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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Chicago, Bears to have us all in
Speaker 1: Lake Forrest. The off season program officially underway as of Monday,
Speaker 1: the fifteenth, Tax Day time. I know we loved that day.
Speaker 1: We just love a great time to reflect on how
Speaker 1: you spent your money over the last year.
Speaker 3: I try to save as much as i ken Jeff.
Speaker 1: Yes, you do. You know you're about as creative of
Speaker 1: a fine like financial planners would love you. No, they oh,
Speaker 1: you are spinthrift.
Speaker 3: Right I am? I am spend thrift for sure, But
Speaker 3: you know that's a story for.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is. Anyway, It's good to be back and
Speaker 1: ready to row in under ten days before draft days,
Speaker 1: so it's exciting. Indeed, the Bears right now picking one
Speaker 1: in nine and trying a new course for the future.
Speaker 1: And the doors did open up at hat US off
Speaker 1: of the offseason program. I think twenty plus teams underway.
Speaker 1: So that involves you know, getting in the gym, Tom
Speaker 1: getting in the weight room. That's a big part of it.
Speaker 3: Well, better not just start right now. That's a process
Speaker 3: that has to start maybe two weeks after the season
Speaker 3: is over, and then it's you kind of ramp it
Speaker 3: up and then you get into that strength gaining period
Speaker 3: that the Bears should be in now. But it's something
Speaker 3: that they should have been a part of their own
Speaker 3: trainers at home. But they have the one of the
Speaker 3: top facilities in all the NFL and some really creative
Speaker 3: minds up there to get themselves ready for the upcoming season.
Speaker 1: And you know, the draft is always an interesting time
Speaker 1: for guys. This is a young football team. There are
Speaker 1: some veterans on it, obviously, but roster positions are open
Speaker 1: for business. And you know, I know you always, at
Speaker 1: least you always told me you sweat it out the
Speaker 1: draft weekend a little bit, right, because if they draft
Speaker 1: your position, it's a full flop sweat right it is.
Speaker 3: You know, you got to figure out, Okay, what type
Speaker 3: of season did I have and how did my season
Speaker 3: end and my exit interview with my position coach and
Speaker 3: the head coach. What type of feeling do they give
Speaker 3: you as you left the building. And then if you
Speaker 3: sit there and they said, okay with the third picking, uh,
Speaker 3: the you know, in the third round offensive guard, so
Speaker 3: and so, all of a sudden you are unnoticed that
Speaker 3: you did have an exit interview. But they're understanding that
Speaker 3: this player was too talented to pass up. So the
Speaker 3: competition increases at an alarming rate the night of the draft.
Speaker 1: You played your whole care with the Bears except for
Speaker 1: one year with the Dolphins, but there was no exit
Speaker 1: interview with the Dolphins. Correct you or you were going
Speaker 1: to retire? But if you did have one, give me
Speaker 1: a Mike get Ditka exit interview and a Don Shula
Speaker 1: exit interview.
Speaker 3: Well, Mike Dickett interview is more of an ex player
Speaker 3: and where do you think you are going forward? And
Speaker 3: the coaches always used to say, look, if your arrow
Speaker 3: is pointed up, we're going to continue to coach you
Speaker 3: like you're a member of this team. If your arrows
Speaker 3: ever pointed down, we're going to look to replace you.
Speaker 3: So you know, what type of how do how did
Speaker 3: you what type of season do you feel you have,
Speaker 3: were you healthy throughout the season, do you feel that
Speaker 3: you complimented the offensive line throughout the whole year? And
Speaker 3: how does your body feel at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: And then Don Shula when he told me after the
Speaker 3: last game I played for him, and I told him,
Speaker 3: I said, Coach Shula, I'm thinking about retiring. He's Tom,
Speaker 3: he said, Tom. One thing I want to tell you
Speaker 3: is I never listened to that trend. The first couple
Speaker 3: of days after the season's over, as we approach mini camp,
Speaker 3: give us a call and let us know how you're feeling,
Speaker 3: and we'll have you know, we'll determine, you know, we'll
Speaker 3: make a determination at that point. So you know, Mike
Speaker 3: Dicka never the seriousness never left his face or what
Speaker 3: he expected out of you. I think Don Shula had
Speaker 3: a different type of feeling about you in terms of
Speaker 3: what you how you could help the football team, and
Speaker 3: where you were at in your career.
Speaker 1: So did he give you like, Hey, Tom, we need
Speaker 1: you to do X, Y and Z. Why don't you
Speaker 1: coming in at this particular weight. We're disappointed in your
Speaker 1: physicality in this particular situation. I mean, did he get
Speaker 1: that detailed, because I do believe it gets that detail nowadays.
Speaker 3: You know, Mike never, Mike Dickon never knew that I
Speaker 3: ever had to be encouraged to be in the weight room.
Speaker 3: He never. He always knew that I was always going
Speaker 3: to show up in shape. He knew that we are
Speaker 3: kind of a committed group of offensive linemen, that we
Speaker 3: are there for the everyday work process and with the
Speaker 3: help of Dick Stanfeld. But you know, as you did
Speaker 3: get older, and if he felt that your performance was sliding,
Speaker 3: he would let you know and he would tell it, Look,
Speaker 3: we expect better out of you next year. So you know,
Speaker 3: come ready, but come to compete. You know, we're not
Speaker 3: gonna sit here and guarantee you a job as you
Speaker 3: walk out the exit room.
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Speaker 1: So the Bears are going to get better in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. The draft is exciting. Picks one in
Speaker 1: nine barring any trades, two impact plug and play starters.
Speaker 1: What will that mean for this roster that's been reshaped
Speaker 1: and built by general manager Ryan Poles and his staff
Speaker 1: and coached by Mattie Refluse in your opinion.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's feel that's gonna take Caleb Williams number one.
Speaker 3: Let's just assume that they bring in Shane Waldron, a
Speaker 3: new offensive coordinator. These two have to attach a relationship immediately.
Speaker 3: And then how much does the quarterback position affect the
Speaker 3: rest of the offensive positions and then the overall performance
Speaker 3: of the football team. And I think it's super exciting
Speaker 3: from what we've seen over the pass of what a
Speaker 3: new quarterback can bring to an organization for that first
Speaker 3: year ie C. J. Stroud or many years down the road,
Speaker 3: i e. Patrick Mahomes. So I think as an exciting
Speaker 3: position anytime a new quarterback comes aboard this high in
Speaker 3: the draft. And then, you know, I don't know what
Speaker 3: to think about number nine, because Ryan Poles is a
Speaker 3: super interesting GM that's been able to, you know, add
Speaker 3: more picks throughout the draft, and that's what we've become
Speaker 3: accustomed to. So I would target that player at nine
Speaker 3: that if he was there, I would take him and
Speaker 3: I would never look back. If I had a targeted
Speaker 3: player at number nine in a couple different positions and
Speaker 3: they weren't there, then I would think about moving back
Speaker 3: and adding more picks. So I think it's super exciting.
Speaker 3: It's something that we've been talking about since the day
Speaker 3: the season ended, because you knew the Bears were going
Speaker 3: to have the number one pick in the draft because
Speaker 3: of what the Carolina Panthers and how they finished. But
Speaker 3: I think whenever you talk about number one and number nine, wow,
Speaker 3: I mean, you can add so much to a team.
Speaker 3: But you know, Jeff, it seems to me that over
Speaker 3: the last ten years in the draft, no matter what
Speaker 3: round you pick in, you can add a contributor to
Speaker 3: the roster, sometimes immediately, like a guy like Braxton Jones
Speaker 3: or a player that can develop into a special player
Speaker 3: within a season.
Speaker 1: Two. Look at the La Rams did last year with
Speaker 1: their defensive tackle Kobe Turner, and obviously Pokinako was and
Speaker 1: they became a playoff team with a veteran quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: in Matthew Stafford, I'm the schedule for the Bears. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, this year in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: you know, there's clouds of players when you draft as
Speaker 1: a general manager, you know there's gonna be a window
Speaker 1: of players. So if it is tackle, or if it
Speaker 1: is edge or if it is wide receiver, there there's
Speaker 1: going to be a cloud of players, and you'll you'll
Speaker 1: be comfortable with any of those players at various spots. So, yes,
Speaker 1: I envision a potential for trading down. If that player
Speaker 1: that you can live with and you still think is
Speaker 1: greated the same way as two other players is still there,
Speaker 1: you can get more draft picks. So you know, I
Speaker 1: was almost singularly focused leading up into the really deep
Speaker 1: dive of what's going on right now and just getting
Speaker 1: ready for our show, our draft show on ESPN one
Speaker 1: thousand on Draft Night and just the whole draft weekend,
Speaker 1: and that leads us into the rest of the season. Actually,
Speaker 1: with all this information is that you know, if somebody
Speaker 1: wants to come up and get ninety, you can get
Speaker 1: down into an area where you know you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a really good day, one starter, even if it's in
Speaker 1: the mid teens or early twenties, and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to add maybe three more draft picks and maybe
Speaker 1: one next year. I'd be interested in that. I don't
Speaker 1: want to like everybody's saying, we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: to Bucky Brooks here in just a moment from NFL Network,
Speaker 1: their fine analyst and draft expert, former scout in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and a former kick returner as well. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about some of that. But there's so many ways you
Speaker 1: can go in building this roster even better than with
Speaker 1: just a one and the nine that you know, I'd
Speaker 1: be open to that, and I think you have to
Speaker 1: be as a general manager, I would too, But I.
Speaker 3: Would have an edge, a tackle, and a receiver that
Speaker 3: I would have. If they're there, I'll take them, and
Speaker 3: I'm not looking back. If I had one of those
Speaker 3: three designated to one of those three players and they
Speaker 3: weren't there, then I would do everything in my power
Speaker 3: to move back and get more picks. Also, Jeff, So,
Speaker 3: when Roger Goodell opens to the draft and says, okay,
Speaker 3: with the first pick in the draft, the Bears are
Speaker 3: on the clock, I'm not gonna run to the podium immediately.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let that time tick away to see if
Speaker 3: someone is still gonna give me that interest call at
Speaker 3: number nine. You know what I'm saying. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: add I'm gonna add more time to that ninth pick conversation.
Speaker 3: And so if in everybody's going, oh my god, are
Speaker 3: the Bears? Are they thinking outside the Caleb Williams pick. No,
Speaker 3: But I'm offering more time for the number nine pick.
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Speaker 1: the receiver position for a moment, because there's a chance
Speaker 1: that that could be along with offensive lineman. Okay, Peter
Speaker 1: Schrager from NFL Network did a mock draft, his first one,
Speaker 1: but he added this nugget that he's just not throwing
Speaker 1: stuff up against the wall. It is lying season in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Of course, nobody's gonna show all their cards,
Speaker 1: but he insists. And I have a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for Peter Schrager, former writer and has done a great
Speaker 1: job with Good Morning Football on NFL Network. But he
Speaker 1: worked the phones. He's trying to make this an intelligent
Speaker 1: mock draft. So he had nine offensive linemen in the
Speaker 1: first round, eight wide receivers and a tight end, five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks with Nicks the fifth Penix not in the first round,
Speaker 1: and nine defensive players. So the most ever has been
Speaker 1: nineteen offensive players in the first round. If this were
Speaker 1: the case, would be the first time in history that'd
Speaker 1: be that number of offensive players. So with the heavy emphasis
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, receiver, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: receiver for this podcast. You have what you have on
Speaker 1: the team right now in DJ Moore. You have Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen to all pro caliber players. They do different things,
Speaker 1: they will compliment each other. You've got Tyler Scott and
Speaker 1: as of right now, that would be your big three.
Speaker 1: Baylis Jones is still there. He figures to be the
Speaker 1: kick returner with competition. So are you looking for what
Speaker 1: to compliment what you believe Caleb Williams will bring to
Speaker 1: the table, what Shane Waldron will call as an offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and the scheme the Bears are going to run.
Speaker 1: So you want a guy who separates. Do you want
Speaker 1: a guy who's going to be a fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: contested guy. Do you want to run after the catch guy?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you want all that in one
Speaker 1: but what don't they have what they currently do have
Speaker 1: that interests you in the type of receiver, not the name,
Speaker 1: but the type of receiver you're looking for.
Speaker 3: You know, the biggest concerned when the Bears had Willie
Speaker 3: gall was it would always make the safeties lineup deeper
Speaker 3: than anybody else that didn't have that world class track speed.
Speaker 3: And to me, if you know, like we're the kid
Speaker 3: that ran the fast forty, you know, if you go
Speaker 3: back and you look at his durability and how many
Speaker 3: games he played and started, I would have interest in
Speaker 3: a player that has that type of blazing ability because
Speaker 3: you're almost guaranteeing yourself you're gonna have one on one
Speaker 3: coverage or else you're gonna have the safeties that are
Speaker 3: lining up so far off the line of scrimmage because
Speaker 3: of that blazing speed concern. You're going to open up
Speaker 3: the underneath for DJ Moore, for Keenan Allen, for Cole Kamet,
Speaker 3: for Gerald Everett, for Swift and you know all the
Speaker 3: other guys that have the opportunity to touch the football.
Speaker 3: And so, do I want a six foot receiver to
Speaker 3: match up with Dj Moore? Not necessarily? Do I want
Speaker 3: a guy that is a six one six ' two
Speaker 3: guy like Keenan Allen, not necessarily, but is there that guy?
Speaker 3: Is there a guy there that has that blazing speed
Speaker 3: that every defensive every defensive coordinator is has their safeties
Speaker 3: already lined up off the line of scrimmage in a
Speaker 3: backpedal position because if he does have that double move
Speaker 3: or else he has that streak route and you don't
Speaker 3: jump them, it's gonna be six.
Speaker 1: All right, Well here's how I'm looking U. Okay, so
Speaker 1: most passes in the NFL these days are ten yards
Speaker 1: or less. Correct you're slot receiver that is just a
Speaker 1: dynamic route runner coming right into the league, a guy
Speaker 1: not unlike what Puka Nakua did last year or what
Speaker 1: guys like Edelman over the years, Ammondola or those type
Speaker 1: of guys that you know they're gonna they are gonna
Speaker 1: have a symbiotic relationship with their quarterback right out of
Speaker 1: the gate because they're gonna get completions, they're gonna move
Speaker 1: the sticks, and the big plays go for the outside guys.
Speaker 1: Now not saying DJ and Keenan can't do that as
Speaker 1: inside guys either, but a guy that is in that
Speaker 1: kind of where he's gonna get yards after the catch.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a physical player, he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: guy and and and that's somebody that would be different.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
Speaker 3: Yes, but where Jeff looks those three guys that you
Speaker 3: just mentioned, where were they drafted these you're talking receiver?
Speaker 3: Is that you know, third, fourth?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know ability? So you don't you you don't have
Speaker 3: to go out and you know, get a Danny Amadola
Speaker 3: in the first round.
Speaker 1: And I'm not I don't care what round. I don't
Speaker 1: care what round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but but if you're told so, I'm I was
Speaker 3: assuming that we're talking about number nine.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just talking about what kind of receiver would
Speaker 1: add to the mix.
Speaker 3: You know, you know what is his name, Xavier Leggett.
Speaker 3: There's another receiver who is a profitable receiver. He's really good,
Speaker 3: he's got good size, he's got good speed, He's had
Speaker 3: a great career, and so you have to define exactly
Speaker 3: what you're looking for out of that receiver position. And again,
Speaker 3: I was with the assumption that we are talking about
Speaker 3: number nine, and if you were going to add a receiver,
Speaker 3: what was going to compliment this this group the most
Speaker 3: and to me, it's always that guy that you know
Speaker 3: a few years ago. The fastest forty in the history
Speaker 3: of the combine is John Ross. Yeah, this is his
Speaker 3: last name.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And he he had no catches his rookie year. He
Speaker 3: really didn't have a very good NFL career. But if
Speaker 3: you look at worthy and you look at the amount
Speaker 3: of games played, the type of program he was playing in,
Speaker 3: he's the type of guy that if you're looking for
Speaker 3: a blazing speed that has catches attached to it, he's
Speaker 3: that type of guy.
Speaker 1: There's so many it's a matter of what flavor you
Speaker 1: ice cream you like, right, I mean, there's so many
Speaker 1: guys that are intriguing you here because of the impact
Speaker 1: now of spread offenses in high school to the college game,
Speaker 1: the seven on sevens, I mean, there are so many,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Were brought to you by pee
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Speaker 1: with NFL Network analysts Bucky Brooks. Please to be joined
Speaker 1: by one of the veteran analysts out there on the
Speaker 1: NFL landscape from NFL Network, Bucky Brooks, And a reminder
Speaker 1: that NFL Network providing live coverage of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four NFL Draft in Detroit, April twenty fifth through the
Speaker 1: twenty seventh. He is a busy man and kind enough
Speaker 1: to carve out fifteen minutes with us. How you feeling, Bucky,
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining.
Speaker 2: Us, Hey, thanks for having on Gus.
Speaker 1: How you doing doing fantastic? You've been doing this a
Speaker 1: while now, So I'm gonna start out before we get
Speaker 1: a bit into your background. What have you learned about
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four draft class? Because each years, as
Speaker 1: Tom and I dig in as well and get ready
Speaker 1: for our Bears draft, we also look at the bigger
Speaker 1: landscape of the league and everyone seems to be its
Speaker 1: own animal. How are you looking at twenty twenty four?
Speaker 4: Well, twenty twenty four is a bit of the COVID class,
Speaker 4: and so what you have is you still have some
Speaker 4: older guys who were granted the extra year from COVID.
Speaker 4: You have some younger guys who are coming out, so
Speaker 4: you kind of have a mix of players. When you
Speaker 4: talk to people around the league, they will tell you
Speaker 4: that it's a good draft at the top, but it
Speaker 4: kind of falls off a little bit once you get
Speaker 4: into the fourth round, just because the depth and the talent,
Speaker 4: and so what you may see a lot of people
Speaker 4: get out of those picks at the end of the
Speaker 4: draft because they feel like there'll be better picks coming
Speaker 4: down the road in twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 3: You know, Bucky. From the time you start evaluating the
Speaker 3: draft getting closer to this year, and then you see
Speaker 3: a couple of players that jump up with board. You know,
Speaker 3: one guy like Mitchell, the defensive back after Jeft did
Speaker 3: the senior ball, this guy is one of the more
Speaker 3: talked about risers on the board. Is there anybody else
Speaker 3: that stands out in your mind that has become that attractive,
Speaker 3: you know, pre draft.
Speaker 4: Guy, I would say like j Mitchell definitely has kind
Speaker 4: of got the buzz. I think people are coming around
Speaker 4: on Cooper de Gene from Iowa a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I think there's a great appreciation for his game, particularly
Speaker 2: after he had a great Pro day the other day
Speaker 2: we were four.
Speaker 4: You throw in his time, his athleticism, with what he
Speaker 4: was able to show at Iowa, which is a really
Speaker 4: good program when it comes to producing.
Speaker 2: Like everybody on defense, but particularly defensive backs, I.
Speaker 4: Think the buzz is kind of he's kind of caught
Speaker 4: fire of late where he probably could be a top fifteen,
Speaker 4: top twenty pick. And I would say the other guy.
Speaker 4: Medical is always an issue with Peyton Wilson from NCI
Speaker 4: State inside linebacker, who prior to the Combine wasn't really
Speaker 4: in discussion as a first round pick. But after he
Speaker 4: runs four four five and does all the things that
Speaker 4: he's been able to do, people are now considering him
Speaker 4: as a first round and I think that's something that
Speaker 4: many of us didn't expect given his medical situations.
Speaker 1: Yeah's Tom's been on him. You've been on Peyton Wilson, right.
Speaker 3: I'm just a little worried about that because he's so
Speaker 3: fast and I think about the impacts and the collisions
Speaker 3: he has with the injuries had How about this for
Speaker 3: a question, Bucky. So you look at what brock perty
Speaker 3: has been able to do and I don't like the
Speaker 3: term mister irrelevant to me, another draft choice. And then
Speaker 3: you look at the ascension of JJ McCarthy. You know,
Speaker 3: there's more similarities between those two guys in body style
Speaker 3: and four years in a college program, good coaching. And
Speaker 3: then you see what brock Purty has been able to do.
Speaker 3: Do you think that helps JJ McCarthy be more highly
Speaker 3: thought of or is he his own is he as
Speaker 3: his own person?
Speaker 4: I would say the brock Purty example is a good one,
Speaker 4: but I would say the guys that benefit most from
Speaker 4: the brock pretty discussion will be Jade Daniels, who finished
Speaker 4: his career with fifty five starts, Bownicks, who has sixty
Speaker 4: one starts, and Michael Pennix, who is well over forty.
Speaker 2: And the thing that.
Speaker 4: We're seeing the guys who start a ton of games
Speaker 4: at a collegiate level are better prepared to have success
Speaker 4: at the NFL level.
Speaker 2: When it comes to playing quarterback. That's just look.
Speaker 4: It used to be an old thing that Bill Barcels
Speaker 4: used to have the bar Sales rule. The game is different,
Speaker 4: but he used to want guys that were two and
Speaker 4: a half three year starters. He wanted them to have
Speaker 4: thirty starts at least. He wanted them to have twenty
Speaker 4: three wins. He wanted to be college graduates because there
Speaker 4: was a level of maturity or whatever.
Speaker 2: Now the game has.
Speaker 4: Changed where you can't use that hard and fast rule
Speaker 4: like he was using it. But if you kind of
Speaker 4: adapt it and you make it where it's about.
Speaker 2: More experienced, more game reps more maturity. You tend to find.
Speaker 4: Guys who can play because Aid and O'Connell was an
Speaker 4: older guy last year, we had a bunch of starts and.
Speaker 2: It worked out for him. But yeah, brod Perty's.
Speaker 4: An example of the many front officers are using trying
Speaker 4: to figure out how they can find the right quarterback
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, our guest hereon the Bears et Cetera podcast, Bucky,
Speaker 1: it drives me nuts. I cannot stand the reference. And
Speaker 1: we all make it. We all make it as analysts
Speaker 1: here ourselves is played by a play team. We do it.
Speaker 1: We don't like to lose grip on the past. We
Speaker 1: believe football is football right and we say you can't
Speaker 1: do things nowadays. The quarterback position being the most important
Speaker 1: in sports, there should be a ramp up period. There
Speaker 1: should be the experience level. And to throw these guys
Speaker 1: out there, like many are going to do in this
Speaker 1: draft and have done in many it really is a
Speaker 1: disservice to them. And then you throw in the coaching
Speaker 1: and if they have an offensive coordinator who makes them
Speaker 1: makes them sink in year one, they're getting head coaching jobs.
Speaker 1: And I got to learn something all new them again.
Speaker 1: It's this cycle of the quarterback position. Teams are falling
Speaker 1: all over themselves, Bucky trying to spend the money to
Speaker 1: find the right guy, and it's not often successful.
Speaker 4: No, it's not off his because the hardest position to
Speaker 4: build around. I would say, like you guys, as Bears
Speaker 4: fans and followers and supporters will hate this, but having
Speaker 4: spent three years in Green Bay, like having watched how
Speaker 4: the organization would develop quarterbacks in the mid nineties, so
Speaker 4: Brett Fahr was in the middle of his three MVP run.
Speaker 4: Mike Holmgren and Ron Wolf were big believers and always
Speaker 4: bring a quarterback in every two years. They were big
Speaker 4: proponents of you can never have enough that night sixteen
Speaker 4: to won a Super Bowl. Jimming Man was on that team.
Speaker 4: Doug Peterson was on that team as the backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Todd Deptman was there the year before.
Speaker 2: So it was always about developing the quarterback and having
Speaker 2: multiple guys in.
Speaker 4: What has gone away is before it used to be
Speaker 4: you would sit and you sit behind a veteran you
Speaker 4: would learn how to play, and no matter how I
Speaker 4: came in, you weren't getting onto the field for like
Speaker 4: a year or two. We saw that happen with Carson Palmer.
Speaker 4: Carson Palmer sat behind John Kitney and he was the
Speaker 4: number one overall pick. We saw Philip Rivers sit for
Speaker 4: two years behind Drew Brees. He was a fourth overall pick.
Speaker 4: But those guys were Pro Bowl players by their third year.
Speaker 4: So there is something to taking a slow, methodical approach
Speaker 4: to the quarterback position. The issue that you have the
Speaker 4: fan base doesn't typically go forward, and a lot of
Speaker 4: times that noise kind of filters into the building and
Speaker 4: ownership is like, Hey, the fans are clamoring for the
Speaker 4: guy who got to get him on the field, and
Speaker 4: that kind of changes the timeline for everything.
Speaker 1: That brings us to Caleb Williams USC getting to know
Speaker 1: him as you have from watching tape, analyzing and watching
Speaker 1: what have you learned about him? That will translate well,
Speaker 1: assuming the Bears do go with him at the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the presumptive number one. I would say that
Speaker 2: normal a few different.
Speaker 4: Ways, right, norm from who he had been at USC
Speaker 4: and Oklahoma before that.
Speaker 2: Super talented player, talent jumps off the tape.
Speaker 4: I won't go so far as to say that he's
Speaker 4: a generation of talent, But what I will say is
Speaker 4: he's a spectacular playmaker who has a flayer for the dramatic,
Speaker 4: does a really good job of take raising his game
Speaker 4: in big games, and so he handles the pressure of
Speaker 4: kind of being the guy to go from Oklahoma where
Speaker 4: he dazzled and knocked Spencer Ratler out of his position
Speaker 4: in Spencer Radler has been talking about in the Heisman
Speaker 4: Trophy candidate, did him making a way to SC following
Speaker 4: Lincoln Riley and handling all the things that comes along
Speaker 4: with being the star quarterback at SC. You give him
Speaker 4: credit for that, but when you talk to his teammates
Speaker 4: swear by him. They say he's a great teammate, really
Speaker 4: good leader, loves the moment and those things. I was
Speaker 4: friends of a high school defensive coordinator who went against
Speaker 4: him in high school when he was at Gonzaga Prep
Speaker 4: back in the DMV, and he's like, look, man, this
Speaker 4: dude has been the same way since he was in
Speaker 4: high school. So when people talk about like the dad
Speaker 4: or family or any of that stuff, he's handled everything
Speaker 4: with class. He's been terrific when it comes to being
Speaker 4: able to block out the noise, and so that gives
Speaker 4: me hope that he's going to be able to handle
Speaker 4: all the expectations and pressure being the number one quarterback
Speaker 4: in Chicago, because he's stepping into a situation that's different
Speaker 4: than the one that Justin Field stepped into right now.
Speaker 2: I think if you poll people in.
Speaker 4: The city, the expectation we're going to drop Killer Williams
Speaker 4: in and we're going to go to the playoffs and beyond.
Speaker 4: That's a lot for a young quarterback to do in
Speaker 4: this first season, but that's gonna be.
Speaker 2: The expectation when he steps into the field.
Speaker 3: You know, Bucky, I like your top five dark courses,
Speaker 3: and Joe Milton is always I've always been intrigued by
Speaker 3: this guy because he's an incredible looking athlete. So if
Speaker 3: you had an experience of a quarterback like this, to
Speaker 3: go behind Josh Allen, to go with Jim Harball, or
Speaker 3: get into a program like the Chicago Bears where they
Speaker 3: have two guys that start off but they have limited
Speaker 3: expectations for a while of a guy like Joe Milton,
Speaker 3: but you could possibly develop quarterback collateral. What do you
Speaker 3: think about a guy like that.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's ever a bad thing to double
Speaker 4: down and invest in a quarterback position.
Speaker 2: So if you're proposing, like, hey, they take Kelly Williams.
Speaker 4: Number one overall, but then Joe Milton is there, maybe
Speaker 4: in the fifth, sixth, or seventh round, Yeah, you take
Speaker 4: a flyer on them.
Speaker 2: And what you're doing is you're.
Speaker 4: Basically doubling up, kind of like the Washington football team
Speaker 4: did years ago when they took RG three and had
Speaker 4: Kirk Coveins. And if you're in the business of developing quarterback,
Speaker 4: it is the biggest and most valuable trade commodity that
Speaker 4: you can have if it works.
Speaker 2: Joe Milton is intriguing because of the size, because of
Speaker 2: the arm talent. Look. He played at Michigan on the Harbor.
Speaker 2: I didn't get on the field much, but.
Speaker 4: He has that in his bag, and then he had
Speaker 4: success playing when he had an opportunity at Tennessee. Is
Speaker 4: not perfect, it's not always pretty, but just in terms
Speaker 4: of the raw material that he brings, he's certainly worth
Speaker 4: kicking the tires on a scene if you can develop.
Speaker 1: When I was getting ready to do the Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: for Serious XM, a guy walked out on the field
Speaker 1: with no uniform and I'm like, I'm not quite sure
Speaker 1: who that is, but man, that's a man right there.
Speaker 1: And then he started flinging the ball eighty yards just
Speaker 1: warming up. So just crazy, all right, final moments. So
Speaker 1: the number nine pick is also like in a normal year,
Speaker 1: we're all excited about top ten pick, right, we got
Speaker 1: the number one overall, we got number nine assuming they
Speaker 1: stay there. What the popular discussion has been, Bucky here
Speaker 1: is okay, what are the needs for the Bears right now? Well,
Speaker 1: edge is one of them, certainly, another edge to pair
Speaker 1: with Montese sweat the discussion at wide receivers certainly because
Speaker 1: of the talent in that top ten presumably, and then
Speaker 1: also offensive line because you can never have enough what
Speaker 1: fits for you based on what you've learned in two
Speaker 1: prior drafts from Ryan Poles and what he's done after
Speaker 1: stripping it to the bear wood and building this thing
Speaker 1: up to now set the stage with a franchise quarterback
Speaker 1: coming in as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so there's so many different philosophies that Ryan Poles
Speaker 4: could take and subscribe to in terms of building this
Speaker 4: team up. Some would say, like Bill, strength on strength,
Speaker 4: which is the quickest way that you can make one
Speaker 4: side of the ball great.
Speaker 2: So you talk about the.
Speaker 4: Investment that they have on the offense, Ken Allen teaming
Speaker 4: up with DJ Moore, you have Cole Comet, you have
Speaker 4: Jero Everett coming.
Speaker 2: In, you went DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 4: If you just think about, man, if we had a
Speaker 4: guy like a Roma done Day and we put him in,
Speaker 4: we got three legitimate wide receivers that can play, Three
Speaker 4: big wide receivers that can I always say handle the
Speaker 4: elements in terms of being able to catch the ball
Speaker 4: and deal with the cold weather into Windy City in
Speaker 4: Chicago in December.
Speaker 2: To me, that would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: Look, I would also like for them like Matt Eveflus
Speaker 4: did a really good job when he took over his decoordinator.
Speaker 4: Mantest Wet was better than many anticipates when he got
Speaker 4: traded for.
Speaker 2: They need a complimentary rusher. But it comes down to waighing.
Speaker 4: How do you create the receiver that is there versus
Speaker 4: the pass rusus there. I would say if it's one
Speaker 4: of the big three, those guys probably get the nod
Speaker 4: with a.
Speaker 2: Significant margin over the top pass rusher.
Speaker 4: That could be there, which would be Dallas Turner or
Speaker 4: Layout to Latua Jair Verse.
Speaker 3: Well, Bucky and I'd like to get more into talking
Speaker 3: about a guy like Austin Booker that you highlighted. However,
Speaker 3: I'd like to get your feelings about Devin Hester because
Speaker 3: when I look at your background, you have a similar
Speaker 3: position resume of Devon and now you think of him
Speaker 3: going into the Hall of Fame. What are your thoughts
Speaker 3: on a guy like Devin going into the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame and what he's been able to accomplish.
Speaker 4: One is great and I worried about him getting in
Speaker 4: because I was like, man, he might be the last
Speaker 4: of the great kick returners that we talk about having
Speaker 4: gold jacket consideration. I will say that I remember I
Speaker 4: just started scouting when Devin Hester was coming out in
Speaker 4: the big conversation and what position would we play? Like,
Speaker 4: what would be the position that he plays outside of
Speaker 4: being the return that will it be a wide receiver, will.
Speaker 2: Be a BB in those things?
Speaker 4: And I think what Devin Hester would go down as
Speaker 4: he was an ultimate I would say momentum changer. His
Speaker 4: his kick and punk returns they were I mean, look
Speaker 4: they were musty TV.
Speaker 2: And the amount of times.
Speaker 4: That he was able to flip the field and change
Speaker 4: the tenor and the temple of the game with a
Speaker 4: big return.
Speaker 2: I think they appreciate that. Part of why I think
Speaker 2: you saw the change and.
Speaker 4: The kickoff rules of the kickoff return rules this year,
Speaker 4: is they want some of that energy and that electricity back.
Speaker 4: That play was significant for so long and it become
Speaker 4: kind of a ceremonious, you know, like play.
Speaker 2: But now it's back.
Speaker 4: And so I think Devin Hester has a lot to
Speaker 4: do with how we team builders, people in the media
Speaker 4: at our and rage, how we view the position because
Speaker 4: he was nothing sure to spectacle with the ball in
Speaker 4: the sands of the kick return.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was ridiculous, Bucky, ridiculous. And you know,
Speaker 1: shortly after that new rule change and Tom and I
Speaker 1: were pounding, man, we're all season long. We would just
Speaker 1: get annoyed at the you know, the touchbacks, the indifference
Speaker 1: in returning, and now special teams is back. It's back
Speaker 1: and hopefully better than ever in twenty twenty four. Bucky,
Speaker 1: appreciate it so much. Thank you do a great job. Also,
Speaker 1: we love you with our buddy Daniel Jeremiah, as you
Speaker 1: guys break down college talent all season long and certainly
Speaker 1: on the podcast Move the Sticks. With the NFL season
Speaker 1: so keep up the great work. Appreciate you, Bucky.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bucky. Appreciate Its awesome.
Speaker 1: So, hey, Bucky does a heck of a job. All
Speaker 1: those guys at NFL Network, Charles Davis, Daniel Jeremiah, and
Speaker 1: they really break things down in a really understandable way.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got different opinions. I've been what I've been doing
Speaker 1: with all these position profiles. I've been putting like the
Speaker 1: Kuiper grade. You know what position number do they have
Speaker 1: them at? Overall? So I have like seven different guys
Speaker 1: just to get an idea of And you know, guys
Speaker 1: aren't too far off the beaten track from one another,
Speaker 1: certainly with the first round, but as you move into
Speaker 1: the deeper part of it, it definitely changes. But just
Speaker 1: some really good stuff there from Bucky Brooks. But here's
Speaker 1: what I love, because you're a thinking man, Tom, You're
Speaker 1: a thinking You're always thinking. You got a lot of
Speaker 1: time to think. You threw in Joe Milton. Yes, when
Speaker 1: I mentioned in that interview, as you just heard that
Speaker 1: I saw him walking out of the practice field. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if he was a defensive player or
Speaker 1: if he was a tight end. I didn't know, and
Speaker 1: it was Joe Milton. And that's a football player. That's
Speaker 1: a football player, and I've seen where teams will likely
Speaker 1: gonna give him maybe a chance to play tight end.
Speaker 1: But I love that your thought process was, Hey, if
Speaker 1: you got a heck of a coaching staff, and you
Speaker 1: got guys that you believe are teachers, you can make
Speaker 1: this guy possibly into something. What a project that would
Speaker 1: be based on his old overall traits and talent and
Speaker 1: arm strength. Now that's not all that you need. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Remember Rohan Davey could throw the ball eighty yards too
Speaker 1: from LSU and did not amount to much of a
Speaker 1: quarterback in the National Football League. The one thing, though,
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at what his completion percentages
Speaker 1: throughout his life have been, and in high school not
Speaker 1: once did he had fifty percent completion percentage, So that
Speaker 1: inaccuracy is really a challenge.
Speaker 3: For him right Well. The only reason that I was,
Speaker 3: you know, I've seen Joe Milton play, I've seen his
Speaker 3: arm strength, I've seen you know, his body's size and shape.
Speaker 3: And if he did come aboard the Bears either in
Speaker 3: a free agent or a late round draft choice, and
Speaker 3: he's not going to interfere with the development of Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3: And so if you brought in a young guy like
Speaker 3: that and then you took this talent and you started
Speaker 3: to develop them him in a quarterback capacity, you're gaining
Speaker 3: you're gaining value with him. And now you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's not urgency to get him ready to play by
Speaker 3: week three. No, it may be getting getting ready him,
Speaker 3: getting him ready to play quarterback in year three, but
Speaker 3: it is. You know, you've had an eyewitness account and
Speaker 3: it's hard to deny that when this guy comes out
Speaker 3: of the locker room, he's spent time in the weight room.
Speaker 3: He's an incredible athlete. You know, he's he's really strong's
Speaker 3: he played in the big Time SEC program. So you know,
Speaker 3: it's just kind of thinking outside the collateral box.
Speaker 1: The moment he gets in the league, he's got the
Speaker 1: strongest arm in football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not no doubt.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's debatable. I mean, that's how that's
Speaker 1: how crazy that is. Hey, when it's time to tackle
Speaker 1: some game day deals, then go with the grocery. He's
Speaker 1: been a part of the Chicago area since eighteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Jewel Osco the official grocery store of the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: All right, Larry Mayer, doing great job with Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame previews of Devin Aster and Steve McMichael. Julius Pepper's
Speaker 1: coming up in August. But you had the occasion to
Speaker 1: be an ALS fundraiser over the weekend. Our good friend
Speaker 1: Dan Pompeii called me this morning, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: said he has a new partner, and I wasn't picking
Speaker 1: up what he was laying down. And here it's Tom
Speaker 1: Thare and you had some really nice things to say
Speaker 1: about about Steve. As he continues, man, I just hope
Speaker 1: the Good Lord gets him to Canton in one piece
Speaker 1: and enjoy that moment. That's you know, that's all you
Speaker 1: can ask for at this point.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a super supportive crowd to the ALS
Speaker 3: community of four hundred people strong, doctors and people that
Speaker 3: are afflicted with it and just the supporters. So I
Speaker 3: think a lot of people that sat in that room
Speaker 3: really don't know Steve McMichael. So I gave him the
Speaker 3: perception of Steve McMichael and the reality of Steve McMichael,
Speaker 3: because at one time one Ming and I were talking
Speaker 3: and he says, Hey, tom Me, I won't to tell
Speaker 3: you something. You ever get the chance to talk to
Speaker 3: people about Mango, I want you to tell them the truth.
Speaker 3: I want you to tell them the what kind of
Speaker 3: guy I was, what kind of teammate I was, and
Speaker 3: how tough I am, And that is all Steve. But
Speaker 3: the perception of Steve is is he's one of the
Speaker 3: most intelligent, congenial, supportive teammates that you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 3: He was a mentor of mine. He helped me be
Speaker 3: a better offensive lineman because he was such a great
Speaker 3: defensive lineman. He was super supportive in the weight room
Speaker 3: and around the locker room. So when you talk about
Speaker 3: the Mango, the ming, the merciless, you.
Speaker 1: Know, all the you know these characters.
Speaker 3: First the nicknames of Steve McMichael. He was, but he
Speaker 3: was also one of the greatest men in the history
Speaker 3: of the Bears.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and the greatest. The greatest name attachment
Speaker 1: to him that you could possibly have for you is friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah he was, Oh, you know, but I had so
Speaker 3: much respect for me because he is older than me,
Speaker 3: and he mentored me to be a better offensive lineman
Speaker 3: through his skills as a defensive Lineman. There's times at
Speaker 3: practice I would get out there early said hey, Tommy,
Speaker 3: come here, I've been noticing this about you in your stance,
Speaker 3: and I want you to try this. And you know,
Speaker 3: he would give you those hints and clues and just
Speaker 3: an incredible he's incredible teammate.
Speaker 1: That's that's part of why you're a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: It's called intangibles. You know, when you look at Hall
Speaker 1: of famers, it's not just skill, it's not just their athleticism,
Speaker 1: it's not their traits. It's the intangibles that get them there.
Speaker 1: It is. It's this overwhelming desire to be great, this
Speaker 1: overwhelming desire to be a good teammate, the insatiable appetite
Speaker 1: to win and to you know, basically, you know, basically
Speaker 1: kind of live almost on the edge of fear, you know,
Speaker 1: on that that straddling that fence of living with fear
Speaker 1: of failure.
Speaker 3: That's that's life.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: That's why two hundred and twenty games he was so
Speaker 3: incredibly successful. Longevity and dedication.
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Speaker 1: get you get stuff sent to you. I know you do.
Speaker 1: You come up with stuff I don't even see. But
Speaker 1: there's a guy named Warren Sharpy does a lot of
Speaker 1: fantasy football analysis. Very deep guy, very technical, very numerical,
Speaker 1: but he does a strength of schedule forecast every year
Speaker 1: in his own way, however he does it, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting as it pertains to the Bears.
Speaker 1: So last year against playoff teams, and this is probably
Speaker 1: a predictable situation, they were one in six against what
Speaker 1: amounted to playoff teams. A year ago, non playoff teams,
Speaker 1: they were six and four against those teams, teams above
Speaker 1: five hundred, one in seven teams that when they faced him,
Speaker 1: we're below five hundred or in the end of the
Speaker 1: story of the season under five hundred six and three.
Speaker 1: So the Bears beat teams that were in their area code,
Speaker 1: so to speak, and did not do well against the
Speaker 1: really good teams. But now they got a revamp roster
Speaker 1: that's added some more veteran impact, and we'll add a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, we can say, and another top ten pick potentially,
Speaker 1: and another year with Matt Eberfluse a new offensive scheme,
Speaker 1: and they, according to Warren Sharp Web, the third easiest
Speaker 1: schedule in twenty twenty four. Do you care about that?
Speaker 1: Do you put that in the pot and shake it around?
Speaker 1: I mean, things change because every team's trying to get better,
Speaker 1: and there's going to be a handful of teams are
Speaker 1: going to be significantly better than they were a year ago,
Speaker 1: and they weren't considered a playoff team a year ago
Speaker 1: or maybe not even considered one this year. So this
Speaker 1: is somewhat of an exercise in futility because you really
Speaker 1: don't know. But how do you take it?
Speaker 3: Ah, That's kind of why I'm glad I don't have
Speaker 3: social media because you know, listen, one of the most
Speaker 3: too important game, most three most important games you have
Speaker 3: to win twice, and that's Green Bay in Detroit, and
Speaker 3: they were both playoff teams in Minnesota. You don't know
Speaker 3: what's going to happen to those guys this year. So
Speaker 3: you know, if you talk about, oh, yeah, they got
Speaker 3: the easiest schedule, okay, but if you don't beat teams
Speaker 3: within your own division, it doesn't matter what type of
Speaker 3: schedule you think that you have, right, So can you
Speaker 3: beat Detroit twice, which you should have last year, and
Speaker 3: can you beat Green Bay at least once this year?
Speaker 3: So that's where you know, my concern and my interest
Speaker 3: is in the strength of scheduling because and I'm glad.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that Montes Sweat is already told
Speaker 3: put his teammates on notice. Look, man, we got to
Speaker 3: beat the Green Bay Packers or else. So I appreciate
Speaker 3: that so much by Montes, And when I do get
Speaker 3: to talk to them, I'm gonna thank them for this
Speaker 3: because it's something that needed to be said.
Speaker 1: Yes, the forehand, it needs to dominate the locker room. Yes,
Speaker 1: for packer weeks. So the Bears are playing last year's
Speaker 1: playoff teams this year, the Rams, the forty nine ers, Houston,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, and Detroit twice. So that's seven games against
Speaker 1: last year's playoff teams. But I went looked also, they
Speaker 1: got nine games unless I got the math wrong, Nine games,
Speaker 1: Tommy against teams with a starting quarterback with two years
Speaker 1: or lesson starting experience. Do you look at that at
Speaker 1: all as anything to hang your hat on. With a
Speaker 1: defense that finished the year extremely strong and has a
Speaker 1: lot of momentum moving into twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: I don't minimalize it down to one position. I look
Speaker 3: at it the overall accomplishment of the football team and
Speaker 3: where they're where they're headed, you know, So I you know,
Speaker 3: it's you know, you can look at you know, the
Speaker 3: Houston Texans with CJ. Stroud. Okay, he's going to be
Speaker 3: in the second year at the quarterback position, but he
Speaker 3: also as a rookie let his team into the playoffs,
Speaker 3: right just Jordan Love is a second year starter and
Speaker 3: he had a season that was a pretty darn good season.
Speaker 3: Jared Goff, I think he's closer to being sacked than
Speaker 3: he is to escaping the pocket and throwing you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of completion. So I don't know, to minimalize
Speaker 3: it down to one position. I think it's unfair for
Speaker 3: the rest of the guys on the team.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about Carolina. We'll face them with Bryce Young,
Speaker 1: will face a Washington team with a new quarterback, presumably
Speaker 1: we'll pick in the top three and stay right there.
Speaker 1: And New England also we'll have a new quarterback, a
Speaker 1: young quarterback.
Speaker 3: Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Minnesota, we'll have a young quarterback and maybe it'll be
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy who knows all right. Lastly, talk about KEELEB. Williams,
Speaker 1: Dan Briggler, who does a great job for the athletic
Speaker 1: and his Beast Report. I think it's eight hundred pages long.
Speaker 1: I threw this nugget at you the other day, a
Speaker 1: very impressive stat about Caleb Williams one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine pass attempts on third and fourth down, did not
Speaker 1: throw an interception. That's significantly. That is significant.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, every offensive coordinator, every office, quarterback, coach, everybody
Speaker 3: talks about protecting the football, and I mean, that's the
Speaker 3: ultimate protecting the football, my gosh. And to have that
Speaker 3: type of knowledge and discipline and everything that goes along
Speaker 3: with protecting the football on third and fourth down, my gosh,
Speaker 3: that's one of the most impressive stats that I've heard
Speaker 3: from a college quarterback in a long long time.
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Speaker 1: us up today, Tommy. Nice job out again, Buddy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, looking forward to it, looking forward to listen.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward towards a draft because we've talked about
Speaker 3: it with such frequency and such role of importance that
Speaker 3: it's going to have in the future of the Bears.
Speaker 3: I look forward to when that number one pick is
Speaker 3: given to Roger Goodell. Then they get down to the
Speaker 3: rest of the draft and see where Ryan Poles and
Speaker 3: his staff, you know, kind of figures out the route
Speaker 3: they're going to take.
Speaker 1: Yep, and get down to business. Next week we'll have
Speaker 1: our podcast with some comments about Ryan Poles and the
Speaker 1: tune up before the draft. Every NFLGM has to speak
Speaker 1: on it before the draft, so it'll give us a
Speaker 1: little nugget or two. I'm sure I've got the annual
Speaker 1: award at Hallis Hall that leads up to the draft,
Speaker 1: that is truly a Bears tradition. That's a Brian Piccolow awards.
Speaker 1: A veteran and a rookie from last year will get
Speaker 1: those honors. And so that's the cycle. Like Mattyberflus always
Speaker 1: talks about the cycle of the snaptom, this is the
Speaker 1: cycle of the season. Like you get into this rhythm
Speaker 1: of what to expect different mileposts and then leading into
Speaker 1: May when you've got mini camps in the start of OTA.
Speaker 1: So very excited about it all for time and also
Speaker 1: thanks to Bucky Brooks from NFL Network. Thanks for listening.
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