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Speaker 1: score good snowy evening to you. As February winds down
Speaker 1: a little more than halfway through here and March around
Speaker 1: the corner and the start of the scott In com Buy,
Speaker 1: a lot of good things will start moving from coaching
Speaker 1: staffs and management building to building the roster for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. I'm Jeff Jona Yak. It's brought to you
Speaker 1: by IGFs Energy, by partner Tom there from News Radio
Speaker 1: one h five nine w WBM our producer Tonight Adams Toadzinski,
Speaker 1: Thanks as well, Dan Brilly and Jordan Up. Good evening, Tom.
Speaker 1: I know on the South suburbs probably have a little
Speaker 1: more snow than we do over here on the Western
Speaker 1: suburbs is true. Yeah, shoveling already, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: keep a clear path for the mailman. That's always a
Speaker 1: concern of mine. But you know, get things cleaned around here,
Speaker 1: and then you know the continuous thought process of football,
Speaker 1: because I think the Bears are a unique position. They
Speaker 1: hire a new staff, a new general manager, they have
Speaker 1: a limited amount of draft choices. You have to look
Speaker 1: at tape, the new coaches and really identify where the
Speaker 1: vulnerabilities lie and where can you patch those vulnerabilities within
Speaker 1: the scouting combine and the draft that's coming up. So
Speaker 1: usually you think, oh wow, I got so many draft choices.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about trades, I'm thinking about moving up and down.
Speaker 1: I think it's just right now identifying players that are
Speaker 1: gonna be a part of the foundation of the Eberfluce
Speaker 1: years in Chicago, and coming up on tonight's show in
Speaker 1: our next segment, our weekly guest Jim Miller from a
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears quarterback from Serious XEL Radio. And then at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, defensive coordinator Alan Williams, who
Speaker 1: joined the program as well, so it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: talk to him. A guy that is part of a
Speaker 1: system that you know from the Tony Dungees and the
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins and the Lovey Smith's and the Monte Kiffins
Speaker 1: and Matt Eberflus, Rod Marinelli, all those guys in Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay that have spread their wings into other positions. And
Speaker 1: the whole thing time we'll get into it. Their whole
Speaker 1: identity defensively is about effort, effort and getting to the
Speaker 1: ball and creating turnovers. And you can get all fancy
Speaker 1: with all of your pass rushes and up, but effort wins.
Speaker 1: Effort wins, and these this group of people believe it right.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm interested to see, Jeff, how
Speaker 1: is that message carried over to the offensive players? Because
Speaker 1: you talk about Matt Eberflus and the defensive staff having
Speaker 1: this mantra of hitting, hustle and everything on that side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Now, how is that message going to
Speaker 1: transcend to both really all three sides of the room, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: and special teams. And then when you start looking at
Speaker 1: once training camp begins and you maybe see a change
Speaker 1: of a player of a position, and some of it
Speaker 1: is hustle related. Every single time that there is a
Speaker 1: decision made because of a lack of a hustle or
Speaker 1: an unbelievable effort given on every single snap. We're gonna
Speaker 1: learn a little bit about the coaching staff and how
Speaker 1: that message is carrying through. So I'm excited to talk
Speaker 1: to Alan Williams. Everything I've heard him say every time
Speaker 1: I see him on video, looking at some of his
Speaker 1: background interviews. He's a really interested guy, has a serious background,
Speaker 1: and he's been around a lot of great coaches. But
Speaker 1: I'm also interested in seeing do you take the system
Speaker 1: and you need the pieces to be fit in place,
Speaker 1: or can you take some of the pieces you have
Speaker 1: and fit them into the places and the development of
Speaker 1: this defense. So there's a lot of interesting things that
Speaker 1: are gonna we're gonna pay attention to through the draft
Speaker 1: OTAs leading up to training camp and then ultimately the
Speaker 1: preseason and regular season. Right I'm certain that getting into
Speaker 1: personnel specific personnel tonight won't be something we don't do
Speaker 1: at all. However, we always can speculate about what fits
Speaker 1: and what doesn't, and I'll be interested to see and ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, you got some guys circled that you know
Speaker 1: will be here, and those guys are impactful players, and
Speaker 1: what that means overall, because you know you'd like and
Speaker 1: they talk about it down the middle at the defensive
Speaker 1: tackle position, the three technique nose tackle, inside linebacker, the
Speaker 1: middle linebacker, and what happens at safety our paramount. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure Williams will will touch on that tonight and
Speaker 1: they feel that's a strength. Matt Eberflew says, that's the
Speaker 1: strength of a defense is down the middle. Right. I
Speaker 1: understand that too. But just think, if you don't have
Speaker 1: the specific type of player that you need the first
Speaker 1: year in your system, can you take the Khalil mac
Speaker 1: the Robert Quinn, the Roe Kuan Smith. You know, hopefully
Speaker 1: the Eddie Jackson turns things around. You got the Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson and then you got Chiras Tonga with the pieces
Speaker 1: in place, If you don't have the perfect template of
Speaker 1: Tampa cover two four man front defense, can you build
Speaker 1: a system around the assets that you have a valuable
Speaker 1: to you right now? Well, you always want scheme versatile
Speaker 1: players in this league right now, in this league for sure,
Speaker 1: given the salary cap and all the dedication to a
Speaker 1: lot of offensive players and what that means at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, receiver, tackle position, and even in some cases, Tom,
Speaker 1: your old position at guard, they make some dough. Now
Speaker 1: they make on a big dough. That's gotta make you
Speaker 1: gotta make that position a priority. That's the way you know.
Speaker 1: You gotta go out there and look for a fair
Speaker 1: and aboards a couple of bald offensive guards. Exactly ballers,
Speaker 1: bald ballers. All right. Coming up next, we got a
Speaker 1: former quarterback joining the program is always Jim Miller. It's
Speaker 1: on up next here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score and welcome back to Bears All Access brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy Chiefs Clean Energy for your
Speaker 1: home at IGS dot com. Because every good choice adds
Speaker 1: up to a better world. Jeff Johnny Yak Tom Fair
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, our guest new Bears defensive coordinator Alan Williams,
Speaker 1: and our weekly guest, former Bears quarterback Jim Meller from
Speaker 1: sirius XM NFL Radio is moving the chains with Pat
Speaker 1: Kurwen now joining the program. Jim, what's making news today?
Speaker 1: Buddy Well, Rod Marinelli. It's funny that we're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking to Alan Williams because Rod Miranelli retired today. So
Speaker 1: forty nine years in coaching, not all in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but he started what was it back in nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: three coach and Rosemead High School, but forty nine years
Speaker 1: in coaching. And they first connected back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and one on that Tampa Bay Buccaneers staff. So salute
Speaker 1: to Rod. Spent some time there in Chicago. We had
Speaker 1: him on the show today, and what a great coach. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I really this. I don't think coaches don't
Speaker 1: lose their their shelf life. Everybody thinks that they don't.
Speaker 1: Rod's look at how well that uh Raiders a defensive
Speaker 1: line played a year ago in the adversity they were
Speaker 1: dealing with with you know, Ronni Andakway and Max Crosby.
Speaker 1: They played terrific And Rod now was going to ride
Speaker 1: off into sunset and spend some time with friends and
Speaker 1: loved ones as he should. What a terrific coach, Well
Speaker 1: he certainly earned it, Tommy, What a great crew. We
Speaker 1: enjoyed him up at hallis all because he was he
Speaker 1: was all about ball. So if you love ball and
Speaker 1: you want to talk axes and know as you want
Speaker 1: to call talk about how to you know, his his
Speaker 1: rushman off the line of scrimmage takeoff was important to him.
Speaker 1: And the footwork had to be reinstituted every couple days,
Speaker 1: just pounding the same things so it becomes muscle memory. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, he was respect He was respected front and back,
Speaker 1: you know, from the defensive lineman to the defensive backs,
Speaker 1: to the offensive lineman and beyond. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why Rod rod Marinelli had long sustain a coaching career
Speaker 1: is because he treated everyone equally. Whether you are a
Speaker 1: star on the team or you are a guy that
Speaker 1: was struggling to make the team. He yelled at you
Speaker 1: the same, He treated you the same, he expected the
Speaker 1: same effort out of you. And I like the way
Speaker 1: that Rod Marinelli sometimes would carry the conversation over to
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, not doing specific coaching, but talking to
Speaker 1: them about something maybe he's recognized in or out of
Speaker 1: their stance, something about their hand placement and how it
Speaker 1: affects defensive lineman, the footwork that's attached to offensive line play.
Speaker 1: And Rod Marinelli, when you have that many years of experience,
Speaker 1: I think you gain the respect of every position out there.
Speaker 1: And you could probably go to any coaching staff and
Speaker 1: coach any position, but he was where he belonged, coaching
Speaker 1: guys that come out of his stance, that get the
Speaker 1: grunt work done, and you know, there's a lot expected,
Speaker 1: a lot on their shoulders for the overall success of
Speaker 1: the team. Jim, did you touch on Mattieberflus with him,
Speaker 1: because he's a he's a big, big fan of Mattieberflus. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: we didn't touch on. It was just more about Rod
Speaker 1: and all the great experiences that he had in the
Speaker 1: National Football League and the reasons why he was stepping away,
Speaker 1: and you know he was he was grateful, you know,
Speaker 1: and he'd be really like like Tom said, he I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty telling from his standpoint, he said,
Speaker 1: I always felt that you had to build the man
Speaker 1: first and then you build the player, you know, because
Speaker 1: he just wanted accountable young men that he knew that
Speaker 1: he could coach, and we're going to respond to his
Speaker 1: coaching because he was a he was an excellent teacher.
Speaker 1: And I think if you can teach, all players want
Speaker 1: to get better. If you make them better as as
Speaker 1: a player, that's all players care about from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: and I think that's where that separates great coaches like
Speaker 1: rod He was a great teacher and guys were always
Speaker 1: willing to receive that teaching all right. In the division today,
Speaker 1: the role out of Kevin O'Connell is the new head
Speaker 1: coach of the Minnesota Vikings, with Quassiadafo also involved as
Speaker 1: general manager, leaving the La Rams his offensive coordinator. I
Speaker 1: know Chris Rump, the former Bears defensive line coach, goes
Speaker 1: over there, and so does ed Donatel. Tom ed Donatell
Speaker 1: with the Bears here with Vic Fangio is now the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator up in Minnesota, knows the division. He's now
Speaker 1: worked for the Packers, the Bearers, and now the Vikings,
Speaker 1: and so that's that's big news, as is a word
Speaker 1: from Green Bay that Tom Clements, the former Notre Damer
Speaker 1: back his quarterback coach. So that signals a few things
Speaker 1: I think regarding the Packers and Aaron Rodgers. Well, you
Speaker 1: know the thing of about right now, two teams within
Speaker 1: the division are going to change their defensive styles. Where
Speaker 1: Minnesota has spend the years with Mike Zimmer playing out
Speaker 1: of a four man front, and now ed Donatel I
Speaker 1: assume is going to go back to his traditional three
Speaker 1: four front that he's coached alongside Vic Fangio for a
Speaker 1: number of years in Atlanta and stuff. And then when
Speaker 1: you look at the Bears, they're changing their defensive front
Speaker 1: a three four style obviously to a four man Matt
Speaker 1: Eberflus defense. So it's gonna be interesting because there, I
Speaker 1: think you're going to expect more out of Detroit. Minnesota
Speaker 1: will be a completely different team. Will they have that
Speaker 1: la explosiveness that the Rams displayed this year? Because when
Speaker 1: you look at Cooper Cup and you'll look at Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: you look at Adam Feeling, you look at some of
Speaker 1: the other weapons they have, you look at Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an interesting offensive display over there. They
Speaker 1: got to decide what they're going to do at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. I think they might be mandatory that they
Speaker 1: stay with Kirk Cousins. So this division is gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot different. And the one thing that scares me
Speaker 1: about Green Bay Hi and Tom Clements that was always
Speaker 1: one of Aaron Rodgers' favorite coaches, do they have some underground,
Speaker 1: underground agreement, Look, you go and you coach the you
Speaker 1: go and hire the coach that I enjoy being around
Speaker 1: and then I'll consider staying here. But if you don't
Speaker 1: put me in an atmosphere that I don't enjoy, then
Speaker 1: you gotta send me on my way. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: That's it's really just an olive branch to Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: to hang around green Bay and they'll probably you know,
Speaker 1: I think Green Bay's gonna have to pay him. They're
Speaker 1: probably gonna have to add a couple of years to
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers contract for him to stick around. I would
Speaker 1: think from that team point, he's under contract. I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't have to trade him. But you do know
Speaker 1: that San Francisco they were the first team that called
Speaker 1: to try and work that trade. Obviously Nathaniel Hackett and
Speaker 1: Denver are probably going to make that call, but this
Speaker 1: is the first olive branch towards Aaron. As for Kevin O'Connell,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think there's very minimal changes they're
Speaker 1: gonna do on the offense. They only have literally two
Speaker 1: starters that won't be under contract, so it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the same. He's hired to work with Kirk Cousins. All
Speaker 1: those rumors of trades being available last week, I don't
Speaker 1: think Kirk Cousins is going anywhere. Kevin O'Connell will work
Speaker 1: with him, justin Jefferson and the young talented running back
Speaker 1: and will bring over the system which is similar already
Speaker 1: to what they do with the La Rams. It's defensively
Speaker 1: where they're going to have big changes. And Tom brought
Speaker 1: up what Ed Donna tell is going to do. He's
Speaker 1: terrific with the secondary, but that is going to be
Speaker 1: completely rebuilt. They literally have eight to nine guys that
Speaker 1: are free agents, and they are gonna look totally different
Speaker 1: defensively from Minnesota. Jim Miller, Tom there, I'm Jeff Joni
Speaker 1: here in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome
Speaker 1: into another edition of Bears All Access coming up at
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, joined by defensive coordinator Alan Williams. So, Jim,
Speaker 1: the Bears rapidly put together that coaching staff. It took
Speaker 1: a you know, a little more than about two weeks,
Speaker 1: but they clearly had their site set on guys to
Speaker 1: make it happen this quick. So a bunch of names
Speaker 1: that have been around in the NFL. They cast a
Speaker 1: very i call it a mosaic of coaches from different
Speaker 1: backgrounds in the NFL. But just beyond the coordinators. Touching
Speaker 1: on Dave Borgonzi, the linebackers coach here on defense, Andre
Speaker 1: Curtis the safety's coach. On the defensive line, they go
Speaker 1: with Travis Smith and his assistant is Justin Hines. You've
Speaker 1: got Karlos Polk, an assistant special team's coach, has been
Speaker 1: a linebackers coach in this league, I believe as well.
Speaker 1: One hold over ron Al Williams on the defensive quality
Speaker 1: control side and defensive back coach James Rowe. So overall,
Speaker 1: how does that fit for you in terms of your
Speaker 1: view of things for the defense. Yeah, I think you know, Eberflus,
Speaker 1: I still think it is going to have a heavy
Speaker 1: hand on the defense, although Allen Williams knows it. I
Speaker 1: mean he's been in that same system for a long time.
Speaker 1: He is more than capable to take it over. What
Speaker 1: if Eberflus wants to do more delegating And we talked
Speaker 1: last week to Luke Getsy, I think we understand the
Speaker 1: style of offense that is coming over. It will be
Speaker 1: more play action based and it will be more outside
Speaker 1: zone run based. I think we need just look at
Speaker 1: you know, let's been kind of the hot offense or
Speaker 1: on the NFL. And it's whether you call it the
Speaker 1: Shanahan coaching tree, and I mean Kyle Shanahan, not Mike Shanahan,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, because they all seem to stem from that system.
Speaker 1: And obviously when you look at Lafleur and where gets
Speaker 1: he comes from, that system's coming to Chicago. But it
Speaker 1: will have an emphasis I think what Justin Fields is
Speaker 1: able to do with his movement skills. There will be
Speaker 1: more bootlegs called, there will be more movement plays called.
Speaker 1: I think there'll be a lot of you know, can
Speaker 1: have quarterback draws called to take advantage of his legs
Speaker 1: until he gets caught up to speed in the passing attack.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's going to be more play
Speaker 1: action base and that's really what has been It's been
Speaker 1: about marrying the run in the past. That's what that
Speaker 1: offense has been able. But it is based on a
Speaker 1: ground game to start, and I think that should be
Speaker 1: just music to every Bears fans ears that has been
Speaker 1: screaming for that for quite some time. You know, one
Speaker 1: thing about this though, you really have to think of
Speaker 1: when they want and they drafted Kittle in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they ever expected him to be
Speaker 1: the dominant tight end that he is in this league,
Speaker 1: considered one of the best tight ends in the league.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about all that edge outside zone running, Jim,
Speaker 1: you gotta have that tight end position who's explosive, dominating,
Speaker 1: can handle one on one blocks, is great in helping
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage and going to that second level.
Speaker 1: And so I immediately going I think the Cole commit
Speaker 1: and I know Cole went to the tight end camp
Speaker 1: last year that they had organized by Kittle, But if
Speaker 1: you're going to run that style of offense, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a dominant outside edge, then you better get
Speaker 1: the guys that the offensive lineman that can either get
Speaker 1: to the edge or a tight end that can create
Speaker 1: an edge by the point of contact. Yeah, well look
Speaker 1: at even for the Rams. Unfortunately he was unable to
Speaker 1: play in the Super Bowl. But Tyler Higbee is developed
Speaker 1: into a really good tight end. I mean he had
Speaker 1: to even sixty one receptions head into Super Bowl week,
Speaker 1: which he wasn't able to play due to the injury
Speaker 1: to the MCL and I think he can say the
Speaker 1: same thing about Robert Tonyan. He's developed into a pretty
Speaker 1: good tight end. Unfortunately he went down for Green Bay,
Speaker 1: but it is a big part of it, all those
Speaker 1: bootlegs and the over routes, and you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to run, and I think it's right up Cole
Speaker 1: cometz Alley. I think that's really where his strengths are
Speaker 1: as a player. He can be a good in line blocker,
Speaker 1: he can get even better at it, but I think
Speaker 1: those underneath stuff. I don't expect him to go vertical
Speaker 1: and have to run after the catch Kittle does. But
Speaker 1: I think he's got big play capability on the bootleg
Speaker 1: game and things he can do between the hash marks. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and his new tight ends coach is Jim Drea, former
Speaker 1: NFL tight end for many years. Also Andrew Juannako the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach. Offensive line Tommy Chris Morgan is the offensive
Speaker 1: line coach and assistant tight ends coach. Tim Zet's David
Speaker 1: Walker the running back coach. Ty Tolbert passing game coordinator
Speaker 1: and wide receivers coach and assistant offensive line coach is
Speaker 1: Austin King. So that's the Bears coaching staff for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. So familiar names we've seen from different parts
Speaker 1: of the nat Football League. Tight Toberd in particular has
Speaker 1: been an outstanding receivers coach during his time as well.
Speaker 1: We're gonna step away, take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll have some Super Bowl leftovers and take a look at,
Speaker 1: you know, the big conversation about, Okay, Cincinnati and the
Speaker 1: Rams make it to the Super Bowl, how you get there,
Speaker 1: how you win it? What can the Bears do to
Speaker 1: get on that path? Who discussed with Jim Miller and
Speaker 1: Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy the Score. This segment of Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy The Score coming up in moments. Alan Williams, the
Speaker 1: Bears new defensive coordinator, joins the program. A new position
Speaker 1: created at the Bears, Tom and Jim this week by
Speaker 1: genlemanager Ryan Poles. It's the Clyde Emrick Director of High
Speaker 1: Performance in honor of the legendary Clyde Emrick, the longtime
Speaker 1: Strengthen strength coach who passed away back in November here
Speaker 1: and we all loved him. So I was good to
Speaker 1: see that. And the hiring of Brent Salazar, so he'll
Speaker 1: be the team's strength and conditioning and work with the
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning sports science department and work with the
Speaker 1: athletic training staff as well. So the stated goal Tom
Speaker 1: and Jim maximizing player health, safety and performance. So a
Speaker 1: performance director kind of to work with all those departments.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Well, I wish I would
Speaker 1: have put the word strength in there, because I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that the Bears need to
Speaker 1: get better at without ever their feet touching a grass field.
Speaker 1: Is getting stronger in the locker room or getting stronger
Speaker 1: in the weight room. That helps you perform your job better.
Speaker 1: So I hope Brent goes and studies a little bit
Speaker 1: about Clyde Emrick because the weight room is named after Clyde.
Speaker 1: Now this position is named after Clyde, and you have
Speaker 1: to learn the foundation of Clyde Emrick to understood understand
Speaker 1: how important his role was in the success of the
Speaker 1: franchise over its history and how he would like to
Speaker 1: see that go down the road. But I think it's
Speaker 1: got to be strength as much as anything. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not a newbie. He's been around now. So this
Speaker 1: guy was with the Chiefs for a long time and
Speaker 1: assistant strength and conditioning coach from two thousand and seven
Speaker 1: to twenty and fifteen, spent some time with the Vikings
Speaker 1: and so you know, it's like anything, there is cutting
Speaker 1: edge stuff that you can do in sports science to
Speaker 1: optimize a player of performance. But I'm with Tom. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you gotta be strong, you
Speaker 1: gotta be agile, you got to be able to you know,
Speaker 1: football is a tough sport. You gotta be up for
Speaker 1: those challenges that are ahead of it, and I think
Speaker 1: Salazar is more than capable to get that done. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also work with the Broncos, so a decade of
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning experience as well for a guy who
Speaker 1: also worked outside of the football realm at a company
Speaker 1: called Kitman Labs as a performance strategist as well. So
Speaker 1: interesting because I think I just read something on the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers have something similar and it's just marrying
Speaker 1: all that together for the health and well being of
Speaker 1: every single player and trying to get the most out
Speaker 1: of the performance wise. I tell you, you know, throughout
Speaker 1: my entire career, I wish this is a coach they
Speaker 1: had on our staff because they didn't worry about diet,
Speaker 1: encouraging diet, or the supplying food or the proper hydration
Speaker 1: stages that you go through during the course of a
Speaker 1: week if you're getting ready to play a hot weather game.
Speaker 1: I'm all for this department because I had such a
Speaker 1: problem with cramping throughout my career that sometimes it hurt
Speaker 1: me in the fourth quarter and I veed numerous times
Speaker 1: after the game. So I think of all the positions
Speaker 1: that have come on board in the last twenty years
Speaker 1: in the NFL, this is probably one of the most important. Jim,
Speaker 1: I would have something like that helped you in your
Speaker 1: career as quarterback, well, I think, like anything, well, because
Speaker 1: I had a lot of surgeries, Rehabilitation, you know, recovery
Speaker 1: I think is a big part of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: think of now they've got those cryo chambers where you know,
Speaker 1: guys like Tom and I you'd go twenty minutes in
Speaker 1: the cold tub, twenty minutes in the hot tub. Now
Speaker 1: you're in that cryo chamber for what two minutes? You know,
Speaker 1: don't stay longer than that, otherwise you know you'll end
Speaker 1: up with Antonio brown feet at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So everything's just a lot, you know, a lot more
Speaker 1: condensed that way. You can. You know, you're only out
Speaker 1: there one practice, so you're exerting yourself, you know, as
Speaker 1: much as you can to get to maximize the reps
Speaker 1: that you do get nowadays, and now you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to to maximize your recovery, your performance, and
Speaker 1: everything is just so much different in how you prepare
Speaker 1: to maximize players to get on the field on game day.
Speaker 1: I really believe that. All Right, we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break when we come back. Alan Williams joins us
Speaker 1: the Bear's new defensive coordinator here with Top Bear and
Speaker 1: Jim Meta. I'm Jeff Jona here with Adam Saidinski, our
Speaker 1: producer here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score.
Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody to Bears All Access here on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score with Tom Fair and
Speaker 1: Jim Miller from sirius X m NFL Radio's Moving the Chains.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Jonik and pleased to be joined by the
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears. We walk them
Speaker 1: in for the first time on this show, Alan Williams. Alan,
Speaker 1: good evening, Hope you're doing well. How's it going, my friend?
Speaker 1: Doing well? I appreciate you asking, yea, especially in a snowstorm, right.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's too bad up where you are,
Speaker 1: but down here it's not so hot. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know it was snowing. We've been in the room grinding
Speaker 1: a little bit, so I that's news to me that
Speaker 1: it's snowing outside. Well, that's the perfect line from a
Speaker 1: from a coach, because the grinding never stops, you know.
Speaker 1: And congratulations again on this opportunity for you to join
Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus. How has it been going. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a transition with a brand new staff. There's some familiarity
Speaker 1: for you with other colts assistants coming over here, and
Speaker 1: maybe people you've become familiar with over the course of
Speaker 1: your time in the National Football League. But how has
Speaker 1: the transition in What do you think of the collection
Speaker 1: of coaches that Matt has put together. I'm really loving it.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get to know the offensive guys, and
Speaker 1: they seem like they are outstanding coaches. I trust Matt,
Speaker 1: I trust his judgment, I trust everything about it. So
Speaker 1: they're and they're grinding as well, and we are in
Speaker 1: the room getting to know each other, starting to install
Speaker 1: the defense, going through the details of what we call things,
Speaker 1: how we call it, coverages, fronts, that whole thing. So
Speaker 1: we're starting to get to know each other and starting
Speaker 1: to jail. Hey, coach Allen, this is Tom. They are
Speaker 1: an ex offensive lineman. Welcome to Chicago. Glad to have you.
Speaker 1: Love your energy so far. Coach. When you're going into
Speaker 1: this new adventure as a defensive coordinator, where do you
Speaker 1: see yourself are you Are you a sideline guy from
Speaker 1: your playing career to the other coaching stops you made,
Speaker 1: but now you're a defensive coordinator. Do you think you'll
Speaker 1: be upstairs or downstairs? I think I'll be downstairs as
Speaker 1: of right now, but I'm going to reserve that to
Speaker 1: change it and do do something different if need be.
Speaker 1: One of the things that as a defensive coordinator, you
Speaker 1: want to get to know. You want to get to
Speaker 1: know the feel of the guys on game day. You
Speaker 1: want to be able to look them in their eyes
Speaker 1: and make adjustments. And that's a little bit tough if
Speaker 1: you're upstairs. But also one of the things I from
Speaker 1: my previous stints and being a defensive coordinator, I do
Speaker 1: know you can see much much much better upstairs. So
Speaker 1: we're still looking at that. We'll see what the staff
Speaker 1: looks like in terms of how we adjust how they
Speaker 1: see things, and then we'll make a decision based on
Speaker 1: what's best for us as a staff and as a defense.
Speaker 1: You know, Coach Al from you and coach Eberflus, we've
Speaker 1: heard a lot about your hits principle, but now as
Speaker 1: a defensive coaching you're you're developing a new defense. How
Speaker 1: do you in the modern day football? How do you
Speaker 1: rep hitting in tackling on a practice field that includes
Speaker 1: full pads. I'm not being unrealistic about OTAs and such,
Speaker 1: but when you do get in full pads, how do
Speaker 1: you rep it? Yeah, one of the things that we do.
Speaker 1: First of all, we in practice we run to the
Speaker 1: ball unbelievably hard. And uh that's from the d lineman,
Speaker 1: from the tackles and the ends and even the backside corner,
Speaker 1: everyone is running to the ball. And then instead of
Speaker 1: just tagging off with which a lot of people do
Speaker 1: two hands below the waist to simulate a tackle, we
Speaker 1: put our bodies on the runner, on the ball carrier,
Speaker 1: so we get close enough that you can put your
Speaker 1: body on a guide that and if you can put
Speaker 1: a body on the guy, you should be able to
Speaker 1: tackle them. And then we we want to make sure
Speaker 1: we every time we put our body on a guy,
Speaker 1: we try to strip the ball. So we're punching, we're
Speaker 1: hammering the ball. We were trying to rake it so
Speaker 1: that uh so that we don't pull on the ball
Speaker 1: and and have hamstring injuries from our offensive guys. But
Speaker 1: we are trying to knock the ball out and put
Speaker 1: our bodies on the balling. And that's one way of simulating.
Speaker 1: And then the other way is just through drill work
Speaker 1: that we uh we use pads, we use shields, and
Speaker 1: we put the shields on the bodies of our guys
Speaker 1: and we we hit the shields so that they feel
Speaker 1: the body weight of another player, but also wrap up
Speaker 1: around the hamstrings and finished three yards through the endpoint.
Speaker 1: So those are two ways we do it. And then
Speaker 1: we have something called a sprint tackle, which we work
Speaker 1: on vice tackling, where it's two guys on one, one
Speaker 1: guy's on the inside, one guy's on the outside, and
Speaker 1: we keep leverage on the football and um and and
Speaker 1: that's the third way we used to work on our
Speaker 1: tackling because you know, during the season you get pretty
Speaker 1: beat up, and even OTAs you get fairly beat up,
Speaker 1: and those are ways that you can keep the guys
Speaker 1: fresh without banging their bodies. Well, Coach Jim Miller here, congratulations,
Speaker 1: welcome to Chicago, and here Bears fans will take six
Speaker 1: more weeks a winter. You're like Puck Satani Phil, You're
Speaker 1: already grind and tape all hold up or in there,
Speaker 1: but Bears fans will take it. I did have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to Rod Marinelli today, I believe you
Speaker 1: were on the staff down in Tampa, and he talked
Speaker 1: about all that that drill work that you just broke
Speaker 1: down for the Bears fans out there. But something struck
Speaker 1: me in talking to Rod, who's a long time great
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He said, build the man, and then
Speaker 1: you can build the player. You know, can you expand
Speaker 1: on that a little bit coach, because that truly was
Speaker 1: a great staff down there in Tampa, fantastic staff. That's
Speaker 1: where I got my start, that's where I cut my team.
Speaker 1: Rod was one of the first guys that took me
Speaker 1: in and kind of taught me the line play. So
Speaker 1: I know that talking with him must have been a
Speaker 1: must have been a treat build a man. We were
Speaker 1: just talking about that. Rod has a folder of just
Speaker 1: different types of things, sayings, motivations, drills, all those type
Speaker 1: of things that build up a man. And the reason
Speaker 1: for that is and this would be a coach dungee thing,
Speaker 1: and we would say that if our players came here
Speaker 1: and played for the Chicago Bears and at some point
Speaker 1: they'll have to leave, and if all they know, or
Speaker 1: if all they are or better in terms of x's
Speaker 1: and o's, or just a better football player, we as
Speaker 1: coaches have failed. We want to make sure that the
Speaker 1: players are are better men, the players are better people
Speaker 1: in the community. We want to affect the community in
Speaker 1: a positive way, and we want our players to be
Speaker 1: better husbands and better fathers. So if our guys are
Speaker 1: if we invest in the man, if we invest in
Speaker 1: the person, we know it's it's been proven that you'll
Speaker 1: get a better product on the football field. Their lives
Speaker 1: are are more intact, their lives are better, and they
Speaker 1: become better players. So we're we're into building the guy
Speaker 1: ground up and not just the xs and os. And
Speaker 1: and then I think was so interesting and I spent
Speaker 1: a little time down in Tampa, is once the players
Speaker 1: see the standard that's on tape, you hold them to it,
Speaker 1: you know, and say, hey, there it is. You know
Speaker 1: you're on tape doing it. And to hold a player
Speaker 1: to the standards, they're they're capable playing down in and
Speaker 1: down out, no doubt, no doubt. Um, I would say that, uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll show them on tape. And there's uh, there's
Speaker 1: many many years of what the standard looks like on
Speaker 1: tape from yeah, and people go, well, what do you
Speaker 1: talk about the standard and what do you mean years
Speaker 1: of tape and just the history of this defense that
Speaker 1: from the Chuck Nole's days to the Steelers to the
Speaker 1: Tampa days, to the Indianapolis Colts to the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: and the first goal around with with Lovey Smith until
Speaker 1: um to now. And some people would say, well, is
Speaker 1: that standard the coverages and the fronts, and I would say, no,
Speaker 1: the standard is just the way you go about your business,
Speaker 1: the way you go about the hits principle, the way
Speaker 1: you hold guys to a standard, the way you coach
Speaker 1: the man and not just the player, the way you
Speaker 1: teach all those things are are the standard for the
Speaker 1: coach and the player, the player and the coach. Alan
Speaker 1: Williams our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: the Score Jeff Johnny Actamp there Jim Miller with our
Speaker 1: special guest, defensive coordinator Alan Williams, a former running back
Speaker 1: at William and Mary and dual threat. Because you had
Speaker 1: some good hands too, so the offensive guy in you
Speaker 1: becomes a defensive coach. Any irony to this or was
Speaker 1: this somewhat of a natural transition in some way? I
Speaker 1: don't know. You tell me no, not natural at all.
Speaker 1: I really struggled when I first moved over to the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Uh, truth be told. But
Speaker 1: one of the things that that coach, Jimmy Laycock, who
Speaker 1: was our coach at William Mary uh in those days,
Speaker 1: he would say, if you're going to be a good coach,
Speaker 1: you must be a good communicator. You must be a
Speaker 1: good teacher, and they're going to be some rough spots
Speaker 1: along the way. But um if you find good mentors,
Speaker 1: if you find other coaches that are that are willing
Speaker 1: to invest in you, um uh, you'll you'll rise to
Speaker 1: the top. And and that's that's what I did. And
Speaker 1: at William Mary that's what I did. When I went
Speaker 1: to Tampa, we had phenomenal teachers. Tony Dungee, Rod Marinelli,
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith, Mike Tomlin, Joe Barry. All those guys were
Speaker 1: phenomenal teachers and still in the NFL today in some capacity.
Speaker 1: So I was fortunate to have people that were that
Speaker 1: invested in my career, invested in me as a as
Speaker 1: a coach, a man, as a teacher, Hey, coach Allen.
Speaker 1: On the side of our Super Bowl ring from eighty five,
Speaker 1: Mike Dicka had a word printed on there in capitol letters.
Speaker 1: It was ACE ACEE and it stood for attitude, character
Speaker 1: and enthusiasm, And he said, every great player has to
Speaker 1: have this in him or it's hard to make it
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I like your HITS principles And is
Speaker 1: it something that you guys referred to often during the
Speaker 1: course of a season, or is it something you tell
Speaker 1: the players that's what you expect out of them at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, and then you evaluate these
Speaker 1: guys if they live up to it. You know, usually
Speaker 1: you get what you emphasize. So, uh, if if if
Speaker 1: the hits principle was something that we would just mention
Speaker 1: and and not bring it up until it was a problem, um,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be very good. The hits principle is something
Speaker 1: that we emphasize every day. So the hustle, the intensity um,
Speaker 1: the takeaways, and some capacity and situational football. That's an
Speaker 1: everyday deal. So whether it's just bringing it up on
Speaker 1: tape in practice, whether it's logging in who turned the
Speaker 1: ball over, or if it's just a situational third down
Speaker 1: or two minute, that's a that's an everyday deal. So
Speaker 1: we're going to get what we emphasize, and that's a
Speaker 1: that's something that we talk about, something that we preach
Speaker 1: and something that we have to get the the players
Speaker 1: to buy in and and once they see that, and
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is that when they buy in, when
Speaker 1: they see that the principle equates to two wins, that's
Speaker 1: when you really see the You'll really see the defense
Speaker 1: exploding them and improving and getting better. I love what
Speaker 1: you said about teaching coach, because you know, I don't
Speaker 1: like when people say, well, coach has got a shelf life.
Speaker 1: Not if you're a good teacher. And if a player
Speaker 1: knows that he's getting better as a player, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're going to be all in. And I just like
Speaker 1: to know about modern era players, you know, and what
Speaker 1: it's like to teach modern era players because I think
Speaker 1: they want to get better too. I really do. As
Speaker 1: a former player, I think some people would say the
Speaker 1: players have changed, and I would say no, I would
Speaker 1: say the good players they have not changed. Good people
Speaker 1: don't change. And what players want, whether they're players from
Speaker 1: fifty years ago or twenty years ago or today, every
Speaker 1: player wants to know how you can help them. And
Speaker 1: that's from the rookie walking in the door barely making
Speaker 1: the team to the vet that's been to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: They want to know how you can help them improve
Speaker 1: on a daily basis. So I really don't think that
Speaker 1: the players have changed. Technology has changed some, the rules
Speaker 1: have changed some, but the fundamental basis of coach, can
Speaker 1: you help me? I don't think they will ever change.
Speaker 1: All right, our last question for our coach, Allen Williams
Speaker 1: bears a new defensive coordinator here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score. We appreciate all your time. I
Speaker 1: know every minute is valuable these days. So you've had
Speaker 1: a chance to get a deeper dive into what's what's
Speaker 1: here already. What is your overall impression. Not to get
Speaker 1: too specific on individual people, but we know who some
Speaker 1: of the stars are and how they'll transition in. But overall,
Speaker 1: what's your view? First class? First class in every way,
Speaker 1: first class, from the different people that call the welcome
Speaker 1: me to Chicago, to the relocation process, to meeting some
Speaker 1: of the owners, to the people in the cafeteria, to
Speaker 1: the players that have dropped by or called and just
Speaker 1: came by my office and sat out and said, coach,
Speaker 1: welcome here. Tell me what you want, tell me what
Speaker 1: you need, tell me how to get it done, and
Speaker 1: I'm all in. So I just think first class in
Speaker 1: every way. And the little time that I'm out in
Speaker 1: the community, just seeing the fans that are out there
Speaker 1: and hungry for a winning football team and the way
Speaker 1: they express it. I'm really looking forward to being here
Speaker 1: in Chicago. For for a long time. Welcongratulations again. I
Speaker 1: hope that's the case a long time and some great
Speaker 1: success for the Chicago Bears moving forward. Alan Williams, appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. Yep, you're welcome, very welcome. Bears new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Our guests will step away, Tom and Jim return, we'll
Speaker 1: take a look at it again, some post super Bowl
Speaker 1: notes and talk a little bit more Bears detail what's
Speaker 1: ahead here with Scott and Combine around the corner and
Speaker 1: free agency about a month away here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the Score. This segment of Bears All
Speaker 1: Access is brought to you by CDW People will Get
Speaker 1: It with Tom Thayer, Jeff Jony Act, and Jim Miller
Speaker 1: from Sirius XM NFL Radio's movie The Chains. Just finished
Speaker 1: up our conversation with Alan Williams, our final segment of
Speaker 1: the show tonight. Very nice man right there, who's had
Speaker 1: a ton of experience, has been a defensive coordinator before
Speaker 1: and knows this defense backwards and forward, so you know,
Speaker 1: finding the right fits for all those guys. You know,
Speaker 1: my biggest question for this delight, who's going to be
Speaker 1: the three technique defensive tackle Jim. You know, that's that's
Speaker 1: one of my big ones. And you know we've talked
Speaker 1: about Roquan Smith, you know, ideal fit right in that position.
Speaker 1: But what if you found another inside linebacker and put
Speaker 1: him in a a weekside linebacker and be a devastating player
Speaker 1: that can do a lot of different damage, certainly covering
Speaker 1: back splits in and all that. I mean, your mind starts,
Speaker 1: you know, wondering about these different things if you're in
Speaker 1: his position, where you would put a guy based on
Speaker 1: his skill set, what he's proven, traits, etc. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: his ability to run. I mean he is, he's He's
Speaker 1: kind of a Lance Briggs type of player. When I
Speaker 1: look at Roquan Smith, you know Lance was, you know,
Speaker 1: I believe he was running back in high school. I
Speaker 1: mean a guy put his flat out run in. Roquan's
Speaker 1: the same way. That dude's a heat sinking missile. I
Speaker 1: think he's a running, hit guy and maybe that's ultimately
Speaker 1: his spot. But I think you're right, it starts with
Speaker 1: the three technique. Currently, I don't think it's on the
Speaker 1: roster right now, is my personal opinion. If you're looking
Speaker 1: at it for a penetrating defensive tackle. Um. You know here,
Speaker 1: free agencies just around the corner, the ability to draft one.
Speaker 1: You think of Tommy Harris when the Bears nailed it
Speaker 1: with that pick. I mean there's I think it's it's
Speaker 1: all on the table, whether it's through free agency, whether
Speaker 1: it's via a trade, or whether it's drafting a young
Speaker 1: player that you think can be really the devastating penetrator
Speaker 1: as a three technique, you know, I think there's two things.
Speaker 1: First of all, row Quan Smith. He gives you the
Speaker 1: luxury of playing where you need him the most. And
Speaker 1: that was talked a lot about when Brian her Lacker
Speaker 1: was first drafted. Here where does he best fit and
Speaker 1: where can he help his team the most the quickest.
Speaker 1: And I think that's an opportunity that you're going to
Speaker 1: be able to examine with Roe Kuan Smith. And to me,
Speaker 1: I think blaw Nichols could go in and play that
Speaker 1: three technique. I don't know. You know, this guy is
Speaker 1: gone from three every single position up and down the
Speaker 1: defensive line over the last couple of years due to
Speaker 1: injuries and people missing starts and stuff. If you put
Speaker 1: blal Nichols in one spot and you said, okay, you
Speaker 1: have the luxury to play on the outside shoulder the
Speaker 1: offensive guards. We're going to create one on ones for you.
Speaker 1: The first thing we need you to do is get
Speaker 1: into the offensive backfield. I think blim Nichols is capable
Speaker 1: of doing that. Yeah, he's in a contract situation, so
Speaker 1: you have to make that decision. So are they completely left,
Speaker 1: you know, lifeless at that position. No, to me. I
Speaker 1: think blim Nichols, with his size, his ability to anticipate
Speaker 1: the snap count, his discipline at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: the way he can work stunts with Robert Quinn or
Speaker 1: whomever else he's working with, I still think that he
Speaker 1: would be I would like to investigate what he can
Speaker 1: contribute at that position. Well, you just listen to Williams
Speaker 1: and you immediately when you start preparing for the draft,
Speaker 1: Jim and Tom and you're looking for keywords and key
Speaker 1: traits from Mattieberflus regarding the defense, and will eventually hear
Speaker 1: the same from Luke Getsy, the offensive coordinator. But you
Speaker 1: know you're doing your research. Jim. You were at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and we're gonna be at the combine here
Speaker 1: in a short while. On March first, you're gonna look
Speaker 1: for guy. Okay, this sounds like somebody can play in
Speaker 1: a Bears defense like this, and it all begins with
Speaker 1: being aggressively hitting great tacklers speed and taking the ball away.
Speaker 1: So those are our touch points, right to find the guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely. You know I look at oh shoot
Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl, that Logan Wilson. You know, that
Speaker 1: guy is just all over the field just in his
Speaker 1: ability to attack and run to the football and the
Speaker 1: plays that he made. I mean that is to me
Speaker 1: a type of linebacker that you want that has that
Speaker 1: type of energy that you're looking for in that Wyoming
Speaker 1: tight end that or excuse me, linebacker that was down
Speaker 1: in Mobile, Chad Muma I mean, same thing that if
Speaker 1: you go look at Logan Wilson's total tackles compared to
Speaker 1: Chad Mumas and I think even during the week and
Speaker 1: during the game he caused a force fumble and the
Speaker 1: guy had I think one hundred and forty two tackles
Speaker 1: last year for Wyoming. I mean, he reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of Logan Wilson and has just kind of carry
Speaker 1: over that mantle. Guys who can run, fly to the football.
Speaker 1: I mean those that's who the Bears are looking for
Speaker 1: right now, just absolute players that are heat seeking missiles.
Speaker 1: You know, the thing about it is, is this whole
Speaker 1: effort part of the evaluation. Sometimes that's the hardest thing
Speaker 1: to evaluate. You can see these guys the reason they're
Speaker 1: being evaluated or invited the Combine or going to these
Speaker 1: All Star games, they show that they have traits to
Speaker 1: get themselves into this position. Now, effort is a hard
Speaker 1: measurable until you get them fatigued, until you get them
Speaker 1: into an atmosphere where it's ninety five degrees and see
Speaker 1: what they're doing in the third and fourth quarter. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you base a lot of assumptions on
Speaker 1: what these guys are able to do up into this
Speaker 1: level at football. But when you're talking about the level
Speaker 1: they need to play in the NFL to be a
Speaker 1: great player, and then you're talking about or Jim talking
Speaker 1: about the efforts that he's talking about, those are going
Speaker 1: to be the things that you're going to decide in
Speaker 1: some of the most difficult moments of their beginnings of
Speaker 1: their careers. But don't you think you can see that
Speaker 1: on tape? No? Well, I mean, yeah, you can see it.
Speaker 1: You can see it. I take that back. However, you
Speaker 1: don't know what some players are going to do when
Speaker 1: they go to that next level, Jeff, when they're playing
Speaker 1: against better offensive linemen, better better blockers at tight end,
Speaker 1: you know, they have more coverage responsibilities. It's just the
Speaker 1: way are can they elevate their game from where where
Speaker 1: they've gotten to to where they ultimately need to be
Speaker 1: Because listen to some of the names you're talking about
Speaker 1: right now. When we're talking about these types of names,
Speaker 1: you're talking about all Pro, Pro Bowl, you know, Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame caliber of guys. All right, we got two
Speaker 1: minutes left. What are your Super Bowl leftovers? Start with Tom?
Speaker 1: What were your impressions. I was disappointed that Obj his
Speaker 1: knee out because Matthew Stafford threw the ball behind and
Speaker 1: when he had a plant and tried to make that catch,
Speaker 1: that's when he blew his knee out. If Stafford would
Speaker 1: have put the ball in front of him, he would
Speaker 1: have ran through the football. I don't think that injury
Speaker 1: would have ever happened, and he might have ended up
Speaker 1: being the MVP. You know, and it carried over for
Speaker 1: me all through the playoffs. Mismanagement of the clock, you know,
Speaker 1: in wrong substitutions and things like that, because I was
Speaker 1: at the game. Like the first turnover on downs by
Speaker 1: the Bengals, Joe Mixon was running on the field on
Speaker 1: third and one and then the time ran out and
Speaker 1: so the running backs coach called him back over. They
Speaker 1: hand off to some agip ryan, he gets stuffed, and
Speaker 1: then they have an incompletion on fourth one. So the
Speaker 1: first series ended up being the last or second to
Speaker 1: the last series of the game when some agp drhyme
Speaker 1: was in there again when Joe Mixon had a four
Speaker 1: point eight average and was averaging or should have been
Speaker 1: in there on that particular play to try and edge
Speaker 1: to get the first down, and that was littered through
Speaker 1: the whole you know, playoffs. You know you look at
Speaker 1: the thirteen seconds left in the Buffalo Bills versus Kansas
Speaker 1: City game. I thought that was mismanaged from a coaching staff.
Speaker 1: So how hard I mean, because minimum, the Bengals have
Speaker 1: the ball at the fifty your minimum thinking they're gonna
Speaker 1: get a field goal out of this, right at least
Speaker 1: I was to send it to overtime. Right. Well, my
Speaker 1: takeaway because we have thirty seconds, Big Jim is the
Speaker 1: stars do shine, Aaron Donald makes the big play. Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup was unstoppable when it happened. The no Look thrown
Speaker 1: by Matthew Stafford, which he's done before. I can't stop
Speaker 1: watching that one. That was fantastic. Those are my takeaways
Speaker 1: and the best team won on this particular day, fellas.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll talk to you next week. I want
Speaker 1: to thank our guests here today, Alan Williams, the Bears
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, our producer, Adam Stadinski, and most of all
Speaker 1: you for listening for Jim Miller in Tom There. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Johnniac. Good night on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
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