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Speaker 1: we got a full house tonight coming up with our
Speaker 1: producer Adam Stezinski. We got Jim Miller, our weekly guest
Speaker 1: for a few segments, and then at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour it Bears new defensive coordinator Sean Decide, Temmy,
Speaker 1: how you doing, Buddy? Doing good? Jeff, I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to talking to Sean. I think it's gonna be exciting
Speaker 1: opportunity because this is a guy that we've known for
Speaker 1: a long time, but now he's in the pilot's seat,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be interesting to pick his brain a
Speaker 1: little bit. About the different influences that we've got to
Speaker 1: see in his career. But how he talks about the
Speaker 1: different influences then the impact they will have on his career. Well,
Speaker 1: I got taste of it earlier in the week when
Speaker 1: his introductory news conference spoke for quite a while about
Speaker 1: his rise as a now nine year NFL coach and
Speaker 1: all with one organization. You know, worked his way through
Speaker 1: the college game. We know about his teaching ability, his trust,
Speaker 1: his nickname Doc has it carries more to it than
Speaker 1: just his education background. That's a term of endearment that
Speaker 1: players really respect him. And so it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see hit on a couple of points. Maybe he's not
Speaker 1: gonna talk personnel or scheme, but you know, just trying
Speaker 1: to pick his head a little bit. We know Vic
Speaker 1: Fangio the influence time is significant, right, But his background
Speaker 1: as an educator, I think it's really an asset in
Speaker 1: the teaching of football because you have multiple levels that
Speaker 1: you're going to have to teach a scheme to. Where
Speaker 1: before was kind of centric to the defensive backs in
Speaker 1: his NFL career, but now when you're teaching coaches about
Speaker 1: his scheme and how he wants his players taught. I'm
Speaker 1: really interested to watch the impact that Sean's gonna have,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see a young coach takeover in
Speaker 1: the NFL because a lot of time we hear names
Speaker 1: being repeated in terms of hirings, but this is a
Speaker 1: new guy on the scene and I'm excited for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's also worked at the linebacker level, special teams coordinator
Speaker 1: in college, and really almost an entirely new defensive staff
Speaker 1: to work with. Will break it all down, and then
Speaker 1: the news of the day Tommy. Another domino was following
Speaker 1: in the quarterback world, with Carson wentz Off to the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis coach for a third round pick this year and
Speaker 1: a second that could turn into a one based on
Speaker 1: playing time in twenty twenty two. The big headline here
Speaker 1: for me is and most people are reporting the Bears
Speaker 1: did not make an offer. Whether that's true or not
Speaker 1: is yet to be seen, but the fact is that
Speaker 1: there's a tight relationship with Frank Reich and this is
Speaker 1: in his headspace, no doubt, is a more comfortable situation
Speaker 1: for him to be within Indianapolis Colts and the guy
Speaker 1: who coached him to what was going to be an
Speaker 1: MVP type season in seventeen before his Aco, Right, But
Speaker 1: if you just looked at some of the still shots
Speaker 1: after the trade took place of he and Frank Reich
Speaker 1: in their past, it was almost a no brainer. Look,
Speaker 1: these guys have such a forged relationship already. This is
Speaker 1: the best thing, you know, This is the best possible
Speaker 1: team for him to go to. But what I was
Speaker 1: saying is most of the conversation you and I have
Speaker 1: immediately after the Super Bowl is really I, you know,
Speaker 1: to the combine. But there's been more conversation on the
Speaker 1: sports channels, in the news and the radio about the
Speaker 1: quarterback position exclusively and specifically league wide. So rather than
Speaker 1: us talking about Trevor Lawrence or who's gonna be the
Speaker 1: second third quarterback picked in the draft, or who's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, when are the linemen gonna start falling? Or
Speaker 1: when are these linebackers gonna go? Man, it's just that
Speaker 1: there's multiple teams. I think that I saw graft twenty
Speaker 1: one teams will return their quarterback. The rest of them
Speaker 1: are looking for new quarterbacks. Right. It could be more
Speaker 1: than that too. You just don't know what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: with Ben Roethlisberger, you know in Pittsburgh, kind of a
Speaker 1: lukewarm or sponse yesterday from his general manager there in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh about a return. But you knew this was going
Speaker 1: to happen. The dominoes have to fall. Free agency comes
Speaker 1: before the NFL Draft, so with salary cap and setting
Speaker 1: your course, it has to be somewhat settled at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position unless you're totally dedicated to going into the
Speaker 1: draft and pulling out a quarterback. That's for all the
Speaker 1: teams looking for one. So and it is interesting in
Speaker 1: the compensation. I know a lot of people are talking about, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's all you gave up for him to get
Speaker 1: him over there to Indianapolis. But the price tag, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about this with Jim Miller, the price
Speaker 1: tag you're bringing onto your own salary cap because of
Speaker 1: his big deal that he signed with Philadelphia and the
Speaker 1: cap they're gonna carry now, the dead cap space, I
Speaker 1: believe it's a record for one player. Uh, that's that's
Speaker 1: part of this compensation. You got to inherit some of
Speaker 1: that salary, right. But the thing about it too is
Speaker 1: even the teams are at the top end of the
Speaker 1: draft it's not guaranteed they're going to draft a quarterback
Speaker 1: because they have the assets they could go and possibly
Speaker 1: make a play for some of the other quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: you're you're a are being offered out there and what
Speaker 1: they're willing to give up. And so I just think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a really interesting NFL year through
Speaker 1: free agency and through the combine in the draft that
Speaker 1: man teams could completely change the profile that they concluded
Speaker 1: the last season with and they're going into next season with.
Speaker 1: So it appeared the Bears drew some interest in Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that would ever happen within a division
Speaker 1: for starters, and it was a big haul for the Lions.
Speaker 1: So that's one domino. Now this domino, gosh, now it's
Speaker 1: going to be talked about next for the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position that'll be now raging over the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Well, you know, you do. There's
Speaker 1: there's guys that have untapped potential at their youth, or
Speaker 1: there's some guys that have extreme amount of experience that
Speaker 1: can come in and fit immediately to the plan that
Speaker 1: you set forth for your offense. So you know, you
Speaker 1: got a figure at what end of the spectrum are
Speaker 1: you trying to, you know, fulfill in your quarterback position?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, coming up at the next segment, we
Speaker 1: got Big Jim Miller from Serious x M NFL Radio
Speaker 1: against Sean Desai. At the bottom of the hour, we'll
Speaker 1: talk off things NFL as it impacts the Bears league wide.
Speaker 1: Got touch on JJ Watt asking for and receiving his
Speaker 1: release from the Houston Texans. With that means now in
Speaker 1: terms of other dominoes around the league, it's an interesting
Speaker 1: start to the offseason, not that far removed from the
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Speaker 1: the quarterback carouseuse spinning again to day Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny when you read some of these articles and
Speaker 1: they're trying to make it all but look at the
Speaker 1: compensation Philadelphia got. Philadelphia lost in this trade. Huge, Okay huge,
Speaker 1: they lost this trade. This is a just tells you
Speaker 1: that they're stripping everything down. But this is about as
Speaker 1: bad as it gets. Not only did they trade up,
Speaker 1: they traded away five players to get once. They traded
Speaker 1: up not once, they traded up twice to get the
Speaker 1: number two, So they gave away five picks. There, he's
Speaker 1: going to be the face of the franchise. They're trying
Speaker 1: to get the deal that the Rams just traded for
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Right, they got a couple of ones and
Speaker 1: another pick as well there. Plus they got a quarterback
Speaker 1: in Jared Golf in that trade. Also got nowhere near
Speaker 1: that it's a third round twenty twenty one pick and
Speaker 1: it'll be a second round twenty twenty two. Plus they're
Speaker 1: still taking a thirty three million dollar cap hit Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is This is about as bad as it gets. Guys,
Speaker 1: people who can try and spend it all they want.
Speaker 1: This is a pretty bad deal for Philadelphia all day long.
Speaker 1: And now if Carson Wentz goes to Indy and Frank
Speaker 1: Reich is able to resurrect his career and he plays brilliant.
Speaker 1: It's gonna look even worse for Philadelphia for making this
Speaker 1: trade today, So just keep your eye on what happens.
Speaker 1: But that's about as bad as it gets. What happened
Speaker 1: today good, good for Indie though, good for the Bears
Speaker 1: and team. That's the way you look at it. But Jim,
Speaker 1: does Philadelphia now have to look immediately to go older
Speaker 1: and more experienced than Jalen Hurts or how do they
Speaker 1: fill the void if they believe that's the type of quarterback,
Speaker 1: that athleticism they want to go with, But there's not
Speaker 1: too alike with more experience. So how do you think
Speaker 1: the direction they're gonna go? Yeah, I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to bring in a veteran because I mean, you
Speaker 1: still don't even know about Jalen Hurts. He's played basically
Speaker 1: four games. He's done some good things with how he played.
Speaker 1: Obviously that last game everybody was concerned and probably what
Speaker 1: led to Peterson getting shown the door when he put
Speaker 1: in Nate Sudfeld when the game was on the line.
Speaker 1: But he said, hey, we thought Sudfeld had played well
Speaker 1: and he deserved an opportunity and he wanted to play him.
Speaker 1: But you still don't know about Jalen Hurts. He loved
Speaker 1: the background, He's a winner, all those things that he transfers.
Speaker 1: He wins with Lincoln Riley, and has shown flashes in
Speaker 1: the NFL. But I don't think you can say he's
Speaker 1: a surefire starter right now. I think you would have
Speaker 1: to bring in a veteran to compete if you're the Philadelphiagles,
Speaker 1: because one thing about that division it's wide open. Is
Speaker 1: any team in that division look like they're the leader
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. I don't think anybody could say whether
Speaker 1: it's Dallas, the Giants, Philadelphia, or Washington are the leaders
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. I mean Washington won the division, then
Speaker 1: their record wasn't even a winning record at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. Pretty much. Yeah, yeah, Well, you gotta
Speaker 1: find out what player the player procurement part of the year.
Speaker 1: We'll bring each of these teams and will they get
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott signed in Dallas. That's a big bar where
Speaker 1: the Redskins going quarterback wise. A lot to discuss, obviously
Speaker 1: with all that, but just a real quick word on
Speaker 1: Wentz from my perspective, because you know, we are quick
Speaker 1: as fans and in this case, teams to hit the
Speaker 1: dump funton, right. I mean, it's insane what's going on now, honestly,
Speaker 1: because yes, he was the most sack quarterback in the
Speaker 1: league last year fifty times. He was responsible for the
Speaker 1: most turnovers. What was around him also matters, and yes,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have to elevate everybody around them. But he's coming
Speaker 1: off an ACL from seventeen. Do you think that changed?
Speaker 1: And did he get into bad habits? Is that part
Speaker 1: of it that they think and you played it? So
Speaker 1: can you get coached out of some bad habits and
Speaker 1: resurrect and lead a team that does have many weapons
Speaker 1: and a powerful running game with a very good offensive
Speaker 1: line and likely to go with a tackle maybe in
Speaker 1: the first round now after keeping their first round pick. Yes,
Speaker 1: you cun coach players out of bad habits, and he's
Speaker 1: going to a coach that has already done it. I
Speaker 1: mean when you look at Frank Reich, he did that
Speaker 1: with Andrew Luck. Andrew Luck he told him, hey, you
Speaker 1: can't take the sex you're taking. You can't run down
Speaker 1: the field and continue to take the hits. That you're taken.
Speaker 1: And in one year with Frank Reich, with Andrew Luck,
Speaker 1: he turned at what even Frank described as a complete
Speaker 1: one eighty about how he was getting the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands, he was making smarter decisions when he
Speaker 1: started taking off at the ball, sliding, getting out of bounds,
Speaker 1: all those type of things. Yes, you can coach those
Speaker 1: things out of a player, and Frank Wreich knows that
Speaker 1: as he's already done it, and he's already coached this
Speaker 1: player as well. So they felt very good about this trade.
Speaker 1: And they're working relationship previously in Philadelphia. So you know, again,
Speaker 1: we'll just see how it works out. But I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think if you go look at Carson Wentz's numbers,
Speaker 1: Pat and I compared kid, if you look at Cam
Speaker 1: Newton's Andrew Luck their Pro day workouts, in their combined workouts,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is right there with him. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a big, strong, attic guy. Shoot, he was up
Speaker 1: for League MVP. That's how will he was playing until
Speaker 1: he tours ACL. So I think Frank Field's very certain
Speaker 1: that they can resurrect his career and get him back
Speaker 1: playing to the level that he was So are they
Speaker 1: going to piggyback off of the philip Rivers offense or
Speaker 1: are they going to deconstruct that offense and introduce a
Speaker 1: new offense because of Carson Wentz. Because I think, in
Speaker 1: all fairness to the other guys on the offense, it's
Speaker 1: better for them to keep the similar terminology that they've
Speaker 1: all they've already learned throughout the philip Rivers experiment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Phillips is more straight line. They'll be able to do
Speaker 1: more movement plays with Carson and no offense to Philippa.
Speaker 1: He'd kind of lost a little bit on his fastball.
Speaker 1: If you look at Indianapolis, he was spraying the ball around.
Speaker 1: That's why t Y Hilton wasn't getting as many catches
Speaker 1: as he has previously. They may want to resign t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton now because I think they'll be able to
Speaker 1: stretch the field more with Carson Wentz at the helm
Speaker 1: And I think if Frank Reich will tap into that,
Speaker 1: say hey, this is what Carson can do. He can
Speaker 1: launch it and launch the long ball, and maybe that
Speaker 1: becomes more effective. And think about it, up until when
Speaker 1: Philly went to the Super Bowl, that's all they were
Speaker 1: doing all year is launching the ball, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of what put Nick Foles on the map. But Carson
Speaker 1: gets hurt, and what's Nick doing. He's doing all those
Speaker 1: launching the long ball, double move goes, and all those things.
Speaker 1: They were already doing that earlier in the year, and
Speaker 1: why Carson was up for league MVP. So I think
Speaker 1: you can incorporate all that stuff back into Philadelphia or
Speaker 1: excuse me, Indianapolis's offense now is what it will be
Speaker 1: with Carson Wentz. All right, Jim Miller, Tom, Jeff, Johnyac.
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Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, new defensive coordinator Sean Decide joins
Speaker 1: the program. All right, Jim. Every quarterback drafted in the
Speaker 1: first round from two thousand and nine to two sixteen
Speaker 1: no longer with their original team. Yeah, we're talking twenty
Speaker 1: two guys. Ten are already retired, not because of great
Speaker 1: careers necessarily. That's stunning in and of itself. And then
Speaker 1: you go further, and now you go to the situation
Speaker 1: with the number one, one and number two picks in
Speaker 1: the draft quarterbacks in twenty fifteen, Winston and Mariota, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: Goff and Wentz twenty seventeen, Mitch de Sean. They could
Speaker 1: be in these categories as well. I mean, I saw
Speaker 1: somebody tweaked Tom and Jim this hashtag quarterbacks equal risky business.
Speaker 1: This is not simple. I know here it's been challenging
Speaker 1: obviously to find the right a combination of quarterbacks over many, many,
Speaker 1: many decades. But it's not like it's an acute problem everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it just tells you about the evaluation process, how
Speaker 1: difficult it is, and what type of system you're gonna
Speaker 1: put them in, and are you know what's around the
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks? Are there coaching changes that affect a young player.
Speaker 1: There's a lot that goes into it. But I think
Speaker 1: it does touch on the evaluation process because if you
Speaker 1: don't have one, I think we know it's difficult to
Speaker 1: win the NFL. Otherwise you're gonna be watching the playoffs
Speaker 1: at home on your couch. I mean, let's be honest, right,
Speaker 1: But you know what though, Tommy, that's we agree. But
Speaker 1: when you think you have one and then two years
Speaker 1: later you don't that those are the gut punchers because
Speaker 1: maybe you've reinvested him, Bears invested, reinvested in Jay Cutler
Speaker 1: at that time. You know, you think one thing, and
Speaker 1: as you say, time, you think you're beat. But this
Speaker 1: is such a really it's a conundrum. He really is,
Speaker 1: you know, since Jim and I and you know, you
Speaker 1: see all these guys drafted. The reason these guys are
Speaker 1: drafted in the first couple of picks as they do
Speaker 1: have a poor supporting cast, and then do they ever
Speaker 1: have a chance to stay healthy long enough or do
Speaker 1: they surround them with a supporting cast to turn them
Speaker 1: into the quarterbacks they were drafted to be. Then you
Speaker 1: have a guy like Joe Burrow last year, he was
Speaker 1: the quarterback that you drafted him to be. However, he
Speaker 1: didn't have the supporting cast, and then he ended up
Speaker 1: injured late in the season. How will that affect him
Speaker 1: in this upcoming sea And so it's really a conundrum
Speaker 1: these guys face when they get drafted that high. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and another ac to come back from it too, and
Speaker 1: then you're developing him and the fruits of the labor.
Speaker 1: The next team's going to see him, because what's happened
Speaker 1: to Ryan Tannehill. Tennessee's getting the fruits of the labor
Speaker 1: that Miami all the things that Tom just mentioned. They
Speaker 1: weren't a good team, they change coaches, things don't go well,
Speaker 1: they trade him to Tennessee. Lo and behold, everything comes
Speaker 1: together for him because although all that experience that he got,
Speaker 1: and he's mentally tough now and he's ready to really
Speaker 1: play some good football. And now all the fruits of
Speaker 1: that labor is gone to another team. And that's happened
Speaker 1: to a couple of guys. You know what, We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with these quarterbacks moving forward. You know, whether
Speaker 1: it's you know, even guys like Teddy Bridgewater, who's now
Speaker 1: you know, five and old. Last year in New Orleans
Speaker 1: and then Carolina takes a shot him, or what even
Speaker 1: will happen with Jamis Winston. He may be the guy
Speaker 1: nowels too emergence. Yeah, Darnel could be another one. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I'm gonna stick to it.
Speaker 1: I I personally, you know, if teams are gonna give
Speaker 1: up multiple number ones with the hope of getting somebody
Speaker 1: or moving up in the draft, I just you know,
Speaker 1: as you just laid out what the Browns did and
Speaker 1: you saw, I saw there's too many names and a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that never materialized to anything that they
Speaker 1: analytically thought we're gonna be nice fits for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: That's just one example. I mean, it's it's almost nauseating
Speaker 1: to think. I just don't want to do that. I
Speaker 1: just don't. You know, Well, John Dorsey think about that.
Speaker 1: He got it right. Buffalo got it right, you know
Speaker 1: with the Josh Allen who they chose. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: Houston feels that they got it right. The player may
Speaker 1: want out right now, and that may ultimately happen, and
Speaker 1: that's something to keep everybody's eye on. But I would
Speaker 1: think Dak Prescott is another guy if the Cowboys. Don't
Speaker 1: put the tag on him. Watch the flurry for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: That guy's got a winning record. He's led that team
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and look what they were without them.
Speaker 1: Because if you don't have one, forget about it. So
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting here this offseason. Well, is
Speaker 1: a good experiment going to be the new England Patriots
Speaker 1: because here's a coaching staff in place with Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: and an organization that has an extreme success. When we
Speaker 1: talk about these other quarterbacks trying to be saviors of
Speaker 1: miserable programs, that's not the Patriots. They were down a
Speaker 1: little bit last year, but now they're not expected to
Speaker 1: be down anymore because that forgiveness period is over. So
Speaker 1: if they go out there and they research and they
Speaker 1: find the quarterback that they believe is their quarterback of
Speaker 1: the future, is that going to be an example to
Speaker 1: look at of a successful organization coming back to you know,
Speaker 1: the success that it has if it finds that right quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're probably one of fifteen teams that are in
Speaker 1: that mix right now. Think about that half the league
Speaker 1: has a quarterback conundrum. Half the league that are trying
Speaker 1: to solve it, right now and we'll see how these
Speaker 1: dominoes fall. Like I said, Dac to me is going
Speaker 1: to be an interesting guy to watch. Do the Cowboys
Speaker 1: want to put the second franchise tag on him or
Speaker 1: do they work out a long term deal? And he's
Speaker 1: coming off a injury, But I think Deck would be
Speaker 1: Garner's serious, serious interest if he does make it to
Speaker 1: the free agent market and that franchise tag can start
Speaker 1: being applied just in a few days, five days from
Speaker 1: now February twenty third, with free agency opening on March seventeenth,
Speaker 1: that's certainly something in play potentially for wide receiver Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: How do you guys feel about that situation? Start with Tommy,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel bad that it's come down to this.
Speaker 1: I really admire everything that Alan Robinson is a distribute
Speaker 1: have showed what football means to him, how hard of
Speaker 1: a worker he is, how he is able to recover
Speaker 1: from injury and still be a serious competitor and contributor
Speaker 1: to the Bears. But I don't think he can ever
Speaker 1: look at it just as you're a good player, you
Speaker 1: always have to put in the business side of it,
Speaker 1: and you can ever think about that again. I like
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't want to pay him as
Speaker 1: the highest receiver in the league. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't have the budget. In my mind as as
Speaker 1: an outsider, I'm looking at Alan Robinson, but he's a
Speaker 1: super productive guy, and I would pay him as such.
Speaker 1: I just I just don't know if I could pay
Speaker 1: him as you know, the top one or two receivers
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah. I think right now with the Bears,
Speaker 1: I think are over the cap. I think it'd be
Speaker 1: tough to franchise him. I think you want the player,
Speaker 1: you want everything that he represents. But you know, if
Speaker 1: you even look at today Bidwell for the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: John Robinson, Jim of Tennessee Arthur Blank. We had Arthur
Speaker 1: Blank on moving the chains. This is the owner of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons who just admits with what teams are
Speaker 1: going to have to experience with the cap going down,
Speaker 1: they're going to have very difficult decisions to make. And
Speaker 1: I think the Bears are one of those teams with
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that are gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of difficult decisions. Think of the Atlanta folcist. They have
Speaker 1: six players right now. The cap is only one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty million. Six players on that roster account for
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty million dollars of their CAT six.
Speaker 1: They got to that's why they released three guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what's gonna happen. I feel bad for veteran players, honestly.
Speaker 1: It's it's been that way the last three three to
Speaker 1: five years, really, and it's gonna get more challenging. Cap
Speaker 1: did go up to one hundred and eighty million, and
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's got forty one million of that on his
Speaker 1: own right there in Atlanta. All right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be joined by Bears defensive coordinator. Sean To said,
Speaker 1: stick around with Tom Fare and Jim Meta. I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: Jony Act. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score.
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Speaker 1: this side still has a nice ring to it now,
Speaker 1: it doesn't it there, Sean, thanks for joining us. Oh,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Jess, good to see you, guys.
Speaker 1: Good to hear you go. Yes, And you had your
Speaker 1: news conference this week, so you know, and now it's
Speaker 1: like really of Fisher. You get to mix it up
Speaker 1: with the media a little bit and hear your vision
Speaker 1: of what the defense is going to look like. And
Speaker 1: I particularly loved here and you talk about this is
Speaker 1: my kind of guy right here. Physical, tough, speedy, smart,
Speaker 1: some of the keywords to use, and no major overhaul.
Speaker 1: These are big things right here for this Bears defense
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. You hate to start completely over right. No,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely right. And I think we got like a
Speaker 1: lot of teas in place and we're built for success
Speaker 1: and we'll built for success now. And it's going to
Speaker 1: be my job and the rest of these coaches jobs
Speaker 1: to put our guys in position to make some plays
Speaker 1: are they're impactful to help us win games. Hey, Sean,
Speaker 1: I know you don't remember this, but I remember when
Speaker 1: you came aboard at Hollis Hall and one Monday morning,
Speaker 1: it was probably five thirty in the morning, you were
Speaker 1: coming to get your information from Dave Hendrickson's office, and
Speaker 1: I asked you what is your long term goal? And
Speaker 1: you go, I'm gonna be a head coach, And it
Speaker 1: wasn't I want to. I think I said I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1: So when you set your sights as such a young
Speaker 1: man in terms of the NFL, what steps did you
Speaker 1: see taking place, whether it was the VIC side or
Speaker 1: the Chuck Pagano side, that you knew that you were
Speaker 1: gathering the information and the knowledge to put yourself in
Speaker 1: this position where you earn the defensive coordinator job. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I hope I in come across as egotistical then, oh no,
Speaker 1: not at all. I think for me, everybody should have
Speaker 1: goals and whatever profession you're pursuing, you know, And for me,
Speaker 1: it's always to be the best at the job that
Speaker 1: I've been doing and then to be able to grow
Speaker 1: from that job, because I think once you do a
Speaker 1: great job at whatever roles you've been given, you should
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to grow. If you're around good people
Speaker 1: that believe in that, then then they'll give you those opportunities.
Speaker 1: For so, like you said, you know, eight years ago,
Speaker 1: or nine years ago when we met and you asked
Speaker 1: me that question. That was a long term goal, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know necessarily the path. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: the steps you got to take, right, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know how it gets there. And I still don't know
Speaker 1: how it gets there. But I knew that if I
Speaker 1: did a great job in that quality control role and
Speaker 1: the people around me saw that and noticed that, and
Speaker 1: I was loyal and hard working and put quality work
Speaker 1: out and was able to show my communication skills and
Speaker 1: my relatability to players, that hopefully that would last. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of the philosophy that I've been ingrained in
Speaker 1: me from a lot of my mentors early on in coaching,
Speaker 1: and that's tried to hold true to that. And fortunately
Speaker 1: I've been rounds some good people and you've mentioned some,
Speaker 1: and then ultimately culminates with coaching Aggie and Ryan Paston
Speaker 1: obviously the Bears organization with George McCaskey and Ted Phillips
Speaker 1: to give me the shot and to to give me
Speaker 1: an opportunity interview and then earned the right to become
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Here well, Sean Jim Miller here, congratulations,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you. And you know you've talked
Speaker 1: about your your mentors, and obviously Vic Fangio and Chuck
Speaker 1: Pagano they have a history with Baltimore. Now Mike Penton
Speaker 1: coming on, he's got a familiarity with this style of defense,
Speaker 1: I mean from from your standpoint and what they've done.
Speaker 1: And you've probably have taken a little bit of from
Speaker 1: both and obviously are going to add your your pieces
Speaker 1: to the puzzle that you want to add to this mix.
Speaker 1: But what do you love so much about this defense?
Speaker 1: Because it has had a lot of success, whether it's
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, obviously Penton took it to Green Bay and
Speaker 1: now what's being run in Chicago. Because it has has
Speaker 1: merits and it has a lot of good background success
Speaker 1: that it's displayed. That's right, and I think you hit
Speaker 1: it right there. The biggest thing for me is that
Speaker 1: it's wistood the test of time. And even though the
Speaker 1: branches may have split off, like you said, and people
Speaker 1: have added their own twists, I think if you stay
Speaker 1: true to the core philosophy of it. And fortunately for me, h,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been around Victor longest, and then obviously
Speaker 1: coach Shuck can even earlier with mel but Vic is
Speaker 1: the person I've worked with the longest, so I've had
Speaker 1: a bigger influence that way. I've been able to learn
Speaker 1: how he built that defense here, and then I was
Speaker 1: able to learn the transitions of Coach Chuck and the
Speaker 1: influences that he brought in. So I see, and I
Speaker 1: think I'm pretty observant and I try to process information
Speaker 1: being analytical about it, but I see kind of where
Speaker 1: and why all this stuff and begun and why it's
Speaker 1: important we have the answers and the tools to give
Speaker 1: our players that will allow them to be successful in
Speaker 1: the defense. And I think that's what we're going to
Speaker 1: try to do, you know, try to implement that, make
Speaker 1: sure they know the whys in the house of why
Speaker 1: were concert and plays, and then let them let their
Speaker 1: talents shine through through each of our defensive calls. Sean
Speaker 1: Desire our guest here on bears All Access. We're brought
Speaker 1: to you by Igs Energy with Tom Bear, Jie Mother,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac. This is that's something that I think anything
Speaker 1: anybody brought up the other day. But when you're now
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, I know you were next to Vic in
Speaker 1: the booth when he was here. What Where do you
Speaker 1: want to be? Do you want to be on the field,
Speaker 1: you want to be upstairs? And have you weighed the
Speaker 1: benefits of both? So sure, I certainly weighed the benefits.
Speaker 1: I've reflected on it, and I think, you know, if
Speaker 1: we had to call a game tomorrow, I'd be upstairs.
Speaker 1: I think we'll go through training camp and the off
Speaker 1: season and see, but if I had to go call
Speaker 1: a game tomorrow, I would be upstairs. I think I
Speaker 1: see the game really well from up there, and I'll
Speaker 1: be all the help manage the game with some of
Speaker 1: the strength that I bring on game day from up there,
Speaker 1: especially as a first time play caller, I think that
Speaker 1: that'll be a good setting for me. Even if I
Speaker 1: need to get down, I'll get down. But for now,
Speaker 1: like I said, if we had to call a game tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I'd be upstairs. Shan, you talk a lot about being
Speaker 1: a teacher and being an educator. What's the difference in
Speaker 1: teaching your new coaching staff your defensive scheme as opposed
Speaker 1: to coaching and teaching the players in a player's classroom.
Speaker 1: So one difference, I think right now, you know we're
Speaker 1: going through that process right now. Tom Actually, with the
Speaker 1: coaches in our self scout and things like that, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to be really methodical, really slow, really deliberate
Speaker 1: and intentful to my perspective, We're trying to leave no
Speaker 1: stones untar I'm welcoming questions. I want them. I want
Speaker 1: to dialogue in the room right now, because this is
Speaker 1: a palm for us to do that. We've got time
Speaker 1: now to really shore up what we want to do
Speaker 1: and then, obviously from my perspective, what my expectations are,
Speaker 1: and then I want to hear the feedback from the coaches.
Speaker 1: We put together staff with great minds and great experiences
Speaker 1: for a reason, right, and these guys are not just
Speaker 1: going to be workers. They're going to be collaborating to
Speaker 1: help build his defense. I want everybody on the defense,
Speaker 1: including the players, to own this defense. This is going
Speaker 1: to be our effort, and obviously, at the role I'm given,
Speaker 1: I'll be at the top of that. But this is
Speaker 1: going to be our defense and it's going to be
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Chicago Bear defense. And I think when
Speaker 1: you're with the players, based on however this offseason and
Speaker 1: the training camp goes, but we're going to take a
Speaker 1: very similar approach we might not be able to spend
Speaker 1: as many days on it, but it's going to be
Speaker 1: an interactive approach. It's going to be a collaborative approach.
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask a lot of questions. They're going to
Speaker 1: know the why and why every physicians ask to do
Speaker 1: a certain role. And I think when you do that,
Speaker 1: I think people can understand, the players can understand the
Speaker 1: bigger picture of why a certain calls in play. And
Speaker 1: then when you're able to do that, I think they
Speaker 1: buy in a little bit more and they understand, you know,
Speaker 1: where certain people can win and where some people might
Speaker 1: have a harder down. Well, you'll have to bear with me, coach.
Speaker 1: This is a pretty funny story, but I want the
Speaker 1: listeners to hear it so that they know about the
Speaker 1: teaching aspect of football. I always do the Bearest training camp,
Speaker 1: and so I arrived. I talked to Prince and who come.
Speaker 1: We had an interview with him one time and he
Speaker 1: said he was this is almost embarrassing to admit, he said,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know how to catch until I arrived
Speaker 1: here with the Bears, And I'm like this. He was
Speaker 1: a six year player. He's a world champion for the
Speaker 1: listeners that are out there, and he said, yeah, he
Speaker 1: goes coach to SI and Eddie Donotel taught me how
Speaker 1: to catch. And for the listeners out there, if it's
Speaker 1: below your belt, pinkies together, if it's above your waist,
Speaker 1: you know you're normally putting your thumbs and index figures together.
Speaker 1: He said, But you guys got him on the jugs
Speaker 1: machine and basically taught a defensive back how to catch.
Speaker 1: And I think it says a lot about you guys
Speaker 1: as coaches, because you can't assume anything just because a
Speaker 1: player signs with your team and he's been in the
Speaker 1: league for eight years, you can't assume that he knows
Speaker 1: everything and doesn't want to strive to get better. And
Speaker 1: oddly enough, that year he had three interceptions for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. And I just thought it was an interesting
Speaker 1: story about you and the coaching staff getting a player
Speaker 1: better and not assuming that he knows everything. You're always
Speaker 1: trying to get a player better, much like Prince Amukamara
Speaker 1: that year. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. She I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a great example. And the assumption part, I think
Speaker 1: you're hit it right in the head. We're not gonnasume anything.
Speaker 1: Even with the vets that are returning, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some learning that they're gonna have to do. And then,
Speaker 1: you know, I've always been in the mentality of you
Speaker 1: should be taking notes every day when you're in that classroom,
Speaker 1: and if you feel bored because you might know your position,
Speaker 1: then learn the position next to you, because the more
Speaker 1: you know about the defense, and the more all eleven
Speaker 1: of us know how each one of us is responsible
Speaker 1: to uphold our own weight in the defense, the better
Speaker 1: will be. And so that that's going to be our approach.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be real group or collective effort. Sean Desaire,
Speaker 1: our guest, you're on Bears all access, a few minutes
Speaker 1: to go, but who are they? You let the defensive
Speaker 1: goordinator get home to his family after a day of
Speaker 1: work as we get you set for Bears Football twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. All right, the league is these these offenses
Speaker 1: are dangerous all across the board. It's the quick game,
Speaker 1: it's the slants, it's the short screens. You know, you
Speaker 1: need guys and every defense in this league, no matter
Speaker 1: what style, to tackle and to be on the ball
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. Otherwise you're you're talking about big plays.
Speaker 1: No matter what you do, deepest of the deep, it's
Speaker 1: the stuff that you know kills you on the catch
Speaker 1: and runs in this league. So that being said, do
Speaker 1: you feel this defense is the type of tackling defense
Speaker 1: that you want or is there a ways to go
Speaker 1: to be better at that aspect? I think especially with
Speaker 1: your you know your back seven. Yeah, no, that's a
Speaker 1: great question. And let me just say this. I think
Speaker 1: we got really talented guys, and I think there's physical
Speaker 1: and I think there is still room for improving. And
Speaker 1: I think I think that's the part that excites me
Speaker 1: is that we've got guys and you know, one run phrase,
Speaker 1: they're can always hear me say, and you guys may
Speaker 1: hear it. Two if you're around me, is that they're
Speaker 1: caught on tape. And these guys have been caught on
Speaker 1: tape in a positive way to show the physicality. And
Speaker 1: now that the next step there's going to be doing
Speaker 1: day in and day out on it sits in basis,
Speaker 1: on the plane of play basis and bringing all eleven
Speaker 1: hants to the wall. And those are the things I
Speaker 1: was talking about earlier. You know, on the other day
Speaker 1: in the press conferences, that stuff is palpable, and then
Speaker 1: over time that's like body shots on an offense. And
Speaker 1: then I mean, how do you what's the first way
Speaker 1: to eliminate speed of an offense is with physicality, right,
Speaker 1: I mean toughness and physicality that slows people down. And
Speaker 1: so that'll be our approach. And I'm excited to get
Speaker 1: to work with these guys and continue to build on
Speaker 1: the tools that have been in place here. And then
Speaker 1: the guys that are younger or sometimes that might need
Speaker 1: a little bit more refinement, We're gonna have a plan
Speaker 1: for them as well. Hey, Sean throughout your NFL career,
Speaker 1: And I don't mean this question disrespectfully, because sometimes when
Speaker 1: you gravitate towards the position, that's kind of position that
Speaker 1: room you stay in. Have you do you spend or
Speaker 1: have you spent much time in the defensive line room
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, and you know the
Speaker 1: way you know to see and read the expressions of
Speaker 1: those guys as well as you know the the positions
Speaker 1: that you've worked with with the Bears, And so the
Speaker 1: D line is admittedly so probably my weakest position I've
Speaker 1: got I think a significant amount of experience with the
Speaker 1: outside linebackers, the inside linebackers, and obviously the safeties, corners
Speaker 1: and nichols. Uh. My experience with the D line is
Speaker 1: through my interactions with them on the field. I've got
Speaker 1: great relationships with all those guys in the room and
Speaker 1: when I'm when I'm on practicing, you guys have seen me.
Speaker 1: I'm usually hanging around the big guys. Uh. That that's
Speaker 1: a that's a little bit of a personal touch. I'd like, Um,
Speaker 1: I like to know what they're thinking. I'd like to
Speaker 1: know where their minds are, what they're being taught. And
Speaker 1: I'm always you know, during special teams if I'm not involved,
Speaker 1: I've always been hanging out by the old line and
Speaker 1: D line drills because now it's just another way for
Speaker 1: me to trying to learn by observing and hearing the
Speaker 1: coaching points of a Jay Rodgers. So I've got tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of respect for and then really trying to take
Speaker 1: notes and study as much as that as I can
Speaker 1: on my own time, and then ask questions for those guys.
Speaker 1: So that's where i think I've built up enough of
Speaker 1: a report and enough of a background in where uh
Speaker 1: with a with a guy with a guy like Chris
Speaker 1: Rump in that room, and then Bill showiep the outside
Speaker 1: linebacker room, it'll be a good match. Guess. Last one
Speaker 1: for me, just a quick one. It was great that
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson got on the field. He's young players and
Speaker 1: that's in a COVID world where it was all virtual.
Speaker 1: Are you hopeful you'll be able to work with the players,
Speaker 1: especially the young players, not so much the veterans, but
Speaker 1: whether it's an OTA some type of set up here
Speaker 1: this offseason. I know a lot of coaches have already
Speaker 1: been talking about that. If that's a possibility, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. I really I think I think
Speaker 1: most coaches are hopeful that they're able to work with
Speaker 1: their guys in the off season because it's just more
Speaker 1: opportunities for teaching and development. And as you've said, especially
Speaker 1: the younger players, we're the ones that sometimes get a
Speaker 1: little bit lost in the shelf. A lot of these
Speaker 1: veterans been on football and they know how to prepare
Speaker 1: their bodies for the most part, to get ready for
Speaker 1: a football season. But when you're coming out of college,
Speaker 1: or you're a rookie or a second year guy, sometimes
Speaker 1: the learning curve is a little bit longer and harder. Well,
Speaker 1: some of these guys opted out. They haven't even played football.
Speaker 1: It'll be two years now, would you think about it?
Speaker 1: That's absolutely right. And then that's that's another layers just
Speaker 1: that you brought up. I mean, it's one thing to
Speaker 1: keep working out and looking weights and running around on
Speaker 1: a film. But football, you know, Jim and Tom and
Speaker 1: all you guys that have played, is is different. When
Speaker 1: you put on tags, that's a whole different level of
Speaker 1: conditioning and physicality. So to me, yes, I'd be welcome
Speaker 1: to happy you work with as many guys as we
Speaker 1: can here in the off season, all right, Big Sean
Speaker 1: will let you go one last one with me. Safeties
Speaker 1: is what you coached the last couple of years, that
Speaker 1: relationship with Eddie Jackson, because these safeties in this league
Speaker 1: now are so critical for playoff success. How important is
Speaker 1: that for you? Oh? Think it's like you said, it's critical.
Speaker 1: I mean Eddie and even Sean last year they were
Speaker 1: tremendously years for us on the back end, and I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be so much room for growth for
Speaker 1: both of them. And I think Eddie's in such a
Speaker 1: good spot right now manally where he's excited to come back,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to get back to working with him.
Speaker 1: And I think we're gonna fair him with the Shay
Speaker 1: obviously again and Mike Adams in that room is going
Speaker 1: to be really beneficial to him, and I think he's
Speaker 1: going to really embrace the roles that we're going to
Speaker 1: be putting him in next year. All right, Sean, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for all the time. We hope to
Speaker 1: talk to you again down the road. All right, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys, having good mangratulations again, Sean Decide. Bears defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Jim stick around. We'll talk to you a couple
Speaker 1: of more hour minutes before we let you go, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind, as we'll continue on here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by
Speaker 1: IGS Energy with Tom Thayer Jim Miller a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes with him before he let him go. From a
Speaker 1: Bears perspective, in terms of what the salary cap, we
Speaker 1: know they're tight to it um the increase to one
Speaker 1: eighty with the potential that you know some of the
Speaker 1: players and the Players Association, the guys that are the
Speaker 1: player reps in there. They think it's gonna go out
Speaker 1: maybe to one eighty eight or so. It's still less.
Speaker 1: But is that enough for teams to make some difficult decisions?
Speaker 1: Bears included to clear enough space to make things happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think for for half the league, yeah, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: be fine. The other half that I mentioned, they're they're
Speaker 1: gonna be struggling. Now, I mean they ran, So where
Speaker 1: do you put the Bears in this category? Um, I
Speaker 1: think they'll middle their own. Yeah, the level of the road.
Speaker 1: I think if they do lock in the TV contracts,
Speaker 1: it may get up to one ninety potentially one ninety five,
Speaker 1: but it was scheduled to be over two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million, So there's still that's a thirty million dollar gap.
Speaker 1: And teams were you know, nobody could predict a pandemic.
Speaker 1: And you know, you you live on the credit card,
Speaker 1: you're gonna die by the credit card. I mean a
Speaker 1: team like a New Orleans. New Orleans is two hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars over the seller cap. I mean, now that's
Speaker 1: no joke. It's two hundred million over. Yeah, they to
Speaker 1: That's why they just put Drew Brees. They classified him
Speaker 1: as only a million dollars. That way they could start
Speaker 1: shifting some money. New Orleans is in bad shape. Atlanta,
Speaker 1: who I mentioned, has been bad shape. Rams are in
Speaker 1: bad shape. Pittsburgh is in bad shape. Think about Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: In order to bring back Big Ben, he's a forty
Speaker 1: four million dollars cap hit. They're gonna have to extend
Speaker 1: him out if he is to play, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to say, guess what, Big Ben, we need you
Speaker 1: to take a Tom Brady deal. If you can't take
Speaker 1: a Tom Brady deal, which is what twenty five million
Speaker 1: dollars a year, we can't. We can't do this that.
Speaker 1: Those are the decisions that are gonna have to be
Speaker 1: made now. If they add three years to his contract,
Speaker 1: he's got a fifteen million dollar bonus. Set us here,
Speaker 1: take him down to million dollars paragraph five, give him
Speaker 1: a roster bonus, spread it out over three years on
Speaker 1: a Tom Brady deal. They can do that. They could
Speaker 1: do that, but you know, it's these things when you're
Speaker 1: living on a credit card like that, and that's what
Speaker 1: these teams are. Saints Eagles, who I mentioned Rams. Chiefs
Speaker 1: are in that situation. Steelers, Packers have submit issues. Falcons
Speaker 1: are in that world. There's gonna be a world hurt.
Speaker 1: Now they'll be think about the Rams as a team
Speaker 1: that I just mentioned. So they've got Aaron Donald, they
Speaker 1: got Jalen Ramsey. Now they just added the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: they've got a few other Andrew Whitworth, same thing. They
Speaker 1: got about six guys. The rest of their team will
Speaker 1: be undrafted free agents in lower round draft picks that
Speaker 1: will be that j Jim. Do you do you think
Speaker 1: this lessens the options for JJ Watt because if he
Speaker 1: wants some enormous salary to bring his personality with him,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to be able to be offered that,
Speaker 1: You know, I seriously so, I think as JJ Watt
Speaker 1: willing to accept what he's gonna be paid according to
Speaker 1: the new salary cap. Yeah, but for him, it's all
Speaker 1: about winning. So he's going to target a team that
Speaker 1: does have cap space. Say Cleveland. Okay, Cleveland's got cap space.
Speaker 1: They just went to the playoffs. They feel their head
Speaker 1: in the right direction, and JJ can say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be opposite Miles Garrett. Yeah, in the same division. With
Speaker 1: his brothers on the Pittsburg I mean, I don't see
Speaker 1: them honestly, I mean, is this really gonna happen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean so, I think that's what he's targeting. So
Speaker 1: I think Green Bay's an interesting you know, could he
Speaker 1: go home there and I'm sure they could do some
Speaker 1: things cap wise to fit him in. I think that
Speaker 1: sounds great. But I think like a team like Cleveland
Speaker 1: would really intrigue him. Obviously Aaron Rodgers and his success,
Speaker 1: and he'll think about things like that. I would think
Speaker 1: for him, where do you guys feel he's at career wise?
Speaker 1: I think Tom, both you guys. I'd sign him to
Speaker 1: a three year deal and he'll probably make two of those.
Speaker 1: I would think, you know, he's still a good player. Um,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, for him, it's about winning right now.
Speaker 1: So I don't I think he's gonna get good money,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's for him. I think it's
Speaker 1: about winning. I really believe that, and he'll take a
Speaker 1: little bit less to be a part of a winner.
Speaker 1: What do you think I think JJ? I think JJ
Speaker 1: Watt is still a good story. He's intriguing in the
Speaker 1: year in the world of social media, where he can
Speaker 1: go out and tell his teammates how dissatisfied he was
Speaker 1: with some of their efforts throughout the football season. But
Speaker 1: you know, JJ Watt to me, I think I'm getting
Speaker 1: damaged goods. If I'm gonna be an offense, that's I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look at a point of attack. I'm going at
Speaker 1: JJ Watt repeatedly. I'm gonna make him defend himself against
Speaker 1: big offensive tackles, tight ends, and offensive guards. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna let him be the best
Speaker 1: player on my defense in order to lead me to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. All Right, big Jim, We're gonna let
Speaker 1: you go. Appreciate it. Talk to you next week. Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, Always gonna be with you. Good to
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Speaker 1: with you, want to talk about Terko and I see
Speaker 1: his his tweet start you know he's into the rehab
Speaker 1: now and it's a lot of work. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of work, he admits it. It's probably he's never gonna
Speaker 1: have had to work as hard as he is right
Speaker 1: now to get himself back from ato torn acl early
Speaker 1: in the season to get himself So from your experience
Speaker 1: with teammates that have gone through this and that offseason
Speaker 1: after signing a nice contract, he got a nice contract
Speaker 1: from the Bears, what that challenge is like to prove
Speaker 1: you know, you're worth every penny of that after injury, right,
Speaker 1: But we have examples of extraordinary work ethic that can
Speaker 1: get these guys back on the field effectively. So Alan
Speaker 1: Robbins is a perfect example, and Adrian Peterson years ago.
Speaker 1: So you know, Jeff, when you sit there and you
Speaker 1: look at guys that it takes him two and a
Speaker 1: half years to recover, then I did I would question
Speaker 1: some of the work ethic or work effort they put
Speaker 1: into getting back on the field. To me, I see
Speaker 1: Charik Cohen as a super energized guy. That it is hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard getting the confidence back that you can do
Speaker 1: everything that's required of you in order to get back
Speaker 1: on the football field. But you know, after having back
Speaker 1: surgery and knee surgeries. It's more the confidence that you
Speaker 1: have to have in yourself to go in the weight
Speaker 1: room and take a squat bar off the rack that
Speaker 1: has four or five or six hundred pounds loaded on
Speaker 1: it and then bend your knees and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you go, Wow, I'm back. I'm earning my way back
Speaker 1: to where I need to be in order to be
Speaker 1: the player I was before and going forward. So I
Speaker 1: don't I think because of there's recent examples of extreme
Speaker 1: success after these types of operations. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: more it's more of a motivator than thinking, oh, I
Speaker 1: have to take a couple of years to recover from this.
Speaker 1: I think it's the mindset you have well, and I
Speaker 1: think he's got that. He worked his tail off in
Speaker 1: college works. You know. I've done plenty of features on
Speaker 1: him going back into his background. I got a Eddie
Speaker 1: Goldman question because there've been a few players that opted
Speaker 1: out that have already been let go by their teams
Speaker 1: in advance of twenty twenty one season, and we talk about, well,
Speaker 1: they took a year off from football. What's the difference
Speaker 1: between taking a year off from football where you didn't
Speaker 1: have the day to day contact and your body's refreshed,
Speaker 1: so to speak. Versus a player coming off an injury
Speaker 1: that's suffered in training camp and he misses the whole
Speaker 1: year and he's coming back after not playing from football.
Speaker 1: There can't be a negative attached to it, I hope,
Speaker 1: because you know what I'm saying to me, it would
Speaker 1: be like a rookie with experience, because Eddie Goldman has
Speaker 1: only been around for a couple of years. But we
Speaker 1: see what he's been able to contribute to the Bears.
Speaker 1: Now he's set the reset button. He stayed away from
Speaker 1: football for a year, and hopefully he was dedicated to
Speaker 1: the room or to the weight room. That's not evidence
Speaker 1: that we've been able to see yet, but he was
Speaker 1: dedicated to a work ethic during the COVID season that
Speaker 1: he opted out. He should come in here like a
Speaker 1: first high first round draft choice immediately. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: he's still young. That's the big part of it too.
Speaker 1: I know. Well, let's see, let's do in the math.
Speaker 1: He's twenty seven years old, still Tommy, and he's already
Speaker 1: played sixty seven NFL games with the Bears over a
Speaker 1: five year period, so that's still fresh legs coming in
Speaker 1: and according to Sean Decay this week, says that he
Speaker 1: clearly has been in touch with him at some point
Speaker 1: because he said he missed it. Well, you know some guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some guys, that's when they start hitting their stride in
Speaker 1: their mid to upper twenties and then they in Now,
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman's kind of a different character because he has
Speaker 1: experience of playing next to a Keem Hicks, playing through
Speaker 1: a different couple styles of defense. Then he again rewarded
Speaker 1: with the contract because of what they believe as future
Speaker 1: ability and contributions to the team will be Well, he's
Speaker 1: gonna run into a brand new Balal Nichols after what
Speaker 1: he learned confidence. Why is this past season? I mean
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. I mean that's a that's a bonus
Speaker 1: if you ask me. All Right, we're out of time,
Speaker 1: Big Tom gotta go. Thanks to all our producers Jordan
Speaker 1: trut Up, Dan Brilli, and Adam Stadsinski. Tonight thanks to
Speaker 1: Jim Miller and new Bears defensive coordinator Sean Decide for Tom. There,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac coming up next. Our guy Mark Grody
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