WEBVTT - All Access: Wims talks development 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.000 Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of Bears 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.200 All Access here from PANC Studios at Alas Hall. Jeff 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.080 Jonik and Tom There were brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.160 Paul's Oranger engineer and Dan Brially, our producer. Good to 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.120 have you with us, and good to be joined by 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.080 Bears Wide receiver, the second year Georgia Bulldog Javon Wims. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:19.720 Thanks for giving up some of your time. How you 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.720 doing all right? I'm good? Thank you for having me. Yeah, 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.040 this is your debut voyage on this show, right, absolutely, Yeah, 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.000 it's fun. You'll be able to Tom asks a bunch 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.800 of serious questions. This is what he always tells every 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:31.880 guest who comes in her first, I'm gonna ask all 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.120 the fun questions, and then Jeff's gonna ask all the 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.320 serious questions. But it's such a bologny. I likes to 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.160 fancy himself. I have to say I have a serious 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.360 question to start this off. To start the show, yeah, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.960 you can't even say, like how are you? We sat 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:46.480 down here and talk. But I don't like to talk 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.880 to him off the air because I'd rather talk to 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.040 him on the air. So my birthday is August sixteenth 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.760 and Elvis Presley died on my birthday, and I remember 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.360 it forever. Your birthdays nine to eleven. Yeah, so that 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.760 day in itself, that being your birthday, is it a 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.360 weird reminder every one of your birthdays? Because every every 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.319 birthday I have, I'm I'm fifty eight. I still remember 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.520 that Elvis died in my birthday. When you have an 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.080 event like that on your birthday, do you remember that 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.679 every every birthday? I remember it, but you know it 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.120 that's the only day I get to be selfish, So 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:21.960 I you know, I think of it is like, you know, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.640 there was a lot of bad to happened that day, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.920 but in the civic I can say the one good 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.640 thing is I was born that day. Right. What are 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.959 your parents say about that day? I mean, you know, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.880 we don't. They don't say nothing about it, like far 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:34.679 as in the negative sense. We don't focus on like 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.560 you know, a negative of course, we know, like it 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.240 happened everything, but like the only time we like really 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.360 focused on it was the two years, like the year 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.360 it happened and the year after that. But after that, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.840 we just started to celebrate my birthday on the day. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.200 So reading stuff about you, I got you at six 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.440 four two fifteen, six two two twenty one and six 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.960 four one ninety are what are you the tallest one 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.960 on there? Right? No, No, I'm saying that those are 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.560 the three different weights and heights that I have for you. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.960 When I go and read things about you, you're so 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.320 you're six four right, six realistically six three and a 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.680 half six about twenty one? All right, because it's different, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.400 you know, you don't know what to read be And 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.600 every time I see on the practice field since the 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.960 day you got here, I knew you weren't six too no, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.360 not six too right. It's interesting because this week we 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.480 had a we had a Bears Um Bears event with 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:30.120 Roquan Smith downtown for Depity BBM on our Bears After 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.120 Dark series, and Marcus Robinson was in was in the room, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:38.079 and Marcus was here, you know, a long time ago 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:39.720 and was a heck of a receiver. But he started 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.720 on a practice squad and wasn't getting a lot of 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.920 opportunity or whatever. But he was in that mode of 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.560 the first big way of big receivers, and boy he was. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.600 He was telling stories about just how the rules have changed, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.280 Like you know, he says today he'd be tearing it 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.680 up because you know you were able to beat guys up. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.640 Now you can't. So it's interesting with that size what 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.320 you can do to a dbing out too with your size, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.920 and what he couldn't do or what they were able 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.280 to do to him. And it's interesting when you talk 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.760 to players are different Erasse. It's not that long ago, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.239 but it's interesting to me. Do you feel you have 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.000 that ability to deliver some punishment too because of your size? Oh? Yeah, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.320 I definitely have an advantage, you know when it comes 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.919 to blocking, even when it comes to catching. Um, you're 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.560 not gonna use my body and ways like a basketball 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.000 player at box out. And you know, I kind of 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:36.080 just smaller dbs. They size really don't affect me. You know, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:37.920 if the ball is around me, I'm typically can just 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:39.960 go over, I mean catching. You remember the name Rocket 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.080 strom As he grew up like ten minutes from Roquin. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.840 Actually I don't know him personally. He was a heck 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.600 of a receiver here and they had a fourteen hundred 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.200 yard season and so forth. But you know that this 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.560 is the value because you know, you're just you accept 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.640 any little opportunity that comes your way. Right now, every target. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.920 But this is a guy who started on the practice 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.520 squad and they were tearing up the bear defense. He 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.360 and at running back James Allen at that time, and 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.680 they finally got their chance, and look what happened. He 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.480 had a really long career, great career. You just wait 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.120 for your mom and man, you just never know when 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.000 it's gonna be a time. Anytime they come, I'm ready 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.480 for it. But you know you're doing a good job 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.159 of creating your moment because throughout my career, from the 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.239 first game to the last game, I was on kickoff 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.880 return every single game I ever played. Your first block 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.440 on the first kickoff return for a touchdown, excellent work. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.239 Number one. You set the guy up perfectly. You stayed 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.080 on your feet, you had a great block, and then 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.719 you're able to turn around and kind of, you know, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.279 try to get into Patterson's path, but it wasn't going 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:37.920 to happen. But you did a great job on that. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.960 So those are the opportunities that you have to perform 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.479 that are really going to help you expand your role 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.720 on this team. Oh yeah, absolutely, Special teams is a 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.159 major especially for a guy win seventh round. You know, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.839 you gotta make your mark, or you know, find a 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.599 play a way to be relevant, or you know any 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.040 special teams, or you know, at any opportunity you get 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.240 to be on the field, you just gotta find a 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.080 way to be relevant. Would you want to stay to 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.679 eighteen year whole career or did you ever imagine eating 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.480 yourself and do a tight end? Because we've had a 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.640 couple of guys here in the Chicago Bears pass Emory 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.880 Moore had drafted out of Colorado as a kick returner 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.960 on a wide receiver, and he ended up finishing his 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:18.240 career in double digits as a tight end. Oh that's crazy, um, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.000 with today's game, how the tight ends are not necessarily 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.040 like your typical or your traditional tight ends. I mean, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.239 I wouldn't mind it if that's what a team needed 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.440 me to do, but I would prefer to stay at receiver. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.480 Well you keep blocking like that on the kickoff return? Well, yeah, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.280 you know, I just wanted to tell you it was 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.279 a heck of a job and it was nice to 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.440 see you get such a nice block and then have 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.960 the reward of the return for a touchdown. Yeah, like 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.400 I score him when I got down. See now you 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.400 can imagine would have felt like around here when Devin 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:54.320 Hester was to those guys genuinely felt like they scored touchdowns. Man, Yeah, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.159 he'd the best to do it. Well. Corderell is the 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:58.880 best right now in the league. I mean he's went 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.240 away from mentioning the all time record. Yeah you believe 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.280 that eight return touchdowns. So he's one away. And I 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.480 was talking to him earlier today because he doesn't do 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.039 a lot of talking. He's a fun guy though, and 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.280 he's he's cool and all, but he doesn't want to 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.960 talk about himself. But he does have an edge to 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.760 him about this kick return thing, especially in this franchise. Oh, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.960 he takes it serious, and um, you know I want 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.280 to see him. I want to I want him to 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.320 get one more and like actually tied up this year. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.960 I really do he's going to. I believe he is, 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.159 you know, because he's willing to take it out. There's 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.520 so many other guys that intentions. Oh, every time he's 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.760 back there, if it's returnable, he's going to take it out. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.760 I was kind of surprised though, looking back at it, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.880 because Devin returned so many and granted I knew the 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.320 punt return thing was was his Bailey Wick but to 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:49.240 think that the all time record is only eight and 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.920 now they're changing the rules, So I mean, not many 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.440 guys are going to be returning kick return touchdowns. They 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.560 got a yes, like you said, Tom, be willing to 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.279 take it out, but also have the ability to break 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.240 tackles like he does. He's so thick when he gets 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.640 ahead of steam. Forget about what's a bailey wick. I 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.960 don't know it's really something. Look it up. I have 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.400 no that's a great question time for somebody to look 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.480 it up in the dictionary. I don't know. Anyway, We're 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.920 gonna take our first break over Javon Wims as we 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.920 break down the Bears in twenty nineteen with the Young 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.280 Wide Receiver with Tom therem Jeff Joniak, and this is 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.080 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.520 Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy, a 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.559 proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.040 and home warranty products to over one million customers across 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.480 the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.840 With Javon Wims, Jeff and Tom and Paul's ranging Dan Barelly, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.440 our producers and engineer. Good to have you alongside as well. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.280 The Bears getting ready to meet the La Chargers and 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.920 Philip Rivers coming to town on Sunday at Soldier Field. Well. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.280 The pregame at nine, kickoff at noon on news radio 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.400 seven eighty and one or five point NFM w BBM. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.480 Why the nickname Juice? Mom gave it to me? But 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.000 far Yes, you gave it to when I was younger, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.640 but um far as Like when I moved to Jacksonville 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.480 my friends, I had, like I don't know if you 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.080 ever seen a movie Juice and Tupac play the character 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.680 Bishop and he had the haircut the box fade with 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.560 the part in it, and just like Tim used to, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.840 every everybody called it like the Juice, the Juice haircut. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.000 So when I'm moved to jack with my friends, they 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.280 just started calling me Juice. Did you have a haircut 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.160 like that? I did? Really? How long have you been 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.600 growing your hair? It was funny. So I used to 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.240 have a little hair like my whole life, right, I 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.320 think I had like every hairstyle you could think of. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.400 I probably have. But why why do you need to 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.480 change so much? Uh? I don't think of a field thing. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.520 I don't think the change is like, while I can 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:38.319 grow hair, I like to at least say I did everything. Well, yeah, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.880 you know that's I always avry guys with nice heads 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.200 of hair because I imagined the cushion under the helmets 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.560 a lot better than you know, putting that cold plastic 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:47.760 right on there. It is. You know, I remember this 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.240 training camp, Um. One day, Prince Mukamara looked at you 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.280 and they said, man, that dude got faster, and he 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.319 was talking about you. Can you still get faster? Um 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.800 at this stage of your career. Is it harder to 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.800 get faster or did you get faster from last year? 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.000 I think I got a lot faster and quicker from 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.920 last year. But that just took me like a dedication 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.840 in all season and just it to a discipline because 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.199 I had to change my diet and I had to 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.240 change like because I was like extremely. I wouldn't say 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.040 I was overweight last year, but I wait, like probably 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.600 the most I have in a whole season spanning last year, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.320 and to compare to now. So the food discipline that 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.120 you have offered you here because the food is so 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.679 good and there's so much of it, you know, is 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.640 you know, do you have to watch yourself for from 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.680 not eating too much. Oh of course, yeah, definitely. And 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.960 you know when it's here and it's by you know, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.760 it's by you know, buffet style, that problem style. Yes, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.280 it's buffet style. And usually at you know, at Georgia, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.319 you know, you kind of they have people say you, okay, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.280 now you're not eating that, you're not eating this, and 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.520 now you you know, you you're on your own. So 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.120 I had to just like be disciplined to tell myself okay, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.200 like during camp and during um, the beginning parts of 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.960 the season, just stay on the strict mil playing certain things. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.240 So I had to cut out a lot of things 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.679 that I don't eat. Now, So, what was something you 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:10.560 ate repeatedly last year that you definitely can't eat this year? Steaks? Okay, really, see, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.520 I wouldn't think that's so bad. It's a good protein. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.960 It is, it's great protein. But at the same time, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.240 you know, just stare with red meat. I'll take um, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.679 you know, fish and you know, baked chicken and stuff 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.400 like that. Now, interesting, what do you have a cheat day? 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.360 I do? Yeah, I have to actually, Yeah, since you know, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.480 we practice and I burned it off a lot. I'm 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.720 allowed to have too, all right, And do you run 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.240 this through like Jen Gibson in the nutrition department or 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.600 is this just your plan? Now? This is my plan, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.960 but me and I've talked with Jen about it, and 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.959 you know she told me she definitely and even a 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.640 strength coach, uh, you know jay Z, he definitely told 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.480 me he wanted me to um, they want me to 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.680 play at a lighter weight this year. You know, in 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.680 the game this past week, Alan Robinson a number twenty two. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.320 We're going at it so much, it was it was 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.000 hard not for you to pay attention to it in 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.520 the in the in training camp. You had a little scuffle, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.600 didn't you one practice? Yeah, you know so, but it 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.200 was kind of you know, the analogy between the two 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.319 is because it looked like something got under Alan Robinson's 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.480 cross so bad he couldn't let it go. And I 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.800 just remember being out there at that practice. You could 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.720 kind of feel a little bit of You can always 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.440 feel the tension before it actually happens. Is it the 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.240 same way for you as like can Alan feel it? 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.720 And could you feel it in that practice? Oh? Yeah, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.560 you know, it's it's usually you know, and you know, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.320 Alan is a very calm, level headed guy. And you know, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.040 I'm calm. You know, I really won't say much during 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.280 the game unless I always like barking at me, right, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.280 but you know, I pretty much won't, you know, bart 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.520 it back. It's just it's the actions, the things that 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.240 people do that will get up onder me. Like you 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.080 can talk all you want, but once you start doing 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.400 stuff after the whistle, and once you started doing like 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.839 a little small slick stuff, and then I feel like, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.280 you know, I gotta protect myself, right, Yeah, I felt 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.480 maybe it was one of the tackles that he made. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.360 It was a little much Gardner Johnson in that game 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.960 as a rookie out of Florida, but I don't I 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.959 forgot if he's from Florida, but Florida guys like chatting 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.559 a little bit, so yeah, he was. He was getting 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.600 under more than just Allen Robinson skin a little bit 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.400 in that game. But again, that's part of the game too, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.400 And it was a frustrating day in the bigger picture, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.400 so you can you can appreciate people's emotions and so yeah, um, 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.760 so you know, let's go with that because I think 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.079 there is a lot of frustration, you know, and in 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.520 the building especially on the offensive side of the ball. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.000 But um, I know Mitch said, yeah, the players did 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.760 get together and talk yesterday, and they're not gonna say 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.120 what it's about, obviously because it is a player's only thing. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.839 But do you feel it was worthwhile and beneficial in 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.520 the big picture? Oh? Absolutely? Um you notice, just guys, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.600 you know, not just speak on you know what was said, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.280 but just the main thing, you know, just like you know, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.320 you guys probably will hold each other accountable, you know 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.559 here what you guys do. Yeah, and you know the 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.840 same thing. I'm pretty sure the chefs hold each other 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.520 accountable to coaches. So it's just, you know, the main thing. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.959 We all striving for the same thing as to win. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.840 The good thing is you are a take team. You 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.840 always have had, at least under Matt Naggie. Everybody enjoys 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.160 working with each other, going to practice and having fun 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.320 and playing. Obviously you'd like to have a little more 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.120 success on offense to get those wins. But does it 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.760 make it easier to talk freely when you guys have 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.520 all the meetual respect that you have for each other. Absolutely, 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.440 when you have you know, like I said, everybody is 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.400 there is no militia's intent. Everybody you know the same 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.400 you know the same thing. Everybody want to win. So 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.240 when you have you know, everybody striving for the same 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.200 thing and nobody have an ego issue, nobody you know, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.800 pridee or anything like that is beautiful. And whenever you 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.400 could say how you feel and not, you know, feel 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.760 like you're stepping on tolls. Did you play special teams 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.720 in college? Never? Okay, So now now you're a professional 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.440 and everything apps up. It's more serious now because you 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.640 have to go to the seriousness of the special team 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.920 meetings and it's kind of all for one and one 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.640 for all. If there's one segment that's suffering, everybody in 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.480 the room and suffering and then you got to go 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:00.120 back to offensive meetings. Has that expanded the amount of 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.640 time that you're in meetings because of you're on special 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.440 teams in a professional level or is it something that 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.080 you know you've been a part of since you've been 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.120 in the NFL. I mean I've been a part of 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.200 it since you know, I've been in the NFL. You know, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.920 I always had to be in a special team meeting 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.400 since I don't think um, you know, I was talking 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.200 with a Rob and he told me, he said, you know, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:20.560 you might as well. He used to be in and 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.400 special teams until you get a thousand yard receivers or 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.000 you know, one hundred plus yard receiver season. Other than that, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.640 you might. I was just being there. You know, it's 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.480 better because then you have a jersey, Then you're active 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.240 on game day, you're part of the roster. And you 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.640 know that was always my goal was to always to 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.400 be on kickoff return because I knew what if anything 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.360 else failed, I was still on kickoff return. So it 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.320 is a way that you gotta, you know, stake your 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.480 claim to your locker. And you look at a guy 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.680 like Sherik that's been here, yeah, you know for as 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.760 long as he has. It's because of his effort on 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.680 special teams. Absolutely as much respect to him as well, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.280 so you know, whenever he speak, guys definitely listened. Could 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.160 you be a flyer on punt team now that he's 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.720 so he's in cont some protocol and they say, Gavan, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.600 we need you as a flyer, your size, your speed, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.760 Could you make a tackle? Yeah, okay, I don't show 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.040 what I could do it before, so I don't see 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.680 why I couldn't doing that. Okay, Yeah, well, you know 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.239 it's it's that's just not something that you do fundamentally 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.600 side of it. I look at it like, you know, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.640 it's like playing basketball, rebounding, you know, rebounding, don't take 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.640 a skill, just take your effort. So special teams really 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.880 it takes some you know, some technique or or whatever, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.640 but it's more of an effort thing with special with 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.720 special teams had to be extremely hard to do a 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.040 lot of watching last season. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely tough, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.320 was it or some tough moments for you week to 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.800 week about it? Yeah, But because mainly I'm a competitor 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.360 and I want to you know, I want to get 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.000 out there and I want to help. I don't want 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.120 to just be out there just to be out I 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:49.360 want to be out there and I want to help, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.040 and you know, I feel like whenever I'm contributing, the 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:53.960 team have a better chance of winning. But that's just 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.440 the competitive side than me. But you know me watching, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.320 of course, it's going to be tough. But I definitely 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.840 you know, it was still supported learn anything. Yeah, of course, 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.480 would you learn that I don't want to be there again? Well, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.560 you know what, you had a good combine. I had 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.120 a good combine. I was drafting the fourth round and 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.120 I've been bitter because of it since you were drafted. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.000 When you got drafted, and I'm bitter, is okay, that's 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.680 what I wanted to hear. I'm bitter as well, but 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:20.400 it's gonna help you last long. All right, two bitter guys. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.520 As we get said, for the next round of Bears 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.280 football Week eight, coming up against the LA Chargers, We're 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.280 gonna step away here with Paul's range and Dan Borellion. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.840 You listening, we thank you very much. It's brought to 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.320 you by IGS Energy. This is Chicago Sports Radio six 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.000 seventy The score Sunday's game against the LA Chargers, brought 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.640 to you by Jule Osco, the official grocery store of 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.120 your Chicago Bears, Jeff Jony Act, Tom There, and our 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.400 special guest this week on Bears All Access is Javon Wims. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.840 You and I sat down, we did a TV interview 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.880 for Bears Game Night, our Game Day Live a couple 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.040 of weeks back, and your your journey. If people haven't 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.280 researched it has been, it was just kind of unbelievable 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:00.720 that you had the the resilience to stay on track 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.520 and achieve your dream. You know, we went to a 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.040 bunch of schools, you had to buide your time. How 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:13.080 did you maintain the patience and now, in turn patience 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.760 free get your big opportunity here. I always just think that, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.320 you know, Um, it's tough. It's definitely hard. It's definitely hard. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.320 But to get to where I'm at now, it definitely 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.320 took a lot of um, it took a lot of patients, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.680 took a lot of sacrifice, and you know, I definitely 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.240 had people in my corner, you know, who are root 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:33.960 for me. We're helping me and praying for me. Yeah, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.160 your mom and dad first and foremost, right, the impact 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.600 of those two individuals in your life. Obviously everyone wishes 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.480 they had that. Not everybody does get that though certainly 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.040 that's not not the case. But yeah, without it, do 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.480 you think you'd be in the NFL? Probably not, to 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.760 be honest with you, Um, you know, my mom and 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.080 my dad they both pushed me. And you know, you 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.640 can only do so much individually. And I think, you know, individually, 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.320 I probably would have I'm not gonna giving up on myself, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.200 but I probably would just settled and just stayed at 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.000 my first school. But you know, just my mom and 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.680 my dad making me realize how how blessed athletically I am. 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.719 That it made me want to explore other options, and 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.960 that was a spark to get me. Did you want 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.200