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Speaker 1: Jeff Chiliac, aka the Mayor of Bearsville, and his sidekick
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Speaker 3: A fourth draft class of rookies now the Bears Den
Speaker 3: selected by General manager Ryan Poles at his football operations staff,
Speaker 3: in concert with head coach Ben Johnson and his staff.
Speaker 3: The collaborative effort drawing Rave reviews as the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five version of the Bears Taking Shait Welcome into Bears
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Speaker 3: Network with Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom Thayer and
Speaker 3: former Bears quarterback Jim Miller from sirius XM NFL Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm Jeff Jonayak coming up with the program. We visited
Speaker 3: with one of the Bears three second round picks, defensive
Speaker 3: lineman Shamart Turner out of Texas A and M. You'll
Speaker 3: enjoy the conversation thanks to our producers Dan Brially, Jordan Treadup,
Speaker 3: and in the ESPN studios tonight, Jack mcgraft, the executive
Speaker 3: producer of the Bears Radio Network, Eric ASTROSI good evening, gentlemen,
Speaker 3: and we're still talking draft. Jim Miller. You're situated down
Speaker 3: there in South Florida. You were at the draft in
Speaker 3: green Bay. Tommy tells me six hundred thousand people showed up.
Speaker 3: I still don't know where they put him, Jim. Was
Speaker 3: it a good experience up there?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I thought they did a good job. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: got them all in. But a lot of friends of
Speaker 4: mine were in the mosh pit. And after green Bay,
Speaker 4: selected in the first round, had emptied out, there were
Speaker 4: only six guys left, and I think they were all
Speaker 4: my friends. They all went to the bar to celebrate,
Speaker 4: is what the green Bay Packer fans did. So it
Speaker 4: was green Bay oriented, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Tom. You know, I think Chicago, buddy.
Speaker 5: Right, you know, Well, that's the thing about it is
Speaker 5: is once the NFL put this thing on a place
Speaker 5: to place type of draft opportunity for the cities that
Speaker 5: don't have Super Bowls and stuff, I think it's neat
Speaker 5: to see what the next city did. What the next
Speaker 5: thing he does. Green Bay did a good job with
Speaker 5: their population and what they have surrounding lambeau Field. And
Speaker 5: I don't know where it is next year, but Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: That will be interesting because Pittsburgh, of all the NFL
Speaker 5: stadiums outside.
Speaker 6: Of Soldier Field, it's probably my most.
Speaker 5: Favorite stadium to go to because of the loyalty of
Speaker 5: the fans and you know how they support that organization
Speaker 5: and that football team. So I bet Pittsburgh will have
Speaker 5: an enormous showing a lot like Chicago did.
Speaker 3: And Tom and I discussed a lot of this on
Speaker 3: the Bears Etc. Podcast. Jim our review of the draft?
Speaker 3: What is your review of the Bears draft? Our first
Speaker 3: chance to talk to you post draft?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like it, you know, I like what they did.
Speaker 4: They got some weapons for their young quarterback. I think
Speaker 4: we know the emphasis of their new head coach Ben Johnson.
Speaker 4: A lot of twelve personnel. I'm sure you guys talked
Speaker 4: about that. You got to look at Love is more
Speaker 4: of a receiving type of tight end. Burdens just an
Speaker 4: absolute burner, you know, and you know there's not a
Speaker 4: defensive back that's going to run for him. Step first step,
Speaker 4: so he definitely can stretch the field. It'll be interesting
Speaker 4: how he's utilized. Obviously Detroit look at their use of Williams,
Speaker 4: who's a burner up there. I think Ozzie to Trapillo,
Speaker 4: don't sleep on the on the tackle. I actually talked
Speaker 4: to Bill O'Brien, the head coach of Boston College. He
Speaker 4: said he's a he's a heck of a player. At
Speaker 4: times he can get a little too high, but I
Speaker 4: think you look at him as a swing tackle. He
Speaker 4: can play both right and left if needed in a pinch,
Speaker 4: and I think if he would have played Day one,
Speaker 4: I don't think that'd be an issue for him at
Speaker 4: either right or left tackle. And then obviously with the
Speaker 4: loss of a linebacker here in the offseason, you know
Speaker 4: they get the Hippolyte, who's a speedy linebacker, comes with
Speaker 4: a lot of blazing speed. I know we'll talk to
Speaker 4: Shamar as wal Schamar Turner to to the defensive line,
Speaker 4: but I think overall areas of need that were attacked,
Speaker 4: but I think obviously specifically to help out the young quarterback.
Speaker 3: And Tom, where is your head at right now in
Speaker 3: terms of the offensive line. This morning on capin hood.
Speaker 3: On ESPN one thousand, the flagship of the Bears radio network,
Speaker 3: Ryan Poles talked about, you know, they may let him
Speaker 3: start out at left tackle, have that competition with Karna A. Magash,
Speaker 3: you see where Braxton Jones is at, and see how
Speaker 3: it all plays out. But he emphasized that he really
Speaker 3: would like to get this offensive line kind of settled
Speaker 3: earlier rather than later, as opposed to making flip flops
Speaker 3: all around the offensive line. He'd like to get well,
Speaker 3: however long that takes, and get something settled with five
Speaker 3: guys and have them work together throughout camp.
Speaker 5: Well, Jeff, I think before they ever put spikes on,
Speaker 5: I think they are a better offensive line right now
Speaker 5: than what they started the season last year and the
Speaker 5: way they concluded it because there were so many question marks.
Speaker 5: There are guys that weren't practicing. You weren't able to
Speaker 5: develop the consistency with a rookie quarterback, and so I
Speaker 5: think that really stunts your growth. So I think if
Speaker 5: you got four fifths of that offensive line almost decided
Speaker 5: already and then you kind of figure out what you
Speaker 5: can do at the left tackle position, you have a
Speaker 5: competitive veteran like Braxton Jones, that's coming from an injury.
Speaker 5: You got Karan Amagaji that's got a tremendous upside. He's
Speaker 5: got the template, he's got the intelligence, he's got the athleticism,
Speaker 5: he's got a little bit a little bit of experience,
Speaker 5: and he knows what he needed to work on. And
Speaker 5: Dan ro shared the new offleensive line coach knows what
Speaker 5: he needs to work on with him. And like Jim said,
Speaker 5: Azzi Trapillo, he's got everything that you're asking for an
Speaker 5: offensive line and he's got dedication, durability. He comes from
Speaker 5: a program that preaches discipline, and he's got NFL bloodlines,
Speaker 5: and I think he understands what it takes to be
Speaker 5: a Division one college football player, but what it's gonna
Speaker 5: take to be an NFL pro.
Speaker 3: And Jim, I know you're you have a good relationship
Speaker 3: with the Boston College coach Bill O'Brien from all the
Speaker 3: years in the NFL, and I'm sure with with his
Speaker 3: check mark on that it means something to you. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, certain schools, you know, they're known for certain things.
Speaker 4: Iowa obviously tight ends, Penn State hold on, hold.
Speaker 2: On Notre Dame.
Speaker 6: Notre Dame's tight end. You Jim So let's get that
Speaker 6: straight right now.
Speaker 4: He's gonna put Notre Dame in there. Penn State's in
Speaker 4: there as well, you know. But Boston College is known
Speaker 4: for offensive alignment. Yeah, they've had I mean, look at
Speaker 4: Chris Lindstrom. He's considered one of the best guards in football.
Speaker 4: He's a Boston College player down there for the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 4: So I think Gazi Trapillo, he was given a stamp
Speaker 4: of approval head coach said, he's tough as nails, you know.
Speaker 4: And this guy he'll play and he's played a lot
Speaker 4: of football. I'd say that about Luke Newman, who they
Speaker 4: took out of Michigan State. Obviously, Dan Roschar knows a
Speaker 4: lot about him. I don't think Luke Newman and missed
Speaker 4: a college game, you know, and he'd win against some
Speaker 4: top tier talent as well. But yeah, I think Ozzie
Speaker 4: if that battle and it will be competitive, and I
Speaker 4: think that's a good thing. You know, it's going to
Speaker 4: raise the level of play of Amagaji. I would think
Speaker 4: Braxton Jones he knows he's on notice, and Nazi Trapillo
Speaker 4: is hungry. He knows that spot's available too, So cream
Speaker 4: will always rise to the top. They spend a lot
Speaker 4: of money on their offensive line, and I tend to
Speaker 4: agree with Ryan Poles, they've got to fix their O line.
Speaker 4: They've led the league in sacks. Granted, if you were
Speaker 4: to go back with Justin Fields, he missed five games
Speaker 4: whatever it was two years ago, but they've they've led
Speaker 4: the league in sacks the last three years. If people
Speaker 4: aren't aware of that, that can't happen. It can't happen again.
Speaker 4: So you got to address it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think he's it's almost like seeing a
Speaker 3: bad movie over and over again with the amount of
Speaker 3: changes on the offensive line, many times due to in
Speaker 3: game issues, whether it be injury or performance. But I
Speaker 3: think last year it was twenty three in game and
Speaker 3: twenty one overall combinations. Tom, we all agree it happens,
Speaker 3: but it can't happen to that extent. Otherwise you're just
Speaker 3: you're just spinning your wheels a little bit, aren't you,
Speaker 3: in terms of that chemistry, And and you know, we
Speaker 3: only we only look at it, not we but I
Speaker 3: think most people only look at it from a quarterbacks
Speaker 3: perspective and protection pass protection, but it does impact the
Speaker 3: running game as well, and that's important here.
Speaker 5: Well, the thing about it is you never had a
Speaker 5: chance to develop chemistry because you've never had a group
Speaker 5: of guys in there five at a time that stayed
Speaker 5: in there for an extended period of time, from the
Speaker 5: time Ryan Bates got hurt until uh, you know, just
Speaker 5: the other issues that they had up and down the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage that there was no consistency in.
Speaker 6: The group in front of Caleb.
Speaker 5: So you can't become familiar with with that group. And
Speaker 5: I and I think Coleman Shelton did a great, really
Speaker 5: nice job at center, saving that position and helping that
Speaker 5: offensive line have I'm consistency at a position and are
Speaker 5: now sorry.
Speaker 4: It's just how do you stay on schedule? You have
Speaker 4: that many negative plays? And even running the football, you
Speaker 4: have that many negative plays, whether it's the lack of continuity,
Speaker 4: whether it's the changing of the offensive line. Good luck
Speaker 4: calling a game. You know the Bears they had a
Speaker 4: new offensive coordinator, what was it Week nine, week ten?
Speaker 4: I mean it did not go well. It's hard if
Speaker 4: you're not on schedule. Good luck, good luck, because the
Speaker 4: minute you start getting in second and fifteen second and
Speaker 4: twelve second and thirteen, you're running games out of the equation.
Speaker 4: As Tom knows. I mean, if you call run play
Speaker 4: on first and second or first down and it's a
Speaker 4: negative two yards or three yards, second and thirteen is
Speaker 4: not going to be another run, it's going to be
Speaker 4: a pass play. You're almost forced into that situation from
Speaker 4: just the way quarduators think. And so you know, and
Speaker 4: then your one dimensional team's already got you on your
Speaker 4: heels and you're playing right into the formula. So those
Speaker 4: negative plays just cannot happen. They can't happen.
Speaker 3: And from that perspective alone, the Bears that were going
Speaker 3: to be better in twenty twenty five, I think, I
Speaker 3: think we can all agree that that will not be
Speaker 3: tolerated and that won't happen. Hopefully we knock on wood
Speaker 3: here for twenty twenty five. All right, when we come back,
Speaker 3: Shamark Turner joins us, I sit down with the second
Speaker 3: round pick out of Texas A and M. He's coming
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Speaker 3: more importantly, welcome to the charter franchise of the National
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Speaker 7: How does it feel to be a Chicago Bear?
Speaker 8: M man, it feels great. I'm not gonna I don't
Speaker 8: even know where to start. My mom is still all
Speaker 8: over the place, bro, but it's exciting. I'm not gonna lie, man,
Speaker 8: come into a great city like this, with the fan
Speaker 8: base that y'all have, like selling out ninety nine point
Speaker 8: one percent of season tickets, it's crazy. You've done like
Speaker 8: all y'all tickets is so it's crazy. So yeah, nah,
Speaker 8: I feel like playing for a city like this and
Speaker 8: doing it the right way.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun. I'm not gonna lie. Well, let's
Speaker 2: show people.
Speaker 3: You saw it on a Barti trophy in the lobby.
Speaker 3: So that's nineteen eighty five. It's been a man now
Speaker 3: forty years. But they always say you win here. They
Speaker 3: love you forever. You're a legend forever. So that that's
Speaker 3: how passionate this fan base is. It's why I level
Speaker 3: what I do.
Speaker 7: They're gonna love what you do too.
Speaker 3: You seem to play with that emotion and organic passion
Speaker 3: that bears fans embrace.
Speaker 7: Do I have you figured out a little bit here?
Speaker 7: You play that way?
Speaker 2: Yeaes Sirtain. Ah, Yeah, I play. I played pretty passionate. Man.
Speaker 8: I love this game so much and done so much
Speaker 8: for me, man and my family, Like, and you can't
Speaker 8: do nothing but pay respects back by shoe playing hard
Speaker 8: and having fun bouncing around.
Speaker 3: When you were introduced to the Chicago media on the
Speaker 3: Zoom call last night, I think you are answering questions,
Speaker 3: but at the same time, as you indicated, your head
Speaker 3: was spinning, and I don't think you believed it's happening.
Speaker 7: Like that was my impression.
Speaker 3: You tell me though, because you were living it going.
Speaker 8: To line uh man, that I really just got picked
Speaker 8: and it still didn't feel real, and it probably still
Speaker 8: won't feel real till I put the pass in Jersey
Speaker 8: on the Hilm. When it passed on, man, it just
Speaker 8: felt like a dream come true and I just got
Speaker 8: cun stop smiling. I know I apologized a lot yesterday,
Speaker 8: but I just it's crazy, bro.
Speaker 7: You don't never apologize.
Speaker 3: That's the beauty of being And you had the wrong
Speaker 3: motion that everybody feels it's all the hard work that.
Speaker 7: It was what you did, like you only know what
Speaker 7: it took to get here.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the cool thing about the draft
Speaker 3: because no matter where a player goes, whether it's the
Speaker 3: number one pick of the two hundred and fifty seventh pick,
Speaker 3: you did it. You reached one of your most significant
Speaker 3: goals in the one humanity.
Speaker 2: Man can do it.
Speaker 8: A lot of people do not get the opportunity. So
Speaker 8: no matter where you go, like, it's just another opportunity,
Speaker 8: and this opportunity that not a lot, not a lot
Speaker 8: of people at all get to do and they dream
Speaker 8: about it as kids and still don't get to do it.
Speaker 8: So just getting this opportunity.
Speaker 7: The people you know that thought you'd never get.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, there's a few people.
Speaker 8: It's a few people I know that probably thought I
Speaker 8: was gonna go a few different places with everything. But
Speaker 8: you know, just staying on the right path, stay, keep
Speaker 8: my mind, keep my faith high, and to praying to
Speaker 8: that man and keeping him in the middle of everything.
Speaker 2: Big You me pretty good, bro, So to stand still clear, bro?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: So you get the call from Ryan Poles at that moment,
Speaker 3: can you take me there?
Speaker 7: And what this last twenty four hours has been talking
Speaker 7: to coach Ben Jonson?
Speaker 8: Man, Uh, get that phone call was? I was trying
Speaker 8: to hold my emotions back. I couldn't. They took over
Speaker 8: on me. But uh man, getting that call was. Getting
Speaker 8: that call was special. You know, being able to change
Speaker 8: you on your family's life. You in your family's last name,
Speaker 8: you can start a legacy. You can create an actual
Speaker 8: good background and good base for your family's name. Somebody
Speaker 8: can always look you up this Popaul, uncle, cousin, whatever.
Speaker 8: I always can always look that last name up and say, man,
Speaker 8: he started this for us, and sure hopefully I can
Speaker 8: keep it going. But yeah, nah, it's it was a
Speaker 8: dream come true. To answer your question.
Speaker 7: That is cool. That is cool.
Speaker 3: How did your skill set compliment the defensive line here?
Speaker 3: Now you're gonna get to know them quicker than you think.
Speaker 3: It's a new scheme here, obviously with Dennis Allen, but
Speaker 3: he like long guys that played violent. So hey, man,
Speaker 3: do you check all those boxes for coach Allen?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, oh my god. Yeah. No, we're gonna play violent.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be physical, and.
Speaker 8: I feel like this d line man, I feel like, Bro,
Speaker 8: if you get somebody in there that can jump that
Speaker 8: thing off and get that fire started, yeah, nah, we're
Speaker 8: gonna it's gonna be scary. And you put it in Chicago,
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna lie. Uh, but that energy, Bro, I'm
Speaker 8: a brain.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 8: It's not only when I'm making plays, but when I
Speaker 8: see guys that that I've been working with, a grinder
Speaker 8: would make plays like We're gonna bounce around and that
Speaker 8: defense gonna be defense, gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: This team is gonna be crazy.
Speaker 7: And you always played this way back to pee wee.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just juiced up. I don't know what it is, bro,
Speaker 8: It's just a love for the game.
Speaker 2: I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 8: It's just when I get on that field, I put
Speaker 8: the helmet on, it's just like a whole nother, like
Speaker 8: buttoning a whole nother.
Speaker 7: Shamar Turner, do you remember the first tackle you ever made?
Speaker 2: Man? Uh?
Speaker 8: It was actually we do. We used to do like
Speaker 8: an alley drill in the Little league and it was
Speaker 8: against Byron Murphy, which is crazy. Yeah, So he used
Speaker 8: to play running back for US De Soto Dolphins and
Speaker 8: we was doing a tackling drill we're doing the alley.
Speaker 8: He was at running back and I'm a linebacker. So yeah,
Speaker 8: that collision was it was one to be remembered.
Speaker 7: I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: How do you think you fit the culture that Ben
Speaker 3: Johnson is trying to create here and he's not trying,
Speaker 3: he is creating here.
Speaker 8: I feel like I fit right in with everything he
Speaker 8: got going on. Man, fast, physical and attack. You just
Speaker 8: go and literally your hard work and dedication gonna take
Speaker 8: you everywhere you want to go. So put his hard
Speaker 8: work and then go get in there. Man, you're gonna
Speaker 8: be I feel like I fit the system. Uh pretty well.
Speaker 3: I read where you idolized the great Ray Lewis was accurate.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's my dog.
Speaker 7: I think energy Why Ray.
Speaker 8: Because like I said, how he played being a big
Speaker 8: dude like that, Like he had his trenchs, he had
Speaker 8: his weaknesses, but nobody wanted to come across that field ever.
Speaker 8: And like his work ethic even after he was Ray Lewis,
Speaker 8: even after he was five too, like he was still going.
Speaker 8: He's still a dog. He's still doing it today. Like
Speaker 8: just looking up the guys that have success and still
Speaker 8: go after they had a success.
Speaker 2: Those are guys.
Speaker 3: I really you look over that right shoulder right there,
Speaker 3: and you see that.
Speaker 9: Logo, guys, just like that in the history of this
Speaker 9: Dick Bucks, Dick Buddy step Michael Dan Hampton, the eighty
Speaker 9: five Fairs, Okay, Mike Singletary, Yeah, the fire is there
Speaker 9: for sure.
Speaker 3: I saw this written about you too, and I had
Speaker 3: to write it down. This is even before I knew
Speaker 3: we were drafting. You all adrenaline all the time, and
Speaker 3: the way you're moving here still are you all adrenaline
Speaker 3: all the time?
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, I'm always It's always go, especially when I
Speaker 8: get excited, especially when I'm anxious and ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 8: everything is always. I'm pretty I'm a pretty intense dude.
Speaker 2: They say so with a smile.
Speaker 7: On your face, though. I love that intensity is the intensity?
Speaker 7: What was it Lake playing on that defensive line?
Speaker 3: I mean that was almost a famous recruiting class of
Speaker 3: five star players like yourself, another Shamar who happen to
Speaker 3: be another beast, and another fiery player, and obviously a
Speaker 3: Nick Gorton comes over from Purdue. And I'm sure there
Speaker 3: are others that I'm not remembering, but that's pretty potent defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, having guys, around you.
Speaker 8: They can, they can go and that you pretty much
Speaker 8: don't have to do that too and worry about like
Speaker 8: you can actually go.
Speaker 2: Man, it was great.
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna lie going to A and M with
Speaker 8: playing with that defensive line the years I had, man,
Speaker 8: it was good. It was always good, and we always
Speaker 8: had some pretty good players. But this year, having two edges,
Speaker 8: they can they can do their thing out there was
Speaker 8: it was lovely.
Speaker 2: It's lovely, especially as a three take, it's lovely.
Speaker 7: Do you care where you play along the defensive line
Speaker 7: and what's.
Speaker 3: The best weight you feel the best act to do
Speaker 3: everything you want to do?
Speaker 8: No, I actually I want to be that check piece,
Speaker 8: that pustle piece where shooting on third down they can
Speaker 8: put me at five technique or shoot they want to
Speaker 8: throw me in a zero one technique too. I will
Speaker 8: literally wherever they want to put me where whenever. Like,
Speaker 8: I love being that player for the people, love being
Speaker 8: that player for guys and coaches. So my best best
Speaker 8: playing way was the actually the spring, uh was that
Speaker 8: my junior season was that spring of fall camp camp.
Speaker 8: I think it was spring right at two ninety so
Speaker 8: two ninety ninety five.
Speaker 2: I feel like I can I can go.
Speaker 3: Mister damage all right, DeSoto High School last one, DeSoto,
Speaker 3: Texas that you you're from, Van Miller's Nave comes up too,
Speaker 3: So you kind of have this whole thing going on
Speaker 3: with all these these great players.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you've ever been to Vine's camps.
Speaker 3: I mean they're legendary, right, Uh huh? Is that another
Speaker 3: symbol just of where you've come from and where you're now.
Speaker 8: Here where you can write there, Yes, Sir, Yavana is
Speaker 8: definitely a great, great symbol of great guy to look at,
Speaker 8: especially when coming from the Soto. That DeSoto pipeline is
Speaker 8: crazy and we worked hard. We that's what we pretty
Speaker 8: much instilled while you're at the Sodo. You're gonna bust
Speaker 8: your ass, you're gonna work hard, and you're gonna go
Speaker 8: and then attensity is always gonna be there.
Speaker 2: And I feel like that's that's where it all started
Speaker 2: with Boring.
Speaker 7: It's just the way we like it here in Chicago.
Speaker 7: Welcome thangulations man, Appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Well, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Schamart Turner entertaining interview guys, and
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, Jim and Tom he was he
Speaker 3: was moving in the chair, the legs are pumping, he's
Speaker 3: clicking his fingers. That wasn't me doing that, that was him.
Speaker 3: I got a real kick out of him. And this morning,
Speaker 3: also on the ESPN one thousand with capin hood uh
Speaker 3: he Ryan Poles addressed you know, he'd like to see
Speaker 3: what kind of creativity Tom Dennis Allen can do with
Speaker 3: the length of a Shamart turner the length of a
Speaker 3: Javon Dexter outside as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you still have to start with the
Speaker 5: explosiveness of Grady Jared, you know, because he's gonna be
Speaker 5: the instigator of pressures if he can have a good
Speaker 5: three technique season where he is exposing offensive lineman being
Speaker 5: out of position, because then you're opening the creases for
Speaker 5: the outside rushers and the other inside rushers, and then
Speaker 5: I think it's going to open up the versatility opportunities
Speaker 5: for Dennis Allen. I mean, you have characters right now
Speaker 5: that you could go to a five man defensive line
Speaker 5: that's not run very often in the NFL, but it
Speaker 5: was ran back in the day, and then you can
Speaker 5: have an.
Speaker 6: Asset at every position.
Speaker 5: I love his attitude because he doesn't care where he
Speaker 5: is going to play, and he feels he can play everywhere,
Speaker 5: and at two hundred and ninety pounds. If you're a
Speaker 5: two hundred and ninety pound outside force in the run game,
Speaker 5: I mean you're doing a lot to create a winning
Speaker 5: mismatch against some of those exterior blockers. So I'm super
Speaker 5: excited for him. I hope he plays to his attitude
Speaker 5: because he's got the attitude that belongs in that locker room.
Speaker 4: I think. For I don't think he's got the length
Speaker 4: that that you're looking for. I do think he could
Speaker 4: be a penetrating inside interior rusher. He is relentless. He's
Speaker 4: got a temper now too, Like when you say, you
Speaker 4: know he's shifting in his chair, I mean, this guy
Speaker 4: does play with a lot of emotion. At the end
Speaker 4: of the day, does have a ton of production thirty
Speaker 4: five starts for his college career at Texas A and M.
Speaker 4: But it's really his attitude. He plays with a lot
Speaker 4: of attitude and he uses that energy. I guess that
Speaker 4: emotion that you were tapping into Jeff definitely to his advantage,
Speaker 4: is what i'd say for Shamar.
Speaker 5: You know he wore he wore a single digit number
Speaker 5: on his college Jersey. Did they know what number these
Speaker 5: guys are, what he's gonna be yet?
Speaker 3: Not yet yet.
Speaker 6: I just looked that up.
Speaker 3: I want to Tony's holding that one close to the best.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I know that choice.
Speaker 5: I don't think he can uh well, can you wear
Speaker 5: in the NFL a single digit on the defensive line?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right, of course you can give him his choice, all right,
Speaker 5: Kyler Gordon's not gonna like that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, We're gonna take a break. That's down there.
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Speaker 3: coming up next week for the rookies, and should be
Speaker 3: a fun look at everybody. More conversation fellas on some
Speaker 3: other positions. Obviously, the tackle position is one of interest,
Speaker 3: but the running back position with the returning DeAndre Swift,
Speaker 3: Roshawn Johnson, you've got obviously Booker you've got also, Uh,
Speaker 3: Ian Wheeler is what I'm saying. Excuse me, Ian Wheeler.
Speaker 3: I keep calling him Booker whack back to last preseason
Speaker 3: and I don't know why. It's bugging me to no
Speaker 3: end if I have to say so myself. But Ian Booker.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And and some others including a draft pick that that
Speaker 3: came in and just popping some tape on Jim I was.
Speaker 3: I was talking to Tom about Kyle and young guy
Speaker 3: from Rutgers watching him in pass pro is kind of
Speaker 3: treatd very physical guy. That's for their seventh round pick.
Speaker 3: But uh, Poles was asked about that this morning as
Speaker 3: well on capin Hood and Uh, there's options about signing
Speaker 3: a running back in free agency that uh there they
Speaker 3: could explore, but they want to see what the current
Speaker 3: room is like, see what the staff thinks before anything
Speaker 3: else is brought to the table.
Speaker 4: Tommy, Yeah, well there's gonna be plenty out there.
Speaker 2: In agency.
Speaker 4: I mean, certainly because of the running back position. I
Speaker 4: do think it took, you know, a good step forward.
Speaker 4: I think everybody's talking about how the running back position
Speaker 4: was devalued. I think with the year that Saquon Barkley
Speaker 4: had last year he rushes for two thousand, he kind
Speaker 4: of put Philadelphia on their back. I thought the year
Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs had, you know here the Raiders get rid
Speaker 4: of him. I thought he performed very well for the
Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers. And there were twenty eight running backs
Speaker 4: drafted in this year's draft. There were thirty guys that
Speaker 4: they expected to be drafted. So you do see kind
Speaker 4: of a resurgence at that position. And obviously with Saquan
Speaker 4: getting the biggest deal in NFL history, I'm not saying
Speaker 4: that all backs are are going to get up there
Speaker 4: with him and Christian McCaffrey. I think it's James Cook
Speaker 4: right now for the Bills. He wants like fifteen million
Speaker 4: a year. I don't see the Bills doing that. But
Speaker 4: it kind of put the position back on the map,
Speaker 4: so you know, productive backs, and I think it wasn't
Speaker 4: until round four. Obviously, two win in the first round.
Speaker 4: Then there's started to be a picking in the second,
Speaker 4: in the third round, and then really the fourth round.
Speaker 4: Running back position starting to flow pretty steadily, and obviously
Speaker 4: the Bears got a good one in the seventh round
Speaker 4: with the big tenor very powerful back. Guy loves football,
Speaker 4: same thing, and you know he'll have a shot. And
Speaker 4: I think for the Bears, we know they got to
Speaker 4: be able to run the football. They were twenty seventh
Speaker 4: in the league last year running the ball. Hopefully the
Speaker 4: continuity on the offensive line will solidify it. And I
Speaker 4: believe even Ben Johnson, I think they're going to do
Speaker 4: more under the center stuff with Caleb Williams. So you
Speaker 4: would think play action is going to be a big
Speaker 4: part about it, a big part of it, and they've
Speaker 4: got to be able to sell it. And they've got
Speaker 4: to be able to sell it.
Speaker 5: You know, Jim, when you talk about Manongai and he
Speaker 5: comes from a Greg Ciano led program, he's a really serious,
Speaker 5: you know in you know, head coach that really has
Speaker 5: high standards for the work ethic of everybody on his
Speaker 5: team offense and defense. That's why Hippolyte I'm also encouraged
Speaker 5: by him because I think if you make it through
Speaker 5: a Greg Ciano program. It tells me a little bit
Speaker 5: about your background and what. Yeah, they're tough on what
Speaker 5: you're willing to do. So Ian Wheeler and Manunguy, they're
Speaker 5: gonna get every chance to impress me if I'm Ben
Speaker 5: Johnson and the whole offensive coaching staff. Because if these
Speaker 5: two guys can come in and work with the DeAndre
Speaker 5: Swift and a Roshawan Johnson and you're not counting on
Speaker 5: them for forty snaps a game, but maybe you're counting
Speaker 5: on them for ten to fourteen snaps a game. You
Speaker 5: never know what you can do and help in their development.
Speaker 5: Manung Guy has the reputation of being a willing blocker.
Speaker 5: So you think of Ben Johnson and what he wants
Speaker 5: to do with the backfield play action and everything. Maybe
Speaker 5: he'll open up more opportunities for himself because of what
Speaker 5: he's the dirty work he's willing to do.
Speaker 4: Well, what Tom said about about a Greg Chiano program,
Speaker 4: I'll give you a back right now that beat out
Speaker 4: a first round draft pick, and that is Isaiah Pachecko
Speaker 4: of the Kansas City Chiefs. You know, tough guy goes
Speaker 4: into Kansas City. They basically he beat out their first
Speaker 4: round draft pick, and he's ahead of Kareem Hunt right now,
Speaker 4: who they drafted in the third round a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago. Obviously went to Cleveland. Now he's back in
Speaker 4: Kansas City. But Pachecko was the same way, just tough
Speaker 4: as nails. And here he's a the guy knows that
Speaker 4: nothing but super bowls. Every year he's been in the league,
Speaker 4: he's been in a Super Bowl and he's got two
Speaker 4: championships under his belt. And they lost this last one.
Speaker 4: So Pachecko has been a big part of it. Another
Speaker 4: Greg Schiano kidd, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I was looking at Jamar Gibbs, how many touches
Speaker 3: he had Montgomery who missed a couple of games, three games.
Speaker 3: It was about three hundred touches for Gibbs a little
Speaker 3: over two hundred from Montgomery. And so do you use
Speaker 3: that as a template or does it not matter because
Speaker 3: it's going to be a different kind of offense.
Speaker 5: I do you know the thing about touches? Where are
Speaker 5: they and when are they? Because it's not always runs
Speaker 5: in between the tackle. There's a lot of that play
Speaker 5: action asking those exterior passes, those screens and stuff. So
Speaker 5: if you can put the running back in a more
Speaker 5: favorable at tackle position. By the time he gets that touch,
Speaker 5: I think that's when you kind of see what they're
Speaker 5: capable of doing outside the tackle the tackle box, and
Speaker 5: maybe that benefits your offense as well.
Speaker 3: All Right, we're gonna pick it up from there when
Speaker 3: we come back. Another segment of Bears Weekly ahead as
Speaker 3: we take a look at some other topics in the league,
Speaker 3: fifty year options and some draft recap in the division,
Speaker 3: what they did and how it stacks up as this
Speaker 3: arms race in the NFC North continues here on Bears
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Speaker 3: Tom and Jim here on Bears Weekly. So I know
Speaker 3: there have been tons of grades given. I don't like
Speaker 3: doing that. I don't think it's necessary or really It's
Speaker 3: just an exercise, and it's interesting after the draft, already
Speaker 3: putting together mock drafts for the twenty sixth draft, which
Speaker 3: I blows my mind. We can't even let the paint dry.
Speaker 3: This is the annual process though around the league with
Speaker 3: a draft crazy NFL that this is the case. But
Speaker 3: also this one piqued my curiosity to the Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 3: what player was your favorite draft pick from each team?
Speaker 3: And I thought it was interesting. So it was written
Speaker 3: that Luther Burden was THEIRS because of the value they
Speaker 3: thought he was a first round pick. That was a
Speaker 3: second round pick. But as I started to contemplate it,
Speaker 3: I kind of like where they were going with this
Speaker 3: because of how Ben Johnson values that slot receiver. Now,
Speaker 3: maybe if it wasn't an impactful player like i'm on
Speaker 3: Ross Saint Brown. You got to give i'm on Rossaint
Speaker 3: Brown credit for developing as well putting the work in
Speaker 3: as a fourth round pick, but also of Ben Johnson
Speaker 3: figuring out the best way to utilize this player and
Speaker 3: create matchups and he made him into an All Pro.
Speaker 3: We touched on that last week. So I think Burden's
Speaker 3: gonna find himself in the slot quite a bit. And
Speaker 3: so from that lens, I'm looking at that for me
Speaker 3: as a really important piece to this puzzle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, first of all, I'm gonna give myself a D
Speaker 5: minus because in the last segment I said that Hippolyte
Speaker 5: went to Rutgers, but he went to Maryland, So I wanted,
Speaker 5: out of due respect to him, I wanted to correct that.
Speaker 5: You know, there's one thing I like about this draft
Speaker 5: is because of what Ben Johnson has the ability to
Speaker 5: do with every one of these players. But to me,
Speaker 5: the betterment of this football team is still on the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage. I think Burden can be a top
Speaker 5: notch receiver and everything he's gonna do, but again, Ben Johnson,
Speaker 5: no block, no run, and so that's one of the
Speaker 5: disciplines that.
Speaker 6: You have to get back into when you.
Speaker 5: Go from a college program primary receiver to earning your
Speaker 5: way on the football field as a wide receiver. But
Speaker 5: to me, it's still about the line of scrimmage. And
Speaker 5: if you get Turner and Trapillo to kind of morph
Speaker 5: into the type of players that they've been drafted to be,
Speaker 5: they could have an enormous role as rookies and going forward.
Speaker 6: So I'm interested to see what they do.
Speaker 5: But I also think Burden he's got that, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of that first round reputation, and I'm excited to
Speaker 5: see how Ben develops his relationship with him along with
Speaker 5: Antoine randel Al the coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think for Burden, I think that's a good
Speaker 4: comparison when you look compare him to Amandra Saint Brown,
Speaker 4: who probably doesn't have top end speed, but boy, he's
Speaker 4: got the ability to separate and he's got the ability
Speaker 4: to to get open. If you go look at Burden
Speaker 4: and his play at Missouri, he played really well against
Speaker 4: the top level teams, you know, where he was getting
Speaker 4: a lot of production against some of the best defenses
Speaker 4: out there. This guy can separate and he can make plays.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying he's slow. He's not slow.
Speaker 2: He can.
Speaker 4: You know he can. He ran a four to four
Speaker 4: to one, so he's he's close to getting in that
Speaker 4: that four three nine barrier. So he's got enough speed
Speaker 4: to really make big plays down the field. But man,
Speaker 4: he can separate. And that's what among your Saint Brown
Speaker 4: does for the Lions to get open a lot of
Speaker 4: play making ability.
Speaker 3: And so doas Coaston Loveland when he runs his routs.
Speaker 3: He can separate at the top of his routes. That's
Speaker 3: going to be fun to watch as well. You often wonder,
Speaker 3: you know, as you're watching games until you actually watch
Speaker 3: the tape, you know, because you can't see everybody on
Speaker 3: the field at once as a fan. You're following the ball,
Speaker 3: Tom's fouling the offensive line to start the play a.
Speaker 3: Uh are they getting open? Are players getting open? Why
Speaker 3: is nobody open? And and and some of that is
Speaker 3: the route running ability. Uh, if they're not great route runners,
Speaker 3: they're not creating separation, or the coverage is so sticky.
Speaker 3: You know, those are all parts of this equation. I
Speaker 3: think Ben's really going to enhance that, right.
Speaker 5: But I have a question for Jim here because you know,
Speaker 5: one thing that I think Caleb has to do moving
Speaker 5: forward is what's open. Because separate you're not always going
Speaker 5: to create that separation where you're throwing to an open
Speaker 5: target where you're the defensive coverage guy is trailing you.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you're putting it in an area where the defender's
Speaker 5: close to you. But you have to have the willingness
Speaker 5: and the understanding of what open really is. And so,
Speaker 5: you know, Jim, when I think about the future of Caleb.
Speaker 6: He's got to understand that. Understand that as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's well, he's got to be able to trust
Speaker 4: that the guys like guys like Luther Burden, that guy
Speaker 4: can get on defenders and stack him really quickly. What
Speaker 4: do I mean by stack him? He could say if
Speaker 4: it's a trail technique by defensive back, say he's playing
Speaker 4: the slot, he beats the nickelback off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: He has already stacked the nickelback, so the nickelback is
Speaker 4: now in a trail technique. And say the say Burden
Speaker 4: is running an over route across the field, and that
Speaker 4: trail technique right when he puts his foot in the
Speaker 4: ground to start heading across the field on his over route.
Speaker 4: You know, that's where Caleb has got to trust that
Speaker 4: Burden's gonna win that foot race. He's already got the
Speaker 4: defender beat by say, you know, a step to two steps,
Speaker 4: because of how he stacked him and how he's already
Speaker 4: put the defensive back behind him now to throw him
Speaker 4: to the open area. He may not look open once
Speaker 4: he's off the line of scrimmage, but when you trust
Speaker 4: where the timing to where the throw needs to be
Speaker 4: that Luther's going to be there, and he'll already have
Speaker 4: stacked the defensive back where he's he's trailing him from behind.
Speaker 4: And so those are the type of trust things that
Speaker 4: really that Caleb has to get familiar with and just
Speaker 4: knowing his receiver and that he's going to come down
Speaker 4: with the football because Burden's got great hands. That actually
Speaker 4: was the comparison with him. He's like an Amandro Saint Brown.
Speaker 4: The guy catches everything, and so you just got to
Speaker 4: trust that he's a good route runner and where that
Speaker 4: ball needs to be, he's going to be in the
Speaker 4: right spot where it needs to be caught.
Speaker 3: Jim, when did you start trusting your receivers are going
Speaker 3: to be open?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I credit Todd Haley a lot. You know,
Speaker 4: is you know, it was fun seeing Dez White call
Speaker 4: the draft picks for the Chicago Bears because those guys
Speaker 4: were all young. You know, when when Marty Booker and
Speaker 4: obviously they drafted David Terrell and even Des White, that
Speaker 4: was a young group. Marcus Robinson was hurt his back
Speaker 4: injury at that point, he was still healing up, and
Speaker 4: so we had a lot of young receivers. And I
Speaker 4: just remember Todd Haley coming off the field someday said, Jim,
Speaker 4: I will whip these guys into shape. They will be
Speaker 4: where they need to be, uh when you need to
Speaker 4: throw the ball. And over time, it just you started
Speaker 4: to trust him, especially Marty. Marty and I worked a
Speaker 4: lot together, and I knew exactly what what he was
Speaker 4: going to do, you know, and just you know it
Speaker 4: just that trust. Even if it was double coverage, I
Speaker 4: knew Marty was coming down with it.
Speaker 3: Just as Marty Booker, one of my favorite players the
Speaker 3: call games with. You ever talked to Marty out of careacity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he talked to Marty.
Speaker 3: How's he doing?
Speaker 4: Oh he's doing great. He's doing great. His hands are
Speaker 4: still big. He can throw a football farther than I could.
Speaker 4: For God's sake. When he got in there and he
Speaker 4: throwing about eighty yards, I'm like, hell, why didn't you
Speaker 4: lining up under center? For God said.
Speaker 3: So that receiver room is going to be listen. Training
Speaker 3: camps should be exciting because yes, you got dj you
Speaker 3: got wrong, you got Burden, you got Alamine's chais Devin Duverney,
Speaker 3: you know, as a return specialist as well, Tyler Scott,
Speaker 3: Samuri Tory, Miles boyk In, the local product, Maurice Alexander
Speaker 3: who's got experience with Detroit also a candidate in the
Speaker 3: return game. A couple of free agents Jedai Walker he's
Speaker 3: six three two oh three out of Texas A and
Speaker 3: M and JP Richardson five to eleven one ninety five
Speaker 3: out of TCU. So there's gonna be a bunch of guys.
Speaker 3: Walker blocked a couple punts in college. Richardson a punt returner,
Speaker 3: So the competition for all these roles are going to
Speaker 3: be very intriguing on the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 3: as well as defens At.
Speaker 5: The end of the season last year, Tyler Scott did
Speaker 5: some really nice things on the punt team, So if
Speaker 5: he could come in here and continue a rise on
Speaker 5: special teams and coach High Tower gives.
Speaker 6: Them a little bit more leeway where.
Speaker 5: Maybe, okay, if he's on punt coverage team, maybe I
Speaker 5: can put him on kickoff return or punt return, not
Speaker 5: as the returner, but as in.
Speaker 6: A blocking position.
Speaker 5: So I think you have to open every opportunity for
Speaker 5: yourself if you're competing for a roster spot at the
Speaker 5: receiver position.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna go inside the division when we
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Speaker 2: Well, welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Center Jeff Joniac, Tom there, Jim Miller. Our final segment.
Speaker 3: I want to emphasize this. I know how both of
Speaker 3: you guys feel about youth football and into the high schools,
Speaker 3: and it's important for the growth of the sport. But
Speaker 3: a total of NFL came out with US today. Two
Speaker 3: hundred and forty six high schools contributed to the two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty seven players drafted. IMG Academy in Bradenton.
Speaker 3: Florida had the most with three, including Tyler Booker and
Speaker 3: Johatte Campbell. Texas the number one state with thirty seven,
Speaker 3: and over the past eight years, six hundred eighty seven
Speaker 3: players from Texas and Florida have been elected in the
Speaker 3: NFL Draft. That's an amazing Tom split pretty much perfect
Speaker 3: four from Illinois this year and for the nineteenth time
Speaker 3: in twenty years, at least one player drafted from a
Speaker 3: high school outside the United States. This year, one from Australia,
Speaker 3: one from Canada. So the math is this which is
Speaker 3: a testament to the both of you as well players
Speaker 3: drafted in the US. The odds are literally based on
Speaker 3: this year's draft based on population density one and one
Speaker 3: point three million. So it's a lot of reticket and
Speaker 3: you work to get the lottery ticket. Good though you're
Speaker 3: blessed with some traits, but you got to work at
Speaker 3: it because even great athletes don't always make it to
Speaker 3: the NFL for a variety of reasons. So when you
Speaker 3: hear those numbers, respectively, how does that make you feel
Speaker 3: that you've been a part of this, And how these
Speaker 3: guys must feel. They'll know it later in life when
Speaker 3: they experience what you guys experienced time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, Jim and I, our careers are behind us.
Speaker 5: So when you hear about those types of numbers, there
Speaker 5: still is a shocking is when we were coming up
Speaker 5: through the ranks and that we had an opportunity to
Speaker 5: make it into the NFL. And I really admire a
Speaker 5: lot of these kids that are playing football nowadays, and
Speaker 5: a lot of the girls that are playing in the
Speaker 5: Flag Football League in Chicago, because football is not an
Speaker 5: easy sport, especially when you're going out to those fields
Speaker 5: in the middle of the summer and they're asking you
Speaker 5: to go out there and sweat and grind if you're nine, ten,
Speaker 5: eleven years old, and it doesn't make it easy. So
Speaker 5: I'm happy for every one of these kids that are
Speaker 5: benefiting their life and like Turner said, his family's life
Speaker 5: with the football success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every player's got a story of why they wanted
Speaker 4: to be in the National Football League. For me, I
Speaker 4: was nine years old. My dad took me to the
Speaker 4: pontac Silverdome and I saw Doug Williams throw an eighty
Speaker 4: yard touchdown pass and I remember looking up my dad
Speaker 4: and saying, Dad, that's what I want to do. And
Speaker 4: I knew right then that's what I was going to do.
Speaker 4: And you know, it sticks with you. But every player's
Speaker 4: got their story of what led them to making it
Speaker 4: to the National Football League. So whatever that story is,
Speaker 4: you know, those players got to keep on tapping into
Speaker 4: it in order to stay because, as Tom knows, it
Speaker 4: is a lot of hard work, it's a lot of dedication,
Speaker 4: and you gotta love football. You gotta love it in
Speaker 4: order to do it.
Speaker 3: All right, lightning rounds. So we got to be quick
Speaker 3: with these, all right, I promised the NFC North. The
Speaker 3: one thing that stuck out to me about the Green
Speaker 3: Bay Packers is just adding more at wide receiver speed
Speaker 3: with Matthew Golden, adding Seveon Williams, who's a Deebo Samuel
Speaker 3: type guy, Mikole Hardman, and they got Dantavian Wicks and
Speaker 3: Jaden Reid and Christian Watson, Harmy Dobbs. That's that's about
Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers, quick thought, Tom.
Speaker 5: Golden, you know, that was the one pick because they've
Speaker 5: been void of taking wide receivers high in the draft
Speaker 5: for a while, and he's the type of guy that
Speaker 5: can now set that new speed edge for the division.
Speaker 3: Yeah at Detroit, Tom, Yeah, go ahead, Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Well, they tried to trade for DK Metcalf and even
Speaker 4: Pickings and they went speed, as Tom mentioned, so they
Speaker 4: will be a threat deep three.
Speaker 3: New interior offensive lineman now for the Minnesota Vikings with
Speaker 3: Donovan Jackson, Ryan Kelly and Will Fries diresaw back. They
Speaker 3: got to protect JJ McCarthy and open that run game.
Speaker 5: Tom, you know again, I think offensive defensive lineman on
Speaker 5: any football team that can come and increase, increase the
Speaker 5: competitiveness at such an important position, especially when you have
Speaker 5: j McCarthy coming aboard.
Speaker 3: Important Jim, you have the last one, Jim, you have
Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions. You get Aiden Hutchinson. Hutchinson healthy, Aleen
Speaker 3: McNeil back. They drafted ty League Williams. How much more
Speaker 3: dangerous is the division champs?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Alee McNeil. They got him back late in the year,
Speaker 4: so he's healing up. They also got Levi Ownzeriki. We
Speaker 4: know they had a ton of injuries on defense, and
Speaker 4: I believe it was the first Egyptian player Oza seen
Speaker 4: who they drafted later. He does provide pass for us,
Speaker 4: so they did get an edge rusher and helped out
Speaker 4: their interior d line with Malai.
Speaker 3: Guys, will see you next week. Thank you so much.
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