WEBVTT - Jaquan Brisker on what he brings to the Bears | All Access 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.720 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:08.760 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.760 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.439 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. Your all 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:21.160 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.200 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.479 Physical Therapy and CDW. Be with you, everybody, and welcome 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.760 into another edition. On a beautiful, gorgeous day in Chicago, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.919 still the most underrated city in America in the summer, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.320 when the sun's out and everything's good. I'm Jeff Joniac, 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.599 voice of the Chicago Bears, my broadcast partner from news 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.880 Radio one oh five nine WBBM. Tom Thayer of the 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.440 Super Bowl Bear and up in Michigan are good Pound 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.160 former Bears quarterback from sirius XM NFL Radio is moving 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.680 the chains, Jim Miller fellas good evening. How we're feeling, Tom? 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:00.880 I wish you didn't rain the other day. Why don't 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.120 you be a practice? Yeah, you know, Jeff, it's exciting 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.760 to think about some of the OTA practices, but it's 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.319 not as exciting when you try to put all those 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.200 bodies in an indoor atmosphere. So I'm looking forward to 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.920 the mini camp because right now it looks like the 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.520 temperatures are in the mid nineties. Oh, they have a 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:24.280 mid day practice. So everything they've been able to invest 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.920 so far in the OTAs, I think they're going to 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.120 get a conditioning test when they come to when they 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.400 come to the mini camp next week. Right. See, this 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.280 is just like him, Jim. He checks the weather forecast 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.920 now and his older age, this is what he does. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:40.920 He's worried about the weather. But it is going to 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.120 be extreme. I mean the heat Indecks could be a 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.480 hondo next week. Yeah, well, hey, get out the sun block, Tom. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.600 We'll be all right. I know that's how you roll. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.120 But we said this team was going to get after 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.200 it right and they're getting after it right now. Obviously. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.800 You know they get to basically lose one day of 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.000 OTAs this week. Why because so competitive we I think 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.920 we've touched on it this whole offseason. Guys are flying around. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.040 You know, these guys got to earn their stripes and 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.440 it can get pretty intense out there. But because in 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.480 Tom touched it on last week, Because guys believe they 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.520 have a legitimate shot to make this team. You know, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.800 they didn't have won a lot of games. They've got 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.000 a new regime in here, both as a general manager 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.320 and a head coach, and I think guys are flying 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.480 around doing everything they can to make this team. It 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.000 is a highly competitive atmosphere. They're at Hellis Hall. Yeah, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.960 a bunch of guys talked yesterday and Cody white Hair 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.440 touchdown it, and so did Jeremiah toach you it's a 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.720 younger team. These guys are feeling that our oats a 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.200 little bit, as you say, being competitive. Matt Eberflews, the 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.160 Bears head coach, asked yesterday if it is a big 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.600 deal to lose the one practice. No, don't. I don't 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.600 actually sit as a big deal. What I do see, though, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.399 is this as I see our team, our football team 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.440 has to be able to adjust, adapt and overcome in 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.200 pivot and situations. So you know, how we handle this 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.720 situation was awesome because that guy's like, Okay, that's fine, 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.720 boom and then pivoted the next day and booming go. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.880 And that's what we're gonna have to do. We're gonna 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.760 have to do that to win games. Yes, he did 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.320 say that and here's a clear idea of what he 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.480 wants from players in these OTA practice Hustle can be there, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.120 right and it is and you can see that you 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.120 guys are at practice. The guys run, they run on offense, 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.400 they run on defense, and man, we run. But the 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.880 intensity part, the focused part of intensity, can be there, 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.400 but not the physical part until we get the pads. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.720 Once we get the pads on in training camp, that's 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.239 what we're gonna focus on. How we play the intensity 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.840 piece that cannot be done this time of year. I 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.440 applaud Ryan Paul's Matt eber Flews for losing a day 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.720 because I like the effort that's expected of these guys 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.440 every day on the practice field. And if I'm gonna 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.840 lose a day of OTAs, I'm gonna tell you I'm 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.680 gonna make it up in every padded practice at training camp. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.080 You better bring your best because if you're gonna take 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.600 a day away from me and no pads, I'm gonna 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.440 turn it up with pads. Yeah. It's look at a 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.400 team like Seattle. They've lost OTA practices every single year 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.000 because they're physical. And that's a veteran coach who has 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.320 been established for for a long time. That's a very 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.200 competitive atmosphere and again I think you got to late 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.359 with the standard and what the expectations are. Again, you 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.120 don't want guys on the ground. You don't want it 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.839 to be sloppy where players are put in danger. But 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.359 you better get to your spot, but up the player 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.440 that if you're say a linebacker or a defensive back, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.320 get yourself in position to make the tackle rather than 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.520 just two handed touch. You better front the guy up. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.720 And you know at times there's going to be incidental contact. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.920 You know they're not in full pads, you have how 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.960 much you even have the guarded caps now for the players, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.440 But again it's young players competing because they feel they've 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.440 got a shot, that there are open spots that they 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.720 can earn a job. And it is going to get 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.400 cranked up and is continue to get cranked up all 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.840 through training camp. Well, one of the physical players we're 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.600 gonna enjoy, I have a very good feeling is Jaquan 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.560 Brisker Hill joint Tom and I with an interview we 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.760 did with him this week at the bottom of the hour. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.360 Also thanks to Adam to Zinski, our producer tonight, also 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.320 Jordan trut Up and Dan Briley for helping us out 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.680 as well with Tom there and Jim Miller, Jeff joniak Uh. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.080 The big impact from the press conference yesterday from Matt 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:20.039 Aberflus is the praise for his quarterback justin fields and 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.960 the tutoring he's getting from offensive coordinator Luke Getzi and 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.000 quarterback coach Andrew Janellek. Yeah, I would just say that 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.960 that Luke and Andrew are doing a great job with 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.120 the footwork and the timing. That's that's to me. It's 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.160 jumps out. Like you just asked that question. I just 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.080 boom right there and see it in the drill work. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.120 You can see them taking it from the drill work 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.360 to the to the you know, eleven on eleven reps 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.720 and that's clearly getting better. And Jim, that is clearly 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.599 getting better from Matt's view of what he saw on 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.000 tape a year ago and where he's at right now. Yeah, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.160 everything is based on your footwork. That's how I always 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.239 talk about balance, and you have to be in balance 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.400 to throw the football. That's the only way you're going 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.760 to be an accurate passer. But it's different in terms 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.080 of the play action footwork, which you know it's it's 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.719 kind of a you know, it's a different dance and 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.800 say a normal three, five or seven step drop, or 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.880 if you're in the shotgun, if you're doing a bubble 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.919 screen and it's just a one step, but there is 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.359 a tempo in a rhythm and a timing when the 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.400 ball has to be out of your hand and it's 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.599 got to marry up with the routes that are being 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.560 run on the other side and you have to you know, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.960 push it to them. Actually want to speed everything up. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.920 The quicker the better you know, is what it needs 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.200 to be in the whole time you're processing information and 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.240 there's a timing and rhythm there, all right. The mic 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:38.720 backer is a little bit deeper, all right, I might 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.240 have to hold this ball a little bit more. Now 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.200 I'm going to release it to make sure he's going 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.479 to be in the hole versus zone coverage. So if 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.560 you get all that footwork back and you're able to 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.120 set and now you have the time to really survey 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:52.839 what's in front of you, if you do want to 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.880 hold on the ball a little bit longer, maybe you 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.960 feel the pressure once you're back there to get rid 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.080 of the ball a little bit quicker. But there is 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.720 a rhythm in a temple to everything, and you would 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.280 think it should be better for Justin Fields in year 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.400 two and in a new system. He's got to get 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.160 it to where I always talk about it wrote memory, 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.760 you know, where you're not thinking about it anymore. All right, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.040 what's his play? This is a five step drop and 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.440 you're kind of robotic. No, no, no, it can't be 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.680 robotic that way. It's got to be boom. Let's go. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.600 And you know he shouldn't have any missteps at all, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.160 and everything should marry up. You know, as much as 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.760 that Justin's role throwing the ball downfield is going to 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.920 play be a big part of this offense. I like 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.640 how he reads the line of scrimmage because we know 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.680 how important the RPO is to this the modern day offenses. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.880 And if he reads an over zealous backside on this defense, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.080 you're gonna see his feet make some big plays as 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.880 well as his arm. All right, we gotta hit a 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.680 break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.200 coming up in moments. Larry Mayer, our senior web writer 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.120 and editor at Chicago Bears dot Com, will join us. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.560 He was at Wrigley Field today where the Bears had 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.840 their team gathering today, a little something that teams do 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.320 during this time of year to promote some chemistry and 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.840 off field funds. So we'll get the read on him. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.720 Heard some comments today and what exactly went on at 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.520 Wrigley Field, one of Larry's favorite places to be in Chicago. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.080 That's Tom Fair, Jim Mela. I'm Jeff joni Ac back 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.520 with more on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.320 This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.880 by Athletico Physical Therapy. Visit Athletico dot com to request 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.520 an appointment in clinic or virtually and start feeling the better. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.960 Or tomorrow with Tom Thare, Jim Metal from Serious Sex, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.480 NFL Radio's Moving the Chains. I'm Jeff Joniac And there 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:45.199 was baseball at Wrigley today, it just wasn't involving your 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.560 homestanding Cubs. They will be in New York to take 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.120 out the Yankees tomorrow. The Bears invaded their old home 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.280 and it was a team excursion. And we'll get the 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.600 check and balance of how it all went from our 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.599 friend Larry Mayor, the senior web writer and editor for 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.880 the Chicago Bears and Chicago Bears dot Com at all 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.559 their different platforms. Larry, thanks for taking the time. So 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.040 we'd started to circulate because some of the players are 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.040 posting on Instagram and Twitter or whatnot, so it looked 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.120 like maybe whiffleball, but then I'm seeing the home runs 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.080 flying out of the field of banning practice. One went 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.120 on there today. Yeah, so it was really fun time 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.200 out there and as you set before, one of my 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.720 favorite places to be obviously a shriekley field. But the 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.120 players and coaches had a great time. What they did 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.480 was they split up the guys at ten different teams 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.839 and there were six different stations. One of them was 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.080 whiffleball that you saw. One of them was like stacking 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.520 cups in the in the bullpen area, another one was 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.680 batting practice. And it all ended the day with a 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.040 home run derby where one person from each team participated 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.199 and really an impressive show of power. Cole Comet won 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.160 the home run derby. He hit three home runs. It's 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:58.840 a less center bleachers justin Fields hit two, Kyrie Blossom 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.000 Germ hit two, and yeah there was and Tevin Jenkins 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.200 actually hit one, which was the furthest of the day. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.079 This was the only ball that actually cleared the bleachers 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.560 and landed on Wavenland Avenue. So were they going crazy 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.840 ever since they redid the bleachers. I mean that's not 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.360 like it was like five ten years ago. Oh yeah, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.120 they were going nuts, especially when like Cole hit the 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.160 first couple. Patrick Scales also did pretty well. He put 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.360 a couple of bread in the warning track. But yeah, yeah, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.240 they were loving it, and they were cheering for each other. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.960 And you know how competitive guys got when they're playing 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.040 another sport. I mean it's crazy. And everybody had a 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.439 really fun time, and that was obviously the goal. And 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.559 you know, Mattie refused did a great job. I think 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.800 he mixed the teams up so he put it wasn't 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.840 like all receivers against dbs. He put a couple of 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.760 guys from offense and a couple of guys at defense, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.120 and even mixed the coaches, one from offense and one 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.040 from defense on each team and had everybody cheering for 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.360 themselves there. Hey, Larry, So when the home runs were hit, 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.520 as we listen or we watched the baseball games on TV, 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.040 you see a ball all hit and you listen to 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.720 the announce to describe it. Did you know immediately when 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.640 these home runs were hit that they were going to 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.480 be home runs? Absolutely? I mean I've watched enough baseball 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.720 and I thinking I was actually shagging flyball. So I 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.199 was in short left center, and you could tell most 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.160 of the home runs that were hit where the big 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.199 towering flies, not like line drives or anything like that. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.199 And once you could you hear the sound and you 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.520 send to the ball carrying, you could you could tell them. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.079 There were really no cheap home runs. As you guys 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.280 probably know, Wrigley Field down the line is like three 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.440 fifty three, so it's not like a short porch, and 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.680 so they weren't really hitting any cheap ones. And like 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.680 I said, the Tevin Jenkins bomb was pretty impressive, and 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.000 justin Fields hit one that would have gone on Wave 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.240 and the Avenue before the renovation and almost did and 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.480 really justn't really impressive. And like I said, col Comet 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.560 hit like three on five swings, and he told me 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.240 he never hit one at Notre Dame, but he hit 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.600 a whole bunch of him when he went to Saint Viter. Well, Larry, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.000 that disappoints me that you were just in the mid 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.320 center fields. Is shagging flies. I thought you'd be throwing 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.120 epis balls up there, you know, did you They actually 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.400 hired They hired somebody too. They hired somebody from a 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.160 baseball academy to come pitch. Okay, so I mean, yeah, 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:11.760 I did a yeah, I did a little. I did 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.200 the shagging at the five balls, filled them some grounders, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.760 stuff like that, and uh well, nobody turns to better 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.920 than Larry Bear. But I gotta be honest. I mean, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.000 did you get a chance to get in the in 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.080 the ring yourself? Did you get in the batting cage? 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.600 And did you take a couple of cuts? Larry? Come up? No, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.120 I did not. I did um No. I did not 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.400 take any swings in the battingcage. I did pick some 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.760 swings with the whiffleballs. Jalen Johnson was throwing some some 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.040 heat at me, and I was getting some line drives. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.480 So it was fun though, but everybody had a great time. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.160 Only one guy from each of the teams got selected 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.040 to do the the home run derby at the end. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:48.880 That obviously would have taken a long time because I 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.480 believe everybody got ten swings. So it was great. It 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.200 was It was a lot of fun. And like I said, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.560 I think it really accomplished what Matt was trying to 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.160 do in terms of doing camaraderie, and the idea really 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.319 stem from when he threw out the first pitch in April. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.679 I did mention to him too that the Cubs won 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.560 that game twenty one to nothing. So maybe you should 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.800 come back to Rigley a few more times. But you 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.120 just got the idea. And as you guys, I'm sure 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.000 no the last day of outas they generally canceled practice 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.400 and do something fun, whether it's bowling or I think 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.480 they went to top golf last year. This is the 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.840 first time that I called going at Rigley Field, so 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.000 it was a lot of fun. And another thing was 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.360 that he wanted to kind of link it with the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.880 Bears history. The Bears obviously played fifty seasons at Wrigley 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.280 Fields from nineteen twenty one to seventy and he's a 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.840 big fan of history and even showed some historical highlights 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.600 at the team meeting this morning at the Bears playing 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.400 at Wrigley Field, and he also relayed the story about 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.920 Bronco Nagurski's famous touchdown run at Wrigley Field where he 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.440 busted through the whole defense and ran right into the 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.319 brick outfield wall and told George Hollis that that last 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.360 guy gave me a hell of a shot. Yes, we're 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.760 coming to learn that Coach eber Flus really does embrace 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.079 the history of the game, not just in this franchise, buddy. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.960 He's a football junkie, that's for sure. And well, it 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:04.680 sounds like it was a lot of fun for these 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.520 guys to decompress a little bit, because it's going to 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.520 get a very interesting next week. Larry, just before we 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.280 let you go, I got two questions. One, just what 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.920 your overall opinion is has been of the OTA session 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.160 so far, because one thing is for sure, Coachiberflus is 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.600 very happy with the attendance. I mean, the one thing 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.160 that sticks out to me, just compared to maybe previous 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:29.080 years is the speed. And everybody's fast, it seems like, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.360 and everybody's running to the ball, and the defense is 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.160 doing a good job of creating turnovers. And it's one 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.400 thing to talk about it like everybody's been doing, but 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.760 you could actually see on the field that it looks different. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.040 So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens when 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.280 the pads come out of training camp. I'm sure Tom 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.720 will tell you it's a completely different sport when that happens. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.640 So it's gonna be really fun to watch some of 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.680 those pass rush drills. There was one on one drills 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.840 between the alignment. All right, Well, Larry, appreciate you taking 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.520 the time. I know, the last time that you may 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.920 have been on the ball field, not necessarily regularly, you 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.560 blew out of hammy. So I did any happen to 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.200 you today? Absolutely? Yes, I made sure I did no 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.720 sprinting this time. That's good to hear. You're getting smarter 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.120 as you get older. Way to go, hey, let's not 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.720 go that far, but thanks anyway, we'll be looking forward 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.640 to reading your accounts of today's activity at Wrigley Field. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.240 All right, we're gonna hit another break top there, Jim Miller, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.600 Jeff Joniac Here on Bears All Access. It's brought to 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.760 you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:30.760 the Score. Welcome back everybody to Bears All Access. It's 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.440 brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.960 your home at IGS dot com because every good choice 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.760 adds up to a better world. With Tom Thayer and 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.080 Jim Miller, your ex Chicago Bears. I'm Jeff Joniac breaking 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.320 down what's going on with the Bears as they ramp 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.320 up the Ota sessions. Offensive line fellows big topic of conversation. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.120 I personally, I don't know, Jim, think about a top 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:58.800 three storylines for training camps. Let that stew a little bit. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.360 I'm gonna start with mine. Tom, You'll have yours as well. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.600 H My number one is far and away the biggest 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.760 is the offensive line. Who's playing where and why? And 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.800 I think that that has to be the number one 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:18.520 right now. Head coach mattieberplus experimenting with different combinations yesterday 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.560 having the rookie Braxton Jones at left tackle, said hey, 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.840 we're gonna move guys around and shift guys around. So 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.480 it's the halfway point for us, right So, you know, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.480 we had six practices and then we got six or 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.520 seven to go at that point when we made the 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.880 switch and we wanted to change combinations. And that's not 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.440 the only combinations we've changed, you know, from tackle, you know, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.200 tackle tackle, We've moved some receivers from some guys are 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.360 playing X, some guys are playing Z. We you know, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.600 we adjusted some guys on the defensive line. So we've 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.400 done those things just to really find out have a 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.720 true evaluation of what's the best fit for us going 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.440 forward in the training camp now. So Larry Boram at 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.800 right tackle yesterday. Again, these are snippets. This has probably 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.480 been going on for a little while and they're just 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.400 going to keep on mixing a match and Tom, how 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.640 do you feel about all this right now? You know, 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.639 I think you have to explore everybody's athleticism and how 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.040 the best seven guys can be active on game day. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.919 But you know, if you talk about the top three things, 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.080 I need a solid five, Jeff, I need you gotta 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.160 have five guys that you're confidence with by the beginning 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.640 middle of training camp that you feel that you can 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.399 play against the San Francisco forty nine ers with and 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.080 hold your own in every aspect of what this offense 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.399 is going to deliver. So, you know, Dave Magazoo, an 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.560 offensive line coach from the past, he used to put 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.159 guys in places that maybe they've never played before just 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.000 to see how they react to it on a moment's 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.120 notice that they have to do it on game day. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.040 If you go back to the Seattle game last year, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.760 after three plays, Tevin Jenkins was out at left tackle 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.359 in with no practice time. Larry Boram was inserted at 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.399 left tackle in a horrific snowstorm in the Seattle area. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.560 He went and played pretty well. So those are the 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.960 types of things that you have to be prepared for, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.000 especially at a position like offensive line, where you never 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.639 know if you're gonna be a right handed stance and 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.280 left handed stance, if you're gonna play guard or you're 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.919 gonna play tackle. But they have to explore the possibilities. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.440 And jim my other one is obviously it's going to 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.080 always be about justin fields, where he's developing, how he's progressing, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.879 how he's being responded to. And then I'm throwing Nickel 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.920 in there because who's gonna win that nickel job? Because 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.320 it is so significant. Right now, those are my three. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.040 Where are you going? And what do you think about 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.640 the mixing and matching up front? Yeah, well, first i'd 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.000 say this, Yeah, I want to know that about Braxton Jones, 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.320 the fifth round pick, because Larry boorm has played right 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.440 he's played left tackle. As Tom just mentioned, he was 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.120 thrown in there. I think it was like the first 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.040 or second play of the game he had to move 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.320 over left tackle. Can Braxton Jones be a swing tackle? 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.120 Kenny as a rookie be a guy that is counted 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.560 on to come off the bench, whether your right tackle 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.919 goes down or your left tackle, or do you have 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.200 to make changes like this to move a guy. Maybe 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.919 he's better at left tackle, maybe he's better at right tackle. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.040 They need to find that out because whichever guy who 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.159 goes down, he's probably potentially has a shot to be 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.439 the swing tackle guy. That's what he was tagged or 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.800 dubbed coming out of college of being a swing tackle 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.520 to start and ultimately could work himself to be a starter. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.399 Now it's up to him to prove which position he 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:24.159 could solidify himself at out of Southern Utah. So I 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.880 would think all those are important. Again, it's about your 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.240