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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition as the Bears get ready to
Speaker 1: meet the Panthers in Carolina hot team right now, three
Speaker 1: game winning streak with Teddy Bridgewater playing some really good
Speaker 1: football for the Panthers with the Loto weapons that today
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano praised at no end as I
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Speaker 1: Did you hear any of that news conference today, because
Speaker 1: man Pagano just gushing about the Panthers and really challenging
Speaker 1: his guys to pay attention to h I guess the
Speaker 1: same kind of detail that Matt Negge's looking for offensively
Speaker 1: from his guys. Yeah, you know, Chuck Bogano. He see
Speaker 1: when you watch this team on tape, you see a
Speaker 1: lot of window dressing before the play ever starts, and
Speaker 1: that's a lot of movement in the backfield, a lot
Speaker 1: of misdirection seeing if I can catch a player that's
Speaker 1: peeking in the backfield rather than following through to my assignments.
Speaker 1: And then Teddy Bridgewater is not asked to do an
Speaker 1: abundance of things, but what he does and what that
Speaker 1: offense does, they do it really well. And they try
Speaker 1: to stay on schedule, so each down fits into the
Speaker 1: next downs role. So I understand what Chuck is saying.
Speaker 1: And you always respect your next opponent the most, no
Speaker 1: matter who you played down the road exactly, they got
Speaker 1: speed out of the edge. Robbie Anderson standing receiver, really
Speaker 1: having a great season with Bridgewater, and there's familiarity there
Speaker 1: because of Matt Rule. He's brought a bunch of his
Speaker 1: Temple guys in guys who played at Temple, and he
Speaker 1: has moved those guys both offensively and defensively. And Dj
Speaker 1: Moore's an outstanding receiver just a couple of years removed
Speaker 1: from having a really impressive campaign as a young receiver
Speaker 1: for them, and you know Mike Davis. Hearing a lot
Speaker 1: about Mike Davis. We both like Mike Davis. He's a
Speaker 1: good guy. You know, had a really tough time last
Speaker 1: year with the death of his father. I think that
Speaker 1: pretty much sidetracked him quite a bit, and he's talked
Speaker 1: about that subsequently after he moved over to Carolina last November.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, you're happy to see guys that
Speaker 1: are good guys take advantage of opportunities, and with Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey down, he certainly has taking advantage of that opportunity,
Speaker 1: and not just run of the ball in a rugged way,
Speaker 1: but also in the past receiving game, he's caught thirty
Speaker 1: of his thirty three targets. Tommy, Yeah, you know, he
Speaker 1: is the template of David Montgomery. And I think if
Speaker 1: David Montgomery didn't burst out of the scene and be
Speaker 1: so successful early in the sights and the viewing of
Speaker 1: the coaches, Mike Davis was probably been the number one
Speaker 1: running back. But when you have found what you had
Speaker 1: in David Montgomery, you realize that David Montgomery is gonna
Speaker 1: play the role in what you brought Mike Davis here for.
Speaker 1: But I like Mike Davis, So I think if you're
Speaker 1: looking at these two offenses, you're looking at two running
Speaker 1: backs that have a lot of similar traits of each other. Hey,
Speaker 1: coming up on the show, we've got a lot jammed in.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Mick Mixon, the voice of the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. He'll be coming up shortly to talk about
Speaker 1: his guys out east, and then we're gonna be joined
Speaker 1: by Deshaun Gibson playing some good safety for the Bears.
Speaker 1: At the bottom of the hour, around six thirty we als,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Nick Foles, the Bears quarterback, and an
Speaker 1: interview I did with him as we prepare for Bears
Speaker 1: game Day live on Sunday morning, ten thirty on Fox Chicago,
Speaker 1: along with Louke Cannellis and assortment of things that we're
Speaker 1: gonna dig into, and I want to dig into. Maybe
Speaker 1: one of the biggest topics of the week to hum
Speaker 1: is Frank I almost said, Frank Cole Commet Cole Commet
Speaker 1: the Bears rookie tight end and people wondering why he
Speaker 1: isn't getting targets and a lot of attention because of
Speaker 1: the position coaches talking this week, including the veteran former
Speaker 1: offensive line coach and tight end coach Clancy Barrone. I
Speaker 1: was asked, what is Kemet doing that has his attention
Speaker 1: right now? If you go back and you look at
Speaker 1: the very first play from our game Thursday night against
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Okay, the very first play all right. In fact,
Speaker 1: when the game was over, I came back and I
Speaker 1: had three text messages on my phone from various NFL
Speaker 1: coaches and they were line coaches and tight end coaches.
Speaker 1: After the game, I had a couple of phone calls
Speaker 1: on my drive home from some of my peers on
Speaker 1: the league, and they're all talking about the same thing,
Speaker 1: and it was about the very first play of the
Speaker 1: game and something that will never show up in any
Speaker 1: any box score. And we ran that jet sweep. As
Speaker 1: you guys probably know, he had Jason Pierre Paul in
Speaker 1: a wide wide wide technique, which which we didn't know
Speaker 1: that he was going to be that wide, thought maybe
Speaker 1: he might be more head up, which makes it easier
Speaker 1: for the tackle to help him. He's out there all
Speaker 1: by himself. Now. JPP is a real defensive lineman. The
Speaker 1: guy's got, you know, pretty good resume. And here comes
Speaker 1: Coal and if I'm not mistaken. All the draft experts
Speaker 1: said that was the biggest question mark come out of
Speaker 1: Notre Dame was his blocking. He didn't just reach JPP
Speaker 1: and and to gain leverage, he strained his SIPs through
Speaker 1: the block and actually flipped his SIPs and gave us
Speaker 1: a nice and nice seem to go around. I have
Speaker 1: not seen that from very many players in my in
Speaker 1: my time in the NFL. And here comes Coal and
Speaker 1: doesn't so things like that. I'm just you know, and
Speaker 1: and and my my appears around around the league also
Speaker 1: saw it, and it was it was really something special.
Speaker 1: And things like that tell you that this game is
Speaker 1: not too big for Coal. He's doing very very well.
Speaker 1: And you know, and and we all know that mentally
Speaker 1: he's he's got everything under under control, which we heard
Speaker 1: from the beginning time. But when you hear a position
Speaker 1: coach talk about his player and the exciting level and
Speaker 1: tone that he did, what do you think of that?
Speaker 1: Because clearly it's it's it's a nuance that not everybody's
Speaker 1: going to catch because he's not catching passes quite just yet.
Speaker 1: But as a white tat end, he's got to be
Speaker 1: that inline guy that's moving people out of the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, to me, initially, it's a more important role
Speaker 1: that Cole Commet is a successful blocker than a pass
Speaker 1: catcher right now, because that's a trait, that's a craft
Speaker 1: that's use that they will you know, they will use
Speaker 1: out a cold commets as time winds on. However, if
Speaker 1: you can't block, you can't play. And it is really
Speaker 1: a high compliment when you talk about a defensive personnel
Speaker 1: that gets completely out of position that's expected of them,
Speaker 1: but you're able to complete your block legally. So it
Speaker 1: is encouraging the way he talks about Cole's blocking ability,
Speaker 1: and then I think eventually you'll see him inserted more
Speaker 1: in the passing game, and hopefully as conditions deteriorate in
Speaker 1: the passing game becomes shorter for more efficiency, he'll be
Speaker 1: involved more. Well, you heard from offensive coordinator Bill Laser
Speaker 1: today on why Commet isn't getting those passes better this
Speaker 1: pass game, But we're really not completeing enough passes as
Speaker 1: an offense. So when you don't complete enough passes, when
Speaker 1: you're not converting third downs, you always answer these questions, well,
Speaker 1: then why isn't such a such game in a ball Well,
Speaker 1: because we're not complete enough passes and we're not staying
Speaker 1: on the field. That's that's that's that's where we are.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's we completed more percentages of this game,
Speaker 1: but offensively, you know, other than some heroics right to
Speaker 1: win some games, which we're thrilled with. I think it's
Speaker 1: hard to say we've been in a rhythm where you
Speaker 1: can do what you want to do. You know, we're
Speaker 1: not doing what we want to do yet. So there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a whole lot of people not getting the
Speaker 1: ball enough and their feelings and yeah, I shouldn't say
Speaker 1: that the questions about why is this guy or that
Speaker 1: guy not doing enough? To me? That's all back page
Speaker 1: to why are not we not good enough on offense?
Speaker 1: Right now? You know, nothing wrong with Cole, It's wrong
Speaker 1: with us. Is the problems us. That's a very honest
Speaker 1: appraise with there, Tommy. That's exactly what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: It's the most honest answer we've heard around here in
Speaker 1: a long time. No, I don't, I don't mean that,
Speaker 1: but it is a really honest answer by Bill Lasor
Speaker 1: because that's you know, what is evident when you look
Speaker 1: at the lack of third down conversions. You think of
Speaker 1: how many plays that takes off the shelf, and you know, Cole,
Speaker 1: he could be used as a first and second down receiver,
Speaker 1: but you're losing them because you're not converting out third down.
Speaker 1: But hey, I like that answer by Bill Lasor, and
Speaker 1: I think it's an honest assessment of what's going on,
Speaker 1: but also an honest assessment where you need to improve
Speaker 1: to get everybody involved. This is Bears All Access brought
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Speaker 1: good to be with him once again, and also Jordan
Speaker 1: tred Up and Dan Burley for helping us out as well.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, the voice of the Carolina Panthers, Mick Mixon,
Speaker 1: will join the program. This is Bears All Access brought
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Speaker 1: seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access brought
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Speaker 1: up to a better world. With Tom Fair, Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: and now look at the Carolina Panthers from the inside
Speaker 1: out as we walk him in. The veteran voice Mick Mixon,
Speaker 1: who teams up with former NFL quarterback Jake Deldom and
Speaker 1: former offensive lineman Jordan Gross on WBT, the flankship station
Speaker 1: of the Carolina Panthers. And I have a feeling you're
Speaker 1: in high demand right now. You got a team that's
Speaker 1: one three in a row. You got an exciting new
Speaker 1: coaching staff, and Matt Rule and Joe Brady the young
Speaker 1: gun coordinator. I already think you've been on the score today.
Speaker 1: So hey, I hope you don't mind talking about us.
Speaker 1: You know now, I'm not like you, Junk. I don't
Speaker 1: have a secretary, administrative assistance people you have to go through.
Speaker 1: I'm just a humble, a little correspondent here. Just every
Speaker 1: now and again, I'll be driving down the road and
Speaker 1: I'll go, David Hester, you are ridiculous. You're a funny guya.
Speaker 1: Tribute to you, the legend, Jeff Joe. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: while we're talking about it, what is your signature called?
Speaker 1: Do you think that sticks with you to this day
Speaker 1: that that fans love. I don't have one. I don't
Speaker 1: believe in signature calls. And I all respect to you
Speaker 1: to Wayne Lervie, there's your dagger to to to others.
Speaker 1: You know Gene Decker, Haw Fire, the Cannons and Tampa.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't believe in it. I'm not on
Speaker 1: social media. I believe Scarcely breeds momentum. I believe in
Speaker 1: letting the play try to tell me what we're choices
Speaker 1: to make, so that's how we roll down here. I
Speaker 1: like it. I like it. Tell us about Joe Brady
Speaker 1: first and foremost. We know about Matt Rule. Joe Brady,
Speaker 1: at thirty, youngest coordinator in the league, obviously trained extremely well.
Speaker 1: He's got everybody's attention right now, doesn't he. I think so, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I think Ken Thomas, I think you're you're you're in
Speaker 1: there somewhere. Maybe Jeff will let you chime in during
Speaker 1: our visit, But I think what you got here is
Speaker 1: an O coordinator that has exactly the pedigree that teams
Speaker 1: are looking for. But I want this message to reverberate
Speaker 1: around the league. Do not, no one, do not mess
Speaker 1: with Joe Brady for at least a couple of years
Speaker 1: until we can season him here, get into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: get some confetti raining down on our heads, and then
Speaker 1: you can talk to Joe Brady about coordinating or being
Speaker 1: the head coach for your NFL team. But just seriously, man,
Speaker 1: he's got a plan and it's what everybody's looking for.
Speaker 1: That fast twitch, up tempo, a lot of college stuff,
Speaker 1: some of the screen stuff they uses, and he's just
Speaker 1: as a Now I think the natural born play call it. Hey,
Speaker 1: Meca's Teddy Bridgewater lived up to expectations or is he
Speaker 1: exceeding them? I think exceeding them. I think in a
Speaker 1: normal if this were any kind of normal deal time,
Speaker 1: he would be a rock star. He would not be
Speaker 1: able to go get as smoothie, he would not be
Speaker 1: able to go to the electronics story and pick up
Speaker 1: some head funds. He would be he would be. His
Speaker 1: CU rating would be right up there. But because of
Speaker 1: his understated style outside the building and because of just
Speaker 1: the total just the chi, the fung shui, the calmness
Speaker 1: that he plays with. Now he's he excites people by
Speaker 1: getting other people involved in the offense. We had a
Speaker 1: quarterback here who would like to jump over tall buildings
Speaker 1: to the single bounding and that kind of thing. Teddy's
Speaker 1: more of a point guard, more of a distributor. But
Speaker 1: he's he's been phenomenal. Well, what about Mike Davis. Are
Speaker 1: you a stronger team in terms of running the ball
Speaker 1: after contact with Mike Davis than you would be with
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. It's a good chance of it, at least
Speaker 1: at least maybe right up there with Christian McCaffrey Mike Davis.
Speaker 1: I don't know where he gets it, what switch he throws,
Speaker 1: what music he listens to to that mat on right
Speaker 1: before a game, But it's personal to him. Every you know,
Speaker 1: you've seen it, Tom and Jeff, you guys have two
Speaker 1: when he was there every he's just irritated that a
Speaker 1: tackler would have the temerity to come up to him
Speaker 1: and try to collide with him. What about God? I
Speaker 1: don't know how to ask this question, because a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, Jeff and I were on the sidelines
Speaker 1: of a Carolina game and behind us warming up was
Speaker 1: Luke Keikley and is enamored as I was, with his
Speaker 1: ability and just super impressed with how grad he is.
Speaker 1: Can Chin fill the role of Luke Keikley? You're looking
Speaker 1: at six three two thirty eight, two thirty five as
Speaker 1: opposed to sixty three two tennis type guy wearing twenty one,
Speaker 1: So can Chin fill that role, or am I way
Speaker 1: out of bounds? You're not a way out of bounds,
Speaker 1: but you got one float out of bounds. He but
Speaker 1: I'm buying kind of what you're selling because Chin is exception.
Speaker 1: He's the nephew or the cousin knows. I think he's
Speaker 1: the nephew of Steve Atwater and he's got violent hands,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a striker, he's not scared, he can play.
Speaker 1: He's all over the field, and he's currently the Panthers
Speaker 1: tackle leader with forty three. So you're you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're a student. You're observation about what Chin brings.
Speaker 1: But mother nature only gives you one Luke Keikley every
Speaker 1: several hundred million berths, just the skills that he had.
Speaker 1: So I say, you got just one foot out of bounds.
Speaker 1: We got to look at the replay though. All I
Speaker 1: will say this, though Uncle Steve was a heck of
Speaker 1: a hitter and looks like Jeremy Shin is well out
Speaker 1: of southern Illinois, not too far down the road from
Speaker 1: US by way of Fisher's, Indiana. Our guest is mcmixon,
Speaker 1: voice of the Carolina Panthers, and this is Bears all
Speaker 1: Access with time There. I'm Jeff jony acc here in
Speaker 1: Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Let's take a
Speaker 1: further look at your defense right now, the run defense.
Speaker 1: You know, on paper, the numbers don't stack up, But
Speaker 1: are they better than the numbers show at the moment?
Speaker 1: Are they? Are they having some difficulty in that regard.
Speaker 1: We got no chance to slow the Bears down. It's
Speaker 1: just I just hope we can keep it competitive down
Speaker 1: here and just you know, extend the broadcast out where
Speaker 1: people will be interested to hear some of the ads
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. But the problem, Jeff has been
Speaker 1: has been really setting the edge and holding the edge.
Speaker 1: Teams have been running this crack toss against the Panthers
Speaker 1: and just outflanking the defense. And then it hasn't been
Speaker 1: so much that we've been creased up the fiddle. It's
Speaker 1: been more it's been more backs being able to turn
Speaker 1: the corner, you know, bouncing runs. And so the problems,
Speaker 1: according to our head coach, are fixable just being a
Speaker 1: little bit more gap sound. Tom could probably coach us
Speaker 1: up on the old saying in the league where if
Speaker 1: you try to see too much, you see a little.
Speaker 1: You try to see a little do your one eleventh,
Speaker 1: you see a lot and I think those messages are
Speaker 1: being conveyed somewhere in our building Vankou Perica Stadium right
Speaker 1: now tonight. I know Brian Burns had a concussion in
Speaker 1: your last outing against Atlanta. He was on the practice
Speaker 1: field to day and don't know what work he did.
Speaker 1: But if people haven't learned about this young man and
Speaker 1: what he can do on the edge as a outstanding
Speaker 1: edge pass rusher, who's got that arc and bend to him,
Speaker 1: if you could amplify just what he brings to the
Speaker 1: table and how far his star could rise one day.
Speaker 1: Bow legged kid that looks to see him walking around,
Speaker 1: he just looks like he wouldn't be that twitchy, but
Speaker 1: he's got that burst and a lot of juice. Plus
Speaker 1: he's got that who was the former cold if I'm
Speaker 1: right on this, that had to spin move Dwight Freeny,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Dwight Freenye, who do the three to sixty
Speaker 1: thing and get in the backfield birds as slippery and
Speaker 1: he did. He wasn't practice today with a helmet, but
Speaker 1: not not not full go, but limited participation in practice.
Speaker 1: So the Panthers are hoping that the fifty three will
Speaker 1: be able to go out there and run a few
Speaker 1: laps on Sunday. What's the atmosphere around there, Mick? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it completely the Matt rules or is it? You
Speaker 1: know you have Ron Rivera in your rearview mirror. He's
Speaker 1: a defensive minded coach. You bring a high, explosive offensive
Speaker 1: college coach in. You don't have a great deal of
Speaker 1: time for training camp because of the pandemic. But when
Speaker 1: you when you are near the at the facility, there
Speaker 1: is it completely Matt rules building house organization. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's see Ron Rivera. Ron Rivera, oh yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: him now. The coach Rivera was fantastic and his legacy
Speaker 1: here is secure as one of the all time great guys.
Speaker 1: And you know it almost worked. He got the Panthers
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl in twenty fifteenth against the team
Speaker 1: the Panthers felt they should have played right off their
Speaker 1: feet and that that was a gut punch to lose
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty to Denver, But all credit to the
Speaker 1: Broncos and their players and staff. But time that rule
Speaker 1: has come in and everything he has touched around here
Speaker 1: has turned to precious metal. He's got the gift of humility.
Speaker 1: He is funny, he listens, but he's tough. He coaches
Speaker 1: the player's heart, and he's got this ability to not
Speaker 1: coach everybody the same way. He realizes that certain players
Speaker 1: need to be cajoled, encouraged, certain players need to be motivated,
Speaker 1: maybe coach a little harder. And it reminds me a
Speaker 1: little bit of some of what I've read about Matt
Speaker 1: Negge and some of the some of the innovative things
Speaker 1: he's brought to the Bears locker room. And that fair
Speaker 1: do you guys see the parallels absolutely beginning with just
Speaker 1: bu and Club dub, which is the celebration during wins
Speaker 1: for the Bears, and they've had more of those than
Speaker 1: not so far in his first three years. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a very relatable guy. Total coaches, players, coach,
Speaker 1: and the and the guys buy into him. And that's
Speaker 1: really what the culture has become. It's it's a buy
Speaker 1: in and this resilience that is really because of the
Speaker 1: struggles of the offense, and Tom can amplify on this
Speaker 1: as well, just you know, their ability to hang in
Speaker 1: games because of their defense being resilient. That gives them
Speaker 1: a chance to and they've had too many close calls.
Speaker 1: Obviously they'd like it a little different, but that is
Speaker 1: the case right now. Mick Mixon our guest, final moments
Speaker 1: with the veteran voice of the Carolina Panthers, as we
Speaker 1: often do, and we got a couple of questions left
Speaker 1: for you. But the local guys are not far down
Speaker 1: the road, East Chicago, Indiana. An eight year veteran Kawan
Speaker 1: short out for the year K one was a certainly
Speaker 1: a terrific player perdue and just what he's meant to
Speaker 1: that organization and where he's at right now. He's a
Speaker 1: cut above as a guy. Uh foundation, hard for kids,
Speaker 1: tremendous locker room guy, and just his shoulder just as
Speaker 1: not cooperate. It's so he'll take he'll create a vacuum
Speaker 1: when without being able to play Cheff that would be
Speaker 1: difficult to fill. I think Panthers have other bodies they
Speaker 1: can slide in. Derek Brown's played well, You'll enjoy watching
Speaker 1: him play. Sometimes Terren Brown just grabs guards and centers
Speaker 1: and a little regard for their personal safety and just
Speaker 1: throws them down and then tackles several people and hoping
Speaker 1: the ball carriers one of them. But yeah, we miss
Speaker 1: KK short. We miss him already being in the interior,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be I wish I
Speaker 1: could see you. So you're broadcasting the game from Chicago. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's our plate here in twenty twenty. Yep, we'll
Speaker 1: be in the WBBM studio. You bet you well. We've traveled,
Speaker 1: the Panthers radio crew. We took a van of ten
Speaker 1: hours to Tampa, ten hours back, and then we drove
Speaker 1: to Atlanta in the same van. So I'm throwing the
Speaker 1: gall it down to a city that describes itself as
Speaker 1: a muscular, robust city. Right, So you gotta get to
Speaker 1: some games or else I will have won my personal
Speaker 1: battling issue. I guess you, Mick. Well, we did make
Speaker 1: it to Detroit without any harm, so we have a
Speaker 1: couple more in mind. I know Tom's going to force
Speaker 1: the issue, that's for sure. Yeah, we gotta go. Hey, Mick,
Speaker 1: one question, you know, one quick question. So the Bears
Speaker 1: have a new offensive guard left guard this week with
Speaker 1: the injury to James Daniels, and you guys have an
Speaker 1: injury on the interior your defensive line. What do you
Speaker 1: think about bad battle a little you know, a little
Speaker 1: notification you got to go on and play. You know,
Speaker 1: Kase Short has had some injury issues, but there's you know, nevertheless,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a new starter up there. So
Speaker 1: how do they feel about the replacement and how do
Speaker 1: they feel about the replacement going against a replacement. I
Speaker 1: would think in a short, little tight window to prepare,
Speaker 1: the advantage would go to the defensive player, everything else
Speaker 1: being equal. I mean, you may have one of the
Speaker 1: seven blocks of granite there in this backup guard, but
Speaker 1: I would think that the advantage might be to the
Speaker 1: defensive side of this instance, especially with a quarterback. I
Speaker 1: just got done watching the first half of the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay game on NFL game Pass, and I listened to
Speaker 1: some of the Joniacs show on the radio. I'll like
Speaker 1: doing that too, to see if I can steal any
Speaker 1: kid bits. But you know, Folds is amazing. I just
Speaker 1: don't see how does he do it? I mean, how
Speaker 1: does he look? He looked terrible. He looked like some
Speaker 1: guy who would want a contest to come out of
Speaker 1: the stands and try to play quarterback for a couple
Speaker 1: of those throws. I guess I'm thinking mainly that third
Speaker 1: down throw in the right flat right. He had some
Speaker 1: decent stats. Maybe the pick wasn't all his fault, but
Speaker 1: then he just can flame on. How does he do it?
Speaker 1: Because he lets things go. Man, he lives in the moment.
Speaker 1: That's his style. And he's always been that way, as
Speaker 1: we'll learn actually an interview. We're going to be playing
Speaker 1: here after you leave us be for the rest of
Speaker 1: our show. But he uh, he just has a he's
Speaker 1: always had it ever since high school. He can control
Speaker 1: some chaos and so that's that's that's the mark of
Speaker 1: a great NFL mind. Anyway, whatever the town may be,
Speaker 1: is just forgetting what went wrong and so you can
Speaker 1: fix it and move on immediately. Otherwise you have no chance. Mick.
Speaker 1: We gotta let you go. We got to Shaun Gibson
Speaker 1: coming up. Good luck on Sunday, not too much luck,
Speaker 1: but good luck the rest of the season, and always
Speaker 1: a pleasure to talk to you. You and everybody stay
Speaker 1: safe there in Carolinas. The joy guys, thank you, you
Speaker 1: guys say save us well, appreciate all your time. Mick
Speaker 1: Mix and the boys of the Carolina Panthers coming up next.
Speaker 1: We'll be joined by Tshaun Gibson, the Bear starting safety.
Speaker 1: This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy to Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access here
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Jeff jony
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Speaker 1: to a better world. Just finished tough talking Tommy with
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Speaker 1: Bernstein this afternoon, and so you know he should be
Speaker 1: paid part time by the score today. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: he definitely has an opinion of the Bears and nolth Carolina,
Speaker 1: and that seems to be a little bit stronger of
Speaker 1: an opinion of Carolina or any anything the Bears have
Speaker 1: done so far. So well, you know, do you think
Speaker 1: that the league feels that way similarly about the Bears
Speaker 1: because of just how they've won. Well, I think they
Speaker 1: want them to be a finished product at the second
Speaker 1: to fifth week of the season, and that's not the case.
Speaker 1: I think it's a case about making sure that you
Speaker 1: improve weekly. They ultimately get to be the best team
Speaker 1: you can possibly be at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: So I'm not looking for the Bears to be the
Speaker 1: best team in the league or the best team they
Speaker 1: can be at the end of the season right now.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot of them room yet
Speaker 1: to come. Well, what do you think about how Matt
Speaker 1: Naggie every Day asked about similarly that the questions about
Speaker 1: Nick Foles and their relationship and the dynamic between not
Speaker 1: only head coach quarterback, but in this case play caller
Speaker 1: and quarterback and just all the moving parts the gears
Speaker 1: of this thing. It's it's a daily Q and A.
Speaker 1: And the answers are almost similar because you can only
Speaker 1: say what you're gonna say, and you got to go
Speaker 1: out there and prove it on the field. And everybody's
Speaker 1: got to elevate offensively. We all know in situational football
Speaker 1: they got to get a heck of a lot better
Speaker 1: and they need to score a lot more points. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think the issue is Nick Foles. I think
Speaker 1: the issue is the fact that they don't have an effective,
Speaker 1: feared running game. And if you had that element within
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, you would get more completions,
Speaker 1: you would have you would be in more control of
Speaker 1: the defense. Instead of you breaking the huddle in fighting
Speaker 1: what the defense is offering you, you would be in control. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's one of the elements here
Speaker 1: that kind of gets overlooked and pushed off to Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: That's not the case. I think Nick is doing everything
Speaker 1: that's expected of him, and still you know, Nick is
Speaker 1: in the learning stages. No matter what you want to
Speaker 1: say his past relationships with Bill Lazor and John d.
Speaker 1: Philippo and Matt Nagy, He's still installing an offense to
Speaker 1: himself that some guys are a little bit more familiar with.
Speaker 1: Similar to Teddy Bridgewater, He's installing a new offense in
Speaker 1: his own brain that he hasn't been familiar with the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, even though I know Joe Brady's there,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a different head coach, it's a
Speaker 1: different terminology, it's a different group of teammates. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's big changes for both of these quarterbacks this weekend.
Speaker 1: Good news injury wise, you know, they're pretty much full
Speaker 1: goal here health wise. Deon Bush, the only apps and
Speaker 1: tee at practice today, is still working through a hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: but it looks like on special teams. Sheriff mcbanus will
Speaker 1: be back limited today for Brent Urban, one of the
Speaker 1: inside rushers, and I I thought it was interesting listening
Speaker 1: to Chuck Pagato today too, because we've seen some push,
Speaker 1: we've seen some of his athleticss and Maria Edwards j
Speaker 1: got a pat on the back today from Pagatto as
Speaker 1: being one of those guys that are disruptive in it
Speaker 1: creating a little bit of opportunity for Khalil Mack to
Speaker 1: maybe not get as much attention. He's gonna get it anyway,
Speaker 1: but also you're gonna start seeing more. I believe, I
Speaker 1: really do believe this that Robert Quinn will crank it
Speaker 1: up and we'll have more opportunities to get numbers that
Speaker 1: become more reflective of his career. And of course the
Speaker 1: key mix has had a great start to the season,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like he's very happy with what he's
Speaker 1: getting from a variety of different people and not just
Speaker 1: the big the Big three. You know what, I like variety.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really challenging do an offensive lineman because
Speaker 1: you never get used to the habits of the guy
Speaker 1: that's playing in front of you, because they can be
Speaker 1: interchangeable bodies up and down the line of scrimmage. You
Speaker 1: can play Roy Robertson, Harris, Blile, Nichols anywhere you want to.
Speaker 1: I do think Mario Edwards Junior gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit more in the pass rush ability than Roy Robertson
Speaker 1: Harris does. So I do think it's a nice change.
Speaker 1: If you go down there and you have a first
Speaker 1: down defense that includes Roy rob Arkivas Mingo and James Voters,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of personnel changes can be made effectively.
Speaker 1: Voters with his first career sack last week and the
Speaker 1: Bears went over Tampa Bay. Joining us now on our
Speaker 1: phone line is strong safety. To Sean Gibson, the ninth
Speaker 1: deer man out of Wyoming count enough to join us tonight.
Speaker 1: To Sean, how you feeling, buddy, I'm doing well. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Oh, we always appreciate you. Thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on. Kind of take stock of the situation here.
Speaker 1: Four wins in five or as Cordarell Patterson says, Bears
Speaker 1: are just trying to go one and other this week
Speaker 1: going to Carolina, but a pretty dynamic bunch of weapons
Speaker 1: over there in Carolina, that the defense is sinking its
Speaker 1: teeth into what's your initial observations of what you're gonna
Speaker 1: be walking into in Carolina, That they have an offense
Speaker 1: that's very unique. You got a quarterback at the Ham
Speaker 1: who's not a turnover machine. So anytime you got a
Speaker 1: guy who's not going to jeopard out the game on offense,
Speaker 1: it always make a challenging for the defense. No matter
Speaker 1: how many playmakers you have. If you got a guy
Speaker 1: who's willing to take checkdown, I have to checkdown and
Speaker 1: take what you give them. It's always challenging in that aspect.
Speaker 1: Then you know they do have weathers on the outside.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that they have probably one of
Speaker 1: the faster receiving corps if you exclude the Chiefs. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously they are rarity, but you know they have a
Speaker 1: fast receiving corps and they'd like to get those guys
Speaker 1: in catching run situations. And the running back is playing
Speaker 1: good football right now. I mean he's running a ball
Speaker 1: at a high level. He's involved in a passing game.
Speaker 1: I think I've seen the stats saying that he was
Speaker 1: only behind an album Camara or tied with album camar
Speaker 1: and receptions or something along those lines, which is rare company.
Speaker 1: So he got to tip their heads off to him. Man,
Speaker 1: they're doing things that that that fit their skill set.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not trying to do things that doesn't
Speaker 1: work and doesn't fit, trying to force anything that just
Speaker 1: take and what you give them. And it's been working
Speaker 1: for him. An offensive dynamic as it is. So when
Speaker 1: you combine that with a team that's not with them
Speaker 1: to just shoot themselves in a foot of being but
Speaker 1: don't break mentality, you're going a three game winner street,
Speaker 1: which is what they have been doing. Man, So you
Speaker 1: gotta take your head off to him. Hey, de Sean.
Speaker 1: Last week, there was a great play in the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Bucks where Roquan Smith lined up in the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and he rushed Tom Brady. But then you
Speaker 1: fulfilled the backside obligation against the ball that Brady through
Speaker 1: the receiver. You were there immediately. There was no gain
Speaker 1: to the play and you look at you guys working
Speaker 1: in tandem from the line of scrimmage of the defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: Is that something that you could have done Week one
Speaker 1: against Detroit or is it just part of the evolution
Speaker 1: of you and your involvement with this defense. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that the Detroit game plan was we had we
Speaker 1: you know, you bring it in, newcomers in and it
Speaker 1: was a weird year as it is to begin with.
Speaker 1: So I think that if you go back to the
Speaker 1: Detroit game and we ran a lot of two men
Speaker 1: and too high and cover two more cover too than
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people probably ran being
Speaker 1: here more cover too than I ran in my life.
Speaker 1: So I think that, um, as you know, bullets get
Speaker 1: the flying. You can only get a graph and understand
Speaker 1: what gods can do, um to a certain extent, and
Speaker 1: training camp practices you can't tackle guys. Those are not
Speaker 1: live periods. Even though you can evaluate God to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, it's only so much that you can see
Speaker 1: those guys doing and when the bullets is flying, and
Speaker 1: um to whatever that may be. The Detroit game plan
Speaker 1: was what it was. And I think as the season
Speaker 1: has progressed, Coach Pergano has started to dial it up
Speaker 1: and let guys go out there and play their strengths
Speaker 1: and do things like that. So I would continue to
Speaker 1: expect man that that you know, there's things that that
Speaker 1: coach Pergano and the coaching staff and the defensive staff.
Speaker 1: They're seeing guys do different things that they probably weren't
Speaker 1: able to see it as a season progress. We know
Speaker 1: it's a weird year, as I said before, So once
Speaker 1: the bullets is getting to fly, people are starting to
Speaker 1: make less mistakes, and you know, you started getting back
Speaker 1: into the group of football. And now we do the
Speaker 1: first quarter of the season, so you know, those errors
Speaker 1: and those mistakes, fundamental and technique mistakes, it's just going
Speaker 1: out the window. Now you're getting the guys start settling
Speaker 1: into honing in on their skills and just going back
Speaker 1: into being the players that they are. So it's just
Speaker 1: a testament to the trust that coach Pagano's having in
Speaker 1: his defense man, and he's letting guys do more things
Speaker 1: and hopefully that's continue to translate to good defense and
Speaker 1: more wins. You know, you talk about trust the coaches
Speaker 1: are building in you guys. In the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: I've seen both you and Eddie Jackson do a nice
Speaker 1: job of filling your role at or near the linebacker
Speaker 1: level to support the team when they're running the ball.
Speaker 1: And you think about the success that Mike Davis has
Speaker 1: had so far running the ball in place at Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: When you talk about that trust, is it you trusting
Speaker 1: your own instincts, how you see the running evolve in
Speaker 1: front of you, or is it something that because of
Speaker 1: the formation on offense a specific defense called and you
Speaker 1: and you fulfill what your role is out of the huddle, right.
Speaker 1: I think that's a combination of both. And I think
Speaker 1: that if you ask Eddie the same thing, he had
Speaker 1: said the same thing. I think that I trust those
Speaker 1: guys in front of me. So a lot of these
Speaker 1: players are just instinctual. Obviously, you know, God giving ability back.
Speaker 1: At the same time, it's just knowing where to be
Speaker 1: and when to be and when to be able to
Speaker 1: take my shots because I know that Khalil is gonna
Speaker 1: be where he needs to be a team, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be what he needs to be, rowing Danny's gonna be
Speaker 1: where they need to be, and it's only one place
Speaker 1: for me to be. And if those guys are doing
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to this this run is going to
Speaker 1: most certainly come back to me right here. And it's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent my play to make. And I think
Speaker 1: it's a trust. It's to trust for those guys to say, men,
Speaker 1: if if if if I stay sounding this a gap,
Speaker 1: I know that Gift is coming down. If Boa is
Speaker 1: coming down, Eddie's coming down. And I think it's a trust.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it is instinct some
Speaker 1: plays that some places you just gotta go in there
Speaker 1: and you just gotta track the ball and make plays.
Speaker 1: There's been times where you'll see Eddie flash and he
Speaker 1: probably wasn't supposed to be there. His shooter run. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a great play he made against Indianapolis that forced
Speaker 1: a fourth down. He shot to know where he wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be that, you know, and there's things like
Speaker 1: that that we've told ourselves in training camp. Coach to
Speaker 1: say told us man, m, he don't want you in
Speaker 1: this backfield if you're not willing, if you're not willing
Speaker 1: to be a willing tackler. And you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like that old school monset he played for the Stiller,
Speaker 1: So you know that those guys mindset man is is
Speaker 1: a little different than a lot of people. So you
Speaker 1: know that's the mentality. So you know, coming here, you
Speaker 1: got to breathe that I've just been sworn in. And
Speaker 1: it's just something that I just you know, adapted to,
Speaker 1: not nothing that I couldn't do. Is just I played
Speaker 1: with a lot of guys who played in a box.
Speaker 1: So my game primarily has been playing deep middle of
Speaker 1: the field and seeing a ball and trying to go
Speaker 1: get the ball in. That's what Eddie has been doing
Speaker 1: his whole career, and he's been effective at it. So
Speaker 1: now he got two guys like that, who's happening to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I gotta be willing to put my
Speaker 1: nose in here in a box tea. You know, just
Speaker 1: two pros man, two pos man that that's willing to
Speaker 1: do that. And you know, that's really what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. Uh, And it's just it's a fun time.
Speaker 1: I'm playing back here with these guys. You know, Sean Gibson,
Speaker 1: our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the score, you know you got more,
Speaker 1: You got more mileage on the tires than Eddie. You
Speaker 1: gotta you're a ball hawk man. You got twenty four
Speaker 1: career interceptions. So here's a guy who in this game
Speaker 1: against Carolina back in seventeen, he got a scoop and
Speaker 1: score and he gotta pick six in the same game.
Speaker 1: And those are the type of plays that started to
Speaker 1: define who Eddie jacksony ball hawk, you know, a great,
Speaker 1: great playmaker. So do you sense a little frustration from
Speaker 1: him because quarterbacks are looking the other way? They're they're
Speaker 1: not trying to get in his area code too often
Speaker 1: because they know he's trouble with the balls in his hands,
Speaker 1: because he's a great runner after the catch, and and
Speaker 1: that's the way you definitely could play offense. But do
Speaker 1: you have to like counsel him a little bit, say,
Speaker 1: listen those opportunities because you got twenty four interceptions that's
Speaker 1: not by accident, but they'll come. How do you like
Speaker 1: calm him a little bit about that? If at all?
Speaker 1: Because at all he tweeted something out this week about that,
Speaker 1: you know, no targets and he wants that ball. He
Speaker 1: wants to crack at that ball. Absolutely. I think that
Speaker 1: when you make, when you make your bones and you
Speaker 1: prode yourself on this, it's tough. And you know, like
Speaker 1: I said, man, that's something that's always proud of me
Speaker 1: my whole career since entering the league. And it can
Speaker 1: be frustrating, absolutely, And but that's a testament. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a testament of the type of player that you are.
Speaker 1: And you know it is frustrate. You know, we talk
Speaker 1: on the sideline and he come over there and he
Speaker 1: mentioned it during a game, and like I told him, man,
Speaker 1: it's just a testament of what you put out there,
Speaker 1: what you put on take. The thing about it is
Speaker 1: the less targets he gets, the more opportunities I might get.
Speaker 1: So you know, at the end of the day, but
Speaker 1: you know, realistically, it's tough to have a guy like that,
Speaker 1: man with that type of skill said, that type of
Speaker 1: talent man, and that type of ball, that type of
Speaker 1: ball skill in production this early in his career for
Speaker 1: teams not to get noticed. I mean, he's been to
Speaker 1: two Pro Bowls back to back. Um, he's he I
Speaker 1: don't personally think he get enough justice. If you ask me,
Speaker 1: I don't think that he get enough. Dude. You look,
Speaker 1: he was left off the top one hundred lists, which
Speaker 1: is a travesty. When you met when people mentioned safeties,
Speaker 1: top safeties, you always have to see other people saying, man,
Speaker 1: what about this guy in Chicago, And I think it's
Speaker 1: just I think it's just a slight man. I think
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful. But at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: league know about him and that's why he's not getting
Speaker 1: as many targets and things like that. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, those things come, and you know,
Speaker 1: like when he had his run in twenty eighteen, m
Speaker 1: you know, when they come, they come in bunches, and
Speaker 1: that's that. That's been an ago saying since the beginning
Speaker 1: of time, and that's the truth. Not every team is
Speaker 1: gonna be scared to throw at thirty nine, and we've
Speaker 1: talked about that and he knows that. And when those
Speaker 1: opportunities present itself. We myself, the city, the team, the defense,
Speaker 1: we more than confident and understanding that he's gonna be
Speaker 1: able to make a play when those times come. But
Speaker 1: right now I think that he's he's not shutting down.
Speaker 1: He's not a shutdown mode that he got to get
Speaker 1: a big playing due to these things, man, because he's
Speaker 1: impacting the game in a bunch of different ways. Man,
Speaker 1: He's he's up impacting the game. I think that this
Speaker 1: year him in the box compared to watching for him
Speaker 1: from last year. Man, he's just more confident down there.
Speaker 1: And you know he might not have the interceptions yet.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a long season still, but you know
Speaker 1: he's impacting the game in many of the ways, man,
Speaker 1: in some ways that he probably don't even realize that
Speaker 1: he's doing, just by his prison. So I think that
Speaker 1: he understands that at the end of the day, being
Speaker 1: a ball player, man, he wanted to get the ball.
Speaker 1: He pried himself on the ball. And you know those
Speaker 1: players have come New York robbed him of one. But
Speaker 1: like I said, man, we got ten more between me
Speaker 1: and him for a season. Man, we got eleven games
Speaker 1: to get to happen. So you know, I'm more than
Speaker 1: confident that he gonna be able to be satisfied with
Speaker 1: what he's done this year. You know, Sean, during the
Speaker 1: length of your NFL career, the fundamental tackling by defensive
Speaker 1: backs has had the change because the target and where
Speaker 1: you can hit and how you can hit. What was
Speaker 1: your siteline for the Kyle Fuller play. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw it an actual time or how impressed
Speaker 1: are you with his ability to fundamentally change the process
Speaker 1: and hit a guy that legally but that impactful in
Speaker 1: the game that probably was the most textabok beautiful hit
Speaker 1: I've seen, and did I see alive. Absolutely, it just
Speaker 1: was he came in and it seemed just like it
Speaker 1: happened so in such slow motion, but it happened so
Speaker 1: fast because it was a bang bang play. But it's
Speaker 1: hard that those are the type of things that only
Speaker 1: willing tacklers you can't teach that. Man like Kyle is
Speaker 1: a pro. He's a pros pro, and he's one of
Speaker 1: the more willing tacklers at the corner position that I've
Speaker 1: ever been around. And I've been around some good cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of good cornerbacks in my time.
Speaker 1: I have nine years under me. So for me, I
Speaker 1: think that for us kyl Is, we've seen cast ticket
Speaker 1: head and there plenty of times man and you know,
Speaker 1: make make make physical runs on running backs in and
Speaker 1: things like that, so it wasn't as surprising to us.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it was a beautiful tackle, obviously, momentum changer,
Speaker 1: and I think that that probably was the play of
Speaker 1: the game in my pen beyond anything else. I think
Speaker 1: because at that moment that changed the course of the
Speaker 1: momentum of the game. We put points on, we added
Speaker 1: points to the scoreboard due to that play. It just
Speaker 1: was something that was so huge. Man, that that and
Speaker 1: the tackle itself when you're watching on family, don't do
Speaker 1: a justice to be in there watching that play happened live.
Speaker 1: I mean, just a beautiful tackle is nothing to critique
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, it's a it's it's an eight
Speaker 1: plus in my book. Sean Gibson. Our guests will let
Speaker 1: you go to Sean, But before I do, I hope
Speaker 1: you know that your secondary coach the shakedownsend did he
Speaker 1: did he remind you guys last week that he was
Speaker 1: one of the guys that picked six Tom Brady back
Speaker 1: in his day. See DT left that out. He never
Speaker 1: he never told us that. That's the traversy that he
Speaker 1: did not remind us that. He didn't even show us that.
Speaker 1: He didn't. We knew nothing about it. Man. Maybe because
Speaker 1: it was a short week. I'm gonna give him that. Man,
Speaker 1: he had the car javerything game. But no, he didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't tell us that man that right there. I
Speaker 1: think that's something he should have told us, ban but
Speaker 1: right he didn't show us. He didn't tell us. Man,
Speaker 1: that's that's terrible minute. Well you look it up. Halloween
Speaker 1: Night two thousand and four. You were fourteen years old
Speaker 1: at the time, Sean, so a hard time and you
Speaker 1: you have as many things pick six as as he did.
Speaker 1: He had three in his career. You got three in years,
Speaker 1: so you can pass him soon. Absolutely, absolutely, that's the
Speaker 1: plan for sure. All right to Sean, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time. Good luck on Sunday. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you got family. To Sean Gibson, outstanding interview right there
Speaker 1: with the veteran safety of the Chicago Bears, were gonna
Speaker 1: step away, have another break, We'll here from Nick Foles
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Speaker 1: colleague Vonn McClure. He covered the Bears for many years.
Speaker 1: I know he did many interviews with you over the time.
Speaker 1: But he passed away in Atlanta, where he's been covering
Speaker 1: the Falcon since twenty thirteen, most recently with ESPN's NF Foundation.
Speaker 1: So condolences to his family all one hundred percent. I
Speaker 1: felt so bad when I heard that because he's a
Speaker 1: young man that has such a great attitude. He's super friendly,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm glad I had a chance to
Speaker 1: meet him when I wasn't a player, because you could
Speaker 1: be more friendly with him, and that's the attitude and
Speaker 1: approach he ever he had with active players or those
Speaker 1: of us in the media that we had a chance
Speaker 1: to become friends with him. Well, you can tell the
Speaker 1: respect of a man when you go on social media
Speaker 1: today on Twitter and hear all the across the country
Speaker 1: the people that he touched and worked with over the years.
Speaker 1: So condolences again to Vaughan McClure at the age of
Speaker 1: forty eight to passing away in Atlanta. Let's switch gears
Speaker 1: because on Sunday, the Bears will be in Carolina and
Speaker 1: you'll catch Bears Game Day Live at ten thirty on
Speaker 1: Fox Chicago and Luke and Ellis along with Tom and
Speaker 1: I host that show every week and our feature interview
Speaker 1: this week, and our player profile is Bears quarterback Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: Here's a snippet of that interview. All right, Nick, when
Speaker 1: was the first moment in your football playing life that
Speaker 1: you realized that you are equipped to calm the chaos?
Speaker 1: I say the first moment would probably be my junior
Speaker 1: high school. We were down by thirteen points with four
Speaker 1: minutes and eleven seconds to go. I remember the our
Speaker 1: fans were leaving, our cheerleaders were crying. We came back
Speaker 1: and I threw two touchdowns to the final four minutes
Speaker 1: of the game so win district and go to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And I think that was really the first time where
Speaker 1: when everyone thought it was over, I was able to
Speaker 1: calm the storm inside of me and keep going with
Speaker 1: my teammates and ultimately win a game at the last
Speaker 1: second that everyone thought at that point was over. And
Speaker 1: that was the first time where you know it was
Speaker 1: never over till it's over. I saw some pages of
Speaker 1: your autobiography and all the years I've covered football players
Speaker 1: get stamped by Scouts one way or another, and it's
Speaker 1: really hard to lose that label. Do you feel that
Speaker 1: you've gotten a fair shake in terms of labels, because
Speaker 1: you do bring it up in the book, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem entirely fair all the time. One thing I've
Speaker 1: talked about is I've been labeled a lot of things
Speaker 1: throughout my career. I really don't care about what other
Speaker 1: labels are because at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: just feel like we as people are becoming so judgmental
Speaker 1: of everybody that we're not taking a look a look
Speaker 1: at ourselves in the mirror and saying, like, listen, I
Speaker 1: need to look at myself first and see where my
Speaker 1: falls are as a human being before I start judging
Speaker 1: and labeling all these other people. So I say that
Speaker 1: respectfully to say, and I'm gonna go back to scripture.
Speaker 1: Glaciers one ten talks about you know, not living the
Speaker 1: police people, but living to glorify God. And that's something
Speaker 1: with labels is I'm not living to police anyone. I'm
Speaker 1: living to glorify God through that, and with that, I'll
Speaker 1: be loving and respect cool and kind to people. But
Speaker 1: it's not for their sake, It's for his glory. That's
Speaker 1: something where in this game you're constantly judged by every
Speaker 1: single throw as a quarterback, Like I feel it like
Speaker 1: I missed a throw in the previous game that I airmeled.
Speaker 1: We're sprinting out to the right, a throw that I
Speaker 1: had thrown in that stadium actually to beat the Bears
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen, same throw sidearm, and I remember
Speaker 1: I threw it and was like, oh my gosh. But
Speaker 1: you can feel like every single play you're gonna be
Speaker 1: that's part of it. But you can't let it destroy
Speaker 1: you as a human being. You have to say, listen,
Speaker 1: I know what's important, and I'm gonna play the next
Speaker 1: play and I'm gonna be there for my teammates. I
Speaker 1: don't care if I'm labeled as a backup or starter,
Speaker 1: as a third string, Like, I just want to beat
Speaker 1: myself and I want to go into that facility. I
Speaker 1: want to enjoy what I do and I want to
Speaker 1: impact the men and women that work at the facility
Speaker 1: in a positive way. If you would indulge me in
Speaker 1: the football accomplishment category for just a moment, because you
Speaker 1: have done some incredible things. Winning the Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: side that's a team thing, but the man who finishes
Speaker 1: the job at the quarterback position seems to get all
Speaker 1: of that glory, obviously, But the twenty seven touchdown two interception,
Speaker 1: you're tied for best in NFL history twenty five straight
Speaker 1: completion games, seven touchdowns in one game. As just a
Speaker 1: sports fan, do you ever just glance at it and
Speaker 1: say this was something? I mean, I've had some moments here.
Speaker 1: I think I don't glance at it often, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, but there are times where I do
Speaker 1: remember those moments and say, you know what, like Gods
Speaker 1: allowed me to do some really special things. Can't forget
Speaker 1: that that's the player I am, because there's people that
Speaker 1: are going to try to tear you down, there's situations
Speaker 1: that can tear you down adversity, and I think it's
Speaker 1: important not to forget like what you're capable of. So
Speaker 1: I say for that purpose, not dwelling on it, but
Speaker 1: making sure I don't forget those moments, because those have
Speaker 1: been really special moments that I did with some really
Speaker 1: great teammates and coaches. And those are just some of
Speaker 1: the comments from a very introspective man who knows how
Speaker 1: to who knows how to communicate those things. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't dwell on those types of comments. A guy
Speaker 1: wrote an evaluation about me once after the season, and
Speaker 1: he went through all the pros and cons and then
Speaker 1: one of the negatives. He said, I'm a very moody person.
Speaker 1: But I never met the guy. I never met him
Speaker 1: face to face. I never shook his hand. So you know,
Speaker 1: some of these opinions are formed by you know, people
Speaker 1: on the inside telling them things about you, and then
Speaker 1: they go and they write an article about it. All right,
Speaker 1: one more segment to go with the moody town they
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Speaker 1: my scouting report nine years. They got a nice stuff.
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Speaker 1: We got thirty seconds. What wins for the Bears on
Speaker 1: Sunday in Carolina. You gotta be able to match Carolina
Speaker 1: equally offense, defense, special teams. You gotta probably surpass them
Speaker 1: a little bit. But if you allow these guys to
Speaker 1: grow confidence in one area, hey, it's gonna be tough,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a high of sixty seven degrees.
Speaker 1: So I think that the Bears team will be able
Speaker 1: to go in and stay fresh and it won't be
Speaker 1: just unapproachably hot. All right, Tom, we're out of time.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for Tom Fair and our guest
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