Speaker 1: Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of Bears
Speaker 1: All Access here from PANC Studios at Alas Hall. Jeff
Speaker 1: Jonik and Tom There were brought to you by IGS Energy,
Speaker 1: Paul's Oranger engineer and Dan Brially, our producer. Good to
Speaker 1: have you with us, and good to be joined by
Speaker 1: Bears Wide receiver, the second year Georgia Bulldog Javon Wims.
Speaker 1: Thanks for giving up some of your time. How you
Speaker 1: doing all right? I'm good? Thank you for having me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is your debut voyage on this show, right, absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fun. You'll be able to Tom asks a bunch
Speaker 1: of serious questions. This is what he always tells every
Speaker 1: guest who comes in her first, I'm gonna ask all
Speaker 1: the fun questions, and then Jeff's gonna ask all the
Speaker 1: serious questions. But it's such a bologny. I likes to
Speaker 1: fancy himself. I have to say I have a serious
Speaker 1: question to start this off. To start the show, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't even say, like how are you? We sat
Speaker 1: down here and talk. But I don't like to talk
Speaker 1: to him off the air because I'd rather talk to
Speaker 1: him on the air. So my birthday is August sixteenth
Speaker 1: and Elvis Presley died on my birthday, and I remember
Speaker 1: it forever. Your birthdays nine to eleven. Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: day in itself, that being your birthday, is it a
Speaker 1: weird reminder every one of your birthdays? Because every every
Speaker 1: birthday I have, I'm I'm fifty eight. I still remember
Speaker 1: that Elvis died in my birthday. When you have an
Speaker 1: event like that on your birthday, do you remember that
Speaker 1: every every birthday? I remember it, but you know it
Speaker 1: that's the only day I get to be selfish, So
Speaker 1: I you know, I think of it is like, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of bad to happened that day,
Speaker 1: but in the civic I can say the one good
Speaker 1: thing is I was born that day. Right. What are
Speaker 1: your parents say about that day? I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't. They don't say nothing about it, like far
Speaker 1: as in the negative sense. We don't focus on like
Speaker 1: you know, a negative of course, we know, like it
Speaker 1: happened everything, but like the only time we like really
Speaker 1: focused on it was the two years, like the year
Speaker 1: it happened and the year after that. But after that,
Speaker 1: we just started to celebrate my birthday on the day.
Speaker 1: So reading stuff about you, I got you at six
Speaker 1: four two fifteen, six two two twenty one and six
Speaker 1: four one ninety are what are you the tallest one
Speaker 1: on there? Right? No, No, I'm saying that those are
Speaker 1: the three different weights and heights that I have for you.
Speaker 1: When I go and read things about you, you're so
Speaker 1: you're six four right, six realistically six three and a
Speaker 1: half six about twenty one? All right, because it's different,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't know what to read be And
Speaker 1: every time I see on the practice field since the
Speaker 1: day you got here, I knew you weren't six too no,
Speaker 1: not six too right. It's interesting because this week we
Speaker 1: had a we had a Bears Um Bears event with
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith downtown for Depity BBM on our Bears After
Speaker 1: Dark series, and Marcus Robinson was in was in the room,
Speaker 1: and Marcus was here, you know, a long time ago
Speaker 1: and was a heck of a receiver. But he started
Speaker 1: on a practice squad and wasn't getting a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunity or whatever. But he was in that mode of
Speaker 1: the first big way of big receivers, and boy he was.
Speaker 1: He was telling stories about just how the rules have changed,
Speaker 1: Like you know, he says today he'd be tearing it
Speaker 1: up because you know you were able to beat guys up.
Speaker 1: Now you can't. So it's interesting with that size what
Speaker 1: you can do to a dbing out too with your size,
Speaker 1: and what he couldn't do or what they were able
Speaker 1: to do to him. And it's interesting when you talk
Speaker 1: to players are different Erasse. It's not that long ago,
Speaker 1: but it's interesting to me. Do you feel you have
Speaker 1: that ability to deliver some punishment too because of your size? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely have an advantage, you know when it comes
Speaker 1: to blocking, even when it comes to catching. Um, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna use my body and ways like a basketball
Speaker 1: player at box out. And you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: just smaller dbs. They size really don't affect me. You know,
Speaker 1: if the ball is around me, I'm typically can just
Speaker 1: go over, I mean catching. You remember the name Rocket
Speaker 1: strom As he grew up like ten minutes from Roquin.
Speaker 1: Actually I don't know him personally. He was a heck
Speaker 1: of a receiver here and they had a fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: yard season and so forth. But you know that this
Speaker 1: is the value because you know, you're just you accept
Speaker 1: any little opportunity that comes your way. Right now, every target.
Speaker 1: But this is a guy who started on the practice
Speaker 1: squad and they were tearing up the bear defense. He
Speaker 1: and at running back James Allen at that time, and
Speaker 1: they finally got their chance, and look what happened. He
Speaker 1: had a really long career, great career. You just wait
Speaker 1: for your mom and man, you just never know when
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a time. Anytime they come, I'm ready
Speaker 1: for it. But you know you're doing a good job
Speaker 1: of creating your moment because throughout my career, from the
Speaker 1: first game to the last game, I was on kickoff
Speaker 1: return every single game I ever played. Your first block
Speaker 1: on the first kickoff return for a touchdown, excellent work.
Speaker 1: Number one. You set the guy up perfectly. You stayed
Speaker 1: on your feet, you had a great block, and then
Speaker 1: you're able to turn around and kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: try to get into Patterson's path, but it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to happen. But you did a great job on that.
Speaker 1: So those are the opportunities that you have to perform
Speaker 1: that are really going to help you expand your role
Speaker 1: on this team. Oh yeah, absolutely, Special teams is a
Speaker 1: major especially for a guy win seventh round. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta make your mark, or you know, find a
Speaker 1: play a way to be relevant, or you know any
Speaker 1: special teams, or you know, at any opportunity you get
Speaker 1: to be on the field, you just gotta find a
Speaker 1: way to be relevant. Would you want to stay to
Speaker 1: eighteen year whole career or did you ever imagine eating
Speaker 1: yourself and do a tight end? Because we've had a
Speaker 1: couple of guys here in the Chicago Bears pass Emory
Speaker 1: Moore had drafted out of Colorado as a kick returner
Speaker 1: on a wide receiver, and he ended up finishing his
Speaker 1: career in double digits as a tight end. Oh that's crazy, um,
Speaker 1: with today's game, how the tight ends are not necessarily
Speaker 1: like your typical or your traditional tight ends. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind it if that's what a team needed
Speaker 1: me to do, but I would prefer to stay at receiver.
Speaker 1: Well you keep blocking like that on the kickoff return? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I just wanted to tell you it was
Speaker 1: a heck of a job and it was nice to
Speaker 1: see you get such a nice block and then have
Speaker 1: the reward of the return for a touchdown. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: I score him when I got down. See now you
Speaker 1: can imagine would have felt like around here when Devin
Speaker 1: Hester was to those guys genuinely felt like they scored touchdowns. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd the best to do it. Well. Corderell is the
Speaker 1: best right now in the league. I mean he's went
Speaker 1: away from mentioning the all time record. Yeah you believe
Speaker 1: that eight return touchdowns. So he's one away. And I
Speaker 1: was talking to him earlier today because he doesn't do
Speaker 1: a lot of talking. He's a fun guy though, and
Speaker 1: he's he's cool and all, but he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about himself. But he does have an edge to
Speaker 1: him about this kick return thing, especially in this franchise. Oh,
Speaker 1: he takes it serious, and um, you know I want
Speaker 1: to see him. I want to I want him to
Speaker 1: get one more and like actually tied up this year.
Speaker 1: I really do he's going to. I believe he is,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's willing to take it out. There's
Speaker 1: so many other guys that intentions. Oh, every time he's
Speaker 1: back there, if it's returnable, he's going to take it out.
Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised though, looking back at it,
Speaker 1: because Devin returned so many and granted I knew the
Speaker 1: punt return thing was was his Bailey Wick but to
Speaker 1: think that the all time record is only eight and
Speaker 1: now they're changing the rules, So I mean, not many
Speaker 1: guys are going to be returning kick return touchdowns. They
Speaker 1: got a yes, like you said, Tom, be willing to
Speaker 1: take it out, but also have the ability to break
Speaker 1: tackles like he does. He's so thick when he gets
Speaker 1: ahead of steam. Forget about what's a bailey wick. I
Speaker 1: don't know it's really something. Look it up. I have
Speaker 1: no that's a great question time for somebody to look
Speaker 1: it up in the dictionary. I don't know. Anyway, We're
Speaker 1: gonna take our first break over Javon Wims as we
Speaker 1: break down the Bears in twenty nineteen with the Young
Speaker 1: Wide Receiver with Tom therem Jeff Joniak, and this is
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: With Javon Wims, Jeff and Tom and Paul's ranging Dan Barelly,
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Speaker 1: The Bears getting ready to meet the La Chargers and
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Speaker 1: The pregame at nine, kickoff at noon on news radio
Speaker 1: seven eighty and one or five point NFM w BBM.
Speaker 1: Why the nickname Juice? Mom gave it to me? But
Speaker 1: far Yes, you gave it to when I was younger,
Speaker 1: but um far as Like when I moved to Jacksonville
Speaker 1: my friends, I had, like I don't know if you
Speaker 1: ever seen a movie Juice and Tupac play the character
Speaker 1: Bishop and he had the haircut the box fade with
Speaker 1: the part in it, and just like Tim used to,
Speaker 1: every everybody called it like the Juice, the Juice haircut.
Speaker 1: So when I'm moved to jack with my friends, they
Speaker 1: just started calling me Juice. Did you have a haircut
Speaker 1: like that? I did? Really? How long have you been
Speaker 1: growing your hair? It was funny. So I used to
Speaker 1: have a little hair like my whole life, right, I
Speaker 1: think I had like every hairstyle you could think of.
Speaker 1: I probably have. But why why do you need to
Speaker 1: change so much? Uh? I don't think of a field thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think the change is like, while I can
Speaker 1: grow hair, I like to at least say I did everything. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that's I always avry guys with nice heads
Speaker 1: of hair because I imagined the cushion under the helmets
Speaker 1: a lot better than you know, putting that cold plastic
Speaker 1: right on there. It is. You know, I remember this
Speaker 1: training camp, Um. One day, Prince Mukamara looked at you
Speaker 1: and they said, man, that dude got faster, and he
Speaker 1: was talking about you. Can you still get faster? Um
Speaker 1: at this stage of your career. Is it harder to
Speaker 1: get faster or did you get faster from last year?
Speaker 1: I think I got a lot faster and quicker from
Speaker 1: last year. But that just took me like a dedication
Speaker 1: in all season and just it to a discipline because
Speaker 1: I had to change my diet and I had to
Speaker 1: change like because I was like extremely. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: I was overweight last year, but I wait, like probably
Speaker 1: the most I have in a whole season spanning last year,
Speaker 1: and to compare to now. So the food discipline that
Speaker 1: you have offered you here because the food is so
Speaker 1: good and there's so much of it, you know, is
Speaker 1: you know, do you have to watch yourself for from
Speaker 1: not eating too much. Oh of course, yeah, definitely. And
Speaker 1: you know when it's here and it's by you know,
Speaker 1: it's by you know, buffet style, that problem style. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's buffet style. And usually at you know, at Georgia,
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of they have people say you, okay,
Speaker 1: now you're not eating that, you're not eating this, and
Speaker 1: now you you know, you you're on your own. So
Speaker 1: I had to just like be disciplined to tell myself okay,
Speaker 1: like during camp and during um, the beginning parts of
Speaker 1: the season, just stay on the strict mil playing certain things.
Speaker 1: So I had to cut out a lot of things
Speaker 1: that I don't eat. Now, So, what was something you
Speaker 1: ate repeatedly last year that you definitely can't eat this year? Steaks? Okay, really, see,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think that's so bad. It's a good protein.
Speaker 1: It is, it's great protein. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, just stare with red meat. I'll take um,
Speaker 1: you know, fish and you know, baked chicken and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Now, interesting, what do you have a cheat day?
Speaker 1: I do? Yeah, I have to actually, Yeah, since you know,
Speaker 1: we practice and I burned it off a lot. I'm
Speaker 1: allowed to have too, all right, And do you run
Speaker 1: this through like Jen Gibson in the nutrition department or
Speaker 1: is this just your plan? Now? This is my plan,
Speaker 1: but me and I've talked with Jen about it, and
Speaker 1: you know she told me she definitely and even a
Speaker 1: strength coach, uh, you know jay Z, he definitely told
Speaker 1: me he wanted me to um, they want me to
Speaker 1: play at a lighter weight this year. You know, in
Speaker 1: the game this past week, Alan Robinson a number twenty two.
Speaker 1: We're going at it so much, it was it was
Speaker 1: hard not for you to pay attention to it in
Speaker 1: the in the in training camp. You had a little scuffle,
Speaker 1: didn't you one practice? Yeah, you know so, but it
Speaker 1: was kind of you know, the analogy between the two
Speaker 1: is because it looked like something got under Alan Robinson's
Speaker 1: cross so bad he couldn't let it go. And I
Speaker 1: just remember being out there at that practice. You could
Speaker 1: kind of feel a little bit of You can always
Speaker 1: feel the tension before it actually happens. Is it the
Speaker 1: same way for you as like can Alan feel it?
Speaker 1: And could you feel it in that practice? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's usually you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: Alan is a very calm, level headed guy. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm calm. You know, I really won't say much during
Speaker 1: the game unless I always like barking at me, right,
Speaker 1: but you know, I pretty much won't, you know, bart
Speaker 1: it back. It's just it's the actions, the things that
Speaker 1: people do that will get up onder me. Like you
Speaker 1: can talk all you want, but once you start doing
Speaker 1: stuff after the whistle, and once you started doing like
Speaker 1: a little small slick stuff, and then I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta protect myself, right, Yeah, I felt
Speaker 1: maybe it was one of the tackles that he made.
Speaker 1: It was a little much Gardner Johnson in that game
Speaker 1: as a rookie out of Florida, but I don't I
Speaker 1: forgot if he's from Florida, but Florida guys like chatting
Speaker 1: a little bit, so yeah, he was. He was getting
Speaker 1: under more than just Allen Robinson skin a little bit
Speaker 1: in that game. But again, that's part of the game too,
Speaker 1: And it was a frustrating day in the bigger picture,
Speaker 1: so you can you can appreciate people's emotions and so yeah, um,
Speaker 1: so you know, let's go with that because I think
Speaker 1: there is a lot of frustration, you know, and in
Speaker 1: the building especially on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: But um, I know Mitch said, yeah, the players did
Speaker 1: get together and talk yesterday, and they're not gonna say
Speaker 1: what it's about, obviously because it is a player's only thing.
Speaker 1: But do you feel it was worthwhile and beneficial in
Speaker 1: the big picture? Oh? Absolutely? Um you notice, just guys,
Speaker 1: you know, not just speak on you know what was said,
Speaker 1: but just the main thing, you know, just like you know,
Speaker 1: you guys probably will hold each other accountable, you know
Speaker 1: here what you guys do. Yeah, and you know the
Speaker 1: same thing. I'm pretty sure the chefs hold each other
Speaker 1: accountable to coaches. So it's just, you know, the main thing.
Speaker 1: We all striving for the same thing as to win.
Speaker 1: The good thing is you are a take team. You
Speaker 1: always have had, at least under Matt Naggie. Everybody enjoys
Speaker 1: working with each other, going to practice and having fun
Speaker 1: and playing. Obviously you'd like to have a little more
Speaker 1: success on offense to get those wins. But does it
Speaker 1: make it easier to talk freely when you guys have
Speaker 1: all the meetual respect that you have for each other. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: when you have you know, like I said, everybody is
Speaker 1: there is no militia's intent. Everybody you know the same
Speaker 1: you know the same thing. Everybody want to win. So
Speaker 1: when you have you know, everybody striving for the same
Speaker 1: thing and nobody have an ego issue, nobody you know,
Speaker 1: pridee or anything like that is beautiful. And whenever you
Speaker 1: could say how you feel and not, you know, feel
Speaker 1: like you're stepping on tolls. Did you play special teams
Speaker 1: in college? Never? Okay, So now now you're a professional
Speaker 1: and everything apps up. It's more serious now because you
Speaker 1: have to go to the seriousness of the special team
Speaker 1: meetings and it's kind of all for one and one
Speaker 1: for all. If there's one segment that's suffering, everybody in
Speaker 1: the room and suffering and then you got to go
Speaker 1: back to offensive meetings. Has that expanded the amount of
Speaker 1: time that you're in meetings because of you're on special
Speaker 1: teams in a professional level or is it something that
Speaker 1: you know you've been a part of since you've been
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I mean I've been a part of
Speaker 1: it since you know, I've been in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: I always had to be in a special team meeting
Speaker 1: since I don't think um, you know, I was talking
Speaker 1: with a Rob and he told me, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: you might as well. He used to be in and
Speaker 1: special teams until you get a thousand yard receivers or
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred plus yard receiver season. Other than that,
Speaker 1: you might. I was just being there. You know, it's
Speaker 1: better because then you have a jersey, Then you're active
Speaker 1: on game day, you're part of the roster. And you
Speaker 1: know that was always my goal was to always to
Speaker 1: be on kickoff return because I knew what if anything
Speaker 1: else failed, I was still on kickoff return. So it
Speaker 1: is a way that you gotta, you know, stake your
Speaker 1: claim to your locker. And you look at a guy
Speaker 1: like Sherik that's been here, yeah, you know for as
Speaker 1: long as he has. It's because of his effort on
Speaker 1: special teams. Absolutely as much respect to him as well,
Speaker 1: so you know, whenever he speak, guys definitely listened. Could
Speaker 1: you be a flyer on punt team now that he's
Speaker 1: so he's in cont some protocol and they say, Gavan,
Speaker 1: we need you as a flyer, your size, your speed,
Speaker 1: Could you make a tackle? Yeah, okay, I don't show
Speaker 1: what I could do it before, so I don't see
Speaker 1: why I couldn't doing that. Okay, Yeah, well, you know
Speaker 1: it's it's that's just not something that you do fundamentally
Speaker 1: side of it. I look at it like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like playing basketball, rebounding, you know, rebounding, don't take
Speaker 1: a skill, just take your effort. So special teams really
Speaker 1: it takes some you know, some technique or or whatever,
Speaker 1: but it's more of an effort thing with special with
Speaker 1: special teams had to be extremely hard to do a
Speaker 1: lot of watching last season. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely tough,
Speaker 1: was it or some tough moments for you week to
Speaker 1: week about it? Yeah, But because mainly I'm a competitor
Speaker 1: and I want to you know, I want to get
Speaker 1: out there and I want to help. I don't want
Speaker 1: to just be out there just to be out I
Speaker 1: want to be out there and I want to help,
Speaker 1: and you know, I feel like whenever I'm contributing, the
Speaker 1: team have a better chance of winning. But that's just
Speaker 1: the competitive side than me. But you know me watching,
Speaker 1: of course, it's going to be tough. But I definitely
Speaker 1: you know, it was still supported learn anything. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: would you learn that I don't want to be there again? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, you had a good combine. I had
Speaker 1: a good combine. I was drafting the fourth round and
Speaker 1: I've been bitter because of it since you were drafted.
Speaker 1: When you got drafted, and I'm bitter, is okay, that's
Speaker 1: what I wanted to hear. I'm bitter as well, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna help you last long. All right, two bitter guys.
Speaker 1: As we get said, for the next round of Bears
Speaker 1: football Week eight, coming up against the LA Chargers, We're
Speaker 1: gonna step away here with Paul's range and Dan Borellion.
Speaker 1: You listening, we thank you very much. It's brought to
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Speaker 1: seventy The score Sunday's game against the LA Chargers, brought
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Speaker 1: your Chicago Bears, Jeff Jony Act, Tom There, and our
Speaker 1: special guest this week on Bears All Access is Javon Wims.
Speaker 1: You and I sat down, we did a TV interview
Speaker 1: for Bears Game Night, our Game Day Live a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back, and your your journey. If people haven't
Speaker 1: researched it has been, it was just kind of unbelievable
Speaker 1: that you had the the resilience to stay on track
Speaker 1: and achieve your dream. You know, we went to a
Speaker 1: bunch of schools, you had to buide your time. How
Speaker 1: did you maintain the patience and now, in turn patience
Speaker 1: free get your big opportunity here. I always just think that,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, it's tough. It's definitely hard. It's definitely hard.
Speaker 1: But to get to where I'm at now, it definitely
Speaker 1: took a lot of um, it took a lot of patients,
Speaker 1: took a lot of sacrifice, and you know, I definitely
Speaker 1: had people in my corner, you know, who are root
Speaker 1: for me. We're helping me and praying for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your mom and dad first and foremost, right, the impact
Speaker 1: of those two individuals in your life. Obviously everyone wishes
Speaker 1: they had that. Not everybody does get that though certainly
Speaker 1: that's not not the case. But yeah, without it, do
Speaker 1: you think you'd be in the NFL? Probably not, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, Um, you know, my mom and
Speaker 1: my dad they both pushed me. And you know, you
Speaker 1: can only do so much individually. And I think, you know, individually,
Speaker 1: I probably would have I'm not gonna giving up on myself,
Speaker 1: but I probably would just settled and just stayed at
Speaker 1: my first school. But you know, just my mom and
Speaker 1: my dad making me realize how how blessed athletically I am.
Speaker 1: That it made me want to explore other options, and
Speaker 1: that was a spark to get me. Did you want
Speaker 1: to play or did you do something in the game
Speaker 1: that made you want to play more? You know, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Did you want to go out
Speaker 1: there every day and practice and play football or did
Speaker 1: you go out there reluctantly then finally you made a
Speaker 1: big catch, you made a big hit, you made something
Speaker 1: that kind of excited you to keep playing the game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So when I got to my first school,
Speaker 1: I was happy I was in college eighteen and happy
Speaker 1: I was in college or whatever. But as the season
Speaker 1: went on and I wasn't really playing much, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of was like, I'm reluctant to go kind
Speaker 1: of just there just because I got to be there.
Speaker 1: I think one of the seniors went down and I
Speaker 1: had to play like an old game, and I went
Speaker 1: off that game and then it made me I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is like easy, and I really didn't even know
Speaker 1: much of the plays, and I went out and I
Speaker 1: think I had like five catches like one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards or something like that. And it was like
Speaker 1: easy for me, And I was like, Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely if I could do that now, I definitely can
Speaker 1: do that at the next, you know, another level. So
Speaker 1: there's a year in college that you went from seventeen
Speaker 1: catches to forty five catches the next year. How did
Speaker 1: you do that? Was it study? Was it just that
Speaker 1: you matured, you got batter you started to realize your
Speaker 1: own talent. That it took. That was growth. You know.
Speaker 1: I definitely grew in all the right areas and it
Speaker 1: was an opportunity. You know, it was time. I got
Speaker 1: an opportunity and I didn't look back. You know. They
Speaker 1: gave me more responsibility. And then as the season went off,
Speaker 1: my targets started getting more and more because I became
Speaker 1: more reliable and I you know, I told them and
Speaker 1: I went I remember having a meeting with my office
Speaker 1: recording at the time and my receiver coach and letting
Speaker 1: them know, like, you know, I want the opportunity. I
Speaker 1: want the opportunity to make plays and help especially you know,
Speaker 1: we had at the time, had Nick Chubb and Sony Michelle.
Speaker 1: You know, two decorated backs in college, right, you know,
Speaker 1: at least I could do is give him some help
Speaker 1: so when they run the ball, so I asked for it,
Speaker 1: and you know I produced. Did they put an emphasis
Speaker 1: on blocking at the college level for you, because I
Speaker 1: think when you come to the NFL, if you don't block,
Speaker 1: or if you're not willing to block, you're not gonna play. No,
Speaker 1: it's definitely an emphasis at Georgia, right of course, you
Speaker 1: know you guys, Riley really, um, you know, we definitely
Speaker 1: had to block, and not only just block corners and safety,
Speaker 1: you had to block d ns and linebackers as well.
Speaker 1: So you know, we definitely it was a it's a
Speaker 1: huge emphasis. Javan Whims, our guest here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. So, well,
Speaker 1: you went through last year, he's going through this year absolutely,
Speaker 1: Riley Ridley, So, as a rookie came in with the
Speaker 1: label as an outstanding route runner already like prol ready
Speaker 1: route runner. But as I was talking with your receivers coach,
Speaker 1: uh the other day, he said, man, he goes it's
Speaker 1: nothing that he's not doing. It's just there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys in front of him right now. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: same thing even when I got here last year. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing as you know, nothing. Of course, I
Speaker 1: needed to grow in some areas and you know, same
Speaker 1: with Riley. You know, you never complete yet, so we're
Speaker 1: all still growing. But you know the same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: it's nothing that you know we're not doing. Just you know,
Speaker 1: we have great guys. You know, we have a very
Speaker 1: good receiving room. You got a pretty good crew crew
Speaker 1: here from Georgia too. Yeah, when you look at all
Speaker 1: the guys on this team and what they really mean
Speaker 1: to the future of this Um, do you have any
Speaker 1: did you have any real good relationships in college with
Speaker 1: those guys or were you, you know, hanging with other
Speaker 1: guys in your team just because there's different ages between
Speaker 1: all you guys. No, definitely. I never played with Leonard Floyd,
Speaker 1: but Roquine played with Floyd. Me and Riley never played
Speaker 1: with Floyd. But um, of course, Me, Riley and ro
Speaker 1: Quinn had a great relationship. Jevana Whims our guests here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio. This is Bears All Access brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy. In terms of exactly what
Speaker 1: is going on offensively. How would you describe the overall
Speaker 1: disappointment that these things aren't working like you thought they
Speaker 1: were as an offense and what are your discussions like
Speaker 1: with teammates and so forth. Uh, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not disappointment. It's more so like you know, we understand,
Speaker 1: like with it's different defense defense. You get guys out
Speaker 1: there just swarm for the ball. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: not saying like defense is easier in the office, but
Speaker 1: it's more easier to be productive on defense offense. It
Speaker 1: takes time and takes trust, and we understand that this
Speaker 1: thing is not going to happen overnight, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're still being patient with it, but we also understand
Speaker 1: like once it get clicking. You know, we showed last season,
Speaker 1: once it's clickings, it's gonna click and it's gonna you know,
Speaker 1: drive this train well. Matt talked last year a lot
Speaker 1: about um Mitch and the whole offense from a one
Speaker 1: on one college class to a two on one college class.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're getting there? You individually as
Speaker 1: all your assignments as a receiver, the different positions you
Speaker 1: could line up, and even to even expand your role
Speaker 1: and move around and uh do things out of the
Speaker 1: backfield from an H back position, from a slot receiver
Speaker 1: to a wide receiver. Oh yeah, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: I definitely grown a lot from last season to now
Speaker 1: and it shows and um, you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I could do all of those things that you mentioned.
Speaker 1: It is just you know, opportunity. You had a good
Speaker 1: camp I did. Yeah, you did. You know. I think
Speaker 1: some of the biggest catches that you know, the crowd appreciated,
Speaker 1: there were you know, end zone efforts by yourself. It's
Speaker 1: good to see. I heard you put your dancing shoes
Speaker 1: down this week. Yeah you see that. What you see
Speaker 1: what he did this week? Tell him what you did
Speaker 1: this week? So it's pretty cool. Yeah, yesterday, yesterday, Nah,
Speaker 1: it was Monday. So Monday, I um went to a
Speaker 1: dancing yoga class and surprised lady who was battling breast cancer.
Speaker 1: But she survived. So I gotta we got our tickets
Speaker 1: in the field, passed to this week's game, and a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars gift card while with Joel Osco. But he
Speaker 1: was there's there's video of it, I think at the
Speaker 1: bear Fair sight. So he's and it was a lot
Speaker 1: of uh seniors and a lot a lot of but
Speaker 1: all survivors cancer survivers. So what what brought you to
Speaker 1: that event? Well, my stubmother battle against breast cancer when
Speaker 1: I was in junior college, and you know it could
Speaker 1: have been fatal, but you know she she survived and
Speaker 1: she beat it. So I made a conscious effort. Anytime
Speaker 1: there's something I can do, you know I will do it.
Speaker 1: And he did it. And so there's video of him
Speaker 1: dancing with all these ladies. They had smiles as big
Speaker 1: as she's right now, and he was showing him a
Speaker 1: mover too. Yeah, it was funny. I couldn't hear it
Speaker 1: for some reason. I couldn't hear it. So what kind
Speaker 1: of music was being played? I couldn't even tell you
Speaker 1: what kind of music is played, but you were just
Speaker 1: moving to it. It was something that got you know,
Speaker 1: they were moving to it. So they're moving. I'm moving. Man.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to bring club double with you sometime
Speaker 1: if you go to another one of those dance classes
Speaker 1: and haven't put on their music at first, and then
Speaker 1: bringing the dub atmosphere around the dub cancer survivor class
Speaker 1: there featuring I got to host the class that might
Speaker 1: got to do that. Yeah, you know, we had uh
Speaker 1: twenty four buster screen in here a couple of times.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you know this now, but
Speaker 1: he has been on television with Doctor Rodd, you know
Speaker 1: all about all this. Yeah, he's pretty decorated. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: decorated in a workout, workout class thing. He's got the
Speaker 1: whole workout thing going on. So maybe you get us
Speaker 1: all out there a time or two, it'd be it'd
Speaker 1: be interesting. Vine Whims, our guest here on Bears All
Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Who
Speaker 1: you who you right? Within a team? Right now? Who?
Speaker 1: I'm tired with? Your guys? I spend majority of my
Speaker 1: time with the receivers, but farest outside of them. Uh
Speaker 1: you know Bloud Nichols, that's my guy. You know, he
Speaker 1: stay above me, so like I'm always around him. Who's
Speaker 1: who do your locker next to? Since they put people
Speaker 1: in place, it's always interesting. Leonard Floyd and Trey Burton
Speaker 1: Florida Gator next to me? Right? All right? Keep that
Speaker 1: sec talk going? Is he chat about it? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna shut up at all. He's always talking about Florida.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about SEC schools. All these guys, you
Speaker 1: guys all do it. Yes, you know it's part of it. Yes,
Speaker 1: school product. Well, last night with Roe quant and we
Speaker 1: introduced him to Marcus Robinson. Marcus Robinson had to make
Speaker 1: a point, where is he from South Carolina? To get
Speaker 1: on the chin? To get on the chin. Ro Quan
Speaker 1: likes that talk though he was getting undertime skin about
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Well, that lost by Georgia to South Carolina
Speaker 1: killed Notre Dame's chances of getting a possible of possible
Speaker 1: national championship. Oh yeah, yeah, wouldn't getting in this chanship
Speaker 1: we ran the table. If we ran the table from
Speaker 1: barely losing to George at home. Nah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in you guys, who do you believe
Speaker 1: in right now? In the college game Georgia? Still yeah, Georgia.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, that's for sure. I can't believe the number
Speaker 1: of players that come out of the SEC. And you know,
Speaker 1: guys like yourself that you know, you're not a headline guy,
Speaker 1: you know in terms of uh the attention that some
Speaker 1: of them were jevers getting the SEC or elsewhere in
Speaker 1: the country. But there's places for you in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, you know, just you know, opportunity whenever it
Speaker 1: presents itself, you gotta be ready to season. Did Terrell
Speaker 1: Davis ever talked to your get you guys back in
Speaker 1: the day because he was a Georgia kid who wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of time in the college game,
Speaker 1: became a Hall of Famer? I think yeah, Terrell Davis
Speaker 1: stopped by uh one time. If I'm not mistaken, Ben
Speaker 1: Watson did it as well, because I think he was
Speaker 1: a tight end it uh Georgia. Um it was Aj.
Speaker 1: I taught aj Green before he came and taught in
Speaker 1: a receivering room. I was pretty How about his situation, man,
Speaker 1: almost a full year now, still not ready to play? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's tough. Yeah, don't want Do you want to stay
Speaker 1: away from the injury? Bug? Man? Knock on wood? How
Speaker 1: are you practicing patience right now? Because you know we
Speaker 1: talked about your first decision the senior got hurt. Man,
Speaker 1: you went in and you fulfilled the role. Now it's
Speaker 1: kind of like you're patiently waiting for that opportunity to
Speaker 1: present itself here. So how do you go back and
Speaker 1: have good work ethic and practice, but make sure that
Speaker 1: you're prepared for because you know football players, they don't
Speaker 1: care to slip in their blockers saying this is a
Speaker 1: notification where you're gonna play. It's like someone tweaked something
Speaker 1: in your ends on the spot. How are you paid
Speaker 1: going through patience right now? Oh? Well? First, when I practice,
Speaker 1: you know, I practice, you know, not to be selfish.
Speaker 1: Of course, I practice for the team, you know, for
Speaker 1: us to be better. But you know I practice to
Speaker 1: make myself better. And I feel like, if you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm continue to make myself better, you're only get better,
Speaker 1: You're getting worse. It's no in between, it's no like
Speaker 1: just you're just cruising. So every time I'm out there,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm watching Alerup, I'm watching Taylor Gabriel and
Speaker 1: you know those guys who had success in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And I take especially a rod, I take a bout
Speaker 1: the same size. I take everything he'd do and I
Speaker 1: incorporate it in my game. And every time I'm out
Speaker 1: in practice, I try literally the stuff that he did
Speaker 1: last game that got I'm open. Where there's releases is
Speaker 1: at the top his roup. I may try it and
Speaker 1: add it in my game and just put my own
Speaker 1: twist on it. Who's the tallest between you a Rod
Speaker 1: and Cordelle? We probably pretty tight, Yeah, probably the same height.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Jews, Yeah yeah, and then maybe
Speaker 1: quarter and then maybe Alan. Yeah it might be that way. Actually,
Speaker 1: who knows. It's a group of big guys, right, you
Speaker 1: put him on the line of scrimmage, You're not gonna
Speaker 1: have matchup coverage against them, all right, We gotta take
Speaker 1: a break. One more segment here with Javon Wims, our
Speaker 1: guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score.
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Speaker 1: Javon Wims our guest with Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniak.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to everybody here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy The Score. You talked about Alan Robinson before
Speaker 1: the break, and he continues to impress me and everybody
Speaker 1: else again with his seriousness and his attention to detail.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mike Furrey says, if you can get
Speaker 1: a target catch rate anywhere between seventy seventy eight percent,
Speaker 1: you know you're in the elite category. And the first
Speaker 1: time in his career, at least at this point through
Speaker 1: seven games, he's in. He's in the mid seventies. He's
Speaker 1: always been in the sixties and the fifties for a
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. Got a lot of targets back in
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and so forth. But when that happens, that that
Speaker 1: makes you in a special category. Absolutely to get there though,
Speaker 1: it involves not only the right offense, but the concentration,
Speaker 1: winning your routes, winning the top of your routes. Out
Speaker 1: of all that, what is fury unlocked in you that
Speaker 1: you can see yourself doing that? One day? Um, it
Speaker 1: just showed me that. You know, I've definitely learned a
Speaker 1: lot from him, and I definitely you know, he played
Speaker 1: receiver and he had success. And one thing about me,
Speaker 1: I've never truly had a receiver coach. Even when you
Speaker 1: know I never had a receiver what are you talking? Well,
Speaker 1: you know I had a receiver coach at Georgia, but
Speaker 1: he was not never had a guy who played the position.
Speaker 1: I had success at it. You know, my receiver coach
Speaker 1: at the time, he's a great officer of mine. He
Speaker 1: was an officer of coordinator. But you know, for is
Speaker 1: the first like receiver coach that I've actually had that,
Speaker 1: you know, know all the details and know everything is
Speaker 1: about being a receiver. So even going back to high school,
Speaker 1: I pretty much was my own coach. Junior college, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but my coach specialized in defense. It was my receiver coach. Interesting,
Speaker 1: that was his thing. Wow, So do you feel kind
Speaker 1: of jipped a little bit from a coaching point of view?
Speaker 1: I won't say. I won't say that because I've definitely learned,
Speaker 1: you know, everywhere I went. I'm not they were great coaches.
Speaker 1: It's just I've learned, you know, something that they knew.
Speaker 1: So when I was at junior college with my coach,
Speaker 1: I learned how DBS think because he was you know
Speaker 1: that his thing was DBS. When I was at Georgia,
Speaker 1: I learned how to recognize a whole offense from the
Speaker 1: quarterback point of view. And according to this point of view,
Speaker 1: that's why I think, you know, picking up the offense
Speaker 1: is kind of easier to me now, you know, learning
Speaker 1: from him. So everywhere I went, I've learned something so interesting.
Speaker 1: It's just one big puzzle. You've put together list like
Speaker 1: I'm just putting together meeting a fabric of that is interesting. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: So with Fury, I mean he's obviously he was outstanding receiver.
Speaker 1: You know, a guy had you know, one hundreds some
Speaker 1: catches in one season and he's fiery and looks like
Speaker 1: he could still play. I don't tell him that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the tech he's he is stick, he's all yoked up.
Speaker 1: But the little the anybody I can't say anybody because
Speaker 1: that would be ridiculous. But you know, guys can play
Speaker 1: pitch and catch, but can you get open and actually
Speaker 1: doing You gotta be able to get off finding your
Speaker 1: route absolutely, so what does that take when people when
Speaker 1: people hear the term gotta refine you gotta refine his
Speaker 1: route running? What does that mean? That's just you know,
Speaker 1: more so like just discipline and even when you win
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, to not get over excited
Speaker 1: and abandoning, you know, abandon everything that you've been training.
Speaker 1: You know, when you win still stay levelheaded and just
Speaker 1: complete the route. You know, it just it just take
Speaker 1: like Hiss routine and his discipline. It's can So you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about climbing the ladder when you come to
Speaker 1: the NFL, and a lot of your reps early in
Speaker 1: training camp come with Chase Daniel. Can a guy like
Speaker 1: him with his experience, even though he's not a receiver,
Speaker 1: help you talk about routes a little bit more just
Speaker 1: because he has experience in the system and years of
Speaker 1: experience of seeing other receivers. I'm sure he can. You know.
Speaker 1: Also does he help you also? And camp he definitely did,
Speaker 1: just you know, talking with him and trying to understand
Speaker 1: what he saw from a quarterback point of view, because
Speaker 1: you know, it's always you know, you know what I
Speaker 1: tell him what I saw, or he had tell me
Speaker 1: what he saw, but most poorly, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to know what the quarterback saw because whatever he saw,
Speaker 1: he's throwing the ball. So I want to see the
Speaker 1: same thing he see so I can make sure I
Speaker 1: get the ball. Kind of good discussions do you have
Speaker 1: with Mitch Trubisky? What are the relationship questions in terms
Speaker 1: of football that you guys talk about throughout the course
Speaker 1: of a practice or after practice or in the meeting room,
Speaker 1: just pretty much trying to get on the same page
Speaker 1: whether there is you know, you know, I saw you
Speaker 1: know your route in this way. You know if you
Speaker 1: did it this way, you know able to help me
Speaker 1: out as a quarterback, and you know, I explain to
Speaker 1: him or maybe I would explain to him why I
Speaker 1: did a route a certain way, you know, to kind
Speaker 1: of help make sure I got open and stayed on
Speaker 1: his time and stayed on his path. What about talking
Speaker 1: to defensive backs? Can you have a conversation with those
Speaker 1: guys at this point and they tell your details about
Speaker 1: your gate or something if you're you know, the way
Speaker 1: you want to run aroute or how to work something
Speaker 1: more efficiently against the defensive back. Oh absolutely, Prince, you know,
Speaker 1: And I hated going against him account because he's like
Speaker 1: he he knows everything, him and Kyle. But you know
Speaker 1: I would tell him and I would ask him all
Speaker 1: the time, like you don't even know to play, so
Speaker 1: how why would you take off, you know, running or
Speaker 1: and he would tell me like, oh, well, when you
Speaker 1: for example, when you raise up while you in the
Speaker 1: middle of your route, I know, you're probably about to stop,
Speaker 1: you know, or yeah, yeah, it's just certain things, this
Speaker 1: small little details like that, you know, they will give
Speaker 1: great feedback. So I'm like, okay, I needed that, So
Speaker 1: how do you take it from practice the Sunday? Those
Speaker 1: little nuances. So they because in the heat of the
Speaker 1: moment sometimes it's the only natural thing. All those things
Speaker 1: you work, I may go out the window because you
Speaker 1: want to make a big play. Well, it's just like
Speaker 1: you said, just gotta like you gotta be level headed,
Speaker 1: you gotta understand and you know, go go back to
Speaker 1: your training. And that's why I'm saying, like just refining
Speaker 1: you know, routes. You gotta stay disciplined. You know, even
Speaker 1: if you may win in the line of scrimmage, you
Speaker 1: gotta stay disciplined in details. If I got a regular
Speaker 1: go route and I went at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: don't fade away trying to stack them, because me fading
Speaker 1: away the cornerback maybe a four or two guy and
Speaker 1: there's no way you know, four or four, four five
Speaker 1: guy go probably out run a four or two guy.
Speaker 1: So if I stack him, I have our opportunity to
Speaker 1: outrun him because he can't run through my body. But
Speaker 1: if I fade away, then he has an angle to
Speaker 1: catch up to me. So just small details like that.
Speaker 1: Let me just say, because people who don't know the
Speaker 1: game enough to understand what stacking is, yeah, explain a
Speaker 1: little more stacking terms. So if me and you are
Speaker 1: are racing, If me and you're racing and there's no
Speaker 1: rules to the race, I want to take my body
Speaker 1: and put place my body in front of your body
Speaker 1: so that you cannot run past me. The only way
Speaker 1: for you to be past me is for you to
Speaker 1: literally run your body through me. Very good when yeah,
Speaker 1: you know he wants to be in this business one
Speaker 1: I always talk. Yeah, it's practice. You like you like
Speaker 1: the headset? I love it? I love it. Are you
Speaker 1: a football fan? Do you watch football when it's on?
Speaker 1: I'm a football fan. I'm more of a basketball fan. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you gotta be happy that the NBA opening season.
Speaker 1: But if you're watching football, do you gravitate towards the
Speaker 1: wide receivers dbs only or do you watch the game now?
Speaker 1: That's funny, So whenever I watch football now, it's like
Speaker 1: I see it different. So whenever something happens or like
Speaker 1: a play happen. You know, I'm like, Okay, that's a
Speaker 1: m a missus signmon, that's a bust at coverage or
Speaker 1: can't have that Mays. Y'all know you can't have it Mays.
Speaker 1: But or you may. Um, I just see the game
Speaker 1: from more of a not of fans point of you.
Speaker 1: Now I see it from like more of an excess
Speaker 1: and those point you're watching as a business game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm watching it is like, oh, like he's just wanting
Speaker 1: that line of screamer, she should get the ball, or
Speaker 1: like I'm looking at defenses just naturally because now it's
Speaker 1: just something in the NFL. I can't do nothing but
Speaker 1: paint it. And okay, they're playing a lot of this
Speaker 1: on this down. It's just certain things I'm now gravitating
Speaker 1: to it that I wouldn't have known three years ago.
Speaker 1: So a team that you don't see very often in
Speaker 1: your football life, and you won't see the Sandy or
Speaker 1: the LA Chargers very often. Is it more difficult because
Speaker 1: you don't see an opponent very much? Or is it
Speaker 1: easier when you see Green Bay Detroit, Minnesota a couple
Speaker 1: of times a year. Oh? I honestly it's harder to
Speaker 1: I think I believe it's hard to be any team
Speaker 1: more than once play him like two times or three
Speaker 1: times the season. It's hard to be a team twice,
Speaker 1: no matter how good or you know, a bad. It recommends,
Speaker 1: you know, show it's just hard to be the team twice.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely whenever you got to play a team once,
Speaker 1: it's definitely. I think it's more of a I would
Speaker 1: say easier, but it's you have a higher chance of
Speaker 1: you know, winning time. The Chargers are real quick. What
Speaker 1: you seeing defensively a great defensive team. They got some
Speaker 1: you know, you got some guys on defense. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we stick to you know, the
Speaker 1: things that we do good, we should be fine. You
Speaker 1: guys feel confident of course, noon start on a Sunday
Speaker 1: no less. I mean you talk about the up and
Speaker 1: down roller coaster schedule that you have had, the night
Speaker 1: games to London and stuff. I mean in a good
Speaker 1: old fashioned noon startlight. I love the Neon game to
Speaker 1: sign is out? I love it all right, Bailey Wick,
Speaker 1: we got a definition really ready the sphere in which
Speaker 1: one has superior knowledge or authority, a special domain, or
Speaker 1: it could be the office of juredition, of a bailiff,
Speaker 1: So that's not the case. Hey, we gotta let you go.
Speaker 1: Oh you enjoy and I hope you'll come back some time. Oh,
Speaker 1: absolutely anytime. Appreciate your time, Javin Williams. Good luck on
Speaker 1: Sunday and the rest of the season as the Bears
Speaker 1: meet the Chargers. Time and I'll be back for one
Speaker 1: more thought on the game coming up on Sunday after
Speaker 1: this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score back,
Speaker 1: whether you're on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and time with you Javon Wims. They enjoy talking to
Speaker 1: you know why, because he's another one of these self
Speaker 1: made players. And the part I didn't realize was, you know,
Speaker 1: the type of coaching these guys are getting along the way,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's not as precise as it maybe should
Speaker 1: be or could be, or because of staffing limitations, or
Speaker 1: whether you get to the NFL because you had to
Speaker 1: go through junior college first and wait your turn to
Speaker 1: get to a big time school, and then you get
Speaker 1: to the big time school and they're not throwing the
Speaker 1: ball or running the ball. Wow, first time you're getting
Speaker 1: coached is the NFL level as a seventh round pick.
Speaker 1: So what that tells me his ceiling is very high. Oh,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, Javon Wims is the brightness of
Speaker 1: his future is ahead of him. And you know the
Speaker 1: thing about it is last year when we are watching him,
Speaker 1: he wasn't having the practices that he needed to have
Speaker 1: in the place he was drafted with his skill set.
Speaker 1: This training camp was completely different for him that he
Speaker 1: was making the big catches that he was expected to
Speaker 1: make in that type of working atmosphere. When he's got
Speaker 1: his opportunities in the games, he's been able to answer
Speaker 1: the bell. But you know, you're kind of sitting on
Speaker 1: that competitive bench. It's the same bench that I sat
Speaker 1: on waiting for my opportunity to present itself. And there's
Speaker 1: just not a lot of notification in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: in Javon's case, from this point on, when that opportunity
Speaker 1: other than Game seventeen and eighteen at the end of
Speaker 1: a regular season, somewhere in the midst of a regular season,
Speaker 1: that opportunity has to go out and play forty five snaps,
Speaker 1: that's when we got to see Javon Wims. All right,
Speaker 1: did you listen to news conferences this week and what
Speaker 1: was your impression of everything, and the fact that they
Speaker 1: did have a player's only meeting. We won't know what
Speaker 1: was discussed, but it seemed to be a cathartic moment
Speaker 1: for the guys. First of all, I hate players only meetings.
Speaker 1: I'm not for that. I don't think you really accomplish anything.
Speaker 1: It's not like you're going to make someone. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: not going to make someone bigger, faster, stronger, more dedicated.
Speaker 1: It may be able to air out some grievances, but
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any grievances in the locker room.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a way to make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody stayed and staying in a focused, positive direction. And
Speaker 1: because the team meetings that I've always been a part
Speaker 1: of is when we are kind of in a you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to save the season earlier, in a disaster mode,
Speaker 1: and so I just think it's about understanding what you
Speaker 1: need to do in order to get better. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you know, statistically, you know,
Speaker 1: you could check the box of what things you need
Speaker 1: to do in order to get better. It's pretty simple. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. You can talk about the
Speaker 1: topic at the podium, but the topic was pretty central.
Speaker 1: What's your impression of the Chargers. I love Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: He's the most awkward looking athlete with the best results
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. His dedication to his teammates. He makes
Speaker 1: receivers better. He's building a young tight end. He's got
Speaker 1: a running back that held out, so he developed the
Speaker 1: running back that was next in line, and he's actually
Speaker 1: performing better than Melvin Gordon who held out. They have
Speaker 1: some defensive injuries that are obviously holding them back, but
Speaker 1: they got a coach that has a lot of energy,
Speaker 1: and the most important player on their team is the
Speaker 1: best player on their team in Philip Rivers. Russell inspected back.
Speaker 1: He had a pulmonary embolism that caused blood clots. Very
Speaker 1: dangerous situation, but you know, he's an outstanding tackle and
Speaker 1: very Their tackles are nameless right now. I mean they're
Speaker 1: they're working through a lot of injuries. Three guys already
Speaker 1: on ir for the rest of the season. That's kind
Speaker 1: of complicated them a little bit. They're not They're scoring
Speaker 1: twenty points a game, but that's the scary part. They
Speaker 1: do throw the ball well enough to move the chains. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing about it. I think it puts a
Speaker 1: sense of urgency in the head of Philip Rivers. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna sit there and say, Okay, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: four four seconds up protection. He's going to look at
Speaker 1: the defense and say, where's my biggest vulnerable vulnerability lie,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get the ball out of my hands.
Speaker 1: Sometimes makes desperation a better a bigger weapon. And I
Speaker 1: hate to say it because going back to the eighty
Speaker 1: five season and playing that Miami Dolphins game when Dan
Speaker 1: Marino was kind of clued in and what he could
Speaker 1: do to that defense and how quickly he needed to
Speaker 1: get it done to stay safe. They did it. And
Speaker 1: that's so I had the same concerns for the defensively
Speaker 1: Black Joey Bosa and Brandon Mebane. That's a good place
Speaker 1: to start, right, Cut them often early and often make
Speaker 1: them think about something other than using their hands to
Speaker 1: disengage from a tackle. Sounds like an offensive lineman that
Speaker 1: you are all right, We'll talk to you. Have the
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