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Speaker 1: Everybody football coming back to Soldier Field preseason style tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: eleven am. Pregaming noon kickoff on NewsRadio one O five
Speaker 1: nine w BBM. I'm Jeff Johnny Ac my broadcast partner Tom.
Speaker 1: They are also rare and ready to go. We have
Speaker 1: broken this thing down in every which way already. We're
Speaker 1: excited to see what Matt Eberflus, Allan Williams, defensive coordinator, Lujetsie,
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, and special teams coordinator Richard Hytower having
Speaker 1: store for Kansas City and their head coach Andy Reid. Look,
Speaker 1: it's like a fifteen to twenty plays for the first team.
Speaker 1: It's fluid, Tom. It depends on what guys we're talking about,
Speaker 1: but we're all looking to see what QB one does well,
Speaker 1: you know. Detroit head coach Dan Campbell also said Jared
Speaker 1: Goff is going to play the entire first quarter. He
Speaker 1: played five or six plays and he was gone. So
Speaker 1: there's nothing ext in the stone by how much you
Speaker 1: can play and you know how many reps. So I'm
Speaker 1: interested to watch what the team is going to bring
Speaker 1: to the field because there's been so many things talked
Speaker 1: about what they want this team to be in the
Speaker 1: long run with this new coaching staff, and tomorrow will
Speaker 1: begin that evidence. And one of the guys we're gonna
Speaker 1: be looking forward to watching is Braxton Jones, the rookie
Speaker 1: left tackle out of Southern Utah fifth round pick. This
Speaker 1: is what he had to say about where he's at
Speaker 1: right now, working with the first team head to get
Speaker 1: into the first preseason game. All right, we'll get to
Speaker 1: that in just a minute as we get you set
Speaker 1: for Bears football tomorrow. Some of the things we're looking
Speaker 1: at right now in terms of what the Bears are
Speaker 1: gonna do. The running game, obviously is something of significance
Speaker 1: tom It is something that I'm excited to see. This
Speaker 1: wide zone. We keep hearing about a stable of running backs.
Speaker 1: Not certain if David Montgomery will play tomorrow, but there's
Speaker 1: plenty there, include the undrafted rookies and Cleil Herbert from
Speaker 1: a year ago. Yeah, Jeff, you have to have an
Speaker 1: impact with the running game because if you want Justin
Speaker 1: Fields to be everything that he possibly can be, you
Speaker 1: better have somewhat of a dominant portion of your running
Speaker 1: game to have such a factor of the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: trying to stop that one element that it opens up
Speaker 1: more opportunities for the rest of the team and Justin specifically. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've heard so much about this outside zone running play,
Speaker 1: and if they do run it perfectly, look for Justin
Speaker 1: to get more opportunities down field. All right, here's that
Speaker 1: Braxton Jones. I've got a ways to go, But just
Speaker 1: understanding how fast it is actually, even with linebackers and
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff. Guy, have a better understanding
Speaker 1: of how fast it is. But doing that into my
Speaker 1: game and stuff like that. And that's another thing too.
Speaker 1: It's not always going fast fast fast. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like you gotta hold space a little bit more. You
Speaker 1: can't just go fly out to anything because they're so
Speaker 1: quick they'll you know, they'll come right in under you
Speaker 1: or something like that you just gotta really lay its
Speaker 1: happy medium. I really like tom how he explains what
Speaker 1: he's seeing. He does so very thoroughly and pretty transparently
Speaker 1: about what he's learning and how he's going about his business,
Speaker 1: and we continue to be impressed. He's got the feat,
Speaker 1: he's got the length, He's using that length in a
Speaker 1: way he never did back in college. He's got all
Speaker 1: the tools, as he says, to learn this position the
Speaker 1: right way at the NFL level to stop those edge
Speaker 1: rushers in clear space in the running game. Now we
Speaker 1: gotta see if he can prove it. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: reality's gonna hit you in the face tomorrow. You know
Speaker 1: you're gonna break the huddle and you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: coaches around you. So it's about what Braxton Jones can
Speaker 1: do to get himself prepared and an understanding of the
Speaker 1: guys he's playing against, because he's gonna guy. He's gonna
Speaker 1: have guys coming in here. They're gonna be keep competing
Speaker 1: equally as hard for a spot on their roster. So
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow really is the beginning of what can
Speaker 1: be a great future for a guy like Braxton Jones
Speaker 1: and another rookie Jaquan Brisker. We're looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: him as well. He likes the way the chemistry is
Speaker 1: brewing right now, the back end of that defense with
Speaker 1: the veteran and two time pro bowler Ready Jackson, just
Speaker 1: off the field, just knowing, you know, still communicating off
Speaker 1: the field, just make sure we're still watch a film
Speaker 1: and they own the field, just knowing where he's gonna be.
Speaker 1: We just work on the same page, just you know,
Speaker 1: showing different disguises and different things like that. You know,
Speaker 1: we're always you know, doing different things that we're on
Speaker 1: the same page. So really good. Yeah, with him right now,
Speaker 1: it's that that inner, inner force that he's ready to unleash.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's a physical guy, grew up
Speaker 1: that way, played that way at Penn State. And I
Speaker 1: like the way he's been making plays on the balls.
Speaker 1: You're catching everything yet no, but he's making plays on
Speaker 1: the ball, breaking the ball up. Well, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the kind of the signs of his success and where
Speaker 1: he's at. Because when you come into the scheme and
Speaker 1: what they want to do defensively, how fast they want
Speaker 1: to play, how they want to disguise, the coverage and
Speaker 1: everything that's the effect of the defense. But Jeff, what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen when he has a big coverage responsibility downfield?
Speaker 1: Or what happens when a running back breaks through to
Speaker 1: the third level and has a full running start at him.
Speaker 1: That is when the differences of Jaquon Brisker is going
Speaker 1: to be shown. We know he can cover, we know
Speaker 1: that he can catch the ball, we know that he's
Speaker 1: super intelligent, and that's why he's on an NFL roster.
Speaker 1: But it's about those details of tackling. Is really gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what's happening with him? Well, the one thing
Speaker 1: you don't want to have happened, It unfortunately does happen.
Speaker 1: Knock on wood. It won't to the Bears or anybody
Speaker 1: else around the league, frankly, But you try to get
Speaker 1: out of the preseason games. It's healthy as possible. Already
Speaker 1: You're looking tonight Atlanta leading Detroit fourteen to ten of
Speaker 1: the second quarter and their first round picked there in
Speaker 1: Atlanta wide receiver Drake lund And suffered a knee injury.
Speaker 1: He had to leave the game. So you don't you
Speaker 1: don't want to see that business right now? No, But
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, you can't really think about it. You
Speaker 1: don't want it to happen, but it's a constant threat
Speaker 1: when you do play professional football. However, that's why they
Speaker 1: sit out there and coach ninety guys. So someone is
Speaker 1: going to increase their opportunity by their performance going into
Speaker 1: this preseason. But they have to make sure on September
Speaker 1: eleven that they have a healthy roster to go into
Speaker 1: the start of the regular season. All right, coming up next,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be joined an interview I did this week
Speaker 1: with cornerback Jalen Johnson as he gets ready for his
Speaker 1: third NFL season with the Bears. It's all coming up
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniak, and this is Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access. It's
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Speaker 1: adds up to a better world. Tom, they are sitting
Speaker 1: this one out, but Jalen Johnson is not the starting
Speaker 1: cornerback entering year three for the Chicago Bears, kind enough
Speaker 1: to take some time to join us before the preseason
Speaker 1: opener against Kansas City. Good to see you. Good to
Speaker 1: see you too. Hey, it's great. Honestly, I'm over here
Speaker 1: smiling because it's like you really have that voice, like
Speaker 1: a radio voice, like a really John Madden, like a
Speaker 1: real legendary like voice. Yeah, yeah, that's really see I'm blushing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When did you know that? Like you could like you
Speaker 1: would be like, really, you know what, This is a
Speaker 1: really long story. I'll tell you to you sometime, but
Speaker 1: I I it's a miracle. Honestly. It was where hard
Speaker 1: work met opportunity. About that. But no, but you know,
Speaker 1: as a kid when you were growing up, you know
Speaker 1: you're clearly a great athlete. I thought I was, you know,
Speaker 1: and I tried to play baseball. I tried to walk
Speaker 1: on at Iowa State University as a second baseman. That
Speaker 1: lasted about four minutes. You know, how do you how
Speaker 1: did you know that this is gonna be what you
Speaker 1: wanted to do? I mean, honestly, because we all think
Speaker 1: we're gonna be somebody and if your love sports, we
Speaker 1: all played it I mean I tried to play everything.
Speaker 1: I would have been wonderful to do it, But what
Speaker 1: about you, I mean mine wasn't. Mine was a different
Speaker 1: process because I played of course, I played football and
Speaker 1: basketball growing up, but I was on varsity as a
Speaker 1: freshman in basketball, I was getting looked at like I
Speaker 1: had interest in basketball before I did football. So, I
Speaker 1: mean my first two years of high school, I was like,
Speaker 1: I might as well just hang football, love, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just play basketball because I wasn't. I was a sophomball
Speaker 1: in varsity and not really getting too too much playing time,
Speaker 1: and then basketball was just going great for me. So
Speaker 1: I mean I almost gave football up, and then I
Speaker 1: ended up getting hurt in basketball, and like my whole
Speaker 1: perspective just saying, I'm like, nah, like I can't play
Speaker 1: football no more, like forget basketball. Yeah, then I really
Speaker 1: like started after my injury. I came back and I
Speaker 1: really just locked in. Was like, nah, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: a basketball love. Like my love for football is later
Speaker 1: than basketball for sure. And it's like like the training,
Speaker 1: the process that I went through for basketball and football,
Speaker 1: I would I would choose football. Yeah, it must fit
Speaker 1: your personality because you gotta love this game. To play
Speaker 1: like basketball, you gotta have some specific skills too. So
Speaker 1: did you have a growth spurt or did you say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: can I be in basketball? I mean, honestly, it was
Speaker 1: like basketball for me because I was I was small
Speaker 1: in my first two years of high school really, so
Speaker 1: I didn't get It's funny because I didn't get figured.
Speaker 1: I didn't get like my true athleticism until day after
Speaker 1: I gave it up, something like, hey, if I would
Speaker 1: have this high end this, what's your vertical? Yeah, what's
Speaker 1: your vertical? What was your vertical? High as I got
Speaker 1: to like thirty nine, there you go, it was like, dang, okay,
Speaker 1: you could shoot. You could shoot the jay. Yeah. It's
Speaker 1: like crazy because that's I got older, I got better
Speaker 1: in basketball. So I'm like, if I would have had
Speaker 1: this gun, I might have kept to it. But everything
Speaker 1: happens for a reason for sure. Yeah. The funny thing though,
Speaker 1: when I first met you and we interviewed you, because
Speaker 1: on your Twitter it's it's the NBA, So I thought,
Speaker 1: this guy loves the NBA. Here here which something different?
Speaker 1: Something different? Jalen Johnson our guest here and Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy. So you got a
Speaker 1: new system, new people, new coaches, everything new, big big
Speaker 1: fresh coat of paint, and you're fitting in. You're smiling.
Speaker 1: That's good. Oh No, I mean honestly, football is football
Speaker 1: for me. And it's like, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: my job is to stop people from catching the ball.
Speaker 1: So it's like my job doesn't change. My job hasn't changed. Um,
Speaker 1: the emphasis, I mean, there definitely are some things that
Speaker 1: are being preached, um, that are are different from from
Speaker 1: last year. For sure. There's definitely some principles that we
Speaker 1: played by that we want to live literally live and
Speaker 1: die by. Really um So, I mean just really adjusting
Speaker 1: to those adjusting to playing this new staff style of
Speaker 1: ball has been I mean interesting for me definitely. Um.
Speaker 1: It wasn't easy in the beginning, but as time what
Speaker 1: wasn't easy really just committing. Um. I mean it's different,
Speaker 1: like change comes, nobody's really familiar and it's like you have, Okay,
Speaker 1: well this is what you're used to doing. My first
Speaker 1: two years in the NFL, I got used to a
Speaker 1: certain way around here, and now that there is a
Speaker 1: different way, it's like, Okay, I'm not really trying to
Speaker 1: do that or like why being like this. So it's
Speaker 1: like for me, I got to a point where it's like,
Speaker 1: let me just really step back and see what they're
Speaker 1: really asking me to do, seeing what they what their
Speaker 1: true intentions are. And then once I kind of took
Speaker 1: a step back, and it's like, okay, let me just commit,
Speaker 1: let me buy in, let me push myself, and let's
Speaker 1: see where it goes. Because I mean, it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to not really buy in and expect great things
Speaker 1: to happen. So it's like, let me just really buy
Speaker 1: and let me commit and get other guys to commit,
Speaker 1: get other everybody really on the same page, and let's
Speaker 1: see where it can really go. And then really after that,
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see when season comes. But it was
Speaker 1: really just a mental process to really commit and buy in.
Speaker 1: And I mean, now the way that they want things
Speaker 1: to go for me is it's I'm not gonna say easy,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely something that is natural for me now.
Speaker 1: So is that Jalen Johnson is changed, has changed always
Speaker 1: been hard. I wouldn't for me, I wouldn't say that
Speaker 1: change is hard because it's like, since I want to say,
Speaker 1: my freshman year at high school, I've always had like
Speaker 1: different head coaches, Like I had five head coaches in
Speaker 1: my high school career. Wow, So it's like I have change.
Speaker 1: It is inable, inevitable on this sport exactly. So I
Speaker 1: mean just have even having that was just like okay, dang,
Speaker 1: you just gotta keep recommitting to the process. And it's
Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, man, football is
Speaker 1: football covered. One is coming, one, two is two, three,
Speaker 1: Like I'll just kind of keep it, keep it simple,
Speaker 1: keep the main thing the main thing, and really buy
Speaker 1: into the philosophy that the coaches have. Um and I
Speaker 1: mean with this staff, I mean, like I said, it's
Speaker 1: definitely different, but you just really got to buy in
Speaker 1: and really give your all to it and then take
Speaker 1: the good with the good and about the back. You
Speaker 1: know what the thing is if you step back, like
Speaker 1: you just explain that you did for yourself, and if
Speaker 1: I just stepped back and yeah, your job is to
Speaker 1: prevent people from catching footballs and making sure you tackle
Speaker 1: them and take the ball away. It is pretty simple,
Speaker 1: but one of the hardest things to do for sure.
Speaker 1: You know it sounds exactly you gotta you know, are
Speaker 1: you better? I'm not saying you weren't before. I'm saying
Speaker 1: as you get older in this sport, at this level,
Speaker 1: and now you're getting tutored in a different way by
Speaker 1: this staff, and they have specific things you want in
Speaker 1: this particular defense. I'm not going to just give it
Speaker 1: a blanket cover two. There is that, but there's there's elements. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, trusting your eyes, I mean, are your
Speaker 1: eyes better trained three years in than they were when
Speaker 1: you first got here or they Yeah, okay, that's that's
Speaker 1: not even a question. Just the reads, the progressions, I mean,
Speaker 1: they just comes. It comes natural at this point. It
Speaker 1: comes easier to reads and even adjusting. Like you said,
Speaker 1: they're in minor intricates in the defense that are different.
Speaker 1: Your reads may be here and you gotta look at
Speaker 1: certain things and it's like, hey, you would have asked
Speaker 1: him to do this my rookie year, and I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: this is a whole lot like but now it's like
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for some time now, my third year,
Speaker 1: getting a lot of reps. I have thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of reps So I mean, really what they're asking me
Speaker 1: to do? Is it easy transition? Because I've been doing
Speaker 1: it for some time now, going on my third year. Um,
Speaker 1: so I mean it's really not not too bad at all.
Speaker 1: Eyes are gonna be on the quarterback, yeah, period, not
Speaker 1: much turning the back to the quarterback and this defense.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Oh for sure? Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 1: definitely like they're definitely some times where we gotta lock
Speaker 1: up and we gotta go man to man, but that's
Speaker 1: that's with any team. But they're definitely are more emphasis
Speaker 1: with eyes on the quarterback and breaking on the ball.
Speaker 1: So coach he reflus when he first got here, and
Speaker 1: but he said it's gonna be the hardest thing you've
Speaker 1: ever gone through as a player. Has that proven to
Speaker 1: be true? Because he did tell he's told me he said,
Speaker 1: you wait a year from now, players are gonna come
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, coach, that was the hardest thing I
Speaker 1: ever had to do. Has it been the hardest thing
Speaker 1: you've had to do so far in my professional career? Yes?
Speaker 1: And why because it's like there's in a sense when
Speaker 1: you get like like in college college campus, a whole
Speaker 1: lot harder than NFL NFL camp. But it's like when
Speaker 1: you get kind of to a professional level, there's normally
Speaker 1: there's a way of doing things. They're the way okay,
Speaker 1: like yeah, you burst to the ball, you get your
Speaker 1: three hard steps, but it's like no, no, no, we're
Speaker 1: full speed. Like some of the expectations are almost like unrealistic,
Speaker 1: like coach like ain't like you want me to do this,
Speaker 1: this and this, like okay. So I mean in that
Speaker 1: aspect of having to adapt to really the expectation, I
Speaker 1: feel like that's the hardest part. But I mean we're
Speaker 1: where our body should be in shape, and we should
Speaker 1: our body should be able to adapt really on the
Speaker 1: physical side of things, if you're taking care of your
Speaker 1: buying new things right, But really to just train your mind,
Speaker 1: it really is starting in the mind because I mean
Speaker 1: just really being able to say I'm going to push myself.
Speaker 1: I mean you're going to get tired in practice, and
Speaker 1: it's really just having that trained thought or developing that
Speaker 1: habit of let's run, keep running, keep running, keep running,
Speaker 1: keep running, keep going. That's that's that's where it it's
Speaker 1: hard at well, you know, like Tom always says, fatigue
Speaker 1: makes cowards of us. All gets tire fast exactly. Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 1: our guest. We're gonna step away, get a commercial break
Speaker 1: in here, and then another segment with the Bears starting
Speaker 1: cornerback on the eve of the preseason opener against the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy. The score tom there will be
Speaker 1: along in a while. The chemistry, as much as the
Speaker 1: orchestration is necessary from a footwork standpoint on the offensive
Speaker 1: line or the stunts and the game's upfront for a
Speaker 1: defensive line. We say it all the time, it's got
Speaker 1: to be spot on in the chemistry on the secondary
Speaker 1: side as well. Do you guys feel, even with some
Speaker 1: new young bloods and Eddie Jackson and yourself, that you
Speaker 1: guys are really making Hay here in that regard? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're built. I thought it was a complete reset. Yeah, really,
Speaker 1: everything that we kind of had from like from a
Speaker 1: scheme perspective, I find it's totally different, which means our
Speaker 1: bond is going to slightly shift because we're being asked
Speaker 1: to do different things. We're not playing the defense the
Speaker 1: same way. So I mean normally when it's like Okay, Eddie,
Speaker 1: I know I got you in the post, isn't the
Speaker 1: same now because it's like his reads are slightly different
Speaker 1: or he may have something a different responsibility. So I mean,
Speaker 1: definitely gotta keep learning the defense together and learning okay,
Speaker 1: when you can have some help, or when you can
Speaker 1: take a rich because you know you got your safety help,
Speaker 1: and when you can and can't use them. So I mean,
Speaker 1: really just getting on that same page. It really learning
Speaker 1: the defense and bonding and jelling in that together. I'm
Speaker 1: just seeing really just I mean it's something we learned
Speaker 1: something new each and every day with each and every situation.
Speaker 1: Just how we all see how a play comes out
Speaker 1: or Okay, are you going to stay hi? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna stay low on this if he comes out like this,
Speaker 1: if he comes behind the linebacker, because are you going
Speaker 1: to take him? You want me to take him? Just really,
Speaker 1: I feel like messing up helps us build and bond
Speaker 1: together and figure out what's the best way to play
Speaker 1: it and how I see it and how he sees it.
Speaker 1: And I felt like everybody's really trying to figure all
Speaker 1: that out together. I mean, not just me and Eddie Jaquan.
Speaker 1: He's doing a good job and asking me, hey, how
Speaker 1: do you see this? Or I tell him, hey how
Speaker 1: do you see this? Just so we can really bond
Speaker 1: together because there's no doubt that he's going to be
Speaker 1: on the field, So I mean just really finding out
Speaker 1: how gods really see the offense or see this defense,
Speaker 1: and really continue to learn. I mean even the coaches,
Speaker 1: they're still making adjustments to the defense. So really top
Speaker 1: to bottom, just really learning and jaeling together. You believe
Speaker 1: in yourself, otherwise you wouldn't be here. When you get
Speaker 1: a new regime, it's the first time for you at
Speaker 1: the professional level. It's only natural your new bosses. Did
Speaker 1: you ever fear if they believed in you? Oh, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent? And if I felt like it wasn't anything
Speaker 1: that I did or didn't do. I just felt like
Speaker 1: it's different watching it on film versus coming in and
Speaker 1: having somebody in your system. Um, and it's like they
Speaker 1: have their own way of doing things. Their values are
Speaker 1: different than what we were doing previously in the past.
Speaker 1: So I feel like what you've seen on film, I
Speaker 1: felt there was no question from a talent standpoint, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that should have ever been a question.
Speaker 1: But I feel like my work ethic may have been
Speaker 1: in question if I really was going to work hard,
Speaker 1: if I was gonna buy you in my attitude um.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I felt that was just some question
Speaker 1: marks that they had. They didn't really know if I
Speaker 1: was gonna work hard, if I was going to be
Speaker 1: a leader, if I was going to buy in and
Speaker 1: commit um, and different things like that. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like there was no question that they were
Speaker 1: a few question marks around me for sure, just knowing
Speaker 1: what you put in every offseason or what you've talked
Speaker 1: about from the time you were drafted. You are a
Speaker 1: worker for sure, and you put in a great deal
Speaker 1: of work. So but I guess everybody needs to see
Speaker 1: the proof. You know, I get that. Why are you
Speaker 1: better this year physically? Let's start with that. We touched
Speaker 1: on the mental stuff because you have a brother that
Speaker 1: is very good at what he does in the training
Speaker 1: aspect of things, and do you feel you you advanced
Speaker 1: yourself in this because you got to recreate your safe
Speaker 1: every year? Kind of Oh no, I mean I'm talking
Speaker 1: to my brother after after the training and kind of
Speaker 1: heading in the camp, and it was just like you're
Speaker 1: on a different level, and it was like after last year,
Speaker 1: it was like okay, like you're on a different levels.
Speaker 1: So it's like nice just to keep getting better from
Speaker 1: year to year offseason, offseason. I feel like there's no question.
Speaker 1: I mean I even hired a specialist on full time
Speaker 1: and definitely committed to that making that sacrifice because I
Speaker 1: mean that definitely cost me a pretty penny. And what
Speaker 1: was the specialist for. Really everything's top to bottom in
Speaker 1: terms of my body injury prevention, strength and instability balance
Speaker 1: from really head to toe and then of course my
Speaker 1: brother on the field side of things, technique, full work
Speaker 1: and different things like that. So I mean having those
Speaker 1: two guys full times, I mean, my brother's always full time,
Speaker 1: but having that trainer now that's full time, really is
Speaker 1: getting my body right. And then after practice whatever, I
Speaker 1: get extra work with my brother doing full work, and
Speaker 1: then even when we go back to the hotel for rest,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm in the gym, getting more work, in
Speaker 1: doing doing more works. I mean, there's always there's always
Speaker 1: work to be done, and I really just want to
Speaker 1: give myself the best opportunity to be successful. And I
Speaker 1: feel like hiring that trainer and having keeping my brother
Speaker 1: around is definitely going to give me the opportunity. Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score. This is Bears All Access, brought to you
Speaker 1: by IGS Energy. All Right, you look at Darnel Money
Speaker 1: and you see him lining up across from him, and
Speaker 1: he also is very much like yourself, a worker. B man,
Speaker 1: this guy is a grinder. Does that inspire other players?
Speaker 1: Does it inspire you? Do you feel, even though he
Speaker 1: doesn't play your position, that okay, you're pushing guys and
Speaker 1: they're pushing guys. It matters, right because not everybody wants
Speaker 1: to do it and not everybody knows to do it. Now.
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, the way I see it is,
Speaker 1: there has to be those alpha mills, and not even
Speaker 1: from I don't want to say from my superior standpoint
Speaker 1: or like those alphas that feel like they're better, but
Speaker 1: those alpha mills that you know, are like, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: just a dog. Like the way he works, the way
Speaker 1: he moves, he just does things the right way. And
Speaker 1: you can kind of feel that you don't have to really,
Speaker 1: there's not too much to be said. And I feel
Speaker 1: like he has taken that role of one of the
Speaker 1: alpha Mel's on that offense for sure. Him adjusting that
Speaker 1: put in an unbelievable amount of work, and even being
Speaker 1: across from him going against them, I definitely have seen
Speaker 1: that work and felt that working. And we push each
Speaker 1: other every time. We always want to go against each other.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make each other better. But are you one
Speaker 1: an Alpha Mel? I was hoping you'd say that because
Speaker 1: kind of a thing I could close my eyes and
Speaker 1: tell you who they are. I don't think i'd be
Speaker 1: far off. I mean, you definitely have that in yet, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: And it's like and it's it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where it's like you don't have to force it. There's
Speaker 1: not something where you just wake up, Okay, let me
Speaker 1: just try to be organic. Yeah, no, you just be yourself, um,
Speaker 1: and you stay true to who you are. And I
Speaker 1: feel like, and my dad all always said, like the
Speaker 1: clean gonna rise to the top. If somebody thought they
Speaker 1: were and had to tell you they were, then they
Speaker 1: wouldn't be. Yeah, definitely, And you know you've been around
Speaker 1: guys done that guy, loud talkers, really the alpha milla,
Speaker 1: all right. So there's a whole buffet of types of
Speaker 1: receivers you're going up against here, and they're all trying
Speaker 1: to find I kind of kind of compared to lobsters
Speaker 1: and a lobster pot, you know, trying to make, you know,
Speaker 1: get seen and find a way because it's it's size, shape, speed,
Speaker 1: a lot more speed, youth. Not a lot of them
Speaker 1: are banged up right now. But has that helped you
Speaker 1: in any way? Oh? Definitely because of the variety. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, because I mean we're going to I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're a lot of talented receivers on the teams
Speaker 1: that were want to play this season. So I mean
Speaker 1: definitely having, like you said, that variety, that versatility of guys.
Speaker 1: Um the smaller, quicker guys, the bigger, stronger guys, the
Speaker 1: longer guys who play user size and play big. I mean,
Speaker 1: just being able to go against those guys are definitely
Speaker 1: good preparation for what I'm going to see this this season,
Speaker 1: all right? Tell us about Alan Williams. He impresses me
Speaker 1: the way he stands in front of the media at
Speaker 1: the podium and just his uh what the way he
Speaker 1: delivers messages. What do you what do you think of
Speaker 1: your defensive coordinators? Just definitely a man, I would say,
Speaker 1: of morals and principles. Um. Just talking to him and
Speaker 1: really learning more about him as a man and not
Speaker 1: only a coach. I mean, the coach coaching stuff is
Speaker 1: going to speak for himself. We're gonna soon find out.
Speaker 1: But I feel like he stands on good morals, stands
Speaker 1: on good principles. It is very articulate. M has good
Speaker 1: intentions for sure. So I mean, just really trying to
Speaker 1: learn what he's about really as a man. Being around
Speaker 1: him more and more, I feel like has given me
Speaker 1: a different perspective, different light on who he is and
Speaker 1: kind of the way that he goes about life, the
Speaker 1: way he looks at life. Um. So I mean I'm
Speaker 1: definitely pleased with I would say, the man that he is.
Speaker 1: The loafs. Have you had any oh, everybody, I'm for
Speaker 1: sure I've asked a loaf now, that's no question. And
Speaker 1: it's like it's funny because it's like, can you plead
Speaker 1: your case or is it an this is it? You
Speaker 1: can definitely plead your case. You can definitely. It's not
Speaker 1: a hard loaf. It's like, okay, coach, well I was
Speaker 1: seeing this, thinking this maybe, and it's like sometimes it's
Speaker 1: like okay, yeah, I can see it, but no loaf.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes it's like okay, like I can understand that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, for the most part, it's it's really
Speaker 1: one of those things where it's like a loaf is
Speaker 1: inevitable because it's like we're not we're not perfect, and
Speaker 1: there's so many different ways you can get a loaf.
Speaker 1: But it's really I would say about limiting those loafs,
Speaker 1: especially when we get into the game or that game tape. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you know you had one, oh yeah, no, Monday
Speaker 1: morning's gonna suck. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's like one
Speaker 1: of those things where it's like you don't want to
Speaker 1: have too many. Yeah, um, I find the less you
Speaker 1: want to be on the on the less side of that,
Speaker 1: for sure. Do you know how many interceptions you've had
Speaker 1: in camp so far? Do they keep Talli's yeah, we
Speaker 1: keep tall. I think I only really got one, all right,
Speaker 1: that numbers going out. Yeah, it's not good. You're never
Speaker 1: going out. It's not good. And it's one of those
Speaker 1: things for me to us like Justin knows when he
Speaker 1: throws the ball, gotta be a good ball. And it's
Speaker 1: like he definitely hasn't made the balls too easy to catch.
Speaker 1: It's always a finger tip for a one hand catch.
Speaker 1: But I definitely got to find a way to bring
Speaker 1: those balls in because I mean, I'm I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in good position. I just have to find a way,
Speaker 1: whether because I mean the balls aren't gonna be thrown
Speaker 1: right to me, but just finding a way to bring
Speaker 1: those tough balls in. I have a feeling just the
Speaker 1: way it's been pounded in you guys. And I've seen
Speaker 1: this before with Lovey Smith's you know, team team principles,
Speaker 1: you know, and the same thought process, and so I
Speaker 1: would always say, hey, listen, you know there's a matter
Speaker 1: of luck involved also and taking the ball away, and
Speaker 1: he'd have none of it, you know. But I do
Speaker 1: believe that because they're the attacking nature, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of tip balls. There's gonna be breakups that
Speaker 1: are gonna result. I think that's a part of it,
Speaker 1: and it becomes a feeding frenzy a little bit. Don't
Speaker 1: you think that that is possible here? Yeah, definitely the
Speaker 1: way that the style of ball that we're gonna play
Speaker 1: gonna give us some more opportunities at getting the ball,
Speaker 1: whether it's fumber recoveries, tip passes, just being aggressive to
Speaker 1: the ball and having guy's really trying to punch the ball,
Speaker 1: I'll break the ball out, and just being aggressive on
Speaker 1: the ball, breaking through the receiver's hands and popping the
Speaker 1: ball up in the air. I mean, as long as
Speaker 1: we're running to the ball, there's no reason why we
Speaker 1: shouldn't have a lot of turnovers. Belief is that also
Speaker 1: something that has to be organic in each other? And
Speaker 1: do you guys believe? Yeah? I feel like that that'll
Speaker 1: build as we see guys putting in the work. And
Speaker 1: I find that's one of those things where it's like
Speaker 1: you have to prove that to your teammates, prove that
Speaker 1: to your coaching, pull that to the staff each and
Speaker 1: every day of what we're going to get out of somebody,
Speaker 1: what they're going to bring to the table um, And
Speaker 1: I mean only your actions can really determine what somebody
Speaker 1: believes in. Um so, I mean really just trying to
Speaker 1: me personally, trying to put the right things out there
Speaker 1: for my teammates to believe in me, and then also
Speaker 1: push guys to really lock in on what's going on,
Speaker 1: lock in a situation, talking on pushing, pushing themselves and
Speaker 1: pushing each other to where we build that belief in
Speaker 1: one another. All right, a couple of fun ones to
Speaker 1: wrap this up. We'll get you out of here. Cheat food?
Speaker 1: What is it? Cheat? Yeah? What what you go through? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well maybe maybe just one that you know, like a
Speaker 1: meal or can it be a desert? Yeah, it can
Speaker 1: be you know, a cheap food, like yeah, I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't be eating this, but I'm gonna. I don't have
Speaker 1: like a certain diet or anything like. So you eat
Speaker 1: where you eat. Yeah, so that's all I'm saying like that,
Speaker 1: all right, So you're not a snack shack? You know,
Speaker 1: at midnight you're raiding the fridge or what are you doing? No? No,
Speaker 1: I try to control that, all right. I would think
Speaker 1: that would be are you a guy that sets an alarm?
Speaker 1: And are you a guy that hits snooze more often
Speaker 1: than that? Just getting up. No, I definitely set an alarm.
Speaker 1: I don't. It's funny because I use snooze fucking additional alarm,
Speaker 1: so like, I'll okay, snows and then I'll get up
Speaker 1: and okay, let me make sure I'm out of the
Speaker 1: shower before the snooze button comes on or something like that.
Speaker 1: But no, definitely, and most of the time I'm up
Speaker 1: before my alarm. Have you developed any hobbies since you
Speaker 1: become a pro anything anything different about jailing off the field? No,
Speaker 1: you just yeah, I'm just yourself. Yeah, I'm all ball.
Speaker 1: I go home and then I talked to my daughter,
Speaker 1: talk to my family or something. Just relaxed, watch a
Speaker 1: movie or something. But other than that, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: all ball. All right, chief Sounse. Saturday, looks like you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna play maybe fifteen to twenty snaps first team.
Speaker 1: You're looking forward to that, oh for sure. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: getting out there and competing with the guys that aren't
Speaker 1: wearing bearrass colors. All right, Well, good luck, have a
Speaker 1: great year, appreciate all the time. Thank you. Jalen Johnson
Speaker 1: our guest. Coming up next, we'll be joined by the
Speaker 1: voice of the Kansas City Chiefs Mitch Holt us to
Speaker 1: talk about the game Saturday at Soldier Field. This is
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Bears on access here in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: the Score, Tom Thayer, Jeff Joniak were brought to you
Speaker 1: by CVW the people to get it with Mitch Holtis,
Speaker 1: the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, legendary voice, and
Speaker 1: they'll be coming to town Saturday to meet the Bears.
Speaker 1: You'll be shaking hands with Ryan Poles, the former thirteen
Speaker 1: year front office man of the Kansas City Chiefs now
Speaker 1: GM of the Bears. What can you tell us about him? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, here's the first fifteen plays. That's it.
Speaker 1: I like it. I love Ryan Ryan's He's seen life
Speaker 1: all the way around the horn. He was with us Priorday,
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and coming here and so he saw us
Speaker 1: go to two and fourteen in the depths of the Earth,
Speaker 1: Dan and the phytoplankton at the bottom of this ocean.
Speaker 1: Then he SAWCE win a Super Bowl championship. So he's
Speaker 1: seen it all. But he's got an understanding very comprehensive
Speaker 1: as an approach. It won't be anything. Hey, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna cave into somebody putting pressure on me. He knows
Speaker 1: the right thing to do might take some time. I
Speaker 1: know the last seventy two hours haven't been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun for him. But that's what the hot seats about.
Speaker 1: But you've got a good guy there, very very very steady,
Speaker 1: but very knowledgeable Mitch. When you're in a system that
Speaker 1: has such a foundation, you know everything that they're going
Speaker 1: to do in practice. Now Jeff and I are at
Speaker 1: the opposite end of the spectrum. We're in a new coach.
Speaker 1: We don't know very well. He's developing a system. When
Speaker 1: you go to work every day, Do you know exactly
Speaker 1: what we're gonna see? Because Jeff and I go to
Speaker 1: work every day and we just don't know what we're
Speaker 1: going to see pretty much, although and he's always changing stuff.
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's brilliant. He's so underrated as a head coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's fifth and all time wins, but I mean, Hallis
Speaker 1: is one of them ahead of him, So let's just
Speaker 1: put that in perspective. That's one of the five four
Speaker 1: ahead of Andy Reid. But he does have consistency in
Speaker 1: the program. So I think that's where and respect. This
Speaker 1: is an awesome culture. And I've seen other cultures. Boys,
Speaker 1: I'm like Poles. I've been around the basis here a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and I've seen it on the other
Speaker 1: side and it is no fun. But Andy Reid when
Speaker 1: he came here, in fact, when he came here, it
Speaker 1: was like the first thirty days he was here, we
Speaker 1: had a we had a discussion. I said, coach, it
Speaker 1: seems like this league is changing. It's like you started
Speaker 1: distrust instead if I'm talking to you guys, and I
Speaker 1: started zero, like can you trust Mitch Holtis or not?
Speaker 1: Now it seems like you're starting at minus five. He said, ah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He goes a little bit, that's true,
Speaker 1: but he goes, it's also the environment that maybe you've
Speaker 1: been in like the several years. He goes, it'll be
Speaker 1: different with us, you'll have I will give you information.
Speaker 1: Then he looks at me and he goes, this is
Speaker 1: your first and last warning, like with the zo and
Speaker 1: I soiled myself and I thought to have a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl ring from this guy. He's amazing in the way
Speaker 1: he respects the human spirit. That's his biggest attribute. He's
Speaker 1: a big time cat man. Mitch Alt is our guest
Speaker 1: here briefly on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score with Tom and Jeff. What are
Speaker 1: you going to see from the Chiefs Saturday? Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: Here's the first thing about this team. They're hyper focused
Speaker 1: and they're a little bit ticked off. They've won the
Speaker 1: AFC six straight times. It never happened in the history
Speaker 1: of the division, going back to the first day of
Speaker 1: the AFL in nineteen sixty, never happened. Raiders haven't done it,
Speaker 1: Broncos haven't done it. And yet everybody's thinking the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are gonna be Mount Vesuvius and covered in molten lava
Speaker 1: by Halloween. That's been all you know. We have nothing
Speaker 1: but talk in this league for five months, and all
Speaker 1: the talk has been look at the AFC West. All
Speaker 1: the chips are in in the riverboat gambling game, and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs will die. Goodbye Chiefs. Well, let's take these
Speaker 1: guys off. The coach still here, the quarterback's still here,
Speaker 1: and in four years as a starter of all the
Speaker 1: metrics other than touchdown passes, Marino's got that byers a
Speaker 1: few Mahomes has all of the other boxes checked qbr
Speaker 1: tdd NT ratio, and he's fifty sixteen is a winner.
Speaker 1: He's still here, okay, and Kelsey's still here. The best
Speaker 1: time end to ever play. And I will tell you
Speaker 1: there's a few surprises here. This has been an outstanding
Speaker 1: camp for these guys so far. So the first thing
Speaker 1: is can they continue this pop and says against another
Speaker 1: team at Soldier Field on Saturday. The second would be
Speaker 1: these renaissance men. I don't sure. Frank Clark's got to
Speaker 1: play much and Chris Jones won't play much, but they've
Speaker 1: had outstanding camps. This is also a very good rookie class,
Speaker 1: really good bunch of rookies. Mitch Well, the loss of
Speaker 1: Hill changed the perception of you guys around the NFL
Speaker 1: about having the fastest team with the fastest, most t
Speaker 1: arm talented quarterback in the league. I don't know. We
Speaker 1: still have McCole Hardman. He pops at four two seven. Okay,
Speaker 1: we could walk watch video tonight. We'll rent a theater
Speaker 1: on Michigan Avenue and show that video. They get sky more.
Speaker 1: He is not in the cheetah range. There's only one
Speaker 1: Cheetah and Tyreek Hill. So it's not equals a comparison.
Speaker 1: This is an algebraic equation where you're gonna get five variables. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but this is not a team lacking in speed. Mark
Speaker 1: Quisveld Scantling. You guys saw him in the division, right.
Speaker 1: He led the league in yards per catch in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and he con zoomed by you two last year.
Speaker 1: In fact, Pro Football Focus had him measured as the
Speaker 1: fastest guy in the league. Get a seventy five yard TDed.
Speaker 1: He was going to twenty two point seven eight miles
Speaker 1: an hour. You're not going to see a soldier field Saturday.
Speaker 1: Go oh, these guys are slow. Tyreek Hill's gone. It's
Speaker 1: like they're going to run the wishbone and look like Army. Now, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. I love Army. By the way, it's nothing
Speaker 1: against the Black Knights, but this is still a team
Speaker 1: that is a lot of speed. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: where they picked up speed, boys, and that is on defense.
Speaker 1: This is a much much faster defense that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: will take into twenty twenty two. All right, last question, Mitchinoia.
Speaker 1: You gotta run, but offensive line plate, that's the big
Speaker 1: conversation here in Chicago to see what goes in front
Speaker 1: of justin fields. This mobile quarterback with a great arm
Speaker 1: and Ryan Poles has great experience at helping build lines
Speaker 1: there in Kansas City. Many feel yours is one of
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best, in the league as
Speaker 1: it's currently constituted. What's his mindset about offensive lineman that
Speaker 1: we should be encouraged about here in Chicago because he
Speaker 1: found Tyler last year. For you guys, He's got some
Speaker 1: guys in late rounds here that caught our attention, including
Speaker 1: Braxton Jones, the fifth round pick at left tackle. No question,
Speaker 1: I love that pick. It's the old adage from weddings right,
Speaker 1: something old, something new, something borrowed, something red, in this
Speaker 1: case getting at left tackle. You go get Orlando Brown Junior.
Speaker 1: Now he's playing another franchise tag at left guard as
Speaker 1: Joe Tuney gave him m King's ransom to bring him in.
Speaker 1: But we were after Super Bowl fifty five, we were
Speaker 1: searching at center. You get the highest rated rookie by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus in the whole league, and that's Creed Humphrey.
Speaker 1: You get him in the second round, ninety one grade
Speaker 1: at right guard. You get the Steel of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one draft in trade Smith because he's just a
Speaker 1: stud and he's a road grader. He's the Bears fans
Speaker 1: would love him like he'll drive you into the earth,
Speaker 1: help you up, and then take your lung out the
Speaker 1: next play. And then a right town. You have Andrew Wiley,
Speaker 1: so a veteran who's grown in your system. You get
Speaker 1: a Steel draft pick. You get a Steel draft pick.
Speaker 1: You go pay for a guy, and you go pay
Speaker 1: for a guy. It's a little bit of all of that.
Speaker 1: You can't have too much money in your offensive line
Speaker 1: against the camp I understand it. But that's why you
Speaker 1: get free agents and you draft to it. Look for
Speaker 1: Poles to do that over time. He's already started with
Speaker 1: those draft picks. He's already got all right, Mitch, thank
Speaker 1: you for the time. We'll hope to see you Saturday.
Speaker 1: I'll shake your hand, my man. See your boys go
Speaker 1: get a great season. Thank you you two. Mitch Holt,
Speaker 1: his voice of the Chiefs here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy. The Score back with more after this. Great
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Speaker 1: slashed think it's final moments here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: before the Bears meet tomorrow at Soldier Field to take
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs. Jeff Jonyak and Tom Fair. Tom, we
Speaker 1: can talk about a lot of different things, but it
Speaker 1: really boils down to the fronts both sides of the
Speaker 1: ball and see how that plays out. I'm really interested
Speaker 1: in seeing that part of the equation tomorrow night. But
Speaker 1: what else are you looking for to see you this morning?
Speaker 1: I mentioned half the team with money and all, but
Speaker 1: I am intrigued. I'm intriguing a lot of these young players. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the offensive defensive line is probably has the
Speaker 1: most competitive, healthy depth right now. So it's gonna make
Speaker 1: some interesting decisions for the coaches after each of these
Speaker 1: preseason performances. And then you know, you gotta find depth
Speaker 1: everywhere at linebacker because of the interplay of the linebackers
Speaker 1: and how important they are to the defense, what style
Speaker 1: of defense and what position and how many and what
Speaker 1: safeties can come and provide a little backup between for
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson and Jaquan Brisker. So I think you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at a team with a new coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Everything's gonna be interesting because it's you know, it's a
Speaker 1: play to play, opportunity to be successful, and like I said,
Speaker 1: catch the attention of a coach there that maybe hasn't
Speaker 1: really formulated a real opinion of what your capabilities are.
Speaker 1: You and I discussed this earlier today. You know, I
Speaker 1: always want to see health obviously, and just you know,
Speaker 1: first downs to lead the touchdowns. But the effort more
Speaker 1: than the outcome. You know, yes, you'd like to win,
Speaker 1: start getting that culture that you believe in each other
Speaker 1: and you're gonna overcome whatev. But you know, just the
Speaker 1: effort that we've seen, we want to make sure it
Speaker 1: transfers well. Jalen Johnson he talked about and giggled at it.
Speaker 1: Woaths are almost gonna happen to everybody, But you better
Speaker 1: not have very many of them games like this because
Speaker 1: when you talk about efforts, speed of the game, and
Speaker 1: what they want to do to help out every the
Speaker 1: performance of this football team, effort is going to be
Speaker 1: one hundred percent evaluated as much as your individual playing assignments.
Speaker 1: We should assume, I guess in many cases here with
Speaker 1: over twenty guys out of practice the last couple of
Speaker 1: days that that will be the case again tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: But plenty of guys that still left. You know, the
Speaker 1: receivers and defensive backs have taken the hit. Tight end
Speaker 1: position is taken a hit, and then of course no
Speaker 1: rock Quan Smith, and that's the elephant in the room. Really,
Speaker 1: the negotiations and a new contract remainstalled. A big disconnect here.
Speaker 1: I don't think players are dwelling on that right now.
Speaker 1: You got to almost treat it like an injury and
Speaker 1: move on. You know, you can't let the business side
Speaker 1: infiltrate the locker room and the rest of the team.
Speaker 1: That is something that ro Quan has gone through individually.
Speaker 1: That's not a part of the team. So he's got
Speaker 1: to get the business side of it dealt with. And
Speaker 1: then everyone, you know, we talk about the running backs
Speaker 1: on this team. If you don't have Dame of Dave Montgomery,
Speaker 1: you have a list of guys that showed that they
Speaker 1: belong competing for an NFL opportunity. And it's going to
Speaker 1: be excited if the offensive line in the plays called
Speaker 1: compliment the running backs and we see those big first
Speaker 1: down runs that we need to have. All we got
Speaker 1: a minute to go equip around the division. You got
Speaker 1: Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins positive for COVID. He'll miss his
Speaker 1: Sunday game. Not sure he was going to play much anyway,
Speaker 1: and also Detroit tied up. Right now, it's seventeen with Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson apologized. He apologized to saying that quote. He
Speaker 1: was truly sorry to all the women that I've impacted
Speaker 1: in this situation. There are decisions I made in my
Speaker 1: life that put me in this position. I would definitely
Speaker 1: like to have back. He is starting tonight, Cleveland trailing
Speaker 1: thirteen nothing in Jacksonville's one up, five for seven yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's something that Cleveland needs to figure out.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson going forward, you know, apparently has to make
Speaker 1: better decisions for himself, and you know, and Cleveland has
Speaker 1: to try to get back on track and get away
Speaker 1: from the noise that's been surrounding them. All Right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna se at the part. You're going there right now.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get set up. I'll be there early, Yes,
Speaker 1: you will. For tom There our guests tonight, including Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson and Mitch Holtis, for our producer Caesar Perez and
Speaker 1: Jordan Trudup. I'm Jeff Jonny Act. Thanks for listening, everybody.
Speaker 1: Gabe Ramirez is coming up next. I'll be with you
Speaker 1: till nine o'clock tonight here on Chicago Sports Radio six
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