WEBVTT - Braunecker talks COVID-19 | All Access 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.279 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.320 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.840 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every day. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:16.480 And now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All Access 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:21.000 passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is brought 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.200 to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical Physical 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:30.720 Therapy and CDW. And welcome to this week's show, the 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.600 Business of Football. Still Fast and Furious says it pertains 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.240 to the Bears of the rest of the National Football 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.559 League and these unknown times, these challenging time, it's good 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.040 to have you alongside. Hope your day is going well 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.000 everybody and the shelter in place. The virus, all the 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:51.239 conversation about sports cancelations and postponents dominating the headlines obviously, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.440 but first and foremost, as we said last week, hoping 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.960 everyone out there is healthy, Helping everybody out there doing okay, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.600 and if you have d or family that are are 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.040 afflicted with this virus, you know, best wishes and get 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.600 well soon is the storyline for tonight. Jeff Jonnyac along 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.080 my broadcast partner from WBBM, Tom Thayer, the former Chicago 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.760 Bear and Super Bowl champion and Jim Miller from Serious 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.880 XM NFL Radio moving the chains in a former Bears 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.399 quarterback of note fellas, how are you guys handling everything 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.520 personally and professionally? Right now? We'll start a big tim Well, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.040 you know, Jeff, The reality of it is is our 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.520 only concerns are really for the better to men of 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.759 what's taking place with the coronavirus. But in our lives, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.600 the distraction of what's going on this year in the 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.720 NFL is kind of unique in its own right. So 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.880 it's nothing makes anything fun, but it's an interesting distraction 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.840 to pay attention to. Whether you're looking at other teams 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.360 around the league, you're looking at teams within the Bears division, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:53.920 or are you looking at the Bears themselves. There's a 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.520 lot of new faces and numbers and names on this 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.880 roster already. That's gonna be in interesting this watch this 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.720 whole year mold together. Yeah, echo what Tom says. And 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.280 hope everybody out there is doing well, and hey, these 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.120 are trying times and business has to change. Teams are adjusting. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.400 We're all adjusting individually with what we've got to deal 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.840 with and what our family's friends, everybody's going through right now. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.520 Personally though, Jeff, I can tell you, man, being home 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.160 with four kids, these guys are wearing my ass out. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.120 I will tell you that right now. So I mean, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.000 God bless my wife Leah, and she's done this for 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.000 a long time. But man, I'm in the front of 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.760 the storm right now, let's just put it that way. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.399 And these guys are crushing me right now. Right there's 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.880 no there's no eye of the hurricane here, there's no respite. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.480 I mean, it's the full fury. And you know I've 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.000 been hearing that from a lot of friends and and 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.280 other people in our business. That a tip of the 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.960 half to parents and to all the teachers out there 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.760 who have done a great job teaching how all of 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.320 our children, because it is not a easy task, no 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.840 question about. I'm an empty nester right now. Kids are around, 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.840 but they're not They're in college, so it's it's not 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.120 like grade school kids are keeping kids occupied and entertained. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.000 So best job you can do as a parent is 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.240 trying to pull that off. But yes, they do wearry 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:15.600 out a little bit in a good way, in a 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.960 good way, certainly, All right on Tonight's program we got, 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:20.600 we got a bunch of stuff coming up. We got 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.919 Ben Bronicker, the fifth year tight end, going to join 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.920 the program, unique in that he studied infectious disease at 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.960 Harvard Topical. Indeed, I know he's been out of the 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.600 air here on the score earlier this week, but we'll 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.840 delve into that with him, and then we'll be joined 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.640 at a round six thirty by doctor Robert Citronberg, the 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.120 director of infectious Disease at Advocate Lutheran General and Park Ridge. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.440 That'll be a very interesting conversation. We got a bunch 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.200 of questions to him regarding the virus, how it affects 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.000 you and your everyday life, and how it will affect 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.080 sports moving forward, So we'll get your questions answered about 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.080 that as well. News of the day today fellas Tom 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.960 an offensive lineman with a first round grade on him 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.560 when he came out of Texas A and m Jermain Effetti, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.560 former Seattle seahawk who's played the majority of his grit 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.000 right tackle but a bunch of snaps at right guard, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.160 gets a one year deal reportedly with the Bears and 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.160 conceivably could be competing for that right guard job. And 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.280 then the reacquisition of Tyler Bray somebody time you think 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.720 highly of. Yeah, I like Tyler Bray. I like the 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.320 fact that he's been in the system, But I want 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.840 to give him an opportunity to compete. I know that 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.680 the interesting story of note of the last couple of 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.160 days or net last week or so has been Nick 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.320 Folds and Mitch Dubisky. But I think Tyler Bray's got 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.479 to come in there with his you know chest hell, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.320 you know, is head held up high and his chest 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.520 sticking out and come in here to compete. And I 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.360 just think that adds to it. But you know, when 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.200 you're talking about offensive line play, and you know, you're 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.359 talking about bringing a guy that's played a majority of 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.160 his time at offensive tackle and thinking about moving him 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.760 as a guard. Six five three and twenty four pound 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.440 guy been plagued by holding calls. And I think the 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.000 one thing that is really interesting, when you take a 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.600 tackle and move into the guard, you lessen the space 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.080 and you lessen that that outreach of the arms in 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.279 terms of the past protection responsibilities that you have. So 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.920 I do think if they come in here and they 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.839 want to make some changes and give him some opportunity 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.480 at right guard. I think that would be the best 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.719 spot for him right now and time. I want to 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.919 follow up on that just because because as you know, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.839 things happen quicker inside at the at the guard spot, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.920 and you mentioned the holding calls. At one point Pete 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.800 Carroll did bench him, and I think it was last preseason. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.680 You know, they benched him just too many holding calls 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.800 and things like that, just to kind of send a 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.840 message to FORFETI did end up playing and a lot 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.760 of games that it has played a lot overall. But 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.359 how things happen quicker, how will it affect him in 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.120 terms of his hand placement and how fast it happens 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.400 in a full booth inside? You know, the one thing 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.000 about it is you have am media help both both 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:54.839 to your right and your left, and there's a lot 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.480 of instances that you can take away a majority of 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.160 what that inside guy can do against you because you 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.840 know where your help is coming from. Whereas in an 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.880 offensive tackle, there's a certain percentage of the time that 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.080 you're going on a line of scrimmage and you know 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.599 that you're on an island. There's no way that that 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.520 protection is going to come back and help you or 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.919 get you a backside protection. So that's the unique thing 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.960 about playing inside. You always can gain a little bit 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.280 of an advantage because you know you have a little 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.440 bit of help from your right to your left. And 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.120 I will add this, that's a scrambling quarterback in Russell Wilson, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.720 and a lot of Ffetti calls have happened on the 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.159 scramble drill. You know where really you don't know where 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.560 the quarterback's going and time maybe you can follow up 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.560 on this as well. You got to get a feel 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.360 when you've got a quarterback as mobile as say a 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.559 Russell Wilson, And certainly we know Mitchell Trubisky's very mobile. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.880 I wouldn't say Nick Foles is in that mobile category, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.760 but certainly has enough mobility to move out of the pocket. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.760 But that's where it seems like Affetti had the most 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.560 trouble really getting a field for which way his quarterback 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.560 was bailing out of the bucket in Seattle. Well, you 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.680 know that's the one thing about what Russell Wilson. You 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.839 can have a direction of protection that's built in to 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.920 benefit the offensive line and all the protectors, but it's 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.120 no guarantee Russell Wilson's gonna follow that plan. So if 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.880 he runs away from the design, that's when you put 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.640 your backside offensive lineman and jeopardy of those repeated holding calls, 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.520 All right, one segment in the books. Thanks for our 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.840 producer tonight, Julio Roso helping a sound spend of the 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.680 dials and making this show happen. From the Score Studios, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.360 This is Bears All Access. Ben Bronnicker joining us next 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:37.960 on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Welcome back 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.200 to Bears All Access, front to you by IGS Energy, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.440 a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity natural 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.960 gas in home warranty products to over one million customers 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.120 across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.960 dot com. Jeff Joni Actim there, Jim Miller with you 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.800 on this week's edition. Coming to you on a Wednesday. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.320 Hope everybody's doing okay and handling the State at home 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.360 prospect and that includes our special guests johnt Us right now, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.120 being kind of busy this week doing some interviews and 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.960 fifty years time end. Ben Bronnicker, Good evening, How you doing, 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.160 my friend doing our Hi, gentlemen, I'm good, Thanks for 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.880 having me on. Good they've given you something to do, huh. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.440 I the bears just to shoot out on their on 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.560 their social plan from the resident scientists. Then bronicker. You 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:29.560 like it? You like how that sounds? Yeah, it's pretty interesting. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.160 Where more like it? More I can do? Right? Yeah? Yeah, exactly? 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.360 Well this is I have I have a question for you, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.599 Ben this tomp there um. So during your education of 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.720 this type of interest, do they put these types of 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.160 scenarios in there and saying, you know what do you 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.680 start thinking about? Where? Where does your mind go? What 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:59.120 should be step number one? If this thing actually and occurred? Well, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.120 I guess a little bit, not something as specifically as 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:12.080 a global pandemic. But I have familiarized myself, or the 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:17.000 courses have familiarized me to epidemiological data, which is just 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:21.880 how the disease spread through a population, looking at one 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.640 patient and then seeing how many people he talked to 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.000 or he or she talked to, and how many people 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:34.680 caught the disease after that interaction, and using models just 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.360 to determine how quickly something can spread through a population. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.040 But I haven't seen anything or have been formally educated 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.120 on something in this scale. Now, well let me ask 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.920 you this Ben Jim Miller here, good to talk to you. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.880 I hope everybody's oh, well, just getting into molecular biology 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.599 and cell biology and all the things you studied in 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.360 infectious disease. One. What steered you in that direction, because 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.480 you know, much like all of us, we're just you know, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.200 that's something that never interested me. But hey, certainly we 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.680 want to know about coronavirus. What's it about how it 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.040 can affect you? And everybody's trying to catch it up. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.240 But you, at an early age were steered in that direction, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.839 and then it interested you to study stuff like this, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.800 you know what, you know what brought that about? What 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.040 steered you in that direction? Yeah, I think just first 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.920 off as general fascination with viruses, bacteria, parasites, all sorts 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.320 of pathogens, but especially viruses, And then too, I thought 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:33.560 it was something in the future that is going to 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:38.000 be very useful, very prevalent. And just look at in 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.160 the past couple of years, hardly a year goes by 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.680 without some sort of outbreak, not anything on this scale 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.439 in recent memory, but I think back to Zeka Bowl 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.440 H one N one. So I just thought it was 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.160 one something that I just had an inherent fascination with 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.200 and too that it would be a useful job down 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.040 the road. Ben Bronnicker, our guest the Bears, veteran tight 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.840 end who studied infectious disease at Harvard and launched into 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.760 his NFL career and a post career. I still have 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.280 designs on being a doctor, Ben, Is that pretty much 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.320 the plan? Yeah. I always say that I've spent a 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:26.000 lot of time and money on an education. I hope 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.680 to use that someday. Hey, Ben, an instance like this, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.440 do you think it's harder on the educated or the 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.880 on And I consider myself the uneducated because we're only 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.120 learning about it from what we read through our phones 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.080 or what we see on TV. Or for a guy 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.400 like yourself that understands the reality of it, because sometimes 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.160 we're afraid of what we don't know. Is as concerning 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:59.040 for someone who knows, like yourself. Well, that's interesting. I'm 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.000 not exactly sure. I think both sides, the educat and 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.960 the uneducated, in the dark about, or at least initially, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.720 we're in the dark about what exactly this is and 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:17.599 how effective it was and how it was spread, symptoms 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:23.560 and why they vary between different people. So I think 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.160 that both sides are still learning, and there are a 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:31.280 lot of unanswered questions still out there, and the brightest 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.920 minds of the world are now putting their heads together 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.839 and trying to figure those out. Yeah, and then for me, 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.400 I'm fascinated by this, you know, and how they talk 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.000 about it being a new strain and how viruses can 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.560 mutate and and things like that. And you're more knowledgeable 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.480 than me. It's almost like taking us back to Charles 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.360 Darwin and the strongest survive and just how quickly these 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.840 viruses can mutate. Maybe if you can education us a 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:03.960 little bit on that. Well, sure, every all virus types 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:10.839 are different, coronavirus versus flu versus um, you know, the 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.240 different strains of flu, and so they all have our 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:21.120 different rates of mutation. I'm not exactly sure how this 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:27.520 new coronavirus does its business. Um, But viruses are basically 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:35.600 just lifeless chunks of protein and and nucleotide matter. I mean, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:42.880 programming that just aimlessly floats around and tries to Its 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:48.440 job is just to infect cells and replicate that. It's 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.160 not alive. It doesn't move on its own. It I 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.480 mean can't even really survive on its own, so it's 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.720 existence entirely depends on a host, and in this case 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:10.440 it's it's us our lung cells. So but anytime there's 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.760 an infection, let's say, with a new virus in a 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:19.160 host cell, then there's a chance when the new viral 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:27.840 copies are being made, the transcriptional machineries of the selling 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.480 machinery that makes the genetic material can make a mistake 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.320 and then voila, You've got a new mutation in a virus. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.880 Most of the time this would be harmless. Sometimes it 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.240 would be bad for the virus. Sometimes it would be 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.200 bad for us. So it's really just a game of 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:49.080 dice and chance when it comes to mutations. This is 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.920 Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy of 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.880 the score please to be joined by Ben Bronicker. There's 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.480 tied and as he prepares for an offseason of uncertainty 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:03.000 right now amid all the issues with the coronavirus and 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.520 COVID nineteen. You know, whenever I do speaking engagements or 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.160 people want to talk about, you know, doing this as 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.240 a career or whatever, I always say, hey, no matter 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.560 what you do, follow your passion. So it looks like 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.720 you have multiple passions. But in a situation like this, 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.640 you just is it something where you're so passionate about 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.160 it as well that I love to get under a 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.040 microscope and take a look at this thing and try 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.760 and figure it out. Yeah, I mean, I'd love to 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.960 help out on this stuff. But I realized that kind 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.840 of invested in this football stuff. So I've got a 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.480 little bit of training to catch myself up to speed 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.600 of it. Just not able to do right now because 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.360 I have a different career, But in due time, we'll 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.600 get to that for sure. Hey Ben, what about access 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.560 to what you need in order to be prepared for 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.520 your football career? Because you know, uniquely NFL players they 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.600 need a lot of weight, They need spotters that are 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.400 educated on how to help the players the most. Do 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.160 you have access to what you need to get yourself 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:07.800 ready for whatever you're going to go through this year? Well, frankly, 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:13.320 at this time, no, it's a different challenge this off 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:19.200 season for sure. I think that most players in the 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.880 NFL right now in their off season don't have access 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.480 to a gym. I think most of them are closed. So, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.400 speaking for myself and maybe a couple of them, we're 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:35.280 just trying to get creative with exercise and weightlifting. Really, 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.880 our strength training is going to suffer a little bit, 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:42.280 but that's okay. There'll be time later before the actual 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:47.040 NFL season, hopefully to catch our bodies back up and 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.800 get them to where we need them to be. But 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.800 as of right now, it's just trying to manage this 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.440 as best as possible. To do some strength maintenance stuff, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.360 staying in great shape, running a lot. I know that 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.280 you can keep your muscle mass on your body if 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:07.520 you sprint at higher than eighty percent max effort, so 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.160 you still tit. See. That's why I want to hear 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.040 that Harvard and Ivy League degree. I should say coming 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.439 to the table, but I want to hear that. I 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.960 want to we asked Iggy this last week, your teammate. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.280 I want to hear like a Herschel Walker workout, Like 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.720 you're doing a thousand push ups, a thousand setups, and 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.760 you're getting it done. You know what I'm saying, Ben, 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.359 you gotta stay active. Yeah I'm not. I'm not on 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.760 Herschel's level, but it sounds kind of barbarica, like picking 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.480 heavy things up around you that I can find and 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.200 putting them back down, whether let's furniture, around the house 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.439 or some pretty good chunk or pretty good sized rocks. 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.119 Just doing whatever I can. Hey, I heard Greg Gaines 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.840 at the La Rams University of Washington a let me 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.840 lives in Idaho. He cut down a huge tree and 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.479 put a bunch of padding on it so he can 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.359 do squats. So there you go. The creativity is kicking in. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.600 Have you heard any of your teammates coming up with 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:09.760 anything unique like that? Yeah, it was something similar. A 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.000 former teammate of mine at Harvard, Kyle Busteck, fullback for 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.719 the forty nine ers, now was training somewhere in the 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.879 Northwest like that and cut down a tree and was 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:26.520 using it to lunge around in his yard. And he 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.320 was also pulling his wife on a sled in his 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:35.600 snow So whatever works, right. We all saw Rocky three 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.919 when he went back to the barbaric training in the 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:42.639 Siberian snow covered hills, and so every everybody has an 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:47.560 example of that. Yeah, no question about it. Hey, Ben, 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.399 Let's talk just a little bit of football and knowing 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.639 what's going on, knowing the uncertainty, is there anything as 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:58.640 a current player with obviously safety first, health of entire 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.000 nation and an entire world first and foremost that you 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.879 could say to massage the fears of a prolonged delay 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:12.000 for football to return for the average fan. I wish 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.800 I could say something complete, but I really can't. I'm 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.240 just kind of in the same boat as all those 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:24.440 fans and hoping that the worst part of this outbreak 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.159 is going to be over by the time September rolls around. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:36.680 But I'm not sure anybody knows that answer right now, unfortunately. Well, 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.879 what about how you're currently dealing with it, and the 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.840 workouts and how you're trying to make do and obviously 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.240 health and training and what you eat and all those things. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.399 How quickly can you flip the switch? You think? What 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.480 it does return to a normal seat from your standpoint? Then? 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.800 And you know, like, how long do you think it 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:54.520 will take you to get back to where you need 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:59.880 to be? Yeah, that's a that's a good question. Um myself, 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:06.600 I think maybe a month, month and a half. Obviously 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.720 there's more tend to better, but for talking minimums, I 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:15.680 could probably get there too, pretty good shape to being 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.800 ready for training camping about four to six weeks really 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:23.560 hard training. Hey, Ben, you know there's a whole new 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.880 room of coaches up there, and you know, you're kind 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.200 of a unique guy because you play tight end next 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.040 of the tackle, you play the U tight end, you 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.719 play h back, and you play fullback. So what coach 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.240 do you gravitate towards when you have so many new coaches? 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:38.879 I don't even know if you had a chance to 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.399 meet him and be introduced him in any way. And 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:49.000 so it was a coach Barone that contacted you. His 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:53.240 coach Burn's first week at Hollis Hall, I was still 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.720 in Chicago and I was able to meet him there. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:04.280 I've learned that they've since all they stopped going into house. Also, 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:06.800 I haven't had a chance to meet any of the 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.600 other new guys, but I like coach Broom so far. 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.200 All right, Ben ben Brouncker, our guest here in Chicago 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.200 Sports Radio six seventy the Score. We appreciate taking some time. 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.119 I know you've been busy y' all week with this 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.439 kind of topic, but we do appreciate the knowledge and 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.320 first and foremost best to health to you and your 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.600 family and stay clear of this thing. Will you absolutely 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:36.240 thank you, guys enjoining the opportunity. Ben Brouncker eleven games 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.280 last season, got that big touchdown pass. Who do you 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.720 catch at against again Fellas eighteen yard touchdown. It was 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.959 a heck of a catch during the season, six catches 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.440 over all fifty nine yards and a very very impactful 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.920 special teams player. Our guest here tonight on Chicago Sports 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.879 Radio six seventy the Score. Let's take a break and 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.040 we come back. We'll be joined by doctor Robert citron 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.000 Berg at the bottom of the hour, director of Infact 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.280 Just Disease, will continue the conversation about COVID nineteen from 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:07.399 Advocate Lutheran General in park Ridge. This is Chicago Sports 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:13.760 Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.200 Jeff thom and Jim with you on Chicago Sports Radio 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.000 at six seventy the Score. Good to be with you. 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.480 Coming up, we'll talk to doctor Robert Titchenburg from Advocate 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:26.840 Lutheran General and Park Ridge. In the meantime, obviously, Roger 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:31.119 Goodell last night making the move to close all NFL 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:37.520 headquarters facilities. Just the kicked in six o'clock local time 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.840 in an effort Jim to even the playing field as 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:44.159 teams get ready for what appears to be still the 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.080 NFL draft starting on April twenty three through the twenty fifth. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:51.120 I know there are gms that a subcommittee that met 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:53.399 trying to convince him to move it because of the 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:58.680 inherent difficulties involved with analyzing your college crop and then 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.840 making some very big important decisions for now in the future. 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:06.560 What's your take on all this and how's the league reacting? Yeah, 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:08.720 I still still think it is yet to be decided. 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.040 I know the NFL's kept a firm date that they 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:13.360 want to keep the draft as is. We just saw 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:16.960 the NHL just move their their draft. They move their 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.399 you know OTA's basically essentially and their season. It sounds 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.399 like could be moved back as well, or their training 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.320 camp I should say move back. So, you know, I 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:29.280 still think it's a fluid situation. Owners did meet, I 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:32.280 should say, they have like a group of owners that 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:34.840