WEBVTT - Discussing Justin Fields' running QB ranking | Bears Weekly Podcast 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.119 Welcome in Tom Bears Weekly, a Chicago Bears Network production 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.600 download the Chicago Bears official app, brought to you by 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.960 Verizon to follow the team on ago. Bears Weekly is 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:17.240 brought to you by Advocate Healthcare, Beth Rivers, Cdwing, Connie's Pizza. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:17.880 And Miller Liked. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.360 Here are your hosts, Jeff chi aka the Merrow, Bearsville 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.480 is sidekick Tom the Surfmaster. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.360 There, good to be back. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.480 Rookies reporting this week Friday, Veterans next Tuesday. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.159 It's time we are ready to go. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.600 Training Camp twenty twenty three upon us and we welcome 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.320 in to Bears Weekly. I am Jeff Choniyak with the 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.639 Super Bowl Star Guard, Tom There and Jim Miller from 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.919 Serious X NFL Radios moving the chains. Good evening, everybody. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.920 Did you miss me last week? Tom Well? 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.040 I noticed that you started by saying it's good to 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.159 be back, and I met thought, did you mean that 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.840 selfishly that you're happy to be back from your extravagant 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.680 world win, multi multiple country vacation or are you talking 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.440 about the start of the NFL season. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.800 Jim Miller, I was talking about the start of the 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.440 training camp, but I am also glad to be back 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.800 with my boys here, So I hope you guys are 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.000 happy to have me back. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.200 Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it. But you know, Tom 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.960 and I are much like Bill Belichick. No days off, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:18.200 no days off. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:19.080 We just play out through. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.280 That's what we do here. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.880 Jeff. You know, yeah, I don't know. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.199 I don't know that you ever have taken a vacation, Jim, 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.199 And if I ever ever ever even insinuate the Tom 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.760 when he goes to Maui for three weeks, are you 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.199 ready for your vacation? He turns beat red, angry and says, dude, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.480 I don't go on. I go to surf man. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:39.280 That's not a vacation. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.160 The beauty of Maui and the beaches and whatever else 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.440 comes along. But anyway, we'll wrap on all that another time. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.480 We got NFL football. We're gonna be breaking down the 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.000 NFC North today, the old NFC Central, the Black and 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.920 Blue Division. We've got a couple of great guests. Are 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.520 good pal Pete Bercich from the Bankings Radio Network to 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.960 join us here coming up in moments. And then at 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.480 the bottom of the hour, our old pal Wayne Leravy, 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.840 the voice of the Green Bay Packers, so an NFC 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.840 North preview tonight. We'll try to do Detroit on Monday 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.920 of next week. That's another show here on Bears Weekly. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.040 Glad to have you alongside with Jordan truad Up and 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.680 Dan Brilly are producers. Thank you as well to Charlie 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.680 Bevins and Tyler Rocky as well. While we're talking about 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.320 the division, I got asked on a couple of radio 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.760 shows on our radio network, Jim here, just in the 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:31.040 last couple of days, and everybody's wanting to know what 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.600 you know. Everybody's just going to sleepy by the Green 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.760 Bay Packers and thinking that the Detroit Lions are the 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.160 next best thing, but acknowledging at the same time that 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:42.480 the division is wide open. 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:43.480 Are they off base? 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:45.079 No? 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.080 I don't think they're off base. I think when you 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.480 look at Aaron you know, think of Aaron Rodgers when 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.079 he got his first year as a starter. They were 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.880 a six and ten football team, you know, and people 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.680 forget about that. And there is a lot of young 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.680 players that are surrounding Jordan Love. We know that the 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.280 receivers like Dobbs and Watson, they're only going on their 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:10.120 second year. They draft obviously a tight end, they're young there. Defensively, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.720 they weren't as they haven't been as good as what 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.320 everybody has suggested that where they were like twenty six 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.960 in the league get stop on the run. So they 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.320 have to play much better defensively in my opinion, because 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.080 for me, it's gonna take a little while for that 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.480 offense to catch up. And plus I think it's going 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.920 to put more pressure on the play caller, you know 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.920 when you look at coach Lafleur, because they won't have 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.480 the flexibility at the line of scrimmage like they had 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.000 with Aaron Rodgers. Right, remember when coach Lafleur got the 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.240 job and he was like, Wow, I don't know if 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.119 I'm gonna let Aaron Rodgers check at the line of scrimmage, 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.160 Like what what are you talking about? 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:44.640 You know? 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.360 So you know there's a lot of things that he's 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.680 gonna have to be really that he's putting on himself 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:52.760 pressure wise, to be a good play caller, because I 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.360 don't think Jordan Love will be going in and out 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.440 of plays like what Aaron Rodgers was. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:58.280 Doing with ease. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.080 So I do see that team, you know, taking a 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.720 step back. They're kind of going younger right now. I 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.080 think everybody knows that, not that that's not an exciting 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.560 thing for green Bay Packer fans. There are a lot 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.360 of people that even called into moving the chains, that 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.920 are excited about it. They're ready to move on from 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.960 Aaron Rodgers, and some are still disgruntled about it. So 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.200 I do think, you know, they need to grow as 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.560 a team. And I think really the best guy who 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.880 said it was David Baktieri. He said, we just need 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.480 to admit what we're doing here, and they're rebuilding. That's 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:29.400 what Green Bay's doing. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.880 You know, one thing about Aaron Rodgers in this division, 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.120 I think for the last ten years, whenever they called 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.680 to play into his headset, it was merely a suggestion 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.520 and if he liked it well enough and they ran, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.480 and if he didn't, then he made a change either 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.640 in the huddle or at the line of scrimmage, and 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.560 he could deal with the vulnerabilities that he saw against 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.400 the defense he was going to face when he broke 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.320 the huddle. But I think when you look at the 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.560 overall division this year, I do think it's a wide 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.160 open division. However, I think Detroit has finally been able 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.719 to take it into our stadium and turn it in 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.520 to the loudest weapon. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.120 In our division. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:03.640 And I know that they have. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.159 A good outdoor crowd in Green. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.640 Bay and Minnesota. You know, does a nice job inside. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.640 But you know, having the you know, the opportunity to 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.040 go to Detroit and play there. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.560 Late in the year when they were on a little 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:18.440 bit of a run. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.719 It was an atmosphere that you better take control of 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.800 quickly in the game or else it's just gonna I 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.640 think it'll impact your offensive communication ability. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:29.279 All right. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.000 I want to touch on something. Justin Fields has been 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.440 out and about. He's had a camp with young kids 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.520 and invited all those folks and he had a good 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.000 time doing that. Those youngsters all showed up and enjoyed 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.440 it as well. He's been on a couple podcasts, I believe, 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.080 and one of them he was asked about his play 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.320 and you know, basically says, right now, his knowledge of 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.400 the offense, Tom is such that he feels he can 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.720 do anything he wants on the field right now, and 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.200 that is a great sign for when we actually start 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.280 going here because that kind of confidence coming from Justin 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:02.360 is significant. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:04.640 Well, you know, the thing. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.360 That Lukeketzi said at the podium when he was leaving 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.880 the OTAs and mandatory mini camp. They want to be 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.520 able to hit the ground running when training camp begins. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.200 They don't want to have to go over and rehash 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.600 what they've already installed inside this offense over the next 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.240 two weeks. They need to hit the ground running where 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.479 they pick up where they left off, and they just 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.120 continue to refine everything. And as they refine everything and 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.760 becomes more familiar in terms of terminology to Justin, I 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.880 think he can play more freely in more to these 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.760 to his athleticism ability he has. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:40.800 Jim. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.400 He also has asked on a show here for CBS 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:48.920 Sports I believe to name the five top running quarterbacks 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.960 in NFL history, and he said he could include himself 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.080 if he's so desired, and he did, along with Steve Young, 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.680 Lamar Jackson, Michael Vick, and Cam Newton. It's got a 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.000 lot of attention, but last year was dynamic, no question. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.599 Yeah, well he is. He's a tremendous athlete. You know, 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.480 sometimes I wish, you know, there's kind of no upside 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.320 to respond to questions like that, you know, because you're 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.400 kind of putting him in a pickle. Because for me, personally, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.120 I do not want him to be a top five 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.560 running back, right because out of all those quarterbacks you 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.760 just mentioned, there's not a lot of Super Bowl wins. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.800 Cam Newton, Yeah, he was a great running quarterback, but 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.280 he got beat up and he's out of the league 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.840 right now. I think it's how you run and how 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.800 smart you are as a runner where you can really 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.120 preserve your body. And if he comes along as the 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.000 passer that we think he can be, this team's going 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.040 to be much more balanced and they'll have a better 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.880 ability to go further in the pro season, is my 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.080 take on it. But again, it's just it's a lot 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.960 of talk, you know, and excitement before training camp and 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.400 things like that, and you know, if that's a goal 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.760 of his, I wish him good luck on his journey 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.280 to get that. But you know, I think we want 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.920 to see this team a more balanced team and throwing 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.880 the football. I want him to be a top five 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.960 passer because guys like you know, Jim Mahomes and those guys, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.320 that's how they're winning Super Bowls. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.880 I'm sorry, Jim. You know, part of running is what 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:10.280 are you doing? 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.200 Are you running beyond the line of scrimmage or you're 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.679 running to stay open, because when you look at guys 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.480 like John Elway, even Doug Fluti or fran Tarkington, they 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.840 stayed behind the line of scrimmage to get the ball 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.360 out of their hands and create some big plays. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.040 And that's what those guys were able to do. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.240 If we're talking about quarterbacks that have to break the 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.480 line of scrimmage and run down field, then you know 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.360 that's when the fear of injury comes in. Where I'd 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.079 rather see a quarterback extend the pocket, fatigue the defense, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.680 and get a completion downfield. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.040 He also says he's gonna be the first Bears quarterback 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.080 in history to throw for more than four thousand yards, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.200 something that has not happened in Bear's history. We'll talk 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.560 all about that and more on the Bear's confidence from 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.640 the quarterback sounds good on the basically, the eve of 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.400 training camp is the Bears get ready for the twenty 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.120 twenty three season. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:56.640 When we come back. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.280 We'll be joined by Pete Bersich, the radio analyst Chicago Rodic, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.320 Notre damer football player and coach with the Vikings. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.160 He's next year on he ESP in Chicago with the 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.000 Bears Radio. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.080 NETWORKSCUS Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears for 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.400 twenty three years, Jeff Juniat on the Bears Radio Network. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.600 This segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you by 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.920 Athletic Go Physical thereaphe visit that you got to go 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.880 dot com to request an in clinic Gore virtual the 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.120 appointment to start feeling better tomorrow. Always feeling great when 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.760 we get to talk to that. Yes tonight, Pete Bursich 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.520 born and bred. You know, I didn't know he was 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.319 born in Joliet. I know he went to Providence Catholic, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.959 but he was born in Joliet. Tom Thayer, the color 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.640 analysts of the Vikings Radio Network. Pete, how are you 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:42.559 feeling tonight, buddy? 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:43.400 Thanks for taking that good. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.360 Yeah. I mean I have to declare I grew up 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.560 in New Lenox Township, so I didn't. I didn't grow 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.200 up in Jaytown like Fate. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:53.440 You were born in Joliet. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.840 I was born there. Yes, I was born there, so 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.959 I you know, it's the main thing. I've been in 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.920 Minnesota for thirty year. If no one knows where the 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.240 help we want, so I just say Joliet and maybe 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.720 sometimes they know. It's just you know, makes it easier, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:06.559 makes it. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:07.400 Well, I appreciate it. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.199 With camp coming up here next week, I know you're 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.280 getting ready. But the number one question I have for you, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.400 just right out of the gate, because we're going to 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.719 talk about this later Jim Miller and Tommy and I 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:24.120 about the whole running back situation. I know it's about 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.440 cap I know it's about money, But why did the 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.160 Vikings move on from Dalvin Cook? 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.800 Yeah, that's that's a That's a good question, I think, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.880 is it? You know, obviously, is there is there more 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.360 to it than that? I think, yes, Dalvin did eat 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.440 up a lot of cap space, but there's no question 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.120 he was a he was a pretty big shot in 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.960 here at the offense. You know, does our offense about 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.320 you know, the scheme value that position as much as 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.600 it did before. I mean, you looked at when when 0:10:55.679 --> 0:11:00.680 Zimmer was there. You know, Cook was around forty percent 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.760 of the offense. I think forty percent of the yards 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.280 went through him, and you know, so he was a huge, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.960 huge part of the offense. And uh, you know those 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:09.679 numbers are coming down. But we needed him in the 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.480 Buffalo game, we needed them in a couple other situations. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.640 He's a very good blocking running back now as a 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.880 route runner. I mean's he made a couple of really 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.960 nice catches in the end zone this year. So my 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:27.680 I just can't see a way in which management coaches 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.000 didn't want him back. I think it was just a 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.439 matter of it really was just a matter of money. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.800 He's a great leader, and he's kind of the heart 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.920 and soul of the offense, kind of like Zadarius Smith 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.600 I think was for the defense. He was a guy 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.439 that the one guy we had to had a lot to, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.960 had some attitude, stayed out there even when he was injured, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.720 kept playing. And so we've lost that guy on both 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.800 the offensive side and defensive side. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:50.760 Of the of the field. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.400 So there's a we got a lot of question marks 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.760 coming into this year. So it's gonna be interesting to 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.359 see how camp plays out. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:58.360 Well. Pete. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:59.960 Before the start of the season, when you look at 0:11:59.960 --> 0:12:02.360 the Bears and you think of Tremade Edmonds and TJ. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.040 Edwards and you look at DJ Moore, you think of 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.840 immediately the linebacker position for the Bears got better. Include 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.280 Jack Sanborn and that and the rest of the fellas. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.239 But now they have a little, you know, veteran leadership 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.920 and they got some young guys coming up right now 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.960 sense of conclusion of the season to today, where are 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.440 the Minnesota Vikings a better football team? 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.839 Well, you would assume the offensive line is going to 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.800 be better because they're spending two years in a row, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.800 same group. You hope at Ingram continues to improve. I mean, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.440 you know, he was eighteen years old and started I believe, 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.760 eleven games for LSU as an eighteen year old in 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.840 the SEC. He started every game last year for the Vikings. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.720 He had some ups and he had some downs. He's 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.920 the guy that I think really really needs to improve. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.480 Interesting with Bradberry since the Vikings didn't pick up their 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.839 fifty year option, his fifth year option, but yet they 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.760 decided to re sign him anyway, So you know, that 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.480 offensive line group is really the one group that's sticking together. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.560 I think wide receiver wise, you know, I think Justin 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.720 Jefferson has every chance to get into two thousand if 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.320 they can protect Cousins for a fraction of a second longer. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.600 I went watched all the passing plays from last year, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.439 and I mean JJ should have he really should have 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.360 hit two thousand last year, but he was, you know, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.920 just short. So I think offensively, you know, the line 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.480 in the receiving corps. Tight end group should be good too, Hockinson. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.200 I mean, you should always have a good group there. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.360 Outside of that, it's gonna be tough. The safety group 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.320 has the same guys coming back. Lewis seen our first 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.600 round draft picks from last year. Broke his leg. He 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.760 should be back. You know. Byron Murphy at corner was 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.439 a good sign. He's a very very very good man 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.880 to man guy. I think that's what you're gonna see 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.600 a little bit more out of this floor as defense 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.760 is some challenging on the outside, a little more mando 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.679 man h and he's the guy to do it. But 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.000 you know, the rest of them, the rest of the groups, 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.120 we've we've got some big question marks, Tom, and that's 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.080 you know, that's the thing. We go into this, We 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.079 go into the season with with a lot of personnel 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.000 question marks, and we're gonna need a lot of young 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.559 players to finally step up and and you know, rookies 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.720 and young guys to play. We know, we know about 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.880 Alexander Madison, but can he replicate what Cook did? He 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.720 had a really good game against Arizona last year, but 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.720 can we get that out of him for fifteen sixteen weeks. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.000 You know, it's it's just there's a ton of question marks, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.600 and that's that's what concerns me the most. I don't 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.200 think this is going to be a losing season by 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.000 any means, but I think with the success they had 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.240 last year, now you're playing all the you know, the 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.680 teams that won the division. You know, we we we 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.080 need a lot of guys to really pay him out 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.120 for this team to try to replicate that thirteen and 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:47.720 four record. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.560 Yeah, Pete for me, Jim Miller, good to talk to you. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.880 As an outsider, I'm trying to see what the plan 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.680 is here, because you know, they could have extended Kirk Cousins. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.680 Maybe they could have cleared up cap space because you 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.480 got Hendricks who left. He was the leading tackler. You 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.160 just mentioned Sadarius Smith and Cook and we could go on. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:09.320 There's other players that have gone here, and the windows 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.600 kind of right now. You know when you look at 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.000 the exodus of Aaron Rodgers and I'm saying, am I, so, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.200 why is in Minnesota doubling down because they won the 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:18.520 division last year? 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.560 You know that's that's a that's a very good point, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.640 and my condolences for having to deal with those other 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.040 two most of the time. You know, it's it's a 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.840 you know, Fayer and Joni act having to sit in 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.320 between those two. And I don't know, I don't know 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.640 how you do it. Whatever the pain, they should double it. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.440 Very very good point, you know. I think the focus 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.080 is really to keep Justin Jefferson around and what you 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.760 can't do is pay a receiver, you know, maybe a 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.120 record breaking salary or somewhere up there, and then not 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:47.920 have a quarterback to throw the ball to him. So 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:52.640 I think, you know, for Kirk Cousins, you know, he's 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.840 getting older, and we got to keep an arm of 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.440 eye in his arm strength big time, because he doesn't 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.640 he doesn't scramble, he doesn't move around, and he has 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.760 that accuracy in arm strength. And if that starts the 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.320 wayne his I think his productivity and his game will 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.640 fall up pretty quickly. Now whether or not that'll be 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.640 the case, I don't know, But I don't know if 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.160 the Vikings are concerned about him, you know, let's say 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.160 next season testing the free agent market, I think what 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.240 they may have had to do to extend him would 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.400 be more than what they wanted or what they wanted 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.440 to pay him, and they're not afraid of, you know, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.880 of just letting him go ahead and do that. Now, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.240 well you ever get there, I don't know, but they 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:32.040 have those. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:32.560 You know. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.240 It's a big combination there that they have to reshginn 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.720 and figure out, which is one of the reasons why 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.760 he saw the departure of a gal like Eric Hendricks. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.600 And you know, I think I don't think Eric was 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.520 a fit for the scheme that we were trying to run, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.480 and really don't. Dallas ran the ball forty times against us, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.440 and he came away with a game with three combined tackles. Now, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.160 I don't know any linebacker when he faced forty runs 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.640 and come up with three tackles, there's something going on there. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.240 I think he was nicked up. But if it's about 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.040 the year, so you know, losing Dalvin Tomlinson was a 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.359 big loss too. I think losing Zadarius Smith and Dalvin 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.720 Thomlinson with big losses the line, you know, and we 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.960 didn't really draft or sign anyone to fill that other spot. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.439 So maybe if Brian Ausamol will step up. You know, 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.560 we got this this undrafted free agent kid from Cincinnati's 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.040 name is Ivan Pace. Now, I just hope the kid 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.119 makes the team. But he'll knock your eyeballs cross he's 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.800 about five 't ten, about two forty. He's like London 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.639 Fletcher all over again. You know, I'm hope I'm just 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.200 got my fingers crossed this kid finally it makes this 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.760 team because I think he gets the potential of being 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.560 you know, I know, like I said, an old school 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.679 type of linebacker. And so but again, those these are 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.919 the question marks I'm talking about, right, We're these are 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.840 the guys that we need to step up and figure 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.600 it out and not just be starters, but be productive starters. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.520 So it's uh, you know, I'm I'm I'm. I'm the 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.400 closer we get the camp, the more of a kind 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.560 of wait and see attitude, I'm I'm getting. I do 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.480 think again, the Vikings will be successful. But you're right 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.480 without Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay Detroit, I mean, the 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.800 only the way they finished last year, and I don't 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.119 care what they did in the draft and all if 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.640 people don't like what they did in the draft, they're 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.240 still gonna be a damn with football team coming in 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.040