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Speaker 1: Good to be with you again as we get you
Speaker 1: set for championship weekend of the National Football League. I
Speaker 1: know that just rubs Bears fans the wrong way, right.
Speaker 1: You want to be there, You definitely want to be there.
Speaker 1: But we're here to talk about some of that and
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Bears and what to look
Speaker 1: forward to here in the offseason. We'll be with you
Speaker 1: every week of this offseason with Tom Fare. I'm Jeff,
Speaker 1: Jony Act, your Miller will be along for a few
Speaker 1: segments as well from Sirius XM NFL Radio, the former
Speaker 1: Bears quarterback that I mean, tell me how you doing, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm with you. Super jealous about watching football
Speaker 1: over the weekend, envious of all the fun they're having,
Speaker 1: and you know it's kind of twofold because you still
Speaker 1: remember back in the day when we did go to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and just all the surrounding fun as
Speaker 1: a team you have. But then selfishly as broadcasters, I
Speaker 1: want to live through that same fun. I want to
Speaker 1: live on this end of the accomplishments of the players
Speaker 1: in the coaches and see what you know, that type
Speaker 1: of success is all about. So I mean, every year
Speaker 1: your farther removed, the jealousy just grows. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I always talk about playoff games and the drama of
Speaker 1: every snap, but honestly, when you get deeper into it
Speaker 1: and you know you got a chance to go to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, the drama is just so thick and
Speaker 1: it's palpable, and you're just leaning on every single play
Speaker 1: in the game and every near miss or every big play,
Speaker 1: and your mind starts working. Boy, as you get through
Speaker 1: the first half, Okay, now can they close this out,
Speaker 1: can they come whatever the case may be, and it's
Speaker 1: that drama that we love is announced. Well, well you
Speaker 1: gotta turn that that drama into a positive because you
Speaker 1: can have drama that can tear a football team apart.
Speaker 1: Throughout the playoffs as jealousy amongst each other grows between
Speaker 1: the different appearances or opportunities that may be given or
Speaker 1: thrust upon one person that another person is envious experience. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, we because you did see it. You
Speaker 1: did see the different types of offerings that you had
Speaker 1: throughout the course of our success. But just getting to
Speaker 1: the modern day drama because it's so much more, it's
Speaker 1: increased so much with all the social network additive of
Speaker 1: the drama that we didn't have to live through. I
Speaker 1: think the coach has a really important role of keeping
Speaker 1: a football team together the deeper they go into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and then when they have that two week window of opportunity,
Speaker 1: you better make sure that the guys stay focused at
Speaker 1: what's at hand, not get caught up in what their
Speaker 1: opportunities could possibly be. Our producer tonight, Rick Camp in
Speaker 1: our Score studio is good to have him along, Hun
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening everybody, as we get you set. Were
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Speaker 1: you here until seven o'clock tonight. One thing I've always
Speaker 1: talked about, I'll never forget being on the team plane
Speaker 1: after coming home from the super Bowl the following day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You may have gotten a red eye
Speaker 1: out of there because you wanted to keep Miami behind.
Speaker 1: But a couple of things I remember about that is
Speaker 1: one or the build up to the game was so exhausting,
Speaker 1: like you had so many responsibilities that day at getting
Speaker 1: to the stadium super early. And then now you're waiting
Speaker 1: opening kickoffs as the darkness falls and Devon returns the
Speaker 1: opening kickoff, and I remember you smacked me on the
Speaker 1: rear end as hard as you possibly could, and you
Speaker 1: looked at me, say, the game hasn't even started yet,
Speaker 1: and that's that turned out to be the truth. But
Speaker 1: then getting on that team plane and Olan Creutz walking over,
Speaker 1: don't worry, Joniac, we'll be back. We'll be back, And yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you hope that's true. You felt you had
Speaker 1: a really good team. You had terrific offensive, lie great defense.
Speaker 1: It's great players erlak Or Briggs, Peanut, offensive lineman like Owl.
Speaker 1: And then you don't get back, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: got to be really difficult when you pour yourself into it.
Speaker 1: And that's why every snap does matter for all these guys,
Speaker 1: and you don't really realize what you're missing when you
Speaker 1: don't get it back, you know. I was recently talking
Speaker 1: to Clyde Emeric and I was recently talking to Halton
Speaker 1: about this, because when they got beat in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship Game in nineteen eighty four, he got on the
Speaker 1: microphone on the airplane to address the team about remember
Speaker 1: how you feel, because we are never going to feel
Speaker 1: like this again leaving an NFC Championship game, and we
Speaker 1: have to put our mind to it right now about
Speaker 1: what we're going to accomplish next year, a lot like
Speaker 1: the players felt when we're flying away from the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl down in Miami, but that that message is kind
Speaker 1: of resonated with a lot of players and a lot
Speaker 1: of people that were around the organization, and then you
Speaker 1: see what was able to happen the next year. So
Speaker 1: it's really interesting the course of action throughout a history
Speaker 1: and or a history of an organization, how those two
Speaker 1: moments can go in such different directions after you either
Speaker 1: lose a Super Bowl or you lose an NFC Championship game,
Speaker 1: all right, Teams that lose the Super Bowl usually have
Speaker 1: a hard time with that process, you know, because things,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe decisions are made out of a rash,
Speaker 1: thinking Okay, maybe we aren't good enough, and then now
Speaker 1: we're really not good enough because we're taking many steps
Speaker 1: backwards and they never get back to that plateau. That's
Speaker 1: why it's so hard to repeat unless you were the
Speaker 1: Green Bay excuse me, the New England Patriots or the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Are those great teams forty nine ers for you?
Speaker 1: You were not there in eighty four. You were there
Speaker 1: in eighty five. You were learning what it was like.
Speaker 1: Did you What was the sense when you got into
Speaker 1: that team from the inside out, as you were trying
Speaker 1: to find your way and find your fit on a
Speaker 1: very tight football team, one that really did have Super
Speaker 1: Bowl aspirations from the because of what happened in eighty four.
Speaker 1: I was intimidated because I was a Bears fan, and
Speaker 1: I was playing with guys in the USFL that kept
Speaker 1: telling me how great the Bears were on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the line of scrimmage or the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and how are you going to make that team? So
Speaker 1: I was like being forewarned about it, but I also
Speaker 1: had the envy as a fan, and so when I
Speaker 1: was going, oh my god, I'm driving on my way
Speaker 1: to try out for the Chicago Bears. You know, you
Speaker 1: just have hope and desire and everything that's needed in
Speaker 1: you because it's your lifelong dream. But you know, when
Speaker 1: you go to a team that's returning from the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game, there's not going to be a lot of turnover,
Speaker 1: and so you just sit there and we kind of
Speaker 1: grinded it out every single day, and you know, you're
Speaker 1: a enamored because you're seeing Walter Pyton, You're meeting guys
Speaker 1: like William Perry, you know, from being an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: and reading a lot about the Bears defense and finally
Speaker 1: seeing you know, Otis Wilbur and Singletary in person and
Speaker 1: seeing a little bit what Halfen the McMichael are like.
Speaker 1: And glad Doug Plank left the team because I was
Speaker 1: worried about getting hit by Doug Plank. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that come into play when
Speaker 1: you're a fan of the team that you're getting ready
Speaker 1: to go try out for. I was thinking about you
Speaker 1: in a Brown's guard this week was going out. It
Speaker 1: was miked up Tyron Matthew of the Chiefs, and he
Speaker 1: was coming right for him, and man, he just put
Speaker 1: him on his back, but it was still a tackle
Speaker 1: for loss on the play. And I was thinking about
Speaker 1: you because you loved those one on one opportunities with
Speaker 1: a little dB. But you know, Tyron Matthew gets right
Speaker 1: back up on his feet, took his medicine, said, man,
Speaker 1: that guy kicked my booty. But hey, you know it
Speaker 1: was still a loss on the plank he ty tackle
Speaker 1: for loss. Tyrone Matthews got up because he was underneath
Speaker 1: the player. He patted him on the head and then
Speaker 1: pointed to the tackle so he was able to accept
Speaker 1: the responsibility. But again, so Tyron Matthew was blitzing. The
Speaker 1: guy that made the tackle was the guy the garden
Speaker 1: was responsible for. So it was a good defensive call
Speaker 1: by Kansas City at that point. That really mess that
Speaker 1: play up. Chiefs in Buffalo in Kansas City and Green
Speaker 1: Bay taking on Tampa Bay and the Brady Rodgers matchup.
Speaker 1: And today the passing of Ted Thompson, a ten year
Speaker 1: NFL player, Tim a linebacker and a well known scout,
Speaker 1: very very respected man. Was not one to really put
Speaker 1: himself out there with the media. Was very quiet guy.
Speaker 1: But you know, you think about his legacy and his
Speaker 1: first draft pick was Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 1: think of the guys like Ron Wolf and Bob Harland
Speaker 1: that he learned a lot about organization and the green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers and how it ran and how they went
Speaker 1: through the protocol. Ted Thompson was a hell of a guy.
Speaker 1: He was. He was a super nice guy. He was
Speaker 1: a good football player. I think he was the perfect
Speaker 1: low key management position for green Bay and brought him
Speaker 1: through the Far era into the Rogers era pretty successfully. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just sixty eight years old, and many of the guys
Speaker 1: he picked are going to be in that championship game
Speaker 1: this weekend. All right. When we come back, we'll be
Speaker 1: joined by Jim Miller, a former Bears quarterback in Sirius
Speaker 1: Sex m NFL radio host. He'll join us as we
Speaker 1: take a look at the Bears and the coaching carousel.
Speaker 1: So I'll come it up next here on Bears All
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Speaker 1: good pal Jim Miller from Sirius sex M NFL Radio.
Speaker 1: Moving the chains with Pat Kerwin joins us. Now, Jim,
Speaker 1: how you doing. Lots going on, obviously, even not Bears
Speaker 1: related bub We'll start with that. In the coaching carousel,
Speaker 1: looks like Mannegge is gonna have to add a few
Speaker 1: more offensive coaches with where Today Dave Ragone headed down
Speaker 1: to Atlanta to become offensive coordinator for Arthur Smith. Break
Speaker 1: that one down for you, because he also maybe bringing
Speaker 1: along the running backs coach as well, Charles London. And
Speaker 1: I'm reading where and I don't have any of this,
Speaker 1: and none of this is official in terms of Charles London.
Speaker 1: It is with Dave were gone, but that he'd be
Speaker 1: quarterback coach. Yeah, yeah, I did see that one. Good
Speaker 1: to be with you guys again, and yeah, it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to keep up with it, yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of the times. I mean, there's so many coaching moves
Speaker 1: going on right now, and these are a lot of
Speaker 1: uh promotions for a lot of these guys. Obviously, Dave
Speaker 1: were going to the call plays down there, and it'd
Speaker 1: obviously be with Arthur Smith who's getting his first out.
Speaker 1: And then if shot at being a head coach. And
Speaker 1: I saw Dean Peas coming out of retirement for the
Speaker 1: second time. You know what I thought of you today, Jim,
Speaker 1: you when you you love Dean pas And and properly so.
Speaker 1: He's an outstanding defensive corder had really that Tennessee defense
Speaker 1: was playing outstanding before he retired. But yet when the
Speaker 1: naive Michigander, I know Dean personally, he coached at Michigan
Speaker 1: State and obviously he got great job for the Ravens
Speaker 1: and uh he was retired at Devil's Lake, Michigan, I
Speaker 1: think for ten minutes. Uh yeah, I think it's a
Speaker 1: world record for a coach coming out of retirement. But
Speaker 1: this is happening at time or two because it's in
Speaker 1: the blood and you can't get rid of it. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that's going to have the exhilaration. Yes, you want
Speaker 1: to be with your family, you want to see your grandkid,
Speaker 1: you all that, but you know it's in the blood.
Speaker 1: And if some young coach in this case Arthur Smith,
Speaker 1: who by the way, I'm reading he's going to be
Speaker 1: the play caller still for for Atlanta. But if you
Speaker 1: get the call from somebody you respect, you're going to
Speaker 1: try and help him out. But you know, Jim and Jeff.
Speaker 1: One thing about this year uniquely enough, you may get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to interview guys that you may never before
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL be able to because
Speaker 1: they got to fly from wherever they are to wherever
Speaker 1: they're going. When I look at the list in the
Speaker 1: NFL app of the amount of interviews for all these teams,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be able to happen logistically if they had
Speaker 1: to fly to every one of these sites to sit
Speaker 1: in front of them and get interviews. So all these
Speaker 1: guys that are doing these zoom interviews, I may say, Hey,
Speaker 1: let me just get the temperature of Gary Kubiak. Let
Speaker 1: me see if Dean Peace is a piece is interested
Speaker 1: at all in coaching anymore. Hey, let me scratch the
Speaker 1: surface of this old offensive line coach of the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots to see if he'd be interested in coming
Speaker 1: out because we work together at one point. So to me,
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing a lot of these interviews because
Speaker 1: of the situation we're in and they're all being done
Speaker 1: through skyper Zoom. Yeah, and it seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: with all the first year coach i'd say, other than
Speaker 1: urban Meyer, I mean, let's face it, for Nick Sirianni
Speaker 1: to get the job in Philly, I mean, congratulations to him,
Speaker 1: but that's going to come with a lot of oversight.
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that that's about getting the quarterback
Speaker 1: right and all the moves, and Howie Roseman is kind
Speaker 1: of going to be controlling the controlling this thing. And
Speaker 1: i'd say that for the Lions or any other teams,
Speaker 1: are even Arthur Smith. You know, let's be honest, these
Speaker 1: guys are first time coaches. They've elevated very quickly, and
Speaker 1: those organizations aren't just going to give the keys to
Speaker 1: the car. Let's just be honest. That seems to be
Speaker 1: what's happening right now, and we'll see what happens with Houston.
Speaker 1: Houston to me, has a little bit of leverage right
Speaker 1: now because everybody's fighting for one spot, so they'll be
Speaker 1: able to dictate who they want to hire, and it
Speaker 1: is probably leaning towards Eric Bienemy. I would think, well,
Speaker 1: with Nick Sirianni, did that come out of left field
Speaker 1: for you because it happened quickly unless he was on
Speaker 1: their radar for a while and they just waited for
Speaker 1: the end because he interviewed Monday and basically hired yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think some team some people turn him down. Like
Speaker 1: I said, there's going to be heavy oversight there for
Speaker 1: the next head coach. That's why Doug Peterson wanted out.
Speaker 1: He even want to be told who to play, want
Speaker 1: to play him, all those type of things, and he
Speaker 1: wanted out and he got granted his wish. And I
Speaker 1: think the guys that interviewed for that job, a few
Speaker 1: of them had already turned him down because there's going
Speaker 1: to be heavy oversight. And so how do you make
Speaker 1: it attractive. You go after a first year guy, you
Speaker 1: don't pay him a lot of money and say hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make you a head coach and you're okay
Speaker 1: with that, and he'll say, yeah, there's only thirty two
Speaker 1: of them, I'll take that job. What's both you guys
Speaker 1: jump in, But Tom, what's the impact? Okay, you turned
Speaker 1: over the offensive staff a year ago. I had great
Speaker 1: detail to focus on the quarterback and now the passing
Speaker 1: game coordinator that is respected coach, and Dave were going
Speaker 1: and we do wish him well. Love Dave, love his insight,
Speaker 1: love his ability to talk talk ball. And then with
Speaker 1: Charles London, very respected running back coach too in that room,
Speaker 1: all those guys love Charles London. So what does that
Speaker 1: for two years in a row due to a staff
Speaker 1: where you're trying to get on the same page. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as John D. Philippo and Bill
Speaker 1: Laser are still here, I don't think just because you're
Speaker 1: removing Dave are going out of the room, it's gonna
Speaker 1: have any impact on the quarterback position at all, because
Speaker 1: both of these guys understand the position, they understand how
Speaker 1: to coach it. Matt Nagee still is a big influence
Speaker 1: on the quarterback position, so I don't think it'll be
Speaker 1: much of a distraction on when you're talking about inserting
Speaker 1: the offense to whomever the quarterback is or and then
Speaker 1: on the running back side of it. It seems like
Speaker 1: running back is a unique kind of coach because it's
Speaker 1: running backs have the innate ability to understand how they're
Speaker 1: gonna run the football, but then they got to be
Speaker 1: able to someone's got to be there teaching them the
Speaker 1: system in all the intricacies of you know, coming breaking
Speaker 1: the huddle with two different plays, breaking the huddle, going
Speaker 1: from a pass play to a run play to a
Speaker 1: pass blocking responsibility, blitz pick up, and all these things.
Speaker 1: So London did a good job of getting the entire
Speaker 1: backfield ready, because everybody's a little different, you know, Tree
Speaker 1: Cone's nothing like Cordail Patterson, and Corderyl is a lot
Speaker 1: different than Dave and Montgomery. So I think he did
Speaker 1: a nice job. But I do think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of really relatable, good young running back coaches out there
Speaker 1: that first of all need to come in and learn
Speaker 1: the system themselves, and then how they get that message
Speaker 1: across to their running back room. Jimbo, Yeah, I think. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the challenge you got one you're gonna
Speaker 1: hire guys. You know, Ragon was down in Tennessee right
Speaker 1: before he arrived with Bears, so he already had a
Speaker 1: relationship with Arthur Smith. So I think that that typically
Speaker 1: is how it happens where you connect, especially now with
Speaker 1: like what Tom said, with all the you know, you're
Speaker 1: really just doing these zoom in interviews. A lot of
Speaker 1: it you're going to trust on the really the relationship
Speaker 1: that you have with the with the coach over time,
Speaker 1: and why you want to add them because you feel
Speaker 1: you're gonna have your best success as a football coach.
Speaker 1: And that's true for all these new coaches, the teams
Speaker 1: that now have their guys leaving the building, Jay Rogers
Speaker 1: and the coaches you'd s mentioned Charles London and Dave
Speaker 1: are gone. Now you know, is there enough quality out
Speaker 1: there that you can bring in? And I think there is.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the Bears have already interviewed a
Speaker 1: couple of good guys. Gannon has very well thought of
Speaker 1: the DB's coach for the Indianapolis Colts that that seems
Speaker 1: to be getting to look see. George Edwards was with
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer up there. I think you make a call
Speaker 1: even he said, see this tells you it was going
Speaker 1: bad in Philly because Jim Schwartz made it this announcement
Speaker 1: before the end of the season, so you knew that
Speaker 1: was going south there and I think they felt like
Speaker 1: they were hanging the coach out to dry. And Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz is a very principled guy and he made that statement.
Speaker 1: Maybe you make a call of Jim Schwartz. That's a
Speaker 1: hell of a defensive coordinator that's out there right now,
Speaker 1: and convince him to not take a year off and
Speaker 1: come back. The last thing I'd say is I had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to interview Chuck Pagano today on Sirious, and
Speaker 1: he was fantastic. He is not good even remotely think
Speaker 1: about coming back in He's a lifer, and he had
Speaker 1: just had a lot of great things to say and
Speaker 1: all the great memories that he had, and he certainly
Speaker 1: wanted to think the McCaskey family in the great time
Speaker 1: that he had in Chicago with the staff of the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. So but we couldn't coach because he was
Speaker 1: under Dean Peace. I said, well, are you gonna be
Speaker 1: like Dean and decided to come out of return. He said, no,
Speaker 1: that's not happening. Dean's he said, Dean Peace has always
Speaker 1: been a waffler. He goes, I'm not so no chance
Speaker 1: that Pagano's coming back. Jim just outline a couple of
Speaker 1: guys up for the defensive quarter job. According to multiple reports,
Speaker 1: nothing official from the organization. James Betcher another one three
Speaker 1: years at Arizona with top ten defenses, a very blitz
Speaker 1: minded guy coming from that Todd Bowles tree a little
Speaker 1: bit and with the Giants for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and then Tommy Mike Singletary's name has come up as
Speaker 1: well as somebody that reportedly has interviewed for that position
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, hey, Mike's got a super intelligence, He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of skill's was one of the most
Speaker 1: well prepared professional athletes I ever played around, and mentally,
Speaker 1: at that point, you had to understand a lot more
Speaker 1: information than you do nowadays, because nowadays you have that
Speaker 1: device in your helmet where you're getting all the information
Speaker 1: from the sideline and you're getting reminders there. Mike Single,
Speaker 1: Mike Singletary and that defense had to know the personnel
Speaker 1: they had to make the adjustments, and they weren't getting
Speaker 1: signs held up on the sidelines to tell every position
Speaker 1: front to back what to do. But like Jim mentioned,
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz and then you got Mike Singletary, they have
Speaker 1: a different style of defense in mind than what the
Speaker 1: Bears play right now. So if you're gonna bring in
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator that wants to play a four man
Speaker 1: front in the well Jim. Yeah, Jim was. Jim was
Speaker 1: three four in Tennessee and he was three four when
Speaker 1: he was in Cleveland with Bill Belichick. So but you know,
Speaker 1: he's that y nine single in Singletary's a four man front.
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna bring in both defensive coordinators that
Speaker 1: like to play both fronts, you have to make sure
Speaker 1: that you have the personnel that they can form in
Speaker 1: the defenses they want to run. There's gonna be some
Speaker 1: internal candidates as well. Sean Deshai's name has been speculated
Speaker 1: as one as well. All right, we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: break more with Jim Miller coming up. This is Bears
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Speaker 1: guesting as well from serious x M NFL Radio. What's
Speaker 1: the big topic on your shows these days? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: just these championship games coming up. You know, it's great
Speaker 1: talking to Chuck Panganah because he could give us good
Speaker 1: insight right on defending Tampa Bay this year, which the
Speaker 1: Bears won and going against Aaron Rodgers and uh difficult.
Speaker 1: You know, these probably are the best four teams that
Speaker 1: are left. But oddly enough, these are the top four
Speaker 1: passing teams. These are Packers come in one. Buccaneers would
Speaker 1: be two, Bills would be three, Chiefs would be four,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. So I mean just gonna be
Speaker 1: some great matchups. I think they're all gonna be very close,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, but it was good getting insight
Speaker 1: from from Chuck Panganah because oddly enough, the Bucks when
Speaker 1: they played the Packers earlier in the year, because both
Speaker 1: of these are rematch games too. Um, Todd Bowles got
Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions on Aaron Rodgers and he's only
Speaker 1: basically throwing five, all right, and the Bucks got two
Speaker 1: of them. You know, you know, real quick, because I
Speaker 1: like that Tom Brady is familiar with playing in colder
Speaker 1: conditions because I don't want any because by Buffalo going
Speaker 1: to Kansas City, they they're gonna be as familiar with
Speaker 1: that weather as Kansas City. Well, and going into Green Bay,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the conditions are yet. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be snow and cold. Yeah. So when we've seen Tom
Speaker 1: Brady play some of the best games in the history,
Speaker 1: whether it's here against the Bears, down in Champagne or
Speaker 1: in New England itself throughout his playoff days, that you're
Speaker 1: not gonna he's not gonna go into Green Bay and
Speaker 1: be intimidated. And I think he's the guy that can
Speaker 1: deliver the message to the rest of his teammates. Why
Speaker 1: do you have to bring up Champagne. We had a
Speaker 1: month down twenty seven to three and they won. I
Speaker 1: remember that game, Hey, what's the worst? Was the worst
Speaker 1: game he experience in Champagne? That one? That one was
Speaker 1: painful because well I didn't even start that game. Chris
Speaker 1: Chandler remember the first series he got a concussion. I
Speaker 1: had a bad shoulder and I had to come in
Speaker 1: the game and we go up and there was one
Speaker 1: play I remember was the third Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: was the third quarter. We ran uh fake twenty six
Speaker 1: due x in and I had to scramble out of
Speaker 1: the pocket. I threw it to the right, and I
Speaker 1: think Dez White thought I was throwing to the receiver
Speaker 1: behind it, but I was trying to throw the Dez
Speaker 1: but it would have been It was high and he
Speaker 1: didn't he didn't jump up to get it. And man,
Speaker 1: if we would have, if I just would have thrown
Speaker 1: a more accurate pass, we would have won that game.
Speaker 1: And then they had the epic comeback and oh, you
Speaker 1: just you're sick after those games. But what was that
Speaker 1: play again? And well, what are we supposed to be doing?
Speaker 1: Zero strong fake twenty six duel X in Z post?
Speaker 1: You know what it is? Heavy run. Look, you're running
Speaker 1: the twenty six duel, which is a gap run play.
Speaker 1: But we're faking it fake twenty six duel. We make
Speaker 1: it look like twenty six duel. Marty Booker's running the post.
Speaker 1: Dez White was running the deep x in route and
Speaker 1: it was it was wide, but I got flushed out
Speaker 1: of the pocket, so I had to I had rolled
Speaker 1: my right and throw it and just out of the
Speaker 1: outstretched hands of Des White, and we would have won
Speaker 1: that game. Still in fury, It's amazing, right, now you
Speaker 1: probably can close your eyes and see every bit of that,
Speaker 1: see every bit of that play, every bit of that play.
Speaker 1: But I mean just sees I mean the matchups, the
Speaker 1: quarterback matchups in this game, the two of the greats
Speaker 1: uh in this and how Aaron Rodgers is playing down
Speaker 1: the stretcher. I mean, I'm excited for that. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't give me that statistic about Tampa can't win
Speaker 1: in games under forty degrees. I mean, enough of that.
Speaker 1: This is for the NFC Championship. You know that Tom's
Speaker 1: has played in cold weather. They got plenty of guys
Speaker 1: on that roster have played in cold weather. From Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: you name it, Tristan Worfs played at Iowa. He's used
Speaker 1: to playing in the cold. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: this is just gonna be a great matchup. Really, I
Speaker 1: tell you their center that Ryan Jensen, Oh yeah, he is.
Speaker 1: He is an instigator of epic proportions and he's the
Speaker 1: type of guy that he he he antagonizes these guys
Speaker 1: through the whistle and then he just walks off like
Speaker 1: he's innocent and he's letting just a path of frustration
Speaker 1: behind him, and it's kind of good. Because you know,
Speaker 1: challenge of the players disappointment, I must there was a
Speaker 1: bunch on Twitter this week to those highlights of him,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's good viewing. And you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I want my offensive lineman to play that way I do.
Speaker 1: I want you to play exactly the way he plays
Speaker 1: that kind of nasty. They got enforcers on both sides
Speaker 1: of the balltop. Do you think a Dominican sue doesn't
Speaker 1: get under Aaron Rodgers skin? You know, and literally that
Speaker 1: first time around, Jim, he had a couple of Dominican
Speaker 1: Sue had a couple of big hits on Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: one right before the end of the first half that
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers kind of took an exception to. And then
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Look came out in the second half and
Speaker 1: they never let up. So I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a super interesting game, and I'm so excited and
Speaker 1: looking forward to the way Todd Bowles calls this game
Speaker 1: against Green Bay. You know, being a guy who likes
Speaker 1: interviewing people and finding exactly what makes them ticking, and
Speaker 1: so forth time through one on the table for me today, Jim.
Speaker 1: So now I'm gonna have to ask him about it.
Speaker 1: But if you guys were interviewing for the Bears defense
Speaker 1: coordinator job, what is the one question you would ask?
Speaker 1: The one question I would ask, well, how's this one
Speaker 1: with the salary cap changing? What are we talking here?
Speaker 1: I kind of need to know the pieces to the puzzle.
Speaker 1: Who were keeping, who were getting rid of you? Once?
Speaker 1: You can want to know that because I think there
Speaker 1: are a lot of teams around the league that are
Speaker 1: going to have to make some significant cuts and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a secondary market out there, or maybe you're
Speaker 1: gonna approach a player and say, hey, can we you know,
Speaker 1: there's always going to be a reduction, you know, or
Speaker 1: you know, say a redo, a contract redo, or essentially
Speaker 1: you could be and the player may say no, say hey,
Speaker 1: can you take a pickup? No, I'm not taking a pickup.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to cut you. Yeah. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a hard ask because for sure, strategy point of view, Tommy,
Speaker 1: for the offseason, you don't want stuff like that getting out.
Speaker 1: If a guy's gonna tell yeah, I don't, can't you
Speaker 1: can't promise, well, you know, to me, I would just
Speaker 1: ask him what segment of the defense is your most
Speaker 1: important because when you look at the Bears, and let's
Speaker 1: take it down from the defensive line to the linebackers
Speaker 1: to the defensive backs, they're very fortunate. Jalen Johnson played
Speaker 1: really well, to Sean Gibson came in and played equally
Speaker 1: as well at safety. We all know Kyle Fuller can do.
Speaker 1: I think Eddie Jackson regrets throughout the season. So now,
Speaker 1: if I'm talking a new guy, do I need the
Speaker 1: defensive backs or do I need Roquan and his crew
Speaker 1: to be the most important element in your defense? Or
Speaker 1: do I need a Keem Hicks, Khalil McQuinn and that
Speaker 1: crew up front to be the most important element in
Speaker 1: your defense? Right? So how would you answer that question? Then?
Speaker 1: What would you answer? How would you answer? What do
Speaker 1: you want is the most important part of your defense
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one? I want that as a defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: I want the defensive pressure to be the most important element.
Speaker 1: And I want the pressure to be equally as important
Speaker 1: against the run as it is getting me sacks, quarterback hits,
Speaker 1: pressures and the pressures that lead to interceptions. So I
Speaker 1: want the immediate, the immediate see of the defensive line
Speaker 1: to be a factor in the teams that they're going
Speaker 1: to play. And I would guess Jim that ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the guys would say the same thing, right, because
Speaker 1: it does start there. Yeah, well, yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: starts up front. It's it's in the trenches. You want
Speaker 1: solid at all levels, There's no doubt about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: good coverage can can lead to pressure sacks and what
Speaker 1: we call covered sacks too. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think the Bears are young at with their young corners,
Speaker 1: and at times that wasn't the case all the time
Speaker 1: this year. So I think they're going to continue to
Speaker 1: prove improve in that secondary. But I can't disregard what
Speaker 1: Tom saying. I think at times throughout the season there
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of pressure. But again, I go back
Speaker 1: to the offense. I think if you correct some things
Speaker 1: on the offense, you can play more complimentary football, because
Speaker 1: I thought that defense was thrown to the Wolves way
Speaker 1: too many times this year where they logged way too
Speaker 1: many snaps that they were out there, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: even in that last game, I thought that was and
Speaker 1: that was a pretty darn good defensive game plan the
Speaker 1: way I looked at it, though, the way Pegana went
Speaker 1: in and hed Drew Brees. You got Drew Brees. What
Speaker 1: was it seven or seven to three at halftime? You're
Speaker 1: doing pretty darn good, So I don't think there's too
Speaker 1: many tweaks that need to be done defensively for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. That's Jim Miller. Tom There, I'm Jeff Jony Akwin,
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Speaker 1: Moving the Chains with Pat Kerwin, A Cole Comet, David Montgomery,
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney. Are these the new emerging faces of the
Speaker 1: offense until we find out if Alan Robinson is going
Speaker 1: to be back as a Bear in twenty twenty one? Tommy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I think they are. They gotta be. They gotta
Speaker 1: be a first, second, third level important role in this offense.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery is a great leader, Cole continued to have
Speaker 1: develop throughout the whole season, and Darnell Mooney made a
Speaker 1: bigger splash this season than some of us may be
Speaker 1: predicted at the beginning of the season. But I think
Speaker 1: David Montgomery is able to accept everything that's going to
Speaker 1: be thrust on his plate. I think Cole commet his
Speaker 1: The opportunity in his career is going to be endless
Speaker 1: because he's a good blocker, he runs well, and he
Speaker 1: can be a deep threat. Now, I need Darnell Mooney
Speaker 1: and I need him to stay safe. And so what
Speaker 1: type of routes am I going to give him access to?
Speaker 1: What type of punishment am I going to try to
Speaker 1: keep him away from? Because if he's gonna be the lead,
Speaker 1: you know, take one of the leads. Even if Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson comes back, he's gonna have to take one of
Speaker 1: the leads in the receiver room. So how can I
Speaker 1: protect the talents of Darnell Mooney? And I think that'll
Speaker 1: be an interesting element to his game going forward. Jim
Speaker 1: as a quarterback or a play designer, how do you
Speaker 1: do that with Mooney? Do you keep him healthy? You're
Speaker 1: gonna throw some from arm around him here in the offseason.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get stronger. He's a very committed guy. So
Speaker 1: how do you make him how do you kind of
Speaker 1: shield him a little bit from a repetitive getting smacked. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think for him, like you said, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get bigger in the weight room. He'll just add
Speaker 1: this natural weight being another year. You just mature, and
Speaker 1: it happens to all of us from that standpoint, So
Speaker 1: he'll grow into that from his standpoint. But you know,
Speaker 1: better technique things like that, playing smarter football, like that
Speaker 1: one shot. I forget the game where he hurt both
Speaker 1: his ankle and I believe he had the head injury,
Speaker 1: you know, just getting out of bounce things like that,
Speaker 1: where you can play smarter to not take those type
Speaker 1: of hits. Because again, it's about availability and staying on
Speaker 1: the field from that standpoint, So sky's a limit for him.
Speaker 1: He really, you know, for him to burst onto the
Speaker 1: scene as a fifth round pick, and he was earning,
Speaker 1: earning more and more opportunities every single week with his play.
Speaker 1: He's obviously a tough kid, so you like that about him.
Speaker 1: He plays with a lot of passion and enthus he
Speaker 1: has him and he's got great talent, so I think
Speaker 1: you're extremely happy with him. I think Cole commits another one.
Speaker 1: I really surprised and how well he blocked. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to continue to get better and better and better.
Speaker 1: Needs to be incorporated in the past game and what
Speaker 1: could needs to be a run first strategy for the
Speaker 1: Bears to get those play actions and those bootlegs where
Speaker 1: he was very effective as the season I went along,
Speaker 1: So I'm high in him. And what can you say
Speaker 1: about David Montgomery the second half of the year. Guys,
Speaker 1: it was King Henry and him. I think he had
Speaker 1: the second most yards the second half of the season
Speaker 1: other than King Henry. So I mean that's they were
Speaker 1: going at a good clip after and that was when
Speaker 1: Mitch was inserted back in the lineup. When he go
Speaker 1: over those those games, Montgomery was as productive as anybody
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, and he shows that he
Speaker 1: can take a lot of carries and he can take
Speaker 1: the wear and tear. So yeah, I think those three
Speaker 1: are really really key guys that need to be all
Speaker 1: involved heavily for the Chicago Bears. But you know one thing,
Speaker 1: Jim about Cole going forward, I'd like to see like
Speaker 1: uses talents more vertically, kind of like some of the
Speaker 1: a lot of the routes we see out of Gronkowski,
Speaker 1: because I think he has the ability to reach up
Speaker 1: and over the top of defensive backs or shorter linebackers,
Speaker 1: but I think he has the speed to get downfield.
Speaker 1: In turn, maybe some of those side side routes into
Speaker 1: into vertical routes make bigger plays for the Bears, and
Speaker 1: also make sure the defense is concentrating on protecting against
Speaker 1: what he could do to the middle of the demons.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, like him, you know on over routes,
Speaker 1: he's more than capable of doing it. And you know
Speaker 1: you can put him on corner routes or seam routes
Speaker 1: and you know, I think he could, like you said,
Speaker 1: I'll leap people. I mean, he's he's a terrific athlete
Speaker 1: for cool comets. So I think that'll all emerge for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, and that's what those players need to
Speaker 1: be working on to be counted on next year for Chicago.
Speaker 1: All I want to talk about James Daniels Tommy because
Speaker 1: coming off of injury, lost his season, but it's a
Speaker 1: big year next year, his fourth year. He's got nine
Speaker 1: point three million dollars guaranteed money that over the course
Speaker 1: of his contracts. So you got to think about what
Speaker 1: he's going to be doing in terms of your long
Speaker 1: term future and what are we gonna be looking at
Speaker 1: with him? And would you be surprised if he got
Speaker 1: any of those three positions that he's gonna be playing, well,
Speaker 1: you know, left guard, center, right guard. I think right now,
Speaker 1: Cody Whitehair he maybe did a nice enough job to
Speaker 1: nail down the left guard position in that type of
Speaker 1: off season and consideration going into the regular season. Sam
Speaker 1: Mustafer was a really nice settling piece in the interior
Speaker 1: of that line. To me, it's gonna be about the
Speaker 1: right guard. What does Alex Bars do in the off
Speaker 1: season to become stronger? I don't necessarily know if he
Speaker 1: has to get a lot bigger, but he does have
Speaker 1: to get stronger. And then how does James return after
Speaker 1: having such a long time off. Did he invest himself
Speaker 1: in the weight room? Is he does he look like
Speaker 1: a more mature player after sitting out basically a whole season.
Speaker 1: And then I don't want to forget about Arlington Hambright,
Speaker 1: because here's a guard they drafted last year that was
Speaker 1: able to get a start. Whenever you feed an NFL
Speaker 1: football player a start, he's a different animal because now
Speaker 1: he's got a little bit of a taste and he's saying,
Speaker 1: I don't want to come in here and compete as
Speaker 1: a backup. I want to come in here as and
Speaker 1: compete as a starter. So to me, do you know
Speaker 1: if James Daniels is right handed or left handed? I
Speaker 1: wish well if he is right handed, he may be
Speaker 1: better off at the right guard position because it's more
Speaker 1: natural balance. So to me, if I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: way the offensive line finished at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: if I'm looking how backups are gonna line up behind him,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have Arlington to Handbright line up behind Cody
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have James line up behind Alex Bars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting situation. It's a strength area now to
Speaker 1: me for the interior the offensive line. So get those
Speaker 1: guys in the right places once again and it should
Speaker 1: be some really good competition there. I misspoke to His
Speaker 1: contract is expiring. He's an unrestricted free agent in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, so there's gonna it's a big year. It's
Speaker 1: a big year for him, but most importantly, he's got
Speaker 1: to be healthy. All right, Jim, we got a few
Speaker 1: more minutes with you. Let's hit some quick topics. One
Speaker 1: you obviously talked about it today on Serious sexm but
Speaker 1: talking about it here on the hiring of forty four
Speaker 1: year old Dan Campbell, is the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Lions in the division. Really laid the hammer down as
Speaker 1: he wants a very tough football team that's gonna had
Speaker 1: some great quotes today and they say, you know, people
Speaker 1: don't make fun of the fact. Why you don't you
Speaker 1: win news conferences or you lose news conferences. He won
Speaker 1: the news conference. But now you gotta go to go
Speaker 1: to work and get his guys to play the way
Speaker 1: he wants him to play. Yeah, I mean, he's an
Speaker 1: old school leader of men coach. That's what he is.
Speaker 1: That's why you heard him. Maybe we're gonna bite chunks
Speaker 1: out of your knees and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: And Dan was a tough player and he played tight
Speaker 1: end for the Detroit Lions, so they know very well.
Speaker 1: Chris Spielman knows him well and was on the hiring process.
Speaker 1: But Dan is a no nonsense coach, and I think
Speaker 1: he will command and be able to lead young men
Speaker 1: and certainly understands the environment of That's why I brought
Speaker 1: up Detroit. It's a tough city, it's it's fighting back.
Speaker 1: But what I think is the key for them is
Speaker 1: they're giving him six years, so though they're gonna let
Speaker 1: him decide how he wants to rebuild this now. He
Speaker 1: said glowing things about Matthew Stafford, but he didn't commit
Speaker 1: to Matthew Stafford because right now, would you would be
Speaker 1: thinking if it goes three years, if he ends up
Speaker 1: keeping Stafford, then he could elect to move on from Stafford,
Speaker 1: or do you just pull the plug on it right now,
Speaker 1: say hey, let's try to trade Matthew Stafford. We're just
Speaker 1: going to start overhauling this right from the get go.
Speaker 1: So he's got two different choices. But from what I've
Speaker 1: heard of and I know coaches on that staff down
Speaker 1: there in New Orleans, and he did a fine job
Speaker 1: as an interim head coach, remember when he took over
Speaker 1: for Joe Philbins. He's interviewed a couple of times and
Speaker 1: he's been very impressive with his interview us, and so
Speaker 1: I think Detroit feels comfortable in hiring one of their
Speaker 1: own because they know what Dan Campbell's all about it.
Speaker 1: That's all well and good you talk that way, but
Speaker 1: can you get today's players to play the way that
Speaker 1: he's describing because that because otherwise you just get rid
Speaker 1: of them. Right, So those players that are there, because
Speaker 1: if those guys don't buy into his tough culture, they
Speaker 1: won't be there. Yeah, they didn't like mac Patricia's tough culture. Well,
Speaker 1: well he went in there and that's right. Players didn't
Speaker 1: buy in. Yeah, they didn't buy in. But that's why
Speaker 1: I'm saying Dan can pull the plug on this right
Speaker 1: now and just say, hey, we're overhauling all this. This
Speaker 1: guy's gone. This guy's gone. Who doesn't like to practice
Speaker 1: of the snow? Get that guy out of here. What
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't come in from workouts, Let's talk to
Speaker 1: the trainers. This guy doesn't get his rehap. Get this
Speaker 1: guy out of here. That's what's gonna happen in Detroit. Tom,
Speaker 1: Is it fantasy for a guy like me and a
Speaker 1: lot of fans out there who want your football team
Speaker 1: to reflect your city. Tough city, tough black and blue division.
Speaker 1: That's why I would like to see from the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: certainly defensively in a running game to match it is
Speaker 1: it is it fantasy to think that every player wants
Speaker 1: to be that player, because you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if there are enough of them around. Every player, Well,
Speaker 1: every player wants to win, that's the one thing. And
Speaker 1: however you have to get there. You know, the guys
Speaker 1: that are willing to take the challenges set before him
Speaker 1: by a new head coach, they're gonna be around and
Speaker 1: hopefully you turn the culture around. You know, back in
Speaker 1: the olden days, when you had a Jimmy Johnson, you
Speaker 1: had a Mike Dicker, you had a Dave Janstead, and
Speaker 1: these guys were coming in to take over organizations, and
Speaker 1: you had a training camp rosters of nearly one hundred guys,
Speaker 1: you could beat their brains in until you were left
Speaker 1: with the toughest guys that were still remaining. Nowadays, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit more fragile how much you can beat
Speaker 1: these guys during the course of training camp. So one
Speaker 1: thing Dan Campbell I like how he put himself out
Speaker 1: there talking about the toughness needed in Detroit to be
Speaker 1: the team that he ultimately wants them to be. But
Speaker 1: you also have to do it safely because when you
Speaker 1: go to training camp with eighty guys and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have him have a full pad practice every other day,
Speaker 1: then you can't be going out and losing three or
Speaker 1: four guys per practice because you're going through some of
Speaker 1: the archaic Yeah, the rules limits anyway, The rules are
Speaker 1: the rules. But you know that's one thing I'm not
Speaker 1: even talking about it. I'm just saying on game day,
Speaker 1: I know, I got a tough minded player that's gonna
Speaker 1: play tough and he's gonna be a you know, as
Speaker 1: the players like Danny Trevathan always calls everybody dogs. He's
Speaker 1: a dog. Those are the type of players that inspire
Speaker 1: me to watch them perform because you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be in for a dog fight every day, right, Jimbo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's who. That's who basically Dan Campbell was as
Speaker 1: a player. Yeah, I mean, so he wants it to
Speaker 1: reflect him. Sean Payton's like that too, Sean. I mean
Speaker 1: think about him that he's got ties to Bill Parcels.
Speaker 1: When you look at Sean Payton, so those you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody would call New Orleans Saints
Speaker 1: a slouch team. That's a very physical football team, and
Speaker 1: so it'll be kind of more did practice wise what
Speaker 1: they what they did in New Orleans. And probably the
Speaker 1: one thing Dan didn't start talk about is what's between
Speaker 1: your years. I mean, with all the things that Tom
Speaker 1: just said, when you're meeting virtually and uh, you know
Speaker 1: you're not practicing as much, you gotta have a smart
Speaker 1: football team. I mean, it's really you know, that's a
Speaker 1: key to every team too. Now. You need smart football
Speaker 1: players that are able to go out there and execute
Speaker 1: a game plan when maybe you're missing, like what Cleveland
Speaker 1: did to have to pay play Pittsburgh without their head coach,
Speaker 1: without six players who are out on the COVID list.
Speaker 1: You need guys who are ready to step up and
Speaker 1: play and are smart players that can step in and
Speaker 1: fill in and pull a big upset like what Cleveland
Speaker 1: did over the Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, I add
Speaker 1: that to the list. I think that's probably one thing
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell didn't add today is about the toughness of
Speaker 1: his players. He talked about, but hey, you need smart
Speaker 1: football players too. All right, let me get your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Who's winning this weekend. Jim, I do like Tampa. I
Speaker 1: like Tampa going up and I do I think the
Speaker 1: world of Todd Bowles is a defensive coordinator, and we'll
Speaker 1: see if they can do it again. It's tough to
Speaker 1: do because Rogers will make the corrections. They'll make the
Speaker 1: corrections and protections because they got to him five sacks
Speaker 1: last time. Plus they got the two interceptions against Green
Speaker 1: Bay and they'll find a way to really double uh
Speaker 1: Davante Adams. So I liked Tom Brady and what they're
Speaker 1: doing on offense, and I think they can go in
Speaker 1: there and I think they can run the football with
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones who kind of carved him up in the
Speaker 1: first contest too. And I'm still you know, your heart
Speaker 1: wants Buffalo to win, but you just you just don't
Speaker 1: see it happening against Andy Reid in the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: So it's a really close game. It got to really
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Last year at least they were in
Speaker 1: the in the score the first time they played earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. But I still think Kansas City has
Speaker 1: too much and I think I think Kansas City wolver
Speaker 1: take the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, you know, I really like
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles. I think he's he's a creative defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: When he plays against the best of talent, that's when
Speaker 1: he's at his best. So to me, I like what
Speaker 1: Tapa Bay is going to bring into Green Bay Again,
Speaker 1: that's been no secret. I think Aaron Rodgers is the
Speaker 1: best player in the league, but I think Todd Bowles
Speaker 1: is one of the most aggressive defensive coordinators and has
Speaker 1: the talent to put that that stuff in place against
Speaker 1: Green Bay. And I'm not pulling against Kansas City, but
Speaker 1: I'm pulling for Buffalo. I like kind of the attitude
Speaker 1: that they've been able to build up there, the confidence
Speaker 1: when you get a quarterback like Alan who embraces himself
Speaker 1: to the city in which he's playing in and he's
Speaker 1: not looking for an exit, he's looking to just create
Speaker 1: a found you know, just a family foundation there. So
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool. So I'm pulling for Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Can you can you believe? Because like Buffalo played that
Speaker 1: rope a dope and here Kansas City really ran for
Speaker 1: you know, I mean even Clyde Edwards laire head over
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty yards rushing in the matchup because
Speaker 1: they they wanted Kansas City to run the ball. He
Speaker 1: just wondered, I mean, think about the Sea McDermott and
Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier. They didn't call one blitz versus Patrick Wholmes,
Speaker 1: not one in that game, so just to avoid the
Speaker 1: big strike. And you just wonder if they're gonna go
Speaker 1: in with that same type of game play because they
Speaker 1: were within a score, like I said, in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: it was like I think it was twenty three sixteen
Speaker 1: or something like that in the fourth quarter. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going I'm going with Buffalo and Tampa as well. I am.
Speaker 1: I'm going for them in the in the road upsets,
Speaker 1: going for that for Leslie Frazier a little bit here.
Speaker 1: I do think the Packers have the best team in football.
Speaker 1: And you'll get arguments, you know, obviously with Kansas City,
Speaker 1: but I just, uh something, something tells me something's up.
Speaker 1: How And I'll let you go with this. Jim, thanks
Speaker 1: for all your time. How crazy is it? Because he's
Speaker 1: he was one of my favorite players, and now his
Speaker 1: son is starting to already get my attention. But Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers played against Antoine Winfield many times, and now he's
Speaker 1: gonna play against his son this weekend. That's unbelievable. What
Speaker 1: do you think of it? I mean, and he's had
Speaker 1: a heck of a year. I mean, he definitely should
Speaker 1: be thought of of defensive rookie of the year. Everybody's
Speaker 1: got high on Chase Young and Jeremy Chin had a
Speaker 1: great year down there for the Carolina Panthers. But Antoine
Speaker 1: Winfield junior has really been playing some good football, really hasn't.
Speaker 1: And Bruce arians really brought up just what he's done
Speaker 1: the old season long for that team. But pretty crazy
Speaker 1: when you think about feisty player. All right, Jim, maybe
Speaker 1: you'll be coaching, you know, maybe you'll be coaching against
Speaker 1: your son playing in the National Football League one. You know,
Speaker 1: King James, I'll look forward to it. He could be
Speaker 1: the next Mike Alstott. Did you heard it here? So
Speaker 1: he's feeding him well, pretty pretty beep he already is.
Speaker 1: He he's the biggest in his class and he can run,
Speaker 1: my boy, he can run well. Half fun with him,
Speaker 1: Half fun with him. Jim, we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: Having a great weekend, all right, see you guys. That's
Speaker 1: Jim Millner from Serious SEXAM NFL Radio. One more segment
Speaker 1: to go when I got time here, We'll stay with
Speaker 1: us here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: As we await the news hopefully soon on the new
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for the Bears and any other coaching changes,
Speaker 1: and it is a process because you're dealing with all
Speaker 1: these other openings and you never know who's going to
Speaker 1: be taken from your staff. Because of everything we talked
Speaker 1: about today at the time of the show, we told
Speaker 1: you about Dave Ragone going to be the offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: not the play caller, as we're to understand with Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith down in Atlanta, they had a previous relationship in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Looks like Charles London. It's not been official yet, but
Speaker 1: Charles London will be leaving to join that staff as well.
Speaker 1: But there's so many intricate relationships in this league. And
Speaker 1: you know they could Brandon's Day take it over in
Speaker 1: LA with the Chargers, could bring some of his people
Speaker 1: that he's worked with in the past with him as well.
Speaker 1: So that's well, what this is this part of the
Speaker 1: year I would like to figure out. You know, in
Speaker 1: the short time that Matt Naggie has been here, he's
Speaker 1: had two defensive coordinators and he's had two different types
Speaker 1: of system with Vic Fangio and coach Chuck Pagano. You know,
Speaker 1: it's almost you got to figure out as a head
Speaker 1: coach and a general manager, what do you want to
Speaker 1: be the main influence of your defense. Do you want
Speaker 1: them to be protection up front and then responsible in
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield or do you want to be aggressive
Speaker 1: from the line of scrimmage through the linebackers and then
Speaker 1: put your defensive backs more in a playmaking position. Because
Speaker 1: when you look at the quarterbacks in the division, you
Speaker 1: look at the new coach and Dan Campbell, you look
Speaker 1: what you have in Minnesota because they're going to be
Speaker 1: changing now that Gary Kubiak has gone, and then what
Speaker 1: you have in Green Bay, obviously you have the goat
Speaker 1: of our division. So I do think it's really important
Speaker 1: when you investigate what the defensive ordinators bring in with them,
Speaker 1: what type of style do you want to play. But
Speaker 1: the other added wrinkle is you got a tight salary
Speaker 1: cap and you can't be like totally getting a new personnel.
Speaker 1: They can't play these you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: it's got to be a similar type system. I would guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: But you know if two is like what we've seen,
Speaker 1: what you've seen out of like the defensive backfield Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson and turnovers and stuff with Vic Fangio and that
Speaker 1: what you've seen out of that same position with Chuck Bogano.
Speaker 1: To me, I think you need to put these guys
Speaker 1: in an aggressive, confident playmaking position so they're out there
Speaker 1: and they're contribute their contributing and it's creates a real
Speaker 1: fun atmosphere on the team because what's created on the
Speaker 1: team can't come from guys like Dan Campbell. It's got
Speaker 1: to be come from the players that are on the field.
Speaker 1: And so to me, I want to feel I want
Speaker 1: to see a system that's going to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the assets the Bears have in place. Right now. I'm
Speaker 1: already starting to do our work on college players obviously,
Speaker 1: but the combine is completely different. There'll be no in
Speaker 1: person workouts pro days, they're on campuses instead, all the
Speaker 1: virtual interviews and the psychological testing, limited in person medical
Speaker 1: exams probably in early April. It's a whole new world
Speaker 1: for Scouts in twenty twenty one. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be the combine where we all become used to. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you if you've if you're a guy that's become
Speaker 1: one of these coddled guys that needs a lot of pampering,
Speaker 1: you could be in trouble because when you're player for
Speaker 1: a player, because you need to be working out with
Speaker 1: the other guys that you're going to these comb combines
Speaker 1: that are being evaluated just as strictly as you are.
Speaker 1: So if some of these guys are separated into their
Speaker 1: training routine and they really don't get the challenges and
Speaker 1: being pushed like they need to, it could it could
Speaker 1: hurt some of these guys. It'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how their agents also handle this in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: All right, it's gonna wrap up our show tonight. Coming
Speaker 1: up next, Joe Ostrowski will entertain you tonight for Rick
Speaker 1: Capp and our other producers. Jordan trud Up and Dan Bailey.
Speaker 1: For Jim Miller and Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks
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