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Speaker 1: into another edition. On a beautiful, gorgeous day in Chicago,
Speaker 1: still the most underrated city in America in the summer,
Speaker 1: when the sun's out and everything's good. I'm Jeff Joniac,
Speaker 1: voice of the Chicago Bears, my broadcast partner from news
Speaker 1: Radio one oh five nine WBBM. Tom Thayer of the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Bear and up in Michigan are good Pound
Speaker 1: former Bears quarterback from sirius XM NFL Radio is moving
Speaker 1: the chains, Jim Miller fellas good evening. How we're feeling, Tom?
Speaker 1: I wish you didn't rain the other day. Why don't
Speaker 1: you be a practice? Yeah, you know, Jeff, it's exciting
Speaker 1: to think about some of the OTA practices, but it's
Speaker 1: not as exciting when you try to put all those
Speaker 1: bodies in an indoor atmosphere. So I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: the mini camp because right now it looks like the
Speaker 1: temperatures are in the mid nineties. Oh, they have a
Speaker 1: mid day practice. So everything they've been able to invest
Speaker 1: so far in the OTAs, I think they're going to
Speaker 1: get a conditioning test when they come to when they
Speaker 1: come to the mini camp next week. Right. See, this
Speaker 1: is just like him, Jim. He checks the weather forecast
Speaker 1: now and his older age, this is what he does.
Speaker 1: He's worried about the weather. But it is going to
Speaker 1: be extreme. I mean the heat Indecks could be a
Speaker 1: hondo next week. Yeah, well, hey, get out the sun block, Tom.
Speaker 1: We'll be all right. I know that's how you roll.
Speaker 1: But we said this team was going to get after
Speaker 1: it right and they're getting after it right now. Obviously.
Speaker 1: You know they get to basically lose one day of
Speaker 1: OTAs this week. Why because so competitive we I think
Speaker 1: we've touched on it this whole offseason. Guys are flying around.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys got to earn their stripes and
Speaker 1: it can get pretty intense out there. But because in
Speaker 1: Tom touched it on last week, Because guys believe they
Speaker 1: have a legitimate shot to make this team. You know,
Speaker 1: they didn't have won a lot of games. They've got
Speaker 1: a new regime in here, both as a general manager
Speaker 1: and a head coach, and I think guys are flying
Speaker 1: around doing everything they can to make this team. It
Speaker 1: is a highly competitive atmosphere. They're at Hellis Hall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys talked yesterday and Cody white Hair
Speaker 1: touchdown it, and so did Jeremiah toach you it's a
Speaker 1: younger team. These guys are feeling that our oats a
Speaker 1: little bit, as you say, being competitive. Matt Eberflews, the
Speaker 1: Bears head coach, asked yesterday if it is a big
Speaker 1: deal to lose the one practice. No, don't. I don't
Speaker 1: actually sit as a big deal. What I do see, though,
Speaker 1: is this as I see our team, our football team
Speaker 1: has to be able to adjust, adapt and overcome in
Speaker 1: pivot and situations. So you know, how we handle this
Speaker 1: situation was awesome because that guy's like, Okay, that's fine,
Speaker 1: boom and then pivoted the next day and booming go.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're gonna have to do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do that to win games. Yes, he did
Speaker 1: say that and here's a clear idea of what he
Speaker 1: wants from players in these OTA practice Hustle can be there,
Speaker 1: right and it is and you can see that you
Speaker 1: guys are at practice. The guys run, they run on offense,
Speaker 1: they run on defense, and man, we run. But the
Speaker 1: intensity part, the focused part of intensity, can be there,
Speaker 1: but not the physical part until we get the pads.
Speaker 1: Once we get the pads on in training camp, that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna focus on. How we play the intensity
Speaker 1: piece that cannot be done this time of year. I
Speaker 1: applaud Ryan Paul's Matt eber Flews for losing a day
Speaker 1: because I like the effort that's expected of these guys
Speaker 1: every day on the practice field. And if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose a day of OTAs, I'm gonna tell you I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make it up in every padded practice at training camp.
Speaker 1: You better bring your best because if you're gonna take
Speaker 1: a day away from me and no pads, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: turn it up with pads. Yeah. It's look at a
Speaker 1: team like Seattle. They've lost OTA practices every single year
Speaker 1: because they're physical. And that's a veteran coach who has
Speaker 1: been established for for a long time. That's a very
Speaker 1: competitive atmosphere and again I think you got to late
Speaker 1: with the standard and what the expectations are. Again, you
Speaker 1: don't want guys on the ground. You don't want it
Speaker 1: to be sloppy where players are put in danger. But
Speaker 1: you better get to your spot, but up the player
Speaker 1: that if you're say a linebacker or a defensive back,
Speaker 1: get yourself in position to make the tackle rather than
Speaker 1: just two handed touch. You better front the guy up.
Speaker 1: And you know at times there's going to be incidental contact.
Speaker 1: You know they're not in full pads, you have how
Speaker 1: much you even have the guarded caps now for the players,
Speaker 1: But again it's young players competing because they feel they've
Speaker 1: got a shot, that there are open spots that they
Speaker 1: can earn a job. And it is going to get
Speaker 1: cranked up and is continue to get cranked up all
Speaker 1: through training camp. Well, one of the physical players we're
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy, I have a very good feeling is Jaquan
Speaker 1: Brisker Hill joint Tom and I with an interview we
Speaker 1: did with him this week at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: Also thanks to Adam to Zinski, our producer tonight, also
Speaker 1: Jordan trut Up and Dan Briley for helping us out
Speaker 1: as well with Tom there and Jim Miller, Jeff joniak Uh.
Speaker 1: The big impact from the press conference yesterday from Matt
Speaker 1: Aberflus is the praise for his quarterback justin fields and
Speaker 1: the tutoring he's getting from offensive coordinator Luke Getzi and
Speaker 1: quarterback coach Andrew Janellek. Yeah, I would just say that
Speaker 1: that Luke and Andrew are doing a great job with
Speaker 1: the footwork and the timing. That's that's to me. It's
Speaker 1: jumps out. Like you just asked that question. I just
Speaker 1: boom right there and see it in the drill work.
Speaker 1: You can see them taking it from the drill work
Speaker 1: to the to the you know, eleven on eleven reps
Speaker 1: and that's clearly getting better. And Jim, that is clearly
Speaker 1: getting better from Matt's view of what he saw on
Speaker 1: tape a year ago and where he's at right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything is based on your footwork. That's how I always
Speaker 1: talk about balance, and you have to be in balance
Speaker 1: to throw the football. That's the only way you're going
Speaker 1: to be an accurate passer. But it's different in terms
Speaker 1: of the play action footwork, which you know it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of a you know, it's a different dance and
Speaker 1: say a normal three, five or seven step drop, or
Speaker 1: if you're in the shotgun, if you're doing a bubble
Speaker 1: screen and it's just a one step, but there is
Speaker 1: a tempo in a rhythm and a timing when the
Speaker 1: ball has to be out of your hand and it's
Speaker 1: got to marry up with the routes that are being
Speaker 1: run on the other side and you have to you know,
Speaker 1: push it to them. Actually want to speed everything up.
Speaker 1: The quicker the better you know, is what it needs
Speaker 1: to be in the whole time you're processing information and
Speaker 1: there's a timing and rhythm there, all right. The mic
Speaker 1: backer is a little bit deeper, all right, I might
Speaker 1: have to hold this ball a little bit more. Now
Speaker 1: I'm going to release it to make sure he's going
Speaker 1: to be in the hole versus zone coverage. So if
Speaker 1: you get all that footwork back and you're able to
Speaker 1: set and now you have the time to really survey
Speaker 1: what's in front of you, if you do want to
Speaker 1: hold on the ball a little bit longer, maybe you
Speaker 1: feel the pressure once you're back there to get rid
Speaker 1: of the ball a little bit quicker. But there is
Speaker 1: a rhythm in a temple to everything, and you would
Speaker 1: think it should be better for Justin Fields in year
Speaker 1: two and in a new system. He's got to get
Speaker 1: it to where I always talk about it wrote memory,
Speaker 1: you know, where you're not thinking about it anymore. All right,
Speaker 1: what's his play? This is a five step drop and
Speaker 1: you're kind of robotic. No, no, no, it can't be
Speaker 1: robotic that way. It's got to be boom. Let's go.
Speaker 1: And you know he shouldn't have any missteps at all,
Speaker 1: and everything should marry up. You know, as much as
Speaker 1: that Justin's role throwing the ball downfield is going to
Speaker 1: play be a big part of this offense. I like
Speaker 1: how he reads the line of scrimmage because we know
Speaker 1: how important the RPO is to this the modern day offenses.
Speaker 1: And if he reads an over zealous backside on this defense,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see his feet make some big plays as
Speaker 1: well as his arm. All right, we gotta hit a
Speaker 1: break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score
Speaker 1: coming up in moments. Larry Mayer, our senior web writer
Speaker 1: and editor at Chicago Bears dot Com, will join us.
Speaker 1: He was at Wrigley Field today where the Bears had
Speaker 1: their team gathering today, a little something that teams do
Speaker 1: during this time of year to promote some chemistry and
Speaker 1: off field funds. So we'll get the read on him.
Speaker 1: Heard some comments today and what exactly went on at
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field, one of Larry's favorite places to be in Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's Tom Fair, Jim Mela. I'm Jeff joni Ac back
Speaker 1: with more on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score.
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Speaker 1: was baseball at Wrigley today, it just wasn't involving your
Speaker 1: homestanding Cubs. They will be in New York to take
Speaker 1: out the Yankees tomorrow. The Bears invaded their old home
Speaker 1: and it was a team excursion. And we'll get the
Speaker 1: check and balance of how it all went from our
Speaker 1: friend Larry Mayor, the senior web writer and editor for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears and Chicago Bears dot Com at all
Speaker 1: their different platforms. Larry, thanks for taking the time. So
Speaker 1: we'd started to circulate because some of the players are
Speaker 1: posting on Instagram and Twitter or whatnot, so it looked
Speaker 1: like maybe whiffleball, but then I'm seeing the home runs
Speaker 1: flying out of the field of banning practice. One went
Speaker 1: on there today. Yeah, so it was really fun time
Speaker 1: out there and as you set before, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite places to be obviously a shriekley field. But the
Speaker 1: players and coaches had a great time. What they did
Speaker 1: was they split up the guys at ten different teams
Speaker 1: and there were six different stations. One of them was
Speaker 1: whiffleball that you saw. One of them was like stacking
Speaker 1: cups in the in the bullpen area, another one was
Speaker 1: batting practice. And it all ended the day with a
Speaker 1: home run derby where one person from each team participated
Speaker 1: and really an impressive show of power. Cole Comet won
Speaker 1: the home run derby. He hit three home runs. It's
Speaker 1: a less center bleachers justin Fields hit two, Kyrie Blossom
Speaker 1: Germ hit two, and yeah there was and Tevin Jenkins
Speaker 1: actually hit one, which was the furthest of the day.
Speaker 1: This was the only ball that actually cleared the bleachers
Speaker 1: and landed on Wavenland Avenue. So were they going crazy
Speaker 1: ever since they redid the bleachers. I mean that's not
Speaker 1: like it was like five ten years ago. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they were going nuts, especially when like Cole hit the
Speaker 1: first couple. Patrick Scales also did pretty well. He put
Speaker 1: a couple of bread in the warning track. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were loving it, and they were cheering for each other.
Speaker 1: And you know how competitive guys got when they're playing
Speaker 1: another sport. I mean it's crazy. And everybody had a
Speaker 1: really fun time, and that was obviously the goal. And
Speaker 1: you know, Mattie refused did a great job. I think
Speaker 1: he mixed the teams up so he put it wasn't
Speaker 1: like all receivers against dbs. He put a couple of
Speaker 1: guys from offense and a couple of guys at defense,
Speaker 1: and even mixed the coaches, one from offense and one
Speaker 1: from defense on each team and had everybody cheering for
Speaker 1: themselves there. Hey, Larry, So when the home runs were hit,
Speaker 1: as we listen or we watched the baseball games on TV,
Speaker 1: you see a ball all hit and you listen to
Speaker 1: the announce to describe it. Did you know immediately when
Speaker 1: these home runs were hit that they were going to
Speaker 1: be home runs? Absolutely? I mean I've watched enough baseball
Speaker 1: and I thinking I was actually shagging flyball. So I
Speaker 1: was in short left center, and you could tell most
Speaker 1: of the home runs that were hit where the big
Speaker 1: towering flies, not like line drives or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And once you could you hear the sound and you
Speaker 1: send to the ball carrying, you could you could tell them.
Speaker 1: There were really no cheap home runs. As you guys
Speaker 1: probably know, Wrigley Field down the line is like three
Speaker 1: fifty three, so it's not like a short porch, and
Speaker 1: so they weren't really hitting any cheap ones. And like
Speaker 1: I said, the Tevin Jenkins bomb was pretty impressive, and
Speaker 1: justin Fields hit one that would have gone on Wave
Speaker 1: and the Avenue before the renovation and almost did and
Speaker 1: really justn't really impressive. And like I said, col Comet
Speaker 1: hit like three on five swings, and he told me
Speaker 1: he never hit one at Notre Dame, but he hit
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of him when he went to Saint Viter. Well, Larry,
Speaker 1: that disappoints me that you were just in the mid
Speaker 1: center fields. Is shagging flies. I thought you'd be throwing
Speaker 1: epis balls up there, you know, did you They actually
Speaker 1: hired They hired somebody too. They hired somebody from a
Speaker 1: baseball academy to come pitch. Okay, so I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did a yeah, I did a little. I did
Speaker 1: the shagging at the five balls, filled them some grounders,
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and uh well, nobody turns to better
Speaker 1: than Larry Bear. But I gotta be honest. I mean,
Speaker 1: did you get a chance to get in the in
Speaker 1: the ring yourself? Did you get in the batting cage?
Speaker 1: And did you take a couple of cuts? Larry? Come up? No,
Speaker 1: I did not. I did um No. I did not
Speaker 1: take any swings in the battingcage. I did pick some
Speaker 1: swings with the whiffleballs. Jalen Johnson was throwing some some
Speaker 1: heat at me, and I was getting some line drives.
Speaker 1: So it was fun though, but everybody had a great time.
Speaker 1: Only one guy from each of the teams got selected
Speaker 1: to do the the home run derby at the end.
Speaker 1: That obviously would have taken a long time because I
Speaker 1: believe everybody got ten swings. So it was great. It
Speaker 1: was It was a lot of fun. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I think it really accomplished what Matt was trying to
Speaker 1: do in terms of doing camaraderie, and the idea really
Speaker 1: stem from when he threw out the first pitch in April.
Speaker 1: I did mention to him too that the Cubs won
Speaker 1: that game twenty one to nothing. So maybe you should
Speaker 1: come back to Rigley a few more times. But you
Speaker 1: just got the idea. And as you guys, I'm sure
Speaker 1: no the last day of outas they generally canceled practice
Speaker 1: and do something fun, whether it's bowling or I think
Speaker 1: they went to top golf last year. This is the
Speaker 1: first time that I called going at Rigley Field, so
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. And another thing was
Speaker 1: that he wanted to kind of link it with the
Speaker 1: Bears history. The Bears obviously played fifty seasons at Wrigley
Speaker 1: Fields from nineteen twenty one to seventy and he's a
Speaker 1: big fan of history and even showed some historical highlights
Speaker 1: at the team meeting this morning at the Bears playing
Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field, and he also relayed the story about
Speaker 1: Bronco Nagurski's famous touchdown run at Wrigley Field where he
Speaker 1: busted through the whole defense and ran right into the
Speaker 1: brick outfield wall and told George Hollis that that last
Speaker 1: guy gave me a hell of a shot. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: coming to learn that Coach eber Flus really does embrace
Speaker 1: the history of the game, not just in this franchise, buddy.
Speaker 1: He's a football junkie, that's for sure. And well, it
Speaker 1: sounds like it was a lot of fun for these
Speaker 1: guys to decompress a little bit, because it's going to
Speaker 1: get a very interesting next week. Larry, just before we
Speaker 1: let you go, I got two questions. One, just what
Speaker 1: your overall opinion is has been of the OTA session
Speaker 1: so far, because one thing is for sure, Coachiberflus is
Speaker 1: very happy with the attendance. I mean, the one thing
Speaker 1: that sticks out to me, just compared to maybe previous
Speaker 1: years is the speed. And everybody's fast, it seems like,
Speaker 1: and everybody's running to the ball, and the defense is
Speaker 1: doing a good job of creating turnovers. And it's one
Speaker 1: thing to talk about it like everybody's been doing, but
Speaker 1: you could actually see on the field that it looks different.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens when
Speaker 1: the pads come out of training camp. I'm sure Tom
Speaker 1: will tell you it's a completely different sport when that happens.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be really fun to watch some of
Speaker 1: those pass rush drills. There was one on one drills
Speaker 1: between the alignment. All right, Well, Larry, appreciate you taking
Speaker 1: the time. I know, the last time that you may
Speaker 1: have been on the ball field, not necessarily regularly, you
Speaker 1: blew out of hammy. So I did any happen to
Speaker 1: you today? Absolutely? Yes, I made sure I did no
Speaker 1: sprinting this time. That's good to hear. You're getting smarter
Speaker 1: as you get older. Way to go, hey, let's not
Speaker 1: go that far, but thanks anyway, we'll be looking forward
Speaker 1: to reading your accounts of today's activity at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna hit another break top there, Jim Miller,
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller, your ex Chicago Bears. I'm Jeff Joniac breaking
Speaker 1: down what's going on with the Bears as they ramp
Speaker 1: up the Ota sessions. Offensive line fellows big topic of conversation.
Speaker 1: I personally, I don't know, Jim, think about a top
Speaker 1: three storylines for training camps. Let that stew a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with mine. Tom, You'll have yours as well.
Speaker 1: H My number one is far and away the biggest
Speaker 1: is the offensive line. Who's playing where and why? And
Speaker 1: I think that that has to be the number one
Speaker 1: right now. Head coach mattieberplus experimenting with different combinations yesterday
Speaker 1: having the rookie Braxton Jones at left tackle, said hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna move guys around and shift guys around. So
Speaker 1: it's the halfway point for us, right So, you know,
Speaker 1: we had six practices and then we got six or
Speaker 1: seven to go at that point when we made the
Speaker 1: switch and we wanted to change combinations. And that's not
Speaker 1: the only combinations we've changed, you know, from tackle, you know,
Speaker 1: tackle tackle, We've moved some receivers from some guys are
Speaker 1: playing X, some guys are playing Z. We you know,
Speaker 1: we adjusted some guys on the defensive line. So we've
Speaker 1: done those things just to really find out have a
Speaker 1: true evaluation of what's the best fit for us going
Speaker 1: forward in the training camp now. So Larry Boram at
Speaker 1: right tackle yesterday. Again, these are snippets. This has probably
Speaker 1: been going on for a little while and they're just
Speaker 1: going to keep on mixing a match and Tom, how
Speaker 1: do you feel about all this right now? You know,
Speaker 1: I think you have to explore everybody's athleticism and how
Speaker 1: the best seven guys can be active on game day.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you talk about the top three things,
Speaker 1: I need a solid five, Jeff, I need you gotta
Speaker 1: have five guys that you're confidence with by the beginning
Speaker 1: middle of training camp that you feel that you can
Speaker 1: play against the San Francisco forty nine ers with and
Speaker 1: hold your own in every aspect of what this offense
Speaker 1: is going to deliver. So, you know, Dave Magazoo, an
Speaker 1: offensive line coach from the past, he used to put
Speaker 1: guys in places that maybe they've never played before just
Speaker 1: to see how they react to it on a moment's
Speaker 1: notice that they have to do it on game day.
Speaker 1: If you go back to the Seattle game last year,
Speaker 1: after three plays, Tevin Jenkins was out at left tackle
Speaker 1: in with no practice time. Larry Boram was inserted at
Speaker 1: left tackle in a horrific snowstorm in the Seattle area.
Speaker 1: He went and played pretty well. So those are the
Speaker 1: types of things that you have to be prepared for,
Speaker 1: especially at a position like offensive line, where you never
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna be a right handed stance and
Speaker 1: left handed stance, if you're gonna play guard or you're
Speaker 1: gonna play tackle. But they have to explore the possibilities.
Speaker 1: And jim my other one is obviously it's going to
Speaker 1: always be about justin fields, where he's developing, how he's progressing,
Speaker 1: how he's being responded to. And then I'm throwing Nickel
Speaker 1: in there because who's gonna win that nickel job? Because
Speaker 1: it is so significant. Right now, those are my three.
Speaker 1: Where are you going? And what do you think about
Speaker 1: the mixing and matching up front? Yeah, well, first i'd
Speaker 1: say this, Yeah, I want to know that about Braxton Jones,
Speaker 1: the fifth round pick, because Larry boorm has played right
Speaker 1: he's played left tackle. As Tom just mentioned, he was
Speaker 1: thrown in there. I think it was like the first
Speaker 1: or second play of the game he had to move
Speaker 1: over left tackle. Can Braxton Jones be a swing tackle?
Speaker 1: Kenny as a rookie be a guy that is counted
Speaker 1: on to come off the bench, whether your right tackle
Speaker 1: goes down or your left tackle, or do you have
Speaker 1: to make changes like this to move a guy. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's better at left tackle, maybe he's better at right tackle.
Speaker 1: They need to find that out because whichever guy who
Speaker 1: goes down, he's probably potentially has a shot to be
Speaker 1: the swing tackle guy. That's what he was tagged or
Speaker 1: dubbed coming out of college of being a swing tackle
Speaker 1: to start and ultimately could work himself to be a starter.
Speaker 1: Now it's up to him to prove which position he
Speaker 1: could solidify himself at out of Southern Utah. So I
Speaker 1: would think all those are important. Again, it's about your
Speaker 1: your best five guys and how they play together upfront
Speaker 1: is and then you better have a swing inside guy
Speaker 1: and a swing outside guy. That's why Tom says seven,
Speaker 1: because that's what you're gonna need on game day at
Speaker 1: a minimum. All right, how about your your storylines? Three
Speaker 1: big storylines? Oh well, you know, for me, it's going
Speaker 1: to continue. I think one the competition level, I think
Speaker 1: has already been answered by the last you know, remember
Speaker 1: I said to while you want these coaches, you know,
Speaker 1: come training camp to reintroduce yourself, so don't let your
Speaker 1: play drop off. You know that doesn't bother me a
Speaker 1: bit that they gotta practice canceled. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: only going to ramp up. So the standard has been
Speaker 1: set and the foundation has been laid of what's to
Speaker 1: be expected at training camp. And if I'm a player,
Speaker 1: like I said, I would come back in there. And
Speaker 1: if I didn't make a good first impression through the OTAs,
Speaker 1: I'm about to make an even better one come training
Speaker 1: camp time, because I will be intense. I will it.
Speaker 1: I will be cranked up and I will be ready
Speaker 1: to go. I think that standard has already been set
Speaker 1: and the players got that message, and it's it's already
Speaker 1: been proven. And I'm with you. I think there's going
Speaker 1: to be competition levels all across field. I want to
Speaker 1: see who is going to be the three technique because
Speaker 1: this is a defensive coach. Right with the Larry Ogunjobi
Speaker 1: deal did not go on. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: beating a dead horse here, but I want to see
Speaker 1: who's going to merge as the dominant three technique. You know,
Speaker 1: is it Justin Jones? Will it be a rotation with
Speaker 1: Mario Edwards and Angelo Blackson? I agree with Tom that
Speaker 1: Kyris Tonga is probably going to be a good one technique,
Speaker 1: much like what Glover is for the Indianapolis Colts. And
Speaker 1: then I think the secondary is going to be key
Speaker 1: because I don't think when you look at Indianapolis that
Speaker 1: they were a high blitz team. You know they're going
Speaker 1: to fly to the football. But I do think this
Speaker 1: the other storyline is how many rookies are going to
Speaker 1: earn playing time? If you're already telling me Braxton Jones
Speaker 1: is getting reps at left tackle, what's going on with
Speaker 1: those other guys like Brisker who you're going to interview
Speaker 1: Kyler Gordon. You know, how up to speed are these
Speaker 1: guys because they're probably going to be on the field.
Speaker 1: These young guys are going to compete and they're gonna
Speaker 1: get on the field and get some playing time, because
Speaker 1: that's what this year is about. These young guys are
Speaker 1: going to go through growing pains, but we'll see how
Speaker 1: quick they learn and now you can evaluate them going
Speaker 1: in the next year. You know, me. Number one, I
Speaker 1: want to look at the safety position because when you
Speaker 1: identify Eddie Jackson, you said you got a clean slate
Speaker 1: with the new coaching staff. Then he better come out
Speaker 1: here and be a physical safety when the opportunity presents itself.
Speaker 1: And then you look at the opposite safety because Jeff
Speaker 1: mentioned the nickel. If you have a big voice in
Speaker 1: the middle that you're not really confident in, and you
Speaker 1: look at the quarterbacks in this division, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of area of responsibility that you're counting on other young
Speaker 1: guys to be a part of the defensive backfield. But
Speaker 1: it's safety. Then I look at who's going to stand
Speaker 1: opposite of the linebacker position than Roquan Smith. You know,
Speaker 1: I know they have Nicholas Morrow and they talk about
Speaker 1: his speed, but he's not He hasn't been a botified career,
Speaker 1: long term starter. Is he able to come in here
Speaker 1: and play in this defense and play seventeen games alongside
Speaker 1: Roquan and be able to contribute as much as he is?
Speaker 1: And then, you know, it's probably a topic that everybody's
Speaker 1: tired of me talking about, but it's about cole comment
Speaker 1: and taking that next step. Can he turn into the
Speaker 1: best tight end of the division, which I think is
Speaker 1: an important role for him. But can he be a
Speaker 1: multidimensional tight end that he can stay on the field
Speaker 1: in first, second, and third down. That's what I need
Speaker 1: to see out of Coal coming into this year. And
Speaker 1: we will hear from Cole comment coming up late n
Speaker 1: Coming up next though, Tom and I interview Jaquan Brisker,
Speaker 1: the Bear's second round pick, the safety out of Penn State.
Speaker 1: Will take a break with Adam Stadinsky, our producer Jim Miller.
Speaker 1: Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: six seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access
Speaker 1: and this portion of the show is brought to you
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac Here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy The Score with rookie Jaquan Brisker. We
Speaker 1: had your buddy on last week. Kyler Gordon talked about
Speaker 1: you as well, and the two of you are the
Speaker 1: first two pieces of a big puzzle. Obviously, with a
Speaker 1: new administration and a new team, with a bunch of
Speaker 1: new players, how's it going? First and foremost, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling? How's the fit? Um? I feel like it's
Speaker 1: going well. You know, Um, just coming in, you know,
Speaker 1: learning everything I can you know from you know the vets,
Speaker 1: you know from the coaches, you know from coach Kurt
Speaker 1: and you know people like that. But off the like
Speaker 1: is going well, and you know, just really just taking
Speaker 1: it day by day and coach Curtis Andre Curtis Bears
Speaker 1: fans don't know all these assistants just yet. But what
Speaker 1: are some of the things he's brought to the table
Speaker 1: for you Because when you're in college and you start
Speaker 1: rising through as you did, you were an impact player. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's what you've learned. Now you come
Speaker 1: here and you're learning a whole different thing. Yes, So
Speaker 1: just really just um taking everything you know that he has,
Speaker 1: you know, all the knowledge he has. You know, he
Speaker 1: has a lot of experience, and you know he coached
Speaker 1: a lot of great players. So really just taking you know,
Speaker 1: everything he knows, you know, onto the field, and then
Speaker 1: also just learn the small details. You know, it's very important,
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know, to have all the small
Speaker 1: details dow unpack hej Kwan. So you when you went
Speaker 1: through the experience of going to Wakawana College and independ State,
Speaker 1: does the transition feels similar from going to Penn State
Speaker 1: now into professional football? Yes, sir, I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: everything that I learned, you know I Penn State and
Speaker 1: also you know, like I want to also, you know,
Speaker 1: help me prepare for you the NFL. You know some
Speaker 1: of you know some things you know that we ran
Speaker 1: at Penn State. You know we're running here, you know,
Speaker 1: just in no different terminology. So, um, the way we
Speaker 1: practice at Penn State, and you know, um, you know
Speaker 1: things like that, you know, help me prepare for the day.
Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like, you know, coach Franklin
Speaker 1: did a great job and also coach Dooda. You know,
Speaker 1: when you think back in the history of the Bears,
Speaker 1: one of the most famous defenses in the history the
Speaker 1: NFL was named after a safety, the forty six defense.
Speaker 1: And I've seen you describe yourself as an old school safety.
Speaker 1: Can an old school safety survive in new school football? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I think so. Uh. If you're long as you could,
Speaker 1: you know, run and tackle and you know cover, I
Speaker 1: feel like you could last today. You know, probably you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people more faster and more twitchy,
Speaker 1: but you know, people can always work on things like that.
Speaker 1: So I feel like an old safety. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the old safety was number forty six at Doug Plant
Speaker 1: who Tom played on the Bear Super Bowl winning team
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five, and the safety position led to
Speaker 1: this forty six defense, which I'm sure you've heard of
Speaker 1: plenty of times, but that's so famous in NFL history,
Speaker 1: but it's uniquely Bears football, and it's that nasty, tough,
Speaker 1: you know, heat seeking missile back there at safety. Gary
Speaker 1: Fencik then played Dave Duerson. These are the great Bears
Speaker 1: of the past. And I've always maintained, and maybe we've
Speaker 1: talked about this already on draft day, but having a
Speaker 1: killer safety, and in this case you got really good ones,
Speaker 1: including Eddie Jackson, it's necessary to kind of set the
Speaker 1: tone for the defense. Everybody says, yeah, it starts up front,
Speaker 1: and it does, but the back end of the defense,
Speaker 1: you and your position being a piece to the puzzle.
Speaker 1: Playing all over today at practice saw you playing in
Speaker 1: the box. You can play everywhere. You can play outside,
Speaker 1: you can play inside, you can be an extra linebacker,
Speaker 1: to me, that's significant to being a good football team.
Speaker 1: Do you carry that same belief because Tom mentioned you
Speaker 1: you love the old school safeties and you you mentioned
Speaker 1: Sean Taylor, Ronnie Lott, ed Reid, Troy Polamalo. So you
Speaker 1: must think the way we are talking here. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I do. Um. I just think that's the way you know,
Speaker 1: football was brought up. You know, physical you know, um
Speaker 1: life physicality, you know, toughness, you know, um really you
Speaker 1: know that's that's the game, you know, just being no
Speaker 1: real physical you know, loving a hit, loving a no tackle,
Speaker 1: you know things like that. So you know that's part
Speaker 1: of the game. Man. You know that's how I look
Speaker 1: out football. You know Matt Bone who grew up and
Speaker 1: played here in the Chicago area, a NFL player for
Speaker 1: many years now. An analysts said your style reminds him
Speaker 1: of Bill safety Micah Hyde. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: watched him, and then you know, Richard Sherman said this
Speaker 1: was a perfect fit. The five time Pro Bowl cornerback
Speaker 1: on a podcast recently said you were a perfect fit
Speaker 1: for this style of defense. When you hear all that,
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of put your muffs down a little
Speaker 1: bit and just go about and do your job and
Speaker 1: not lift up to everybody's analysis, so to speak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I hear things like that. Um that was really
Speaker 1: my first time, you know hearing that one. But really
Speaker 1: just let you know everything, you know, just no in
Speaker 1: and out the other air. Really, you know, just always
Speaker 1: stay humble. But you know, always doing my feet is
Speaker 1: you know, always you know, try to be the best,
Speaker 1: work hard every single day and um, you know, really
Speaker 1: you know everything and people say, you know, it really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know, they could say I'm the best,
Speaker 1: or they could say I'm the worst, but it matters
Speaker 1: what I do every single day I walk in here.
Speaker 1: You know that, you know what I mean, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: whether whether you know I'm working horror or I'm not.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I gotta work
Speaker 1: hard at the end of the day and you know,
Speaker 1: meet my expectations. Jaquan. I've also read that you have
Speaker 1: the skill set to play either safety position number one.
Speaker 1: Do you have a preference of what safety you would
Speaker 1: want to play in number two? Do you learn the
Speaker 1: assignments of both safeties during the time in the classroom,
Speaker 1: just because it's it's part of the learning process of
Speaker 1: getting to know this defense. Uh no, I don't have
Speaker 1: no any you know, special position. You know, I always say,
Speaker 1: you know, whoever the team needs me, order the coach
Speaker 1: and need me, you know, I'll play. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: learning to play boat, you know, I have to learn
Speaker 1: everybody's position, you know, even the D the D lineman,
Speaker 1: to the linebackers, to the corners, and then the both
Speaker 1: safeties you know, because you know, um, you know the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are going a look at. You know who's
Speaker 1: coming down, you know more or less, and you know
Speaker 1: things like that, and if I'm just the only safety
Speaker 1: just coming down, then he's gonna know you know, it's
Speaker 1: you know, discovered that cover. So you know, me learning
Speaker 1: both safeties, you know, helps me play fast, you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know helps the coach also, you know know that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very versatile and things like that. So
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like, you know, just learning both
Speaker 1: positions and you know everybody's positions, you know, it always helps.
Speaker 1: When you talk about versatility and the ability to cover,
Speaker 1: and you think of a guy six six called combat,
Speaker 1: you think of a guy with the skills of David
Speaker 1: Montgomery and Khalil Herbert. They're both through the receivers and
Speaker 1: they you look at some of the other receivers that
Speaker 1: you have responsibilities for. Does it Is it a challenge
Speaker 1: to your coverage skills at this early time in your
Speaker 1: NFL career or our coverage skills similar no matter who
Speaker 1: you're covering or how big the receiver is. I feel
Speaker 1: like my cover skills were similar. Uh, you know, just
Speaker 1: you know, make sure I'm always doing my working, my
Speaker 1: technique and a small details and as long as you know,
Speaker 1: I keep those you know, um those tools, and you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I cover anybody you know in this league,
Speaker 1: no matter who you know, who the name is, and
Speaker 1: things like that. You know I can run. I got
Speaker 1: enough strength, you know, just as long as I always
Speaker 1: listened to the you know, small details and always take
Speaker 1: to the right technique, you know I can run winning.
Speaker 1: By Chiquan Brisker, our guest here on Bears Olt Access
Speaker 1: is brought to you by IGS Energy with Tim Fair,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joni, a couple of more minutes with Bears Rookie Safety.
Speaker 1: Next week Veteran Minicamp. So everybody's back together again, mandatory.
Speaker 1: You guys been working all together anyway, but it's the
Speaker 1: final you know stage of this part of your career
Speaker 1: and then it's training camp. Uh, you have a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea of what training camp is gonna look like
Speaker 1: so far, what you've learned from practices and are you
Speaker 1: looking forward to just a little bit of a break
Speaker 1: from the day to day to get yourself mentally and
Speaker 1: physically right for training camp? No, so far, you know,
Speaker 1: I probably know you know how practice is gonna go
Speaker 1: and no thing and you know things like that, but um,
Speaker 1: just being just knowing the defense and you know, things
Speaker 1: like that's gonna help me you know more and you know,
Speaker 1: training camp, training camp, and then you know also um,
Speaker 1: you know, having you know a little bit of time,
Speaker 1: you know officers like that is it's better for me
Speaker 1: to work on my craft and you know, help me
Speaker 1: back home to where you know, I could you know
Speaker 1: go through the calls or you know I could you
Speaker 1: know still work out and um go through the calls
Speaker 1: and you know, just put myself in the right call.
Speaker 1: And then also you know, just take a little you know,
Speaker 1: just a little tiny break you know from Chicago, just
Speaker 1: you know, give me a little sit down and like resting,
Speaker 1: like kind of rethinking and um, really just think about
Speaker 1: you know what type of you know, OTAs and things
Speaker 1: like that that I have and see where I can
Speaker 1: fix and improve. Have you reflected on being selected by
Speaker 1: this team now that you're in the building, place is amazing? Right,
Speaker 1: you know you're a Bear now right? Is this a
Speaker 1: perfect fit for Jaquan Brisker? Yeah, so it is no doubt.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, it was a perfect fit.
Speaker 1: You know when, um, you know they drafted me. You
Speaker 1: know I noticed that the Bears didn't you know, go
Speaker 1: past me, so you know they wanted me. So you know,
Speaker 1: once you know, I knew that they really wanted me. Um,
Speaker 1: you know I came into the building. You know, great teammates,
Speaker 1: you know, great coaches. You know, you know, everybody wants
Speaker 1: to win. So, um, you know coming in here under
Speaker 1: this defense, you know where they allow you play free.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like it's a it's a perfect fit. Jaquan.
Speaker 1: You know one thing about when you're in college and
Speaker 1: you're going to class and you you know, you have
Speaker 1: finished college and now you're a professional football player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's not going to class other than the football classroom,
Speaker 1: and you take it out the practice field. Has it
Speaker 1: opened up a window of opportunity to you to you know,
Speaker 1: do something to improve something that you feel you need improvement,
Speaker 1: whether it's in the weight room, in the classroom, taking
Speaker 1: your tablet home, or even on the practice field. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's always improvement, you know, I feel like, um, in
Speaker 1: order to be great, you know, you always gotta getting
Speaker 1: better at something. But you know I always found myself,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, always taking my app at home and
Speaker 1: you know, watching over extra film because you know, one
Speaker 1: thing a vet has on you is experienced. So if
Speaker 1: I could continue to watch film and continue to look
Speaker 1: over the playboll and, Um, as long as I could
Speaker 1: play fast, Um, then you know, once I could play fast,
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a rout from there. So as
Speaker 1: much film as I could watch, as much time as
Speaker 1: I could spend in the playbook, it's gonna help me.
Speaker 1: So UM, as long as I continue to improve on
Speaker 1: a small details and you know, notice familiarity of the playbook,
Speaker 1: then I'll be in perfect shape. So with this window
Speaker 1: of opportunity that you will have from the end of
Speaker 1: the mandatory mini camp until training camp begins, do you
Speaker 1: kind of know what you're gonna do with your schedule
Speaker 1: on how you're gonna spend your time because you can't
Speaker 1: ignore football. You can't get away from it. It's something
Speaker 1: that you kind of have to stay mentally and physically
Speaker 1: involved in. What do you have planned? Yes, sir, Um,
Speaker 1: I had plan, you know, just to go home and
Speaker 1: work out with my trainers. Um. You know Dwayne Brown,
Speaker 1: Um he works on speeding and jolty and then um
Speaker 1: my old coach his name is Maurice Walker. Um. He
Speaker 1: always helped me with my strength and my power. So um,
Speaker 1: just work with them too the whole time while I'm home.
Speaker 1: And then also always work on you know, defensive back drills.
Speaker 1: You know, with my friends back home that we're still
Speaker 1: in school, we always you know, make sure that we're
Speaker 1: working very hard. So you know, just them three things
Speaker 1: that you know, I know, I'm gonna you know, continue
Speaker 1: to work hard and then also still be in my
Speaker 1: playboat and still watch film and see where I could
Speaker 1: correct on and transfer that over final moments which you
Speaker 1: quind Brisker here on six seventy the score. How are
Speaker 1: you and Eddie Jackson and working together? Um? I feel
Speaker 1: like me and me and Eddie Jackson working, Um, you
Speaker 1: know great? You know, Um, well like like out of practice.
Speaker 1: We're always talking. I'm always trying to, you know, get
Speaker 1: every information I can from him, and then you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you know I might go over there and UM
Speaker 1: watch even more even more for him, you know, just
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, pick his brain as much as
Speaker 1: I can, you know, just try to, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: be on the same page, see what he sees, and
Speaker 1: then let him know what I see. And then you know,
Speaker 1: we always talk through a lot of things. So you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, it's it's going off well.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, I'll always call him and he'll always
Speaker 1: you know, pick up and answer, so you know, Um,
Speaker 1: he's been a great teammate. And lastly, this is a
Speaker 1: young team. Expectations probably on the outside aren't aren't terrific.
Speaker 1: But are you feeling something special brilling with this bunch
Speaker 1: the way? I mean, it's just very early in the process.
Speaker 1: You'll know a lot more about each other once the
Speaker 1: pads come on. But what is your opinion of the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears right now? I feel like, um, something's going
Speaker 1: going special right now, you know, I feel like you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know what we're doing right now, it's very specially
Speaker 1: you know, people were showing up, you know, vest were
Speaker 1: showing up, and you know we're working very hard. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: we're making everyday count being where our feet is. And
Speaker 1: you know, um, everybody has a goal. And you know,
Speaker 1: you could tell, you know, there's a difference in the room.
Speaker 1: I know, I haven't been here for long, but you
Speaker 1: could tell when you know the coaches and the players
Speaker 1: are together and want to win. So you know, I
Speaker 1: could tell there's something brewing, you know, rolling his facility.
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's going well. All right, best
Speaker 1: of luck, we'll see a training camp. Thank you, chikon Brisker.
Speaker 1: Our guests here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score,
Speaker 1: Tom and Aye with Jim millerwy back next after this time,
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller. End Tim there, Tom, how about we vote
Speaker 1: for Jim. He's got his hands, but he's got it.
Speaker 1: He's got a brood of children up there. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big Father's Day for Jim. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: man that my oldest gets out of school tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: his last day, so the three will be at home.
Speaker 1: One just graduated from college, she's still living at home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a busy summer. You know, Jeff got
Speaker 1: a role. I vote for Jim Miller for sure. Good
Speaker 1: good talking to kon Brisker. Jim, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be a heck of a safety. Yeah, I really do. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what I like about him. Obviously, he transferred up
Speaker 1: right He was at Lackawanna Junior College and transfers up
Speaker 1: right away at Penn State. He was a very physical player.
Speaker 1: He played his senior year he had a little banged
Speaker 1: up shoulder, but you could tell his second year in
Speaker 1: James Franklin's defense, he played with a lot more fluidity.
Speaker 1: He was much more instinctive. He still could lay the
Speaker 1: big hits, but he was protecting his shoulder a little
Speaker 1: bit where he wore a harness. So to me, he
Speaker 1: is kind of a throwback safety. I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: is a very versatile player, but yet he's physical and
Speaker 1: he can lay the wood. Like I said, I compare
Speaker 1: him what they want him to be as Cary Willis
Speaker 1: of what carry Willis does in Indianapolis's defense at the
Speaker 1: safety position, so a lot of guys liked him. Again
Speaker 1: he transferred up. He made big plays at big moments
Speaker 1: in games. Go back and look at the swing pass
Speaker 1: versus Auburnett's a big blow up shot by him. The
Speaker 1: Rutgers game. He fills hard and stops a big first
Speaker 1: down in that game, the game worth Wisconsin versus Wisconsin
Speaker 1: twenty one left in the game, he fills on a
Speaker 1: run and then he's able to drop back and still
Speaker 1: make the safety. Sol was just play after play in
Speaker 1: that game, but was a much better instinctive player. And
Speaker 1: he's fluid as a safety too, not to mention just
Speaker 1: his versatility. So he's he you know, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good one. It is a good fit
Speaker 1: for him in this defense, all right, Tom, A stuck
Speaker 1: call comet because you mentioned it two segments ago. He's
Speaker 1: one of your keys to this next phase training camp portion.
Speaker 1: He sees a role merging for him with these practices.
Speaker 1: Now I get more of this route, more of that, right.
Speaker 1: You know, he's kind of starting to get a feel
Speaker 1: for what guys are good at and putting them in
Speaker 1: situations like Hey, I think he's what's see this again,
Speaker 1: Let's do it again, Let's do this again. You know.
Speaker 1: So he's starting to see guys kind of formans of
Speaker 1: that role U. So, yeah, you definitely see that, and
Speaker 1: I think that's encouraging, you know, going into training camp
Speaker 1: where we're going to continue to keep building on that.
Speaker 1: And Tom, he believes the run game is going to
Speaker 1: be serious. You can see where this run game can
Speaker 1: go with the outside zone and things along that nature.
Speaker 1: So and the running backs that we got with David
Speaker 1: Khalil and you know all the other other kids that
Speaker 1: we brought in. So um, yeah, you can see where
Speaker 1: it can go. And obviously we're all really excited to
Speaker 1: get to camp so we can really you know, put
Speaker 1: the wrung game to the test and kind of start
Speaker 1: really building upon it. Tom, I mentioned to you this yesterday.
Speaker 1: He seems very confident right now. He's starting to really
Speaker 1: feel comfortable being one of these one of the teams
Speaker 1: spokesman's for that matter too. And just his play on
Speaker 1: the field. I think he's got a big smile on
Speaker 1: his face walking around the building a lot. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of the passing game, he's probably got more
Speaker 1: reps and more of a connection with justin fields than
Speaker 1: anybody else because he's already been through a season with
Speaker 1: him and on the practice field. But the importance of
Speaker 1: this outside zone running attack, whether you're a strong side
Speaker 1: tight end and you have an important point of attack block,
Speaker 1: he's got to be able to get that done from
Speaker 1: the first level to the second level. And then he's
Speaker 1: an h back, he's on the move. He can come
Speaker 1: out of a variety of positions. I think the Cole
Speaker 1: has a tremendous upside, But you know, this is the
Speaker 1: year that you really have to come out of your shell.
Speaker 1: You got to make the difficult catch that's really important
Speaker 1: to continue to drive, and then you have to make
Speaker 1: that dominating block. Whether you're playing against an outside linebacker
Speaker 1: that has a reputation of being one of the tougher
Speaker 1: guys in the league, or a defensive ends that's coming
Speaker 1: out of a three point stance, or you're moving up
Speaker 1: field to a second level linebacker. Cole has a lot
Speaker 1: on his plate, but he plays in a tremendously important
Speaker 1: role in the overall success of this offense. All right, Jim,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the stage. You talked about three
Speaker 1: technique and it's still on the back of my mind
Speaker 1: as well. Justin Jones this week kind of how he
Speaker 1: fits that penetrating you know, three technique, get off the
Speaker 1: ball really really just effort, and that's kind of the
Speaker 1: stable of my game. I feel like, you know, really
Speaker 1: just getting getting the reflying around, making tackles and making
Speaker 1: plays and being disruptive. It is kind of like my game.
Speaker 1: So you know, I feel I feel like i'll fitted.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm at home in this scheme. And
Speaker 1: you know, the guys I'm around also helped me along
Speaker 1: as well, you know, obviously learning the plays and everything
Speaker 1: and making sure that you know, we're all on the
Speaker 1: same page at all times on every down. So that's
Speaker 1: that's because we're at right now, and he embraces the
Speaker 1: responsibility of this important position and the need to be dominant.
Speaker 1: I do. I do wick up every day of the morning.
Speaker 1: I wick up every day thinking about that. Yeah. Why,
Speaker 1: here's why I take pride in knowing what I do.
Speaker 1: I take pride to normal that God next to me
Speaker 1: is doing. I take proudly normal who's behind me and
Speaker 1: what they're doing. I take pride to see it and
Speaker 1: knowing how I fit in the scheme, and I take
Speaker 1: pride to getting it done. And that's that's that's why,
Speaker 1: That's why Jim, Yeah, I think it starts with this
Speaker 1: style of defense. That's where it starts. I think you
Speaker 1: gotta have a good three technique. I think your Will
Speaker 1: and Mike have to be crucial. I think you got
Speaker 1: to play have corners that they play hard outside, and
Speaker 1: you gotta have box safeties that can rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Is where this defensive front is. And the reason why
Speaker 1: I say that go back to Monty Kiffen and what
Speaker 1: Tampa did all right. They used to rock and roll
Speaker 1: the safeties with John Lynch. They had good corners on
Speaker 1: the outside with Buchanan and Barber's brother, Ronde Barber. Those
Speaker 1: guys could really reroute receivers and allowed those safeties to
Speaker 1: really creep up and get the things done that they did.
Speaker 1: But it starts with the three technique for them, it
Speaker 1: was Warren Sapp for the Bears. You go back in
Speaker 1: this style of defense, Tommy Harris. I'm not saying Justin
Speaker 1: Jones has to be as great as a Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer like like Warren Sapp, but you know, can you
Speaker 1: be disruptive and dominant, you know, comparable or somewhat comparable
Speaker 1: to a guy like Tommy Harris, because that's the guy
Speaker 1: you're looking for, because when you have that, everything else
Speaker 1: is gravy. You know, one thing about three technique, Well,
Speaker 1: let's not lose sight of the importance of the role
Speaker 1: of the defensive ends. When you go back and you
Speaker 1: look at the career of a guy like Keith Millard,
Speaker 1: who I think it was the nineteen ninety one was
Speaker 1: the defensive MVP, and you look at Al Noga and
Speaker 1: Chris Doleman on the outside. They had so much of
Speaker 1: a past rush ability that they always had to be
Speaker 1: accounted for. So that left these inside guys as a
Speaker 1: one on one even with Henry Thomas, the great nose
Speaker 1: guard they had there. So when you talk about the
Speaker 1: importance and the three technique of the Chicago Bears going forward,
Speaker 1: they have to have the equal support of Quinn on
Speaker 1: the outside, Gibson on the other side, in whomever plays
Speaker 1: next to him on the nose guard. So it is
Speaker 1: gonna be a role that everybody is accountable for, and
Speaker 1: that's when you're gonna get the best out of that
Speaker 1: three technique. All right, So Jeremiah touch you. You know,
Speaker 1: his name doesn't get mentioned much. He was at the
Speaker 1: podium yesterday. He is a part of the players rep
Speaker 1: situation on the team. Cole come at another one and
Speaker 1: so he was he was talking about this whole loss
Speaker 1: of practice. But as he started talking, you just kind
Speaker 1: of forget that this guy is a very good pass rusher.
Speaker 1: He was a stand up linebacker though, and now Jim,
Speaker 1: he goes into a three point stance and he's thrilled
Speaker 1: three months. I mean getting in the three point stance
Speaker 1: and the track stance. It's fun. It's just like running,
Speaker 1: you know, being a track athlete, and that's what he feels.
Speaker 1: He is. He loves playing in this scheme for sure.
Speaker 1: I definitely I'm excited about the scheme. I get to
Speaker 1: do one job, and that's get off the ball, getting
Speaker 1: the track stance, and use my athleticism. I've been very
Speaker 1: vers versus the top most of my career standing up dropping.
Speaker 1: I think it takes the thinking out of it for him,
Speaker 1: a guy with athletics, superior athleticism. So guy that can
Speaker 1: get off the ball before everybody else beat the old
Speaker 1: lineman out of stands. Use my quickness. He's my speed,
Speaker 1: so I definitely fit in very well. It makes my
Speaker 1: job easier for anything I've had to do in the NFL. So, Jim,
Speaker 1: what do you think about Attachue being in this rotation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's you know, he's been a productive player.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to get you, you know, three
Speaker 1: anywhere from three to five sacks. That's what his career
Speaker 1: says he is as a player, and he has been
Speaker 1: versatile because he's been in both at four to three
Speaker 1: and a three to four as you just mentioned, he's,
Speaker 1: you know, going on his eighth year, I believe in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So this guy's been around, he knows scheme,
Speaker 1: he knows football. He's a dependable, a veteran that you
Speaker 1: can count on. He's contributed double digit games every year
Speaker 1: pretty much through his playing career, and so yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's a it's a good get and he's been
Speaker 1: productive everywhere he's been in order, you know, in order
Speaker 1: to earn the opportunity to be in that track stance,
Speaker 1: and he talks about that means that you're stopping the
Speaker 1: run on first and second down. So let's not lose
Speaker 1: sight of what we all like in terms of watching
Speaker 1: defense and Robert Quinn and all the sacks that he
Speaker 1: got this year. But you know, it's still about this
Speaker 1: defense being a stout defense at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: on first down that puts the opponents offense in an
Speaker 1: awkward position on second and third. All Right, Fellas, as
Speaker 1: we wrap up, attendance has has met you ref lose.
Speaker 1: His mention has been outstanding, and the missing guy has
Speaker 1: been Robert Quinn. Uh, what are your expectations? Will you
Speaker 1: care one way or another if he's there? It is mandatory,
Speaker 1: you know, you know you can count on him. He's
Speaker 1: a hard working guy and he's working on his craft
Speaker 1: and his own time. But I'll start with Jim and
Speaker 1: then go to time. Jim. Yeah, I expect him to
Speaker 1: be there. You know, you're you're gonna get fined, you know,
Speaker 1: forty thousand day. You know that's you know, come training
Speaker 1: camp time, and he'll have to take the hit if
Speaker 1: he elects not to come, and whether he's happy or
Speaker 1: unhappy with what his role is going to be. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got to come in and work out minimum.
Speaker 1: I always do it. Just want to get in shape,
Speaker 1: you know, I know there was talk out there about
Speaker 1: him potentially being on the trade block, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if if I'm the Bears, you know he's a piece
Speaker 1: that potentially they could move because I think it's about
Speaker 1: young players. I think he's a great player, and they
Speaker 1: want him to be there with the year he had
Speaker 1: last year. But I think we know the direction that's
Speaker 1: going in. Also for the Bears. I like Robert Coin.
Speaker 1: I expect him to be there if he doesn't ever
Speaker 1: get in a stance and have to take a practice rep.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that either. All Right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: wrap us up. Tom hitting the hitting the finish line strong.
Speaker 1: We'll see you at Mini camp. Jim, come on down
Speaker 1: spend three days with the Bears, will you. It's too
Speaker 1: hot down there. You told me, Jeff, I'm gonna avoid
Speaker 1: that place. All right. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: That's Jim Millerman top there. Thanks to Adam Tazinski, also
Speaker 1: Dan Brilli and Jordan Tredup and our guest Jaquan Brisker
Speaker 1: and Larry Mayer as well. That'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: Stick around a lot more ahead here on Chicago Sports
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