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Speaker 1: the NFL. Mister Tom Fare from news Radio seven eighty
Speaker 1: one oh five point nine FMWBBM. Good evening, Tom. How
Speaker 1: you feeling you're doing well? Yeah, Jeff. You know, just
Speaker 1: to analogize what you're saying about coming to a town
Speaker 1: near you, you get an indication of the crowd support
Speaker 1: from the golf tournament this weekend. You get a little
Speaker 1: bit more experience in the crowds and the stadiums filling
Speaker 1: up through baseball. Now with the announcement that at least
Speaker 1: twenty eight of the thirty stadiums around the league are
Speaker 1: gonna have full capacity. It's really making the momentum for
Speaker 1: an exciting sports season, and so I'm glad they make
Speaker 1: the decision. I hope people are responsible, they stay safe,
Speaker 1: and it continues to be safe for the sake of
Speaker 1: the fans that want to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: So I'm really I'm really happy the direction that people
Speaker 1: are going because the fans are resilient as the players.
Speaker 1: We thanks always to our producers, Brandon Fryer Tonight of
Speaker 1: the Score Studios, Jordan Trup, Dan Bally as well. Coming
Speaker 1: up shortly, it's six or eight. Former Bears quarterback in
Speaker 1: Sirius Sex, m NFL radio host Jim Millerwood join us
Speaker 1: for a few segments. Is always in the case at
Speaker 1: six thirty. I know Tom will be excited. We're gonna
Speaker 1: let you have the floor in interview Keevin Jenkins, the
Speaker 1: second round pick out of Oklahoma State, trying to win
Speaker 1: that left tackle job. Tom will be interested to hear
Speaker 1: things are going for him because I'm sure it's a
Speaker 1: blur right now a little bit, yeah, but he has
Speaker 1: to come in with the confidence and the frame of
Speaker 1: mind that it his job to lose and I think again,
Speaker 1: and I always, you know, kind of refer to my
Speaker 1: own experiences in the time that I've had with Jimbo.
Speaker 1: After he was drafted, he knew that he was going
Speaker 1: to be the starting left tackle day one, and that
Speaker 1: was because of hard work and self confidence and it
Speaker 1: turned into a Hall of Fame career. So I hope
Speaker 1: Tevin is as inspired as Jimbo was because he plays
Speaker 1: a huge role on this team. However, with the athleticism
Speaker 1: in the future of Justin Fields and I'm not ignoring
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton or Nick Folds, this is going to be
Speaker 1: a multidimensional, wide open offense. So Tevin Jenkins, no matter
Speaker 1: what side he would have to play on, he's going
Speaker 1: to have to be versatile. So his first opportunities are
Speaker 1: going to be on the left side, So we'll hear
Speaker 1: from him as well as promising rookie class. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we all agree that at most of, if
Speaker 1: not all, these guys and maybe some modern drafting guys,
Speaker 1: will be able to make some some significant snaps here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and that is something we're looking
Speaker 1: forward to. These are these are football players. They brought
Speaker 1: in here, real all around versatile football players at a
Speaker 1: minimum special team's contributions. Um. There, and we get two
Speaker 1: weeks votas beginning next week. Media availability the next couple
Speaker 1: of Wednesdays, so we'll be able to get eyes on
Speaker 1: who's available out there and watching how things are going
Speaker 1: on the grass once again, so that's always a good
Speaker 1: good time to check things out a little bit. And
Speaker 1: then you got the veteran minicamp that you know at
Speaker 1: wrap things up on the seventeenth of June. So we
Speaker 1: only got a couple of more weeks here before the
Speaker 1: break for training camp, but it's gonna come fist fast.
Speaker 1: We have There are there areas at all that you
Speaker 1: would like to see a player added right now with
Speaker 1: experience at any particular position to make you feel better
Speaker 1: about the depth of that position or the competition level. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. Yeah, and you know there is
Speaker 1: you know, UM, I'd like to see a lot of
Speaker 1: competition at cornerback, just because it's one of the more
Speaker 1: difficult positions to unveil. Um, you know, a player that
Speaker 1: you know is able to come in and compete and
Speaker 1: just increase the competition at the position. I think at
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, because although we Darnell Mooney burst
Speaker 1: out of the scene, you got Alan Robinson in kind
Speaker 1: of a fragile position being on the franchise tag. And
Speaker 1: I think guys like Javon Wims and Athony Miller have
Speaker 1: under underperform to the levels that we always think that
Speaker 1: we see they're going to perform when we sit out
Speaker 1: and watch them at training camp. If they could perform
Speaker 1: during the regular season like some of the training camp
Speaker 1: practices we've had, then those guys would provide size, depth
Speaker 1: and speed. So I do think, you know, quarterback development here,
Speaker 1: you gotta have you gotta have some of those wide
Speaker 1: receivers step up to the plate. Well. I think dem
Speaker 1: Bird is an addition to keep an eye on it
Speaker 1: as well. And you know, I want to see what's
Speaker 1: going on with Riley Ridley. This is a fourth round pick,
Speaker 1: and we seem to always lose him in the conversation
Speaker 1: a little bit. He hasn't had many snaps and now
Speaker 1: this is your three. This is your three for Riley Ridley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know the thing about it is is these
Speaker 1: kids that are talented in college can't just come out
Speaker 1: of college and being a pass receiver after being a
Speaker 1: better athlete than the competition they're playing against. Now, with
Speaker 1: the responsibilities of the wide receiver because of the exterior
Speaker 1: offensive game, they have to be as important in their
Speaker 1: role as blocking, as a fullback, as a tight end,
Speaker 1: as an h back. Maybe not as an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: but if you're going to throw a screen right at
Speaker 1: them behind, they got to be able to sustain in
Speaker 1: a block. And that was some of the things that
Speaker 1: Riley given the opportunity, whether it was on kickoff return
Speaker 1: at one time or some wide receiver screens, he's been
Speaker 1: able to do that, but he's got to do it
Speaker 1: with such regularity that he can be counted on to
Speaker 1: be starting in the game. All right, we're to take
Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we'll be joined by
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, our guest every week here on Bears All
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Speaker 1: day when we could talk to Jim Miller, former Bears
Speaker 1: quarterback from Serious Sex m NFL radios, moving the chains
Speaker 1: with his buddy you know you're yeah, Pat Crow, and
Speaker 1: I was going to go in a different direction, so
Speaker 1: I decided to forget about it. You know, the brain
Speaker 1: just doesn't always trigger every day for yours, truly, Jim,
Speaker 1: I am certain you don't have these problems day to day.
Speaker 1: I take my Ginko Bloba. Come on, Jeff Getagon, I
Speaker 1: gotta do something. Hey. You know both of you guys
Speaker 1: have you know, parts unknown in your bodies now? Tom
Speaker 1: just finished up congratulations on a new hip, so he
Speaker 1: is good to go this week and we can't wait
Speaker 1: to see him ropin and stomping around big Jim. Well,
Speaker 1: that's good. I'm hopefully hopefully everything would win as well
Speaker 1: as what you thought it would. Tom. I mean, I
Speaker 1: had one that was recalled that was not fun, so
Speaker 1: I had to get it again on the same side,
Speaker 1: So think goodness. The second surgery went better than the
Speaker 1: than the first one. Yeah, you were my inspiration, Jim,
Speaker 1: because I saw you limping around one time and asked
Speaker 1: what the issue was, and you told me about a hip,
Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's you know, for a
Speaker 1: lot of people, it's inevitable. I'm not gonna blame it
Speaker 1: on anything because I asked the doctor, is this because
Speaker 1: of seven hundred pounds squats or three point stance or collisions?
Speaker 1: And he says no, because I've had forty and thirty
Speaker 1: year old guys in there that have been way worse
Speaker 1: than you. So it's just part of life. And I'm just,
Speaker 1: knock on wood, super fortunate had the quality care of
Speaker 1: a of a great team or a you know, a
Speaker 1: great doctor to do the job. And I'm up on
Speaker 1: my feet room rolling around my house with a walker.
Speaker 1: I have a walker. I will walker. I don't want
Speaker 1: to tell you what else is attached to it, but
Speaker 1: I do have a walker. He doesn't take you know,
Speaker 1: he will not take any assistance outside of a medical professional.
Speaker 1: So I've I offered time. He needs me to come
Speaker 1: down help you out a little No, no, he doesn't
Speaker 1: want any part of that. So anyway, good to have
Speaker 1: you back on your feet soon and running around making
Speaker 1: making havoc like Havi Bayez today, which was unbelievable. By
Speaker 1: the way, if you hadn't seen that play in the
Speaker 1: third inning with two outs in Pittsburgh, you know, on
Speaker 1: a routine ground or to third I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw it, Jim. I know it's not football, but
Speaker 1: Havibayez is a magician. That's how I gotta say, got
Speaker 1: out of trouble and got to run across. Well. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the great thing about announcers because you really never
Speaker 1: know the next word out of your mouth. Because that's
Speaker 1: the first time in my sports viewing life I've ever
Speaker 1: seen that. And I know that you wanted to add
Speaker 1: live this segment with a joke at the beginning, which
Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't, And it's just like an announcer
Speaker 1: of any sport, you really don't know, oh, the next
Speaker 1: word coming out of your mouth. Yeah, and Jim, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've had that many times in your career too,
Speaker 1: probably in your own huddle. Yeah. Well, I mean it
Speaker 1: just it happens sometimes, you know, um, you know, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, guys take it a stride. You know,
Speaker 1: if it's say you screw up something or maybe you
Speaker 1: didn't address something right. And you know, I think everybody
Speaker 1: understands that everybody's gonna make a mistake here and there,
Speaker 1: every every now and then, and like most good teammates
Speaker 1: that they forgive you and you move on and you know,
Speaker 1: but but some can be pretty laughable moments that they'll
Speaker 1: never let you forget. Right, So let's forget it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use that as as a bridge to a football
Speaker 1: analogy here, because it's something that bias brings to the
Speaker 1: table that causes pressure on a routine play. He made
Speaker 1: a defensive player think instead of react. And you know
Speaker 1: what happens when you think you're beating football? So are
Speaker 1: there players on the Bears that cause that kind of
Speaker 1: trauma the opposing player because you just don't know what
Speaker 1: a guy's going to do. In this case, by as
Speaker 1: Walk being brought back all the way to home on
Speaker 1: a routine grounder and then dodging the tag and allowing
Speaker 1: run to score and then causing everything to bow to pieces.
Speaker 1: One of the worst plays as you ever seen. Really,
Speaker 1: I have never seen a play like that. But are
Speaker 1: there guys that cause that on the Chicago Bears. I
Speaker 1: think there's a guy like Roquan Smith that people don't
Speaker 1: really respect his speed until he runs down a wide
Speaker 1: receiver on a sideline route or he has an impact
Speaker 1: tackle at or behind the line of scrimmage, or he
Speaker 1: gets into the backfield a sack of quarterback before he
Speaker 1: can have his his second reaction. He's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that you know, once you realize his speed and
Speaker 1: his tackling ability, you kind of speed up the thinking
Speaker 1: process when you know you're isolating on him. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think you know, in football alone, I mean
Speaker 1: that speed can cause you to do some things that
Speaker 1: are different. You know, because of the speed that Tom
Speaker 1: is talking about, it gives you very little time to think.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some teams out there, and I think
Speaker 1: the Bear's linebackers are good. I think we know that
Speaker 1: they've got good speed inside. When the guys that they
Speaker 1: have with Roqua Smith and Danny Trevathan, I'd probably say
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that those guys would be
Speaker 1: considered one of my two top inside. I like guys
Speaker 1: like down in Tampa, like with Devin White, and they
Speaker 1: just resigned David down there. I mean that's a team.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at Tampa with their speed,
Speaker 1: I think it's it catches you off guard. And it's
Speaker 1: certainly caught Kansas City off guard, right because those tackles
Speaker 1: got demolished because Shack Barrett and the other guy Jpp.
Speaker 1: I mean that was just a field day that I
Speaker 1: think they took advantage and caused those two tackles to
Speaker 1: think a little too much. I'll take this one and
Speaker 1: you as an offensive lineman, Tommy can appreciate it more.
Speaker 1: But the long arm when he gets it in on
Speaker 1: an offensive linement that Khalil Mac uses to get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, because it puts a fear a little bit
Speaker 1: in the offensive lineman if he doesn't get his hands
Speaker 1: on him first. And Khalil Mac with that ability and
Speaker 1: strength to just toss somebody out of the way using
Speaker 1: that long arm to get to the quarterbacks, would it
Speaker 1: makes you refeat? You think your pass set for the
Speaker 1: remainder of the game. As an offensive lineman, you figure
Speaker 1: if I don't jump the counter or extend my hands
Speaker 1: and try to get my hands on a Khalil before
Speaker 1: he touches me, because he has the power and the
Speaker 1: leverage to take you away from your stance and get
Speaker 1: you immediately off balance. And once you get into the
Speaker 1: head of an offensive lineman and they're thinking, like we say,
Speaker 1: if you think you're beat, if you got to think
Speaker 1: how to set with Khalil that in your trouble. But
Speaker 1: remember last year in the Minnesota game, and I think
Speaker 1: it wasn't a Kindallville door when he was playing on
Speaker 1: the corner and he tackled Dalvin Cook to the outside,
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook had so much respect for his ability
Speaker 1: to tackle him in the open field or else it
Speaker 1: would have been an eighty five yard touchdown that Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook got up and shook his hand because he respected
Speaker 1: his ability to react and stay in a good tackling position.
Speaker 1: Could a confidence level of a player diminish in training
Speaker 1: camp if a veteran player repeatedly beats him day after day,
Speaker 1: and you know, because he's just a better player right there?
Speaker 1: Could that? Do you guys believe that that could could
Speaker 1: a bad training camp for a young player last in
Speaker 1: entire season. Jim Um, that's a good question. No, I
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just thinking back, you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: I just remember when I was young with the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and you could have some bad practices, right those are
Speaker 1: some pretty good defenses, you know, where Rod Woodson or
Speaker 1: Colonel Lakers, one of those great players is picking you off.
Speaker 1: And I don't think I ever lost confidence or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But I think it is true where you know,
Speaker 1: a bad play can lead to a bad series, which
Speaker 1: is a bad half to a bad game. You know,
Speaker 1: those things can happen where you let it snowball. But
Speaker 1: I think you have to be able to pick yourself
Speaker 1: up off the mat and understand, hey, this is part
Speaker 1: of the process. You're gonna fail at some things, but
Speaker 1: you're getting you know, you're gonna continue to get better
Speaker 1: once you learn from those mistakes. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it can lead to a you know, an entirely a
Speaker 1: bad year. I know some guys that have had bad years,
Speaker 1: but normally it's going to be something else, whether it's
Speaker 1: an injury or something like that that could cause you
Speaker 1: to really tailspin, so to speak, and that can get
Speaker 1: to you emotionally and mentally. You know. I just know
Speaker 1: from my standpoint, like the one year where I played
Speaker 1: with the torn rotator cuffs and my arm just I
Speaker 1: couldn't make the throws that I would normally make, and
Speaker 1: that that's kind of a blow to your ego where
Speaker 1: you're dropping back and you're like, I could make that
Speaker 1: throw prior, but now let me just check it down
Speaker 1: here and get a positive play, you know, so that
Speaker 1: that can grind on you mentally. I do know that.
Speaker 1: That's remember getting public I remember getting publicly criticized by
Speaker 1: Dicka after practicing against Steve McMichael because Steve would practice
Speaker 1: so hard, he'd be so physical that I had I
Speaker 1: never had confidence in blocking him. However, it carried over
Speaker 1: to the game where I had more confidence in the
Speaker 1: game that I didn't practice because Steve was so good.
Speaker 1: And there's some comments that I can't say over the
Speaker 1: year that Ditka used to say in front of me
Speaker 1: while he was addressing the media. And we used to
Speaker 1: have these inner squad football games inside Platteville Stadium where
Speaker 1: it was the scariest game of the year because not
Speaker 1: only were they physical and we were playing against a
Speaker 1: great defense, but Steve was such a great player that,
Speaker 1: hey man, he knew he knew our offense as well
Speaker 1: as we did. He knew how to handle things and
Speaker 1: he got at it. So, yeah, the worst day of
Speaker 1: my football year every year was the inner squad game
Speaker 1: against McMichael. That's no joke. It's funny stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back. Coming
Speaker 1: up at the bottom of the or we'll be joined
Speaker 1: by Tevin Jenkins, Bears a rookie tackle a lot of
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Speaker 1: Coming up in moments at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: We'll be joined by Tevin Jenkins, the Bears rookie tackle.
Speaker 1: All Right. A couple of things that we're taking care
Speaker 1: of this week by NFL owners. One, Tom a rule
Speaker 1: that expands the area where blocks below the waist are prohibited.
Speaker 1: So now there's a newly created tight endbox within two
Speaker 1: yards of the traditional tackle positions five yards either side
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage. So blocking or taking on
Speaker 1: blocks below the waist outside of that's fifteen yard penalty.
Speaker 1: So you're an offensive lineman thinking about this the first
Speaker 1: thing that happened. How about on a screen for example.
Speaker 1: Is this going to alter the blocking techniques for players
Speaker 1: on polls or being on the move outside of that
Speaker 1: now tight inbox and the same defenders as well, because
Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to approach it the
Speaker 1: same way. It's going to lessen the concern by the
Speaker 1: exterior defensive players with the fear of getting a body
Speaker 1: thrown at their legs. Because this was a technique that
Speaker 1: we practiced repletedly with coach Dick Stanfeld, whereas we pulled
Speaker 1: to the outside, he would point to a bag one
Speaker 1: or the other and we would literally throw our body
Speaker 1: into the bag in roll towards the defender, so at
Speaker 1: least that he had to focus his attention down at
Speaker 1: the body and try to defend himself that way. However,
Speaker 1: in the modern realm of football, a lot of these
Speaker 1: offensive line coaches kind of teach players to stay up
Speaker 1: on their feet and they try to be continuous with
Speaker 1: their block. So I think there's some pros built into this,
Speaker 1: And you know, on a natural grass field, it's easy
Speaker 1: to throw your body because it's a soft landing. But
Speaker 1: back in the day when you had those old AstroTurf fields,
Speaker 1: you would come up with turf burns all over your
Speaker 1: body because of it. But it's also a technique we
Speaker 1: used regularly and regularly to the point where defensive linemen
Speaker 1: they would man, they would not be in favor of
Speaker 1: you using that block. So I think it's gonna help them,
Speaker 1: but it's also going to promote the athleticism and offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and Jim. Then, in turn, the officials now are
Speaker 1: envisioning what are artificial boundaries here, So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some variance on that I would think. I would think,
Speaker 1: because it's a new rules it'll be much like how
Speaker 1: they've called it in every other preseason, right, they called
Speaker 1: a point of emphasis. Right, they try to get the
Speaker 1: point across to the players, and then once week one starts,
Speaker 1: not that it's thrown out the window, but they're much
Speaker 1: more tolerant in not throwing a whole bunch of flags
Speaker 1: when necessary. But you know the game's been going in
Speaker 1: this direction, you know, you think a cut off box
Speaker 1: on the backside. That role came into existence a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, like those EMO weaves call emo blocks
Speaker 1: and man on the line of scrimmage where you could
Speaker 1: go take their legs out, even though if it was
Speaker 1: on the back side of saying outside zone run, you
Speaker 1: could be able to do that. So that's been taken out.
Speaker 1: Now this this to me comes into play like if
Speaker 1: a z or flanker or receiver is digging out a
Speaker 1: strong safety, because you gotta remember those safeties rock and roll,
Speaker 1: free safety, and strong safety. Sometimes they rotate and they
Speaker 1: come up in the box that area that Jeff's talking
Speaker 1: about because there's five yards beyond the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: or in the trenches that is going in now two
Speaker 1: yards outside the tackle or tight end. So those safeties
Speaker 1: can come up in rock and roll and sometimes those
Speaker 1: like a z or flanker coming in half motion, they
Speaker 1: what we'd call dig out the safety. And sometimes like
Speaker 1: guys like Marty Booker, he just flat out take the
Speaker 1: dude out. You know, he's going he's blowing out his
Speaker 1: you know, going low on his legs and could take
Speaker 1: him out. So you're gonna seem probably more of guys
Speaker 1: standing up from that standpoint as those receivers know that
Speaker 1: they can't do that anymore and It's like, like Tom said,
Speaker 1: you practice that way now, right. They want everybody up
Speaker 1: so that you're not rolling into legs and guys are
Speaker 1: blowing out acls and and things like that. So you
Speaker 1: practice that way, and now it's just going to be
Speaker 1: converted to the game a little bit. Now those receivers
Speaker 1: have to be a little bit tougher. They'll just have
Speaker 1: to block a little bit higher. I mean, Jeff, I think,
Speaker 1: in all fairness to the game, if you're going to
Speaker 1: do it to the offense, you should do it to
Speaker 1: the defense. Do you remember when John Alread got his
Speaker 1: knee blown out? He catches that out route and the
Speaker 1: first thing, that defensive back is reacting to his path
Speaker 1: faster than the tight end can get his head back around.
Speaker 1: And by that time, that defensive back is having just
Speaker 1: a serious impactful shot on the tight ends knee while
Speaker 1: his legs planted, and you see the horrific injury. Some
Speaker 1: of these guys a face because of it. So I
Speaker 1: do think they have to explore this. You know, that
Speaker 1: type of tackle or that low body hit. That tight
Speaker 1: end doesn't have his sightline focus to the defensive back. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: defenders are not going to be able to do it
Speaker 1: to pig your offensive players, you know, when they approach
Speaker 1: that box. And so it will be interesting, all right,
Speaker 1: the vaccine, So Commissioner Goodell says thirty of the thirty
Speaker 1: two teams rates of more than ninety percent for the
Speaker 1: top two tiers, and the protocol for anyone working in
Speaker 1: football operations, that's staff. He's not saying what the rates
Speaker 1: are for players right now. The other two teams over
Speaker 1: eighty five percent. And then if you're not vaccinated as
Speaker 1: a player or personnel, you got daily testing, the masks,
Speaker 1: the facilities, physically distance quarantine after exposure, no meals in
Speaker 1: the cafeteria, everybody else, mostly back to normal. Jim as
Speaker 1: a as a player. From a player's perspective, is that
Speaker 1: enough incentive, beyond other medical issues or concerns, or religious
Speaker 1: beliefs or whatever it may be, to get the bulk
Speaker 1: of the players on teams vacs. Well, you're probably going
Speaker 1: to see, say, if you're a Bubble player, if you're
Speaker 1: a player on the Bubble, now, god forbid, if you
Speaker 1: come into camp and you didn't get the vaccine, and
Speaker 1: let's say you test positive, say the first day of
Speaker 1: training camp, right ten day, what is it ten day
Speaker 1: quarantine or is it fourteen day? You'd missed your whole
Speaker 1: training camp, right, that's what you do if you had
Speaker 1: a positive test, and so you you potentially wouldn't even
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to even work out your team because
Speaker 1: I think the cutdown dates, uh start where you know
Speaker 1: where they go from ninety too. I think it's eighty
Speaker 1: five and then then the eighty and or then the
Speaker 1: fifty three. Excuse me, yeah, twelve days before the season opener.
Speaker 1: So it's a pretty good chunk. So I would think
Speaker 1: this is going to be a business decision by by
Speaker 1: some players out there too that may be reluctant to
Speaker 1: get it, but say, hey, you know, I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I'm probably a bubble player where I've got to give
Speaker 1: myself the best opportunity to make this team, and maybe
Speaker 1: I'll go get to vaccine because if you test positive
Speaker 1: due to COVID, you may not even be able to
Speaker 1: step on the field. So you're gonna go to quarantine,
Speaker 1: You're gonna come back. Cutdowns are already done and it's
Speaker 1: over before it started. Yeah, Hey, Jim, we'll pick that
Speaker 1: up on the other side of this break and we'll
Speaker 1: talk to Tevin Jenkins when we return. This is Bears
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Speaker 1: a Thursday night. Feels a little bit like fall coming
Speaker 1: in as opposed to summer heating up the next couple
Speaker 1: of days. But they're still working up at Hollis Hall
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Speaker 1: week as they get ready for their OTA's coming up.
Speaker 1: And we'll be talking to Tevin Jenkins out of Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State in a few moments, Jim. The quarterbacks still maintaining
Speaker 1: the headlines in the NFL right now. We got the
Speaker 1: return to full health for Cincinnati's Joe Burrow. It seems
Speaker 1: saw some highlights of his OTAs looks very good with
Speaker 1: his footwork and everything out of you know, see how
Speaker 1: it all works out. The Bears meet him in week
Speaker 1: two if he's ready to go. Patrick Mahomes at his surgery,
Speaker 1: you got the Aaron Rodgers developments after his ESPN Sports
Speaker 1: Center interview. You got Lamar Jackson and Jess Allen hoping
Speaker 1: for extensions in Baltimore and Buffalo. Is this monopolizing your
Speaker 1: airwaves as well? The quarterbacks in this crazy thirty two
Speaker 1: team NFL. Yeah, it's interesting. Pat and I just went
Speaker 1: through to rink our top ten or top five or
Speaker 1: ultimately we had the top ten, then we narrow it
Speaker 1: down to a top five of our top five quarterback
Speaker 1: rooms around the NFL, and the Bears came in rated
Speaker 1: really high for both Pat and myself. It came in
Speaker 1: definitely in the top ten. That came out of just
Speaker 1: out of my top five with because I still have
Speaker 1: Houston as long as Deshaun Watson is on Houston. I
Speaker 1: had Houston at number five. Bears were at six. For me.
Speaker 1: If if you know, if he's traded, Bears would move
Speaker 1: into the top five. They've got good depth, they've got
Speaker 1: quality guy I said that have played a lot. Plus
Speaker 1: you look at justin fields and what he adds to
Speaker 1: that room. And Pat also had the Chicago Bears in
Speaker 1: his top ten. There are teams out there like the Jets.
Speaker 1: They have all their quarterbacks have no experience at all.
Speaker 1: You know, here he draft Zach Wilson, they got Morgan,
Speaker 1: that's there. They've got guys who haven't even played. So
Speaker 1: that is a bad situation when you look at a
Speaker 1: team like the New York Jets that don't have a
Speaker 1: veteran there to help out a young signal caller. So
Speaker 1: I think the Bears came in pretty high. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stop you there on the Quarterback Talk. We're
Speaker 1: gonna slip to the offensive line room of the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: We walk him in for the first time on this
Speaker 1: show here on Bears All Access. So with Tom there, Jeff,
Speaker 1: Jonny ak and Jim Miller. Tevin Jenkins, the newest Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear offensive lineman, second round pick out of Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: How you feeling tonight, Tevin? And thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: How things going up at Hammis all these days as
Speaker 1: you adapt to NFL football? No, first of all, thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. You know, I'm doing great today
Speaker 1: and like I said, right now, I'm really trying to
Speaker 1: adapt into the culture and all the great people we
Speaker 1: have here you know, I'm making to feel like home
Speaker 1: and I'm just excited to keep on the lake of
Speaker 1: relationships and excited to be in the building. You mentioned culture,
Speaker 1: It's always big, especially with the offensive lineman. I know,
Speaker 1: and I know you're You're getting along quite well with
Speaker 1: Cordy white Hair, and culture is important for him who
Speaker 1: comes in and how it off fits like a puzzle.
Speaker 1: If you were to describe the culture as as a
Speaker 1: newcomer to this organization, as a young man who played
Speaker 1: at a high level at the Oklahoma State how would
Speaker 1: you describe what you're feeling right now as a culture
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears as of right now is definitely
Speaker 1: a very close knit group. You know, we take care
Speaker 1: of each other and we're basically put our head down
Speaker 1: and work everywhere we go. You know, that's one thing.
Speaker 1: We're all like, we're all joking outside, like outside the fields,
Speaker 1: and as soon as we hit the field a tall
Speaker 1: serious business mode. And I'm starting to learn from all
Speaker 1: the other guys and older guys like the and everybody,
Speaker 1: and let say, our culture here, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: a great thing to be around and it's just like
Speaker 1: going to stay. I feel like it's just a bound
Speaker 1: of great people that are here to lead, lead by example.
Speaker 1: Doing a kind of a two part question here, how
Speaker 1: emotional was it when you finally had an opt out
Speaker 1: realizing your dream was going to be in the NFL
Speaker 1: and when you did start your workout routine after you
Speaker 1: opted out? Was everything left tackle centric for you? Or
Speaker 1: was a kind of a balanced approach to right and
Speaker 1: left tackle. Most of the things I did during when
Speaker 1: I was about when I want to go a train
Speaker 1: was just mostly a mainly only left tackle and that
Speaker 1: was because of how like a month of memory, how
Speaker 1: easy it would be for me to give my right
Speaker 1: hand stance. So I definitely worked on only left because
Speaker 1: that's one thing I need to work on my game
Speaker 1: because I want to be that type of versatile player
Speaker 1: and being able to incorporate being able to play left
Speaker 1: and do that their whole offseason, I feel like they
Speaker 1: made a big difference for me, And definitely what's going
Speaker 1: on right now with Howard practice, that definitely feel like
Speaker 1: it's helping me improve day by day. Uh. Tevin Jim
Speaker 1: Miller here, congratulations, welcome to Chicago, and uh, you know
Speaker 1: when when you were preparing for the draft and maybe
Speaker 1: you were interviewing with, whether it's gms or coaches, did
Speaker 1: you get a sense of any area that you need
Speaker 1: to work on. Maybe it's your kickstep, maybe it's hand placement.
Speaker 1: What did you really focus on that in areas that
Speaker 1: you felt you needed to get better at. Uh. One
Speaker 1: thing I always came back to was my focus on
Speaker 1: my balance and my focus on my base, and those
Speaker 1: two like they tend to connect to each other also,
Speaker 1: so when you're like, you lose your base, you lose
Speaker 1: your balance. So the whole time I was working off season,
Speaker 1: I was definitely working on both of those things and
Speaker 1: keep on like come those conversations like you said, that
Speaker 1: would kept coming up, So I definitely had to put
Speaker 1: an insist on that on this offseason. Tevin Jenkins our guest,
Speaker 1: the Paris rookie tackle here on Serious XM. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: serious XM's Jim Miller. This is Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score with Tom there, Jeff Joniac. Tevin, thanks
Speaker 1: again for joining us. Uh, when you think about looking
Speaker 1: at this left tackle position, do you have to compartmentalize
Speaker 1: a little bit because left tackle obviously a premier spot
Speaker 1: in the National Football League and go through the process
Speaker 1: as opposed to thinking about, oh my, this is one
Speaker 1: heck of a responsibility as a young rookie coming into
Speaker 1: the National Football League to try and win this spot
Speaker 1: and protect the most valued position in sports personally, personally
Speaker 1: for myself, I guess I could say that any position
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't necessarily any position is more important other.
Speaker 1: But I mean as the public views it as, but
Speaker 1: as myself, you know, every position, all five is very
Speaker 1: important and you need to have all five clicking at
Speaker 1: the same time and be then for girls me or
Speaker 1: whoever will be or how I was gonna play out. Uh,
Speaker 1: I know that there's best five people will be on
Speaker 1: the field and then uh that's how it's going to be.
Speaker 1: But how how was the transition between uh wand Casto?
Speaker 1: As an offensive lineman as I was in my past,
Speaker 1: you kind of transition your career, your time in college
Speaker 1: and all that through multiple offensive line coaches. But his
Speaker 1: coaching technique is very explainable and and you have that
Speaker 1: opportunity to learn it. So how initially, how has that
Speaker 1: been with you and coach Castile? Uh? I think it's
Speaker 1: been pretty good for me. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: more things that I did not know that he brought up,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure I will not be allowed to
Speaker 1: say it because I'd be getting wrong with me do
Speaker 1: it anyways. But other than that, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot more, a lot more like technique stuff, a lot
Speaker 1: more reasons why and everything like that I did not
Speaker 1: know beforehand. I do now, and I still take expanding
Speaker 1: my knowledge of the game, and I'm just keep on
Speaker 1: ready to keep on learning from them. Well from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: because you know it really, like you said, it's just
Speaker 1: the building block right now and the foundations are being
Speaker 1: laid and then it'll start going faster once the pads
Speaker 1: come on. But from from your standpoint, what are you
Speaker 1: going to do once the ots are done with? What
Speaker 1: will you be doing in between the time between here
Speaker 1: and training camp for to getting ready for your first camp? Uh?
Speaker 1: First looking for a place to live, and that's when
Speaker 1: first almost and then between there, I'm most likely if
Speaker 1: I can, I don't know how to play out and
Speaker 1: I haven't asked any questions, but if I can, I
Speaker 1: was hoping to stay around the Chicago area, work out here,
Speaker 1: keep on trying to work works some longline stuff, around
Speaker 1: here doing stuff that I can stay around the area,
Speaker 1: and if not, I'd probably go find a facility I
Speaker 1: was used to when I went to go opt out
Speaker 1: one down the X, So somebody end up going back
Speaker 1: there if I have to, and keep on trying to
Speaker 1: train myself to be a better player when we come
Speaker 1: back into the training camp. Well I should have asked
Speaker 1: you that first, Tevin, because you bring up a good
Speaker 1: point in finding a place a little I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know the population of Topeka, Kansas or what was
Speaker 1: that Oklahoma state? I mean, how you know, have you
Speaker 1: been in big cities before and lived in a in
Speaker 1: a big city before, and you know, to assimilate yourself
Speaker 1: to a different area. I mean, maybe just talk on that,
Speaker 1: touch on that a little bit. Uh yeah. For me
Speaker 1: right now, it's just about you know, finding that right
Speaker 1: spot around here, you know, especially with my girlfriend coming,
Speaker 1: you know, we're looking into many different areas and doing
Speaker 1: all that and just excited to really find out more
Speaker 1: about the city and more about the surrounding areas as well.
Speaker 1: Tevin Jenkins, our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score a couple of more questions before you
Speaker 1: let you go here tonight. So I'm in Iowa State grad.
Speaker 1: I was a big day of Montgomery fan coming out.
Speaker 1: Watched almost every one of his games, and uh, the
Speaker 1: Cyclones in the in the uh, the Cowboys had some
Speaker 1: memorable shootouts and some memorable games over the last few years. Um.
Speaker 1: I think about the seventeen game, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you were you played that year, but I don't
Speaker 1: know what your role was in that game. But do
Speaker 1: you uh, have you had a chance at all? The
Speaker 1: talk of Montgomery about some of those battles in the
Speaker 1: Big Twelve because there was some high scoring affairs and
Speaker 1: some really good ones. I think you took three of
Speaker 1: the last four games against them. Though, yeah, you would say,
Speaker 1: what year was that again, seventeen seventeen, that was my
Speaker 1: race are freshman year. I wasn't really that was almost
Speaker 1: I was there. I'll traveled to the game. I wasn't
Speaker 1: playing that game. That's a I think. But I have
Speaker 1: I have talked to him a few times, and I
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned any of the games before because I personally
Speaker 1: haven't played against them. But uh, both say we're us,
Speaker 1: feel like we're connecting a little bit, and then just
Speaker 1: keep on trying to go. Uh, you know that bondage
Speaker 1: between every player that I meet on the team and
Speaker 1: keep on growing relationships. Is that critical as well to
Speaker 1: be that guy for the backs to have that kind
Speaker 1: of relationship because you get to know them at a
Speaker 1: different level and maybe they ask things of you that
Speaker 1: would help them get through holes that you're trying to create. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just having that the chemistry, you know, just
Speaker 1: even on certain plays, like knowing where he thinks I'm
Speaker 1: will go and I know where he's gonna go, and
Speaker 1: just having that play stall off each other. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a big That's one big part of football just
Speaker 1: as of itself. You know, just having knowing your your
Speaker 1: running backs, tendencies, your quarterback, anybody's tendencies that have the
Speaker 1: ball other than like your other responsibilities. Just there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Knowing that other people's responsibilities in
Speaker 1: the field other than yours, you know, that's what helps
Speaker 1: you expand your game and helps you get better at football.
Speaker 1: So being back in the huddle for the first time
Speaker 1: during rookie miniicap, we are all sitting around there watching practice,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot of different stories about
Speaker 1: the transition from players from their last college days into
Speaker 1: there at the beginning of their NFL career. But here
Speaker 1: you are high expectations on you left tackle. Now you're
Speaker 1: in the huddle. How how was it for you? Because
Speaker 1: hey man, this is your goal in life to be
Speaker 1: a great football player. How was it to be in
Speaker 1: that huddle with the rest of the guys. You know,
Speaker 1: It's feel great. You know. I'm started looking around and
Speaker 1: saw like some big names like just and everybody, and then, uh,
Speaker 1: I felt good to be you know where I'm at.
Speaker 1: You know, I felt good to put on the helmet
Speaker 1: and have the Chicago Bears logo on it, and just
Speaker 1: to be in that huddle. I felt blessed enough just
Speaker 1: to be there. And uh, you know, honestly, I just
Speaker 1: felt happy in the moment. And then as soon as
Speaker 1: you know, I started as soon as things started rolling,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to give my brain process and
Speaker 1: all the plays that we went through and everything. So
Speaker 1: I didn't really have that much time to I would say,
Speaker 1: glorifying the moment because I have to get to get
Speaker 1: ready to start going through the plays and uh, but
Speaker 1: say other than that, I'll just say it's a big,
Speaker 1: big deal for me. Internally, well, final one for me
Speaker 1: to have them appreciate your your time. How quickly do
Speaker 1: you think you can you can get into routine? I
Speaker 1: think we you know, I don't want to use all
Speaker 1: the cliches about creatures of habit and we kind of
Speaker 1: all have our routines to get ourselves ready to play,
Speaker 1: at least at least I did as as a former player.
Speaker 1: But how quickly do you think you can get in
Speaker 1: that routine where you're locked and loaded? Uh do you mean?
Speaker 1: I just mean, like how you pre how you prepare,
Speaker 1: Like when you go into work at day and you
Speaker 1: know it's going to be a practice day, to get
Speaker 1: into your routine to say, all right, you know I've
Speaker 1: got everything in place where I can have a successful
Speaker 1: practice today. Granted you're gonna make your share of mistakes.
Speaker 1: But to get in that routine where you're just mentally
Speaker 1: of the right mind to prepare to go out there
Speaker 1: anytime you step between the lines. You know, I think
Speaker 1: I'm answering question. I think it takes me about an
Speaker 1: hour hour and a half beforehand, you know, just to
Speaker 1: mental compare myself, if that's that's what you're asking. But
Speaker 1: i'must say I'm doing all the day as a kid,
Speaker 1: and to prepare, like, you know, I go over to
Speaker 1: playbook again. I like, like I stood down in the
Speaker 1: locker room, go over my phone. I have my phone. Uh,
Speaker 1: I have pictures of them on my phone, just to
Speaker 1: go over through plays and stuff. And then uh, and
Speaker 1: then after that, I go roll out my like my
Speaker 1: whole body just to make sure my whole body's warmed
Speaker 1: up and everything, even though we're about to do a
Speaker 1: whole stretch before practice, and just so just to be
Speaker 1: able to make sure I was locked in and make
Speaker 1: sure my body's uh full preparation mode to uh, let's
Speaker 1: say practice that or aiming in the game. All right, Tevin,
Speaker 1: We'll let you go a final thought real quick though.
Speaker 1: You know, as young players that we've seen come through,
Speaker 1: it's it's always an interesting dynamic when you're entering, especially
Speaker 1: now with veterans involved, and you'll have a veteran mini
Speaker 1: camp here in a couple of weeks. But are you
Speaker 1: able to do you feel comfortable just being yourself personality
Speaker 1: wise yet or you you feel like you know, it's
Speaker 1: like anybody going to a new office, they got to
Speaker 1: get acquainted with their their peeps and understand what the
Speaker 1: environment is. Sometimes it's difficult for players to do that
Speaker 1: right away. You seem to have that personality to be
Speaker 1: an easy transition. Yeah, you know, it wasn't easy transition,
Speaker 1: know the first us, the first few les, the first
Speaker 1: few hours I was there. You know, I felt like
Speaker 1: it was a welcome moment. You know, they were talking
Speaker 1: talking to me, trying it to know me if you
Speaker 1: lived in and but we have a few outgoing people,
Speaker 1: you know, they they're time enough to even just reach
Speaker 1: out to me and just make sure I was accustomed
Speaker 1: to the program and to people around us. And I
Speaker 1: already started getting into jokes, you know, inside jokes and
Speaker 1: everything with everybody. And I feel good about it, and
Speaker 1: I feel good about the transition. Well, very good. Glad
Speaker 1: to have you in Chicago. Looking forward to seeing you
Speaker 1: next week at OTAs. And thank you so much for
Speaker 1: all this time today. Appreciate it. Yeah, it's no problem.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. You're welcome. Tevin Jenkins Bears
Speaker 1: new rookie tackle. We'll have more with Jim Miller in
Speaker 1: Tim there after this break on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy The score. This segment, it bears All Access is
Speaker 1: brought to you by DW people to get it Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonny Act, Tom Fair, and Jim met a big Jim
Speaker 1: Tevin Jenkins. Uh, really really comfortable and talking about things.
Speaker 1: He sounds a little bit like a veteran player already.
Speaker 1: I know he's got a long way to go and
Speaker 1: at that position, what are the biggest challenges you see
Speaker 1: for that transition? Um, I know, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. I think you know, he's played both tackle
Speaker 1: positions and like he said, he's working on the areas
Speaker 1: of that need the focus and that I believe he said.
Speaker 1: And when we were talking to him, he said, what
Speaker 1: kept on coming up is working on my basse in
Speaker 1: my balance and is time will tell Like me, as
Speaker 1: a quarterback, you're not going to be an accurate passer
Speaker 1: unless you're in balance to throw every time you throw,
Speaker 1: you need to be in balance. And uh, you know
Speaker 1: you got to make sure Tom can really expand on
Speaker 1: this more than me. You don't want a bass that's
Speaker 1: too wide where you know you can, or you don't
Speaker 1: want to be too top heavy and things like that.
Speaker 1: He was talking about bend and things like that, and
Speaker 1: so he's working on that that sweet spot for him,
Speaker 1: and Tom, I'll probably turn it over to you to
Speaker 1: talk about because you know, you don't want too narrow
Speaker 1: a base, you don't want too wide of a base.
Speaker 1: But he seemed like that was one area that that
Speaker 1: at least teams that interviewed him that he needed to
Speaker 1: work out and get a little bit better at. And
Speaker 1: he'll do it. He's too good of an athlete. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy growing up played basically every single sport baseball, football, basketball.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a good athlete for how big he is. Oh,
Speaker 1: he really is. You know, Jim and Jeff and we
Speaker 1: kind of say this top thing that's funny, and they
Speaker 1: always say, if you think your beat, that's what that's
Speaker 1: what he's got it. Tevin's got to get rid of
Speaker 1: the thinking part of it. And Jeff, you asked him,
Speaker 1: how long does it get take you to our Jim,
Speaker 1: get acclimated to all of your assignments and understand what
Speaker 1: your responsibility is against every single defense, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to use all those traits that he's
Speaker 1: displayed at the rookie Minicamp that he's capable. He's got
Speaker 1: the feet, he's got the punch. He's got the strength,
Speaker 1: he's got the size, he's got the balance. But it's
Speaker 1: about making sure you understand that system so well that
Speaker 1: you're never breaking the huddle thinking about your assignment. You're
Speaker 1: breaking the huddle only getting ready to incorporate all your
Speaker 1: traits in which the scouting department has already investigated him
Speaker 1: for and that he's already proven that he has. So
Speaker 1: that's the dividing line between all football players is knowledge
Speaker 1: or a lack of knowledge. If you sit out there
Speaker 1: and you have repeated mental airs, those will get you cut.
Speaker 1: If you have technique airs, that's going to get you coached.
Speaker 1: So that's what Tevin is up against is making sure
Speaker 1: that when he gets an opportunity to get the downtime
Speaker 1: that Jim asked him about after everything's over, you got
Speaker 1: to invest so much time within your tablet that it
Speaker 1: almost is nauseum. Because Tevin is going to be expected
Speaker 1: to come here day one of training camp and know
Speaker 1: this system equally as well as Cody equally, as well
Speaker 1: as James Daniels and Sam and Alex and Jermain Effetti.
Speaker 1: He's not going to have a time where he can
Speaker 1: make critical mental mistakes. Because they need him up to
Speaker 1: speed by the time they visit the rams. Do you
Speaker 1: see any potential with young players, especially tackles, things that
Speaker 1: they fall into a bad or rut early on that
Speaker 1: come back to haunt them at some point in the season.
Speaker 1: You got to be able to get out of your
Speaker 1: stance with such quickness and precisions because you know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: you were talking about the move by Khalil Mack. If
Speaker 1: you give Khalil Mack the advantage where he has that
Speaker 1: eighth of a second step on you, your beat. If
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn is getting parallel with you while you're coming
Speaker 1: out of your stance, you're beat. And that's about it.
Speaker 1: It's about the efficiency of the gift that you are given.
Speaker 1: And that's the reason you're playing offensive line is you've
Speaker 1: demonstrated the skills. But it's about making sure that you're
Speaker 1: doing him in the exact reference to the snap count,
Speaker 1: that you know coming out of the huddle, that you're
Speaker 1: moving just as fast as the center snap in the
Speaker 1: All right, I can give you guys a chance to
Speaker 1: talk about this ahead of the show. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of get you off guard here a little bit. But
Speaker 1: a few remaining moments with Jim Miller. With Tom there,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonik will turn it over soon to Anthony Herron
Speaker 1: tonight to talk more football and Cubs. I'm sure White
Speaker 1: Socks are playing tonight as well. If there's a player
Speaker 1: that you absolutely have to see become more than what
Speaker 1: he's been to this point as an impact player, who
Speaker 1: might that player be. I'm going to lead off that's
Speaker 1: okay because you touched on at earlier and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Roquan Smith because he's been outstanding. He's got Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl potential. He seems to be getting better every single
Speaker 1: year as long as he stays healthy. I believe this
Speaker 1: guy is the limit for this particular player because he
Speaker 1: is a very smart football player. Can run sideland to sideline,
Speaker 1: he com blitz, he could do it all. But the
Speaker 1: next step is becoming that leader, that voice on the
Speaker 1: defense at that position and really exercising that aspect of
Speaker 1: his game, and that, to me is the big development
Speaker 1: for Royal quant Smith in twenty twenty one. That's my player.
Speaker 1: You guys might agree with that player or pick another
Speaker 1: one we'll go to. We'll go to Jim. I think
Speaker 1: a player that has to step up and I know
Speaker 1: he was on the trade block at least what was
Speaker 1: being reported. I think Anthony Miller, Riley Ridley, one of
Speaker 1: those receivers has to step up in my opinion, you
Speaker 1: know what, I think there's been a level of frustration
Speaker 1: where they leveled off, and I think you got to
Speaker 1: take the next step because a lot of this game,
Speaker 1: especially in the Bears offense, it is a lot of
Speaker 1: three wides and so granted they've got some new guys
Speaker 1: there like the mere Bird, but in Marquis Goodwin and
Speaker 1: the guys that are there. But I think those players,
Speaker 1: you know, they're drafted by the team, I think they're
Speaker 1: expected to take the next step and they have to
Speaker 1: be impactful players. Quite frankly, more is to be expected
Speaker 1: of those young receivers. You know. To me, it's Eddie
Speaker 1: Goldman because you know, with guys like Trey Roberson or
Speaker 1: Already Burns, they were injured in training camp, then they
Speaker 1: start their rehab process to get back on the field.
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman wasn't going through rehab. He had the ability
Speaker 1: to work out and stay in condition and get ready
Speaker 1: because he opted out. So Eddie Goldman has to come
Speaker 1: in just as if he was a new shiny toy
Speaker 1: that they just drafted in the first round this year,
Speaker 1: and he's got to come in and step up to
Speaker 1: the plate immediately. He doesn't have a growth process to
Speaker 1: go through. He doesn't have a grow up time anymore. Eddie,
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman got a new contract and he's got to
Speaker 1: come in and he's got to be a dominator on
Speaker 1: the inside. He's got to make things easier for a
Speaker 1: Keem Hicks, for Mario Edwards junior from Bealal Nichols, the
Speaker 1: other defensive lineman playing alongside of him. So I'm really
Speaker 1: really interested to see what Eddie Goldman's gonna contribute from
Speaker 1: day one. Yeah, I agree with that too. That's a
Speaker 1: great point. And you know, it's one thing, as you say,
Speaker 1: to be injured, and because of the apt out, you
Speaker 1: had to look at it as an injury somebody who
Speaker 1: was not going to play. But I wonder what that
Speaker 1: mindset is like for a player to have that year
Speaker 1: and not play because of these circumstances but not be injured.
Speaker 1: What the mentality is and when they get back into it,
Speaker 1: where is the hunger Is it going to start showing
Speaker 1: itself immediately when they get into training, camping and even
Speaker 1: in these ota So that'll be that'll be something to watch.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things to watch. Great point by
Speaker 1: Tom there, Big Jim appreciate it. As always. We're gonna
Speaker 1: let you go and we will talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: All right, Jim Miller is out of here. Even he
Speaker 1: didn't even say goodbye. He didn't even say goodbye. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's gonna wrap us up. Thank you so much, Tom,
Speaker 1: and for Jim Miller and for Tevin Jenkins. To our
Speaker 1: producers Brandon Fryar, Jordan tread Up, Dan Balley, that's gonna
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