Speaker 1: Here alive on the scene. Now the Bears back at
Speaker 1: it today, Tommy at least meetingwise, a little walk through
Speaker 1: off tomorrow, and then practice week gets underway. In NFL terms,
Speaker 1: Thursday is really Wednesday. Friday's Thursday, Saturday is Friday, and
Speaker 1: Sunday is Saturday. Yeah, you know it's Mattieberflus is working smart.
Speaker 1: I think what you want to do is you want
Speaker 1: to allow these guys to recoup mentally and physically get
Speaker 1: them back at practice when you have enough time to
Speaker 1: insert the game plan. And you know, they call it
Speaker 1: a mini bye week, but it's really not. It's a
Speaker 1: couple days off. Because you play on Thursday night and
Speaker 1: then you get a chance to play on Monday, when
Speaker 1: they really do have the bye week. You can significantly
Speaker 1: relax from the game and kind of forget about it
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes. Here, you really don't get
Speaker 1: a chance to forget about it because you have to
Speaker 1: keep it fresh in your mind. You can't come out
Speaker 1: here and you know, forget an assignment or two along
Speaker 1: the way. So it's about staying in the moment, you know,
Speaker 1: Like Dick always used to say, you can't turn the
Speaker 1: key off and then turn it on immediately. It's at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. Once you turn it on,
Speaker 1: it's on till the end. Yeah. But while you say that,
Speaker 1: you know they had the short week, so it was
Speaker 1: really walkthroughs. And this week you won't practice till Thursday,
Speaker 1: so it's six days since the game, so they really
Speaker 1: haven't practiced a lot. I think he's going to Mattie
Speaker 1: Brouflus will get a little bit more individual work, get
Speaker 1: the techniques that they've researched that they need to improve
Speaker 1: upon each player. Three good things, three things they need
Speaker 1: to work on, was the conversation they had with their
Speaker 1: position coaches today. So it should be a much fresher
Speaker 1: team headed to New England on Monday. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: this team has always been fresh. They have a good attitude.
Speaker 1: They come out and they work hard. You saw some
Speaker 1: of it that, you know what, we saw instance of
Speaker 1: that in training camp when we are up here and
Speaker 1: they would be eighty five to ninety five degree day,
Speaker 1: they go out there and they were to work hard,
Speaker 1: and they'd work fast, they'd practice hard, and then they
Speaker 1: had to do the same thing the next day. So
Speaker 1: I've always been impressed by this football team. The energy
Speaker 1: that they carry on kind of an everyday basis and
Speaker 1: every game basis so far up until you know, until
Speaker 1: the end of the game because they've they've been in
Speaker 1: some halftime scenarios. We didn't know what was going to happen,
Speaker 1: and they came out and play their best football. Right,
Speaker 1: They've yet to have a lead in the you know,
Speaker 1: at halftime, and they are still two wins out of that.
Speaker 1: But you got to finish, and that's been the frustrating thing.
Speaker 1: You heard it from Justin Fields Jalen Johnson today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to keep it positive in the
Speaker 1: coaching end of things, but the players know. The players
Speaker 1: know that they could have had these games and that's
Speaker 1: the frustration part of it that they have to overcome.
Speaker 1: With that being said, the things that need to be
Speaker 1: worked on, aside from the obvious and finishing the rest
Speaker 1: of them are kind of obvious, and those were pinpointed
Speaker 1: today by mattieberflus One. They got to get the passing
Speaker 1: game going and protecting Justin Fields and getting rid of
Speaker 1: the ball quicker on defense, got to stop the run. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the offensive part of it is a more
Speaker 1: difficult solution I think than the defensive part of it,
Speaker 1: because when you talk about the offensive component to improvement,
Speaker 1: it's making sure that you're starting to understand the terminology
Speaker 1: perfectly and not just you know, I, oh, I know
Speaker 1: it pretty good, or I you know, I could probably
Speaker 1: go in there and get a bee on a test. No,
Speaker 1: that doesn't work. It's about knowing this stuff perfectly. So
Speaker 1: when you talk about timing, you talk about offensive line protection,
Speaker 1: getting the ball out of Justin's hand, you know, being
Speaker 1: more protective of himself so he can be in it
Speaker 1: for the long haul. Those things are all curable, but
Speaker 1: it's a constant process of correction when you talk about
Speaker 1: offensive football, and you need to be in the same
Speaker 1: system for a period of time, so you do and
Speaker 1: you can do it perfectly. Defense, you know, when they
Speaker 1: brought in this defense and they instill installed this front,
Speaker 1: guys were making position changes. Roquan Smith, for example, going
Speaker 1: from an interior linebacker in a different style of defense
Speaker 1: to be in a kind of an edge middle linebacker
Speaker 1: in this defensive front with more defensive lineman in front
Speaker 1: of you. So, like I said, I've never been disappointed
Speaker 1: in the energy that these guys show up every week
Speaker 1: with but it is about the finishing, the end result.
Speaker 1: And it's a young team, one of the youngest in
Speaker 1: the league started the season I think tied for eighth
Speaker 1: youngest overall roster. But they've played significant snaps more than
Speaker 1: any other team in the league. Rookies have played a
Speaker 1: lot of that is on special teams, coverage units seven
Speaker 1: eight rookies on these coverage units, punt and kickoff return.
Speaker 1: But overall, you just got to find a way to
Speaker 1: score points and that has been even pre dating this administration.
Speaker 1: The difficulty for the Chicago Bears scoring touchdowns. Then point
Speaker 1: of emphasis the red zone. You know, everybody that watched
Speaker 1: the game last week, they saw how many opportunities the
Speaker 1: Bears had in the red zone than they failed to score.
Speaker 1: Then you look at the Giants game when they had
Speaker 1: red zone opportunities early in the game and they failed
Speaker 1: to score touchdowns and they end up getting field goals.
Speaker 1: So what do you learn from that? You learn when
Speaker 1: you get into the red zone you have to have
Speaker 1: a game plan that you're one hundred percent confident in
Speaker 1: that you know that when you get inside that twenty,
Speaker 1: you get inside the ten and you get as close
Speaker 1: as the five yard line that the end result has
Speaker 1: to be touchdowns. This is not a team right now
Speaker 1: that can go out there and get by with field goals.
Speaker 1: One way to improve or defense and allow them to
Speaker 1: play more aggressive and take more chances is by getting
Speaker 1: a lead. And so I think all those different components
Speaker 1: can help the overall team have more wins attached to it.
Speaker 1: Some business today a Mere Smith March set the former
Speaker 1: Minnesota Viking wave today Asaiah Coulture. It was on the
Speaker 1: roster last year for a minute. I think he had
Speaker 1: one target last year. He comes off the practice wid
Speaker 1: to help out at receivering. Nakil Harry should likely get
Speaker 1: snapps this week against his old team. I would think.
Speaker 1: I hope he does. But you know, even if he does,
Speaker 1: we don't know a lot about him because Nikkil Harry
Speaker 1: came here, you know, former first round or big body.
Speaker 1: The type of guy that you know is you can
Speaker 1: tell the game means a lot to him because you
Speaker 1: don't look like that without putting effort into it. But
Speaker 1: Nakil Harry, you talk about the timing between the receiver
Speaker 1: and the quarterback. He needs to have a couple hundred
Speaker 1: reps with Justin just to understand, just to get to
Speaker 1: know each other a little bit, and then they need
Speaker 1: to find, you know, five or six pass plays and
Speaker 1: they need to repetitiously go over those another hundred times
Speaker 1: during the course of a week. So yeah, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see Nakil Harry, but it's not gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: plug and play type of performance. Happy birthday today, Thank
Speaker 1: you to eighty three year old and Mike Ditka the
Speaker 1: Coach about that Happy Birthday, Mike. This week also Steve
Speaker 1: McMichael Battling Als the Fight of All Fights also celebrated
Speaker 1: to sixty fifth birthday yesterday. Last week it was Mike Singletary,
Speaker 1: it's hard to look I'm sixty. I know you're sixty one,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to look at the eighty five Bears.
Speaker 1: You're sixty one. No, I'm not. You should be, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm much more than sixty one, our
Speaker 1: sixty rather but it's hard to think of Ditka the
Speaker 1: Bear because you guys had so much vibrancy. You ruled
Speaker 1: the ruled the roost of Bears fandom, and now you
Speaker 1: guys are on the other side of sixty it's so
Speaker 1: hard to think about that. Don't you feel the same
Speaker 1: way a little bit? I know, I feel good. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm not that just knowing that you guys
Speaker 1: are all at this point, of course I do, because
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up in this day. I grew
Speaker 1: up in Joliet. So you know you're a Bears fan
Speaker 1: and that's the team you're committed to, because when I
Speaker 1: was growing up, you didn't have all these different avenues
Speaker 1: of NFL distraction with the red zone and turning on
Speaker 1: any station device, yeah device in getting any team you
Speaker 1: want to listen to. You know, you were born bread
Speaker 1: and you know with the with the Bears. And so
Speaker 1: when you walk in there for the very first time,
Speaker 1: you see that team and you see Ditka, and you
Speaker 1: see all the guys that you read about and saw
Speaker 1: on TV. And it's a special group of guys. But
Speaker 1: it's the kind of the guys that walk around at
Speaker 1: the same confidence today, whether you're eighty eighty three, sixty
Speaker 1: three or you know, however old, we are unique to
Speaker 1: that bunch, Yeah, no question. I just you know, we
Speaker 1: all can daydream what it would have been like for
Speaker 1: that team playing in twenty twenty two. I don't know
Speaker 1: you guys might have been in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1: We would whip anybody you would on and off the field.
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, Bears defensive lineman Justin Joins
Speaker 1: will join the program after a break here from haisaw.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
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Speaker 1: Tim welcoming Bears defensive tackle Justin Jones to the program.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling, my man? I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be here. Man. Yeah, get a good
Speaker 1: break and get the get the mind right and the
Speaker 1: body right, the spirit right for the next eleven games.
Speaker 1: I guess as a bye week, then come to week fourteenth.
Speaker 1: So you got a ways to go before you get
Speaker 1: a true break from the game. Yeah, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: even thinking about the bow you got on is Lea. Man,
Speaker 1: it's so far away to you know. If I start
Speaker 1: thinking about it now, you know, it just makes it go,
Speaker 1: It makes it, you know, longer. So, how do you
Speaker 1: like the weather change? I don't. Don't you know? Have
Speaker 1: you been in the climate change of the four seasons
Speaker 1: very much in your life? Because you got drafted on
Speaker 1: the West coast? You grew up in a down in Georgia,
Speaker 1: So you know, as this temperature starts to change, how
Speaker 1: do you like that? You know? So I went to
Speaker 1: Anthy's date and uh January February, and uh in North
Speaker 1: Carolina it gets pretty cold. We'll get we get maybe
Speaker 1: like sixteens of snow. So you know, I'm I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good right now, I have I haven't got the uh,
Speaker 1: the extreme cold yet, so it's coming. Yeah, I heard
Speaker 1: to revisit the San Francisco game. Was that the wettest
Speaker 1: game you've ever played in in your life? Or have
Speaker 1: you faced that before? Because I think in all the
Speaker 1: years and the all the years I played, and all
Speaker 1: the years of end broadcasting, I've only maybe seen two
Speaker 1: that bad in our time. What about Yeah, I've played
Speaker 1: it much worse. Yeah, So we played Notre Dame my
Speaker 1: junior year in uh college and we were the only
Speaker 1: game all because it was a hurricane and we played
Speaker 1: in the middle of the hurricane. They was the only
Speaker 1: game they didn't cancel. And uh yeah, it was like
Speaker 1: four to five inches of water on the ground, maybe
Speaker 1: six and like every time you step, like your cleat
Speaker 1: just like disappeared into the water on the field. And
Speaker 1: we did. We did. We want we wanted to block punt.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a domer. I want to Notre Dame. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. No, I'm I'm I'm happy to see
Speaker 1: because you know, that was one of the cool things
Speaker 1: is when you had an opportunity to play schools like
Speaker 1: that that they weren't in just on the irregular schedule.
Speaker 1: So it was a great experience to go out there.
Speaker 1: And did they get you all hyped up to make
Speaker 1: sure you beat Notre named Uh yeah they did. They did.
Speaker 1: They said, you know, raining or sewn, you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know, we're gonna put the ball down
Speaker 1: to play. And that was the biggest I was like
Speaker 1: our montre there to put the ball down and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll play. Were you playing inside defensive tackle? I was?
Speaker 1: I was. My defensive line was actually pretty good. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, yeah, listen, listen, pretty good. Bradley Chubb, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, Bradley Chub, B J Hill, Contavious Street, Justin Jones.
Speaker 1: And then last week on the broadcast to Washington had
Speaker 1: their starting defensive and I was blowing the guy up.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna forget his name. Uh he was on yours.
Speaker 1: James Smith Williams. Yeah, James Smith Williams had a couple
Speaker 1: of sacks the week before. So it's like defensive line
Speaker 1: you over there, you guys were something called the pack pros.
Speaker 1: I guess you guys called each other pack pros is.
Speaker 1: Just like everybody who went to the anybody okay, anybody
Speaker 1: in the league, Okay, yeah, but that that that was
Speaker 1: something special. That's rare. Get a whole defensive line drafted. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was something real special that we had.
Speaker 1: You know, we all, well three of us were roommates
Speaker 1: when we first got in there, so you know, it
Speaker 1: was pretty cool just to you know, grind with those
Speaker 1: guys and you know, just see the change, you know,
Speaker 1: and everybody's bodies and their mentality and their knowledge of
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, just apply to the field.
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful than to see. Crazy thing though,
Speaker 1: real quick, Tom is because back and you and I
Speaker 1: talked about this on some show. Maybe you're on with
Speaker 1: us before. But I find it interesting that so, you know,
Speaker 1: you bounced around. You were from the Bronx. Are you
Speaker 1: a Yankee fan? Okay, they're beating Cleveland and the Alds
Speaker 1: should be wrapping up and headed to the Als. Yes,
Speaker 1: but then you're down to Georgia. You know, you look,
Speaker 1: take a look at Georgia. Right. They told you you're
Speaker 1: two inches too short, right? They told me I was
Speaker 1: too short to play. Clemson told you, yeah, sorry, you're
Speaker 1: too short at defensive tackle. But you know, you look
Speaker 1: at a lot of these defensive tackles in the league.
Speaker 1: Six two, six three, What are you now, I'm six
Speaker 1: two and a half. It's working, Yeah, it's working. You know,
Speaker 1: fifty year in the NFL. It's like the short arm
Speaker 1: thing with tackles. It drives Tom nuts. You know, Hey,
Speaker 1: if you got leverage, you're gonna win. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: You know you got game, you got game. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: how big you you know, Aaron Donald played at two
Speaker 1: sixty five, two sixty and I've also seen other d
Speaker 1: tacks who play at three forty, you know, and they're
Speaker 1: great players. So it doesn't matter, you know, how good,
Speaker 1: how good you are with you know what you got.
Speaker 1: You know, when when you go to the combine, they
Speaker 1: put your back up against the wall and then they
Speaker 1: tell you to raise your toes up and then they
Speaker 1: put that ruler down. Oh yeah, because you know, I
Speaker 1: went through my whole life in my high school program.
Speaker 1: I was six to five and then I went to
Speaker 1: the combine. It was sixty three and three fours, and I,
Speaker 1: you know, you're losing money by every half anch for sure.
Speaker 1: For sure. I definitely thought I was about to be
Speaker 1: in there and be like six three and a half,
Speaker 1: maybe six four if they if my hair was nicely on.
Speaker 1: So they got me at like six two and a
Speaker 1: half and I was like, oh man, but it's all good.
Speaker 1: So the combine was actually a crazy experience. You know,
Speaker 1: you everybody sees it on TV, but that whole of
Speaker 1: the schedule they got going on over there, it's really
Speaker 1: really really draining. It's crazy. You know. When I came
Speaker 1: out of college, we used to have to go to
Speaker 1: three different combines. We had to go to one in Detroit,
Speaker 1: one in Tampa, and one in Seattle and do the
Speaker 1: whole thing each time. But I was reading reports about
Speaker 1: you and they said, oh, they had projected you to
Speaker 1: be a fifth or six rounder, but you went in
Speaker 1: the third round. Yeah. Did that surprise you? Or did
Speaker 1: when you went to the combine? Did you say, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm as good as any one of these guys that
Speaker 1: I'm competing against. We pretty much already knew where I
Speaker 1: was gonna go, you know, before the draft. Like now
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say after the combine, but I mean before
Speaker 1: the combat. But after combin we pretty much knew exactly
Speaker 1: where I was gonna go. But you know, we really
Speaker 1: got to feel for after the Senior Bowl. You know,
Speaker 1: I had a pretty good Senior Bowl coming out of college,
Speaker 1: and that kind of boosted my draft stock. Really. Uh,
Speaker 1: did you like the Senior Bowl because I I, you know,
Speaker 1: I went to the Hula Bowl because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to something as serious as a Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: because back in the days they had you do in
Speaker 1: double days, it was full pads and everything was legit
Speaker 1: pro style. Yeah, you know, you know, now that I've
Speaker 1: been in the league a couple of years, the singer
Speaker 1: Bowler we had back then was not pro style at all.
Speaker 1: It was more so, you know, just to see who
Speaker 1: who can play the best one they're tired, and obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, they watched the past rush snaps, so that
Speaker 1: was kind of all the drills everybody really wanted to see.
Speaker 1: But after that we got a whole hour and thirty
Speaker 1: minutes after practice, so you know, we basically spent that
Speaker 1: condition and you know, doing team reps. So you know,
Speaker 1: for me, that's not really a pro practice to me,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was a good, good opportunity to showcase,
Speaker 1: you know, the skill sets and everything, and you know
Speaker 1: in those drills and especially when you're tired. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's a big thing, you know, league, you know,
Speaker 1: how do you play when you're tired? So that that's
Speaker 1: the only real realistic that I can honestly say that
Speaker 1: you know, we got from the Singer Bowl. The best
Speaker 1: part of the Singing Bowl, honestly is the interviews and
Speaker 1: you know, the one on ones with the coaches and
Speaker 1: every day so they can really see, you know, where
Speaker 1: you are mentally with the game. Because that's most important.
Speaker 1: So when I would come here for and watch OTAs
Speaker 1: and stuff, I was amazed at how fast you guys
Speaker 1: were practicing, not not the length of time of how
Speaker 1: fast you guys were going through your drills that we're
Speaker 1: running team work that would do it. And then I
Speaker 1: was curious, is this going to be able to carry
Speaker 1: over to live training camp practice? What did you think
Speaker 1: when you got into training camp with Matt Eberflus. Did
Speaker 1: you like the pace of what you were practicing? Were
Speaker 1: you getting too much conditioning work? Were you're getting enough
Speaker 1: conditioning work? How did that settle in with you? Honestly,
Speaker 1: though at the time you know it was it was hard,
Speaker 1: but you know, obviously, you know, getting in the training
Speaker 1: camp it built up the stamino. You knew that we
Speaker 1: needed to play and obviously, you know, you've seen it
Speaker 1: in the last couple of games. You know, even though
Speaker 1: I haven't gone our way, the fourth quarter has really
Speaker 1: been our quarter. And that's because you know, the other
Speaker 1: team is pretty much getting tired and we have the
Speaker 1: stamina to play. And that's that's due to the you know,
Speaker 1: the condition that we did throughout practice and OTA and
Speaker 1: training camp. So even if you don't see it now,
Speaker 1: you know we definitely thankful for it now. So our
Speaker 1: guest Justin Jones here on Bears All Access Tyler booterbaum
Speaker 1: I hope I said that correctly is our producer. Back
Speaker 1: at the score, pauls rang here with Dan burrellion a
Speaker 1: cast of thousands in the audience. Here we're gonna take
Speaker 1: another break more with Justin after this on Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: Hollis Hall. This was not a full practice day for
Speaker 1: Justin Jones and the Bears. They did to walk through meetings.
Speaker 1: How did it all go? Because Mattieberflus talked about what
Speaker 1: they wanted to do as coaches. Every team does it
Speaker 1: a little review of what's happened for the first six
Speaker 1: and look at the strengths, looks at things that need
Speaker 1: to be tweaked. I know, you know that run defense
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the big ones, at
Speaker 1: least on your side of the ball. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he definitely are brought that up to us today and
Speaker 1: that was one of the biggest things, you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about and but he did highlight, you know, some
Speaker 1: of the positives that we had. You know, we had
Speaker 1: a lot of positives. And the biggest thing that he
Speaker 1: said to us is that you know, we're getting better
Speaker 1: every week and you know, you know it might not
Speaker 1: show up on the wins like we wanted to. Is
Speaker 1: that that's obviously frustrating, but you know we are getting
Speaker 1: better every week, and that's really all you can ask,
Speaker 1: like because in the NFL, you know, you just can't.
Speaker 1: You can't stay the same either. You're getting better, you're
Speaker 1: getting worse, and you know we're getting better. So have
Speaker 1: you ever played New Have you ever played New England
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady throughout your career? I did my rookie year.
Speaker 1: We had went to the playoffs and it was the
Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs, and uh, we had played
Speaker 1: them and we definitely lost. So from what you've been
Speaker 1: able to learn throughout your career, is there a different
Speaker 1: approach to when you play a team that doesn't have
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in New England? That does? You know? It's
Speaker 1: a serious question because I know if if we were
Speaker 1: playing against the defense that had a guy like Reggie White,
Speaker 1: it would be a whole point of emphasis when you
Speaker 1: prepare for him. Is it the same with New England
Speaker 1: or is it what you remember preparing as a younger guy.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't say it was anything different, you know,
Speaker 1: honestly in my opinion, you know, you treat every game
Speaker 1: like it has a life of his own, and you
Speaker 1: know you can't. You can't talk about the Patriots without
Speaker 1: talking about Tom Brady at the time, right you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't talk about you know, the Bucks without talking
Speaker 1: about Tom Bury. You can't talk about anybody without talking
Speaker 1: about their best players. And that's that's kind of what
Speaker 1: I mean by cheer. Everybody be saying you have to
Speaker 1: show respect to the players that kind of make their
Speaker 1: team go. But you have to have you also have
Speaker 1: to make a make a plan to take those players
Speaker 1: out to make them ineffective in the game so that
Speaker 1: you can, you know, obviously do what you're trying to do,
Speaker 1: which is obviously win. You know, you can't you can't
Speaker 1: let those players get going and get into a rhythm
Speaker 1: because they can hurt you at that point. You know,
Speaker 1: when you go back to the Green Bay game, you
Speaker 1: had a couple tackles for lost explosive plays at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. As a defensive lineman. Do you like
Speaker 1: when you're on the road where you can kind of
Speaker 1: grow it familiar with the cadence of the quarterback or
Speaker 1: do you like it at home when you really can't
Speaker 1: hear anything and you're just going on instincts because I
Speaker 1: I see you have explosive plays on the road, and
Speaker 1: it's I don't know if you're fault you're falling into
Speaker 1: that cadence rhythm or what is it for us to know?
Speaker 1: You know, it's different things. You know, it's different things
Speaker 1: for me personally. Uh, I like going on the road
Speaker 1: more just for the simple fact that you know, our
Speaker 1: bearest fans travel. Yeah, and uh that's huge for me.
Speaker 1: You know, I like going to foreign stadiums and you know,
Speaker 1: putting on the show for them and obviously get going
Speaker 1: there and getting to win, you know, especially when our
Speaker 1: fans travel like that. That's something I really I really
Speaker 1: enjoy doing, you know because a lot of fans get
Speaker 1: to go home unhappy, and I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, as for you know, cadence and everything.
Speaker 1: When we're on the road or when they're home, and
Speaker 1: you know, our fans really loud. I pay attentions to
Speaker 1: like the clock, you know, the the game clock. I'm
Speaker 1: pay attention to manners, and a lot of people go silent. Counsel,
Speaker 1: you know, they have a routine cadence or a routine
Speaker 1: you know motion that they do, you know, to let
Speaker 1: everybody on the old line not that they're about to
Speaker 1: hike the ball, notifying me that they're about to hit
Speaker 1: the ball. And so once they do that, I'm out
Speaker 1: of there. When they're at home. You know, some people
Speaker 1: were like, uh, let me think Aaron Rodgers. You know,
Speaker 1: he has some things that he do that he does,
Speaker 1: you know, pre snap the way I know when the
Speaker 1: boss coming, and once it comes, like I'm moditating before
Speaker 1: everybody else moves. It's possible Mac Jones could come back
Speaker 1: for this one of the wise that Bailey Zappy who's
Speaker 1: been been impressive and almost three full games are putting
Speaker 1: up a lot of points. You your Chargers team that
Speaker 1: you were on last year did play took him down
Speaker 1: to the wire. I think they had one touchdown run
Speaker 1: and four field goals with mac Jones. What you learn
Speaker 1: from Wack Jones last year that if he goes in
Speaker 1: there and comes back from his injury, that will benefit
Speaker 1: you just from knowledge from playing him once. Oh, you
Speaker 1: definitely know he's a good quarterback. He doesn't like anybody
Speaker 1: next to his feet, you know, so that's that's a
Speaker 1: big thing. You know. He throws off his back foot
Speaker 1: whenever there's pressure obviously, you know, but if we can
Speaker 1: get some confusion going on, that was one thing about him,
Speaker 1: you know, once he gets confused, you know, he kind
Speaker 1: of just throws the game away in my opinion. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously if he gets in the rhythm, then
Speaker 1: obviously he can hurt us. So you got to give
Speaker 1: him in respect in that aspect. But you know he
Speaker 1: does he does have a kryptonite and we're going to
Speaker 1: expose that. Yeah, I'll tell you the one thing you
Speaker 1: gotta get ready for as you know, with a Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick coach team, and Tommy and I just broke it
Speaker 1: down for our game preview, is that they throw a
Speaker 1: bunch at yet they throw packages after package. I'll start
Speaker 1: out with whatever, and then you got to figure it
Speaker 1: out over the course of the game. That's a part
Speaker 1: of You got to find a lot of answers to
Speaker 1: a lot of questions, even as the game's unfolding. Would
Speaker 1: that be a fair representation of playing a Patriots Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick coach team. That's definitely true. That's definitely true. But
Speaker 1: you know, one thing about you know, fundamentals and technique
Speaker 1: like those, those things aren't gonna lie to you, you know,
Speaker 1: So if you're really focusing on those things, and you
Speaker 1: will be okay. And that's from the front end of
Speaker 1: all the way to the back end. So stuff like
Speaker 1: that doesn't really worry me, you know. It's more so
Speaker 1: it's more so, you know, are we are we playing
Speaker 1: with effort? Are we getting to the ball? Are we
Speaker 1: are we all getting half to the ball? Are we
Speaker 1: knocking to pile back? Are we getting pressure on the quarterback?
Speaker 1: Those those are things that I'm worried about, not more
Speaker 1: so what they're doing. It's always about us. So who
Speaker 1: do you think's bigger trash talkers offensive line or defensive lineman?
Speaker 1: And then from all the young guys that Jeff and
Speaker 1: I don't know that well yet, who's the biggest talker
Speaker 1: at your defensive lineman? Uh? So the offensive? Is there
Speaker 1: any offensive lineman that talk trash to you? Or are
Speaker 1: they They're back to the huddle so quick. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: they're in and out for me. Now. They don't really
Speaker 1: talk too much to me, but I've seen I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot more d lineman talking trash. Yeah. I mean, Tommy,
Speaker 1: you didn't talk, did you? No? But we didn't have time.
Speaker 1: But there are some guys that do. And because we're
Speaker 1: getting to know a lot of these guys for the
Speaker 1: first time in our life. You know, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: old line though. I mean Oland did there's there's there's
Speaker 1: a did you? And Jay No? You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: we didn't take anything because you'd get a defensive lineman
Speaker 1: from a team that would try to line up like
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers used to have a guy named
Speaker 1: Tim Harris and he would line up against everybody on
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman. He would talk a lot of trash,
Speaker 1: so you almost had to give it back to him,
Speaker 1: you know. But how about John Rando who had a
Speaker 1: whole book on your whole life, and he was yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he'd do research. I mean he would do
Speaker 1: he wouldn't know everything about your life and just poke
Speaker 1: at you the whole game and be talking though. Going
Speaker 1: in NFL films with John rad it's hilarious, hilarious, but
Speaker 1: he get on your skin, you know, he'd get under
Speaker 1: your skin a little bit. Justin Jones, our guest here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access. It's brought to you by Igs Energy.
Speaker 1: So part of your weekend was hanging out with the
Speaker 1: folks as an honorary captain for the TAFT ken Wood,
Speaker 1: Chicago Publicly Girls Flag Football City Championship Game TAFT one
Speaker 1: and both teams are going to be competing in the
Speaker 1: state championship here at Hollis Hall later this month. You
Speaker 1: have a one year old daughter, so you know you
Speaker 1: gotta kick out of that too. What was it like
Speaker 1: in is this part of the future with girls and
Speaker 1: boys for that matter? I know the NFL would love
Speaker 1: to have it to be an Olympic sport one day,
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, it'd be it'd be good for both
Speaker 1: you know, and uh personally, you know, just the game
Speaker 1: of football itself. I think it'd be. I think it'd
Speaker 1: be really good for the girls and women that wanted
Speaker 1: to play football in my opinion, you know, especially especially
Speaker 1: obviously me having a daughter, I'm a little biased. You know,
Speaker 1: I want her to enjoy the sport as well, and
Speaker 1: obviously she seemed like she wanted to do it. So
Speaker 1: if you know, at some point when she gets of age,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll put her in something like that and
Speaker 1: you know, let it try it out. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's huge. You talk about opportunity to get to get
Speaker 1: be able to get more people into sports and be
Speaker 1: able to get more people an opportunity to get a
Speaker 1: free education, you know, and and you know, possibly going
Speaker 1: get into the Olympics. That's that's amazing. That's literally life changing,
Speaker 1: like you know, for a lot of people. So you know,
Speaker 1: I thought that was amazing. You know, find the information
Speaker 1: out and you know, you're looking at the teams, like
Speaker 1: being out there with Tad and Kim, they love this
Speaker 1: game like they love it, like they're they're they're playing
Speaker 1: like they're they're playing like full speed like they're they're there.
Speaker 1: You have to see it what you're own eyes, Like literally,
Speaker 1: it's amazing that they're running routes and everything, and you know,
Speaker 1: they really get competitive, trash talking to each other like
Speaker 1: and you can even see it the way they pull
Speaker 1: the flag and throw it on the ground and walk
Speaker 1: off like it's they're they're out. They're really trying to
Speaker 1: get in. It's amazing to see. Yeah, So I'm sure
Speaker 1: here again, you know, they kids mimic behavior, so they
Speaker 1: watch watch the big boys at the NFL level do
Speaker 1: their thing. Yeah, and it's gonna trickle down even how
Speaker 1: they wear their socks or how they wear their uniforms.
Speaker 1: So we got to take a break. Justin Jones our
Speaker 1: guest here at Hatasar at PNC Studios with Tows there.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac not Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to
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Speaker 1: for one final segment Justin Jones Bears Defense Tackle all
Speaker 1: hanging out with the big guys up front. Really a
Speaker 1: great chance here, free agency for the first time in
Speaker 1: your career, and really to kind of vault your career
Speaker 1: with a new platform here with a new team. But
Speaker 1: my gosh, the rookies, they're more snaps than any team
Speaker 1: in the league, buy a long shot. So you got
Speaker 1: a young football team. What's it like playing with these
Speaker 1: guys in there? Have they have? They adapted quicker maybe
Speaker 1: than they wouldn't if there weren't so many of them,
Speaker 1: especially on special teams for example. Yeah, they are, they are.
Speaker 1: But the good thing about it is, you know they're
Speaker 1: getting all these quality reps now, and that's one thing
Speaker 1: you know about it. You know, for a lot of
Speaker 1: rookies in the league. They don't. It's a lack of reps,
Speaker 1: you know. It's a lot of bets taking all the
Speaker 1: reps nowadays, you know, and all the other teams. So here,
Speaker 1: you know, giving all these rookies, you know, so many
Speaker 1: reps at a young at a young age in their career,
Speaker 1: like it's going to be huge for their career just
Speaker 1: in general, like they'll be able to start seeing things
Speaker 1: a lot faster, you know, in the following games and
Speaker 1: following years and just develop faster as a player because
Speaker 1: the reps are important. You can't imitate game reps in practice,
Speaker 1: like you have to be in the game. You have
Speaker 1: to understand the situations, the pressure, you know, how the fans,
Speaker 1: you have to feel all that stuff, you know to
Speaker 1: get to understand it and get better at it. And
Speaker 1: you know, for certain things out to affect you, like
Speaker 1: you know, like a rookie was going to a hostile
Speaker 1: environment that might affect them, universes of fat who's been
Speaker 1: who's been there three or four times like that, you know,
Speaker 1: they that doesn't affect them at all, you know, So
Speaker 1: that stuff's important. Is there information that you can transfer
Speaker 1: to a guy like Dominique Robinson, because you talk about
Speaker 1: the offense breaks of the huddle, you take everything in
Speaker 1: the consideration the time on the clock, the down and distance,
Speaker 1: what hash mark they're on, the stance of the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman is there is there a teaching components that you
Speaker 1: can help a guy like Dominique because he's played different positions,
Speaker 1: but he's got the talent to grow and do a
Speaker 1: defensive end. You know, I've talked to domin a couple
Speaker 1: of times. You know about about you know, a tendensee's
Speaker 1: and everything, and you know how to how to diagnose
Speaker 1: the whole player. You know, within like maybe seven to
Speaker 1: ten seconds, kind of know what's coming to ask you
Speaker 1: before you've been getting your stance, because that's really the
Speaker 1: that's really the that's really one of the one of
Speaker 1: the biggest the biggest things you know of the down
Speaker 1: is trying the pre snap reads. You know, that's really
Speaker 1: important for a d lineman to understand you where the
Speaker 1: ball is going. You know what kind of block you're
Speaker 1: gonna get, you know what your assignment is. You know
Speaker 1: how can you can how you can do it effectively?
Speaker 1: You know when you could take your shots because those
Speaker 1: are one of the big players and may you know,
Speaker 1: you're able to take a shot and it won't hurt
Speaker 1: the team. It's within the scheme. But you could take
Speaker 1: their shot and make a big play, you know. Obviously
Speaker 1: you know from what you've seen on the pre snap.
Speaker 1: You know, so we've talked about, you know, alignments. We
Speaker 1: talked about running back alignment. We've talked about splits between
Speaker 1: offensive linemen, tackles and guards, and we've talked about you know,
Speaker 1: tendencies from a center, you know, from from the head
Speaker 1: motions to the way he owes the ball. We talked
Speaker 1: about quarterbacks and stuff like that and their manner risks
Speaker 1: you know, from when the ball comes out and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So we talked about a lot, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's repetition, like I said, you know for rickies,
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to understand certain things like
Speaker 1: that and be able to look at that, and you
Speaker 1: know that for it to become second nature, to be
Speaker 1: able to look at that and become second nature and
Speaker 1: you don't have to really think about, oh let me
Speaker 1: look at his eye, let me look at the split.
Speaker 1: It just becomes something part of your routine, you know,
Speaker 1: of a snap so that's kind of what we're trying
Speaker 1: to get to. But we talk about that, and you
Speaker 1: know he's starting to do things like that too, So
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good. You know what as a defensive lineman,
Speaker 1: see these guys that are talented that are able to
Speaker 1: deflect balls out of the air when the quarterback throws them.
Speaker 1: Can you teach them things like that to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm still rushing against the offensive lineman, but I'm also
Speaker 1: reading the eyes of the quarterback. Is that something that
Speaker 1: is in eight and you that you have from thousands
Speaker 1: of reps and one on ones and teamwork and everything
Speaker 1: else you go through. Or is that something that's learned
Speaker 1: or taught by a coach from the past. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's something like so you know, looking at us
Speaker 1: is always good, you know, but there's also things as
Speaker 1: you know, for just being in front of the quarterback
Speaker 1: in general, right then looking looking at a ball indicators
Speaker 1: you know, when it takes his hand at the ball,
Speaker 1: that's when the balls coming. Because some quarterbacks are pump
Speaker 1: fake you and they the hand will still be on
Speaker 1: the ball. They're not going through the regular throw of
Speaker 1: motions for you know, to be able to know when
Speaker 1: to jump and stuff like that. So you know, just
Speaker 1: just just you know, taking advantage of all those tendencies
Speaker 1: and everything. And IVI was, you know, if you're getting
Speaker 1: a double team, you know you're not getting to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: The best way to affect them to get your hands up,
Speaker 1: you know, try to block the past or get getting
Speaker 1: his vision so to overthrow it or something, you know,
Speaker 1: getting the hunt fate because he can't see or you know,
Speaker 1: you know it's open, but it's a bad package. You're
Speaker 1: right there. So just something you know, to give guys
Speaker 1: extra time to get there, or you know, give guys
Speaker 1: ex time, you know, just to you know, to beat
Speaker 1: their man so you know, you they get a pressure
Speaker 1: or a sack or something, because sometimes you know, a
Speaker 1: double team comes your way and you know you're ineffective
Speaker 1: on the rush. But that's one good way, you know,
Speaker 1: to affect the quarterback. Hot button topic right now, justin Jones,
Speaker 1: our guest here with Tom there Jeff Jonny Ack on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access brought to you by IGS Energy. So the
Speaker 1: NFL owners meeting today out in New York and a
Speaker 1: topic of roughing the passer was discussed, and the NFL's
Speaker 1: executive vice president of Football Operations, Troy Vincent said, Yep,
Speaker 1: healthy conversation, healthy conversation about it. These recent calls, We're
Speaker 1: not changing our philosophy as a defensive lineman who gets
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, and yet you know what the flags
Speaker 1: mean or the type of way you have to hit
Speaker 1: a quarterback these days, even with full momentum and the
Speaker 1: heat of the moment. How do you feel about that
Speaker 1: if they're going to continue to lean on what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now? And even Rich McKay, the Competition Competition
Speaker 1: Committee chairman, said I got lulled into it once and
Speaker 1: it probably won't happen again in terms of reviewing things
Speaker 1: like that. And that was about pass interference. Back in
Speaker 1: the day. They could never get a consistent way to
Speaker 1: call pass interference. What is your thought out as a
Speaker 1: as a three technique defensive tack who's asked to blast
Speaker 1: off at the line of scrimmage and go get the quarterback. Personally,
Speaker 1: I think I think it's pretty solvet you know my opinion.
Speaker 1: You know, I do agree, you know, not just hit
Speaker 1: sticking the quarterback at all times, because obviously that's the
Speaker 1: way to really really hurt them. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: want to hurt you don't want to hurt guys like
Speaker 1: that in this game. But you know, obviously the recent
Speaker 1: the recent calls, I think they're pretty soft, you know,
Speaker 1: because I don't think there were anything wrong with the
Speaker 1: recent ones. You know, ya obviously are referring to the
Speaker 1: Grady chair at the time Brady went off. Yes, but
Speaker 1: even this path, even last night, I mean, there were
Speaker 1: you know, there's been a dozen of them. But is
Speaker 1: it going to alter the way you go about it?
Speaker 1: Is it in your head? Because think, think for a minute,
Speaker 1: what if it's fourth quarter crunch time and yep, you
Speaker 1: know that word close, you're trying to close, and you
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback and you're happen to land down.
Speaker 1: I'm a certain way that they don't like. I mean,
Speaker 1: usually got to pull off. You know, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're about to dump a guy, you know you can
Speaker 1: get your hands off to the side and kind of
Speaker 1: like lean over a little bit. It seems it seems hard,
Speaker 1: but it's not as hard as you know it seems
Speaker 1: because you know you have full control of what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Like if you have the quarterback in your hand and
Speaker 1: you're about to dump them, you know you have control
Speaker 1: or either let them go or pull off. Or if
Speaker 1: you come at them at a angle, you know, to
Speaker 1: get your head to the side and not put it
Speaker 1: in this stern them. Like you know, it's certain things
Speaker 1: like that that you can control. Now that there are
Speaker 1: things you can't control, Like you know, maybe you beat
Speaker 1: the guy and the tackle pushes you into the quarterback
Speaker 1: and you end up, you know, falling at his legs
Speaker 1: or something like that. Or you know, maybe you're tack
Speaker 1: on the quarterback in the old line and falls on
Speaker 1: top of you, so now you're really pancake in the quarterback. Like,
Speaker 1: some things you can't control like that, but the ones
Speaker 1: you can't control, you know that you have to do
Speaker 1: your best to control those things. So that's really my
Speaker 1: take on it. You know, you know it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's soft, you know it's off I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: with the rules and everything like that, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know it's to protect that guy. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I look at it from both angles. Boy,
Speaker 1: Justin's taking some hits that you'd like to throw a flight.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about this. Hearing this from the
Speaker 1: NFL owners today, It's kind of like a baseball umpire.
Speaker 1: You know, all baseball umpires are not going to call
Speaker 1: the strike zone exactly the same. So now you're asking
Speaker 1: the officials to interpret what they saw and what would
Speaker 1: be hard for a defensive lineman if you're playing against
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray or you're playing against Cam Newton or Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger in their prime, you have to have two different
Speaker 1: approaches to these guys. I remember Cam Newton broadcasting a
Speaker 1: game and guys are bouncing off of him, and so
Speaker 1: I guess you'd have to put some tom study time
Speaker 1: in to the type of quarterback you're playing. Does he
Speaker 1: try to spin out of tackles, is he willing to
Speaker 1: take a hit, does he hold it a little longer
Speaker 1: to get the ball out of his hands? And you
Speaker 1: know issues that are you know, you guys will have
Speaker 1: to study now. You know, for those bigger guys, you know,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing we preach just depend the arm so
Speaker 1: we can't throw the ball away. That's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: we teach because obviously, you know, we can't just drill
Speaker 1: the guy, even if he's a big even if he's big,
Speaker 1: you feel me. So we got we got to pin
Speaker 1: the arm to make sure we can't throw the ball
Speaker 1: and you know, making and make it a gang tackle
Speaker 1: because you know, that was one thing about you know,
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberg. I remember when I was younger in my career.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a big guy. You know, it's hard
Speaker 1: to bring down by one man. So you know, pin
Speaker 1: his arm. You know, way for everybody was to get
Speaker 1: there and get him down together. That's that's one of
Speaker 1: the big things we talked about. So that's how we
Speaker 1: answer you know, those bigger quarterbacks. That's for the running ones.
Speaker 1: You know, come of just keep him in the box
Speaker 1: or keep him in the cup and then you know
Speaker 1: that how to make it easier if him to get tackle.
Speaker 1: So Ben was the best pump fake quarterback I've ever
Speaker 1: seen because he has such big hands that he could
Speaker 1: make it look like he was actually throwing the ball right.
Speaker 1: It was just trying to get a defensive back out
Speaker 1: of position or a defensive lineman to jump right. So
Speaker 1: you broke down the team last week for what would
Speaker 1: you say, Oh, man, I was just talking about how
Speaker 1: I would just talking about you know, just having having
Speaker 1: a swag. Man. It's Thursday night football, and you know
Speaker 1: we look good. Man. It feels good out here, you know,
Speaker 1: and the lights is all you know, fans are going crazy, man, Like,
Speaker 1: we just gotta ask some swag when we take the field. Man,
Speaker 1: we gotta have energy, we gotta have jews. You know.
Speaker 1: We had to play like we love a game. And
Speaker 1: that's what the biggest thing we talked about in that huddle,
Speaker 1: and just play for each other because you know that's
Speaker 1: all we got. You know, we're going to award together.
Speaker 1: You know, you empty the tank for each other. We've
Speaker 1: been grinding all year. What's the best one of those
Speaker 1: you've ever heard in your football playing life. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: think I think the one Road said, I forgot what
Speaker 1: game it was. He was micd up. It was mic though.
Speaker 1: Was a san Fran might have been might have been
Speaker 1: saying I don't remember, Yeah it was san Fran. But
Speaker 1: he was like, man, you know, I'll dive. I'll die
Speaker 1: on this field right now. You know what, I'm emptying
Speaker 1: the whole thing for y'all, and it makes su y'all
Speaker 1: do the same. Man. I was like, Oh, they get
Speaker 1: me chilled right there. Man. I told him the next
Speaker 1: day in the locker room. I was like, hey man,
Speaker 1: you got me ready to play after that one. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was that was a good one for sure.
Speaker 1: That that was probably one of the best ones I've
Speaker 1: heard so far. Did you did you like the orange helmets?
Speaker 1: You know, I wasn't a big fan of it at first,
Speaker 1: but when I saw it under the lights, you know,
Speaker 1: with the jersey combo, it was pretty cool. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, so you know, during my career, we
Speaker 1: only wore one helmet every single game, and you kind
Speaker 1: of break in your helmet. It's like a pair of
Speaker 1: leather shoes when they start fitting perfectly, they fit perfectly.
Speaker 1: Did you feel any difference in the helmet that you
Speaker 1: wore since it was kind of a fresh helmet, It
Speaker 1: was kind of tight a little bit, you know, but
Speaker 1: we wore the day before, you know, and practice for
Speaker 1: a little bit, so that that made it a lot easier,
Speaker 1: you know, to break in come the game. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think the cold air kind of tightened the leather
Speaker 1: a little bit. But it was pretty cool. It was
Speaker 1: all right, all right? Before we let you go get
Speaker 1: your final scouting report. If it's all about stopping the
Speaker 1: run so you can earn the right to rush the
Speaker 1: past or whomever it may be. It means stopping Remandre Stevenson.
Speaker 1: What kind of back is he? And what do you
Speaker 1: seeing on tape? Honestly, we haven't even had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to break down doing I know coaches have, but we've
Speaker 1: been more so looking at you know, we've been looking
Speaker 1: at Washington and doing a lot of seal scouting, you know,
Speaker 1: these last these last four days, you know, just focusing
Speaker 1: on us and really, you know, seeing where we can
Speaker 1: better ourselves as a person, as a player. You know,
Speaker 1: not more so just the team itself, but each player individually. Like,
Speaker 1: look at yourself and be really really really strict on
Speaker 1: yourself and really, you know, saying, coach yourself on how
Speaker 1: did you get the better version of yourself on the field? Hey, justin,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you one thing. If you win
Speaker 1: a play immediately like he did in Green Bay and stuff,
Speaker 1: keep your head on the swivel because that running back
Speaker 1: will will light you up. Really, yes, just you know,
Speaker 1: food for thought, because I was watching some different tape
Speaker 1: on him today. He number thirty four, the interior linebacker
Speaker 1: for Detroit three times the guy blitzed three times. He
Speaker 1: lit them up, and so I'm just saying, if you
Speaker 1: get one of those quick wins, look for him. There
Speaker 1: you go. They are scouting a board for Justin Jones.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we really appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 1: I know you got a lot of work to do
Speaker 1: and you want to be with your family, but I
Speaker 1: know the folks here from Magellan and USO Illo, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you. Have a great rest of your season. Teardown,
Speaker 1: Buddy Beardown, Justin Jones, our guest. We'll continue Tam and
Speaker 1: I another segment to break down the Bears and Patriots
Speaker 1: on Monday night here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: The Score. That's the sound of Magellan Corporation in USO, Illinois.
Speaker 1: Special guests here on a special edition of Bears All
Speaker 1: Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.
Speaker 1: Joanna budabam Our, producer Dan Brouley, pauls rang here. Justin
Speaker 1: Jones a very enjoyable interview. He's got a lot to
Speaker 1: say and he's lived a full life. Enjoyed our feature
Speaker 1: with him on the television side, and he's a proud
Speaker 1: popot that's the best part of it all. I love it.
Speaker 1: That is number one, no doubt about it. Number two
Speaker 1: is he's a defensive line he's a lineman. You know,
Speaker 1: that's always the best part of ours. That's where it's
Speaker 1: one or lost right there. And you can catch him
Speaker 1: at at twenty seven savage on Twitter. I never asked
Speaker 1: him what that is twenty seven savage because he's certainly
Speaker 1: not that number, but a really interesting cat. Through six games,
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman have seven and a half sacks, so
Speaker 1: they'd like to see that number. He's leading away co
Speaker 1: leader with a couple of players on this team, Trevis
Speaker 1: Gibson and Dominique Robinson one and a half. Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: won Alquity Mohammed one. But again, the preach points and
Speaker 1: I know fans don't get a kick out of it.
Speaker 1: It's not there's answers in there, but it's not what
Speaker 1: they want to hear, obviously, But fundamental technique eyes, trust
Speaker 1: your eyes, signmon alignement keys, it's all the verbiage that
Speaker 1: you're going to hear from this day forward from this
Speaker 1: coaching staff, and that's the key to winning fan And
Speaker 1: you want to create confidence because you want to know
Speaker 1: when you go into these stadiums that are a little
Speaker 1: bit off the beaten trail, like New England, you don't
Speaker 1: play there very often. You got to go in there
Speaker 1: with the confidence that everything you're doing in practice is
Speaker 1: getting ready for you to win games. And that's the
Speaker 1: attitude the Bears have to have going forward. If you
Speaker 1: cannot sit there and go, oh, this is woes me
Speaker 1: because they have this guy on the team, it's about
Speaker 1: woes them because we're gonna come in here and we're
Speaker 1: going to bring a physical style of football that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a you know, running game, passing game, and our
Speaker 1: defense and we're gonna bring it. This segment of Bears
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Speaker 1: get it. Jeff, Joniakin, Tim there with you a couple
Speaker 1: of nuggets today. Tom. I know you'll have some opinions
Speaker 1: on the NFL is looking at a Black Friday football
Speaker 1: game and I saw that so a day after think
Speaker 1: so you know the idea is, I guess to play
Speaker 1: every day of the week. I don't know if Friday's
Speaker 1: keep seemingly off limits, but not on the day after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about it? That's in the but
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. They haven't named the teams. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: only people that are unhappy about it are the malls
Speaker 1: and the guys the stores that have the super sales
Speaker 1: and they want as many people in their stores all day.
Speaker 1: But hey, I think it's a great day for football
Speaker 1: as long as they don't take away anything from high
Speaker 1: school state championships in college football, because that's when all
Speaker 1: these games are. And you know, these teams, these coaching staff,
Speaker 1: these parents, the support crew of every one of these
Speaker 1: younger kids that put in a lot of time and effort.
Speaker 1: So don't take attention away from those guys just to
Speaker 1: put another pro game on Friday. So hopefully it's you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, it doesn't interfere with the big moments
Speaker 1: for the high school and college kids. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the significance is, but a lot of writers who
Speaker 1: are tweeting this today. NFL owners hearing at today's meetings
Speaker 1: that the average margin of victory this season is eight
Speaker 1: point nine points, which is essentially a one score game,
Speaker 1: pretty much on pace to shatter the Super Bowl era
Speaker 1: record of ten point two. So you've got balance in
Speaker 1: the league. I believe there are ten teams with a
Speaker 1: winning record, that's it, and three divisions do not have
Speaker 1: a winning team. That you may have a five hundred team.
Speaker 1: How do you look at that? As a veteran player
Speaker 1: and now analyst, Does it matter to you? I mean
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because they've always wanted parody. But with
Speaker 1: free agency and so many coaches being fired every year,
Speaker 1: you don't have a chance as to build a foundation
Speaker 1: that lasts four years, like you know with you know
Speaker 1: you have in certain amount of teams. You know you
Speaker 1: got obviously the quarterback position in Green Bay, the coaching
Speaker 1: position in New England. You know, those are a couple
Speaker 1: of examples that you have success. But you know, when
Speaker 1: you have so many guys changing over the year and
Speaker 1: a year out team in a team out, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard to have a great team with a with
Speaker 1: a first year head coach or a great team with
Speaker 1: the first year quarterback. It's it's difficult position to master.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the past protection and justin
Speaker 1: fields as he heads into New England, because he'll he'll
Speaker 1: listen no matter what, they're gonna throw things that maybe
Speaker 1: he hasn't seen yet in his sixteen NFL games. But
Speaker 1: the idea that they want is to keep him in
Speaker 1: the pocket. And you know, YadA, YadA, YadA, he's got
Speaker 1: moves that can get him out of the pocket, that
Speaker 1: pivot move. I'm just you know where you at on
Speaker 1: past protection because Maddie Berflus is saying it's all eleven,
Speaker 1: which includes Justin getting rid of the football and also
Speaker 1: getting everybody in the right protection. It is, but I'm
Speaker 1: kind of disappointed there's not a wider variety of throwing
Speaker 1: spots for Justin because yeah, okay, New England knows that
Speaker 1: they're going to try to keep him in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He's never going to be in the pocket. I mean
Speaker 1: he is, but you know there's a majority of the
Speaker 1: time that he's going to be on the outside. You know,
Speaker 1: there's an easy play to Darnell Mooney where Justin rolls
Speaker 1: do his left Darnell Mooney is wide open. There's not
Speaker 1: any type of defensive player around him to hit him
Speaker 1: or you know, have a challenging tackle. Same thing with
Speaker 1: Cole Comet. There's a you know, a passet in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter that they throw with the David Montgomery on
Speaker 1: the edge. All those types of things getting the ball
Speaker 1: out of his hands, quicker throw from a variety of spots.
Speaker 1: Allow your offensive lineman to throw play action as frequently
Speaker 1: as you possibly can, because it's the most aggressive pass
Speaker 1: protection there is in football. When you are a straight
Speaker 1: drop back team and you're giving ground grudgingly, but you're
Speaker 1: allowing the defense to be the aggressor, it's difficult protection.
Speaker 1: So use the god given gifts that Justin has and
Speaker 1: throw them from a variety of positions. Stats are interesting
Speaker 1: because you know they say a lot, but sometimes it's deceiving,
Speaker 1: and so the Bears haven't passed the ball a lot
Speaker 1: that by volume. It's more a run football team right now,
Speaker 1: and it may stay that way for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season. I which is five with you and I right,
Speaker 1: no question, they're near the top ten in the NFL
Speaker 1: and a rushing one hundred and seventy point eight yards
Speaker 1: of game at five point two a Kerry today, Mattie
Speaker 1: Riffo said, the hot hand will run the Footballalil Herbert
Speaker 1: at six yards of carry David Montgomery at four right now.
Speaker 1: But they both are excellent in the passing game, and
Speaker 1: they both play a violent brand of ball. They both
Speaker 1: have leverage and they both bring it every snap. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have that than have a guy that doesn't want
Speaker 1: to get hit, because these guys deliver punishment. You know,
Speaker 1: if you can continue to develop the offensive line, Chris Morgan,
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach, is a hell of a coach,
Speaker 1: and I think if they can continue to develop the
Speaker 1: offensive line still have the same desire to run the
Speaker 1: ball throughout the second half of the season, You're going
Speaker 1: to see the Bears win a lot of games because
Speaker 1: late in the season, when other teams are, you know,
Speaker 1: fighting with backups and so on and so forth, that's
Speaker 1: when the Bears will be able to win those fourth
Speaker 1: quarter games. Calling on Bears fans get the ultimate VIP
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Speaker 1: our studio audience today Magellan and USO Illinois, thank you
Speaker 1: for being here. Hope you enjoyed the show. For our
Speaker 1: special guest Justin Jones, Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac, Thanks,
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Speaker 1: Studios at Alasas. Good night, everybody. This has been Bears
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