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Speaker 2: voice Matt money Smith. He'll discuss with us the additions
Speaker 2: of Keenan Allen, Gerald Everett, and of course thoughts on
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams workout on the campus at the University of
Speaker 2: Southern California yesterday, which Tom and good evening Tom. Everybody
Speaker 2: had eyes on, everybody reading about it, and it was
Speaker 2: It's just it's an exciting time. It's an exciting time
Speaker 2: for Bears fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I watched the entrance of Caleb Willilliams
Speaker 3: walking out to the field getting ready to put his
Speaker 3: talents on display, comes walking out with the football super confidently.
Speaker 4: And I just kind of wonder what that is like.
Speaker 3: Is it like an actor that's going on to do
Speaker 3: his part of a movie. Is like an actor and
Speaker 3: a play, but this is more real life and sports.
Speaker 3: And so when you kind of understand what you've already
Speaker 3: lived through as an athlete and you.
Speaker 4: See a guy like this going out there on a.
Speaker 3: Pro day, which it's it's hard to really assess what
Speaker 3: that's all about. But I mean, it's amazing nowadays and
Speaker 3: it's covered all over the world and you have a
Speaker 3: chance to go out there and watch not only Caleb Williams,
Speaker 3: but some of the other guys that are going to
Speaker 3: be draft eligible go out there and you know, put
Speaker 3: their talents on display for all the talent evaluators of
Speaker 3: the NFL.
Speaker 5: Right, what do you take out of those?
Speaker 3: You know, I like to excuse me, I like to
Speaker 3: look at his personality, his confidence, his mechanics, his foot
Speaker 3: foundation fundamentals, his accuracy, the the display of arm strength
Speaker 3: in terms of difficult out patterns to long patterns downfield,
Speaker 3: and just kind of things that sometimes you can look
Speaker 3: at the for the exact same thing every single rep,
Speaker 3: but then sometimes you look at different types of accomplishments
Speaker 3: according to the type of route they're running.
Speaker 2: Right, and he kept pretty straightforward, you know what you
Speaker 2: would expect in the National Football League. Some checkdowns to
Speaker 2: the backs, some work over the middle, some deep throws
Speaker 2: ending it on a deep throat connection.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: He had some of those guys that will be in
Speaker 2: the NFL draft, and Lloyd the running back and Rice
Speaker 2: the wide receiver. Very very impressive. But I you notice
Speaker 2: it because the ball literally does jump off his hand,
Speaker 2: like that ball just explodes.
Speaker 3: You know it's it does when you see those types
Speaker 3: of long passes, the difficult out patterns, the long patterns downfield. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's kind of a simplicity to the delivery. But you
Speaker 3: think through a quarterback's mind when they have to let
Speaker 3: make that last second position of the checkdown to the
Speaker 3: running back the third receiver, and sometimes that is the
Speaker 3: oar mechanics that you like to look at the most
Speaker 3: because there there is a change from snap to decision.
Speaker 4: And so I think that's.
Speaker 3: As interesting as a throw as if he threw sixty
Speaker 3: five yard bomb that land perfectly into the striding wide
Speaker 3: receiver's hands.
Speaker 2: These are routes on air, of course, no defenders in
Speaker 2: your face. But he saw it on tape, and he
Speaker 2: doesn't need to show that his acrobatic Houdini like moves
Speaker 2: that he gets out of trouble with his eyes downfield.
Speaker 2: And again we'll talk more in depth about that too
Speaker 2: with Matt Muney Smith later out of the program. But
Speaker 2: how about the other analysis here, And this is under
Speaker 2: the assumption, of course, that the Bears are going to
Speaker 2: use that number one pick on Caleb Williams. He's going
Speaker 2: to still have a visit here at Hallis Hall. They'll
Speaker 2: take his physical here they'll get down into the nitty gritty.
Speaker 2: But everything's been kind of set for his arrival here now,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to see the body type. I saw
Speaker 2: it a little bit in Indianapolis walking with him as
Speaker 2: he walked from interview to interview. But he's a strong guy.
Speaker 2: He's got a thick lower half and he's got a
Speaker 2: strong upper body. And the name that keeps popping in
Speaker 2: my head of a similar frame, I guess you would
Speaker 2: say is Russell Wilson. And I think he's taller than
Speaker 2: Russell wils Yes, yeah, yeah, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of about six to one, five to eleven for Russell.
Speaker 2: But he's got good strength there. You could see it
Speaker 2: in his body, and that's only gonna get better as
Speaker 2: time goes on.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, he was two fourteen at the combine
Speaker 3: and he weighed in two seventeen yesterday, So you gained
Speaker 3: three pounds and you have the ability to add a
Speaker 3: little bit of weight, which I'm sure adds muscle from
Speaker 3: the strength training that you're doing behind closed doors. But
Speaker 3: I I see of a of a bigger I don't
Speaker 3: look I look at Russell Wilson into a kind of
Speaker 3: a similar frame When I look at Caleb Williams, I see,
Speaker 3: you know, a sturdy bottom half, a good foundation that
Speaker 3: you have, and there adds to a lot of the
Speaker 3: strengths of his throws.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 4: You know six ' to one. Is that what we're
Speaker 4: gonna call him?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, let's just call it six to one. I
Speaker 2: mean because I never understand weight. I never understand like,
Speaker 2: I only go on combine numbers. So I mean, that's
Speaker 2: because that is universal, right, every you come through with
Speaker 2: thirty forty years of combine numbers and that's your height
Speaker 2: and weight and it stays with you for the rest
Speaker 2: of your career. It's in the media. Guys sometimes wait,
Speaker 2: hang on a second. Sometimes they alter the weights. But
Speaker 2: you're the same size from the combine. But if you
Speaker 2: measured at the Senior Bowl, it's different at the combine.
Speaker 5: Then you measure it your pro day. These guys are all.
Speaker 2: Coming in at different Now the weight will fluctuate because
Speaker 2: these guys got ready to run forties of the combine,
Speaker 2: not saying him, but they run forties of the combine
Speaker 2: at a certain weight.
Speaker 5: Then at the pro day they're a little.
Speaker 2: Thicker because then I gotta run the forty again. If
Speaker 2: they already had run it. So you're trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: and hopefully that time period you've gained some muscle weight,
Speaker 2: which weighs more than fat, so you know, it's a
Speaker 2: lot to look at. I know you don't care about
Speaker 2: that at all, and you certainly don't want to hear
Speaker 2: about arm length or hand size or anything like that,
Speaker 2: do you, because that'll just aggravate I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3: The hype porton stays with The hype porton stays portion stays.
Speaker 4: With you the rest of your life.
Speaker 3: Because the first time I went to the combine and
Speaker 3: they stuck that ruler on the top of my head
Speaker 3: and they said, faire six three and three quarters.
Speaker 4: I go, no way, I'm taller than that, and I
Speaker 4: never was.
Speaker 3: You go back nowadays, And I remember because Doug Flutie
Speaker 3: and I used to lock her next to each other
Speaker 3: when he was with the Bears, and I was kind
Speaker 3: of teasing him a little bit about remember how they
Speaker 3: used to call, you know, say something about his height
Speaker 3: and then he would immediately go up by three quarters
Speaker 3: of an inch or an inch. So it stays with
Speaker 3: you when you've always kind of felt that you are
Speaker 3: taller than what they do.
Speaker 5: I mean, what what were you in the Notre Dame media, No?
Speaker 5: Six five six?
Speaker 6: I know, but I didn't think I was six three
Speaker 6: and three quarters, you know, even when I went to
Speaker 6: the Hula Bowl and I was there with a selection
Speaker 6: of you know, high profile first rounders, and I think
Speaker 6: they measured measured me at six ' four, you know.
Speaker 3: So I was happy there. But when I went to
Speaker 3: the combine and s sixty three and three quarters cost.
Speaker 2: Me money, Well, and you had hair then too, so
Speaker 2: you lost a little bit and.
Speaker 4: Brought it they bring it right down to the scale.
Speaker 3: And I was already developing a bad mullet at that point,
Speaker 3: so it was going it was going straight to the skull.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, five seven and a half on a good
Speaker 2: day for me. And that's about it. No, you know, no,
Speaker 2: no movement in any direction. But it's it's always interesting
Speaker 2: to discuss, that's for sure. All Right, let's take our
Speaker 2: first break when we come back, we'll take a look
Speaker 2: at what the Bears have brought in and look at
Speaker 2: the rest of the division as well, because that matters.
Speaker 2: And what about rookie quarterbacks? What are they embracing, what
Speaker 2: do they have to be wary of As NFL history shows,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of different ways to skin a cat.
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Speaker 2: after the un USC Pro Day yesterday Michigan tomorrow and
Speaker 2: where it is from Brad Biggs from Tribune that that's
Speaker 2: where the Bears Brass, Ryan Polls, he and cunning Yam
Speaker 2: matt E Vic Blush will be headed tomorrow. JJ McCarthy,
Speaker 2: of course, you know, boy, I don't see JJ McCarthy
Speaker 2: getting out of the top five of the draft. After
Speaker 2: listen man, Minnesota and Denver. These are two teams that
Speaker 2: are gonna, I think, make moves to get into the
Speaker 2: top five, and I think quarterbacks are going to go
Speaker 2: in the top four.
Speaker 4: What turned for him?
Speaker 3: Since the National Championship Game and pre National Championship Game,
Speaker 3: there was rumors that he would go a high second round.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden you go to the co and
Speaker 3: then you're gonna have your pro day. Now there's teams
Speaker 3: making pre draft trades to try to get up there
Speaker 3: to get you.
Speaker 4: I mean, did he all of.
Speaker 3: A sudden grow a bunch or you know, did he
Speaker 3: I'm not against JJ at all. I'm all for him
Speaker 3: one hundred percent, but I just don't know why, because
Speaker 3: before we went to break, you talked about the rookie
Speaker 3: quarterbacks and what's expected of them, and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden you do have the success. But again, I think
Speaker 3: a lot of JJ. What I would like about the
Speaker 3: most is playing for a head coach like Jim Harball,
Speaker 3: because you have that, you have that development, you have
Speaker 3: that toughness, you have that you know a coach that's
Speaker 3: not easy on you.
Speaker 4: So that's what you know would endure me the most.
Speaker 2: To JJ McCarthy, I think the biggest thing just from
Speaker 2: uh just the average person, the average fan or and
Speaker 2: analyzing those things. I'm sure scouts were way ahead of
Speaker 2: it and all of it, but you know he didn't.
Speaker 5: He was not asked to do a ton.
Speaker 2: They ran the football a lot, so in those moments
Speaker 2: when he did, he did shine. So I like the player,
Speaker 2: and it'll be interesting to see how he ultimately, you know,
Speaker 2: shows people what he can do with the prote how
Speaker 2: his protea might look a little different than Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: Can he make all the throws? Can he hit every
Speaker 2: blade of grass? Can he make it horizontally and vertically
Speaker 2: across the field? I say yes, but we'll see. But
Speaker 2: in addition to that, you know, again, we talk about
Speaker 2: this so much, so many quarterback moves here on this
Speaker 2: almost a quilt of quarterbacks moving around, and you're moving
Speaker 2: pieces around from the backups to the starters. And you know,
Speaker 2: a guy like Sean Payton in Denver with all those
Speaker 2: years with Drew Brees, would love a quarterback that just
Speaker 2: finds completions like a or a guy like Bo Nicks.
Speaker 2: And then you think of what Minnesota's doing, What are
Speaker 2: they trying to do? They got the two first rounders,
Speaker 2: now they have Sam Darnold, and we're talking about the
Speaker 2: division right here. But are they gonna are they gonna
Speaker 2: make a play and move even higher up and try
Speaker 2: and get Drake May out of the mix. Because his
Speaker 2: high school coach was Josh McCown, who's now the quarterback
Speaker 2: coach of the Viking. So it's all these crazy things
Speaker 2: you can think of here, but I think there could
Speaker 2: be some movement.
Speaker 4: I do too.
Speaker 3: And you know what, so JJ McCarthy, do you know
Speaker 3: what his hut what he was measured at at the Combine,
Speaker 3: Because when I listened to some of the critics, not
Speaker 3: criticisms of just some of the conversation about JJ, they
Speaker 3: talk about him, Oh, he doesn't They always start the conversation, Oh,
Speaker 3: he doesn't have that rocket arm, but you know he can.
Speaker 4: Still make the throws.
Speaker 3: To me, if I can have a quarterback that can
Speaker 3: intelligently throw the ball from behind the line of scrimmage
Speaker 3: to fifteen yards downfield and he does it at such
Speaker 3: an efficient rate, I'm fine with that. So I'm not
Speaker 3: looking for a guy that can throw it eighty five
Speaker 3: yards but he can't hit a target within a ten
Speaker 3: yard range.
Speaker 2: JJ at the combine six two and a half two nineteen.
Speaker 5: So that's what he was at.
Speaker 3: A little a little taller than a Drew Brees type
Speaker 3: of guy. But you know, Drew Brees also didn't have,
Speaker 3: you know, a rocket arm, but he was super efficient,
Speaker 3: intelligent and ran systems as efficiently and kind of you know,
Speaker 3: was able to change some of the offense that he
Speaker 3: was using because he was so involved in the development
Speaker 3: of the weekly game plan.
Speaker 2: I also just I think of one thing. I think
Speaker 2: a toughness, Yeah, I think a toughness with this guy,
Speaker 2: and very efficient throwing the football in the pocket. So yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I just again, the quarterbacks always move up
Speaker 2: a couple of notches more than people anticipate on draft day,
Speaker 2: and that goes for the backups included, or you know,
Speaker 2: but right now, it'll be interesting, it'll be interesting, and
Speaker 2: in the division, in the division, what's going to happen
Speaker 2: as well. But I talk about rookie quarterbacks because we're
Speaker 2: and we'll hear in our next segment from Matt mney Smith.
Speaker 2: But Tyrod Taylor in his career started over, Josh Allen
Speaker 2: started over, Baker Mayfield started over, Justin Herbert when they
Speaker 2: were all rookies. Again, everybody does it differently, but he
Speaker 2: he it was that veteran just to try to get
Speaker 2: things going in the right direction, like Alex Smith did
Speaker 2: with Patrick Mahomes and others have done in the past.
Speaker 2: But that was always that whole discussion about Okay, justin
Speaker 2: you know, and having a veteran here and now it's
Speaker 2: Tyson Bagent for the time being, and we'll see what
Speaker 2: happens Andrew.
Speaker 4: You know, CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud changed the bar of quarterback and what's expected out
Speaker 3: of rookie quarterbacks now. And you talk about a rookie
Speaker 3: quarterback that was the second pick in the draft. He
Speaker 3: was a little overlooked when they thought Bryce Young was
Speaker 3: gonna be the go to guy. And he put that
Speaker 3: performance on with a rookie defensive minded head coach. So
Speaker 3: that means the offensive coordinator is in charge of and
Speaker 3: is in charge of the offense, but then he's also
Speaker 3: in charge in the development of CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud.
Speaker 3: So now are the expectations of rookie quarterbacks now elevated
Speaker 3: to CJ. Stroud you know type of performance or is
Speaker 3: it still you know the Jordan Love template where you
Speaker 3: get drafted, you sit there for a little while and
Speaker 3: then you know you you play somewhere down the road.
Speaker 5: All right, we're gonna take another break. That's top there.
Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Jonnyick And when we return, Matt money Smith
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Speaker 5: That's Star feeling better tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We're feeling better today as Tom and I get to
Speaker 2: sit and visit with the voice of the Los Angeles Chargers, the.
Speaker 5: One and only Matt money Smith. Matt, how you feeling?
Speaker 2: Because Tom wants to know for some reason, he's not
Speaker 2: familiar with the money angle, So you know, I told
Speaker 2: him he missed the big math for guards in the
Speaker 2: NFL now because it's spiraled out of control because of
Speaker 2: the defensive tackles who have spiral dollar the control and Matt,
Speaker 2: poor Tom was just gonna earn his salary working nine
Speaker 2: years for the Bears at right guard blocking for Walter
Speaker 2: Payton in the Fellas.
Speaker 7: Right and now he's looking at that Robert Hunt contract, going,
Speaker 7: you got to be kidding exactly, going to get a
Speaker 7: hundred million bucks for five years Tom in average football.
Speaker 2: In all seriousness, Tom, could you have imagined it mushrooming
Speaker 2: that big for the guard position interior line.
Speaker 4: They'll listen.
Speaker 3: We sat in the locker room, and we talked to
Speaker 3: the generation before us, and that's Gail Stairs and Dick
Speaker 3: Buckets in the in at Ol Bradovitch and those types
Speaker 3: of guys, and they talked about salary in getting a
Speaker 3: job during the week of the offseason so they can
Speaker 3: help support themselves. But as you know, I guess you've
Speaker 3: always in an envious position when you see what these
Speaker 3: guys are making. However, I look at the guys that
Speaker 3: have made a lot of money that have never had
Speaker 3: the opportunity to live the day of a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: They live the two weeks of leading up to the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl after you win the NFC Championship game, and
Speaker 3: I think that's almost worth what.
Speaker 4: The guys are making.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would probably have more dogs with the fenced
Speaker 3: in the yard, but I've had experiences that some of
Speaker 3: the guys that are making this big money have not
Speaker 3: been able to have as of yet.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and Matt, so why the nickname? Because Tom wants
Speaker 2: to know, so I listen.
Speaker 7: I wish I had a good answer, Tom, I don't.
Speaker 7: And those are beautiful window casinges. You had to make
Speaker 7: good money in your day window casings like that, Tom,
Speaker 7: I wish I had a great story. I worked for
Speaker 7: a stupid morning show, you know, Morning Zoo, Kevin and
Speaker 7: Bean on k Rock, and everybody had to have a
Speaker 7: nickname that wasn't Kevin. Well, even Bean was Jane and
Speaker 7: he had a nickname. But we all, you know, so
Speaker 7: for whatever reason, I guess there's always a literation involved.
Speaker 7: So Matt Money two ms. But yeah, I just became
Speaker 7: money to sports guy and that's uh, that's it. It's stupid.
Speaker 7: I wish I should make something up, but that's it.
Speaker 7: More FM morning show. Gotta have a nickname.
Speaker 2: Remember the name Jack Snow, the former Notre Dame and
Speaker 2: La Ram wide receiver when he was the Rams color man.
Speaker 2: He every time we go to Saint Louis to see
Speaker 2: he called him two Ton Tommy.
Speaker 5: I don't know if Tommy liked it, but here was
Speaker 5: two Ton Tommy.
Speaker 4: When I met.
Speaker 3: Jack Snow, I was playing at Notre Dame and he
Speaker 3: used to come back for spring ball and spend the
Speaker 3: whole three weeks there during spring ball, and I got
Speaker 3: to become really good friends with him, and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: as I got all in my my senior and stuff here,
Speaker 3: you know, we would just bum around a little bit,
Speaker 3: and I was, you know, three hundred pounds at the time.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of where the nickname came came out.
Speaker 7: That's what it's a it's a literation. It's yes. But
Speaker 7: see yours fit. You were over three hundred pounds. I was.
Speaker 7: I was a fresh a freshman sophomore in college. I
Speaker 7: was working three jobs. I was parking cars at the Charterhouse,
Speaker 7: I worked in admissions. I answered phones for the morning show. Uh,
Speaker 7: and just happened to support, you know, and I just
Speaker 7: got lucky. I stepped in it. Jimmy Kimmel was their
Speaker 7: sports guy. Adam Corolla was their comedy writer. I am
Speaker 7: just no, I'm dead serious. Yeah, Jimmy was. It was
Speaker 7: Jimmy the sports guy, and he did Am and uh.
Speaker 7: And Corolla had a couple characters, mister Bircham and they
Speaker 7: do comedy bits. And I'd be able to sit in
Speaker 7: with them and and learn and practice and and figure
Speaker 7: out how to do this radio thing. And yeah, it
Speaker 7: was the best, you know whatever. With my Pepperdine degree,
Speaker 7: it was the best schooling I could have ever had.
Speaker 7: Sitting in that office for five hours every morning from
Speaker 7: five am to ten am.
Speaker 5: That is awesome.
Speaker 2: Pepperdine, Notre Dame and little o'd Iowa stayed over here
Speaker 2: hoping they pulled the Cinderella sucker punch in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: All right, well, we're here to talk some of those
Speaker 2: Chargers that have become Bears in this free agency and
Speaker 2: trade period, the business season.
Speaker 5: And Keenan Allen, we're a number thirteen. Maybe I don't
Speaker 5: know what he's gonna wear here.
Speaker 2: But his whole college and professional life in the state
Speaker 2: of California, at cal in the northern part and then
Speaker 2: with the Chargers in San Diego, went over to La
Speaker 2: What are we getting here? I had a great interview
Speaker 2: with him last week. He seems very excited about this opportunity,
Speaker 2: even though he played his entire career with one team.
Speaker 7: He's incredible. I mean he is. You know, you need
Speaker 7: a case. He's third down, it's third, and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: Third and three, third and seven, third and fifteen, and
Speaker 7: Keenan's gonna find the sticks and Keen's gonna catch the ball,
Speaker 7: and everybody knows it's coming and they can't do a
Speaker 7: darn thing to stop it. And it's the damnedest thing,
Speaker 7: you know, he's I don't know what he's what he was,
Speaker 7: what he would clock in at if he ran it,
Speaker 7: maybe four six, five forty. But the thing that I
Speaker 7: came to learn and appreciate about Keenan talking to as
Speaker 7: many people as we have over the eight years that
Speaker 7: we've done it, is he's one speed you have. No,
Speaker 7: he doesn't. He doesn't gather, he doesn't draw down, he
Speaker 7: doesn't speed. It's just all one speed, and corners cannot
Speaker 7: get a read on where he's going because he does
Speaker 7: it at that exact same pace. It really is something
Speaker 7: to watch him break down defensive backs and I know
Speaker 7: Justin's gonna miss him. He counted on him repeatedly, over
Speaker 7: and over again. He showed up big and big games,
Speaker 7: and like, I look, one of the great stats you
Speaker 7: know you get year and I know you guys saw
Speaker 7: it because we played the Bears this year. So if
Speaker 7: you were going through the Chargers game notes, when you
Speaker 7: look at the superlatives and you see most games in
Speaker 7: NFL history with sixteen catches Keenan Allen, those games with
Speaker 7: fifteen catches Kyan Allen fourteen, thirteen, twelve. It goes all
Speaker 7: the way down to eleven it's all keenan Like he's
Speaker 7: got fifteen eleven catch games, like nine twelve catch games.
Speaker 7: He's he catches the ball. He you know, throwing the ball,
Speaker 7: he's gonna catch it now. You know. His season long
Speaker 7: is typically somewhere in the thirties to forties. He's not
Speaker 7: a breakaway speed guy, but you got that in Dj Moore.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's gonna be such a great compliment to
Speaker 7: what you guys have. I'm excited to see what he
Speaker 7: does for you this upcoming year.
Speaker 3: You know, the thing about it, We're not talking about
Speaker 3: a six to six receiver. We're talking about a guy
Speaker 3: that he's got good size for a wide receiver. But
Speaker 3: we're not We're not looking at him, you know, as
Speaker 3: he's Harold Carmichael or something.
Speaker 4: So what's his biggest asset? Is it the fact that.
Speaker 3: He's kind of a one speed guy, or is it
Speaker 3: is ability through the routes to get into an open position,
Speaker 3: or does he just have such great hands that he's.
Speaker 4: Hard to not give him the opportunity.
Speaker 7: I think it's I think it's time mostly the first two.
Speaker 7: I think it's the way he runs his routes, the
Speaker 7: speed at which he runs his routes, the ability to
Speaker 7: find and just the veteran savvy to know what's going
Speaker 7: on out there, to see it, to process it like that.
Speaker 7: And I think the fact that he was paired with
Speaker 7: such a quick processor and Herbert as well, that he
Speaker 7: I think he adapted, you know, same thing with Philip
Speaker 7: when it was Philip rivers here, Like he's so good
Speaker 7: at adjusting to his quarterback and finding himself on the
Speaker 7: same page, you know, and just kind of having that connection.
Speaker 7: I know what they like to do, I know where
Speaker 7: they want to go, and I know how to get
Speaker 7: to where they want me to be. And it was
Speaker 7: amazing how quickly he did that with Justin and his
Speaker 7: rookie season, and you could see, like you could sort
Speaker 7: of see that gradual shift and Herbert first became the
Speaker 7: starter unbeknownst to him, you know. And the situation happened
Speaker 7: with Tyrod and the lung puncture in that game against
Speaker 7: the Chiefs, where he's spreading it all over the place
Speaker 7: and it's, oh, it's it's Tyron Johnson here, and it's
Speaker 7: a j Geidon there, and it's Hunter Henry and it's
Speaker 7: and then all of a sudden, towards the end of
Speaker 7: the year, it's like, oh yeah, there's there's there's Keenan's targets.
Speaker 7: They've now gone from four to six to eight. Now
Speaker 7: he's at eleven per game, and and I think the
Speaker 7: rookie realized this is this is my bread and butter,
Speaker 7: this is my go to guy.
Speaker 4: Hey, Matt.
Speaker 3: Speaking of rookies, I think out of anybody that I
Speaker 3: saw at Caleb Williams Pro Day and Ryan Poles, look, man,
Speaker 3: he's he's got the magic card. Maddy Iberflus obviously Ian Cuttingham,
Speaker 3: Ryan's assistant. I was so impressed with the fact that
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen was there because I think that sends a
Speaker 3: lot of messages to a lot of these people that
Speaker 3: are on social media sending these criticisms of why he
Speaker 3: shouldn't go to the Bears and the decision that he
Speaker 3: should make. So in your mind, what was Keenan Allen representing.
Speaker 4: At the pro day?
Speaker 7: I think you hit it on the head. I think
Speaker 7: it's it's repro the people that are doing that, it's
Speaker 7: just stupid. You can't you know, it's it's just not A.
Speaker 7: It's not the way it works. B. You don't want
Speaker 7: to start your career like that, especially when you have
Speaker 7: a team and if look, Caleb said he wants to
Speaker 7: be legendary, right, well, you become the best quarterbacks and
Speaker 7: sid luckman in the city of Chicago, and you're going
Speaker 7: to be legendary in a hurry. And not to mention
Speaker 7: the team they put together. I mean, my gosh, why
Speaker 7: would he not want to come to a squad that's
Speaker 7: got those receivers, now, those tight ends. Now you know
Speaker 7: they they've set her all up for him to succeed.
Speaker 7: So I think I think Keenan probably felt a little
Speaker 7: bit of that felt. You know, hey, I've they're gonna
Speaker 7: pay me twenty four million in change, probably because it's
Speaker 7: part of the pitch. And I think he's he's smart enough,
Speaker 7: he's a good enough teammate, a good enough person to recognize,
Speaker 7: you know, LA traffic be damned. I'm gonna I'm mus
Speaker 7: sit on the four or five to the one ten
Speaker 7: and deal with it for you know, he lives deep oc.
Speaker 7: You know, I'll deal with it for an hour to
Speaker 7: make sure Caleb knows. I'm all in, man. It's not
Speaker 7: just about me getting my paycheck. I'm in. I think
Speaker 7: we can do and I think and I don't know
Speaker 7: exactly what he would have said to Caleb, but that
Speaker 7: would have been my message, right, Hey, I've done this.
Speaker 7: I've done it, man. I put together I helped be
Speaker 7: part of, you know, prior to what CJ. Stroud did
Speaker 7: last year, the most incredible rookie season we'd seen from
Speaker 7: a quarterback in NFL history, and what Justin Herbert did
Speaker 7: his first year. So I know what it looks like.
Speaker 7: I want to be there for you. Let's go get it.
Speaker 7: And I think that's a I think it's a big
Speaker 7: part of it, Tom, because of what the narrative kind
Speaker 7: of shifted to these last you know, five six days.
Speaker 5: We call that a veteran move.
Speaker 2: Veteran move right there, not just in a sports finnacular,
Speaker 2: but you make a wise decision, that's a veteran move.
Speaker 2: Here with Matt money Smith's remaining moments, the LA Chargers
Speaker 2: radio announcer and a big name talk show host there
Speaker 2: in southern California, though with Chicago ties growing up here, Matt,
Speaker 2: how much conversation throughout the year did you guys have
Speaker 2: or the last two years about Caleb Williams and how
Speaker 2: he performed and where his arrow is at right now
Speaker 2: from your veteran eye as a football guy and an
Speaker 2: NFL announcer as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so my radio partner out here, you know, is
Speaker 7: Petros Papadakis, and he was former captain USC football team.
Speaker 7: So we have a tie to to Trojan football. His
Speaker 7: father John, you know, legendary linebacker for the Trojans all
Speaker 7: those years. So you know, we watched team. We're invested
Speaker 7: in the team, and you know, it's been interesting because
Speaker 7: you know, Lincoln Riley brought a style of offense and
Speaker 7: a style of play to USC that I you know,
Speaker 7: it certainly was needed. They needed to reinvigorate the program
Speaker 7: and had fallen on tough times. Clay Helton was not
Speaker 7: the right guy. But it's you know, it's a it's
Speaker 7: a school that's built on the number fifty five on
Speaker 7: defense and you know, and running backs and so to
Speaker 7: spread it out and start slinging it around and have
Speaker 7: a defense that's given up fifty points a game, it's
Speaker 7: very hard to reconcile as a team. So just and
Speaker 7: I and I set that as the backdrop because they
Speaker 7: took a lot of incoming. But there was one thing
Speaker 7: that no one could dispute, and that is take advantage
Speaker 7: of this kid while he's here. Go to the coliseum
Speaker 7: and watch him play, because you are not going to
Speaker 7: see many like him. This, this sort of level of
Speaker 7: play at the college level doesn't doesn't often find itself,
Speaker 7: you know, to your backyard. I called the I called
Speaker 7: two USC football games. I do it for Compass Media
Speaker 7: Network on the radio, syndicated and a lot of times
Speaker 7: on my off weeks, whatever game they have available, if
Speaker 7: there's a West coast game, I'll do it. Happen to
Speaker 7: get both USC Utah games with kleeb And it's just
Speaker 7: it's stupid. It really is.
Speaker 2: Some of those throws in that Utah game that I
Speaker 2: saw that is that they were they were stupid throw, Like,
Speaker 2: how does that even happen?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're you know, you're you're in a full sprint.
Speaker 7: Like that's a difference, you know, if you want to
Speaker 7: when you talk about the running quarterbacks and the athleticism
Speaker 7: and the read and you you throw it down feet
Speaker 7: or you know, after your first red take off and run,
Speaker 7: that's not Caleb Man. Caleb is scrambling to throw and
Speaker 7: his eyes are up and he is processing and going
Speaker 7: through his progressions like this. The whole time, and he
Speaker 7: was just finding one open guy after another. It was
Speaker 7: really fun that game, you know, just just to finish
Speaker 7: it up. It was a heavyweight fight, you know, it
Speaker 7: really was being he and Cam Rising and they were
Speaker 7: just throwing haymakers at one another and it was a
Speaker 7: lot of fun to watch. And if that's the Caleb
Speaker 7: Williams you're getting, my good in the Chicago has got
Speaker 7: to be darn excited.
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about the tight end we're getting. Because
Speaker 3: you talk about the career of Antonio Gates, he should
Speaker 3: have been at first ballot Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a shame he's not.
Speaker 3: But then when you look at Gerald Evertt with a
Speaker 3: basketball background, is there any similarities or is it something
Speaker 3: that you better be in your stance for another eight
Speaker 3: or nine years Gerald Everett, I'm talking before you can
Speaker 3: even see if there's anything comparable.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look, he's this I'll say about Gerald is he's
Speaker 7: a competitor. You look at the Jacksonville game where they
Speaker 7: gave up the twenty seven to nothing lead, and there
Speaker 7: really was one guy you could point your finger out
Speaker 7: that was consistent and delivered that whole game, and it
Speaker 7: was Gerald Everett. He played his tail off and tried
Speaker 7: like heck to drag them over the finish line, even
Speaker 7: though it didn't happen. The second one is I go
Speaker 7: to the Raider game, you know, when they're up whatever,
Speaker 7: forty five, forty nine, nothing, and there was one guy
Speaker 7: out there still competing. So I think you have that
Speaker 7: and that helps the locker room. That helps the room.
Speaker 7: I think he and Comet are going to be a
Speaker 7: great tandem. He's not so much a blocker like you
Speaker 7: mentioned Antonio Gates, a little bit more of a a
Speaker 7: pass catcher. You can line them up, you know, out
Speaker 7: wide if you want. And one thing Tom too about Gerald,
Speaker 7: first guy always misses. You're not bringing him down. That
Speaker 7: was one thing that was consistent with him. Wherever you
Speaker 7: caught the ball, first guy was not bringing him down.
Speaker 7: You better gang tackle him, and you better be ready
Speaker 7: to get to support because he's just got this. He's
Speaker 7: not the biggest guy, you know, he's really not. I
Speaker 7: don't know if he's I think he's listed at six ' three.
Speaker 5: Maybe I got him at six two and three quarters.
Speaker 7: There you go, Yeah, yeah, he's maybe six two ish.
Speaker 7: But he's tough to bring down and he always makes
Speaker 7: the first guy, miss, So I just think it's such
Speaker 7: a perfect fit with with what cole Comet does and
Speaker 7: how he's a little bit more of your full service.
Speaker 7: Not to mention all the athletics, but I think Gerald's
Speaker 7: really gonna gonna have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Out there, all right, last one? And I hope I
Speaker 2: don't kill it. But Aimin Ogbang Miga?
Speaker 5: Did I get it?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 7: You go? Am and ogbang Bmiga?
Speaker 4: Nice?
Speaker 7: Everybody calls him.
Speaker 5: Amen, did I stick the landing? You did?
Speaker 7: You stuck it?
Speaker 2: Good special teams player? Sounds like a great kid too, not.
Speaker 7: Good a great special teams player, like a great special
Speaker 7: teams player. And I think the only reason why you
Speaker 7: got him is because the Chargers still have Nick Neemon
Speaker 7: and and he's another great special teams player. So Amen
Speaker 7: is what allowed the Chargers, even though they really didn't
Speaker 7: want to let Derek Watt go, who was their their
Speaker 7: best special teams player, and Aiman filled that void. And
Speaker 7: now that Nick Neeman his kind of and Dyone Henley
Speaker 7: as well at the rookie last year filled in became
Speaker 7: kind of that special team's a So yeah, look that's
Speaker 7: what he is and and that's what he's gonna be
Speaker 7: He played some solid linebacker and spot duty. But I
Speaker 7: think you signed you know, your special team's ace to
Speaker 7: the guy that you're hoping is gonna take Matthew Slater's
Speaker 7: spot on that All Pro team moving forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Matthew Slater legend leaving the game, and I hope
Speaker 2: one day to become a coach or executive. That guy
Speaker 2: can bring a lot to the game. Hey, you know
Speaker 2: Tom's old teammate Jim Harbaugh. Do you need any help
Speaker 2: breaking in?
Speaker 5: I don't know. You guys can chat it up if
Speaker 5: you want.
Speaker 7: Yes. The answer to that is yes, I do. I'm
Speaker 7: gonna need all the help I please.
Speaker 2: And you have Mark Trestman on that roster. You got
Speaker 2: who else? Tommy Shane Day. We do a lot of guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this shop, this job, yep, So have fun. Matt We
Speaker 2: appreciate you, buddy. Thank you.
Speaker 7: You got it anytime. Love doing it, guys.
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Speaker 2: the Chains, Jim Miller kind enough to join us, Big Jim,
Speaker 2: how you feeling and what do you think? We touched
Speaker 2: on it early about Caleb Williams Pro Day and the
Speaker 2: moves that are and have been made to set up
Speaker 2: whomever the Bear's pick number one for an offense and
Speaker 2: has a bunch of weapons on it now in a
Speaker 2: defense that continues to build.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I love the addition of Keenan Allen. I mean
Speaker 8: that guy is just absolutely fearless to go get the football,
Speaker 8: specially across the middle. I mean that guy will give
Speaker 8: up his body, he'll take big hits. Obviously extremely productive player.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I think you know just the excitement of
Speaker 8: this week. You know, Bear's sending the big contingent out
Speaker 8: there to watch the pro day of Caleb Williams, the
Speaker 8: three day, gettinghim on the chalkboard and all that stuff,
Speaker 8: or the whiteboard should say, get to know his teammates
Speaker 8: that he played with, how they interact with him. Everything
Speaker 8: is scoutable, you know, just even how he interacts with
Speaker 8: this with his teammates, how they accept him, and things
Speaker 8: like that out at USC. So I think it's a good,
Speaker 8: you know, initial visit, you know, but there's obviously more
Speaker 8: homework to do. I still don't think the Bears have
Speaker 8: yet to get a physical right. He probably won't get
Speaker 8: that until he comes to Chicago and has his official
Speaker 8: visit so to speak with the Bears that is. You know,
Speaker 8: people may think, you know, it's just a formality that
Speaker 8: needs to be done, but it's still needs to be done.
Speaker 8: But it sounds like everything went swimmingly. I think everybody
Speaker 8: expected him to throw. Well, you know, there's there's no
Speaker 8: pass rush. We know he's got the physical skills in
Speaker 8: all that, but the evaluation process will will continue. Everybody
Speaker 8: just seems to think it's a slam dunk, and maybe
Speaker 8: it is. Maybe it is, but I still think there's
Speaker 8: a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3: Hey, Big Jim, So you bring up Keenan Allen. You
Speaker 3: saw what you saw the pro day for Caleb. Now,
Speaker 3: what does that change your thinking or does it change
Speaker 3: your thought process for that number nine pick.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think for the Bears, you'll have an opportunity
Speaker 8: to trade down, you know, because I think everybody projected,
Speaker 8: whether it's neighbors from LSU, the wide receiver O Douonze
Speaker 8: out there for Washington, most think Marvin Harrison Junior would
Speaker 8: already be off the board. But now that you've got
Speaker 8: solidified a veteran receiver, and you've kind of insulated because
Speaker 8: right now with what the Bears have the quarterback positioner
Speaker 8: who's there with Brett Rippin and obviously Tyson Bagent, that's
Speaker 8: a very young group and it looks like the whoever
Speaker 8: is drafted will be the starter. And so you typically
Speaker 8: if you've got a rookie quarterback, you want veteran receivers.
Speaker 8: Cole Comet veteran, obviously DeAndre Swift veteran, plus the other
Speaker 8: running backs are veterans other than Roshan who was drafted
Speaker 8: a season ago, you know, Dj Moore veteran, Keenan Allen veteran.
Speaker 8: You've insulated a young quarterback with a really good group
Speaker 8: of vets who are around him. And I'd say the
Speaker 8: offensive line too as well. Obviously, down Darnell Wright is
Speaker 8: no new b anymore as going into a second year
Speaker 8: as a tackle. Whether the Bears addressed the left tackle spot,
Speaker 8: but they certainly have addressed the interior of their line.
Speaker 8: Maybe there'll be more work done there. But I like
Speaker 8: how they're insulating the young quarterback and you got better
Speaker 8: on defense. I think we know that surround a young
Speaker 8: quarterback with a good team, and I think the Bears
Speaker 8: have done that. So yeah, I would think now maybe
Speaker 8: receiver isn't so much a priority where you could potentially
Speaker 8: trade down and acquire more picks with that number nine spot.
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Speaker 2: Overall, the Bears did load up on backup offensive linemen
Speaker 2: as well to give the competition and the injury protection
Speaker 2: or as Maddyberfus likes to say, a pair and a
Speaker 2: spar And they did that in the secondary as well.
Speaker 2: When they bring in Kevin Byer to replace Eddie Jackson.
Speaker 2: They've got a good thing going. There are there things
Speaker 2: if you're not gonna be able with that nine. If
Speaker 2: whatever you do, Jim, if you trade down or you
Speaker 2: go with a receiver and offensive lineman edge. But if
Speaker 2: you don't get one of those, are there still some
Speaker 2: things in free agency towards the summer that you could
Speaker 2: dip into if you really take a long, hard look
Speaker 2: after OTA's and see where your team is at.
Speaker 5: In terms of especially, I would say that edge rush.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's still guys out there. You know, You've got
Speaker 8: guys like Emmanuel Agba. You know, he's right at kind
Speaker 8: of the threshold of a thirty year old guy. And
Speaker 8: you know there's still other corners that are up there.
Speaker 8: I mean, Tredevius White still hasn't signed with anybody. I mean,
Speaker 8: so there's corners, but you know, I think we know
Speaker 8: those are all going to be one year guys. They're
Speaker 8: just one year rentals. Say the Bears did want to
Speaker 8: add a receiver, elected not to draft a receiver. I mean,
Speaker 8: look at the guys that are out there. Odell Beckham's
Speaker 8: still junior, still out there. Michael Gallup just got released
Speaker 8: by the Dallas Cowboys. So you've got quality guys that
Speaker 8: have played and logged a lot of snaps, that have
Speaker 8: years of experience in the NFL that you can always add.
Speaker 8: The safety position is still pretty deep. Out there right now.
Speaker 8: And so say if you had an injury through OTAs,
Speaker 8: I mean the safety population from guys like Quandary Diggs
Speaker 8: or Jamal Adams, and you'd have to check out the
Speaker 8: medical on him. But to say Justin Simmons is still
Speaker 8: out there for God's sakes, I mean, this guy's had
Speaker 8: thirty interceptions the past six years at the safety position.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I do think you know you've got guys
Speaker 8: that'll be there. Money's going to be a part of it.
Speaker 8: There's some guys that are injured healing up from injuries.
Speaker 8: Say at the center spot. Connor Williams down there for
Speaker 8: the Miami Dolphins, played there last year. He's a free
Speaker 8: agent right now. DJ Humphreys, who was a starting tackle
Speaker 8: for Arizona, he's still out there right now. He tore
Speaker 8: his acllens trying to come back from injury. So yeah,
Speaker 8: there's a whole bunch of situations where guys and there's
Speaker 8: a pool of players that you'll submit at every position
Speaker 8: other than probably quarterback. Maybe Ryan Tannehill's probably the only
Speaker 8: guy that's out there that really this this musical chairs
Speaker 8: of quarterback that has been pretty crazy when you think
Speaker 8: about it, here this offseason that a guy you've had
Speaker 8: that has logged a lot of experience and starters experience
Speaker 8: that is out there that you could tap into.
Speaker 3: Well, let me give you guys something to think about
Speaker 3: during the commercial. You got a thirteen dollars injured Chase Young.
Speaker 3: So does it make it untouchable to even think about
Speaker 3: a Jadavian Clowney when you think about who is on
Speaker 3: the opposite side of the defensive line from him and
Speaker 3: how much tension Montes what is gonna get? Or do
Speaker 3: you still keep a guy like that into your sights?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Well, I think Clowney, you know, miss he played really
Speaker 8: well last year for the Baltimore Ravens and the reason
Speaker 8: why they felt comfortable bringing him in for the least
Speaker 8: this was what I was told Anthony Weaver, what's their
Speaker 8: defensive line coach? Anthony Weaver is now the defensive coordinator
Speaker 8: of the Miami Dolphins, and he had a level of
Speaker 8: comfortability with Clowney and said, hey, bring this guy in here,
Speaker 8: you know, feel comfortable working with him, and he had
Speaker 8: a really good year. But I think we know Clowney
Speaker 8: and I think unfortunately this is where Chase Young, who
Speaker 8: New Orleans Saints just signed on that one year deal.
Speaker 8: He's dealing with a medical with a neck, and so
Speaker 8: the numbers aren't what there was suggested that he was
Speaker 8: going to get paid. But typically you'll take a shot
Speaker 8: with a guy like that, but typically they're going to
Speaker 8: be one year guy, one year deals moving forward. And
Speaker 8: that's why Clowney after the Houston Texans experiment, has never
Speaker 8: landed a long term deal again, unfortunately. And you know,
Speaker 8: a lot of it is just due to you know,
Speaker 8: his history, and I think Chase Young is kind of
Speaker 8: on that path now. And why you just signed a
Speaker 8: one year deal with New Orleans when you would you
Speaker 8: would have thought San Francisco would have sign him to
Speaker 8: a long term deal. They just traded a third round
Speaker 8: pick for him instead, they signed Bears fans knowing Leonard
Speaker 8: Floyd to a long term deal or a two year,
Speaker 8: twenty million dollar deal, he chose Leonard Flow over Chase Shall.
Speaker 2: Right, and he's been consistent though, he stayed healthy and
Speaker 2: he's been sacking on the quarterback wherever he goes. All Right,
Speaker 2: we gotta take a break. Final segment coming up. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about what's headed next week at the owners meeting.
Speaker 2: Some rules that need tweaking. We'll discuss and I know
Speaker 2: we'll get some good reaction here from Tom and Jim.
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Speaker 5: All right, save the best for last. Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Competition committee getting ready to discuss some things at the
Speaker 2: owners meeting next week. Headed out there on Sunday, Jim.
Speaker 2: I don't know when you're going, but Monday we'll break
Speaker 2: it down. We've got Bears et cetera on Monday as well,
Speaker 2: excuse me, Bears Weekly as well on Monday.
Speaker 5: But let's discuss a couple of things.
Speaker 2: One is the kickoff, and that's it's got to change
Speaker 2: so interesting and I don't know if we have enough
Speaker 2: time to break it down, Jim, but the bottom line
Speaker 2: is it's going to try to resemble a typical scrimmage
Speaker 2: play with the kicking team lining up with the forty
Speaker 2: yard line of the return unit, which will be at
Speaker 2: their own thirty. So there's a thirty five rather so
Speaker 2: the five yard window there. With two returners, potentially they
Speaker 2: can move around and nobody moves until the ball hits
Speaker 2: the ground. So you got to kick it off into
Speaker 2: an area from the goal line to the twenty that's
Speaker 2: the target zone. If it goes into the end zone
Speaker 2: on a fly, you get it at the thirty five
Speaker 2: yard line. So is this going to be something that
Speaker 2: everybody can rally a on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, obviously the coaches will have to practice. It will
Speaker 8: add more, especially, but the bottom line is kickoff right now,
Speaker 8: it's inconsequential only twenty two percent of the kickoff returns.
Speaker 8: Look at the Super Bowls, absolute barfest. All kickoffs weren't
Speaker 8: even returned. It's the most exciting play in football. It's
Speaker 8: what motivated the voters to vote Devin Hester in because
Speaker 8: it was no longer a play anymore. And I think
Speaker 8: it'll be exciting. If you've got two returners, you can
Speaker 8: have reverses, throwback passes, all kinds of things. What you're
Speaker 8: basically eliminating is the forty yard dash where you're getting
Speaker 8: the collisions, all right, So these special teams coaches are
Speaker 8: it's going to be more hand to hand combat. Tom
Speaker 8: can talk about that because you've eliminated the forty yard
Speaker 8: sprint down the field. Now to be about the hand
Speaker 8: to hand combat and how you can, you know, get
Speaker 8: the coverage units to get in there. I think they'll
Speaker 8: be bigger guys on the kickoff covers team because you've
Speaker 8: eliminated it, and it'll be more like a line of
Speaker 8: scrimmage play. So I like to hear Tom your thoughts.
Speaker 8: I hope it gets past because it is the most
Speaker 8: exciting play right now. Players are being eliminated, like the
Speaker 8: Matthew Slaters that are drafted for their special teams, or
Speaker 8: kick returners like Devin Hester that aren't even you know,
Speaker 8: it's not even the thought to draft those players anymore.
Speaker 8: Now it will be if this is passed. I'm one
Speaker 8: hundred percent for it. This isn't just a guessing game.
Speaker 8: This is We've seen an example of this in the
Speaker 8: other league, so I'm one hundred percent behind this.
Speaker 3: When you look at a specialty of a design kickoff return,
Speaker 3: I think it's gonnadd a lot more fun to that
Speaker 3: return game.
Speaker 2: All right, Hip drop tackle NFL Competetition Committee. A new
Speaker 2: rule would penalize a player fifteen yards and an automatic
Speaker 2: first down if the hip drop tackle brings a runner
Speaker 2: to the ground. Richard Sherman, I just wish they forced
Speaker 2: the entire Competition Committee to create examples of how they
Speaker 2: expect a defender to tackle the ball carry. I want
Speaker 2: them to act it out at full speed and create
Speaker 2: a video for the players. At some point during the
Speaker 2: creation of that video, they will realize how insane this is.
Speaker 5: Tom, you have the floor.
Speaker 4: Garbage, absolute garbage.
Speaker 3: You're gonna put more on the play to the officials
Speaker 3: that they're over they have too much on their plate already.
Speaker 3: I think it's an absolute garbage reaction that it's a
Speaker 3: It's a bad decision to even sit there and debate.
Speaker 5: Jimmie only have ten seconds.
Speaker 8: Rip is probably gonna get passed, and so is the
Speaker 8: kickoff return role. I think both are getting past. Talk
Speaker 8: to Stephen Jones. These both have a high probability of
Speaker 8: both pasts.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be Can they make it reviewable? That's the question.
Speaker 2: That is the question, all right for Tom There, Jim Miller,
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