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Speaker 1: kicker as he prepares for twenty twenty. Fellas, how are
Speaker 1: we doing the night? All sorts of info going on
Speaker 1: across I'm just gonna say football in general, just now
Speaker 1: the NFL. We're also looking at the college game because
Speaker 1: the reverberations are clear. It affects the NFL and in
Speaker 1: their various ways into certain determining what's gonna go on
Speaker 1: here Tommy and Jim. But overall just trying to get
Speaker 1: to camp nineteen days away. But not everybody believes that
Speaker 1: will happen exactly on time. No, but everybody knows if
Speaker 1: it's gonna be pushed back or what. But the union
Speaker 1: working with the NFL and the owners and trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what the best plan is it is, you know,
Speaker 1: it's that way across the board. It's that way across
Speaker 1: the landscape of football. My brothers the freshman coach here
Speaker 1: and Joliet and they started their program on Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: it's social distancing practicing. It's the get kids more of
Speaker 1: a combine atmosphere where they're learning about their feet, they're
Speaker 1: learning about their talents. And I think, did you go
Speaker 1: out there, Yeah, you go out there and you know,
Speaker 1: take a look at them minutes. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: kind of you can see the excitement in kids at age.
Speaker 1: So all right, let's bring it up to the college
Speaker 1: and NFL level. Because again I've always said, you have
Speaker 1: to have some plans in place to the protocol of
Speaker 1: football because there's so much distance, so many people involved.
Speaker 1: So if it goes according to plan, then then that's
Speaker 1: the best case scenario. But if they have to make
Speaker 1: adjustments along the way, there has to be a starting
Speaker 1: point and they have to have alternate plans in place
Speaker 1: in case the best or the worst case scenario presents itself.
Speaker 1: Jam NFLPA president JT. Tredder writing on the NFLPA website,
Speaker 1: sending it out on Twitter to players, you know, he
Speaker 1: still has a lot of concerns, says the union doesn't
Speaker 1: want to play the preseason and they feel they need
Speaker 1: to know prioritize players safety, and he believes that that
Speaker 1: they're not there yet in negotiations the NFL. What are
Speaker 1: you hearing from your sources and what's what's your opinion
Speaker 1: on JC at this point? Yeah, I think, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's right. There's a lot of questions that
Speaker 1: continue to come up from that standpoint. Once you've come
Speaker 1: to an agreement on one issue, there's like eight others
Speaker 1: that I think pop up. The other pro sports have
Speaker 1: elected to do opt outs for the most part, I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of you know, NBA players or
Speaker 1: pro baseball players have really opted out. The guys that
Speaker 1: have are due to other injuries and things like that,
Speaker 1: but their seasons is going to be shortened. We know
Speaker 1: it from that standpoint, So I think that option is
Speaker 1: still on the table, whether they agree to no preseason
Speaker 1: at all. I think the NFL's vision of the preseason,
Speaker 1: even though it's cut to two games, they want each
Speaker 1: team to have a home in a way dry run,
Speaker 1: meaning how are you going to travel these players? Because
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows you're gonna have to travel more players, right,
Speaker 1: Let's god forbid. If you're out there in an away
Speaker 1: game in the night before game, the players are tested
Speaker 1: and two guys maybe come up positive with COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: so you're probably gonna have to take your entire practice squad,
Speaker 1: I would believe for these teams. So I think the
Speaker 1: NFL wants the teams to have a dry run and
Speaker 1: just how they handle it checking into the hotel, how
Speaker 1: are they going to handle all these things because teams
Speaker 1: are going to be highly responsible from that in the
Speaker 1: charter flights and the distancing and all those type of things.
Speaker 1: I think the NFL wants a dry run. I don't
Speaker 1: know where it's going. I think they would like that
Speaker 1: to happen, whether they can come to an agreement, because
Speaker 1: I know a lot of those young players probably want
Speaker 1: a chance to be evaluated, you know, rather than just
Speaker 1: going into a training camp practice and they don't see
Speaker 1: them in live action at all. So I still think
Speaker 1: plenty of things need to be discussed. We're about what
Speaker 1: three weeks away, Jeff, and we'll see if some things
Speaker 1: really fall by the weightside as they continue to pick
Speaker 1: these But they are talking, and the other two sports
Speaker 1: have agreed, and I would think these two will come
Speaker 1: to an agreement as well. And NFL teams apparently, according
Speaker 1: to reports today, no postgame interactions within six feet of
Speaker 1: each player and jersey exchanges will not be for per
Speaker 1: minute during the twenty twenty season. We'll talk about some
Speaker 1: things now as the Bears get ready for their training
Speaker 1: camp with Jermaine Fetting coming up next at six ten
Speaker 1: Edipanero at the bottom of the hour. There Jim and time.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff jony Ak. This is Chicago Sports Radio six
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Speaker 1: Joni Act top Day or Jim Miller and I couldn't
Speaker 1: quite hear our producer Adam Stadzinski, But do we have
Speaker 1: our guy on the line? Not quite yet. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get jermyn Effetti joining us here and Eddie Pinnett
Speaker 1: are also at the bottom of the hour as we
Speaker 1: get ready for what we hope to be a camp
Speaker 1: that starts on time up at Hollis Hall. Lots of
Speaker 1: things to discuss around the league today and and just
Speaker 1: some you know time you said it last year at
Speaker 1: this time we just were wrapping up probably a few
Speaker 1: weeks after the Bears one hundred, you said this was
Speaker 1: this was the time for rankings and every single day
Speaker 1: without the benefit of games going on just yet the NBA,
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball soccer blah blah blah. That's all getting going.
Speaker 1: But a lot about poles and rankings and how everybody
Speaker 1: feels about it. And we could go through these things
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. But one caught my
Speaker 1: attention today. It was on the top ten running backs
Speaker 1: scoring to with ESPM poll with fifty NFL personnel Top
Speaker 1: ten running backs Jim and Tom sae quon number one,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Zeke Elliott Kamara, and Derrick Henry, followed by
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, Nick Chubb, Joe Mix and Josh Jacobs and
Speaker 1: Levian Bell. So my question to you is if in fact,
Speaker 1: you guys feel that's pretty much a good representation of
Speaker 1: the running game. We want to see more from the
Speaker 1: running game here in twenty twenty. Can you start to
Speaker 1: see David Montgomery slip into this this group top fifteen
Speaker 1: or so? And the commonality for me on these guys
Speaker 1: is a dynamism that includes catching the football. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta be multiple dimensional now when you're playing running back
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think if you'd put one guy
Speaker 1: in that group, Derrick Henry, he's probably the most powerful
Speaker 1: running back right now in the NFL. Is he too
Speaker 1: much one dimensional? Or is he is explosive in his
Speaker 1: running game and what he can do by catching the
Speaker 1: ball to to be that assistant running back. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of there's a you know, you can't even
Speaker 1: put Christian McCaffrey and Derrick Henry in the same sentence,
Speaker 1: in the same comparison, because they're so different. Say, Quon
Speaker 1: Barkley is more of a realistic comparison to Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: than Christian McCaffrey, because Christian McCaffrey is more like a
Speaker 1: Swiss army knife. He's multidimensional. He can he can line
Speaker 1: up everywhere, so can all those other running backs. However,
Speaker 1: I just think there's a little difference in Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: when you're talking about a running back. Big Jim, Let
Speaker 1: let me interrupt you, because I don't want to keep
Speaker 1: Jermaine on the line. He is joining us now we'll
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on the running back thing coming up. Jim,
Speaker 1: you could have the first question since I cut you off.
Speaker 1: But Jermain Effettie, thanks for joining us tonight. How you doing,
Speaker 1: How things going where yet? And uh what's your mindset
Speaker 1: right now? A few weeks nineteen days before what we
Speaker 1: all hope is to start as training camp. I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm good, Thanks having me on. Um, I'm still down
Speaker 1: here Houston. Uh, you know, getting prepared to uh make
Speaker 1: that move up there. Uh, and I see in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks and uh you know, just excited to
Speaker 1: get started. You know, hopefully, hopefully we can figure things
Speaker 1: out and report on that date. But you know, we're
Speaker 1: we're all just kind of waiting to seeing at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're right, Germaine one, Jim Miller here, welcome to
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears and come with a lot of experience.
Speaker 1: But I guess any apprehension all from that standpoint, you know,
Speaker 1: about reporting to camp, to travel from Houston to Chicago
Speaker 1: and and just everything that is on going there, any
Speaker 1: thoughts in concerns. I think everybody wants to play. Every
Speaker 1: player I've talked to, they want to get back to work.
Speaker 1: They want to play football. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: But what anxiety maybe is going through your mind? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean there's no apprehension. Uh, we just uh like
Speaker 1: you said, um, most players are ready to get back
Speaker 1: and want to want to start playing. You know, most
Speaker 1: thasu league haven't had a layoff this loan far in
Speaker 1: since ope enter or something in their entire career. Is
Speaker 1: not being able to doing your teammates and get into
Speaker 1: those meetings and all that. So you know, we're all
Speaker 1: excited to get started. Uh. You know, you know the
Speaker 1: risk associating with traveling and doing all that. But you know,
Speaker 1: you just exercise all the precautions that we've all been
Speaker 1: trying to exercise you by a few months in and
Speaker 1: just hope for the best. Hey, Jermain, this top there.
Speaker 1: I spent my whole career at right guard and you know,
Speaker 1: and then they're talking about you moving into the guard position.
Speaker 1: They also talked about how the offensive line has to
Speaker 1: be a lot more physical and there's ease even gonna
Speaker 1: be that type of challenge in training camp. Jermye, do
Speaker 1: you think that you can bring a more physical approach
Speaker 1: to football from that interior position? Not because I mean
Speaker 1: because there's a lot more moving, a lot more trapping,
Speaker 1: a lot more pulling, You're hitting a lot more body.
Speaker 1: So can you add that element of a physical style
Speaker 1: if you do move inside to offense of guard? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's that's always been That's always been a
Speaker 1: staple of my game. You know, big physical, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: getting hands on guys, just uh, trying to finish. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the key, that's the key of you know,
Speaker 1: I heard that talking about the run game. You know,
Speaker 1: a successful run game and committing to it and just
Speaker 1: having that mindset. Uh you know, you know we'd all
Speaker 1: love to pass, block into all that stuff, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, running the ball. Yeah, good to run the
Speaker 1: ball because that that softens the defense and it makes them,
Speaker 1: it makes them, uh have to have to play on
Speaker 1: it's have to respect you and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: do believe that. You know that that's a lot of
Speaker 1: us in my game. What's my DNA. We've had a
Speaker 1: my last couple of years, we've had top five rushing
Speaker 1: attacks and uh, you know, we we we really took
Speaker 1: pride in that and being able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, when the other team knows we want to
Speaker 1: run the ball, we still able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: So as we've been introduced to Walker Steel throughout the
Speaker 1: season and we got to listen to him on a
Speaker 1: zoom conference. He repeatedly pounded the desk and talked about
Speaker 1: how you guys are going to do things repetitiously time
Speaker 1: and time again, that's how you learn them. So in
Speaker 1: the modern day of offseason football, when you're when you're
Speaker 1: in a zoom call and you're trying to learn how
Speaker 1: your center feels about certain combination blocks or how your
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, feels about combination blocks. Can you get a
Speaker 1: feel for that, um from the experiences that you've already
Speaker 1: had in the league sixty game, sixty starts, which is
Speaker 1: really impressive. Can you get a feel for your working
Speaker 1: mates throughout the course of zoom meetings and that type
Speaker 1: of contact. Yeah, and you know that's that's a that's
Speaker 1: a part of it as a part of you just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, getting to learn those concepts and different schemes together.
Speaker 1: But also it's film study. You know, I've I've study
Speaker 1: the guys I'll be playing with expensively hot study how
Speaker 1: they play. And you know that's a's a more of
Speaker 1: the solid group. You know, they they know they they
Speaker 1: bring a ton of experience and uh, you know you
Speaker 1: play enough, you play enough football, you know, Um, there's
Speaker 1: never gonna be oh I'm not comfortable playing xt this guy,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming to playing with this guy, you know,
Speaker 1: looking always ad because you just have that experience, he's
Speaker 1: been able to adapt to playing with different guys. You know,
Speaker 1: because on the offensive line, Uh, there there are a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries, so people do have to sub in
Speaker 1: and out quite a bit. So uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: get used to it and you lean on your experience,
Speaker 1: and you lean on what you've always known, just playing
Speaker 1: ball and communicating. Jermaine Fetti, our guest here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access the Bears, competing for the starting right guard
Speaker 1: job for the Bears in twenty twenty with Tom There,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, I'm Jeff joniak. I'm gonna go back to
Speaker 1: the Russian game because I'm old school. I love it.
Speaker 1: I know the league is what it is. Nickel defenses
Speaker 1: on the field most of the time because the three
Speaker 1: wides and whatnot. But you know, you you open the
Speaker 1: door for me because Seattle number one of the league
Speaker 1: and eighteen. You guys have average one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: yards a game on the ground last year, fourth in
Speaker 1: the league. Don't have exact numbers in terms of what
Speaker 1: that was per game, but I think it was it
Speaker 1: was one thirty seven and a half a game, So
Speaker 1: big boost the last two years in Seattle, the previous
Speaker 1: two years ranking in the twenties. What was the big
Speaker 1: difference in your running game and what did you gather
Speaker 1: from it as a as still a young player in
Speaker 1: this league and still trying to U continue to grow
Speaker 1: as a as a guy that's ready to start a
Speaker 1: new journey here with the Bears. You know, it was
Speaker 1: more it was more about us just committing to it. Uh,
Speaker 1: guys knowing, Okay, we have to be able to run it.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be our identity to be physical. And it's
Speaker 1: not you know, it's not always the not always the
Speaker 1: prettiest things. I'm always the funniest thing. Doesn't feel great,
Speaker 1: but you learn a lot to do it. You learned
Speaker 1: a lot to impose your dominance on the defense, and
Speaker 1: that's how you're able to wear out, wear down NFL
Speaker 1: decens is I know. Um, you know the quarterbacks all
Speaker 1: put up fancy stats and and throw the ball around.
Speaker 1: That's cool too, but when it's time to run it,
Speaker 1: you know, you have the offensive line has to be
Speaker 1: able to say, all right, we're gonna run it, and um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give our backs room to do their thing
Speaker 1: because we have dynamic backs back there. And I once
Speaker 1: you had that mindset day in the day out, you
Speaker 1: just work it over and over and over again. The
Speaker 1: results are didn't come. The results are gonna come, and
Speaker 1: you can lean on it and it just opens up
Speaker 1: everything in the passing game so much. It takes It
Speaker 1: takes so much pressure off of everyone to play easier,
Speaker 1: to call plays. The quarterbacks doesn't have to worry about
Speaker 1: as much. So it takes it takes the pressure off
Speaker 1: of everybody. And you know, as offensive line, you got
Speaker 1: to be going forward and and and hitting guys, and
Speaker 1: you know, having to go back in and pass the
Speaker 1: tech because you can't run it. You know you want to.
Speaker 1: You want to passing tech because you because that's just
Speaker 1: the next option, not because you have to because you're
Speaker 1: not either run the ball. And I know on is
Speaker 1: all in on us get back to that, and I
Speaker 1: know the group in the room is more than ready
Speaker 1: to take on that challenge. And you're definitely ready because
Speaker 1: for the listeners out there, Seattle Seahawks last year they
Speaker 1: were committed to run the football. They're attempts four hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty one rushing attempts at his third most in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And just maybe just talk about that, that
Speaker 1: type of commitment and knowing, like you said, it's coming
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll is going to continue to call it
Speaker 1: and that's not what's it in your mindset as a
Speaker 1: as an offensive lineman, and just how you guys practice
Speaker 1: out there. I was always amazed. You mean, how quickly
Speaker 1: the high paced practices you guys had as Seattle, And
Speaker 1: how have you incorporated that maybe into your offseason training
Speaker 1: so you show up in tip top for the Bears. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's an everyday It's an everyday commitment.
Speaker 1: It's an everyday type of type of work because it
Speaker 1: takes a different type of energy system to be able
Speaker 1: to run it and run it and uh running some more.
Speaker 1: You know, it takes it takes a different type of interstance. Man.
Speaker 1: You have to prepare that way, so about it's all
Speaker 1: about preparation and then on game day you're able to
Speaker 1: make it. It almost is easy because you've done it
Speaker 1: so much. You've you put it in the hard days.
Speaker 1: And that's what it's been like this offseason, just with
Speaker 1: the extra time to be able to learn the playbook
Speaker 1: and uh noah one is installing and uh know all
Speaker 1: the schemes and all that. Uh and it's it's stuff
Speaker 1: i've you know, stuff I have in my path. So
Speaker 1: it's just about, okay, getting your body ready to dish
Speaker 1: out that punishment to the decense because like you said,
Speaker 1: four under eighty one times Uh, you know, it's that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's a fair amount of running the ball
Speaker 1: and with having to throw it also, so uh you
Speaker 1: you you just you prepare, you know, it's it's preparation,
Speaker 1: like one or said, doing it over and over and
Speaker 1: over again is when you start finding your results and
Speaker 1: you start finding that consistency and doing it. You're main petty.
Speaker 1: Thanks for you. I guess my friend will see you soon.
Speaker 1: Stay safe down there, and I know it's a very
Speaker 1: serious time obviously, but hopefully you'll find a little bit
Speaker 1: of enjoyment with you and your family and maybe some
Speaker 1: teammates down there. Be good. We'll see you soon. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: thank God for having me. JERMAINEA fetti, Thank you for
Speaker 1: your time. For Tom There, Jim Miller. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy eight The Score.
Speaker 1: Back with you on Bears All Access Jeff joni Ac
Speaker 1: along with Tom There. Jim Miller just heard from Bears
Speaker 1: guard Jermaine Affetty, mostly a tackle in his NFL career
Speaker 1: over eleven hundred snaps last season with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Back with you as we wait. Eddie Pinetto at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour short segment here before we head
Speaker 1: over to the kicker down in Florida. But your impressions
Speaker 1: fellas of Jermaine and you know what's the what's the
Speaker 1: big step for him? Now? After a career in Seattle
Speaker 1: that started off his first pro contract for four years,
Speaker 1: you know there's a lot. You know, you're gonna change
Speaker 1: your stance, You're gonna take change your responsibilities. You're gonna
Speaker 1: change the option of working with several different people. According
Speaker 1: to the position you played, offensive tackle. They always say
Speaker 1: you're on an island, and so that means you have
Speaker 1: a lot of individual responsibilities, either at the point of
Speaker 1: attack or away from it. I'm really excited because you
Speaker 1: when you listen to Wan Castill talk about him, he
Speaker 1: just talks about the size of these guys. Three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five pounds plus twenty five twenty six years old,
Speaker 1: already has sixty starts in the NFL. That's an impressive
Speaker 1: resume to come here to fill the void of a
Speaker 1: position they really need someone to be involved in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a big guy. He's definitely going to help in
Speaker 1: the run game. I mentioned how committed Seattle Seahawks are
Speaker 1: to run game, but making that transition into guard as
Speaker 1: time will mention, that always happens quicker inside. And for Jermaine,
Speaker 1: a lot of it's just been about the penalties. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got to clean up the penalties. Had far too
Speaker 1: many penalties, whether it's false starts, holdings, things like that.
Speaker 1: So he's got to focus in and play his best
Speaker 1: football and eliminate some of those penalties that that really,
Speaker 1: you know, cause your offense to shoot their foot early
Speaker 1: in the downs. Do you guys like his mindset from
Speaker 1: what you're listening to, absolutely? Yeah. You know what I
Speaker 1: like about his mindset, Jim is the fact that if
Speaker 1: a guy comes in and he's got the pressure that
Speaker 1: he's got to play quickly because he's a draft choice.
Speaker 1: But then he steps in there and he plays every
Speaker 1: single game. And he talked about the injuries on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and he's able to adapt. So I'm really
Speaker 1: excited that the Bears brought in some experience again to
Speaker 1: come in here and compete on this. You know, in
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Yeah, that's been a Hey, that's been
Speaker 1: a good running team out there and see it and
Speaker 1: you know, passing the football too. Russell Wilson's a talented guy,
Speaker 1: and you know he's capable of doing both. He's got
Speaker 1: the talent and he's got the ability. And even with
Speaker 1: the penalties. You know, when you look at Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: they knew he was the most talented guy that they
Speaker 1: had to have out there. So he's just got to
Speaker 1: you know, he's not a finished product. I think we
Speaker 1: all know that about Germina Fetti. He's looking to take
Speaker 1: the next step forward in his career. He's got all
Speaker 1: the ability to do it, and now let's see if
Speaker 1: he can put it to work for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Eddie panetto coming up here at the bottom of the hour. Jeff,
Speaker 1: Tom and Jim with you on Bears All Access. Hey,
Speaker 1: I found a story today. Jim. This is for you
Speaker 1: because of your relationship with Marty Booker. Mina Chimes from
Speaker 1: ESPN wrote a big, long story about the Fade to
Speaker 1: the End Zone, which is, in her opinion and her research,
Speaker 1: a dying play in the National Football League. But they
Speaker 1: interviewed a bunch of people, including your former wide receivers coach,
Speaker 1: who said that he cooked up a route that he
Speaker 1: sweared by called the fall Asleep fade in which Marty
Speaker 1: Booker would fade a block before springing for the back
Speaker 1: corner of the end zone. Do you remember this, this
Speaker 1: is this something of accuracy. Yeah. We unveiled it against
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to lull their corners to sleep
Speaker 1: and Marty got one foot in. We called it down
Speaker 1: at the one yard line and Marty did. He lulled
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay secondary into sleep. I believe it was
Speaker 1: Barber's brother, Ronde Barber that he put the fallow fall
Speaker 1: asleep fade to work and Marty, you know, they were
Speaker 1: At first the officials called it a touchdown. Then they
Speaker 1: wanted to review it, and sure enough, Marty Booker toe
Speaker 1: tapped it and got both feet in for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: But we worked on that play all week and Todd
Speaker 1: Haley was bragging about it, the fall asleep fade to
Speaker 1: trust me, this is gonna work, this is gonna be great.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, and that paid huge dividends in that
Speaker 1: game and we were able to beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: It was great. You know they're doing though it's a
Speaker 1: wide receivers are taking a little bit of credit from
Speaker 1: the tight ends coach Jim because you know, they always
Speaker 1: have that backside fall down tight end play act like
Speaker 1: you're blocking fall down. Let the quarterback in the open.
Speaker 1: Then he comes across and you hit him because he's
Speaker 1: unsuspectedly uncovered because they think he fell down by accident,
Speaker 1: not on purpose. So it's just kind of like stealing
Speaker 1: it from one position to the next, receiver to the outside.
Speaker 1: I think Toddy he takes full credit for that because
Speaker 1: he brought it up to me. I was doing Steelers
Speaker 1: camp and so it was me, him and Bed Rosford.
Speaker 1: He remember when I came up with the fall asleep fade?
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I remember. So he wants full credit
Speaker 1: for that, for that role he can have, according to
Speaker 1: her research, thirty seven phades according to Sports Info Solutions
Speaker 1: last season from five yards or less. The number one
Speaker 1: quarterback throwing phades last season was Cleveland's Baker Mayfield. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna now be joined by Eddie Pineto, so we'll
Speaker 1: stick here, we'll avoid the break and bring in the
Speaker 1: second year kicker down from his I'm assuming down there
Speaker 1: in Florida, right, Eddie. How are you doing tonight? Hey?
Speaker 1: How you guys doing? Yeah, you're still down there in Florida.
Speaker 1: Are you back up here? No, No, was still in Florida.
Speaker 1: All how are you doing? What are you doing? You're
Speaker 1: still doing the same drills that you did, you know
Speaker 1: to get ready for what was going to be you know,
Speaker 1: a mini camp that was canceled and whatnot. Or are
Speaker 1: you trying to give yourself the proper amount of leg
Speaker 1: rest before a training camp? And what what's your plan
Speaker 1: right now in nineteen days out of what is still
Speaker 1: for the moment anyway, scound you to the start of
Speaker 1: a camp? Yeah, I mean, you know, still working hard,
Speaker 1: you know, Monday through Friday, go to our facility and
Speaker 1: just work out there and you know, kicking with Pat
Speaker 1: two or three times a week. So just on the
Speaker 1: same same routine, getting Eddie Eddie. When we got talked
Speaker 1: to Chris Tabor through the Zoom conference, he talked about
Speaker 1: you had a little bit of a weight gain. So
Speaker 1: are we gonna notice you when you come back you're
Speaker 1: gonna be all jacked up with the tank top on?
Speaker 1: Or are you able to distribute the weight? You know,
Speaker 1: more seriously, are you able to distribute the weight within
Speaker 1: your body where you can feel yourself stronger as it
Speaker 1: a faster leg swing or is it just more power
Speaker 1: when you hit the football. Yeah, I can definitely feel that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think my leg speed is the same.
Speaker 1: I think I have more strength. The thing is I
Speaker 1: wanted to put on some way, and they wanted me
Speaker 1: to put on some weight, you know, to towards the
Speaker 1: end of the season when they starts to get colder
Speaker 1: and you play those colder games, you know, to hit
Speaker 1: more touchbacks and stuff like that. So it should definitely
Speaker 1: helps for sure. Eddie, Jim Miller here. Good to talk
Speaker 1: to you. I hope you're having a great offseason. You know.
Speaker 1: We talked to Chris Tabor as well, and I remember
Speaker 1: going into last year just about you know, pressure on
Speaker 1: the kickers and things like that, and even Chris Tabor
Speaker 1: brought it up about ratings of great kickers, whether it's
Speaker 1: Robbie Gold or even the great Adam Vane Terry. A
Speaker 1: lot of those guys even came in at the high
Speaker 1: seventies or low eighties in terms of the rating and
Speaker 1: lo and behold, you know that was considered a good
Speaker 1: first year and a good stepping stone for those kickers.
Speaker 1: And how do you rate your performance so far as
Speaker 1: a bear? Because probably your best football is ahead of
Speaker 1: you in terms of kicking. Yeah, you know this the
Speaker 1: first year with the Berries was a good learning experience. Um,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of room for improvement. I
Speaker 1: think I can get better and you know, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: for another, you know, successful year this year and hopefully
Speaker 1: I can get my percentage up a little bit. And
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest thing for me, the biggest learning
Speaker 1: experience for me was you know, kicking in a windy
Speaker 1: game and then going to like a dome, you know,
Speaker 1: that transition and stuff like that. So you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've matured a lot as a kicker,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully this year, you know, it goes
Speaker 1: good from yourself. Eddy Pineto, our guest here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score.
Speaker 1: Good to have you a long Eddy, and again thanks
Speaker 1: for taking the time. Obviously, everybody focuses on what you're
Speaker 1: doing with field goal accuracy, but in the special teams world,
Speaker 1: the hidden yardage that is found when you break down
Speaker 1: returns kickoffs, where the ball lands where your coverage unit
Speaker 1: goes is also significant. And by virtue of the fact
Speaker 1: that Bears did not score a lot of points last season,
Speaker 1: didn't score a lot of touchdowns. You didn't have that
Speaker 1: many kickoffs when you get right down to it, twenty
Speaker 1: eighth in the league and number of kickoffs with just fifty.
Speaker 1: But were you happy with what you did in terms
Speaker 1: of how many balls make it to the end zone,
Speaker 1: where it lands in the field and whatnot. What was
Speaker 1: the review that you got from Chris Tabor on your kickoffs? Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: they were happy. I mean, towards the end of this season,
Speaker 1: I felt like my leg got a little bit weaker. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, remember I've only played two years of college
Speaker 1: and I was always so used to playing like ten
Speaker 1: or eleven games, you know, in season. So playing sixteen
Speaker 1: games was big for me this year. And but I
Speaker 1: mean they were happy. They were overall overall performance wise,
Speaker 1: they were happy. I mean, Tabor was happy. You know,
Speaker 1: he called me in by before we left and just
Speaker 1: you know, just told me to get stronger. And that's
Speaker 1: what I've done this off season. Just gained a little
Speaker 1: bit of weight so I can get that extra edge
Speaker 1: towards the end of the season when you know it
Speaker 1: starts to get cold and stuff. Hey, Eddie, for nine years,
Speaker 1: I came to Bears training camp as a starter every year,
Speaker 1: and I felt that the pressure was amped up every year.
Speaker 1: How is the pressure different to you this offseason because
Speaker 1: you were the most well publicized story in football last year.
Speaker 1: Now it's kind of calmed down a little bit. So
Speaker 1: what type of pressure do you put on or do
Speaker 1: you feel for yourself? Yeah, I mean, um, I you know,
Speaker 1: you still feel a little bit of pressure. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: know last year was was pretty crazy. But um, I
Speaker 1: mean to me, I'm going into the same mindset. You know,
Speaker 1: if you started missing kicks, you'll be You'll be that
Speaker 1: You'll be you'll be that guy again. So I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be that guy. And I just don't want
Speaker 1: to make my kicks and and and and you know,
Speaker 1: and score for the team and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: but I mean, obviously there is pressure. I mean, they
Speaker 1: obviously brought in somebody to compete and stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: so I gotta compete. I gotta win my job. And
Speaker 1: you know, like everybody else, everybody has to compete and
Speaker 1: win their job. That's that's the statement that you know
Speaker 1: the Bears make, So well give it. Give the listeners
Speaker 1: an idea of what is a big work day for you.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about the weight room stuff
Speaker 1: and how you're getting strong or say number of kicks.
Speaker 1: Like let's say you go out, you're you're banging from
Speaker 1: twenty you back it up from thirty yards. How many
Speaker 1: kicks are we talking about, whether it's right half, right, hash, left,
Speaker 1: hash and middle on really your big work day, your
Speaker 1: load up day that you're gonna try to wear out
Speaker 1: your leg a little bit to get stronger. Yeah, Usually
Speaker 1: those those days are towards the end of the week,
Speaker 1: you know, if we don't obviously we don't have games
Speaker 1: during the week or whatever. In preseason, you know, we
Speaker 1: we pretty much you know, we hit a bunch of
Speaker 1: balls and then we go and I probably hit maybe
Speaker 1: about from twenty to thirty balls, and then we'll kick
Speaker 1: like six or seven with the team. So with team sets,
Speaker 1: actually we probably have like seven or eight with the team,
Speaker 1: and then the rest is kind of just warming up,
Speaker 1: getting ready, and then as far as hashes, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean the way I warm up, I go left
Speaker 1: hash right house, left hash right hash, and then I'll
Speaker 1: throw a middle in there once in a while. But
Speaker 1: the majority of my kicks this year, where like either
Speaker 1: in the left hash or the right house, I think
Speaker 1: I only have maybe like two kicks or two or
Speaker 1: three kicks in the middle. So Eddie Pineto our guest
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the scorers. This
Speaker 1: Bears All Access brought to you by Igs Energy, remaining
Speaker 1: moments with the Bears kicker from his Florida home. You
Speaker 1: took two tries from fifty plus last year. Obviously these
Speaker 1: are coaches decisions and time of year, year and whatnot. Overall,
Speaker 1: is that another plateau you'd like to reach, you where
Speaker 1: the coaches have the faith in you that you're going
Speaker 1: to be able to bang it because you do have
Speaker 1: a big leg and it's just a matter of trust.
Speaker 1: I would imagine over the course of time situational football,
Speaker 1: what the score is, whatnot, where you're at, the wind,
Speaker 1: the weather, the temperature, you name it. But you know,
Speaker 1: I remember when you were working out and trying to
Speaker 1: win that battle, you could hear the thump of the
Speaker 1: ball coming off your foot. Yeah. You know. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing too, is, you know, having the coaches trust you
Speaker 1: and you know, and like in last preseason I was
Speaker 1: able to hit a fifty eight yard in preseason, I
Speaker 1: guess the cold. So you know, I was just trying
Speaker 1: to show my coach that, you know, you need to
Speaker 1: hit one. I'm long, you know, to give me the
Speaker 1: opportunity and stuff. But yeah, just trying to get some
Speaker 1: trust from the coaches. That's the biggest thing. Hey, Eddie,
Speaker 1: timing is essential and your craft. So I know Patrick,
Speaker 1: he's one of the best holders in the league. Are
Speaker 1: you have access to a snapper or are you kind
Speaker 1: of doing this just you and Patrick together that way? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we turned with a couple of snappers down here from
Speaker 1: different NFL teams. I'm not gonna see which teams because
Speaker 1: I don't want to put them out there, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of snappers that we snap here,
Speaker 1: starting snappers in the NFL that we work with. And
Speaker 1: then you know, Scales is coming down next week as well,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to be able to work with Scales
Speaker 1: for about two or three weeks before before we get
Speaker 1: back up there. So that'll be pretty cool because sometimes
Speaker 1: just picking back up off of what Tom said with
Speaker 1: Patrick Scales, I know last year Tabor talked about the
Speaker 1: presentation of the ball. Just to give you a little
Speaker 1: bit more time to see it from your standpoint, How
Speaker 1: was that sped up for you here this offseason, because
Speaker 1: I can only imagine it has for you. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the longer you can see the bar, you know,
Speaker 1: the more comfortable comfortable it is for a kicker, you know,
Speaker 1: necessily snapper back there and stuff like that. But I
Speaker 1: feel like Scales has done a great job last year, um,
Speaker 1: not only as a snapper, but as a mentor too,
Speaker 1: and just you know him and Pat really helped me
Speaker 1: here and it was it was, it was good son.
Speaker 1: Eddie Panetta our guest. One final question before we let
Speaker 1: you go, Eddie, and again thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 1: So you're down there in Florida, you're paying attention like
Speaker 1: everybody else is, to the COVID numbers and the different
Speaker 1: things going on. That's an area that is of concern
Speaker 1: down there. How do you process that as you're trying
Speaker 1: to get ready to get yourself to training camp on
Speaker 1: time and hopefully healthy. Yeah. Um, you know, me and
Speaker 1: my family we've done a great job just staying away
Speaker 1: from you know, from friends and big crowds and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Um, it is kind of weird. Um, everywhere
Speaker 1: you go you have to have a mask. They just
Speaker 1: actually just closed down um dining in for restaurants, so
Speaker 1: the only thing you can kind of do now is
Speaker 1: pick up the food or go to the gym. It's
Speaker 1: pretty much the biggest thing down here. But it is
Speaker 1: weird times. I can tell you that it's kind of weird,
Speaker 1: but no, we'll get through it for everybody, right, everybody
Speaker 1: in this country, in this world. Crazy times, Eddy, stay healthy,
Speaker 1: my friends, to your family, and thanks you for joining us.
Speaker 1: Eddie Pineto, Bears Kicker, coming up next to break things
Speaker 1: down with Tom and Jim on Bears All Access on
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Speaker 1: Jony Act, Tom Fair on Bears All Access with Adam Stadinsky,
Speaker 1: our producer tonight, Glad you're alongside. We've already heard from
Speaker 1: Germain Efetti and Eddie Pineto. Jim. These guys got to
Speaker 1: be climbing the walls a little bit. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: talking about two guys in hotspots right now in Texas
Speaker 1: and Florida and still trying to get ready professionally weird times,
Speaker 1: my man, weird times. No, every guy I've talked to
Speaker 1: on serious second day are chopping at the bit to
Speaker 1: get back to work. I interviewed Joe Flackley's like, hey man,
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to start up with the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: Caught talked to a couple of second year players this week,
Speaker 1: like Andy Isabella, wide receiver. You know, it's different because
Speaker 1: the younger guys, they've got a lot to prove, right,
Speaker 1: They're looking to make that big jump from year one
Speaker 1: to year two, like Andy's Isabella or Zac Gallen, who's
Speaker 1: a defensive end. We interviewed out there today. I talked
Speaker 1: to our sega, our jj R Sga Whiteside that he's
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, second year wide receiver for the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles out of Stanford, and he knows a lot it's
Speaker 1: gonna be coming. But it's different. You know, they're not married,
Speaker 1: they don't have kids. That's all they're doing. They're working out.
Speaker 1: I mean, JJ said he goes Basically my routine is
Speaker 1: I go work out at the gym, I come home,
Speaker 1: I get something to eat, I play a couple of
Speaker 1: video games. I hop back out I'm doing a second
Speaker 1: workout and he's like, camp is not coming fast enough
Speaker 1: for me. You know, he goes, I've got a lot
Speaker 1: to prove, and then they're chopping at the bit. And
Speaker 1: not that the older players don't want to report because
Speaker 1: certainly they've got wives and kids and families that they're
Speaker 1: thinking about, and some of those may have underlying issues
Speaker 1: that maybe they're thinking about. They don't want to put
Speaker 1: their family at risk. And I talk to some players
Speaker 1: that will totally seek question You're basically quarantine themselves from
Speaker 1: their families. They're determined that, hey, I don't want to
Speaker 1: miss a year out on my career. I'm willing to
Speaker 1: take my wife is willing to take me five six
Speaker 1: months away from the family, and I'll talk to them
Speaker 1: via FaceTime every day and catch up and make sure
Speaker 1: everything's going okay. But they're they're willing to take that risk,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why players will ultimately strike a
Speaker 1: deal with the NFL, much like the other pro sports
Speaker 1: have that we talked about earlier. Well, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think this is the most important part time of
Speaker 1: the year for preparation, So you know, back, I hate
Speaker 1: keep saying back when I was, But the last month,
Speaker 1: the last six weeks before you get ready to go
Speaker 1: to training camp, you're almost you know, isolated yourself because
Speaker 1: the only thing you're doing is you're living in the
Speaker 1: gym and you're out there doing running, whether it's with
Speaker 1: the team on your own, you're you're getting in shape,
Speaker 1: and I think that's all you know, that's the business,
Speaker 1: that's the way you go about business. And then when
Speaker 1: training camp gets here, you know, you're isolated with just
Speaker 1: your teammates. So I think it's kind of almost normal
Speaker 1: football protocol towards this portion at this part of the
Speaker 1: year because you're only getting ready for football. This is
Speaker 1: not a vacation time of year for these guys, and
Speaker 1: if they are, they don't last in the game very long.
Speaker 1: So then if you have the suspicions of what the
Speaker 1: COVID could attach to the season, you gotta be ready,
Speaker 1: you gotta be prepared, you gotta stay healthy, you gotta
Speaker 1: stay isolated. So this is probably contributing to guys maybe
Speaker 1: doing a little more during this time because they don't
Speaker 1: have access to the outside activities that maybe some of
Speaker 1: these guys did during this time of the year. Jim,
Speaker 1: did you see Malik Jackson's quote today the Eagles defensive tackle, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. He called it unacceptable and utterly
Speaker 1: disrespectful for owners to set a camp date of July
Speaker 1: twenty eighth with no safety or financial guarantee agreed upon
Speaker 1: for us as players, and went on to describe the
Speaker 1: concerns that he has about the risks about going to
Speaker 1: camp right now. Sure, and players may be probably given
Speaker 1: that option to opt out like the other pro sports
Speaker 1: that I mentioned. For the young second year players that
Speaker 1: I just mentioned, they're not opting out. You know, the
Speaker 1: players that have maybe have been financially set, like like Jackson,
Speaker 1: you know, he probably has that luxury to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think the rank can file in the NFL
Speaker 1: can do that. And I also say this, I know
Speaker 1: the players are upset because the league proposed about putting
Speaker 1: thirty five percent in escrow um, which basically falls in
Speaker 1: lines with ticket sales and merchandise and all those type
Speaker 1: of things. Um So I think I think from Demorris Smith,
Speaker 1: who's the executive director, I think he understands why the
Speaker 1: league proposed that because people, you know, the big chunk
Speaker 1: of the salary cap comes from the TV revenue, about
Speaker 1: thirty percent of it comes from ticket sales, concessions, parking revenue.
Speaker 1: So that's not out of the that's not out of
Speaker 1: the realm or it's you know, basically smoke that the
Speaker 1: NFL is proposing that they're proposing that because they already
Speaker 1: know that most most teams, what Baltimore came out yesterday,
Speaker 1: they're only going to allow fourteen thousand fans in their stadium.
Speaker 1: Steelers basically announced the same today what they're going to do.
Speaker 1: Other cities or states aren't going to allow fans at all.
Speaker 1: I'm in one of them, the state of Michigan. Lions
Speaker 1: won't have fans at the game. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that's out of the ordinator for the owners to request that,
Speaker 1: because that really falls in line with where that percentage
Speaker 1: comes from through the salary cap as those ticket sales
Speaker 1: and revenues and all the concessions and parking that we've
Speaker 1: talked about that everybody knows will be going down this year.
Speaker 1: So and I think the union is you know, the
Speaker 1: players don't like it, but I think the people that
Speaker 1: lead the union, they understand where the league is coming from.
Speaker 1: Also a time on an injury front, because this is
Speaker 1: going back to your preparation point of view. So jac Tredder,
Speaker 1: the Players Union president, said, after their research after the
Speaker 1: two th eleven lockout, injuries are up twenty five percent,
Speaker 1: Achilles doubled hamstrings are up forty four percent. So they
Speaker 1: are wanting to do more time in camp, a longer
Speaker 1: camp as opposed to preseason games to avoid not only
Speaker 1: the COVID issues but specific injuries. How would you respond
Speaker 1: to that as a player right now? I mean, there's
Speaker 1: got to be a responsible length of time that he's
Speaker 1: talking about. Again, in my life and my experiences in football,
Speaker 1: I lived with no preseason games and eighteen regular season
Speaker 1: games in the USFL, So I know the amount of
Speaker 1: time that you need to be prepared. And you know,
Speaker 1: if there's a bunch of guys that are coming out
Speaker 1: here and getting injuries after the lockout, then that's just
Speaker 1: kind of an indication that they really haven't been doing
Speaker 1: a lot to fulfill their end of the obligation in
Speaker 1: case with striker lockout, whatever the case was that ended.
Speaker 1: When we went through a strike in eighty seven, our
Speaker 1: team gathered multiple times and we had workouts to stay
Speaker 1: active to keep our bodies going. I think you're silly
Speaker 1: of any professional athlete of any professional sports who think
Speaker 1: that you can go and be a couch potat for
Speaker 1: three to five to six weeks and then just go
Speaker 1: out and start and flip that switch again. You can't
Speaker 1: do that. It's about taking some type of concern for
Speaker 1: your career year round, as long as you're playing whatever
Speaker 1: sport you are. All right, We're gonna step away, take
Speaker 1: a break. When we come back our final segment, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into Bears talk out a bunch of dual
Speaker 1: ideas here for the fellas to break down. Give some
Speaker 1: quick answers on some big topics as the Bears get
Speaker 1: ready for the twenty twenty season. This is Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: moments here with Tom There, Jim Miller, former Bears and
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. All right, I'm gonna go through some
Speaker 1: quick topics, Fellas. Quick topics, all right, in your opinions,
Speaker 1: toughest coaching job with what is expected to be a
Speaker 1: short camp at least as it stands right now, toughest
Speaker 1: coaching job on the Bear's staff with a short camp.
Speaker 1: Will kick it off with Tommy Well, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this just because optimisive. No, I'm not. Because you're talking
Speaker 1: about an offensive line coach that has to coach about
Speaker 1: fourteen guys, and some of them are interchangeable, but most
Speaker 1: of them aren't. Now you're trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody understands their assignments at the same level in case
Speaker 1: you have to move people around. You're still trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what positions best fits certain guy. You're going
Speaker 1: to insert Jermain Effetti from tackle to guard. You gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of polishing to do there. You gotta
Speaker 1: figure out where we're Shad Coward fits the best. You
Speaker 1: got to make sure that the center position is solidified.
Speaker 1: So to me, I think the offensive line coach with
Speaker 1: that amount of bodies and that differences of assignments between
Speaker 1: each one. Jimmy, you're going you go with your position too. No.
Speaker 1: I like Tom's answer, because they do. They gotta get
Speaker 1: all those five guys to jail. But I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: tight end right, because you got Jimmy Graham. He's new
Speaker 1: to the system, the offense and what's gonna be run,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna try to get a contributor in Cole Commet.
Speaker 1: I think he's, uh, you know, how quickly can they
Speaker 1: get him up to speed and utilize his skill set.
Speaker 1: I think that is gonna be a big challenge because he's,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a second round pick. He's extremely talented.
Speaker 1: That position has been lacking, So that to me, that
Speaker 1: position again is under the microscope and coach Barone and
Speaker 1: he's going to try and get that group cranked up
Speaker 1: and we'll see how quickly they can get it done.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go QB because it's the story. It's the
Speaker 1: story of John D. Filippo getting face to face with
Speaker 1: these guys. Nick Foles is even yet to be here
Speaker 1: to introduce himself face to face with the players. Who
Speaker 1: knows what the system's gonna look like with the tweaks
Speaker 1: with all the different coaches and all the brainstorming they're
Speaker 1: going on. So I'm gonna go with quarterbacks. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be the story of training camp, all right. Most difficult
Speaker 1: position to analyze with a short camp, or do we
Speaker 1: look at it instead of saying the word analyze, is
Speaker 1: the most difficult position with a short camp to win
Speaker 1: a starting job because you can go to different spots
Speaker 1: and figure those out. Right Now, we'll start out with
Speaker 1: Tommy Well again, I'm gonna go the safety corner combo,
Speaker 1: the two of them together, because they filter so much
Speaker 1: information for the width of the field. They face so
Speaker 1: many multiple offensive fronts that they're gonna be moving around,
Speaker 1: and so you gotta make sure the cornerback, how fragile
Speaker 1: that position is and how attackable that position is. You
Speaker 1: gotta make sure they have that communication across that whole back.
Speaker 1: Four or five or six defensive backs at time. I'll
Speaker 1: go with defensive backs as well, because much like offensive line,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of positions there that you've got to coach.
Speaker 1: How quickly can they get Jalen Johnson up to the
Speaker 1: mix already burns as a new player that's injected into
Speaker 1: this defense as well. You know you've got some continuity
Speaker 1: with Kyle Fuller, buster Screen, Eddie Jackson, obviously Dion Bush
Speaker 1: that are back there, but I think already and Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be an interesting to see what player emerges
Speaker 1: there for the Chicago Bears and Sean Gibson battling for
Speaker 1: that safety job with Dion Bush, which leads me, because
Speaker 1: you guys are talking about the secondary. Doug Ferrar writes
Speaker 1: for USA Today's The NFL Editor, this whole idea that
Speaker 1: Nicol is the new base. His research fifty nine percent
Speaker 1: of on dropbacks in nineteen. But defense has played more
Speaker 1: dime than base last year in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Hey man, that's guys. You guys, no guys like Pastor
Speaker 1: go Holmes come into the league, they better be ready
Speaker 1: for seven defensive backs eventually, because this guy is on
Speaker 1: the ten year program. So I think it's gonna change
Speaker 1: the way the way defensive coordinators change their personnel groupings
Speaker 1: because of multiple set receivers they are going to continue
Speaker 1: to face. Yeah, a lot of dime is for the
Speaker 1: three wide receivers, and what are teams doing. They're flexing
Speaker 1: the tight end, So you bring in a dime, which
Speaker 1: is basically a six defensive back. Because those tight ends
Speaker 1: are so versatile. There are teams probably if you go
Speaker 1: look at how the Arizona Cardiners are built, you will
Speaker 1: be playing nothing but dime against that team. They run
Speaker 1: on what we call a lot of ten personnel, which
Speaker 1: is four wide receivers. They don't even utilize the tight end.
Speaker 1: So you need six dbs on the field at all times.
Speaker 1: So many teams better be ready to play dime the
Speaker 1: whole time. Yeah. So they always say you can't have
Speaker 1: enough pass rushers, you can't have enough impact players, but
Speaker 1: you can't have enough defensive backs. All right, most hope
Speaker 1: high profile player that needs the biggest year. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start out with and I'm gonna go huh
Speaker 1: you started, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Kalil Mack.
Speaker 1: I mean, Khalil Mack is already a great player. But boy,
Speaker 1: I just got this feeling and we brought this up
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago. Uh, the little birdies are telling
Speaker 1: telling everybody that he is driven, driven, and he has
Speaker 1: he was driven when he got here, but just to
Speaker 1: be that dominant player in every way. That'll just lift
Speaker 1: the entire second, lift the entire defense, which in turn
Speaker 1: helped the offense. I'm going with that guy. Who are
Speaker 1: you going with? Tom Well? I'm gonna go with Roquan Smith.
Speaker 1: I think he needs to have such a first, second,
Speaker 1: third down impact on this defense. He's got to stay
Speaker 1: healthy for the whole season. He's got to be the
Speaker 1: guy that the Bears drafted him for a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago in turn into that, or start to look
Speaker 1: at the Luke Keakley type of responsibilities. He's got to
Speaker 1: be a major player. Jim, I'm I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn. For all the things you said about Khalil Mack,
Speaker 1: I thought, when you look at it, Leonard Floyd should
Speaker 1: have been cleaning house playing opposite Khalil Mack. Robert Quinn,
Speaker 1: I believe Will. I think he knows it, he's already
Speaker 1: said it. He's in a good position to have a
Speaker 1: big year. I would think for Robert Quinn. Interesting, none
Speaker 1: of us picked the quarterback. All right, what division team
Speaker 1: has the advantage with a short training camp? And we
Speaker 1: should say because we don't know how long the training
Speaker 1: camp will be, but the obviously with no offseason to speak,
Speaker 1: what division teams, I'm gonna go Aaron Rodgers and the
Speaker 1: Smith brothers. So I'm gonna say green Bay. When you
Speaker 1: have that arm talent and you have those two pass rushers,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good foundation. Yeah, the veteran Leyden teams,
Speaker 1: and I'm with Tom there. I think green Bay They've
Speaker 1: got a lot of veterans returning. From that standpoint, so
Speaker 1: do the Bears. But it's all about the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: So you bring up a good point, Jeff about Mitch,
Speaker 1: but we'll see where it goes with him and Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: He's got to prove it. Certainly the microscopes there will
Speaker 1: you give Rogers the edge. Vikings also in that category
Speaker 1: with a veteran team with some changes obviously, but every
Speaker 1: team does. Fellas were out of time. Thanks is always
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