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Speaker 1: his psidekick Term the Surfmaster there.
Speaker 3: Surfing into Week one. My man with his surfboard. I'm
Speaker 3: looking at him on Zoom everybody. My man Tom Beaars
Speaker 3: got his first surfboard ever hanging from the raptors of
Speaker 3: his head. So, yeah, he is the surfmaster, all right,
Speaker 3: And I'm the Mayor of Bearsville.
Speaker 4: Yeah you are.
Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, it's an old sticking Arab.
Speaker 5: You are the mayor of Bearsville. They can make a
Speaker 5: Christmas comedy about it.
Speaker 3: Hey, I hope, so, I hope the comedy is uh
Speaker 3: is absolutely a blockbuster win Week one and we are
Speaker 3: laughing and kicking it up at the stadium on Sunday,
Speaker 3: Tommy at three twenty five. By the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you and I are laughing. You're saying, you're yelling ball.
Speaker 3: You're laughing when and Justin's firing a sixty yard bomb
Speaker 3: to a streaking DJ Moore or running out of trouble
Speaker 3: into the end zone and we're sacking Jordan Love. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like the old days.
Speaker 5: I know, But I would like that to be Game eighteen,
Speaker 5: when they're playing Green Bay, the last game of the year,
Speaker 5: and there's a reason for the excitement, the enthusiasm.
Speaker 4: It's a playoff bound football team because.
Speaker 5: You know, Jeff, in the course of football, if you're
Speaker 5: a broadcaster or if you're a player, the immediacy of
Speaker 5: the next week is upon you as soon as the
Speaker 5: game ends, and you're already thinking about what you have
Speaker 5: to do to get prepared for Tapa, what the conditions
Speaker 5: are gonna be, Like I have the app on my
Speaker 5: phone that I'm looking up the weather report and so.
Speaker 3: But you're not playing anymore. So can't you enjoy the moment?
Speaker 3: You know, if the Bears win or Bears are playing
Speaker 3: a great game on Sunday, I better see a ear
Speaker 3: to ear grin on your face and that you're enjoying it.
Speaker 5: You will, I will, But you know, the love for
Speaker 5: football and what it means to me and my family
Speaker 5: and what the Bears mean to me. It's so ingrained
Speaker 5: in me that I want to see the ultimate success.
Speaker 5: I don't want to live for three hours of success
Speaker 5: and then, you know, whatever unfolds. I want to have
Speaker 5: a season of success. And so at the end of
Speaker 5: the year, you're buying me champagne and we're you know,
Speaker 5: we're having having fun that way. So listen more than anything,
Speaker 5: Sunday three twenty five and then it ends at six
Speaker 5: twenty five or whatever whatever.
Speaker 4: I do want to have that fun, that laughter and
Speaker 4: all the plays.
Speaker 3: That you just talked about, justin Fields, Dj Moore, Tremaine
Speaker 3: Edmunds in the Gang and the rest of the twenty
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Speaker 3: There is just cracking me up by his attitude right now.
Speaker 3: I love it. It's Packer Week and you can feel it.
Speaker 3: Kevin C. Pack, Sean Greeney, our executive producer, Eric Ostrotski
Speaker 3: coming up tonight. In our next segment, wide receiver Darnel Mooney.
Speaker 3: We had him on Our Bears et cea podcast for
Speaker 3: rolling them out again tonight, and at six thirty ESPN
Speaker 3: Primetime host the legendary Chris Berman for a couple of segments.
Speaker 3: Tom and I visited with him yesterday. So News of
Speaker 3: the day, rest day for a tight end. Marcedes Lewis
Speaker 3: out for a personal reason today of an unknown nature.
Speaker 3: Right guard Nate Davis. We'll hear from Matt Eberflus tomorrow.
Speaker 3: What does it mean? We don't know. Reserve linebacker Dylan
Speaker 3: Cole not able to go the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: From a packer perspective, David Bactieri, he gets rest, he
Speaker 3: doesn't practice much. He's a veteran, He's got eleven years
Speaker 3: hunder his belt. Romeo Dobbs limited hamstring, Christian Watson did
Speaker 3: not with his hamstring, and Nntavius Wis the rookie receiver
Speaker 3: out of Virginia full practice limited the last two days
Speaker 3: for a returning room. Sean Gary, the edge rusher of
Speaker 3: importance for the Packers. Break it down, Tommy.
Speaker 5: You know to me, it's the you know, David Baffieri
Speaker 5: is a big question mark because he's has this consideration
Speaker 5: of being such a dominant offensive lineman and a tackle,
Speaker 5: and when you don't practice, I don't see how you
Speaker 5: can just automatically be ready. But my same concerns are
Speaker 5: for Nate Davis. Here's a guy that's put a couple
Speaker 5: of practices underneath his belt. He's, you know, signed a
Speaker 5: big money contract, enormous expectations that have been placed on
Speaker 5: him because you're trying to break in a rookie right
Speaker 5: tackle that could have an incredible future.
Speaker 4: In front of him and Darnell Right.
Speaker 5: So, as much as you want to talk about the quarterbacks,
Speaker 5: you have to think about the supporting cast because Jordan
Speaker 5: Love or Justin Fields, they can't do it on their own.
Speaker 5: They need the guys that are hopefully to be a
Speaker 5: part of this football team for their growth and progress.
Speaker 3: All Right, the man call the plays. Luke Getzi, in
Speaker 3: his weekly news com prints each Thursday up here at
Speaker 3: hallisaw rolled it out. You know, I call it all
Speaker 3: the time. We all talk about it's a great unknown week,
Speaker 3: and the anticipation is there.
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't say there's more.
Speaker 6: There's there's comfort that the unknowns of Game one are
Speaker 6: are always going to be there for for both teams,
Speaker 6: right and all all facets of the game.
Speaker 2: It's game one.
Speaker 6: No one does anything in preseason that's that's gonna unveil
Speaker 6: anything to you. Uh, And so you go into Game
Speaker 6: one with uh, you know, trusting your training. That's truly
Speaker 6: what you have to do in this situation, right, because
Speaker 6: they could do anything, and they could change their style
Speaker 6: of play or whatever. You know, new coaches come in,
Speaker 6: new players come in, and people change a little bit
Speaker 6: and it may not be drastic, but there could be
Speaker 6: just subtle changes, and you want to make sure that
Speaker 6: you're prepared, and that's what you take training camp to do, right.
Speaker 6: You take training camp to to get your fundamentals in
Speaker 6: the right place so that you can execute whenever that
Speaker 6: new thing happens and you guys can respond the right way.
Speaker 6: So there's definitely no comfort in that. But uh, you know,
Speaker 6: just you know, excited. And I would say the relationships
Speaker 6: that we have with the players are much are much deeper,
Speaker 6: and those things we can lean on a little bit more.
Speaker 3: He knows they know each other, and he knows the Packers,
Speaker 3: and he knows Joe Barry that that hasn't changed defensively.
Speaker 3: It's a veteran defense offensively because of Aaron not there
Speaker 3: anymore and you got an unknown at quarterback. That's the
Speaker 3: anticipation we're looking at. But from what Luke tells you,
Speaker 3: what is you think he's in going to anticipate from
Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers?
Speaker 5: You know, Jeff, to think about it is this isn't
Speaker 5: the college Boloney, where you start your first couple of
Speaker 5: weeks and play against inferior talent just to get things
Speaker 5: ramped up when you start, when you go to the
Speaker 5: game field at three twenty five Sunday, you have to
Speaker 5: be going at a million miles an hour. And that's
Speaker 5: the thing about the NFL. And so you know, I
Speaker 5: like what Luke said is you have to have the
Speaker 5: fundamental zone grained in your head that if they make
Speaker 5: an adjustment, whether it's fundamentally technique or design, that you
Speaker 5: have to be ready to face whatever it is. And
Speaker 5: you know, Stanfelder, offensive line coach, used to say, Hey,
Speaker 5: practice is the time to work on the things that
Speaker 5: may be new to your arsenal or your weaponry and stuff.
Speaker 5: And now you have to have confidence built up in
Speaker 5: the practices that are all behind you that when you
Speaker 5: face a situation that calls for that new technique or
Speaker 5: that new move or whatever it is, according to the
Speaker 5: position you play, that you're ready to put it on
Speaker 5: display or you're ready to react against it.
Speaker 3: Now slip to the defensive side. Alan Williams trying to
Speaker 3: keep things as simple as possible.
Speaker 7: It's still about winning your one on one matchups. It's
Speaker 7: still about they have one football. They don't have three,
Speaker 7: so we have to find the football. We know where
Speaker 7: it is. It's still about tackling, lining up, reading your keys,
Speaker 7: getting to the ball, and all the other things. Those
Speaker 7: are distractions. That's window dressing, all the other things that
Speaker 7: come into effect and all the other things about Hey,
Speaker 7: the stats say this, and the analytics say this and whatever.
Speaker 7: I've never heard of a game that was won through analytics. Now,
Speaker 7: with the technology and all the things that we have
Speaker 7: and all the information that we have, sometimes they make
Speaker 7: guys play slower, not faster. So we want to again,
Speaker 7: I'm saying the same thing over and over again. But
Speaker 7: if we get lined up, see the formation, read our keys,
Speaker 7: play fast, run and tackle, will be fine.
Speaker 4: You know, Jeff.
Speaker 5: It kind of reminds me of a speech thirty years
Speaker 5: ago when the defensive coaches were getting the Bears defense
Speaker 5: ready to play against Barry Sanders. You can't be apprehensive,
Speaker 5: you can't be thinking you have to play a million
Speaker 5: miles an hour.
Speaker 4: And that's what Alan Williams is saying.
Speaker 5: No matter what the era is, the modern day era
Speaker 5: or the old time, you gotta be ready to play,
Speaker 5: and you gotta play all.
Speaker 3: Right, Tommy, our first segment in the books Coming up next,
Speaker 3: Darnell Mooney joins the program. This is Bears Weekly on
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Speaker 3: America's love affair with Detroit is underway. Let's see if
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Speaker 4: Difficult stadium to play in.
Speaker 5: I mean, Patrick Mchomes one of the best starting quarterbacks
Speaker 5: in the history of the NFL throughout early portions of
Speaker 5: his career, and like Alan Williams said, we're not worried
Speaker 5: about the analytics.
Speaker 4: We're worried about the style of play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the numbers eighteen touchdowns and his openers in five years,
Speaker 3: five and zero and fifteen hundred yards and no interceptions.
Speaker 3: So they tell me young quarterbacks throw interceptions, But not
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes in Week one, all right, getting ready for
Speaker 3: his own Week one after a battle with an injury
Speaker 3: of significance last season and through the off season. Wide
Speaker 3: receiver down now Mooney ready to rock and roll. Here's
Speaker 3: my interview with the veteran wide receiver earlier this week.
Speaker 3: I want to start on the Packers because it's what
Speaker 3: everybody's been hoping for and thinking about. So let's just
Speaker 3: dive right in before we just chat a little bit.
Speaker 3: It feels like it's bigger than one game. I know
Speaker 3: you guys can't look at it that way, but there's
Speaker 3: just something about it symbolic. You play them again a week, right, guy,
Speaker 3: You guys could ever be locked up, playoff spot, you know,
Speaker 3: stuff like that happens. This This thing just carries a
Speaker 3: lot of weight for a lot of people. What's a
Speaker 3: player perspective? What's Darnell's perspective?
Speaker 8: I mean, I've never beating these guys since I've been
Speaker 8: in the league, So it's definitely a big one. And
Speaker 8: you understand the rivalry many years after. You play multiple
Speaker 8: games and it's definitely a big one. First game of
Speaker 8: the year for sure, and then going against them, and
Speaker 8: it's something that the fans care about, so you you
Speaker 8: kind of gravitate and understand like why they care about
Speaker 8: it so much, and then you're just like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 8: let's definitely beat those guys for sure.
Speaker 3: So didn't you have a team even in youth football
Speaker 3: or any sport you played, you just got tired of that.
Speaker 8: You want to beat them exactly exactly?
Speaker 3: Are you at that point now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Definitely, definitely want to beat them for sure. For sure.
Speaker 8: I mean, whatever we got to do to beat those guys,
Speaker 8: for sure, I'm ready to pull out everything that we
Speaker 8: have just to take care of these guys for sure.
Speaker 3: You know, I went back and looked, and I know
Speaker 3: what the numbers say. Okay, it has been a struggle
Speaker 3: way before you ever got here, thirty years of it.
Speaker 3: Kenny Clark, for example, was thirteen and oh against the Bears.
Speaker 3: Preston Smith's ten and oh, Matt Leffleur is eight. No,
Speaker 3: it's just yeah, it just hasn't happened. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 3: not for taking. When the bully on the block, you
Speaker 3: gotta finally punch you in the mouth, right otherwise, Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh. But it is interesting because it is Bears Packers,
Speaker 3: and that thing hangs over the whole rivalry. Anyway, this
Speaker 3: is big for you. I know it's big because coming
Speaker 3: off injury is a lonely ride. I know you and
Speaker 3: I spoke months ago and you said you're glad you
Speaker 3: went through the experience not even getting injured. But yeah,
Speaker 3: just what you learn. Can you put that in the
Speaker 3: context for the average Why.
Speaker 8: It's just you. You get a lot to like self
Speaker 8: reflect I mean, and just have a lot of self awareness.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's just you a lot of rest time,
Speaker 8: and I mean you you get to read some books
Speaker 8: and just have a lot of loan time. You're looking
Speaker 8: at the ceiling a lot of times, and you're just
Speaker 8: relaxing and just thinking. Thinking a lot, and sometimes thinking
Speaker 8: overthinking can be a bad thing, but sometimes it's can
Speaker 8: be a good thing, you know. So it's been what
Speaker 8: eight nine months since the last time I was actually
Speaker 8: in a in a game or whatever, so I'm excited
Speaker 8: to get back out there. It won't be any like
Speaker 8: fearness or anything. I mean, obviously the preseason was nice.
Speaker 8: I didn't get the actual feeling, but I definitely will
Speaker 8: allow myself to have some emotion going into this game
Speaker 8: and in what sense just readiness and just ready to,
Speaker 8: you know, get back to being me and going out
Speaker 8: there with what I wanted to do. Last year I
Speaker 8: didn't get to do as much. But uh, just pick up,
Speaker 8: pick pick back off of where I feel that, you know,
Speaker 8: I'm able to perform at and it's easy to do
Speaker 8: that with a second year and into the offense and
Speaker 8: just everybody is it is not so much of a
Speaker 8: newness thing. It's more of like we know what's going on,
Speaker 8: so I'm happy to get back.
Speaker 3: For sure, is it an offense? I mean, just think
Speaker 3: about you. I can't remember how many targets well over
Speaker 3: one hundred couple of years ago. Is this gonna be
Speaker 3: an offense? Now? We just gotta find your place for sure?
Speaker 3: You mean like role wise, role wise, but that's day
Speaker 3: to day for sure, day to day. Like, I don't
Speaker 3: think this is an offense, and you correct me if
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. Hey, Darnell, listen, and here's the pecking order.
Speaker 3: This is how it's gonna go. So you know, don't
Speaker 3: be anticipating a lot or a Darnell. You're gonna be
Speaker 3: the feature. No day to day, week to week. Depends
Speaker 3: the matchups, yeah right, what justin ces.
Speaker 8: Definitely matters on all those cases. You never know, you
Speaker 8: can be the top guy for this game and you
Speaker 8: cannot be the top guy for the next game. So
Speaker 8: it just depends on who we're playing and just matters
Speaker 8: about matchups, like you said, So we'll see. It's it's
Speaker 8: big for the first couple of games, honestly, to identify
Speaker 8: who we are and what we like to do.
Speaker 3: So see, I already think that. Yeah, we love to
Speaker 3: run the ball and we're good at it. Justin's dynamic runner,
Speaker 3: the weapon reason increased, the offensive lines different. Hopefully they'll
Speaker 3: be healthy. I don't know. To me, there's not too
Speaker 3: many surprises.
Speaker 8: I mean, it all looks it all looks good. It's
Speaker 8: just it just has to be put out there and performed. So,
Speaker 8: I mean, you can you know throughout the whole offseason
Speaker 8: you have all the hypeness of everything and just like, yeah,
Speaker 8: we're gonna be able to do this, but you don't
Speaker 8: really know until you actually go out there and play.
Speaker 3: Or how they're gonna play you, exactly because I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking they're gonna play less man. They don't want
Speaker 3: their back turn to Justin. Don't you think for sure?
Speaker 8: You never Yeah, you never want to do that. So
Speaker 8: it's just a dangerous thing. Obviously he showed you don't
Speaker 8: do that at all last year, So yeah, we'll see
Speaker 8: you never you have you can have some guys that
Speaker 8: are just like, I don't care who you are, we're
Speaker 8: gonna do this.
Speaker 3: So that is going to happen.
Speaker 8: You never know how how people are going to play us.
Speaker 3: So post injury, it's always an interesting discussion because and
Speaker 3: you said you were gonna have ankle surgery of some
Speaker 3: kind no matter what happened, and you happen to have
Speaker 3: a broken ankle. First of all, painful? Was it when
Speaker 3: I first injury?
Speaker 8: At first? I like on the field wise, like I
Speaker 8: knew I broke it. Yeah, because Byron was telling me
Speaker 8: like get up. I'm like, nah, bro, this is this
Speaker 8: is broken. It's like, no, there's no way I'm getting
Speaker 8: up after this. And uh, I'm usually like I'll get
Speaker 8: up and go to the sialide or whatever.
Speaker 3: And then shake it off and then come back in.
Speaker 8: But this one I knew even going to the locker
Speaker 8: room Andrea, and then we're trying to like give me
Speaker 8: on the stretch, and I'm like, that's one thing I'm
Speaker 8: not doing. I'm going to walk off of this field,
Speaker 8: but I'm not getting on that stretcher. You better give
Speaker 8: me your shoulder. That's the only way I'm getting off
Speaker 8: the field. So, I mean it was it wasn't painful then,
Speaker 8: but didn't want it like died down. I got a
Speaker 8: little painful. And then I got in my car after
Speaker 8: the plane ride all that all that air or whatever
Speaker 8: and kind of blew my blew my ankle up a
Speaker 8: little bit, but it was a little painful. One too crazy,
Speaker 8: but it was it was painful.
Speaker 3: Do you feel whole again?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I mean I felt felt whole, yeah, within it all.
Speaker 8: I mean I made a decision when I was in
Speaker 8: after surgery that this is something I really want to do,
Speaker 8: so I'm going to continue to pursue what i want
Speaker 8: and get out of what I want out of this.
Speaker 8: And I made that decision then and I'm not looking back.
Speaker 3: All right, you look amazing, right, You're you're you're strong,
Speaker 3: not that you weren't before, But what do you think
Speaker 3: that'll do for you? Have you Have you felt that
Speaker 3: strength that you've added, that muscle, that armor. Have you
Speaker 3: felt it when you've gone up against dbs even in practice?
Speaker 8: For sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Sure I can. I can use my strength more, whether
Speaker 8: it be like a sneaky push off or just blocking
Speaker 8: wise and running my routes and not getting bumped off
Speaker 8: of anything and just just playing some uh, just having
Speaker 8: some good play strength. Uh. I would say, look dj Man,
Speaker 8: DJ has incredible play strength, Like he can catch the
Speaker 8: ball over anybody at any point of time, and it's
Speaker 8: just amazing. To see that because it's like, that's what
Speaker 8: I want to be able to do every time, Like,
Speaker 8: no matter what happens to the balls and the ris
Speaker 8: minds and DJ does a good thing, good a good
Speaker 8: act of that, and I want to do that same
Speaker 8: action of that as well.
Speaker 3: You mentioned you read a lot of books during your
Speaker 3: time rehabbing and getting ready. Would you read anything that's
Speaker 3: sticking with you.
Speaker 8: To this Unstoppable? It's by Tim Grover. Oh yeah, we.
Speaker 3: All know Timmy's Chicago Bulls fame.
Speaker 8: Amazing.
Speaker 3: What's the gist of that book?
Speaker 8: It's about It's basically about finding your role and understanding,
Speaker 8: understanding your role and and playing that role into the
Speaker 8: into the like the the best you can and uh
Speaker 8: understand it and really going fullfill about it. So yeah,
Speaker 8: that was a good book. I kind of read it
Speaker 8: over and over to remember myself on what I.
Speaker 4: Don't want to do.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, like you said, long time, you're all about heart, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's gonna carry. That's gonna win the day for Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 3: have a great season, stay healthy, let's go get him.
Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate it, Thank you all right. Tommy Always introspective.
Speaker 3: I love talking to Darnell, what strikes you about his comments?
Speaker 3: Where is that mentally, physically, and spiritual.
Speaker 4: I think he's in a really strong place.
Speaker 5: And Darnell always has the first thing about recovery from
Speaker 5: an injury, because we've all been through in our career,
Speaker 5: is it kind of you go through a couple of movements,
Speaker 5: you go through a couple of hits, and then all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, it's out of your mind. You're back
Speaker 5: to normal. So that's what I look at individually for
Speaker 5: Darnell Mooney. But when you think about the team, this
Speaker 5: is a team that desperately needs to have a convincing
Speaker 5: win against the Green Bay Packers, and they need that
Speaker 5: message inside there to have them believe that they are
Speaker 5: part of this division and they're in the mix. And
Speaker 5: so when you think about those numbers that you talked about,
Speaker 5: are the guys in the Green Bay Packers, that's similar
Speaker 5: to what we went through when we played against the Packers.
Speaker 5: And then finally, I just think that this is a
Speaker 5: team that when darn Old Mooney said he learned what
Speaker 5: the people care about beating the green Bay Packers, Listen,
Speaker 5: I care about my dogs.
Speaker 4: I hate the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 5: So that's the type of message that they have to
Speaker 5: have inside that locker room, and everybody needs to carry it.
Speaker 5: And Jakwan Brisker said it perfectly at the podium. He
Speaker 5: doesn't have to hate the people, he just has to
Speaker 5: hate the team they're playing against.
Speaker 3: That's Tim theair. I'm Jeff Jonie Coming up next, a
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Speaker 2: Jeff, Tommy, great to be with you. Guys, your friends.
Speaker 2: I don't know what mentor I am for Tom certainly
Speaker 2: not on the golf course for Tilge, I think. But
Speaker 2: I'm sitting in front of mine, even though it's ninety
Speaker 2: degrees for me too. By the way, Connecticut, my New England,
Speaker 2: you know my stone Fire plot. I mean, I wanted
Speaker 2: to give you the feel of fo level in New England,
Speaker 2: even though it's ninety degrees with humidity. But you know what,
Speaker 2: Let's bring on the season. The Bears and Packers. They're
Speaker 2: playing for what the eight millionth time?
Speaker 9: Is that?
Speaker 3: It two O seven number two O seven. We all
Speaker 3: fall in love with sports in a different way. You've
Speaker 3: done everything, but you are so tied to the NFL.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the moment you fell in love with
Speaker 3: the NFL?
Speaker 2: Well, I do. When I was young, Jeff, and it
Speaker 2: was really the AFL. So let's just go professional football.
Speaker 2: I'm sixty eight, which makes you and Tommy babies.
Speaker 3: In my We're in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 4: We're catching out the house.
Speaker 2: But you know I'm already either a base ahead or
Speaker 2: a base behind. So I was nine, my brother was seven.
Speaker 2: Andy sixty four. Sha Stadium was just built. We live
Speaker 2: right on the New York, Connecticut Olympus Chase Statium was
Speaker 2: pretty close. New York Giants. It's like Chicago Bears. If
Speaker 2: you want a tickets, good luck to you, right, And
Speaker 2: my dad decided, I did well, I'm going to take
Speaker 2: my two young boys. And it was not a fanatical fan,
Speaker 2: but he enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Used to go to the Polo Grounds and watch the
Speaker 2: New York Football Giants all right, what he could, but
Speaker 2: what season tickets to the Then I just turned the Jets.
Speaker 2: They were the New York Titans. Stayed him out by
Speaker 2: where the World's Fair was built to date ourselves in
Speaker 2: sixty four, and they're eight dollars a ticket and they
Speaker 2: were like the third row in the upper deck. So
Speaker 2: that sounds awful. But actually I've told Bill Belichick this.
Speaker 2: I didn't know as now we go through high school
Speaker 2: about all these games that I kind of was watching
Speaker 2: football as you would game film a little bit. So
Speaker 2: that's sixty four, sixty five. They signed a guy named
Speaker 2: Joe Namath. In sixty eight, I was in eighth grade.
Speaker 2: They won the Super Bowl. So uh, and they're still trying,
Speaker 2: which is why Aaron Rodgers is not on the Packers.
Speaker 2: So It's not like I bleed jets. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: happy because my dad got rest his soul, who would
Speaker 2: have been ninety nine this year, like would be happy.
Speaker 2: But there's your answer, right, I can go on. But
Speaker 2: so the AFL, anything AFL, because we we we threw
Speaker 2: the ball and Dodgy, you know, and and if we
Speaker 2: had named it, we had haiteled all. If we had
Speaker 2: Landaus and we had you know, we had like a
Speaker 2: good George Blander was still throwing the ball for you.
Speaker 2: We threw we we threw the ball, and so anything.
Speaker 2: I like Buffalo, Well they were the first champ I
Speaker 2: remember as a young boy, right, they were the champs
Speaker 2: in mid sixties. I like Sandy La Chargers because they're
Speaker 2: in an AFL team and they were cool in their helmets.
Speaker 2: They're uniput in. So there you go. And it didn't
Speaker 2: mean I didn't like the NFL either. I mean I
Speaker 2: know who the George Hollis was, and Jim Brown was
Speaker 2: and and uh et cetera.
Speaker 5: You know, Bermonador, I'm gonna kind of speed up a
Speaker 5: little bit because a couple of weeks ago, we were
Speaker 5: in Indianapolis and I was watching a documentary about the
Speaker 5: seventy two Dolphins because they closed out the documentary of
Speaker 5: you on the field doing a stand up of the
Speaker 5: Bears Dolphins game, the game we lost in eighty five.
Speaker 5: To me, as long as I've known you, that little
Speaker 5: piece had nutted so many questions.
Speaker 4: I would always like to ask you.
Speaker 2: Well, as you know, you know, Bears were unbelievable, and
Speaker 2: I'm a historian of the game as so many are,
Speaker 2: and I've gotten no Shula very well or did fly
Speaker 2: down Monday or whatever. I remember going to the Orange
Speaker 2: Bowl right before the game started, and I came down
Speaker 2: to that rickety underneath the bleachers and come out on
Speaker 2: this field and I'm from you know, Connecticut, be like
Speaker 2: from Chicago, and the weather's great, and the colors and there's,
Speaker 2: oh my god, they're the Mighty Bears across the field.
Speaker 2: And I come out and I see Shula with the
Speaker 2: jaw out farther than usual. And I looked down on
Speaker 2: my left and I see Zanka, I see Kick, I
Speaker 2: see Warfield, I see Larry Little and I went, oh, oh,
Speaker 2: I get it, Oh oh, I get it. If the
Speaker 2: Bears are this good, they're going to have to beat
Speaker 2: all of them too. The Nickmoto time is going to
Speaker 2: make a tackle from the sideline and they're not going
Speaker 2: to flag them. It's just the way it is. And
Speaker 2: so what I remember is how special the night was,
Speaker 2: not because the Bears got beat and the legacy stayed,
Speaker 2: but how special it was. And then what you guys
Speaker 2: went on to accomplish, giving up ten points in three
Speaker 2: playoff game blah blah blah, and you know, blowing out
Speaker 2: everybody in eighteen and what I mean. So it spoke
Speaker 2: to how special the night was, even though for Chicago
Speaker 2: it's all we wish we had won, but you got
Speaker 2: the big prize anyway. And I'll never forget that night.
Speaker 2: I still get goosebumps when I talk about it, just
Speaker 2: as a foot not because of the result, Tom, just.
Speaker 5: The events that you've covered throughout time, the different people
Speaker 5: that you see that you've mentioned there, and when I
Speaker 5: see on the sidelines and doing a final love that
Speaker 5: game and the people rushing around you.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like you had.
Speaker 5: To do those a lot of stand ups back there uninterrupted,
Speaker 5: no matter who's going to run in your face or
Speaker 5: get in your space.
Speaker 2: Well, look, you had to make the block. If you
Speaker 2: had one shot at it right the pass and you
Speaker 2: got one shot at it on a given play. Those
Speaker 2: stand ups in our business, which are not anything like
Speaker 2: making a pancake block or like I say, you know,
Speaker 2: making an innuracy. You're breaking on the ball as a
Speaker 2: dB and either getting it or getting beat. You got
Speaker 2: one shot at it. Are you rolling three two one?
Speaker 2: I figure you get twenty seconds before you get trampled.
Speaker 2: So try to speak in a complete sentence and get
Speaker 2: it done. So that I mean, but that's just a
Speaker 2: small part of it. But we're just as excited as
Speaker 2: the fans and this and that it was just electric.
Speaker 2: Like I said, had you want it would have been
Speaker 2: even maybe even more electric. Just the whole night was magic,
Speaker 2: trust because of who he was and that team. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't have to explain it, but your team speaks
Speaker 2: for itself and often did.
Speaker 3: Yeah loudly. Chris Berman from NFL Prime Time joining us
Speaker 3: here on Bears Weekly on ESPN one thousand of the
Speaker 3: Bears Radio Network, Jeff joni Ak and Tom Thayer. All right,
Speaker 3: so let's take it forward now to where we're at today.
Speaker 3: You're still working in that studio, they still love three minutes.
Speaker 3: How hard was it to master it. Obviously, we saw
Speaker 3: Howard Cosell all those years on Monday Night Football do
Speaker 3: it at halftime and it was mussy TV. The fastest
Speaker 3: three minutes on Monday Night is also mussy TV.
Speaker 2: Well, it's first of all, it is a kudo to Howard.
Speaker 2: We do all the games. They couldn't what I could have.
Speaker 2: But it was different than it's like an outline. I
Speaker 2: run through it a couple of times ahead of time.
Speaker 2: Well in the old days, I mean I did it live,
Speaker 2: like you got one shot of this and be like
Speaker 2: playing the game, and I screwed up plenty. You get
Speaker 2: five seconds, four seconds behind. You don't have fourteen second
Speaker 2: Bears package. There's just a feeling you could go all
Speaker 2: the way. Well, I'm here coming forward to love he Well,
Speaker 2: now we're out of the lions, whoa, whoa, and I'm behind.
Speaker 2: It takes you a minute to catch up. We have
Speaker 2: a big shoehorn and uh we stuff it in pretty good.
Speaker 5: Well, how do you do your studying in preparation for
Speaker 5: a season that's getting ready to begin? And I know
Speaker 5: it's the Kansas City Chiefs and Andy Ree is one
Speaker 5: of your best buddies. How do you how do you
Speaker 5: get involved in the You guys, is.
Speaker 2: Now NFL prime time. I'm more highlights based only rather
Speaker 2: than pregame where you got to really be up on
Speaker 2: what's going on with It's almost impossible to be up
Speaker 2: on all thirty two teams at one time, but you
Speaker 2: got to make it your best effort. But this week
Speaker 2: in particular, I still have a lot of friends in
Speaker 2: the league, like Andy Reid just to name one. You
Speaker 2: mentioned them, and they're good enough to give me time.
Speaker 2: And I will talk to a lot of coaches and
Speaker 2: gms because you can't wish them good luck week three.
Speaker 2: You better have a conversation with them Week one, Oh
Speaker 2: they come out of the gates to and oh hey,
Speaker 2: good luck, Well where the hell were you? Right? So
Speaker 2: better cover as many as you can, and then and
Speaker 2: then during as the season goes, you're not checking in
Speaker 2: on all thirty but you're doing reading just like you
Speaker 2: guys are. You're up on the league. Even if the
Speaker 2: Bears are only playing the Packers this week, I mean,
Speaker 2: you're working, you're worried about the next game, So I
Speaker 2: mean you have to know what's going on in the
Speaker 2: league because it affects Bears. Even if it's ten gently,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, the tangent. That's a tough
Speaker 2: word to say in a tangent.
Speaker 4: There you go, you got it, Nail.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, we're gonna step away. One more segment ago
Speaker 3: with Chris Berman from ESPN With Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac.
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Speaker 3: breaking down Bears packers on the show this week. Of
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Speaker 3: us all the pre game, four hours pre game, four
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Speaker 3: one thousand, Chicago. Our guest tonight kind of enough to
Speaker 3: join us for a few more minutes. NFL Primetime host,
Speaker 3: the legendary Boomer, Chris Berman. So I always say what
Speaker 3: Tom and I do. First of all, it is a privilege.
Speaker 3: But we charted the history of the game, and you
Speaker 3: mentioned earlier, and I think you were a history major,
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. D Brown, you talk often about
Speaker 3: the history of the game. Is this your college education
Speaker 3: coming to fruition? What you do with the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 3: How important is that to you to be there with
Speaker 3: the greats of the game, the few that have managed
Speaker 3: to get into that place.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a very good question. I never thought that
Speaker 2: being a major American history major would therefore me I
Speaker 2: was a NFL and whatever, major League Baseball or a
Speaker 2: few other major But it is part of America anyway,
Speaker 2: so maybe it is coming to fruition. The history of
Speaker 2: the game is Well, you live in Chicago, so I
Speaker 2: mean you're dripping with at the minute. You talk about
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears, obviously, and I even have a hard
Speaker 2: time saying Chicago Bears. That saying Chicago Bears, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I really feel like I should, right, yes,
Speaker 2: the Bears and the Packers for the two hundred what
Speaker 2: is it seven or eight?
Speaker 3: Seven?
Speaker 2: How many times on frozen, et cetera.
Speaker 4: So I feel that we.
Speaker 2: Should have context. Now again, you know, not everything that
Speaker 2: happens in twenty twenty three. Oh, he's not as good
Speaker 2: as passers, well bear quarterbacks through the years, except for
Speaker 2: sud Luckman maybe you know. And that's not a knock
Speaker 2: on Jimmy. I'm going way back, like we're not trying
Speaker 2: to compare, but you've got to have some context, I think,
Speaker 2: and part of it Jeff and Tommy. I don't feel
Speaker 2: like it's my johnt to educate our youth, but do
Speaker 2: no fault of their own. We had to read a
Speaker 2: lot more. Yes, they can read right here. But I'm
Speaker 2: afraid that Joe Montana is Sammy pau to a lot
Speaker 2: of them. To me, Joe Montana in my contemporary Tommy's good.
Speaker 2: You know, he's my friend. I can call him up
Speaker 2: right now, Sammy Baugh. Okay, that's ancient history which we
Speaker 2: should know about. But I feel there are times when
Speaker 2: you can kind of throw some stuff out there. Well,
Speaker 2: for example, Jim Brown passed away a couple months ago. Right, well,
Speaker 2: he retired in nineteen sixty five. And they're young. They
Speaker 2: see this name, Well, he's twelfth on the rushing list
Speaker 2: or thirteenth or whatever he is. Now he must have
Speaker 2: been okay, no no no, no, no no no, no,
Speaker 2: yeah he was, he was, okay, So I give that
Speaker 2: as an example, because I don't feel it's my duty,
Speaker 2: but I'm into it and I feel that if you
Speaker 2: write a little something with them, ah, maybe I'll go
Speaker 2: look up how good Jim Brown was. And it's not
Speaker 2: something that normally would google first thing in the morning,
Speaker 2: you know, I feel. And you're in the same business again.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're may you have Bears fans listening to you.
Speaker 2: So but there are twenty thirty year olds that unless
Speaker 2: their dad or grandfather told them about Gail Sayers or
Speaker 2: might get as a player, or even the eighty five
Speaker 2: Bears right that they don't they've heard of it. But
Speaker 2: you're bringing them to life because they trust you because
Speaker 2: you're the Bears. So does that make sense? I feel
Speaker 2: it's not our duty, but I educated educating our youth. Hey,
Speaker 2: we're still youthful. I feel it. It's fun and it's necessary,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: I also refer to Chris as Berminator. I don't think
Speaker 5: I've ever called them Chris and I. It's either Burman
Speaker 5: or Berminator. There's a famous poster of Mount and MAUI
Speaker 5: hangs in a place that we go to after golf.
Speaker 5: So Aberminator, can you describe Football Sunday for those of
Speaker 5: us who have never been to the campus of ESPN
Speaker 5: and like the type of room you sit in, the
Speaker 5: conversations and how do you watch it when you have
Speaker 5: to have your eyes on every screen where Jeff and
Speaker 5: I have been broadcasting one game for the last twenty
Speaker 5: seven years, and that's game we pay attention to.
Speaker 2: Well, let me take it back. First of all, I'm
Speaker 2: thrilled that you guys are ESPN now. I mean you're
Speaker 2: You've always been family, Tommy, but now you're my professional family.
Speaker 2: But you are Ohana and Jeff you too because of
Speaker 2: your friendship with tom and your partnership. And I feel
Speaker 2: like I know you gave you know I don't see
Speaker 2: you very much. I don't see Tommy enough anyway. So
Speaker 2: let me go back to the days when I would.
Speaker 2: I don't mean I did it all, but my responsibility
Speaker 2: on a Sunday was every show that we did NFL
Speaker 2: related for ESPM, when we started with one building, then
Speaker 2: two buildings. You know, I started one month and I
Speaker 2: was twenty four and I looked like Ron Bergen with
Speaker 2: the mustache and allowed jacket and hair which are pretty good,
Speaker 2: which was which, by the way, worked in that era,
Speaker 2: don't we leave it at that? So that's it. But
Speaker 2: now we're a campus. We're like a college campus, if
Speaker 2: you will. Now, so we're three buildings over to go
Speaker 2: to the studio and then you get set for the show,
Speaker 2: and then you do three outs. I take about fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: kind of myself, almost like I was the quarterback, no
Speaker 2: more important than anybody else than Tommy Jackson or anybody
Speaker 2: or anyone behind the scenes of this. We're all in
Speaker 2: this together. We're all going to get together in another room.
Speaker 2: It's two or three buildings over which has all the screens. Now,
Speaker 2: for example Week one, where everybody's playing, and I don't
Speaker 2: know how many of the noon Central time games there
Speaker 2: are eight, nine, whatever the number is. Anyone that says
Speaker 2: they can watch eight games at once, it's wine, okay.
Speaker 2: In the day, you would have pecking orders when he
Speaker 2: has been couldn't afford. So we have three or four
Speaker 2: or five really good monitors and then some other ones.
Speaker 2: And so I'm dating myself. So Tampa would be way
Speaker 2: over to the right, the Bengals would be way over
Speaker 2: to the left, the Falcons would be wayed that you
Speaker 2: get my point, And so you could kind of watch
Speaker 2: two or three to get or four to get flow
Speaker 2: of game. And then there's the somebody for some reasons
Speaker 2: watching this back in the day the Buccaneers over to
Speaker 2: the right, right, Oh my god, look at that play
Speaker 2: in the Tampa game. And then we all look over
Speaker 2: here for twenty seconds at Tampa. Oh, Doug, well, I'm
Speaker 2: really dating myself, you know, my god, look at that.
Speaker 2: And then you're back to the other three or four
Speaker 2: or five. Now again in the late games kickoff, you
Speaker 2: get a field for those, but now we're talking about
Speaker 2: what it's obvious, a sixty yard touchdown that's going to
Speaker 2: go in that highway. But the third and three in
Speaker 2: the mud that they picked up five yards and essentially
Speaker 2: clinched the game, you still got to tell them that's
Speaker 2: creating their younger that's got to go in because it's
Speaker 2: primetime and we have three, four or five minutes to
Speaker 2: tell the story of the game. It's not exciting, but
Speaker 2: they ran out the and it was muddy, and it
Speaker 2: wasn't an easy to get you that those sort of plays.
Speaker 2: So you're having conversations. Then in about the third quarter
Speaker 2: of the late games, the shot sheets come in and
Speaker 2: you want to see them from the early games to highlights,
Speaker 2: because you can get fooled on a couple of things,
Speaker 2: and certainly the names now are harder to pronounce than
Speaker 2: that Tom Fayer or even Jeff Jodiak. But then we
Speaker 2: got to go over back to the studio, and so
Speaker 2: the late games are often they're ending while we're on.
Speaker 2: So in the old days of prime Time with Tommy
Speaker 2: Jackson and me in twenty nine years, we did it
Speaker 2: actually at thirty, you know, did it together. We'd have
Speaker 2: the monitors of the four let's say late games on.
Speaker 2: You couldn't watch it while you were alive, but you'd
Speaker 2: have a two minute commercial work all denvers down to
Speaker 2: the ten. Now how much time has left in the
Speaker 2: broncos fifty okay? And then but now you're back on
Speaker 2: the air, so you at least knew they had a
Speaker 2: chance to do something right. But it still ends while
Speaker 2: you're on, and then the sheet is any of you
Speaker 2: doing in blind? Now with Booger and the ESPN colusts,
Speaker 2: the only difference is we have no commercials. So once
Speaker 2: those late games, you know there are eight minutes left,
Speaker 2: and we go to the studio for the ones that Okay,
Speaker 2: there's been a l injury or a long time out.
Speaker 2: We are really winging it. We're the only one in
Speaker 2: America that did see the finish of the game. And
Speaker 2: then we got to put it on TV, and how
Speaker 2: can he screw up that highlight? And the only thing
Speaker 2: but I tell them, do not tell me who won.
Speaker 2: Let me do this like I'm play by play like you, Jeff,
Speaker 2: and all I get for my producers, you won't believe
Speaker 2: the finish of this game. Here it is Denver and
Speaker 2: the Raiders. You know so, and then you do it.
Speaker 2: But that's live TV. That's the play by play part.
Speaker 2: And then we used to have the night games Tommy
Speaker 2: Sunday night was after prime time and then that's when
Speaker 2: we did the fans of three minutes. So we put
Speaker 2: that together and I'd stayed at the end of that game,
Speaker 2: a case a uffo landed. You never know what could happen.
Speaker 3: He made it look easy, and he continues to your
Speaker 3: buddy has stories that could last forever. We had to
Speaker 3: cut the interview short. We here's more to it. We'll
Speaker 3: have to repurpose this someday. But I love the history
Speaker 3: about all happened because back of the day. It wasn't
Speaker 3: so easy. Now it seems that way with the red
Speaker 3: zone and everything else going on. But nothing easy about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you just think of the history of
Speaker 5: ESPN and what it means to sports. I remember when
Speaker 5: ESPN just came aboard and I go, Who's gonna watch sports.
Speaker 4: Twenty four hours a day?
Speaker 5: Well, that person is me, and so it's on my channel.
Speaker 4: All the time.
Speaker 3: All right, one more segment to go. We'll take a
Speaker 3: look at how the Bears are gonna tackle literally tackle
Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers. It's all coming up next to
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Speaker 3: our final segment. Tackling is always an issue in week one,
Speaker 3: So who better to talk to the Bears defensive line
Speaker 3: coach Travis Smith today gathering with the defensive coaches up
Speaker 3: here at Hallisaul, are the Bears ready for this?
Speaker 9: So we we talk about we installed in the meetings,
Speaker 9: we show film on it. We teach tackling techniques with
Speaker 9: there's that we all say the same name for how
Speaker 9: we tackle certain players. We show tape of how to
Speaker 9: tackle certain players. And then we also drill an individual
Speaker 9: out d lion linebackers and dbs and we talk about
Speaker 9: when twenty eight has the ball, when thirty three has
Speaker 9: the ball, how do we tackle these players? If you
Speaker 9: look it back to our first Green Bay game last year,
Speaker 9: we had like twenty missed tackles as a defense and
Speaker 9: then we went to the second game, I think with
Speaker 9: the seven. So that's one thing that's we've all we've
Speaker 9: been talking about all week, all off because the first
Speaker 9: regular season game, usually across the league, tackling is pretty
Speaker 9: poor on defense because the limited reps that a first
Speaker 9: unit takes. But that's we don't want to start off
Speaker 9: or it's the same thing. You want to start off
Speaker 9: rolling right off the bat right because you're tackling. If
Speaker 9: you have limited miss tackles, they got limited yards after catch,
Speaker 9: limited yards after contact. The run yards will be down,
Speaker 9: runs per carry will be down. The whole thing will
Speaker 9: be better.
Speaker 2: What's different about tackling Dylan?
Speaker 9: Yeah, obviously you got a bigger man. You got two
Speaker 9: hundred and forty seven pounds. I think he is right now.
Speaker 9: He's got those big strong handstrings squads on him, all right,
Speaker 9: So we have a certain name for it. I'll keep
Speaker 9: it quiet though, right here. But there's a certain way
Speaker 9: to tackle Dylan. There's a certain way to tackle what's
Speaker 9: his name, Aaron Jones, thirty three.
Speaker 3: Here's the bottom line, Tommy Aaron Jones four hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy yards on after contact in the run game last year,
Speaker 3: tenth in the league, four to ninety four in the
Speaker 3: passing game. Yack aj Dillon four hundred and fourteen yards
Speaker 3: after contact in the run game. They are difficult to
Speaker 3: bring down. I'd love to know what he means when
Speaker 3: he gives a name to each person different that you
Speaker 3: have to tackle. I'm sure it's something that kind of
Speaker 3: triggers the defensive players.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a specific tackling target no matter who you
Speaker 5: play against, just like I mentioned Barry Sanders a little
Speaker 5: earlier in the show. But the thing about it is,
Speaker 5: you can't allow these guys to have a lot of space.
Speaker 5: If Aaron Jones is touching the ball, if aj Dillon
Speaker 5: is touching the ball, there's got to be a lot
Speaker 5: of bodies within the vicinity that are able to help
Speaker 5: the first hit, the second hitting, the third hit that
Speaker 5: you know stops the player in their tracks.
Speaker 3: Well, and one thing is don't stop your feet first
Speaker 3: and foremost, right, not this the way they want them
Speaker 3: to tackle you. Don't stop your feet. You keep going,
Speaker 3: you take three steps, and you deliver the goods. And
Speaker 3: we'll be focused on that. That'll be a big part
Speaker 3: of this game on both sides of the ball, among
Speaker 3: many others. From a headline perspective, what's your headline? How
Speaker 3: do they get there? But how do they get there
Speaker 3: in thirty seconds?
Speaker 5: You know, you have to use the dynamic athleticism of
Speaker 5: Justin Fields and he's got to be accurate throwing the balls.
Speaker 5: I still think they're going to be able to run
Speaker 5: the ball, but it's.
Speaker 3: About him throwing the ball, all right, Tommy, good show,
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Thanks everybody for listening. Thank you
Speaker 3: Chris Berman and Darnell Mooney of the Bears. Thank you
Speaker 3: to Eric Ostrowski, Kevin z Pack and Sewan Graney. And
Speaker 3: Dan Brilly and Jordan tread Up, all of our producers.
Speaker 3: Have a great night, everybody. We'll see us Sunday at
Speaker 3: Soldier Field, kickoff at three twenty five. We'll have a
Speaker 3: four hour pregame afore our postgame in our first regular
Speaker 3: season game. I'm the new home of the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 3: ESPN Chicago can't wait for it. We're gonna get there
Speaker 3: bright and early, even though it's a three twenty five
Speaker 3: kick Tommy, what's your estimated time of arrival? Seven thirty
Speaker 3: in the morning, is the guests, that's my guess. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take the under on that, but I think he'll
Speaker 3: be there right on time. Stay tuned for Black and Abdalla.
Speaker 3: It's been a great night. Enjoy it. First week of
Speaker 3: the season about to commence in Kansas City with the
Speaker 3: NFC North Lions taking on Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas
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