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Open Your Thursday is going great? 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.600 Jeff Jonny Act, Top Bear, Jim mellerback with you and 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.800 our weekly edition of Bears at Access brought to you 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.120 by IGS Energy with Tom There, Jim Beler, I'm Jeff, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.080 jonyac our producer Tonight, Adam Stezinski and our Scores Studios 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.640 and Jordan tread Up, Dan Burley, Thanks is always coming 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.280 up at six ten New Bears offensive. I'm in Jamaineffetti 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.519 six thirty. We're booked with Eddie pinetto the second year 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.440 kicker as he prepares for twenty twenty. Fellas, how are 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.160 we doing the night? All sorts of info going on 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.000 across I'm just gonna say football in general, just now 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.800 the NFL. We're also looking at the college game because 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.760 the reverberations are clear. It affects the NFL and in 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.240 their various ways into certain determining what's gonna go on 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.959 here Tommy and Jim. But overall just trying to get 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.120 to camp nineteen days away. But not everybody believes that 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.920 will happen exactly on time. No, but everybody knows if 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.920 it's gonna be pushed back or what. But the union 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.120 working with the NFL and the owners and trying to 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.600 figure out what the best plan is it is, you know, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.080 it's that way across the board. It's that way across 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.880 the landscape of football. My brothers the freshman coach here 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.200 and Joliet and they started their program on Tuesday, and 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.959 it's social distancing practicing. It's the get kids more of 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.600 a combine atmosphere where they're learning about their feet, they're 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.880 learning about their talents. And I think, did you go 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.480 out there, Yeah, you go out there and you know, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.480 take a look at them minutes. You know, it's just 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.840 kind of you can see the excitement in kids at age. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.240 So all right, let's bring it up to the college 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.200 and NFL level. Because again I've always said, you have 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.600 to have some plans in place to the protocol of 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.040 football because there's so much distance, so many people involved. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.360 So if it goes according to plan, then then that's 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.919 the best case scenario. But if they have to make 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.160 adjustments along the way, there has to be a starting 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.400 point and they have to have alternate plans in place 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.120 in case the best or the worst case scenario presents itself. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:31.400 Jam NFLPA president JT. Tredder writing on the NFLPA website, 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.359 sending it out on Twitter to players, you know, he 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.960 still has a lot of concerns, says the union doesn't 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.760 want to play the preseason and they feel they need 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.000 to know prioritize players safety, and he believes that that 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.560 they're not there yet in negotiations the NFL. What are 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.320 you hearing from your sources and what's what's your opinion 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.360 on JC at this point? Yeah, I think, well, you know, 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.240 I think he's right. There's a lot of questions that 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.400 continue to come up from that standpoint. Once you've come 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.320 to an agreement on one issue, there's like eight others 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.480 that I think pop up. The other pro sports have 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.440 elected to do opt outs for the most part, I 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.600 don't think a lot of you know, NBA players or 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.520 pro baseball players have really opted out. The guys that 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.440 have are due to other injuries and things like that, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.040 but their seasons is going to be shortened. We know 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.200 it from that standpoint, So I think that option is 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.720 still on the table, whether they agree to no preseason 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.560 at all. I think the NFL's vision of the preseason, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.000 even though it's cut to two games, they want each 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.239 team to have a home in a way dry run, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.640 meaning how are you going to travel these players? Because 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.800 I think everybody knows you're gonna have to travel more players, right, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.160 Let's god forbid. If you're out there in an away 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.200 game in the night before game, the players are tested 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.280 and two guys maybe come up positive with COVID nineteen, 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.240 so you're probably gonna have to take your entire practice squad, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.280 I would believe for these teams. So I think the 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.760 NFL wants the teams to have a dry run and 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.400 just how they handle it checking into the hotel, how 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.240 are they going to handle all these things because teams 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.640 are going to be highly responsible from that in the 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.760 charter flights and the distancing and all those type of things. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.480 I think the NFL wants a dry run. I don't 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.400 know where it's going. I think they would like that 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.920 to happen, whether they can come to an agreement, because 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.000 I know a lot of those young players probably want 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.400 a chance to be evaluated, you know, rather than just 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.440 going into a training camp practice and they don't see 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.280 them in live action at all. So I still think 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.640 plenty of things need to be discussed. We're about what 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.120 three weeks away, Jeff, and we'll see if some things 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.720 really fall by the weightside as they continue to pick 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.360 these But they are talking, and the other two sports 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:34.960 have agreed, and I would think these two will come 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.960 to an agreement as well. And NFL teams apparently, according 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.080 to reports today, no postgame interactions within six feet of 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.200 each player and jersey exchanges will not be for per 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.800 minute during the twenty twenty season. We'll talk about some 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.760 things now as the Bears get ready for their training 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.320 camp with Jermaine Fetting coming up next at six ten 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.960 Edipanero at the bottom of the hour. There Jim and time. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.840 I'm Jeff jony Ak. This is Chicago Sports Radio six 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.840 seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access. It's 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.000 brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.720 the Chicago Bears. You're finding electricity, natural gas, and home 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.480 warranty products to over one million customers across the country. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.120 Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.839 Joni Act top Day or Jim Miller and I couldn't 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.680 quite hear our producer Adam Stadzinski, But do we have 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.520 our guy on the line? Not quite yet. Okay, we're 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.600 gonna get jermyn Effetti joining us here and Eddie Pinnett 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.400 are also at the bottom of the hour as we 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.760 get ready for what we hope to be a camp 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.880 that starts on time up at Hollis Hall. Lots of 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.640 things to discuss around the league today and and just 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.880 some you know time you said it last year at 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.320 this time we just were wrapping up probably a few 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.440 weeks after the Bears one hundred, you said this was 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.200 this was the time for rankings and every single day 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.160 without the benefit of games going on just yet the NBA, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.160 Major League Baseball soccer blah blah blah. That's all getting going. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.039 But a lot about poles and rankings and how everybody 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.360 feels about it. And we could go through these things 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.599 over and over and over again. But one caught my 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.360 attention today. It was on the top ten running backs 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.960 scoring to with ESPM poll with fifty NFL personnel Top 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.720 ten running backs Jim and Tom sae quon number one, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.640 Christian McCaffrey, Zeke Elliott Kamara, and Derrick Henry, followed by 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.560 Dalvin Cook, Nick Chubb, Joe Mix and Josh Jacobs and 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.640 Levian Bell. So my question to you is if in fact, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.000 you guys feel that's pretty much a good representation of 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:33.880 the running game. We want to see more from the 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.479 running game here in twenty twenty. Can you start to 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.440 see David Montgomery slip into this this group top fifteen 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.480 or so? And the commonality for me on these guys 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.720 is a dynamism that includes catching the football. Yeah, you 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.960 gotta be multiple dimensional now when you're playing running back 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.200 in the NFL. I think if you'd put one guy 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.279 in that group, Derrick Henry, he's probably the most powerful 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.400 running back right now in the NFL. Is he too 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.440 much one dimensional? Or is he is explosive in his 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.720 running game and what he can do by catching the 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.520 ball to to be that assistant running back. But there's 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.400 a lot of there's a you know, you can't even 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.240 put Christian McCaffrey and Derrick Henry in the same sentence, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.440 in the same comparison, because they're so different. Say, Quon 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.560 Barkley is more of a realistic comparison to Derrick Henry 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.400 than Christian McCaffrey, because Christian McCaffrey is more like a 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.040 Swiss army knife. He's multidimensional. He can he can line 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.280 up everywhere, so can all those other running backs. However, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.880 I just think there's a little difference in Derrick Henry 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.000 when you're talking about a running back. Big Jim, Let 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.680 let me interrupt you, because I don't want to keep 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.720 Jermaine on the line. He is joining us now we'll 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.680 get your thoughts on the running back thing coming up. Jim, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.840 you could have the first question since I cut you off. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.640 But Jermain Effettie, thanks for joining us tonight. How you doing, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.880 How things going where yet? And uh what's your mindset 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.280 right now? A few weeks nineteen days before what we 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.400 all hope is to start as training camp. I'm good, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:03.480 I'm good, Thanks having me on. Um, I'm still down 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.800 here Houston. Uh, you know, getting prepared to uh make 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.200 that move up there. Uh, and I see in a 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.080 couple of weeks and uh you know, just excited to 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.080 get started. You know, hopefully, hopefully we can figure things 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.560 out and report on that date. But you know, we're 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.360 we're all just kind of waiting to seeing at this point. Yeah, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.760 you're you're right, Germaine one, Jim Miller here, welcome to 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.600 the Chicago Bears and come with a lot of experience. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.320 But I guess any apprehension all from that standpoint, you know, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.599 about reporting to camp, to travel from Houston to Chicago 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.640 and and just everything that is on going there, any 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.880 thoughts in concerns. I think everybody wants to play. Every 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.559 player I've talked to, they want to get back to work. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.880 They want to play football. There's no doubt about that. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.280 But what anxiety maybe is going through your mind? Yeah, no, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.560 I mean there's no apprehension. Uh, we just uh like 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.160 you said, um, most players are ready to get back 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.320 and want to want to start playing. You know, most 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.599 thasu league haven't had a layoff this loan far in 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.719 since ope enter or something in their entire career. Is 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.319 not being able to doing your teammates and get into 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.800 those meetings and all that. So you know, we're all 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.880 excited to get started. Uh. You know, you know the 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.200 risk associating with traveling and doing all that. But you know, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.959 you just exercise all the precautions that we've all been 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.320 trying to exercise you by a few months in and 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.000 just hope for the best. Hey, Jermain, this top there. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.319 I spent my whole career at right guard and you know, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.040 and then they're talking about you moving into the guard position. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.400 They also talked about how the offensive line has to 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.559 be a lot more physical and there's ease even gonna 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.640 be that type of challenge in training camp. Jermye, do 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.160 you think that you can bring a more physical approach 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.559 to football from that interior position? Not because I mean 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.800 because there's a lot more moving, a lot more trapping, 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.040 a lot more pulling, You're hitting a lot more body. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.160 So can you add that element of a physical style 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.040 if you do move inside to offense of guard? Yeah, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.040 you know it's that's always been That's always been a 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.640 staple of my game. You know, big physical, uh, you know, 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.080 getting hands on guys, just uh, trying to finish. You know, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.480 that's the that's the key, that's the key of you know, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.400 I heard that talking about the run game. You know, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.080 a successful run game and committing to it and just 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:23.040 having that mindset. Uh you know, you know we'd all 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.480 love to pass, block into all that stuff, but uh, 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.320 you know, running the ball. Yeah, good to run the 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.560 ball because that that softens the defense and it makes them, 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.920 it makes them, uh have to have to play on 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.360 it's have to respect you and uh, you know, I 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.079 do believe that. You know that that's a lot of 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.320 us in my game. What's my DNA. We've had a 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.560 my last couple of years, we've had top five rushing 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.320 attacks and uh, you know, we we we really took 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.720 pride in that and being able to run the ball. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.160 You know, when the other team knows we want to 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.640 run the ball, we still able to run the ball. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.800 So as we've been introduced to Walker Steel throughout the 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.880 season and we got to listen to him on a 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:06.120 zoom conference. He repeatedly pounded the desk and talked about 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.040 how you guys are going to do things repetitiously time 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.560 and time again, that's how you learn them. So in 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.120 the modern day of offseason football, when you're when you're 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.760 in a zoom call and you're trying to learn how 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.360 your center feels about certain combination blocks or how your 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.480 offensive tackle, feels about combination blocks. Can you get a 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.400 feel for that, um from the experiences that you've already 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.760 had in the league sixty game, sixty starts, which is 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.240 really impressive. Can you get a feel for your working 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.320 mates throughout the course of zoom meetings and that type 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.960 of contact. Yeah, and you know that's that's a that's 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.400 a part of it as a part of you just uh, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.480 you know, getting to learn those concepts and different schemes together. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.880 But also it's film study. You know, I've I've study 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.400 the guys I'll be playing with expensively hot study how 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.400 they play. And you know that's a's a more of 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.880 the solid group. You know, they they know they they 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.599 bring a ton of experience and uh, you know you 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.840 play enough, you play enough football, you know, Um, there's 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.520 never gonna be oh I'm not comfortable playing xt this guy, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.000 I'm not coming to playing with this guy, you know, 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.000 looking always ad because you just have that experience, he's 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.480 been able to adapt to playing with different guys. You know, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.880 because on the offensive line, Uh, there there are a 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.439 lot of injuries, so people do have to sub in 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.240 and out quite a bit. So uh, you know, you 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.040 get used to it and you lean on your experience, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.120 and you lean on what you've always known, just playing 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.280 ball and communicating. Jermaine Fetti, our guest here on Bears 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.640 All Access the Bears, competing for the starting right guard 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.559 job for the Bears in twenty twenty with Tom There, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.640 Jim Miller, I'm Jeff joniak. I'm gonna go back to 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.199 the Russian game because I'm old school. I love it. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.120 I know the league is what it is. Nickel defenses 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.920 on the field most of the time because the three 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.160 wides and whatnot. But you know, you you open the 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.120 door for me because Seattle number one of the league 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.840 and eighteen. You guys have average one hundred and sixty 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.280 yards a game on the ground last year, fourth in 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.440 the league. Don't have exact numbers in terms of what 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.920 that was per game, but I think it was it 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.280 was one thirty seven and a half a game, So 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.360 big boost the last two years in Seattle, the previous 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.880 two years ranking in the twenties. What was the big 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.199 difference in your running game and what did you gather 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.200 from it as a as still a young player in 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.160 this league and still trying to U continue to grow 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.160 as a as a guy that's ready to start a 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.880 new journey here with the Bears. You know, it was 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.319 more it was more about us just committing to it. Uh, 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.720 guys knowing, Okay, we have to be able to run it. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.000 That's gonna be our identity to be physical. And it's 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.080 not you know, it's not always the not always the 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.040 prettiest things. I'm always the funniest thing. Doesn't feel great, 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.200 but you learn a lot to do it. You learned 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.920 a lot to impose your dominance on the defense, and 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.959 that's how you're able to wear out, wear down NFL 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.800 decens is I know. Um, you know the quarterbacks all 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.839 put up fancy stats and and throw the ball around. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.679 That's cool too, but when it's time to run it, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.000 you know, you have the offensive line has to be 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.319 able to say, all right, we're gonna run it, and um, 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.839 we're gonna give our backs room to do their thing 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.640 because we have dynamic backs back there. And I once 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.840 you had that mindset day in the day out, you 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.960 just work it over and over and over again. The 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.800 results are didn't come. The results are gonna come, and 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.560 you can lean on it and it just opens up 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.720 everything in the passing game so much. It takes It 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.400 takes so much pressure off of everyone to play easier, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.120 to call plays. The quarterbacks doesn't have to worry about 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.880 as much. So it takes it takes the pressure off 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.400 of everybody. And you know, as offensive line, you got 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.240 to be going forward and and and hitting guys, and 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.560 you know, having to go back in and pass the 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.840 tech because you can't run it. You know you want to. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.640 You want to passing tech because you because that's just 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.200 the next option, not because you have to because you're 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.360 not either run the ball. And I know on is 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.200 all in on us get back to that, and I 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.600 know the group in the room is more than ready 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.600 to take on that challenge. And you're definitely ready because 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.720 for the listeners out there, Seattle Seahawks last year they 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.400 were committed to run the football. They're attempts four hundred 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.680 and eighty one rushing attempts at his third most in 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.560 the NFL. And just maybe just talk about that, that 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.560 type of commitment and knowing, like you said, it's coming 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.440 and Pete Carroll is going to continue to call it 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.560 and that's not what's it in your mindset as a 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.240 as an offensive lineman, and just how you guys practice 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.960 out there. I was always amazed. You mean, how quickly 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.000 the high paced practices you guys had as Seattle, And 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.840 how have you incorporated that maybe into your offseason training 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.880 so you show up in tip top for the Bears. Yeah, 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.800 you know, it's it's an everyday It's an everyday commitment. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:56.440 It's an everyday type of type of work because it 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.400 takes a different type of energy system to be able 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.560 to run it and run it and uh running some more. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.360 You know, it takes it takes a different type of interstance. Man. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.320 You have to prepare that way, so about it's all 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.160 about preparation and then on game day you're able to 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.520 make it. It almost is easy because you've done it 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.800 so much. You've you put it in the hard days. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.400 And that's what it's been like this offseason, just with 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.480 the extra time to be able to learn the playbook 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.360 and uh noah one is installing and uh know all 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.400 the schemes and all that. Uh and it's it's stuff 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.960 i've you know, stuff I have in my path. So 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.440 it's just about, okay, getting your body ready to dish 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.360 out that punishment to the decense because like you said, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.520 four under eighty one times Uh, you know, it's that's it. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.440 That's it. That's a fair amount of running the ball 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.080 and with having to throw it also, so uh you 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.280 you you just you prepare, you know, it's it's preparation, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.360 like one or said, doing it over and over and 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.360 over again is when you start finding your results and 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.480 you start finding that consistency and doing it. You're main petty. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.400 Thanks for you. I guess my friend will see you soon. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.640 Stay safe down there, and I know it's a very 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.000 serious time obviously, but hopefully you'll find a little bit 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.040 of enjoyment with you and your family and maybe some 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.400 teammates down there. Be good. We'll see you soon. Yes, sir, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.399 thank God for having me. JERMAINEA fetti, Thank you for 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.480 your time. For Tom There, Jim Miller. This is Bears 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.280 All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy eight The Score. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.680 Back with you on Bears All Access Jeff joni Ac 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.119 along with Tom There. Jim Miller just heard from Bears 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.720 guard Jermaine Affetty, mostly a tackle in his NFL career 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.480 over eleven hundred snaps last season with the Seattle Seahawks. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.359 Back with you as we wait. Eddie Pinetto at the 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.200 bottom of the hour short segment here before we head 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.879 over to the kicker down in Florida. But your impressions 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.040 fellas of Jermaine and you know what's the what's the 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.760 big step for him? Now? After a career in Seattle 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.520 that started off his first pro contract for four years, 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.760 you know there's a lot. You know, you're gonna change 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.960 your stance, You're gonna take change your responsibilities. You're gonna 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:02.000 change the option of working with several different people. According 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.120 to the position you played, offensive tackle. They always say 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.439 you're on an island, and so that means you have 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.920 a lot of individual responsibilities, either at the point of 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.119 attack or away from it. I'm really excited because you 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.320 when you listen to Wan Castill talk about him, he 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.080 just talks about the size of these guys. Three hundred 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.080 and twenty five pounds plus twenty five twenty six years old, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.719 already has sixty starts in the NFL. That's an impressive 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.399 resume to come here to fill the void of a 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.760 position they really need someone to be involved in. Yeah, 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:35.760 he's a big guy. He's definitely going to help in 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.919 the run game. I mentioned how committed Seattle Seahawks are 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.600 to run game, but making that transition into guard as 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.600 time will mention, that always happens quicker inside. And for Jermaine, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.760 a lot of it's just been about the penalties. You know, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:50.760 he's got to clean up the penalties. Had far too 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.000 many penalties, whether it's false starts, holdings, things like that. 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.400 So he's got to focus in and play his best 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.119 football and eliminate some of those penalties that that really, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.000 you know, cause your offense to shoot their foot early 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.200 in the downs. Do you guys like his mindset from 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.280 what you're listening to, absolutely? Yeah. You know what I 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.479 like about his mindset, Jim is the fact that if 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.199 a guy comes in and he's got the pressure that 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.840 he's got to play quickly because he's a draft choice. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.640 But then he steps in there and he plays every 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.399 single game. And he talked about the injuries on the 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.480 offensive line, and he's able to adapt. So I'm really 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.199 excited that the Bears brought in some experience again to 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.159 come in here and compete on this. You know, in 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.199 the offensive line. Yeah, that's been a Hey, that's been 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:33.879 a good running team out there and see it and 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.360 you know, passing the football too. Russell Wilson's a talented guy, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.720 and you know he's capable of doing both. He's got 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.080 the talent and he's got the ability. And even with 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.840 the penalties. You know, when you look at Pete Carroll, 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.239 they knew he was the most talented guy that they 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:49.840 had to have out there. So he's just got to 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.639 you know, he's not a finished product. I think we 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.680 all know that about Germina Fetti. He's looking to take 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.879 the next step forward in his career. He's got all 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.760 the ability to do it, and now let's see if 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:00.879 he can put it to work for the Chicago Bears. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.240 Eddie panetto coming up here at the bottom of the hour. Jeff, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.760 Tom and Jim with you on Bears All Access. Hey, 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.040