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Speaker 1: Tom Thayer and joined by Jim Miller Sirius XM moving
Speaker 1: the chains to the former Bears quarterback. We're with you
Speaker 1: throughout the entire offseason, each and every week. Good to
Speaker 1: have you alongside, gentlemen. How are we doing big Jeff
Speaker 1: doing good. Happy to see Kyle Fuller got some Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl attention. A guy that deserves it. Plays um you know,
Speaker 1: had a lot of turnovers last year, but played a
Speaker 1: physical style of football, and we saw him make a
Speaker 1: couple of plays this year, one in Denver with a
Speaker 1: late interception and one in Detroit on third and five
Speaker 1: that kind of sealed the win. So happy for him
Speaker 1: and Bears news of the day. Yeah, he fills in,
Speaker 1: gonna be with you guys, fills in for Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: and already had to the offseason, some coaching moves around
Speaker 1: the NFL, and a lot to talk about Jeff as
Speaker 1: per usual. Yeah, we'll touch on Fuller and we'll be
Speaker 1: joined by Kyle coming up here in the in a
Speaker 1: few minutes. Clancy Brownie, the new tight ends coach out
Speaker 1: of work in nineteen but two years of the Vikings,
Speaker 1: but a long resume. And Jim no doubt you've run
Speaker 1: into him over the years. He spent nine with the Broncos,
Speaker 1: He's been with the Chargers and Falcons, and so his
Speaker 1: reputation is what I'd say, this tight end centric offense.
Speaker 1: How many times have we said it? Think of the Broncos,
Speaker 1: that style of offense that they use. I mean, think
Speaker 1: of you know, even Kopiak out there with Owen Daniels
Speaker 1: and stuff that they did, you know, brought him from
Speaker 1: Houston over to Baltimore, and just how it's utilized. Look
Speaker 1: at Kyle Rudolph, how he's developed into the tight end
Speaker 1: he is. I think he's somewhat even under utilize this
Speaker 1: year by Minnesota and Gary Kubiak offense, but they have
Speaker 1: such talented running backs and Delvin Cook and the wide receivers.
Speaker 1: But BRONI well respected. But I do think that position
Speaker 1: has got to get up to stuff, guys, It really does,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why he was brought on board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of experience here, a lot of experience in
Speaker 1: coaching and multiple positions. Not only the tight end had
Speaker 1: offensive line responsibilities, and I think when you're bringing a
Speaker 1: new offensive line coach with a new tight end coach
Speaker 1: and they have similar backgrounds, I really think it helps
Speaker 1: that transition because you not only have tight ends working
Speaker 1: with the offensive line, you have tight ends that are
Speaker 1: converted to h backs and fullbacks. You have the running
Speaker 1: back position. So there's a lot of different details that
Speaker 1: it's not exclusively tight end because that position has expanded
Speaker 1: so much. I like the experience aspect of it. You
Speaker 1: go all the way back to Atlanta and they're used
Speaker 1: to tight end. Algae Crumpler if you guys remember him,
Speaker 1: and certainly Antonio Gates in San Diego and the Chargers
Speaker 1: were there. But you know that speaks well in our
Speaker 1: meeting room. I really do believe that. And the combination
Speaker 1: with the new offensive line coach and one Castio, you
Speaker 1: can best be sure these two guys are going to
Speaker 1: work on the running game. Yeah. You know, Wan Castio
Speaker 1: doesn't have time to teach both his players and the
Speaker 1: tight end coach, so he's going to have to come
Speaker 1: in that someone that has got his feet in motion
Speaker 1: already to what his responsibilities will be. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: had offensive coordinator responsibilities before in his past. When you
Speaker 1: look at coach Clancy, so I think again, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with scheme and
Speaker 1: that they need to work much better together to get
Speaker 1: more production out of both. You know, in terms of
Speaker 1: a run game coordinator, pass game coordinate, how they work
Speaker 1: in Unson. As Tom mentioned, sometimes those tight ends are
Speaker 1: in the offensive line meetings rooms and they have to
Speaker 1: work together as an inline tight end. And we know
Speaker 1: they want to split them out and do all those things.
Speaker 1: So coach Perroni has done all that he really has,
Speaker 1: and I think it'll be a good fit for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. But that is why that position had to
Speaker 1: be addressed here this offseason right ends, combining for just
Speaker 1: forty six catches, four hundred sixteen yards and two touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: with our producers Sean Anderson and Chris Dickens. Tonight, I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac along with Tom and Jim as we take
Speaker 1: a look at some of the news of the week
Speaker 1: and news of the day. It does involve Kyle Folder
Speaker 1: headed to the Pro Bowl again a second year in
Speaker 1: a row. You look at his body of work over
Speaker 1: the last three seasons, fifty five pass breakups in those
Speaker 1: three years. But I know Tom and I just did
Speaker 1: a bunch of breaking down plays the top plays of
Speaker 1: the year for the Bears website that'll be coming out.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can't get past the idea that
Speaker 1: to play corner on a physical defense, you want to
Speaker 1: have a physical defense, you gotta have a physical corner.
Speaker 1: And that play against the Lions really sticks out to me.
Speaker 1: You know, isolated with a big back, you gotta get
Speaker 1: him down to the ground by any means necessary. And
Speaker 1: it was J. M. Kissick in that play, and it
Speaker 1: did save the day. The Bears might have lost that game. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to understand your responsibility when you're
Speaker 1: to break the huddle, so because you don't want to
Speaker 1: be influenced out of position just by the beginning motion
Speaker 1: of an offensive play and when you go back in
Speaker 1: your breakdown that play, Detroit Lions did everything to attract
Speaker 1: the attention of Kyle Fuller to sink inside to where
Speaker 1: a majority of the bodies were. Kyle never, He stuck
Speaker 1: to what his assignment was and when that back tried
Speaker 1: to bounce it out, he closed the distance. He made
Speaker 1: that tackle. They went to kick the field goal, They
Speaker 1: went up twenty to seventeen, and the Bears went down
Speaker 1: the field and the scoring drive and ended up winning
Speaker 1: the game. It was a signature played Big Jim on
Speaker 1: that season. And before I get your thought on it,
Speaker 1: we could ask Kyle himself. He's joining us now here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score not two
Speaker 1: time Pro bowler Kyle Fuller of the Chicago Bears kind
Speaker 1: of have to spend a few minutes with a Kyle, congratulations,
Speaker 1: my man, how you doing? And do we have Kyle Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get to him sounds like we got him. Hello, Yeah, Kyle,
Speaker 1: Congratulations Kyle, how you doing good? Thank you? So? Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, when you get that Pro Bowl alternate label,
Speaker 1: you don't know for sure how that's going to work,
Speaker 1: but you did get the the sign today that you're
Speaker 1: going to the Pro Bowl again. Capping off what really
Speaker 1: is a body of work over several seasons for you,
Speaker 1: just some really impressive numbers taking the ball away, pass breakups,
Speaker 1: and you know, for a corner and a defense to
Speaker 1: be a very physical defense, you gotta be willing to tackle,
Speaker 1: and you led the team in solo tackles in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen with seventy two. Is that sometimes gets lost when
Speaker 1: you talk about corners on a defense. Is that area
Speaker 1: something you're really proud of all the way back to
Speaker 1: your college days? Yeah, for sure, definitely something as DBS,
Speaker 1: we all think pride in that. And yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: just to Kyle throughout there several years of your career here,
Speaker 1: where do you think you developed most physically or mentally?
Speaker 1: Because you're you're on the field every week and then
Speaker 1: we're just kind of bragging about one of your assignments
Speaker 1: in the Detroit game on the third and five tackle
Speaker 1: and it's you need to be you know, you need
Speaker 1: to be doing everything equally, but physically or mentally. Where
Speaker 1: do you think you've grown the most? Definitely mentally, but
Speaker 1: I definitely think you know, Mike's you know, just my
Speaker 1: experiences over the last six years and helped me, you know,
Speaker 1: just as far as physically as well as far as
Speaker 1: like things like tackling and leverage and things like that.
Speaker 1: So just having a good field of you know, being
Speaker 1: in positions you know, whether the balls on the ground
Speaker 1: or in there. Let me ask you this kind of one.
Speaker 1: Congratulations Jim Miller. Good to talk to you again. And
Speaker 1: we were just bringing up the play, the great play
Speaker 1: you made on the kidzick against the Detroit Lions or
Speaker 1: I'm looking thinking back now that great interception you had
Speaker 1: out in Denver, and I know the season didn't go
Speaker 1: the way you want to do. Even now we'll hear it.
Speaker 1: As the season is over, do you think about the
Speaker 1: plays you didn't make or that you expect your self
Speaker 1: to make during the year and how you evaluate yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at this time of the year, you definitely go back
Speaker 1: in our self value and you see those those players
Speaker 1: that you are diden making you just you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of go into the offseason and trying to think
Speaker 1: of ways, you know, in your preparation and you know,
Speaker 1: your training things like that, you know, to go into
Speaker 1: next year and you know, be able to make those
Speaker 1: plays that I helped the team, Uh, you know win
Speaker 1: ball games. Kyle full of our guests here on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score on Bears All Access,
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy. Kyle, it's over the
Speaker 1: last three years, you've been targeted a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: of balls thrown in your area and in many cases
Speaker 1: to the dismay of the the opponent. But how do
Speaker 1: you how do you evaluate that because three years ago,
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty seventeen, you were number one
Speaker 1: in the league. This year you were tied for first
Speaker 1: and number of passes thrown in your your area code.
Speaker 1: Is that also a sign of respect as well, because
Speaker 1: you're likely, in many cases dealing with the top receiver
Speaker 1: on that unit. Uh No, it's not too hich I
Speaker 1: think about you know, I never really even uh you
Speaker 1: don't know about that stat you know, I just I
Speaker 1: think I go into every game, um, you know, just
Speaker 1: trying to you know, do I have to do to
Speaker 1: be in position. Um, and that's just uh, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of work you know during the week. Um
Speaker 1: you know. So, Kyle, what's your routine after the seat
Speaker 1: because now you get you you're getting been notified you're
Speaker 1: gonna play in the Pro Ball? Do you ever get
Speaker 1: out of shape? Number one? And what is your routine?
Speaker 1: Kind of always thinking, man, I could be in the
Speaker 1: Pro Ball? Um if depending upon who stays and what
Speaker 1: teams go. Oh yeah, you definitely definitely try to stay
Speaker 1: in shape. Um. You know, so you take a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks off maybe and uh, you know, just gradually
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to you know, trying to keep
Speaker 1: it a little bit of shape until uh, until you
Speaker 1: really get started. You know about segruaries, so uh, you
Speaker 1: know around once that time comes around, that's me you really,
Speaker 1: me personally starts, you know really, um you know that's
Speaker 1: when all season training really starts and uh, you know
Speaker 1: all the way through pretty much. Well, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, Kyle, because what does that mean to you?
Speaker 1: You know, for them you know, to turn to you
Speaker 1: and you get that call today to return to the
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl, And what goes through your mind
Speaker 1: because you're getting recognized for your play over the past
Speaker 1: few seasons. I mean, I guess it means a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, just uh, you know, a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a lot of great guys around the league, you know
Speaker 1: that go to go play in the Pro Bowls. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty cool to go out there, you know,
Speaker 1: hang out with those guys for a week and uh
Speaker 1: they're playing the game. Um, you get to see a
Speaker 1: lot of fans you know, around the league. So it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool experience. All right, before we let you go, Kyle,
Speaker 1: Well you do appreciate you taking the time to join
Speaker 1: us tonight, and congratulations again. Uh, just keeping that secondary together,
Speaker 1: it's as important a unit to have chemistry as any
Speaker 1: on the field. But the reinvestment of Eddie Jackson, uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's a part of you as well, that
Speaker 1: group in that secondary. How important was that too, to
Speaker 1: keep him here as a Bear for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very important. I look forward to play with him,
Speaker 1: you know, for years to come. Um, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: happy for him, you know, definitely, you know, so he
Speaker 1: deserved it, and huh yeah, looking forward to playing with him.
Speaker 1: All right, Kyle, We'll let you go. Have a good
Speaker 1: time at the Pro Bowl and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you good. That's Bears quarterback Kyle Fuller.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break as he heads the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: We'll take a time out here on Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joni Act, Tom Fair, Jim Miller just heard from
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller. Go to the Pro Bowl. One of four
Speaker 1: Bears with Kaleo mac Deety Jackson and Cordarell Patterson. Patterson
Speaker 1: Today guys named All Pro and Sporting News. So the
Speaker 1: awards keep on coming for the kick return Star. Hey,
Speaker 1: he deserves it. You know, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: I think he's impressed every single one of us throughout
Speaker 1: all of his efforts, you know, throughout the whole season.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you know, this isn't the life.
Speaker 1: I think we should expect more out of him because
Speaker 1: of what he's been able to do for the Bears.
Speaker 1: And you know, do you give him more of opportunities
Speaker 1: on offense or do you expect the same heroic type
Speaker 1: plays from the special teams that he's been doing. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at this guy and the
Speaker 1: chances we've had to talk to him, you know he
Speaker 1: is you know, he was a He's a running back
Speaker 1: frame of mind type of guy. That's probably why he
Speaker 1: plays so well on special teams. Yeah, that's been his
Speaker 1: calling card. You know, he's really made his names as
Speaker 1: himself as a special team's ace. And it's not just
Speaker 1: in the recurrent turn game. We've talked about the gunner
Speaker 1: part of it. I'll before it's just a mentality. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's some great returners out there. Obviously Deante Harris
Speaker 1: had a good year for New Orleans and me Cole
Speaker 1: Hardman kind of burst out of the scene much like
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill did. But this guy still holds his own
Speaker 1: and why everybody tips their cap to him when you
Speaker 1: look at the Cordurell Patterson. So that's tremendous football player
Speaker 1: and really his area of expertise that everybody has tried
Speaker 1: to expand upon. It but man, he has remained consistent.
Speaker 1: From the special team's aspect of it. They want to
Speaker 1: get back to the Kyle real quick because you know
Speaker 1: when I mentioned how many targeted throws are in his area,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of you know, one side coverage
Speaker 1: and so forth in the Bears defense. But in seventeen
Speaker 1: it was one hundred and seventeen and eighteen it was
Speaker 1: one hundred and four in this past year ninety eight.
Speaker 1: And that's a lot of targets over the course of time.
Speaker 1: So teams are giving him opportunities to make plays on
Speaker 1: the ball. He did play off quite a bit this year,
Speaker 1: so I think his past breakups went down significantly from
Speaker 1: the last two years. He had forty three combined down
Speaker 1: to twelve this year, but that that still has not
Speaker 1: impacted his ability to make some plays. And so to me,
Speaker 1: that's significant to have a guy you can count on
Speaker 1: at least one of those guys you need obviously three
Speaker 1: starter grade corners and two really good ones in the
Speaker 1: backup role to complement your defense. But I think you
Speaker 1: really they got that one figured out with Kyle Jim.
Speaker 1: So when Jeff talks about all the numbers of Kyle fuller.
Speaker 1: Now does a does a defense create a scheme with
Speaker 1: their defensive backs where they kind of invite throws to
Speaker 1: one area because they know there's a good tackler, there's
Speaker 1: a good space tackler, there's a physical corner. So is
Speaker 1: are we talking about these numbers at this time because
Speaker 1: they're inviting more throws over there? Yeah, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it. One because offenses are right hand dominant.
Speaker 1: And from the listeners out there, if you've got a
Speaker 1: right handed cornerback, quarterback, excuse me, typically every team that
Speaker 1: I've been on, I mean think about it, there's not
Speaker 1: one left handed thrower in the NFL. Not one, not
Speaker 1: one quarterback, not even on a practice squad. You know what.
Speaker 1: That's interesting? So because test well, think about it, because
Speaker 1: if it was a left handed quarterback, they would be
Speaker 1: left hand dominant dominant. What I mean is they would
Speaker 1: line up tight end left. So by having a lot
Speaker 1: of right handed quarterbacks, tight ends typically always to the right.
Speaker 1: It's just how play callers have alway done it, no
Speaker 1: matter if you're on the right, hash left, halsh or middle.
Speaker 1: Not always the case, but typically your right hand dominant
Speaker 1: is how a lot of two because it's the front
Speaker 1: side of the quarterback right and it's open, so you
Speaker 1: get a lot of quarter quarter half is what a
Speaker 1: lot of teams play right now, So you know it's
Speaker 1: a credit to Prince and Mukamara, but he always has
Speaker 1: safety help on his side. When you've got your tight
Speaker 1: end to your right along with your z the flanker
Speaker 1: out there split out. Fuller, as you mentioned, Jeff, is
Speaker 1: more off because quarter quarter half is exactly how it sounds.
Speaker 1: Fuller's got a quarter of the field. The inside safety,
Speaker 1: whether it's Eddie Jackson or Haha, Clinton Dix, they've got
Speaker 1: a quarter of the field and the backside is basically
Speaker 1: a rolled up cover two. That's where you get the
Speaker 1: half quarter quarter half. It's covered two to the backside
Speaker 1: and basically it's kind of one on one to the
Speaker 1: front side because Fuller is responsible for that whole area
Speaker 1: out there, that whole quarter of the field, and so
Speaker 1: you get a lot of hitches things like that because
Speaker 1: he plays off a little bit, has to rally up
Speaker 1: and make the tackles. So I think it's more of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks being right hand dominant and why they target
Speaker 1: him more because he plays a little bit softer and
Speaker 1: you know even talking, you know, and that's happened like
Speaker 1: that the past couple of years because Vic fan Joe
Speaker 1: did a lot of it, and obviously Chuck Pagano does
Speaker 1: a lot of that too. Plus you do a lot
Speaker 1: of man from that standpoint, he does play a lot
Speaker 1: of man coverage as well. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: think of the plays, the great plays that we said,
Speaker 1: whether it's the play of mckidzick against the Lions or
Speaker 1: at the great interception against Denver where he reads it
Speaker 1: makes me, guys, I just think of all the interceptions
Speaker 1: that could have been a pick six where he's just
Speaker 1: you know, he's almost there. He'd just like to see
Speaker 1: him finish it a little bit more. So. He's good
Speaker 1: right now, he could be even better. That's why I
Speaker 1: brought up the question, like, man, do you think about
Speaker 1: all the plays you missed? And I know it sticks
Speaker 1: out in his brain time. I know you as a player,
Speaker 1: like damn, I I I nailed that block one hundred
Speaker 1: times out of one hundred times. How did I miss
Speaker 1: it in this game? You know, it just happens to
Speaker 1: all of us, you know, you know, Jim, I was
Speaker 1: in Jeff, I was thinking of a funny story. Years back.
Speaker 1: I was at this coaching clinic and Jim Harball was speaking,
Speaker 1: and this is when he was coaching at Stanford, and
Speaker 1: he talked about how he had four right handed quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and one left handed quarterback and that does present a
Speaker 1: problem because you can't make the center snap left handed.
Speaker 1: The hand placement by a left handed quarterback is opposite
Speaker 1: of what a right handed quarterback is. So he kind
Speaker 1: of looked through solutions to this problem. Why make the
Speaker 1: quarterback or the center snap left handed. No, that messes
Speaker 1: up your balance everything. So what he did is he
Speaker 1: had a left handed quarterback take the snap as a
Speaker 1: right handed quarterback and then reverse the ball throughout his
Speaker 1: drop to get ready to throw it. And it's weird
Speaker 1: because there are those little dynamics whether you're a left
Speaker 1: footed kicker and now the holder is completely off balance
Speaker 1: because he's used to holding for right footed kickers and
Speaker 1: those little things. You know, it challenges a coaching staff sometimes.
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting that there are no lefties. Not one.
Speaker 1: We've always had like Boomers Siason or a Steve Young.
Speaker 1: There are not one. Not one. T would be Dave Craig.
Speaker 1: Was he a lefty. No, Dave Craig was a righty man.
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Speaker 1: and you for listening. All right. So, it is a
Speaker 1: great thing to be a part of an organization, a
Speaker 1: franchise that has so much history and so many Hall
Speaker 1: of Famers, and maybe more when it all it gets
Speaker 1: said and done. For the extra hall of Famers and
Speaker 1: a special committee that put together the candidates that are
Speaker 1: now whittled down, and we'll learn next week Jim and
Speaker 1: Tom if Jimbo, Covert and Ed Sprinkle will be named
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame for this special one hundred
Speaker 1: year And you know, I didn't realize this, but obviously Tom,
Speaker 1: that was your teammate and Jim you know Jimbo for
Speaker 1: a while as well. But twenty two guys are on
Speaker 1: every All Decade team, right, Jimbo's the only one not
Speaker 1: on the Hall of Fame in nineteen eighties, So it
Speaker 1: would make sense here that this is maybe more than
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a likelihood that he'll be
Speaker 1: going in. The two time, first time All Pro left
Speaker 1: tackle for the Super Bowl champion Bears. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: his dominance was obvious from the first day that he
Speaker 1: came to be a member of the Chicago Bears. That
Speaker 1: he was plugged in to play starting left tackles for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears as soon as he showed up. And
Speaker 1: the unfortunate thing for Jimbo is he didn't have a
Speaker 1: couple more years on his resume for these guys to
Speaker 1: be you know, to be influenced by. But if you're
Speaker 1: looking at a super self confident, well prepared football player
Speaker 1: from the first day you drafted him. That was Jimbo Covert.
Speaker 1: And I always kind of complain about these measurables because
Speaker 1: I don't care what weights you want to put them
Speaker 1: at or what their style of play is. If Jimbo
Speaker 1: Covert was in the NFL Draft this year, he should
Speaker 1: be considered a number one drop round draft choice as
Speaker 1: much as any year since since. You know, the vital
Speaker 1: signs have changed, and Jimbo is a great player, uh,
Speaker 1: super self confident and prepared. He had a great college
Speaker 1: coach and U Joe Moore, and he had a great
Speaker 1: professional coach in Dick Stanfeld. It's unfortunate because when you
Speaker 1: when you look at it, you know that even in
Speaker 1: this class, a centennial Hall of Fame class, it through.
Speaker 1: I hope they open it up more like this in
Speaker 1: the future, because again, the you gotta you got to
Speaker 1: correct the backlog of players like Jimbo Covert and all
Speaker 1: the great players or even Sprinkle that you mentioned. That's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why they opened it up, because
Speaker 1: here you got Sprinkle, who's on the forties All Decade Team.
Speaker 1: They wanted to get in more guys that have been
Speaker 1: on the All decade teams and they just get lost
Speaker 1: in the shuffle. So I'm hoping this becomes a regularity,
Speaker 1: like whether it's every five years or every seven years,
Speaker 1: they open it up where more players get the opportunity
Speaker 1: to come in to correct all these log jams in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I really do because you know, even from
Speaker 1: the coaching side of it, Pet and I were talking
Speaker 1: about this today on the air. Look at those coaches
Speaker 1: that they've got to decide from, and there's only two
Speaker 1: that are getting in in this COO. I personally see,
Speaker 1: here's here's another thing. Nothing against Tony Dungey. Tony Dungee
Speaker 1: has won one Super Bowl. Tom Flores is technically the
Speaker 1: first minority coach. He's won two. He's not in the hall.
Speaker 1: How is he not in the hall? And he's done
Speaker 1: it in less games? You know, And I don't say
Speaker 1: I just you know, the voters I think sometimes get
Speaker 1: it wrong quite frankly, and it becomes a political process
Speaker 1: where hey, you vote my guy in, el vote your
Speaker 1: guy in that type of thing. But look at this
Speaker 1: name of coaches. Don Corriel, Bill Kawer, Tom Flores, Mike Holne, Group,
Speaker 1: Jim Jimmy Johnson, Buddy Parker of the Chicago Cardinals. Dan
Speaker 1: Reeves has been the four Super Bowls, four super Bowls
Speaker 1: in two different conferences. He's led a team to a
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Granted he lost them, but the guy's going
Speaker 1: to the dance Dick for meals on there as well. Man,
Speaker 1: that's a tough group to find two in eight or finalists. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you think of the Raiders. I don't think
Speaker 1: Jim Plunkett's in the Hall of Fame either. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's a super Bowl winning cornerback for the Raiders. But
Speaker 1: you know, you think of the reputation of the Raiders
Speaker 1: back then? Did that sometimes tarnish the way these guys
Speaker 1: were argued for in these Hall of Fame meetings, whether
Speaker 1: it's become you had an owner like Al Davis that
Speaker 1: was so controversial he sometimes was treating players unfairly in
Speaker 1: terms of their contract negotiations, or even just some of
Speaker 1: the hype that the Raiders brought along with them, the reputation. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good point, because well, I'll give you a
Speaker 1: case in point an example about being hated. Okay, Paul
Speaker 1: Taglibu is hated, right, former NFL commissioner did not is
Speaker 1: not liked by the writers. A lot of them are
Speaker 1: voters for this, And granted the voters the writers are
Speaker 1: not a part of this class. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the centennial. This is a separate panel that has been
Speaker 1: put together. Guys like Bill Belichick and a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of other guys are on it that are going to
Speaker 1: decide this class. And those normally the normal voters for
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame are not even involved in this,
Speaker 1: which they're upset about. But you know that's a case
Speaker 1: in point. A lot of them don't like Paul Tagliboo
Speaker 1: and why he hasn't been voted in. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: Paul Tagliboo will be voted in this time as a contributor.
Speaker 1: And what he did for the National Football again, what
Speaker 1: he's done in terms of the First Sea BA and
Speaker 1: all the things that he went through with Gene Upshaw.
Speaker 1: You know, people forget about that, and they were vilified
Speaker 1: for that that they supposedly had a cozy relationship. But
Speaker 1: they're not throwing knives let each other like it currently
Speaker 1: is today with the NFLPA. In the NFL, they actually
Speaker 1: got along and there was harmony and that it was
Speaker 1: never better in the player's favor under the CBA that
Speaker 1: Gene Upshaw and Paul Taglibugat. In your opinion, what is
Speaker 1: it that you feel the writers did not like about
Speaker 1: tag that I just you know, I think, well, almost
Speaker 1: like Terrell Wance, he never interviewed. He kind of did
Speaker 1: things his way, and I don't think they liked that,
Speaker 1: and he really didn't get a fair shake at the
Speaker 1: slant that he was think about it, he had to
Speaker 1: go in and clean up pounty Gate. Even after that,
Speaker 1: he felt that Roger Gonell got it run. They called
Speaker 1: Paul tagleybou in to fix it and he wasn't even
Speaker 1: the commissioner anymore and he was still fixing things in
Speaker 1: the NFL. M other guys like Cliff Branch, who's been overlooked.
Speaker 1: Here's a player, and we brought it up before Cliff
Speaker 1: Branch's basically Tyreek Hill. Before Tyreek Hill, he had a
Speaker 1: touchdown once out at seven every seven times he touched
Speaker 1: the ball, that dude was in the end zone. And
Speaker 1: so it's different eras of football. But there's been a
Speaker 1: log jam. So again, I just hope they opened up
Speaker 1: like every five years or every seven years, they voted
Speaker 1: in like fifteen players again, more contributors, more coaches that
Speaker 1: are all deserving to get into the hold. Wasn't there
Speaker 1: somebody out there today that's in the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: that is criticizing this process that they're even considering? And
Speaker 1: I thought I saw I want to say, was. I
Speaker 1: better not say who I think it was, because I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I thought I saw it this afternoon on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I didn't read the whole article. Maybe you talked
Speaker 1: about it today on your show. No, no, no, we didn't.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard. Well, I know the voters are upset
Speaker 1: that they're not a part of the process. The typical
Speaker 1: voters or the normal voters. They're upset. Yeah, Tom, I
Speaker 1: just went through this. It's a site called Pro Football Journal,
Speaker 1: and I was specifically looking up something on Jimbo and
Speaker 1: the list of offensive lineman that could be considered Hall
Speaker 1: of famers. These are mainstream names from days gone by
Speaker 1: to current day players. The list is extremely long. It
Speaker 1: really is something. How many offensive linemen were great players
Speaker 1: that may never get into the Hall of Fame. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and selfishly just thinking about the Bears, thinking
Speaker 1: of Jay and Olan Cruz, here's two guys that definitely
Speaker 1: with their longevity for what they did to the organization,
Speaker 1: the success, the trail of success they left behind them.
Speaker 1: There's two guys right there of you know of Bears,
Speaker 1: and because you look at other guys that have been
Speaker 1: put in the Hall of Fame, Kevin Moi or Dermanti Dawson,
Speaker 1: just guys like that at the center position that I
Speaker 1: think that Jay certainly and land I think they're both
Speaker 1: you know, as much or you know as much as
Speaker 1: deserving as those guys who are already in the league.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's it's tough to get multiple guys at
Speaker 1: the same position repeatedly over the course of history. I
Speaker 1: love the they ed Sprinkle consideration here because obviously none
Speaker 1: of us who were around to see how he played
Speaker 1: the game, but Daan Pompey, who who pitched these two
Speaker 1: gentlemen at his and he's part of that Blue Ribbon committee.
Speaker 1: When you think he was an undersized two hundred pound
Speaker 1: pass rusher and was considered the meanest man in football
Speaker 1: at least that's how he was portrayed in a nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty article. But just twelve years with the Bears, four
Speaker 1: time Pro Boer All Decade team from the forties and
Speaker 1: dominant in his era at under two hundred pounds. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the guys weren't as big as they are today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, dominant in that area and you're not
Speaker 1: as big as you were. But you got to think
Speaker 1: of what the pressure they were under in the development
Speaker 1: of a professional football league, and they weren't surrounded by
Speaker 1: the medical attention that there is today. So these guys
Speaker 1: were going on the field, sometimes with a career that
Speaker 1: long that they couldn't have been feeling good about taking
Speaker 1: the field. And then they were two way players. He
Speaker 1: played both sides of the ball. Yeah. Well, it'll be
Speaker 1: some great debate when the list comes out, that's sure,
Speaker 1: as all these lists have become in nineteen nineteen, or
Speaker 1: excuse me, twenty twenty, as we get ready for this
Speaker 1: end of the one hundred year anniversary of NFL football.
Speaker 1: We'll continue on with Jim and Time after this on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of
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Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to score with you until seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1: As we're going over some of the news of the
Speaker 1: day involving the Bears. They hired Clancy Baroni as tight
Speaker 1: ends coach, last with the Vikings, but a long resume.
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller going to the Pro Bowl for a second time,
Speaker 1: this time as an alternate, Cordell Patterson Sporting News All
Speaker 1: Pro Team as a kick returner. And now let's shift
Speaker 1: gears a little bit. In this segment, guys just talk
Speaker 1: about what's going on in league wide because there's one
Speaker 1: opening left. Jim and the coaching carousel and the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns Well interview is turns out eight different guys and
Speaker 1: it looks like Josh McDaniels would be the last interview.
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski reported the interview today, the Minnesota offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: what are you hearing? Well, I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: overall Cleveland, I just don't understand. They're just kind of
Speaker 1: spinning their wheels. You know. They go from the analytics
Speaker 1: guy and Sashi Brown to want to get to the
Speaker 1: football guy in John Dorsey. Now they're back to the
Speaker 1: analytics guy and John d Podesta, who is in charge
Speaker 1: of the coaching search, and just it's almost baffling the
Speaker 1: order that these you know that the order the coach
Speaker 1: has been interviewed. You know, why wouldn't you bring in
Speaker 1: first Marvin Lewis who coached in that division and for
Speaker 1: over a decade, right he's faced every roster Cleveland's ever
Speaker 1: put together for the last you know, sixteen years, even
Speaker 1: prior to Jimmy Hassman say, you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: have this insights about your team and your roster and
Speaker 1: how you've put it together and all those type of things.
Speaker 1: But they don't do that. It's just been kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, throw a throwing darts at the dartboard. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, I think Kevin Stefanski's got a great opportunity there.
Speaker 1: Supposedly he had a great interview last year and why
Speaker 1: he's probably the leader in the clubhouse. Jim Schwartz is
Speaker 1: who they interviewed wednesday. I think Jimmy would be the
Speaker 1: perfect guy for the job. That's where he started out
Speaker 1: as a scout and he's taken an OH in sixteen teen,
Speaker 1: as we know in the NFC North and what he
Speaker 1: did with the Detroit Lions, and then of course Josh McDaniels.
Speaker 1: But for just my take, for Jimmy Haslam to get
Speaker 1: up there earlier in this week and say that's an
Speaker 1: attractive job, it's anything, but he is going on now
Speaker 1: his sixth NFL head coach. Well, you know what assets
Speaker 1: that the Cleveland Browns have are going to get you
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl the quickest? Well, I think you
Speaker 1: know he got I do think they got talent on
Speaker 1: the roster, but at least so. The reason I'm asking
Speaker 1: that question, Jim is because that's where my decision would lie.
Speaker 1: Where are my and Jim. Jim Schwartz seems like a
Speaker 1: guy that if you could take that defensive talent and
Speaker 1: you could capture the emotions of what the stadium wants
Speaker 1: to give you in Cleveland, and then give a guy
Speaker 1: that's going to help grow Baker Mayfield, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, is Baker Mayfield the guy? I mean? Is
Speaker 1: the question still out all? That's what Jimmy Hassm was
Speaker 1: touting at the press covers. Hey, we've got a young
Speaker 1: quarterback that we drafted first overall. So if everybody thinks
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels is going Daniels is going there and he's
Speaker 1: bringing Brady with them. Forget that they've invested a first
Speaker 1: overall draft pick in Johnny Manzil. That's why, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why to me, it's not an attractive job other
Speaker 1: than the talent that's on the roster because the owner
Speaker 1: doesn't have the patience to let it grow. So again
Speaker 1: you're back to you're back to the analytics start of
Speaker 1: it or part of it, and this guy's in charge
Speaker 1: of your head coaching search, which they've interviewed double digit candidates.
Speaker 1: So that's why Matt Rule completely just pulled his name
Speaker 1: out of it, and he ends up getting the Carolina job.
Speaker 1: And if Jimmy Schwartz or Josh McDaniels, probably not so
Speaker 1: much for Kevin Stefanski because this is his first play
Speaker 1: at being a head coach. Jim Schwartz is going to
Speaker 1: go in there and say, hey, this John Podesta, get
Speaker 1: him out of the way. I know what it takes
Speaker 1: to win here. And Josh McDaniel is going to say
Speaker 1: the same thing because you know Nick Cassario is coming
Speaker 1: with him from New England, who's the Italian talent evaluator,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna watch things their way. This would be
Speaker 1: Josh's second opportunity to be a head coach, much like Schwartz,
Speaker 1: and they know what it takes to get it done.
Speaker 1: Stefanski may be more willing to work with Deep Podesta
Speaker 1: because he's you know, he'd be a first time head coach.
Speaker 1: And you know the only reason why you take it
Speaker 1: is to have an opportunity to coach Baker and be
Speaker 1: an NFL head coach. There's only thirty two of them available.
Speaker 1: But man, I just don't think it's as an attractive
Speaker 1: as as what Jimmy Hassel thinks. Jeff and Jim, do
Speaker 1: you think that any of Josh McDaniel's past is going
Speaker 1: to follow him to Cleveland, either by word of mouth
Speaker 1: or just because he was not very respected when he
Speaker 1: was the head coach in Denver? Is he you know,
Speaker 1: trying to Does he get too much credit for having
Speaker 1: Belichick in Tom Brady? And I think there's just a
Speaker 1: lot of question mark and these young these players aren't
Speaker 1: naive and they do look into a coach's background when
Speaker 1: they get there. Yeah, I don't think so, because you know,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Denver didn't work out and then him
Speaker 1: pulling out of the Indianapolis Colts job. Right, That's how
Speaker 1: Frank Wright got the job. Everybody's like, oh, he'll never
Speaker 1: get you know, consider for a head coaching job. His
Speaker 1: name has been considered for the Giants, his name has
Speaker 1: been considered for the Browns, he was scheduled or he
Speaker 1: interviewed for the Carolina Panthers. So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: hurt him one bit, not one for Josh, I really don't.
Speaker 1: I'll just say this and then we'll move on. I'll
Speaker 1: just say that every time he's up for a head
Speaker 1: coaching job, I don't. I don't believe he's going to
Speaker 1: take the job, even if it's offered. That's he's left
Speaker 1: me with that feeling right now, because his name comes
Speaker 1: up every single year. He's either waiting for something that's
Speaker 1: right in his wheelhouse, which he should, or that he
Speaker 1: thinks he has a future in New England, if in
Speaker 1: fact that time would come. Lastly, about the coaching searches today,
Speaker 1: Joe Jim pressed me at the podium, and I know
Speaker 1: Twitter blew up about it as well, one way or
Speaker 1: the other, that he really he won the news conference
Speaker 1: today and whether you feel that's an important aspect of
Speaker 1: being a head coach out of the gate or not
Speaker 1: you could start and a deficit if you don't. So
Speaker 1: did you guys see any of that today? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: listened to the whole press coverage. Yeah, I thought he
Speaker 1: was very impressive. Again, he's not tied to any one
Speaker 1: of the three phases, whether special teams, because that's his background,
Speaker 1: because he does he has to know every man on
Speaker 1: the roster, what they can do, what they can't do.
Speaker 1: I like because he's the first coach that got up
Speaker 1: there and said talked about being multiple in personnel groupings
Speaker 1: and hey, we've got to be able to adjust and
Speaker 1: move in and out of things. And that's what I
Speaker 1: think you have to do at the NFLA. You want
Speaker 1: to be able to present a lot of things in
Speaker 1: order for your opposition to really prepare for you. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what he's going to bring. It's about
Speaker 1: the more you can do. He's been with coaches that
Speaker 1: have done that in the past, Saban and obviously Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick is a big believer in that. I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big part of the Giants future for him.
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at all these coaching interview
Speaker 1: or at the podium within the last couple of days,
Speaker 1: and you think of young guys like Rule, who's doing
Speaker 1: it for the first time on a professional level, Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: who's a retreat doing it again now for the second
Speaker 1: time after Green Bay and Dallas. So it's interesting when
Speaker 1: you do get exposed to a first time guy and
Speaker 1: how are they going to handle those moments? And you know,
Speaker 1: I thought, both the Giants and the Carolina if you
Speaker 1: want a reflection of where what your future is going
Speaker 1: to be like, you know, you have a you have
Speaker 1: a really super talkative guy and then you have a
Speaker 1: serious guy with the Giants. Yeah, well it's interesting to me.
Speaker 1: Joe Judge must have really blown Dave Gettlman away because
Speaker 1: they were still scheduled interview Josh McDaniels. So I think
Speaker 1: that truly was, you know, because I think they wanted
Speaker 1: the Giants were thinking of going with it because think
Speaker 1: of the last coaching cycle, right, it was anybody who
Speaker 1: had dinner with Sean McVeigh got a head coaching job.
Speaker 1: Now you look at this, Ron Rivera, the first established
Speaker 1: coach hired. Then of course McCarthy established coach hired to
Speaker 1: me it's more about established, and I still think it's
Speaker 1: going to be a coach that has been around to
Speaker 1: guide the Cleveland Browns. I don't see how they can
Speaker 1: go with the first year head first year head coach
Speaker 1: again at the old Stefanski from what everybody's saying, is
Speaker 1: the leader in the clubhouse. Well, mister Marra today said
Speaker 1: that Joe Judge was the best interview he's ever done.
Speaker 1: As then they've done plenty of me, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Anyway that's around the league. Bears will be playing the
Speaker 1: Giants again in twenty twenty, as they knocked them off
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Final segment just ahead, we'll talk National
Speaker 1: Title Game in college football and look at some of
Speaker 1: the potential NFL draft picks that will be playing in
Speaker 1: that game. There will always be plenty when it's teams
Speaker 1: like Clemson and LSU. And we'll take a look at
Speaker 1: the Bears offense as they look to reload a little
Speaker 1: bit offensively around Mitchell Chubisky and whatever they plan to
Speaker 1: do to grow that offense as they need to in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: wrapping up our show for this week. Looking at the
Speaker 1: national title game mind to night. Obviously, all the attentions
Speaker 1: on the quarterback says it should be with Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: of LSU and Trevor Lawrence at Clemson. How are you
Speaker 1: guys looking at this matchup? Are you intrigued by what
Speaker 1: you're gonna see in this matchup? With these quarterbacks? Big
Speaker 1: jem quarterbacks? You're deal, Well, yeah, they're both pretty good,
Speaker 1: No thought about it, Joe Joe Burrow. You know that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough choice for Cincinnati, you know, because
Speaker 1: Chase Young everybody's talking about him, the defensive end pass
Speaker 1: rusher out of Ohio State. They're calling him the generational
Speaker 1: type player. They think he's the next Lawrence Taylor. So
Speaker 1: you got a chance between Lawrence Taylor or the quarterback
Speaker 1: who Joe Burrow I think everybody expects will be the
Speaker 1: first quarterback taken. And you just look at the well
Speaker 1: he's performed in the last game, and it's that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough decision for Cincinnati, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know what, I think Burrow has all
Speaker 1: the tools that you're looking for. They're both well coached.
Speaker 1: Each team is probably gonna have about six guys drafted.
Speaker 1: You're right, there's probably about twelve to fifteen players that
Speaker 1: will be drafted on the field. You know, from atn
Speaker 1: you look at the running back and what he's done
Speaker 1: and the Southern players. Oh man, the receivers. I got
Speaker 1: some really good receivers like te Higgins and man, there's
Speaker 1: there's probably about ten to fifteen guys you're gonna be
Speaker 1: watching that we'll be playing at the at the next level.
Speaker 1: And you know, but I go back again to me,
Speaker 1: what comes first the chicken or the egg? Is it
Speaker 1: the coach or is it the players? And I'd always
Speaker 1: say it's the coach and for whatever reason, man that
Speaker 1: Dabo Sweeney. He gets his players juice. Not that ed
Speaker 1: Ogeron doesn't, because those guys get juiced too, but Dabos
Speaker 1: just has There's just something about him. Remember when he
Speaker 1: called DeShawn the next Michael Jordan. Everybody thought he was crazy.
Speaker 1: What was Deshaun Watson last week? And that in the
Speaker 1: wild Card weekend he was pretty much Michael Jordan in
Speaker 1: that game, wasn't he? They were losing and here he
Speaker 1: ends up finishing just an unbelievable game, has that Houdini
Speaker 1: play and the Houston Texans come from behind and they
Speaker 1: get that victory for wild Card Weekend. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, he did struggle in that game, got hit
Speaker 1: a ton, and if he was sacked on that play
Speaker 1: the game there were seven sacks in that great but
Speaker 1: if he did get sacked on that play, there would
Speaker 1: be maybe a different narrative. But you're right, he is.
Speaker 1: He's an outstanding quarterback. I don't know if Tom's done
Speaker 1: any of this kind of work yet, but there's a
Speaker 1: guy on Clemson that I'm intrigued by. Is Isaiah Simmons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, he's a he's a tweener. They don't
Speaker 1: know what he is linemanners safety. He plays everywhere and
Speaker 1: he's that is quite the athlete, what a versatile defender.
Speaker 1: Where do you think he'll wind up in the draft protocol? Linebacker? Safety? Well,
Speaker 1: I think that he's really fortunate to come into the
Speaker 1: NFL at this time because as much as we wanted
Speaker 1: to label defenses with numbers in front of him three four,
Speaker 1: four three, I think the multiple uses of personnel fits
Speaker 1: this guy well because maybe he is a three down
Speaker 1: player because he has linebacker skills, but he has defensive
Speaker 1: back and safety type of awareness. So I think he's
Speaker 1: kind of a unique player that when you're when the
Speaker 1: offense puts in the specific personnel groupings, they're trying to
Speaker 1: look at who you're taking out. This guy might never
Speaker 1: come off the field if he gets an early opportunity
Speaker 1: inside the right defense. Freaky athlete, that's for sure. But
Speaker 1: you know, I just I think he's going to fill out.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be more linebacker, but you're right, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a hybrid player. Six four, two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five Piles will probably end up being about two three.
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen bigger safety Derwin James obviously comes
Speaker 1: to mind, or Jamal Adams and what he brings uh
Speaker 1: for the Jets, because I believe Adams led the league
Speaker 1: in sacks for safety, he was pretty much down inside
Speaker 1: the box, blitzing and doing all those things. So that
Speaker 1: may be Isaiah Simmons role at the next level, but
Speaker 1: I think he's going to fill in as a linebacker primarily.
Speaker 1: And then one last thing of the game, because you know,
Speaker 1: it's the grandson of Chicago born and bred and John
Speaker 1: Marshall High School Darryl Stingley, the late Darryl Stingley, his grandson,
Speaker 1: Derek Stingley, who came in as one of the most
Speaker 1: heavily recruited players in LSU history. What a triffic. He's
Speaker 1: only a freshman, He's already a six two corner and
Speaker 1: the guy's got the ball skills of a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He had a bunch of He had twenty seven interceptions
Speaker 1: as a high school player. He had six this year.
Speaker 1: And have you seen highlights of this guy defending passes.
Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable. Well, you think of the talent that
Speaker 1: he faces every single day in practice, you know you
Speaker 1: hear a lot about the past coordinator for LSU and
Speaker 1: Joe Brady, and here's a guy that you know, would
Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to go along with Burrows. But you
Speaker 1: think about again, what you're facing every single day in practice,
Speaker 1: and if you want to develop the skills of a
Speaker 1: player of that position, man, it's you can develop him
Speaker 1: when you're going against the talent that he gets to
Speaker 1: see every single day. And I do think that it's
Speaker 1: not such a big shock when he goes into these
Speaker 1: other stadiums, these other games and sees the talent they
Speaker 1: have because he's see him guys just as talented. And
Speaker 1: again one of the most you know, the quickest processing
Speaker 1: quarterback they're saying out there in Joe Burrow. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean for Stingley. And you know, I think Belichick
Speaker 1: made this too. I mean, look at the receiver's drafted
Speaker 1: last year, Dk Metcalf. The guy's an absolute monster. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at the receivers that are sixty four two eight
Speaker 1: two and thirty pounds coming out. You need to get
Speaker 1: somebody to cover those guys. So the teams last year
Speaker 1: started to focus on I don't want to say legion boom,
Speaker 1: but you need the bigger corners Now, guys who are
Speaker 1: over six foot you know, the peanut tillmans of the world.
Speaker 1: And that's what Stingley falls into at six two. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna start to see some monster corners coming out
Speaker 1: because and that's who will be at the Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: this year. Jim Nagee said that it hasn't changed. NFL
Speaker 1: teams are like bringing the bigger corners. Try to scout
Speaker 1: the bigger corners that are out there because you need
Speaker 1: somebody to cover these monster receivers that are just I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you do against six four receivers who's busting
Speaker 1: a four three? I mean, DK Metcalf alone had one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards last week versus Philly. He was
Speaker 1: a one man wreckie crew, all right, So real quick,
Speaker 1: thirty seconds to go. Let's break it down. Minnesota, San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Who do you like San Francisco. I'll take San fran
Speaker 1: as well. Short week for Minnesota. Mark Ingram could be
Speaker 1: back from Baltimore, Tennessee and the Ravens Baltimore. I like
Speaker 1: Baltimore as well. D Ford, Kansas City getting healthy, hosting Houston.
Speaker 1: I'll take Kansas City as well. It won't be the
Speaker 1: six loss be like before, and I will take the
Speaker 1: upset Seattle over Green Bay. Do you know I'm having
Speaker 1: a hard well, I'm having a hard time going against
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. That's the guy that is most attracted me
Speaker 1: because he's the one guy that could probably maybe wear
Speaker 1: down Zadarius Smith in the later part of the game
Speaker 1: and get some balls out of his hands. But I'm
Speaker 1: still going on Green Bay. I'm going to San Francisco, Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, in Seattle, I'm a most all the home teams,
Speaker 1: but Seattle on the road. Those are my picks. And
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