WEBVTT - Previewing Texans | All Access 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:08.600 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.600 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.239 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. Your all 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.000 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.000 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:30.040 Physical Therapy and CDW. Hey good Thursday in your morning, 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.400 Thursday morning, Thursday, Thursday evening. Everybody, See this has been 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.840 a day today, that's for sure. Tom there, Jeff Jonny 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.720 Ek with you on Bears All Access. It is brought 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.720 to you by IGS Energy. Because as soon as my 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.239 feet hit the floor there was there was word of 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.400 issues going on, and you know, I had a just 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.599 so it's been a NonStop day. The Bears did get 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.640 a practice in town, but they had a little bit 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.920 of a disruption today with a COVID positive for DeAndre Carter, 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.280 as it turns out, the new punt returner and wide 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.040 receiver for the Bears. So they had they had a 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.000 The troops set them out of there bringing back they 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.320 got to practice in today. Here's Charles Lenno Junior on 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.520 the ace activities. It was about the same as if 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.280 it wasn't even a training camp. I feel like we 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.000 had a day like that in training camp where we 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.680 all left and came back, so we already been to this, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.720 so I was like riding a bike. Yeah there you go, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.840 Tom there, welcome to the program. Yeah, well, training camp, 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.759 you're talking about trying to develop a team in full 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.280 pads and you want to have a really serious practice 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.520 at this stage of the game. The restrictions as has 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.120 loosened up. You don't have pads on you. You're really 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.680 inserting a game plan of information that you've been installing 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.040 now for four or five months. To me, Andre Tucker, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.000 it's amazing what he's had to go through this year 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.320 and for what he's had to do to readjust his 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.800 schedule to the information he had to get out there, 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.360 get the information out there clearly, and then being able 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.559 to you know, you know, we see Matt and Aggie 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.160 on the zoom call and then three hours later they're 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.080 having a practice when they didn't know if they were 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.200 going to be able to practice. Just so that you know, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.920 just the turmoil that every every building has been in 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.800 the NFL this year, it's it's amazing that. I'm really 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.680 impressed that it's still going on. Yeah, you know, I 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.920 am too. And here we are in week fourteen, and 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.440 everybody's making sure they check. I keep saying this. Anytime 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.360 anybody asked me how I'm doing, I say, I'm just 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.320 checking boxes. And and that's what they have to do 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.560 when something like this happens, the domino's fall and you 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.320 start checking boxes and your first fear because of the 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.840 three practice squad players and now this one. You know, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.400 are they interconnected? Doesn't sound like it. Matt Nagge today, Temmy, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.640 and how good he feels about this thing not spreading 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.079 any further. Pretty good. I think they're doing a good job. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.680 They're they're they're following the rules, and it's just, uh, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.560 you know again, when you leave this bubble, what are 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.000 you doing? And but we've our guys, they've they've answered 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.040 all the questions, they've done things as best as they can, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.760 and um, you know, now it's just about handling it. Yeah, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.400 that that is good news. Now they're real good news. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.679 It's Thursday. It's an important practice day, this is situational day. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.920 It's third down Thursday. All those things that are normal 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.400 in the national Football League. So I am glad they 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.440 got they got some work done today on the field. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.640 Oh me too. I'm really glad they're on their feet forever, 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.959 however long it was, because you need to put these 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.720 plays in motion. Yeah, you're not going one hundred percent, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.080 but you're being able to make eye contact with everybody 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.520 wants the huddle breaks, but you're also being able to 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.679 engage inside the huddle. Make sure you get the plays out, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.720 make sure you understand what you're calling, make sure everybody 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.800 understands their assignments, and then come Sunday, you got to 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.200 try to put it all together, all right. The injury 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.680 report has Khalil Max still out today with a shoulder. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.880 So you think about it, what he's gone through this 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.920 year already with a knee, back and shoulder. It's a 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.360 lot of bumps and bruises for the guy that kids nicked, 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.520 hit and bounced around, probably more than anybody on that defense. Right. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.240 But you know, I kind of wish that Khalil's attitude 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.440 was contagious because when I look out on the field 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.560 and I see players, and I see the seriousness of 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.320 Khalil his approach to the game, you know, he's not 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.880 a jack around type of guy on the field that 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.960 the game is really important to him, and he's a 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.640 highly profiled guy and people have high expectations for him. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.880 But you know, Khalil is the type of guy that's 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.119 in such great shape and if he had to sit 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.760 out a day or two or even three and still 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.520 play on Sunday, he could also out today with a concussion. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.400 Still is Buster Screen, who's been a big target of 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.840 late in terms of being the focal point of some 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.840 offenses because of the way they run things, and you know, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.400 he's important piece to that puzzle in the Nicols spot 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.200 there for the Bears defense. Also a did not practice 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.080 today for James Vaughters and Darnelmonia for personal reasons, limited 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.760 for JP Holtz, Charles Leno, Junior Allen Robinson, and returned 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.800 to full practice today for Alex bars Tom Coming up 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.800 in the show, we got Seth Payne. He is part 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.760 of the pregame crew for the Houston Texans radio network 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.640 and a former player in the National Football League. We'll 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.880 get a bird's eye view of the Texans and where 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.039 they're at at four and eight and what's headed here 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.640 to Chicago on Sunday. We're also going to be joined 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.400 by our broadcast Matan, your good friend and teammate Jay 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.480 Hilgenberg at the bottom of the hour talk a little 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.080 football on the offensive line, which was a topic today 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.279 as well. Charles Leno Jr. Was asked about all that, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.960 and he said, the communication right now with these guys 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.320 is very good upfront, and he pointed to the smarts 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.880 of the group that have been added to the mix, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.279 and Sam Mustifer and Alex Bars and Cody Whitehair being 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.040 that way as well. Yeah, well, you know, I think 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.080 it's a great opportunity to us to talk to Jay 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.800 because there's nobody that has more in common with Sam 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.720 Mustafer than Jay Hilgenberg. You talk about two undrafted free 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.080 agents that you developed high expectations during the course are 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.680 the early portions of their career, and then when they 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.440 were inserted the coaches found out that they are a 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.599 legitimate candidate for their position. And we'll hear from Jimmy 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.159 Graham the Bears tight End is the Bears Walter Peyton 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.840 Man of the Year nominee. And then our feature segment 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.119 on this week's Bears Game Day Live and in Joni 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.880 X Journaline WBBM is David munt Gummer. Here a chunk 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.640 of that feature that's going to air on Sunday at 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.359 ten thirty on Fox thirty two Chicago. Wonder that I 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.279 am I stay over on. I was wondering why you 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.360 had the Iowa stay Now that's not why. It just said, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.160 you know, hey, just seventh in the country. Put him 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.240 into the playoff. Moving a lot to the head. CLI 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.200 more five more spots and get aheads getting in best Florida. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.240 Maybe get in there. Maybe we'll play Notre Dame again 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.599 the National vitory. All right, coming up next, seth Paine's 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.039 coming up. Thanks to our producer Mike rankin making this 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.640 all happen tonight. Jordan tread up and dam really as well. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.240 This is Bears All Access with Tom there. I'm Jeff Joniac. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.719 We're brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:49.080 Radio six seventy the Score and welcome back to Bears 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.240 All Access. We're brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.720 clean energy for your home at igs dot com because 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.640 every good choice adds up to a better world. Jeff Joniac, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.880 Tom Fair getting Ray Eddy for the Bears and ten 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.360 Tins on Sunday at Soldier field. As Week fourteen gets rolling, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.520 we're joined now by a member of the broadcast crew 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.560 for the pregame show on a former fourth round pick 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.920 of the Jacksonville Jaguars and back in ninety seven, and 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.440 a prominent defensive lineman, Seth Paine, who played seven years 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.600 then with the Houston Texans, a part of their expansion draft. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.040 Believe it or not, you kind of forget about that 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.120 with the Houston Texans, but an expansion team that has 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.920 had some great success over the years. Seth, how are 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.040 you doing? Thanks for joining us tonight. What's going on? 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.160 My man? It's my pleasure. I just have one question 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.120 to ask, and it's based on my last memories of 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.360 playing in Chicago in two thousand and four, which I 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.760 believe at the time was the coldest wind chill game 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:45.320 ever played in Chicago. Is what's the weather forecast for Sundays. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.600 I haven't even looked, because you know, we're just used 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.840 to the uniqueness of it. But Tom there, my broadcast partner, 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.080 an offensive lineman of note from the Super Bowl Bears 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.160 of eighty five, is always worried about what the temperature is, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.640 whether we're going south, and he gets real nervous about 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.480 hot weather, and he gets real serious about cold weather 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.080 because he goes to Maui every offseason, so he's got 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.680 that thin blood. Tommy, what's the way forecast, Well, it's 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:12.480 it's so I think it's a high of thirty three 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.040 and pretty sunny on Sunday, so it'd be pleasant. It's 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.800 it'd be nice because Friday and Saturday there's like ninety 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.640 five ninety seven percent chance of rain, so I think 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.120 the field will be covered. The field conditions as still 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.960 perfect this late in the season, and you know that 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.000 type of temperature is not egregious. You know. Now you 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.240 got me looking into it, Seth. I'm trying to see 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.600 what the what the what the forecast was? And that 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.680 faithful day you guys won the game. Oh no, that 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.040 was all. That was two thousand and four. No, that 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.240 was in Jacksonville. I have to look it up. But anyway, 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.280 this would have been when I was with the Texans. 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.480 Oh with the Texans, Okay, okay, with the Texans, Okay, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.920 well it was it was. It was one of the 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.480 coldest games you guys have ever played. And I just 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.400 remember pulling up um and and just some of the 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.280 kids from the South, you know, it's always the kids 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.160 from the South that have never played a cold their 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.560 game before got off the bus and you could see 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.280 it in their eyes, like what are we getting into? 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.040 And I thought of it because of Tom So the 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.720 life of me, I can't remember who the center was 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.640 for the Bears that year, but I just remember talking 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.320 to him during a time outbreak. It's just asking like 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.800 how the hell he was holding onto the ball, because 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.560 it was I grew up in upstate New York and 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.240 I'm no stranger to him. My hand had never been 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.160 as cold as they were that day. It was crazy, Oh, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.760 that I had to be the big bad Olan Creutz, right, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.520 it wasn't. I have a feeling like Olan Creutz was 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.400 injured or something. I don't know, Okay too much, I would. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:33.959 I wouldn't have been messing with Oland. I tried to 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:40.160 talk to him. That would not be recommended. Hey, what's 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.400 what what are we expecting from this uh, with this 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.960 Houston Texans outfit? Because clearly, uh, the average fans gonna 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.640 go to two places, Deshaun Watson and J. J. Watton. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.000 Now you fill in the blanks for us, right, Okay, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.920 So that's and that's about the only places they bothered 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.839 going now because Will Fuller was the best receiver left 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.520 on the field after the trade DeAndre Hopkins. He got 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.160 pop for PDS. Bradley Roby was really the only viable 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.440 cornerback on the team. He got pop for peds. They 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.960 look their taints of supplements. That's the story, and beyond 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.360 that now the playmakers really are JJ Watt Deshaun Watson. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.360 JJ has looked a lot more like himself the last 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.000 few games. You know, he's never gonna be the defensive 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.000 player of the Year caliber guy that he was twenty 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.720 and twelve through two fifteen, but he's been looking He's 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.720 been breaking up a lot more passes. He's been getting 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.040 heat on the passers, so he's more of a concern 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.160 for the Bears offensive line than he might have been 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.920 earlier in the year. DeShawn is really probably coming off, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.600 if not his best statistical game in some respects. It 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.560 was maybe one of his more impressive games of the 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.040 season because he lost Will Fuller. You guys all know 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.480 that he doesn't have DeAndre Hopkins, and yet he found 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.680 these guys. Chad Hanson, who got called up from the practice, 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.120 buy k QT, who is a slot receiver, who had 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.640 constantly been in Bill O'Brien's doghouse and couldn't find his 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.840 way to the field. He has over one hundred yards 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.600 receiving in that game, and Deshaun does a really nice 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.200 job of spreading the ball around. And it's really a 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.520 matter of okay, just like any quarterback who can run, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.760 all right, are you are you going to sell out 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.880 on the pass rush and risk him hurting with your legs? 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.040 Are you gonna play coverage? Deshaun's gotten a lot smarter 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.400 and looks a lot more like an a polished professional 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.920 quarterback this year, it says that nobody else is really 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.440 coming along for the ride with him. Hey, Seth, when 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.679 you look at JJ wat, I'm an ex offensive lineman. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.520 I've been watching this guy since he came on the 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.440 scene as an next defensive lineman. What's JJ's most impressive 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.080 trait as a player? I think, you know, when he 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.840 was younger, it was his ability to convert power to speed. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.560 You know, guys always had to account for his power, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.160 but then he'd quick swim you, and then he could 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:59.040 he could redirect extremely fast and then accelerate even faster, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.040 so he'd get past a defensive lineman, and he could 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.640 redirectly make his way to the ball, and that's how 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.240 he he. You know, Frankly got away with freelance and 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.280 a lot when he was younger. Now he's got to 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.360 rely a lot more on savvy and he's still the 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.080 strongest guy on the field, you know, but he can't 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.040 quite freelance like he used to. He gets in too 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.840 much trouble if he starts trying to backdoor blocks. So 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.480 he really he does a good job of getting in 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.920 passing lanes. I think he's become much more of a 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.560 bull rusher, you know. His long arm pass rush is 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.040 more of a concern than his speed is. But he 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.400 still lines up on the outside. They I don't think 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.400 they really like subjecting him to a whole lot of 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.320 getting banged up on the inside. So on passing downs, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.400 you're gonna see him play about seventy five to eighty 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.240 percent of his snaps on the left side of the defense, 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.320 and then he'll swap over to the right side, mix 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.360 it up, depending on you know, if he's facing a 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.560 really weak offensive lineman, which I don't think. I don't 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.560 think either of your guys are necessarily weak. They're not 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.960 world beaters, but they're not weak. But he'll go over 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.800 to the right and try to find a matchup if 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.559 you can find it. Did did he improve with Jadeveon 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:07.320 Clowney or did he do anything to help jj Watt? 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.559 You know, because when you talk about bookends, you talk 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.920 about him moving from side to side nowadays, How did 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.280 he compliment him or not compliment him? Well, that's a 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.320 you know, the funny thing about Jevon, And I know 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.720 everybody's all heard it by now, but it's true that 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.280 when Jadeveon was healthy, he didn't produce with sacks. With 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.840 the statistics. He's kind of a skiffer guy. He would 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.480 he would win pass rush, he would win. He would 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.160 win versus the offensive lineman. But any really hard time 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.720 breaking down and bending at the last moment, those last 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.760 two steps to complete the sack. But offensives had to 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.880 account for him. And he also he blew up a 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.520 lot of plays, you know, So if Jadeveon got a 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.520 lot of run plays, you'd blow up. So if Jenevion 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.560 got a tackle for the lost on first down, all 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.280 of a sudden, it's second, fifteen, third, and fifteen, and 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.280 everybody's eating. But now it's pretty much just JJ Whitney 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.520 Merciless who's the other the outside linebacker that typically plays 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.079 opposite JJ got a big contract extension in the off 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.800 season last year, but he's thirty years old and all 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.319 of a sudden this year he looks like it so 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.600 so far. Of the starters, JJ is the one you 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.600 need to worry about. Of your backup outside linebackers, Jacob 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.720 Martin is the guy who want to keep an eye on. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.240 He is very, very fast. He's actually the guy that 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.280 came over in the trade for Jadeveon Clowney last year, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.680 and he's not completely polished yet. You get the feeling 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.280 the Texans don't really trust him against the run, but 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.600 when he gets out there on third down, he just 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.080 turns on the after burners and he can blow right 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.400 by people. Steth So Last week the Bears played the 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.840 Detroit Lions, and the first remark on a new head coach, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.000 Daryl Bevill was he wanted to bring some more fun 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.960 into the building when they got rid of Bill O'Brien 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.400 and announced Romeo Cornell the next head coach. What were 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.760 they trying to get out of him into the building 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.480 that was needed, you know, It's hard to say because 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.600 there have been so many. Yet today there was a 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.440 big piece that came out about the Texans front office 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.000 and Jack Easterby, who was the interim GM. There were 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.560 a whole lot of rumors about Bill O'Brien having blow 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.040 up arguments with J. J. Watt. I think that there 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.480 had been enough in fighting and there was just enough 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:24.000 stress intentions, especially because of all those really you know, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.640 head scratching moves that Bill O'Brien had made in the 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.960 personnel side. That when you start off winless like you did, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.440 and that's just winless but convincingly winless things, I think 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.760 just things got to a fever pitch and Bill O'Brien, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.680 you know, frankly, had too much on his plate. It 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.640 was very few people should be both the general manager 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.880 and the head coach in the NFL, and that was 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.000 a mistake the Texans made. They gave a guy who 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.560 already had a hot temper and it was a little 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.880 bit of a control for more reason to be stressed 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.680 out and angry and have a hot temper, and it 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.280 just wasn't gonna work out. So Romeo, his interim coach, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:05.560 you know, obviously brings a different flavor. You know, he's 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.160 way more laid back than Bill O'Brien. But I think 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.400 at least part of it is that the schedule weakened 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.760 up the Texans. The tech Tings have lost to pretty 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.040 much all playoff All but one of their losses have 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.280 come to playoff teams. Um all all of their wins 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.120 have come versus teams that are decidedly out of the playoffs. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.560 So I think part of it was that everything just 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.560 balanced back out a little bit. They're not one of 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.080 the worst teams in the league. They're certainly not one 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.880 of the better teams in the league, but they had 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.040 a really, really hard schedule to start the season. Seff 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.160 paying our guest here on bears Ald Access brought to 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.080 you by IGS Energy and Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.800 the score top there, Jeff, Jonihac and Seth part of 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.640 the pregame crew down in Houston with the Texans Radio Network. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.720 Are you still hosting your own show? And so forth? Too? 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.520 And you got I think you have podcast? You're a 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.280 multimedia king down there. I get bored, you know it is, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.320 there's there's so much to talk about. You do you 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.080 do a sports show in the morning? And then there's 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.200 still stuff that you got to talk about to avoid 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:03.080 talking to real life people. Oh yeah, you can do all. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:04.960 You can follow me on Twitter at se se tame 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.639 got oh well, Sean Pendergass, my co host, is I 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.960 lived in Chicago for a long time, so he's he's 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.720 super excited that I'm talking to you. Tom. I never 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.080 realized what a complete Chicago mainstay you were. I didn't 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.440 realize you were from Chicago and went in like you 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.879 never For the most part, you spent most of your 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.840 professional in college career and in high school care in 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.840 that area. So so by extension, Sean filled me all 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.359 in on it this morning. He was very excited that 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.160 I was talking to you guys. He's the old time 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.720 version of current Bears tight end Cole Comet, who grew 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.879 up in the Northwest suburbs here in Chicago and is 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.639 now having a good time being the tight end for 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.240 the Bears offense right now, Hey about the offense of 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.520 the Houston Texans. Real quick, just going through some of 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.080 the map, the numbers that are popping and on my 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.639 board that I put together for the games, I highlight 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.399 and read if you're in the top ten and I 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.280 see all those passing numbers in the top ten, but 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.600 the one that sticks out his yards for past attempt Now, 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.800 is that all because of will Fuller or is it 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:04.440 because of Deshaun Watson. Finding anybody who can get downfield? Well, 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.399 you know, obviously a little bit of that's gonna be 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.800 will Fuller because he's such an extreme deep threat. But look, 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.560 DeShawn is an aggressive quarterback. He wants to push the 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.200 downfield in that was to his detriment. I think early 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.040 in his career. One thing that he's changed is that 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.760 look he's going to extend to play. I think I 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.439 think he's developing into probably Russell Wilson would be the 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.800 closest comparable. I think he wants to extend the play. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.080 He wants to push the ball downfield, but he's gotten 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.800 smarter about it, and he's quicker to check down to 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.160 running backs. Now, I think he's more likely to get 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.399 tight ends involved in the passing attack. That's where I 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.280 say he's become more of a professional quarterback. That's the 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.800 jump he's made this year. But because of the speed 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.280 of will Fuller and Brandon Cooks and gap, will Fuller's 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.399 not there right now. He's been able to really do 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.760 two things. One utilize the play action to his benefit 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.840 because the tech Look, look the Texans conventional running game. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.040 You guys are gonna be astounded. Like and I know 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.320 the Bears don't run the ball. Well, I'm telling you, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.000 I'm just promising right now, you're gonna be astounded. It's 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.679 how bad this Texans offensive line is it run blocking? 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.879 But because the Shaun is a threat with his legs, 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.680 they opened up some deep shots downfield. And likewise, because 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.240 he can extend to play, he finds some opportunities deep 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.359 deep downfield late in the down. Well, you know, seth 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.480 Let's I want to talk about the offensive line because 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.520 when the Houston Texans came aboard and they brought in 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.359 car as the quarterback, it seemed like they never surrounded 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.840 him by any quality offensive lineman. I think throughout his 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.639 career made had the third rounder, was the highest draft choice. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.800 So is you know, you guys get rid of Hopkins 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.160