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Speaker 1: down on a Vikings arrival at Minnesota on Sunday at noon,
Speaker 1: a massively important matchup for both teams, with the clock
Speaker 1: ticking on the season, it narrows down and still conversation
Speaker 1: about a potential for a postseason berth by one of
Speaker 1: these two teams, maybe neither, but maybe both. Who knows,
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Speaker 1: good evening, Tom Hyfield. I feeling good, Jeff, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of really interested in this game because there's so
Speaker 1: many different elements to this issue of Minnesota Vikings Stage
Speaker 1: two or Minnesota Bear Stage two than it was stage
Speaker 1: one and there's a lot on the line. There's a
Speaker 1: big point of emphasis by both head coaches how much
Speaker 1: this game means to each organization. You know, there's issues
Speaker 1: with the kicking game in Minnesota, and there's issue or
Speaker 1: there's just you know, hope for the continuous improvement of
Speaker 1: the Bears and they can capitalize on the good things
Speaker 1: they did last week. It does sound like Zim is
Speaker 1: gonna stick with his kicker. Dan Bailey says he has
Speaker 1: faith in him. He's missed seven kicks though in last
Speaker 1: two games. We're gonna discuss that with our old front
Speaker 1: Pete Bursitch, the radio analyst for the Vikings. He'll be
Speaker 1: coming up at about six ten, and then at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour we'll be talking to rookie tight
Speaker 1: end Cole Commet and he'll have a lot of things
Speaker 1: to say about what's going on offensively, and that's really
Speaker 1: been the theme all week time. A lot of questions,
Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about how the collaboration is worked
Speaker 1: with coaches, Man Naggie Mitchell, Trubisky's involvement in it, things
Speaker 1: that he is asked for in this offense and that
Speaker 1: they're allowing him to do and that clearly is the movement.
Speaker 1: Clearly the types of plays they're calling, the pace, the tempo,
Speaker 1: all things that we know over the years that Mitch
Speaker 1: has excelled at. Right, you got to have input from
Speaker 1: the quarterback because when you talk about the first fifteen
Speaker 1: scripted or like Matt and Naggie said in this press
Speaker 1: conference today that they're making adjustments by series, I think
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky has to have a lot of input in that,
Speaker 1: whether he's talking on the phone to Bill Laser upstairs
Speaker 1: or eyeball to eyeball with Matt and Naggie and they
Speaker 1: got Dave Organ and John d Philippo. So I think
Speaker 1: the inclusion of the comfort zone that you can put
Speaker 1: with um Mitchell Trubisky and in them with the most confidence,
Speaker 1: I think you have to take his what he says
Speaker 1: and maybe that that is the angle to it, because
Speaker 1: it's assumed that it is series to series, but getting
Speaker 1: the quarterback more aold in that aspect of it. I
Speaker 1: can understand, oh, one hundred percent, you know, because you
Speaker 1: know what traits are recognized by Mitchell Trobisky to you know,
Speaker 1: to put him in the most positive and confident, you know,
Speaker 1: frame of mind, that he can be put in and
Speaker 1: that's using his legs, that's moving pockets, that's identifying receivers
Speaker 1: no matter what the defense changes to during the course
Speaker 1: of the cadence. Because when you look a lot of
Speaker 1: those completions that include yards after catch, a lot of
Speaker 1: them didn't matter what the defense was doing with the cadence,
Speaker 1: they the offense knew what they were doing. So what
Speaker 1: do you make of that aspect of things? Because early
Speaker 1: in the year the Bears were near the bottom of
Speaker 1: the league in yards after the catch, So yes, there
Speaker 1: are rising We saw some of the big plays last
Speaker 1: week against the Texans in their defense. But why is
Speaker 1: there so much separation now versus earlier in the seasons?
Speaker 1: Too much thinking early in the season. If you're having
Speaker 1: you're having multiple guys on the offense, you know, the
Speaker 1: whole offensive line in their protection, every receivers, whether they're
Speaker 1: seeing man or zone. Are the quarterback the two plays
Speaker 1: that he calls in the huddle, what best fits the
Speaker 1: defense you're seeing during the course you're cadence and you're
Speaker 1: talking about all these decisions made in the matter of seconds.
Speaker 1: So how about we call a play. I don't care
Speaker 1: if you stack eleven guys behind each other down the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. Whatever we have called, we're still
Speaker 1: we're still able to run with confidence. And so I
Speaker 1: think that's what you know, what we're seeing right now
Speaker 1: at this stage of the season. Injury news today, four
Speaker 1: guys miss practice, caldel Mac one of them with his shoulder.
Speaker 1: So that accounts to me more towards a veteran's day
Speaker 1: just to get better because there's nothing stopping that guy.
Speaker 1: He will be on the field on Sunday against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: But in the second day you got three guys buster screen,
Speaker 1: still in the concussion protocol. Jalen Johnson working through his
Speaker 1: shoulder injury, which you know, over the course of the
Speaker 1: week it hasn't sounded like it's going to be something
Speaker 1: that's going to be a long term thing. But whether
Speaker 1: he's able to play or not that that remains the question.
Speaker 1: Against the Vikings. Then Dan Bush, who's a part of that.
Speaker 1: I'm package that Chuck Bagana likes to use out today
Speaker 1: with a foot injury. What do you make it all?
Speaker 1: You know, the uncertainty is only in the rookies, Jeff,
Speaker 1: because we know what Khalil is capable of doing. We
Speaker 1: know that bunch of buster screen will and can't answer
Speaker 1: the bell at a moment's notice if he needs to.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Dion Bush Jayalen Johnson, that's a great unknown.
Speaker 1: What can you do at an NFL level if you
Speaker 1: miss the entire week of practice. Look, the practices aren't
Speaker 1: that physical anymore. It's about the mental portion of it
Speaker 1: that you gotta be on your feet and you gotta
Speaker 1: communicate with everybody else, whether it's a linebacker in front
Speaker 1: of him, a safety, or a nickel corner to the
Speaker 1: to his inside. So you know to me all those
Speaker 1: other guys, Hey man, they could sit in the training
Speaker 1: room until Sunday morning and they could They could play,
Speaker 1: And I think Jalen could too, but we don't know
Speaker 1: that about him. Guess the same could be said about
Speaker 1: Eric Kendricks and Kyle Rudolph. They were out today with
Speaker 1: the Vikings, two veterans, Rudolph missing last week. Kendricks also
Speaker 1: dealing with some things. An outstanding linebacker and I gat
Speaker 1: you got a block if he's on the field on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll discuss all that with Pete Bursache, the veteran radio
Speaker 1: analysts of the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago area product and
Speaker 1: Notre Damer. We can talk a little Clempson Notre Dame
Speaker 1: as well this weekend. It's all coming up next here.
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Speaker 1: six seventy to score. Welcome back to the Bear's All
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac and our good pal Pete Bursage. Man.
Speaker 1: He's just always available. That's what I love about. The
Speaker 1: guy joining us from Minneapolis? Or are you a Saint
Speaker 1: Paul guy? Which is it? Am I a what guy?
Speaker 1: Are you a Saint Paul or a Minneapolis guy? Where
Speaker 1: are you living? Oh? I'm living at technically Saint Paul.
Speaker 1: Now okay, I just want to see what side of
Speaker 1: the fence you're on. My friend, Well, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Saint Paul's more old school Hams beer was made there.
Speaker 1: Remember Hams? Oh yeah, my dad used to drink a
Speaker 1: lot of that in college. Yeah, this guy my dad
Speaker 1: used to love that, you know, a gift from dad
Speaker 1: coming to Iowa state where I went to college. If
Speaker 1: he was driving up into a couple of cases of hams,
Speaker 1: it was like it was like in the mud Gray, honestly,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Well, Pets, the radio analysts of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, as you all know, as uh, this
Speaker 1: NFC North keeps us all like family. Here, what's the
Speaker 1: big storyline coming out of Minnesota this week? Don't tell
Speaker 1: me it's about Dan Bailey. It's got to be more
Speaker 1: than that. Well, no, yeah, there's a lot more to
Speaker 1: it than that. I mean, you know, you play a
Speaker 1: team in Tampa Bay that hadn't given up a sixty
Speaker 1: yard rusher all year, and Dalvin Cook goes down there
Speaker 1: and puts up one hundred and eight on him. And
Speaker 1: the crazy part about this team, guys, is that they
Speaker 1: go down there and do something that difficult, meaning you're
Speaker 1: running the football against a really good defensive front, but
Speaker 1: you don't take care of the simple things and the
Speaker 1: easy things like turning the ball over, giving up too
Speaker 1: many sacks right, giving up you know what, six sacks,
Speaker 1: five sacks, penalties especially in the red zone. Defensively, you know,
Speaker 1: we get a past interference call on a Hail Marry
Speaker 1: in halftime. That call hasn't been made since two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine. But yet we you know, we get one
Speaker 1: called against us. I mean, the team is just it's
Speaker 1: so hit and miss. It is so hard to put
Speaker 1: your finger on what the problem is or what's going well,
Speaker 1: what isn't um it's it's frustrating, it's it's maddening almost
Speaker 1: and so week the week the week, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't know which team's gonna show up, you don't
Speaker 1: know which team you're gonna get, and you know we're
Speaker 1: just kind of it's it's so it's I hate that'd
Speaker 1: be able to I wish jooniac I could tell you
Speaker 1: this is the problem and this is what's going on.
Speaker 1: It's but there's a lot more to it. Hey, Pete,
Speaker 1: When you look at Dalvin Cook and you look at
Speaker 1: your talented rookie Jefferson, you know, breaking records of Randy
Speaker 1: Moss Hall of Famer, who who is responsible for who
Speaker 1: is it Dalvin Cook in the running game is responsible
Speaker 1: for Jefferson to have the rookie season he's having or
Speaker 1: is the threat of Jefferson such a wide concern of
Speaker 1: opponent's defenses that maybe the line of scrimmage is a
Speaker 1: little bit looser and Dalvin Cook can capitalize on it. Um, Well,
Speaker 1: no one's operating in the vacuum. I know that, And
Speaker 1: I think that there's one thing for sure with Kubiak
Speaker 1: our offensive coordinators. He you know, he knows how to
Speaker 1: who you know, and knows how to have a passing
Speaker 1: game that's based on the running game. And one thing
Speaker 1: about our passing game, it's not a short underneath tight
Speaker 1: passing game. I mean, you know, you look at Jefferson,
Speaker 1: He's origin almost seventeen yards a reception. You know, Adam
Speaker 1: Sealen is close to thirteen. So it's about running the ball,
Speaker 1: getting the teams, you know, getting teams to dial in
Speaker 1: on Dalvin Cook and having to stop Dalvin Cook. And
Speaker 1: then you make them pay for it once you find
Speaker 1: out how they're going about doing it, and putting extra
Speaker 1: guys in the box to do it, You're getting a
Speaker 1: lot more one on ones in the outside. So I
Speaker 1: think Dalvin Cook, without question, is what makes this offense go.
Speaker 1: I mean, he you know, he makes Kirk Cousins better
Speaker 1: because Kirk Cousins is a much better play action passor
Speaker 1: than he is just to drop back pocket type passer.
Speaker 1: So Dalvin is definitely, you know, he's really the starting
Speaker 1: point for the entire offense. You look at the Vikings
Speaker 1: right now, so you look at the injury report for
Speaker 1: the Bears. They got three defensive backs listening on the
Speaker 1: injury report. I raise an eyebrow if I look at that.
Speaker 1: If you're if we're looking at the Minnesota Vikings, where
Speaker 1: what position are they the thinnest at right now? Well,
Speaker 1: we're sent a corner for you know, a very very
Speaker 1: long time. You know, you have Cameron Danceler and Jeff
Speaker 1: Gladney and then uh Chris Boyd or Chris Jones coming
Speaker 1: in uh to you know to spell them. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: defensive line, we have a lot of bodies. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of you know, when you know you lose
Speaker 1: you know, you lose some of your better defensive lineman
Speaker 1: uh earlier in the season. You know you just don't
Speaker 1: have really much left. And then you know it's those
Speaker 1: are the spots that we're thin I mean, Kyle Rudolph's
Speaker 1: still battling injury or Smith junior is doing a good job.
Speaker 1: Tyler Conklin is doing a good job. Um, but I
Speaker 1: think our you know, with our team, cornerback and linebacker two,
Speaker 1: Eric Kendricks is probably gonna be out. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a huge, huge loss for us. We've been playing with
Speaker 1: Audam Todd Davis from the Denver Broncos has been doing
Speaker 1: a great job. But still when you have Eric Wilson,
Speaker 1: Todd Davis and Troy Die a rookie from Oregon Oregon State,
Speaker 1: I can't remember which, but when you have those guys
Speaker 1: is out there in linebacker, you, yeah, it just makes
Speaker 1: you makes you a little nervous. I guess our guest
Speaker 1: is Pete Bursus, the radio analyst for the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This
Speaker 1: is Bears All Access with Tom There Jeff Joniac. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you talk about that cornerback position, this
Speaker 1: was the plan though, right, You're going with young guys
Speaker 1: and try to weather the storm. But you know you
Speaker 1: thought maybe a little bit more upfront would would take
Speaker 1: care of the pass rush. But you lose Daniel Hunter,
Speaker 1: you don't resign Verson Griffin and gock Way comes but
Speaker 1: he goes you know, we played you in week ten
Speaker 1: and he's still you're leading sacker. Has that impacted what
Speaker 1: goes on in the back end? You know, you know,
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. I mean you I mean you look
Speaker 1: at the number of guys on our defensive line with
Speaker 1: multiple sacks, you know, not many. You know, dj Wanham
Speaker 1: is leading our defensive line group with three and then
Speaker 1: you have a Foty Identibo with three and a half.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it. Cameron Danzler is a you know,
Speaker 1: third round pick. Um. He's starting to play better. You know,
Speaker 1: he had an interception a couple of weeks ago, a
Speaker 1: forced fumble and a fumble recovery. He's starting to play
Speaker 1: with some confidence. And Jeff Gladney is as well. Um,
Speaker 1: but he moves inside whenever teams go three wide, and
Speaker 1: so that'll bring you know, like Chris Jones out or
Speaker 1: Chris Boyd out, you know, onto the field and that's
Speaker 1: usually where teams are, you know, trying to go having defensively,
Speaker 1: having the blitz more to get pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: We can't just do it all the time with a
Speaker 1: four man rush. So Harrison Smith has been more involved.
Speaker 1: Eric Wilson's a very good blitzer. Um, and we have
Speaker 1: to you know, we have to send sometimes an extra
Speaker 1: guy just to get the ball out quickly. So Um,
Speaker 1: but we knew that, we knew we were going to
Speaker 1: be young at corner going into this season. But um,
Speaker 1: you know we were. They're getting better, The young guys
Speaker 1: are getting better. Jeff Gladney's a competitor, he's healthy, he's
Speaker 1: staying on the field, he's getting better week in and
Speaker 1: week out. And it's like it's about time, you know,
Speaker 1: we start, you know, seeing and getting some return on
Speaker 1: some of these younger corners. Let's talk special teams because
Speaker 1: all I read Monday and Tuesday weren't do we have to?
Speaker 1: Well listen, the anger I want to take is is
Speaker 1: the history of it? All your writers there went through
Speaker 1: the entire history of the impatience, I guess is the
Speaker 1: best way to describe with Zim in terms of not
Speaker 1: tolerating much and moving on from things. And here he's
Speaker 1: sticking with Dan Bailey after seven miss kicks in two games.
Speaker 1: I mean, what is the real story about your Special
Speaker 1: Teams unit? Because I always felt it was pretty dog
Speaker 1: on a good unit and they do play hard it
Speaker 1: may not be as highly thought of as as years passed,
Speaker 1: but overall, is that is that an accurate depiction of
Speaker 1: what's going on from a Mike Zimmer point of view? Well,
Speaker 1: I I the fact that Mike sticking with Bailey, I
Speaker 1: think is you know, it's a prude. It's the prudent
Speaker 1: thing to do. I mean, Um, they know what's going
Speaker 1: on more than we do. Uh, they know where Bailey's
Speaker 1: head is more than than any of us do. Um.
Speaker 1: And for you know, for him to stick by him, um,
Speaker 1: you know that's I think it's I think that's awesome
Speaker 1: that he's doing that. I mean special teams wise. What's
Speaker 1: been hurting us too, is just our punt return Um.
Speaker 1: You know, kJ Osborne was was as young as a
Speaker 1: rookie from Miami. We've had him on some kick returns
Speaker 1: and some punt returns been you know, been disappointing. I
Speaker 1: mean you look at Cardill Patterson and what he's done.
Speaker 1: I mean we've had forty nine yards of punt returns
Speaker 1: this season, guys forty nine told the whole year. You know,
Speaker 1: Chad beebe muffing a punt and then fortunately comes back
Speaker 1: later in the game catch touchdown to win the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we've had so many mistakes on special
Speaker 1: teams um, so many uh you know, kick returns, punt
Speaker 1: return It's just it's been it's like as soon as
Speaker 1: things get good, they get better, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: something else rears its ugly head. And it's just been
Speaker 1: kind of moving around. You know. We had Austin cutting
Speaker 1: the long snapper that we brought in and then we
Speaker 1: had to release him. I mean, it's been it's been
Speaker 1: a revolving door. And in a lot of ways, uh, colquitt,
Speaker 1: our punter has been consistent, so yeah, we got a
Speaker 1: consistent punter um. But overall it's just been a very
Speaker 1: inconsistent group on a lot of that I think has
Speaker 1: to do with a lot of these guys having to
Speaker 1: play defense. You know, when you're down starters. The guys
Speaker 1: that you have is your special teams unit. They're out
Speaker 1: there on the field, so then you got to limit
Speaker 1: their snaps and you know, um, it's yeah, we haven't.
Speaker 1: We've lost more games with the special teams than we've won,
Speaker 1: and that's usually not a good thing. We're talking about
Speaker 1: is than kickers. But I got to ask you one
Speaker 1: more question. Do you think there could be a little
Speaker 1: bit more emphasis that Bailey's got to hit the ball
Speaker 1: out of the end zone given the fact that Corderyl
Speaker 1: did return a kick off against you guys, Because you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like when you put that type of
Speaker 1: pre sure I'm a kicker, maybe it interferes with his
Speaker 1: integrity or just his ability just just to go out
Speaker 1: there and concentrate and get the ball off of his foot. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, guys, it's one thing. There's one thing that's
Speaker 1: changed throughout the twenty thirty years, last three years of football,
Speaker 1: all the things that have changed. One of the things
Speaker 1: that's changed the most is just these kickers and how
Speaker 1: far they can kick the ball. And really, right now,
Speaker 1: it's not hard or it's not too much of a
Speaker 1: challenge for anyone to be able to send it out
Speaker 1: of the back of the end zone. And I mean,
Speaker 1: discretion is the better part of valor. I mean, you know, why,
Speaker 1: why why let Cordell Patterson have the opportunity, Why even
Speaker 1: give them the chance when you can start at the
Speaker 1: twenty five and you know, make make those guys go
Speaker 1: up and down the field. You want to know why,
Speaker 1: it's fun why, Because that's why. Don't kick it out
Speaker 1: of the back end for you guys, don't extend your arms.
Speaker 1: Let's have a little fun, Pete, I know for sure. Fine, right, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll we'll put our we'll put Amrabdula up against
Speaker 1: your Cordarell Patterson and we'll see what happens. Right enough enough,
Speaker 1: kicker talk. Hey, So now, last last time the Bears
Speaker 1: played the Vikings, Kirk Cousins got over the hump of
Speaker 1: winning on Monday Night football. Does Kirk Cousins feel like
Speaker 1: he's got a bigger hump to get over because the
Speaker 1: consideration for both teams is they're still in the playoff hunt.
Speaker 1: And you know, Kirk Cousins seems to be the stir
Speaker 1: that the straw that starts the drink. Well, you know
Speaker 1: he had. I think the win down to New Orleans
Speaker 1: UM a year ago was huge. To that overtime victory UM.
Speaker 1: I think that answers a lot of questions. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think for Kirk this is the bottom line. If
Speaker 1: if you try to do what Carolina did at the
Speaker 1: end of a game when you're rushing three people, UM
Speaker 1: and you turn it into a seven on seven drill
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, will shred, will shred you. I mean he
Speaker 1: if you let if you give him time and let
Speaker 1: him just survey what's going on. But you know in
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield, he can just go up and down
Speaker 1: the field. Where teams have had successes is in pressure
Speaker 1: and keeping him in the pocket and keeping pressure on him.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the things. More so I don't
Speaker 1: think he carries a lot of that with him into
Speaker 1: these games where he feels like, you know, this is
Speaker 1: an opportunity for me to do this as an opportunity
Speaker 1: for me to win Monday night game. This is an
Speaker 1: opportunity for me to do this on the road or
Speaker 1: at home. I think for him it's it's really getting
Speaker 1: into a rhythm of a game and understanding and seeing
Speaker 1: what's going on downfield. And he doesn't do that very
Speaker 1: well when he has people in his face constantly. So
Speaker 1: protection is something that's huge. And if you want to
Speaker 1: get him off off his game, you get pressure on him,
Speaker 1: you just don't let him sit back there and get comfortable.
Speaker 1: Beat versus you. Our guest here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes to go with you. Let's switch gears because
Speaker 1: you know you Golden Domer's got a big one. Where
Speaker 1: are we What are we thinking? Here? Well, we're playing
Speaker 1: When are we playing? Clemson? Come on, man, you help
Speaker 1: us out. What are you thinking? What are you thinking?
Speaker 1: Where's your where's your where's your thought process? Put your
Speaker 1: analysts capped on both of you, guys. Uh time you
Speaker 1: got time? You go ahead and take this one. I
Speaker 1: don't watch a whole lot of college football anymore. I
Speaker 1: just don't have time. Well, you know, when you look
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, in the most high profile position
Speaker 1: in the country, and you have the marquee quarterback in
Speaker 1: the country for Clemson and they didn't play him last
Speaker 1: time they got together, it seems like, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Lawrence is gonna put him over the hum. It's gonna
Speaker 1: put him over the edge. He's gonna take this one. This,
Speaker 1: you know, championship Conference championship game down. But I think
Speaker 1: this is probably the best defense that Clemson will face,
Speaker 1: uh this season. You know, and not luckily Notre Dame
Speaker 1: has had a lot of chance to play games and
Speaker 1: they you know, kind of have a good thing going
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball and always, and
Speaker 1: it's always seems in you know, in the last ten
Speaker 1: years or so I've been watching them, is that there
Speaker 1: you're just lacking speed and lacking speed, especially on defense.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's as much of an
Speaker 1: issue this year as it's been, But when you get
Speaker 1: to these sec SEC teams that spread the ball out,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to have some speed in the
Speaker 1: back end of your defense. They missed that Pete versage speed.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, yeah, no, the defense of the Irish anyway, Well, hey, Ipe,
Speaker 1: you'll watch at least yeah, right, I hope you're gonna Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: clear your schedule, watch watch your alma mater for crying
Speaker 1: out loud, will you? Well, well, come on, I got
Speaker 1: stuff to do. You know. Well, any before we let
Speaker 1: you go, last thing, what's your view on what a
Speaker 1: lot of changes on that Bear offense? Yes, there, you
Speaker 1: know you get I think with Rubisky you see a
Speaker 1: lot of the you know, you understand the routes that
Speaker 1: he can throw. I mean, you can keep on the move,
Speaker 1: bootleg him and all that, but the driving dig, you know,
Speaker 1: the shallow cross of the dig behind it or the
Speaker 1: high low he's been completing a lot of those passes.
Speaker 1: It seems like, you know, nag, he's got him in
Speaker 1: a in a bit of a rhythm there, so to speak.
Speaker 1: If he sees pressure and you know it needs to
Speaker 1: get rid of it, he's just gonna throw, you know,
Speaker 1: throw a fifty fifty ball up to Alan Robinson, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's working. And then whenever David Montgomery you can
Speaker 1: break one no matter how, and you make the defense
Speaker 1: have to stop the run, then you know, yeah, you
Speaker 1: have a little something there. It's it's all related. You know,
Speaker 1: the offensive line is better, um, and then you know,
Speaker 1: not great. I mean that's I think that's where that team,
Speaker 1: you guys need to have the most amount of investment
Speaker 1: and in the offseason is you know, I don't care
Speaker 1: who you have a quarterback. When you don't have an
Speaker 1: offensive line, um, yeah, you're gonna have problems. So Rubisky,
Speaker 1: you know, Drubisky can't just sit back and be pocket passer.
Speaker 1: You gotta keep moving. And I was it was a
Speaker 1: good you guys. You know, you played well against Houston,
Speaker 1: which you should have, but you guys did. It's the
Speaker 1: biggest win you've had one a year and a half
Speaker 1: two years. I mean that's that's good. Good for the Bears,
Speaker 1: all right, Pete, good luck on Sunday, not too much luck,
Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas to you and your family, all right, buddy, Hey,
Speaker 1: you guys, you guys have won the last two in
Speaker 1: a row up in Minnesota, so right turned out to
Speaker 1: make it a little different now this one has a
Speaker 1: lot more Marry Christmas all you guys too. Man, All right, Pierre,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you, coming up. Actually joined by
Speaker 1: Bears Rookie tight End, Cole Commet. This is Bears All
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Everybody,
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Speaker 1: Carving out some time for us tonight, Rookie tight End,
Speaker 1: Cole Commet, Good Thursday evening to you, Cole, how you feeling, Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you guys doing? Okay? Called doing all kay?
Speaker 1: I'm sure you still got a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of your work. They still left. It never ends, and
Speaker 1: certainly yesterday with the curveball, no baseball pun intended, because
Speaker 1: you know you could throw one with the best of them. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's a challenge every week because you know, creatures
Speaker 1: a habit preparation the way it is. You guys like
Speaker 1: to get your work done and very specific time frames
Speaker 1: and to be able to digest it all, get your
Speaker 1: work in mentally on the field and what not. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's been one of the bigger challenges for everybody,
Speaker 1: let alone a rookie. Yeah, no doubt. You know it's
Speaker 1: been weird, the ever changing schedule. I think Jeff we
Speaker 1: talked about it one other time last week, and it
Speaker 1: just changes, you know, day to day. So you know,
Speaker 1: finding a rhythm is tough, no doubt, especially in a
Speaker 1: year like this. But um, you know it's been good
Speaker 1: so far, and you know you just gotta kind of
Speaker 1: take it, take it day by day and whatever the
Speaker 1: day brings it. You kind of kind of have to
Speaker 1: attack it that way. You know. A word that pops
Speaker 1: into my head here and certainly you never played this
Speaker 1: many games one season. Well you know are going to
Speaker 1: any way, but it's survival a little bit, especially this year.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to survive each week, hoping everybody's going
Speaker 1: to be okay, in addition to your own health physically,
Speaker 1: from the from the rigors of a game, and just
Speaker 1: you know, try to be mentally as tough as possible here.
Speaker 1: Is that something that is discussed, I mean between you
Speaker 1: and the guys or you know, even fellow rookies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's something you know, definitely leading into this
Speaker 1: season was something that I think we were all kind
Speaker 1: of concerned about, especially US rookies. Um, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to find a way and you know, it's been tough,
Speaker 1: no doubt. I mean I think, you know, whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: the situation comes, like the other day when you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of had to wait because you know, whatever
Speaker 1: happened with our test results and you know, how to
Speaker 1: go back in and get um, you know, the quick
Speaker 1: test and then and then everyone was clear to come
Speaker 1: back in later in the day. Um. It just kind
Speaker 1: of things that I've been happening this year and just
Speaker 1: something you kind of have to deal with and you
Speaker 1: know it can be mentally exhausting sometimes, but you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of is what it is. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: Minnesota is a beautiful playing atmosphere when you look at
Speaker 1: the conditions last week, natural surface outdoors at Soldier Field
Speaker 1: and now a little late season indoors, perfect playing conditions
Speaker 1: and an artificial surface. Do you have any preference as
Speaker 1: to what type of surface you play on. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. Um. You know, obviously, in college
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, we switched to turf when I got there,
Speaker 1: so that's all I was used to, and that's all
Speaker 1: that we practiced on. And then, you know, that's kind
Speaker 1: of what I was used to in college because most
Speaker 1: of the college stadiums had had turf. And then coming
Speaker 1: into Chicago and you know at Hallis it's all grass,
Speaker 1: and that's all I was on for training camp. And
Speaker 1: then we go the first week of the season against Detroit,
Speaker 1: we're kind of forced inside because of the weather, and
Speaker 1: you know, we were on turf for a couple of days,
Speaker 1: and you kind of realize you get pretty sore on turf,
Speaker 1: but even though you're flying around and you feel good
Speaker 1: while you're playing on it, the next day is not
Speaker 1: so great. So I think, you know, for one game,
Speaker 1: you know, or for one day out of the week,
Speaker 1: you know, it's I think we all love playing on turf.
Speaker 1: Because you feel fast and you're moving around quick, but
Speaker 1: you know there's definitely some aches and pains that come
Speaker 1: along with it afterwards. So a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: you play the Minnesota Vikings, and you were less included
Speaker 1: in the game plan than you are up at this point.
Speaker 1: So when you talk about preparing in your personal time,
Speaker 1: not when you're sitting there in the meetings with the
Speaker 1: rest of your teammates, will you take time to invest
Speaker 1: in watching the first Minnesota game or will you invest
Speaker 1: most of your time in the last week's Tapa game
Speaker 1: Tapa Minnesota game. Yeah, So I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: funny when looking at us, uh, you know whatever that
Speaker 1: was six weeks ago against the Vikings. Our offense is
Speaker 1: a little bit different right now in a lot of ways. Um,
Speaker 1: we got more movements going on, and there's there's just
Speaker 1: a lot more going on that we weren't doing against
Speaker 1: Minnesota six weeks ago. So you know, in that in
Speaker 1: that state, you know, we kind of I've kind of
Speaker 1: been looking at teams that have been running and were
Speaker 1: stuff to us the past couple of weeks, and you know,
Speaker 1: looking more at more recent games with the Vikings, So
Speaker 1: looking at Tampa and whatnot. So, um, yeah, it's definitely
Speaker 1: a little different to see and kind of cool. I
Speaker 1: see how our offense has changed just from six weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So when you think about six weeks ago and when
Speaker 1: we are listening to the coaches talk today, Bill Laser
Speaker 1: and Matt Nagee, and they talk about, you know, Mitch
Speaker 1: being able to share what he likes, what he feels
Speaker 1: confident with. When you are game planning, have you had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk to either that your position coach,
Speaker 1: or Bill Laser or Matt and Nagee about the types
Speaker 1: of plays that you would like to be included for
Speaker 1: yourself or what you where your comfort zone is or
Speaker 1: are they just supplying you with the information you need
Speaker 1: to know and then you have to study that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of how it was in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, where I was just getting supplied
Speaker 1: information and you know, I just kind of took the
Speaker 1: information and did what I had to do with it.
Speaker 1: But I think recently, you know, I've been a great
Speaker 1: relationship with our tight ends coach, Clancy Browne, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that has really helped me learn how
Speaker 1: to watch film and whatnot. So I've been able to
Speaker 1: go to him and say, hey, I like doing this stuff,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it aligns with what with what
Speaker 1: Mitch likes to do. You know, I like moving around,
Speaker 1: being in motion, you know, coming back across the field,
Speaker 1: you know, having dump off passes then you know, allowing
Speaker 1: myself to get yards after the catch. So those are
Speaker 1: some things that I like and I know and Mitch
Speaker 1: likes as well. So that's been a good fit for
Speaker 1: these past couple of weeks. Cool come at Bears rookie
Speaker 1: tight end John I guess here on Bears Alt Access
Speaker 1: with Tom There Jeff johnyak Here in Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score. Hey, Cole, how does that feel
Speaker 1: as a player and even with the veterans and just
Speaker 1: your discussions, because I do feel even though you guys
Speaker 1: aren't sitting in the locker room just hamming it up
Speaker 1: and talking, you know, in between practice sessions and meetings,
Speaker 1: there is a lot of conversation going on. You've got
Speaker 1: your executive counsel kind of with the with the team
Speaker 1: and the leadership. But how does it make you feel
Speaker 1: that the coaching staff has allowed this free flow of
Speaker 1: information in this effort, and I got to call it
Speaker 1: a valiant effort because the frustration level I'm sure all
Speaker 1: of you had felt, and I felt it even from
Speaker 1: from coach Naggi and the coaches just keep trying to
Speaker 1: find ways to get this offense, which statistically it was
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the barrel in the league and
Speaker 1: now slowly working your way out of that. Um, it
Speaker 1: had to really wear on everybody. But the open mindedness
Speaker 1: of going to you guys and sharing some information that
Speaker 1: has that been an important development here in the last
Speaker 1: post bye week. Really yeah, no doubt. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, you know, coaches
Speaker 1: and players were all in this together and we're all
Speaker 1: trying to get w so, UM, I think I think
Speaker 1: he was a grueling, you know, six game losing streak
Speaker 1: that we had, and UM, I think we were learning
Speaker 1: a lot about each other through that process. And you know,
Speaker 1: it was tough week to week, you know, having that happened,
Speaker 1: especially when you know there was there is winnable games
Speaker 1: in there. And you know, I think I think us
Speaker 1: just as the communication line between the players and coaches
Speaker 1: has been great, and you know, really ever since the
Speaker 1: bye week, and you know, we've been trying to give
Speaker 1: input and they and they've they've understood our point of
Speaker 1: view and certain things. So you know, I've seen obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, the older guys kind of take charge of that,
Speaker 1: and you know, me as a rookie, I get to
Speaker 1: kind of watch from afar and you know, obviously support
Speaker 1: my guys. But you know, it's been it's been good
Speaker 1: these past couple of weeks. And you know, obviously it's
Speaker 1: exciting when you get to see the players and coaches
Speaker 1: gel together, and you know it starts to click on offense.
Speaker 1: Cool when you went back to work this week, the
Speaker 1: first time you get together, whether it's in person or
Speaker 1: on zoom, and now you could start finishing sentences with
Speaker 1: playoff picture because you couldn't do that in the midst
Speaker 1: of the losing streak. Was it a different atmosphere when
Speaker 1: you got together or you could see your teammates faces
Speaker 1: and you could honestly say, look, man, we are making
Speaker 1: a push here for possible playoff position. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: I mean I think we offensively kind of felt that
Speaker 1: actually after the Detroit loss, where that was a heartbreaking
Speaker 1: loss and we thought we played really well and we
Speaker 1: thought we punished them up front for ninety percent of
Speaker 1: that game, and you know, obviously to come out and
Speaker 1: have it slip away from us from the last two minutes,
Speaker 1: that was really tough. But we knew we were in
Speaker 1: a good spot and I think that led into the
Speaker 1: next game against the Texans, and I think that's just
Speaker 1: going to keep going on for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, we feel confident with where
Speaker 1: we're at, and you know, we know offensively we execute
Speaker 1: and do the things that we need to do offensively.
Speaker 1: You know, our special teams in defense has been playing
Speaker 1: great all year. They're going to take care of their
Speaker 1: things and and we're gonna be able to move the
Speaker 1: ball and control the clock as well. So I think
Speaker 1: with that, you know, it's just about about getting hot
Speaker 1: right now and go and want to know each week
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, and we should be
Speaker 1: in a good spot. Cool come at a couple of
Speaker 1: more minutes with the Bears rookie tight End here on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access Bears getting ready for the Vikings. Everyone wants
Speaker 1: to know, everyone wants to hear what it's like right now.
Speaker 1: With Mitchell Trubisky versus what it was early in the season.
Speaker 1: That seems to be a curiosity for almost every day
Speaker 1: of questions from the media here locally and just from
Speaker 1: fans in general. What perspective can you give a Bears
Speaker 1: fan right now what that dynamic is like? Yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can just speak to us to right now.
Speaker 1: I think Mitch is he's confident, He's having a lot
Speaker 1: of fun a practice, and you know, he's just doing
Speaker 1: his thing out there. I think I think he's, uh,
Speaker 1: he's confident and understanding as to what he wants and
Speaker 1: what he likes. And you know, I think that that's shown,
Speaker 1: you know, really since the since the since the bye week,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, he's just been a great, you know,
Speaker 1: positive attitude for us to have, and he's just been
Speaker 1: bringing a ton of energy and you know, I think
Speaker 1: we've all been feeding off of it. Hey, Cole, is
Speaker 1: there any is there any similarities between Mitchell Trubisky and
Speaker 1: Ian Book. Honestly, there there are a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: they're both uh, they're both got the same type of athleticism,
Speaker 1: I think, and um, you know the same type of
Speaker 1: attitude and and charisma. So they both kind of share that.
Speaker 1: And I actually mentioned that, um to Tommy Reese, our
Speaker 1: our OC at Notre Dame a while back in the
Speaker 1: summer when I first started to get to know Mitch
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously was staring around with him a
Speaker 1: little bit, and yeah, they're they're very similar u athletically
Speaker 1: and you know, just kind of how they handled themselves
Speaker 1: on the field. All right, So what are you thinking
Speaker 1: your boy's gonna get it done? I mean the remakeh yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, I mean this is our We're undefeated first
Speaker 1: of all, in the in the history of Notre Dame football.
Speaker 1: We're undefeated in conference games. Um, so we got that
Speaker 1: going for us. Um. Obviously this is our first ACC
Speaker 1: championship game. But I think the boys are feeling good
Speaker 1: with where they're at. Very good ship. Must see TV,
Speaker 1: no question about it. I'm sure you'll enjoy it and
Speaker 1: you'll be Yeah, it's a little different perspective now as
Speaker 1: a fan, right, no doubt, no doubt you're back to
Speaker 1: the fan part of it, and you know you don't
Speaker 1: have the TV all the time and whatever. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun and you know, I love
Speaker 1: those guys and you know all those guys are my
Speaker 1: best friends over there. Yeah. Good group of guys, very
Speaker 1: talented team, no question about it. Cole, good luck on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and thanks for taking out this time. We really do
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate you, guys. Cole commet bears
Speaker 1: tight end looking good. He mentioned Tom. I think it
Speaker 1: was the word was a ruggedness or I can't remember now,
Speaker 1: but he's planned like that right now, a rugged with
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands, and the blocking aspect of
Speaker 1: things to me is really a significant part of this
Speaker 1: puzzle right now. Well, you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: when you listen to Bill Laser and Bill Laser in
Speaker 1: his conference today, he talks about players have to earn
Speaker 1: the NFL respect if they want to interject something to
Speaker 1: the game plan, if they want to be more noticed.
Speaker 1: It's never just handed to them, and it's all about
Speaker 1: being earned. And I think that was one of the
Speaker 1: telltale signs here for Cole in the early part of
Speaker 1: the season was make sure that you can be a
Speaker 1: really destructive good blocker, whether it's on the mover or
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage, and you're going to increase
Speaker 1: opportunity these for yourself and I think that's the way
Speaker 1: he's gone about his business. All right, Well, you're gonna
Speaker 1: learn a little bit more about Cole Commet this weekend
Speaker 1: on our Bears Game Day Live show ten thirty on
Speaker 1: Fox thirty two Chicago with our buddy Luke Cannellis, Tom
Speaker 1: and I in our player profile. He's the feature this week, Tom,
Speaker 1: So I'll be looking for that on all the Bears
Speaker 1: social media platforms as well. We're gonna step away for
Speaker 1: a break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score.
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Speaker 1: pregame in nine kickoff at noon on WBBM with the
Speaker 1: Ron Gleason, Jim Schwanz, and Jay Hilgenberg. In that pregame trio,
Speaker 1: lots of discussion to be had about these Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: When you get into Division tim, it's where it's your
Speaker 1: lifeblood to get to get to where you need to go.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a ta I'm glad it's not
Speaker 1: the last regular season game of the year against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: because meaningful game in mid December against the Vikings a
Speaker 1: different measuring stick. Yeah, But you know, I think the
Speaker 1: seriousness of the approach of both head coaches. You have
Speaker 1: one that's more defensive minded, defensive oriented, and Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 1: you know, a real one of the ultimate tough guys
Speaker 1: of head coaching, cut coaches in the NFL. And you
Speaker 1: got Matt who is you know, he talked about his
Speaker 1: pass as a quarterback. That's how he understands the game,
Speaker 1: That's how he sees it. He's got more. Both of
Speaker 1: these guys have more on their play than just offensive defense.
Speaker 1: But they're the head coaches of their football team. And
Speaker 1: I think from the very beginning of this week it
Speaker 1: was early notification that you better approach this with the
Speaker 1: playoff type atmosphere. And I know you're just trying to
Speaker 1: stay into the race of the playoffs, but you have
Speaker 1: to consider yourself in the playoffs at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: earlier in the week. This wasn't today, but earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, Matt Naggy, you know, specifically about Mitchell Trubisky's
Speaker 1: play and if it's a real sign of growth, Let's
Speaker 1: play a clip of what Mets feeling about that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's real. And I say that because I'll
Speaker 1: kind of go back to when everything went down the
Speaker 1: first three weeks, and there was times where we were
Speaker 1: even then moving the ball really well and we were
Speaker 1: just struggling a little bit in the red zone. We
Speaker 1: were struggling a little bit on third down. And as
Speaker 1: y'all know, you know, we we've changed some things right
Speaker 1: schematically as to this offense and what it was even
Speaker 1: two years ago in twenty eighteen to try to work
Speaker 1: around the strength of our players and when we made
Speaker 1: the move to Nick again at that point in time,
Speaker 1: it's it's really hard to accept for Mitchell, but I
Speaker 1: do believe that for a lot of different reasons, that's
Speaker 1: going to end up really helping him out in his career.
Speaker 1: And what it's done is it's it's enabled him to
Speaker 1: take a step back and see where we're at. And
Speaker 1: now these last three games. We're feeling an identity within
Speaker 1: this offense, and he's a big part of that. You know,
Speaker 1: he's able to see some of the stuff we're doing
Speaker 1: with the nakeds and the movements, and he's changing his
Speaker 1: arm angles. He's making good decisions where he's looking down
Speaker 1: field and if it's not there, he's getting the ball
Speaker 1: down to the backs and the tight ends and they're
Speaker 1: making plays. It's hard to defend when you do that.
Speaker 1: When you get the run game going we did early
Speaker 1: on and then you know towards the end there when
Speaker 1: they knew we had to run the ball, that's where
Speaker 1: I thought they stopped us a couple of times. But
Speaker 1: that's okay. Our guys are still working through that. I've
Speaker 1: mentioned the identity part the last couple of weeks, and
Speaker 1: we feel that way and the guys are playing with confidence,
Speaker 1: and I do believe it's real for Mitchell right now.
Speaker 1: And I like where he's at and he's just kind
Speaker 1: of staying in his own lane and he's just being
Speaker 1: a leader and making plays, and that's what's important. Tom.
Speaker 1: There's a late season arrival at defining an identity. Is
Speaker 1: there enough time? Do you have enough time to utilize
Speaker 1: that to get to where you need to go. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're always going to be scoreboard watching or looking at
Speaker 1: the side of your eye of what other teams are
Speaker 1: doing around the league to see if you're staying in it.
Speaker 1: But when you think about a player like Mitchell Trubisky,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever he's ever wanted, No player
Speaker 1: ever wants to be forced to take a seat. And then,
Speaker 1: because it's such a challenge to your preparedness, what are
Speaker 1: you doing with your time off? Are you still constructive
Speaker 1: about making sure that you pay attention to what's going
Speaker 1: on with your next opponent. Are you going out and
Speaker 1: doing in practice what's always been expected of you, whether
Speaker 1: you're a starter or fighting for an opportunity. So I
Speaker 1: think Trubisky has gone on to show everybody that you know,
Speaker 1: he's willing to do what's being asked of him. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky wants to be a starting quarterback. He wants
Speaker 1: his role to be a starting quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: All right, let's flip to the defense a minute, because
Speaker 1: they put in a terriffic pressure was consistent against the
Speaker 1: text with seven sacks. This is a Minnesota team time
Speaker 1: that has given up ten sacks of Kirk Cousins in
Speaker 1: the last two games. So that's where they're vulnerable when
Speaker 1: that pressure's cranked up on a consistent basis. Off of that,
Speaker 1: you'd still like to see the ball fall into the
Speaker 1: hands of some of these defenders. Attack the football, secure
Speaker 1: it when it's out there, go and get it. There's
Speaker 1: been a drought for Eddie Jackson, there's been a drought
Speaker 1: for even Kyle Fuller. Jalen Johnson has not at an
Speaker 1: interception this year. I'm talking about all the corners buster
Speaker 1: screens in fifty one games without an interception. To Sean Gibson,
Speaker 1: it's got the most interceptions out of that entire secondary
Speaker 1: in his career. On this interception drought today, oh man,
Speaker 1: I think that's the most frustrating part about it all.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a bunch of guys in this secondary
Speaker 1: that part ourselves on getting to the ball. When you
Speaker 1: got a guy like myself who's been proven to do
Speaker 1: it over in our career, you got a guy like
Speaker 1: eighty who is a top tier guy getting the ball,
Speaker 1: guy like Kyle, you know, the production on the balls
Speaker 1: just having been where we wanted to what can I
Speaker 1: attest to that. I mean, I'm not sure. It's so
Speaker 1: many things that going there. Luck is a lot to
Speaker 1: do with it, obviously, It's just some things that you
Speaker 1: just can't explain. You can be in perfect coverage, man,
Speaker 1: and there'll be a PBu instead of a pick. Those
Speaker 1: those floaters, those tip passes that you know that they
Speaker 1: probably got back in twenty and eighteen when they was
Speaker 1: leading the league, and turnovers, those bouncers just not coming
Speaker 1: on win when they are, we just not capitalize on.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of things, man, obviously, and teams are
Speaker 1: getting the ball out a lot quicker than normal. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when you've got guys that can rush that way, that's
Speaker 1: how you neutralize those guys. Man. So, um, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be, I have no clue, man, but I know
Speaker 1: the last three games, Man, I think that we're itching
Speaker 1: because that's unlike a secondary like this, And I think
Speaker 1: that everybody is aware that we want to get our
Speaker 1: hands on and have more opportunities to make plays on
Speaker 1: the ball. But it's nobody. We have nobody to blame
Speaker 1: but ourselves. And obviously, like I say, man, it's better
Speaker 1: late than never. Man, three games is a lot of
Speaker 1: football to be played. Three games, a lot of opportunities
Speaker 1: to go out there and make plays in the ball.
Speaker 1: So who knows. Man, Hopefully that that that that street
Speaker 1: turns right now, man, and we can start to continue
Speaker 1: to do the things that we do. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's all about winning. The thing
Speaker 1: about what the Bears did great last week and it
Speaker 1: could be the perfect intersection against Kirk Cousins. His offensive
Speaker 1: line has given up a bunch of sacks the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Last week, the Bears game planned unpredictable pressure,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't always let's stop Khalil and it's somewhat
Speaker 1: no one else is going to get there. Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: I know Robert Quinn has taken a lot of criticism,
Speaker 1: but he's very unselfish when he's going to run a
Speaker 1: perfect stunt and end tackle stunt and he unselfishly gives
Speaker 1: up his body against two offensive lineman to set another
Speaker 1: defensive lineman free. And then you got Balal Nichols capitalizing
Speaker 1: on a good rush from the opposite side of the line,
Speaker 1: seeing that void and be able to close the distance
Speaker 1: and get to the talented quarterback and then to put
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith in a position on the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: that he becomes responsible the offensive line, and now you'll
Speaker 1: open up a one on one for Khalil mac against
Speaker 1: their most vulnerable offensive linemen. That unpredictable pressure in the
Speaker 1: eyes of Kirk Cousins will speed speed the desire to
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands more quickly, and
Speaker 1: then that's when you result this tip ball into an interception.
Speaker 1: So if the Bears can formulate a really good pass
Speaker 1: pressure plan like they did this past week, we should
Speaker 1: see a couple interceptions. Scheme receivers open, you can scheme
Speaker 1: pass rushers open in the same vein. And that's what
Speaker 1: Chuck Pagano has tasked with this week against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: stopping Dalvin Cook number one on the list though Roque
Speaker 1: at fourteen tackles season nigh against the Vikings and three
Speaker 1: tackles for Lust. I'll need to be that guy again
Speaker 1: on Sunday. All right, one more break, then we'll wrap
Speaker 1: things up on our show tonight. Throw a couple of
Speaker 1: topics at Tommy. It's Bears Vikings On Sunday, We're breaking
Speaker 1: it down here on Chicago Sports Radios six seventy the score.
Speaker 1: Hey Bears fans, went shopping for your game day celebrations,
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Speaker 1: your Chicago Bears Gold Bears. All right, we got a
Speaker 1: minute to go here, Tommy. Road teams have won forty
Speaker 1: nine point three percent of their games, highest since two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. The most ever was in seventy two.
Speaker 1: You know, right when you started playing forty eight point
Speaker 1: four percent. What will it take for the Bears to win?
Speaker 1: You got forty five seconds. Give me three reasons. David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery, David Montgomery. If you have any run game factor,
Speaker 1: if you have any line of scrimmage, influence, any awareness
Speaker 1: without what fate. If Kyle Hendricks, They're talented, talented, talented
Speaker 1: middle linebacker doesn't play, then it is a big void
Speaker 1: in the middle. The guy's one of the best instinct
Speaker 1: linebackers in the league. And David Montgomery did not play
Speaker 1: against the Vikings in the Week ten meetings, So look out,
Speaker 1: here comes Montgomery as the Bears look to knock out
Speaker 1: the Vikings in Stale live in the playoff hunt. That's
Speaker 1: gonna wrap this up here for top There, I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: jonny K. Thanks everybody for listening, and to our producer
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