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Speaker 1: winner Tom There, I'm Jeff Jonik and our special guest,
Speaker 1: Bears starting quarterback Mitch Drubisky. Thanks for taking the time
Speaker 1: to join us. And you don't have time. I mean,
Speaker 1: you are really stretched, aren't you? Right now? Right now?
Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all having me, but uh gotta make time
Speaker 1: for Bears All Access. Give us an idea of just
Speaker 1: what it's been like from from a layman's perspective, how
Speaker 1: you can translate it into their everyday life. Just what
Speaker 1: you're trying to learn here and trying to be so
Speaker 1: let's just wake up, eat practice, eat meetings, walk through,
Speaker 1: eat meetings, go to bed, do it all over again.
Speaker 1: For however, many days in a row, had a day off.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I got to decompress a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 1: all we're doing is eating, meeting, talking football, and then
Speaker 1: playing football. So really, really they just locked in out
Speaker 1: here in Bourbons and it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We're installing a lot on offense, so it's all about
Speaker 1: just repetition, getting it down and learning installs each day.
Speaker 1: Is there anything transferable from last year? Because last year
Speaker 1: we watched Mitchell Trubisky being a three five seven step
Speaker 1: drop quarterback. Now we see Mitchell Trubisky rpo. Is there
Speaker 1: anything transferable for you, either language wise or fundamental wise.
Speaker 1: It's a lot different. It's a lot different from last year,
Speaker 1: just the footwork, the the differential differential between last year
Speaker 1: and this year. It's just there's a lot more freedom
Speaker 1: within the offense. There's a lot more freedom within the
Speaker 1: footworks and the drops um RPO drop back and it's
Speaker 1: all about timing and getting it down. So we have
Speaker 1: like a quick three, stretch three and rhythm three, so
Speaker 1: they're like all different three steps, but it's all within
Speaker 1: that family, Um, and then all the terminology is different.
Speaker 1: We have some words that were taken from last year,
Speaker 1: but they mean different things this year. And that's throughout
Speaker 1: I mean all throughout all the NFL. Like you have
Speaker 1: some words that are definitely used like trips and double
Speaker 1: and but last year it meant something different this year. Luster, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I've seen you run maybe five or six different screens already.
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about a screen, and you know,
Speaker 1: we had a slow screen, we had a slip screen,
Speaker 1: we had a full back screen. Now I see I
Speaker 1: might have seen you guys screen to five or six
Speaker 1: different players. That's just one play in particular that has
Speaker 1: a lot more exposure of what you can do with it.
Speaker 1: I love the tight end screen. Yeah, definitely, that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna be good. It's all about UM getting our different
Speaker 1: playmakers the ball and taking taking pressure off the rush.
Speaker 1: So just getting the ball out quick. It's easy completion
Speaker 1: for me. UM still counts his pass yards and we're
Speaker 1: just getting our playmakers the ball and the take the
Speaker 1: rush out of the thing and let our alignment and
Speaker 1: go down the field and go blastom people. So UM,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of good screens in and it's
Speaker 1: all about just keeping the defense on their toes, just
Speaker 1: trying to hide the ball and all that, all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. That's a good point about hiding the ball
Speaker 1: because especially with the action you're bringing with the speed
Speaker 1: you have, whether it's Taylor coming around on an end
Speaker 1: around or a fake or whatever, it does freeze the
Speaker 1: defense for that split second, and you're a magician back
Speaker 1: there with hiding the ball. I've had to pull my
Speaker 1: head around a few times to make sure. You to
Speaker 1: make it hard to call games, you know, because you
Speaker 1: got to make sure you know where the ball is going.
Speaker 1: Is that a big element of this that is really
Speaker 1: gonna down to defense? Hopefully? Yeah, definitely. You just want
Speaker 1: to let that make that the defense hesitate just for
Speaker 1: one second, just you could get them go in a
Speaker 1: different direction or catch them out of place, or um
Speaker 1: have two defenders go with one guy that doesn't have
Speaker 1: the ball, just to get them out of place, and
Speaker 1: it really opens things up within the offense and it
Speaker 1: makes it easier on us if we could just um,
Speaker 1: if we could trick the defense just just by those
Speaker 1: simple window dressings, the motions, the jet sweeps, the arounds,
Speaker 1: the um all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but and
Speaker 1: you gotta have this legit speed time. As you pointed out,
Speaker 1: they have to respect you have to respect it. Tariq,
Speaker 1: you have to respect Taylor. You have to respect Kevin.
Speaker 1: You have to respect it. Right, you got so many
Speaker 1: playmakers at the line of scrimmage, they have to account
Speaker 1: for him. And I said, it's going to open up
Speaker 1: running lanes for your running backs, but it's gonna give
Speaker 1: you a great decisions to make out the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: You know, it seems I again sports transferable, are you.
Speaker 1: It seems like you're more of a point guard now,
Speaker 1: you know, the more familiar become. You can distribute, you
Speaker 1: can head fake, you can i fake, you can hand fake.
Speaker 1: But again, it's about distributing the football. But you can
Speaker 1: also hit a three. Yeah, that's that's the deep ball,
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Yeah. So yeah, pretty much. I mean that's
Speaker 1: what it's been from my whole life, and last year
Speaker 1: was a little different, and then we're getting really back
Speaker 1: to just quarterback. It's all about getting the ball to
Speaker 1: your playmakers, not trying to do it all yourself. Use
Speaker 1: the talent around you. And I'm just I got a
Speaker 1: lot of talent around me now, so just distributing the ball,
Speaker 1: making sure we're in the right basketball term, the right
Speaker 1: offensive set. So are we going against the man play
Speaker 1: his own play, do we have the right play on
Speaker 1: versus the right coverage? And uh, do we need to
Speaker 1: run the ball, and just getting all those things, making
Speaker 1: sure we're all set every and we for us, we
Speaker 1: play our best when we play fast. We're not thinking
Speaker 1: at the line of screamage where you go through our
Speaker 1: checks um and we're in the right play and then
Speaker 1: we just go out and execute it. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's just getting everybody set in the right place and
Speaker 1: then distribute the ball to our playmakers, let them do
Speaker 1: what they do with the ball in the hands. What's
Speaker 1: neat for us as Bears fans is, for years we've
Speaker 1: watched the great running backs, whether it's Gayle Sayers, Walter
Speaker 1: pay Neil Anderson, the whole crew of running backs to
Speaker 1: the bench here and the other day listen to coach Naggi.
Speaker 1: He talked about how important the vertical passing game is
Speaker 1: to make this offense successful. And that's kind of interesting
Speaker 1: for us because we're used to seeing three yards in
Speaker 1: a cloud or dust, but you gotta have that influence
Speaker 1: of throwing the ball down field in order to do
Speaker 1: more at the line of scrimmage. Yeah, if if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken mistaken, Coach Niggi's offense last year they led
Speaker 1: the league in rushing and then they were very good
Speaker 1: passing the football as well. So you gotta have a
Speaker 1: number two yards after the catch, which I can see
Speaker 1: a ton of that here right for sure, that's what
Speaker 1: we want. We want yards after the catch, get the playmakers,
Speaker 1: ball stretched, the ball down the field. But it's it's
Speaker 1: all gonna come with that balance. And we have great
Speaker 1: running backs and we're gonna have to use all of
Speaker 1: them to keep the defense honest. And then hopefully when
Speaker 1: when you suck the defense up, that's when you can
Speaker 1: really take shots behind them. So we just gotta use
Speaker 1: both those and feed off one another and hopefully that
Speaker 1: allows everything to open up. But you got definitely got
Speaker 1: to have that balance. And in our linement up from
Speaker 1: they've done a great job pass pass blocking, but they
Speaker 1: love running the ball, and that's what they really enjoy
Speaker 1: doing is run blocking as well. So in this you
Speaker 1: really feel, then, given what you've learned to this point
Speaker 1: and what's all been put in. You'll be able to
Speaker 1: affect every blade of grass, horizontal and vertical, stretching it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the goal. That's the goal. I think all good
Speaker 1: offenses do that to some extent. U use all the
Speaker 1: field and and really do what you're good at. Like
Speaker 1: we're we're gonna be our off our own offense. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do what we're good at. And we're not just
Speaker 1: trying to be anyone else besides ourself. We're not trying
Speaker 1: to be the Chiefs from last year. We're not trying
Speaker 1: to be the Patriots. We're not trying to be the Eagles.
Speaker 1: We're trying to be the twenty eighteen Bears. And we're
Speaker 1: still figuring that identity under coach and egging his offense,
Speaker 1: and they've done a great job so far. And we're
Speaker 1: just m just gonna keep rolling from here. Bears quarterback
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky with us here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score Jeff and time with you as well,
Speaker 1: and we're pleased to have these starting quarterback of the
Speaker 1: Bears with us. Well, you know, old school, we would
Speaker 1: carry a playbook around with us that could be anywhere
Speaker 1: between three and four hundred pages. How much of this
Speaker 1: new playbook do you have ingested? Because you know what match?
Speaker 1: I don't think people I do. I talk about it
Speaker 1: all the time. How difficult it is for a quarterback
Speaker 1: to master the terminology then know exactly what it means
Speaker 1: for us other position players. We can look at pictures,
Speaker 1: we can look at what has identified exactly to us.
Speaker 1: How long did it? How long does it take you
Speaker 1: to master just the language to go out and run
Speaker 1: a huddle? Yeah, it's still an ongoing process, I would say,
Speaker 1: because we're just building and building each day. But I mean,
Speaker 1: we could play a game tomorrow with everything we have
Speaker 1: in and we'd be perfectly fun. We got enough in
Speaker 1: the run game, in the past game, and in situational
Speaker 1: two minute red zone, all that stuff to be able
Speaker 1: to play to a game tomorrow. But right now we're
Speaker 1: trying to get as much as we can on film
Speaker 1: of the whole playbook. We're still in installations and I
Speaker 1: don't even know if we're halfway done yet. But we
Speaker 1: didn't just have a ton of bulk, And for me
Speaker 1: it's just drawing a lot and going through the play
Speaker 1: calls so I can step in the huddle say the
Speaker 1: play call with confidence, making sure everyone's getting lined up,
Speaker 1: we're playing fast and everyone knows what to do. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of studying for me from that aspect,
Speaker 1: but we definitely have enough in right now where we
Speaker 1: could go out and play a game. But this, this
Speaker 1: offense and the way they've taught it, everything builds off
Speaker 1: one concept and gets more and more complex to just
Speaker 1: just give us more options down the field, and I
Speaker 1: mean down the road. When you break the huddle, does
Speaker 1: the cadence just fall out of your mouth or because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of adjustments and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of sight evaluation, a lot of subtle changes that you
Speaker 1: can make just in your cadence. So you use all
Speaker 1: that terminology and tell them what you're going to do
Speaker 1: in the huddle, then you go to the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and two, three, four things could change, you know how?
Speaker 1: Like I said, is the cadence easy for you or
Speaker 1: is it something you think about? It's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: become easy. The we have a bunch of cadences, which
Speaker 1: is different from last year because we usually would the
Speaker 1: defense is kikey on it. We only have to go
Speaker 1: off one or two caneses. Now we have like eight
Speaker 1: to ten or however many silkanes is. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to give too much out here because we probably got
Speaker 1: enemies listen. But I'm I'm listening as an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at practice, so it's no not to divulge information. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to see the simplicity. Harry coach na ch
Speaker 1: chirp in a day when he was in the in
Speaker 1: the running back pass protection drills with a linebacker, was
Speaker 1: some good hard accounts from your head coach. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: he knows how to do it. He's been in that
Speaker 1: spot before. So I would just say for me, I
Speaker 1: get the play call in the headset, and I think
Speaker 1: about the play, and sometimes you gotta use a dummy cadence.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a good play, let's get up and run it.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about that. I get into the huddle,
Speaker 1: I tell them what we're gonna go on, tell them
Speaker 1: to play, and then reiterate what we're gonna go on.
Speaker 1: And depending on where the play clocks at or um,
Speaker 1: if I need to make a check, I could go
Speaker 1: with the cadence. I told him more change it, and
Speaker 1: that's how we're going from there. Without giving Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's. It's it's. We got two football mines sitting here,
Speaker 1: that's for sure, working out the details of what it's
Speaker 1: like to put together an offense and get it going
Speaker 1: for the regular season. We're gonna take our first break.
Speaker 1: Mitch Drubisky kind of us to join us here tonight
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: dot com. Mitch Dubisky, Bears starting quarterback. Here our guest
Speaker 1: tonight on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy The Score. Paul's rage or Engineering, Greg Miller helping
Speaker 1: us out today, Tom there and Jeff Joniac Here. Miller,
Speaker 1: you know that beards. He's got camp beard. He's got
Speaker 1: camp Bearday, he's grown it early for the playoffs. It's
Speaker 1: all white. Hey, match, I got a folklore question for you.
Speaker 1: So I'm out in Hawaii this year and I meet
Speaker 1: somebody from your neighborhood, and they tell me about this
Speaker 1: high school game you played where you were the quarterback
Speaker 1: and I think Kareem Hunt was the running back on
Speaker 1: the other team, and he was saying that Mitchell Drubisky
Speaker 1: would take the ball and run around one end and
Speaker 1: take it the end zone. They would pitch it to
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt and he would go around the end. And
Speaker 1: I just heard that this game was some pretty explosive
Speaker 1: offensive firepower to from two guys that are now in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah, it's crazy. I played against Cream in
Speaker 1: high school and then we actually played against each other
Speaker 1: growing up too, So when we were ten years old,
Speaker 1: I think was the first time we played each other,
Speaker 1: and our youth teams just battle against each other. And
Speaker 1: now that we're both in the NFL. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: But always ruined for Cream And see that coming from
Speaker 1: him or was he two young to recognize that type,
Speaker 1: this level of talent. We were just out there playing. Yea,
Speaker 1: we really weren't thinking down the road, but obviously we
Speaker 1: we stood out and what we could do on the
Speaker 1: football field, and we just continue to chase that dream
Speaker 1: and believe and made it happen. But yeah, he's He's
Speaker 1: a special you know that. Hearing that out in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: I always said, I'm gonna ask me to that question
Speaker 1: when I get a chance. And so I've always been
Speaker 1: wondering about the focal are of two great high school people,
Speaker 1: you know, And it's no different for you at Joliette Catholic.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you and your brother and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you guys weren't videotaping like we do now is as parents,
Speaker 1: we videotape everything our kids did in sports. And but
Speaker 1: I love seeing the old Peyton Manning Eli Manning videos
Speaker 1: from their backyard. There's one coming up on the Kelsey's
Speaker 1: uh that are you know. They show them in Brown's
Speaker 1: uniform and Indians hats and they're running around tackling each
Speaker 1: other in the backyard. I'm sure you have those videos
Speaker 1: with your brother yea one brother or two brothers. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you got a lot of good stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But you know, you think about that ten years from now,
Speaker 1: fifteen years from now, they're gonna be running that stuff
Speaker 1: about you and what it was like growing up in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna just it's it's gotta be a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't have the right word for it, but not overwhelming.
Speaker 1: But it's just stunning to think that as a little kid,
Speaker 1: you're doing this and you have dreams and then they
Speaker 1: start to become reality and not everybody gets to experience that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Like you said, there's no really words to
Speaker 1: put it in put put it into words, but like
Speaker 1: you just I mean, this is my life. There's no
Speaker 1: other way to like look at it. Besides like this
Speaker 1: is the game. It's meant everything to me and I
Speaker 1: put everything that I had into it and it just
Speaker 1: worked out to where I get to do it for
Speaker 1: a job now and pay play at the highest level.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's it's been a long time coming,
Speaker 1: but you for me living it, there really was no
Speaker 1: other way that it was going to work out, I
Speaker 1: guess if you put it that way. But it is
Speaker 1: a dream come true. Definitely, take don't take that for granted.
Speaker 1: And h it's the best job in the world. Well
Speaker 1: for people that grow up to be a professional quarterback,
Speaker 1: for the people I got to see you growing up
Speaker 1: as a young kid. All the Pop Warner football I
Speaker 1: played high school. I never played with a quarterback that
Speaker 1: went on a Division one football or that went on
Speaker 1: to become a professional like yourself. So it's got to
Speaker 1: be neat for those people that live vicariously through the
Speaker 1: people they see grow up in their towns and that
Speaker 1: are good in different sports. So, you know, quarterback, that's
Speaker 1: what makes that position so unique. There's one out of
Speaker 1: a thousand where if you're big as a kid, you're alignment.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. I know a lot of people back
Speaker 1: home still root for me, and that means the world
Speaker 1: for me. I got a lot of Crow's friends that
Speaker 1: are pretty much on this. All my friends and family
Speaker 1: are on this ride with me, and they get to
Speaker 1: enjoy it. And like you said, you a quarterback, that's
Speaker 1: there's a lesser, lesser of us. Did you feel the
Speaker 1: same way with your family? Are all on the ride
Speaker 1: with you and still are? Oh yeah, oh yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm the youngest of my family and I had
Speaker 1: the chance to go on a team during their most
Speaker 1: successful moments. But it's different. You're an obscure, you're a
Speaker 1: right guard. There could be fifty thousand people at the game.
Speaker 1: They have no idea who you are. You get fifty
Speaker 1: thousand people at the game and every one of them
Speaker 1: know who's the quarterback position, So it's kind of a
Speaker 1: different stress. You've allays said you were born to be alignment, yeah,
Speaker 1: body type. Do you feel you were born to be
Speaker 1: a quarterback? Yeah, definitely. You never thought about anything else, Nope, No,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about playing running back up until sixth grade.
Speaker 1: Then we started throwing it and I was like, I
Speaker 1: knew I was meant to play this position. So just throwing, running,
Speaker 1: getting everyone lined up, and just always having the ball
Speaker 1: in your hands, always being in control. That was I
Speaker 1: just felt like it was what I was meant to do.
Speaker 1: That's what the word I was going to go to
Speaker 1: was control. Control you that's your person that you like
Speaker 1: to be in charge. Be in control for sure, different
Speaker 1: than being in charge, be in control, same thing. I
Speaker 1: don't mean it that way in that, you know, like
Speaker 1: your quarterbatrol, But yeah, by virtue of the title of
Speaker 1: position exactly, you are in charge when you're the quarterback. Yeah.
Speaker 1: With I mean that's just the way it has to be.
Speaker 1: And you have to be that leader in the locker room,
Speaker 1: in the huddle, and you gotta earn your teammate's respect,
Speaker 1: but you have that control on the field with the plays,
Speaker 1: and you have that leadership and being in charge just
Speaker 1: by having that platform and being that position. Well, I
Speaker 1: would just thinking of you, have you ever been in
Speaker 1: a huddle and see confusion that you need to clear
Speaker 1: up before you get to the lion scrimmage? Because sometimes
Speaker 1: I've been in a huddle too, and there may be
Speaker 1: a player that just doesn't have the reps along with
Speaker 1: the rest of the team. It maybe it may need
Speaker 1: a subtle hand, a subtle adjustment, and you know, but
Speaker 1: that's got to go along with the position I would
Speaker 1: assume at times throughout your life. Yeah, definitely all the time,
Speaker 1: especially in practice we're I mean, we're installing a lot
Speaker 1: and guys have a lot going on right now, and
Speaker 1: for me, like the number one thing is just like
Speaker 1: just speak up and ask me so I know that
Speaker 1: you don't know, because if I don't know that you
Speaker 1: don't know, then you just go out and run the
Speaker 1: wrong route or do the do the wrong assignment. So
Speaker 1: if you ask me, then I could get your out
Speaker 1: in the field. Then if I see that confusion, then
Speaker 1: I try to just let them know right away. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times it happens during games and during
Speaker 1: practice where we're still talking about the last play and
Speaker 1: how we could have fixed that and watch that better.
Speaker 1: And it's hard because in practice you want to fix it.
Speaker 1: But like when you're doing team drills and and doing
Speaker 1: move the ball drills, you gotta forget about the last
Speaker 1: play and move on. Like the most important play is
Speaker 1: the next play. Let's forget about that last one will
Speaker 1: come into meetings and that's why we have all his
Speaker 1: meeting time so we can watch film correct it then
Speaker 1: and and that's important. But guys want to correct down
Speaker 1: the field in the huddle, but when I walk in,
Speaker 1: that's it's not the time and place. We got to
Speaker 1: move on, get the next play, focus on the job
Speaker 1: and test at hand, and then go execute that play.
Speaker 1: So um, so you can just put it on film,
Speaker 1: continue to learn from and get better. Mitch Trabisky our
Speaker 1: guest here on Bears All Access, brought to you by
Speaker 1: IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score
Speaker 1: Jeff and Tom, Mitch. Given the enormity of the task
Speaker 1: of digesting all of this, and it's on your shoulders
Speaker 1: to do it, and everybody else, you know, keys off
Speaker 1: of you. Are you able to quiet your mind at
Speaker 1: all on those down moments when you do have some
Speaker 1: time or is your mind constantly thinking now even off
Speaker 1: the football field, about football and about this offense. Yeah, definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: I've found ways to decompress and just relax and uh
Speaker 1: and just like be myself and be a normal person.
Speaker 1: But this is the life that I chose, and this
Speaker 1: is the life that chose me, and I just I
Speaker 1: have a football mind, always think about concepts. I always
Speaker 1: thinking about ways to get better. I always thinking about
Speaker 1: my teammates. Uh, always staying in touch with coach, um,
Speaker 1: all my coaches, really just texting my ideas and um,
Speaker 1: watching film what I can get better at. But I
Speaker 1: have found ways to just relax, connect with family, decompress,
Speaker 1: watch Netflix, or just get away from you a little bit.
Speaker 1: Because if you're always just you, you never want it.
Speaker 1: You never wanted to become boring, monotonous or football always
Speaker 1: excites me all the time. So once once I step
Speaker 1: away for whether it's five, ten, fifteen minutes or a
Speaker 1: couple hours, once I get back into it, then I
Speaker 1: got to make sure it has all my intention, all
Speaker 1: my focus, because we just you don't want to do
Speaker 1: anything eighty or ninety percent, it's gotta be one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten all the time. So when did it bite
Speaker 1: you football? When did it get you? When did it
Speaker 1: get me? When did you remember? When did you sign
Speaker 1: the first autograph and you say this is I'm going
Speaker 1: to sign it when I make them. But that moment
Speaker 1: that you fell in love with the game. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can recall it as a little kid,
Speaker 1: but it had to be when you're a little tyke.
Speaker 1: It had to be when I was little. It had
Speaker 1: to be when I was little. Um, the first week
Speaker 1: I think of practice ever, I was seven and I
Speaker 1: was playing against bigger kids and I was getting smashed.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Mom, Dad, I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: for me because I was playing like wingback or something.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a quarterback yet. And they're like, no, you're
Speaker 1: you're sticking to it. And thank god I did, because
Speaker 1: then you just you score a couple of touchdowns, you
Speaker 1: get that feeling, you you just you you make some
Speaker 1: of your best friends growing up and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is awesome, this is so much fun. And then
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. You're having fun, you're winning games. And then
Speaker 1: and then you're watching the college and NFL games on TV,
Speaker 1: and for me. It was going back to my high
Speaker 1: school games as as a youth kid growing up watching
Speaker 1: the Mentor Cardinals play every Friday night with coach Trip
Speaker 1: Signo and coach Janiak, And then I was able to
Speaker 1: be a ball boy at a very young age and
Speaker 1: be a part of an older group of kids and uh,
Speaker 1: they really mentored me. And I just fell in love
Speaker 1: with the team camaraderie and everything it took that goes
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes. Um, and then just fell in
Speaker 1: love with the game. I wanted to be in those
Speaker 1: big moments. I wanted to I wanted to just deliver
Speaker 1: for my team and be as far as something bigger
Speaker 1: myself and uh and and and have fun with it.
Speaker 1: And it was. It was the best thing in the world.
Speaker 1: You have, age forty point three yards as a punter
Speaker 1: in high school to did you ever go to pass
Speaker 1: putting kick? I did? I don't know. I didn't go
Speaker 1: to the big thing, the big wal competition. So we
Speaker 1: had our local one uh in Mentor every year at
Speaker 1: our youth camp that I actually went back to this year.
Speaker 1: Was so we had the punt passing kick at the
Speaker 1: at the Mentor camp everywhere and I did win it,
Speaker 1: uh five or six years straight throughout the youth camp.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got the punt, and we weren't trying
Speaker 1: to punt my senior year, but the times we did,
Speaker 1: I got to boot it a couple of times, so
Speaker 1: I put up some amazing numbers. Were our guest. You're
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Speaker 1: on Bears All Access with Mitch Trubisky a few more
Speaker 1: segments to go with the Bear starting quarterback recent and
Speaker 1: I brought it up to you a story by Tyler
Speaker 1: Dunn of Bleacher Report. He did one on you before
Speaker 1: the draft in seventeen and did one with you this summer.
Speaker 1: An incredible article, incredible look behind the curtain of what
Speaker 1: you're all about and how thoughtful you were about this game,
Speaker 1: what it means to you, where you see this franchise
Speaker 1: heading in the future, and so forth. There's an inner desire.
Speaker 1: That's something and it's a quote that I'm gonna pull
Speaker 1: from you. It's something inside of me that's always wanted
Speaker 1: to be great and leave a mark. Where do you
Speaker 1: think it comes from? I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: It's just like like I, like I told you guys before,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was meant to play this game,
Speaker 1: and my reasons for playing this game, I think that's
Speaker 1: just what they're meant to be. And I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to do something bigger than myself. So it's not about
Speaker 1: I mean, you just gotta play this game for the
Speaker 1: right reasons. It's not about the money, it's not about
Speaker 1: the fame. It's about creating a positive impact and making
Speaker 1: just leaving a lasting legacy. I think for me, it's
Speaker 1: just thinking as big as possible and then just trying
Speaker 1: to go out and get it. So I think as
Speaker 1: big as possible, think about as many wins, championships, relationships
Speaker 1: that you create a long way, and think as big
Speaker 1: as possible and then just try to go get it.
Speaker 1: And you just got to have something inside of you
Speaker 1: that that makes you tick, that just makes you go.
Speaker 1: You just you just gotta love it. You know, well,
Speaker 1: it goes along with the position too, because the quarterback
Speaker 1: is the most high profile position there is. When I
Speaker 1: look at guys like Cody white Hair or Danny Trevathan,
Speaker 1: I see the same commitment to those guys to get
Speaker 1: where they got. Unfortunately, Cody's one of five in the
Speaker 1: middle of a big pile, and Danny Trethan on second
Speaker 1: level there's only one quarterback. So I guess, I guess
Speaker 1: when you're a little kid and you're going into Pop Warner,
Speaker 1: they always look at you and go out, what position
Speaker 1: does this kid fit into? And you're fit into that position.
Speaker 1: But once you finally get into that quarterback there there
Speaker 1: is a kind of a special aura about you in
Speaker 1: the way that you need to treat your teammates to
Speaker 1: get the best out of them, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just you. You help your teammates flourish by your attitude,
Speaker 1: your accuracies and the and the way you can perform. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: And I would say vice versa as well. So the
Speaker 1: things that motivate me and are playing with guys like
Speaker 1: Cody white Hair, dy In Trevethan like, they inspire and
Speaker 1: motivate me, and I have to I have to mirror
Speaker 1: that as well. So I mean, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do, Just try to inspire and
Speaker 1: other people around me better the same way that I
Speaker 1: feel like that they're making me better. So Cody White
Speaker 1: here my linement up front, like just such like passionate,
Speaker 1: selfless guys, I have to I have to be the
Speaker 1: same way and even more so, just to make their
Speaker 1: jobs and their experience just as amazing as I feel
Speaker 1: like mine is. You know what I mean. I pulled
Speaker 1: out of this article. Also, it's clear to me that
Speaker 1: you have done your research as well, maybe out of
Speaker 1: your own curiosity or need or to understand other leaders
Speaker 1: and how they lead men. And is that something that
Speaker 1: you've always done or has it just been something part
Speaker 1: of your professional development, because clearly you're reading books. The
Speaker 1: Sam Walker book, The Captain Class is something that was discussed.
Speaker 1: You went through that in great detail, highly right, and
Speaker 1: recommend people you know googling this story. You'll you'll learn
Speaker 1: a lot about Mitch and what he's all about. It's
Speaker 1: very very detailed. But that is that something that you
Speaker 1: did on your own that you want to learn more
Speaker 1: about how other men lead other men? Yeah, definitely. Um
Speaker 1: leadership is very important to me. And reading that book
Speaker 1: by Sam Walker, The Captain's Class, awesome book, and I
Speaker 1: bet I've been able to develop a relationship with Sam
Speaker 1: as well to continue to like just dive in and
Speaker 1: learn about leadership and find out about other leaders and
Speaker 1: try to implement what they do. And I think it's
Speaker 1: more so not learning about others, but you got to
Speaker 1: figure out, like what's what worked for you, Like because
Speaker 1: I read things, I'm like, Ah, that's not who I'm.
Speaker 1: That's not who I am. I'm not going to do that,
Speaker 1: but like these things and like, oh I never thought
Speaker 1: of it like that, Like that is a good way
Speaker 1: to lead, and and that fits with what I do
Speaker 1: as well, So let me implement that. Let me just
Speaker 1: anything to gain an edge to anything that can make
Speaker 1: me a better person, a better leader, a better teammate.
Speaker 1: In general, I'm always trying to just gain knowledge and
Speaker 1: trying to get an edge to continue to get better.
Speaker 1: And that book definitely gave me a lot of great
Speaker 1: ideas and what I can work on, what I already
Speaker 1: have that I can continue to grow and let prosper,
Speaker 1: and then some things that I need to cut out
Speaker 1: and then because I've been told like different things in
Speaker 1: the past and how to lead and uh you you
Speaker 1: got to give big speeches, but like in this book,
Speaker 1: like it's not the true leader. The most successful ones
Speaker 1: throughout history aren't the ones who gave the Hollywood halftime
Speaker 1: speech like get come on, guys, like we gotta do this.
Speaker 1: Like those guys usually aren't saying anything. They're going one
Speaker 1: on one. They their teammates know, they care, they're always
Speaker 1: doing their job. Um. And and it's a lot of
Speaker 1: like contact um uh i um, I'm trying to blank.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah I contact and just like just being locked
Speaker 1: in in that fiery passion your guys have to feel you.
Speaker 1: So it's not about like what you say, it's about
Speaker 1: like what you're doing and how you get your point
Speaker 1: across to your teammates. So um yeah, awesome book and
Speaker 1: awesome article by Tye Dunn. And I haven't read it yet.
Speaker 1: He knows I don't read those stuff those things, but
Speaker 1: my parents love the article as well. And when I
Speaker 1: get a text from my parents saying, wow, that was
Speaker 1: a great article, you like, I kind of know he
Speaker 1: did a really good job, and I like love sitting
Speaker 1: down with him over the last couple of years, and
Speaker 1: I think he's done one a year on me just
Speaker 1: to like let people know who I really am. So
Speaker 1: I appreciate the piece he did on me and just
Speaker 1: spending time with him to get my point across. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes on, and I'm always just
Speaker 1: trying to further and figure out different ways to learn
Speaker 1: and grow as a person. I think reading and especially
Speaker 1: it's I love sports and I love history, so that
Speaker 1: book kind of combined it, and it talks about all
Speaker 1: the greatest leaders throughout sports and what they did and
Speaker 1: who they are as people and what they were about
Speaker 1: to help further their teams and become successful dynasties. You know,
Speaker 1: you talk about being a good teammate. You know that's
Speaker 1: got a transfer to the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: So Mitchell Trubisky, you know, last year we came here
Speaker 1: and there were so much uncertainty about the defensive backfield
Speaker 1: of the Bears. Now I think it's one of their
Speaker 1: highlights of the defense. Do you spend any time talking
Speaker 1: to those guys, Do you get like their observances of you,
Speaker 1: Do you get any kind of indicators of what a
Speaker 1: defensive player can help a quarterback definitely all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a quarterback, you gotta be the leader
Speaker 1: of the offense and you're also looked at as leader
Speaker 1: of the team. So for me, it's encouraging those dbs
Speaker 1: challenge them. We're making each other better in practice and
Speaker 1: then afterwards talking about it, having fun and just being guys,
Speaker 1: hanging out with the guys, but also like talking scheme,
Speaker 1: talking with Prince and Kyle about what they're seeing with
Speaker 1: my shoulders or footwork, if I'm getting giving any tips
Speaker 1: for certain routes and how I could do a better
Speaker 1: job hiding that, or talking with Eddie or Amos about
Speaker 1: where I'm looking when I'm going downfield as opposed to
Speaker 1: short routes. Just trying to do as much as I
Speaker 1: can the same play to hide in disguise, intermediate passes
Speaker 1: from deep ones and run plays from pass plays, just
Speaker 1: making everything look alike and vice versa as well. So
Speaker 1: I'm telling them if, oh, if they're playing off like that,
Speaker 1: i know they're gonna jump or um. Just going back
Speaker 1: and forth and trying to iron sharpman's ire and just
Speaker 1: trying to make each other better every single day and
Speaker 1: having those conversations and um, it's not just offense and
Speaker 1: offensive guys. The offensive guys hanging out with the defense.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that's different from we're a lot,
Speaker 1: we're a lot closer and we're making each other better. So, um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson was Tommy about at the end of the
Speaker 1: day and he came out with a big smile on
Speaker 1: his face and he starts talking about you guys had
Speaker 1: a conversation about the draft class. Yeah, you know how
Speaker 1: there is a lot of pressure on that draft class.
Speaker 1: It's like the foundation a little bit about the next
Speaker 1: generation of Bears. And you guys own it. You're embracing it,
Speaker 1: You're not running away from Yeah, we definitely embrace it.
Speaker 1: I think that's just type of people we have and
Speaker 1: the type of players that we brought into the me Tarique,
Speaker 1: Adam and Eddie, and we want that pressure and we
Speaker 1: want to be the ones that we can look back
Speaker 1: years from now and be like, this is where it started,
Speaker 1: this is where we turned around and we just let
Speaker 1: our personality shine. But we are doing it together and
Speaker 1: it's I mean, we we we realize now that the
Speaker 1: offense needs the defense and the defense needs the offense,
Speaker 1: and we just need to feed off of each other
Speaker 1: and to be able to win football games. That's what
Speaker 1: it comes down to. Just the special teams as well.
Speaker 1: So we're just very inclusive, very tight knit group and
Speaker 1: making each other better every single day and make sure
Speaker 1: we're having fun with it. So we're joking around at Eddie's, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna get the next one. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick you off next time. And I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: him better as well. So it's just every day competing
Speaker 1: and get better. Now there's some jokeres there's some personalities
Speaker 1: growing on that team all right in your own backfield
Speaker 1: with number twenty nine, but going and you might have
Speaker 1: one perculating in seventeen. All because I hear seventeen talk
Speaker 1: a while it's Anthony Miller. We will talk about a
Speaker 1: coming out after this break. We'll take one here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The
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Speaker 1: mobile app presented by Verizon. Jeff and Time with Mitch Traubisky,
Speaker 1: the Bear starting quarterback. Before the break, we brought up
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller. Tom, you brought up Anthony Miller. Tom knows.
Speaker 1: I was talking about this guy during the draft process.
Speaker 1: I could not stop watching his tape. I couldn't he
Speaker 1: he was unstoppable at Memphis and to then learn his
Speaker 1: story about the Memphis Grind and what he's all about
Speaker 1: deep in his soul and what that town forces you
Speaker 1: to become, so to speak, how you grew up and
Speaker 1: walking on there and just becoming a stellar player. I
Speaker 1: love the guy and he is not shy and even
Speaker 1: talking to defense his coaches, he's not shy. What's it
Speaker 1: been like playing with him and learning about him and
Speaker 1: what he is capable of becoming. Yeah, it's been awesome.
Speaker 1: I think he Anthony's got a ton of potential and
Speaker 1: he's been able to pick up things quickly. And what
Speaker 1: it really impresses me the most about him is one
Speaker 1: his swagger, his attitude, his confidence, and he lets a show.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's not too much, I don't think.
Speaker 1: And he could stick his foot in the ground and separate.
Speaker 1: That's really what what he can do different from the
Speaker 1: other guys. He could stick his foot in the ground
Speaker 1: and change directions just as good as anyone I've seen.
Speaker 1: He's up there with guys I've thrown to in the
Speaker 1: past and Tarique just you you could see it. Sticks,
Speaker 1: his foot separates, run routes, very savvy when the balls
Speaker 1: around him and goes up and gets it, and he
Speaker 1: plays with a lot of confidence, and um it just
Speaker 1: I feel because we talked about that, just that inner
Speaker 1: confidence and what drives you. I see that and I
Speaker 1: could feel that from Anthony as well, just knowing getting
Speaker 1: to know him, his background story and what motivates him,
Speaker 1: and you just you want guys around you that want
Speaker 1: to be great as well. And he's doing whatever you
Speaker 1: can to fit in this offense and get the ball.
Speaker 1: And he's out here working as hard as hard as anybody.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that. Well, you got Anthony Miller as
Speaker 1: a rookie, then you got Alan Robinson as a veteran.
Speaker 1: You got Taylor Gabriel as a veteran. They have some
Speaker 1: NFL experience. Do the two players talk to you differently
Speaker 1: exactly of the rousing, the way they like the football
Speaker 1: or anything, because you have a rookie with no NFL experience,
Speaker 1: but these other guys with a great deal of ANX
Speaker 1: NFL experience. Do you see a dividing line between the two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's different, Um, because those guys can talk about to
Speaker 1: me what they've done in the past, the veterans, and
Speaker 1: then Anthony is really just asking me, hey, like what
Speaker 1: do you want here? Um, just trying to be a
Speaker 1: sponge with an open mind and kind of asking what
Speaker 1: I want because he because he knows if if if
Speaker 1: I do exactly what the quarterback wants, then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the ball and I'll be in the right spot
Speaker 1: in the right time. And that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1: And then for the other guys, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: comparing what they did to the past, but um just
Speaker 1: shaping it to what we're doing this year, just we
Speaker 1: can get on the same page. So Anthony's I think
Speaker 1: everyone learns in different ways. And the guys, the veterans
Speaker 1: like Alan and m Taylor, they could look at what
Speaker 1: they did in the past and kind of let their
Speaker 1: minds translate to what we're trying to do now, where
Speaker 1: Anthony is more of like a blank slate, brand new offense,
Speaker 1: like trying to pick it up. And it's it's all
Speaker 1: about communication and being on the same page. And we're
Speaker 1: having great conversations. And the more I can get around
Speaker 1: those guys and talk about with them in the film
Speaker 1: room and on the field, and if we're seeing the
Speaker 1: same thing, that's when you're really clicking as quarterback the receiver,
Speaker 1: and all those guys have been great picking up the offense,
Speaker 1: keeping an open mind and communicating with me. And all
Speaker 1: three of those guys, I would say, have that hunger
Speaker 1: that just drives them and want to get better, want
Speaker 1: to be on the same page with the quarterback because you,
Speaker 1: as a receiver, you want the balls. You gotta make
Speaker 1: sure your quarterback knows where you're gonna be and at
Speaker 1: what time, at what depth, and then you get the
Speaker 1: ball and then you score touchdowns and then you have
Speaker 1: happy receivers and happy fans, that's for sure. Mitch Tubiski
Speaker 1: our guest head coach, Matt Nagy. Do you remind you
Speaker 1: of anyone that you ever come across in your life?
Speaker 1: And how do you too your personalities? I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: the obsessed aspect of what he's what he's preaching, it
Speaker 1: fits you. You are obsessed, right, yeah, You're relentless clearly,
Speaker 1: and going back and just reading about you and knowing
Speaker 1: you in the short time I do you. Clearly you're obsessed.
Speaker 1: So does that make the match up with you any perfect?
Speaker 1: For sure? I just being obsessed is like you think
Speaker 1: about a daily. You're always trying to like do as
Speaker 1: much as you can, to take advantage of every single
Speaker 1: opportunity because you never want to look back on something
Speaker 1: and be like, I could have done this, I could
Speaker 1: have done that. You want to give it everything. You
Speaker 1: gotta leave it on the field. And Coach Naggi is
Speaker 1: he's he's one of a kind. Uh. He definitely has
Speaker 1: character characteristics of people have come across in the past,
Speaker 1: but he is uh, He's he's a special guy. He's
Speaker 1: a special offensive mind. He's he's got a great persona
Speaker 1: and attitude and vibe about him that the team has
Speaker 1: um has just we we've got that energy from him
Speaker 1: him and we've really vibed off him on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. He's an offensive guy, but he's supporting
Speaker 1: the defense and he's pushing them on that side the
Speaker 1: ball as well as offense. And everyone just I think
Speaker 1: he's made everyone hungrier. We want to learn more, we
Speaker 1: want to work harder, we want to become more united
Speaker 1: because we have a very fiery, passionate leader in him,
Speaker 1: and he's also one of the most sincere guys and
Speaker 1: just will have a real conversation with you about anything
Speaker 1: football off the field, and he cares about his players,
Speaker 1: and you couldn't ask anything more as a playing for
Speaker 1: that guy. You know, I had practice. I was watching
Speaker 1: Dave or going to a kind of a rush, hassle
Speaker 1: drill to you quarterbacks, and then I see Mark halfritsch
Speaker 1: over there including himself and the coaching and he got Matt.
Speaker 1: Where does Mitch fit his time in between those three coaches?
Speaker 1: And how do each of them assist you? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no like set no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, you know I see each of
Speaker 1: these guys, he's doing different things to help you. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess where does the chain of command
Speaker 1: go for mitche when you're either in a meeting, learning
Speaker 1: on the field, getting coaching points. Is there a level
Speaker 1: or are they all? Are they all one and the same.
Speaker 1: I think the great thing about them is they all
Speaker 1: work together. They're very cohesive, open minded, and they're not
Speaker 1: worried about stepping on each other's toes or saying something
Speaker 1: um and that each of their own unique style. So
Speaker 1: I mean there's enough, there's enough for me to go
Speaker 1: around for everybody, and I'm just trying to learn as
Speaker 1: much as possible. And they all have this unique perspective
Speaker 1: and backgrounds from where they come from. But it's never
Speaker 1: it's never divisive, it's never conflicting. It's everyone moving towards
Speaker 1: the same goal and coaching in that way. So they've
Speaker 1: done a great job of just breaking up who talks
Speaker 1: when UM and doing it as a cohesive unit. And
Speaker 1: it goes the same way coaching on the field, So
Speaker 1: whoever's calling and plays, sometimes it's coach Helfrich going through plays,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's coach Nagy and the call it situations and
Speaker 1: and then coach were going is talking to me throughout
Speaker 1: all the practice. So when we do drills, when we
Speaker 1: do routes, they're all working together, and I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to absorb all of it from all of them, and
Speaker 1: uh and and and it's it's never a divisive, conflicting manner.
Speaker 1: They work great together. They've been awesome and Chase Daniel
Speaker 1: and Taylor Braef for that matter as well. Fifteen years
Speaker 1: combined in the league. You already have more starts in
Speaker 1: both of them combined. That's just by virtue of their
Speaker 1: positions in their in their life so far. But um,
Speaker 1: they seem to be willing as anybody, but yet still
Speaker 1: have competitiveness to them too. Yeah, they're awesome. I cannot
Speaker 1: say enough good things about Chase and Tyler just I
Speaker 1: mean being quarterbacks, and you look across the league and
Speaker 1: just like in general, I mean guys in the NFL,
Speaker 1: they have they have these egos, and they have selfish desires.
Speaker 1: I want one more money, I want more playing time,
Speaker 1: and then you come across guys like Chase and Tyler
Speaker 1: just the ult competitors and then just willing to do
Speaker 1: whatever it takes for this team and for them helping
Speaker 1: me and just being sincere, genuine guys and wanting to
Speaker 1: hang out all the time. And there we do things
Speaker 1: different this year where all the quarterbacks we do everything together,
Speaker 1: so meetings, going on to eat, just being around each other,
Speaker 1: and that's continued to make the quarterback room more united,
Speaker 1: and we're getting better and we're more efficient that way,
Speaker 1: and that's helped our offense and our team as well.
Speaker 1: So I just think having those guys in that attitude
Speaker 1: and what they bring to the table, and they're shooting competitive,
Speaker 1: and they're pushing me every day, and they've had so
Speaker 1: much experience in the NFL and this offense that they
Speaker 1: give me great tips and knowledge every day to just
Speaker 1: help me learn and pick something up that much faster
Speaker 1: so I could just improve from it, move on and
Speaker 1: go to the next thing. One more segment to go
Speaker 1: with Mitch Kabisky, the Bear starting quarterback here on Bear's
Speaker 1: All Access with Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment of Bears
Speaker 1: are All accesses orchestrated by CDW CDW people who get it,
Speaker 1: Jeff and TWN Mitch Dubisky on our final remaining moments.
Speaker 1: It's it's a game week when you think about it,
Speaker 1: because a week from tonight Bears are playing Canton against
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens of the Hall of Fame game. Been
Speaker 1: to Canton as a kid, I assume, yep, do you
Speaker 1: ever play there? I did not play there. I was
Speaker 1: a ball boy in two thousand and six and two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven when the Men are Cardinals were in
Speaker 1: the State championship. Unfortunately we lost both, but they were
Speaker 1: the two some of the two best years and the
Speaker 1: rides I've been on as far as like because I
Speaker 1: felt as part as that team as like a six
Speaker 1: and seventh grader being a ball boy. I thought I
Speaker 1: was like my role was just important as the guys
Speaker 1: who were playing being a ball boy. So that was
Speaker 1: so much fun as a kid, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: what has grown my love for the game. And Canton
Speaker 1: is a special place, the Hall of Fame, all the
Speaker 1: special players who have been there, and the Bears do
Speaker 1: have the most fame. Yes, and Big fifty four going in.
Speaker 1: Brian Hecker, you've met. We love the guy. We've known
Speaker 1: You've known him obviously since his entry into the league.
Speaker 1: He's an do anything for you kind of guy, which
Speaker 1: I believe is a reflection in the mirror of you two.
Speaker 1: You are that guy. It appears to be on the
Speaker 1: year that he's going in. How cool is it that
Speaker 1: this is all it's it's a big platform jump, really
Speaker 1: a springboard for the rest of the season. Who knows
Speaker 1: who's playing and how long and whatnot. And it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of young players, but that's almost
Speaker 1: besides the point, it's the day when a member of
Speaker 1: your family's going in the hall. Yeah, definitely, um, and
Speaker 1: it really is. It's a it's a Bears family and
Speaker 1: that's important to everyone who's been in this and wear
Speaker 1: the blue and orange. And Brian or Lacker is obviously
Speaker 1: a special player, but a special person. Just getting to
Speaker 1: know him a little off the field and he supported
Speaker 1: me in this team and it still does going forward,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a special day for him and
Speaker 1: it's just all this excitement around him and this team
Speaker 1: going into the season. I mean, you just it's the
Speaker 1: perfect recipe. I guess you're growing up as a football fan.
Speaker 1: Was there ever a defensive player out there that made
Speaker 1: your nervous or going while I'm glad I'm don't play
Speaker 1: against him, or would definitely that guy? Well you think
Speaker 1: him on the Nike commercial is growing up You're like, geez,
Speaker 1: that's how how like how big do I have to
Speaker 1: get so where I could like just go against that guy?
Speaker 1: You know, well, you know he's so big, so fast,
Speaker 1: and you're just as a kid, You're like, gosh, the
Speaker 1: NFL really is a different level. Well think about him
Speaker 1: dropping and covered two down the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: down the pipe at six four two sixty two fifty
Speaker 1: five or running a four six four five six forty
Speaker 1: and trying to throw over the top of him. Well,
Speaker 1: we are doing a report the other day. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of instances during Brian's career where he would chase
Speaker 1: someone down. The person would get up and look and well,
Speaker 1: I remember Michael Vick one time, Aaron Rodger, who was that? Right?
Speaker 1: These guys are looking, who hit me this hard? That
Speaker 1: was running this fast? And they've turned when they see
Speaker 1: the expression and that it's a guy like Herlocker. You know,
Speaker 1: as a kid grown up, I look at NFL players going, God,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I never have to play against him or
Speaker 1: will be done by the time I get there. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's the same thing. You know, you just
Speaker 1: you watch a guy that you envy. That's crazy. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's going in the Hall of Fame for a reason.
Speaker 1: He's a specimen on the field, and I just think
Speaker 1: his personality, along with his worth work ethic, it's a unique,
Speaker 1: special caliber type of guys that only get into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and Broun definitely fits into that category.
Speaker 1: And his play and it speaks for itself. This week
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Speaker 1: moments back to that article, there was something you said
Speaker 1: about your belief and where this is headed, and it
Speaker 1: was written he vows right here to turn the Bears
Speaker 1: into a winner. You better believe them. In your quote
Speaker 1: was it's going to happen. It's for sure. That belief
Speaker 1: is necessary when you're a quarterback and when you have
Speaker 1: your guys buying into that, well, you know when it happens.
Speaker 1: Being around football as long as you have because there's
Speaker 1: a moment. You know, you can ask anybody who's been
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. There's a moment when it happens.
Speaker 1: Do you think you'll notice when it'll happen when you
Speaker 1: guys are ready to roll. Yeah, I think, well, I
Speaker 1: think we'll know, and I think it's just kind of
Speaker 1: brewing right now. But obviously I think I don't think
Speaker 1: you have those type of big moments until you get
Speaker 1: into the season. But I think one of the most
Speaker 1: important things thinking about that comment or that quote is
Speaker 1: having that belief but also not knowing when it's gonna come,
Speaker 1: but also believing it doesn't matter when it comes, and
Speaker 1: it might not be tomorrow, it may not be next week,
Speaker 1: it might not be next year, but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's all about the process and believing that it will
Speaker 1: happen and when it does, it's going to be special.
Speaker 1: So um, that's that's just the mindset getting better every day.
Speaker 1: When that special moment happens, trust me, everybody will know
Speaker 1: about it and we're just gonna be rolling from there.
Speaker 1: But I definitely think you just gotta have that belief,
Speaker 1: and um, I just think everyone from your teammates to
Speaker 1: the um, to the coaches, the fans, and everybody else
Speaker 1: in the organization, they feed off that kind of excitement
Speaker 1: and belief, and that's what you want to believe in.
Speaker 1: That's what makes everything so exciting, that's why you play
Speaker 1: the game. Match. We appreciate your time. Thank you, so
Speaker 1: I guess thanks to Mitch for also Dan Breally, Jordan
Speaker 1: tread Up, all right, Greg Miller, Paul's urge, Tom there,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac that's gonna do it tonight. I'm Bears
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