Speaker 1: The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network
Speaker 1: and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official
Speaker 1: mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every day.
Speaker 1: And now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All Access
Speaker 1: passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical Physical
Speaker 1: Therapy and CDW. And welcome to this week's show, the
Speaker 1: Business of Football. Still Fast and Furious says it pertains
Speaker 1: to the Bears of the rest of the National Football
Speaker 1: League and these unknown times, these challenging time, it's good
Speaker 1: to have you alongside. Hope your day is going well
Speaker 1: everybody and the shelter in place. The virus, all the
Speaker 1: conversation about sports cancelations and postponents dominating the headlines obviously,
Speaker 1: but first and foremost, as we said last week, hoping
Speaker 1: everyone out there is healthy, Helping everybody out there doing okay,
Speaker 1: and if you have d or family that are are
Speaker 1: afflicted with this virus, you know, best wishes and get
Speaker 1: well soon is the storyline for tonight. Jeff Jonnyac along
Speaker 1: my broadcast partner from WBBM, Tom Thayer, the former Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear and Super Bowl champion and Jim Miller from Serious
Speaker 1: XM NFL Radio moving the chains in a former Bears
Speaker 1: quarterback of note fellas, how are you guys handling everything
Speaker 1: personally and professionally? Right now? We'll start a big tim Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, The reality of it is is our
Speaker 1: only concerns are really for the better to men of
Speaker 1: what's taking place with the coronavirus. But in our lives,
Speaker 1: the distraction of what's going on this year in the
Speaker 1: NFL is kind of unique in its own right. So
Speaker 1: it's nothing makes anything fun, but it's an interesting distraction
Speaker 1: to pay attention to. Whether you're looking at other teams
Speaker 1: around the league, you're looking at teams within the Bears division,
Speaker 1: or are you looking at the Bears themselves. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of new faces and numbers and names on this
Speaker 1: roster already. That's gonna be in interesting this watch this
Speaker 1: whole year mold together. Yeah, echo what Tom says. And
Speaker 1: hope everybody out there is doing well, and hey, these
Speaker 1: are trying times and business has to change. Teams are adjusting.
Speaker 1: We're all adjusting individually with what we've got to deal
Speaker 1: with and what our family's friends, everybody's going through right now.
Speaker 1: Personally though, Jeff, I can tell you, man, being home
Speaker 1: with four kids, these guys are wearing my ass out.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that right now. So I mean,
Speaker 1: God bless my wife Leah, and she's done this for
Speaker 1: a long time. But man, I'm in the front of
Speaker 1: the storm right now, let's just put it that way.
Speaker 1: And these guys are crushing me right now. Right there's
Speaker 1: no there's no eye of the hurricane here, there's no respite.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the full fury. And you know I've
Speaker 1: been hearing that from a lot of friends and and
Speaker 1: other people in our business. That a tip of the
Speaker 1: half to parents and to all the teachers out there
Speaker 1: who have done a great job teaching how all of
Speaker 1: our children, because it is not a easy task, no
Speaker 1: question about. I'm an empty nester right now. Kids are around,
Speaker 1: but they're not They're in college, so it's it's not
Speaker 1: like grade school kids are keeping kids occupied and entertained.
Speaker 1: So best job you can do as a parent is
Speaker 1: trying to pull that off. But yes, they do wearry
Speaker 1: out a little bit in a good way, in a
Speaker 1: good way, certainly, All right on Tonight's program we got,
Speaker 1: we got a bunch of stuff coming up. We got
Speaker 1: Ben Bronicker, the fifth year tight end, going to join
Speaker 1: the program, unique in that he studied infectious disease at
Speaker 1: Harvard Topical. Indeed, I know he's been out of the
Speaker 1: air here on the score earlier this week, but we'll
Speaker 1: delve into that with him, and then we'll be joined
Speaker 1: at a round six thirty by doctor Robert Citronberg, the
Speaker 1: director of infectious Disease at Advocate Lutheran General and Park Ridge.
Speaker 1: That'll be a very interesting conversation. We got a bunch
Speaker 1: of questions to him regarding the virus, how it affects
Speaker 1: you and your everyday life, and how it will affect
Speaker 1: sports moving forward, So we'll get your questions answered about
Speaker 1: that as well. News of the day today fellas Tom
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman with a first round grade on him
Speaker 1: when he came out of Texas A and m Jermain Effetti,
Speaker 1: former Seattle seahawk who's played the majority of his grit
Speaker 1: right tackle but a bunch of snaps at right guard,
Speaker 1: gets a one year deal reportedly with the Bears and
Speaker 1: conceivably could be competing for that right guard job. And
Speaker 1: then the reacquisition of Tyler Bray somebody time you think
Speaker 1: highly of. Yeah, I like Tyler Bray. I like the
Speaker 1: fact that he's been in the system, But I want
Speaker 1: to give him an opportunity to compete. I know that
Speaker 1: the interesting story of note of the last couple of
Speaker 1: days or net last week or so has been Nick
Speaker 1: Folds and Mitch Dubisky. But I think Tyler Bray's got
Speaker 1: to come in there with his you know chest hell,
Speaker 1: you know, is head held up high and his chest
Speaker 1: sticking out and come in here to compete. And I
Speaker 1: just think that adds to it. But you know, when
Speaker 1: you're talking about offensive line play, and you know, you're
Speaker 1: talking about bringing a guy that's played a majority of
Speaker 1: his time at offensive tackle and thinking about moving him
Speaker 1: as a guard. Six five three and twenty four pound
Speaker 1: guy been plagued by holding calls. And I think the
Speaker 1: one thing that is really interesting, when you take a
Speaker 1: tackle and move into the guard, you lessen the space
Speaker 1: and you lessen that that outreach of the arms in
Speaker 1: terms of the past protection responsibilities that you have. So
Speaker 1: I do think if they come in here and they
Speaker 1: want to make some changes and give him some opportunity
Speaker 1: at right guard. I think that would be the best
Speaker 1: spot for him right now and time. I want to
Speaker 1: follow up on that just because because as you know,
Speaker 1: things happen quicker inside at the at the guard spot,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the holding calls. At one point Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll did bench him, and I think it was last preseason.
Speaker 1: You know, they benched him just too many holding calls
Speaker 1: and things like that, just to kind of send a
Speaker 1: message to FORFETI did end up playing and a lot
Speaker 1: of games that it has played a lot overall. But
Speaker 1: how things happen quicker, how will it affect him in
Speaker 1: terms of his hand placement and how fast it happens
Speaker 1: in a full booth inside? You know, the one thing
Speaker 1: about it is you have am media help both both
Speaker 1: to your right and your left, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of instances that you can take away a majority of
Speaker 1: what that inside guy can do against you because you
Speaker 1: know where your help is coming from. Whereas in an
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, there's a certain percentage of the time that
Speaker 1: you're going on a line of scrimmage and you know
Speaker 1: that you're on an island. There's no way that that
Speaker 1: protection is going to come back and help you or
Speaker 1: get you a backside protection. So that's the unique thing
Speaker 1: about playing inside. You always can gain a little bit
Speaker 1: of an advantage because you know you have a little
Speaker 1: bit of help from your right to your left. And
Speaker 1: I will add this, that's a scrambling quarterback in Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: and a lot of Ffetti calls have happened on the
Speaker 1: scramble drill. You know where really you don't know where
Speaker 1: the quarterback's going and time maybe you can follow up
Speaker 1: on this as well. You got to get a feel
Speaker 1: when you've got a quarterback as mobile as say a
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, And certainly we know Mitchell Trubisky's very mobile.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say Nick Foles is in that mobile category,
Speaker 1: but certainly has enough mobility to move out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: But that's where it seems like Affetti had the most
Speaker 1: trouble really getting a field for which way his quarterback
Speaker 1: was bailing out of the bucket in Seattle. Well, you
Speaker 1: know that's the one thing about what Russell Wilson. You
Speaker 1: can have a direction of protection that's built in to
Speaker 1: benefit the offensive line and all the protectors, but it's
Speaker 1: no guarantee Russell Wilson's gonna follow that plan. So if
Speaker 1: he runs away from the design, that's when you put
Speaker 1: your backside offensive lineman and jeopardy of those repeated holding calls,
Speaker 1: All right, one segment in the books. Thanks for our
Speaker 1: producer tonight, Julio Roso helping a sound spend of the
Speaker 1: dials and making this show happen. From the Score Studios,
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access. Ben Bronnicker joining us next
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Bears All Access, front to you by IGS Energy,
Speaker 1: a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity natural
Speaker 1: gas in home warranty products to over one million customers
Speaker 1: across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs
Speaker 1: dot com. Jeff Joni Actim there, Jim Miller with you
Speaker 1: on this week's edition. Coming to you on a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Hope everybody's doing okay and handling the State at home
Speaker 1: prospect and that includes our special guests johnt Us right now,
Speaker 1: being kind of busy this week doing some interviews and
Speaker 1: fifty years time end. Ben Bronnicker, Good evening, How you doing,
Speaker 1: my friend doing our Hi, gentlemen, I'm good, Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me on. Good they've given you something to do, huh.
Speaker 1: I the bears just to shoot out on their on
Speaker 1: their social plan from the resident scientists. Then bronicker. You
Speaker 1: like it? You like how that sounds? Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: Where more like it? More I can do? Right? Yeah? Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1: Well this is I have I have a question for you,
Speaker 1: Ben this tomp there um. So during your education of
Speaker 1: this type of interest, do they put these types of
Speaker 1: scenarios in there and saying, you know what do you
Speaker 1: start thinking about? Where? Where does your mind go? What
Speaker 1: should be step number one? If this thing actually and occurred? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess a little bit, not something as specifically as
Speaker 1: a global pandemic. But I have familiarized myself, or the
Speaker 1: courses have familiarized me to epidemiological data, which is just
Speaker 1: how the disease spread through a population, looking at one
Speaker 1: patient and then seeing how many people he talked to
Speaker 1: or he or she talked to, and how many people
Speaker 1: caught the disease after that interaction, and using models just
Speaker 1: to determine how quickly something can spread through a population.
Speaker 1: But I haven't seen anything or have been formally educated
Speaker 1: on something in this scale. Now, well let me ask
Speaker 1: you this Ben Jim Miller here, good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody's oh, well, just getting into molecular biology
Speaker 1: and cell biology and all the things you studied in
Speaker 1: infectious disease. One. What steered you in that direction, because
Speaker 1: you know, much like all of us, we're just you know,
Speaker 1: that's something that never interested me. But hey, certainly we
Speaker 1: want to know about coronavirus. What's it about how it
Speaker 1: can affect you? And everybody's trying to catch it up.
Speaker 1: But you, at an early age were steered in that direction,
Speaker 1: and then it interested you to study stuff like this,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what brought that about? What
Speaker 1: steered you in that direction? Yeah, I think just first
Speaker 1: off as general fascination with viruses, bacteria, parasites, all sorts
Speaker 1: of pathogens, but especially viruses, And then too, I thought
Speaker 1: it was something in the future that is going to
Speaker 1: be very useful, very prevalent. And just look at in
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, hardly a year goes by
Speaker 1: without some sort of outbreak, not anything on this scale
Speaker 1: in recent memory, but I think back to Zeka Bowl
Speaker 1: H one N one. So I just thought it was
Speaker 1: one something that I just had an inherent fascination with
Speaker 1: and too that it would be a useful job down
Speaker 1: the road. Ben Bronnicker, our guest the Bears, veteran tight
Speaker 1: end who studied infectious disease at Harvard and launched into
Speaker 1: his NFL career and a post career. I still have
Speaker 1: designs on being a doctor, Ben, Is that pretty much
Speaker 1: the plan? Yeah. I always say that I've spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time and money on an education. I hope
Speaker 1: to use that someday. Hey, Ben, an instance like this,
Speaker 1: do you think it's harder on the educated or the
Speaker 1: on And I consider myself the uneducated because we're only
Speaker 1: learning about it from what we read through our phones
Speaker 1: or what we see on TV. Or for a guy
Speaker 1: like yourself that understands the reality of it, because sometimes
Speaker 1: we're afraid of what we don't know. Is as concerning
Speaker 1: for someone who knows, like yourself. Well, that's interesting. I'm
Speaker 1: not exactly sure. I think both sides, the educat and
Speaker 1: the uneducated, in the dark about, or at least initially,
Speaker 1: we're in the dark about what exactly this is and
Speaker 1: how effective it was and how it was spread, symptoms
Speaker 1: and why they vary between different people. So I think
Speaker 1: that both sides are still learning, and there are a
Speaker 1: lot of unanswered questions still out there, and the brightest
Speaker 1: minds of the world are now putting their heads together
Speaker 1: and trying to figure those out. Yeah, and then for me,
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by this, you know, and how they talk
Speaker 1: about it being a new strain and how viruses can
Speaker 1: mutate and and things like that. And you're more knowledgeable
Speaker 1: than me. It's almost like taking us back to Charles
Speaker 1: Darwin and the strongest survive and just how quickly these
Speaker 1: viruses can mutate. Maybe if you can education us a
Speaker 1: little bit on that. Well, sure, every all virus types
Speaker 1: are different, coronavirus versus flu versus um, you know, the
Speaker 1: different strains of flu, and so they all have our
Speaker 1: different rates of mutation. I'm not exactly sure how this
Speaker 1: new coronavirus does its business. Um, But viruses are basically
Speaker 1: just lifeless chunks of protein and and nucleotide matter. I mean,
Speaker 1: programming that just aimlessly floats around and tries to Its
Speaker 1: job is just to infect cells and replicate that. It's
Speaker 1: not alive. It doesn't move on its own. It I
Speaker 1: mean can't even really survive on its own, so it's
Speaker 1: existence entirely depends on a host, and in this case
Speaker 1: it's it's us our lung cells. So but anytime there's
Speaker 1: an infection, let's say, with a new virus in a
Speaker 1: host cell, then there's a chance when the new viral
Speaker 1: copies are being made, the transcriptional machineries of the selling
Speaker 1: machinery that makes the genetic material can make a mistake
Speaker 1: and then voila, You've got a new mutation in a virus.
Speaker 1: Most of the time this would be harmless. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: would be bad for the virus. Sometimes it would be
Speaker 1: bad for us. So it's really just a game of
Speaker 1: dice and chance when it comes to mutations. This is
Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy of
Speaker 1: the score please to be joined by Ben Bronicker. There's
Speaker 1: tied and as he prepares for an offseason of uncertainty
Speaker 1: right now amid all the issues with the coronavirus and
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. You know, whenever I do speaking engagements or
Speaker 1: people want to talk about, you know, doing this as
Speaker 1: a career or whatever, I always say, hey, no matter
Speaker 1: what you do, follow your passion. So it looks like
Speaker 1: you have multiple passions. But in a situation like this,
Speaker 1: you just is it something where you're so passionate about
Speaker 1: it as well that I love to get under a
Speaker 1: microscope and take a look at this thing and try
Speaker 1: and figure it out. Yeah, I mean, I'd love to
Speaker 1: help out on this stuff. But I realized that kind
Speaker 1: of invested in this football stuff. So I've got a
Speaker 1: little bit of training to catch myself up to speed
Speaker 1: of it. Just not able to do right now because
Speaker 1: I have a different career, But in due time, we'll
Speaker 1: get to that for sure. Hey Ben, what about access
Speaker 1: to what you need in order to be prepared for
Speaker 1: your football career? Because you know, uniquely NFL players they
Speaker 1: need a lot of weight, They need spotters that are
Speaker 1: educated on how to help the players the most. Do
Speaker 1: you have access to what you need to get yourself
Speaker 1: ready for whatever you're going to go through this year? Well, frankly,
Speaker 1: at this time, no, it's a different challenge this off
Speaker 1: season for sure. I think that most players in the
Speaker 1: NFL right now in their off season don't have access
Speaker 1: to a gym. I think most of them are closed. So,
Speaker 1: speaking for myself and maybe a couple of them, we're
Speaker 1: just trying to get creative with exercise and weightlifting. Really,
Speaker 1: our strength training is going to suffer a little bit,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. There'll be time later before the actual
Speaker 1: NFL season, hopefully to catch our bodies back up and
Speaker 1: get them to where we need them to be. But
Speaker 1: as of right now, it's just trying to manage this
Speaker 1: as best as possible. To do some strength maintenance stuff,
Speaker 1: staying in great shape, running a lot. I know that
Speaker 1: you can keep your muscle mass on your body if
Speaker 1: you sprint at higher than eighty percent max effort, so
Speaker 1: you still tit. See. That's why I want to hear
Speaker 1: that Harvard and Ivy League degree. I should say coming
Speaker 1: to the table, but I want to hear that. I
Speaker 1: want to we asked Iggy this last week, your teammate.
Speaker 1: I want to hear like a Herschel Walker workout, Like
Speaker 1: you're doing a thousand push ups, a thousand setups, and
Speaker 1: you're getting it done. You know what I'm saying, Ben,
Speaker 1: you gotta stay active. Yeah I'm not. I'm not on
Speaker 1: Herschel's level, but it sounds kind of barbarica, like picking
Speaker 1: heavy things up around you that I can find and
Speaker 1: putting them back down, whether let's furniture, around the house
Speaker 1: or some pretty good chunk or pretty good sized rocks.
Speaker 1: Just doing whatever I can. Hey, I heard Greg Gaines
Speaker 1: at the La Rams University of Washington a let me
Speaker 1: lives in Idaho. He cut down a huge tree and
Speaker 1: put a bunch of padding on it so he can
Speaker 1: do squats. So there you go. The creativity is kicking in.
Speaker 1: Have you heard any of your teammates coming up with
Speaker 1: anything unique like that? Yeah, it was something similar. A
Speaker 1: former teammate of mine at Harvard, Kyle Busteck, fullback for
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, now was training somewhere in the
Speaker 1: Northwest like that and cut down a tree and was
Speaker 1: using it to lunge around in his yard. And he
Speaker 1: was also pulling his wife on a sled in his
Speaker 1: snow So whatever works, right. We all saw Rocky three
Speaker 1: when he went back to the barbaric training in the
Speaker 1: Siberian snow covered hills, and so every everybody has an
Speaker 1: example of that. Yeah, no question about it. Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: Let's talk just a little bit of football and knowing
Speaker 1: what's going on, knowing the uncertainty, is there anything as
Speaker 1: a current player with obviously safety first, health of entire
Speaker 1: nation and an entire world first and foremost that you
Speaker 1: could say to massage the fears of a prolonged delay
Speaker 1: for football to return for the average fan. I wish
Speaker 1: I could say something complete, but I really can't. I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of in the same boat as all those
Speaker 1: fans and hoping that the worst part of this outbreak
Speaker 1: is going to be over by the time September rolls around.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure anybody knows that answer right now, unfortunately. Well,
Speaker 1: what about how you're currently dealing with it, and the
Speaker 1: workouts and how you're trying to make do and obviously
Speaker 1: health and training and what you eat and all those things.
Speaker 1: How quickly can you flip the switch? You think? What
Speaker 1: it does return to a normal seat from your standpoint? Then?
Speaker 1: And you know, like, how long do you think it
Speaker 1: will take you to get back to where you need
Speaker 1: to be? Yeah, that's a that's a good question. Um myself,
Speaker 1: I think maybe a month, month and a half. Obviously
Speaker 1: there's more tend to better, but for talking minimums, I
Speaker 1: could probably get there too, pretty good shape to being
Speaker 1: ready for training camping about four to six weeks really
Speaker 1: hard training. Hey, Ben, you know there's a whole new
Speaker 1: room of coaches up there, and you know, you're kind
Speaker 1: of a unique guy because you play tight end next
Speaker 1: of the tackle, you play the U tight end, you
Speaker 1: play h back, and you play fullback. So what coach
Speaker 1: do you gravitate towards when you have so many new coaches?
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you had a chance to
Speaker 1: meet him and be introduced him in any way. And
Speaker 1: so it was a coach Barone that contacted you. His
Speaker 1: coach Burn's first week at Hollis Hall, I was still
Speaker 1: in Chicago and I was able to meet him there.
Speaker 1: I've learned that they've since all they stopped going into house. Also,
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to meet any of the
Speaker 1: other new guys, but I like coach Broom so far.
Speaker 1: All right, Ben ben Brouncker, our guest here in Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy the Score. We appreciate taking some time.
Speaker 1: I know you've been busy y' all week with this
Speaker 1: kind of topic, but we do appreciate the knowledge and
Speaker 1: first and foremost best to health to you and your
Speaker 1: family and stay clear of this thing. Will you absolutely
Speaker 1: thank you, guys enjoining the opportunity. Ben Brouncker eleven games
Speaker 1: last season, got that big touchdown pass. Who do you
Speaker 1: catch at against again Fellas eighteen yard touchdown. It was
Speaker 1: a heck of a catch during the season, six catches
Speaker 1: over all fifty nine yards and a very very impactful
Speaker 1: special teams player. Our guest here tonight on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the Score. Let's take a break and
Speaker 1: we come back. We'll be joined by doctor Robert citron
Speaker 1: Berg at the bottom of the hour, director of Infact
Speaker 1: Just Disease, will continue the conversation about COVID nineteen from
Speaker 1: Advocate Lutheran General in park Ridge. This is Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: Jeff thom and Jim with you on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: at six seventy the Score. Good to be with you.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll talk to doctor Robert Titchenburg from Advocate
Speaker 1: Lutheran General and Park Ridge. In the meantime, obviously, Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell last night making the move to close all NFL
Speaker 1: headquarters facilities. Just the kicked in six o'clock local time
Speaker 1: in an effort Jim to even the playing field as
Speaker 1: teams get ready for what appears to be still the
Speaker 1: NFL draft starting on April twenty three through the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: I know there are gms that a subcommittee that met
Speaker 1: trying to convince him to move it because of the
Speaker 1: inherent difficulties involved with analyzing your college crop and then
Speaker 1: making some very big important decisions for now in the future.
Speaker 1: What's your take on all this and how's the league reacting? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still still think it is yet to be decided.
Speaker 1: I know the NFL's kept a firm date that they
Speaker 1: want to keep the draft as is. We just saw
Speaker 1: the NHL just move their their draft. They move their
Speaker 1: you know OTA's basically essentially and their season. It sounds
Speaker 1: like could be moved back as well, or their training
Speaker 1: camp I should say move back. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: still think it's a fluid situation. Owners did meet, I
Speaker 1: should say, they have like a group of owners that
Speaker 1: obviously they meet in a committee and the vote was
Speaker 1: six one that general managers did want to move the
Speaker 1: draft just to give them more time to prepare, you know,
Speaker 1: because like you said, getting medical evaluations is very tough
Speaker 1: right now. I mean owners right now in GM they
Speaker 1: don't even know if they're going to get the medical
Speaker 1: rechecks from the Indianapolis combine. You know, so normally the
Speaker 1: players they have the combine, which obviously already happened, then
Speaker 1: they go back for a medical recheck. If there's any
Speaker 1: players that are flagged and so obviously travel restricted, you
Speaker 1: won't be able to get those medical rechecks. And do
Speaker 1: you trust, say a local doctor who you're not familiar
Speaker 1: with to give you those medical rechecks. So I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot ongoing. It's fluid. Some of those players
Speaker 1: will probably be taken off the board. Character risk guys
Speaker 1: probably will be taken off a lot of the draft boards.
Speaker 1: Small school players that maybe a team would bring that
Speaker 1: player in for eight an official visit, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Out of the thirty visits that teams can get, that
Speaker 1: is now scraps. So maybe you don't feel, as you know,
Speaker 1: is convinced about a small school prospect because you don't
Speaker 1: get to have a face to face with them and
Speaker 1: really get to know somebody. You still can, though, do
Speaker 1: video conferencing and all those type of things, but it's
Speaker 1: limited in terms of the information. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: as thorough as what it normally would be. Four teams.
Speaker 1: So it's only right that a lot of GMS would
Speaker 1: like to push the NFL draft back, and most teams,
Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, Jeff granted the NFL and Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell shut down all facilities for two weeks. Is it
Speaker 1: shut down further? You know, will teams even be in
Speaker 1: their facilities come draft time? Those are all the challenges
Speaker 1: because how you're going to set up a war room.
Speaker 1: You're not It's not going to be in Vegas this year,
Speaker 1: so it's probably going to be at the team facility
Speaker 1: or at a local hotel where you can you know,
Speaker 1: at least run out, say a conference room and make
Speaker 1: like a war room in a hotel, whether it's at
Speaker 1: the Hyatt Downtown or wherever the Bears choose to make
Speaker 1: that destination. So I think it is pretty difficult for
Speaker 1: teams right now, and maybe it's something that Commissioner Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell will reevaluate. But it's still going to be broadcast,
Speaker 1: and there's still a lot going on and a lot
Speaker 1: of fluidity to it right now. It's what i'd say,
Speaker 1: lots of hurdles, all right, Jim time now, welcome in
Speaker 1: doctor Roberts Sitchenberg, director of infectious Health at Advocate Lutheran
Speaker 1: General and Park Ridge. Thanks for hanging on and the
Speaker 1: good doctor. First of all, big thank you to you,
Speaker 1: every single doctor, nurse, volunteer, hospital, medical employee, you name it,
Speaker 1: on the front lines at Advocate and just at every
Speaker 1: hospital and medical medical facility throughout this nation. I imagine
Speaker 1: it's high stress level and long days and amazing sacrifice
Speaker 1: going on right now. Well, thank you if that's very kind,
Speaker 1: and we are all working hard. We have a motto,
Speaker 1: we go to work for you, you stay home for us.
Speaker 1: That's what we're asking everyone to do. You know, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it to this top there, and I think any
Speaker 1: of us would. It would be ungrateful if we didn't
Speaker 1: tell everybody, every one of your co workers, every one
Speaker 1: of your supports, staff, how thankful we are. My question
Speaker 1: to you is because I was talking to Ben Bronicker
Speaker 1: and we were talking about the educated and then the
Speaker 1: un educated, and I consider myself the non educated, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you get so much information it creates anxiety and
Speaker 1: it's scary. Is social media nowadays an asset or is
Speaker 1: it a liability in terms of trying to get the
Speaker 1: information out there. It's so overwhelming right now. I think
Speaker 1: if you're careful to only look at reputable sources for news.
Speaker 1: It's fine, but there's so much misinformation, myths, and downright
Speaker 1: dangerous information that's being sent out on social media. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm urging people only to get their news from really reliable,
Speaker 1: reputable sources. There's a lot of home remedies and things
Speaker 1: that just don't work and that I think can be
Speaker 1: dangerous if taking the wrong way. Doc Jim Miller here,
Speaker 1: and then thanks for joining us, and appreciate all that
Speaker 1: you're doing. You and all your colleagues. Just get us
Speaker 1: currently up to date and where this virus is that.
Speaker 1: I know we talk about flattening the curve at least
Speaker 1: from the information that we've gotten about this isolation and
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do to stop the spread of
Speaker 1: this virus. But any anything new, anything you can add
Speaker 1: to where currently this situation is that in this pandemic
Speaker 1: globally that we're dealing with. Yeah, Jim, that's a great question,
Speaker 1: little perspective. The first case or case reports were described
Speaker 1: in China on December thirty first, twenty nineteen. That wasn't
Speaker 1: even three months ago, and as of today there's almost
Speaker 1: there's over four hundred and sixty six thousand cases worldwide,
Speaker 1: over sixty five thousand cases in the US in less
Speaker 1: than three months. This was on No one's radar three
Speaker 1: months ago, and that just tells you it's amazing how
Speaker 1: fast this virus has spread. We are definitely in full
Speaker 1: pandemic mode right now. We have seen cases at all
Speaker 1: the area hospital have ramped up a lot in the
Speaker 1: last week or so, last week or ten days, we're
Speaker 1: seeing a huge number of patients who are coming in
Speaker 1: with this disease. Some of them are not too sick,
Speaker 1: but some of them are very sick. So we're right
Speaker 1: now or we can manage it with our capacity. What
Speaker 1: we're concerned about is what happens in another week or
Speaker 1: two weeks, if the cases double or triple. Can our
Speaker 1: healthcare system hold on? And that's a really big question
Speaker 1: right now that we don't have the answer to. Doctor
Speaker 1: Robert Sitchenberg, the director of infectious Disease at Advocate Lutheran
Speaker 1: General Parkridge, here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the
Speaker 1: Score and just listening to Mirror Lightfoot this afternoon. Somewhat
Speaker 1: of a scolding out there for those who are not
Speaker 1: taking the shelter in place and all of this social
Speaker 1: distancing seriously and basically suggesting that you know, we will
Speaker 1: shut down more if you don't oblige. And it sounds
Speaker 1: simple to just stay at home, and it sounds a
Speaker 1: tad inconvenient understandable, But is that your biggest concern right now?
Speaker 1: Is that not everybody takes it seriously in the same vein, oh,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. And it's really it is a simple concept,
Speaker 1: and if you know how the virus is transmitted, you
Speaker 1: can understand why you need to stay away. You basically
Speaker 1: need to be within six feet of someone who has
Speaker 1: the virus to catch it. And why six feet is
Speaker 1: the magic number is because if you had the virus,
Speaker 1: you cough, the droplets that come out of your mouth
Speaker 1: that contain the virus travel up to about six feet
Speaker 1: and then they hit the ground. So really, with some
Speaker 1: rare exceptions, that's really the only way you can get it.
Speaker 1: You can, of course touch it and infect yourself from
Speaker 1: your face, but that's basically the main way. Somebody costs
Speaker 1: in your vicinity and you get it. So that's the
Speaker 1: purpose of social distancing. Make sure we stay at least
Speaker 1: six feet away from each other, And it is really
Speaker 1: important and it's funny because if you do it properly,
Speaker 1: if everyone does it, it works. It absolutely will work.
Speaker 1: It doesn't give the virus a chance. But if not
Speaker 1: everybody does it, then it won't work. And I think
Speaker 1: that the mayor was correct to issue that scolding. Especially
Speaker 1: I'll tell you it seems like a lot of the
Speaker 1: people that are out in crowds are younger people, and
Speaker 1: they have this feeling that while they're young, they're not
Speaker 1: going to get sick from the coronavirus. Well, as it
Speaker 1: turns out, we now know that in this country right now,
Speaker 1: forty percent of the people hospitalized with COVID nineteen or
Speaker 1: between the ages of twenty nine and fifty four. So
Speaker 1: it is not just a disease of old people. So
Speaker 1: anyone is susceptible. Certainly, if you're older, or compromised, or
Speaker 1: have a lot of chronic medical conditions, you're at higher risk.
Speaker 1: But this affects everyone, and that we're trying to get
Speaker 1: that message out, especially to younger people, that this can
Speaker 1: affect you, and if it doesn't affect you, it might
Speaker 1: affect your parents, it might affect your grandparents, and so
Speaker 1: it's really really important for everyone to stay apart I'm sorry, doctor.
Speaker 1: You know, we're kind of in a precurious position here
Speaker 1: because as the weather it gets nicer, more people are
Speaker 1: going to want to go outside, and even if they're
Speaker 1: practicing social distancing, as summer comes upon us, does that
Speaker 1: like threaten the health of the disease or does that
Speaker 1: is that out of factor at all in how it
Speaker 1: can continuously be spread. So it's a question that we
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to yet. So that's based on
Speaker 1: we know that. So this coronavirus is part of a
Speaker 1: large family of coronaviruses, some of who just cause common colds.
Speaker 1: In general, that family of viruses is seasonal. They're winter
Speaker 1: time viruses. They tend to go away after the wintertime.
Speaker 1: We don't know yet about this virus how it's going
Speaker 1: to behave. We're hopeful that the change in seasons will help.
Speaker 1: Right now, if you look at the world map of coronavirus,
Speaker 1: the vast majority of cases are in the northern hemisphere,
Speaker 1: So it seems like there may be some seasonality to
Speaker 1: it where it's winter time in the northern hemisphere. We
Speaker 1: just don't know. We're hopeful that the change in seasons
Speaker 1: will allow us will make it easier to contain the
Speaker 1: virus or to reduce it spread. We're going to be
Speaker 1: following that very closely, but we just don't know yet,
Speaker 1: but that certainly would be a big help. But to
Speaker 1: your point, people are going to want to get outside
Speaker 1: more when the weather gets nice, and we have to
Speaker 1: be really careful even when the weather is nice to
Speaker 1: maintain social distance. Yeah, and as we practice this social
Speaker 1: distancing from the medical field and everything that's been advised.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about this. Sounds like the testing
Speaker 1: has gone better, doctor, from what I read in the
Speaker 1: information that I gather. But let's say you are at home,
Speaker 1: you're you're not feeling well, you know, you know, and
Speaker 1: you you feel you know this this could be creeping
Speaker 1: into your family or your personal health. I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you do? What advice would you give to get
Speaker 1: the testing that sounds so crucial in dealing with CORED nineteen. Well,
Speaker 1: the first thing is that the first thing you should
Speaker 1: do if you're having symptoms you think you might have
Speaker 1: the needs to call your doctor. And you know, most
Speaker 1: of the healthcare systems have online portals where you can
Speaker 1: even video chat or you can video chat with your doctor,
Speaker 1: your provider. That way just to get some information. So
Speaker 1: we got off to a pretty late start with testing
Speaker 1: in this country and for a variety of reasons, but
Speaker 1: we just weren't ready, we being our government in public health,
Speaker 1: and we weren't ready for this in testing. You know,
Speaker 1: in South Korea they tested ten thousand people a day
Speaker 1: from the very beginning, and we have not come anywhere
Speaker 1: near that. Now, finally we are doing more testing. We're
Speaker 1: reserving our testing right now though for people who are ill,
Speaker 1: who are hospitalized, for people who are first responders, because
Speaker 1: it's real important, we know, but for somebody who has
Speaker 1: mild illness at home. Most of people do not need
Speaker 1: to get tested now. We're just but the most important
Speaker 1: thing is you've got to call your doctor and you
Speaker 1: have to stay home if you have an illness that
Speaker 1: sounds like it might be COVID nineteen Well, doc, let
Speaker 1: me follow up with this, because it's pretty amazing how
Speaker 1: resilient the medical field has in terms of the drive
Speaker 1: up testing and just how fluid and flexible the medical
Speaker 1: field has been to adjust to a pandemic like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, over the years we've talked about Spanish fluid,
Speaker 1: German measles, and all that, but just the flexibility of
Speaker 1: the medical field and how quickly it was able to
Speaker 1: change gears and adjust to even have drive up testing
Speaker 1: and things that are available now. Yeah, it's pretty amazing,
Speaker 1: and it's honestly it's a testament to the hard working
Speaker 1: people who have put together we had at our hospital.
Speaker 1: We've been working on this day and night for the
Speaker 1: last couple of months, and as have our hospitals and
Speaker 1: healthcare systems around the country. Nobody even knew what this
Speaker 1: was two months ago, and now you're right, we've got
Speaker 1: we've got all these testing stations. We've got not only that,
Speaker 1: but we've got new drugs that are that appear promising
Speaker 1: that we're using that we're not even on the radar
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. So it is it's amazing how much
Speaker 1: our knowledge has expanded, even every single day. That's encouraging.
Speaker 1: Actually we're learning more and more about it, but it
Speaker 1: is pretty amazing how fast we've been able to get
Speaker 1: things going. Doctor Robert Citronberg, director of Infectious Disease at
Speaker 1: Advocate Lutheran General park Ridge, and again, special thanks to
Speaker 1: Advocate for everything that you're doing out there for all
Speaker 1: of us, and if you doubt mayor lightfoot. As of
Speaker 1: this moment, Chicago police started the block off the Lakefront
Speaker 1: trail at North Avenue Beach, so she is not messing around,
Speaker 1: And I think that's the proper way to go about this.
Speaker 1: A word on football, word on sports, because this is
Speaker 1: the time of year when you know, we just had
Speaker 1: Ben Bronick around, Guys are trying to get creative, to
Speaker 1: stay in shape with an unknown start date and unknown
Speaker 1: when or if any of these sports from baseball to
Speaker 1: basketball to hockey, if and when they do resume. What
Speaker 1: is your advice as a director of infectious disease to
Speaker 1: all athletes who are going to have to strike that
Speaker 1: balance of this is my career, this is where I'm
Speaker 1: making my money. I'm in the spotlight and these professional sports,
Speaker 1: and I know I have to follow the rules, But
Speaker 1: what advice do you give them? And even for parents
Speaker 1: who sometimes can be a bit over zealous about pushing
Speaker 1: their own kids to continue to dedicate a big chunk
Speaker 1: of their time to get ready for their individual sports,
Speaker 1: even at the youth level, well that's first and foremost.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of these can't even get into
Speaker 1: their training facilities now, so their own training has been compromised.
Speaker 1: But I think we're also going to rely on some
Speaker 1: of our professional athletes to be spokesman for especially younger generation,
Speaker 1: to who encourage them to stay at home. And I
Speaker 1: think they can have a very strong voice in the
Speaker 1: community to encourage people to just let them know just
Speaker 1: how important this is. Not just the mayor talking, it's
Speaker 1: not just the government talking. But it might be your
Speaker 1: favorite baseball player, favorite football players giving you the same message.
Speaker 1: But it does have real consequences. You know, I'm a
Speaker 1: huge sports fan, and baseball season is you know, there
Speaker 1: is a real possibility there will be no baseball this year,
Speaker 1: and people have to understand that this shelter in place
Speaker 1: and social distancing, this is not going to end in
Speaker 1: two weeks. It might be eight weeks, ten weeks, twelve weeks,
Speaker 1: and then if you look at the calendar, or almost
Speaker 1: at April first. So if players can't let's say baseball
Speaker 1: players can't start working out till July first, they I
Speaker 1: need another four or six weeks of training. Then you're
Speaker 1: into August, and are you going to have a baseball
Speaker 1: season just in August and September. So there's a real
Speaker 1: big question in my mind, well, whether there will be
Speaker 1: any baseball this year, especially because when activities start to
Speaker 1: resume to normal, they're going to start to resume in
Speaker 1: smaller groups, and the last thing that will resume are
Speaker 1: the larger groups like stadium crowds. So I think there's
Speaker 1: a real possibility that not only will there will be
Speaker 1: no baseball, but that seems pretty likely that football training
Speaker 1: camps can be pushed back. The season maybe pushed back.
Speaker 1: It might even flow down to basketball and hockey. So
Speaker 1: I think we really have to be in this for
Speaker 1: the long term and really have to dig in. It's
Speaker 1: really hard to do, but it's so important, and the
Speaker 1: risk of re entering too soon is that this epidemic
Speaker 1: could essentially explode and overwhelm our healthcare system. So that's
Speaker 1: why we have to be very cautious about re entering
Speaker 1: too soon. We're gonna end up aacrificing some of our
Speaker 1: sports this year, But in the long run, I just
Speaker 1: hope that we remember twenty twentieth the year that we
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of sports, and if that's all
Speaker 1: we remembered for that's great. All right. We know you
Speaker 1: have a lot to do. Your time is valuable and
Speaker 1: you have no idea how informative this was to our
Speaker 1: listeners and to us, So we really appreciate you taking
Speaker 1: the time. Maybe we can have you on again because
Speaker 1: we don't think this is going away too soon, and
Speaker 1: doctor really appreciate it. Thank you so much staying up
Speaker 1: for yourself and your family. Thanks to Advocate Healthcare too,
Speaker 1: doctor Robert Sitchenberg, director of Infectious Disease at Advocate Lutheran General,
Speaker 1: and Park Ridge. A final segment coming up here on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of
Speaker 1: Bears All Access is brought to you by CDWD. People
Speaker 1: to get it learn more at CW dot com. Thanks
Speaker 1: as always the video ROSSEO. The producers on this show
Speaker 1: always have a very challenging job because we're all over
Speaker 1: the place. Jim's in Michigan, Tom's in a Chicago home,
Speaker 1: and I'm out in the suburbs. We've done this internationally,
Speaker 1: Tom and Maui and they always get it right. So
Speaker 1: all the different producers at the Score, you guys do
Speaker 1: an unbelievable job and a lot of credit goes to
Speaker 1: you guys for making this thing happen. So appreciated. Guys.
Speaker 1: Just listening to the doctor Sitchenberg, I'm left more nervous
Speaker 1: I guess about what's ahead than not. Well, you know what, Jeff,
Speaker 1: if people are naive, then you should be scared. If
Speaker 1: people can respect the medical field. And like jim said,
Speaker 1: how rallying these guys have been to get some of
Speaker 1: the most intelligent minds in the world together and try
Speaker 1: to formulate a plan and how to slow it down
Speaker 1: and then hopefully create a vaccine as the big picture.
Speaker 1: But my gosh, if how much more pleading does it
Speaker 1: have to be on every type of media that you
Speaker 1: have access to to ask people to do the sensible thing.
Speaker 1: So if you are willing to do the sensible things,
Speaker 1: then you know, as much as you know there's concern
Speaker 1: for the doctors and all and the nurses and the
Speaker 1: whole support staff of every hospital in the world, there's
Speaker 1: a whole workforce out there that's putting themselves in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: So I think if you have to respect every every
Speaker 1: man and woman that's that's going to work every day
Speaker 1: trying to keep this thing supported. Yeah, and Jimmy hit
Speaker 1: it on the head when he said, you know, can't
Speaker 1: you can't And this has been the theme. You cannot,
Speaker 1: you cannot, under any circumstance have them, have the hospital
Speaker 1: system be overwhelmed, because yeah, and then you know, that's
Speaker 1: what you you worry about, you know. And you know
Speaker 1: here in New York or i should say in New
Speaker 1: York City, a lot of the New Yorkers have dispersed.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, that's a that's you know, an
Speaker 1: epicenter for it. And I know other areas of the
Speaker 1: country now are a little worried that maybe there's going
Speaker 1: to be some more breakouts in other areas. And this
Speaker 1: is I mean, this is unprecedented. I mean, you're you're
Speaker 1: trying to put the you know, thread through it through
Speaker 1: the eye of the needle hole, you know, because it
Speaker 1: is a balancing net because there's certainly there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there that want to get back to work.
Speaker 1: They want normalcy and and to get it back to
Speaker 1: normal as soon as possible, and that's the balancing act.
Speaker 1: Everybody is working, from state governments to the federal government
Speaker 1: and everybody involved. They understand, you know, how you know,
Speaker 1: how tight of a situation this is, and obviously are
Speaker 1: trying to take the precautionary route, and everybody is a
Speaker 1: little uneasy, and for the right reasons, and obviously want
Speaker 1: everybody to be healthy, but everybody wants to get back
Speaker 1: to normalcy is as soon as possible. But man, that
Speaker 1: is the fine line that they are running right now
Speaker 1: to make this happen. It sounds like some other parts
Speaker 1: of the world is starting to go a little bit better,
Speaker 1: So trying to use tips from from over there. The
Speaker 1: Italian doctors that they've talked to seem to have come
Speaker 1: up with some great ideas. So we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 1: But how quickly the medical field has reacted to this
Speaker 1: as is doctor just talked about I mean three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: this was just thrown upon everybody, upon everybody, and man,
Speaker 1: how quickly they've adjusted. Couldn't be more proud and how
Speaker 1: they've reacted because they have been quick on their feet
Speaker 1: and quick to adapt and adjust. And I want to
Speaker 1: give it shout out to Alan Robinson. Guys, he's got
Speaker 1: the We've talked to him about it, the Within Reach
Speaker 1: Foundation helping out Chicago Food Depository. He's teamed up with
Speaker 1: them and his aar within Reach at Greaterst. Chicago Food
Speaker 1: Depository and matching donations to the Greatest Chicago Food Depository
Speaker 1: up to twelve thousand dollars. So if you're gonna be
Speaker 1: willing to donate, do it today at givebox dot com
Speaker 1: backslash five one nine, three one two. And already Big
Speaker 1: Charles Lenno helping out his teammate. He's in for seventy
Speaker 1: two hundred bucks, matching his jersey number at seventy two.
Speaker 1: So but again, Allen Robinson is very much a part
Speaker 1: of our community and has been since he got here,
Speaker 1: brought his foundation here to Chicago and helping to get
Speaker 1: food on the table for Chicago area high school kids
Speaker 1: and Chicago school kids as well. So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to a rob as he
Speaker 1: gets ready for his twenty twenty season. And you're you're
Speaker 1: seeing it all over the place big time. Well that's
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, jeffre we are you know.
Speaker 1: The doctor even mentioned that how valuable the time is
Speaker 1: for these athletes and these movie stars and the singers,
Speaker 1: and just that they have the millions of popularity of
Speaker 1: followers on social media that go out and give that message,
Speaker 1: give it the right way, Tell the generations that you're
Speaker 1: talking to how important it is to support these workforces
Speaker 1: are trying to make this thing happen. So I've seen
Speaker 1: it by government officials asking the Kardashians to go out
Speaker 1: there and promote a positive message. And then you even
Speaker 1: hear a doctor that we had on doctor citroon that Citrinberg.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that, you know, spread that message of positive
Speaker 1: to make sure everybody gets it. Yeah, I'll tell you what, man,
Speaker 1: it just it makes me proud that and I know
Speaker 1: it's all businesses and how every American has really stepped
Speaker 1: up to do their part to help their their fellow neighbor,
Speaker 1: but just the sports world in general, from you know,
Speaker 1: organizations of teams, the players and how they've stepped up
Speaker 1: and donated to help their fellow man, woman, and child.
Speaker 1: It really is impressive when things have come to a
Speaker 1: kind of a screeching halt. But yeah, everybody is doing
Speaker 1: their part helping their fellow neighbor to get through a
Speaker 1: really tough time. And I'm sure we'll be talking about
Speaker 1: this every week until it's until it's fixed, right, guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be a topic of the show,
Speaker 1: and it's it serves as a vehicle for people to
Speaker 1: to learn a few things and we certainly have. Um
Speaker 1: before we step away, just one real quick note about
Speaker 1: about what Ryan Pace has done here in the offseason
Speaker 1: so far. You'll you'll look at it. I've cut a
Speaker 1: nineteen acquisitions unless my math's wrong here, which wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a surprise. Um, let's see. Let me do that again. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Speaker 1: About fourteen defensive players either resigned or brought in through
Speaker 1: free agency, and just seven on the offensive side. Again,
Speaker 1: these are all reported deals, they're not all official yet.
Speaker 1: But what's that tell you come draft day? Maybe you're
Speaker 1: fat Well, you know, they signed an offensive liveman today,
Speaker 1: so maybe there's a little bit less concern in that
Speaker 1: second round. And you know, is that safety still out
Speaker 1: there in the draft that these guys have interested in
Speaker 1: because they've been successful out of before. Well, to supplement
Speaker 1: the roster as it's currently built, you got to get
Speaker 1: some good players. We know, not a lot of draft picks.
Speaker 1: So I think they've shored up some of their needs
Speaker 1: in free agency that they needed to, and they got better,
Speaker 1: whether it's at quarterback or pass rusher by Ed and
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn. I do think they're stronger in those two
Speaker 1: areas that they addressed. All right, boys, stay healthy and
Speaker 1: stay on top of things. Good to have you guys
Speaker 1: alongside again. We'll talk to you next week. Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: I'm serious x MNFL Radio, former Bears quarterback and Tom
Speaker 1: Dammer broadcast partner. Thanks again to Ben Bronnicker, the Bears
Speaker 1: veteran tight end, and doctor Robert Hitchenberg, director of infectious
Speaker 1: disease advocate, Lutheran General in Park Ridge. I'm Jeff Jonny Ac.
Speaker 1: You have yourself a great even everybody will talk to
Speaker 1: you next week. You're on Bears All Access on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy The Score agone. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to this Chicago Bears Network presentation of Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: Podcasts are available on Chicago Bears dot com and on
Speaker 1: iTunes or download the official Bears mobile app. Bears All
Speaker 1: Access has been brought to you by IGS Energy and
Speaker 1: sponsored by Miller Litte