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Speaker 4: Big Jeff.
Speaker 5: I'm glad that we don't do these shows until Thursday
Speaker 5: night during a regular work week, cause you need this
Speaker 5: kind of a loss like that to stew a little bit,
Speaker 5: get to understand it. Let the week start for the
Speaker 5: next opponent, and then you know, do the show right then,
Speaker 5: more than the night after a loss like that. It's
Speaker 5: still sitting in my cross. So it's it's hard not.
Speaker 4: To think about it.
Speaker 3: All right, I get you, I get you, and you
Speaker 3: know we're in scramble mode. You know, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: everybody's used to it now. Thursday night football is a
Speaker 3: regular part of our existence, and we'll be moving forward
Speaker 3: and who knows what else will come down the line.
Speaker 3: But there's all you know, for players, for coaches, for
Speaker 3: people like us who do the games, it's a man
Speaker 3: scramble to check all the boxes that you normally have
Speaker 3: six days to get ready for. You've got a couple
Speaker 3: and then we're flying and on top of it, we're
Speaker 3: flying out of town.
Speaker 5: Like the scramble mode though you don't have time to
Speaker 5: think about it. It's like the Caleb Williams DeAndre Swift
Speaker 5: scramble mode completion yesterday.
Speaker 4: He just fly by the seat of your pants.
Speaker 5: You make yourself available, let the quarterback loft a nice
Speaker 5: pass into your hands, and then take advantage of the opportunity.
Speaker 4: So you're Caleb, You're Caleb, and well.
Speaker 6: I'm right Land.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look at you still as an offensive line
Speaker 3: and clearing a path to victory for me.
Speaker 6: And then we got the quarterback joining us right now.
Speaker 6: It's Jim Miller. Jim A few weeks, big Jim, how
Speaker 6: are you.
Speaker 7: I'm doing well, wishing you guys a happy Thanksgiving. So yeah,
Speaker 7: and you know it's unfortunately. I was excited that, you know,
Speaker 7: another game where it looked like it was in the
Speaker 7: balance and the Bears we're gonna pull one out there
Speaker 7: in overtime. But disappointing, disappointing way to to finish the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, you know, you've had a few weeks
Speaker 3: to watch without talking to us. Just give us your
Speaker 3: quick view of how things have gone. Certainly, the three
Speaker 3: losses of the five that have have curtailed their plans.
Speaker 3: Here are the ones that are are are tough to shake.
Speaker 3: They're tough to shake. You gotta do it. You got
Speaker 3: to do it as a player, you gotta do it
Speaker 3: as a as a franchise to move forward. But uh,
Speaker 3: just to think what it would be if that didn't
Speaker 3: turn out like that, it'd be a whole different conversation
Speaker 3: on a scriptlip.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I think it's one either way, it's one
Speaker 7: you can learn from. I think this in the in
Speaker 7: the Washington game. I mean, certainly, how did Mike McCarthy
Speaker 7: classify their law or their win to to watch? He
Speaker 7: called it yachts out there. I mean that game had
Speaker 7: all kinds of special teams things going on in it.
Speaker 7: But yeah, you know, here you go into overtime, you
Speaker 7: know you got a moment where you can take advantage.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately you have the big sack. And but I think
Speaker 7: the Bears are competing and they got to find a
Speaker 7: way a way to win. And sometimes when you go
Speaker 7: back in the games earlier, like in the first quarter, second,
Speaker 7: there's a handful of plays that you can probably eliminate.
Speaker 7: And if you disliminate, you know a few more mistakes.
Speaker 7: Who knows it puts you in a position to win.
Speaker 7: But I do know this, the last two weeks there
Speaker 7: has been an uptick on offense, and they put themselves
Speaker 7: in a position to win. Now they've got to put
Speaker 7: out some fires in some other areas.
Speaker 3: Yep, Thomas Brown, there's a Thomas Brown effect, that's what
Speaker 3: we're calling it.
Speaker 5: Tommy, Well, that's what I wanted to hear out of
Speaker 5: Jim Miller. Has he ever had that happened to him before?
Speaker 5: Where they've let an offensive coordinator go mid stride and
Speaker 5: then you had another voice of reason that was leading
Speaker 5: the team on the offensive side of the ball. Because
Speaker 5: what I hear from Thomas Brown, Jim out of the podium,
Speaker 5: it transfers to the field of play. I'm super encouraged
Speaker 5: by what I'm seeing out of Caleb. I'm super interested
Speaker 5: in what I'm hearing out of Thomas Brown.
Speaker 4: Have you ever had that experience before?
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it was in Chicago, but it wasn't due
Speaker 7: to a firing. It was due to a hiring. Gary
Speaker 7: Croton elected to take the Utah job. Right he took
Speaker 7: the head coaching job out at Utah. John Shoop was
Speaker 7: then elevated as interim OC and we commenced on putting
Speaker 7: in a whole new offense is what we did during
Speaker 7: the year.
Speaker 3: You put in a whole Nay, wait you I didn't
Speaker 3: realize that I was. I was covering the team.
Speaker 6: Wait, a whole new offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We decided to put in the West Coast run schemes
Speaker 7: married with Gary Croton's passing principles, so we had a
Speaker 7: quote unquote hybrid. Wow, is what we had of an offense.
Speaker 7: So we installed our run game as the year went
Speaker 7: a long, and I didn't think it was possible, but
Speaker 7: we did it and we gained. You know, we started
Speaker 7: to make strides offensively, specifically in our running game, which
Speaker 7: under Gary Croton, there was a lot of it because
Speaker 7: it really wasn't a focus. It was more of a
Speaker 7: wide open offense. But we know, we knew we needed
Speaker 7: a run game when the weather was about to turn
Speaker 7: and all that, and so that's what we did. It's
Speaker 7: not easy to do, but we were able to do it.
Speaker 7: And then the following year is where we reaped the rewards.
Speaker 6: Wow. I so, I mean, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 5: You know what Jim's holding information back on us, you
Speaker 5: know when we covered him, when we covered him as
Speaker 5: a player, he was kind of a standoff guy. He
Speaker 5: should have been He should have fed us that information
Speaker 5: years ago, that really post career RelA.
Speaker 3: And you know what, and that not to not to
Speaker 3: correct you because I went to look it up to
Speaker 3: catch the years here, but he went to BYU or BYU.
Speaker 7: Yeah what I say, you taught yeah b Yu.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Mary you got You're not far off. But yeah,
Speaker 6: and you.
Speaker 7: Know, they're all part of the Latter Day Saints, I
Speaker 7: think out there, but you know.
Speaker 3: What's crazy and I'm just looking at it right now.
Speaker 3: Gary they went twelve and two in his first year there, Yeah,
Speaker 3: twelve and two and they lost to Liberty and uh yeah, well.
Speaker 7: You remember Gary Croton coming out of Law Tech Louisiana Tech.
Speaker 7: That was tim Ortay. They had a very good offense.
Speaker 7: I mean they they I mean they led the basically
Speaker 7: the nation and passing and it was all the rage
Speaker 7: and Gary had quite a bit of a success with
Speaker 7: that offense in college.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, boy, Tom, you never, you never. It's about the questions.
Speaker 3: You don't ask. We asked that one. That's a good one.
Speaker 3: That's that's some good info right there.
Speaker 4: But it wasn't.
Speaker 5: Wasn't Gary Crowton the offense that was called the razzle
Speaker 5: dazzle offense by the Kansas City head coach. I was
Speaker 5: goun to Cunningham gun the Cunningham called it the razzle
Speaker 5: dazzle offense.
Speaker 7: That's right. Well, I remember one game we went in.
Speaker 7: We were going to run a five wide package and
Speaker 7: on the opening kickoff one of our receivers got hurt.
Speaker 7: So we quickly went to four wide package, which now
Speaker 7: we had to insert a tight end. But the whole
Speaker 7: game plan was based on five wides and speed, and
Speaker 7: we lost that on the opening kickoff. That game did
Speaker 7: not go well, by the.
Speaker 3: Way, No, no, but you know since so so again
Speaker 3: this is just from interesting perspective.
Speaker 6: So he hit a lot of colleges.
Speaker 3: So after BYU, he was an OC at Oregon, and
Speaker 3: OC at LSU, and OC at Maryland, and OC for
Speaker 3: the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and OC at Southern Utah, an
Speaker 3: offensive consultant at Oregon State, an offensive coordinator at Steven F. Austin,
Speaker 3: and as recent as twenty twenty one, was a high
Speaker 3: school coach offensive coordinator in Utah.
Speaker 6: Unbelievable career, long career.
Speaker 5: Listen, I don't think people realize the difficulty of being
Speaker 5: a career assistant coach and how you can move every
Speaker 5: couple of years. You can change from college to high
Speaker 5: school to pro and back and forth. So when you know,
Speaker 5: listen to the stories behind some of these guys you
Speaker 5: get to the podium, you have to understand the commitment
Speaker 5: that they've made to the sport of football in the
Speaker 5: difficulty of living that life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like fifteen different jobs since he started as
Speaker 3: a ga at BYU in nineteen eighty two. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll get off the Gary quote train right now, but
Speaker 3: very interesting stuff.
Speaker 6: All right, let's let's talk about Caleb.
Speaker 3: Let's let's get let's dive deep into Caleb because and
Speaker 3: we'll hear a little bit from my interview for Our
Speaker 3: Bears et cetera podcast that drops tomorrow with head coach
Speaker 3: Matt Eberflus regarding how he played. And I I said this,
Speaker 3: I said he played star level football yesterday.
Speaker 6: Would you both agree?
Speaker 3: Because that ball was coming off his hand with fire
Speaker 3: like if you if that was a cartoon, there'd be
Speaker 3: flames coming off of that pig skin. I mean that
Speaker 3: ball was getting ripped with confidence. Throws over the middle
Speaker 3: in other parts of the field.
Speaker 7: I agree. I thought he played with a lot of confident.
Speaker 7: I think the past two weeks he's he's played with well,
Speaker 7: even the last four games, he hasn't turned over the football,
Speaker 7: but I think he's you know, you can tell he's
Speaker 7: playing with more confidence, at least for me, the last
Speaker 7: two weeks. So I think prior to that you could
Speaker 7: start to see with his mannerisms, his sideline demeanor, he
Speaker 7: was pretty frustrated. But I thought obviously with Thomas taking
Speaker 7: over the play calling, you know, probably communicating a little
Speaker 7: bit more. You know, as a quarterback, you can be
Speaker 7: more forceful, Like, hey man, I really like these third
Speaker 7: down plays, whether it's third and medium, third and long,
Speaker 7: you know where I really feel confident in these throws.
Speaker 7: And it kind of showed on that last incut to
Speaker 7: DJ Moore. And like you said, Jeff, did he not
Speaker 7: rip that?
Speaker 6: He ripped it.
Speaker 7: You rip throws like that because you're confident, you're confident
Speaker 7: in what you're seeing, even how he layered it everybody
Speaker 7: somehow of layering it over the linebackers. And that's what
Speaker 7: you do. When you're focused and you're confident in what
Speaker 7: you're seeing, you're just going to react and play football,
Speaker 7: And in that moment he was reacting and playing football.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I like his intentions with his feet,
Speaker 5: because if he's going to commit to running the ball
Speaker 5: beyond the line of scrimmage, he takes off, he gets
Speaker 5: what he can get out of it, then he gets down,
Speaker 5: slides to the end of it, and then gets back
Speaker 5: on the But the one yard touchdown passed to Keenan Allen,
Speaker 5: he was able to scramble away from a lot of traffic,
Speaker 5: hurdle over a body and still stay with his intentions
Speaker 5: of throwing the ball downfield rather than committing to run.
Speaker 5: And so to look at what that does for a quarterback,
Speaker 5: what his intentions are to run he runs, what his
Speaker 5: intentions are to buy some time and possibly run, but
Speaker 5: still looking for receivers and being able to find him
Speaker 5: in the corner of the end zone. That's two stages
Speaker 5: of Caleb that's developing before our eyes.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 3: This is coming from the Minnesota Vikings website, but they
Speaker 3: it was the fewest number of blitz percentage drops to
Speaker 3: throw the Vikings all season long. They builits him twenty
Speaker 3: one point eight percent of his drops to throw, and.
Speaker 6: He ripped him for it.
Speaker 3: He was nine to eleven for one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: one yards seem as a week before against the Blitz
Speaker 3: he had two incompletions.
Speaker 6: So this.
Speaker 3: Urgence of against pressure is significant. He is may, he's
Speaker 3: seeing it, and he's getting rid of it quick. He
Speaker 3: got rid of it in two point four to one
Speaker 3: seconds to throw, his second fastest behind last week with
Speaker 3: Thomas Brown at two point three to seven.
Speaker 6: So what does this tell you, guys?
Speaker 4: It tells me that the defensive coordinator that he's.
Speaker 5: Going to face week to week is going to have
Speaker 5: to devise up their own plan of strategy against him.
Speaker 5: It's not something that you can take a template of
Speaker 5: success against them from other coordinators and then try to
Speaker 5: copycat that because everybody knows what Brian Flores is capable of.
Speaker 5: And then here he kind of changes his style of
Speaker 5: the defensive approach because Caleb has I talked about the
Speaker 5: ability to scramble beyond the line of scrimmage, the ability
Speaker 5: to scramble and stay alive and look for receivers, and
Speaker 5: then he can read. He can read during the cadence,
Speaker 5: and he's got fireball accuracy like he talked about. So
Speaker 5: I think all these defensive coordinators are going to have
Speaker 5: a period of time to try to decide their strategy
Speaker 5: against Caleb.
Speaker 7: Well, if he's nine of eleven, you said against the blitz,
Speaker 7: so he's he's seeing and understanding what he's seen. So
Speaker 7: I think he's the key and diagnose it is there.
Speaker 7: And then I think, you know, when it tells you
Speaker 7: that he goes turnover free, that's a big thing, you know,
Speaker 7: And that's the last four games he has done that,
Speaker 7: And so I think you are seeing growth. I think
Speaker 7: you know, once he continues to log these plays and
Speaker 7: it's going to register. And I always call it, you know,
Speaker 7: you're building this rolodex for the next time you see it,
Speaker 7: you have the answer. And so I think he's building
Speaker 7: these answers, and you know, I think we see the
Speaker 7: times where he's got to figure out some answers too.
Speaker 7: And obviously the sack in overtime, that's a play he's
Speaker 7: going to have to learn from and he's going to
Speaker 7: have to put that in his rolodex too. So you know,
Speaker 7: there's give and take. But I think you see the athleticism,
Speaker 7: you see the talent, you see the ability, and I
Speaker 7: think you see the command in the leadership. He's he's
Speaker 7: going to be a fine young player. I know the
Speaker 7: wins aren't stacking up, but you are seeing flashes right
Speaker 7: in front of your eyes.
Speaker 3: And now it's four comebacks in the fourth quarter to
Speaker 3: tire or take the lead with Caleb Williams. So that's
Speaker 3: a very important development. Indeed, all right, we got to
Speaker 3: take a break. Jim Miller with us this week with
Speaker 3: Tom Thayer. I'm Jeff John Yaka and this is Bears
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Speaker 6: Moving the chains.
Speaker 3: Jim, We're gonna hear from madd Eberflus here in a second.
Speaker 3: But just overall, how do you this NFC North is crazy?
Speaker 6: Is it not?
Speaker 8: Wow?
Speaker 6: There's some talent, some good teams.
Speaker 7: Well, you look at Green Bay taking off or taken down,
Speaker 7: I should say San Francisco. That's been kind of a
Speaker 7: rivalry game because San Francisco has really had their numbers
Speaker 7: specifically postseason, even as recently as last year. But just
Speaker 7: the point totals. You know, we've talked about Detroit, look
Speaker 7: at the numbers where they were, you know, encroaching on
Speaker 7: the high forties even when over fifty points. I'd say
Speaker 7: the same for green Bay. They have high point totals.
Speaker 7: Minnesota we know they can as well, and I think
Speaker 7: the Bears are capable of it. You know, we know
Speaker 7: the weapons that they have, and hopefully down the stretch
Speaker 7: in these in these divisional games, playing these high scoring offenses,
Speaker 7: we'll see if the Bears can match point for point. Hey,
Speaker 7: they just took Minnesota to the brink and took them
Speaker 7: to overtime. They're going to need that offense moving forward
Speaker 7: the rest.
Speaker 8: Of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know, that's one thing about this game. There's so
Speaker 5: much emotions attached to the green Bay Bears game. A
Speaker 5: lot of emotions now, especially after an overtime loss to
Speaker 5: the Minnesota Vikings, and now you have the emotions of
Speaker 5: a Thanksgiving Day game, and it's probably more emotional in
Speaker 5: green Bay just because this is a tradition for these guys,
Speaker 5: and you know, it's really tough and for the players
Speaker 5: to have to be able to match the emotions from
Speaker 5: one week to the next. But you know, when you're
Speaker 5: on a positive trend in your quarterback play, I do
Speaker 5: think it's exciting for everybody else to want to get
Speaker 5: back on the field and see what this offense with
Speaker 5: Thomas Brown and Caleb Williams and as Jim mentioned, all
Speaker 5: the offensive assets they have, get back on the field
Speaker 5: and see what you can do. I mean, there's nothing
Speaker 5: more gratifying than having the challenge of playing the Detroit
Speaker 5: Lions and then going there and having a showing that
Speaker 5: you go toe to toe with them.
Speaker 6: Lions have lost seven in a row on Thanksgiving. I
Speaker 6: did not know that.
Speaker 3: I mean, wait, it threw me today because I thought
Speaker 3: I had read something that you know, things haven't gone
Speaker 3: well and the Bears have won three of those games
Speaker 3: against them.
Speaker 6: But we think about going in there now.
Speaker 3: You know, in not so distant past, you know, the
Speaker 3: suites were empty, there was no vibe in there. Now
Speaker 3: it's quite the vibe and it has been for several years,
Speaker 3: the electricity in there. But they have lost seven in
Speaker 3: a row on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, the last year during the regular season
Speaker 5: when we played him in Detroit. The noise contribution that
Speaker 5: contributed to the ability for Hutchinson to get off the
Speaker 5: ball and create a sack strip fumble at the latter
Speaker 5: part of the game. If that played before, if there
Speaker 5: may be been a different decision made, but they threw
Speaker 5: the ball to Tyler Scott. If he would have continued
Speaker 5: to run and made a big catch like that, you
Speaker 5: don't know what the outcome could have been of that game.
Speaker 5: So I expect the same out of the Bears to
Speaker 5: go into Detroit, no matter how hostile the environment is,
Speaker 5: is to go in there and having that division emotional
Speaker 5: attachment and go toe to toe with them.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: Each week we have an interview on our Bears, Etc.
Speaker 3: Podcast and dropping tomorrow Matti Reflues. We go look through
Speaker 3: the game and look ahead. So a little snippet of
Speaker 3: this interview today that I did with Matt to discuss,
Speaker 3: you know, just the cumulative effect of the impact of
Speaker 3: these tough losses and other topics as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's about having resolved right, being steadfast, you know,
Speaker 9: you know, to each other and to the things we
Speaker 9: wanted to accomplish, and that's about doing it for each
Speaker 9: other and pulling together. And I think that's important that
Speaker 9: you do that. And there's also a lot of good
Speaker 9: things that are happening on our football team. And there's
Speaker 9: a lot of things that have happened on our football team.
Speaker 9: So I know the result is what it is, you know,
Speaker 9: in terms of what we want in terms of the
Speaker 9: last few weeks. But again, we're just that far away
Speaker 9: and we have to close that gap. And how do
Speaker 9: you close that gap by pulling together? And you close
Speaker 9: that gap by just doing a little bit better. You know,
Speaker 9: at the end of the football game, as a whole
Speaker 9: football team.
Speaker 3: What is the impact of a quarterback who is playing
Speaker 3: like he is and really was a star yesterday?
Speaker 6: He was fantastic.
Speaker 3: What does that do for everybody else on the team
Speaker 3: in terms of getting ready for the rest of the season,
Speaker 3: because you got a guy who is showing he can
Speaker 3: pull you out of the fire here. He is young, yes,
Speaker 3: but he can do that and does to make everybody
Speaker 3: play a little harder for the quarterback?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would say that, you know, the the hope
Speaker 9: and you know, the future of the franchise is always
Speaker 9: on the quarterback, you know, And and he's done a
Speaker 9: really good job with that.
Speaker 8: He understands that, and he understands that.
Speaker 9: He has to get the ball of the skill and
Speaker 9: do his thing, and he's been doing that, and I
Speaker 9: believe that the football team. You know that that is
Speaker 9: always going to be a big spark for a football team.
Speaker 9: And you know, guys want to do right because we
Speaker 9: have a chance to win every game and we've got
Speaker 9: to make sure that we, you know, continue to improve
Speaker 9: on all sides.
Speaker 3: Rosehawn Johnson so deaf beant knows for the end zone,
Speaker 3: does he not? And he almost had another one yesterday
Speaker 3: on top of it? What do you think about his
Speaker 3: He's getting, you know, just a handful of opportunities, but
Speaker 3: he's making the most of them when short yard is
Speaker 3: in particular six touchdown runs.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's done a really good job inside the five
Speaker 9: yard line there, you know, really doing a good job.
Speaker 9: And the offensive line's been doing a good job in
Speaker 9: terms of you know, getting it blocking there on our
Speaker 9: goal line package or whatever it might be. And you
Speaker 9: know that's an everybody thing. And Roshwan's always stayed positive.
Speaker 9: I know, he was injured during training camp and he's
Speaker 9: done a good job coming back from that, you know,
Speaker 9: and staying positive and really working himself back into that.
Speaker 9: And he's done a really good job in pass protection,
Speaker 9: you know. And he's also done a good job in
Speaker 9: two minute when he's been called to do that, you know,
Speaker 9: you know, catching the short area throws and having yards.
Speaker 8: Have to catch.
Speaker 9: And I think that's all encompassing of what a running
Speaker 9: back does.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about DJ member because I in
Speaker 3: the post game, I brought it up on the fly
Speaker 3: sweeps or the tosses and run plays, and he looks
Speaker 3: really good doing it. He's slippery, he's explosive, hard to
Speaker 3: bring down when he catches the football obviously, So that's
Speaker 3: a subtle change in the use of him, but in
Speaker 3: a it's a big payoff, do you think, And is
Speaker 3: this is this the now the new DJ?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: And I think DJ can do a lot of things.
Speaker 9: He does a lot of things well and does a
Speaker 9: lot of you know, does it, does a bunch of
Speaker 9: things great. And I just think that he's, uh, you know,
Speaker 9: the more we can use him, the better, you know,
Speaker 9: it's going to open things up for everybody else.
Speaker 8: And I really believe.
Speaker 9: That using him in that role, you know, in terms
Speaker 9: of a screen player, but also getting them down the
Speaker 9: field also, you know on that like we saw in
Speaker 9: that deep in cut.
Speaker 8: Those are all positive.
Speaker 9: Things and ways to gain yards you know, in space
Speaker 9: and get a great athlete in space to be able
Speaker 9: to break those tackles and yards after catching the things
Speaker 9: that he does.
Speaker 3: All right, and then the secondary as a whole. Have
Speaker 3: you ever in your career had so many pieces to
Speaker 3: a puzzle in a secondary Guys that are coming off
Speaker 3: to practice squad and performing veteran guys. I mean, the
Speaker 3: guy who recovered the on side kick is backup safety
Speaker 3: Travarious More.
Speaker 6: I mean, they're all making plays.
Speaker 3: Uh, they're all involved, they're all they all seem to
Speaker 3: have that same mindset. Is that Is that a fair representation?
Speaker 3: And have you ever had that many guys that you
Speaker 3: can call on?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Jo did a really good job yesterday. He had
Speaker 9: an interception. You know, made a couple of really good tackles.
Speaker 6: You know, he had the interception unfortunately, Yeah, that he.
Speaker 8: Did some really good things in there.
Speaker 9: You know, he obviously caused him recovering the fumble and
Speaker 9: you know on the goal line. So there's a lot
Speaker 9: of positivity there. You know, Hicks when he was in
Speaker 9: there was really playing at a high level. And uh,
Speaker 9: you know, so.
Speaker 6: That Ready Stewart comes in a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 9: Ready Stewart comes in and you know it's the next
Speaker 9: man up mentality, and the guys do a really good
Speaker 9: job and you know they've affected the game, you know
Speaker 9: with ball production too, which is always a positive.
Speaker 6: Is Kyler ready to become a superstar at Nicol?
Speaker 8: You know, Keyler has done a really good job at Nickel.
Speaker 9: You know, he's gonna make a lot of impactful plays
Speaker 9: as we're going on to stretch here, and uh, I
Speaker 9: really believe that he's he's he's knocking on that door
Speaker 9: and he's really going to push you in these next
Speaker 9: games because he's making a lot of impact, impactful plays
Speaker 9: and again we're gonna use him in.
Speaker 8: A lot of different ways. So he's he's really good.
Speaker 6: Step on.
Speaker 3: You. I know, we worry about us, not them, but
Speaker 3: them is Detroit and they seem they're a freight train
Speaker 3: right now. What's the best way to analyze them?
Speaker 8: Yeah, they do a lot of things.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, they're obviously on a big win streak
Speaker 9: here and they've done a good job of running the
Speaker 9: ball and staying committed to it, one of the most
Speaker 9: you know, in terms of attempts per game. And then
Speaker 9: they've done a good job of stopping the run and
Speaker 9: they're really playing at a high level. You know, they
Speaker 9: have they do a really good job of getting the
Speaker 9: ball to their skill in a short area of the field,
Speaker 9: you know, and be able to let those guys run
Speaker 9: you know, after the catch. And so that's why our
Speaker 9: cup and you know, our short area defense has got
Speaker 9: to be really good.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: So it's gonna be a big challenge for us, you know,
Speaker 9: on Thursday, but our guys are up up for it.
Speaker 9: You know, we get to play on Thanksgiving. You know,
Speaker 9: we have an opportunity in front of us to play
Speaker 9: our division opponent and and the guys are excited about
Speaker 9: the competition.
Speaker 3: All right, Matti Bears, et cetera. Podcast will drop tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Jim Miller and Tom Thayer with us here, fellas, let's
Speaker 3: talk about some of those things. One the way the
Speaker 3: secondary plays and how that could impact the game against
Speaker 3: Detroit given all their weaponry, because need them to make plays.
Speaker 3: Got to marry that of course, with the rush. Tom
Speaker 3: will lead off with you and when then we'll go
Speaker 3: to gym.
Speaker 5: Well, I just think they're fortunate to talk about the
Speaker 5: number of bodies that they have that are good contributors
Speaker 5: to the defensive backfield, because to me, I think it's
Speaker 5: one of the more difficult positions. I think Kevin Bierd's
Speaker 5: take on a real leadership role on this football team.
Speaker 5: And then when you have these developing assets like Kyler Gordon,
Speaker 5: who's deployable in so many different ways and levels of
Speaker 5: this defense. He you know, he gives a lot of
Speaker 5: versatility to it. You see him and Jack Stanborn standing
Speaker 5: about equal distance away from the huddle, and every time
Speaker 5: the coaches makes a decision what personnel they have, one
Speaker 5: of them goes in one of them. But I think
Speaker 5: when you have a Kyler Gordon and you have a
Speaker 5: Jack Sanborn, both of those guys are so important to
Speaker 5: this defense. They're both considered starters, but it's just what
Speaker 5: you need in a moment's notice, and I think they're
Speaker 5: both great capable parts of this defense.
Speaker 7: I think the Bear's secondary just got a good indoctrination
Speaker 7: of the precursor of what's to come. Right, you just
Speaker 7: dealt with Justin Jefferson. Obviously, we know what Addison can do.
Speaker 7: The Bear's secondary familiar with him, saw Aaron Jones, And
Speaker 7: you know, obviously they've got a good tight end in Hockinson.
Speaker 7: Detroit's the same way Detroit not. They got two backs.
Speaker 7: Jamison Williams is now coming on opposite their stud receiver
Speaker 7: A Monroe Saint Brown, and they've got a good tight
Speaker 7: end in Laporta, who's now healthy. So there's gonna be
Speaker 7: more coming. So I think, you know, the explosive plays
Speaker 7: that Minnesota is capable of. I think they had six
Speaker 7: pass plays of plus twenty yards against the Bears. And
Speaker 7: the Detroit Lions are gonna challenge them as well. They're
Speaker 7: gonna try and challenge them down the field. But it
Speaker 7: was a good precursor, a good pretest of what's gonna
Speaker 7: happen on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 3: All Right, we got to take another break here on
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Speaker 3: NFL radios moving the sticks.
Speaker 6: A Jim chains or moving the chains. Sorry about that?
Speaker 6: That's the rock. Sorry about that.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about running backs, moving the sticks, chains,
Speaker 3: whatever the case may be.
Speaker 6: But how about sakuon Barkley.
Speaker 3: How about what's going on in Detroit with Montgomery and Gibbs.
Speaker 3: How about what's going on with the running back position
Speaker 3: in this sport right now?
Speaker 6: Remember we were writing them off. They weren't worth it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I'll tell you what, man, you look at
Speaker 7: for Giants fans to see what Barkley is doing right now.
Speaker 7: I mean there's talk now that he could be League MVP.
Speaker 7: I mean two fifty five, two hundred and fifty five yards.
Speaker 7: Last night he put on a show with a couple
Speaker 7: of touchdowns, the big runs and all that, And then
Speaker 7: you look at the two guys from Detroit. Bears fans
Speaker 7: know David Montgomery, well, both these guys have over double
Speaker 7: digit touchdowns. There haven't been running backs to do that
Speaker 7: since when I was growing up. It was Billy Simms
Speaker 7: and then of course the great Barry Sanders to run
Speaker 7: first teams and probably Philadelphia, who can probably challenge Detroit
Speaker 7: because Philly, to me, is a team that is going
Speaker 7: to get stronger and stronger. And I think you saw
Speaker 7: last night the reason why, because Saquon is going to
Speaker 7: go through him. And I think Vic Fangio, who Bears
Speaker 7: fans know, well, he's got that defense up to number
Speaker 7: one in the NFL right now, that is a team
Speaker 7: to be reckon with.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: If so last week's Baltimore game, they take Derrick Henry
Speaker 5: out at the most important time.
Speaker 4: In the game.
Speaker 5: So say they keep him in the game and he
Speaker 5: does in the fourth quarter what's expected of him. I
Speaker 5: think it's interesting how throughout Derrick Henry's career when he's misused,
Speaker 5: he's a little bit forgotten about or less respected, But
Speaker 5: his greatness in the game from the physical standpoint of
Speaker 5: a running back should not go understated. Because even in
Speaker 5: the game tonight against the Chargers, if they fed Derrick
Speaker 5: Henry the ball as many times as they need to,
Speaker 5: he could be the reason why Baltimore wins the game.
Speaker 5: Or if they're fortunate enough to get into the playoffs
Speaker 5: and they don't feed him the ball as much as
Speaker 5: they should, then that could be the reason why they
Speaker 5: lose the game. So, you know, when we talk about
Speaker 5: Saquon Barkley and we talk about the guys in Detroit,
Speaker 5: we talk about the Bears running backs, you just talk
Speaker 5: about Roshan and DeAndre and stuff. You know, you can't
Speaker 5: forget about a guy like Derrick Henry and what he's
Speaker 5: been able to accomplish in his career. But when he's
Speaker 5: a forgotten about running back or key piece of their offense,
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden he falls off the charts.
Speaker 3: Hardball Hardball Ball tonight third time. So, Harbaughs of the
Speaker 3: Chargers and the Ravens, you guys have interest in this,
Speaker 3: don't you.
Speaker 10: I do.
Speaker 6: It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 5: I do, just because you know, I have met John
Speaker 5: a couple times along with his dad, and I played
Speaker 5: alongside Jim and spend you know, social time outside the
Speaker 5: professional time, and he is a really peculiar odd per
Speaker 5: But that's what I liked about him, and I think
Speaker 5: that's what a lot of people liked about him. So
Speaker 5: I probably I have as much interest in the brother
Speaker 5: Ball as I do the game itself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, at least for me, Yeah, I enjoy their games
Speaker 7: because I grew up locally here where they grew up,
Speaker 7: and they're well coached because of their dad, Jack. And
Speaker 7: here's what I do know. I think you can see
Speaker 7: pretty clearly that when Jim Harbaugh arrived to the Chargers,
Speaker 7: there's kind of a level of toughness that comes with him,
Speaker 7: right when he was out at Santa Barbara and then
Speaker 7: he went to Stanford, and then he went to the
Speaker 7: forty nine Ers, and then he went to Michigan where
Speaker 7: they won a national chet. There's kind of a level
Speaker 7: of toughness that comes with him, and i'd say that
Speaker 7: for John Harball. So they're well coached, they're tough, they're
Speaker 7: hard nosed teams. And you know that's why you know
Speaker 7: they come from a great coaching family because Jack Harball
Speaker 7: was a great coach and and what he accomplished, and
Speaker 7: I think both his sons soaked up every bit of it.
Speaker 7: Because there are two really good coaches themselves.
Speaker 5: Well, I think both of these guys put expectations on
Speaker 5: their players and then they have to live up to them.
Speaker 5: And no matter where Jim has been, even Jim himself
Speaker 5: as a player was a tough guy. He was a
Speaker 5: well conditioned athlete who was one hundred percent committed to
Speaker 5: what was expected of him. So what he expects out
Speaker 5: of himself, he expects out of his players.
Speaker 3: All right, let's touch on Detroit. As you mentioned the
Speaker 3: running thing. Some crazy stats with these two guys right now.
Speaker 3: So they've rushed for a touchdown in twenty five consecutive
Speaker 3: games they're Lions. That's the longest streak in NFL history.
Speaker 3: In twenty two straight regular season games they rushed for
Speaker 3: a touchdown, the third longest streak in NFL history, And
Speaker 3: for the first time since nineteen thirty six, they've had
Speaker 3: at least one hundred yards and a touchdown east of
Speaker 3: the first eleven games and the first team to do
Speaker 3: so since the nineteen seventy five Miami Dolphins. First duo
Speaker 3: in NFL history Gibbs and Montgomery which Tom is a
Speaker 3: nickname for him to rush for ten plus touchdowns and
Speaker 3: consecutive seasons they're doing it the old fac I mean,
Speaker 3: this is stirring up names, going back to the sixty
Speaker 3: Packers and Horning and Taylor about their ability to score touchdowns.
Speaker 3: They run it in the red zone and you call
Speaker 3: them what Tom.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a name that I've copied.
Speaker 5: It's the Pony Express only because as a reference of
Speaker 5: it to the Pony Express from SMU of Craig James
Speaker 5: and Eric Dickerson, and they were both drafted the same
Speaker 5: year I was drafted, and I was thinking, Oh my god,
Speaker 5: there's a college backfield with the name that's become famous
Speaker 5: around the world of football because of what both of
Speaker 5: these guys capabilities are and what they contribute to the
Speaker 5: running game of SMU at the time. And when I
Speaker 5: look at Dickerson and James and what they did together
Speaker 5: and what Montgomery and Gibbs are doing together, there's just
Speaker 5: similarities to each of the styles that they're contributing to
Speaker 5: their team.
Speaker 3: NFL's all bought nicknames, man, some great ones over the
Speaker 3: course of time.
Speaker 6: I mean, Big Tom, I mean, think about it.
Speaker 3: There's this is some great name that you just say
Speaker 3: the nickname or you say what you just said, and
Speaker 3: people remember exactly what it was offensive lines.
Speaker 6: I mean, what kind of names we got? What have
Speaker 6: we got going? We got the Black and.
Speaker 3: Brus Brothers, the Hogs, the Hogs, yep, the Hogs in Washington, Jim,
Speaker 3: what else we got offensive line wise?
Speaker 6: They don't get a lot of nicknames.
Speaker 7: Well, you get guys like out of Michigan State, like Flozel,
Speaker 7: the hotel they get called Hotel Hotel. Yeah, they some
Speaker 7: guys said, they just get their own nickname, right.
Speaker 3: Right right, one hundred percent. All right, We're gonna take
Speaker 3: another break. Kyler Gordon coming up next. This is ESPN
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Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to Bears Weekly, Come the Bears Ingo Network.
Speaker 2: Here's your host, the voice of the Bears, Jeff Joy.
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Speaker 3: able to get It, Jeff and Tim and Jim Miller
Speaker 3: from Serious Sex AM NFL Radio. So, Kyler Gordon, I
Speaker 3: had a chance to sit down for a feature interview.
Speaker 3: See some of that on Bears Game Day Live on
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving Morning from Detroit. And my entree was his performance
Speaker 3: in London when he had seven tackles before he left
Speaker 3: the game. But he was flying all over the place. Oh,
Speaker 3: really impressive performance.
Speaker 10: I honestly ask my best, like, I was definitely feeling it.
Speaker 10: That's how Katon was like he's sending me, you know,
Speaker 10: blitting my damn good at it. I love it And
Speaker 10: that's one of my good attributes of doing that. And
Speaker 10: I don't know that game was just a fun game,
Speaker 10: learning the atmosphere, like everything about it. I don't know
Speaker 10: those vibes, I'll feel it.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely the most Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you love blitzing.
Speaker 3: Now have you been always a great blitzer back to
Speaker 3: school or has he gotten something out of you that
Speaker 3: made you even more dangerous as a bleazer.
Speaker 10: Honestly, I would say that no one's ever really got
Speaker 10: to see me blitz because in college I put the
Speaker 10: corner a lot. I mean I had a couple like
Speaker 10: off the side, but like that's not the same as nickol.
Speaker 10: You got a disguise, mess with the QB's head to
Speaker 10: see and stuff like that. So finally, I feel like
Speaker 10: no one really got to see that I had that
Speaker 10: ability into I got put in that position. So yeah,
Speaker 10: that's definitely want my.
Speaker 3: Son, take me there, Take me there, You're you're you're
Speaker 3: you're thinking, you know, you get you got the green light,
Speaker 3: you're getting out of the huddle.
Speaker 6: What you're playing master disguise.
Speaker 10: It's like extreme deceiver, Like that's immedia is going through
Speaker 10: my mind, like I'm gonna act. I'm a real crazy
Speaker 10: for the for the QB. You don't know nothing going on.
Speaker 10: So that's pretty much every player, honestly, but really locked
Speaker 10: in on a little bit.
Speaker 3: And then you can hide behind all that size up front, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can hide and sure here comes.
Speaker 4: It comes to Kyler Man right in together.
Speaker 3: I love it also because of one theon and just
Speaker 3: watching you over the years. Here about your fashion, your
Speaker 3: fashion sense, your fashion interests. I think you you did
Speaker 3: explore some of that in London, right, tell me about
Speaker 3: all that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So I had a designer Wales Bonner. She's actually
Speaker 10: making a custom piece for me, two of them for
Speaker 10: the season. So I went out there, did a fitting,
Speaker 10: did some measurement stuff like that. So I've been working
Speaker 10: with her a little bit, did that out there, so
Speaker 10: I was fun. I excited to see what those pieces
Speaker 10: looking like and put us on a game day. But
Speaker 10: there's definitely a lot of different brands out there in
Speaker 10: fashion in London, you know, so that's look.
Speaker 4: I do you think it was?
Speaker 6: I thought Perish only right yea?
Speaker 10: Or Italy Nah, they got a great options out there.
Speaker 3: Really And so did you investigate that ahead of time
Speaker 3: or you just had already made that connection.
Speaker 10: I investigated a little bit before before, just so we
Speaker 10: could plan it before you've got to London. So I
Speaker 10: honestly just worked out perfect. And uh, they're great people
Speaker 10: over there at Wales Bonder and their team school, so
Speaker 10: I love them.
Speaker 3: How would you describe your fashion?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Get you a great question?
Speaker 8: Yeah to you.
Speaker 10: I feel like I have so many different versions for
Speaker 10: like my passion. You know, it could be skater of
Speaker 10: one day, it could be it could be a little
Speaker 10: more like street the one day it could be suit
Speaker 10: tile Like I don't really, I really, I'm a chameleon.
Speaker 10: I could do anything, really, Like, I love fashion. If
Speaker 10: I see it, I like it where I'll make it,
Speaker 10: make it art. That's just how I feel about it.
Speaker 3: Kind of like how you play the game right, disguising
Speaker 3: your plan and you know you got your style and
Speaker 3: substance all your own.
Speaker 6: Definitely, Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3: I would say eclectic, collectic, eclectic, you know little variety
Speaker 3: DB's back in the day worf Yes, fly fly. I
Speaker 3: mean they made sure they were put together and it
Speaker 3: was very very very nice.
Speaker 4: Nothing crazy. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: Why is this?
Speaker 8: It's gotta played with us?
Speaker 10: Why I get that confidence that you know, that energy,
Speaker 10: you can feel that you know, uh offensive, the way
Speaker 10: you walk and carry yourself all that's intimidating. And so
Speaker 10: that's kind of the dB position and how you're supposed
Speaker 10: to attack it.
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, man, I've said this since the
Speaker 3: beginning of last year. The second This is no disrespect
Speaker 3: to any other unit on this team, trust me, but
Speaker 3: there is a certain something about this defensive secondary. Every
Speaker 3: one of you guys, you guys got there's a confidence
Speaker 3: that you say, a swag.
Speaker 6: It's kind of the heartbeat.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it's the heartbeat of the team. Like you guys
Speaker 2: are the tone setters.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel like our group is special, for sure.
Speaker 10: Our whole defense is special. I feel like everyone in
Speaker 10: every position got some unique quality ability. But yeah, no,
Speaker 10: I definitely love this group of secondary. That we have
Speaker 10: the communications cool, it's amazing.
Speaker 8: I feel like we just get each other.
Speaker 10: I think that's what makes it like so fluid, you know,
Speaker 10: like it's easy to talk, communicate, fix it about hoop.
Speaker 8: If it's messed up.
Speaker 10: We're gonna fit like we're gonna make it work regardless
Speaker 10: of Definitely a bunch of special players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yourself included, because you are a special player.
Speaker 3: I read scouts take on you. An unnamed scout from
Speaker 3: another team says, these ball are out there, but do
Speaker 3: you feel that teams now recognize this a little bitta,
Speaker 3: you're bad man out there.
Speaker 8: I feel it. I definitely feel it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 10: I mean that's my job, disruptor like nicol like, I'm
Speaker 10: here to disrupt the play. Don't run towards me, don't
Speaker 10: pass on this how to feel with me and me?
Speaker 10: You know, Uh, that's just how it is, you know.
Speaker 10: So I find myself a lot of time trying to
Speaker 10: find production and create that so.
Speaker 8: Part of the game.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, because it is the most
Speaker 3: difficult position, in.
Speaker 6: My opinion, to play, is nickel?
Speaker 8: For sure?
Speaker 3: You got to know so many assignments, got to know.
Speaker 6: Every what everybody else.
Speaker 10: Is, positions and one three and one linebacker. I'm a corner,
Speaker 10: I'm a safety.
Speaker 6: Taking the words talking QB.
Speaker 3: A little bit, so take me to take me to
Speaker 3: the huddle. You get a play call, all right, and
Speaker 3: it's specifically something that you're going to be deployed to do.
Speaker 3: Take me through that with the process is that you
Speaker 3: have to take a look now they break the huddle
Speaker 3: on the other side.
Speaker 6: Take me there, Take me there.
Speaker 10: It's a long process, or it's a short process, with
Speaker 10: so many different things to check off in my head
Speaker 10: right away, call job, all the multiple assignments that I
Speaker 10: could possibly have. If it's this this three by one
Speaker 10: and two by two, uh, speed at three, like communication
Speaker 10: to the corner, to the mic, to the safety, whether
Speaker 10: I needed to be this or that set them up
Speaker 10: a position. Then I'm going to formation all right, Uh,
Speaker 10: trying to predict or kind of see what route formation
Speaker 10: they're like in this specific set, Uh, whether they're gonna
Speaker 10: do this tendencies Like I'm thinking that that I'm eliminating routes.
Speaker 10: Two's on the ball, ones off alert the motion, possibly
Speaker 10: a China ride. Like there's so many things flying through
Speaker 10: my head, Like I got into my head, Like the end,
Speaker 10: I'm like, all right, these dety options, it's almost likely
Speaker 10: going to be this is this I play off of it, But.
Speaker 6: How do you make it slow down?
Speaker 8: Then a lot of.
Speaker 10: Film, a lot of film knowing what there is, uh
Speaker 10: A knowing what spot to drop in. It's funny because
Speaker 10: it used to be so fast my rookie year, and
Speaker 10: now it's just like it's slow, So it's fun Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well that's just some of the interview.
Speaker 3: And I find it very interesting because, you know, as
Speaker 3: viewers of the game and trying to understand the game
Speaker 3: that's happening in split seconds, there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: time to sort through all that. Tom, you guys and
Speaker 3: Jim have played it. Jim's attacking those guys that Tom's
Speaker 3: watching on the sidelines. How those guys operate. But and
Speaker 3: then you know, facing Nickels like that. It just blows
Speaker 3: my mind how details matter.
Speaker 4: It's a little story about Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 5: So a few weeks ago, I was having dinner with
Speaker 5: Todd Light, former Notre Dame great playing in the NFL
Speaker 5: Super Bowl ring and he was working coaching at Notre
Speaker 5: Dame after his career, and he was recruiting Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 5: And he says, oh my god, I got Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 5: He's coming to Notre Dame. He's gonna wear number one.
Speaker 5: He's gonna be one of our top defensive players. Right
Speaker 5: at the end, he switched and went out to Washington,
Speaker 5: and he talks about one of the neatest personalities that
Speaker 5: he's ever met in his recruiting journeys in college football,
Speaker 5: and Kyler Gordon was that guy. And you know, he
Speaker 5: said hey as soon as you see him. Tell him
Speaker 5: I said hello. And he's one of the guys that
Speaker 5: I wish never got away from Notre Dame, and he did.
Speaker 5: But when you listen to him and talk about fashion
Speaker 5: and his football, you just you can kind of tell
Speaker 5: what type of guy.
Speaker 8: He is.
Speaker 7: Very good athlete in quick twitch, and you know he's
Speaker 7: only going to get better. I mean, you can do
Speaker 7: so much with him from the the nickel spot, and
Speaker 7: I think his film study, you know, is going to
Speaker 7: get better and better because the way he can jump
Speaker 7: routes and why he's been given a nickname of Spidey.
Speaker 7: This guy is on you like a glove and so
Speaker 7: he's got great anticipation, how he reads it good FBI
Speaker 7: and so hopefully the best is yet to come. He's
Speaker 7: already pretty good, but he's going to get better.
Speaker 8: A lot better.
Speaker 3: All right, we got to take our final break and
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Speaker 7: Papa Hallis, I mean, this is a history of football.
Speaker 7: So I encourage everybody to go check it out if
Speaker 7: you're a huge Chicago Bears fan, and you'll get to
Speaker 7: know not only about the current Bears, but just you
Speaker 7: know how the history of football unfolded. Obviously, Papa Hellis
Speaker 7: was a big part of that.
Speaker 3: There's not a day that goes by when I'm up here,
Speaker 3: I don't see something that I stopp say. Man, I
Speaker 3: didn't see that before, So that's really cool. All right,
Speaker 3: we got less than thirty seconds.
Speaker 4: Key to victory.
Speaker 6: Jim Miller. What do we got on Thursday?
Speaker 7: Score points?
Speaker 6: Wow? Simple as that, but hard to do.
Speaker 4: Tommy Sack Jared Goff.
Speaker 3: Time repeatedly, four minimum, make it, make it challenging for him.
Speaker 4: Four minimum.
Speaker 3: He's a bounce back guy though. Man, he threw five
Speaker 3: picks a couple of weeks ago. He's been protecting the
Speaker 3: football on a high completion percentage, that's for sure. Jim,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us. You have a
Speaker 3: happy Thanksgiving you and your family. I know you'll be
Speaker 3: working as well, but appreciate your time, buddy.
Speaker 7: You guys too. Everybody out there, have a great Thanksgiving
Speaker 7: all right.
Speaker 3: Thanks to everybody for listening tonight, Thanks to all our
Speaker 3: producers and Kyler Gordon. Appreciate it. And we will be
Speaker 3: with you next week. And we'll talk to you Thursday.
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