WEBVTT - All Access: Bellamy not satisfied with NFC North Title 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.720 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.760 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears Official 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.760 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.440 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.919 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.480 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by CDW, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.120 Miller Lite and Hulu. Pleasant, good evening, everybody, going to 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.600 welcome in a another edition of Bears All Access here 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.240 from panc Studios at Hallisaw, brought to you by IGS Energy. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.920 We celebrate the NFC North champion Chicago Bears, but with 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.680 a lot more yet on the table to accomplish. They 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.520 are digging in, they are leaving no stone on turned. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.560 I'll throw every cliche in the book at you, Tim 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.000 there as we welcome you back to talk about Bears 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:52.760 football San Francisco in the offing on Sunday in Santa Clara, California, 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.520 where the temper should be in the low sixties, great weather, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:00.120 Bears practicing into mild weather already this week here at Hallisaw. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.600 Good to have you long. We'll be joined by one 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.080 of the interesting players I've met in the national Football 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.760 League Josh Bellamy, the wide receiver and special team's jem 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.600 and he'll be joining us shortly to talk Bears football. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.920 But overall, as you digest what's going on so far 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.880 since the Packer game and the clinching and the parties 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.960 and the dancing and all that is back down to 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.440 football now, right. You know, you sit there and you 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.360 kind of talk to some of the people about Mitchell 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.000 Trubisky and even though they went and they won the 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.560 division championship, Mitchell Trubisky is not a finished product and 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.800 he's far from it. And some of the questions I 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.800 hear is, you know, like, you know, what can you 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.400 do going forward? How much better can this team get? 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.280 What is going you know what's going to happen with 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.119 this team, and they're still just scratching the surface. So 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.679 you know, when you talk about division championship. But in 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.640 preparation for San Francisco, I think there's so much that 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.280 Matt can include in his offensive game plan, stuff that 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.440 we haven't seen yet, stuff that you know, Mitchell Trubisky 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.680 may have been doing in practice since training camp, but 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.880 he hasn't used in a game yet. So I still 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.120 think there's so much growth for this team going forward, 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.360 we're kind of getting caught up and no, you want 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.600 a division. So it's a complete product. That's not. One 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.080 of the main questions at hallis Hall was you know 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.560 the defense is elite. I mean, Matt Neggie said it himself, 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.800 it's an elite defense, and he was asked, is the 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.760 offense right there with him? And it is a playoff offense. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.880 And Matt's very confident about his offense. He's confident in 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.120 what he's seen from Mitch Drubisky and how it's developed 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.840 so far. But like you said, there is so much 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.760 growth yet to happen for everybody on the offense. I 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.040 mean you the scratching of the surface comment you just 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.040 made is so accurate. I think that's the step back. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.359 That's the step back. Look at the bigger picture here. Yes, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.120 they have one well growing as an offense. It's a 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.240 developed and now mature defense still with young players who 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.320 also can still get better. Well, So I do believe 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.480 this is a playoff offense. So, but I do think 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.880 where they're gonna be in a couple of years, and 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.000 the way we've been around teams that have really showed 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.280 so much growth in their and their time together. That's 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.240 where that's where I think they're going. Yeah, but the 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.440 focus is on right now. That's that's really the focus 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.720 on what they can do with their ten and four 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.760 record at this point with two games to go and 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.720 the playoffs in the offing. The goal here is obviously 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:23.400 best possible seat. You can only go up here as 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.720 the number three seat. You got number one and number two, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.840 and if you can move up it just creates a 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.120 whole whole load of opportunities. Everybody would love to have 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.040 a bye week before the playoffs get going. Yeah, I 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.520 mean everybody you know that is the goal when you 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.720 start talking about you know, first of all, the first 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.160 goal is to win the division, and then what happens 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.120 going forward in the playoffs you got to be prepared for. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.640 But I like to have incentive at the end of 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.200 the season because, like coach Dicka used to tell us, 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.440 you can't turn a dial off and then just turn 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.760 it on. It's something that once it starts at the 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.120 beginning of OTA's training camp, it's it goes until don't 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.840 forget that thought. I want to pick it up because 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.640 that is always the big question sports. How can you 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.480 do it? Does it really happen. Maybe some special people 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.360 can do that. Maybe one of them is Josh Bellamy. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.160 He's now joined us. Josh Bellamy kind enough to take 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.480 some time this week to join us down bears all access. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.640 How you doing, brother, Yeah? Ear to ear. Smiles around 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.479 building all frankly all year, even in times of trouble. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.560 You know, the very little you know, you guys want 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.080 to lost four games by a total of fourteen points. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.320 You realize that, right, true? Yeah, can you imagine it? 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.359 Fourteen points away from being an unbeaten team. That's how 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.560 much belief has been around here. But Tom, the smiles 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.000 around the building have been here all season because they 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.440 genuinely do like each other. I'm in that locker room, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.680 what three three hours a week I see you guys, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.000 whether it's playing cards or jacking around, which you've always 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.159 kind of had an audience in there with your fellas. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.159 But Matt Naggi's just taking at the whole new level, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.480 giving you guys really a platform. But just do it, 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.680 do whatever makes you happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Nagi man, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.640 he just wants us to have fun. And you know 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.599 that's like the big part of this game, you know, 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.960 it's just having fun. You know, it's it's worked, but 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.800 at the same time, it's fun, you know, like it's 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.400 a game. We're playing the game. So you know, I 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.640 feel like, man, everybody's just having fun. Man, and it's 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.320 like coming to like it's just got so big and 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.240 it's just blowed up, like it's just crazy, Like hey man, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.040 we just we just living. When you guys played two 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.560 it at once, you know, when you guys got a 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:27.240 role and obviously you came in eighty five and so 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.760 everything worked, you guys, boom, it was magic, you guys. Yeah, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.359 but it was fun. It was different. You know, Dicka 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.239 already had things in motion. Jim finks he had drafted 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:37.600 the right amount of players. And that's what I was 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.200 gonna ask Josh. You know, we were talking to Alan Robinson. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.560 He said, when you guys all came together for the 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.840 first time in April third, that's when you guys came 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.799 together for a group. You've been around here for a while. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.359 When half of that moment, did you notice that culture 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.720 was changing? Things were gonna be different and it was 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.760 a whole different attitude there. Um, we're talking about me 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.720 as in the receivers. Well, no, he's just the whole team, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.400 the whole building, because you know when when we started 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.760 coming around here, when they hired Matt Naggie, there was 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.080 a change of culture inside the build. There's a change 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.840 of attitude. Yeah, I'll just say like when coach Naggie 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.840 first came in, even his first meeting, like he just 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.960 he let us know, like, man, hey, there's no reason 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.400 to be uptight. There's no reason for us that he 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.920 gave us room. Like, hey, you guys, be yourselves. He 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.920 put that up from day one, and be yourself. And like, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.440 I just think like everybody just being the sales lending 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.760 personality show, like they're not scared to be who they 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.680 are and they're just playing the game. And we're having 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.440 fun and loving it. You know, we are brothers. We 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.760 spend this We spend more time with each other than 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.400 we do with family. So right now I just feel like, man, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.080 we're embracing this, this coaching we got going on right now, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.440 we just we just bawling. You know, it's need. Like 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.640 our team there was somebody for everybody to grab. Every 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.200 fan had somebody to gravitate towards Weller. It's the fridge crew, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.520 the offensive line crew, the Walter Payton Crew, the Willie 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.200 Gold style, even Kevin Butler, right, and and that's the 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.680 same thing with this team. There's so many unique personnalities here. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.240 The fans, you know, when they they scam the stadium 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.960 and they show jerseys, there's jerseys from everybody. And I 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.080 think it's a cool thing about this team that there's 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.360 seen a Bellamie jersey. I've seen a couple. I don't 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:18.240 know if it's a Bellemue Marshall, right, that's yeah, it's nice. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.520 It's like I see all In Cruitz's jersey and I 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.640 always tell people it's mine. It's all good. Yeah, But 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.040 at that meeting April third, because now guys are bringing 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.840 it up. Alan Robson's brought it up, some of the 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.720 Danny Traviatan's brought it up. April third. April third seems 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.520 to be the rebirth. Now third, that's when we said 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.240 this foundation, right. But if you think back to that moment, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.400 did you envision where you'd be today? This kind of 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.760 forget about the wins and losses. Now, I'm talking about 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.960 the camaraderie and the type of people you have in 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.800 that room. Yeah, yeah, we all envisioned it. It's just 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.520 like this is what coach Naggie won. It Like everything's 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.080 just like coming to life, like he spoke it earlier 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.920 April third, he spoke on that day and now like 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.000 up intil this day, like everything is coming to life. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.000 It's like even through the losses, you know, like nobody's 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.680 getting down. Everybody is helping each other up and that's 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.680 what you need. And a good team for everybody to 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.240 build each other up. It's like it's no it's no 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.400 negativity going on, like you know what you know. So 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.720 every day we're just grinding and trying to be better. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:24.200 Spiked only four losses. Has there been any any at 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.440 any point of dark moment on his team this year? 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.600 I can't remember, you know, like I've been here and 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.160 sometimes you know, when you go down and the score, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.520 you know, the opponent goes up and you know, guys like, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.080 oh man, here we go get it hasn't been like that. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.760 It's like hey, they go score touchdown. They man, it's 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.960 out turn to go score touchdown or it's out turning 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.200 to let's go win. You know, and our defense. If 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.000 our offense we don't score, put the ball off and 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.320 get the ball to defense. Man go stop them offense, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.000 get the ball, let's go score and special teams doesn't 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.320 make plays. Like that's just how we we We've been 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.880 working and it's just been coming into play. You know, 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.280 you haven't had an easier role in the NFL when 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.199 you're when this offense was introduced to you, Was it 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.679 a hard offense to learn because you're playing multiple positions, 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.839 you're blocking out of multiple formations and different positions on 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.160 the field, You're in motion all over the play. So 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.080 everything that Josh Bellamy had to do, was this the 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.480 right offense for you? And was it hard to learn 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.400 master or you're still getting to know it? Well? You know, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.520 I came in with I was in Kansas City, so 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.920 when Naggie and you know, Andy and those guys came over, 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.240 I kind of like, I already had a feel for 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.160 this offense, so I already knew it. You know, I've 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.959 been in a lot offenses, so but I already knew 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.480 that kind of the field of this offense. I remember 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.240 a little bit of it, so like, but when it 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.880 came over here, like already, that's just how I just 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.520 learned every position, I know every where everybody's doing. And 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.840 that's just how I operate. So now you know, I 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.280 could play every position, and I just that's the way. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.520 I just my mind. I just do it that way. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.520 So it doesn't matter if a rob comes out or 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.720 Turbo comes out, or Anthony comes out, I could just 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.160 go win. So you know, um, that's just how it's been. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.440 And you know, our whole receiver group is like that. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.960 You know, hey man, let's just everybody know what everybody doing, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.880 and that way we can everybody can operate, we can 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.160 move around, we can do different stuff. Coach now you 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.320 can put us in different spots. He can do motions 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.160 and all that stuff. And the offense is really it 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.040 looks crazy, but it's really not that complicated. But you know, 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.959 there's an there's an article in October that Matt Nagie says, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.520 um Bellamy is an easy game day activation because he's 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.640 a three position player. Are you talking about three positions 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.000 on offense or are you talking about your offensive positioning 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.840 and your special team delivery? I think he's talking about offense, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.000 you know, because I could play I play X, I 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.200 played the Z brand, I played the Z so I 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:49.600 play all three. So you know I come in for whoever. Yeah, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.240 you know, I played four phases I play, and then 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.240 I played four phases right on special teams. So you know, hey, man, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.200 I'm just glad to be here. I'm glad we win 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.640 in man, Yeah, so are we? Yeah? It is about time. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.160 Josh Belling me our guest here on Bears All Access, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.440 brought to you by IGS Energy, Pauls the Ranker, engineer 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.760 Dan Briley, our producer here at Hollis Hall. Uh in 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:15.079 a word to describe you as a football player survivor, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.840 say that's accurate? Uh, come on, well, you know we 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.680 could talk about it. So back to Kansas City. That 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.480 was like twelve right, yep, twenty twelve. Here we are 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.679 in twenty eighteen, and you've been on several teams. How 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.880 many times you've been cut? I mean your surviving your survivor. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.120 you're self made, I say that, how about that? Yeah? 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.200 I agree, Man, it's been a long road for me. Man. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.120 You know, this is the first time I've I've been 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.240 on the winning team. You know, just what over what 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.600 how many wins? Five wins, six wins? So you know, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.719 like for me, man, it's new, you know. So I'm 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.280 just embracing it too, man, And every day I want 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.960 to go work, work harder, get another w so and 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.400 that's just how this team, the team is. Man, Hey man, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.240 you know, if you've been around here for a while, man, 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.440 you know how it's been. And you know we've been 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.480 up and down, coaches, changing players, all kinds of stuff. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.480 So man, right now I feel like, man, we got 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.480 a healthy team and we've just been bailing. Man, and 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.640 everybody just want to win and let's everybody do good. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.440 But Matt, you know, Matt didn't want to talk about 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.240 the past, history, the Green Bay rivalry. He just wanted 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.840 to talk about the future. And I think that's kind 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.760 of what you're living too, is the future not the 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.120 experiences of what you live through has been a positive 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.960 for you and now you're benefiting because of that them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.120 I've been through the rough times man, and now you know, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.320 hey man, that's the only way you can get to 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.400 this point, man, is to take losses in to go 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.959 through the you know, the speed bumps. And man, right 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.360 now I feel like, man, we're going up. So it's 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.200 not about what happened in the past, about what's gonna 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.600 happen in the future. You got fined for blocking Aaron 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.360 Donald did the referee tell you what you did wrong? 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.400 Or do you see on cape what you have to 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.840 do to improve that? Because I'm not a big fan 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:04.160 of players getting fined for a block that's constructed with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.719 I didn't. I didn't try to do that. That was 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.240 that really was like it just happened, like you know, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.360 because I was coming across. I was supposed to get 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.280 the gown on the end, but he kind of flashed 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.080 and I just went down on him. But I was 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.319 really going to get the end, but I didn't. I 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.000 didn't mean to do that. Josh Bellamy our guest here 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.400 on Bears All Access. We're gonna step away take our 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.200 first break with Tom Thayre. I'm Jeff Joning. Act last 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:27.840 to discuss is the Bears get ready to meet the 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.160 forty nine ers and get themselves playoff ready. Here on 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.120 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score and welcome back 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.440 to Bears All Access. Brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.320 a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.040 gas at home. Warranty products are over one million customers 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.840 across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.480 dot com. Jeff and Tom with you from panc Studios 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.199 at Hollis All here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.560 The Score. A guest this week, Josh Bellamy. You've always 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.040 been one of my favorite players because of the energy, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.160 the confidence. You don't let anything bring you down. Man. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.720 You talk about our next play mentality, which MAT's always 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.360 talking about. Yeah you got you got that, You've had 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.680 it for a long time. Why it's just it's about 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.719 the next play. You know. I learned that it's just 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.400 me and you know, you can't let one one play, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.600 you know, affect your whole game or you know, like 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.600 define you know who you're gonna be or who you are. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.600 You know, like I've realized that, you know eight you're 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.280 gonna have good plays, You're gonna have bad plays. It's 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.040 about moving on. Even like some guys, you know, even 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.600 if you have a good play, you gotta move on 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.360 to the next play because you know, you gotta have 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.120 a play after that. You gotta have a you know, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.680 it's gotta gotta build it up, build it up. And 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.160 even if you have a negative play, you gotta move on. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.520 And even when I um like going back to I 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.040 want to say, what year that was that Tennessee game 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.680 when I dropped that ball, you know a I was like, okay, yeah, 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.480 that was a big, you know moment for me because 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.760 I never like been in that situation. And even you know, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.560 even uh George, he came down and eat, He's like, man, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.240 don't don't let one play define you, you know, like cashing. Yeah, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.040 Like Josh, just move on, man. I love it when 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.120 you play. I love your energy. You know, just move 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.040 on from it. And I was like, you know what, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.400 like that that's big, you know, like he's even the owner, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.240 he coming down like hey, man, let's move on, you know. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.080 And and that's one thing you know, Uh, even coach 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.160 coach Fox he preached that too. Man next play, next 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.320 play mentality, And that's coach Naggy, you know. It's it's 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.120 just it's it's been building up, man, even from going 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.520 back up into this point. I feel like just us 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.000 building up to this point. It's been a long role, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.480 but this is what we needed to get to where 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.680 we're at right now. Well, in your arsenal, you got 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.800 a twenty two yard and around run against the Minnesota Vikings. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.520 Where is it? How can we you know? All these 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.160 multiple offenses when when are we gonna see that in 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.080 this in this offense with you? Oh man, yeay man. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.560 You know it's it's the role you know you like 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.360 to carry as much as a cat. Yeah, it is 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.400 what it is. I don't care what they do. I 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.920 don't care if it's a block, if it's a if 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.280 it's a run, if it's a catch. I take the 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.320 same pride as I would in the catch and run 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.680 or block, you know, eight man, That's just the role 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.640 it is right now, and whatever they need me to do, 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.160 that's what I'm down to do. Like I don't hey, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.680 I'd rather praise those guys for scoring a touchdown I 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.280 made a block on the play. You know. That's just 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.720 the way my mentality is. You know, our guy, our 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.160 statistician that sits up in the booth with us, Doug Cletty. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.760 He's probably one of the smartest guys in sports in 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.640 terms of analytics and numbers. He talks about how the 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.160 punt is the biggest play in a football game, and 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.480 we saw evidence of you twice this week, how you 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.360 basically change field position by it. When you're running down 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.360 on a punt. You're the one of the flyers, the 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.800 outside guy that have to get down there and determine 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.880 how their punt return is going to return it. So 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.600 now he's trying to fake you, but you're also trying 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.400 to file the flight of the ball to put you 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.960 in the best position either to make a catch or 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.280 your back to the goal line. How hard is it 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.920 to do all those things and you got usually got 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.040 two guys trying to knock you into the out of 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.560 bounds area. Yeah, you know, I'll tell those guys that, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.560 like Alan Robinson and h Taylor, those guys, you guys 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.159 playing office, come out here and play gunners if you 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.080 want to see whether you want to want some work, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.439 you know. And then sometimes you're going against two guys, 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.560 I tell him, like, you know that sometimes that's that 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.280 might be like the hardest job. You know, you're going 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.960 against two guys your disadvantage, and you gotta try to 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.439 stop the ball, you know, and and you know you 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.679 and the punter gotta be on like you know, like 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.840 the same record. But you know, it's it's it's pretty interesting. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.560 It's pretty yeah. Yeah, yeah, you gotta have some some 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.640 grit to you, man. You gotta be a dog, That's 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.080 what I tell him. Even like you know, shared like, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:36.960 you know, and not why I shared played like he's 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.320 a dog. That's just the way his mentality is. And 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:40.639 you know, like when you got a guy like that 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:42.480 on the other side of you, and you gotta be 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.800 funny thing it's about that. I did a feature on 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.600 the two of you a couple of years back, and 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.320 I learned so much about what it takes, the mentality, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.640 the detail and the fundamentals and the technique that has 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.720 to be proper, which you know, you can get off 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.480 schedule very quickly on special teams, yeah, you know, because 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.879 special team it's a one play like it's one play mentality. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.920 You only get one play to do what you do. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.480 And you know, you got some guys gonna play offense 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.520 get sixty plays a game, you know, but on special 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.600 teams you might get six plays, ten plays, you never know, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.400 but it's fourth downs so on that that's you're down 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.680 to to be great and that's what we do. Man. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:23.760 You mentioned Sherik is being a dot for those who 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.080 don't know him. I mean, he's the nicest guy in 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.320 the building, right yeah, my honest face, very feisty on 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.919 the field of fight, say the least, right, Yeah. I 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.639 learned a lot about don't mess with Sherik. He's proven 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.520 is worth that defense too. But you guys did the 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.879 years of instigating each other and challenging each other coverage, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.960 So I think it was a really a real positive 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.240 about it. Maybe you brought it out. It's about creating competition, 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.920 you know, it's just in any room. It's about creating competition. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.199 Like when you got Jordans and you got Tarik, and 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.040 you got uh uh ma Zille and you got Bunny. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:58.920 There was guys all in that room. But it's all 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.040 competition at the same time, and that's what makes you 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.200