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Give us an idea of just 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.840 what it's been like from from a layman's perspective, how 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.880 you can translate it into their everyday life. Just what 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.000 you're trying to learn here and trying to be so 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:13.160 let's just wake up, eat practice, eat meetings, walk through, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.240 eat meetings, go to bed, do it all over again. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.560 For however, many days in a row, had a day off. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.679 Yesterday I got to decompress a little bit. But yeah, 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.759 all we're doing is eating, meeting, talking football, and then 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.880 playing football. So really, really they just locked in out 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.360 here in Bourbons and it's been a lot of fun. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.880 We're installing a lot on offense, so it's all about 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.000 just repetition, getting it down and learning installs each day. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.840 Is there anything transferable from last year? Because last year 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.440 we watched Mitchell Trubisky being a three five seven step 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.600 drop quarterback. Now we see Mitchell Trubisky rpo. Is there 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:53.040 anything transferable for you, either language wise or fundamental wise. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.920 It's a lot different. It's a lot different from last year, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:03.840 just the footwork, the the differential differential between last year 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.520 and this year. It's just there's a lot more freedom 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.679 within the offense. There's a lot more freedom within the 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.280 footworks and the drops um RPO drop back and it's 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.440 all about timing and getting it down. So we have 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.000 like a quick three, stretch three and rhythm three, so 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.480 they're like all different three steps, but it's all within 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.239 that family, Um, and then all the terminology is different. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.799 We have some words that were taken from last year, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.919 but they mean different things this year. And that's throughout 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.640 I mean all throughout all the NFL. Like you have 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.440 some words that are definitely used like trips and double 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:43.680 and but last year it meant something different this year. Luster, Yeah, exactly. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.800 I've seen you run maybe five or six different screens already. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:50.800 You know, you talk about a screen, and you know, 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.640 we had a slow screen, we had a slip screen, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.040 we had a full back screen. Now I see I 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.239 might have seen you guys screen to five or six 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.280 different players. That's just one play in particular that has 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.280 a lot more exposure of what you can do with it. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.040 I love the tight end screen. Yeah, definitely, that's that's 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.720 gonna be good. It's all about UM getting our different 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.640 playmakers the ball and taking taking pressure off the rush. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.520 So just getting the ball out quick. It's easy completion 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.760 for me. UM still counts his pass yards and we're 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.480 just getting our playmakers the ball and the take the 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.400 rush out of the thing and let our alignment and 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.520 go down the field and go blastom people. So UM, 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.280 we have a lot of good screens in and it's 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.880 all about just keeping the defense on their toes, just 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.000 trying to hide the ball and all that, all that 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.280 good stuff. That's a good point about hiding the ball 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.320 because especially with the action you're bringing with the speed 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.120 you have, whether it's Taylor coming around on an end 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.440 around or a fake or whatever, it does freeze the 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.880 defense for that split second, and you're a magician back 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.520 there with hiding the ball. I've had to pull my 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.640 head around a few times to make sure. You to 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.000 make it hard to call games, you know, because you 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.640 got to make sure you know where the ball is going. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.600 Is that a big element of this that is really 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.560 gonna down to defense? Hopefully? Yeah, definitely. You just want 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.600 to let that make that the defense hesitate just for 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.520 one second, just you could get them go in a 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.320 different direction or catch them out of place, or um 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.040 have two defenders go with one guy that doesn't have 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:14.800 the ball, just to get them out of place, and 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.760 it really opens things up within the offense and it 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.360 makes it easier on us if we could just um, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.080 if we could trick the defense just just by those 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:28.080 simple window dressings, the motions, the jet sweeps, the arounds, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.480 the um all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but and 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.560 you gotta have this legit speed time. As you pointed out, 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.839 they have to respect you have to respect it. Tariq, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.640 you have to respect Taylor. You have to respect Kevin. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.440 You have to respect it. Right, you got so many 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.679 playmakers at the line of scrimmage, they have to account 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:42.960 for him. And I said, it's going to open up 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.720 running lanes for your running backs, but it's gonna give 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.160 you a great decisions to make out the line of scrimmage. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:52.479 You know, it seems I again sports transferable, are you. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.960 It seems like you're more of a point guard now, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.479 you know, the more familiar become. You can distribute, you 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.920 can head fake, you can i fake, you can hand fake. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.160 But again, it's about distributing the football. But you can 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.599 also hit a three. Yeah, that's that's the deep ball, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.960 the touchdown. Yeah. So yeah, pretty much. I mean that's 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.480 what it's been from my whole life, and last year 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.400 was a little different, and then we're getting really back 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.400 to just quarterback. It's all about getting the ball to 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.320 your playmakers, not trying to do it all yourself. Use 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.560 the talent around you. And I'm just I got a 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.880 lot of talent around me now, so just distributing the ball, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.080 making sure we're in the right basketball term, the right 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.200 offensive set. So are we going against the man play 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.680 his own play, do we have the right play on 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.280 versus the right coverage? And uh, do we need to 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.839 run the ball, and just getting all those things, making 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.520 sure we're all set every and we for us, we 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.840 play our best when we play fast. We're not thinking 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.560 at the line of screamage where you go through our 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.800 checks um and we're in the right play and then 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.599 we just go out and execute it. So for me, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.159 it's just getting everybody set in the right place and 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.040 then distribute the ball to our playmakers, let them do 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:56.600 what they do with the ball in the hands. What's 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.960 neat for us as Bears fans is, for years we've 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.400 watched the great running backs, whether it's Gayle Sayers, Walter 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.440 pay Neil Anderson, the whole crew of running backs to 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.760 the bench here and the other day listen to coach Naggi. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.440 He talked about how important the vertical passing game is 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.560 to make this offense successful. And that's kind of interesting 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.080 for us because we're used to seeing three yards in 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.799 a cloud or dust, but you gotta have that influence 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.640 of throwing the ball down field in order to do 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.120 more at the line of scrimmage. Yeah, if if I'm 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.479 not mistaken mistaken, Coach Niggi's offense last year they led 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.080 the league in rushing and then they were very good 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.720 passing the football as well. So you gotta have a 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.000 number two yards after the catch, which I can see 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.839 a ton of that here right for sure, that's what 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.040 we want. We want yards after the catch, get the playmakers, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.560 ball stretched, the ball down the field. But it's it's 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.040 all gonna come with that balance. And we have great 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:43.680 running backs and we're gonna have to use all of 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.680 them to keep the defense honest. And then hopefully when 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.480 when you suck the defense up, that's when you can 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.440 really take shots behind them. So we just gotta use 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.440 both those and feed off one another and hopefully that 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.960 allows everything to open up. But you got definitely got 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.760 to have that balance. And in our linement up from 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.640 they've done a great job pass pass blocking, but they 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.240 love running the ball, and that's what they really enjoy 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.320 doing is run blocking as well. So in this you 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.400 really feel, then, given what you've learned to this point 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.480 and what's all been put in. You'll be able to 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:21.320 affect every blade of grass, horizontal and vertical, stretching it. Yeah, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.640 that's the goal. That's the goal. I think all good 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.200 offenses do that to some extent. U use all the 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.240 field and and really do what you're good at. Like 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.480 we're we're gonna be our off our own offense. We're 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.320 gonna do what we're good at. And we're not just 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.720 trying to be anyone else besides ourself. We're not trying 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.000 to be the Chiefs from last year. We're not trying 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.000 to be the Patriots. We're not trying to be the Eagles. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.800 We're trying to be the twenty eighteen Bears. And we're 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.240 still figuring that identity under coach and egging his offense, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.840 and they've done a great job so far. And we're 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.760 just m just gonna keep rolling from here. Bears quarterback 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.240 Mitchell Trubisky with us here on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.679 seventy to score Jeff and time with you as well, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.600 and we're pleased to have these starting quarterback of the 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.560 Bears with us. Well, you know, old school, we would 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.840 carry a playbook around with us that could be anywhere 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.760 between three and four hundred pages. How much of this 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.680 new playbook do you have ingested? Because you know what match? 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.680 I don't think people I do. I talk about it 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.680 all the time. How difficult it is for a quarterback 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.040 to master the terminology then know exactly what it means 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.120 for us other position players. We can look at pictures, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.000 we can look at what has identified exactly to us. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.160 How long did it? How long does it take you 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.440 to master just the language to go out and run 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.160 a huddle? Yeah, it's still an ongoing process, I would say, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.839 because we're just building and building each day. But I mean, 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.480 we could play a game tomorrow with everything we have 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.480 in and we'd be perfectly fun. We got enough in 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.359 the run game, in the past game, and in situational 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.600 two minute red zone, all that stuff to be able 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.760 to play to a game tomorrow. But right now we're 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.880 trying to get as much as we can on film 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.960 of the whole playbook. We're still in installations and I 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.760 don't even know if we're halfway done yet. But we 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.880 didn't just have a ton of bulk, And for me 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.600 it's just drawing a lot and going through the play 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.480 calls so I can step in the huddle say the 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.000 play call with confidence, making sure everyone's getting lined up, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.280 we're playing fast and everyone knows what to do. So 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.480 there's a lot of studying for me from that aspect, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.840 but we definitely have enough in right now where we 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.120 could go out and play a game. But this, this 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.680 offense and the way they've taught it, everything builds off 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.280 one concept and gets more and more complex to just 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.280 just give us more options down the field, and I 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.240 mean down the road. When you break the huddle, does 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.280 the cadence just fall out of your mouth or because 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.000 there's a lot of adjustments and I think a lot 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.559 of sight evaluation, a lot of subtle changes that you 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.959 can make just in your cadence. So you use all 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.960 that terminology and tell them what you're going to do 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.480 in the huddle, then you go to the line of 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.640 scrimmage and two, three, four things could change, you know how? 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.760 Like I said, is the cadence easy for you or 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.800 is it something you think about? It's I mean, it's 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.280 become easy. The we have a bunch of cadences, which 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.400 is different from last year because we usually would the 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.200 defense is kikey on it. We only have to go 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.040 off one or two caneses. Now we have like eight 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.640 to ten or however many silkanes is. I'm not trying 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.400 to give too much out here because we probably got 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:16.000 enemies listen. But I'm I'm listening as an offensive lineman 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.440 at practice, so it's no not to divulge information. I'm 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.920 just trying to see the simplicity. Harry coach na ch 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.720 chirp in a day when he was in the in 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.719 the running back pass protection drills with a linebacker, was 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.640 some good hard accounts from your head coach. Yeah, he 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.960 he knows how to do it. He's been in that 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.280 spot before. So I would just say for me, I 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.760 get the play call in the headset, and I think 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.120 about the play, and sometimes you gotta use a dummy cadence. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:41.920 Sometimes it's a good play, let's get up and run it. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.080 So I'm thinking about that. I get into the huddle, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.560 I tell them what we're gonna go on, tell them 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.000 to play, and then reiterate what we're gonna go on. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.400 And depending on where the play clocks at or um, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.400 if I need to make a check, I could go 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.520 with the cadence. I told him more change it, and 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.160 that's how we're going from there. Without giving Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:07.959 that's it's. It's it's. We got two football mines sitting here, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.559 that's for sure, working out the details of what it's 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.080 like to put together an offense and get it going 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.160 for the regular season. We're gonna take our first break. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.400 Mitch Drubisky kind of us to join us here tonight 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.160 on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Welcome back 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.560 to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.880 a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.199 and home warranty products to over one million customers across 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.360 this great country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.120 dot com. Mitch Dubisky, Bears starting quarterback. Here our guest 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.719 tonight on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.240 seventy The Score. Paul's rage or Engineering, Greg Miller helping 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.800 us out today, Tom there and Jeff Joniac Here. Miller, 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.120 you know that beards. He's got camp beard. He's got 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.520 camp Bearday, he's grown it early for the playoffs. It's 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.320 all white. Hey, match, I got a folklore question for you. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:54.959 So I'm out in Hawaii this year and I meet 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.440 somebody from your neighborhood, and they tell me about this 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.800 high school game you played where you were the quarterback 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.760 and I think Kareem Hunt was the running back on 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.679 the other team, and he was saying that Mitchell Drubisky 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.480 would take the ball and run around one end and 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.120 take it the end zone. They would pitch it to 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.040 Kareem Hunt and he would go around the end. And 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.680 I just heard that this game was some pretty explosive 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.640 offensive firepower to from two guys that are now in 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.320 the NFL. Yeah, it's crazy. I played against Cream in 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.640 high school and then we actually played against each other 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.880 growing up too, So when we were ten years old, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.160 I think was the first time we played each other, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.160 and our youth teams just battle against each other. And 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:31.920 now that we're both in the NFL. It's pretty crazy. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.000 But always ruined for Cream And see that coming from 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:38.920 him or was he two young to recognize that type, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.080 this level of talent. We were just out there playing. Yea, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.920 we really weren't thinking down the road, but obviously we 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.000 we stood out and what we could do on the 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.440 football field, and we just continue to chase that dream 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.000 and believe and made it happen. But yeah, he's He's 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.640 a special you know that. Hearing that out in Hawaii, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.360 I always said, I'm gonna ask me to that question 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.439 when I get a chance. And so I've always been 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.480 wondering about the focal are of two great high school people, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.040 you know, And it's no different for you at Joliette Catholic. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.080 And I'm sure you and your brother and I'm sure 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.959 you guys weren't videotaping like we do now is as parents, 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.040 we videotape everything our kids did in sports. And but 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.920 I love seeing the old Peyton Manning Eli Manning videos 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.160 from their backyard. There's one coming up on the Kelsey's 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.880 uh that are you know. They show them in Brown's 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.600 uniform and Indians hats and they're running around tackling each 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.760 other in the backyard. I'm sure you have those videos 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.959 with your brother yea one brother or two brothers. Okay, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.800 so you got a lot of good stuff like that. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.560 But you know, you think about that ten years from now, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.160 fifteen years from now, they're gonna be running that stuff 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.720 about you and what it was like growing up in Cleveland, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.800 and it's gonna just it's it's gotta be a little bit. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.840 I don't have the right word for it, but not overwhelming. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.840 But it's just stunning to think that as a little kid, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.600 you're doing this and you have dreams and then they 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:00.440 start to become reality and not everybody gets to experience that. Yeah, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.679 it's crazy. Like you said, there's no really words to 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.679 put it in put put it into words, but like 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.160 you just I mean, this is my life. There's no 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.840 other way to like look at it. Besides like this 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.040 is the game. It's meant everything to me and I 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.679 put everything that I had into it and it just 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.560 worked out to where I get to do it for 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.080 a job now and pay play at the highest level. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.360 So I mean, it's it's been a long time coming, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.280 but you for me living it, there really was no 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.080 other way that it was going to work out, I 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.720 guess if you put it that way. But it is 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.240 a dream come true. Definitely, take don't take that for granted. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.200 And h it's the best job in the world. Well 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.160 for people that grow up to be a professional quarterback, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.960 for the people I got to see you growing up 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.840 as a young kid. All the Pop Warner football I 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.920 played high school. I never played with a quarterback that 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.600 went on a Division one football or that went on 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.640 to become a professional like yourself. So it's got to 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.120 be neat for those people that live vicariously through the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.040 people they see grow up in their towns and that 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.600 are good in different sports. So, you know, quarterback, that's 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.920 what makes that position so unique. There's one out of 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.680 a thousand where if you're big as a kid, you're alignment. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.880 It's pretty cool. I know a lot of people back 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.760 home still root for me, and that means the world 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.600 for me. I got a lot of Crow's friends that 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.840 are pretty much on this. All my friends and family 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.200 are on this ride with me, and they get to 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.440 enjoy it. And like you said, you a quarterback, that's 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.000 there's a lesser, lesser of us. Did you feel the 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.880 same way with your family? Are all on the ride 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.760 with you and still are? Oh yeah, oh yeah. I 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.560 mean I'm the youngest of my family and I had 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.840 the chance to go on a team during their most 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.920 successful moments. But it's different. You're an obscure, you're a 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.800 right guard. There could be fifty thousand people at the game. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.000 They have no idea who you are. You get fifty 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.880 thousand people at the game and every one of them 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.120 know who's the quarterback position, So it's kind of a 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.440 different stress. You've allays said you were born to be alignment, yeah, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.600 body type. Do you feel you were born to be 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.680 a quarterback? Yeah, definitely. You never thought about anything else, Nope, No, 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.000 I was thinking about playing running back up until sixth grade. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.440 Then we started throwing it and I was like, I 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.080 knew I was meant to play this position. So just throwing, running, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.480 getting everyone lined up, and just always having the ball 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.760 in your hands, always being in control. That was I 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.400 just felt like it was what I was meant to do. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:20.760 That's what the word I was going to go to 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.520 was control. Control you that's your person that you like 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.880 to be in charge. Be in control for sure, different 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.520 than being in charge, be in control, same thing. I 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.440 don't mean it that way in that, you know, like 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.520 your quarterbatrol, But yeah, by virtue of the title of 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.640 position exactly, you are in charge when you're the quarterback. Yeah. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.520 With I mean that's just the way it has to be. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.920 And you have to be that leader in the locker room, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.120 in the huddle, and you gotta earn your teammate's respect, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.960 but you have that control on the field with the plays, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.280 and you have that leadership and being in charge just 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.320 by having that platform and being that position. Well, I 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.280 would just thinking of you, have you ever been in 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.320 a huddle and see confusion that you need to clear 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.400 up before you get to the lion scrimmage? Because sometimes 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.240 I've been in a huddle too, and there may be 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.439 a player that just doesn't have the reps along with 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.679 the rest of the team. It maybe it may need 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.760 a subtle hand, a subtle adjustment, and you know, but 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.560 that's got to go along with the position I would 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.240 assume at times throughout your life. Yeah, definitely all the time, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.960 especially in practice we're I mean, we're installing a lot 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.320 and guys have a lot going on right now, and 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:21.959 for me, like the number one thing is just like 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.959 just speak up and ask me so I know that 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.600 you don't know, because if I don't know that you 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.960 don't know, then you just go out and run the 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.320 wrong route or do the do the wrong assignment. So 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:31.880 if you ask me, then I could get your out 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.320 in the field. Then if I see that confusion, then 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.160 I try to just let them know right away. And 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.160 a lot of times it happens during games and during 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.480 practice where we're still talking about the last play and 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.400 how we could have fixed that and watch that better. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.600 And it's hard because in practice you want to fix it. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.160 But like when you're doing team drills and and doing 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.840 move the ball drills, you gotta forget about the last 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.280 play and move on. Like the most important play is 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.399 the next play. Let's forget about that last one will 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.399 come into meetings and that's why we have all his 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.960 meeting time so we can watch film correct it then 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.920 and and that's important. But guys want to correct down 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.080 the field in the huddle, but when I walk in, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.240 that's it's not the time and place. We got to 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.160 move on, get the next play, focus on the job 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.600 and test at hand, and then go execute that play. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.320 So um, so you can just put it on film, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.560 continue to learn from and get better. Mitch Trabisky our 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.440 guest here on Bears All Access, brought to you by 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.280 IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.560 Jeff and Tom, Mitch. Given the enormity of the task 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.680 of digesting all of this, and it's on your shoulders 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.200 to do it, and everybody else, you know, keys off 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.840 of you. Are you able to quiet your mind at 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.119 all on those down moments when you do have some 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.280