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Speaker 2: Riding a three game winning streak, the Bears getting ready
Speaker 2: to head to Washington, d C. Actually landover Maryland for
Speaker 2: the matchup against the Washington Commanders. It feels big, Tom Bayir,
Speaker 2: it feels big here on ESPN one thousand of the
Speaker 2: Bears Radio Network. This is Bears Weekly after a bye
Speaker 2: and a big win in London. This just feels big
Speaker 2: now four and two and things headed in the right direction.
Speaker 3: Four and two, and we've had two weeks to talk
Speaker 3: about it. You know, you always have that feeling when
Speaker 3: you're on a roll. You'd like to stay on a roll.
Speaker 3: But fortunately after the Bears came back from London, they
Speaker 3: had a little bit of time to readjust and get
Speaker 3: ready for this eleven game push. Because I think the
Speaker 3: fun of the season hasn't really started yet. It's just
Speaker 3: kind of pushing that boulder over the hill in waiting
Speaker 3: for this thing to start gaining some momentum steam and
Speaker 3: there would be nothing better than a victory in landover Maryland.
Speaker 2: Coming up tonight, We've got a full show, lots to cover,
Speaker 2: including Jack Samborne I sit down with us. We'll hear
Speaker 2: from the coordinators as per usual, also one on one
Speaker 2: with Travis Smith, the Bears defensive line coach on a
Speaker 2: fastly improved defensive line getting contributions from many and some
Speaker 2: other surprises along the way as well. Thanks to Justin
Speaker 2: Pottinger and Matt McMaster in the studios tonight, as well
Speaker 2: as Dan Brillly, Jordan Treadup, and the executive producer of
Speaker 2: The Bear's Ready to Network, Eric Ostrowski. Let's dig into
Speaker 2: the injury report, Tom Bear's perspective. Still know Jakwan Brisko
Speaker 2: or Tyder Gordon did not practice the last two days
Speaker 2: concussion and hamstring respectively. Tyreek Stevenson though on the field
Speaker 2: limit with a caff he missed the London game.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on the secondary.
Speaker 3: You know, calf in a hamstring. I kind of understand
Speaker 3: those injuries. Because of the severity of the pull, it
Speaker 3: usually takes a little bit of time to recover to
Speaker 3: get back up to realistic playing strength. My concern is
Speaker 3: with Jakwan Brisker if in fact he is still in
Speaker 3: concussion protocol after a two week period. I'm concerned about
Speaker 3: that because usually these guys are able to bounce back
Speaker 3: after a two week concussion protocol. And you know, maybe
Speaker 3: Jikwan will surprise us all and practice tomorrow, get the
Speaker 3: okay to play on Sunday afternoon and come back. But
Speaker 3: the other guys, they're great athletes, and sometimes when you're
Speaker 3: a great athlete, you have those types of tweaks that
Speaker 3: take a little while to heal.
Speaker 2: All right, there's a full compliment of players that practice
Speaker 2: full today that we have not seen for a while.
Speaker 2: Cornerback Terrell Smith, defensive lineman Zach Pickens, defensive end Jacob Martin.
Speaker 2: Since the first padded practice of training camp, Travis Homer
Speaker 2: has been on ir with a finger injury, and Scott Dally,
Speaker 2: the long snapper, missed the most of that game in
Speaker 2: London after covering a kick. He had a knee injury,
Speaker 2: but looks like he's full go and what are your
Speaker 2: thoughts on You know, there's a lot to choose from here.
Speaker 2: If you want to strengthen the depth of the roster
Speaker 2: with these guys possibly returning.
Speaker 5: Well, it makes practice more competitive.
Speaker 3: If you really want to earn a game day Jersey,
Speaker 3: you can't just go through practices with a lackluster attitude.
Speaker 3: Jacob Martin has to show some burst off the edge.
Speaker 3: Travis Homer has to show a little bit of burst
Speaker 3: from the running back position. Terrelle Smith has to show
Speaker 3: that he's healed up from that hip issue that he
Speaker 3: can go out there and play cornerback at an NFL level.
Speaker 3: So every one of these guys, including Zach Pickens, that
Speaker 3: are getting back in the mix, they got to prove
Speaker 3: to their specific position coaches that hey, coach, I'm ready
Speaker 3: to go and I want to be in consideration for
Speaker 3: that game day avation.
Speaker 2: So for Washington, Jade and Daniel still no practice, but
Speaker 2: the word is Tom from multiple reports that they're going
Speaker 2: to see how he looks on Friday.
Speaker 4: Where are you sitting on that.
Speaker 2: You're a veteran looking at these injury reports when you
Speaker 2: don't practice all week and then you try to go
Speaker 2: on Friday at the quarterback position.
Speaker 4: You're a rookie. You got a rib injury. We don't
Speaker 4: know the severity of it, but or what exactly it is.
Speaker 4: But what do you think.
Speaker 3: So when you go back and you watch the tape
Speaker 3: of the game, he hurt his rib on the very
Speaker 3: first play of the game and then suffered through about
Speaker 3: another ten plays before he came out of the game.
Speaker 3: In every single play after that, he kind of touched
Speaker 3: or grabbed the area that was bothering him. How what
Speaker 3: is his pain tolerance? Is he willing to take one
Speaker 3: of the most painful shot in the numbing business in
Speaker 3: the NFL in order to get on the field and
Speaker 3: get some relief over the period of time, or is
Speaker 3: it going to be such a painful situation for him
Speaker 3: that it's gonna effect infect his affect, his accuracy, his
Speaker 3: willingness to run. There was even a couple of runs
Speaker 3: after he injured it that he kind of laid down
Speaker 3: at the defender's feet. Listen, all due respect in the
Speaker 3: world to Jane Daniels. He has got a bright future
Speaker 3: ahead of him. He's got to do what is the
Speaker 3: safest for his future. And if he can take that
Speaker 3: pain numbing shot and he's willing to you might consider that.
Speaker 5: But if he doesn't, let Marcus Marrio to play.
Speaker 2: So you say pain numbing? Is the shot itself painful?
Speaker 3: The shot itself is one of the most painful shots
Speaker 3: that you could possibly take in order to try to get.
Speaker 5: Relief in the area.
Speaker 3: And the thing about shots in the NFL, you have
Speaker 3: to tell them specifically where you need that shot to
Speaker 3: go in, because if they're a little bit off, it
Speaker 3: cannot work as effectively as if it's exactly on the spot.
Speaker 3: And having had that shot before, it's not pretty. It
Speaker 3: keeps you up at night, and it's not fun going
Speaker 3: into that locker room before kickoff and say, okay, Doc,
Speaker 3: I'm ready, let's get this done.
Speaker 2: The interesting thing and talking to Travis Smith, the Bear's
Speaker 2: defensive line coach, what he tells his players in terms
Speaker 2: of the whoever plays it.
Speaker 4: It's mindless and faceless. You just play who plays in
Speaker 4: front of you.
Speaker 2: There's no name attached, So get ready for Marcus Mariota,
Speaker 2: get ready for Jade and Daniel, doesn't matter who plays.
Speaker 3: I think Eric Washington said that kind of the same
Speaker 3: thing at the podium. They're not going to change their
Speaker 3: offense specifics in the style and what they want to do.
Speaker 3: Because one quarterback is playing and the other ones not.
Speaker 3: It's about playing. The Washington Commanders they only install one offense.
Speaker 3: They don't install an offense for Jade Daniels and then
Speaker 3: one for Marcus Mariota. It's about one offense that the
Speaker 3: Commanders are all taught well.
Speaker 2: Jaydon Daniels off to a great start, and Marcus Mariota
Speaker 2: had a great game against Carolina and his performance completing
Speaker 2: better than seventy percent of his passes, a couple of
Speaker 2: touchdown throws, no interceptions. When we come back, we'll hear
Speaker 2: from Jack Sanborne and I met with him earlier today
Speaker 2: here at hallisaw. This is Bears Weekly on ESPN one thousand,
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Speaker 2: with Tom Thayer.
Speaker 4: I'm Jeff Jioniak.
Speaker 2: Joined our special guests as were brought to you by
Speaker 2: Igs Energy Bears linebacker Jack Sanbourne. He's been with us before.
Speaker 2: I know he'll be doing it again. Good to see you, Jack,
Speaker 2: Always a big smile on your face. How you feeling good?
Speaker 5: Great to be here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what'd you do in the bye week?
Speaker 6: I was here for the most part, and then actually
Speaker 6: over the weekend went to Austin, Texas.
Speaker 4: Okay, just had a little fun.
Speaker 2: What's that main street in Austin, the big one, sixth Street. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've never been there, but I heard about six Streets
Speaker 2: A good time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a solid time. I mean we went
Speaker 6: primarily for one of my buddies, a big ut fans.
Speaker 6: So we're playing Georgia and I thought it was a
Speaker 6: good opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell us about the game. What's your scouting report
Speaker 2: on that? If you had to wrap that up in
Speaker 2: a scouting report, what would you say?
Speaker 6: There were a lot of turnovers in the games. I
Speaker 6: wouldn't say great offensive play, but I mean both teams
Speaker 6: are pretty solid, but Georgia definitely got the Georgia definitely
Speaker 6: got the huh upper hand.
Speaker 3: Heyjack, you and I both be in local guys, and
Speaker 3: I always had to designate my mom as my ticket
Speaker 3: manager once we started having some success. Have you designated
Speaker 3: anybody in your family as your home game ticket manager? Oh?
Speaker 6: My mom's been at for the most part, and especially
Speaker 6: with London. I mean I think London was the big
Speaker 6: one where she had to kind of coordinate everything with
Speaker 6: the amount of people that wanted to go to London
Speaker 6: to support the team and support myself and everybody else.
Speaker 3: You know, that was my seventh international trip as a
Speaker 3: player and a broadcaster, and it's the first time that
Speaker 3: we've ever stayed out in the country where it was
Speaker 3: more of a training cab atmosphere than it was staying
Speaker 3: at a hotel in a city, and everybody taken off
Speaker 3: in different directions after practice. How did you like that
Speaker 3: for your first trip being kind of out in the country.
Speaker 6: You were right, it kind of felt like when we
Speaker 6: went to Indianapolis last year for joint practices and kind
Speaker 6: of just being with the guys in the hotel for
Speaker 6: an extended period of time, because then we got there,
Speaker 6: arrived Tuesday morning, and we still had some time to
Speaker 6: get out, like guys on Tuesday and then a little
Speaker 6: bit on Friday, we're able to get out and go
Speaker 6: down to London. But you're right, we were far away
Speaker 6: from London, about an hour and a half out, so
Speaker 6: a lot of times you did have to stay at
Speaker 6: the hotel, and I thought that was a good time
Speaker 6: to hang out with guys you know, play cards, do whatever.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I thought it was a good trip, and
Speaker 6: I think overall it was definitely better to go early.
Speaker 6: Just yeah, I can imagine kind of getting there later
Speaker 6: because I think even during the week, I mean, getting
Speaker 6: adjusted to the sleep, getting adjusted to everything like that.
Speaker 6: It definitely is a different environment out there.
Speaker 2: You know, when we came home, I don't know how
Speaker 2: you felt, tom because we had home right around, you know,
Speaker 2: twelve thirty and get home, and we drive a lot
Speaker 2: longer than Jack and the guys do out here in
Speaker 2: the northern suburbs.
Speaker 4: But I had no problem. I got up at normal
Speaker 4: time and back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean it awesomely easier coming back.
Speaker 5: That was.
Speaker 4: Do you feel that way too, Tommy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt a lot easier coming back than going there.
Speaker 4: Did you hit the golf simulator in there?
Speaker 5: They had a simulator? We hit the golf course?
Speaker 4: Actually, oh okay, who was in your group?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 4: TJ and Chris Glazer? Okay, okay, yeah, but you hit
Speaker 4: him straight.
Speaker 6: It was good rain, I mean, and in typical London
Speaker 6: fashion is pouring rain and so that wasn't great, but
Speaker 6: it was.
Speaker 5: Actually a good little time.
Speaker 7: It made it.
Speaker 6: It made it enjoyable and made us have a lot
Speaker 6: of exp.
Speaker 4: One thing I noted it was peaceful out there.
Speaker 6: I know it was why the birds in the morning,
Speaker 6: but you know the front nine was absolutely brutal.
Speaker 3: And then did you talk did you talk in an
Speaker 3: English accent a bunch when you were out there on
Speaker 3: the course?
Speaker 6: No, strictly American?
Speaker 3: Hey, Jack, So a quick question about the Washington commanders.
Speaker 3: So they Jane Daniels, you don't know what his UH
Speaker 3: situation is leading up to the game, but then they
Speaker 3: have Marcus Mariota and he's an RPO quarterback. So Jack
Speaker 3: Sandborn the linebacker, are you involved in the game planning
Speaker 3: a little bit more when you face a running quarterback
Speaker 3: as opposed to UH facing a passing quarterback.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think a lot of it comes down
Speaker 6: to exactly what type of personnel they're really really utilizing. Okay,
Speaker 6: but I mean, and a lot we do have game
Speaker 6: plan from me in the game especially and certain personnel groupings.
Speaker 6: But like you were saying about Mariota, I mean I
Speaker 6: remember playing him two years ago when he was in Atlanta,
Speaker 6: and very similar stuff they were doing in Atlanta with
Speaker 6: him at quarterback to what Kingsbury and is doing right
Speaker 6: now with Daniels. So overall, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 6: the offense is going to change whether who's in there.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, it's about us
Speaker 6: and you know, playing to our rules and playing to
Speaker 6: our ability and you know, being on the same page
Speaker 6: and making sure whoever's out there and whatever they're trying
Speaker 6: to do that we're ready to stop it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, with Marcus Mariota in the lineup, for me,
Speaker 3: it would have my radar up a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Because he's got nothing to lose.
Speaker 3: He's not auditioning for seventeen games or to become the
Speaker 3: starter there.
Speaker 5: He's there to hold down the ford.
Speaker 3: For a game or two. And when you have a
Speaker 3: quarterback that still has his skill level and probably likes
Speaker 3: to run it more than throw it, you know, he
Speaker 3: would you know, increase my awareness of him at the
Speaker 3: quarterback position for sure.
Speaker 6: I mean he's a guy that's been in the league
Speaker 6: and been in big games and been in the league
Speaker 6: and has won games. And I mean he can force
Speaker 6: sure go out there and throw the ball, run the ball,
Speaker 6: but at the.
Speaker 7: End of the day, win games.
Speaker 6: And I mean that's what he's He's done that many
Speaker 6: a time, so it's definitely it's not like, oh, there's
Speaker 6: a big drop off or a big you know, game
Speaker 6: plan changes whether whoever, whichever quarterback is in the game,
Speaker 6: there's definitely some continuity.
Speaker 2: Jack sandbarn Our guest here on ESPN one thousand of
Speaker 2: the Bears Radio Network. You know, you've been in the
Speaker 2: league a while now, so you know when you see
Speaker 2: young quarterbacks, sometimes they look young. Sometimes they play through
Speaker 2: it as the season goes on. Sometimes they don't. And
Speaker 2: I was looking at some statistical work by this Twitter handle.
Speaker 2: NFL notifications want to give them their props. They did
Speaker 2: an analysis of how many quarterbacks throw on a percentage
Speaker 2: basis on their first read, and Caleb Williams is in
Speaker 2: the top five of those not throwing on their first read,
Speaker 2: which means they're reading field. Jayden Daniels doing it's seventy
Speaker 2: something percent of the time going to the first read.
Speaker 2: I'm sure in your analysis and your tape study you
Speaker 2: see these things as well.
Speaker 4: Is that help you decipher a.
Speaker 2: Young quarterback who actually is young NFL wise, but he
Speaker 2: played so many college games nearing sixty times. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's he's got some games under his belt, but does
Speaker 2: that help you prepare?
Speaker 6: I mean, like that, just going off for him, I
Speaker 6: remember him in college. I mean, we actually played against
Speaker 6: him when he was at Okay, when he was at
Speaker 6: Arizona State, I mean, and going off of kind of
Speaker 6: oh the first read. I mean, one thing that's so
Speaker 6: dynamic about him is his ability to then take off.
Speaker 6: And you see that a lot of times if maybe
Speaker 6: the first read isn't open, maybe he's not looking for
Speaker 6: the second rate, but with his legs he's able to
Speaker 6: expand get out of the pocket. And I mean he's
Speaker 6: done a really good job of once he gets out
Speaker 6: of the pocket, not necessarily running right away, but also
Speaker 6: looking down feel and able to hit guys. And that's
Speaker 6: why it's gonna be so big just staying in coverage,
Speaker 6: staying on guys, because he does have that ability to
Speaker 6: expand the expand the play and then in return get
Speaker 6: guys open that way. But like I said, I mean,
Speaker 6: he's very dynamic and what he does and how he
Speaker 6: does it. And you know, to see the steps that
Speaker 6: he's kind of taken in the passing game from where
Speaker 6: he was when I played him in college has really been.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you got to stop the run. I mean,
Speaker 4: they get explosives.
Speaker 2: They have a lot of every back, including Jayden when
Speaker 2: he runs twenty plus yard runs each each of them
Speaker 2: have at least two this season. And I know that
Speaker 2: doesn't sound like a lot, but explosives of are hard
Speaker 2: to get against good defenses. So how do you feel
Speaker 2: about the way the run defense? You know, maybe you
Speaker 2: get a gash here and there, but you guys have really,
Speaker 2: you know, hunkered down over the course of a game,
Speaker 2: if it happens early or if it happened late.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean cliff Is Kingsbury over there is doing
Speaker 6: a really good job of kind of changing his run
Speaker 6: game from where they were when he was in Arizona.
Speaker 6: And just the amount of the variety that they have
Speaker 6: in the run game, incorporating the college run game with
Speaker 6: all the countertea poll ots reads off of it, and
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of different stuff. So it really
Speaker 6: tests the rules kind of of a defense. So that's
Speaker 6: kind of what we're going to have to be big on,
Speaker 6: is just understanding each each person's job and understand your
Speaker 6: role and also also being aggressive against it and attacking jack.
Speaker 3: If I was an offensive lineman, I would look towards
Speaker 3: the sideline with you and Kyler Gordon standing there. If
Speaker 3: you come into the game, I know you're part of
Speaker 3: my blocking responsibility. If Kyler Gordon comes in the game,
Speaker 3: sometimes he's the responsibility of a running back or whomever
Speaker 3: has his has him. Are you guys interchangeable? Can you
Speaker 3: run the same can can they call the same defense
Speaker 3: whether Jack's in the game or Kyler's in the game.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think there are some things that are
Speaker 6: different as to who's in the game, But for the
Speaker 6: most part, a lot of times, a lot of calls
Speaker 6: can be interchangeable. And I mean, Kyler does this, does
Speaker 6: a really good job at getting in the box too
Speaker 6: and playing little dirty football in there. And at the
Speaker 6: same time, and I'll be out in the in the
Speaker 6: split and I'll be out outside. So I think we're
Speaker 6: very interchangeable on how we do it. It's not like
Speaker 6: if one person's in it's drastically different. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to be manning up guys in the
Speaker 6: slot as often as Kyler is and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: But for the most part, I think it's a good
Speaker 6: good little continuity and good a little changeup.
Speaker 3: Becoming more familiar with this defense at home or on
Speaker 3: the road. Do you like being on the road where
Speaker 3: you can hear the quarterback cadence and seeing if he
Speaker 3: becomes consistent with it, or do you like being at
Speaker 3: home where you can hear anything and you're just kind
Speaker 3: of reacting to the movement of the football.
Speaker 6: I mean a little bit of both. I think I
Speaker 6: think everyone loves that kind of feeling of going on
Speaker 6: the road in another place, person's environment, and you know,
Speaker 6: taking care of business and kind of shutting the crowd
Speaker 6: down and doing all those kind of things. But at
Speaker 6: the same time, and there's nothing like Soldier Field, especially
Speaker 6: the past, especially the past what year and a half,
Speaker 6: I mean, especially starting off this year, the place has
Speaker 6: been absolutely rock And I mean when when it's towards
Speaker 6: the end of the game there and the crowds getting
Speaker 6: as loud as they can while we're on defense, I
Speaker 6: think I think we're much more comfortable in that spot
Speaker 6: than the offenses.
Speaker 2: Jack Sanborn, our guests are remaining moments with the Bears
Speaker 2: linebacker here ANYPN one thousand of the Bears Radio Network,
Speaker 2: You're a guy that just has to be I'm full
Speaker 2: alert at any moment. As tom always says, there's never
Speaker 2: a notification it's time to go. You're getting a handful
Speaker 2: of snaps a game defensively, but you're playing as a
Speaker 2: core special teams player mentally. Is that the biggest part
Speaker 2: of your game right now is staying aware at every
Speaker 2: possible moment when the base defense is going to be
Speaker 2: called out there?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, But I think I'm much better at it than
Speaker 6: I was last year. And I think, like you said,
Speaker 6: I mean, the biggest thing is kind of just mentally
Speaker 6: because but you're not in there on every single snap,
Speaker 6: you don't really have the exact the flow of the game.
Speaker 6: The understanding of the flow of the game is kind
Speaker 6: of tough to read. But I think this year it's
Speaker 6: a lot I'm a lot more prepared for it than
Speaker 6: I was really last year. Not saying I wasn't prepared
Speaker 6: for it last year at all, but it's just the
Speaker 6: second year like used to it. Yeah, yeah, And I
Speaker 6: mean I have a very good idea of when, when,
Speaker 6: when what Flus is gonna call, when he's gonna call
Speaker 6: certain personnel groupings.
Speaker 7: So it's definitely been.
Speaker 4: What I respect about.
Speaker 2: But Jack here, Tommy and I think you'll agree because
Speaker 2: we love the way you play. We absolutely do. We
Speaker 2: call it out on the broadcast all the time. It's
Speaker 2: it's it's all gas, no breaks, one hundred percent of
Speaker 2: the time, and you make plays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta live, right, you gotta. I mean, if you.
Speaker 2: Could describe what what that has been like over the
Speaker 2: last several years for you and knowing that you know,
Speaker 2: when you get an opportunity, you gotta make it just
Speaker 2: to just to hey, listen, man, I I can do
Speaker 2: this too, like I'm good at this.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean I think that's been how my career kind
Speaker 6: of has unfolded. It's just taken advantage of opportunities, especially
Speaker 6: I mean you see it across the league everywhere though,
Speaker 6: guys coming in whether they're undrafted or they've been cut
Speaker 6: from teams, and it's no matter who you are, you know,
Speaker 6: you got to make the most of the opportunities that
Speaker 6: you're given and while you're out there on the field.
Speaker 6: So I think that's kind of what this game is about,
Speaker 6: and you know, taking advantage of that.
Speaker 3: All right, hold half a second, I gotta grab a
Speaker 3: prop for you.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, he's only got a couple of minutes. Well
Speaker 4: he I don't know what he's doing. I don't know
Speaker 4: what he's doing. It must be his jersey's got to
Speaker 4: be the fifty. So we're on zoom, folks, what do
Speaker 4: you got?
Speaker 3: But you know, so Jack, this this is the jersey
Speaker 3: I wore in the Super Bowl. Okay, wow, so you
Speaker 3: see this right here? Wow, there used to be a onesie.
Speaker 3: It used to be a onesie.
Speaker 7: Jack.
Speaker 2: That's on purpose right there, Yes, it is on purpose
Speaker 2: and everybody and you can't watch, but Jack's jaw just.
Speaker 3: Dropped right, And so modern day football and you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: To tuck that under the elastic huh?
Speaker 7: Used to tuck that under, tuck.
Speaker 3: It under and button it and and button it right there.
Speaker 3: And then so as as anybody ever trying to tug
Speaker 3: your jersey or get a hold of you, they couldn't.
Speaker 4: And so now now we just got it all elcrod
Speaker 4: on right.
Speaker 5: But so do you tuck your jersey in?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I actually do not.
Speaker 6: So you know it's nowadays it's tight enough where really
Speaker 6: you don't have It's like almost on tug jerseys in
Speaker 6: a way.
Speaker 3: These ones are super tightoo. But it's kind of that
Speaker 3: like that extra level.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you got assurance that coming up.
Speaker 2: Hey, my question the time before we let this man
Speaker 2: go is why is that not encased in hanging out
Speaker 2: a wall at your Super Bowl jersey? Listen, I'll buy
Speaker 2: it off you and present it to Jack as a gift.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, I listen.
Speaker 5: I love the fact that Olin Kreutz wore fifty seven.
Speaker 5: I love the fact that Jack Sandborg. Like we were
Speaker 5: walking in Kansas.
Speaker 3: City, right we saw the guy with the fifty seven
Speaker 3: jersey on chase him down, turned him around, and it
Speaker 3: said Samborg no way. Yeah, And hey, listen, Jack, I
Speaker 3: appreciate you, you know, wearing fifty seven and playing the
Speaker 3: way you do.
Speaker 5: I don't care what number you were.
Speaker 3: However, I like to show the new generation the old
Speaker 3: style jerseys because if you ever went and Tony Medlin
Speaker 3: had that hanging in your locker, you might think twice but.
Speaker 4: Think it was a joke for the day. That's hilarious. Well,
Speaker 4: it's been on for Tom and I the last twenty
Speaker 4: four hours. We went local.
Speaker 2: Well, I had did something with Cole Comet for our
Speaker 2: Bears Game Day Live show coming up next week. We
Speaker 2: got Jack Sanborn and I don't know, I'm sure you are,
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Speaker 2: Ready a network. You got a thought on the onesie
Speaker 2: real quick, as that was some funny stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, I so to let every all of our listeners
Speaker 3: see what we are talking about, I suggest that I'm
Speaker 3: going to send you a pitcher and you can put
Speaker 3: it on your X package and then people can go
Speaker 3: there and see it.
Speaker 5: Because when back in the day, in.
Speaker 3: The eighties, when we used to wear these onesies, they
Speaker 3: are our jerseys that they would kind of tuck underneath
Speaker 3: our butt and then we had button them, just like
Speaker 3: a little bit a toddler's onesie. And so I think
Speaker 3: everybody would get an appreciation of when I show it.
Speaker 5: To the modern day player.
Speaker 3: And they couldn't even consider wearing something like that.
Speaker 5: It seems so archaic.
Speaker 3: But as an offensive lineman to keep from getting grabbed
Speaker 3: in your jersey tug you went to uncomfortable lengths during
Speaker 3: the game to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well so it was uncomfortable suit, Yeah, very uncomfortable.
Speaker 5: I mean you think when it got tugged a couple times,
Speaker 5: how much more uncomfortable we got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to imagine that, all right, So
Speaker 2: I mentioned Travis Smith, Bear's defensive line coach. The defensive
Speaker 2: assistants were available today here at Hallishall got into talking
Speaker 2: about the defensive line and a lot of the minutia
Speaker 2: that goes into making a good rush for as one
Speaker 2: and he did a great job explaining where this pass
Speaker 2: rush is going right now.
Speaker 7: I think it's doing really good.
Speaker 8: I think I think it's carried over from last year
Speaker 8: how we finished those last ten weeks of the season,
Speaker 8: even within new editions that we have with our rookies
Speaker 8: with DT, with Chris, with BC, they fit right in
Speaker 8: really well. So they are really close knit group off
Speaker 8: the field, which helps. I think with the production and
Speaker 8: the chemistry on the field.
Speaker 2: Do you feel you have a good variety of traits
Speaker 2: and skill sets with this I'll do something a little
Speaker 2: different that keeps an offensive lineman a little jumping. Maybe
Speaker 2: because you're not sending out the same four they get
Speaker 2: used to seeing what they're going to do.
Speaker 4: Now they really don't know, no question.
Speaker 8: It's if you look at a group back in the
Speaker 8: day when you had four main rushers and that's so
Speaker 8: you played ninety percent of the time, they had to
Speaker 8: prepare for four players. When you have eight, Well, now
Speaker 8: we have eight or nine. Now they got to prepare
Speaker 8: for a nine different team linemen. So when you ask
Speaker 8: about yes, they are, they're all individually. They all do
Speaker 8: have a different strength and skill set. But as when
Speaker 8: they're out there at four, they do work well as
Speaker 8: one together. But I do think that does present a
Speaker 8: not so much a problem, but it does present an
Speaker 8: element for the offense that they have to prepare for.
Speaker 2: We were getting to know Chris Williams a little bit.
Speaker 2: What have you learned about his past rush ability.
Speaker 7: From the defensive technic, He does have a.
Speaker 8: Great flexibility to rush both inside which you've seen more,
Speaker 8: but also outside. If you watch Cleveland, he was a
Speaker 8: little bit more on the perimeter, but he's fit right
Speaker 8: in where he's bumped inside and helped us and gave
Speaker 8: us some productive snaps where he's been inside as a
Speaker 8: nose as a three.
Speaker 7: But also he's played a little bit where at.
Speaker 8: The end and for that's another guy that's similar to
Speaker 8: d Walk that gives us that flexibility where no matter
Speaker 8: whether it's just hey or subbing the guys with our rotations,
Speaker 8: or if someone gets nicked up or he got he
Speaker 8: can jump in there and rushbolt outside and inside day.
Speaker 7: You guys traded for montees what like anything?
Speaker 8: I mean, I leave those decisions up to holes and flues,
Speaker 8: But we're always the more rushers we bring in there,
Speaker 8: the more excited we're going to integrate into the group,
Speaker 8: as long as they buy into the way we play.
Speaker 8: But as you see, he's done a phenomenal job. It's
Speaker 8: from that week six, seven, whatever it was, last ten
Speaker 8: weeks of the season to where we are now.
Speaker 7: It's obviously made.
Speaker 8: A big impact on the disposition, mentality, the demeanor that.
Speaker 7: Our guys played with. Were you excited, yes, yes, How
Speaker 7: would you describe.
Speaker 6: Kind of that that overall you're talking about not just
Speaker 6: the sack totals, but everything he brings for this defense
Speaker 6: as a whole.
Speaker 7: I think it's back.
Speaker 8: It kind of pairs back with my answer a couple
Speaker 8: of minutes a second ago was about how he factors
Speaker 8: he has two and a half sacks I think right now.
Speaker 8: But what I look at too, if you look at
Speaker 8: our group as a whole, almost every single D line
Speaker 8: that's playing the game beside Hardy has has a sack
Speaker 8: right now, Bill, all of them. Part of that is
Speaker 8: is it just him no, But is he commanding slides?
Speaker 8: Is he commanding double teams? Is he opening up other
Speaker 8: one on ones for other guys? Yes, he is not
Speaker 8: just him dex is d walk the always got a
Speaker 8: good amount of pressure in there.
Speaker 7: He's winning one on ones too. Where's it works together?
Speaker 8: Where Hey, yeah, we all want to get double digits
Speaker 8: right now, but two we're trying to win games and
Speaker 8: winning games. Is everyone doing their job handling their one
Speaker 8: on one matchups and he's commanding some more less one
Speaker 8: on ones. But also too, that's allowing other guys where
Speaker 8: other guys gotta step up. If you do get the
Speaker 8: one on one, you got to come alive and be productive.
Speaker 8: So it is helping in that sense.
Speaker 7: Yes, Billy's really different this year versus when you had
Speaker 7: him last year.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't say his roles different. I would say some
Speaker 8: of the alignments might have be He's played a little
Speaker 8: bit more on the guard as opposed to the center.
Speaker 8: From that sense, it is, but his role is still
Speaker 8: very similar. He's just been aligned a little bit differently.
Speaker 8: If you look how we've played our front.
Speaker 6: Sure do those alignments, I mean it sounds like does
Speaker 6: that lead to the quarterback heads the sacks like.
Speaker 9: Where he specifically is like making that I guess an
Speaker 9: easier path for him.
Speaker 8: Some have shown up where he's been on the edge
Speaker 8: of a guard, and it's shown up too. But if
Speaker 8: we've talked to like look last year, early on in
Speaker 8: a week it was we played Tampa Bay, he had
Speaker 8: like a forty percent quarterback pressure rate.
Speaker 7: Some of that it wasn't so much in the alignment.
Speaker 8: It was the disposition and like the technique he was
Speaker 8: rushing with, gaining ground, crossing line of scrimmage penetrated and
Speaker 8: once you get him moved, it's hard to stop him.
Speaker 8: So early on the season two Tennessee. This year, there
Speaker 8: was a couple other games he had the same thing.
Speaker 8: He had a high quarterback pressure rate. It was more
Speaker 8: of the technique he was playing with rather than the alignment.
Speaker 8: But to your answer question, there are situations in this
Speaker 8: sea and where he's been aligned on the edge of
Speaker 8: a guard where it has benefited him when he's played
Speaker 8: the right way.
Speaker 2: Relatively last year, is Jervine getting an increased number of
Speaker 2: snaps facing doubles.
Speaker 8: I don't know if he is getting I couldn't from
Speaker 8: not what he's getting. He's he's playing a higher percentage
Speaker 8: of snaps. Number one, especially early in the season. But two,
Speaker 8: there's a good rotation there where he's not in on
Speaker 8: every first second down snap too, where when he does
Speaker 8: get in there third down, it's not first second, first second,
Speaker 8: third where it's fifth play in the series. But also too,
Speaker 8: it's it's we've talked about up plenty and here's he's
Speaker 8: in different shape, he's different flexibility, he's a he's a
Speaker 8: he's a different person than he was last year, just
Speaker 8: like he's different right now than he was last week.
Speaker 7: He takes a personal to constantly.
Speaker 4: Improve and stunts and twists and things like that.
Speaker 2: It's probably simple for us just to say, oh, you
Speaker 2: know what, you just do this and you go.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of technique to it.
Speaker 2: Has there been an increased excellence in terms of those
Speaker 2: guys mastering that particular.
Speaker 8: I think it's time on TASCO. Last year it was
Speaker 8: there was a lot of new guys in their rookies,
Speaker 8: Dee Walker was new.
Speaker 7: Now they have a lot of work together.
Speaker 8: So part of that stuff is, yes, we call a
Speaker 8: gamer stunder twist, it's called it's executed. But then two,
Speaker 8: there's things where protections might change, they slide to him
Speaker 8: where they got to have a feel where they can
Speaker 8: cover natural even in a four man rush there might
Speaker 8: not be a game called, but a lot of times
Speaker 8: in a green rush they just cover each other. Where
Speaker 8: on the offense it's gonna look like it's a game,
Speaker 8: it's not. It's really just them working together and playing
Speaker 8: off of each other as they overlap and cover, or
Speaker 8: they have to levels in front the quarterback.
Speaker 2: All right, Tom, a lot of football lingo there for
Speaker 2: a defensive lineman, offensive lineman.
Speaker 4: Listening to it? What are you dissecting there?
Speaker 2: He talked a lot about how he grades the factor
Speaker 2: grade is what you do command in doubles and penetration
Speaker 2: and disruption, and how you turn the ball back with
Speaker 2: the back running the ball or get the back office
Speaker 2: track and the quarterback office spot.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, he talked about how many guys
Speaker 3: he has at his disposal. When you think of the
Speaker 3: New York Sack exchange, you think of the Purple People
Speaker 3: leaders in Minnesota, or the Steele Curtain in Pittsburgh, they
Speaker 3: primarily had all of their success with four guys. Now
Speaker 3: you have a team that has eleven guys and they
Speaker 3: could possibly have thirteen. So that makes it really difficult
Speaker 3: for the offensive linemen to get the tendencies of the
Speaker 3: defensive linemen they're playing against.
Speaker 5: Because they're so interchangeable.
Speaker 3: But when they're interchangeable, they can do all these things
Speaker 3: like you talked about them running stunts, and when you
Speaker 3: can run stunts with multiple guys in multiple different directions
Speaker 3: and multiple balances, it's really hard to designate your protection
Speaker 3: according to the position where say Montes or Darryl or
Speaker 3: Javon is.
Speaker 5: It's really makes it.
Speaker 3: Difficult when you have that many defensive linemen that play
Speaker 3: such good football because it's hard for the offensive lineman
Speaker 3: the offensive line as a whole to get any rhythm
Speaker 3: against who they're playing against according to how they're lined up.
Speaker 2: So what happens on the field with the skill position,
Speaker 2: it still comes down to that and the development of
Speaker 2: that front. We talked about it significantly in the preseason
Speaker 2: off season. It had to develop, and I think it
Speaker 2: is and the same could be said for the offensive line.
Speaker 2: We'll get into the offensive side of the ball with
Speaker 2: Shane Waldron when we come back. That's Tom Thayre, I'm
Speaker 2: Jeff Joniyaka. This is Bears Weekly on ESPN one thousand
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Speaker 2: get it check and Tom coordinator talk Tommy. Before we
Speaker 2: get to that, though, the offensive and defensive line improvement
Speaker 2: in the last three weeks, especially for the offensive line
Speaker 2: the whole season, the steady improvement of the defensive line.
Speaker 4: Are you feeling that right now?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you got the kind of consistency
Speaker 3: in the lineup. You have familiarity with the offense every
Speaker 3: single rep, every single snap, every single meeting, and the
Speaker 3: importance of that. These coaches have been talked about the walkthroughs,
Speaker 3: and I think it's you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 3: modern day meeting that we basically did in the classroom.
Speaker 5: Now they do it on their feet.
Speaker 3: I said, every every single rep that you get to
Speaker 3: work together, the better you're going to become.
Speaker 2: All right, Shane Waldron at the podium today, I spoke
Speaker 2: at length about a lot of different topics, but one
Speaker 2: of them is what what I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna call communication is king.
Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of communication going on between
Speaker 2: Waldron and his offensive skill set.
Speaker 9: I think for us, you know, confidence the collective group,
Speaker 9: you know, being at an elite communication level throughout the
Speaker 9: last several weeks there. But as far as the feel
Speaker 9: each Monday, I think you know, around football long enough
Speaker 9: where you know, having that steady approach where you know,
Speaker 9: when things are going well, still have to approach Monday
Speaker 9: with that mindset of correcting, getting better and improving throughout
Speaker 9: the course of the year, and the same you know,
Speaker 9: coming off the losses at the beginning of the year
Speaker 9: as well, So you know, having a steady approach obviously
Speaker 9: having the confidence building throughout the group right there is
Speaker 9: something that we've seen on the field and some that
Speaker 9: we're looking to continue to develop. I think the big
Speaker 9: thing for sales Scott too for me is you know,
Speaker 9: that's a weekly process. I know, you know, it's different
Speaker 9: things evolve and technologies. It's something that our departments do
Speaker 9: a great job, whether it's analytics or the different information
Speaker 9: some of our younger coaches provide for us on a
Speaker 9: weekly basis. But then we get a chance to have
Speaker 9: an off time and truly look back. I think the
Speaker 9: big thing obviously is starting faster, you know, keep putting
Speaker 9: an emphasis on that and a lot of that is
Speaker 9: going to come down to opening drive third down conversions.
Speaker 9: Knowing that if you can stay, you can convert on
Speaker 9: third downs, you can extend those opening drives, you can
Speaker 9: extend those first quarter drives and play a little bit
Speaker 9: more efficient at the beginning of games. But it's also
Speaker 9: not to say that you play well throughout the course
Speaker 9: of the game. You know, have a chance to rebound
Speaker 9: from those things if it doesn't start perfectly. So, but
Speaker 9: that would be the biggest takeaway from the week off
Speaker 9: and looking back at themselves Scout, well, you.
Speaker 4: Know that's the next big step.
Speaker 2: Time is starting fast because they haven't scored many points
Speaker 2: in the first quarter, right.
Speaker 3: You know, as much as I listen to all this
Speaker 3: stuff about the where, how the Bears have been developing,
Speaker 3: communicating and everything, I think we almost have to reset
Speaker 3: this thing or reboot that you want to say going
Speaker 3: into Washington, because your communication in Houston and then your
Speaker 3: communication at Indianapolis were challenged because you have a supportive
Speaker 3: opponent crowd, and I think you're gonna have the same
Speaker 3: thing at the Washington Commander's game, and it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a loud atmosphere because they're building this momentum with Jalen
Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels even though he may not play, So there
Speaker 3: are going to get tested about their communication development with
Speaker 3: all the moving parts, because you're not going to be
Speaker 3: able to verbally get all your commands out at the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. It's going to have to be something
Speaker 3: that you're going to have to know from experience, and
Speaker 3: you know that's going.
Speaker 5: To be the biggest test this week.
Speaker 2: And no matter who quarterbacks, Washington, stopping that run game
Speaker 2: is going to be critical. If there is an area
Speaker 2: that the Bears want to look to see them improvement
Speaker 2: is the average pre carry all out and limiting explosives.
Speaker 2: This is Eric Washington, the Bears defensive coordinator ron.
Speaker 7: There are a lot of variables.
Speaker 10: They're run fit variables, their gap control variables, There's some
Speaker 10: of these things and there's a lot of determination in
Speaker 10: that room to make sure that we move that particular
Speaker 10: part of our defense into the top five the way
Speaker 10: we are with some of the others.
Speaker 9: If Jayden is able to play, do you have to
Speaker 9: do you anticipate like a different menu of plays for him,
Speaker 9: just knowing he is vulnerable with the rib injury.
Speaker 10: No, No, If he's out there, I'm going to anticipate
Speaker 10: him being at his best and I won't try and
Speaker 10: I won't try and you know, anticipate or speculate about
Speaker 10: what they're going to do with him. We're going to
Speaker 10: anticipate him being at his best and and and doing.
Speaker 7: The things that we've been seeing.
Speaker 10: They have multiple personnel groups. He knows exactly what he
Speaker 10: wants to try and accomplish, how he wants to attack
Speaker 10: within those personnel groups. Situationally, we are one of the
Speaker 10: things that somehow we can we can ascertain at times
Speaker 10: is a tendency and a person within a personnel group.
Speaker 10: And there's what I would say extreme balance within every
Speaker 10: personnel group. There's there's no tendency as far as running
Speaker 10: past within each groups. So there's tremendous balance, and we
Speaker 10: have to really do a great job of utilizing our
Speaker 10: keys and trusting what we're seeing.
Speaker 2: Interesting little nugget last year with Eric b Enemy Tom
Speaker 2: Washington through the ball dropped to throw more than any
Speaker 2: other team in the NFL. Now Clinton Kingsbury, who is
Speaker 2: that air raid coach right in college?
Speaker 4: He is running the football.
Speaker 3: There is balance, okay, but this is what I'm looking
Speaker 3: at is. If I'm a defensive coach getting prepared to
Speaker 3: play the Washington Commanders, their right tackle is in concussion protocol,
Speaker 3: his backup has a bad neck, the center has a
Speaker 3: bad thumb, and the left guard has a bad ankle.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go up and I'm gonna see what
Speaker 3: ankle is taped, and then I'm gonna see if you
Speaker 3: have your thumb taped extra and then I'm gonna see
Speaker 3: who's playing right tackle. A lot of that, according to
Speaker 3: the plan of attack, is going to factor in as
Speaker 3: much as who's playing quarterback.
Speaker 5: And I respect Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 3: I think he's a good football coach and he's done
Speaker 3: a great thing with Jade and Daniels. However, we just
Speaker 3: got done doing a ten minute segment about the variety
Speaker 3: of defensive linemen that they can sick at this offense.
Speaker 3: And when I know that they have this many injuries
Speaker 3: and hiccups and the injury report leading up to this game,
Speaker 3: I got to check all of them out. I got
Speaker 3: to test them. Hey, Montes, who do you want to
Speaker 3: rush against?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 4: He knows him better than anybody exactly.
Speaker 3: That's another element here. And you know when last week
Speaker 3: when I was watching the Kansas City San Francisco game.
Speaker 3: They said, oh, Chris Jones is going to line up
Speaker 3: against everybody but Trent Williams. And that's exactly what he did. Montes,
Speaker 3: it's third and eight. Who do you want to go against?
Speaker 3: You know whatever arsenal of players is in there. So
Speaker 3: it's just something that you got to pay attention to.
Speaker 3: You got to look at and you got to do
Speaker 3: a little pregame investigative work.
Speaker 2: All right, Tom, one segment to go, and we will
Speaker 2: preview you a little bit more of this Washington game
Speaker 2: and a few surprises along the way before we wrap
Speaker 2: things up.
Speaker 4: That's Tom Therare.
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Speaker 2: number one oh five just dropped today. Tom and I
Speaker 2: had a good fortune of sitting down by zoom with
Speaker 2: one of the funniest people on the planet, Sebastian Menescalco.
Speaker 4: Here's a portion of what we discussed.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I told my second grade teacher, missus Carlin, that
Speaker 11: I was going to be a stand up comedian when
Speaker 11: we did career day, and they looked at me like
Speaker 11: I was watching, like I was launching Johnny Carson back then,
Speaker 11: like it was game.
Speaker 2: Day, right, you know, little Dick Cabot just for kicks too,
Speaker 2: Little Dick Cabot.
Speaker 11: You know, it was always in my blood. I grew
Speaker 11: up with a very funny family. I mean we were
Speaker 11: either laughing or crying. There was nothing in between, and
Speaker 11: we always chose to laugh and bury everything else under
Speaker 11: the rug. So h yeah, it was no. I have
Speaker 11: no mistake that I'm a comedian.
Speaker 3: One of my better friends is a Tom Dreese and
Speaker 3: a comedian, and so when I went to see his
Speaker 3: opening act, he used to open for Sinatra all the time,
Speaker 3: and so I watched his act from the audience, and
Speaker 3: then after I got to go out to dinner with
Speaker 3: Sinatra and I have a great time with him. But
Speaker 3: my question to you, did you ever open for anybody?
Speaker 3: And did you have limitations or was it hey Sebastian.
Speaker 3: You go out there with your act and sell this crowd.
Speaker 3: So when I come out there, they're ready to go.
Speaker 11: Before we get into that, you went out to dinner
Speaker 11: with Sinatra. Yeah, okay, where did you go?
Speaker 7: And was?
Speaker 11: Did he have like a not of cash?
Speaker 5: So it was a pretty interesting story.
Speaker 3: So I I. He entered, deuced me on stage, gave
Speaker 3: me a hug, told me, hey, kid, this song's for you.
Speaker 5: Sang my kind of Town Chicago.
Speaker 3: We walked out of the stage door and we drove
Speaker 3: up to Kelly Mondeli's on North Clark Street, and so
Speaker 3: when we walked in, the restaurant was empty. There was
Speaker 3: four cops sitting at a front table next to the door,
Speaker 3: and they came up and they said, hey, don't sit
Speaker 3: in this chair because mister Sinatra likes to sit with
Speaker 3: his back to the wall, in his face to the door.
Speaker 3: And it was it was a barber Sinatra, myself, Tom Dreesen,
Speaker 3: basketball coach Ray Meyer, and Tim Rightman, one of the
Speaker 3: tight ends from our eighty five team.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 11: You know Ray Meyer used to live two blocks away
Speaker 11: from me growing up.
Speaker 7: He was on the corner two walks down and wow,
Speaker 7: ray Meyer, that's a name I haven't heard in a while.
Speaker 3: All's I want to know outside of the Chicago land area.
Speaker 3: Do you ever have to explain Jardin there to any
Speaker 3: of your friends that you meet outside of our Chicago world.
Speaker 12: I don't even hear Jardin out I get to Chicago,
Speaker 12: jar this is the first time I heard Jarddair since
Speaker 12: the last I was in Chicago. As soon as you
Speaker 12: leave Chicago, Jardair stays there.
Speaker 13: No, it's hard to even explain it to people. And beef,
Speaker 13: you know, a beef sandwich. I talk about beef sandwiches, like,
Speaker 13: what's that?
Speaker 7: It's that, it's beef, you know.
Speaker 11: Uh So, Yeah, there's a lot of things that are
Speaker 11: very specific to Chicago that a lot of people just
Speaker 11: don't understand. But I mean the I can't wait to
Speaker 11: get back there and start knocking down some Portillo's and
Speaker 11: beef sandwiches and and and pizza and the whole deal.
Speaker 2: Memorable experience being at a Bears game. I'm assuming you've
Speaker 2: been to a Bears game. Uh And by the way,
Speaker 2: after your show, the Bears played the New England Patriots
Speaker 2: on Sunday the tenth, You should be at Soldier Field.
Speaker 11: My friend, I'm invited to that game.
Speaker 13: However, I have to go to Ohio that night to perform,
Speaker 13: So I'm trying to figure out how I can make
Speaker 13: that work. And I haven't been to a Bears since
Speaker 13: nineteen eighty one, my father to Yeah five, My father
Speaker 13: took me and we sat in the end zone. This
Speaker 13: is old Soldier Field and it was freezing and and
Speaker 13: I haven't been back since. But yeah, I know I
Speaker 13: gotta get I gotta get.
Speaker 7: Out to a game.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what. That was a lot
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 2: And I asked him at the end there give us
Speaker 2: three icons and sports that he'd have dinner with pastor president.
Speaker 4: He went with MJ.
Speaker 2: He went with Carlton Fisk and Harry Carey, and that's
Speaker 2: a pretty good line up town. We had a lot
Speaker 2: of fun with him, and a lot of fun tonight.
Speaker 2: That's gonna wrap us up for ton There. I'm Jeff Jonieck.
Speaker 2: Thanks to all our guests and our producers. Coming up next,
Speaker 2: Bleck and Abdala. Have a good night, everybody. It's Bears
Speaker 2: Washington three twenty five on ESPN, Coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Good night,