: in such great shape and if he had to sit
Speaker 1: out a day or two or even three and still
Speaker 1: play on Sunday, he could also out today with a concussion.
Speaker 1: Still is Buster Screen, who's been a big target of
Speaker 1: late in terms of being the focal point of some
Speaker 1: offenses because of the way they run things, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's important piece to that puzzle in the Nicols spot
Speaker 1: there for the Bears defense. Also a did not practice
Speaker 1: today for James Vaughters and Darnelmonia for personal reasons, limited
Speaker 1: for JP Holtz, Charles Leno, Junior Allen Robinson, and returned
Speaker 1: to full practice today for Alex bars Tom Coming up
Speaker 1: in the show, we got Seth Payne. He is part
Speaker 1: of the pregame crew for the Houston Texans radio network
Speaker 1: and a former player in the National Football League. We'll
Speaker 1: get a bird's eye view of the Texans and where
Speaker 1: they're at at four and eight and what's headed here
Speaker 1: to Chicago on Sunday. We're also going to be joined
Speaker 1: by our broadcast Matan, your good friend and teammate Jay
Speaker 1: Hilgenberg at the bottom of the hour talk a little
Speaker 1: football on the offensive line, which was a topic today
Speaker 1: as well. Charles Leno Jr. Was asked about all that,
Speaker 1: and he said, the communication right now with these guys
Speaker 1: is very good upfront, and he pointed to the smarts
Speaker 1: of the group that have been added to the mix,
Speaker 1: and Sam Mustifer and Alex Bars and Cody Whitehair being
Speaker 1: that way as well. Yeah, well, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity to us to talk to Jay
Speaker 1: because there's nobody that has more in common with Sam
Speaker 1: Mustafer than Jay Hilgenberg. You talk about two undrafted free
Speaker 1: agents that you developed high expectations during the course are
Speaker 1: the early portions of their career, and then when they
Speaker 1: were inserted the coaches found out that they are a
Speaker 1: legitimate candidate for their position. And we'll hear from Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham the Bears tight End is the Bears Walter Peyton
Speaker 1: Man of the Year nominee. And then our feature segment
Speaker 1: on this week's Bears Game Day Live and in Joni
Speaker 1: X Journaline WBBM is David munt Gummer. Here a chunk
Speaker 1: of that feature that's going to air on Sunday at
Speaker 1: ten thirty on Fox thirty two Chicago. Wonder that I
Speaker 1: am I stay over on. I was wondering why you
Speaker 1: had the Iowa stay Now that's not why. It just said,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, just seventh in the country. Put him
Speaker 1: into the playoff. Moving a lot to the head. CLI
Speaker 1: more five more spots and get aheads getting in best Florida.
Speaker 1: Maybe get in there. Maybe we'll play Notre Dame again
Speaker 1: the National vitory. All right, coming up next, seth Paine's
Speaker 1: coming up. Thanks to our producer Mike rankin making this
Speaker 1: all happen tonight. Jordan tread up and dam really as well.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access with Tom there. I'm Jeff Joniac.
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Speaker 1: Tom Fair getting Ray Eddy for the Bears and ten
Speaker 1: Tins on Sunday at Soldier field. As Week fourteen gets rolling,
Speaker 1: we're joined now by a member of the broadcast crew
Speaker 1: for the pregame show on a former fourth round pick
Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguars and back in ninety seven, and
Speaker 1: a prominent defensive lineman, Seth Paine, who played seven years
Speaker 1: then with the Houston Texans, a part of their expansion draft.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, you kind of forget about that
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans, but an expansion team that has
Speaker 1: had some great success over the years. Seth, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? Thanks for joining us tonight. What's going on?
Speaker 1: My man? It's my pleasure. I just have one question
Speaker 1: to ask, and it's based on my last memories of
Speaker 1: playing in Chicago in two thousand and four, which I
Speaker 1: believe at the time was the coldest wind chill game
Speaker 1: ever played in Chicago. Is what's the weather forecast for Sundays.
Speaker 1: I haven't even looked, because you know, we're just used
Speaker 1: to the uniqueness of it. But Tom there, my broadcast partner,
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman of note from the Super Bowl Bears
Speaker 1: of eighty five, is always worried about what the temperature is,
Speaker 1: whether we're going south, and he gets real nervous about
Speaker 1: hot weather, and he gets real serious about cold weather
Speaker 1: because he goes to Maui every offseason, so he's got
Speaker 1: that thin blood. Tommy, what's the way forecast, Well, it's
Speaker 1: it's so I think it's a high of thirty three
Speaker 1: and pretty sunny on Sunday, so it'd be pleasant. It's
Speaker 1: it'd be nice because Friday and Saturday there's like ninety
Speaker 1: five ninety seven percent chance of rain, so I think
Speaker 1: the field will be covered. The field conditions as still
Speaker 1: perfect this late in the season, and you know that
Speaker 1: type of temperature is not egregious. You know. Now you
Speaker 1: got me looking into it, Seth. I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: what the what the what the forecast was? And that
Speaker 1: faithful day you guys won the game. Oh no, that
Speaker 1: was all. That was two thousand and four. No, that
Speaker 1: was in Jacksonville. I have to look it up. But anyway,
Speaker 1: this would have been when I was with the Texans.
Speaker 1: Oh with the Texans, Okay, okay, with the Texans, Okay,
Speaker 1: well it was it was. It was one of the
Speaker 1: coldest games you guys have ever played. And I just
Speaker 1: remember pulling up um and and just some of the
Speaker 1: kids from the South, you know, it's always the kids
Speaker 1: from the South that have never played a cold their
Speaker 1: game before got off the bus and you could see
Speaker 1: it in their eyes, like what are we getting into?
Speaker 1: And I thought of it because of Tom So the
Speaker 1: life of me, I can't remember who the center was
Speaker 1: for the Bears that year, but I just remember talking
Speaker 1: to him during a time outbreak. It's just asking like
Speaker 1: how the hell he was holding onto the ball, because
Speaker 1: it was I grew up in upstate New York and
Speaker 1: I'm no stranger to him. My hand had never been
Speaker 1: as cold as they were that day. It was crazy, Oh,
Speaker 1: that I had to be the big bad Olan Creutz, right,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I have a feeling like Olan Creutz was
Speaker 1: injured or something. I don't know, Okay too much, I would.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been messing with Oland. I tried to
Speaker 1: talk to him. That would not be recommended. Hey, what's
Speaker 1: what what are we expecting from this uh, with this
Speaker 1: Houston Texans outfit? Because clearly, uh, the average fans gonna
Speaker 1: go to two places, Deshaun Watson and J. J. Watton.
Speaker 1: Now you fill in the blanks for us, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's and that's about the only places they bothered
Speaker 1: going now because Will Fuller was the best receiver left
Speaker 1: on the field after the trade DeAndre Hopkins. He got
Speaker 1: pop for PDS. Bradley Roby was really the only viable
Speaker 1: cornerback on the team. He got pop for peds. They
Speaker 1: look their taints of supplements. That's the story, and beyond
Speaker 1: that now the playmakers really are JJ Watt Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: JJ has looked a lot more like himself the last
Speaker 1: few games. You know, he's never gonna be the defensive
Speaker 1: player of the Year caliber guy that he was twenty
Speaker 1: and twelve through two fifteen, but he's been looking He's
Speaker 1: been breaking up a lot more passes. He's been getting
Speaker 1: heat on the passers, so he's more of a concern
Speaker 1: for the Bears offensive line than he might have been
Speaker 1: earlier in the year. DeShawn is really probably coming off,
Speaker 1: if not his best statistical game in some respects. It
Speaker 1: was maybe one of his more impressive games of the
Speaker 1: season because he lost Will Fuller. You guys all know
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have DeAndre Hopkins, and yet he found
Speaker 1: these guys. Chad Hanson, who got called up from the practice,
Speaker 1: buy k QT, who is a slot receiver, who had
Speaker 1: constantly been in Bill O'Brien's doghouse and couldn't find his
Speaker 1: way to the field. He has over one hundred yards
Speaker 1: receiving in that game, and Deshaun does a really nice
Speaker 1: job of spreading the ball around. And it's really a
Speaker 1: matter of okay, just like any quarterback who can run,
Speaker 1: all right, are you are you going to sell out
Speaker 1: on the pass rush and risk him hurting with your legs?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna play coverage? Deshaun's gotten a lot smarter
Speaker 1: and looks a lot more like an a polished professional
Speaker 1: quarterback this year, it says that nobody else is really
Speaker 1: coming along for the ride with him. Hey, Seth, when
Speaker 1: you look at JJ wat, I'm an ex offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: I've been watching this guy since he came on the
Speaker 1: scene as an next defensive lineman. What's JJ's most impressive
Speaker 1: trait as a player? I think, you know, when he
Speaker 1: was younger, it was his ability to convert power to speed.
Speaker 1: You know, guys always had to account for his power,
Speaker 1: but then he'd quick swim you, and then he could
Speaker 1: he could redirect extremely fast and then accelerate even faster,
Speaker 1: so he'd get past a defensive lineman, and he could
Speaker 1: redirectly make his way to the ball, and that's how
Speaker 1: he he. You know, Frankly got away with freelance and
Speaker 1: a lot when he was younger. Now he's got to
Speaker 1: rely a lot more on savvy and he's still the
Speaker 1: strongest guy on the field, you know, but he can't
Speaker 1: quite freelance like he used to. He gets in too
Speaker 1: much trouble if he starts trying to backdoor blocks. So
Speaker 1: he really he does a good job of getting in
Speaker 1: passing lanes. I think he's become much more of a
Speaker 1: bull rusher, you know. His long arm pass rush is
Speaker 1: more of a concern than his speed is. But he
Speaker 1: still lines up on the outside. They I don't think
Speaker 1: they really like subjecting him to a whole lot of
Speaker 1: getting banged up on the inside. So on passing downs,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see him play about seventy five to eighty
Speaker 1: percent of his snaps on the left side of the defense,
Speaker 1: and then he'll swap over to the right side, mix
Speaker 1: it up, depending on you know, if he's facing a
Speaker 1: really weak offensive lineman, which I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think either of your guys are necessarily weak. They're not
Speaker 1: world beaters, but they're not weak. But he'll go over
Speaker 1: to the right and try to find a matchup if
Speaker 1: you can find it. Did did he improve with Jadeveon
Speaker 1: Clowney or did he do anything to help jj Watt?
Speaker 1: You know, because when you talk about bookends, you talk
Speaker 1: about him moving from side to side nowadays, How did
Speaker 1: he compliment him or not compliment him? Well, that's a
Speaker 1: you know, the funny thing about Jevon, And I know
Speaker 1: everybody's all heard it by now, but it's true that
Speaker 1: when Jadeveon was healthy, he didn't produce with sacks. With
Speaker 1: the statistics. He's kind of a skiffer guy. He would
Speaker 1: he would win pass rush, he would win. He would
Speaker 1: win versus the offensive lineman. But any really hard time
Speaker 1: breaking down and bending at the last moment, those last
Speaker 1: two steps to complete the sack. But offensives had to
Speaker 1: account for him. And he also he blew up a
Speaker 1: lot of plays, you know, So if Jadeveon got a
Speaker 1: lot of run plays, you'd blow up. So if Jenevion
Speaker 1: got a tackle for the lost on first down, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's second, fifteen, third, and fifteen, and
Speaker 1: everybody's eating. But now it's pretty much just JJ Whitney
Speaker 1: Merciless who's the other the outside linebacker that typically plays
Speaker 1: opposite JJ got a big contract extension in the off
Speaker 1: season last year, but he's thirty years old and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden this year he looks like it so
Speaker 1: so far. Of the starters, JJ is the one you
Speaker 1: need to worry about. Of your backup outside linebackers, Jacob
Speaker 1: Martin is the guy who want to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: He is very, very fast. He's actually the guy that
Speaker 1: came over in the trade for Jadeveon Clowney last year,
Speaker 1: and he's not completely polished yet. You get the feeling
Speaker 1: the Texans don't really trust him against the run, but
Speaker 1: when he gets out there on third down, he just
Speaker 1: turns on the after burners and he can blow right
Speaker 1: by people. Steth So Last week the Bears played the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, and the first remark on a new head coach,
Speaker 1: Daryl Bevill was he wanted to bring some more fun
Speaker 1: into the building when they got rid of Bill O'Brien
Speaker 1: and announced Romeo Cornell the next head coach. What were
Speaker 1: they trying to get out of him into the building
Speaker 1: that was needed, you know, It's hard to say because
Speaker 1: there have been so many. Yet today there was a
Speaker 1: big piece that came out about the Texans front office
Speaker 1: and Jack Easterby, who was the interim GM. There were
Speaker 1: a whole lot of rumors about Bill O'Brien having blow
Speaker 1: up arguments with J. J. Watt. I think that there
Speaker 1: had been enough in fighting and there was just enough
Speaker 1: stress intentions, especially because of all those really you know,
Speaker 1: head scratching moves that Bill O'Brien had made in the
Speaker 1: personnel side. That when you start off winless like you did,
Speaker 1: and that's just winless but convincingly winless things, I think
Speaker 1: just things got to a fever pitch and Bill O'Brien,
Speaker 1: you know, frankly, had too much on his plate. It
Speaker 1: was very few people should be both the general manager
Speaker 1: and the head coach in the NFL, and that was
Speaker 1: a mistake the Texans made. They gave a guy who
Speaker 1: already had a hot temper and it was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a control for more reason to be stressed
Speaker 1: out and angry and have a hot temper, and it
Speaker 1: just wasn't gonna work out. So Romeo, his interim coach,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously brings a different flavor. You know, he's
Speaker 1: way more laid back than Bill O'Brien. But I think
Speaker 1: at least part of it is that the schedule weakened
Speaker 1: up the Texans. The tech Tings have lost to pretty
Speaker 1: much all playoff All but one of their losses have
Speaker 1: come to playoff teams. Um all all of their wins
Speaker 1: have come versus teams that are decidedly out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So I think part of it was that everything just
Speaker 1: balanced back out a little bit. They're not one of
Speaker 1: the worst teams in the league. They're certainly not one
Speaker 1: of the better teams in the league, but they had
Speaker 1: a really, really hard schedule to start the season. Seff
Speaker 1: paying our guest here on bears Ald Access brought to
Speaker 1: you by IGS Energy and Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: the score top there, Jeff, Jonihac and Seth part of
Speaker 1: the pregame crew down in Houston with the Texans Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Are you still hosting your own show? And so forth? Too?
Speaker 1: And you got I think you have podcast? You're a
Speaker 1: multimedia king down there. I get bored, you know it is,
Speaker 1: there's there's so much to talk about. You do you
Speaker 1: do a sports show in the morning? And then there's
Speaker 1: still stuff that you got to talk about to avoid
Speaker 1: talking to real life people. Oh yeah, you can do all.
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter at se se tame
Speaker 1: got oh well, Sean Pendergass, my co host, is I
Speaker 1: lived in Chicago for a long time, so he's he's
Speaker 1: super excited that I'm talking to you. Tom. I never
Speaker 1: realized what a complete Chicago mainstay you were. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize you were from Chicago and went in like you
Speaker 1: never For the most part, you spent most of your
Speaker 1: professional in college career and in high school care in
Speaker 1: that area. So so by extension, Sean filled me all
Speaker 1: in on it this morning. He was very excited that
Speaker 1: I was talking to you guys. He's the old time
Speaker 1: version of current Bears tight end Cole Comet, who grew
Speaker 1: up in the Northwest suburbs here in Chicago and is
Speaker 1: now having a good time being the tight end for
Speaker 1: the Bears offense right now, Hey about the offense of
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Real quick, just going through some of
Speaker 1: the map, the numbers that are popping and on my
Speaker 1: board that I put together for the games, I highlight
Speaker 1: and read if you're in the top ten and I
Speaker 1: see all those passing numbers in the top ten, but
Speaker 1: the one that sticks out his yards for past attempt Now,
Speaker 1: is that all because of will Fuller or is it
Speaker 1: because of Deshaun Watson. Finding anybody who can get downfield? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a little bit of that's gonna be
Speaker 1: will Fuller because he's such an extreme deep threat. But look,
Speaker 1: DeShawn is an aggressive quarterback. He wants to push the
Speaker 1: downfield in that was to his detriment. I think early
Speaker 1: in his career. One thing that he's changed is that
Speaker 1: look he's going to extend to play. I think I
Speaker 1: think he's developing into probably Russell Wilson would be the
Speaker 1: closest comparable. I think he wants to extend the play.
Speaker 1: He wants to push the ball downfield, but he's gotten
Speaker 1: smarter about it, and he's quicker to check down to
Speaker 1: running backs. Now, I think he's more likely to get
Speaker 1: tight ends involved in the passing attack. That's where I
Speaker 1: say he's become more of a professional quarterback. That's the
Speaker 1: jump he's made this year. But because of the speed
Speaker 1: of will Fuller and Brandon Cooks and gap, will Fuller's
Speaker 1: not there right now. He's been able to really do
Speaker 1: two things. One utilize the play action to his benefit
Speaker 1: because the tech Look, look the Texans conventional running game.
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna be astounded. Like and I know
Speaker 1: the Bears don't run the ball. Well, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I'm just promising right now, you're gonna be astounded. It's
Speaker 1: how bad this Texans offensive line is it run blocking?
Speaker 1: But because the Shaun is a threat with his legs,
Speaker 1: they opened up some deep shots downfield. And likewise, because
Speaker 1: he can extend to play, he finds some opportunities deep
Speaker 1: deep downfield late in the down. Well, you know, seth
Speaker 1: Let's I want to talk about the offensive line because
Speaker 1: when the Houston Texans came aboard and they brought in
Speaker 1: car as the quarterback, it seemed like they never surrounded
Speaker 1: him by any quality offensive lineman. I think throughout his
Speaker 1: career made had the third rounder, was the highest draft choice.
Speaker 1: So is you know, you guys get rid of Hopkins
Speaker 1: and I think you have followed the NFL you think, God,
Speaker 1: what a what a move that was? How how silly
Speaker 1: it considering what he's done. But it's also silly how
Speaker 1: they lacked the support until they brought in Laramie Tunsil
Speaker 1: of your offensive line. So what direction are they gonna go?
Speaker 1: Is it? Will they ever provide you with an offensive
Speaker 1: line or do they have to go out there and
Speaker 1: find a receiver? Well, I do think it's pessimistic. As
Speaker 1: I am about this year's offensive line, one of the
Speaker 1: most frustrating things about it is that I think they
Speaker 1: have physical potential. You know, Army Laramy Tunsel has had
Speaker 1: a good season, and that was he worth two first
Speaker 1: round picks. Kenny Stills was released the other day, so
Speaker 1: now it becomes it was Laramie Tunsel for two first
Speaker 1: round picks and a second rounder. Who knows, But as
Speaker 1: far as his contributions on the field, he's been pretty good.
Speaker 1: The rest of the guys, you know, they've got another
Speaker 1: first rounder, they've got two second rounders, They've got one
Speaker 1: guy that could be replaced at right guard. But I
Speaker 1: think the four tour guys they have, with the right coaching,
Speaker 1: with an offensive coordinator that really understands what he's doing,
Speaker 1: I think they have potential there. So in the immediate future,
Speaker 1: next year, the year after, as long as the Texans
Speaker 1: gets the head coaching higher, right, I think that that
Speaker 1: offensive line is gonna be okay. It's just that they're
Speaker 1: right now, they're they're very discombobulated if there's not a
Speaker 1: whole lot of coordination and communication. This Bears. These Bears
Speaker 1: pass rushers, frankly, are going to be watching the film
Speaker 1: from last week and they're really going to be working
Speaker 1: on their te and et games because the tech is
Speaker 1: gonna be had with some of that. You know, Nick
Speaker 1: Martin the center, who's another guy who got a big
Speaker 1: extension last year. Everybody knows that he had a really
Speaker 1: bad snap that lost the game at the end of
Speaker 1: the game last last week. The real crime was that
Speaker 1: after the bad snap, he whipped on the run block
Speaker 1: in front of him and Grover Stewart. The nose tackle
Speaker 1: ended up disrupting Deshaun from recovering the football, and that
Speaker 1: really seals the games. So it's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: like that over and over again. Well, these are gonna
Speaker 1: be two top teams in the league in terms of
Speaker 1: fewest rushing attempts per game going at it here, you
Speaker 1: guys at twenty one point eight attempts a game and
Speaker 1: the Bears at twenty two. So we'll see if the
Speaker 1: weather changes in the in the direction of the team
Speaker 1: here in the final month of the season will bring
Speaker 1: more of that. And by the way, the investigation on
Speaker 1: your game here in Chicago is now complete. Is Olan
Speaker 1: Creach happened to be listening to the program and it
Speaker 1: was him, and he'll want to talk to you later
Speaker 1: in an alley somewhere. It was twelve degrees and eight
Speaker 1: degree winshield, he said to me, He goes, it was me.
Speaker 1: Must have not been real memorable. I guess I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I honestly, because I remember playing I remember
Speaker 1: the other time I played against Oland, and obviously I
Speaker 1: was always really interested with Olan. The thing is that
Speaker 1: I don't remember much from that game at all. And
Speaker 1: the same goes for Gary Walker. Did you guys have
Speaker 1: like one minute for you to tell for me to
Speaker 1: tell a story. That's about all we have though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one day, okay, So Gary Walker comes off to the sideline.
Speaker 1: We're all sitting on the hot bench with the planes underneath.
Speaker 1: You know, all of a sudden there's a quick change
Speaker 1: of fumble or a turnover of some sort. So Gary
Speaker 1: grabs his helmet, throws it on his head. Didn't realize
Speaker 1: that the flame had melted half of the inside paths
Speaker 1: of his helmet. But Gary goes out very first, plays
Speaker 1: an inside run. Bam. Gary's out goals, and I would
Speaker 1: guess that Olan or one of his compatriots probably knocked
Speaker 1: me out. Actually at some point that came. So apologize
Speaker 1: to all and all the respect of the world to
Speaker 1: Owen's one of those guys that after you played him,
Speaker 1: you felt like a better player the next two or
Speaker 1: three weeks. There's like playing on a flower level of
Speaker 1: the video game. As a fair, fair analysis. Indeed, well,
Speaker 1: we appreciate the storytelling. That's why we have some of
Speaker 1: you old guys who played the game on this show,
Speaker 1: because we love the stories. There's so many we never
Speaker 1: hear and appreciate it. Good luck broadcast this week and
Speaker 1: thanks for joining as Seth all right, guys, have a
Speaker 1: good one. Seth Payne Houston, Texans Radio Network and a
Speaker 1: former defensive tackle Tommy He had two tackles in that
Speaker 1: game and a Texans big winner with the Bears in
Speaker 1: that game. Coming up next, we'll be joined by Jay Hilgenberg,
Speaker 1: the Bears seven time consecutive Pro Bowl center and part
Speaker 1: of our broadcast crew. This is Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment of
Speaker 1: Bears All Access is brought to you by Microsoft Surface
Speaker 1: and CDW people to get it learn more at CDWT
Speaker 1: dot com. Jeff, Joni, Act Tom. They're not joined by
Speaker 1: our broadcast mate on WBBMA in the pregame show with
Speaker 1: Ron Leason and Jimmy Schwantz. Mister j Hilgenbert, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the program. We just got done talking to
Speaker 1: Seth Paine, a part of the Houston Texans radio crew
Speaker 1: and a former player for Jacksonville and the Texans. Hearing
Speaker 1: about Houston and talking offensive line play, so I thought
Speaker 1: we'd get you on to talk about the Bears one
Speaker 1: offensive line play. Jay, how are you doing tonight? I'm
Speaker 1: doing good. I'm doing good. Jeff, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Doing all right? Doing all right? Enjoy hearing what they
Speaker 1: have to say up at Hollis Hall today about the
Speaker 1: offensive line from Bill Laser to Matt Naggi. Two players
Speaker 1: out of the offensive line like we're hearing about from
Speaker 1: Charles Lenno Jr. About to play Sam Mustafer on the
Speaker 1: inside and you know, looking for that edge on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I think you got two guys right now
Speaker 1: and must fur and bars. This is just my opinion
Speaker 1: that do bring some of that edge with them to
Speaker 1: the equation and some smarts on that offensive line. I
Speaker 1: was recognized by by Charles today. Did you see that
Speaker 1: what you're watching and do you feel that? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely do. I've seen Sam he hustles after the
Speaker 1: play to where the ball carriers tackled, and I've seen
Speaker 1: him pushing guys out of the way, and Alex is
Speaker 1: the same way. I like the attitude that those guys have.
Speaker 1: Sam Sam to me, he's a natural center. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's it's probably the only position he can play.
Speaker 1: And I that's kind of a compliment I give him
Speaker 1: because there's no way I could have played guard or
Speaker 1: tackle in the NFL. I mean I was. I think
Speaker 1: I was like a natural center also, So it's been
Speaker 1: fun for me to watch Sam. He's gotten better every
Speaker 1: time out there. Alex this past week. I like how
Speaker 1: how he's been physical. A couple of times he was
Speaker 1: probably taken too big of a first step lateral step
Speaker 1: on a run play and got pushed back a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's the and that's the other thing that I
Speaker 1: like about Sam playing the center position on those each blocks.
Speaker 1: He's doing a nice job and he's not giving up
Speaker 1: a lot of penetration. You know, Jay, One thing about
Speaker 1: the center position and Sam must have for playing he
Speaker 1: throws a conventional shotgun snap, and believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I've always think that is a real plus. It's a
Speaker 1: real positive because the assurance of the speed in the
Speaker 1: height of it. And then when you talk about the
Speaker 1: other snaps, like Cody used to do the knuckleball snap,
Speaker 1: the quarterback has to watch the flight of the ball
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't even think that knuckleball snap
Speaker 1: was around and you played center. But what do you
Speaker 1: think about the evaluation of the specifics of Sam must
Speaker 1: have for shotgun snap. I haven't seen a problems with it.
Speaker 1: You know, As I said, he's a natural, and Cody was.
Speaker 1: He had to kind of adjust and learn the snap,
Speaker 1: and I think that was kind of an easy way
Speaker 1: to just to flip the ball back. You know, my
Speaker 1: my father, he was a longtime coach and he taught
Speaker 1: all of us kids in the backyard how to snap
Speaker 1: the ball. And he he always said, it's you know,
Speaker 1: the team loses their long snapper. The easiest way to go,
Speaker 1: and if you don't have anybody that's a long snap
Speaker 1: or get in there and just flip an end over
Speaker 1: end like the shotgun guys are. So that's I think
Speaker 1: if you have trouble with that shotgun snap is as
Speaker 1: you go to something like that with Cody. But you know,
Speaker 1: the Bears are lucky to have a player like Cody Whitehair.
Speaker 1: I've always been a big fan of his. He's done
Speaker 1: a nice job at the center position, went to a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl at the center position, and I think he
Speaker 1: has the ability to play any position on that offensive line. Jay,
Speaker 1: what are you going to tell the offensive lineman if
Speaker 1: you're the center of the team about the awareness of J. J. Watt?
Speaker 1: You know it's he's there. He's there pass rusher, so
Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta know where he's at and
Speaker 1: identify him. Make sure you know where he's at and
Speaker 1: have the protection. And you know, Thoma's a lot like
Speaker 1: we did. You know, we recognize, we helped each other.
Speaker 1: We worked with each other, the whole five of us did.
Speaker 1: And if we had a slide call and you didn't
Speaker 1: need to, we we check and make sure if we'd
Speaker 1: stay on that double team as long as you can
Speaker 1: tell you you have to slide out to pick up
Speaker 1: a blitzing linebacker or a slanting defense event from the inside,
Speaker 1: so you know, but jj Watt mainly plays on the outside,
Speaker 1: So you're going to see a little more that the
Speaker 1: guards getting out there and probably helping the tackle, keeping
Speaker 1: it in an eye, staying inside with an arm, but
Speaker 1: looking outside to where JJ Watt is at, and you
Speaker 1: probably see a lot of chipping by the tight ends
Speaker 1: and running backs. Just to check it out. Bears Great,
Speaker 1: Jay Hilgenberg out the program. This is Bears All Access,
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy with Tom Fair, Jeff Joniac,
Speaker 1: thanks to Mike Rankin, our producer. Tonight here at the score,
Speaker 1: I'll throw in my two cents because the first thing
Speaker 1: that I always see from JJ Watt and watching it again,
Speaker 1: and he's overcome some serious injuries here of three of
Speaker 1: the last four years, so his durability has not been
Speaker 1: great of late, but it's the relentlessness of the guy.
Speaker 1: So be prepared for the relentlessness of jj Watt. Because
Speaker 1: you look at the defensive numbers of this team and
Speaker 1: they're not good. They are tackling better of late, but
Speaker 1: they are not good. And if you just look at
Speaker 1: the math, you're thinking, Wow, this is gonna be a breeze.
Speaker 1: But that's not the case. And he's not just the
Speaker 1: pass rusher. He's also an outstanding run defender and he
Speaker 1: lines up all over the place. But so when you
Speaker 1: deal with a guy that relentless, you got to match that,
Speaker 1: don't you. Oh, no question about it. Those are the
Speaker 1: scary guys, Jeff, the guys that never stopped, you know,
Speaker 1: keep moving their feet. And he that is JJ Watt.
Speaker 1: He's relentless out there. Um, that's he's very impressive. I
Speaker 1: remember the last time he was here, though he didn't
Speaker 1: have too good of a game. I remember it was
Speaker 1: the big matchup of his teammate Gabe Kareemi going against him,
Speaker 1: and Gabe actually played a really nice job against j. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: But boy, that is a game that a lot of
Speaker 1: folks won't even remember. Gabe. Yeah, that's a various cantankerous
Speaker 1: name with Jay oh it is. Okay, maybe we should
Speaker 1: talk about it, or we're talking about a bunch of
Speaker 1: Wisconsin football players instead of Hawkeyes. Okay, yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: soon you'll be talking a lot about some cyclone players
Speaker 1: in the National Football League where the rankings by the
Speaker 1: way seventh seventh. Yeah, what are you guys? Sixteen? You're
Speaker 1: lucky you didn't play I whether this year? Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: right about that, Hid Your coach is a great coach
Speaker 1: out there Iowa State. I just I don't hopefully he
Speaker 1: stays there. Yeah, I know, I know exactly. Um, is
Speaker 1: this another matchup that both of you guys looking at
Speaker 1: that you can hopefully fuel up and fuel up that
Speaker 1: run game and run it a lot more than just
Speaker 1: twenty two attempts per game, which is the average because
Speaker 1: it's a team given up north of one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty a game on the ground. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I
Speaker 1: think the Bears running attack has been better with this
Speaker 1: new lineup. They run the ball better with Mitch at quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you look at the rushing stats of these least
Speaker 1: two teams of the league, they run the ball least
Speaker 1: than any other team in the NFL. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Bears have two hundred and sixty two carries, the Texans
Speaker 1: have two hundred and sixty four, and the Bears are
Speaker 1: thirty yards ahead of them. So I mean they're just
Speaker 1: not gonna run the ball that much. It doesn't look
Speaker 1: like it, but it's just I think it's the Bears
Speaker 1: avanger are run the ball because if you look at
Speaker 1: the passing attempts, the passing attempts of the but the
Speaker 1: Bears and the Texans, the Bears have eighty more passes
Speaker 1: than the Texans. But the Texans have six hundred more yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Bears pass more than any other team in the
Speaker 1: league in percentage, sixty six percent time. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: the answer to your question, Jeff is I'd like to
Speaker 1: see the Bears run more. I mean, Montgomery's getting stronger,
Speaker 1: He's had some good games here back to back, and
Speaker 1: that inside of that offensive line. I like the way
Speaker 1: they're playing. Well. You know, the best way to keep
Speaker 1: warm on the field is run the ball well. And
Speaker 1: Seth Payne, who we were just talking about with from
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, he was asking the temperature already. So
Speaker 1: now if you have one of these warmer teams that
Speaker 1: are coming in and the conditions aren't perfect, the best
Speaker 1: way to really challenge your opponent is run the ball effectively.
Speaker 1: Keep your offense on the sideline, but try to take
Speaker 1: a stronghold of that running game and keep your offense warm,
Speaker 1: keep your offense going, and keep your offense on the field. So,
Speaker 1: you know, Jay, I think that's the mentality these offensive
Speaker 1: linemen have to come out of the locker room this
Speaker 1: week is run the ball strong and you're gonna win
Speaker 1: the game. Oh yeah, no question. I think it seems
Speaker 1: like the weather could be a little iffy. It looks
Speaker 1: like and I agree with it's cold, get after him,
Speaker 1: gets physical, you know. Well, so you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know how meaningful it is, but a little thing that
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bears could accomplish something they've never done here.
Speaker 1: They've never beaten the Texans oddly enough. Well, yeah, four
Speaker 1: meetings though, Yeah, you know, yeah that is true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is true. So let's knock down that door an
Speaker 1: end of the sixth game losing streak. Jay, appreciate you
Speaker 1: taking the time. They look forward to talk to you
Speaker 1: on Sunday from Soldier Field. Oh guys, Jay Hilgenberg Bears Center,
Speaker 1: seven time consecutive Pro bowler, a great, great part of
Speaker 1: the history of the Chicago Bears. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna listen in to Jimmy Graham. He has named
Speaker 1: the Walter Peyton Man of the Year nominee representing the
Speaker 1: Bears well. Also here from David Montgomery. It's All Ahead
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score. This segment of Bears All Access is brought
Speaker 1: to you by Atletico Physical Therapy. Visit Athletico dot com
Speaker 1: to request an appointment in clinic or virtually and start
Speaker 1: feeling better. Tomorrow. Jeff Joniac along with Tom thare getting
Speaker 1: you ready for Bears Texans, and before we do that,
Speaker 1: everybody in the league getting there. Walter Payton NFL Man
Speaker 1: of the Year nominees out in Todaytom Jimmy Graham gets
Speaker 1: the honor. A certainly very active in that regard in
Speaker 1: the community, in philanthropy, his own community work with his
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham Foundation, which provides life changing and impactful experiences
Speaker 1: through the Freedom of Flight. We did a feature on
Speaker 1: that and uh, just really impressive what he's done with
Speaker 1: veterans and underprivileged youth. This is some of how he
Speaker 1: feels about it. All complete another shock and you know,
Speaker 1: especially to be here in Chicago when it's named after
Speaker 1: Walter Payton, you know, and he is bigger than life
Speaker 1: what he did for this community, you know, even what
Speaker 1: he did for the Chicago Bears even bigger what he
Speaker 1: did for the NFL. He was a truly special man
Speaker 1: who had a heart that was bigger than most. You know. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when I first signed with the Bears, that was you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, that was also on my mind. I knew,
Speaker 1: you know, Chicago, Chicago being the third largest city in
Speaker 1: the US this time that we were going through. You know,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, looking to help in any way
Speaker 1: that I could. So that was party number one after
Speaker 1: signing with the Chicago Bears. Was trying to make an
Speaker 1: impact and you know, trying to help people who couldn't
Speaker 1: help themselves. And that was really my focus for my
Speaker 1: first few weeks, um being being in Chicago Bear you know,
Speaker 1: because I was I was that child even in high
Speaker 1: school that got that helping hand that completely changed my life.
Speaker 1: So for me, that was that That's always and forever
Speaker 1: will be one of the nearest and dearest things to
Speaker 1: my heart is is helping our youth out. You know, um,
Speaker 1: I understand exactly where they're coming from and how difficult
Speaker 1: those times are. And you know, you you always feel
Speaker 1: like you know why me you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't remember those days of why me? You know,
Speaker 1: how is this happening to me? Um? You know what
Speaker 1: makes me so different? You know? Why can't life be
Speaker 1: a little easier? So I was looking at helping anyway.
Speaker 1: I can't to all those kids that are just saying
Speaker 1: why me. And you'll read an article in Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: dot com written by Nathan Smith, one of the Bears
Speaker 1: writers on that site, and he talks about the story
Speaker 1: of Jimmy coming to Chicago. The first thing you wanted
Speaker 1: to do was vet the financial records of local charity,
Speaker 1: and then had had the one that he wanted to pick,
Speaker 1: and so he helped ignite an organization that works at
Speaker 1: risk youth in Chicago time. You know, Jeff, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of NFL players that really have enormously big hearts,
Speaker 1: But a lot of times because the chance for us
Speaker 1: to talk to him is immediately following a game, whether
Speaker 1: you win or your lose, and you're not discovering that
Speaker 1: part of them. But when the NFL went out there
Speaker 1: named the Man of the Year ward about Walter Payton,
Speaker 1: it kept his name alive and it meant a lot
Speaker 1: to these young guys who came up through the ranks
Speaker 1: and were being named as a recipient of a war
Speaker 1: named after Walter Payton considering the type of man he was.
Speaker 1: But Jimmy Graham is just a reflection of a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in the NFL, how much they care about
Speaker 1: people and how much they care about the causes that
Speaker 1: they fight for. When you see the cause of the
Speaker 1: cleats for cause, you know what they did last week.
Speaker 1: And so I'm happy for Jimmy Graham, but I'm happy
Speaker 1: for every I on every team that's nominated for the
Speaker 1: Walter Peyton Award, and Bears cornerback Charles Tilman obviously the
Speaker 1: last winner representative Bears league wide and twenty thirteen, he's
Speaker 1: the fifth one to win that honor. Peyton in seventy
Speaker 1: seven year old roommate from Notre Dame, Tommy, Dave Duerson,
Speaker 1: the late Dave Dewerson in eighty seven, Mike Singletary in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, and Jim Flanagan back in two thousand. That's amazing,
Speaker 1: you know, because you hear those names, and you know
Speaker 1: Jim Flanagan, you know, we haven't heard anything from him
Speaker 1: for years, and we on the unfortunate happening of Dave
Speaker 1: Duerson and everybody has, you know, knows the credibility of
Speaker 1: guys like Mike Singletary. But every one of those names
Speaker 1: you mentioned were special men within their community during the
Speaker 1: time they played in Long After all right, one of
Speaker 1: those guys that, when no doubt one day get the
Speaker 1: same nomination as David Montgomery. He is a guy committed
Speaker 1: to community as well. He came from humble beginnings from
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to star at Iowa State and become an NFL
Speaker 1: draft pick. He'll be our feature on Bears Game Day
Speaker 1: Lives Sunday morning at ten thirty from Soldier Field in
Speaker 1: our player profile feature. Here's a snippet of what you
Speaker 1: might hear. Hey, you and I should come from the
Speaker 1: same cloth a little bit. Iowa State Cyclones, Baby, Yeah,
Speaker 1: those boys are rolling right now. When you got there,
Speaker 1: you were a big part of a big culture change.
Speaker 1: A lot of the credit goes to you as well.
Speaker 1: That was from coach Campbell. But you know that was
Speaker 1: a three win season your first year. Would you learn
Speaker 1: from that that you can apply even to today's situation
Speaker 1: that your own team right now is in. Yeah. Just
Speaker 1: being able to rely on the process, like I said,
Speaker 1: just being able to when it may not look good,
Speaker 1: just continue to do the small things and having that
Speaker 1: belief in your money or hard that you know it'll change.
Speaker 1: So I try to apply that to my everyday lifestyle,
Speaker 1: regardless of the situation. However it may look, how challenging
Speaker 1: hasn't been for you, because we know what you want
Speaker 1: to be great, Rome wasn't building a day. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say that I expected it to be a straight easy path.
Speaker 1: But miss gen our Dietestians in here she has this.
Speaker 1: It's not really a quote, but it's a depiction of
Speaker 1: two graphs, and there's two lines. They're both going up,
Speaker 1: and one arrows what you think success looks like, and
Speaker 1: it's just going up at a constant rate, no flutters
Speaker 1: or anything else. But then on the other graph it
Speaker 1: says what the success actually looks like, and it's a
Speaker 1: line starting and then it just goes all over the
Speaker 1: place and it just ends going up. It may not
Speaker 1: look the way you want it to be and the moment,
Speaker 1: and it may not feel the way you wanted to
Speaker 1: in the moment, but it doesn't define you until the
Speaker 1: story is written or it's done. So for me, I
Speaker 1: just want to be sure that I continue to just
Speaker 1: like I said, in store all my faith in the
Speaker 1: guy and let her know that I'm still behind and
Speaker 1: I always will be. But I'm also going to keep
Speaker 1: working hard, doing the small things, trusting the process, and
Speaker 1: being able to let my teammates know that we're going
Speaker 1: through this together, but we can get through it together
Speaker 1: as well. I read a story that was written about you.
Speaker 1: I think back from Cincinnati when you were about to
Speaker 1: get drafted or whatnot. But the writer said his running
Speaker 1: style referring to David Montgomery, his running style is akin
Speaker 1: to his life path. No matter how many times you
Speaker 1: hit him, no matter how impossible his escape appears, he
Speaker 1: finds a way out. Did that man capture what you
Speaker 1: were all about? Yeah, that's the equivalence of my life.
Speaker 1: Even in the midst of the moment right now, it
Speaker 1: goes back to me saying it will never look the
Speaker 1: way you want it to be, or would never feel
Speaker 1: the way you wanted to. But if you keep fighting
Speaker 1: and you keep giving all your faith to God, it'll
Speaker 1: work out. It sounds like you love fishing. Tell me
Speaker 1: about your level fishing, and have you have you headed
Speaker 1: out to Lake Michigan at all? I haven't a lake Michigan.
Speaker 1: But I haven't went to fish. I just was on
Speaker 1: a boat hanging out, but fishing. I love fishing. But
Speaker 1: really my favorite thing to do is cook. That's my Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my top tier thing to go to. UM when
Speaker 1: I have a little bit of time, I just put
Speaker 1: on something, some old school music, and I just kind
Speaker 1: of just let the cooking. Dude cooking. What's the old
Speaker 1: school music? I listened to my Michael Jackson here and there.
Speaker 1: I'm big on Luther Van Draws. I love some Luthor.
Speaker 1: I listened to Poc you know, all of the mainstream,
Speaker 1: big old school people back in the day. But some
Speaker 1: Sam cook. Whatever I can do to kind of slow
Speaker 1: down the mojole, so I can just kind of let
Speaker 1: life slow down because it moves so fast. You don't
Speaker 1: really realize how fast it moves until listen it's done.
Speaker 1: Just like football. I've been playing football for a while,
Speaker 1: but Guile hasn't flown. He's being able to just let
Speaker 1: life slow down a little bit and just be able
Speaker 1: to love it for for us small amount of time
Speaker 1: that you get. You know, one things that I love
Speaker 1: about doing these interviews is that you really find out
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot more about the guy, what's
Speaker 1: really cooking, you know, in the kitchen, so to speak.
Speaker 1: To steal his he gave me a whole menu, by
Speaker 1: the way, complete meal that he's been making. So, you know,
Speaker 1: he's very introspective and unfortunately we don't have these face
Speaker 1: to face moments, but even through zoom, you can find
Speaker 1: out a lot if you just ask, you know, if
Speaker 1: they're willing to do it, if they're willing to talk
Speaker 1: about it. You know, I love listening to David Montgomery
Speaker 1: because he needs that type of exposure because he's such
Speaker 1: a great football player. He's a hard nosed guy, he's
Speaker 1: really dedicated. Then you'll learn a little bit more about
Speaker 1: his personality. You know, Jeff, When I started cooking, and
Speaker 1: I think this is great for mothers. My mom used
Speaker 1: to put all the ingredients in a bag and then
Speaker 1: send it home with me. When I started cooking, she
Speaker 1: always knew that I had to call her a couple
Speaker 1: times while I was cooking, and all is she was
Speaker 1: doing it was trying to create conversation, and so I
Speaker 1: think that's important for all the people that are you know,
Speaker 1: we talked to Brent Urban. He's in a cooking David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: He's in a cooking same way. Wait, but it was
Speaker 1: all instigated by my mom, who wanted to have conversation
Speaker 1: when we weren't together. It was through cooking that she
Speaker 1: knew how to create it. Very interesting. Didn't know that
Speaker 1: about you? Okay, very good. We're gonna take a break.
Speaker 1: Our final segment coming up, we'll look at some of
Speaker 1: Tom's key points for a Bears victory. Hey, gotta get
Speaker 1: rid of this six game slide somehow, some way, Texans
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Speaker 1: on the Rams at eight and four should be an
Speaker 1: interesting battle there, indeed, but we're gonna focus on what
Speaker 1: the Bears have to do to beat the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: One thing I want to bring up now he didn't
Speaker 1: practice this week yet, but with Duke Johnson and David
Speaker 1: Johnson out of the backfield, they're both excellent path receivers
Speaker 1: in and do some damage if they both play, and
Speaker 1: I'm not certain that's going to be the case and
Speaker 1: the Bears take away the receivers. I mean, it seems
Speaker 1: like you keep springing leaks a little bit offensively on
Speaker 1: what to stop. Is that an area of concern for
Speaker 1: you in the passing game? My biggest area of concern
Speaker 1: is Deshaun Watson being able to extend the pocket, extend
Speaker 1: time behind the line of scrimmage, because if he creates
Speaker 1: fatigue within the defensive pass rush, you're taking away one
Speaker 1: of the most important elements away from the Bears defense
Speaker 1: to be successful as a team. So to me, if
Speaker 1: they're throwing it to the running back out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: you can limit the success of those yards. I don't
Speaker 1: want the big strike plays downtown after Deshaun Watson scrambles
Speaker 1: behind the line of scrimmage for six or seven seconds.
Speaker 1: In the last couple of weeks, we've seen how haunting
Speaker 1: a three man rush with no pressure has been from
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers to Matthew Stafford. So when you're talking about
Speaker 1: rushing Deshaun Watson, you better make you better compromise him,
Speaker 1: you know, and make him get the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hands. Yeah, it doesn't throw him any interceptions. He
Speaker 1: does get sacked, but he doesn't throw them any interceptions.
Speaker 1: Just six all year ahead and one didn't once since
Speaker 1: Week six, but it was stripped out of the hands.
Speaker 1: I think of Brandon Cooks, otherwise he would have had
Speaker 1: that street continue. But overall, in terms of what they're
Speaker 1: doing and what they've done against some really good teams,
Speaker 1: is this a better four and eight team than it looks? Oh? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like like Seth mentioned, you go look at the record
Speaker 1: of the opponents that they've lost games too. I think
Speaker 1: every one of them has a winning record. So you know,
Speaker 1: they've lost against some quality opponents, and you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's a tremendous amount of respect for the athleticism that's
Speaker 1: you know, in the quarterback position today and Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: as a heck of an athlete. So you know, maybe
Speaker 1: that's where the responsibility falls on the Bears offense. You
Speaker 1: better be a time consumption offense that results in touchdowns
Speaker 1: and then you put a little bit more stress on
Speaker 1: the offense of the Houston Texans, But it's really about
Speaker 1: time of possession of the Bears offense. What the heck
Speaker 1: is going to happen in this third quarter? Fourteen points
Speaker 1: all year? I mean I went back some twenty five
Speaker 1: years and granted there's still four games left, but you
Speaker 1: just don't see that kind of number, you know, in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, right, I mean to me, I I
Speaker 1: would be willing to scratch every other element of practice
Speaker 1: other than kind of only making it have one one day.
Speaker 1: That's only that's committed to coming out of the locker room,
Speaker 1: and I, you know, kind of make up these falls
Speaker 1: as you know, where I keep people in meetings and
Speaker 1: I have them come out boom. We have third quarter.
Speaker 1: I have a script in the third quarter. I have
Speaker 1: plays that I practice, and you know, you kinda like
Speaker 1: I said, you try to create an atmosphere for at
Speaker 1: least one day, that's all you think about. Yeah, I believe,
Speaker 1: And I'm certain they've scripted some of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you would think they went up tempo last week. It didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't. It didn't drive. It didn't work. I heard
Speaker 1: I think Shanahan kle Shanahan and scripts the eight plays
Speaker 1: of the second half. I mean, there's no doubt that
Speaker 1: they do some of that. We have we have less
Speaker 1: than thirty seconds. Okay, you can prepare during the week
Speaker 1: the script your first place, but you don't know the
Speaker 1: adjustments they're going to make defensively in that halftime. All right, Tom,
Speaker 1: we're out of time. There's an I football coming up
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