WEBVTT - Chris Berman on honoring the history of the game | Bears Weekly 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.680 Welcome in to Bears Weekly, a Chicago Bears Network production. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.800 Download The Chicago Bears Official brought to. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.320 You by Verizon to follow the team on the Jo. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.160 Bears Weekly is brought to you. 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:17.280 By African Healthcare, Athletico Physical Therapy, bet Rivers c detailing 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.480 you Connie's Pizza by Gens Energy and Miller Like Kierra, 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.439 Your hosts Jeff Chiloniak aka the Mayor of Bearsville and 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.360 his psidekick Term the Surfmaster there. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.440 Surfing into Week one. My man with his surfboard. I'm 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.960 looking at him on Zoom everybody. My man Tom Beaars 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.519 got his first surfboard ever hanging from the raptors of 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.479 his head. So, yeah, he is the surfmaster, all right, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:44.800 And I'm the Mayor of Bearsville. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:45.639 Yeah you are. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.879 Hey, Hey, it's an old sticking Arab. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.000 You are the mayor of Bearsville. They can make a 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.479 Christmas comedy about it. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.680 Hey, I hope, so, I hope the comedy is uh 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.360 is absolutely a blockbuster win Week one and we are 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.920 laughing and kicking it up at the stadium on Sunday, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.240 Tommy at three twenty five. By the end of the day, 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.080 you and I are laughing. You're saying, you're yelling ball. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.440 You're laughing when and Justin's firing a sixty yard bomb 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.119 to a streaking DJ Moore or running out of trouble 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.600 into the end zone and we're sacking Jordan Love. Yeah, 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:22.960 like the old days. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.319 I know, But I would like that to be Game eighteen, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.200 when they're playing Green Bay, the last game of the year, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.080 and there's a reason for the excitement, the enthusiasm. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.080 It's a playoff bound football team because. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.080 You know, Jeff, in the course of football, if you're 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.520 a broadcaster or if you're a player, the immediacy of 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.679 the next week is upon you as soon as the 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.920 game ends, and you're already thinking about what you have 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.440 to do to get prepared for Tapa, what the conditions 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.720 are gonna be, Like I have the app on my 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.840 phone that I'm looking up the weather report and so. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.800 But you're not playing anymore. So can't you enjoy the moment? 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.800 You know, if the Bears win or Bears are playing 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.440 a great game on Sunday, I better see a ear 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.040 to ear grin on your face and that you're enjoying it. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.560 You will, I will, But you know, the love for 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.480 football and what it means to me and my family 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.440 and what the Bears mean to me. It's so ingrained 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.600 in me that I want to see the ultimate success. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.360 I don't want to live for three hours of success 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.160 and then, you know, whatever unfolds. I want to have 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.400 a season of success. And so at the end of 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.280 the year, you're buying me champagne and we're you know, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.520 we're having having fun that way. So listen more than anything, 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.720 Sunday three twenty five and then it ends at six 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.800 twenty five or whatever whatever. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.600 I do want to have that fun, that laughter and 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:50.720 all the plays. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.040 That you just talked about, justin Fields, Dj Moore, Tremaine 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.560 Edmunds in the Gang and the rest of the twenty 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.160 three Bears getting down to business Sunday at Soldier Field. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.160 This is Bears Weekly. That's time there the Super Bowl 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.480 Bear thanks to Jordan tread Up and Dan Brilly, our 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.359 producers from the Bears. Tonight at the ESPN one thousand Studios. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.920 There is just cracking me up by his attitude right now. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.000 I love it. It's Packer Week and you can feel it. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.160 Kevin C. Pack, Sean Greeney, our executive producer, Eric Ostrotski 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.040 coming up tonight. In our next segment, wide receiver Darnel Mooney. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:18.880 We had him on Our Bears et cea podcast for 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.480 rolling them out again tonight, and at six thirty ESPN 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.079 Primetime host the legendary Chris Berman for a couple of segments. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.320 Tom and I visited with him yesterday. So News of 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.040 the day, rest day for a tight end. Marcedes Lewis 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.520 out for a personal reason today of an unknown nature. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.040 Right guard Nate Davis. We'll hear from Matt Eberflus tomorrow. 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.400 What does it mean? We don't know. Reserve linebacker Dylan 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.360 Cole not able to go the last couple of days. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.880 From a packer perspective, David Bactieri, he gets rest, he 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.600 doesn't practice much. He's a veteran, He's got eleven years 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.800 hunder his belt. Romeo Dobbs limited hamstring, Christian Watson did 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.960 not with his hamstring, and Nntavius Wis the rookie receiver 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.119 out of Virginia full practice limited the last two days 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.360 for a returning room. Sean Gary, the edge rusher of 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.160 importance for the Packers. Break it down, Tommy. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.120 You know to me, it's the you know, David Baffieri 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.000 is a big question mark because he's has this consideration 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.000 of being such a dominant offensive lineman and a tackle, 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.919 and when you don't practice, I don't see how you 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.839 can just automatically be ready. But my same concerns are 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.680 for Nate Davis. Here's a guy that's put a couple 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.200 of practices underneath his belt. He's, you know, signed a 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.359 big money contract, enormous expectations that have been placed on 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.960 him because you're trying to break in a rookie right 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.600 tackle that could have an incredible future. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.920 In front of him and Darnell Right. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.680 So, as much as you want to talk about the quarterbacks, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.360 you have to think about the supporting cast because Jordan 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.920 Love or Justin Fields, they can't do it on their own. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.120 They need the guys that are hopefully to be a 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.440 part of this football team for their growth and progress. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.960 All Right, the man call the plays. Luke Getzi, in 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.800 his weekly news com prints each Thursday up here at 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.040 hallisaw rolled it out. You know, I call it all 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.280 the time. We all talk about it's a great unknown week, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.080 and the anticipation is there. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:11.800 No, I wouldn't say there's more. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.240 There's there's comfort that the unknowns of Game one are 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.440 are always going to be there for for both teams, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.080 right and all all facets of the game. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:21.320 It's game one. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.760 No one does anything in preseason that's that's gonna unveil 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.159 anything to you. Uh, And so you go into Game 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.920 one with uh, you know, trusting your training. That's truly 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.839 what you have to do in this situation, right, because 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.400 they could do anything, and they could change their style 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.680 of play or whatever. You know, new coaches come in, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.840 new players come in, and people change a little bit 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.640 and it may not be drastic, but there could be 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.040 just subtle changes, and you want to make sure that 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.240 you're prepared, and that's what you take training camp to do, right. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.200 You take training camp to to get your fundamentals in 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.240 the right place so that you can execute whenever that 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.960 new thing happens and you guys can respond the right way. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.400 So there's definitely no comfort in that. But uh, you know, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.440 just you know, excited. And I would say the relationships 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.599 that we have with the players are much are much deeper, 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.800 and those things we can lean on a little bit more. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.800 He knows they know each other, and he knows the Packers, 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.440 and he knows Joe Barry that that hasn't changed defensively. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.600 It's a veteran defense offensively because of Aaron not there 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.520 anymore and you got an unknown at quarterback. That's the 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.520 anticipation we're looking at. But from what Luke tells you, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.200 what is you think he's in going to anticipate from 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:26.640 the Green Bay Packers? 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.320 You know, Jeff, to think about it is this isn't 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.160 the college Boloney, where you start your first couple of 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.560 weeks and play against inferior talent just to get things 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.320 ramped up when you start, when you go to the 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.800 game field at three twenty five Sunday, you have to 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.680 be going at a million miles an hour. And that's 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.600 the thing about the NFL. And so you know, I 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.640 like what Luke said is you have to have the 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.479 fundamental zone grained in your head that if they make 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.400 an adjustment, whether it's fundamentally technique or design, that you 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.200 have to be ready to face whatever it is. And 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.240 you know, Stanfelder, offensive line coach, used to say, Hey, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.240 practice is the time to work on the things that 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:10.520 may be new to your arsenal or your weaponry and stuff. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.640 And now you have to have confidence built up in 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.240 the practices that are all behind you that when you 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.200 face a situation that calls for that new technique or 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.360 that new move or whatever it is, according to the 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.960 position you play, that you're ready to put it on 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.480 display or you're ready to react against it. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.960 Now slip to the defensive side. Alan Williams trying to 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.600 keep things as simple as possible. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.200 It's still about winning your one on one matchups. It's 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.240 still about they have one football. They don't have three, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.000 so we have to find the football. We know where 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:52.640 it is. It's still about tackling, lining up, reading your keys, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.800 getting to the ball, and all the other things. Those 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.720 are distractions. That's window dressing, all the other things that 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.640 come into effect and all the other things about Hey, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.840 the stats say this, and the analytics say this and whatever. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.400 I've never heard of a game that was won through analytics. Now, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.400 with the technology and all the things that we have 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.560 and all the information that we have, sometimes they make 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.360 guys play slower, not faster. So we want to again, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.760 I'm saying the same thing over and over again. But 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.640 if we get lined up, see the formation, read our keys, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.600 play fast, run and tackle, will be fine. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:38.120 You know, Jeff. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.680 It kind of reminds me of a speech thirty years 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.880 ago when the defensive coaches were getting the Bears defense 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.719 ready to play against Barry Sanders. You can't be apprehensive, 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.720 you can't be thinking you have to play a million 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:51.559 miles an hour. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.640 And that's what Alan Williams is saying. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.720 No matter what the era is, the modern day era 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.200 or the old time, you gotta be ready to play, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:00.800 and you gotta play all. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.280 Right, Tommy, our first segment in the books Coming up next, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.040 Darnell Mooney joins the program. This is Bears Weekly on 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.520 ESPN Chicago and the Bears Radio Network. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.600 This is Bears Weekly with the voice of the Bears 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:17.079 for twenty three years, Jeff j on the Bears Radio Network. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.800 You want VIP access to every Bears home game, exclusive seating, 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.600 sideline credentials, and more now available. Get the ultimate VIP 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:32.040 fan package this season by visiting Chicago Bears vip dot 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.520 com town. The season opens tonight. How about this weird thing. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.880 Two hundred and seven days after the Super Bowl, they 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.079 were showing Nick Bolton to the Chiefs scoop and score 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.920 against Philadelphia the Super Bowl. And this is the two 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.160 hundred and seventh meeting between the Bears and Packers on Sunday, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.640 I told your field, but tonight it's Kansas City without 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:54.720 Travis Kelce as they open things up against the Detroit Lions. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.880 America's love affair with Detroit is underway. Let's see if 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:58.800 it lasts through the evening. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.000 Difficult stadium to play in. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.679 I mean, Patrick Mchomes one of the best starting quarterbacks 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.880 in the history of the NFL throughout early portions of 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.400 his career, and like Alan Williams said, we're not worried 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:14.400 about the analytics. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.040 We're worried about the style of play. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.240 Yeah, the numbers eighteen touchdowns and his openers in five years, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.160 five and zero and fifteen hundred yards and no interceptions. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.439 So they tell me young quarterbacks throw interceptions, But not 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.520 Patrick Mahomes in Week one, all right, getting ready for 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.240 his own Week one after a battle with an injury 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.760 of significance last season and through the off season. Wide 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.959 receiver down now Mooney ready to rock and roll. Here's 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.960 my interview with the veteran wide receiver earlier this week. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.680 I want to start on the Packers because it's what 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.160 everybody's been hoping for and thinking about. So let's just 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.719 dive right in before we just chat a little bit. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.160 It feels like it's bigger than one game. I know 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.360 you guys can't look at it that way, but there's 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.839 just something about it symbolic. You play them again a week, right, guy, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.840 You guys could ever be locked up, playoff spot, you know, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.640 stuff like that happens. This This thing just carries a 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.120 lot of weight for a lot of people. What's a 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.679 player perspective? What's Darnell's perspective? 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.160 I mean, I've never beating these guys since I've been 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.440 in the league, So it's definitely a big one. And 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:23.680 you understand the rivalry many years after. You play multiple 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.640 games and it's definitely a big one. First game of 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.760 the year for sure, and then going against them, and 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.520 it's something that the fans care about, so you you 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.720 kind of gravitate and understand like why they care about 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.160 it so much, and then you're just like, Okay, yeah, 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.680 let's definitely beat those guys for sure. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.360 So didn't you have a team even in youth football 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.640 or any sport you played, you just got tired of that. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.360 You want to beat them exactly exactly? 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:47.800 Are you at that point now? 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:48.040 Yeah? 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.280 Definitely, definitely want to beat them for sure. For sure. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.800 I mean, whatever we got to do to beat those guys, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.240 for sure, I'm ready to pull out everything that we 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.880 have just to take care of these guys for sure. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.839 You know, I went back and looked, and I know 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.520 what the numbers say. Okay, it has been a struggle 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.640 way before you ever got here, thirty years of it. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.920 Kenny Clark, for example, was thirteen and oh against the Bears. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.880 Preston Smith's ten and oh, Matt Leffleur is eight. No, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.960 it's just yeah, it just hasn't happened. Yeah, so it's 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.800 not for taking. When the bully on the block, you 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.360 gotta finally punch you in the mouth, right otherwise, Oh 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.000 my gosh. But it is interesting because it is Bears Packers, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.560 and that thing hangs over the whole rivalry. Anyway, this 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.280 is big for you. I know it's big because coming 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.160 off injury is a lonely ride. I know you and 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.240 I spoke months ago and you said you're glad you 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.360 went through the experience not even getting injured. But yeah, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.880 just what you learn. Can you put that in the 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.840 context for the average Why. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.760 It's just you. You get a lot to like self 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.479 reflect I mean, and just have a lot of self awareness. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.920 I mean, it's just you a lot of rest time, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.440 and I mean you you get to read some books 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.439 and just have a lot of loan time. You're looking 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.240 at the ceiling a lot of times, and you're just 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:12.439 relaxing and just thinking. Thinking a lot, and sometimes thinking 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.600 overthinking can be a bad thing, but sometimes it's can 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.760 be a good thing, you know. So it's been what 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.400 eight nine months since the last time I was actually 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.920 in a in a game or whatever, so I'm excited 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.680 to get back out there. It won't be any like 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.720 fearness or anything. I mean, obviously the preseason was nice. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.959 I didn't get the actual feeling, but I definitely will 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.760 allow myself to have some emotion going into this game 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.440 and in what sense just readiness and just ready to, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.839 you know, get back to being me and going out 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.360 there with what I wanted to do. Last year I 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.320 didn't get to do as much. But uh, just pick up, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.200 pick pick back off of where I feel that, you know, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.320 I'm able to perform at and it's easy to do 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.800 that with a second year and into the offense and 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.160 just everybody is it is not so much of a 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.520 newness thing. It's more of like we know what's going on, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.840 so I'm happy to get back. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:10.199 For sure, is it an offense? I mean, just think 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.480 about you. I can't remember how many targets well over 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.079 one hundred couple of years ago. Is this gonna be 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:21.000 an offense? Now? We just gotta find your place for sure? 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.280 You mean like role wise, role wise, but that's day 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.520 to day for sure, day to day. Like, I don't 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.280 think this is an offense, and you correct me if 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:34.160 I'm wrong. Hey, Darnell, listen, and here's the pecking order. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.360 This is how it's gonna go. So you know, don't 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.440 be anticipating a lot or a Darnell. You're gonna be 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.120 the feature. No day to day, week to week. Depends 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.680 the matchups, yeah right, what justin ces. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.800 Definitely matters on all those cases. You never know, you 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.200 can be the top guy for this game and you 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.040 cannot be the top guy for the next game. So 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.800 it just depends on who we're playing and just matters 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.960 about matchups, like you said, So we'll see. It's it's 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.400 big for the first couple of games, honestly, to identify 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:09.960 who we are and what we like to do. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.600 So see, I already think that. Yeah, we love to 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.640 run the ball and we're good at it. Justin's dynamic runner, 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:22.200 the weapon reason increased, the offensive lines different. Hopefully they'll 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.080 be healthy. I don't know. To me, there's not too 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:25.960 many surprises. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.560 I mean, it all looks it all looks good. It's 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.160 just it just has to be put out there and performed. So, 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.560 I mean, you can you know throughout the whole offseason 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.080 you have all the hypeness of everything and just like, yeah, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.520 we're gonna be able to do this, but you don't 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.480 really know until you actually go out there and play. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.800 Or how they're gonna play you, exactly because I'm thinking, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:49.240 I'm thinking they're gonna play less man. They don't want 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.320 their back turn to Justin. Don't you think for sure? 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.040 You never Yeah, you never want to do that. So 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.840 it's just a dangerous thing. Obviously he showed you don't 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.840 do that at all last year, So yeah, we'll see 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.360 you never you have you can have some guys that 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.400 are just like, I don't care who you are, we're 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:06.000 gonna do this. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.840 So that is going to happen. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.880 You never know how how people are going to play us. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:15.800 So post injury, it's always an interesting discussion because and 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.440 you said you were gonna have ankle surgery of some 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.400 kind no matter what happened, and you happen to have 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.240 a broken ankle. First of all, painful? Was it when 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.320 I first injury? 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.520 At first? I like on the field wise, like I 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.080 knew I broke it. Yeah, because Byron was telling me 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.520 like get up. I'm like, nah, bro, this is this 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.280 is broken. It's like, no, there's no way I'm getting 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.880 up after this. And uh, I'm usually like I'll get 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.600 up and go to the sialide or whatever. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.640 And then shake it off and then come back in. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.440 But this one I knew even going to the locker 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.320 room Andrea, and then we're trying to like give me 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.080 on the stretch, and I'm like, that's one thing I'm 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.200 not doing. I'm going to walk off of this field, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:56.960 but I'm not getting on that stretcher. You better give 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.840 me your shoulder. That's the only way I'm getting off 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.320 the field. So, I mean it was it wasn't painful then, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.119 but didn't want it like died down. I got a 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.040 little painful. And then I got in my car after 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.960 the plane ride all that all that air or whatever 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.080 and kind of blew my blew my ankle up a 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.000 little bit, but it was a little painful. One too crazy, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.120 but it was it was painful. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:18.600 Do you feel whole again? 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.680 Yeah? I mean I felt felt whole, yeah, within it all. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.639 I mean I made a decision when I was in 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.959 after surgery that this is something I really want to do, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.200 so I'm going to continue to pursue what i want 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:31.919 and get out of what I want out of this. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.520 And I made that decision then and I'm not looking back. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:40.640 All right, you look amazing, right, You're you're you're strong, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.360 not that you weren't before, But what do you think 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.600 that'll do for you? Have you Have you felt that 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.919 strength that you've added, that muscle, that armor. Have you 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.760 felt it when you've gone up against dbs even in practice? 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:52.160 For sure? 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:52.440 Yeah? 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.600 Sure I can. I can use my strength more, whether 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.800 it be like a sneaky push off or just blocking 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.720 wise and running my routes and not getting bumped off 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.840 of anything and just just playing some uh, just having 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.400 some good play strength. Uh. I would say, look dj Man, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.439 DJ has incredible play strength, Like he can catch the 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.400 ball over anybody at any point of time, and it's 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.320 just amazing. To see that because it's like, that's what 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.520 I want to be able to do every time, Like, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.560 no matter what happens to the balls and the ris 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.520 minds and DJ does a good thing, good a good 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.440 act of that, and I want to do that same 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:29.520 action of that as well. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.760 You mentioned you read a lot of books during your 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.680 time rehabbing and getting ready. Would you read anything that's 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:37.439 sticking with you. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.520 To this Unstoppable? It's by Tim Grover. Oh yeah, we. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.880 All know Timmy's Chicago Bulls fame. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:45.320 Amazing. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:49.440 What's the gist of that book? 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.080 It's about It's basically about finding your role and understanding, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.120 understanding your role and and playing that role into the 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.760 into the like the the best you can and uh 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:05.200 understand it and really going fullfill about it. So yeah, 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:06.720 that was a good book. I kind of read it 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:11.280 over and over to remember myself on what I. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:11.760 Don't want to do. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.000 Well, listen, like you said, long time, you're all about heart, right, Yeah, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.360 that's gonna carry. That's gonna win the day for Darnell Mooney, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.719 have a great season, stay healthy, let's go get him. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:27.040 Thank you, appreciate it, Thank you all right. Tommy Always introspective. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.920 I love talking to Darnell, what strikes you about his comments? 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.720 Where is that mentally, physically, and spiritual. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:35.879 I think he's in a really strong place. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.680 And Darnell always has the first thing about recovery from 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:40.879 an injury, because we've all been through in our career, 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.040 is it kind of you go through a couple of movements, 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:45.480 you go through a couple of hits, and then all 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.200 of a sudden, it's out of your mind. You're back 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.280 to normal. So that's what I look at individually for 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.959 Darnell Mooney. But when you think about the team, this 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.520 is a team that desperately needs to have a convincing 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.960 win against the Green Bay Packers, and they need that 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.400