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Speaker 1: Bears Super Bowl winner Tim There. Tim, How you doing, buddy,
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Getting ready for a big homecoming, it
Speaker 1: seems because we've been on the road so often this season,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great to be at home noon on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: back to back weeks after four trips in five. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: We'll joined by Coming Up. We'll be joined by wide
Speaker 1: receiver Nakil Harry and then later in the program Joe Rose,
Speaker 1: the outstanding analyst and former Dolphin tight end as we
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Speaker 1: Barelli and Jordan tread Up and the folks here at
Speaker 1: the score. So let's not dwell on it because it's
Speaker 1: happened early in the week and we want to focus
Speaker 1: on the game tomorrow. But what are your impressions of
Speaker 1: basically a swap of Robert Quinn Roquan Smith to Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and Baltimore in exchange for future draft compensation, wide receiver
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool and linebacker A J. Klein. I think you
Speaker 1: have to look at everything in regards of the future,
Speaker 1: and I think it's trying to set up a roster
Speaker 1: that's going to come in here and be able to compete,
Speaker 1: compete for division championships and then ultimately go deep into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And if you wanted to look at guys
Speaker 1: or at the end of their contracts or at the
Speaker 1: guys that wanted a new contract, you really didn't know
Speaker 1: how those things we're going to work themselves out. So
Speaker 1: if you could get some draft capital to bring in
Speaker 1: some young men that's going to help the future of
Speaker 1: this roster, I'm all for it, all right. Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: is the intriguing person right now. He's got every tool
Speaker 1: in the shed. He's got experience, he had success in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: certainly in his rookie year with Ben Roethlisberger. Here's more
Speaker 1: insight from Bario's wide receivers coach tit Toober. Here has
Speaker 1: a lot of physical traits you like, he's big, he's fast,
Speaker 1: he has a has a Fordians burd cool. Um, it's
Speaker 1: a big hands. Um, he's paid in this region before
Speaker 1: being a Notre dame. So the cold weather to win,
Speaker 1: now that would bother him as much. So here's a
Speaker 1: lot of positive things we're looking for. How about his
Speaker 1: personality and attitude towards the game. It's been good since
Speaker 1: he's been here. Um, you know when he first got here,
Speaker 1: you know, we sat down how to talk with him
Speaker 1: about how we do things here and this last couple
Speaker 1: of days in practice, you know, how we practice hard,
Speaker 1: how we finished hard and everything. You know, had to
Speaker 1: remind him a couple of times. Um, he said, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: gotta get used to doing it, you know, this way
Speaker 1: all the time. So all that's been positive. Just finishing
Speaker 1: on every play, whether you have the ball or not. Now,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's easy for a receiver to go out for
Speaker 1: a pass play or we're gonna run play somebody else
Speaker 1: carrying the ball. He's kind of stopping watch, But we
Speaker 1: don't stop and watch here. We finish every play with
Speaker 1: or without the ball. What have you seen that tape
Speaker 1: of Clay Pools run run blocking prowess because of his
Speaker 1: size and in his in his strength, he's good at it.
Speaker 1: You know, he can finish better, you know, and we'll
Speaker 1: he'll conform to what we're doing because we're finishing with
Speaker 1: this group. So and I think he's gonna get so
Speaker 1: much better and what he is, well, you can count
Speaker 1: on that because October, we've talked about this before. He'll
Speaker 1: he'll show these guys. They're great blocks over they're great catches.
Speaker 1: You're right, six four, two thirty eight, biggest wide receiver
Speaker 1: in the NFL when you talk about the bodies, He's
Speaker 1: going to be blocking against our undersized cornerbacks and safeties.
Speaker 1: So the immediate advantage goes to Chase Claypool. And then
Speaker 1: when you look at comparative staffs between he and Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: Clay thirty nine games, Mooney forty one games. Clay's got
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty three catches. Mooney's got one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty seven catches. So he's a great compliment to
Speaker 1: the opposite side of what Darnell Mooney can still offer
Speaker 1: the Bears than what Chase Claypool can bring aboard. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how you think about this either. You know,
Speaker 1: I keep mentioning a basketball team and you kind of
Speaker 1: want that on your offense. Right, Well, you've got you've
Speaker 1: got two backs that are feisty and we'll fight for
Speaker 1: every inch in our good pass catchers. You got Cole
Speaker 1: Cometz still untapped in terms of getting him the football
Speaker 1: and feeding him the football certainly in key leverage situations
Speaker 1: on third down in the red zone. And now you
Speaker 1: got two six foot four athletic receivers nikkil Harry and
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool with Darnell Mooney can move all over the formation.
Speaker 1: I know Luke Getsy wants these guys to play all
Speaker 1: these positions and they want to spread the ball around.
Speaker 1: And then you got Dante Pettish, you got Pringle coming back,
Speaker 1: you got Ryan Griffin, and Equomenius Saint Brown at six
Speaker 1: five also proving himself as well. So it is a
Speaker 1: basketball team pretty much in this case. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, it's all about continuous first downs. And if
Speaker 1: you don't have Pro Bowl receivers, you have a quarterback
Speaker 1: back down the custom of being a Pro Bowl quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you think of over Chase his time in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: of his fifty three catches on third down forty three
Speaker 1: of them I've won for first downs. And that's the
Speaker 1: key ingredient here is keep your offense on the field
Speaker 1: and keep those first downs going. You know that you
Speaker 1: can get him on the running game, but you need
Speaker 1: him in the passing game equally as well. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: be joined by one of those six foot four receivers,
Speaker 1: nikkil Harry here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All
Speaker 1: Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score.
Speaker 1: Tom there will be along in our next segment as well.
Speaker 1: We're here with a Bear's wide receiver, nikkil Harry, his
Speaker 1: first touchdown as a Bear. We got to start there right.
Speaker 1: Welcome in and thank you for taking the time. It's
Speaker 1: always good to get that first one, right, Yes, break
Speaker 1: that one down for us. Um, so notice pre snapped
Speaker 1: man coverage. Um, you had no help inside, So I
Speaker 1: just try my best to get him his toes. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, get a get out of my breake whale.
Speaker 1: And you know, justin delivered a nice ball and and
Speaker 1: this man you can't see it, folks. We've got a
Speaker 1: big smile on his face, right, because the thing is
Speaker 1: he did throw a nice ball. But you're so big
Speaker 1: at six four, you can shield off that defender and
Speaker 1: you're showing him as your numbers, right, so he can
Speaker 1: see that. He sees the color. And I often hear
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't understand sometimes the nuances
Speaker 1: of route running, which is very specific. But when you
Speaker 1: say you get on a guy's toes, I mean you're
Speaker 1: you're complicating his ability to shift his feet. Correct? Is
Speaker 1: it explain that in more detailed. So basically, on a
Speaker 1: route like that, the further away from him that you break,
Speaker 1: the easier it is for him to break on the ball.
Speaker 1: And you know, make a play on the ball. So
Speaker 1: when you step on his toes like that, you're kind
Speaker 1: of like you're you're limiting that space and you get
Speaker 1: all up in his space and dbs feel uncomfortable when
Speaker 1: you get all up in their space. So kind of
Speaker 1: made it hard for him and you know, hopefully made
Speaker 1: it easier for the quarterback. I can hear whispering, I
Speaker 1: get out of my area code where you get out
Speaker 1: of my zip code? But it is good to have
Speaker 1: you on the field. And I don't know when the
Speaker 1: last time you played forty five snaps in the game, right.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately missed the first six this year, so you didn't
Speaker 1: get a ton of targets. But you know, it's a
Speaker 1: slow process when you're reintroduced to especially at a a new
Speaker 1: system like this one. But I did the fifth feel
Speaker 1: good to you to be on the field for forty
Speaker 1: five I think it was forty five snap? Yeah, No, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it feels good being out there. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't too worried about how much I got targeted, how
Speaker 1: many catches I had. Um, you know, I got a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities to block last game. So you know,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that getting the smile. The man's got
Speaker 1: the killer instinct in the blocking game. I saw that
Speaker 1: back at Arizona State and New England. Why do you
Speaker 1: love that so much? Um? I guess it's just getting
Speaker 1: to impose your will. You know, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of sports out there that you get to impose your
Speaker 1: will on somebody else like that. I mean, I'm a
Speaker 1: big guy, so you know that's that's a role that
Speaker 1: I take pride in. And you know, however, I can
Speaker 1: help this team win, which run blocking is an important,
Speaker 1: very important part of the game. Um, you know, so
Speaker 1: I take a lot of pride in now. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams want to run the ball, they
Speaker 1: say they want to run. We have to establish the
Speaker 1: run with this team. This team is just going out
Speaker 1: there doing it and number one in the league. Is
Speaker 1: there a pride factor in this? Now? For all you
Speaker 1: loving tight ends Cole Comet. You know, people always want
Speaker 1: to say, oh, you know he loves blocking, like he's
Speaker 1: worked on that. You know, Darnell Mooney throws his body
Speaker 1: around like that. He'sn't as big as you. Prideful though
Speaker 1: for the whole unit to see the production in that aspect, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because when it comes to blocking, um, you know we
Speaker 1: kind of feel like that's having your brother's back. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's easy to go out there and run
Speaker 1: a bunch of routes. And I wouldn't say easy, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot more difficult for receivers to
Speaker 1: go out there and just you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: just laid the body on the lines. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of receivers that don't like to block. But everybody in
Speaker 1: our wide receiver room. You know, we take a lot
Speaker 1: of pride in that, and you know our coaches are
Speaker 1: honest about that. So we we we we try to
Speaker 1: make sure we come through every game. Heck on you
Speaker 1: about it. October told me he cuts up the clips
Speaker 1: of the blocks before he ever puts the big catches
Speaker 1: on there. Is that true? And then how serious is
Speaker 1: he about it? Because he's pretty transparent. That guy tells
Speaker 1: you exactly how he feels. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: we love we love coach Tyke, all of us do. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, I think he takes just as
Speaker 1: much pride as we do. And blocking, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a very important part of the game
Speaker 1: and then an important part of our offense. So you know,
Speaker 1: he makes sure we know how important it is for
Speaker 1: us to go out there and not only just give
Speaker 1: the effort to block, but have the right technique and
Speaker 1: have the right position on certain blocks. Nikkill Harry our
Speaker 1: guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score time.
Speaker 1: There will be along as well, the Bears getting ready
Speaker 1: to meet the Miami Dolphins. So now you're receiving corps
Speaker 1: basically a basketball team. Okay, you got big Cold at
Speaker 1: six six, you got Griff the other tight end in there,
Speaker 1: you got yourself at six four, and now you get
Speaker 1: another six foot four, two hundred and forty pounder and
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool. You guys could be twins, so there's gonna
Speaker 1: be twin towers out there. I don't know if your
Speaker 1: pads have crossed prior to this. He was a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty draft pick. I believe number forty nine. You were
Speaker 1: number thirty two and twenty nineteen, so you had two
Speaker 1: top fifty receivers who can run, who can jump. He
Speaker 1: had a forty vertical I think yours was thirty eight,
Speaker 1: and you got the site. What does this mean for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears? And if you ever crossed passed with
Speaker 1: him priorum, I haven't really crossed passed with him prior.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're excited we get another talent to
Speaker 1: wide receiver coming here help us win games. So you know,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna try to get him acclimented to the
Speaker 1: offense as fast as possible. And you know we're we're
Speaker 1: super excited to have him. The mind starts, you know,
Speaker 1: it's amazing how the addition of one I consider you
Speaker 1: a major addition right now because you missed the first
Speaker 1: six unfortunately with an injury. But you just added two
Speaker 1: top fifty players in their respective drafts. At this kind
Speaker 1: of size, now you could maneuver Darnell in different ways.
Speaker 1: You got the number one rank rushing offense. Justin starting
Speaker 1: to feel it is the final nine games of this
Speaker 1: more like almost a new set of games with the additions.
Speaker 1: I think Pringle will be coming off soon. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody healthy, it's pretty healthy football team. Cody might be
Speaker 1: coming back this week. Do you feel like this is
Speaker 1: a kind of a new floor set up here? Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: So you know, just having getting him added into our offense,
Speaker 1: you know, opens up a lot. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: another um threat that defenses have to take seriously and
Speaker 1: will take seriously because he could take the top off
Speaker 1: UM and then we get BP back. So you know,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of depth at receiver, so god
Speaker 1: forbid somebody does go down, we have we have that
Speaker 1: depth here and you know, if coach wants to keep
Speaker 1: us fresh, you can rotate thiss in and out. So um,
Speaker 1: you're excited, We're excited. You got the double whammy, you
Speaker 1: get moved, and that was a good thing for you.
Speaker 1: I think you would agree, And then you get the
Speaker 1: injury where you're crushed or is it just part of
Speaker 1: the game, you know what a lot of guys get,
Speaker 1: you know, getting up a little bit and I gotta
Speaker 1: restart a little bit. Um, I'll definitely crush, Yeah, especially
Speaker 1: figuring out that I had to get surgery and I
Speaker 1: was gonna miss um, you know, six seven weeks. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you know, my teammates,
Speaker 1: my family, coaches, you know, they did a great job,
Speaker 1: you know, keeping my spirits up, helping me see the
Speaker 1: the positive of this situation. So you know, the initial
Speaker 1: reaction was definitely I was definitely upset and I was
Speaker 1: definitely crushed. But um, you know they did a great
Speaker 1: job helping me bounce back and keep my head into it.
Speaker 1: Do you think it helped you'll learn the offense better
Speaker 1: on the sideline? Just maybe let's let's look at some
Speaker 1: really silver lining to it, because you were you're very
Speaker 1: much engrossed in that I knew I knew from hearing
Speaker 1: the people. You know, you were really picking it up good.
Speaker 1: So do you think that helped. Yeah, definitely in a
Speaker 1: weird way. Yeah, definitely, because there's a lot of moving
Speaker 1: parts in this offense. You know, it's not I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say this is an easy offense to grasp. Um, you
Speaker 1: really have to put in not only time in the building,
Speaker 1: but extra time by yourself if you really want to
Speaker 1: understand the offense how you need to to be able
Speaker 1: to go out there and do everything that you need
Speaker 1: to do correctly. So yeah, those those first six weeks
Speaker 1: being out, it definitely did help me. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: getting back on the practice field actually helped a lot more.
Speaker 1: I feel like this because there's no substitute for getting
Speaker 1: out there and getting real reps with with the team.
Speaker 1: What makes this offense challenging in your opinion? Um, well,
Speaker 1: the first thing I was challenging for me is some
Speaker 1: of the terms we had where the same terms I
Speaker 1: had in New England, but they meant though, Oh no,
Speaker 1: they meant a whole different thing. So I don't jumble
Speaker 1: the brain a little bit. Yeah, I had to get
Speaker 1: you to that first. And then you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of moving parts. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of thinking, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: you need to know pre snap post snap, you know.
Speaker 1: So it was a bit difficult that first but nothing
Speaker 1: that you know, nothing that we can't handle. Yeah, it'd
Speaker 1: be it'll be a great feeling when the moment comes.
Speaker 1: You can just let it rip, right. You don't have
Speaker 1: to think yeah, you know right, yeah, Which is kind
Speaker 1: of how I felt last game. You know, the first game,
Speaker 1: I feel like I felt pretty comfortable. But last game, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like I knew the script from
Speaker 1: top to bottom. So it's the challenge of change and
Speaker 1: meaning going from one organization to another. You're still a
Speaker 1: young player, long career left ahead of you. But what
Speaker 1: is the challenge of that for us who don't really
Speaker 1: understand all that, Um, you know, kind of finding your place.
Speaker 1: You know, you're on a whole different team. You have
Speaker 1: to make new relationships with guys. You have to kind
Speaker 1: of just figure out your spot on the team and
Speaker 1: try to find a way to bring the most value
Speaker 1: to that new team. Um, you know, I was pretty
Speaker 1: acclimated in New England, so I kind of knew what
Speaker 1: I was getting into going into the season, but this
Speaker 1: time I didn't really know what was going on. I
Speaker 1: didn't know where I would fit into the offense, also
Speaker 1: learning a completely different offense um, so it was it
Speaker 1: was kind of difficult at first, but, like I said,
Speaker 1: nothing that I couldn't handle. Will you be able to
Speaker 1: help chase them? Because he's never been traded either. I
Speaker 1: know he's got a big personality, so he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: light up the room a little bit, But can you
Speaker 1: help him with that in terms of maybe closing the gap. Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know we'll be able to help him on the field.
Speaker 1: If he has any questions, we'll be able to hap
Speaker 1: us back on that. But also as the wide receiver room,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're very close as a group, and
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like he'd come and fit right in.
Speaker 1: Kail Harry our guest here on Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score or one more
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joni act tomp there along with and Kill Harry,
Speaker 1: the Bears, a veteran wide receiver getting ready to meet
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. I read you said you feel like
Speaker 1: you have to be an enforcer in this offense because
Speaker 1: of the run game and clearly because of your size
Speaker 1: and your physicality that fits your game. Have you always
Speaker 1: excelled in that? We touched on at early in the
Speaker 1: segment if people are just joying to us. We did
Speaker 1: talk on the run game. But even at Arizona State, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been away since high school. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: my coaches have always made sure that it's because of
Speaker 1: my size that I do block like that and DB's
Speaker 1: hate like that. Do you hear it? That's start you're
Speaker 1: hustling you a little bit. Yeah, definitely, they don't. They
Speaker 1: don't like it at all. So I take I take. Ah.
Speaker 1: It's just pretty fun out there to get the message
Speaker 1: those guys. So if they're talking, are you talking? Are you?
Speaker 1: You seem like a reserved, quiet guy, are you? Um?
Speaker 1: It depends nine game day, It kind of depends. Yeah. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, I tend to get a little bit chippy
Speaker 1: in there. I try not to. I try to, you know,
Speaker 1: keep it within the within the line, you know, keep
Speaker 1: it with him. I play, But sometimes it's just too.
Speaker 1: Yeah much. You know, I don't think this coaching staff
Speaker 1: would love it, right if you man? You know, I
Speaker 1: brought it up to him because I do a coaching
Speaker 1: show with them every Monday night, and I brought up Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's interesting because his teams were not
Speaker 1: penalized very much in Indianapolis and the same as as
Speaker 1: the case here. But this team last year had they
Speaker 1: led the league in personal fouls, you know, like twenty
Speaker 1: nine of them, right, and that would not fly with
Speaker 1: coach jib flues Wooded. No. Yeah, there's there's no point
Speaker 1: in going out there and getting penalties like that. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, all it does is hurt
Speaker 1: the team. So you thought you have to kind of
Speaker 1: compartmentalize that because there are some dbs and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna name who they are, but you kind of know
Speaker 1: who they are. To get the rep in the league,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get under your skin just to agitate you,
Speaker 1: to create irritates you to the point and hey, what
Speaker 1: did I do? I didn't do anything, but then you
Speaker 1: know you draw the flag. That's not cool. Yeah, No, absolutely.
Speaker 1: The way I look at it is um you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I do that on the other end, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just try to block them as hard
Speaker 1: as I can, um, try to get a reaction. I
Speaker 1: did it to Trayvon Diggs last year when when we
Speaker 1: played them, Okay, a penalty out of him. So I
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, they could, they could try to get
Speaker 1: under our skin, but I feel like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I could probably do it better job of getting under
Speaker 1: their skin because of your physicality, because of what Chase
Speaker 1: brink Coal can do the same thing. Maybe in the
Speaker 1: red zone as well, or work in that slot. Can
Speaker 1: you draw flags for these pis and so forth, because
Speaker 1: well that is that coming with the chemistry adjustin do
Speaker 1: a back shoulder and you know, maybe these guys get
Speaker 1: tangled up and you get you get a first down
Speaker 1: out of it. Definitely, that's I don't go out there,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to draw. Yeah, I um, but you
Speaker 1: know what, Yeah, yeah, we'll take it. Yeah, we'll take it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers get set all the time up and there
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, whine at us. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go back in your history a little bit, the ninth
Speaker 1: true freshman at the time. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: happened again in Arizona State history. To start your season open,
Speaker 1: you put up great numbers with the sun Devils. Pair
Speaker 1: of one thousand yards seasons, over two hundred receptions, twenty
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. How much fun did you have over there
Speaker 1: in the desert. It was so much fun. You're glad
Speaker 1: you went there. Yes, absolutely, you know being home, you know, um,
Speaker 1: having my family be able to come and watch the games. Um,
Speaker 1: you know that was a point in my career where, um,
Speaker 1: you know I felt like I couldn't be touched. You know,
Speaker 1: they would just throw the ball left to me. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, the coaching staff had had a great deal
Speaker 1: of faith in me, and when also many Wilkins. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like him and I had a different kind
Speaker 1: of chemistry out there, you know, to where we would
Speaker 1: kind of we would look at each other and we
Speaker 1: would know what was going on. Um, you know before
Speaker 1: they've always even snapped. And you know he had he
Speaker 1: had the faith out there a lot to just let
Speaker 1: it rip, throw it up to me and you know,
Speaker 1: trust me to make a play. Gosh, won't that be
Speaker 1: nice when that happens? Right? That does take time? Right, No,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely, And you know the NFL is a completely
Speaker 1: different game. Um, you know those deep balls are are
Speaker 1: it really is a chance? You know, yeah, taking a
Speaker 1: chance down there. But you know, I feel like I
Speaker 1: have the frame and you know, the ball skills, the
Speaker 1: ability to go up and you know, make more of
Speaker 1: those plays than I don't make. Yeah, at your time
Speaker 1: in New England, and I know you don't love talking
Speaker 1: about that that is, but but just did you learn
Speaker 1: things that you say, Okay, I'm not gonna do it A,
Speaker 1: B and C. This is how I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: from now on. I learned some things. You know, there's
Speaker 1: different personalities, different issues that you know, relate to different things.
Speaker 1: Because you know, when you get a first round tag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I find it always interesting. You never asked to be
Speaker 1: You'd love to be a first round pick, but you
Speaker 1: don't ask to be a first round pick. Somebody projects
Speaker 1: you to be that, and then there's so much expectation
Speaker 1: that comes with it. It just brings a lot of
Speaker 1: people out of the closet so to speak, and starts
Speaker 1: getting on you. Yeah, you know, I learned a lot
Speaker 1: just from my three years there. You know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I have to go out there
Speaker 1: and play my game. Um, I know what I do well.
Speaker 1: I know my strengths, aren't know my weaknesses are so um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just the biggest thing I probably learned is,
Speaker 1: you know, just play my game. I know the type
Speaker 1: of player I am, and you know I had that
Speaker 1: confidence to go out there every game and show what
Speaker 1: I could do. You know, it's interesting I keep hearing
Speaker 1: madd even Fluce. I'm sure you already I understand that
Speaker 1: he says a lot of the same things every single
Speaker 1: week because that's the foundation of it. So you know
Speaker 1: his first rule of leadership, lead yourself. So are you
Speaker 1: doing that? Yes? Definitely. Um. Like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I learned a lot about you know, myself as a person.
Speaker 1: Um for my past three years in New England. I
Speaker 1: grew a lot as a person in my past few years.
Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like I'm at the point
Speaker 1: in my career and at the point in my life
Speaker 1: where I know myself very well. I know what I
Speaker 1: need to do on a day by day basis to
Speaker 1: get myself ready for a game mentally and physically. This
Speaker 1: is my fourth year, so I'm at in this league.
Speaker 1: So um, you know I need to carry myself that way,
Speaker 1: and I have been carrying myself that way to kill Harry.
Speaker 1: Our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac Here Tom there will be along as well.
Speaker 1: We start breaking down the Miami Dolphins. Our pregame begins
Speaker 1: at nine, kickoff at noon on WBBM. I gotta go back.
Speaker 1: I saw an old video when you were drafted. It
Speaker 1: actually made me cry. It put tears in my eyes
Speaker 1: because the embrace, now was that your mother was at
Speaker 1: your grandmother on draft day. Um, the first person I
Speaker 1: hugged was my grandmother. Okay, that that embrace. I know.
Speaker 1: There's deep history here if you want to get into
Speaker 1: it a little bit. It's it's a very interesting and
Speaker 1: great story. But so your grandmother, Felna, is that how
Speaker 1: you pronounce your name? What did that moment signify? Um?
Speaker 1: Every thing? Just because my grandmother, UM, you know, she
Speaker 1: had a pretty rough upbringing. Um, she had to fight
Speaker 1: through a lot. You know, she went through so much, um,
Speaker 1: not only as a child, but you know as a
Speaker 1: grown woman. Um. She was a single mother that had
Speaker 1: four kids, UM by herself, and you know she had
Speaker 1: been retired back into Sint Vince and my whole family's
Speaker 1: from Saint Vincent and Grenadines. So she had retired back there,
Speaker 1: and you know, she took a chance on me. Um.
Speaker 1: She felt like it would have been a way better
Speaker 1: opportunity for me in the States. So she packed up,
Speaker 1: you know, started working again, um, you know, and then
Speaker 1: started all over um, which most people wouldn't even had
Speaker 1: the guts to do, especially in a completely different country. Um.
Speaker 1: So that moment of getting drafted is kind of like
Speaker 1: every thing came out, all the emotions over all those years,
Speaker 1: and you know, I told myself I was I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna cry, man. Yeah, as soon as as soon as
Speaker 1: I heard my grandma start crying. It just it was
Speaker 1: just so emotional, like they came from deep down. You
Speaker 1: could feel it in the in the video clip. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for everybody there, you know, friends, family, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people. There's a lot of tears that came out
Speaker 1: that night. So that was definitely definitely a special night.
Speaker 1: So Saint Fincent and the Grenadines a Southern Caribbean and
Speaker 1: they just recently at that time anyway, received their US visa.
Speaker 1: So as the bulk of your family now here, um no,
Speaker 1: so it's not it's not quite that okay, simple, Um
Speaker 1: they have UM, they don't have their citizenship. They can
Speaker 1: come and stay for I believe it's six months at
Speaker 1: a time, go back and interesting they go back. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a reset. So didn't they get another
Speaker 1: six months? So it's um. They try to they try
Speaker 1: to make it out. And then my mother's UM, you know,
Speaker 1: she tries to come to as many games as she can,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's not that easy at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. So how old were you when
Speaker 1: you got here? Um? I was I believe four years
Speaker 1: old when I first got to the States. Um, I
Speaker 1: had my green card for a while. I didn't get
Speaker 1: my citizenship until I was about I believe it was fourteen. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I mean that's a that's a lot to dive into.
Speaker 1: We don't have enough time to get into that one.
Speaker 1: But heck, you probably learned a lot about yourself, oddly,
Speaker 1: even at the age of four. Yeah. Do you even
Speaker 1: remember it real clearly? Yeah, especially first coming to the States. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and especially because I had an accent when I first really,
Speaker 1: so it was it was difficult. Man. You know, kids
Speaker 1: tend to be oh yeah, you already meant kids when
Speaker 1: it comes to place. Yeah, different. So, yeah it was
Speaker 1: it was rough at first, but I um or you're
Speaker 1: already tough. I feel like my my my upbringing was
Speaker 1: already a lot tougher than a lot of my friends
Speaker 1: that I had, just because my grandmother was a lot
Speaker 1: more strict, you know that Caribbean background, especially old school Caribbean.
Speaker 1: So it was it was tough at times, but it
Speaker 1: was the best thing for me. Why would you define
Speaker 1: old school Caribbean? Um, okay, there's no there's no debate,
Speaker 1: there's no gray area, no no arguing back, nothing like that.
Speaker 1: In addition of football, looks like you were a heck
Speaker 1: of a basketball player, and I would be disappointed if
Speaker 1: you weren't. At six to four and leap out of
Speaker 1: a gym, How good were you? I feel like if
Speaker 1: I would have I feel like, so I took a
Speaker 1: year off after my freshman year of basketball, and I
Speaker 1: feel like that's kind of when I started excelling, really
Speaker 1: excelling in football, and when I started taking steps back
Speaker 1: in basketball. But I think I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would have made it to the league per se, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I could have gone a long way
Speaker 1: in basketball. Yeah you were au doo Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's switch gears in our final. A couple
Speaker 1: of minutes with you here with kill Harry. Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: They're coming into town. That defensive secondary something. They got
Speaker 1: some really good talent in there. What your overall analysis
Speaker 1: as you get ready for the Dolphins? Um, you're a
Speaker 1: talented team. Um. You know they're very confident in their dbs. Um,
Speaker 1: so you know going into that game, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to win our one on one matchups. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to make tough plays. Um, we're gonna have to play gritty,
Speaker 1: so you know. Bears football, Yeah, on the home turf
Speaker 1: after four trips in five weeks, it'll be good to
Speaker 1: be in front of the home crowd on what's supposed
Speaker 1: to be a great weather day. And you know, trading players,
Speaker 1: it was a record number of deals yesterday in the
Speaker 1: National Football League for a trading deadline day. Obviously, ro
Speaker 1: Quan Smith a big name on this team. Do you
Speaker 1: feel there's enough leadership involved here the way coach Ebert
Speaker 1: Flus has intended it to be, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: lead yourself that you guys will pull together. No matter what,
Speaker 1: you got almost treated like season ending injuries, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so absolutely, it was definitely not easy with the new
Speaker 1: part of guys like Roe Con Robert Yea. But you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like we have a lot of leadership on
Speaker 1: this team. You know, when we first even picked captains,
Speaker 1: I was like a lot of people. So I feel
Speaker 1: like we have a lot of leadership on his team,
Speaker 1: and you know we'll be just fun. Justin Jones and
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson move in. Jalen Johnson the honorary this week,
Speaker 1: so go get him. Appreciate all your time, best to
Speaker 1: luck to you. You You got a great story and you
Speaker 1: know good things are coming for you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And kill Harry. Our guests coming back next. We'll be
Speaker 1: joined by Tom Thayre here on Bears All Access on
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This segment of
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Speaker 1: the Score. Jeff Joni, Act, tomp There and Joe Rose,
Speaker 1: thirty year veteran, his analysts for the Miami Dolphins. But
Speaker 1: I always prefer Big Joe because you are a big personality.
Speaker 1: You're a media mogul down there. You've done television, you
Speaker 1: got the Morning show down there in the Odyssey family,
Speaker 1: You've got thirty years in the booth. But you know
Speaker 1: you caught Dan Marino's first touchdown, so I know that's
Speaker 1: always tagged with you. You might as well after that,
Speaker 1: you might as well not play football because nobody cares
Speaker 1: anything to do with Marino is all anybody wants to
Speaker 1: hear about. So you're going, okay, you got me. I
Speaker 1: don't have the football I wish I did. I went
Speaker 1: through a divorce at that point. I could have used
Speaker 1: the fifty grand, but I don't have. Hey, what was
Speaker 1: it like playing with him? Certainly, and you put it
Speaker 1: in a contest a context and crant contrast to what
Speaker 1: today's game has become with these mobile quarterbacks. A guy
Speaker 1: like Toa and a guy like justin Fields. He's got
Speaker 1: this dynamic running ability. But but Marino, he just stood
Speaker 1: there in the pocket and delivered it with probably the
Speaker 1: quickest release ever. He was good forty or fifty years ago,
Speaker 1: and he would have been just as good in today's
Speaker 1: game with a quick release, the toughness. I know he
Speaker 1: always and you probably hear this, he goes man, I'd
Speaker 1: like to have these rules of quarterbacks have right now
Speaker 1: where guys can't hit me late, hit me low. Had
Speaker 1: like nine knee operations, So that'd be nice not to
Speaker 1: have some guy go around the corner and buck on
Speaker 1: my back on my knee. And yeah, you know those
Speaker 1: guys always talk about the numbers they put up in
Speaker 1: today's game. Obviously, if they could take Mark and Mark
Speaker 1: with them, or in this case Jalen and Tyreek, wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a bad way to go either. But Joe, Joe,
Speaker 1: let's speed up to the modern day podium, because I
Speaker 1: don't know if Marino would be the type of guy
Speaker 1: that would like to go to the podium with such
Speaker 1: frequency and answer all these questions. However, Tua went out
Speaker 1: there and put this super Bowl word at the podium
Speaker 1: mid season. How does that sit with you? Does it
Speaker 1: sit well with the Miami fan base? And does it
Speaker 1: all do just because of Chubb coming aboard? So all
Speaker 1: great questions, and so my take is this, first of all,
Speaker 1: we haven't won a playoff game in twenty one year,
Speaker 1: so we need to we need to calm down. And
Speaker 1: I know they're aware of it because it's been brought up.
Speaker 1: We're right behind the Lions for not winning a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Just to give you an idea in this league, I've
Speaker 1: done the homework, so you guys don't have to look
Speaker 1: this up later. I'm glad he's pumped up and he's
Speaker 1: playing with ridiculous confidence and stuff. But hey man, let's
Speaker 1: get deep in the playoffs. See how far we can
Speaker 1: take this thing. You know, it's gonna be fun. And
Speaker 1: so I think everybody was caught a little bit by,
Speaker 1: you know, but the fact that, honestly, he's been kind
Speaker 1: of a reserve guy till his confidence and way he's
Speaker 1: playing right now, and and so I think everybody around
Speaker 1: here for the most part, was okay with it. But listen,
Speaker 1: we haven't won one of those Super Bowls since the
Speaker 1: early seventies. We've been a couple of times we lost,
Speaker 1: but we haven't even been to one in a long
Speaker 1: long time since I played in Super Bowl seventeen and nineteen,
Speaker 1: So it's been a long time to hear it. But
Speaker 1: I've just taken and love to see this team in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And and by the way, we're in AFC's
Speaker 1: where the Buffalo Bills, as you know so, and they
Speaker 1: are damn good. We beat them once, but they are
Speaker 1: darned good right now. Well, one question to piggyback on that,
Speaker 1: because being with the Bears in nineteen eighty five, in
Speaker 1: understanding that you guys had an offense that could beat
Speaker 1: any defense, including the eighty five Bears. Now I see
Speaker 1: you guys having a super explosive offense, but is this
Speaker 1: a defense that can compliment what your offensive firepower is?
Speaker 1: They got they got some pretty good players on the defense,
Speaker 1: and they obviously added Bradley Chubbed for a pass rush.
Speaker 1: The four man pass rush hasn't been good enough, the
Speaker 1: five man hasn't been good and it's hard to do
Speaker 1: those all out blitz is when you don't have Byron
Speaker 1: Jones on the other side like we did last year.
Speaker 1: So they've been real careful on that. It's a it's
Speaker 1: it's a fair question for sure. We got a lot
Speaker 1: of good players. Like to see some guys play better.
Speaker 1: We have not put a complete game together yet where
Speaker 1: we've seen both sides of the football play well, but
Speaker 1: I think obroad, defensively, we have to play a lot
Speaker 1: better if we're gonna make a run at going deep
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Former Miami Dolphin tight end and thirty
Speaker 1: year veteran analysts down a rag getting old, man, You're
Speaker 1: getting old down here's getting old now. But once a Dolphin,
Speaker 1: always a Dolf. And you know that that group, and
Speaker 1: you guys are you know you guys for whatever the
Speaker 1: comparisons could possibly be. H Obviously, the eighty five Bears
Speaker 1: are a group untouched in terms of personality and swag.
Speaker 1: But you guys down there had some pretty big personalities. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm down here with Jimbo, and Jimbo and Danny are
Speaker 1: very close. And I know Tom played with Jimbo and
Speaker 1: so uh and and I've had a chance to do
Speaker 1: Ditka's event down here as well. I love the stories.
Speaker 1: Listen the Buddy and Mike stories. Some of the best
Speaker 1: NFL stories. Tom, you were there to see him and
Speaker 1: hear him. Uh, those are classics. So one day, can
Speaker 1: I tell the story or is this not cool? If
Speaker 1: I if I tell this? So it has to do
Speaker 1: it that Monday night football game. So Mark Clayton was
Speaker 1: always the last guy in the locker room. It happened,
Speaker 1: you know, Mark Clainton kind of he just did his
Speaker 1: own things. So he's coming in to late. He says, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm at the Orange Bowl and I hear this noise
Speaker 1: and two guys going at it. So he said, I
Speaker 1: looked down to the right down the tunnel. He said,
Speaker 1: Buddy and Mike are getting ready to square off, and
Speaker 1: they actually got the police or breaking them up. He goes,
Speaker 1: if you don't change that f and defense and put
Speaker 1: another I'll do it. You run your offense, I'll run
Speaker 1: my defense. And they like they're ready to go at it.
Speaker 1: And so Clayton comes into and he tells the team, goes,
Speaker 1: I've never seen him like this. These guys they're getting
Speaker 1: ready to square off. The police and Miami police had
Speaker 1: to break them up. And I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is Tom. I don't know. Like it was an amazing
Speaker 1: store at halftime of a freaking game. Know when you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna come out and make it a good
Speaker 1: game in the second half. Yeah, Sensic was one of
Speaker 1: our saviors that night. He was the one that kind
Speaker 1: of got in between him initially and said, all right,
Speaker 1: you guys, let's calm down, let's make our twelve minute
Speaker 1: halftime adjustments and go out get beat in the second half.
Speaker 1: So you know, nothing got solved that night at half tigh.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, man, Chicago Bear stories from that
Speaker 1: team are maybe the greatest I've ever heard. I heard
Speaker 1: about a backup quarterback that wouldn't go in because Ditto
Speaker 1: is yelling at him. He was the only thing they
Speaker 1: had left and he refused. So Tom, I'm hearing this
Speaker 1: story and I'm going no way, and he goes, I'm
Speaker 1: not going in less. Mike tells me right now, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be really nice to me. And all the other
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are down, and so Jimbo's telling this story and
Speaker 1: I'm crying. I'm crying like I've got trying to get
Speaker 1: this picture of God. You promise you're not going to
Speaker 1: yell at me. I'll go in, but you promise, And
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I promise. You know, just tell him
Speaker 1: whatever you need to hear. I mean, you just don't
Speaker 1: get some of those stories and stuff. And then to
Speaker 1: hear the stories from the offense and the defense. You know,
Speaker 1: the average fan doesn't know that back then you're what,
Speaker 1: they don't have all that stuff we have now and
Speaker 1: coming out on social media to hear all those great
Speaker 1: stories between the offense and the defense. You put it together.
Speaker 1: It's one of the greatest football teams of all freaking time.
Speaker 1: You know, my jail my first start for Mike Dick
Speaker 1: and we were playing the Redskins and I was playing
Speaker 1: against Dave Butts. We're winning by forty points. I get
Speaker 1: a holding call in the fourth quarter and he pulls me,
Speaker 1: brings me the sideline and yells at me like I
Speaker 1: just you know, killed my dog. So yeah, there's every story.
Speaker 1: Believe it. It may sound bizarre, but it's true. I
Speaker 1: tell people how shoes used to talk on the sideline.
Speaker 1: The guys go no way, I go no way. You
Speaker 1: got confronted before you got to the sideline. He was
Speaker 1: already he was already matched up with you, man, and
Speaker 1: you were going to hear about it. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: over because you still had film study on Monday or
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, and that's when he calls you out in
Speaker 1: front of the whole team. Nothing more embarrassing being called
Speaker 1: out for whiffing on a block or dropping a key
Speaker 1: football in front of the whole team, where he'd run
Speaker 1: that projector back and forth, back and forth. Man, It
Speaker 1: was like how much more can humiliate a man? In
Speaker 1: front of all his teammates And most of them were
Speaker 1: a lot better players than I was stopping. Tom says
Speaker 1: that all the time about Dinka. Here with Joe Rose,
Speaker 1: our remaining moments, we're trying to break down Bears Dolphins,
Speaker 1: but the stories are better than the game. Honestly, that's
Speaker 1: the case. All right, let's talk about a cheetah the
Speaker 1: Blur brothers. I don't know who coined the name, but
Speaker 1: I found it interesting in my statistical analysis. And I
Speaker 1: was on the score early yesterday morning and I said, gosh,
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of yards after the catch.
Speaker 1: Second few as yards after the catch by the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So is this because to his accuracy is just getting
Speaker 1: the ball where it needs to be when it needs
Speaker 1: to be there on time. So I gotta start with this.
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to see Mark and Mark lay
Speaker 1: Clayton and duper Um, and I used to think they
Speaker 1: got they got open. I've never seen anything like Waddle
Speaker 1: and Tyreek and how open they are. You watch it
Speaker 1: on TV and I'm waiting, and it's clear everybody said,
Speaker 1: don't get beat deep. I mean, I get it. My
Speaker 1: ears are screaming, Oh they got to where don't get
Speaker 1: beat deep because they blow by the corners and the
Speaker 1: safeties are just running back. You're not gonna run by us.
Speaker 1: They're running square ins and and post patterns that they're
Speaker 1: catching at seventeen eighteen yards. We just got Every time
Speaker 1: you turn around, we're three plays and we go from
Speaker 1: our own twenty twenty five into the team we're playing
Speaker 1: against his thirty thirty five yard line set up for
Speaker 1: at least a field goal. Um, I've never seen two
Speaker 1: guys that open. And I gotta start with Tyreek because
Speaker 1: he has been sensational, loves to practice place hard, wants
Speaker 1: to be and we'll tell you he's the best and
Speaker 1: back it up. And he's got eight hands. They run
Speaker 1: great routes, they catch the ball in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. UM, I now know and I forgot. It's
Speaker 1: been a long time with two number one wide receivers
Speaker 1: look like and those two U, one A and one
Speaker 1: B are special, both of them. It's two of the
Speaker 1: perfect quarterback for these guys. Because listen, Tua is better
Speaker 1: than what I thought he was gonna be coming out
Speaker 1: of college. So is he the perfect guy for the
Speaker 1: complement of these two number ones. So so they're all
Speaker 1: in on him right now. And when I say they
Speaker 1: the team, I see him last weekend and let's telling
Speaker 1: the show. And I got home on the plane and
Speaker 1: in the hotel and see the way the guys like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and Tua is he didn't act like this
Speaker 1: the last couple of years of Brian Flores. It's a
Speaker 1: Brian Flores football team. It's it's a different situation. I
Speaker 1: think we still need to see more though. Dryce fans
Speaker 1: nuts when I say this, he's gotta stay he's got
Speaker 1: stay healthy. He can throw it. And when they told
Speaker 1: him we're getting a new coach of believes in you
Speaker 1: and we're going to get you more weapons around it.
Speaker 1: Toront Armstead never practices, and he just choose guys up
Speaker 1: and left tackle. I mean, the last two weeks, two
Speaker 1: of the best pass rushers one I think they each
Speaker 1: had one solo tackle in the game. So he's really helped.
Speaker 1: But adding that guy on the outside that we traded
Speaker 1: a lot of picks for and making the highest paid
Speaker 1: receiver has made all the difference in the world for
Speaker 1: him to go out and Mike is sicky in the
Speaker 1: middle starting to catch footballs. We got backs it can
Speaker 1: catch it. So he's got a lot of weapons. It's
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to have a little big time
Speaker 1: strut to you when you've got that kind of horsepower
Speaker 1: around you like he does right now. No one thing
Speaker 1: is one hundred million dollars plus the chubb and you
Speaker 1: guys really don't know a lot about him other than
Speaker 1: seeing him from afar? Are you kind of um torn?
Speaker 1: You gave him one hundred million already without watching a
Speaker 1: practice play in his attitude in training camp, A are
Speaker 1: you okay with that? So so I'm guessing I'm giving
Speaker 1: those guys in the front office has benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt because he's been injured a lot. But when he's
Speaker 1: not injured, he seems to be really productive. Has been
Speaker 1: the take. But I think they looked at our defense.
Speaker 1: We got there's two ways to fix this. You either
Speaker 1: got to cover better or you got to put more
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback. And then those guys, by the way,
Speaker 1: nothing against it was like the Chicago Bears when you
Speaker 1: played the dey five Bears nothing against those guys. They
Speaker 1: weren't great cover guys. As you know, when we put
Speaker 1: our game plan together, Nat More, Mark Clayton, and Mark
Speaker 1: Duper like guys. If we can block him for a
Speaker 1: second with Nax's protection, they can't cover our three guys,
Speaker 1: and that ended up being the difference in the game. Tom,
Speaker 1: if you're all right with me seeing that here? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: But um so we decided, you know, we're hoping that
Speaker 1: Byron Jones come back at some point. We got some
Speaker 1: good corners that are young, that are going to get better,
Speaker 1: but I think they're just like, we got to get
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback and it will help those guys
Speaker 1: at the back end. All right, Final question for Joe Rose,
Speaker 1: our guest here on Bears All Access in Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the score. I'm very intrigued by two
Speaker 1: players on defense. Javon Holland, a second year player who
Speaker 1: saw him a training camp and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is this is his I love safeties. I think
Speaker 1: you got to have a safety to be a playoff team.
Speaker 1: I love saying I want one bad, bad man back
Speaker 1: there at safety. And then where's Zavian Howard at I
Speaker 1: know he's twenty nine, he's a ballhawk, but he's been
Speaker 1: targeted quite a bit. It Is there a reason for
Speaker 1: that or is it just because they're staying away from
Speaker 1: somebody else. No, he's he's a number one guy, and
Speaker 1: so he tried to play through this growing and they
Speaker 1: redid his contracts to make sure his money stayed up
Speaker 1: at the top where it should be. Off of what
Speaker 1: he's done is growing, hasn't been he took a week off,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played as well as he played the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. There's no question about it. He's still
Speaker 1: our best guy out there. But the other guy, Javon
Speaker 1: Holland glad you said it. Man, he can cover, he
Speaker 1: can blitz, and he can hit. He hits like he's
Speaker 1: about two twenty five or two thirty. He's got a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence. I think he's a little limited the
Speaker 1: way they can use him right now because he's playing
Speaker 1: with a lot of young guys that don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of experience the last couple of weeks, and I
Speaker 1: think he's, you know, you stry trying to help everybody
Speaker 1: else and you forget your own assignment and it can
Speaker 1: look bad. But he is special. Man. They hit a
Speaker 1: jackpot on this guy when he gets everybody back. For sure,
Speaker 1: everybody's taking the over, Big Joe, everybody's taking the over
Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. I'm in on that one too.
Speaker 1: I try to think how I was gonna handle it
Speaker 1: all right, I'm on that. I might already been there
Speaker 1: with on that one. Rose. Quite the entertaining guests here
Speaker 1: on Bears All Access. Appreciate you time. We'll see you Sunday. Hey, Tom, Jeff,
Speaker 1: Thanks you guys, man. It's great being with you guys.
Speaker 1: We'll see you in a couple of days. Very good.
Speaker 1: Thank you. JAF travels, Tom and I back with one
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Speaker 1: Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Some
Speaker 1: great conversations with Nikkil, Harry and Joe Rose. I know
Speaker 1: we could have talked to Joe for the full hour.
Speaker 1: So many great stories, but you know the guy's on
Speaker 1: the score on Friday morning. Did I have it right
Speaker 1: that you were on a houseboat with Steve Debergh or
Speaker 1: did I blow it? No? I did live on a
Speaker 1: house fault when I was down in Miami, because you
Speaker 1: know when you get when you get cut by the
Speaker 1: Bears and you go down to Miami, you have about
Speaker 1: a six or eight hour notice. You pack a bag
Speaker 1: of equipment, you bring a bag of shorts and T shirts,
Speaker 1: and you head down to my Emmy and Steve and
Speaker 1: I happened to get brought aboard in Miami on the
Speaker 1: same day, so we just kind of more were roommates
Speaker 1: on the road as well. So yeah, I had plenty
Speaker 1: of time out in living the harbor life. I felt
Speaker 1: like Gilligan for a minute. It was Shula more similar
Speaker 1: to Ditka than maybe we realize. Yes, my first game
Speaker 1: I was dressing, So I played ten games in Miami.
Speaker 1: The first game I was dressing, I used to wear
Speaker 1: a really tight uniform because I swept so bad it
Speaker 1: would loosen up. I was sitting at the bench with
Speaker 1: my pants up above my knees, and he came up
Speaker 1: and made a point of yelling at me before kickoff.
Speaker 1: He said, so you can't wear your pants like that.
Speaker 1: They got to be covering your knees. And now you
Speaker 1: see it, no one was a cover. I was paying
Speaker 1: attention to me day one, start dressing for my first game.
Speaker 1: So it was an immediate example of he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: play any favorites and he had an eye on everybody
Speaker 1: on the team offense, defense, special team. So I kind
Speaker 1: of felt proud that I got yelled at before I
Speaker 1: ever took the field for Don Shula, and I admire him.
Speaker 1: You know, my opportunity to play for a guy like that,
Speaker 1: I just still you know, I know this is not
Speaker 1: previewing the game, but and you've said it many times,
Speaker 1: and for those who don't know, just the lineage of
Speaker 1: your touchstones in your life going back to Joliet and
Speaker 1: you know a famous coach there, famous coach in Mike
Speaker 1: Ditka playing for a famous Papa Bear his franchise, the
Speaker 1: start of the National Football League to the USFL, and
Speaker 1: George Allen was on the staff of George Hallis at
Speaker 1: one time. To Mike did get to Don Shula. It's
Speaker 1: unbelievable what you've been coached by honestly, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: even going back back to some of the assistant coaches
Speaker 1: when I was at Notre Dame for Dandy Vine. You
Speaker 1: know John Gruden's father, Jim Gruden, Jim Johnson, the great
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator who passed away too early, Jean Smith, who
Speaker 1: was now the athletic director of Ohio State. So you've
Speaker 1: met all kinds. I've had the opportunity to meet all
Speaker 1: kinds of personality in every single one of them have
Speaker 1: left an oppression on me, and including the legend Clyde Emrick, Yes,
Speaker 1: which is just another one. You know, You've been touched
Speaker 1: by so many people, right, the first strength coach in
Speaker 1: the history of the NFL. I think he's the type
Speaker 1: of guy that should be brought up, should be put
Speaker 1: in the NFL Hall of Fame, because what now, all
Speaker 1: these other guys are flourishing within the terms of strength
Speaker 1: and conditioning and hydration and everything. Clyde was years ahead
Speaker 1: of his time, and I know he was a high
Speaker 1: school coach and a college baseball coach. Gordy Gillespie, did
Speaker 1: he teach you things about offensive line play that you used? Oh?
Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah. First of all, we only ran the ball.
Speaker 1: So it was it was, you know, do your things right.
Speaker 1: You know what his idea was, if you're on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, just remember if you're on the back side
Speaker 1: of a play, your blocks are equally as important or
Speaker 1: as if you were the front point of attack. And
Speaker 1: so some of the scheming that he had as some
Speaker 1: of the areas of responsibility we had as a backside tackle,
Speaker 1: you'd think, oh my god, these will never factor in
Speaker 1: the successible play. But then all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: blocking a defensive back down field from the opposite side
Speaker 1: of the field in the running back runs you know,
Speaker 1: alongside of you. So yeah, the importance of every single
Speaker 1: one of the offensive linemen, including the tight ends. Everybody
Speaker 1: played a big role. The Bears matchup with the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: Jeff Jony Actom thare here as the Bears and Dolphins
Speaker 1: get together tomorrow nine mr pregame noon kickoff on WBBM.
Speaker 1: Certainly pre end post game here on the score as well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's just do some quick hitters here to
Speaker 1: wrap us up about how this game is to be won.
Speaker 1: Got an explosive team that can put up a lot
Speaker 1: of points. Their defense a little suspect. Though Chubb comes in,
Speaker 1: he can rush the passer right away. You don't need
Speaker 1: to tell him too much about their defense to get
Speaker 1: that done. They are sixth against the run, stopping it.
Speaker 1: The Bears have the number one. That's the that's their
Speaker 1: bread and butter. What tips this game, honestly, it is
Speaker 1: the running game. It's how do you keep their offense
Speaker 1: all the off the field. If you can go for
Speaker 1: those time consuming drives that you know, don't allow the
Speaker 1: opponent's offense to be on the field, that's when you're
Speaker 1: going to increase your opportunity for success. And then you
Speaker 1: don't allow Chubb to be a pass rusher. So when
Speaker 1: you put Chubb in the game, and you do have
Speaker 1: a huddle of call to where to line up, what
Speaker 1: your responsibility is in the run game, you do have
Speaker 1: to have some knowledge of the defense. If you put
Speaker 1: him on the field this third and fifteen, he knows
Speaker 1: exactly what he's gonna do. So I think the continuous
Speaker 1: support of the running game the justin fields being a
Speaker 1: dynamic double threat where he doesn't the defenders don't know
Speaker 1: whether to rush him or cover. I do think the
Speaker 1: Bears offense this week has an opportunity to have running
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Speaker 1: Given what we heard from Joe Rose and what we've
Speaker 1: seen on tape of Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle. But
Speaker 1: you know, the other aspect of this is that eleven
Speaker 1: different guys have touched the football, six different guys have
Speaker 1: scored touchdown to them. They do have a running game
Speaker 1: in Raheem most start, and he is also a guy
Speaker 1: who can catch the football. They have matchup issues that
Speaker 1: is going to put the Bears defenders in conflict. Here.
Speaker 1: You got some new guys are gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: more snaps. I would think Jack Sanborne particularly, But also
Speaker 1: what waits those defensive backs here and what do you
Speaker 1: do with the safeties? Do you play him deepest of
Speaker 1: the deep and just make sure you keep everything in
Speaker 1: front of you even make tackles. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: play him deep and you're gonna have to tell the
Speaker 1: cornerbacks the smallest window is an opening for TWA. He's
Speaker 1: got great accuracy. That's one thing that surprises me most
Speaker 1: about the emergence of Tuah is the fact that he
Speaker 1: doesn't have superior arm strength like Dan Marino, but he's
Speaker 1: got superior targeting from the quarterback position. All Right, Tom,
Speaker 1: that's gonna wrap us up. Good show, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow. Yeah, Big Jeff, that's Tom there.
Speaker 1: Thanks to our guests Nikkil, Harry, the Bears veteran wide receiver,
Speaker 1: Joe Rose, the analysts of the Miami Dolphins Radio network.
Speaker 1: Thanks to our producers here at the Score, Dan Brilly
Speaker 1: and Jordan trade up as well. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next time on Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy The Score