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Speaker 2: Welcome Evan, everybody, Welcome in Too Bears Weekly. We're deep
Speaker 2: into the NFL scouting combine and we are going to
Speaker 2: be talking all about it all night long. Got some
Speaker 2: special guests as well. Great Cosel breaks down tape for
Speaker 2: NFL Films will join us. The hot topic is the quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: of course, and also Bruce Feldman, who does an outstanding
Speaker 2: job writing about Cottage football for The Athletic and the
Speaker 2: sideline reporter for Fox College Football Saturdays. He does a
Speaker 2: great job and has done a deep dive already on
Speaker 2: a number of these players He's gotten to know very
Speaker 2: well with the course of their respective careers. I'm Jeff
Speaker 2: Jonnyck with Super Bowl winning Bears guard town there. Jim
Speaker 2: Mitill be along from the Combine as well. We're up
Speaker 2: at Hallise Hall. I drove back up here because of
Speaker 2: an event. We have tonight up here at Halls Hall.
Speaker 2: But I've been there all week, so we can talk
Speaker 2: about that in time. I know you're watching everything on
Speaker 2: television right now and you're getting a lot of good information.
Speaker 2: But this is about quarterbacks. This draft about the top three,
Speaker 2: and then we're the rest fit in and potentially the
Speaker 2: first round. Of course, the Bears are the talk of
Speaker 2: the entire draft. Again, it is to.
Speaker 3: You, but I'm a position.
Speaker 4: It is to you, but I'm a position player, so
Speaker 4: I pay attention to a little bit more outside just
Speaker 4: the quarterback position. I tell you what, I see a
Speaker 4: lot of speed, a lot of athleticism. I see a
Speaker 4: lot of physical development. I see a lot of guys
Speaker 4: that aren't shy about getting into the weight room, and
Speaker 4: I'm glad to see it because I need to see
Speaker 4: the reflection of commitment by these guys that are invited
Speaker 4: to the combine that this is what they want to
Speaker 4: do for a living. I've seen a lot of evidence
Speaker 4: in the forties and some of the drills that the
Speaker 4: different positions have done today.
Speaker 2: Right, the first of the drills today. And now we're
Speaker 2: joined from Indianapolis by former Chicago Bears quarterback from Serious
Speaker 2: x MNFL radios, moving the chains, Jim Miller here for
Speaker 2: a couple of segments. He's got a big dinner tonight
Speaker 2: with the entire crew from Serious Exam. It's a big
Speaker 2: night for you and it's been a busy few days.
Speaker 2: What have you what have you learned so far and
Speaker 2: certainly how it pertains to the Bears.
Speaker 5: Jimmy, Yeah, obviously, you know, you do wonder about the
Speaker 5: future of the combine when certain players won't be doing
Speaker 5: all the testing and some won't even be doing the medicals.
Speaker 5: Believe it or not. That's what the combine was formed
Speaker 5: to do, was get the medicals on all the players
Speaker 5: where teams, you know, can submit that information abroad to
Speaker 5: all thirty two teams. But I think Tom kind of
Speaker 5: nailed it. I think you're seeing the you know, the
Speaker 5: athoticism of the edge rushers, the big defensive lineman that
Speaker 5: got on the field today. So there was a lot
Speaker 5: of buzz because you start to see the numbers that
Speaker 5: Braden Fisk from Florida State. What a show that that
Speaker 5: guy put on and Pat and I interviewed that kid.
Speaker 5: Seventy one games in college, five years at Western Michigan,
Speaker 5: transfers to Florida State. The guy missed one game, he
Speaker 5: missed four practices total, and he actually put on a
Speaker 5: show today four seven eight and is forty. He's a
Speaker 5: very explosive player, very productive and really, you know, he's
Speaker 5: right there in Michigan City, you know, just down the
Speaker 5: street from the Chicago Bears. He just wonder if they
Speaker 5: want an explosive free technique. This guy has literally checked
Speaker 5: every box from the Reese's Senior Bowl to what he
Speaker 5: did here today at the Annapolis Combine. I just saw
Speaker 5: the recent numbers of Dallas Turner, the edge rusher. My goodness,
Speaker 5: what he posted today. But again, you got to be
Speaker 5: able to play football all the tape factors in. But
Speaker 5: you know, there are a lot of different things that
Speaker 5: are unfolding here at the Combine that are not traditional
Speaker 5: and things have been done differently than in the past.
Speaker 4: Hey, Jim, I asked Jeff this question. I'd like to
Speaker 4: hear your answer because last year there was so much
Speaker 4: conversation about Bryce Young.
Speaker 3: CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud in the quarterback position almost at sometimes sometimes and
Speaker 4: I get a kick out of watching the rest of
Speaker 4: the position players and to see their performance in the combine.
Speaker 4: And then you think about what the narrative, what the
Speaker 4: conversation has been about the quarterback position this year.
Speaker 3: Is it any different this year than it was last year?
Speaker 4: Just because the amount of quarterbacks they have at the
Speaker 4: upper upper side of the scale.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well I agree with you, Tom, I think
Speaker 5: this year is a little bit different. Yeah, quarterbacks always
Speaker 5: drive drafts, but you look at the guys that are
Speaker 5: out there available on the free agent market. I don't
Speaker 5: even think since when I played there have been this
Speaker 5: many guys available. You've got Ryan Tannehill, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: a player like Russell Wilson is expected to be released.
Speaker 5: You've got you know, other players that are out there
Speaker 5: that come with the extensive playing time. Gardner Minshew, he's
Speaker 5: available on the open market. Kirk Cousins is available on
Speaker 5: the open market. So just the volume of quarterbacks in
Speaker 5: free agency and what the draft is going to supply
Speaker 5: is a lot different than what has been in the past.
Speaker 5: And as we know, sixty eight new starting quarterbacks had
Speaker 5: to start games this year. So much so that the
Speaker 5: NFL already came out today and Troy Vincent, they're at
Speaker 5: three forty five Park Avenue in New York, said that
Speaker 5: they want to change the grounding rule because they know
Speaker 5: it's a problem because if your quarterback gets hurt, it's
Speaker 5: going to affect the outcome of games and the play
Speaker 5: is going to significantly drop for teams that have an
Speaker 5: opportunity to compete. So very interesting year all around what's
Speaker 5: considered to really protect these quarterbacks and what's available out
Speaker 5: there to make your team better, you.
Speaker 4: Know, Jim, another topic that has interested me because not
Speaker 4: only are paying attention to the Combine, but paying attention
Speaker 4: to the NFL over the last few weeks. But now
Speaker 4: it kind of picked up a little speed here at
Speaker 4: the combine. I've never heard the conversation quicker about coaches
Speaker 4: being on a hot seat because they got Belichick and
Speaker 4: Vrabel and some of the other guys waiting in the
Speaker 4: wings for their coaching opportunities.
Speaker 3: So it's almost like a combination.
Speaker 4: If they don't get the draft right there converged to
Speaker 4: performance and development at a high level, you could see
Speaker 4: guys that are in jeopardy already are losing their job,
Speaker 4: and for me, it's kind of a weird topic to
Speaker 4: being brought up at the combine when this should be
Speaker 4: about the players and not a coaching future.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think we know that that window gets
Speaker 5: smaller every year, and it's not just for the coaches.
Speaker 5: I think it's for the general manager. Certainly, a guy
Speaker 5: like Bill Belichick with his success, you know you're gonna,
Speaker 5: you know, got to respect to him and what he's done.
Speaker 5: You know you're gonna want him to see it through.
Speaker 5: But you've got new bee coaches, and I think we
Speaker 5: know the reasons why. I look it down there in
Speaker 5: Carolina with Dave Kanellis who was just hired there, not
Speaker 5: a lot of guys would have taken that job. It's
Speaker 5: not an acceptable job, you know, with what they've done
Speaker 5: and how impatient the owner has been, and so it's
Speaker 5: just not an attractive job, and typically that guy wants
Speaker 5: to win. Now, these owners are aggressive, they don't have patients,
Speaker 5: and that's why he's already gone through four new head coaches.
Speaker 5: And I think that that's truly a new trend around
Speaker 5: the NFL as well. Think of the new owners out
Speaker 5: in Denver. I mean, they signed the contract for Russell
Speaker 5: Wilson and then brought on Sean Payton. All right. If
Speaker 5: I'm the owner, I'd be like, dude, that's why I
Speaker 5: brought you in here is to fix the quarterback, all right.
Speaker 5: And this is a guy who's played at a high level,
Speaker 5: and it sounds like they're already to cut ties. So
Speaker 5: impatience is at an all time high. Whether it's a
Speaker 5: veteran coach in Sean Payton or whether it's a rookie
Speaker 5: coach like Dave knelis.
Speaker 2: Where the impatience is is at the most important spot,
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. Since twenty twenty one, every offensive coordinator has changed,
Speaker 2: and gonna be is that insane? I mean, we bring
Speaker 2: it up with with co Sale, great coach selling. Are
Speaker 2: any of you coming up here a bit later. I'm
Speaker 2: just stunned by that every single coordinator has changed. Now,
Speaker 2: they may have been rehired by somebody else from that group,
Speaker 2: but Jim, when you're talking about QB and offense is
Speaker 2: taken several years to really digest, get understood, and you're
Speaker 2: changing languages constantly. It flies in the face of all
Speaker 2: the discussion we have about guys like Peyton Manning, who
Speaker 2: had the same offense for all those years, and and
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers and Green all these different offenses where quarterbacks
Speaker 2: flourished in because you took your time with them and
Speaker 2: you didn't have all this change. It's not good for
Speaker 2: the sport. It's not good for offense, not good for
Speaker 2: these quarterbacks who you know, we beat them up when
Speaker 2: they don't do well, but maybe in part because we're
Speaker 2: not patient with the offensive coordinators that are teaching them.
Speaker 5: No, I agree with that, Jeff, because you know that's
Speaker 5: never good on a young quarterback's career, or when you're
Speaker 5: constantly changing offensive coordinators. One coach coaches it one way,
Speaker 5: another coach coaches it a different way. They've got different schemes,
Speaker 5: different philosophies, different terminologies that you've said and discussed and
Speaker 5: really just you know, laid out right there. When these
Speaker 5: old coordinators need to adjust to the talent that they
Speaker 5: have and gear the offense to the talents of the
Speaker 5: players that they have, and you don't see that. This
Speaker 5: is a lot of cookie cutter stuff where it doesn't
Speaker 5: work out. Let's move on. Let's get another guy in here,
Speaker 5: and he's gonna want to do it his way. Here's
Speaker 5: what he believes in. And you look at a guy
Speaker 5: like Alex Smith, who I bring up all the time.
Speaker 5: He had nine different offensive coordinators as the quarterback for
Speaker 5: the San Francisco forty nine ers. All Right, he moves
Speaker 5: on to Andy Reid, and by the way, he took
Speaker 5: them as the first number one overall pick to a
Speaker 5: championship game. Andy Reid identified the talent they trade for him.
Speaker 5: Thus they win the AFC West Championship before they ended
Speaker 5: up going to Patrick Mahomes. All right, by then, he
Speaker 5: had been through the gauntlet, He had been through every system,
Speaker 5: he had learned everything. It was a school of hard
Speaker 5: knocks for him, and it's just never a productive way
Speaker 5: to go about it. I think we all acknowledge Alex
Speaker 5: Smith ultimately had a good career, but it was a
Speaker 5: rough start. Man for all the reasons that you just mentioned.
Speaker 5: That guy was just going through offense after offense and
Speaker 5: never could settle in. He was constantly learning the new offense,
Speaker 5: having to get on the same page with the new coach,
Speaker 5: when really the coach really needs to gear the offense
Speaker 5: to the players that they have.
Speaker 2: By the way, Braden fisks forty faster than Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: ran at the combine. I just find that amazing for
Speaker 2: the red shirt senior transfer to FSU from Western Michigan.
Speaker 2: All right, Jim, I'm going to take a break. We'll
Speaker 2: have one more segment with you with Tom Fair. I'm
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Speaker 2: taking care of combine duty. We're headed back there tomorrow
Speaker 2: to here quarterback Caleb william and Drake May and Jayden
Speaker 2: Daniels and all those guys that Jim the Lion to
Speaker 2: get in. There is going to be interesting. People are
Speaker 2: saying this is going to start showing up at five am.
Speaker 2: Because if people can understand in the old days, you know,
Speaker 2: you'd get one or two guys and you'd have a
Speaker 2: lot of room to operate and you can actually ask questions.
Speaker 2: But now they bring in ten or twelve players at
Speaker 2: once and you have to pick your your lane. But
Speaker 2: the crowd will be around Caleb Williams, that's just the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter. And there's TV cameras and a
Speaker 2: lot of reporters and you're not going to be able
Speaker 2: to even hear what he has to say, so you
Speaker 2: may have to wait to hear it later. But what
Speaker 2: are your expectations. What kind of questions do you think
Speaker 2: he's going to get?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're going to get a ton of
Speaker 5: questions one and it's just totally different now, Jeff, I
Speaker 5: think about when I first started with Serious, there were
Speaker 5: only two hundred and fifty credentials offered by the NFL.
Speaker 5: Now there's over twelve, over two thousand media credentials that
Speaker 5: are approved by the NFL. Because this has became now
Speaker 5: a TV event, right and the media comes down here
Speaker 5: and it's it's a big event, and now they're broadcasting
Speaker 5: it on TV and it's somewhat must watch a TV
Speaker 5: But yeah, I do think everybody's going to surround Caleb Williams.
Speaker 5: You know, he is projected to be the number one
Speaker 5: overall quarterback taken. I do think he's been well prepped,
Speaker 5: much like his the release of the statement the other
Speaker 5: day about how much he, you know, would love to
Speaker 5: be drafted by Chicago and he's talking about deep Tis
Speaker 5: Pizza and Sirius Tower, and you know, somebody prepped him.
Speaker 5: You know, somebody prepped him to say the things that
Speaker 5: he did. And I think he'll be prepped tomorrow and
Speaker 5: very polished with how he deals with the media. He's
Speaker 5: not going to show his cards and we know he's
Speaker 5: not going to do a lot down here, but the
Speaker 5: media is part of it because his camp wants him
Speaker 5: to have his story told. And that's just part of
Speaker 5: the test match that goes in to the NFL draft nowadays.
Speaker 2: Ask each of you want to start with Tom and
Speaker 2: then Jim pick it up, pick up the baton. What
Speaker 2: do you need to hear from him? Sylvia and Wado
Speaker 2: asked me that same question. I said, I want to
Speaker 2: see and hear the depth of his love of the game.
Speaker 2: And sometimes that can't be rehearsed, it's just comes out organically.
Speaker 2: What do you want to hear?
Speaker 3: You know he started and now he's put that ball
Speaker 3: in motion.
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's any injury concerns throughout his
Speaker 4: college career that we should be concerned about. Is he
Speaker 4: trying to hide something that's been bothering him. Is that
Speaker 4: why he doesn't want to do the medical Does he
Speaker 4: just not want to take that time up. So I
Speaker 4: would be interesting to, you know, just hear it from him,
Speaker 4: to say if there's any concerns about you know, any
Speaker 4: any issues that may come up in the future. I
Speaker 4: don't know if he'll answer him honestly, but I would
Speaker 4: like to know that. But you know, I'm I think,
Speaker 4: like Jim said, he's been prepped to talk enthusiastically about
Speaker 4: any of the top cities that are up up in
Speaker 4: this draft, and you know, I don't think that he'll
Speaker 4: you know, you can ask him a question to really
Speaker 4: get an honest answer out of him. But just because
Speaker 4: now I have medical medical concerns, if he's not willing
Speaker 4: to stand in front of an X ray machine or
Speaker 4: get tested by the doctors when they look at your
Speaker 4: knee manipulation and the other things.
Speaker 5: They do, well, I think from his standpoint, that's a
Speaker 5: big mistake because as we know, they always have the
Speaker 5: medical rechecks, and at some point he's going to have
Speaker 5: to give the medicals to all the teams that potentially
Speaker 5: would be interested in him. There's no team that's going
Speaker 5: to sign off on just drafting him without having the medical.
Speaker 5: And so if this is unprecedented for a player to
Speaker 5: do this, this could be unprecedented for a team that says, hey,
Speaker 5: you don't give us some medical or taking you off
Speaker 5: our board. And I hate to be as blunt as that,
Speaker 5: but your body is your resume, quite frankly, and teams
Speaker 5: need to push back a little bit because that's what
Speaker 5: this Indianapolis combine was designed for. But any one of
Speaker 5: those teams that potentially and obviously the Bears are in
Speaker 5: the number one pole position to do it, they're going
Speaker 5: to get the medical and they will put him through
Speaker 5: a workout whether he likes it or not, because if
Speaker 5: he doesn't, then they may take him off their board too,
Speaker 5: No different than any other team, because those are what
Speaker 5: the fact finding, mission guided discovery that teams are looking
Speaker 5: for when they were to make that type of investment
Speaker 5: into a player who was refusing to do so.
Speaker 2: Jim, have you altered any of your thinking on any
Speaker 2: of the top quarterbacks, and that includes like JJ McCarthy
Speaker 2: and Michael Penis and Bone Knicks, not just the big
Speaker 2: three that we're all discussing that could go one, two,
Speaker 2: three in the draft. Because of who you've spoken to
Speaker 2: scouts or your own analysis of the tape and just
Speaker 2: your research.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Jayden Daniels is going to leap frog
Speaker 5: Drake May and like getting him from North Carolina. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I do think you will. I think teams are really
Speaker 5: he in order the way I hear it from teams,
Speaker 5: they look at him as another Lamar Jackson, who's what
Speaker 5: a two time league MVP now right, So that's the
Speaker 5: feeling they're getting about Jayden Daniels. I do think Michael
Speaker 5: Pennix is going to be big on the medical but
Speaker 5: I do think he will go in the first round.
Speaker 5: I'm somewhat surprised at how high a lot of teams
Speaker 5: look at JJ McCarthy from University Michigan. A lot of
Speaker 5: teams have him in the top twenty right now, which
Speaker 5: surprises me. I personally don't rate him that high, and
Speaker 5: not that I don't like him, but I just think
Speaker 5: that's too high for him. I think he's more of
Speaker 5: a system guy on a very talented team in my opinion.
Speaker 5: But a lot of people will go back and say, well,
Speaker 5: go look at the TCU game with him. He threw
Speaker 5: it all over the lot. Michigan has eighteen players down
Speaker 5: here at the Combine. They are a very good football team.
Speaker 5: I personally think he's overrated, and I think if you
Speaker 5: look at a guy like bo Nicks, I don't think
Speaker 5: he's going in the first round. I think he's a
Speaker 5: six year player who's kind of at his ceiling right now.
Speaker 5: You know he's got sixty one games played in college,
Speaker 5: so I think you know you've seen him at his best.
Speaker 5: But Michael Pennix's guy I'm interested in. I think his medicals,
Speaker 5: if they prove true, I think he's a guy you'd
Speaker 5: want to take in the first round. So I see
Speaker 5: probably five guys going in the first round.
Speaker 2: And lastly, before we let you going off, Tom ask
Speaker 2: one more question as well. But in terms of everything else,
Speaker 2: is there a position group that you're most intrigued watching?
Speaker 2: And you're watching certainly the stuff today from the defensive
Speaker 2: line and linebacker level that you really want to see.
Speaker 2: I know we're going to watch those quarterbacks on Saturday
Speaker 2: but any group that you need to see to verify
Speaker 2: some things or to push up, especially as it pertains
Speaker 2: to the Bears, who you know, I would think edge safety,
Speaker 2: not not that they won't fill those needs in free agency,
Speaker 2: but receiver, those type of things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think receivers. You know, there's all kinds of
Speaker 5: good receivers and they come in all sizes that seem
Speaker 5: to be that seems to be the case the past
Speaker 5: few years. I am interested in these pass rushers. One
Speaker 5: specifically is the Missouri kid Darius Robinson, who ran I
Speaker 5: think to four to nine to one today at two
Speaker 5: hundred and eighty seven pounds. I mean, this guy is
Speaker 5: like to me, he's like a Cam Jordan type of player.
Speaker 5: I think he's unique. I do think there are linebackers there.
Speaker 5: You're unique. And I do think there are a lot
Speaker 5: of big corners in this draft. A lot of big
Speaker 5: corners in this draft, So that intrigues me. An offensive tackle,
Speaker 5: this is a good offensive line draft, you know. For
Speaker 5: Michael Haynes, I think I brought him up from yukon
Speaker 5: the Garden. There's good centers here. I think the Bears
Speaker 5: are positioned a draft a good center. Powers Johnson out
Speaker 5: there from Oregon is one to really keep your eye on.
Speaker 5: But a lot of good centers, a lot of good tackles,
Speaker 5: and some good guards so o line corner or pass
Speaker 5: rusher I think are interesting. I think all areas that
Speaker 5: should interest the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 4: You know, Jim, when you look at the tight end
Speaker 4: position and all the job requirement of that position in
Speaker 4: today's modern day game, you know, sometimes I find it
Speaker 4: difficult to see a solid evaluation of what the upside
Speaker 4: of is the of these tight ends. You know, you
Speaker 4: got bowers from origins and young kid kids like that.
Speaker 4: But is there a group of tight ends here that,
Speaker 4: when we talked about it last week, that Bears maybe
Speaker 4: should be interested in getting one similar to the template
Speaker 4: of Cole kmet in the versatility. Is there a talent
Speaker 4: amongst this group of guys?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I think if you look at Ben Sinnett
Speaker 5: from K State, check out this guy. I mean, this
Speaker 5: guy walks on at K State, He's got a full
Speaker 5: ride to South Dakota. He walks on to K State.
Speaker 5: He tells his dad, dad, I'm gonna earn a scholarship
Speaker 5: in a year, And his dad's like, hey, man, why
Speaker 5: don't he just take South Dakota that way, I don't
Speaker 5: got to pay a year of school, right, So he says, Dad,
Speaker 5: I'll earn a scholarship in the year, goes to k State,
Speaker 5: gains forty pounds, earns a scholarship in his first year.
Speaker 5: And this dude's a player. He's a player. He's a
Speaker 5: movement tight end. He's gonna get better at his inline stuff.
Speaker 5: But this guy has earned it everywhere he's played. And he,
Speaker 5: like I said, he walked on and he would he
Speaker 5: was not a big guy. He said he's got the
Speaker 5: cle He did his first day and said, I thought
Speaker 5: I made a mistake, but he said, I'm going to
Speaker 5: see it through. And he made a promise to his
Speaker 5: dad and he filled it. The other guy is Theo
Speaker 5: Johnson from Penn State Legit six six, two fifty seven.
Speaker 5: You should hear the story of his family. Crazy moms
Speaker 5: from their husband was abusing her. She took their six kids,
Speaker 5: walked away from the marriage. She now has become a lawyer.
Speaker 5: I talked to this young man today. He's the real
Speaker 5: deal and he can do it all. And he's got
Speaker 5: the frame, the character, the discipline, the drive. Everything you're
Speaker 5: looking for. He's a very interesting guy that I'm sure
Speaker 5: a lot of teams want to coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was there listening to that story and he
Speaker 2: was so he says, I am proud to be here.
Speaker 2: My mom did everything for us. They were homeless for
Speaker 2: a long while and and everybody in the family is
Speaker 2: on its way to having successful life. And she's a
Speaker 2: partner in the law firm. You got that one last thing.
Speaker 4: I will just say that, Senat because you talk about
Speaker 4: the template of Colecombett. You know, in high school letter
Speaker 4: and base golf, tennis, track and hockey, So you talk
Speaker 4: about athleticism, versatility.
Speaker 3: He's got a little bit of in his athletic background.
Speaker 2: All Right, big Jim, I know you got a big den.
Speaker 2: Where are you going tonight?
Speaker 5: We're going to Tony's Nice Little Tony don't know.
Speaker 2: It, don't know it never been well. You guys have
Speaker 2: a great time. You guys have a lot to celebrate.
Speaker 2: It's been a heck of a run with everything you
Speaker 2: guys have done here in the off season, with the
Speaker 2: Senior Bowl, Super Bowl, now this, then the Pro Days,
Speaker 2: then the Draft. You guys work hard over there. We'll
Speaker 2: see you up there again. I'll be back tomorrow, guys.
Speaker 5: Good to be with you, all right.
Speaker 2: Jim Miller here on Bears Weekly. Coming up next. We're
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Speaker 2: We're talking combine, We're talking quarterbacks, Jeff Joniek and Tom Thayer.
Speaker 2: Interesting stuff from Big Jim Miller, as he always has
Speaker 2: a unique perspective. He talks to so many of these
Speaker 2: guys every single day. And I was watching him yesterday.
Speaker 2: He's on his set, they're doing morning interviews for their
Speaker 2: afternoon show. But then he's walking around and he's just
Speaker 2: talking with coaches, executives, and it's just a constant. This
Speaker 2: is what it is during the period of time you're available.
Speaker 2: And in the old days it was all day. Now
Speaker 2: they've taken these interviews Tom and they're twenty minute chunks
Speaker 2: of groups of players, and so one day it may
Speaker 2: start at eight am and be done by noon. Today
Speaker 2: it started at nine am and was done by eleven thirty.
Speaker 2: And it's really condensed the time the players have to
Speaker 2: be available, and it creates than a day of constant
Speaker 2: search for other information, and the halls are lined up
Speaker 2: with reporters trying to snag somebody to find out a nugget,
Speaker 2: and that's what it's become, camping out looking for info.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you think of every interview Jim starts
Speaker 4: with the background of being a quarterback. In no matter
Speaker 4: what player, what position coach you're talking to, what player
Speaker 4: you're getting ready to talk to, it's always, you know,
Speaker 4: comes from the Jim's ideals from a quarterback and how
Speaker 4: it fits along to the different position and position coaches
Speaker 4: that he gets to talk to. So he has, you know,
Speaker 4: it has a different an interesting take on it, just
Speaker 4: like I would have the same as an ex offensive
Speaker 4: lineman if I was talking to linebackers, defensive linemen. You know,
Speaker 4: different members of different coaching staffs. I would have different
Speaker 4: thought processes as well. But you know, Jim's got a
Speaker 4: ton of experience of you know, talking to a lot
Speaker 4: of different people in.
Speaker 2: The league, don't I don't think we're talking about tackles enough.
Speaker 2: I mean, these tackles do these tackles are a really
Speaker 2: good times? Let's say they are very good. Resumes they
Speaker 2: project to being very good. Everything's a projection, obviously, but
Speaker 2: that are there could be seven or eight first round tackles.
Speaker 4: Well, well, you know, you know, taking the consideration right now,
Speaker 4: what's the second most important position that Bears have to
Speaker 4: get right this year? And when you consider free agency
Speaker 4: in the draft, and it's probably center. And we won't
Speaker 4: talk about center Jeff until the third day of the draft,
Speaker 4: which is a shame.
Speaker 2: But I think you know it's a Now, this is
Speaker 2: a question for you you and know better. So, whomever
Speaker 2: the quarterback is for the Bears starting Week one, do
Speaker 2: you want a rookie center or do you want a
Speaker 2: veteran center to take some of the load off the quarterback.
Speaker 4: That's not a prerequisite for me, okay, I want a
Speaker 4: talented center that throws a really efficient shotgun snap back.
Speaker 4: Considering what percentage of the time you're in a shotgun
Speaker 4: offense nowadays. I want a guy that has the ability
Speaker 4: to be a leader immediately.
Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want a shy, passive center.
Speaker 4: I want a guy that comes in here that has
Speaker 4: a type a personality with an attitude, and a guy
Speaker 4: that is familiar with the weight room. You know, I
Speaker 4: was talking to someone about something. You know what they said,
Speaker 4: what's a different evaluation you would do uh with a guy.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to get to know him a little
Speaker 3: bit better.
Speaker 4: And I would take an offensive lineman, I would take
Speaker 4: a position player, and I would take him in the
Speaker 4: weight room and I would know. I would say this,
Speaker 4: put one eighty five on the bar for me in
Speaker 4: and now if they got to okay, that's a forty
Speaker 4: five on each side, and then you got to put
Speaker 4: a twenty.
Speaker 3: That was you know.
Speaker 4: So I want to see how repetitiously you've been in
Speaker 4: that weight room to tell me a little bit about
Speaker 4: the reason why you're here. If if again, if your
Speaker 4: need information fed to you about how to work in
Speaker 4: a weight room, that tells me a little bit about
Speaker 4: your off season preparation. So if I have a center
Speaker 4: and I have a guy I want, I'm concerned about
Speaker 4: his two twenty five reps. I'm concerned not necessarily his forty.
Speaker 4: I'm concerned about his ten. I'm concerned about his his
Speaker 4: vertical jump.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: So the explosive aspects of those type of judgmented players
Speaker 4: is what I'm interested in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be nervous sitting with you in an interview
Speaker 2: because I'll tell you what your demands are going to
Speaker 2: be different, and they're going to be football related and
Speaker 2: not going to be any you know. I'm saying this
Speaker 2: in in a positive way and a compliment to you,
Speaker 2: because you would you'd get right in there with them
Speaker 2: and you'd mix it up a little bit. You know.
Speaker 4: It's like I would say, I just want to see
Speaker 4: how well they know their way around the room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, these guys all have trainers that
Speaker 2: are loading those bars, so I don't know if they
Speaker 2: can I don't know if they're computing.
Speaker 4: Listen, as much time throughout your high school and your
Speaker 4: college career that you spent in a weight room, you
Speaker 4: become so familiar with way to add it up from
Speaker 4: the forty five to the thirty five, to the twenty
Speaker 4: five to the ten, the five, and the two and
Speaker 4: a half.
Speaker 3: You can ask me any combination.
Speaker 4: Of what you want onto a bar, and I can
Speaker 4: go in and put it on in a second's notice.
Speaker 3: If you've got to sit there and do it with a.
Speaker 4: Calculator, you're telling me all I need to know about
Speaker 4: your investment in the weight room.
Speaker 2: Great Coachsel does great work for NFL films. He's breaking
Speaker 2: down video and game tape he's done at his entire career.
Speaker 2: I ran in into this morning in Indianapolis to talk
Speaker 2: quarterbacks and other things.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously, you know you have Kaylee Williams, you
Speaker 6: have Drake may have Jaye Daniels. They are the guys
Speaker 6: being talked about right now, is you know the top guys.
Speaker 6: You know, I think all of them have really positive
Speaker 6: traits and and are good prospects. And you know, I
Speaker 6: always think in terms of these guys as prospects. Until
Speaker 6: a guy plays in the NFL, it's hard for me
Speaker 6: to talk about them as anything more. You know, we've
Speaker 6: seen in the past when players are talked about generational
Speaker 6: and that kind of stuff, and you know, it doesn't
Speaker 6: necessarily work out because it's it's a little harder in
Speaker 6: the NFL than it is in college.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: I think Williams is a really interesting guy. You know,
Speaker 6: he's clearly gifted, clearly gifted, controls the ball really well.
Speaker 6: He's an easy thrower of the football, obviously, can make
Speaker 6: wow plays above the x's and o's and off script.
Speaker 6: You know, played enough that doesn't necessarily translate really well
Speaker 6: to the league. So on tape you probably didn't see
Speaker 6: as much, you know, timing rhythm, throws, hit the back football,
Speaker 6: come out his own window, throws, things that you have
Speaker 6: to do in the league. My guess is he's more
Speaker 6: than capable of doing that, but you still would like
Speaker 6: to see it more and then so you don't know
Speaker 6: until you see until you see it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I think Drake May, I think he'll wow people a
Speaker 6: little bit because he's going to be so big. You know,
Speaker 6: he's going to be not quite as big as Josh
Speaker 6: Allen or Justin Herbert, but kind of like that. So
Speaker 6: I think he'll be an impressive physical specimen and he's a.
Speaker 3: Great athlete for that size.
Speaker 6: He's a very easy thrower of the football. It's like
Speaker 6: Joe Burrow with a better arm, like he throws it
Speaker 6: very easily. But he's got a few concerns on tape,
Speaker 6: you know. I think he misses a few too many
Speaker 6: easy ones. I think he drifts a little bit in
Speaker 6: the pocket, which causes some problems for him. But somebody's
Speaker 6: gonna look at his traits and sizes a trait and
Speaker 6: they're going to feel like this guy is has what
Speaker 6: it takes, and you know, whether he's ready to play
Speaker 6: week one. That's that there's ten different variables that come
Speaker 6: into play there. Jaden Daniels is a guy that's really
Speaker 6: really grown on me. I watched him last summer from
Speaker 6: twenty twenty two. I've watched a ton of him from
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three. I actually spoke to someone who said
Speaker 6: he's up to two twelve. I don't know what the
Speaker 6: numbers are. We'll find out, you know, at some point
Speaker 6: here soon, you know, because obviously there are people concerned
Speaker 6: about his bill that he was, you know, lean, and
Speaker 6: obviously he's not as great a runner as he is.
Speaker 6: I think one of the things that's really impressive about
Speaker 6: him is he just uses that as a parachute. He
Speaker 6: doesn't drop back and look to run. That's his last resort.
Speaker 6: So you know, he's really comfortable.
Speaker 3: In the pocket.
Speaker 6: He's got good mechanics, good technique, not a gun, but
Speaker 6: can make every throw. I think there's enough on film
Speaker 6: with him that shows that he can make the kinds
Speaker 6: of throws you need to making the NFL. To me,
Speaker 6: he's kind of an ascending guy. And I heard I
Speaker 6: actually spoke to a coach who interviewed him and said
Speaker 6: he's super impressive as a kid, like super impressive, like
Speaker 6: you want him in your quarterback room. So you know,
Speaker 6: those are the main three guys.
Speaker 2: I guess the big question is no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: The big question is who jumps into that now number
Speaker 2: four out of those, you know, because it's a lot
Speaker 2: of taste, whatever your tast After that.
Speaker 6: You're starting to get into scheme adaptability, coach, who a
Speaker 6: coach feels runs their system, you know, at a higher level.
Speaker 6: And then you know, I don't think anybody next is
Speaker 6: going to be a top ten guy in my view.
Speaker 6: You know, I particularly like bo Nicks as someone who
Speaker 6: you know, but he's a scheme guy. I mean, I
Speaker 6: think he's an efficient player with movement ability. Some might
Speaker 6: like JJ McCarthy because of what he was in college
Speaker 6: her and an NFL system at a relatively high level.
Speaker 6: I don't think his traits on tape are really high level,
Speaker 6: but you know, he's he played at a high level
Speaker 6: in college football and ran a system really well.
Speaker 2: And won a national championship with seventeen of his teammates.
Speaker 2: At the scouting combine, I cut that short a little
Speaker 2: bit to give you a moment to talk about it
Speaker 2: before we go to break, But we were walking and talking,
Speaker 2: so there's no notes that he knows it cold like.
Speaker 2: It was a very fascinating interview. I talked him for
Speaker 2: like twenty minutes and went deep dive on everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so if you look at the three quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: and you know, you look at Caleb Williams, Caleb Williams
Speaker 4: reminds me of a guy like Lincoln Riley always counted
Speaker 4: on him as a bailout. He'll bail me out quarterback.
Speaker 4: He didn't have great receivers, he didn't have great offensive line,
Speaker 4: but Caleb will make a play that.
Speaker 3: Is going to get us out of this.
Speaker 4: The worst game that he played was probably Notre Dame
Speaker 4: game when he tried to do too much, but I
Speaker 4: still believe in Cable Caleb Williams and his throwing ability.
Speaker 3: When you look at Drake.
Speaker 4: May, the thing that concerns me about him, you though
Speaker 4: he's a big, strong guy, he never has the right
Speaker 4: foundation of his feet and he counts on his arm
Speaker 4: to get the job done.
Speaker 3: I think if you don't.
Speaker 4: Have a solid throwing foundation, you create inaccuracies in your
Speaker 4: own decision making process of trying to throw the ball.
Speaker 4: And one thing about Daniels from LSU, He's lived under
Speaker 4: the pressure of one of the most pressurized coaches in
Speaker 4: all of college football, and that's Brian Kelly. I think
Speaker 4: one of the biggest things that you can learn on
Speaker 4: how to handle pressure is when you have a coach
Speaker 4: like Brian Kelly and the mount of pressure that he
Speaker 4: puts on you to be successful.
Speaker 2: And started with Herman Edwards in Arizona State before transferring
Speaker 2: to LSU and having that long crease played a lot
Speaker 2: of football at the college level. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll have more on the combine from Bruce Feldman. He
Speaker 2: writes for The Athletic This is Bears Weekly at ESPN
Speaker 2: one thousand of the Bears Ready Network is.
Speaker 1: Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears for twenty
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Speaker 2: borrow Jeff and Tom here on. He has been one
Speaker 2: thousand of the Bears Radio Network. Bruce Feldman, another member
Speaker 2: of the media. We're trying to get a lot of opinions,
Speaker 2: a lot of thoughts about the quarterbacks. And I was
Speaker 2: impressed with some of the writers from around the country
Speaker 2: and the football enthusiasts that are covering the sport, because
Speaker 2: all of them are not pure writers. They're football analysts
Speaker 2: that have podcasts or whatever. But a lot of these
Speaker 2: guys asking the teammates or the opponents of Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: and Drake May how they defended them Tommy throughout the
Speaker 2: course of their careers, and the different respect and for
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams. In the case of Caleb Williams, it was
Speaker 2: got to keep him in the pocket, otherwise he's going
Speaker 2: to kill you. And just that mobility, the second reactive
Speaker 2: throws that he could make off off schedule and off
Speaker 2: and a magician back there, So that was consistent. And
Speaker 2: then with Drake May just you know, he's he's got
Speaker 2: a laser and he just he does not he's not
Speaker 2: afraid of ripping off a pass and he'll fit it
Speaker 2: in the tight windows. And everybody respecting what Jaden Daniels
Speaker 2: over the course of his careers grown into. So that's
Speaker 2: from players, and I think we're hearing a lot of
Speaker 2: that too from the media. And then of course the
Speaker 2: discussion about, you know, justin fields and what's going to
Speaker 2: happen there, that's the other main topic. It's a topic
Speaker 2: every single minute up there. What's going to happen? What
Speaker 2: will the Bears do well?
Speaker 4: I think it's a wise approach to go and evaluate
Speaker 4: the mindset of players that played against him. But if
Speaker 4: you go back and you look at the teams that
Speaker 4: has had success against Patrick Mahomes since he's been in
Speaker 4: the NFL, and it's pressuring him inside the pocket and
Speaker 4: making him getting a retreat position, and then that's when
Speaker 4: you try to make him make sacrifices in his accuracy
Speaker 4: in locating a target. And I don't you know, maybe
Speaker 4: that's the same thing Caleb Williams is going to face
Speaker 4: throughout his NFL career is being you know, having you know,
Speaker 4: these guys to keep them inside the pocket. But what
Speaker 4: happens you face a team that has a deficiency in
Speaker 4: closing the ranks around a pocket and he's able to
Speaker 4: use his fluidity to find targets to get outside the
Speaker 4: offense and open up an offense that's more designed to
Speaker 4: you know, hit what he sees and everything. So, you know,
Speaker 4: any any of the quarterbacks, you're gonna go out and
Speaker 4: you're evaluate the players that played against them, and they're
Speaker 4: going to tell you something different about each one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how they their scheme, how they prepared for
Speaker 2: him also, so that was also very different how they
Speaker 2: chose to defend these players. Also, you just hit upon
Speaker 2: something that I'm answering every question at the combine. I've
Speaker 2: done a lot of interviews national well, other teams, whatever,
Speaker 2: and you know, what are the what's your focus beyond
Speaker 2: the court line of scrimmage remains because if you're talking
Speaker 2: about playoff football, what we saw and we texted each
Speaker 2: other these things, it's it's it's pressure. If you can't
Speaker 2: protect your quarterback late in the season to get into
Speaker 2: the playoffs or in the playoffs, like you're referring to it,
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes against uh you know a couple of years
Speaker 2: ago when the when the Tampa BA Tampa Bay was ferocious,
Speaker 2: and if you can't apply pressure that gets home, you're
Speaker 2: gonna lose well, So that is important.
Speaker 4: Go and look at some of the games that the
Speaker 4: Bears played this year, Tampa and Tampa. They weren't able
Speaker 4: to close a line of scrimmage and they got beat
Speaker 4: down there Kansas City. In Kansas City, they weren't able
Speaker 4: to stop the line of scrimmage and block Chris Jones
Speaker 4: even though he just came aboard and the rest of
Speaker 4: their defensive lineman, and you saw the end results of it.
Speaker 4: But you know, you have to think about within your
Speaker 4: own division if you can't go out there and put
Speaker 4: up a pass blocking force against Green Bay Packers. Because
Speaker 4: the Bears have run the ball pretty well against Green Bay,
Speaker 4: but eventually they're gonna have to match wits with Jordan
Speaker 4: Love and that's gonna be about pass protection in getting
Speaker 4: your receivers.
Speaker 3: Out into the open, all right.
Speaker 2: This conversation I had with Bruce Feldman again, he writes
Speaker 2: for the athletic college football. He is very popular for
Speaker 2: his Feldman freaks, the unbelievable athletic accomplishments of some of
Speaker 2: these athletes that were watching right now at the Combine
Speaker 2: over the course of their careers. But also a sideline reporter.
Speaker 2: He's been in many games of some of these players
Speaker 2: and quarterbacks on the sidelines multiple times. But we start
Speaker 2: with the expensive and very adventurous journey that almost every
Speaker 2: team takes and trying to find a quarterback.
Speaker 7: No, it absolutely is because you're the franchise. You're the
Speaker 7: person who's going to change everything, and like I said,
Speaker 7: they get it wrong. It's a position where guys get
Speaker 7: hurt a lot, you know, and even the ones who
Speaker 7: we think are oh, this guy is got everything, you
Speaker 7: find out there's something missing, you know. And I just
Speaker 7: think that that's why, you know, that's why this is
Speaker 7: a really interesting draft, especially because it's so top heavy
Speaker 7: with franchise quarterbacks. If you asked me last year, and
Speaker 7: I feel like I've said this, I was more sold
Speaker 7: on CJ than Bryce Young. Part of it was CJ's
Speaker 7: just a physically bigger guy, but I thought he had
Speaker 7: everything you're looking for, and I didn't think he would
Speaker 7: be as great as he was as a rookie. But
Speaker 7: I think you're just trying to get to the most
Speaker 7: consensus in your head and kind of squeeze out the
Speaker 7: most wiggle room, and that's what that's kind of goes
Speaker 7: into this.
Speaker 2: So how do you evaluate this group.
Speaker 7: I think it's a really good group. I think Caleb
Speaker 7: could be special. Drake May is really good. I don't
Speaker 7: know what. Like Jayden Daniels blew up this year. He
Speaker 7: really improved. I'm a little more skeptical on him physically,
Speaker 7: you know, he's not He's got a narrow frame, guy
Speaker 7: who can run, and he did you know, had a
Speaker 7: statistically terrific season at LSU, had two great receivers. I'm
Speaker 7: a little more not as if you told me he's
Speaker 7: the third pick in the draft, I'm not. I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I would be a little leery on that one. I
Speaker 7: like Michael Pennick Junior a lot. I know he has
Speaker 7: the injury history. I think he was as impressive to
Speaker 7: me he was the most. He was my heisman vote
Speaker 7: number one. I like his character. I like that he
Speaker 7: has faced heavy at personal adversity come through the other
Speaker 7: side and is open to talk about it. I think,
Speaker 7: you know, it depends on what situation he goes into.
Speaker 7: I'm a big fan of his. I you know, he's
Speaker 7: one of the guys I'm most interested to see how
Speaker 7: he turns out and everything.
Speaker 2: I loved watching the Pac twelve this year. I mean
Speaker 2: early in the season, you know, and then just the receipt.
Speaker 2: Roma Doonzay I fell in love with immediately. And while
Speaker 2: everyone talks about Marvin Harrison and he will be great,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Roma Dunsay and a bunch of others are
Speaker 2: not not players to sleep on. Would you learn about
Speaker 2: Kaleb Williams, and I'm sure you did some of his
Speaker 2: games on the sidelines. What can you tell us that?
Speaker 7: I think he managed some things pretty well, you know,
Speaker 7: like I know guys on that staff who really people
Speaker 7: like him. I just think he was handed a different
Speaker 7: set of problems than a lot of other quarterbacks. The
Speaker 7: offensive line this past year was terrible. The defense was
Speaker 7: so bad that you know, I used this line before
Speaker 7: that an NFL scout had told me where It's like
Speaker 7: he's trying to hit a five run home run every play,
Speaker 7: And you wonder, do you pick up bad habits from
Speaker 7: doing it that way, you.
Speaker 2: Can definitely happen. You think about some I mean, I
Speaker 2: think a David Carr.
Speaker 7: I was gonna say that too. They're obviously different style quarterbacks,
Speaker 7: but David Carr got sacked. I don't know what the
Speaker 7: number of, like seventy five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And so I was seeing ghosts after while.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know who else said seeing ghosts? That
Speaker 7: was another USC quarterbacks, Sam Darnald. And I think Caleb
Speaker 7: is much more talented than Donald. But I do think
Speaker 7: there's something where you may have to unlearn some things
Speaker 7: that got worn into you. So if he goes to
Speaker 7: the Washington and he's going home that's where he's from.
Speaker 7: You know, he'll go to Cliff Kingsbury, who knows him
Speaker 7: very well from his time last year at USC. That's
Speaker 7: favorable circumstances. But like I hope, you know, I again,
Speaker 7: like you heard a lot of stuff about like you
Speaker 7: know how some of the dads of his father's thoughts
Speaker 7: on what needs to happen and everything, and it's like
Speaker 7: I change the game is a thing that can be
Speaker 7: a little leery. Like you know, Tom Brady did some
Speaker 7: you know some you know, stuff way beyond football.
Speaker 6: But he did it.
Speaker 7: Long after he won Super Bowls. To go in and
Speaker 7: talk about these things, I think is maybe puts a
Speaker 7: lot on your son, especially when your son's not that old.
Speaker 2: Jake may in the same situation, different send circumstances in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three versus twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: Two different for him to also fill Long was more
Speaker 7: of an air raid guy. That was the OC he
Speaker 7: had previously, and then new system last year handled it well.
Speaker 7: I think he was a I don't say he was
Speaker 7: flying under the radar, but at least relative to Caleb
Speaker 7: and the other guys in the Heisman race, he certainly was.
Speaker 7: Everybody I know who's been around him likes him personally.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: Again, if I think he's going to be a really,
Speaker 7: really good NFL quarterback, I don't know what people would
Speaker 7: fault him on. I just and I do think it's
Speaker 7: good that he not good for it wasn't good for
Speaker 7: him at North Carolina, but just that he's come through
Speaker 7: a couple of systems and I don't think he I
Speaker 7: don't think he buckled with any of it, and.
Speaker 2: No, he did not. He was their team leader. Great guy.
Speaker 2: Loved some of the features I've seen on him, will
Speaker 2: pick up Tom's thoughts and all that in our final
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Speaker 2: Remaining moments thought, you know br.
Speaker 4: Well on, Bruce Felman and everybody else that has an
Speaker 4: opinion about the quarterback. No one is an agreement on
Speaker 4: the opinion about the.
Speaker 3: Quarterback, which scares me.
Speaker 4: Well, I wish that we could do a show here
Speaker 4: on a Thursday night and take calls for the whole
Speaker 4: one hour in only about the quarterback position, and then
Speaker 4: tally them up at the end of the show to
Speaker 4: see where they wanted to go. And I bet you'd
Speaker 4: be one third, one third, one third, you know, one third,
Speaker 4: keep justin, one third, keep get Caleb, or one third
Speaker 4: you know one of the other guys, Drake or Daniels.
Speaker 4: So it's just that no matter who you interview and
Speaker 4: the different people that you talked to down at the
Speaker 4: combine and will continue to talk to you. There's never
Speaker 4: gonna be an agreement in the room of what your
Speaker 4: decision you should be you should be making. So when
Speaker 4: they show those of Ryan polls up with the combine,
Speaker 4: that's why he is the most interesting man in the
Speaker 4: combine this year, because everybody's trying to pick his brain
Speaker 4: and think exactly what he's thinking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and it's a billion dollar decision for
Speaker 2: a billion dollar franchise. Yes it is, and it you know,
Speaker 2: and this is a listen. They invite it. You know,
Speaker 2: they'd rather be in the pressure department than not, so
Speaker 2: that you're in the highest level of sports, and they
Speaker 2: embraced this kind of stuff for sure, only.
Speaker 4: If I was hoisting the Super Bowl Trophy at the
Speaker 4: end of the season and I was the non pressure
Speaker 4: of that pick.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, it's been a fun show. Headed back
Speaker 2: to Indy. We'll have another show next week on Bears Weekly.
Speaker 2: We got our podcast Bears et Cetera coming up on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have to start looking at free agency
Speaker 2: time in our final thirty seconds because some of those
Speaker 2: needs we talked about will be filled in free agency.
Speaker 2: We both feel about free agency the same way. I think.
Speaker 2: Don't don't blow out the.
Speaker 4: Budget exactly, you know, and look for an immediate starter
Speaker 4: if you're going to go out there and you can
Speaker 4: get the return on a TJ. Edwards, Tremain, Tremaine Edmonds
Speaker 4: and those types of guys that bring him on.
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