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Speaker 1: I am Jeff joniha blitz Us on Donnie got what
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Speaker 1: While most are looking to see what's going to be
Speaker 1: next for the Bears long term and into the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five preparation, head coach Thomas Brown and his Bears
Speaker 1: building steam towards the season finale Sunday at noon in
Speaker 1: Green Bay against the eleven win Packers with Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: episode one five of the Bears et Cetera podcast. It's
Speaker 1: brought to you by DKO. Coming up, we visit with
Speaker 1: rookie Potter Tory Taylor. A portion of the interview from
Speaker 1: our Bears Game Day live show, the player profile he'll
Speaker 1: be featured this week, and here a portion of the
Speaker 1: media gathering for offensive assistant coaches today from Bears quarterback
Speaker 1: coach Kerry Joseph Tom, How you feeling, buddy.
Speaker 3: You know, I was thinking about your interview with Tory Taylor.
Speaker 3: He's probably the farthest interview you've ever done of a
Speaker 3: Bears player, because I don't we haven't had anybody from Japan,
Speaker 3: we haven't had anybody from Samoa or any of the
Speaker 3: you know just where that the distance.
Speaker 4: Of that interview about Nigeria.
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it, and I'm glad for the people
Speaker 3: to get kind of in, not more not to be
Speaker 3: introduced to him, but to see him and hear him
Speaker 3: and let him talk, because he's a really neat person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he really is. And you know when he got here, everybody,
Speaker 1: well he's a older rookie. He's twenty seven years old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a big difference in some of these twenty one
Speaker 1: year old right.
Speaker 3: That experience twenty seventh, I think I was in my
Speaker 3: eighth year.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, hey, look at Tremaine Edmonds. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about the injury report for this real quick. It looks
Speaker 1: like a little sickness going through the building a little bit.
Speaker 1: Larry borm was back at practice. We taped this interview
Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon. But a couple of guys still dealing
Speaker 1: with it. Roma duneesay he did not practice, and now
Speaker 1: Kyler Gordon also, So it must be a bug going around.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going around. Just don't don't get the
Speaker 1: neurovirus because that's that's your hands.
Speaker 3: Yes, what I've been reading about it because I got
Speaker 3: it a couple of years ago and it was something
Speaker 3: that I awfully fought through during the late winter early spring.
Speaker 3: And so I've been reading about it and I've been
Speaker 3: washing my hands just repeatedly and drying them with a
Speaker 3: paper towel rather than aloth.
Speaker 4: Wow, you're doing your homework. That's digging deep while you're
Speaker 4: at it.
Speaker 1: While you're at it, what's the weather forecast at Lambeau
Speaker 1: for a noon start.
Speaker 3: It's six for a low, twenty two for a high.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be windy and the peak heat, the peak
Speaker 3: heat of the day is gonna be about eleven am.
Speaker 3: So it's not gonna be comfortable conditions by any means.
Speaker 3: They said it should feel from zero to fifteen and
Speaker 3: he snowed, no, not necessarily during the game. But I
Speaker 3: could be wrong there, you know, but you know this
Speaker 3: is going to be a This is going to be
Speaker 3: a mental challenge to go out there and want to
Speaker 3: put on that uniform and play with pride.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the Packers will do. I mean,
Speaker 1: they keep talking about, well, they got to get that
Speaker 1: down to the details. Some of the details have gone
Speaker 1: sideways for them a little bit. They've only lost to
Speaker 1: three teams. They have been to lose twice, those to
Speaker 1: the Lions and the Viking, So they.
Speaker 3: Can only go down one spot. I think they're the
Speaker 3: seventh seed now. They can only go to six if
Speaker 3: some things happen in front of them. However, you know,
Speaker 3: they've talked a little bit about what they're you know what,
Speaker 3: how what they were following and other times when they
Speaker 3: had home field advantage and such, and it always came
Speaker 3: back to haunt him. So I think every coach, no
Speaker 3: matter how much you do it, even including a guy
Speaker 3: like Andy Reid, is always searching for the right answer.
Speaker 3: How do you handle your roster in the last week
Speaker 3: or two of the season. And no bigger story in
Speaker 3: the NFL than Sakwon Barkley. Here's a guy that has
Speaker 3: a chance to set a record that very few people
Speaker 3: will ever have the chance in their football lifetime, and
Speaker 3: they're gonna forego that attempt at that record, and he's
Speaker 3: gonna set it out.
Speaker 1: Right in the name of trying to stay healthy and
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl. So that's the Packers. Either are
Speaker 1: gonna play the Eagles or the Rams. So you know,
Speaker 1: you can't like pick your poison. You got to go
Speaker 1: out and do what you gotta do to get ready
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. So they're gonna be a six or seven. Now,
Speaker 1: if you were being an analyst about this, who would
Speaker 1: be the opponent you wouldn't want to face if you're
Speaker 1: the Packers, the Eagles or the Rams.
Speaker 3: I would rather not play Philly in Philly because the
Speaker 3: support of their fans are not going to sell tickets
Speaker 3: to green Bay in LA. That'll be three quarters green
Speaker 3: Bay fans there and it'll be like a mini vacation
Speaker 3: post holiday home field advantage.
Speaker 4: For the Packers.
Speaker 1: Interesting analysis from Big Time. We're brought to you by
Speaker 1: P and C Official Bank of the Bears. A lot
Speaker 1: of injured players for the Packers, most notably the jy R.
Speaker 1: Alexander still working through a knee they put him out
Speaker 1: for the season. Maybe if they made it to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He might be ready to go, but a
Speaker 1: PCL tear, a couple concussions, ankle injuries from the defense,
Speaker 1: and so forth. But overall, let's talk about it because
Speaker 1: Jordan Love is now doing his job of protecting the
Speaker 1: football six straight games without an interception, because the interceptions
Speaker 1: were starting to mount.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 1: But what I've noticed on every bit of analysis of
Speaker 1: the Packers time is, and this is leading into not
Speaker 1: so much about this game, but about the Bears future,
Speaker 1: because we've been talking about scoring points for a very
Speaker 1: long time around here, not just this season, but years.
Speaker 1: The Bears have not been able to score a no
Speaker 1: points to stay competitive in a highly competitive offensive league.
Speaker 1: And the Packers are scoring points at every turn. They
Speaker 1: score quick, They score quick, quick drives, less than four plays, boom,
Speaker 1: They're on you. They score in the first quarter, they
Speaker 1: score in the third quarter, they score at the end
Speaker 1: of games, they score off turnovers. They are scoring points,
Speaker 1: and so is the rest of the division.
Speaker 3: Right But you know, go look at the rest of
Speaker 3: the division, and you look at the lack of vertical
Speaker 3: threat by the Bears. You know, because we are reading
Speaker 3: a stat the other day on Bears game Night Live
Speaker 3: about or Justin or Caleb with passes over twenty yards
Speaker 3: and he had a really limited percentage of success rate.
Speaker 3: Where you look at some of those other plays that
Speaker 3: you know, the big play to Williamson against the Bears
Speaker 3: on the play action, the big play to Watson against
Speaker 3: the Bears the last time. That's where the Bears have
Speaker 3: to get. They have the components. They have their row
Speaker 3: in Dunesday, they have a Tyler Scott, they have a
Speaker 3: DJ Moore, you know Cole kmet for that man. When
Speaker 3: you look at the other tight ends within the division,
Speaker 3: and that's where the Bears have to get. They have
Speaker 3: to become a vertical team as much as they are
Speaker 3: a horizontal team. And I will preface this because I
Speaker 3: think Caleb Williams is one of the most efficient horizontal
Speaker 3: passing quarterbacks to give the playmakers an opportunity to get
Speaker 3: their ball, get the ball on their hands quickly. But
Speaker 3: it's about vertical if you're talking about four play scoring drives, right.
Speaker 1: I think the conversation both from Thomas Brown and from
Speaker 1: Chris Beatty, he was very honest at the podium today
Speaker 1: and also listening to Kerry Joseph, we'll hear a portion
Speaker 1: of that just about where you're at in the pocket,
Speaker 1: whether it's shotgun or if you take it under center,
Speaker 1: and where you're lurching up to in the pocket. You know,
Speaker 1: they mentioned Patrick mahomes on a deep drop giving him
Speaker 1: more space to the lunge up in the pocket as
Speaker 1: opposed to a short lunge up in the pocket. And
Speaker 1: now you're bumping into the pass rush or you're bumping
Speaker 1: in your ownfense. That may make sense to me. How
Speaker 1: does that work for you? And how do you coach
Speaker 1: a quarterback to do that in a way that gives
Speaker 1: him more time in the pocket to lurch up there.
Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, I agree with everything you're talking about
Speaker 3: because life in the pocket is unpredictable and it could
Speaker 3: change every single play depending upon the down and distance
Speaker 3: and the type of rush that they're going to put
Speaker 3: at you, and where is the vulnerabilities of your protection.
Speaker 3: But it's part of getting your quarterback within the same
Speaker 3: system for a number of years, so they know it
Speaker 3: so perfectly that they can make a decision how to
Speaker 3: create life in the pocket without having to think about it.
Speaker 3: And when you talk about those other quarterbacks who have
Speaker 3: showed evidence of that. It's about being in that system
Speaker 3: for a period of time. And listen, I think Caleb
Speaker 3: has got really clever feet. He's got a lot of
Speaker 3: different accuracy with the different arm angles. He's got vision
Speaker 3: that he can use the entire width of the field,
Speaker 3: So all the components that quarterback needs to have success
Speaker 3: at what you're talking about life in the pocket, He's
Speaker 3: got it. He's just got to be within the same
Speaker 3: terminology over a number of years that he repeats it
Speaker 3: so much that he knows it better than anybody else
Speaker 3: in the building.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: That's why I don't love all the change. And some of.
Speaker 1: It's necessitated, obviously, but the change. Everybody always clamors for change.
Speaker 1: But that does not help your rookie quarter It does
Speaker 1: not help your young quarterback. It doesn't happen. You know,
Speaker 1: every few years of your making changes, you're just delaying growth.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, I don't care how good you are.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: One example, my example is an offensive lineman. So we
Speaker 3: had an offensive line coach in the Usfla's name was
Speaker 3: John Payne, and he was even number holes to the right,
Speaker 3: odd number holes to the left. And when I came
Speaker 3: to the Bears, it was opposite. It was odd numbers
Speaker 3: to the right. And that's just one little detail. That's
Speaker 3: some offensive lineman has to put that in his memory
Speaker 3: bank that he never steps in the opposite direction. And
Speaker 3: there was one time that Mark Boards and I were
Speaker 3: supposed to pull to our right. Mark Borts pulled to
Speaker 3: his right and I pulled to my left and we
Speaker 3: had a collision right behind center. So listen, man, the
Speaker 3: quarterback has got a thousand more things that the offensive
Speaker 3: lineman has to understand. But you know, if you can
Speaker 3: get put in that same system like I had the
Speaker 3: luxury of being in for eight years, then all that
Speaker 3: stuff becomes second nature to you and everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's rare, though, man, that that kind of time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you're seeing it in Detroit and
Speaker 1: like half of what you did. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: four years or whatever. I just in this league anymore.
Speaker 1: It's almost unattainable because of things such as free agency,
Speaker 1: which you get you guys didn't have the injuries situations
Speaker 1: a little more acute, it seems, you know, for a
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. I think, yeah, it's just there's and
Speaker 1: then you get a good offensive coordinat and they get
Speaker 1: plucked away to go be a head coach somewhere.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, say you get a good head coach that's
Speaker 3: an offensive mind, a head coach, and there's somebody within
Speaker 3: the chain of command that you started admiring because we
Speaker 3: always talk about this Shanahan tree or this this Andy
Speaker 3: Reid tree or these different trees that have existed around
Speaker 3: the NFL for years. And as soon as you're part
Speaker 3: of that tree and someone goes, man, I'm going to
Speaker 3: take that branch and see what it can do for
Speaker 3: my team. Even though he's not the head coach. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm going to give him the first shot as an
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator, you know, whatever title you want to give him.
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams is thrown for the most completions, best completion percentage,
Speaker 1: most yards, most passing yards, most passing touchdowns by a
Speaker 1: rookie in Bear's history. With one game to go and
Speaker 1: he avoids an interception, he would tie Jim Harbaugh's nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety season when Tom Theaory was protecting him for fewest
Speaker 1: interceptions thrown by a Bears quarterback with a minimum of
Speaker 1: ten game starts. He's at six right now. I think
Speaker 1: Jim also was at six, so if he stays there,
Speaker 1: he would keep him tied for the nineteen ninety season. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's Carrie Joseph a variety of topics from the local
Speaker 1: media asking him about Caleb Williams learned.
Speaker 6: Small things, whether it be protection, really nail that and
Speaker 6: then move to the next one. Whether it be coverages,
Speaker 6: move to the next one, whether it be different pressures
Speaker 6: on a defense, understanding how defenses fit, how they attack
Speaker 6: you as an offense or as a quarterback, and not
Speaker 6: try to digest too much at one time. Just take
Speaker 6: small buckets the same way you gotta play the game
Speaker 6: and keep the game small.
Speaker 2: It's the same way you got to study the game,
Speaker 2: and and learning with Thomas expresses so much.
Speaker 5: I don't know, dangerous right, worry, but but uh a
Speaker 5: trap on a guy that's really hungry to learn confall
Speaker 5: into of trying to learn too much at once.
Speaker 6: It is, it is, And I think when you have
Speaker 6: a plan it offsets that trap. Cause if you got
Speaker 6: a plan and you follow that plan and you're disciplined
Speaker 6: to that plan, it a it won't let you get
Speaker 6: too far ahead, if that makes sense to you.
Speaker 7: Having Thomas said there right with you guys when he's
Speaker 7: passing later from the very beginning, so.
Speaker 5: You got to see him in that role to where
Speaker 5: he's at now, and it's different.
Speaker 6: How how have you seen him grow as a coach
Speaker 6: going from that like and just being around and probably
Speaker 6: more than maybe some other position. You know what I have, uh,
Speaker 6: just my first year working with him and just his command,
Speaker 6: his positive energy, and I really commend him and I
Speaker 6: told him that you know, the things that he had
Speaker 6: to go through in a short period of time, he's
Speaker 6: really handled that well.
Speaker 2: And you saw that he knew he didn't he didn't
Speaker 2: have to do it himself.
Speaker 6: You know, that's one thing I I watched him and
Speaker 6: he knew that, Hey, I can lean on other guys around,
Speaker 6: other coaches and to help me alone with this process.
Speaker 6: And you can just see, uh, just his process when
Speaker 6: he first went into the coordinator road and then he
Speaker 6: had to step in as the head coach, just trying
Speaker 6: to figure out that process and also still be in
Speaker 6: the quarterback room and uh, just working with him, like
Speaker 6: when he had to leave out, Hey, kJ you take it.
Speaker 2: You know, you talk about it.
Speaker 6: I mean I was always an extension of him, still
Speaker 6: theirs and uh, it was just tremendous to watch him
Speaker 6: grind through that that process, cause it's not easy and
Speaker 6: uh but you saw he never flinched, never complained. He
Speaker 6: just comes in every day with the same attitude and
Speaker 6: uh brings the same energy.
Speaker 5: Was Jerry Chris said last week that that Caleb is
Speaker 5: still learning how to learn, particularly within this season, on
Speaker 5: how to how to study, how to prepare. What do
Speaker 5: you think the next step is in that regard of
Speaker 5: him understanding and signed the season, how to how to
Speaker 5: get himself ready with.
Speaker 6: It's just that that whole process of of finding that routine.
Speaker 6: You know, everybody has that routine. One of the things
Speaker 6: I shared with him, uh the other day of uh
Speaker 6: leaning on guys around the league. You know, that s
Speaker 6: six guys that have had success. You know I mentioned
Speaker 6: some names. Of course, he's gonna find his guys, whether
Speaker 6: it be guys that are playing now, on the guys
Speaker 6: that have played MM, find out what they did, find
Speaker 6: out you know what he did. Find out what he did,
Speaker 6: find out what he did right, and the just s okay,
Speaker 6: what fits or what I can take and put into
Speaker 6: my routine. That's gonna be part of that process through
Speaker 6: the off season. Cause excuse me. Talent is confidence. It
Speaker 6: gets you here, not a preparation. Brings you more confidence
Speaker 6: to keep you here and to keep you growing and
Speaker 6: keep you getting better. And that's what that's the process
Speaker 6: for him now of finding out what works for him
Speaker 6: and that routine and uh, and that's our job too, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, but part of his coaches to help him.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, players that kind of find
Speaker 6: their own little niche and.
Speaker 2: And and he will.
Speaker 5: What's the hardest part of a rookie your figuring that out, Uh,
Speaker 5: you're going through in the first time and not really
Speaker 5: having the answers.
Speaker 6: I just think it all about that discipline and keeping
Speaker 6: the small things small and not trying to I have
Speaker 6: to know everything right now, because it's impossible. You're not
Speaker 6: gonna know everything right now. Teams are gonna throw different
Speaker 6: things that you. You're gonna learn things along the way,
Speaker 6: but you gotta be careful not to skip anything within
Speaker 6: the process.
Speaker 5: When you talk about him mental things to to pair
Speaker 5: with this town, what is the process of that in
Speaker 5: the winter and spring right like in the next six months.
Speaker 2: Once once Sunday, I.
Speaker 6: Answered, it's, uh, it's just studying film, you know, like
Speaker 6: going uh cut up all of it, cause I do
Speaker 6: it as a coach, So that's gonna be my thing
Speaker 6: to give to him to talk about. And all my completions, bo,
Speaker 6: why I had these completions, all my incompletions?
Speaker 2: Why was it? Was I late with my footwark? Now?
Speaker 2: Did I s Did I not see something in the coverage?
Speaker 2: My sacks? Was that on me? You know? Did a
Speaker 2: guy just missed? Did a hold on to the ball
Speaker 2: too long?
Speaker 6: All those things there, being able to see it and
Speaker 6: being able to continue to study it and then also
Speaker 6: studying other people thing.
Speaker 2: Why is he so good? That's what you learn, that's.
Speaker 6: Where you grow and get with them and knowledge in
Speaker 6: the all season, and then how you bring that back
Speaker 6: to OTA's I think you just got to study.
Speaker 2: You got to be a student the game in the
Speaker 2: all season.
Speaker 4: Also, what are your takeaways?
Speaker 3: Carrie's been a lot of He's been around a lot
Speaker 3: of offenses as the player and a coach. He's been
Speaker 3: around a lot of quarterbacks that go about their business differently,
Speaker 3: because no two quarterbacks are exactly alike. He talked about
Speaker 3: the examples that maybe Caleb should go in research and
Speaker 3: get to know or pick their brain or get an
Speaker 3: understanding about how they go through their learning process, whether
Speaker 3: it's for a game, a third down, a particular type
Speaker 3: of defense. And he talks about the tons of different
Speaker 3: details that a quarterback must master in order to become
Speaker 3: a quarterback that has the talents of Caleb. And that's
Speaker 3: what we sit here and talk about weekly about how
Speaker 3: talented of a kid he is, but how long that
Speaker 3: he needs to be digesting this volume of quarterback information
Speaker 3: so everything becomes second nature to him.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like, you know, you don't get time
Speaker 1: off if you're the quarterback it's you know, it's one
Speaker 1: thing you guys would take some time, maybe a short
Speaker 1: period of time and hit back in the weight room,
Speaker 1: But this is different. It's that plus studying tape, plus
Speaker 1: studying coverages. I mean, it's a full time gig. There
Speaker 1: is no off season.
Speaker 3: When you're a young man like Caleb. When I was
Speaker 3: a young offensive lineman and I would just so badly
Speaker 3: wanted to play for a long time. If the season
Speaker 3: ends with excitement like it did the Super Bowl year,
Speaker 3: you take a week off. If it ends with disappointment
Speaker 3: like it did again the Washington Redskins, that was the name,
Speaker 3: when we got beaten the playoffs by them, then you
Speaker 3: took a week off and you got right back in
Speaker 3: the weight room because your desire didn't change. Whether you
Speaker 3: ended the season winning the Super Bowl or you lost
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. You still were concerned about making sure
Speaker 3: that you held that upper hand on all that competition
Speaker 3: that was in line behind you. And when you talk
Speaker 3: about a quarterback, there's a lot more mental approach to
Speaker 3: the importance of the game than there was an offensive lineman.
Speaker 3: For us, it was more weightroom dedication.
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Speaker 1: other nuggets offensively before we move on, dj is fifty
Speaker 1: five yards is seventy five hundred in a career.
Speaker 4: Eleven catches.
Speaker 1: If he did manage to do that in this game,
Speaker 1: would be the first S's Alan Robinson with one hundred
Speaker 1: catches that happened in twenty twenty. He's one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty yards from a thousand to be just the seventh
Speaker 1: and Bears history with multiple one thousand yard seasons. Cole
Speaker 1: Comet twenty nine yards to five hundred on the season.
Speaker 1: That would be four for four for Cole the last
Speaker 1: four years, tying him for the third most by a
Speaker 1: Bears pass catcher and the most by a tight end.
Speaker 1: I mean these are minor things, obviously, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: a Duneza fourth and rookie yards.
Speaker 4: He needs one hundred and twenty one.
Speaker 1: To crack the top three and past Willie Gault. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of cool stories here, all right.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question off the top of
Speaker 3: your head. So you talk about those numbers about DJ Moore,
Speaker 3: who are the other receivers on the team last year?
Speaker 4: Darnell Mooney right.
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: So let me let me The only reason I'm asking
Speaker 3: you this, Jeff, is because Darnell Mooney was coming off
Speaker 3: of an injury. DJ Moore came aboard and he was
Speaker 3: the most targeted guy, and he was everybody was in
Speaker 3: awe of him. Now you step up one year, Roma, Dunza,
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen more targets to Cole Kmet. So it's not
Speaker 3: that DJ Moore hasn't been less effective in this offense.
Speaker 3: It's just that the ball is distributed differently than it
Speaker 3: is when you have DJ Moore. Oh yeah, there's Darnell
Speaker 3: Mooney and who else was out? You know, it's just different.
Speaker 3: It's just different in the way that you focus on
Speaker 3: DJ with other receivers.
Speaker 1: Our Getico gives you more football stat of the week.
Speaker 1: The Bears entering Week eighteen, tom just fourteen total turnovers
Speaker 1: this season. If they managed to stay fewer than nineteen,
Speaker 1: and god forbid, if they give the ball away five
Speaker 1: times on Sunday, they would set a franchise record. For
Speaker 1: fewest turnovers in a single season in franchise history. It's
Speaker 1: pretty impressive, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. It just tells you a little bit about
Speaker 3: how protective Caleb has been with the football, making sure
Speaker 3: he just doesn't needlessly throw it into an area of interceptions,
Speaker 3: and that all the other guys that had carried the
Speaker 3: ball once they had it in their hands, receivered or
Speaker 3: running back, they all protected the football. So it is.
Speaker 3: You know, safety is a key ingredient in all of
Speaker 3: football levels.
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Speaker 1: here's one more stat for you before we get into
Speaker 1: Tory Taylor. The Bears number three red zone defense that's
Speaker 1: been consistent all year, number seven red zone offense in
Speaker 1: the league. They just haven't had as many trips into
Speaker 1: the red zone to take a big advantage of it.
Speaker 1: That's where we get back to that whole scoring points thing. Right,
Speaker 1: But listen to this. They're in that top seven. Five
Speaker 1: ahead of them.
Speaker 4: Are playoff bound.
Speaker 1: You can you can venture to guess who those are,
Speaker 1: and and Cincinnati could sneak in. So if Cincinnati gets
Speaker 1: into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Not Denver.
Speaker 1: The top six teams in red zone offense are playoff
Speaker 1: bound and then the Bears are sitting there at seven.
Speaker 1: So it's not like it's been all bad. I know,
Speaker 1: it's not been good enough, and they need to score
Speaker 1: more points to be competitive in a very high scoring
Speaker 1: division now with the Packers who've put up a bunch
Speaker 1: of thirty point games, obviously the Vikings and Lions, and
Speaker 1: that is not going away. So whether the season ends
Speaker 1: today or it's in the next year, that division is
Speaker 1: going to remain a high scoring division in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Well then that to me, that makes me think of Caleb,
Speaker 3: So where is my focus? Where's my intentions of focus
Speaker 3: during the early part of this offseason. It's going to
Speaker 3: be studying red zone defenses and red zone offenses. And
Speaker 3: because I think when you talk about the Bears and
Speaker 3: how they can score more points, how they can get
Speaker 3: in the end zone more, how can you be more
Speaker 3: efficient and effective in that area of the field, I
Speaker 3: think that's one of the elements of improvement that if
Speaker 3: this Bears team improves offensively in the red zone with
Speaker 3: a stingy is their defenses played in the red zone,
Speaker 3: You're talking about elevating to wins.
Speaker 4: But this is just it.
Speaker 1: They're not turning the ball over, they're not getting hurt
Speaker 1: that way, and they're they're and they're they're doing well
Speaker 1: in the red zone. So it's what's happening between between
Speaker 1: the forties.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, you know when.
Speaker 1: They they they keep it was a lot of self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. We know what they are, self inflicted wounds,
Speaker 1: falling behind the change, negative runs, negative plays, false starts,
Speaker 1: all that business sacks correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, offensive offensive line injuries has been a hindrance to
Speaker 3: because you know, we've used all those words about what
Speaker 3: they need to do to be a more well oiled
Speaker 3: machine on offense, and when you have those interruptions on
Speaker 3: the offensive side of the ball, especially in the offensive line,
Speaker 3: that does it does hurt you.
Speaker 1: Good news, Chicago United Airlines is getting brand new planes
Speaker 1: with all the bells and whistles like Bluetooth connectivity screens
Speaker 1: at every seat in room for everyone's roller bag. United
Speaker 1: Proud to fly to Chicago Bears and you two all right,
Speaker 1: Tory Taylor had a chance to sit down with them.
Speaker 4: Wonderful guy.
Speaker 1: Five punts inside the twenty against Seattle time for the
Speaker 1: second most by any Bears punter in a single game
Speaker 1: since at least nineteen ninety one. He's fourth in punch
Speaker 1: inside the twenty in the NFL and has blasted of
Speaker 1: the Bears rookie record with thirty two. Let's dig in
Speaker 1: more and see what's going through the ass's mind about
Speaker 1: his rookie season here in the NFL. Are you going
Speaker 1: to Australia next week?
Speaker 8: Yes, next Wednesday? Yeah, for a week.
Speaker 7: So to get like that place, absolutely, I mean I'm
Speaker 7: going to get it and it's gonna be about eighty
Speaker 7: ninety degrees, so yeah, I'm excited for that.
Speaker 2: Nice. Nice.
Speaker 1: It's not the bucket list for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what everyone says, but I haven't met many
Speaker 7: people that have actually gone so far.
Speaker 8: It is hard to get you, it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did your parents get to see a lot this year?
Speaker 1: Did they?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So they've come out every well, they've come out the
Speaker 7: last three years, so they come out for the usually
Speaker 7: the first month of the season when it's nicer weather.
Speaker 7: So yeah, they came to the first four games this season,
Speaker 7: so that was pretty special. They really enjoy it. And
Speaker 7: uggle little brother as well, who's four team. He absolutely
Speaker 7: loves it, so did him Minola to you, Yeah, that's
Speaker 7: a big that's a big ask. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 7: it's also one of those things that I obviously wouldn't
Speaker 7: be here if it wasn't for my parents, But they
Speaker 7: were kind of the ones that originally pushed me to
Speaker 7: do this. So it's always like cool. Especially the first
Speaker 7: game against the Titans. I remember the national anthem was
Speaker 7: going on, and I was like, man, like, this is
Speaker 7: pretty pretty cool and special what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 7: So and I think they really enjoyed that as well.
Speaker 1: How about your brother is this? Is he an athlete
Speaker 1: and is he like, what is his dream?
Speaker 7: He'll say is I don't really, I wouldn't really say
Speaker 7: any of us are really good athletes as such. But
Speaker 7: I think he does eventually like want to do what
Speaker 7: I'm doing. But I think he thinks it's it's all
Speaker 7: pretty smooth sailing when he comes over here for two
Speaker 7: or three weeks and you know, sees what it's all about.
Speaker 7: It's in in the stands, but there's a lot more
Speaker 7: that goes into it. So but hopefully one day he'll
Speaker 7: follow me.
Speaker 1: You'll have to explain how the sausage is yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm not letting you get out of here
Speaker 1: by saying, yeah, I don't know how many of us are. Great,
Speaker 1: you're in the top one percent of the one percent
Speaker 1: that have been able to make it to the National
Speaker 1: Football League and actually play a game.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I'm a special I'm also meant from you know,
Speaker 7: physical athletic ability. I wouldn't put myself up there maybe
Speaker 7: like the other guys, but yeah, I guess when you
Speaker 7: put it like that, top thirty two in the world
Speaker 7: and what we do is, yeah, is pretty cool, and
Speaker 7: that's something that I do think about all the time.
Speaker 7: But what we're all doing is pretty special. But you
Speaker 7: certainly can't take it for granted whatsoever.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, and a lot of work went into it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and say, hey, you
Speaker 1: just roll out of bed. But granted you haven't done
Speaker 1: it for very long. Yeah, but you've cooked, You've kicked
Speaker 1: balls for twenty years.
Speaker 7: Yeah about that, Yeah, American football for about yeah five yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: start in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 1: But the skill that's involved, the ability to get yourself mentally, physically,
Speaker 1: spiritually ready to play this very demanding game and anything
Speaker 1: anything can happen on any snap.
Speaker 7: Yeah absolutely, But I think it's really just one of
Speaker 7: those things that it just really just comes down to
Speaker 7: confidence and being who you say you are also to yourself,
Speaker 7: and I think that's really one thing that's held me's
Speaker 7: just going out there and being myself. I don't need
Speaker 7: to be Superman or anything like that. So really I've
Speaker 7: just tried to enjoy it and be my authentic self
Speaker 7: and go out there and have fun and also just
Speaker 7: put the team in the best situation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I kind of just go out there and enjoy, but
Speaker 7: more so just I never really want to let my
Speaker 7: teammates or coaches down or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, like I.
Speaker 7: Said, I really just try and go out there and
Speaker 7: enjoy it because I'm not going to be doing this
Speaker 7: for thirty years.
Speaker 1: No, you'll do something else fun, I'm sure, But but
Speaker 1: have you had you know, I'm a deep thinker. I'm
Speaker 1: a look in the mirror guy in the morning and myself. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you know because you can't lay to that gay, No
Speaker 1: you can't. So are you that, like tell me what
Speaker 1: that's all about? Are you a guy that looks in
Speaker 1: the mirrors is okay? Yeah, can I be my authentic
Speaker 1: self today?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think it's more so that especially I guess my generation,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of pointing the finger, and I've always
Speaker 7: kind of thought, well, like what are you effing going
Speaker 7: to do? You know what I mean, Like, why don't
Speaker 7: you just worry about what you can do? Because, like
Speaker 7: I said, so many people just point the finger, and
Speaker 7: especially in terms of times of adversity and things like that.
Speaker 7: But really it's one of those things that I look at, well,
Speaker 7: I'm not in control of anyone else, Like I can't
Speaker 7: do things for others, but what can I do for myself?
Speaker 7: And really it's just one of those things like how
Speaker 7: can I get better each day? And everything really compounds
Speaker 7: so that that's really one thing that I believe in
Speaker 7: a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, the times I've heard you speak and we've
Speaker 1: had a few interactions early in the season, your street shooter,
Speaker 1: aren't you? Yeah, your street I don't know whether that's
Speaker 1: good or bad. No, I think it's I think it's
Speaker 1: rare anymore. Yeah, I think there's a fear of being
Speaker 1: a street s Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think it's one of those things that my dad
Speaker 7: always said that you can never get in trouble for
Speaker 7: telling the truth. So that's one thing that I try
Speaker 7: and roll with. Like I said, I feel like you
Speaker 7: really know where you're staying with people if you tell
Speaker 7: the truth. And I think it's also one of those
Speaker 7: things like I'm not here to be liked or loved
Speaker 7: or anything like that. It's just more about a respect thing,
Speaker 7: but more so just treating others well as well. I
Speaker 7: understand that I probably got a little bit of growing
Speaker 7: up to do as well. And probably there's probably a
Speaker 7: few things I've said in the past maybe that I'd
Speaker 7: like to take back, but nothing too serious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we a what was a young Tory Taylor dreaming about?
Speaker 8: Certainly not American football?
Speaker 7: You know, I think as a kid, you're always growing
Speaker 7: up like, oh, I want to be a fireman, or
Speaker 7: I want to be a police offer officer. I want
Speaker 7: to be an astronaut or something like that. But it's
Speaker 7: hard to really narrow it down to what I really
Speaker 7: wanted to do. It's probably more so I wanted to
Speaker 7: be I always wanted to be in professional sport, like
Speaker 7: every kid does, you know, you always have dreams and
Speaker 7: aspirations to make it to the.
Speaker 8: Highest level of any sport.
Speaker 7: But for the most part, it was Australian rules football
Speaker 7: up until I was about fourteen or fifteen, and then
Speaker 7: I've stopped for a while and it was kind of
Speaker 7: cool way. I just wasn't enjoying it. I really was
Speaker 7: not enjoying it at all. And then I started up
Speaker 7: again in when I was eighteen or nineteen, just finished
Speaker 7: high school. But then I kind of knew, like I
Speaker 7: was just playing local level football five minutes from my house,
Speaker 7: nothing serious whatsoever. And then yeah, joined Pro kick in
Speaker 7: twenty nineteen, and then I kind of thought, oh, I'm
Speaker 7: not too bad at kicking off football. I guess maybe
Speaker 7: I'll give this a go.
Speaker 1: It's crazy the way you describe it so nonchalantly when
Speaker 1: there's you know, kids all like they may have already
Speaker 1: put in a lifetime. I'll work just to get here
Speaker 1: at whatever position it may be.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And that's but you know, you have a gift,
Speaker 1: and you've harnessed that gift the best of your ability
Speaker 1: to be a draft pick for the Chicago Bears and
Speaker 1: playing this league hopefully for the next fifteen years. Yeah
Speaker 1: or more kickers, right, Yeah, you're not doing it for thirty. No,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna do it a long time, you stay.
Speaker 1: How can you still and still love it?
Speaker 8: That's the old Absolutely, I love this scene. I think
Speaker 8: that's why.
Speaker 7: You know, I've said to a few few people like, oh,
Speaker 7: what do you they always ask, or what do you
Speaker 7: think has led to your six self success? And I
Speaker 7: think a lot of it, just like I love this stuff, man,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. I could go either and
Speaker 7: punt every day would be the best thing for me. No,
Speaker 7: but it brings me a lot of like satisfaction hitting
Speaker 7: a good punt. And I think it's one of those things.
Speaker 7: There's no such thing as like a perfect golf shot
Speaker 7: or a perfect punt or anything like that, so that's
Speaker 7: kind of what keeps you coming back. And it's more
Speaker 7: so those days when you don't hit the ball the
Speaker 7: way you want to and then you're kind of itching
Speaker 7: for the next day to come. So it's really one
Speaker 7: of those things that and even just really this season,
Speaker 7: you know, I've had so many ups and downs, but
Speaker 7: that's just kind of what makes it exciting.
Speaker 8: If if it was perfect, to be.
Speaker 1: Boring, yeah, you probably wouldn't work his hard out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it came so easy yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, I'm assuming you're golfer.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I'm not too bad.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, golfers remember almost every shot, right, and they're
Speaker 1: around really good ones. They remember the club, the length
Speaker 1: a whole bit. I'm fascinated by that. I'm not mentally
Speaker 1: tough to do that. But so, is there a point
Speaker 1: you'd like to have back and one which you like,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is this This was my best
Speaker 1: point of the year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean there's several ones that I would certainly
Speaker 7: like to take back. I think one thing that it's
Speaker 7: interesting though, because sometimes you can hit a good ball
Speaker 7: and mother nature wins, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 7: had that, yeah, that twelve yard part against New England
Speaker 7: and people probably sitting there going, oh, what's he doing?
Speaker 7: But when it came off my foot, I honestly thought
Speaker 7: it was perfect. It kind of just got hold up
Speaker 7: on the wind. But that was a good learning curve
Speaker 7: and experience as well, just understanding that maybe I need
Speaker 7: to pay a little bit more attention to kind of
Speaker 7: what the wind's doing, but also understanding that mother nature
Speaker 7: sometimes wins. But that's probably one that I would would
Speaker 7: like back, but certainly don't dwell on it, and I
Speaker 7: think people probably aren't gonna think this is the right answer,
Speaker 7: because I think the easy one is to probably pinpoint
Speaker 7: the Rams punt there at the end in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 7: I think it was a sixty six yard one out
Speaker 7: of bounds, but I think it was actually the punt
Speaker 7: that I had against Washington Command is in the last quarter,
Speaker 7: and I think it was like a fifty five yard
Speaker 7: punt out of bounds. But that was more so just
Speaker 7: a big I feel like moment in the game, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean. And I don't want to again
Speaker 7: into too many details and things like that, but we'd
Speaker 7: called a certain ball and they ended up the Command
Speaker 7: has ended up going double viceing both gun and so
Speaker 7: I was kind of, oh man, I'm in a bit
Speaker 7: of trouble year. So I just tried to kick you
Speaker 7: foreign as I could out of bounds, and yeah, happened.
Speaker 7: He had a good punt. So that was probably like
Speaker 7: I probably might be contradicting what I said before, but
Speaker 7: that almost was a perfect punt.
Speaker 1: We'll go with that. Yeah, I know you're big in
Speaker 1: from what I understand, you don't love the spot later
Speaker 1: on you it's not about it's about the team. It's
Speaker 1: about the operation. So let's talk about the operation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, we're thinking, Okay, Patrick
Speaker 1: Patrick's Scales, mister reliable when he gets hurt. Yeah, Scott
Speaker 1: Dealely comes in local product. He's your long snapper, and
Speaker 1: and then you're the you're the holder for Cairol. What's
Speaker 1: that relationship like it usually is that trio sticks together
Speaker 1: like family?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: I mean they're the guys that we that I hang
Speaker 7: out with every day. You know, they're probably the three
Speaker 7: guys including Sale's who I'm close with.
Speaker 8: On the team.
Speaker 7: But it's probably one of those things that it's probably
Speaker 7: goes a little bit unnoticed how important that that trio
Speaker 7: is really in terms of putting the ball through the uprights.
Speaker 7: You know, I think a lot of pressure is actually
Speaker 7: put on Cairo because he's on kicking the ball. But
Speaker 7: without Scott snaffing the ball, nothing, nothing can can really happen.
Speaker 7: So Scott's done a really good job this year. I mean,
Speaker 7: he was in Detroit the last couple of years and
Speaker 7: I remember meeting I guess it's last year now when
Speaker 7: I was trained out in San Diego, And yeah, he
Speaker 7: was a really nice guy. And it's just crazy how
Speaker 7: how things work out. So yeah, really lucky to be
Speaker 7: able to work with those guys. And they're older guys
Speaker 7: as well, and they've just helped you with a lot
Speaker 7: of things. And I think what I love about those
Speaker 7: guys is we're all just ourselves and you know, we're
Speaker 7: all here to have fun and put our best out there.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: Is the losing hote?
Speaker 8: Oh absolutely, I mean you don't.
Speaker 7: You don't want to be part of a losing team,
Speaker 7: and you know, to be foreign to be sitting here
Speaker 7: four and twelve is I feel like we've certainly underachieved.
Speaker 7: But to me, it's never really been about the results
Speaker 7: or anything like that. It's more so just like, well
Speaker 7: what can I do to put the team in.
Speaker 8: The best position?
Speaker 7: And I kind of I read a quote a few
Speaker 7: few months ago and it said, if you want to
Speaker 7: get revenge, start with yourself and not living up to
Speaker 7: your full potential on I think that's one thing that's
Speaker 7: always just stuck with me as well. It just goes
Speaker 7: back to what I was saying before, what can I
Speaker 7: do to get better? And there's a lot of things
Speaker 7: that external out of my control. Like I'm not in
Speaker 7: charge of the offense or the defense or anything like that.
Speaker 7: Just I've got a job and the sole responsibility to
Speaker 7: put the ball where it needs to needs to be
Speaker 7: and can't worry about anything else.
Speaker 8: But to anti your original question, I mean it sucks.
Speaker 7: Honestly, at the end of the day, the NFL is
Speaker 7: a production business and we have Yeah, we haven't produced
Speaker 7: a way we need to, and yeah, things are certainly
Speaker 7: going to change so that we can. But like I said,
Speaker 7: I'm just trying what can I do to make the
Speaker 7: team better? And I think I probably said it a
Speaker 7: few times in the past. When all said and done,
Speaker 7: I really just want Poles and ht to look like
Speaker 7: geniuses for drafting me.
Speaker 1: Well, they did a heck of a jabbringing you here.
Speaker 1: It was an important get I don't care what anybody
Speaker 1: has their opinions out. Oh absolutely, and they and everybody's
Speaker 1: got opinions. But I love that saying circling back, I
Speaker 1: smell a T shirt.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean that, I can't says podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah says yeah.
Speaker 7: And I think even a few different words and things
Speaker 7: like that. If you're ever angry, well why don't you
Speaker 7: just start with yourself? What you can do, you know
Speaker 7: what I mean, because like I said at the start
Speaker 7: of the conversation, there's a lot of pointing the finger
Speaker 7: that goes on, especially with young guys around our age.
Speaker 7: But who's really going to stand up in times of adversity?
Speaker 1: How are you received in Australia or you're going to
Speaker 1: find out? But from what you hear.
Speaker 7: Now, no, absolutely nothing. I mean I'll go back there.
Speaker 7: I'll go back there next week.
Speaker 2: And I don't know a.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I like that honestly.
Speaker 7: And so many people ask ask me, oh, do you
Speaker 7: kind of like being in the spotlight in terms of NFL,
Speaker 7: And I was like, well, you kind of just have
Speaker 7: to deal with it.
Speaker 8: You don't really have a choice.
Speaker 7: But I'd really just like to be one of those
Speaker 7: guys that nobody knows about, because that's how you can't to.
Speaker 8: Extend your career, you know what I mean, just going
Speaker 8: out there and doing go to the radar.
Speaker 1: But you know, the funny thing is you got a
Speaker 1: great person out of your a great interview. I've seen
Speaker 1: many and you speak your mind and that's always an
Speaker 1: enjoyable component to a professional athlete. People like that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of interesting that you feel that way.
Speaker 1: I honestly am very similar to you, so I get
Speaker 1: what you're saying, because yeah, absolutely, I know I'm in
Speaker 1: a public position, but I I like the flyer. Oh absolutely,
Speaker 1: Just do my job as long as you get out
Speaker 1: of the way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, people are going to be passing judgment no matter what.
Speaker 2: Say.
Speaker 8: You might as well just bay yourself.
Speaker 1: First job you ever had, what was it.
Speaker 8: Working at the golf club? Okay, yeah, yeah, picking up
Speaker 8: golf balls on the ranch?
Speaker 1: All right, that's that's that's what yeah, punters kickers about.
Speaker 8: I would have started thirteen years ago, so it's crazy.
Speaker 8: Hell off, guys, boy.
Speaker 7: And I regularly play that when I go back to Australia,
Speaker 7: so I'll be playing that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a couple of times a.
Speaker 2: Week for sure.
Speaker 1: Very nice one. Enjoy your time there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure you'll be getting back.
Speaker 1: Here soon enough to start it all up again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: And thank you for taking the time. You've had a
Speaker 1: great season. Yeah, and also individually, we don't look at that,
Speaker 1: but you got to. You gotta give a tip of
Speaker 1: the cap.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: You've had a heck of a season. And I love
Speaker 1: the bombs. I love following him. So keep it going.
Speaker 8: I appreciate good luck.
Speaker 2: Thank you, uh so.
Speaker 1: Taylor also, by the way, number three in the NFL
Speaker 1: in punts that have traveled fifty or more yards, about
Speaker 1: fifty one percent of his punts have traveled fifty or
Speaker 1: more yards. Just want ahead of Seattle's Michael Dixon. He's
Speaker 1: he's been outstanding. There's a lot into it that Richard
Speaker 1: Hite Tires says, Hey, people are not going to know
Speaker 1: unless they dig into the math or understand key field position,
Speaker 1: uh components that impact the offense and the defense in
Speaker 1: the game. That's why a punter flips the field. He
Speaker 1: creates field position, he puts people in trouble. And Tory's
Speaker 1: done that this season for sure.
Speaker 3: So the Pro Bowl punter for the NFC is the
Speaker 3: Detroit kid right jack box. How many outdoor games as
Speaker 3: he punted this year? Well, it would be it would
Speaker 3: be too Yeah, Green Bay Green Games. Has Tory Taylor
Speaker 3: as a rookie come in here and punted in the
Speaker 3: multi of some of the cold weather, outside some of
Speaker 3: the windy conditions.
Speaker 1: Well, he admits Soldier Fields is the toughest he's never
Speaker 1: seen anything.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have to tell me that I've I've been
Speaker 3: to that field before, But I'm just talking about who
Speaker 3: made the Pro Bowl and where do they punt on
Speaker 3: a weekly basis.
Speaker 1: He punted at Washington, he punted in Arizona, and then
Speaker 1: at San Francisco. Yeah, so those are the outdoor ones, and.
Speaker 3: So all the and then all of the Soldier Field games.
Speaker 3: You know, then you got preseason in Buffalo and all
Speaker 3: you know those types of things. So you know, Tory
Speaker 3: is he's exceeded expectations and I think the best is
Speaker 3: yet to come for him. He understands the role and
Speaker 3: the importance of a punter and how it can affect
Speaker 3: field position. So listen to him talk. He's a super
Speaker 3: engaging kid.
Speaker 4: Did you get a kick out him?
Speaker 3: I wish that you would have set up a surf
Speaker 3: trip for Mestralia.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't imagine you ever having the patience
Speaker 1: to travel across that kind of water and you'd have
Speaker 1: to knock yourself out big time.
Speaker 3: How many hours is it's it's a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can handle it. I know you.
Speaker 1: It's tough enough to get to Maui, Australia. I don't
Speaker 1: think so yeah, but you can blast me. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't ask him about surfing, all right, So Bears Packers,
Speaker 1: give me a couple of nuggets. It's hard to evaluate
Speaker 1: a last game of the season by all counts. From
Speaker 1: head coach Thomas Brown to the coordinate, everybody's dialed in
Speaker 1: feels they're going to be ready to go, and the
Speaker 1: Packers have beaten the Bears eleven straight times.
Speaker 4: They're going to be ready to go.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking there's something about that that they don't want
Speaker 1: to lose grip on that streak, even if it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter in the big picture. That they can walk around saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, we've we've owned these guys.
Speaker 4: That's how they probably think.
Speaker 3: I don't care about the Green Bay I care about
Speaker 3: if the only thing I would care about if I
Speaker 3: was a Chicago Bear going in there and put on
Speaker 3: my uniform would be my performance. Because the thing that
Speaker 3: could scare you most is you walk into that game
Speaker 3: and you you're not focused, You're you don't have the attitude,
Speaker 3: character enthusiasm that you need to go out and play
Speaker 3: a professional football game at a high level, and then
Speaker 3: you think about whatever coaches are going to come in
Speaker 3: there and start watching tape and evaluating you. And then
Speaker 3: you go out there and you leave a performance on
Speaker 3: the field that no one should ever see. And if
Speaker 3: that's the lasting impression that the if that is the
Speaker 3: first impression that a new guy gets to watching you
Speaker 3: and your performance, I'd be nervous. And that's just you know,
Speaker 3: the way that I went through football, when they're getting
Speaker 3: rid of getting rid of Ditka and Wanstead was coming
Speaker 3: in and all the other coaches that you and I
Speaker 3: have been through in our through our football journey. If
Speaker 3: I was an active player, man, I would want to
Speaker 3: go out there and show that this is important to me.
Speaker 1: Plus if you're playing, man, you can't do half speed.
Speaker 1: That's how you get hurt, right, You better you know?
Speaker 1: And man, they they know this. It's just nothing that
Speaker 1: they don't know.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I I've I've been in the locker room where guys
Speaker 3: have hid from the opportunity. And when you talk about
Speaker 3: the emotional impact of Bears Green Bay in lambeau Field,
Speaker 3: I hope everybody has a supports each other, they have
Speaker 3: a good understanding before they leave the locker room. And
Speaker 3: it was it's all for one and one for all.
Speaker 3: I got to question that attitude of the work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a question in that regard since, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if you've, if you've personally experienced that with teammates,
Speaker 1: how do you view that teammate the next seasons.
Speaker 4: As a teammate.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know they're not going to be there. I know
Speaker 3: they're not going to be there long. I know when
Speaker 3: times get tough that there are going to be the
Speaker 3: first ones to fold their ten. You know, when you're
Speaker 3: asked to do something that's a little bit more outside,
Speaker 3: you know that's a little bit more difficult than you
Speaker 3: like things. I just know that I have more sustainability
Speaker 3: in my job than somebody else does.
Speaker 1: Because you got to be able to rely on your
Speaker 1: the guy next to you, so if you can't too
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Speaker 3: Buddy, I'm packed already, and I know I don't exaggerate. Wait,
Speaker 3: I have my clothes and my suitcase packed. Yeah, because
Speaker 3: you haven't unpacked it from the last trip. You just mean,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe a couple of things and bam, there
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Speaker 4: Would it shock you if I told you that I
Speaker 4: as well, im packed and ready to go.
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Speaker 4: I won't all right for time. I'm Jeff. Thanks for listening.
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