WEBVTT - Mark Sanchez on what he's seeing from Justin Fields | All Access Podcast 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.640 And a pleasant good evening, A snowy evening in Chicago 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:05.920 and hired to believe we got the white stuff back. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.400 Some of the players up at have us all today. Yep, 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.000 it's hitting reality. The winter weather has arrived. Welcome into 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.400 Bears All Access. It's brought to you by IGS Energy. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:18.960 Wishing you a pleasant good evening on your travels home 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.040 or wherever you may be with my broadcast partner from 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.000 news radio seven eighty one oh five nine FMWBBM, Chicago 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.880 Bears super Bowl winner Tom There, Good evening time, Jeff, 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:29.880 you're the kind of guy that likes the wintertime. I'm 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.720 the kind of guy that waits for Indian summer, just 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.320 for one more week after that first phreeze. Yeah, I 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.320 didn't get it through any yard work at all. So 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.440 the leaves are still on the grass and hopefully the 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.199 snow will melt in short order. But it's expected to 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.720 be cold. Man, it's going to be colder on here. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.160 Well that's November, that's what you expect. Yeah, no question. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.080 But the Bears hitting the road, they won't be playing 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.600 in this weather. They may be practicing indoors this week 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.720 at the Peyton Center, but we will all break it 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:57.520 down throughout the course of the night, we'll recap the 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.680 Bears lost to the Lions, look ahead the Sunday's trip, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.920 and coming up in the show, former Bears quarterback Mark Sanchez, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.760 who called Sunday's game on Fox for a breakdown of 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.559 the Bears and in particular Justin Fields, so that'll happen 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.720 about six thirty. And former NFL quarterback and now radio 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.920 analysts for the Falcons for a long time now, David 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.640 Archer coming up at six ten. Thanks to our producers 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.920 Dan Brilliant, Jordan's trut up and Sean Sears at the 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:24.360 Score Studios, Tom, he did it again, Justin Fields again. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.760 A national story this week. You know he's gonna be 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.440 a national story the rest of the year because he 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.760 didn't necessarily burst on the scene. He's probably, I mean, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.800 he just started to be so productive with his legs. 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.960 He's hard not to watch in whether you're a Bear fan, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.479 of Falcon fan, or just an NFL fan. He's an 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.080 exciting player that's gonna be fun to watch throughout the 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.480 remainder of this year and hopefully for the next decade. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.640 In Chicago. All Right, Five new NFL or Bears records 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.840 thirteen total touchdown since Week seven, number one of the NFL. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.639 We can go on and on. The one that really 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.080 strikes me, forty eight rushing first downs. That's number one 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.080 in the NFL, excuse me, number one in the NFC, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.840 number six in the NFL regardless of position. And that's 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.040 what's really helped the Bears third down offense now really 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.040 rise because he's doing a lot of it on third 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.880 down as well with his legs, right, you know, I 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.720 think that's probably the most confusing thing to any defensive 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.080 coordinator in the league, is when you get to a 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.760 third and whatever, it's makeable because of the legs of 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.600 Justin fields. Now, how do you play your front seven? 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.840 How do you play your defensive coverage? You know, how 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:37.840 do you distribute the bodies around with the field to 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.800 make sure that you limit the running lanes for Justin? 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.200 And I don't know if you can make him small enough, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.120 because he has the ability to run by anybody. All right. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.160 Matt Eberflews on the Bears Coaching Show last night on 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.359 w BBM on what makes this man as special as 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:59.440 he has been playing. He's obviously very special. First of all, 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.200 he's a special person. You know, he's he's a great teammate, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.880 he's a great leader of his football team. And he 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.520 does it. Do actions first, and he's the first guy 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.000 in the last guy to leave, and he is working 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.720 the same guy every day and he does it. He's 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.000 there after practice and as you know, you know, for 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.960 forty five minutes doing routes with these receivers every single day. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.720 So he's special that way, you know. And we always 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.799 tell a talk about leadership and say, hey, model the 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.120 behavior he wished to see, and that's what he does. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.080 He models that. By doing that, he inspires others, he 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.440 inspires his whole football team by the way he works. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.000 I'll going to the football field itself on game day. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.040 There is no question that he is something that's hard 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.720 to handle us with the opponent because the ability to 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.160 run on the design runs, but also that the unscripted 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.040 ones as well. The third one was a design run. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.960 Everybody knew that he had a potential to keep it 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.560 and he did what he did. And then obviously there's 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.120 the ones where he drops backs and you know, it 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.480 does it does a good job of getting those first 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.320 downs on third down or whatever the situation may be. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.600 But yeah, he's special, and it's opening up asking game 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.960 like the col Comet play, you know, putting defenders in conflict, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.600 not sure what they're going to do that fifty yard touchdown. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.720 Obviously that was an error in judgment on the defense, right, 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.600 but he's putting the defensive coordinators in conflict. They don't 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.600 exactly know what to call on third down, whether it's 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.680 third and one or third and nine. And because the 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.720 effort and the time and the work that Justin puts in, 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.880 as Matt has described as a season ticket holder, and 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.320 excites the heck out of me for what he's going 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.279 to bring as a Bear is alumni. I'm so proud 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.680 to watch this guy and what he does around on 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.800 the field in the way that he's getting mentioned around 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.760 the entire NFL landscape. So it's super fun to hear 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.960 the compliments by Matt Eberflus because he's the guy that 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.599 sees it the most and sees it the closest. We'll 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.960 hear more from Mett just talking about being a defensive coach. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.160 He understands what these guys are going through because he's 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.520 had to stop similar players and he had to adjust 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.240 over the course of his time as a coordinator because 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.440 the league has changed. There's a lot of these guys, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.360 but maybe not a lot of guys like Justin Fields 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.520 or Lamar Jackson. That's that's different, and Justin's different than Lamar. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.440 That run that he bowled over the defender, Deshaun Elliott 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.600 gave him a concussion. That guy's guy's a nasty hitter 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.000 and he lowered his shoulder and blew him up into 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.360 the end zone. I mean, that was all want to 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.919 And he's just he's thick, he runs, he glides. Guys 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:24.840 look like they're standing still when he's running in the 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.520 open field. And he's a lot faster than his time 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.040 forty when he was at the combat. I don't know 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.440 what four four four four six is because that's not 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.839 four four six, right. You know, you're as fast as 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.400 you need to be. And I you know you hear what. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.880 That's what coach Eeverflu says last night. He's fast as 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.680 he needs to be, right because he's got gears. He 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.120 gears down, ere he gears up. You know, when he 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.040 was running away from Jeff Acuda and who's also an 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.320 Ohio State grad, and he didn't necessarily have him in 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.800 his review, mirror. He was tilting his head so he 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.240 could see him. How gratifying that must feel as an 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.840 athlete and everything that Matt talks about, the work he's 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.640 it in to be that accomplished, that in great of 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.159 shape where he can make those kind of runs late 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.279 in the game. And I know he's sore when he 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.960 gets in the locker room, because every time an NFL 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.440 lineman walks in the locker room, they're sore. But I 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.000 just imagine how sore he is. Excuse me, budd, He's 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.960 in such great shape. He has the ability to recover well. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.000 I asked, Also, is the man tired? Do do you 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.679 concern yourself as the season goes on? Does it affect 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.800 his passing down the road if he's doing all of 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.960 this kind of running? And Matt said, hey, we're gonna 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.920 we're gonna keep in a monitor and everybody, we got 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.880 the buye Week coming up in three weeks, and you know, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.560 the next step, obviously, is what everyone's gonna want to 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.920 talk about. Can you start making more plays out of 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.960 the pocket, Will you have more volume of passes? Will 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.000 you be able to finish games as a team in 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.839 fourth quarter? Highly leveraged situations yeah, I think first and 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.960 foremost the question is passing efficiency by Justin fields to 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.320 limit some of that abuse that he takes at the 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.840 conclusion of runs, to limit some of the fatigue and 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.279 the legs if he doesn't have to run as much. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.880 But I think he can become more of a weapon 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.440 if he throws the ball efficiently and then he jets 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.920 the jets the epocket when he needs to, because then 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.080 that's when he can turn third and nine into a 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.320 fifty yard touchdown run. So I'm excited for what the 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.880 future holds, But as a player, I believe that the 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.040 passing game has to be more effective and more part 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.160 of his game as much as his ability to run Bears. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.840 A running back situation did take a hit today. Khalil 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.920 Herbert goes on injured reserve at least for the next 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.440 four games, so he's going to be out until December 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.920 at least. It looked I could happen in that fourth 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.720 quarter kick return something with the hips, so we're going 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.320 to keep an eye on that as well. And Kingsley 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.160 Jonathan and his Wave looks like they're bringing in another 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.360 defensive back in Justin Laye, a former third round pick 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.200 by the Steelers out of Michigan State. We'll catch up 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.000 with all that, but coming up next Mark Sanchez, who 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.040 called the game on Fox, with a breakdown of the 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.680 Bears when we come back. This is Bears All Access 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:09.960 on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score, falk back 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.360 and Bears All Access. It's brought to you by IGS 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.920 Energy with Tom Thayer, Jeff Johnny act here on Chicago 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.080 Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Getting ready earlier this 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.200 week on a Tuesday night. Usually we're later in the 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.080 week by getting ready for a trip to Atlanta to 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.680 the Mercedes Benz Stadium to meet the Atlanta Falcons, a 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.520 team that's lost two in a row and three of four. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.760 Bears have lost six of seven. Now joined by their 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.000 radio analysts and our good friend and my fellow alone 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:37.160 from Iowa State, same graduating class. I believe. I believe 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.800 the man is David Archer, former Falcons quarterback. How you 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.840 doing tonight, Dave, Jeff doing good? Buddy, Go Cyclones, Yes, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.880 go cyc Clones. We need two more wins to be 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.839 Bowl eligible this year. Yeah, we got a little work 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.800 to do. Yeah. Well, it's gonna be about five below 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.800 zero when Tech rolls in, So I think that they're 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.960 gonna have a problem with that, right, I hear about that. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.520 You know, we got a golden domer with us, so 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.760 we can just you know, have a private conversation, you 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.480 and I right here, right, But yeah, yeah, what year 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.120 did you graduate? Eighty four or eighty three? I was 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.320 eighty three, eighty three. Yeah, Tim's year same class as me. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:16.280 Thank you, David, David, you're getting ready. You know. The 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.199 interesting thing is it's it's it's been a long time 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.240 for the Bears to settle in on a quarterback that, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.960 you know, has the ability to not have situations like 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.359 as a rising in Atlanta where people are talking about, Okay, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.520 it's nice, Marcus Mariota's a veteran quarterback. Well, we got 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.000 this guy Desmond Ritter on there and the roster we 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.880 drafted him. Let's take a look at him at this point. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.040 And that seems to be carrying the headlines here after 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.760 the mini buy. What's your take on it. I know 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.440 coach has squashed all that there is no quote unquote situation. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.720 It's Marcus Mariota for the game against the Bears. Well, Jeff, 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.920 it doesn't help that the guy that's coming to town. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.640 Is the guy that everybody Atlanta wanted to draft two 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.320 years ago. The two drafts ago, right we took Puts 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.880 the sight in and Justin Fields, a local kid went 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.440 to Harrison High School right here in Atlanta. That's the 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.160 kid that everybody wanted here. Former Georgia bulldog went went 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.559 to a house day, you know the story. So so yeah, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.400 there's gonna be a lot of that in the stands. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.840 And so because we didn't have him, and we drafted 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.680 a kid this last year in Desmond Ritter, who I 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.200 think is the third all time leader in wins for 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.079 a college quarterback as forty four wins. It's Cincinnati is 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:29.679 kind of sitting in the wings. And he showed some 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.400 promise in preseason, and you guys know and Tom and 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.280 I can both tell you that preseason is different than 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.360 the regular season. But he played well in the preseason, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.920 did some good things with a limited package, and so 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.120 they're chomping at the bit to see him getting the game, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.720 especially the way Marcus played Thursday night. He played like 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.959 a young player. He made a lot of mistakes, put 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.520 the ball in harm's way, and we were struggling offensively anyway. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.400 Without the run game. He's got to try to minimize damage. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.600 He didn't do that. He magnified the problem. So that's 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.760 even a scentuated the conversation about the other guy playing. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.440 But this is a team that's still in the mix. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.360 I mean Tampa's one game head they still play Tampa 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.240 later on in the year. Is even though they're at 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.679 four and six right now, Hey, David, I want to 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.440 like extend a little bit of conversation about the quarterback 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.480 position because Justin Fields is in the position he's in 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.760 and Desmond is looking for his opportunity eventually from the 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.160 time that you came in the league and to where 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.000 it's at now, do you think the terminology in the 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.200 huddle is too exhaustive for the quarterback being able to 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.920 pick it up, know it exactly what it means, knows 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.559 exactly what the audible they're calling within that terminology, and 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.599 then what they have to look at the defense and 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.040 make everything compute into their mind. What do you think 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.120 of the terminology for today's quarterbacks? Yeah, it's it's it's 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.719 ridiculous time. I could see you looking back at me, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.520 if we're in the same buddle looking at me Cross, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.280 I'd like what the hell are you talking about. So 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.880 it used to be used called a formation or protection 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.960 and uplet numbers and off we went right, and then 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.360 if you wanted to change a play at the line 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.480 of scrimmage, it was a double digit number and it changed. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.080 It changed things. There was some memorization attached to it. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.160 It's almost like we've had to remove your ability to 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.040 memorize what's going on in the playbook. You just gotta 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.880 gotta have somebody tell you exactly what to do. I mean, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.840 we're seeing in the college ranks as well. Right, you 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.680 look at the sideline and you've got a guy signaling 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.559 the offensive line. You got a guy signaling the wide receivers, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.199 you got a guy signaling the quarterback. So it's crazy, 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.520 but you're right. The verbiage has gotten exhausted, is the 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.480 right way to say it. This West Coast offense is 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.040 kind of morphed into kind of a West Coast with 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.240 a little bit of the run and shooting it. There's 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.360 all sorts of stuff in it and all the build 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.520 in numbers and names. Now it has you know, Tom there. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.840 You remember the old forty nine er offense. I mean, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.960 think about Joe Montana, those guys. That was pretty wordy, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.840 you know, And so that was kind of an, you know, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.960 kind of an exception to the rule. Is you know 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.240 something that you could get to everybody and get out 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.839 of the huddle, in and out of the huddle. Now 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.960 it's become all of that, And I would agree with you. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.000 I'm glad I don't have to spew that stuff out 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.760 to you guys in the huddle. You know what. Looking 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.880 at your tight end a couple of years ago, when 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.000 Pitts was drafted, he was going to revolutionize the tight 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.120 end position. He was gonna be a wide receiver playing 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.120 tight end and kind of reminds you of of Winslow 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.839 when he was playing in San Diego. Where is he 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.040 at and in his career does he have a lot 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.840 further to go or does he still are they still 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.080 looking for him to make major improvements now? I think 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.840 there's some rawness to him Tom that there's no question 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.480 that he needs to refine some of the things you 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.880 need to do to be a good route runner. I 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.720 think from a physical standpoint, the guy's six six, he's 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.360 got a seven two wingspan, he runs four four, So 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.920 all the physical traits are there, I mean, and you know, 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.440 in all honesty, you know he albeit he had an 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.400 extra game, extra couple of games. You know, he was 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.120 the first tight to go over a thousand yards sin 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.319 ditka did it in Chicago, in you know with what 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.360 he did, so U, I think the guy has has 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.160 the talent to do it, but we're still seeing a 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.719 raw version of it. And I don't know that he's 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.440 necessarily growing this year either, Tom, because the way we're 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.000 playing offense, it's kind of an archaic way of playing offense. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.840 We're running to football, we're running some zone read. Tell 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.440 me if you guys have heard this story before, I 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.480 think you guys are watching the same thing happen up there. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.520 But there's some there's some issues with the passing game. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.360 We can't protect all that well. So the drop back 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.360 pass game is kind of part of what we do. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.560 We do a lot of play action. There's an RPO, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.120 there's there's zone read, there's you know, play action off 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.200 of that. And so I think from a from a 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.280 pure route running, being able to stand outside the numbers 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.520 and affect the game in the slot we're removing, I 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.240 think he's probably I don't know, as you regress, but 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.360 he really hasn't grown that much this year because he 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.480 just haven't gotten the ball enough. Yeah, the ball's not 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.160 going up in a in the year A lot of 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.000 here either. I mean, it's kind of strange league wide, 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.800 what's going on. You're not seeing a lot right now. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.200 I don't know if this is the wave of the future. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.800 I mean, the run games have been something else. And certainly, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.480 and we're David Archer, analysts for the Atlanta Falcons on radio, 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.400 and former NFL quarterback out of Iowa State, joining us 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.760 here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. But 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.680 do you look around and see wow? First of all, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.320 the Bears are leading the league with over two hundred 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.360 yards rushing. Justin has a lot to do with that, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.640 of course, but it's it's the commitment to it, and 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.920 you're seeing it around the league. Is this what we're 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.760 headed completely? Well, it certainly seems like we're making a 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.320 transition back to it, right Jeff. We spread everything's spread out, 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.120 and we started throwing the ball over the yard, and 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.000 I think they realized that the defenses that were beginning 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.800 to adjust to the spread offense looks a little bit 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.360 more of a college feel to it, you know, empty 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.760 sets and all that kind of stuff, and all of 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.120 a sudden, defenses are saying, okay, well we're gonna eat 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.440 your pass. R you want to you want to spread out, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.600 we'll try to jam or seer to line of scrimmage, 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.480 will disrupt timing, and we're going to get after your passer. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.960 And you're seeing teams get after the quarterback. Now that 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.160 the evolution of that was the short pass the game. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:11.880 Now we've got the bubble screens and all that kind 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.880 of stuff you see at the college level. And now 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.200 they're they're growing into that. They're they're finding a way 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.520 to defend that. And you look up and now there's 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.000 lighter players on the field. Defense over. You've got six 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.360 dbs on the field. Well, I'm going to run the 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.520 ball against six dvs. Tom. I'll tell you back in 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.760 the day, if we saw you go light with an 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.480 extra DV or two, we're gonna pound your rear in. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.200 With the run game and the evolution of the quarterback 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.640 now with the ability to run, you know, justin fields, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.880 the guy down here, Marcus Mariota is still very capable 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.080 of snapping off a forty fifty yard run if you 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.040 give him room they'll do that too. So the evolution 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.840 of the quarterback from an more of an athlete standpoint 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.880 as opposed to the pocket quarterback. And then kind of 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.760 the defense is the ebb and flow of them trying 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.080 to cover these spreads and offense is realizing, well, they 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.200 got lighter defenders on the field, We're going to attack 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.400 that with a run game. That's kind of awesome. The 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.000 run game again. All of a sudden, David, what do 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:07.159 you think at Justin Fields right now? Well, you know, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.520 Durry was out. I know after the first year. I 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.760 liked him. I thought he was in by draft analysis 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.720 down here as we got ready because we thought we 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.840 were going to take a QB to two drafts ago, right, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.719 so we really looked at the quarterbacks hard in our 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.040 draft now, says I thought Justin was the second best 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.399 quarterback coming out. I thought he was right behind Trevor 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.480 Lawrence is the second best guy. Trey Lance hadn't played 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.040 very much. I didn't like that scenario, and I never 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.120 liked the kid from BYU. I just think he'd played 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.399 against the competition that Justin Fields had played against. So 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.960 that's why I liked him. I thought it was a 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.000 little bit he started kind of slow, but then I 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.680 began to think, Okay, well, wait a minute. The Kays 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.280 a rookie, give him a chance, and it's starting to 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.080 come for him. They're starting to kind of play the 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:51.920 game the way he can play it. I mean, what 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.000 averaging about twenty twenty one throws a game he's talking 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.320 in about. They're calling some frun plays plus something promptus 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.040 somewhere in that ten to twelve times a game for 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.359 him to run it. And so he's able to affect 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.960 the game physically the way he did in college. And 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.400 so I think his comfortability playing at this level, knowing 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.760 what he can and can't get away with, is starting 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.239 to come. I think obviously the aeros pointed way up. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.480 His last two weeks have been phenomenal running the football, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:18.959 and I think he's just going to get better as 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.320 a passer. David, You know, a lot when I talk 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.479 to people about playing for dick in the eighties, a 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.800 lot of people say, oh, you know, the modern day athlete, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.359 They couldn't take a guy with Dickon's personality and his 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.240 sideline demeanor. But I look at your guy, and I 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.840 look at the way he was yelling at not yelling, coaching, yelling, 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.640 whatever you want to call it during the preseason. And 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.800 then he's got you know, that face that if you 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.880 make a mistake, he's kind of scary to come back 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.480 to the sideline too. Is that good for this team 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.719 or how do people perceive him? I think the biggest 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.080 thing Tom is his ability to kind of coach everybody 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.920 the same. And I think that was what he came 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.000 in with. And I know you appreciated this about coach 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.040 Ditka is it didn't matter whether you were a star 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.439 player like Jimmy Mack or whoever it was, you were 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:11.960 going to get your ass too if you did the 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.400 wrong stuff coming off the field. And he's treated everybody 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.960 the same. And frankly, we don't have a ton of 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.000