WEBVTT - Dave Logan, DeMarcus Walker look ahead to Bears vs. Broncos | Bears Weekly Podcast 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.840 Welcome into Bears Weekly, powered by IGS Energy us Chiaicago 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:06.240 Bears Network production. 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:08.039 Bears Weekly is brought. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.040 To you by Advocate Healthcare, Athletico Physical Therapy, Bette Rivers. 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.520 Also brought to you by cd W Connie's Pizza, Ed 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.799 Miller Lyte. Here are your hosts, Jeff Chodiac aka the 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.400 Maroo Bearsville and his Sidekicked Tom the Surfmaster Theyer. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.880 Headed in the week four hopefully with a brand new 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.519 outlook on what has happened so far. As the verit 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.960 curator for the Denver Bronckvio is welcome in everybody, Jeff 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.159 Johnieck with Super Bowl Bear winner Tom Thayer. Thanks to 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.239 Dan Brelli, Jordan tread Up, Kevin Foy even helping us 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.879 out tonight and in the ESPN one thousand studios Jay 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.519 Canto Kendrick Smith, thank you guys for helping us out. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.200 The executive producer of the Bears Radio Network is Eric Ostrowski. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.760 Coming up tonight at around six ' ten, we'll hear 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.960 from Bear's defensive end to Marcus Walker had a chance 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.000 to visit with him, and later in the show, the 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.880 voice of the Denver Broncos Dave Logan, his head is 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.240 spinning after what happened there down in Miami big time. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.040 But the Bears have their own concerns about what's happened 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.960 so far, but optimism prevails in this building about what's 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.800 around the corner. We're gonna hear from some Luke Getzi 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.240 from the podium earlier today, how are you feeling about everything? 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.959 Well, you brought up the word outlook, Jeff, and I 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.160 think the word outlook it's got to start as soon 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.039 as the at Kansas City game concluded. You got to 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.240 figure out how to get this thing back on track. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.959 The corrections you need to be made. And then after 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.919 you make the corrections by watching the video the tape 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:36.520 with everybody you know facing criticisms or corrections, you got 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.920 to take it to the practice field on Wednesday, Thursday 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.039 and Friday, and then I think that's when your outlook 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.840 starts because you gotta respin a positive frame of mind. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.920 You gotta believe in what you're gonna go out there 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.120 and do. And then come Sunday, Man, you gotta do 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.000 it full speed. You got to bring it like you 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.080 haven't brought it before. And you have to have that 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.400 outcome that everybody is coming to the stadium. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.080 For Offensively, the Bear still not able to score points, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.880 and that has been something that has continued for a 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.480 couple of seasons now. Over the last ten games, I 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.320 believe the Bears have not been able to get more 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.760 than twenty points in a game. But Luke Getsei at 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.240 the podium today is still thinking big and trying to 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.840 avoid all that discussion about what has happened in the past. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.760 I think we're in the process of building something special, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.240 and I think that we're in the phase of its 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.880 week three going in a week four, and we're going 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.920 on to find a way to attack Denver in a 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.080 completely different way than we did Kansas City. That's the 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.440 week to week challenge that you have. There's different schemes, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.200 there's different mentalities of coordinators that you're playing against, and so, 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:40.720 like you said, Coach Flus kind of always says, you 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.560 get twenty four hours to enjoy or be sad about 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.240 whatever the heck happened, then you move on. That's part 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.200 of our business. It's a seventeen week process, it is 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.840 not a three week process. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.600 And there is a lot of validity in that. That's 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:58.120 how coaches and players have to compartmentalize it's one game. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.359 It's a week to week league. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.800 Yeah, it's that way when you're you have a series 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.840 of wins and losses. But they've only had a series 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.079 of losses. So you might dwell on this a little bit. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.840 Longer than just twenty four hours. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.280 It may take you into Tuesday morning when you wake 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.959 up and you think, oh my gosh, what's going on here? 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.760 But when you look at Matt Eberflus address the media 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.800 at the podium, he's got a positive frame of mind, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.040 an upbeat attitude, And I think it's not up to 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.680 the coaches to turn this thing around. It's up to 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.680 the players to perform better and get this thing turned around. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.720 Well, he insists it's a partnership, but he puts a 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.080 lot on the coaches to do that too. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:39.400 Oh yeah, Jeff. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.120 But they're never gonna be in a stance. They're not 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.160 gonna wear spikes to the sideline. They're not gonna ask 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:48.240 to cover a wide receiver or locate a you know, 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.960 locate a open receiver downfield, or you know, play cleaner 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.120 brand of football on the offensive line. So you know, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.800 it's about the players that perform and the coaches just 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.440 get them ready. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.200 Yeah, you much as much tape as anybody, And I 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.600 think most games and this goes for winning and losing 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.680 and runaway trained like Miami last week what they did. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.560 That's a whole separate conversation. But there are half a 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.880 dozen to eight plays a game. Coach keeps referring a six. Today, 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.640 Luke Getzi says, you know, he feels confident because six 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.760 eight plays different outcomes. There's a different storyline here today. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.839 Do you agree with that premise? Each game? Could you 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.520 circle six to eight plays, maybe less than that Sometimes 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.520 that could turn the tide, make things different. You build 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.800 off of that success instead of not building off of 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:38.480 that failure. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.560 I don't think there's a number that you can put 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.000 on in a determined amount of plays that can change 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.280 the outcome. But so I'll go back to the first half. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.640 With three minutes and five seconds remaining in the first half, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.400 it was twenty one to nothing. So you and I 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.360 on the broadcast, I was saying, Okay, Jeff, if they 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.040 can go down there and have a two minute drill 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.480 and score, get the ball to start the secon and half, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.680 maybe it can be fourteen twenty one to fourteen. So 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.880 there's a moment in time. It's not six plays. Then 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.680 the DJ More drop pass on the right sideline, the 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:15.640 drop pass by Chase Claypool. You know, so they got to, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.840 you know, justin put those guys in a position to succeed. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.159 Now you have to come up and you have to 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.679 make the plays according to plan. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.880 Here's Getzi explaining why he feels the offense is close. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.960 Well, I think it's I wouldn't use the word poorly executed. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.120 I would just say that the reactions weren't to matching 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.560 what the opportunity presented. You know, So whether it's sustaining 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:42.320 a block, whether it's run a correct track by the back, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.680 a correct read by the back, whether it's a right 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.000 alignment by a tight end or a receiver, whether it's 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.200 a right decision by the quarterback. You know, there's all facets. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.880 So that's where we have to narrow this thing down, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:57.520 you know, because you're going to have those plays in 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.920 the game where you're going to have guys aren't going 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:01.720 to be it's not going to play perfect. No, it's 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.039 never happened in the history of ball. But when you 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.560 have that many to your point, that's losing opportunities to 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.240 go get those points. So if we could, if you 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.320 cut those opportunities down to just one or two again, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.440 that means you're you're successful in five or six. Then 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.800 now you're you're doing exactly what you just talked about 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.680 and where where we want to be. So the part 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.960 that we're talking about being close, that's the part that's 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.640 that's exciting about and the opportunity that we have in 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.120 front of us that we feel like it is right 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:25.560 there for us to go take. We've got to go 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:26.040 take it now. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.680 And I love that mindset of go take it, and 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.640 I think that's exactly hot. That's my theme of the week. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.440 Take go take it. Whatever happens happened, I don't care. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.280 I don't want to look at schedules down the road. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.440 And it's it's just that same exercise we joke about 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.599 with Wada and Sylvia all the time, you know, making 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.599 those selections, what the record's going to be, because who 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.120 you're playing the week you're playing them, who's available, who's not, 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.960 who's hurt, who's sick, who's got a personal problem. You 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.280 just got to go out there and no matter what 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.640 people suggest might be coming down the road, team wise, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.120 and the team team coming off fifty point loss, go 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.240 and take it, especially at home. You got to go 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:04.880 out and take. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.719 It right, you know, until you got to be ready 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.360 every single time you take the field. And so when 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.640 with Luke Eetzi talked about the different types of ways 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.080 that you can approve a football team performance, that's all 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.400 the case, you know, right read by the running backs, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.000 sustained block by an offensive lineman, a big time catch. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.880 But somebody out there they have to go and they 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.280 have to make the big play. They have to make 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.320 the whether it's an interception on defense, a tackle for 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.840 loss that creates a fumble, a big catch that you 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.960 know by Dj Moore that he hit him in stride 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.640 and he's able to take it the remainder of the 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.040 yards for a touchdown. Someone has to go out there 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.800 and make a big play early in this game that 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.280 ignites the crowd, that gets the crowd in the game, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.280 and then it's the Bears obligation to keep the crowd 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.040 in the game. Last week when they came out after 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.200 a time out and they had too much they too 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:01.880 much time on the clock and they. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.440 Had a penalty right there. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.160 We know the analytics that Doug Cleddie tells us all 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.440 the time about the chances of your drive to succeed 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.680 if you have a penalty on first down is limited. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.600 So in every facet from the coaching on the sideline 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.600 to the players on the field, you got to go 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.240 out and take what your opportunities are offering you. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.920 Penalties and sacks on first down Killers Tom Killers can't 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.440 have them all right. One final cut with Luke Ketzi 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.200 on how in the world did Denver give up seventy points? 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.800 No, Yeah, I think it's one of those things, like 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.160 you said, it probably just got away from them in 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:38.840 the end of it, because you see in the first 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.400 couple of weeks, you know how talented they really are. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.640 I mean, the two edge rushers they have are really good. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.760 They have obviously one of the best corners in the league. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.920 And I think that game probably just got away from them. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.400 And obviously Miami's you know, they're clicking on all cylinders 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:53.840 right now too, So that part of it was just 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.280 I think just just became a little bit much. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.760 Yeah, sure did it. Ten yards of crock for this place. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.960 We'll get into that with Dave Logan, but coming up 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.760 next after this break, we'll be joined by the Marcus Walker, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.360 the Bears fiery defensive end. He'll join us here on 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.360 Bears Weekly on the Bears Radio Network. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.079 Is Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears for 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.360 twenty three years, Jeff jon on the Bears Radio Network. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.920 And this segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:27.720 by IGS Energy, Jeff Joniak and Tom Fair. So, you know, 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.920 we got a couple of veterans, more than a couple 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:34.680 on the edges here with yannikin Gockway. We've got Rashid 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.880 Green he's come in and DeMarcus Walker, Big Tom. I 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.160 like the fire he brings, so he in a Gockway 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.880 while this team has only one sack, and that certainly 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.280 has to change and hopefully it will very very soon. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.480 They are getting some pressures. They these two guys have 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.840 combined for nine knockdowns and hurries each. It seems like 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.320 a small number. But is this the chemistry of an 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.200 offensive line that we're talking about on the defensive line 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.959 as well, that has to happen immature. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.360 Yeah, you know, you need to have growth out of 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.480 a guy like Dominique Robinson. Also, so you have to 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.920 take guys that they've already developed a reputation that the 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.640 quality pass rushers, and that's why Aniknokway is here with 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.360 Chicago and he's been productive with every team that he's 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.880 been on. But it's also the type of scheme that 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.960 you use when you're able to trade in defensive lineman 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.600 in and out. There's a certain freshness that they have 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.760 to play with. But then you know the types of 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.280 offenses they played so far this year, you didn't know 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.160 what to expect out of Jordan Love, Baker Mayfield as 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.559 a courageous guy that stands in the pocket, and. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.320 Patrick Mahomes is one of the best. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.760 Now you're facing Russell Wilson, who's an undersized quarterback that's 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.800 getting a little older that you can attack in a 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.560 lot of different ways. And that's where the scheming has 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.440 to have an effect on the quarterback if you're really 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.760 going to win the battle against the defensive line in 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.200 this quarterback. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.240 One of the first things I do, and we'll get 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.679 more involved in the discussion about the game itself and 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.000 the game hands up on Russell, especially when he's in 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.720 that hands up, maybe get a tipball. Not the tallest 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:12.200 quarterback over time. And this conversely, despite giving up seventy points, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.680 this is a Denver team, their defensive line, they get 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.560 their hands up, get a lot of hands on bat 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.800 at balls. All right, let's let oh go ahead, go 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:20.319 ahead ahead. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.559 No, I'm just going to say the snap count. It's 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.640 kind of different, you know, because if it's a supportive 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.840 crowd at home and Russell Wilson is using a silent count, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.040 you have to be really. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.080 Disciplined about following the football. Just like at home. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.319 You better get the advantage because you're going to be 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.720 able to hear the snap count out of justin. So 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.240 I think there's a little bit of different difference you're 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.640 working with on the line of scrimmage for each team. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.880 All right, here is as promised. I get to know 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.600 you if you will with Bears defensive end DeMarcus Walker. 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.480 How do you describe yourself as a player? 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:53.640 Different? 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.760 Why? Just? 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.440 I mean just from It's not just now, since I 0:11:58.480 --> 0:11:58.880 was a kid. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.040 I mean, I've always just and like the one that 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.040 always was just if everyone went right, I went left one. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.520 You know, you know what I'm saying. Everybody pick one thing. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.920 I look at the other option just to see it. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.280 And honestly, I get that from both my parents, my 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.040 mom and my dad, you know, they both have their 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.040 type of personalities that to where you know they're different 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.520 than I know for sure that rubed off on me. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.320 It's just I just like, I just like being different. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:24.480 You know. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.040 Sometimes I get in my own little world, have my 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.640 own little bubble moments. So you know, that's just that's 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:28.880 just me. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.360 Well, you can't miss you as soon as you got here, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.920 right Like. I have stories of guys over the course 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.040 of my career, rookie, mini camp or better. I'm like, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.280 oh my god, I mean Mike Brown. I don't know 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.760 if you remember, Mike Brown was a bad man at safety. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.760 He was out there lining everybody up as a rookie, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.440 yelling at guys with the high pitched voice. I turned around, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.800 who's that yelling? And it's the Marcus Market. You make 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:51.959 some noise right there, don't you. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:53.719 Is that part of just. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.640 Who you are as a player, And I mean maybe 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.520 as a guy period, you like to like to be. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:12:59.080 Loud and proud. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.680 Yeah, I mean I have my moments when I'm quiet too, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.640 But then when I'm when I'm in a comfortable element 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.160 and everyone around me like. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.839 Embraced me and just like hey just continued me. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.319 And you they're not going to have like those outbursts, 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.200 you know those you know, those moments where I'm just 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.360 generating energy just to you know, because I love what 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:17.600 I do. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:18.320 I love my job. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.400 I really love my job, you know what I'm saying, 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.640 and to where it's a blessing to be able to. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.960 Put this cleekson and be able to you know, play football. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.240 You know something I was on as a kid, you know, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.959 before football games on Sundays and after football games with 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.000 Sundays going out to the field redoing you know, reenacting 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:35.600 Devin Hester. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.640 You know, you know what I'm saying. So honestly, you 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.920 know that's just me. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.880 You know, like I really love what I do, and 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.640 when I every times I get out there, you know, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:46.200 I'm lead to be known. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.480 You know, there are guys that I talked to over 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.320 the years. Some guys used to go out there. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.440 They play catch with themselves football. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.439 I remember doing it as a kid that wasn't blessed 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.839 enough to be big enough or fast enough or good 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.360 enough to play. But you know, you run out there 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.800 after watching a game and you know where you grew up. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.880 I mean, Florida's you know, unbelievable, right, Yeah, you're a 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:06.520 Florida kid. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:07.480 Right. Yeah. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.560 So I was just down there by the way with 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.000 Devin and watching him coach his youth football team. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:12.959 His kids are on the team, and. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.199 I was shocked, culture shocked for. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.319 Me, what how serious and what comes out of the 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.240 miles of coaches, parents and the kids at. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:21.480 Nine, ten, eleven years old. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.200 But you know, I was told to me flat out 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.920 simply Devin said, football is life in Florida. 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.360 Yeah yeah, I mean just just since youth. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.000 You know, I could tell you as a kid, like 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.760 some of them, get home, I wish my mom was here, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.840 come home, Push off my homework, you know what I'm saying, 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.680 run outside, you know what I'm saying, taking off my shoes, everybody, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.520 all the kids got their shoes off and playing football 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.520 in the socks, dirt nose. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.320 You know, continuely just to for him. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:57.120 Man as my mom gets so hot, you knowing my laundry. So, man, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.800 I mean, football down there is definitely a passion that 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.880 in track. You know, it's everyone so fast, and you 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.320 know that's definitely you know, I'm thankful to be from 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:07.960 that great state. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:09.640 You had a great year last year. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.400 But I gotta go back to Denver because Vic Vangil 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.680 kind of unlocked you a little bit, don't you agree, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.200 Like you you reached it was. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.040 A little bit more comfortable, yes, yeah, yeah, And why 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:20.440 was that? 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.720 I mean, you're a guy that's known as you know, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.760 you can rush the passion, certainly, but from. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.600 Every spot on the line. But what what did Vic 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:27.280 unlocking you? 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.400 I mean, so at Florida State my last two years, 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.400 we were more of a red defense, and we played 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.640 a little bit multiple multiple, and that's vixed the same 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.920 exact philosophy. So from a football terminology standpoint, that was 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.760 definitely easy to assimilate too. And Vegas the deeps of 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.280 Maximond when he came over from you guys, I head 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.320 up Eddie Goldman, like, you know, tell me about some guys, 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:50.960 and he just had nothing but good things to say. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.880 So I mean, just having someone that you know, that 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.120 loves ball, the same with how I love my job. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.800 I love ball, you know, having someone that just is 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.840 really to you know, you know, I have no mercy on. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:03.720 The offense, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.720 I mean, when me and me and the coach on 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.320 the same page, I mean, that's just we just turned 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.040 into flulition. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:10.320 All right. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.520 So you love football. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.960 But I if my story is right, you didn't get 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.200 to play football right away and at the age of. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.600 Fifteen, how did you get that story? 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.640 I do my homework now, your dad, Dale, Yeah, whoa 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:25.840 tell me about all this? 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.240 Because the football coach had to convince your dad. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:29.240 Dale Walker. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.240 So I mean the story, the backstory is when I 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.320 was in middle school, Landmark Middle, I wound up. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.000 I was a three sport athlete, football, basketball, and track. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.560 Started on all of them, won you know, MVPs on 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.920 track and basketball Most Improvement back I mean track and football, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.560 most Improvement basketball, and my dad he was ripping a 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.680 run and take me up from practicing school all year long. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.680 Right after football, we got basketball season, right after the 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.080 basketball season, got track season. So my dad was really 0:16:58.560 --> 0:16:59.800 you know, I think he was a little bit of 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.560 time too. But at the same time, you know, he 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.680 wanted me to take a break my ninth grade year 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.359 because when I was coming in, I was going to 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.960 play varsity. I wasn't playing jv. Even the varsity coach 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.239 was like, you're not touching that. My dad was like, well, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.480 you're not touching him. He wanted my body to rest 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.639 and give me some little bit more time developed. And 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.679 then now within that spring of my freshman year, going 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.359 into my sophomore year, he gave me the green light 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.000 to go back, go back and play football. But I 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.200 got in trouble that year when I didn't played football. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:23.800 You know what I'm saying. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.159 I got a lot of trouble, you know, because I 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.080 was just bored. You had too much time on my hands. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.400 And once you know, I was back, you know, putting 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:32.800 on my leaks. You know, I was about focused. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:34.560 Dad wanted you to be a doctor. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.040 I don't know what a baseball player or something. I 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:37.399 don't know. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.520 You know, you want to mentor kids? 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.720 Yeah, right, why I think. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.760 After alls had been done, I would love to you know, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.920 be uh, be a very wealthy person and go back 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:55.119 and coach uh uh junior high middle school because I 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.840 think that's the that's the honey hole of all of us. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.879 I think we were really you know, especially as boys 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.879