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Speaker 1: from Serious x MNFL Radios. Jim Miller, the former Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears quarterback. Tonight, Jim, how are you feeling, Buddy. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling great, Jeff. And yeah, it gets it gets exciting,
Speaker 1: you know, three weeks away from from the draft and
Speaker 1: it just you know, the more you know, teams visiting
Speaker 1: with these players and he's trying to target where they're
Speaker 1: gonna go. So it's exciting, fun time year because there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on. Yeah, a lot we're gonna break
Speaker 1: some of that down. We'll talk about the new addition
Speaker 1: as well, and we have producers helping us out as always,
Speaker 1: our executive producer of the Bears Radio Network, Ericastrotski, Charlie
Speaker 1: Bevans spending the dials for us as well, and thanks
Speaker 1: as always the Bears producers Dan Billy and Jordan Truedup.
Speaker 1: So letting the dust set a little bit after the
Speaker 1: owners meetings that we gathered at in Arizona. Here's what
Speaker 1: you're looking at. Ten picks, including number nine overall and
Speaker 1: four inside the top sixty four gym. When I look
Speaker 1: at what is ahead here in the next three weeks,
Speaker 1: is that three players stretch from the second to early
Speaker 1: third round, an area where the Bears should be able
Speaker 1: to either make moves up or down and get a
Speaker 1: group of guys at least four guys, three of which
Speaker 1: I hope it is going to be on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage either side of the ball. That's from my perspective,
Speaker 1: how about you, Yeah, That's what I've been you know,
Speaker 1: we've said it pretty consistently. I think you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not opposed to if they were go to one of
Speaker 1: the top corners that are there. I do think they
Speaker 1: need one more corner because that way you could kick
Speaker 1: Kyler Gordon inside to play nickel full time, and most
Speaker 1: time you are in nickel defense with all the eleven
Speaker 1: personnel that teams are playing. But I've been saying it
Speaker 1: for quite a well. War daddies. Yeah, they need war
Speaker 1: daddies up front, defensive line, offensive line, and I think
Speaker 1: everybody's thinking about the tackle spot. There's some really good
Speaker 1: tackles in this draft. Will get into some of the
Speaker 1: interior offensive line and some of the great tackles that
Speaker 1: are coming out in this year's draft, and I think
Speaker 1: the Bears will have an opportunity to really target the
Speaker 1: guys that they want. And the idea of taking the
Speaker 1: best player available regardless of your need. I tell you
Speaker 1: that's also a tantalizing aspect of it. The best teams
Speaker 1: do do that. There's always some lean towards the need.
Speaker 1: But man, if there's a great, if there's a player
Speaker 1: in your guy, you think it's gonna be great at
Speaker 1: a position you're already pretty thick at, you know, do
Speaker 1: you pull the trigger on that regardless at number nine
Speaker 1: because it is a top ten pick and you're hoping
Speaker 1: that player becomes a Pro Bowl player for the next
Speaker 1: eight to ten years. Yeah, I mean there are people
Speaker 1: that are saying that about like Bjean Robinson right came
Speaker 1: out today about the about the running back who probably
Speaker 1: will be the first running back taken some you know,
Speaker 1: you see some mocks. They got him in the in
Speaker 1: the twenties. I took him last week, Patton Patton, I
Speaker 1: did our mock draft. I took him to Seattle at
Speaker 1: five because I think he's a good player. And they're like, no,
Speaker 1: they'll never do that. They took Kenneth Walker, who was
Speaker 1: a Dope Dokee Walker Award winner last year, Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: They want to run the football. He's not opposed to
Speaker 1: Devin too, Dope Walker Award winners on his team. You know,
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny's no longer there. Carson has retired from football
Speaker 1: because of neck injury. They got the DJ Dallas. I
Speaker 1: think behind Kenneth Walker right now, you know, I think
Speaker 1: he could go as high as five to Seattle. When
Speaker 1: you look at that great player from Texas. The Bears
Speaker 1: did add Rashim Graham. We alluded to that twenty five
Speaker 1: years old, be twenty six here coming up next month
Speaker 1: or and may rather and a third round pick in
Speaker 1: eighteen out of USC buy Seattle that trained from LA
Speaker 1: to Seattle with coach Carroll certainly is significant with players
Speaker 1: from that university. Signed a one year with Houston last
Speaker 1: season and played the entire year. Gym played about fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps and was productive fifty two tackles,
Speaker 1: five tackles for lost, three and a half sacks, two
Speaker 1: pass breakups, ten sacks the last two years. But I
Speaker 1: look at this, he's six four, two eighty. That's good size,
Speaker 1: who can kick inside for some mismatches with guards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and obviously Pete Carroll when he was in Seattle, he
Speaker 1: said they really couldn't find a home for him. But
Speaker 1: he has been a productive player and is more of
Speaker 1: a rotational guy. Like you said, I get think I
Speaker 1: believe gives you that position flexibility you're looking for where
Speaker 1: you can kick him inside and he can provide that
Speaker 1: that pass rush ability. So again you're you know, and
Speaker 1: signing guys like him, Like you said, you're trying to
Speaker 1: fill holes that maybe the draft. If you can't fill
Speaker 1: them all in the drafts, it allows you to, like
Speaker 1: you said, maybe target some guys that you're looking for,
Speaker 1: you know, So you know, do I think the Bears
Speaker 1: with those ten picks they'll be able to move around?
Speaker 1: I absolutely do. I don't think you want to draft all,
Speaker 1: you know, all ten play. I think you'll be able
Speaker 1: to parlay some things to target the guys you want.
Speaker 1: But signing a guy like Rasheem Green, you feel you've
Speaker 1: got that area covered where maybe you can take the
Speaker 1: best player available if a pass rusher is not there
Speaker 1: in your spot and what you're looking for and where
Speaker 1: you're sitting at your potential spots of picking. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: right now, three new additions up front already, not including
Speaker 1: the draft, and I suspect that there will be more,
Speaker 1: obviously not just in the top part of the draft.
Speaker 1: But they just need depth. There's this need for rotational
Speaker 1: depth in there. But you got Rashime Green, DeMarcus Walker,
Speaker 1: Andrew Billings added through free agency, all on nice deals.
Speaker 1: Justin Jones had a very nice year last year, on
Speaker 1: the last year of his two year contract with the
Speaker 1: Bears for this year, played three technique they run. They
Speaker 1: pushed him outside a little bit as well last season,
Speaker 1: just to see what it would be like, and he
Speaker 1: did a nice job. So you got Trevis Gibson in
Speaker 1: a big year for him. He did not get the
Speaker 1: production like he did the year before in terms of
Speaker 1: sacks and force and fumbles. But that's what you're working
Speaker 1: with right now. The defensive line. Yeah, and you just wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, how it all fits because we pass rushers,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the pass rushers that are
Speaker 1: going to be available. Obviously Will Anderson, everybody assumes he'll
Speaker 1: be the first guy taken. Then he got Wilson, and
Speaker 1: of course you got Murphy, some like Lucas Vaness. How
Speaker 1: comfortable do you feel playing a guy who's only played
Speaker 1: two years of college ball and wasn't a starter. They're
Speaker 1: at Iowa, I'm sure they're doing their homework on him.
Speaker 1: And then of course there's Jalen Carter, who's the anomaly
Speaker 1: of Jalen Carter. Now supposedly he won't even talk to
Speaker 1: teams that aren't picking outside the top ten. I mean,
Speaker 1: what if a team wants to trade up to that
Speaker 1: Bear spot at number nine, you know, in order to
Speaker 1: take a player like him or were the Bears. If
Speaker 1: he falls to nine, he could address some issues on
Speaker 1: their offensive line. But you got to do your homework
Speaker 1: with the off the field stuff. So if there's a
Speaker 1: lot on Ryan Pole's plate right now to get all
Speaker 1: this information that he needs and meet these guys to
Speaker 1: see if they're Chicago Bears players that he wants representing
Speaker 1: this football team. I also don't want to forget Dominique Robinson,
Speaker 1: who is still in that process of developing learning. Didn't
Speaker 1: get a lot of time at that position and his
Speaker 1: entire career, but has the body to intrigue you, no question.
Speaker 1: He made that first sax splash in his a debut
Speaker 1: against San Francisco in the rain. That's a guy to
Speaker 1: look at as well. And we'll talk more about this
Speaker 1: defensive line thing and Jalen Carter gets more prospective from Jim.
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Speaker 1: m NFL Radio's moving the chains the former Bears quarterback
Speaker 1: gonna go back to Jalen Carter. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about it if you're an executive a team, if he says, Okay, nobody,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming if it's outside the top ten for
Speaker 1: right now. I'm certain though, if something happened before the
Speaker 1: draft that he would certainly make that trip if somebody
Speaker 1: moved into that top ten. But how would you feel
Speaker 1: about it as an executive or from your experience just
Speaker 1: talking to exacts around the league over the years, how
Speaker 1: they feel about something like that. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: know he's there. To me, there's no upside with the
Speaker 1: statement that they made. And that's Drew Rosenhouse now, that's
Speaker 1: represent him, And I find it hard to believe that
Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhouse would want to limit his client's opportunities because
Speaker 1: if there is a team that is willing to trade
Speaker 1: in the top ten, and I'll just use the Bears
Speaker 1: as an example, that the Bears say at nine, hey,
Speaker 1: we're willing to trade out here. We feel like in
Speaker 1: the mid teens is whether those tackles are going to
Speaker 1: start going and maybe the Bears could move down a
Speaker 1: little bit and the team trades in. I think that
Speaker 1: would be you know, not a good move for Jalen
Speaker 1: Carter to make that statement. Supposedly he will only work
Speaker 1: out in his hometown. You know, is he top ten talent?
Speaker 1: I think everybody agrees that he is. You know, I
Speaker 1: think we know what a dominant player he was at Georgia.
Speaker 1: But there are some concerns there now, I mean, wasn't
Speaker 1: truthful to the police. Didn't you know he knows that workout,
Speaker 1: that pro day is coming. I mean, if anything, why
Speaker 1: didn't he just delay the pro day, you know, come
Speaker 1: back when he was in shape. You know, he wasn't
Speaker 1: even able to finish that Pro day. And so I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have some some teams that are really
Speaker 1: doing their due diligence. And I think he's limited himself
Speaker 1: just to those top ten teams because you know, I
Speaker 1: think we know for a fact, like the way the
Speaker 1: Bears practice now under coach Eberfluse, with that hits philosophy,
Speaker 1: You've got to make sure that he can come in
Speaker 1: that locker room and he's got to be a worker
Speaker 1: b Now, I think that's the expectation, or say a
Speaker 1: guy like Dan Campbell where you know the expectation is
Speaker 1: there for the Detroit Lions and how hard they practice,
Speaker 1: and you know, are the guys going to be willing
Speaker 1: to accept this player coming in? Do you have veteran
Speaker 1: players around him that can bring him along or is
Speaker 1: it going to be done by the coaches? And I
Speaker 1: think we know the Bears have a lot of young
Speaker 1: players right now, and can they place that locker room yet?
Speaker 1: I would say no. So when a guy's not given
Speaker 1: a hundred percent, you know, can other guys lay into
Speaker 1: him to get the most out of him? So I
Speaker 1: think all those things are being explored by Ryan Poles,
Speaker 1: and you know they have the benefit of being in
Speaker 1: the top ten so they can get all those answers
Speaker 1: that they're looking for. They met with Jalen Carter and
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what the evaluation is. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: others have that top thirty list. Tyree Wilson the testas
Speaker 1: tech edge rusher. He's an intriguing player too because again
Speaker 1: fits into that long, big and strong category off the edge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very good player for the Texas tech Red Raider. Six
Speaker 1: foot six, two hundred and seventy one pounds. Pat thinks
Speaker 1: he's like a Klais Campbell type of player that just
Speaker 1: tells you how strong he is. You know, as he
Speaker 1: is as a player of forty four games played, has
Speaker 1: twenty eight starts and thirty two tackles for a loss
Speaker 1: in seventeen sacks. So a lot of people believe he's
Speaker 1: just going to be a Pro Bowl player right away
Speaker 1: because he can really collapse the pocket, just like what
Speaker 1: Clais Campbell is known for in his NFL career. All right,
Speaker 1: I got a funny thing here. I saw this on
Speaker 1: one of the spots today about I think it was
Speaker 1: Jones from Boston College. He had two teams take him
Speaker 1: out to dinner, so he had to make a decision.
Speaker 1: Am I having an appetizer on one and the steak
Speaker 1: and the other? I mean, what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: I might double dipping? Okay, when you were entering the end,
Speaker 1: did you go out to dinner or any team and
Speaker 1: were you put in the same position? No, never happened.
Speaker 1: I think when they came to work me out at
Speaker 1: Michigan State. And the one funny story is Ken Anderson,
Speaker 1: the former quarterback for the Bengals. So I go over,
Speaker 1: they say, hey, the Bengals are here. And I thought
Speaker 1: I had to go and work out. So I went
Speaker 1: to the locker room and you know, put out my
Speaker 1: sweats and stuff to go work out. And I remember
Speaker 1: Ken Anerson, he goes, he goes, No, he goes, We're
Speaker 1: going to go right up to the Harrison Roadhouse and
Speaker 1: have a beer. You know, I just want to talk
Speaker 1: to you. So it was pretty funny because and I
Speaker 1: didn't know this Kenny. He owned a whole bunch of breweries.
Speaker 1: So we just went up at a beer and talk football.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was like the one time I got
Speaker 1: taken out. That was it. That was it? Huh why
Speaker 1: and die beer? He you'll take it, you take more
Speaker 1: your speed. I watched him as a kid man. I
Speaker 1: love Kenning. Oh gosh. He was humble, lavable but Cincinnative
Speaker 1: Bengals in Illinois area product for sure. We'll be talking
Speaker 1: to Bears running back Deyonta Foreman coming up here shortly
Speaker 1: here on Bears Weekly with Jim Miller. I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: Do you like the fact if you're a player as
Speaker 1: Downs the kid from North Carolina says he's got no visits?
Speaker 1: Does that make you worry as a player? Do they
Speaker 1: feel you are you checked all the boxes? That's one.
Speaker 1: And if you're that player, are you starting to wonder
Speaker 1: a little bit despite the encouragement probably from your agent
Speaker 1: or whatever. But then the guy who's got to go
Speaker 1: on five or seven trips and he's exhausted from having
Speaker 1: all these teams and going to dinners like this, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think. Well, he's probably got a little anxiety like, hey,
Speaker 1: why aren't these teams you know whining in dyning me?
Speaker 1: But you got to remember too, he's got a pro
Speaker 1: background for him. When you look at drey Blai, I
Speaker 1: think is his cousin, you know. And you look at
Speaker 1: Gary Downs, his dad is a coach as well. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure Dre who's now on the Detroit Lions staff,
Speaker 1: this is a very productive all right. There are no
Speaker 1: character concerns. So a lot of teams when they don't
Speaker 1: invite you in for a visit, you know, Like I
Speaker 1: never met with the Steelers. They came to my pro day,
Speaker 1: but I never talked to them once, but they drafted me,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think that happens to a lot
Speaker 1: of guys where they don't want to bring a player
Speaker 1: in or visit with a player where it puts maybe
Speaker 1: a radar screen on him, you know. And I think
Speaker 1: when you look at Josh Downs, he is a very
Speaker 1: productive receiver there from Carolina. The production in the last
Speaker 1: two years, I mean, think about it. They lost Sam Howell.
Speaker 1: Now he got drafted to Washington and then Drake May
Speaker 1: comes in there and he has over a thousand yards
Speaker 1: again and eleven touchdowns, who he improved even in the
Speaker 1: touchdown area. So he's a nice slot receiver. A lot
Speaker 1: of people think he's like a Cadarius Tony type of player.
Speaker 1: Cadarius Tony went twenty two overall or twenty one, I
Speaker 1: think to the Giants, ultimately traded to the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and he's a world champion. But I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people feel that way about Josh Downs. He's got
Speaker 1: the football background with his family, very productive player, there's
Speaker 1: no character issues. He's kind of checked all the boxes
Speaker 1: and he's got the great times. He had a thirty
Speaker 1: eight inch vertical and then as pro day did a
Speaker 1: forty two inch vertical and he's got a ten to
Speaker 1: eleven broad So he's kind of checked every box. So
Speaker 1: I believe he's getting drafted. It may not be in
Speaker 1: the first round, but he's he's going to be a
Speaker 1: solid player. Are you more apt to fall in line
Speaker 1: with like a group of players like say three when
Speaker 1: you do your mock drafts? Because all these mock drafts
Speaker 1: keep coming out every Monday, Tuesday, when you name it.
Speaker 1: They're fresh ones coming out. And now I think they're
Speaker 1: starting to change up a little bit, maybe just for fun,
Speaker 1: because you got all those quarterbacks, you're likely to be
Speaker 1: gone and that top ten certainly, But do you fall
Speaker 1: in line with the popular belief of what guys are
Speaker 1: looking or do you go for some shock and awe
Speaker 1: a little bit when you start doing this? No, I
Speaker 1: just you know, you try and follow the tea leaves.
Speaker 1: You know, most of the pro day numbers are in
Speaker 1: now if most of the pro days are over with
Speaker 1: and now it's you know, just getting to know other
Speaker 1: stories about players, like thinking Stetson Bennett, the quarterback from Georgia. Right,
Speaker 1: that video just gets released by TMZ, Right, everybody see it.
Speaker 1: And here's what's funny is for Bennett. This guy's been
Speaker 1: a national champ two years in a row, and he's
Speaker 1: got very good production on tape. But everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's small. Well, brace Young could be the first quarterback taken.
Speaker 1: And he's an inch taller than Brayce Young, and he's
Speaker 1: got every bit the credentials and numbers of Brayce Young,
Speaker 1: and so I think he got to dive into him.
Speaker 1: I think he's a Drew Brees type of player. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much that'll hurt him with that tape
Speaker 1: that came out. He's I think he's more embarrassed about
Speaker 1: it than anything. But he's a good quarterback and a
Speaker 1: very productive quarterback who was with Todd Makins down there,
Speaker 1: who called the plays, so he's prepared. He's a good
Speaker 1: player that really nobody's talking about other than the off
Speaker 1: the field and you have to do your due diligence there.
Speaker 1: But again, he's got a football background and family pedigree
Speaker 1: that you know he's worthy to be. After that group
Speaker 1: of four quarterbacks, he's probably by production alone, should be
Speaker 1: the fifth guy. Take it in my opinion. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about the quarterbacks. Some interesting talk from
Speaker 1: Caroline about number one, and we come back. We will
Speaker 1: talk some offensive line. We'll start looking ahead to the
Speaker 1: tackles with Jim Miller. I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Bears
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears Radio Network. Is Bears Weekly with a Voice
Speaker 1: of the Bears for twenty three. Here is Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: on the Bears Radio Network. Three weeks from tip off,
Speaker 1: it's the NFL Draft and we'll start breaking down the
Speaker 1: positions here on Bears Weekly. Good to have you alongside
Speaker 1: Charlie Bevans, our producer, Jim Miller, Jeff Joniac with you
Speaker 1: on this beautiful night in Chicago after the rain and
Speaker 1: storms moved through the crowths course of the week. Jim,
Speaker 1: it'supposed to be eighties here in Chicago next week. I'm
Speaker 1: down with that. Yeah, I'm done with it. Two, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm done with winter. I'm done with winter. Yes, you're
Speaker 1: a little a little further note through. Your still getting
Speaker 1: that cold weather, but the raining storms or something else.
Speaker 1: All right, let's dig into the tackles. It's certainly a
Speaker 1: hot topic here in Chicago as you look at this group.
Speaker 1: We're not going to certainly go through every player, but
Speaker 1: more specifically, what the Bears might be looking for. They
Speaker 1: like guys obviously to be road grading, run blockers, get
Speaker 1: out there to the second level and also with the
Speaker 1: wide zone run game. But also they need pass protection
Speaker 1: for one of the unique quarterbacks in the NFL. Right now,
Speaker 1: in justin fields, what types of guys are you looking
Speaker 1: at that tackle position. Well, you got Broder Jones. He's
Speaker 1: an athlete, he can recover quickly from Georgia. He's a
Speaker 1: big man that just can absolutely move. Paris Johnson there
Speaker 1: at the tackle from Ohio State. Smart. He's worked with
Speaker 1: Willie Anderson since high school. Many think Willie Anderson is
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame player and Paris Johnson is about
Speaker 1: as good as it gets in my opinion. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got the bigger guys out there, Like everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about Tennessee the player Darnell Right. I think that aren't
Speaker 1: the Bears one of the teams that are bringing in
Speaker 1: Darnel Right? I believe they are. Yes. I mean that
Speaker 1: is a big right tackle who can physically move people
Speaker 1: all right. And then you got guys can stop right there,
Speaker 1: because yeah, when you say he's six, I don't. He's
Speaker 1: a big dude. I mean that is a big guy
Speaker 1: and he can move. He can move, He can physically
Speaker 1: jolt you with his hands. And basically steer you anyway
Speaker 1: he wants you to to go. I mean, so he
Speaker 1: is a he is a I think he's got driving
Speaker 1: up the draft boards right now. He will go in
Speaker 1: the first round, is my opinion. And then you've got
Speaker 1: other guys that are out there that you know at
Speaker 1: the tackle position. Matt bergeron from Syracuse. He had a
Speaker 1: really good Senior Bowl week, all right. He's from Montreal,
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't think this because a lot of Canadians
Speaker 1: and I played with a lot of Canadians at Michigan State.
Speaker 1: I mean, it takes him a while to adjust because
Speaker 1: they don't play a lot of the American game is
Speaker 1: different up there. But he came in right away and
Speaker 1: he grated out as one of the best offensive linemen
Speaker 1: for Syracuse on the PF grades. He played right away
Speaker 1: and has played well. And so Paul Alexander works with
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys and speaks highly of him.
Speaker 1: But this is a really good tackle draft. There's a
Speaker 1: ton I mean, Blake Freeland from BYU. He's a four
Speaker 1: year starter. The guy's six foot eight and had a
Speaker 1: thirty seven vertical. Nobody's talking about that guy. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's up five to forty. And I think as
Speaker 1: broad jump was incredible as well. Other guys. A lot
Speaker 1: of people have fallen down on Ryan Haze a little bit.
Speaker 1: The Michigan tackle. H he only gave up one sack
Speaker 1: this year, played at the left tackle spot. But and
Speaker 1: he's really fluid and he's a good athlete. He's from
Speaker 1: good stock when you look at his mom and dad.
Speaker 1: But they put him at right tackle at the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl and he struggled a little bit, and so everybody's
Speaker 1: asking him what was the problem, and he's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know my first time, Well he goes. I played
Speaker 1: right tackle before he goes, but I was just setting
Speaker 1: too high. He goes. That's something I believe can physically
Speaker 1: correct moving forward. But he's a really good player. How
Speaker 1: about Anton Harrison, the tackle from Oklahoma. I was just
Speaker 1: about to bring him up six four three fifteen, all
Speaker 1: of twenty one years of age. But a mammoth, big
Speaker 1: dude who can move as well. And uh yeah, he
Speaker 1: did have twenty four reps. But he played left tackle.
Speaker 1: He played right tackle some last season as well. But
Speaker 1: the best quote I heard about Blacks like he means
Speaker 1: it so that tells me enough right there, four ninety eight.
Speaker 1: His change of direction is like ridiculous. I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy can really recover, and a lot of people like
Speaker 1: him as well. You've got other guys. Jackson Kirkland, the
Speaker 1: kid from Washington. He was a left tackle and played
Speaker 1: left tackle, blew out his ankle, literally shredded every ligament
Speaker 1: in his ankle that it was like just hanging on
Speaker 1: and so recovered from that. They put him at left guard.
Speaker 1: But Paul Alexander works with him. He says he can
Speaker 1: play both and he's recovered. He's big, he's strong, He's
Speaker 1: another six seven guy. So that Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good tackles in this draft. Yeah. And Paul Alexander,
Speaker 1: of course, former longtime Bengals offensive line coach and has
Speaker 1: done a lot of good stuff in the draft here
Speaker 1: the last several years. Where are you at on Northwesterns?
Speaker 1: Peter Scrotsky, Um, I like him though I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people I think you're going to try him
Speaker 1: at tackle. I think you have to and see if
Speaker 1: he can survive, and then if not, you kick him
Speaker 1: in the guard because some will have the issue with
Speaker 1: the arm lenk and he's not the ideal length that
Speaker 1: you want a tackle. You know a lot of people
Speaker 1: like that, those six five guys that are out there.
Speaker 1: He falls just short of that and his arm length.
Speaker 1: But he's an athletic kid. He's another kid who comes
Speaker 1: from good stock with his grandfather and all that. And
Speaker 1: he's a good player and he probably is going in
Speaker 1: the first round. He's a solid player, without a doubt.
Speaker 1: Not a smart player, all right. I asked you this
Speaker 1: on text, do you have a sleeper tackle in this group?
Speaker 1: I don't care what round for me right now, I
Speaker 1: would think it would be that Ryan Hayes, you know,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people had him dropping like that.
Speaker 1: I mean people were like walking away from the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl like, you know, boy, that was really unimpressive just
Speaker 1: from the one on ones at the right tackle spot.
Speaker 1: But I think he'll be fine. You know, he's going
Speaker 1: to go later in the draft, but I think he'll
Speaker 1: be a solid player when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: And you know, he's played at Michigan, he's played in
Speaker 1: Power five, he's played in big games. He's asked to
Speaker 1: do all the pro principles that you're asked to do,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll be a good player at the
Speaker 1: next level. Yeah, there's so many guys, the different shapes
Speaker 1: and sizes. But you know, you mentioned the shuttle and
Speaker 1: so forth, and I know a lot of folks don't
Speaker 1: want to get too caught up in that stuff. The
Speaker 1: numbers certainly not of forty for an offensive lineman, but
Speaker 1: it all adds up when you're talking about athleticism, you're
Speaker 1: talking about agility. So the significance of those three cone
Speaker 1: numbers being so low for a tackle, what is it
Speaker 1: telling you? What is it telling you for? Then? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, well, that's change of direction, it's quick twitch,
Speaker 1: it's the ability to recover. I mean, like those numbers
Speaker 1: that Blake Freeland that I threw out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of an offensive lineman doing that thirty
Speaker 1: seven inch vertical Are you kidding me? He only gave
Speaker 1: up five pressures, you know, grated out as high as
Speaker 1: any tackle in this draft. But when you get those
Speaker 1: low numbers like that, it's recoverability, right. And obviously for
Speaker 1: the guards when they have that, because they're working in
Speaker 1: a phone booth anyway, they've got to be able to
Speaker 1: set quickly set an anchor re anchor again if need
Speaker 1: be and they've got the ability to do that. That's
Speaker 1: what those numbers tell you about their quick twitch and
Speaker 1: their ability to change direction or what we talk about
Speaker 1: for offensive lineman, it's mirroring your opponent, right, They're going
Speaker 1: to mirror the defensive linement. If he tries to go inside,
Speaker 1: your mirror him, get there quickly to you know, wall
Speaker 1: him off, so to speak. And then they're going to
Speaker 1: have a counter move and you're able to change a
Speaker 1: direction and adjust to that, and you're getting that that
Speaker 1: you know that sumo fly down the inside, but you've
Speaker 1: got the balance in the change of direction to be
Speaker 1: able to do that and shift your weight really quickly.
Speaker 1: All right, last one before we take a break. Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: Jeff Johnny aac here on Bears Weekly on ESPN one
Speaker 1: thousand and the Bears Radio Network. Are you looking at
Speaker 1: Cody Mark as a tackle or a guard? Are you
Speaker 1: trying him first at tackle and knowing he can play guard,
Speaker 1: or where you went on him on putting him at tackle?
Speaker 1: This guy, literally, out of all the guys in this draft,
Speaker 1: he is the most physical offensive lineman in this draft,
Speaker 1: the most physical and probably the most vertical or versatile
Speaker 1: because he can play all five offensive line positions. Absolutely
Speaker 1: crushed it in the one on ones down a mobile. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, he's the North Dakota state tackle and he's
Speaker 1: going against the big boys. He had no problem doing
Speaker 1: it and did it with authority. But they even put
Speaker 1: him at center. He dominated there too. Went out to
Speaker 1: write tackle dominated there because he's the most physical. He
Speaker 1: just imposes his will on anybody. And plus, if you
Speaker 1: were to put him at guard, he can move. Go
Speaker 1: look at his numbers. You could pull that guy power
Speaker 1: plays or on the table, you know, wide receiver screens
Speaker 1: where you need your offensive line to get down the
Speaker 1: field and make those blocks. It's no problem for him
Speaker 1: at all, no problem. He loves it. And and I
Speaker 1: forget what his major was because he's a farmer. He's
Speaker 1: like an engineer. Yeah, he's like unbelieve's like yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I just go back and work on the farm.
Speaker 1: And I mean, he's who doesn't want that guy? What's
Speaker 1: a sweet spot for him? He could go in the
Speaker 1: first round. I really believe that even Jim Nagee, the
Speaker 1: executive director of the Senior Bowl, everybody came away from
Speaker 1: that Senior Bowl a believer in him. So, but I'd
Speaker 1: say if he goes late first round, but minimum or
Speaker 1: high second at the latest for him, Like it's a
Speaker 1: great personality, get great personet loves the game. Certainly, he's
Speaker 1: got the hair and the no teeth and all that,
Speaker 1: so he's got some character to him. And but the
Speaker 1: thing I love when you watch some of his high heights,
Speaker 1: he doesn't just finish a guy. He buries a guy
Speaker 1: and then he barrel rolls over the top of him
Speaker 1: just for fun. You know, that's the kind of guy
Speaker 1: you want around here. I like that kind of thinking.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll look at the guards. Coming up next
Speaker 1: here on Bears Weekly. We first break on ESPN one
Speaker 1: thousand and the Chicago Bears Radio Network. They see his
Speaker 1: Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears for twenty
Speaker 1: three years. Jeff Junior on the Bears Radio Network bringing
Speaker 1: out the NFL Draft coming up here out of the month.
Speaker 1: And it's it's clocks chicking, man, It's it's ready to roll.
Speaker 1: Boards are getting stacked. Final thoughts, scouts are coming in,
Speaker 1: top thirty, visits continue, Pro days are pretty much done.
Speaker 1: Injured players getting some rechecks. When's that coming, Jim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think in the next week they'll have the medical
Speaker 1: rechecks in Indianapolis, So yeah, it should be coming. I
Speaker 1: think next week that happens. Yeah. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's any significance that you personally are interested in
Speaker 1: finding out about, but I'm sure there's a few that
Speaker 1: could impact where guys are gonna wind up based on surgeries.
Speaker 1: I mean, and in Hooker's first one, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna have a medical recheck or if he's
Speaker 1: ready to roll, But that packs getting a lot of
Speaker 1: love lately, and he should. He's a really good player,
Speaker 1: very talented, And again I think you're playing the long
Speaker 1: game with him. You know, you draft him, and you
Speaker 1: probably you're you're not going to play him obviously, it's
Speaker 1: not going to be healthy enough in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: he'll still be working along. And I think that's how
Speaker 1: you want to approach it. And I think that tempers
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm too of the fan base, knowing that you
Speaker 1: draft a player who is injured. I mean, think of
Speaker 1: how well it worked out for Jamison Williams last year
Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions. Right they trade up to twelve
Speaker 1: draft and injured player. I don't think he got on
Speaker 1: the field until December. I think it works out better
Speaker 1: for a quarterback too, Yeah, I think so. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's say if Indianapolis did take him at four and
Speaker 1: shocked everybody, think about that. That doesn't put pressure on Stiken.
Speaker 1: You know, if anything, the fan base is gonna be like,
Speaker 1: all right, I think everybody really likes him. They know
Speaker 1: he's smart, he's a twenty five year old, he's maturer,
Speaker 1: he's got I mean, the guy probably would have won
Speaker 1: the Heisman if he finished the year for Tennessee. So
Speaker 1: you still you've got a lot of excitement. You can
Speaker 1: sell hope. But yet, hey, we're gonna take our time.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play the long game with him. Gardner, Minshew
Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe they signed Cam Newton, you know whoever.
Speaker 1: You know, say hey, we're just gonna, you know, bring
Speaker 1: this guy along the right way and let him heal,
Speaker 1: and Colts fans would probably be a static about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into that in our final segment. The
Speaker 1: whole quarterback thing going on in the league with Cam
Speaker 1: and Lamar and all that, Let's dig into the interior
Speaker 1: offensive line back in the trenches with Jim Meller from
Speaker 1: Serious X have NFL Radio moving the Chains Bears. I've
Speaker 1: already added Nate Davis to the mix. Yeah, Tevin Jenkins
Speaker 1: off a good season last year. You got Cordy Whitehair
Speaker 1: potentially looking at the center spot, Lucas Patrick hopefully healthy
Speaker 1: and ready to compete. You got Braxton Jones at the
Speaker 1: tackle position. But the interior the offensive line is significant
Speaker 1: as anything, as the Bears running game has really feasted
Speaker 1: on giving the football to the backs and heavy run
Speaker 1: game with Justin Fields helping out as well. So let's
Speaker 1: just I'm want to throw one right out of the
Speaker 1: game because a lot of these guys could be guard
Speaker 1: or center. I'm gonna start with Steve a Vila from TCUTH,
Speaker 1: a guy from Arlington, Texas played Stare stayed at home captain,
Speaker 1: a big dude who's got a lot of good character
Speaker 1: with him. Pepper the unsung hero the national title team
Speaker 1: that competed for that. Where are you playing him or
Speaker 1: you want to test him in one or the other?
Speaker 1: Do you just like the versatility? Yeah, well I've playing
Speaker 1: him at guard. I mean because he's three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty two pounds. Go look at him even when they're
Speaker 1: getting smoked in the in the Champ game, that dude,
Speaker 1: I mean again, he could. He's a powerful guy who competes. Man,
Speaker 1: that guy just gets after it. I mean the score
Speaker 1: or whatever it was was a sixty five to seven.
Speaker 1: I forget what the score was, but uh, I mean
Speaker 1: even at towards the end of the game. Dude, that
Speaker 1: guy's pancaking guys. I mean, so he just competes. And
Speaker 1: so I do think he's you know, he's well thought
Speaker 1: of as a guard. I would think the first guard
Speaker 1: taken would be Cody Mock. Would would be my opinion,
Speaker 1: as this or a shooting not Cody Mock, but Osiris Torn.
Speaker 1: Then I think Cody Mock, and then I think even
Speaker 1: Joe Tipman from Wisconsin. To me, he's too as a guard.
Speaker 1: I'm taking him as a guard. He's six six as
Speaker 1: a center. To me, that's just a little too much
Speaker 1: length at that position. I'd put him at guard. So
Speaker 1: I think o Cyrus Torrence of Florida will probably be
Speaker 1: the first guard. Then I think Cody Mock. He'll be
Speaker 1: drafted as a guard in my opinion, because you can
Speaker 1: pull him and do things with him. So you got
Speaker 1: to think more G schemes with him. In power schemes,
Speaker 1: I think for him Joe Tipman, then I think would
Speaker 1: be the third guard taken and then I think of Ela.
Speaker 1: That's where he would go right after those guys went.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Torrence. He was at the
Speaker 1: Senior Ball. He foiled a billionaprier to Florida after Louisiana
Speaker 1: went there, became a first team All American in SEC
Speaker 1: l SEC right guard. The man they called Cybo. His
Speaker 1: mother called him Cyborg growing up because just looking at me,
Speaker 1: he's a box. He's six five and three eights at
Speaker 1: three thirty. What do you feel about him? Because I
Speaker 1: liked how he played during the course of that week.
Speaker 1: He does have that straightforward power in his game. What
Speaker 1: else do you like about him? I think he's a
Speaker 1: day one starter. He's an old school road grader, so
Speaker 1: he's got heavy hands. He's not a guy you're gonna
Speaker 1: pull or do anything that with. He's just gonna move
Speaker 1: the He's gonna move. You know another guy who can
Speaker 1: just physically move the opponent. You know, there's very very
Speaker 1: few times does that happened in the NFL. There's some
Speaker 1: teams out there that can do it. Like I think
Speaker 1: the Lions their offensive line, they can physically move the
Speaker 1: defensive line. And that's what this guy does. You know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna he's just a massive offensive lineman that that's
Speaker 1: just gonna wear you out. And again he can kind
Speaker 1: of steer you with his heavy hands. As soon as
Speaker 1: he gets them on it, it's it's over, man, it's over.
Speaker 1: So he's you know, he's probably will be like I said,
Speaker 1: probably the first guy taken. And what do you think
Speaker 1: of the class in general depthwise tackles. I think there's
Speaker 1: a ton of depth at tackles, Like it's the interior
Speaker 1: overall because like you said, you can switch some centers
Speaker 1: guards like we just mentioned Tipman, that's a good group.
Speaker 1: It's a good group of offensive lineman. You know, one
Speaker 1: guy who didn't bring up is a meal uh echyor
Speaker 1: uh you know, he's the three year starter at Alabama.
Speaker 1: You know he's a really good player as well. You know,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate through the other interior guard because he showed
Speaker 1: his toughness at the at the at the combine Andrew
Speaker 1: vorhees that he tores acl you know, he'll have to
Speaker 1: get the medical recheck. But I put up to twenty five,
Speaker 1: like thirty eight times the day after he tore is
Speaker 1: a ACL. Got to respect it. Yeah, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a really good player. He that's gonna hurt him. He'll
Speaker 1: probably drop a couple of rounds because again, you'll be
Speaker 1: playing the long game with him. But um, there are
Speaker 1: guys you know from last year from as I mentioned Williams,
Speaker 1: who the Lion's traded up to twelve. I think he's
Speaker 1: the highest drafted player with a torn ACL or a
Speaker 1: medical issue like that. But Willis mcgae he's been drafted.
Speaker 1: There are other guys that have torn Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: other guys I can via Street the I think Philadelphia
Speaker 1: just signed him. He was with the forty nine the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. He tore his his ecl at his
Speaker 1: pro day, and the forty nine ers still took him
Speaker 1: in the third round. So I think Voorhees he may
Speaker 1: go around later in that like fourth or fifth, because
Speaker 1: he just tours achilles. I think he was scheduled to
Speaker 1: go around bottom of the second, you know, third round. Essentially,
Speaker 1: he may drop around because of that injury that he
Speaker 1: sustained at the combine. All right, let's look at the
Speaker 1: pivot John Michael schmidtz the home with flospmore products. So
Speaker 1: a local guy, big Bears fan. Parents grew up Bears Fanish.
Speaker 1: There's some other fans in that family, he told me
Speaker 1: as well. But a very likable guy. Early on. It
Speaker 1: was a lot of talk about him in the first round.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that still is the case, but
Speaker 1: the Remington finalist had the highest graded offensive line grade
Speaker 1: according to PFF in college football and the highest graded
Speaker 1: run blocker. So a lot to like about him as
Speaker 1: a former champion wrestler as well. Yeah, got the leverage,
Speaker 1: like he says, has the size. Uh, he's a leader,
Speaker 1: um motivates his teammates. I think he is going in
Speaker 1: the first round and everybody poo poos that that that's
Speaker 1: not a good pick. It is a good pick, you know.
Speaker 1: You go back to the Nick Mangolds or Travis Frederick
Speaker 1: when the Lines or the Dallas Cowboys drafted him, or
Speaker 1: say the Pouncy Brothers. That's a good pick, you know.
Speaker 1: And he's a good player and he's deserving of it.
Speaker 1: He's smart. He was again fun to watch down with
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl because like one time, the offensive lineman
Speaker 1: like it's a really hot day down there that that day,
Speaker 1: I think it was that Tuesday, and guys were kind
Speaker 1: of dragging and so like he was sprinting from drill
Speaker 1: to drill and he he was screaming at the old
Speaker 1: lineman to get up there with him, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: everybody followed him. You know, everybody followed that guy. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's going first round. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that like John Michael Schmid's all right,
Speaker 1: where are you at? On o with Timmy from Michigan's
Speaker 1: two and a half three O nine, a high character
Speaker 1: guy transferred from Virginia. They did a great job with
Speaker 1: that more award offensive line there at Michigan, which they've
Speaker 1: done i think two years in a row. But Ben's
Speaker 1: a little at the waist. But what do you order
Speaker 1: your overall thoughts on his game? Yeah, I think he's
Speaker 1: got size. Like running the ball, Yeah, that definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, again that's a pro style and how they
Speaker 1: run the football. And I'm with you there. I think
Speaker 1: you know, he's showed in the one on ones he
Speaker 1: could anchor and really get down. I know he's a
Speaker 1: little bit lighter at six three three oh five. But
Speaker 1: he has the ability again, if you're gonna do wide
Speaker 1: receiver screens and stuff, he can slip get to the
Speaker 1: second level things like that. And you know, I think,
Speaker 1: you know he'll be a solid player. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll be a Day one starter in my opinion,
Speaker 1: but it will be a solid guy when it's all
Speaker 1: said and done. With his toughness, all right. Other ones
Speaker 1: to watch Ricky Stromberg from Arkansas, lifelong Bears fan growing
Speaker 1: up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And then I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've done any work, but I was working on this
Speaker 1: guy today. I don't know where he'll be picked in
Speaker 1: the draft. He's out of UCLA, but it's John Gaines
Speaker 1: and played center. You talk about all these explosion numbers
Speaker 1: and the agility numbers. He had the number one agility
Speaker 1: number in the shuttle at four or four or five.
Speaker 1: He also had the highest overall agility score in the draft.
Speaker 1: And he just keep coming up. His name keeps coming
Speaker 1: up of late. What you know about him, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know too much about him. But I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: of that style of offense because they ran the ball
Speaker 1: so well with Sharbonneau right the Sharbonna know, the running
Speaker 1: back there who had just an incredible year. And again
Speaker 1: you have all the check with me stuff because of
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly. You know so again that that offense has
Speaker 1: performed at the NFL level, and that translates. And now
Speaker 1: you've mentioned the Senate that can move, but I have
Speaker 1: not done a lot of work on him, but just
Speaker 1: what you say, and it kind of translates with how
Speaker 1: they ran the football and that he'd be a good fit.
Speaker 1: They're crazy thing too, is you dig deep in this
Speaker 1: the stories of some of these guys, the things they've overcome.
Speaker 1: Every year in the draft. I'm always fascinated by that.
Speaker 1: We usually saved that stuff from draft day when the
Speaker 1: emotion is there and they get picked overcoming so many
Speaker 1: things and almost all these guys something you know, and
Speaker 1: then the transfers and how they go from a small
Speaker 1: school to a big school and they get to be
Speaker 1: all conference, are all American and proving they can compete
Speaker 1: against the very best and take it to the pros
Speaker 1: and see where they go. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: take a look at some news around the league today,
Speaker 1: quarterback position in particular, and get Jim's thoughts on a
Speaker 1: broader scope is the Bears get ready for the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft at ninth pick in around one in three weeks.
Speaker 1: Right here on ESPN one thousand of the Bears, Rady's
Speaker 1: Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears for twenty
Speaker 1: three years, Jeff Joniac on the Bears Radio Network and
Speaker 1: the home stretch of our show for this week, Jeff Joniac,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, and we are rolling through some of the
Speaker 1: news of the day. It's going to be mostly about
Speaker 1: the draft. Let's start with Carolina, Jim the number one pick.
Speaker 1: What Frank Reich and that staff is trying to work
Speaker 1: with in terms of making a decision. It's all over
Speaker 1: the map, including just reading a note on Twitter about
Speaker 1: apparently Reich's love for Richardson. But yet the idea now
Speaker 1: is Bryce Young When it maybe first was CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 1: Do we really is this all a shell game? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think you trade up to
Speaker 1: number one knowing who you want, right, That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can give away what they gave
Speaker 1: away just to go up there and say, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do our own work and see who you really
Speaker 1: like to decide this. I think they had an idea
Speaker 1: all along when when they did it. At least you
Speaker 1: should have an idea who you're going at. And I
Speaker 1: think it's for those first two guys, you know. I
Speaker 1: think it's for either Bryce Young or c J. Strout,
Speaker 1: you know again, and the owner is going to be
Speaker 1: a big part of that as well, and Frank's going
Speaker 1: to be a big part of that in who he
Speaker 1: wants to coach, you know, that's that's going to be
Speaker 1: a big part of it and bring along. So they've
Speaker 1: got to get it right at they have an idea
Speaker 1: what they're doing. But yeah, I think it's all a
Speaker 1: shell game and everybody's just every day it's been a
Speaker 1: different guy that they've just fallen in love with. They've
Speaker 1: been on this magical trip tour, right They've seen every quarterback.
Speaker 1: They were at every pro day, then went to the
Speaker 1: owner's meetings and finished up with Richardson was the last
Speaker 1: pro day that was last Thursday, and so they've seen
Speaker 1: them all right up close and personal, and they've taken
Speaker 1: them all to dinner and got to you know, hear
Speaker 1: all the answers straight from the quarterbacks. And I think
Speaker 1: it's who impressed them most the most and obviously who
Speaker 1: did they feel that they can win with at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. I have a hard time getting Richardson out
Speaker 1: of my head. Yeah, he is something he physically. I mean,
Speaker 1: did you hear anything about Richardson until the combine? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did, But I know what you're saying. It did
Speaker 1: blow up. But and I know that it's raw and
Speaker 1: it's twenty one and it's not a lot of experience
Speaker 1: in fourteen starts, but the toolbox is impressive. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's raw, he hasn't played a lot. He's got a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do. And again, can you draft
Speaker 1: him and let him sit? You know, are you going
Speaker 1: to have the patience to sit him? Because he's not
Speaker 1: a guy that you can throw in there right away.
Speaker 1: His upside, I mean, he is literally the classic boom
Speaker 1: er bust right because he's got all the skills and
Speaker 1: it's such a great athlete. And as everybody's been saying, Um,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't work out at at at quarterback, he
Speaker 1: may be the best tight end in this draft. And
Speaker 1: this is a big Yeah, that's quite the statement. All right.
Speaker 1: Why are the Raiders hosting Bryce Young? Um? I think
Speaker 1: they're just doing their due diligence a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, say, if if a player doesn't work out
Speaker 1: at another team, you still have gone through the process where,
Speaker 1: let's say he becomes available and maybe he's a player
Speaker 1: you like to sign. And always bringing this up about
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel. Mike Rabel is supposedly when he was coming
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State, and I think Bill Belichick knew
Speaker 1: the Steelers were gonna get him. But Bill had, you know,
Speaker 1: brought him in and talked to him like and said,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we're going to get a
Speaker 1: shot to take. I get that, but this is Bryce Young,
Speaker 1: this is the quarterback. You know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty much one or two, right, But they could
Speaker 1: there be some something brewing there. Oh, I don't think
Speaker 1: the Raiders have any any shot of moving up there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Cam Newton. I had a chuckle.
Speaker 1: I listen, I know the guy wants to play, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I do not fallow the guy for wanting
Speaker 1: to get back in there and get that back in
Speaker 1: the saddle. But he lists the quarterbacks that he's willing
Speaker 1: to be a back up for. So Justin's on that list.
Speaker 1: DeShawn Lamar tah the two kid quarterbacks Richardson as well,
Speaker 1: Hurts Rogers, Josh Allen and Sam Howe as a former quarterback,
Speaker 1: and that kind of statement. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 1: I think he's a week too late, because wasn't he
Speaker 1: just had his pro day last week at Auburn tweeting
Speaker 1: out that there's not thirty two yeah better than me,
Speaker 1: which basically said I believe the starting quarterback. So it
Speaker 1: seems a little disingenuous. A week later that maybe he
Speaker 1: thought about it and said, yeah, there's kind of no
Speaker 1: upside and what I tweeted last week, and now I
Speaker 1: better kind of retract that a little bit if I
Speaker 1: am going to have an oportunity, because I think a
Speaker 1: lot of teams would have an issue with that. You know,
Speaker 1: here he just projects himself as a starter. Now he's
Speaker 1: going to come in and be a great team player
Speaker 1: to be a backup, when he just said a week
Speaker 1: ago he believes he's still a starter. You know, that
Speaker 1: room's important and how that room functions, how guys get along, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how the harmony, harmony and it you want a healthy,
Speaker 1: you know, how healthy quarterback situation. You know, I thought
Speaker 1: the Bears had one. You know, you look at how
Speaker 1: they insulated young Justin Fields with Andy Dalton and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles a couple of years ago. That was good. Last year,
Speaker 1: I thought it was good for him that it was
Speaker 1: all the room. Final ninety seconds Ravens GM Eric da
Speaker 1: Costas saying there's a chance they could pick a quarterback
Speaker 1: in round one. Thoughts, Yeah, I can happening. Let's say,
Speaker 1: if we'll love us falls. Yeah, one minute, if will
Speaker 1: love us Falls, I mean, it wouldn't shock me. I mean,
Speaker 1: they can't get their quarterback side, and it came out
Speaker 1: the details of that contract, and they may have to
Speaker 1: go in a different direction because right now it's heading
Speaker 1: towards two franchise tags and he's out of there, so
Speaker 1: you cannot rule that out. And if he's the best
Speaker 1: player on their board for them to take, yeah, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think they potentially might be taking a quarterback. And
Speaker 1: mac Jones is not being shopped. No, he's not being
Speaker 1: That's why they bought Bill Bill O'Brien in there to
Speaker 1: rectify that. All right, buddy, another show on the books.
Speaker 1: Nice job, Thank you, all right, thank you, Jim Miller.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him next week from Serious x M
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Speaker 1: tackles and ends, and also look at the linebackers previewing
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