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
Speaker 1: day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all
Speaker 1: access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by CDW,
Speaker 1: Miller Lite and Hulu. Pleasant, good evening, everybody, going to
Speaker 1: welcome in a another edition of Bears All Access here
Speaker 1: from panc Studios at Hallisaw, brought to you by IGS Energy.
Speaker 1: We celebrate the NFC North champion Chicago Bears, but with
Speaker 1: a lot more yet on the table to accomplish. They
Speaker 1: are digging in, they are leaving no stone on turned.
Speaker 1: I'll throw every cliche in the book at you, Tim
Speaker 1: there as we welcome you back to talk about Bears
Speaker 1: football San Francisco in the offing on Sunday in Santa Clara, California,
Speaker 1: where the temper should be in the low sixties, great weather,
Speaker 1: Bears practicing into mild weather already this week here at Hallisaw.
Speaker 1: Good to have you long. We'll be joined by one
Speaker 1: of the interesting players I've met in the national Football
Speaker 1: League Josh Bellamy, the wide receiver and special team's jem
Speaker 1: and he'll be joining us shortly to talk Bears football.
Speaker 1: But overall, as you digest what's going on so far
Speaker 1: since the Packer game and the clinching and the parties
Speaker 1: and the dancing and all that is back down to
Speaker 1: football now, right. You know, you sit there and you
Speaker 1: kind of talk to some of the people about Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky and even though they went and they won the
Speaker 1: division championship, Mitchell Trubisky is not a finished product and
Speaker 1: he's far from it. And some of the questions I
Speaker 1: hear is, you know, like, you know, what can you
Speaker 1: do going forward? How much better can this team get?
Speaker 1: What is going you know what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: this team, and they're still just scratching the surface. So
Speaker 1: you know, when you talk about division championship. But in
Speaker 1: preparation for San Francisco, I think there's so much that
Speaker 1: Matt can include in his offensive game plan, stuff that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen yet, stuff that you know, Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: may have been doing in practice since training camp, but
Speaker 1: he hasn't used in a game yet. So I still
Speaker 1: think there's so much growth for this team going forward,
Speaker 1: we're kind of getting caught up and no, you want
Speaker 1: a division. So it's a complete product. That's not. One
Speaker 1: of the main questions at hallis Hall was you know
Speaker 1: the defense is elite. I mean, Matt Neggie said it himself,
Speaker 1: it's an elite defense, and he was asked, is the
Speaker 1: offense right there with him? And it is a playoff offense.
Speaker 1: And Matt's very confident about his offense. He's confident in
Speaker 1: what he's seen from Mitch Drubisky and how it's developed
Speaker 1: so far. But like you said, there is so much
Speaker 1: growth yet to happen for everybody on the offense. I
Speaker 1: mean you the scratching of the surface comment you just
Speaker 1: made is so accurate. I think that's the step back.
Speaker 1: That's the step back. Look at the bigger picture here. Yes,
Speaker 1: they have one well growing as an offense. It's a
Speaker 1: developed and now mature defense still with young players who
Speaker 1: also can still get better. Well, So I do believe
Speaker 1: this is a playoff offense. So, but I do think
Speaker 1: where they're gonna be in a couple of years, and
Speaker 1: the way we've been around teams that have really showed
Speaker 1: so much growth in their and their time together. That's
Speaker 1: where that's where I think they're going. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: focus is on right now. That's that's really the focus
Speaker 1: on what they can do with their ten and four
Speaker 1: record at this point with two games to go and
Speaker 1: the playoffs in the offing. The goal here is obviously
Speaker 1: best possible seat. You can only go up here as
Speaker 1: the number three seat. You got number one and number two,
Speaker 1: and if you can move up it just creates a
Speaker 1: whole whole load of opportunities. Everybody would love to have
Speaker 1: a bye week before the playoffs get going. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean everybody you know that is the goal when you
Speaker 1: start talking about you know, first of all, the first
Speaker 1: goal is to win the division, and then what happens
Speaker 1: going forward in the playoffs you got to be prepared for.
Speaker 1: But I like to have incentive at the end of
Speaker 1: the season because, like coach Dicka used to tell us,
Speaker 1: you can't turn a dial off and then just turn
Speaker 1: it on. It's something that once it starts at the
Speaker 1: beginning of OTA's training camp, it's it goes until don't
Speaker 1: forget that thought. I want to pick it up because
Speaker 1: that is always the big question sports. How can you
Speaker 1: do it? Does it really happen. Maybe some special people
Speaker 1: can do that. Maybe one of them is Josh Bellamy.
Speaker 1: He's now joined us. Josh Bellamy kind enough to take
Speaker 1: some time this week to join us down bears all access.
Speaker 1: How you doing, brother, Yeah? Ear to ear. Smiles around
Speaker 1: building all frankly all year, even in times of trouble.
Speaker 1: You know, the very little you know, you guys want
Speaker 1: to lost four games by a total of fourteen points.
Speaker 1: You realize that, right, true? Yeah, can you imagine it?
Speaker 1: Fourteen points away from being an unbeaten team. That's how
Speaker 1: much belief has been around here. But Tom, the smiles
Speaker 1: around the building have been here all season because they
Speaker 1: genuinely do like each other. I'm in that locker room,
Speaker 1: what three three hours a week I see you guys,
Speaker 1: whether it's playing cards or jacking around, which you've always
Speaker 1: kind of had an audience in there with your fellas.
Speaker 1: But Matt Naggi's just taking at the whole new level,
Speaker 1: giving you guys really a platform. But just do it,
Speaker 1: do whatever makes you happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Nagi man,
Speaker 1: he just wants us to have fun. And you know
Speaker 1: that's like the big part of this game, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just having fun. You know, it's it's worked, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's fun, you know, like it's
Speaker 1: a game. We're playing the game. So you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like, man, everybody's just having fun. Man, and it's
Speaker 1: like coming to like it's just got so big and
Speaker 1: it's just blowed up, like it's just crazy, Like hey man,
Speaker 1: we just we just living. When you guys played two
Speaker 1: it at once, you know, when you guys got a
Speaker 1: role and obviously you came in eighty five and so
Speaker 1: everything worked, you guys, boom, it was magic, you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was fun. It was different. You know, Dicka
Speaker 1: already had things in motion. Jim finks he had drafted
Speaker 1: the right amount of players. And that's what I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask Josh. You know, we were talking to Alan Robinson.
Speaker 1: He said, when you guys all came together for the
Speaker 1: first time in April third, that's when you guys came
Speaker 1: together for a group. You've been around here for a while.
Speaker 1: When half of that moment, did you notice that culture
Speaker 1: was changing? Things were gonna be different and it was
Speaker 1: a whole different attitude there. Um, we're talking about me
Speaker 1: as in the receivers. Well, no, he's just the whole team,
Speaker 1: the whole building, because you know when when we started
Speaker 1: coming around here, when they hired Matt Naggie, there was
Speaker 1: a change of culture inside the build. There's a change
Speaker 1: of attitude. Yeah, I'll just say like when coach Naggie
Speaker 1: first came in, even his first meeting, like he just
Speaker 1: he let us know, like, man, hey, there's no reason
Speaker 1: to be uptight. There's no reason for us that he
Speaker 1: gave us room. Like, hey, you guys, be yourselves. He
Speaker 1: put that up from day one, and be yourself. And like,
Speaker 1: I just think like everybody just being the sales lending
Speaker 1: personality show, like they're not scared to be who they
Speaker 1: are and they're just playing the game. And we're having
Speaker 1: fun and loving it. You know, we are brothers. We
Speaker 1: spend this We spend more time with each other than
Speaker 1: we do with family. So right now I just feel like, man,
Speaker 1: we're embracing this, this coaching we got going on right now,
Speaker 1: we just we just bawling. You know, it's need. Like
Speaker 1: our team there was somebody for everybody to grab. Every
Speaker 1: fan had somebody to gravitate towards Weller. It's the fridge crew,
Speaker 1: the offensive line crew, the Walter Payton Crew, the Willie
Speaker 1: Gold style, even Kevin Butler, right, and and that's the
Speaker 1: same thing with this team. There's so many unique personnalities here.
Speaker 1: The fans, you know, when they they scam the stadium
Speaker 1: and they show jerseys, there's jerseys from everybody. And I
Speaker 1: think it's a cool thing about this team that there's
Speaker 1: seen a Bellamie jersey. I've seen a couple. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a Bellemue Marshall, right, that's yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 1: It's like I see all In Cruitz's jersey and I
Speaker 1: always tell people it's mine. It's all good. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: at that meeting April third, because now guys are bringing
Speaker 1: it up. Alan Robson's brought it up, some of the
Speaker 1: Danny Traviatan's brought it up. April third. April third seems
Speaker 1: to be the rebirth. Now third, that's when we said
Speaker 1: this foundation, right. But if you think back to that moment,
Speaker 1: did you envision where you'd be today? This kind of
Speaker 1: forget about the wins and losses. Now, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the camaraderie and the type of people you have in
Speaker 1: that room. Yeah, yeah, we all envisioned it. It's just
Speaker 1: like this is what coach Naggie won. It Like everything's
Speaker 1: just like coming to life, like he spoke it earlier
Speaker 1: April third, he spoke on that day and now like
Speaker 1: up intil this day, like everything is coming to life.
Speaker 1: It's like even through the losses, you know, like nobody's
Speaker 1: getting down. Everybody is helping each other up and that's
Speaker 1: what you need. And a good team for everybody to
Speaker 1: build each other up. It's like it's no it's no
Speaker 1: negativity going on, like you know what you know. So
Speaker 1: every day we're just grinding and trying to be better.
Speaker 1: Spiked only four losses. Has there been any any at
Speaker 1: any point of dark moment on his team this year?
Speaker 1: I can't remember, you know, like I've been here and
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, when you go down and the score,
Speaker 1: you know, the opponent goes up and you know, guys like,
Speaker 1: oh man, here we go get it hasn't been like that.
Speaker 1: It's like hey, they go score touchdown. They man, it's
Speaker 1: out turn to go score touchdown or it's out turning
Speaker 1: to let's go win. You know, and our defense. If
Speaker 1: our offense we don't score, put the ball off and
Speaker 1: get the ball to defense. Man go stop them offense,
Speaker 1: get the ball, let's go score and special teams doesn't
Speaker 1: make plays. Like that's just how we we We've been
Speaker 1: working and it's just been coming into play. You know,
Speaker 1: you haven't had an easier role in the NFL when
Speaker 1: you're when this offense was introduced to you, Was it
Speaker 1: a hard offense to learn because you're playing multiple positions,
Speaker 1: you're blocking out of multiple formations and different positions on
Speaker 1: the field, You're in motion all over the play. So
Speaker 1: everything that Josh Bellamy had to do, was this the
Speaker 1: right offense for you? And was it hard to learn
Speaker 1: master or you're still getting to know it? Well? You know,
Speaker 1: I came in with I was in Kansas City, so
Speaker 1: when Naggie and you know, Andy and those guys came over,
Speaker 1: I kind of like, I already had a feel for
Speaker 1: this offense, so I already knew it. You know, I've
Speaker 1: been in a lot offenses, so but I already knew
Speaker 1: that kind of the field of this offense. I remember
Speaker 1: a little bit of it, so like, but when it
Speaker 1: came over here, like already, that's just how I just
Speaker 1: learned every position, I know every where everybody's doing. And
Speaker 1: that's just how I operate. So now you know, I
Speaker 1: could play every position, and I just that's the way.
Speaker 1: I just my mind. I just do it that way.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if a rob comes out or
Speaker 1: Turbo comes out, or Anthony comes out, I could just
Speaker 1: go win. So you know, um, that's just how it's been.
Speaker 1: And you know, our whole receiver group is like that.
Speaker 1: You know, hey man, let's just everybody know what everybody doing,
Speaker 1: and that way we can everybody can operate, we can
Speaker 1: move around, we can do different stuff. Coach now you
Speaker 1: can put us in different spots. He can do motions
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And the offense is really it
Speaker 1: looks crazy, but it's really not that complicated. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's an there's an article in October that Matt Nagie says,
Speaker 1: um Bellamy is an easy game day activation because he's
Speaker 1: a three position player. Are you talking about three positions
Speaker 1: on offense or are you talking about your offensive positioning
Speaker 1: and your special team delivery? I think he's talking about offense,
Speaker 1: you know, because I could play I play X, I
Speaker 1: played the Z brand, I played the Z so I
Speaker 1: play all three. So you know I come in for whoever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I played four phases I play, and then
Speaker 1: I played four phases right on special teams. So you know, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just glad to be here. I'm glad we win
Speaker 1: in man, Yeah, so are we? Yeah? It is about time.
Speaker 1: Josh Belling me our guest here on Bears All Access,
Speaker 1: brought to you by IGS Energy, Pauls the Ranker, engineer
Speaker 1: Dan Briley, our producer here at Hollis Hall. Uh in
Speaker 1: a word to describe you as a football player survivor,
Speaker 1: say that's accurate? Uh, come on, well, you know we
Speaker 1: could talk about it. So back to Kansas City. That
Speaker 1: was like twelve right, yep, twenty twelve. Here we are
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, and you've been on several teams. How
Speaker 1: many times you've been cut? I mean your surviving your survivor. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're self made, I say that, how about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I agree, Man, it's been a long road for me. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, this is the first time I've I've been
Speaker 1: on the winning team. You know, just what over what
Speaker 1: how many wins? Five wins, six wins? So you know,
Speaker 1: like for me, man, it's new, you know. So I'm
Speaker 1: just embracing it too, man, And every day I want
Speaker 1: to go work, work harder, get another w so and
Speaker 1: that's just how this team, the team is. Man, Hey man,
Speaker 1: you know, if you've been around here for a while, man,
Speaker 1: you know how it's been. And you know we've been
Speaker 1: up and down, coaches, changing players, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: So man, right now I feel like, man, we got
Speaker 1: a healthy team and we've just been bailing. Man, and
Speaker 1: everybody just want to win and let's everybody do good.
Speaker 1: But Matt, you know, Matt didn't want to talk about
Speaker 1: the past, history, the Green Bay rivalry. He just wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about the future. And I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of what you're living too, is the future not the
Speaker 1: experiences of what you live through has been a positive
Speaker 1: for you and now you're benefiting because of that them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been through the rough times man, and now you know,
Speaker 1: hey man, that's the only way you can get to
Speaker 1: this point, man, is to take losses in to go
Speaker 1: through the you know, the speed bumps. And man, right
Speaker 1: now I feel like, man, we're going up. So it's
Speaker 1: not about what happened in the past, about what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen in the future. You got fined for blocking Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald did the referee tell you what you did wrong?
Speaker 1: Or do you see on cape what you have to
Speaker 1: do to improve that? Because I'm not a big fan
Speaker 1: of players getting fined for a block that's constructed with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't try to do that. That was
Speaker 1: that really was like it just happened, like you know,
Speaker 1: because I was coming across. I was supposed to get
Speaker 1: the gown on the end, but he kind of flashed
Speaker 1: and I just went down on him. But I was
Speaker 1: really going to get the end, but I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't mean to do that. Josh Bellamy our guest here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access. We're gonna step away take our
Speaker 1: first break with Tom Thayre. I'm Jeff Joning. Act last
Speaker 1: to discuss is the Bears get ready to meet the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers and get themselves playoff ready. Here on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score and welcome back
Speaker 1: to Bears All Access. Brought to you by IGS Energy,
Speaker 1: a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural
Speaker 1: gas at home. Warranty products are over one million customers
Speaker 1: across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs
Speaker 1: dot com. Jeff and Tom with you from panc Studios
Speaker 1: at Hollis All here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: The Score. A guest this week, Josh Bellamy. You've always
Speaker 1: been one of my favorite players because of the energy,
Speaker 1: the confidence. You don't let anything bring you down. Man.
Speaker 1: You talk about our next play mentality, which MAT's always
Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah you got you got that, You've had
Speaker 1: it for a long time. Why it's just it's about
Speaker 1: the next play. You know. I learned that it's just
Speaker 1: me and you know, you can't let one one play,
Speaker 1: you know, affect your whole game or you know, like
Speaker 1: define you know who you're gonna be or who you are.
Speaker 1: You know, like I've realized that, you know eight you're
Speaker 1: gonna have good plays, You're gonna have bad plays. It's
Speaker 1: about moving on. Even like some guys, you know, even
Speaker 1: if you have a good play, you gotta move on
Speaker 1: to the next play because you know, you gotta have
Speaker 1: a play after that. You gotta have a you know,
Speaker 1: it's gotta gotta build it up, build it up. And
Speaker 1: even if you have a negative play, you gotta move on.
Speaker 1: And even when I um like going back to I
Speaker 1: want to say, what year that was that Tennessee game
Speaker 1: when I dropped that ball, you know a I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big, you know moment for me because
Speaker 1: I never like been in that situation. And even you know,
Speaker 1: even uh George, he came down and eat, He's like, man,
Speaker 1: don't don't let one play define you, you know, like cashing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like Josh, just move on, man. I love it when
Speaker 1: you play. I love your energy. You know, just move
Speaker 1: on from it. And I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: like that that's big, you know, like he's even the owner,
Speaker 1: he coming down like hey, man, let's move on, you know.
Speaker 1: And and that's one thing you know, Uh, even coach
Speaker 1: coach Fox he preached that too. Man next play, next
Speaker 1: play mentality, And that's coach Naggy, you know. It's it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's been building up, man, even from going
Speaker 1: back up into this point. I feel like just us
Speaker 1: building up to this point. It's been a long role,
Speaker 1: but this is what we needed to get to where
Speaker 1: we're at right now. Well, in your arsenal, you got
Speaker 1: a twenty two yard and around run against the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: Where is it? How can we you know? All these
Speaker 1: multiple offenses when when are we gonna see that in
Speaker 1: this in this offense with you? Oh man, yeay man.
Speaker 1: You know it's it's the role you know you like
Speaker 1: to carry as much as a cat. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. I don't care what they do. I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's a block, if it's a if
Speaker 1: it's a run, if it's a catch. I take the
Speaker 1: same pride as I would in the catch and run
Speaker 1: or block, you know, eight man, That's just the role
Speaker 1: it is right now, and whatever they need me to do,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm down to do. Like I don't hey,
Speaker 1: I'd rather praise those guys for scoring a touchdown I
Speaker 1: made a block on the play. You know. That's just
Speaker 1: the way my mentality is. You know, our guy, our
Speaker 1: statistician that sits up in the booth with us, Doug Cletty.
Speaker 1: He's probably one of the smartest guys in sports in
Speaker 1: terms of analytics and numbers. He talks about how the
Speaker 1: punt is the biggest play in a football game, and
Speaker 1: we saw evidence of you twice this week, how you
Speaker 1: basically change field position by it. When you're running down
Speaker 1: on a punt. You're the one of the flyers, the
Speaker 1: outside guy that have to get down there and determine
Speaker 1: how their punt return is going to return it. So
Speaker 1: now he's trying to fake you, but you're also trying
Speaker 1: to file the flight of the ball to put you
Speaker 1: in the best position either to make a catch or
Speaker 1: your back to the goal line. How hard is it
Speaker 1: to do all those things and you got usually got
Speaker 1: two guys trying to knock you into the out of
Speaker 1: bounds area. Yeah, you know, I'll tell those guys that,
Speaker 1: like Alan Robinson and h Taylor, those guys, you guys
Speaker 1: playing office, come out here and play gunners if you
Speaker 1: want to see whether you want to want some work,
Speaker 1: you know. And then sometimes you're going against two guys,
Speaker 1: I tell him, like, you know that sometimes that's that
Speaker 1: might be like the hardest job. You know, you're going
Speaker 1: against two guys your disadvantage, and you gotta try to
Speaker 1: stop the ball, you know, and and you know you
Speaker 1: and the punter gotta be on like you know, like
Speaker 1: the same record. But you know, it's it's it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: It's pretty yeah. Yeah, yeah, you gotta have some some
Speaker 1: grit to you, man. You gotta be a dog, That's
Speaker 1: what I tell him. Even like you know, shared like,
Speaker 1: you know, and not why I shared played like he's
Speaker 1: a dog. That's just the way his mentality is. And
Speaker 1: you know, like when you got a guy like that
Speaker 1: on the other side of you, and you gotta be
Speaker 1: funny thing it's about that. I did a feature on
Speaker 1: the two of you a couple of years back, and
Speaker 1: I learned so much about what it takes, the mentality,
Speaker 1: the detail and the fundamentals and the technique that has
Speaker 1: to be proper, which you know, you can get off
Speaker 1: schedule very quickly on special teams, yeah, you know, because
Speaker 1: special team it's a one play like it's one play mentality.
Speaker 1: You only get one play to do what you do.
Speaker 1: And you know, you got some guys gonna play offense
Speaker 1: get sixty plays a game, you know, but on special
Speaker 1: teams you might get six plays, ten plays, you never know,
Speaker 1: but it's fourth downs so on that that's you're down
Speaker 1: to to be great and that's what we do. Man.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Sherik is being a dot for those who
Speaker 1: don't know him. I mean, he's the nicest guy in
Speaker 1: the building, right yeah, my honest face, very feisty on
Speaker 1: the field of fight, say the least, right, Yeah. I
Speaker 1: learned a lot about don't mess with Sherik. He's proven
Speaker 1: is worth that defense too. But you guys did the
Speaker 1: years of instigating each other and challenging each other coverage,
Speaker 1: So I think it was a really a real positive
Speaker 1: about it. Maybe you brought it out. It's about creating competition,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just in any room. It's about creating competition.
Speaker 1: Like when you got Jordans and you got Tarik, and
Speaker 1: you got uh uh ma Zille and you got Bunny.
Speaker 1: There was guys all in that room. But it's all
Speaker 1: competition at the same time, and that's what makes you
Speaker 1: better in your room. And you think about our room.
Speaker 1: You got Alan Robinson, you got Taylor Gabriel, you got
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller, me you got h Kevin and you got
Speaker 1: h ten of those guys. So you know, it's all competition.
Speaker 1: Like when you're in camp, everybody's really competing for jobs.
Speaker 1: So and then you get to this season, it's like, man, hey,
Speaker 1: Turbomaze's catches this game, and damn man, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get me some catches, you know, like such as as
Speaker 1: you had one hundred yards this game. I'm trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, make my plays count. So that's what that's
Speaker 1: what I guess, that's what helps the team build up. Man,
Speaker 1: do you do you watch college football? There's a reason
Speaker 1: I'm asking this question, Uh a little bit, I'm really watching. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's you know yourself and Sheriff. You guys have made
Speaker 1: a successful NFL career because the wave you've involved yourself
Speaker 1: and special teams and you became a member of every
Speaker 1: single phase of special teams on the field. It seems
Speaker 1: to me the college game is killing special teams, both
Speaker 1: by fair catchers on kickoff return and some of the
Speaker 1: other limits. And I don't want to see that player
Speaker 1: lost because I think the look at the good fortunes
Speaker 1: that you've been able to increase because of coming here
Speaker 1: as a special teamer. That's like all for like like
Speaker 1: a good coach like when I was in college, like
Speaker 1: coach Strong and uh, you know how to coach. My
Speaker 1: special team coach is Kenn Carter. Like it was like, yo,
Speaker 1: special teams a lot of you guys, Yeah, y'all might
Speaker 1: go to the NFL, but special teams are gonna be
Speaker 1: your way in the door. Like you know, like I
Speaker 1: tell the young guys that come like hey, man, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: you ain't. You ain't one of those top guys. You
Speaker 1: need to be trying to play special teams, Like that's
Speaker 1: your way in the door. And that's like how I've been, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: that's my way to do it. Kids don't want to
Speaker 1: hear that though, a man, but you got to That's
Speaker 1: that's the truth. Hey man, let's you gonna you want
Speaker 1: to play on this team and you want to go
Speaker 1: down and talk Trey Burton a body Trey. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: he started at the very bot. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: like the you know, but tenth tight end on the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and he he becomes special Teams Player of the Year
Speaker 1: on the Eagles. Yeah, that's your way to the top, man.
Speaker 1: Some guys, Yeah, you get your find your role on
Speaker 1: special teams, then you end up finding you a role
Speaker 1: on you know, you've been on the active, you've been
Speaker 1: on the act. If somebody goes down, now you plugged
Speaker 1: in because you're on the active. And that's just the
Speaker 1: way I think. That's the way I've been for me
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. You know, hey, I've just
Speaker 1: been on special teams and then kind of filling my
Speaker 1: way in the offense. And you know, I've been making
Speaker 1: my way up and now you know I'll be I'm
Speaker 1: in the game. You know, I played a kickoff return
Speaker 1: from my last my first game to my last game,
Speaker 1: and I think that was one of the most important
Speaker 1: roles I had because when you see your name my
Speaker 1: first team, any special team, you're getting a jersey for
Speaker 1: the day, and I think that's important part of it
Speaker 1: for you. That's big. That's big. Yeah, man, you got
Speaker 1: it that that's what you want to see. Man. You
Speaker 1: want to see your name on that active RUSS And
Speaker 1: it's okay there to make the team, but you want
Speaker 1: to be on the field playing when when it when
Speaker 1: it's time to play that ball kicks off. You want
Speaker 1: to be on the sideline, just dressed out. I want
Speaker 1: to play. So that's just the way I've been, you know,
Speaker 1: just keeping me going in this league. Man. It's just man,
Speaker 1: I want to be on the field. I want to
Speaker 1: play whatever I gotta do, That's what I want to do.
Speaker 1: Wide receiver Josh Bellamy our guest here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access with Tom There Jeff Joni Yak were brought to
Speaker 1: you by IGS Energy with step Away. Another segment coming
Speaker 1: up next here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score,
Speaker 1: Escape the cold and head to the reu Pallas Costa.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's Mujeris MoU Harris Can't Cooon. I don't
Speaker 1: know the name of it, but you know, Can't Coon's
Speaker 1: good enough with your favorite Bears players including Prince of Mugamara,
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith, Cody Whitehair, plus Inside the Bear host Lauren
Speaker 1: Screeden and Anthony Adams. Visit Apple Vacations dot com slash
Speaker 1: Bears to a book today. I've been on those Bear trips.
Speaker 1: They're a lot of fun. Hope you'll enjoy the break
Speaker 1: from the winter. Here in Chicago, We're on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Jeff,
Speaker 1: Joni Yak and Tom There with Josh Bellamy, Bears veteran
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Can you pinpoint the moment that you realize
Speaker 1: you got your break in the NFL. The year that
Speaker 1: was big for me was when I when I made
Speaker 1: the active roster. When my first year, like coming in
Speaker 1: out of camp making the active roster, I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the roster. That was big for me because
Speaker 1: I never I never did that, you know, I went
Speaker 1: three years on the scout, like playing on practice squad
Speaker 1: and okay, yeah I got three games in or I
Speaker 1: got four games in like towards the end of the season,
Speaker 1: but like coming in and like, hey you're an active
Speaker 1: you made it. That was big for me. And then
Speaker 1: the year after that, you know, like my special teams role,
Speaker 1: I played a lot of special teams. I want to
Speaker 1: say that was two thousand and sixteen. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: a long time. So I undersk guys that repeatedly get
Speaker 1: cut or repeatedly have to be staying on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: Why do you do it? It's the love of the game.
Speaker 1: It's the love you know, you just you wanta this
Speaker 1: is what you did all your life, like up until
Speaker 1: this point, like, man, I'm here now, I just want
Speaker 1: to I want a ball, like I want to. I
Speaker 1: want to show the world what I got. You've been
Speaker 1: doing it for so long, Like playing back, you're football
Speaker 1: with your friends and you know either they from proving
Speaker 1: people wrong or the doubters or even the people that's
Speaker 1: what of your family, you know, it's you know, you
Speaker 1: do it for whatever your reason is, your why and
Speaker 1: it's just like, man, now that you're here, like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to shine, but you know, you went to
Speaker 1: a junior college first. And I really admire guys that
Speaker 1: go to junior college and get themselves into a four
Speaker 1: year college because that shows you. That shows me that
Speaker 1: there's a guy that has a great deal of desire
Speaker 1: to want to play in the NFL or want to
Speaker 1: take this thing as long as he could. What was
Speaker 1: in you that going, Okay, I'm gonna go out to
Speaker 1: the West Coast and play in junior college. Then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come back near the Midwest and go to college.
Speaker 1: What motivated you to allow yourself to believe that that
Speaker 1: was You're gonna be your path just like, man, hey,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't be home. Man, I got all
Speaker 1: kinds of scholarships. Man, I gotta I gotta go make it,
Speaker 1: Like that was my dream, Like to make it to
Speaker 1: this point, to make it to the NFL, to get
Speaker 1: to the NFL to play. I watched it on TV,
Speaker 1: you know, like, man, I wouldn't be in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like even when I got cut, I
Speaker 1: got cut, like I forgot how many times. But my
Speaker 1: agent and my old agent, he was like, man, I
Speaker 1: think we're just gonna we're gonna try to go to
Speaker 1: the Canadian. Yeah, I'm like, man, listen, if I got
Speaker 1: to go to Canadian, I'm done, Like you know, Like
Speaker 1: you know, I'm once an NFL playing I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: my way in this league. I don't know how I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it, but I'm gonna do it. And even
Speaker 1: if I got out work everybody stayed longer. Is he's
Speaker 1: still your agent? No? No, Josh Beller, he Bears wide
Speaker 1: receiver here on Bears all access. Um. In terms of
Speaker 1: that kind of thinking and so forth, Um, what is
Speaker 1: it about you? Because you've you used to when we
Speaker 1: were here early on, you would be in coach's ears
Speaker 1: so much. Get me on the field, get me on
Speaker 1: the field, get me on the field. It was that
Speaker 1: part maybe of the reason you did get the opportunity.
Speaker 1: You wore people down a little bit, like telling them, hey,
Speaker 1: I can do this and somebody and they finally gave
Speaker 1: you some shots. Like I said, what were you like
Speaker 1: then versus now? A maturity and just as things changed
Speaker 1: for you, Oh no, because I'm still tell the man,
Speaker 1: give me the game. I'm trying to get in the game.
Speaker 1: But you know, like it's just like back then, you know,
Speaker 1: I probably I don't think I understood the game as
Speaker 1: much as I do now. You know, like now like
Speaker 1: I know what's going on, you know, I know the
Speaker 1: different looks, I know what the defense is doing. Like,
Speaker 1: I take more time and I'm studying a little more,
Speaker 1: you know, more than back when I first came in.
Speaker 1: I was just hey, it's just talented. Hey, let me
Speaker 1: just go out here, man, let me do what I
Speaker 1: can do. And that's not the way the league is.
Speaker 1: You know, you got in college, you got a couple
Speaker 1: of guys that's just on elite level when they're just
Speaker 1: doing crazy stuff. But in the NFL, I mean you
Speaker 1: got smart guys there where they're supposed to be there.
Speaker 1: You know they're getting it route there. You know that
Speaker 1: they're doing everything they need to do. So like now
Speaker 1: it's like you gotta be smart. It's not just talent now,
Speaker 1: it's not just physicality, is not just who's the strongest,
Speaker 1: who's the fastest. It's just about sometimes who's the smartest.
Speaker 1: And you know, like now I feel like, man, you
Speaker 1: know my game. What helped my game is me understanding
Speaker 1: and that's the part I feel like helped me. You know, Joshua,
Speaker 1: what's the scariest thing about being on on the onside
Speaker 1: kick team? What I was getting ready to watch that
Speaker 1: moment unfold this past Sunday. I saw the job Nick
Speaker 1: Wadkowski did, and then you think about some of the
Speaker 1: events of in the past, of recent history of on
Speaker 1: site kicks, both for the Bears and maybe the reminder
Speaker 1: of the one that happened in Green Bay a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. It seems like that kick can be
Speaker 1: kicked so many different ways, and so is it a
Speaker 1: nervous for moment. I'd rather be the side kicking it
Speaker 1: than the side receiving, you know, because the side that's
Speaker 1: receiving it, the pressure is really young, right right, you know,
Speaker 1: but the guys who are going to get the kick
Speaker 1: did coming right, you know, It's like it's full speed ahead,
Speaker 1: it's none stop. So you know, like that's that's the part.
Speaker 1: Like it's just I think like the on side key
Speaker 1: that might be more like more nervous for anybody than
Speaker 1: any part of the game. Like it's time for own
Speaker 1: side kick. Man, is either we get it or we
Speaker 1: don't like it. Turn to get it. We don't get it,
Speaker 1: it might be over. So it's like that. It's crazy, man,
Speaker 1: if it would be more fun if they made all
Speaker 1: linemen beyond it instead of all because you know, the
Speaker 1: hands team, the hands team during the course of your career,
Speaker 1: it's a special team because you know if your call
Speaker 1: for hands team, that you're one of the better athletes
Speaker 1: and that whole group of a football team. But you know,
Speaker 1: you never know how that ball would be like more
Speaker 1: like a pinball machine leading up to that point. I
Speaker 1: know the guys who are own the own side kick like,
Speaker 1: oh man, over time man, I mean on sideki. No,
Speaker 1: I do worry though they're going to legislate that out
Speaker 1: of the game one day, because I don't think they
Speaker 1: can not. It's it's got just quit. You look at
Speaker 1: the hip I quit that we talked about. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was legal, right, but it tooks some guys off
Speaker 1: their green and gold, but at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: didn't not. Yeah, man, this is got a little heated.
Speaker 1: It's the game one guy back in the day to
Speaker 1: kind of what those guys were going through, the hit
Speaker 1: they were going through. It's it's the it's the game
Speaker 1: you chose to play. So like you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like they're doing a good job protecting the players. And
Speaker 1: you know, like if the ball goes in there, you
Speaker 1: can fair catch, fair catch it. But if it if
Speaker 1: it hits the ground, and it's fair ball and it's
Speaker 1: free games. So you gotta kind of keep your head
Speaker 1: on the swivel. Right, But it's it's a choreograph play.
Speaker 1: It's not like a free from it's not just a
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah, it's designed. Now you got guys going
Speaker 1: and trying to maneuver, trying to go get the ball.
Speaker 1: And then you got the really the guy who's catching
Speaker 1: in the back, he's kind of protected, but he got like,
Speaker 1: you know, probably about four guys in front of him
Speaker 1: protecting it. Now, if you scheme it up right, you
Speaker 1: might have two guys in front of you. You get
Speaker 1: out coached. But hey man, it's that that quit. He
Speaker 1: had a good play he did, you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: you think of what Beckham did against the Bears a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, you think of the lesson Anthony
Speaker 1: Miller learned a couple of weeks before that. And then
Speaker 1: you got the biggest moment in the Bears years in
Speaker 1: the Bears season, the clinch of division against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers and it comes down to an onside kick.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's that that set of events. Man, you
Speaker 1: have to have thick skin and great confidence in yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah you do, man, you had the write guys out
Speaker 1: therefore you know he made a great play and you know,
Speaker 1: quit those guys. Many I love. I'm glad we got it.
Speaker 1: Josh Bellamy with us on Bears at Access. We step
Speaker 1: away for another break here on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to score especial thanks to Josh Bellamy for joining
Speaker 1: us today on a Bears Solid Access. Ruth Chris would
Speaker 1: like to have this one hundred dollars gift card pulled
Speaker 1: out of Tom players hands and into the hands at
Speaker 1: Jolly to enjoy one of their Chicagolan Areas steakhouses. Ruth's Chris,
Speaker 1: this is how it's done, and the way the Bears
Speaker 1: have played this season. I seen, I think that, and
Speaker 1: also it's very apropos. This is how it's done. You
Speaker 1: get a bunch of young guys with some veterans like yourself,
Speaker 1: guys who have been through at the at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the league. In terms of like you said, you
Speaker 1: hadn't won. I did a little research project before the season,
Speaker 1: it was all but like five or six guys that
Speaker 1: actually had a winning record in the league in the
Speaker 1: locker room. And then you get this coach who's been
Speaker 1: done nothing but win in Philadelphia and Kansas City at
Speaker 1: the age of thirty nine now forty, and he stirs
Speaker 1: the pot. He mixes up the locker room. He get
Speaker 1: you guys to bond, He get you guys to play hard,
Speaker 1: have fun, and wallah, you've got ten wins, seven at home,
Speaker 1: three and three on the road. You survived a couple
Speaker 1: overtime losses. You know, there have been hurdles, there have
Speaker 1: been things that force you to be resilient. And now
Speaker 1: you're you're one of the talk teams of the league.
Speaker 1: You know, with a defense that's playing at elite level,
Speaker 1: it's like almost you can't draw it up any better.
Speaker 1: It's like final where he said Imagic Kingdom. I love
Speaker 1: him when they are like, man, we're gonna get into session.
Speaker 1: Someone defense. He used to be a dB where you yeah,
Speaker 1: I played defense too. I played everything man, quarterback too,
Speaker 1: even in the little league. Really okay, well, would would
Speaker 1: you be a corner or safety? Uh? And in this
Speaker 1: defense with Fangio I'll probably be a safety safety. Okay,
Speaker 1: has he ever asked you to go out there tease
Speaker 1: me a little bit? Yeah? You know that hail Mary defense.
Speaker 1: They usually put a couple of big receivers back there
Speaker 1: to try to snag the ball out of the air.
Speaker 1: Hey m I ask everybody this on Club Dub. Is
Speaker 1: there anybody that you recommend never to dance in public?
Speaker 1: Because you know there's might be some guys like my
Speaker 1: who the NFL's oldest Paul boy, Carl Parski. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: he got some moves. I just want him to stay
Speaker 1: Club Dub. But you know, it is funny because this
Speaker 1: this is something we're not accustomed to. But I think
Speaker 1: everybody's taken a great appreciation to it because it's it
Speaker 1: isn't center for you guys, and it means a lot
Speaker 1: to the team. It means a lot to the camaraderie.
Speaker 1: So you know, I I see a lot of players
Speaker 1: that I put You know, you can go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Shuffle and see that Fencing and Fuller should
Speaker 1: never dance in public, but they do. And you know
Speaker 1: this guy's got he's got I know you got rhythm
Speaker 1: and moves. No man's right up after those games, man,
Speaker 1: we just like, hey, man, cloth up and they go up. Man,
Speaker 1: we've been to go to Club Dub and then the game.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to get there. Hey, great schools this
Speaker 1: week they're doing it. It's see, it's the thing. I've
Speaker 1: seen some I've seen other NFL teams doing it starting
Speaker 1: to Yeah, I've seen the Saints. I've seen uh, the Eagles,
Speaker 1: I think on Instagram. I've seen a couple of teams
Speaker 1: doing it. Well. It's like it's like when teams did
Speaker 1: fake Super Bowl shuffles and it never materialized in anything.
Speaker 1: You guys, haven't we are? Yeah? I was original thought. Man,
Speaker 1: we got the real club the T shirts. Yet, oh
Speaker 1: he might be on the way good. Was it you
Speaker 1: or was it Travisan that gave Naggy the Swaggy Naggy title?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it might have been. It
Speaker 1: might have been Craven Blank Yeah, swag Nagy. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean that sticks too because he won't dance. But that boom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's catching two. Been talking about the boom. I think
Speaker 1: I told him, man, we need to get something in
Speaker 1: the stadium where we play that you know, like how
Speaker 1: even when you go to Minnesota they do the little school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to get that in our stadium that it
Speaker 1: needs to boom. Can you imagine sixty thousand people? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: I think we should get that going. Man, that'd be
Speaker 1: big and all that that preseason talk that a lot
Speaker 1: of players seem to give their teammates, Now that gets
Speaker 1: everybody energized. Is everybody paid attention to that? And then
Speaker 1: like on a after a touchdown, you know, big players
Speaker 1: or something, you know that that'll be big. Do you
Speaker 1: know who Josh Bellamy's biggest supporter is you? Wow, I am,
Speaker 1: but it's number ten. Yeah, it's Trubisky. Why does he
Speaker 1: trust you so much? That's my boy? Man? You know,
Speaker 1: ever since Mitch came in, you know, I always challenged him.
Speaker 1: You know, I was like, hey man, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this your team, Like, this is what they brought you
Speaker 1: here for. They brought you here to be the guy
Speaker 1: and you gotta lead us. And I always told him
Speaker 1: I always believe in him, no matter if he's down,
Speaker 1: I go tell him and he'd do the same for
Speaker 1: me or whoever. You know, that's just the way he is.
Speaker 1: And I love Mitch man. I love the way he prepares,
Speaker 1: I love the way he played the game and he
Speaker 1: got swagged to him. You know, you got some guys
Speaker 1: that got fake juice, but Mitch, he just he's original
Speaker 1: with it, like he just got it. And I've seen
Speaker 1: it in him when he first came, Like, man, this dude,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be good. Man, He's gonna be good for us.
Speaker 1: You know that. You know that he had the three
Speaker 1: really nice scramble routes this week. Wanted to Adam Shahdn't,
Speaker 1: wanted to Taylor Gabriel and then one um Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: So when you see Mitch in the scramble and you
Speaker 1: know how clever his feet is, is your first response
Speaker 1: to get deep or just to kind of identify yourself
Speaker 1: as you're ready, you're ready for it. I feel like
Speaker 1: like when Mitch is back there, like he's like Tarik,
Speaker 1: it's like a punt return. You never know, like if
Speaker 1: he if he if it's not there for him, like
Speaker 1: go ahead, Like I tell him all the time, Man, Mitch, hey, man,
Speaker 1: use your feet, use your legs. Man, you can run.
Speaker 1: You know some quarterbacks can't do that. But the way
Speaker 1: this league is built now, I was like, man, you
Speaker 1: gotta use your legs and he got like he can,
Speaker 1: he can really do it. And I were talking to
Speaker 1: him today, I was like, mitch Man, like you're in
Speaker 1: the pocket, like you be knowing what those guys be at,
Speaker 1: just be turning and doing circles and like just like
Speaker 1: maneuvering getting out of there, and it'd be crazy. I
Speaker 1: love watching them do it too. Is this close so
Speaker 1: many times somebody hunting them down? Yeah, but then it's
Speaker 1: the first down to Taylor Gabriel, second and fourteen. He
Speaker 1: told me, he's like, it's my sixth sense. Like that's
Speaker 1: significant though that you can't the fact that he said
Speaker 1: that is significant. It's significant. There's two significant things to that. One.
Speaker 1: Not every quarterback's gifted with that. So if fitz clock
Speaker 1: is running and it's going to get better, this is
Speaker 1: just scratching the surface. But the second part of it
Speaker 1: is eyes downfield. On that throw a sheheen that spends
Speaker 1: away and he never he never looked at the rock.
Speaker 1: She didn't drop his eyes. He kept looking and shaheen,
Speaker 1: you can't miss him. Yeah, I mean, that's a great
Speaker 1: play and your catch that was a heck of a play.
Speaker 1: That seam route. We wrake that one down and me
Speaker 1: and Mitch worked on that play during the week. Um,
Speaker 1: we wrapped it a couple of times, and Mitch he
Speaker 1: was like, man at first, like he wasn't comfortable. He
Speaker 1: was like, man, let's jb let's do that. Let's do
Speaker 1: it a couple more times. We did like rant it
Speaker 1: like four times and then like we kind of you know,
Speaker 1: got it together, kind of like kind of perfected it,
Speaker 1: you know, and he was like, all right, I'm good
Speaker 1: with I'm good with it. And it happened in the game.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even supposed to be in. Uh, a Rob
Speaker 1: was supposed to be in on that play, and I
Speaker 1: just happened to get it. And me and Mitch practiced
Speaker 1: practice h during the week and it happened, and it came.
Speaker 1: He threw it up to a Rob's heighten but you
Speaker 1: got it. Got you know that that upper right hand
Speaker 1: what was able to slow the momentum of the ball
Speaker 1: and be able to grab it. It was you know,
Speaker 1: I think you know that's been the talk about that
Speaker 1: best catch in your career. Yeah, would you agree? Always
Speaker 1: so far? Josh Bellamy top there, Jeff joni Ac will
Speaker 1: step away. Another segment coming up here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. You
Speaker 1: can help deserving families by donating a winter coat for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, Jewel Osco Coach Drive and participating Jewel
Speaker 1: Asco locations now through February First. Donations benefit the Salvation Army.
Speaker 1: Jeff Joni acc and Tom Thayer enjoyed having Josh Bellamy
Speaker 1: aboard tonight on Bears All Access. Interesting character, as we learned,
Speaker 1: comes from very humble roots in terms of finding his
Speaker 1: path in the National Football League. But you know, you
Speaker 1: know why coaches like him because he gets full effort,
Speaker 1: He works hard at it, he doesn't take a day off,
Speaker 1: he doesn't dog it. May not make every play, certainly
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver, there have been some that have
Speaker 1: not gone his way, but his value to the team
Speaker 1: in other ways. He's one of those guys, guys that
Speaker 1: are like the old term of glue guys. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's easy to follow the path of a guy like
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky that gets drafted in the first round, gets
Speaker 1: traded for it and go up to number two. You
Speaker 1: look at the kids that want to have a positive
Speaker 1: influence in their pursuit of whatever sport they're gonna play,
Speaker 1: male or female. And it's not always step A to
Speaker 1: step B and boom you're you're on the high stage.
Speaker 1: It's about going to junior college, it's about going to
Speaker 1: another four year college. It's about getting cut a couple
Speaker 1: of times. Those are the those are the things. Respect
Speaker 1: those guys. Oh my god, I because I had the
Speaker 1: easy route, Jeff, I mean, well I did. When you
Speaker 1: were blessed with talent, you have to take the advantage
Speaker 1: of that talent and you in terms of okay, I
Speaker 1: went from high school to a four year college. I
Speaker 1: had the USFL opportunity that came to the Bears and
Speaker 1: had great success here with this football team. But when
Speaker 1: you look at a kid from Florida goes out to
Speaker 1: the West Coast to junior college, goes back to Louisville,
Speaker 1: get goes into the NFL, gets cut a couple times,
Speaker 1: most guys just give up. Most guys, guy, I have
Speaker 1: to get onto my second career. And when we sit
Speaker 1: here and talk to a guy like Josh, never he
Speaker 1: never believed it. He never thought that he was going
Speaker 1: to fail. And I think so. I think it's a
Speaker 1: great lesson for young kids. That they need a little
Speaker 1: bit of a push and a little bit of motivation,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's got to be self motivated, like Josh,
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk a little forty nine football about it.
Speaker 1: So digging in deeper to all the math and just
Speaker 1: watching tape and so forth. We have our own opinions
Speaker 1: and so forth. We'll share a lot of those on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But anything changed from when we got together this week early,
Speaker 1: when we just got into the infancy of getting you
Speaker 1: know what the forty nine ers are all about, because
Speaker 1: they have one two in a row, they won all
Speaker 1: four of their games at home, and they have a
Speaker 1: young quarterback who's right now got the blessing of the
Speaker 1: head coach, Kyle Shannon, who's also one of the games
Speaker 1: better play callers and play designers, and he's having success. Well,
Speaker 1: Mullins isn't going anywhere because they don't have anywhere else
Speaker 1: to go. He's the third quarterback. I'm just saying, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna make a quarterback change, and so he does
Speaker 1: have Yeah, he only has two hundred and three pass attempts. However,
Speaker 1: it's it's that's not gonna They're not gonna their game
Speaker 1: plan isn't gonna be all Mullins. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: team involved game. And then you look at what the
Speaker 1: tight end position has been able to provide for the
Speaker 1: all three quarterbacks since they've they've been playing there. They
Speaker 1: have quality personnel up front, defensively, they got some good
Speaker 1: young guys that are playing well. They got a coaching
Speaker 1: staff in place, they got a general manager who's gonna
Speaker 1: be there. So to me, when you talk about a
Speaker 1: team like the Bears that I've already clinched the division,
Speaker 1: then you've got a team that still has to play
Speaker 1: well because the evaluation is equally as strict as if
Speaker 1: they were ten and o or oh and ten. So
Speaker 1: they're saying is they're not going to They're not counting
Speaker 1: the clock and getting their golf clubs all right. Their
Speaker 1: car's not packed exactly. I am impressed with this kid.
Speaker 1: Though he's a rookie, nobody really knows a lot about him.
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins and that tight end you better tackle him.
Speaker 1: He's leading the league in yards after contact. You know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. This guy's really George Kittle has had a
Speaker 1: nice season in his second year and he made the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. I just watched an eight minute piece about
Speaker 1: George Kittle in his background and his you know, the
Speaker 1: athleticism to George Kittle comes from his mom's side of
Speaker 1: the family, even though his dad played at Iowa. If
Speaker 1: you ever want to hear a story about success in
Speaker 1: the from the mother's side of the family, you know,
Speaker 1: there's like nine girls in one family and they used
Speaker 1: to have their own softball team. So even George talks
Speaker 1: about why he is where he's at, and so it's
Speaker 1: interesting to listen to a story like that. And yeah, Mullins,
Speaker 1: I really admire him too, because you think they bring
Speaker 1: in Garoppolo, they have Bethar there. They both get injured
Speaker 1: and now your notifications, man, Jeff, you're up. You're starting
Speaker 1: for the next week. And he came out and he
Speaker 1: played a great game on it wasn't Monday night football,
Speaker 1: and they won the game. They're in the top five
Speaker 1: in the league and yards per play. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: take the ball away, so really almost historically low two picks,
Speaker 1: seven total takeaways, Bears twenty six interceptions, San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: nine ers two And you know, maybe years ago we
Speaker 1: would think that's the way that was trending. For the
Speaker 1: Bears against an opponent. But can they before we let
Speaker 1: you go, can they keep their edge the edge that
Speaker 1: they've created the Bears? Of course, and to me it
Speaker 1: was evident. In Matt Naggie's press conference today, he talked
Speaker 1: about what he expects out his team, what they need
Speaker 1: to do going forward, and is there any way shape
Speaker 1: or for him. They're not thinking about the last two
Speaker 1: games didn't even enter his mind. It's about making sure
Speaker 1: that he gets his football team to be better than
Speaker 1: they were last week against the Packers, and everybody is
Speaker 1: on board. Good news on Eddie Jackson and Aaron Lynch.
Speaker 1: They don't appear to be season ending injuries ankle and
Speaker 1: elbow sprains, respectively, So that's good news in the bigger picture,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Eddie Jackson a pro bowler at safety
Speaker 1: and Lanch a valuable rotational player on the outside edge.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna wrap us up. Our show is
Speaker 1: over for this week. We thank you for listening. As always,
Speaker 1: thanks to Josh Bellamy, our guest. We're brought to you
Speaker 1: by IGS Energy for pauls rag Or Engineering and Dan Briley,
Speaker 1: our producer and top There. I'm Jeff Joniac. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you on news Radio seven eighty one to five
Speaker 1: point NFM WBBM on Sunday from Santa Clara Noon. The pregame,
Speaker 1: three o'clock the kickoff. Have a good night, everybody. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to this Chicago Bears Network presentation of Bears
Speaker 1: All Access. Podcasts are available on Chicago Bears dot com
Speaker 1: and on iTunes, or download the official Bears mobile app.
Speaker 1: Bears All Access has been brought to you by IGS
Speaker 1: Energy and sponsored by CDW, Athletico Physical Therapy, and Ford