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Speaker 1: edition of Bears All Access. I'm Jeff Joni Acabong, a
Speaker 1: broadcast partner. Tom there, I am covering Super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: four in Miami, and good to be with you, Tom.
Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm doing good, big Jeff. A little
Speaker 1: envious of you being down there only in the warm weather.
Speaker 1: I like being here on behalf of the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: with Bears All Access. But again I see you, know
Speaker 1: the first highlight I see of anybody getting interviewed. I
Speaker 1: see you in the background of the Robbie Gold interview.
Speaker 1: So you're you're always the picture. Jeff, No, no, no no,
Speaker 1: by not by choice. Let me let me assure you
Speaker 1: that that was opening night last night. So that was
Speaker 1: something that uh, you know you you were gonna be
Speaker 1: guaranteed to talk to Robbie Gold and uh, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that he brought up
Speaker 1: is that he went back and went back to the
Speaker 1: O six game, which which the Bears did lose here
Speaker 1: in Miami, and he went back to look at Dave
Speaker 1: Tobe's entire coach's tape from that game and to see
Speaker 1: if he could find an edge and angle anything that
Speaker 1: would affect his own performance in this game. Thirteen years later,
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. Which snap sat kick. That's
Speaker 1: Robbie State snap sat kick. So what's he looking for? Well,
Speaker 1: I think he's you know, Robbie is a really well
Speaker 1: rounded special team thinker. He will take punt protection, he
Speaker 1: will take the punt team, kickoff return, kickoff coverage. He
Speaker 1: will look at the analytics of how the kicker is
Speaker 1: specifically sitting hitting the ball in a majority of his kickoffs,
Speaker 1: the distance, the hang time, and those little kind of
Speaker 1: the numbers that you can factor into the kicking game.
Speaker 1: They can benefit you. And you can understand hanging time,
Speaker 1: you can understand the positioning that the kickers trying to
Speaker 1: put the football in. So Robbie's been around the NFL
Speaker 1: long enough now where he is not a one dimensional kicker.
Speaker 1: He is multidimensional in the way he thinks of field conditions,
Speaker 1: field position, time of game, all the other elements that
Speaker 1: are considered by a coaching staff. Well, it is a
Speaker 1: game of excellent special teams. The kickers, the punters are
Speaker 1: outstanding for the Super Bowl, the Chiefs and forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: and then the coverage units because of the speed on
Speaker 1: both sides, these teams are both very fast, none faster
Speaker 1: than the Chiefs. And then you get arguably the best
Speaker 1: special teams coach in the National Football League in Dave Tobe,
Speaker 1: the former Bear special teams coordinator, who has great memories
Speaker 1: from that Miami Gardens game at hard Rock Stadium what
Speaker 1: it is now called, when Devin Hester took the opening
Speaker 1: kickoff back for a touchdown. He said he thinks about
Speaker 1: it every day, thinks about it all the time, shows
Speaker 1: his guys the tapes. Wants Micole Hartman to look ahead
Speaker 1: and say, hey, Hester was your favorite player, So let's
Speaker 1: see if you can pull something off like this. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be the opening kickoff, but it would
Speaker 1: be something special. And they have that threat every kickoff
Speaker 1: that they get, and that's one thing about Robbie Gold
Speaker 1: that can help. When you look at the opponent's kicker,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna try to kick it out of the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone to take away any threat
Speaker 1: of that. However, what are the conditions going to be
Speaker 1: What is the plant foot going to be like for
Speaker 1: the kicker? Is he going to be able to get
Speaker 1: all the strength behind it to bang it into the
Speaker 1: end zone. Robbie Gold doesn't kick off for the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. He is the field goal and extra point kicker.
Speaker 1: So you know you have multiple feet that's involved in
Speaker 1: this battle. Both when you talk about two punters and
Speaker 1: three kickers, you know you can have a hiccup, whether
Speaker 1: it's in protection, snapping, or just the perfection of the
Speaker 1: way that the ball has to come off your foot.
Speaker 1: A lot to discuss here about the Beers. We've got
Speaker 1: a couple of guess coming up. John d. Filippo, the
Speaker 1: Bears new quarterback coach, we'll be joining us shortly. We'll
Speaker 1: be joined us well by Hall of Fame writer Damn
Speaker 1: Pompey at about six forty five. We're gonna hear some
Speaker 1: Eddie Pineto and Patrick O'Donnell i called them the Miami
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce representatives because they were pitching Miami pretty
Speaker 1: well and representing. So we'll talk to those guys about
Speaker 1: what their off season plan is and how twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: ended for the Chicago Bears. This is Bears All Access.
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Speaker 1: igs dot com. Jeff Joni Act, Tom Ferry, what're you
Speaker 1: good to have you on this Tuesday night. I'm broadcasting
Speaker 1: from the Sirius XM studios here in Miami at Radio
Speaker 1: Row and Tom's tucked away in Chicago at the Score
Speaker 1: Radio station. Thanks to the producers as well, Hollo Rosias
Speaker 1: and Mike Chen Thanks for helping us out. Pleased to
Speaker 1: be joined by the new quarterback coach at the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: John D. Philippo, had a chance to meet him a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago with the Eagles and the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl coverage that week, John, Welcome to Chicago, buddy. Hey,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. It's great down with you guys, and
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you having me on. You know, I
Speaker 1: was walking through the hallways here in Miami and I
Speaker 1: was stopped twice. People wanted to talk about you, just
Speaker 1: the kind of quarterback coach you have been and how
Speaker 1: respected you are. So that came out of the blue,
Speaker 1: but I certainly loved hearing that. I think Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: fans should be excited about that too. That's very humbling.
Speaker 1: You know, whoever stopped you, I want to thank them.
Speaker 1: And obviously, you know, whenever you have that reputation of
Speaker 1: being good at what you do, obviously it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: And I really I really can't wait to start, you know,
Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears. Hey, John, or experience? Sorry, yeah, Tommy,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Jeff, I'm sorry. No, you haven't had a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of experience, obviously, with so many
Speaker 1: different places. Sure, you know I've had I've had a
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's good and bad, and I
Speaker 1: look at as a good way I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of experience with a lot of young players, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's just kind of been you know how with the
Speaker 1: situation I've been thrown into. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: good thing because I really think it helps you learn
Speaker 1: how to teach a bunch of young guys. And you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Mitchell is not a rookie ye or a second
Speaker 1: year guy, you know, but at the same time, he's
Speaker 1: still kind of fresh, a fresh player in the NFL
Speaker 1: who was you know, impressionable and and you know, can
Speaker 1: you can shape him in certain things you want him
Speaker 1: to do. UM. So I think a lot of the
Speaker 1: young guys I've had that have had success, whether it
Speaker 1: be Derek Carr, you know, Carson Wentz, Gardner, Minshew was
Speaker 1: a seven time Rookie of the Week, Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Week this year. I think it's going to help our team,
Speaker 1: um and I'm really looking forward to helping, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously coach Nage and coach later and doing what they
Speaker 1: want to do. You know, John as kirk Cousins calls
Speaker 1: you a flip, and I'm sure we'll hear that enough
Speaker 1: throughout the season. You know, family has been a big
Speaker 1: topic throughout the playoffs, with all the coaching staffs in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you I don't think there's anybody I've read
Speaker 1: more about being raised in the football lifestyle than you
Speaker 1: have from the moment you were born in the Youngstown
Speaker 1: State area. What's your earliest memory of football and when
Speaker 1: you knew it was going to be an influence in
Speaker 1: your life. That's a great question. Um, I've been very
Speaker 1: fortunate the web I've been brought up. My dad and
Speaker 1: I are best friends. And you know, when you're a
Speaker 1: coach's kid, you go one of two ways. You either
Speaker 1: love it or you hate it, and there's there's no
Speaker 1: middle ground. Okay, there's not. Well, I kind of like it.
Speaker 1: I kind of You're either all in or you're all out. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm forty one years old. This is my twenty
Speaker 1: second move when I moved to Chicago. And either you
Speaker 1: liked that lifestyle or you don't. And I've embraced that lifestyle.
Speaker 1: I'm a very fortunate I have a wife that has
Speaker 1: helped me embraced that, you know, helped me and supported
Speaker 1: me in this lifestyle. But my earliest moment of knowing
Speaker 1: that I love football was probable when I was four
Speaker 1: or five years old. They had my dad was an
Speaker 1: assistant coach at Vanderbilt, and they had a football camp
Speaker 1: there in the summer and they let me play quarterback
Speaker 1: for one play. You know. The older kids held me
Speaker 1: up and let me and let me throw the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, and they kind of cheered me and held
Speaker 1: me on their shoulders, and I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm all about. I'm all about team.
Speaker 1: I'm all about you know, um football and what it's
Speaker 1: all about. And it's been it's been really, really really cool.
Speaker 1: John d Philippo our guest, the Bears new quarterback coach,
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access presented by IGS Energy. John. It's
Speaker 1: interesting and I kind of drew a triangle. I know
Speaker 1: you were born in Youngstown, and obviously you moved over
Speaker 1: to Radner, PA. So with you and Bill and Matt,
Speaker 1: it's a little triangle area of Pennsylvania. So it's right
Speaker 1: in the thick of football country. That's not by accident.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that the like mindedness and what
Speaker 1: your what your roots are the three of you and
Speaker 1: others that have been coaching all over the National Football
Speaker 1: dag and certainly playing there's something about that region of
Speaker 1: the country. What the heck is it? You know what
Speaker 1: it is? It's a blue collar mentality and it's hard work,
Speaker 1: putting in a good day's work, and it's just what
Speaker 1: you're brought up in. And like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I was very fortunate to be brought up in this
Speaker 1: lifestyle and seeing you know, what team does when you
Speaker 1: put team above self and all those things. But that
Speaker 1: area the country just has a certain way of of
Speaker 1: giving you a little bit of a blue collar attitude,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and putting in a hard
Speaker 1: day's work and understanding that, hey, it's okay to work,
Speaker 1: to have a hard day's work and then go home
Speaker 1: and feel good about yourself. So there's no better place
Speaker 1: to grow up in Pennsylvania. Hey, John, you've been in
Speaker 1: this division for a little while. I mean, you've had
Speaker 1: experience within the division. Do you still think this is
Speaker 1: a blue collar division? There's no doubt. There's there's no doubt.
Speaker 1: And you know, you know, part of it is the weather,
Speaker 1: part of it's you know that the defenses that are
Speaker 1: in this division. Um, I think that that gives offenses
Speaker 1: offenses fits a little bit, but you know you're you're
Speaker 1: going to have to put in a hard day's work
Speaker 1: in terms of time trying to figure out you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer's double A package, you know, Matt Patricia's Oaki package.
Speaker 1: You know those things that you're going to have to
Speaker 1: figure out and have a good plan for it, because
Speaker 1: if you don't, don't expose you. And obviously I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to leave out my one
Speaker 1: of my mentors, Mike Petting up in Green Bay, so
Speaker 1: I worked with in Cleveland. So Coach Pett, you make
Speaker 1: you make us work hard too. You know. Also, John,
Speaker 1: you talk about the influence that Tom Coughlin has been
Speaker 1: on you is is is it the seriousness and the
Speaker 1: time and his attention to details or is it his
Speaker 1: football philosophy that's attracted you to him being one of
Speaker 1: your mentors? You know, Coach Coughlin and I he is,
Speaker 1: he is what I'm all about in football, and he
Speaker 1: really understands team. He really puts an emphasis on team.
Speaker 1: He really puts an emphasis on leaving your ego at
Speaker 1: the door. He really puts an emphasis on discipline and
Speaker 1: discipline in a good way. When I say discipline, there's
Speaker 1: a difference between discipline and harassment. I think there's a
Speaker 1: good way of of of having some discipline and you know,
Speaker 1: wearing an issue gear to practice and those type of things.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's that's all bad. I mean, and
Speaker 1: some people may say that's a little old school, but
Speaker 1: you know what it is what it is, And coach
Speaker 1: Cofflin has been a great resource for me throughout the years,
Speaker 1: and he's a great guy. We're here with John d. Philippo,
Speaker 1: the bears new quarterback coach, here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score with Jeff and time breaking things
Speaker 1: down as the Bears get ready to move into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty in great detail. What is it about you enjoying
Speaker 1: working of quarterbacks? I love that challenge of it every day,
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, when you work with with
Speaker 1: real guys, I mean, you've got to be prepared as
Speaker 1: a coach, and you know, these guys want to learn
Speaker 1: and they want to know the why of things, and
Speaker 1: you'd better be prepared for the why of things. And
Speaker 1: there'll be times this year, there'll be there were times
Speaker 1: in my past where you know, a quarterback will ask
Speaker 1: me a certain question back. You know what, I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that right now, but I'll find
Speaker 1: it out for you. And that's that's okay, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: So you want to be challenged as a coach. I
Speaker 1: think it's very, very challenging the coach quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: National Football League because there's so much to get ready
Speaker 1: for in the course of a week, in the time
Speaker 1: that you're allotted, and I think it's just an awesome challenge.
Speaker 1: And it's fun to work with those guys because it's
Speaker 1: most the great ones want to be great and they
Speaker 1: want to learn, So it's fun to work with those guys. Hey,
Speaker 1: coach Flip, I was watching one of her miked out segments,
Speaker 1: one of many, may I add, and you had a
Speaker 1: comment you said, the route always precedes the protection. Can
Speaker 1: you explain that a little bit, because I'm an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and I kind of think about it, but I've
Speaker 1: never heard it's the sentence said that way, And can
Speaker 1: you explain a little bit to me? Sure? Well, I
Speaker 1: think what probably what I was saying at that time was, hey,
Speaker 1: that's a built in I don't know if the quarterback
Speaker 1: was hot at that time. But say we had a
Speaker 1: drag route out to the right side or the left side,
Speaker 1: the tight end's running a three yard drag route. The
Speaker 1: route always precedes the protection in terms of hey, I
Speaker 1: gotta know, hey, if I got if we're in five
Speaker 1: main protection, they're bringing two from the side, I gotta
Speaker 1: get it out right now. So the route proceeds the
Speaker 1: protection in terms of knowing where to go with the football,
Speaker 1: in terms of certain looks that you're getting from the defense.
Speaker 1: All right, hey foot, You know Tom mentioned those videos
Speaker 1: and I think I brought this up to you when
Speaker 1: I met you during the Philadelphia Super Bowl. You win,
Speaker 1: But you know the comfort you have in talking two
Speaker 1: people to explain the game of football from an excellent
Speaker 1: is Does that go back to being a coach's son.
Speaker 1: I think that part of it. Um, I think I
Speaker 1: think this. I don't think this is rocket science. To
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, I like to share information
Speaker 1: because I think that helps everybody. I think it helps
Speaker 1: you guys do your job better, It helps me do
Speaker 1: my job better, and it helps us to understand what
Speaker 1: each other thinking and what each other are trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1: So to me, when I can share and when I
Speaker 1: can tell you know, the media or a player, you
Speaker 1: know exactly what we're trying to accomplish as a team
Speaker 1: and what we're trying, what we're thinking about. I think
Speaker 1: it helps everybody out hey, John, and you've been an office.
Speaker 1: And one more thing. I think it helps our fans.
Speaker 1: I really do. I think it helps our fans. I
Speaker 1: know how passionate the Chicago Bear fan base is. I
Speaker 1: think anytime that you can explain to our fans you
Speaker 1: know what we're thinking as well, I think it helps
Speaker 1: them too. You've spent a lifetime around the game of football,
Speaker 1: and you've seen the emergence of facilities that can compare
Speaker 1: to the taj Mahal when you back, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: and Philly, you've seen a couple of them. Now you
Speaker 1: come up to the new Barras facility, you see multiple fields,
Speaker 1: you see the facility, you see the offerings to not
Speaker 1: only coach as players and everything you've talked about. What
Speaker 1: was your initial impressions of the new Bear facility. I
Speaker 1: was wowed. I was wild And let me let me
Speaker 1: tell you something about the facility. Obviously that shows you
Speaker 1: that there's our ownership is really serious. About winning. That's
Speaker 1: what the facility tells you. Number one, Number two to
Speaker 1: formulate team. Okay, the players need and you guys know this,
Speaker 1: and you guys been around long enough. The players need
Speaker 1: to be around each other. And how do you facilitate that.
Speaker 1: You facilitate that by having them in an environment where
Speaker 1: they want to be in. Okay, So our facility now
Speaker 1: offers our players. They want to be there in OTAs,
Speaker 1: They want to be there in training camp and hanging
Speaker 1: out together. They want to be there, eat lunch together,
Speaker 1: having dinner together instead of trying to go back to
Speaker 1: the hotel. If you have a craft facility. Okay, and
Speaker 1: now they're around each other more, you talk more, you
Speaker 1: formulate team. And I think that adds nothing but success
Speaker 1: and gives you the chance for success because that formulates
Speaker 1: team in the environment that you work in. Philippo otherwise
Speaker 1: known as flipped. From this day forward, that works for you, right. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Did it make it easier to interview for this job
Speaker 1: knowing a lot about the Bears already since you did
Speaker 1: interview for the head coaching job, Yeah, absolutely did. And
Speaker 1: you know, obviously I knew coach nagi um He and
Speaker 1: I played against the other in college and so we're
Speaker 1: both from Pennsylvania. He went to Delaware, I went to JAMU. Uh.
Speaker 1: We played against the other in college. Uh. And obviously
Speaker 1: I knew Ryan Pace from the interview, you know, interview
Speaker 1: for five and a half or six hours with them
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia the year we won the Super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: I think the fact that not only I knew them,
Speaker 1: but more importantly in this process they knew me and
Speaker 1: so um, you know, they knew what I was all about,
Speaker 1: they knew what I stood for, they knew my character,
Speaker 1: my background, all the background information on me that they
Speaker 1: had to do for a head coaching interview. I think
Speaker 1: that really smoothed the process out in terms of the
Speaker 1: timing of it. On last question for me is this
Speaker 1: is probably one I don't know if maybe it isn't,
Speaker 1: maybe it is. It's one of the more experienced staffs
Speaker 1: that Matt Nage is put together with the years of
Speaker 1: service from one custio in Clancy and now and now
Speaker 1: yourself and Bill. When you have that many football minds
Speaker 1: in the same room talking about offensive football, is it
Speaker 1: something that it's a continuous conversation or is it just
Speaker 1: a matter of making sure all the new guys learn
Speaker 1: the system as well as they can, and then the
Speaker 1: conversations increase. That's that's a great question, you know, it's UM.
Speaker 1: Coach Nagge's obviously sets the tone and what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do and tells us, you know, what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do. UM. You know, this staff reminds me very
Speaker 1: similar to our twenty seventeen staff in in Philadelphia, where
Speaker 1: we had you know, we had Doug Peters coach Peterson
Speaker 1: as our head coach, and you know, coach Reich is
Speaker 1: our office coordinator, myself as a quarterback coach, Jeff Stoutland
Speaker 1: as the office line coach, Duce Staley as a running
Speaker 1: back coach, Mike Rows as a receiver coach. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of very experienced guys that had no ego,
Speaker 1: and that's what attracted me to this job most was
Speaker 1: the experience on his staff that coach was putting together
Speaker 1: with no ego and our only goals to win. And
Speaker 1: so whenever you're presented with those things, I think that
Speaker 1: can do nothing but help you in terms of the
Speaker 1: attractiveness of the job and wanting to be a part
Speaker 1: of that, because that's the name of the game. When
Speaker 1: you win, everybody gets what they want, players, coaches, personnel, people,
Speaker 1: everybody gets what they want when you win. And so
Speaker 1: when you have no ego and you have a lot
Speaker 1: of experience and a lot of guys that have called
Speaker 1: plays before and a lot of guys that have coached
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, have been around good teams, I think that
Speaker 1: can do nothing but help your team. I ran into
Speaker 1: Andy Hack who played for the Bears, and Tom knows
Speaker 1: him well from Notre Dame as well, and he was
Speaker 1: talking about Wandcasto hasn't worked directly with him, but but Tom,
Speaker 1: you'll appreciate this. He did as a Seattle Seahawk get
Speaker 1: a visit from one Coast who's leaving Texas A and
Speaker 1: I at that time and just trying to get in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and he was taken by his explicit and
Speaker 1: very direct approach about technique and how it matters. And
Speaker 1: he said he never quite got the firm stamp of
Speaker 1: approval from one because it wasn't as perfect as he wanted.
Speaker 1: And it still he still thinks about it to this day.
Speaker 1: That's how much he respects him. Wow, that's that's pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really cool. And you know, I've had a chance
Speaker 1: to be around Coach Castillo and admire him from afar
Speaker 1: back when I was you know, back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five. I'm talking about when he was the old
Speaker 1: line coach to philadelp Eagles and I was a quality
Speaker 1: control coach for the New York Giants. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the type of staff that they had that Coach Naggie's
Speaker 1: trying to put together in Chicago is what you know,
Speaker 1: the philadelp Eagles had back then with you know Eagles
Speaker 1: had in seventeen. You know, those type of things coach
Speaker 1: Reid has and that's what Coach Nagie knows. And that's
Speaker 1: a really good thing. I mean, that's a really impressive
Speaker 1: tree that you know, they're all part of, and that's
Speaker 1: something you really want to be a part of for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, big John, We're gonna let you go. We
Speaker 1: really appreciate you taking the time. I know things are
Speaker 1: busy right now, but good to have you in Chicago
Speaker 1: and be looking forward to seeing you. Hey guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. Have a great night to
Speaker 1: enjoy Miami and George Chicago and I'll see you guys.
Speaker 1: So all right, John D. Philippo flip the Bears quarterback
Speaker 1: coach kind enough to join us here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy to score back with Tom Thare in
Speaker 1: a moment. This segment of Bears All Access is brought
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Speaker 1: his swagger, Jeff Jony Act, Tom Fair. This is Bears
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy scores. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: big Tom, as we get you said, I love listening
Speaker 1: to the John D. Philippo, by the way, as I said,
Speaker 1: getting to know him a little bit during Super Bowl Week,
Speaker 1: talk to him I think three different days that year.
Speaker 1: Just a really well spoken guy and well thought of
Speaker 1: as a quarterback coach. Well, I think the offensive team
Speaker 1: meetings are going to be there's going to be so
Speaker 1: much more experience that's going to be included in the conversations,
Speaker 1: whether you're making adjustments against the opponent one of these
Speaker 1: assistant coaches I've already seen, or just familiarity with what
Speaker 1: the style they're trying to run against you. So I
Speaker 1: do think the preparation conversations inside those offensive meeting rooms
Speaker 1: on Monday nights, Tuesdays and throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: regular season weeks. I think it'd be fun to be
Speaker 1: a fly on the wall, right, It'll be fun to
Speaker 1: hear everybody's collaboration when the time comes when they're allowed
Speaker 1: to have contact with players and whatnot, and to get
Speaker 1: more out of this in terms of what their plan
Speaker 1: is and so forth. So it's something to look forward to.
Speaker 1: Guys are already looking forward to next season. Tom had
Speaker 1: a chance to visit with Eddie Pinetto and Patrick O'Donnell
Speaker 1: here at the Super Bowl. Obviously they live in the area.
Speaker 1: Beach for Patrick and Miami born and bread for Eddie.
Speaker 1: Pineto had his whole family here, and uh, they're excited
Speaker 1: about having the game in their backyard. They're they're big
Speaker 1: football fans first and foremost and just excited to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, let the NFL come to Miami once again.
Speaker 1: So here's a little interview I did with him earlier today.
Speaker 1: It feels good to be back home, finally being able
Speaker 1: to put my tank top on and the sandals and
Speaker 1: walk the beach feels great. Is that your thing? Do
Speaker 1: you like walking the beach? That's my thing. I got
Speaker 1: the tank top on the sun lotion. I love it.
Speaker 1: Speaking Spanish with all my friends. That's the best. I
Speaker 1: think the sandal thing has stopped you in Chicago. I
Speaker 1: knowed some thirty degree days you kept the sandals on.
Speaker 1: I know you were trying to bring a little Miami
Speaker 1: up north, but I gotta bring the swag, keep the
Speaker 1: focus small. As they like to say. Was that difficult
Speaker 1: to do as a rookie? Um, I mean I gain.
Speaker 1: I feel like I gained a lot of experiences here.
Speaker 1: I mean just you know, I was talking to Pout
Speaker 1: about it, just you know, working with the wind and
Speaker 1: the cold and so it was. It was very new
Speaker 1: for me. In college, I kicked always in you know,
Speaker 1: good weather. So just gaining experience, I think it was
Speaker 1: the biggest thing. And how about you, have you evolved
Speaker 1: over the course of your career. I think it's using
Speaker 1: soldier field to your advantage. You know, when the opposing
Speaker 1: team comes in, they can't sleep at night, they're worried
Speaker 1: about the grass, the wind, you know, if it's gonna snow,
Speaker 1: the weather, things like that. So I think using soldier
Speaker 1: field to your advantage. I know there's been two games
Speaker 1: where two different kickers had to have tough games, and
Speaker 1: you know they came in and have a job the
Speaker 1: next week. So Soldier Field isn't always friendly to everybody,
Speaker 1: but I think using that home field advantage is really
Speaker 1: important for us. You know, early in your career, did
Speaker 1: you have your own sleepless nights about some games because
Speaker 1: of Soldier Field? No? Absolutely, you know, being a young
Speaker 1: player at Soldier Field, you just have to adapt as
Speaker 1: quickly as you can. I think pulling out different tricks
Speaker 1: of the trade. You know, different balls, different kicks. You know,
Speaker 1: not every ball is going to be like you're kicking
Speaker 1: in Miami. It's not gonna be seventy five and Sonny,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have your cross win fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: miles an hour, and you just try to get the
Speaker 1: ball to the sideline forty five yard fair catch balls
Speaker 1: are not going to hurt you and Soldier Field. So
Speaker 1: it's a little different to strategy when you go into
Speaker 1: Soldier Field versus you know, a warmer climate. We were
Speaker 1: Eddie Pineto and Patrick O'Donnell on Chicago's Port Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score. This is Bears All Access. Jeff Joni
Speaker 1: Act down here my twenty fourth Super Bowl in a
Speaker 1: role fellas, can you imagine I've covered more Super Bowls
Speaker 1: in your age for sure? Right, how old are you?
Speaker 1: Twenty four? Just turns makes me makes me very old.
Speaker 1: He's still looking young though, That's all that matter. Thank you, Eddie.
Speaker 1: I appreciate. But it's always fun for me because of this.
Speaker 1: You hear the stories, you hear how guys got to
Speaker 1: where they are, the journeys. What does it mean here though?
Speaker 1: Do you be a part of this now? You were?
Speaker 1: You've played your college ball here obviously both of you
Speaker 1: guys did. But to be hosts, you know, you got
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of guys in the league
Speaker 1: that are coming. You probably have teammates coming, or friends
Speaker 1: or guys you grew up with that are I don't know,
Speaker 1: are there any in the game that you grew up with?
Speaker 1: On these two teams? Enough for me? No, Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: for the Chief. I went to school with him at Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: you know, before I transferred University of Miami. So it's
Speaker 1: cool to see that. You know, he works so hard
Speaker 1: to get where he's at. He's been through through it
Speaker 1: all in his career, in college career, so in order
Speaker 1: for him to get to this point, you know, the
Speaker 1: pinnacle is awesome, is awesome, so I wish him nothing
Speaker 1: but the best, and obviously Robbie on the other side,
Speaker 1: you know, playing with two guys like that that work
Speaker 1: so hard to get to this point. Hopefully it'll be
Speaker 1: a day when we're at this point and whatever we
Speaker 1: can do, you know, reach out to him, you know,
Speaker 1: if you need restaurants or anything I can do to
Speaker 1: help them. Does it feel good to come from an
Speaker 1: area that where football is important? I know the league
Speaker 1: likes to come here for the sunshine, but there's just
Speaker 1: a great history of football. Yeah, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: for the Hispanic community too, I think it's a it's
Speaker 1: a pretty cool feeling. I mean, you know, all my
Speaker 1: friends that you know that I grown up with here
Speaker 1: that I lived in Miami, that are all Hispanish, Colombians, Venezuelans, Argentinians.
Speaker 1: They all know about the NFL. So it's a pretty
Speaker 1: cool feeling, you know, to bring all that back in
Speaker 1: my hometown. And then you know, the Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: here in where I was born and raised, So it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. You have ever dreamed this, you know, growing
Speaker 1: up as a kid, that one day you might get
Speaker 1: a chance to do this. Yeah, Um, you know, my
Speaker 1: biggest dream growing up was obviously to play soccer and
Speaker 1: be a professional soccer player and be better than my dad.
Speaker 1: My dad was a professional soccer player. So my goal was,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta be better, gotta be better. And
Speaker 1: then you know, my life changed and now it's switched,
Speaker 1: and you know, now hopefully one of my goals is,
Speaker 1: you know, one day to you know, make it to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and win it all. So you're making
Speaker 1: your rounds here on radio road today and your brother is,
Speaker 1: what fourteen? He looks bigger than you already, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what his line of path is, what he's
Speaker 1: gonna wind up. Maybe he'll be an offensive lineman for sure.
Speaker 1: Twenty thirty drive coming soon, for sure. He does he
Speaker 1: play sport. Yeah, he plays soccer and he fights MMA,
Speaker 1: so and he kicks field goals. So he does three
Speaker 1: different things, goals and kicks tail yeah a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah what attracted him to MMA? Um? I think you know,
Speaker 1: growing up as a kid, he actually got bully growing
Speaker 1: up as a kid, So my dad actually wanted him
Speaker 1: to start learning how to defend himself because he was
Speaker 1: too He was always the biggest guy in Claus but
Speaker 1: he would, let you know, people take advantage of him
Speaker 1: because you know, he was just a nice kid. So
Speaker 1: my dad said enough is enough. He put him in
Speaker 1: in some UFC and now he's kicking butt. So that's
Speaker 1: tough love right there, Patty. You could hire him as
Speaker 1: your buddy guy. You can walk him around here. Who's
Speaker 1: that Eddie or his brother? I guess that's the choice. Ed.
Speaker 1: He's been doing a lot of curls on South Beach
Speaker 1: last time I've seen him, So he's walking around with
Speaker 1: his flip flops and tank top. So, fellas, on a
Speaker 1: serious note, what is your offseason plan? Now? I know
Speaker 1: you spend a lot of time with kicking clinics and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's your brotherhood, so you guys all
Speaker 1: work on different things. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna work. What's your plan to get ready for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Yeah, so we're gonna, you know, watch the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, you know, enjoy a little bit of February
Speaker 1: and probably get back to work, you know, end of
Speaker 1: February March March first. That's usually when a lot of
Speaker 1: guys start picking it up. They get back to the
Speaker 1: weights and things like that. So we have a place
Speaker 1: down south here by Bomb Maritos. So Eddie being so
Speaker 1: close to me, we take advantage and do as much
Speaker 1: work as we can together, so seamless when we get
Speaker 1: back up to Chicago. Yeah, we're like we did last offseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, we work together, just um, create that chemistry
Speaker 1: and just be ready when we go back and work
Speaker 1: out that facility where we get you know, good treatment
Speaker 1: and you know we lived and do different things to
Speaker 1: get our body right to be ready for the season.
Speaker 1: So honestly, I mean, you're a few years younger than
Speaker 1: than our friend here O'donnald. But are you guys hanging
Speaker 1: out now? I mean you guys are doing things together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're running in the same circles. What are we what
Speaker 1: are we talking about? The same circles? Yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: in the same circle. Yeah. Eddie calls me and he's like,
Speaker 1: my boy, can you please take me out to dinner tonight? Please?
Speaker 1: It's like family in town. I can't know. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: hang out a few more paychecks than you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: pick up pack out a new house. So he's been
Speaker 1: acting different now since he got a new house. So hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully I get that invitation soon. I'll be waiting for
Speaker 1: it before we let you go. Is there that feeling
Speaker 1: in the locker room that you guys left twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: with a resolve? Are you already hearing it from your teammates,
Speaker 1: like we gotta get this right. I think the last
Speaker 1: game of the season was big for us. You know,
Speaker 1: we wanted to make a statement and we went out
Speaker 1: and we won the game. So I think that we're
Speaker 1: going to carry that over into the twenty twenty season,
Speaker 1: and you know, we need to get it going. We
Speaker 1: need to get this jump started right off the bat
Speaker 1: next year. And I think everybody feels the same way,
Speaker 1: and that's been the heartbeat and locker room thus far.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think the biggest thing, which is showing
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we don't have the season we wanted
Speaker 1: to have, but showing everybody that we don't quit. You know,
Speaker 1: winning that last game was you know, an eye opener
Speaker 1: for everybody that we're not going to quit, you know, um,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully we have we have higher expectations
Speaker 1: for this season coming up. So gentlemen, appreciate you stapping by,
Speaker 1: Enjoy the rest of your week, and thanks for having
Speaker 1: us down here. Thanks for having us, Johny, I don't
Speaker 1: forget the sunscreen, appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah, that's good advice, right,
Speaker 1: But you know, as Eddie says, but don't you feel
Speaker 1: there they have good camaraderie already those two Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they you know, teammates will and they and it'll continue
Speaker 1: throughout life. You kind of develop a relationship that lasts
Speaker 1: longer than the sport itself. But I think it's good
Speaker 1: that a guy like Eddie, because Patrick's been around now
Speaker 1: for a while, that is exposed of the success of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl because Eddie Panneiro he had no pressure
Speaker 1: on him when he came to the Bears at the
Speaker 1: beginning of last season. Eddie Pannaro has a lot more
Speaker 1: pressure on him this year than he did last year
Speaker 1: because nothing was expected of him, and then when he
Speaker 1: made the team, it was all trial and error throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season, and then he finished on
Speaker 1: a high note. I think you said this final eleven
Speaker 1: kicks he's made. But now that pressure is increased on
Speaker 1: Eddie and he's got to come in here and if
Speaker 1: the Bears are going to turn it around, it's not
Speaker 1: only going to be the offense, the defense, the special
Speaker 1: teams are going to be included as just as much.
Speaker 1: And the performance of the kicker, as we've seen throughout
Speaker 1: the season, is going to count on wins and losses
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. So it's interesting that
Speaker 1: you put it in that perspective because many would say
Speaker 1: that he did have a lot of pressure, just the
Speaker 1: whole access and whatnot. But you are right with every
Speaker 1: step forward in your career, it's just perceived it it's
Speaker 1: more than perceived. It is actual pressure because you got
Speaker 1: you gotta maintain and get better. And you know too,
Speaker 1: is like Patrick says, you've got to start using the
Speaker 1: weapon you have in Soldier Field to your advantage. When
Speaker 1: you talk to the opponent's kickers and punters, you got
Speaker 1: to tell them how bad the conditions are, how the
Speaker 1: footing is awful. But you're just going to be making
Speaker 1: this up. This is We've got to be turned in
Speaker 1: to a weapon on behalf of the Bears in the
Speaker 1: in the surface and the conditions at Soldier Field. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take another break. Coming up in just a
Speaker 1: short while. We'll be joined by Damn Pompey and this
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access from Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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Speaker 1: to get it learn more at CDW dot com. Tom
Speaker 1: you can't escape it. The Kobe Bryant death and the
Speaker 1: passing of his daughter and the horrible crash certainly has
Speaker 1: been the undertone of the first couple of days here.
Speaker 1: You walk around Radio Row and almost every conversation on
Speaker 1: talk radio throughout the country and frankly across the world
Speaker 1: is about Kobe, and it's certainly expected and it probably
Speaker 1: will continue for a little bit this week before the
Speaker 1: end of the week kicks in and their focus becomes
Speaker 1: on the game. But you know, for a lot of
Speaker 1: i'd say early thirty, mid thirty year olds who are
Speaker 1: probably twelve fifteen years old during the time post Michael,
Speaker 1: it was Kobe that took their attention and they became
Speaker 1: attached to him. I'm talking about athletes and just you know,
Speaker 1: just everybody out there. You know, it's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to ignore the relationship between Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: because fortunately I had a chance to go to a
Speaker 1: lot of Michael Jordan games, and whether he was on
Speaker 1: TV or I got to see him in person, he
Speaker 1: was probably the most impressive prepared figure in sports that
Speaker 1: I've had a chance to be around, both professionally and everything,
Speaker 1: and the way he carried himself and how competitive he was,
Speaker 1: and so in the back of your mind, I think
Speaker 1: when you see it, you're introduced to a guy like
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, you always think about who is the guy
Speaker 1: that's going to be able to carry this torch and
Speaker 1: you know it's not Shack and it's not Lebron because
Speaker 1: they're different body styles than Michael Jordan. Both Kobe and
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan are listed at six six Michael Jordan at
Speaker 1: two sixteen, Kobe at two twelve, and there's so many
Speaker 1: similarities in the style of game. That's what always impressed
Speaker 1: me so much about Kobe is because he was able
Speaker 1: to take the torch from Michael Jordan and continue his
Speaker 1: greatness but even elevated in some aspects of the game.
Speaker 1: And I'm only talking, I'm not talking about his life.
Speaker 1: I'm only talking about the game of basketball. So that
Speaker 1: was the thing that impressed me most about the carryover
Speaker 1: between Michael and Kobe, because I think when you're inspired
Speaker 1: by somebody like obviously Kobe was of Michael Jordan, what
Speaker 1: do you do with it? There's guys. When I was
Speaker 1: coming up, I remember John Hannah, the great offensive guard,
Speaker 1: being on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and I thought
Speaker 1: that being an offensive lineman be on the cover of
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated was unattainable. But then you see and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he gives you inspiration because this
Speaker 1: could be you someday. And I think when we got
Speaker 1: introduced to Michael Jordan and is just years of superiority.
Speaker 1: I think Kobe did a great job of carrying that
Speaker 1: NBA torch forward, and his post basketball career was starting
Speaker 1: off in an unbelievable fashion as well, just the impact
Speaker 1: he was making to the game and to life in general.
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned John Hannah. It was interesting talking
Speaker 1: with Eric Fisher today because the rare number one pick
Speaker 1: as an offensive lineman and he was in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: and just all of that coming from Central Michigan where
Speaker 1: he and Joe Staile are the only first rounders from
Speaker 1: that school to be drafted, and both happened to be
Speaker 1: offensive lineman now meeting in Super Bowl fifty four. But
Speaker 1: his start was slow and it was hard, and it's
Speaker 1: it's a great example of what perseverance takes shape. How
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about Raheem Mostart and his perseverance,
Speaker 1: but you gotta talk about I got Eric Fisher, who's
Speaker 1: probably playing the best ball of his career now, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't always that way. No one develops at the
Speaker 1: same rate, especially in professional sport or you know, in
Speaker 1: any occupation. But you know, just talking about football here.
Speaker 1: And he also said, I said, hey, when did you
Speaker 1: really get the Andy Reid playbook? And he said, you know,
Speaker 1: probably two three years. So that's a lesson to be
Speaker 1: learned too. Is we begin year three of Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty. Coming up next, the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame writer Dan Pompey did join us to talk Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame and the Super Bowl. This is Bears All
Speaker 1: Access san Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Bars all Access Doan Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score. Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer with you
Speaker 1: as we get you set for Super Bowl fifty four.
Speaker 1: We get Tom's thoughts on things before we get to
Speaker 1: Damn pomp. Paid time is Tony Gonzalez was talking today.
Speaker 1: Fox had their own media day for all their talent,
Speaker 1: and he's doing some fine work there. But the whole
Speaker 1: conversation Tom was about today's tight end and he feels
Speaker 1: that if you don't have one of impact, you're not
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl. A guy like Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: a guy like Zach Ertz in Philadelphia obviously the most
Speaker 1: recent example, and a guy like you know, the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, George Kittle. Yeah, I agree, you know,
Speaker 1: because but it's it's what the tight ends is capable
Speaker 1: of doing. Where they can line up because there's a
Speaker 1: variety of space. And when you look at the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame career of Mike Ditka, and he did spread
Speaker 1: out a little bit from the offensive line and became
Speaker 1: a little bit of a receiver, introduced a little bit
Speaker 1: of a receiver into the tight end position. Nowadays, you
Speaker 1: look at him, Jeff, their lineup as a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: They're line up in a stance next to a tackle
Speaker 1: there and multiple positions in the backfield. They're in motion
Speaker 1: multiple times throughout the course of the game. So what
Speaker 1: the tight end position in terms of a receiving tight
Speaker 1: end has turned into. It's so multidimensional that you can
Speaker 1: take it. He can be a weapon that you can
Speaker 1: take advantage of your opponent. And listening to some of
Speaker 1: the when John Filippo was wired up in different spots,
Speaker 1: he talked about being able to put the weapons in
Speaker 1: the most advantage of position at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And you know he's got those weapons here at the Bears.
Speaker 1: But certainly it is going to be about a development
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Speaker 1: us out of ye now is Dan pom Pay. I'm
Speaker 1: Miami Parts Unknown, enjoying his eating already, but kind enough
Speaker 1: to join a few minutes with us. Busy weekend is
Speaker 1: always for Dan, a whole week rather with not only
Speaker 1: his own work that he's doing in stories, but as
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame voter, and it's that way. It's
Speaker 1: become your tradition, hasn't it, Dan, It has been. Jeff's
Speaker 1: good to be with you guys tonight. Of course, Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame voting now is a part of Super Bowl
Speaker 1: Week for me, and it's an important part of the
Speaker 1: job and something I look forward to and spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time on throughout the year and take very seriously,
Speaker 1: Hey Dan, Dan, you've been around a lot of Super Bowls. Now,
Speaker 1: does do you look at similarities that could happen between
Speaker 1: this game that's coming up in some of the ones
Speaker 1: in the past, or does each super Bowl have a
Speaker 1: life of its own? Well, you know, I think there
Speaker 1: are some things, Tom that always kind of carry over.
Speaker 1: I mean, so many times in super Bowls, I think
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks cherry the day or at least give their
Speaker 1: teams the best chance to win. You know, I think
Speaker 1: we often see, you know, a great defenses stand up
Speaker 1: in Super Bowls too, And that's why this game is
Speaker 1: really interesting to me, because you've got both of those
Speaker 1: elements on separate teams, so you wonder which one will
Speaker 1: end up prevailing. But I think, you know, when you've
Speaker 1: got a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes is really special and
Speaker 1: capable of winning a game late, you have to really
Speaker 1: respect that. Yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo from Rolling Meadows. And I
Speaker 1: was trying to think this through today and I broached
Speaker 1: the idea. I said, I don't know if I have
Speaker 1: my math right on times and who won what, But
Speaker 1: in terms of a Chicago area kid winning a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I was trying to think who that might be. So
Speaker 1: obviously Donovan McNabb for Andy Reid in Philadelphia did not win.
Speaker 1: He's from Rolling Meadows. He's got an opportunity to win.
Speaker 1: And then I realized that Ken Anderson, if you include
Speaker 1: Batavia as a Chicago area kid, a suburban kids, some
Speaker 1: forty five miles away from Chicago, he did win. A
Speaker 1: might you might have to go back to out of
Speaker 1: rams last time, not all with a championship. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: think about that. That's how rare this is, this opportunity
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah, very rare. And um, you know
Speaker 1: it's interesting because I think a lot of people think that, uh,
Speaker 1: that team has been carried mostly by hearts other than
Speaker 1: the quarterback, right, I mean, and it's hard to argue
Speaker 1: that when you see the formula in the last game,
Speaker 1: certainly NFC championship games, when they ran the ball like
Speaker 1: crazy and scored all their points running and with with
Speaker 1: kicking UH and obviously their their defense. You know that
Speaker 1: that's their formula for winning. But I think what he's
Speaker 1: done very well, what he's done all season long is
Speaker 1: make key throws when he's had to make them, and
Speaker 1: uh step up at opportunity times and you know, when
Speaker 1: they're in third and long, or when they're in the
Speaker 1: red zone, or you know, a critical juncture of the
Speaker 1: game two minutes late in the game, he's been there
Speaker 1: to make the play. Hey, Dan, the losing coach in
Speaker 1: this Super Bowl, are they going to have a big
Speaker 1: obstacle to climb over? Because you look at what happened
Speaker 1: in their Super Bowl history with both of these coaches,
Speaker 1: you think that's is that going to be maybe a
Speaker 1: haunting topic after the game to see how it follows
Speaker 1: them around? Well, given their history, you know it could be.
Speaker 1: Because of course, Kyle Shannon hand had the disastrous moments
Speaker 1: in his previous Super Bowl as an offensive coordinator with
Speaker 1: the Falcons, and Andy Reid has got this incredible history
Speaker 1: as a head coach to accomplish everything you could possibly accomplish,
Speaker 1: except when the Super Bowl, and of course he had
Speaker 1: one opportunity when he was with the Eagles and it
Speaker 1: didn't happen there. So I think you know that that
Speaker 1: will be a talking point for whomever loses, especially it
Speaker 1: will be amplified if you know there are some questionable
Speaker 1: play call or decisions or you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I think is going to really stick with these guys
Speaker 1: if it happens. I know you've written about it, you've
Speaker 1: talked about it. But looking back again at the the
Speaker 1: Special Hall of Fame committee that was put together that
Speaker 1: you were part of, that Blue Ribbon panel, and the
Speaker 1: election of Jimbo Covert and Ed the late Ed Sprinkle,
Speaker 1: it must have been a great passion for you to
Speaker 1: to do this. Obviously to study all the candidates, but
Speaker 1: to get Jimbo in there and had Ed Sprinkle's family
Speaker 1: get to acknowledge this at some point in their lives
Speaker 1: was a significant moment. Yeah. I think more than anything, Jeff,
Speaker 1: it was deserved. You know, two guys who really earned it.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this a little another day
Speaker 1: on the radio. But you know, ed Sprinkle to me
Speaker 1: is a guy who really started the Bear's great tradition
Speaker 1: of defense. Um. You know, before he came along, the
Speaker 1: Bears were known mostly as an offensive team and known
Speaker 1: for their offensive start. Now he played a little on
Speaker 1: offense too, but he was mostly a defensive player and
Speaker 1: known for his ability to rush the passer. And I
Speaker 1: think he really kind of gave the Bears this organization,
Speaker 1: this franchise, an identity has lasted from the nineteen forty
Speaker 1: nine and he really was a special player. You know,
Speaker 1: a number of players that played against him during that
Speaker 1: era had said at the time that he was the
Speaker 1: most difficult player in the league for them to go
Speaker 1: against on a regular basis. In terms of Jimbo, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy that we all watched, unlike
Speaker 1: at Sprinkle, and a guy who we all saw dominate
Speaker 1: the very best opponents that he went against. Stuff went
Speaker 1: against seventeen Paul seventeen games, i should say, against Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame pass rushers and held them to four and
Speaker 1: a half sacks, and you know, critical part of the
Speaker 1: great run game of the Bears in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: Even after Walter Payton left, you know, with Neil Anderson,
Speaker 1: and it really was just a very important player, I thought,
Speaker 1: to those Bears teams, so glad to see two guys
Speaker 1: who deserve to get in van. You sat there on
Speaker 1: the sidelines and you watched Jimbo covert either in practice
Speaker 1: in games, and you see his dominance. But when you're
Speaker 1: trying to learn information about a guy like Ed Sprinkle,
Speaker 1: maybe with a lack of video or because the reputation
Speaker 1: that I've always been introduced to Ed Sprinkle is being
Speaker 1: the toughest man that's played for George Hallis. So when
Speaker 1: you have one that's so obvious and in front of you,
Speaker 1: then the other one you have to learn about. How
Speaker 1: do you go about learning about the football life of
Speaker 1: Ed Sprinkle. It's a good question and it's a challenge,
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of the problems that we have.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm on the senior committee for the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. When you talk about guys who played before
Speaker 1: we were born, or we really had a chance to
Speaker 1: study guys who played in an era when statistics were
Speaker 1: not kept the way they are now, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't have the same measures. So um, I think you
Speaker 1: have to really go back and use everything at your disposal,
Speaker 1: which you know is a lot of looking through different
Speaker 1: newspaper articles that were written at the time, anything you
Speaker 1: can get about what we said. Books, Um, you know
Speaker 1: there was, there was. I got some good things out
Speaker 1: of books on him. Oh, some old books, some newer books,
Speaker 1: even about interviews that were done throughout the years about
Speaker 1: his play. Um. I think you know. One of the
Speaker 1: other benefits of this committee is that the Blue Ribbon
Speaker 1: Committee is that we had some people on it who
Speaker 1: some of them are in the Hall of Fame as
Speaker 1: talent evaluators, some of them are are currently in the
Speaker 1: game as coaches and and evaluators. And these guys were
Speaker 1: able to access some of the old tape and they
Speaker 1: said that the tape on Sprinkle was unbelievable, that he
Speaker 1: just jumped off the field in terms of a guy
Speaker 1: who was making an impact all over the place. So
Speaker 1: to me that that carried a lot of weight to
Speaker 1: hear those guys say that. All right, Dan, good luck
Speaker 1: this week with the Hall of Fame committees, the selections,
Speaker 1: and thanks for joining us. Okay, thank you a pleasure.
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