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Speaker 1: By this time next week, Bears will be knee deep
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Speaker 1: who opened the season against Detroit, and we'll be figuring
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Speaker 1: the one hundred and fourth season and Bears history. Welcome
Speaker 1: in episode twelve of Bears et Cetera with Super Bowl
Speaker 1: winning Bear Tom Theayre. I'm Jeff Joniack, who brought to
Speaker 1: you by Miller light Taste like Miller Time Chicago. Tom,
Speaker 1: How you feeling number one as we wrap up yet
Speaker 1: another week closer to the kid.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling pretty good. But I did just send a
Speaker 3: message to former Super Bowl MVP and Hall of Famer
Speaker 3: Richard Dent because this weekend Tennessee State plays.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame matt Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: So I sent a message friendly, how many points you
Speaker 3: given me, Richard. I'm waiting to hear back from them.
Speaker 3: But when you think about the preparations for the NFL,
Speaker 3: you know, the excitement of the first game of the season,
Speaker 3: it kind of starts the momentum and then it just
Speaker 3: continues to go downhill from there, and then it gives
Speaker 3: you an opportunity to get excited for one of the
Speaker 3: biggest games in the rivalries that I've ever played in
Speaker 3: in my lifetime. And I don't think the players need
Speaker 3: to be reminded of it. I don't think they need
Speaker 3: to be taught of it. Like madd Bieberfu said at
Speaker 3: the podium today, if you're a dedicated NFL guy, then
Speaker 3: you're all in and you know about rivalries and you
Speaker 3: know about their role in their importances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and it's crazy to think that you
Speaker 1: don't play them again to week eighteen. So this is
Speaker 1: a vitally important game no matter how you slice it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, it's going to be two different teams
Speaker 3: and it's not really exaggeration when you look at the
Speaker 3: amount of time that there is in between the first
Speaker 3: game of the year and the last game of the year,
Speaker 3: and then the intensity of the rivalry. But what both
Speaker 3: teams are searching for at the last game of the year.
Speaker 3: It's really going to be interesting this year because the
Speaker 3: enormity of the rivalry is almost going to be two
Speaker 3: separate seasons of its own.
Speaker 1: All right, here's Matt Eberflus on his roster now twenty
Speaker 1: six new members of this team since the first of
Speaker 1: the year. What it all means, No, it's I look
Speaker 1: at this opportunity.
Speaker 4: You know, we brought a lot of good guys in
Speaker 4: one thing. About every one of those guys we acquired
Speaker 4: through the course, and you're right, it's half or maybe more,
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's you know, those guys all
Speaker 4: love football, you know, So it was an easy, easy
Speaker 4: fit for those guys to gel with the guys that
Speaker 4: we had currently on the roster.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: So you go through free agency, add those guys, and
Speaker 4: you go through the draft add those guys, and then weep,
Speaker 4: you kept adding a couple more guys as of late,
Speaker 4: and they all love football. So the culture, right there.
Speaker 4: If a guy loves football, he's going to love his teammates,
Speaker 4: he's going to love the practice. He's going to love
Speaker 4: to prepare for games. And that's what we already have
Speaker 4: in the locker room. So it's a pretty easy.
Speaker 1: Fit, all right, Tom. We know change happens no matter what,
Speaker 1: because a third of the roster usually gets churned up
Speaker 1: and changed because of draft and undrafted free agency. Then
Speaker 1: you throw on twelve to sixteen players in the practice
Speaker 1: squad are new to the building as well. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of change for a second year in a row.
Speaker 1: He and his staff used to it in year one.
Speaker 1: Is that bode well for year two?
Speaker 3: It does? But I think the conversation started yesterday when
Speaker 3: Ryan Poles and Ian Cunningham met the media because they
Speaker 3: talked about the change in the roster and how they
Speaker 3: feel a lot more confident at certain positions, the depth
Speaker 3: of this team, the athleticism and where it's going now.
Speaker 3: You kind of give all the groceries to the head
Speaker 3: coach and he puts together the meal, and so you
Speaker 3: know that's one of Bill parcells old sayings, but it
Speaker 3: is true. You know, Ryan Poles has put together this
Speaker 3: group of players and I'm excited to see some of
Speaker 3: these guys that have come aboard and your Tremaine Edmins
Speaker 3: and your TJ. Edwards and your DeMarcus Walker's DJ Moore,
Speaker 3: so on and so forth. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 3: this new cast of characters because I think a lot
Speaker 3: of these veterans that have NFL experience, they bring a
Speaker 3: different intensity when they walk in the locker room before
Speaker 3: the beginning of the regular season. It's a whole different animal,
Speaker 3: because when you walk in that locker room, no, you know,
Speaker 3: you're there for a four quarters. You're not there for ten,
Speaker 3: twelve five plays. It's about you got to be on
Speaker 3: the field and you got to play at a high
Speaker 3: level for the whole game.
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman re signed to the active roster. Tommy Maddy
Speaker 1: Brifluse asked about that and how important he is to
Speaker 1: the fifty three.
Speaker 4: We're sure glad to have him back. You know, he's
Speaker 4: really good for that room. You know him and justin
Speaker 4: you know, learned you know, the offense together so to speak,
Speaker 4: so they speaking the same language, so they understand it
Speaker 4: really well.
Speaker 3: And I think it's good to have him in the room.
Speaker 5: What went to the decision to sign him to the
Speaker 5: fifty three versus practice squad.
Speaker 3: I know Ryan said yesterday that.
Speaker 1: Both were up on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just we wanted to really secure him in that situation,
Speaker 4: and you know, we don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 4: in the future, you know, with who's going to be
Speaker 4: up for the game, who's going to be the backup,
Speaker 4: So we'll decide that as we go.
Speaker 5: Right, Ryan talked about being deciding and how comfortable you
Speaker 5: are with Dagent as the number two. What really from
Speaker 5: your standpoint as the head coach, what goes into that?
Speaker 5: What's the big decision as far as having a guy
Speaker 5: who has no experience in the NFL, has come from
Speaker 5: Division two, and yet he's in consideration for the number
Speaker 5: two guy behind fields.
Speaker 4: This performance, you know, the performance he had in camp
Speaker 4: and the performance he had during those preseason games, and
Speaker 4: we like where he is and we like where the is,
Speaker 4: you know, so we're excited to have both those guys
Speaker 4: and see where they developed to and and where they go.
Speaker 5: But would that be a little bit of a leap
Speaker 5: of faith for you know, because preseason is different from
Speaker 5: a regular season than again the games speed, different audiences.
Speaker 1: You're different.
Speaker 5: Sure, is there a little bit of a leap of
Speaker 5: paper unknown As far as if you made that decision with.
Speaker 4: Pagan, I would say that, you know, you know, we
Speaker 4: haven't made any decisions yet, so we're we're still in
Speaker 4: that process. And uh, but yeah, I mean, when you
Speaker 4: first put a guy out there, like any rookie, like
Speaker 4: it was Brisker or anybody, you're always you know, he
Speaker 4: kind of don't know, you know, until you know. Now,
Speaker 4: what you can go by is what they practice and
Speaker 4: how they play and how they perform in practice. And
Speaker 4: that's all you have, and that's what we always have,
Speaker 4: you know, And somebody's always got to have your first performance.
Speaker 4: And when they go out there, they'll perform and they'll
Speaker 4: do they'll really rely with what their practice emits are.
Speaker 1: Well. Well, also hear there are questions about, you know,
Speaker 1: who's the backup now? Is it going to be Peterman,
Speaker 1: Is it going to be Tyson Beijing? He is not
Speaker 1: letting us know about that yet, And I just feel
Speaker 1: he's going to look at that week to week and
Speaker 1: see where Beajan's growth is coming, who's going to run
Speaker 1: that scout team, how how he looks doing that, and
Speaker 1: how he stays in his playbook each and every week
Speaker 1: to be ready.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Matt talked about all the reference points that
Speaker 3: you make those judgments by anybody who's in a backup role,
Speaker 3: how do they answer questions in the meeting, How familiar
Speaker 3: with the are they with the installation of the material
Speaker 3: according to the opponent they're playing, And he talked about
Speaker 3: how there's a lot less material when you're starting to
Speaker 3: implement game plans rather than implementing the whole playbook at
Speaker 3: the beginning of training camp.
Speaker 1: All right, Jakwan Brisker, any concern still not practicing, He'll
Speaker 1: stay over this Labor Day weekend while players go maybe
Speaker 1: and leave town, go see some of their college football teams.
Speaker 1: Whatever the case may be. He needs to rehab.
Speaker 3: My only concern is if he's not dressed on game day.
Speaker 3: Other than that, if he is dressed on game day,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be concerned. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: be thinking in the back of my mind that he's
Speaker 3: unprepared for what's about to take place. So if the coaches,
Speaker 3: the trainers, the whole staff makes the judgment that Jakwan
Speaker 3: Brisker is ready to go, then Jeff, you and I
Speaker 3: have to sit up in that booth and call the
Speaker 3: game as if Kwan Brisker is one hundred percent and
Speaker 3: ready to go.
Speaker 1: All right. Here's Eberflus on the status of his second year's.
Speaker 4: Well, it's just to wait and see. You know, how
Speaker 4: does the rehab go this weekend because he's doing something
Speaker 4: every day. He's doing something Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and
Speaker 4: then into Tuesday, and then we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 4: And again when you get the pads on and start
Speaker 4: and start cracking and doing full speed movements, then we'll
Speaker 4: see where it is.
Speaker 1: All right. So that's the latest on Brisker, and it'll
Speaker 1: be a day to day thing as we work through
Speaker 1: the week. Next week when they get back to practice.
Speaker 1: One other thing he talked about was the arrival of
Speaker 1: another golden domer. As Cole Comet said yesterday town, you
Speaker 1: can't have too many. You can't have too many domers,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. So Khalid Kareem is here, a defensive
Speaker 1: end from the Indianapolis Colt. Here's what Iberflues likes.
Speaker 4: Saw him play run the run well a couple of
Speaker 4: times and also saw his motor. I really liked his motor,
Speaker 4: It runs hot, and he's a great effort player and
Speaker 4: he's very physical, So we like that about him and
Speaker 4: we're excited about developing him in our system.
Speaker 1: All Right, we watched that kid play. You knew exactly
Speaker 1: who I was talking about yesterday after watching those coach practices.
Speaker 1: But there are a couple of players on that defensive
Speaker 1: line that we're very aggressive about the snap, and he
Speaker 1: was one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I like the fact that he jumped forty
Speaker 3: foot out of a helicopter in Hawaii and he likes
Speaker 3: the scuba dive because that takes a certain amount of
Speaker 3: courage that you have to be become comfortable with, and
Speaker 3: I think a lot of that has to also takes
Speaker 3: place in a football game. So yeah, I am glad
Speaker 3: to see depth at the defensive line position. I need
Speaker 3: to see that seven or eight guys that are going
Speaker 3: to take the field on Sunday and be part of
Speaker 3: a rotation that can contribute at a high level. And
Speaker 3: I think we're really fortunate to have Ben at those
Speaker 3: Indianapolis practices to know exactly how he plays, who he is,
Speaker 3: and what he's going to contribute. So I'm excited to
Speaker 3: see it and yeah, Cole, we need more domers, and well,
Speaker 3: I don't know if we need more domors, but we
Speaker 3: need the ones that show up to play well.
Speaker 1: And here is Kareema. What kind of player we should
Speaker 1: expect to see?
Speaker 6: Hard worker? You know, I'm going to come in here
Speaker 6: every day with that mindset that, you know, prove why
Speaker 6: I'm here. Just have to earn it, honestly, gritty guy
Speaker 6: in blue collar So that's really all I know.
Speaker 7: Is hard work.
Speaker 6: From what you know about the scheme, how do you
Speaker 6: think you fit beast of what they want to do, Hans.
Speaker 6: I'm still learning the playbook, but I see right now
Speaker 6: I feel like I'm fit pretty well in the system.
Speaker 6: You know, Well I get it down, I'll be good.
Speaker 1: What's your labor day weekend look like? Having to learn
Speaker 1: this playbook?
Speaker 3: Uh, labor day weekend? I said.
Speaker 6: At this point, I don't know. I was planning on
Speaker 6: probably going to North Carolina do some scuwa ivan, but
Speaker 6: now I don't know. Honestly, I'll probably just go back
Speaker 6: to Indye, pack my stuff up, then head back here.
Speaker 1: That's not the only new player brought in. Trent Taylor
Speaker 1: Tom will be the punt returner in week one. That's
Speaker 1: the plan anyway. He was brought here after being let
Speaker 1: go by the Cincinnati Bengals. It surprised him. Started his
Speaker 1: career with San Francisco. He was asked a lot about
Speaker 1: how he secures the football and what is the key
Speaker 1: to it and the strange questions for me if I'm him,
Speaker 1: media asking Vayalas Jones Junior. Not now he's competing with
Speaker 1: Valas Jones Jones Junior and trying to get Vayles to
Speaker 1: get back on track to be a punt returner. They're
Speaker 1: not giving up on him just yet. They're gonna keep
Speaker 1: working him. He'll be the kick returner week one. But
Speaker 1: as a player, when somebody comes in to take your
Speaker 1: position or that position still is backed up by a
Speaker 1: young player like VELAs, those are tough questions to answer
Speaker 1: answer for a veteran, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They are? But you know, Vayalas Jones Junior, if he
Speaker 3: had secured every single punt he caught over the last
Speaker 3: two years, we really wouldn't be talking about bringing in
Speaker 3: a new punt returner here. Taylor has got familiarity with
Speaker 3: coach High Tower. He's played a lot of center field
Speaker 3: in baseball, and he understands the flight of a ball
Speaker 3: in the air in a baseball is a lot smaller
Speaker 3: obviously than a football, but when conditions inside Soldier Field
Speaker 3: can affect the flight of the football a lot more so.
Speaker 3: I'm glad they bring an experience at the punt returning
Speaker 3: position because every single time the Bears get a chance
Speaker 3: to get the football, they need to secure the catch
Speaker 3: and give their offense an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Here's more with Taylor on the reality in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a weird feeling because I don't know anybody
Speaker 2: in the building, I don't know the offense, but like
Speaker 2: I have a spot on the team, which is just
Speaker 2: like a weird feeling right now. But so I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to getting to know everybody, getting close with the
Speaker 2: team and learning the playbook, and yeah, we'll be ready
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: Week one apparently had some bad pizza too in his
Speaker 1: rookie debut against the Bears, he said, and yet he
Speaker 1: was He had a little Michael Jordan esque situation, like
Speaker 1: so Lake City back in the NBA Finals. But yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: we encourage you try the pizza again, give it another shot.
Speaker 1: Here in Chicago. We got great pizza time. What is yours?
Speaker 1: Where's your go to?
Speaker 3: My buddy Marco runs a place called Pizza Metro on
Speaker 3: Division and it's authentic. They're from Italy. It's some of
Speaker 3: the best pizza. You can order by the whole pizza
Speaker 3: or by the slice, and they're rectangular slices that are
Speaker 3: cut in six or eight piece each and so if
Speaker 3: you're downtown you're looking for a unique style of pizza,
Speaker 3: try it out. It's on the thinner side, So get
Speaker 3: yourself a couple slices.
Speaker 1: Nice. Thank you to you're notited. Airlines official airlines of
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. One other nugget on Trent Taylor five
Speaker 1: returns of twenty yards and more last season as a
Speaker 1: share of the lead in punt returns of that length
Speaker 1: last season. So the guy did play well in that
Speaker 1: situation and he will be the guy does not know
Speaker 1: the playbook. He just got dropped don here and like
Speaker 1: we said, that's the reality of the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And he'll spend time this weekend learning that. Tevin Jenkins,
Speaker 1: Doug Kramer, Tommy to ir they're going to miss a
Speaker 1: minimum of the first four games of the season. You're
Speaker 1: hopeful when we started this whole thing in episode one
Speaker 1: that Devin would remain healthy for the whole season, and
Speaker 1: you know it's tough for an offensive lineman obviously, but
Speaker 1: history of injuries and he will miss the first four games.
Speaker 1: How do you analyze that? Then? From your perspective on
Speaker 1: these two guys.
Speaker 3: Super super disappointed because at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: talking to one of the reporters, I was saying, Tevin
Speaker 3: Jenkins needs a drama less type of a season where
Speaker 3: he comes in here, he takes over at left guard.
Speaker 3: He plays with the strength, the athleticism that he's put
Speaker 3: on display. And I think when you get a chance
Speaker 3: to play against next to a guy like Braxton Jones
Speaker 3: and whomever's going to play center, I thought Tevin would
Speaker 3: be the left guard for a long time to come.
Speaker 3: But I think it's some type of freakish injury that happened.
Speaker 3: No blame to Tevin, but now they're fortunate to have
Speaker 3: a player as versatile as Cody white Hair that he
Speaker 3: can take one giant step to his left, getting a
Speaker 3: three point stance and play the position game day.
Speaker 1: Schnecking calls for good foods Chucky Guacamalde made with has avocados, tomatoes, onion,
Speaker 1: cilantro on, a squeeze of lime juice. The perfect neck
Speaker 1: to watch while the Bears win. Score some today at
Speaker 1: your local grocery store. Game day is guac Day. Another
Speaker 1: interior lineman coming aboard another Chicago area. Can we touched
Speaker 1: on it? An episode eleven? Dan Feenie comes aboard and
Speaker 1: met the media for the first time. You can tell
Speaker 1: he is a Chicago in town through and through here.
Speaker 1: Here's what he did growing up a Bears fan as
Speaker 1: a kid.
Speaker 7: My grandma would always put on the Super Bowl Shuffle
Speaker 7: on VHS and make me watch it when she was
Speaker 7: babysitting me. So that was that was pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 7: So that those are some of the first memories right
Speaker 7: there growing up. I love Walter Payton just how I
Speaker 7: ran the ball. I mean, he was just so cool.
Speaker 7: My grandma loved him, so it was just she was
Speaker 7: his favorite player or he was her favorite player, and
Speaker 7: I just naturally kind of adapted him as well. And
Speaker 7: just watching the highlights from when he was in his heyday,
Speaker 7: it was just incredible.
Speaker 1: And one thing more, it was mentioned by Justin Jones,
Speaker 1: and Dan Feeney enjoys beer, so he can. He confirmed
Speaker 1: it in this SoundBite as well.
Speaker 7: Beer drinker. I mean shooting anything that's cold really mostly
Speaker 7: Millard course.
Speaker 1: So that's perfect timing, you know, because we're brought to
Speaker 1: you by Miller Like tastes like Miller Time Chicago, and
Speaker 1: that is a Dan Feene's Miller Time impressions on Dan Feenie,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're able to hear him at
Speaker 1: the podium today, but he thinks he still has starter
Speaker 1: quality to him, can play at a high level at
Speaker 1: all three.
Speaker 3: Interior positions, you know, and I agree with them. You know,
Speaker 3: the reason that Ryan Poles went out and searched a
Speaker 3: guy like that, and even Matt ever Fluse mention it
Speaker 3: is that he has that interior versatility. So if he
Speaker 3: has to come in at a moment's notice and play
Speaker 3: center or either guard, he can play the position equally
Speaker 3: as well. And that's a unique talent. And I think
Speaker 3: he has the right length for the position and he
Speaker 3: has a good understanding of the interior side of football.
Speaker 3: But they also made mention of the five or six
Speaker 3: local guys that have they have on that team. You know,
Speaker 3: I'd like to pressure that. It kind of puts on
Speaker 3: us as local guys, because we have so many people
Speaker 3: surrounding us that are not only pulling for us, but
Speaker 3: they're asking questions, why, how come? What's going on? And
Speaker 3: so it makes you, you know, have that sustained high
Speaker 3: level of performance. So I like it that we have
Speaker 3: these local guys. I'm glad Dan's here. I'm excited to
Speaker 3: meet him, and I hope his family really gets the
Speaker 3: opportunity to enjoy his career here in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, folks in Orland Park. He went to Samberg High School,
Speaker 1: friends with Michael Schofield, who talked highly about the Bears,
Speaker 1: highly about Justin Fields. Feenie also sporting a mullet thanks
Speaker 1: to COVID. I guess decided grows hair and did you
Speaker 1: have one?
Speaker 3: No, But I was talking to Jay Hilgeberg yesterday. I said,
Speaker 3: someone tweeted him saying it's the best mullet since Jay Hilgenberg.
Speaker 3: You know, Jay has him. I know we are talking
Speaker 3: to we'll talk about it before the Tampa game about
Speaker 3: what happened to Jay's mullet in the long haul. That's
Speaker 3: a story for a later podcast, so we'll talk about it.
Speaker 3: But Hey, if I had hair, I probably have a mullet.
Speaker 1: Well, you know his favorite player, thanks to just the
Speaker 1: excellence of this unique player, the Hall of Famer, the
Speaker 1: greatest running back of all time, Walter Peyton. You'll have
Speaker 1: to tell your story about getting in the huddle. In
Speaker 1: there there stands Walter Payton and the awe that you had,
Speaker 1: And that's some you can share a player like Dan Feene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would be excited to see it, because, you know,
Speaker 3: being in awe of Walter from the outside in is
Speaker 3: a lot different than being in awe of Walter Payton
Speaker 3: from the inside in. And my first opportunity to stand
Speaker 3: in the huddle with them, I felt like that commercial
Speaker 3: where they have the adults that are acting and talking
Speaker 3: like kids, because as a semi adult, when I stood
Speaker 3: in the huddle, I felt like that kid. I was
Speaker 3: so excited to see Walter Payton and to meet him
Speaker 3: and to be around him and to learn about his
Speaker 3: personality and as an adult, one of the only autographs
Speaker 3: I've ever asked for is from Walter Payton of a
Speaker 3: picture of him and I as I was pulling out
Speaker 3: and form and him behind me, and something I will
Speaker 3: cherish for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Well, you got to get over that awe immediately, don't you.
Speaker 3: No, No, you know, the awe inspired me because you
Speaker 3: think about a play as simple as something called a
Speaker 3: slant forty five, you know that the block you make
Speaker 3: is instrumental, and Walter Payton having success, so that kind
Speaker 3: of puts pressure on you. It's like the first time
Speaker 3: they put William Perry in the backfield and the play
Speaker 3: was directly behind Jay and I and I said, if
Speaker 3: I don't get out of the way, William Perry is
Speaker 3: going to hit me right in the back and it
Speaker 3: could either take me out or I don't know what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen. So it was probably one of the better
Speaker 3: blocks ever. But you know, guys like that, they the
Speaker 3: awe inspires you.
Speaker 1: Well, you didn't give me the whole play, though, isn't
Speaker 1: it Slant forty five?
Speaker 3: Pinch ot No, No, No, that's a whole different place.
Speaker 3: Slant forty five is a basic off tackle play that
Speaker 3: you know. Walter Payton follows a double team block between
Speaker 3: me and Van Horn and then Matt Soon the fullback
Speaker 3: leads up to the second level and you just try
Speaker 3: to get that impact zone created and Walter does the rest.
Speaker 1: This is Tom Bair, Jeff joniach On, Bears, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Five hundred and twelve players are on NFL practice squads today,
Speaker 1: and I know that makes you happy. Thrill Trevis Bell's back.
Speaker 1: I'm trilled symbol Webster's back as a as a guy
Speaker 1: that might find his way in the return game if
Speaker 1: there are injuries. Michael Baskerville impressed during training camp. Greg Strohman,
Speaker 1: another veteran, made a ton of plays during training camp.
Speaker 1: As you look at that list, anybody else stick out?
Speaker 1: And how do you feel about? Five hundred and twelve
Speaker 1: players are making a pretty good paid end practice squads
Speaker 1: even though they want to be on the active roster.
Speaker 3: You know, you know Carlson the tight end I'm interested
Speaker 3: in because I thought he was a good player throughout
Speaker 3: training camp and we always talk about the injuries that
Speaker 3: can happen at the tight end position. So you have
Speaker 3: to take this job very seriously. You have to go
Speaker 3: out there and practice with the same intensity as if
Speaker 3: you are the starter for the team and the upcoming week.
Speaker 3: You have to live in the weight room. You have
Speaker 3: to pay attention to the meeting room. You have to
Speaker 3: do everything within your power to when your numbers called.
Speaker 3: You got to take advantage of that opportunity because a
Speaker 3: lot of these guys before the season's over, we're going
Speaker 3: to be talking about them and gained day uniform. So
Speaker 3: I like the chance for all of them. And like
Speaker 3: you mentioned Travis Bell, he's got a unique set of
Speaker 3: qualities at the defensive tackle position that are just a
Speaker 3: little bit a little different because he's maybe an undersized
Speaker 3: defensive tackle, but he plays with leverage, he's got unique speed,
Speaker 3: He's got a couple moves that I would like to
Speaker 3: see him be able to use. But every one of
Speaker 3: those guys in the practice squad, I pull for him
Speaker 3: because it's a great opportunity to be in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And Bill Murray's on there ye practice squad.
Speaker 3: I saw that and it kind of made me chuckle
Speaker 3: because the last time that we are in New York,
Speaker 3: he was standing behind us where we are doing our
Speaker 3: TV show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you know Mile Murray? Do you know
Speaker 1: about this guy's though he's from William and Mary played
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. He played defensive line and offensive line,
Speaker 1: so he was a defensive lineman in college. They moved
Speaker 1: him into a tackle position, but he could do both.
Speaker 1: And at one point in a preseason game he was
Speaker 1: a punt gunner.
Speaker 3: Well you know what, listen, Big Cat Williams started as
Speaker 3: a defensive tackle, moved over and became an awesome offensive
Speaker 3: lineman for a double digit career. Stan Jones, one of
Speaker 3: the greatest Chicago Bears in NFL history, was a seven
Speaker 3: or eight time All Pro at offensive line and defensive
Speaker 3: line for another seven years. So you know there's guys
Speaker 3: that have done it. You have to have a unique
Speaker 3: set of qualifications that you know you can play both positions.
Speaker 3: But hey, you know, congratulations to Bill Murray for cultivating
Speaker 3: both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Poles. In less than eighteen months, there's only eleven
Speaker 1: players left from the previous regime. Eight of them are starters.
Speaker 1: I mean that's massive. And we knew this was gonna happen,
Speaker 1: so this is not a shock. And when you take
Speaker 1: over and things haven't gone well, this is what happens.
Speaker 1: But even looking at that in those two years, not
Speaker 1: even two years, that's major change, a lot of transactions
Speaker 1: and more to come.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Jeff, we had a great chance to
Speaker 3: interview him on the last preseason game, and what are
Speaker 3: he and Ian Cunningham getting ready to do is go
Speaker 3: around and scout a bunch of other college players. So
Speaker 3: this is a never ending cycle. Whether you're looking at
Speaker 3: pro caliber talent that are other teams and other practice
Speaker 3: squad that go through the cut system that you're looking
Speaker 3: at maybe they can sit on your team, or if
Speaker 3: you're already four thinking about what you're gonna need in
Speaker 3: next year's draft and you start putting these guys on
Speaker 3: the big board from the college. It's just a process
Speaker 3: that never starts. But again that should be the motivator
Speaker 3: for the guys that are starters, are on the tier
Speaker 3: of a backup, because always know there's a guy somewhere
Speaker 3: in some place coming for your job. So it's about
Speaker 3: how you work today that's gonna keep you know, is
Speaker 3: going to influence all coaches.
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Speaker 1: All right, do a little packer talk here, Buddy Jordan
Speaker 1: Love quote. We've kind of tailed the offense around the
Speaker 1: plays I like things I like, and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: I'll carry on throughout the season. We're gonna find out
Speaker 1: what those plays are. What do you suspect they will be?
Speaker 1: He had eight possessions in the preseason, three of the
Speaker 1: men in touchdown drives, one each to Romeo Dobbs, Jaden
Speaker 1: Reid their new rookie slot, and Christian wattson the guy
Speaker 1: that came on strong yet last season.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna be much different than what
Speaker 3: they saw from Aaron Rodgers. A little bit of a movement,
Speaker 3: uses athleticism, you know, challenges accuracy, see how he reads
Speaker 3: at the line of scrimmage. And obviously the running game
Speaker 3: is going to play a significant role in this offense.
Speaker 3: But I guess the best person that you should interview
Speaker 3: for that question would be Luke Getzi. What did you
Speaker 3: use in practice that he was the most familiar with
Speaker 3: that if you had to put him in the game.
Speaker 3: Whereas your comfort zone? So you know, the Bears have
Speaker 3: a unique opportunity to interview a coach that's in the
Speaker 3: in their on their own team. But when you look
Speaker 3: at Jordan Love. They brought him here because he had
Speaker 3: a similar template of Aaron Rodgers, and he had the
Speaker 3: athleticism that you needed to run that system. So I
Speaker 3: don't think there's going to be much of a difference.
Speaker 3: It's just going to be inexperienced first, the extreme experience
Speaker 3: of Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: All right, so you ask, I'm just saying this hypothetically. Yet, Okay,
Speaker 1: why do the Bears want to bring speed? Speed kills?
Speaker 1: You can't ever have too much speed. They bring on
Speaker 1: speed on both sides of the ball. But the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers have speed. Now, they have a lot of speed,
Speaker 1: a lot of speed. Here are some of the numbers
Speaker 1: at receiver. Now you got Christian Watson at four three
Speaker 1: six read four four five. Packers insist he was hand
Speaker 1: timed at four to three seven and Romeo Dobs four
Speaker 1: to four to seven tight end Luke Musgrave by far
Speaker 1: much faster than the tight ends they had there last
Speaker 1: year at four six one. So you know the defense
Speaker 1: will be ready to deal with that speed. You got
Speaker 1: to answer some physicality with that speed.
Speaker 3: Beat him up.
Speaker 1: A little bit of the line of scrimmage slowed things down. Tommy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here you know, every single team across the board,
Speaker 3: whether we're talking about week one, two, or three, they're
Speaker 3: going to have speed out wide receiver. That is as
Speaker 3: impressive when you talk about forty numbers. But how quickly
Speaker 3: can you make Jordan Love process the thinking that he
Speaker 3: needs to go through after the ball is snap. That's
Speaker 3: going to be the key ingredient. Is it possible to
Speaker 3: cover some of these four low forward forty type guys
Speaker 3: for five seconds? No, it's impossible across the board in
Speaker 3: the NFL. But if you can make Jordan Love think
Speaker 3: at a one point three second or less, then you're
Speaker 3: going to put yourself in a winning position defensively. So yeah,
Speaker 3: those forty times are impressive, but it's about what the
Speaker 3: front seven can do to confuse him and put pressure
Speaker 3: on him as immediately as you cup possibly can.
Speaker 1: All Right, As of Tuesday and all the moves that
Speaker 1: were made ine on the initial fifty, Packers wound up
Speaker 1: being the youngest team in the league average age of
Speaker 1: twenty five. Bears tied for tenth at twenty five point seven.
Speaker 1: Most NFL teams are in that range of twenty five,
Speaker 1: getting close to twenty six. New Orleans is the oldest
Speaker 1: I think almost twenty eight, but it's the youngest team
Speaker 1: in football coming into town for Week one. A couple
Speaker 1: of other nuggets around the league. Minnesota investing a lot
Speaker 1: of money in TJ. Hockkinson, highest paid NFL tight end
Speaker 1: in history four years, sixty eight and a half million,
Speaker 1: highest paid with an annual average, just ahead of Darren
Speaker 1: Waller and George Kittle.
Speaker 3: Thoughts, you know it's big money, it's a big investment.
Speaker 3: You know, they have speed on the outside as well,
Speaker 3: and they have experience at the quarterback position. It's going
Speaker 3: to be interesting to see allultimately what they do at
Speaker 3: the running back position in terms of first and second tier.
Speaker 3: But the tight end is going to have to have
Speaker 3: a big influence both blocking and catching, and he's going
Speaker 3: to have to be ready and a valuable for all
Speaker 3: seventeen games. He's had a couple of injury issues throughout
Speaker 3: training camp that you're going to have to pay attention
Speaker 3: to during the regular season. But that's a heavy duty
Speaker 3: investment in the tight end position, Especially when we talked
Speaker 3: about a little bit earlier, sometimes you can lose man
Speaker 3: hours on the field due to injuries at the tight end.
Speaker 1: Busy Heart Seltzer, the official Heart Seltzer of the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: NFL mourning the loss of Gil Brandt, Gil a Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Famer in one of the architects of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys success back in the day, vice president
Speaker 1: player personnel there for twenty eight years with Cowboys as
Speaker 1: an expansion team in nineteen sixty. Came over from the
Speaker 1: La Rams with Tech Shram, who was outstanding pre Cowboys
Speaker 1: with that Rams franchise and then fired by Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine. Has really carried the torch for Scouts,
Speaker 1: and you and I have met many in our career,
Speaker 1: you as a player as well as a broadcaster, close friendships.
Speaker 1: We know what that lifestyle is like. It's a constant,
Speaker 1: never ending grind to be away from your family to
Speaker 1: find the next great player or somebody who fits in
Speaker 1: your organization, and the process never ends. I have great
Speaker 1: respect for Scouts, great respect for what he accomplished and helped,
Speaker 1: you know, start NFL radio in serious XM. He really
Speaker 1: was a big part of that in two thousand and
Speaker 1: four and passed away at the age of ninety one today.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you ever met the man
Speaker 1: if you ran into him at all, you know.
Speaker 3: Through Mike Dicka had the opportunity to meet him a
Speaker 3: couple times, which I was really inspired because when I
Speaker 3: was a young kid coming up through the NFL, he's
Speaker 3: the guy that I really wanted to and press him.
Speaker 3: Jim thinks Al Davis guys that had such a strong
Speaker 3: voice in the NFL that if they had a high
Speaker 3: opinion of you, you felt like you could really become
Speaker 3: a player. But as I was watching some of the
Speaker 3: footage of him on TV today, the archaic scouting, Like
Speaker 3: when I looked in behind him, he had hundreds of
Speaker 3: binders and it's for different teams, different players, and you
Speaker 3: think of going page by page of your evaluation process,
Speaker 3: whereas now you click on your computer and every single
Speaker 3: one of those hundreds of binders behind him were all
Speaker 3: into this compact screen. So from what Gil did to
Speaker 3: where scouting is now, he is a super influence on
Speaker 3: the scouts of today. But the archaic way he went
Speaker 3: about it was the extreme.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from what I understand, a lot of yellow notebook pads,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. But he's also credited with being the
Speaker 1: first in the NFL. He use computers to at least
Speaker 1: enter grades for prospect and also psychological testing, which is
Speaker 1: now an automatic. I didn't know this. He was born
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, went to Wisconsin and his first job after college,
Speaker 1: Tom was baby photographer.
Speaker 3: Nice thing I did see. I saw a clip of
Speaker 3: him and he's going over one of the players evaluation
Speaker 3: and he's got this stamp and it says reject oh,
Speaker 3: and he stamps it. I couldn't you know, I still
Speaker 3: got chills, and I couldn't believe how demoralizing it would
Speaker 3: be if your name was at the top of that
Speaker 3: scouting profile in all sud boom reject on it. And
Speaker 3: so you know, that's the reality of football from the
Speaker 3: sixties into today.
Speaker 1: Right, no question about it. And interesting because you talk
Speaker 1: about all the camps you went to when you came
Speaker 1: out of school and a part of your draft class,
Speaker 1: there were three camps. He was driving force along with
Speaker 1: Tech Shrimp, to merge those three scouting combines into one
Speaker 1: to form what we down to, oh is the National
Speaker 1: Scouting Combine.
Speaker 3: So when I came out of college, he had a
Speaker 3: combine in Detroit, one in Tampa, one in Seattle, and
Speaker 3: then they combined them all together. And that's what we
Speaker 3: know of today. But I think they do a better
Speaker 3: job of housing it in Indianapolis. So all the players
Speaker 3: are together in one room at one time.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna wrap it up, tom. Captains have
Speaker 1: been named Tremaine Edmonds, Eddie Jackson, DJ Moore and Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: There will be an honorary camped in each week as
Speaker 1: Fluce had a season ago. Good choices across the board,
Speaker 1: Oh no doubt.
Speaker 3: You know these guys all have experience, and what an
Speaker 3: impact that Tremaine, Eddmins and DJ Moore must have made
Speaker 3: in the locker room. Went on the practice field to
Speaker 3: impress the players enough where they got voted in as captain.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy for them and I hope they have
Speaker 3: a strong voice and influence in the locker room in
Speaker 3: a positive direction.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to be a little mean. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get your dander up just in time to start
Speaker 1: pack a week after the Labor Day holiday. But I
Speaker 1: want to just put this in your mind so you
Speaker 1: con fester a little bit over the weekend. All right.
Speaker 1: I don't know what your plans are for the Labor Day,
Speaker 1: but so the Bears last beat the Packers in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: they got an eight game losing streak. The Bears are
Speaker 1: four and twenty six against the Packers in the last meetings.
Speaker 1: I want you to stew on that a little bit,
Speaker 1: munch on it, get angry, and let's beat the Packers.
Speaker 1: How about it?
Speaker 3: You know how you know how angry we are when
Speaker 3: we're leaving Lambole Field after a big loss. You just
Speaker 3: you just lit that wick.
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, you have a good Labor Day weekend. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening to everybody. Please subscribe now the Chicago
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Speaker 1: your podcast. This has been Bears et cetera, Episode twelve
Speaker 1: with Tom Thayre. I'm Jeff Joni. I have a great
Speaker 1: holiday weekend. We'll talk to you next week.