WEBVTT - Sky is the limit for Cole Kmet | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.640 Right justin middle of a field for fifteen bring Russ 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.160 in front of a leading Lions in his way. I 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:12.520 am Jeff Joni hitsus on dot up. What was like 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:13.800 playing for Coachy Boddom. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.000 I don't want to answer any questions like that. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:25.400 Sixty one yards? What's Sunday stroll for? Justin field? Ye 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.800 Bears et Cetera with the voices of the Chicago Bears 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:34.640 Jeff Joniac Day two of Bears training camp in the 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.839 summer heat, fans and sponsors enjoying after a Wednesday indoor 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.800 practice the outdoors and boy it was hot. Talked to 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.040 a couple of players cleaning. TJ. Edwards say he lost 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.400 six or seven pounds in this heat. And my partner 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.440 on Bears et Cetera today, episode two, mister Tomtare, knows 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.480 all about that. If you were practicing in that heat today, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.360 and I know you and I watched practice from upstairs. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.279 We had other commitments, but we watched indoor, so we 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.240 weren't sweating it out today. How many pounds would you 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.920 lose in a given day at you know, in a. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.640 NOPAD practice, I would probably lose ten to twelve. I 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.360 if I was in a fully padded, full goal practice, 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.080 I would probably lose closer to eighteen or nineteen pounds, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:16.600 no weight. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.400 The same weight I lost, it would be gained. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.320 It would be gained back by the time we want 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.640 to practice through just to continuously put fluids in your 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.600 body and the food you get to eat. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.200 But love. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.280 You know, well, when the coach talks about developing a 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.040 callousness of a team, this is how you do it. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.040 It's not making it easier on them. It's making it 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.839 harder on everybody because everybody that goes in that locker 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.720 room they got something to complain about. But you're all 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:49.600 complaining together. It's not a negative complaint. It's a positive 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.960 team building complaint because it's so freaking hot. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.320 I got to go back to that though, So you're 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.640 telling me your weight could fluctuate nineteen or twenty pounds 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.080 a given practice. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.080 Seriously, you you could go back into the analogs of 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.600 the Chicago Bears, because we weighed in and out of 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.760 every single practice, every single day, and they kind of 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.360 monitored that, and it would be kind of a not 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.680 a contest, only a contest with yourself because you go, okay, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.919 I weigh to eighty three when I went out to practice. Now, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.720 after practice, I weigh two seventy one, but then you 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.200 weigh in the next morning before practice and you're two 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.640 eighty three. You know, it's it's it is the fluctuation 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.320 of the water that escapes your body and then there's 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.000 no time in your life that's more fun to eat. Yeah, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.960 all right, where you can just eat as much as 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:44.839 you possibly can. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.679 Well, and they still do that. They they test their 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.400 weight and make sure what it is in and out 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.640 because they're very mindful of it. And that's been a big, 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.440 big part of the sports science in this building and 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.919 throughout the National Football League. So it was just something 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.280 interesting to me that seems such a large number. My gosh, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.079 I wish I was so fortunate time. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.120 Let me just tell you a funny story at the 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.800 end of my career. So as a as a player. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.240 We have a thing that we wear and it's called 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:12.640 a girdle, and. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.000 It's a piece of equipment that you pull on that 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.720 you used to put pads in, and it's kind of 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.560 it's a girdle, that's what it is. So when I 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.760 went down to Miami, I had such a hard time 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.200 holding my weight because it was one hundred degrees every day, 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:33.400 and I was losing weight. And so every Thursday, every 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.800 Friday we had away in day where they had this 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.400 guy that stood right next to you and chartered your weight. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.160 And so when I went down to Miami, I would 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.720 wear a girdle and then I would stick a ten 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.720 pound plate in my girdle and I would go in there, 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:48.720 and I. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.560 Remember the guy saying, go. He goes, Damn, you're a 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.400 thick guy for skinny you look. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.480 Yeah, because you know that was set off alarms, right, 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.320 you know, yeah, I might have to put somebody else 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.440 in there a little sturdier, right, you know. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.360 And that's and that's again at the end of the 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.200 season in Miami, in those circumstances. Now, these guys have 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.280 a couple of days really to fight through. But I 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.040 think it's a really important part of the team building. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.400 Game day snacking calls for good foods. Chunky guacamole made 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:23.040 with has avocados, tomatoes, onions, cilancho, and a squeeze lime juice. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.599 It's the perfect snack to watch, well the Bears win, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.280 score some today at your local grocery store. Game day 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.120 is guak Day, and Day two had a lot of 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.359 excitement that brought with it. You know, we'll recap the 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.040 first two practices. Actually first one was indoors because of 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.400 the weather and the air quality problem, so fans were 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.159 not able to come on the first day. But you know, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.279 one thing stuck out to me outside of the obvious, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.880 and that's Dj Moore in the connection with justin fields 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.080 and the deep ball and their connection. But the attitude 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.960 of the defense. Tom fiery. They it didn't take much 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.479 to get him excited indoors, and it was you know, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.760 that's a closed quarter so you really feel them, and 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.440 it's it's across the board, the young guys getting into 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.520 it and break up a pass, Bam, They're getting they're 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.320 getting excited. Loose ball in the field, they're scooping and 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.159 trying to score, getting excited. Same thing happening at practice 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.280 again today. That defense is coming in hot right now 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.840 in terms of their attitude and how they approach things. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.440 I'm really impressed with that aspect of But then of 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.960 course the QB one and and Dj Moore wearing number 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.320 two in your Bears jersey, that's getting a lot of 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:31.080 ink right now. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.800 Yeah, you know, we I think about the defense, the 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.200 defensive football players how they're running around, they're kind of 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.960 an extension of the coaches that they have because this 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.920 is a high energy group of defensive coaches that have 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:50.200 that expectations of whatever segment they're coaching. So it's nice 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.200 to see a reflection of the coaches on the practice 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.440 field and you get those results of knocking down passes, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.799 creating some fumbles and trying to do what you're supposed 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.000 to do as a defense. And then on the offensive 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.360 side of the ball, Yeah, it's this team is all 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.640 about growth, recognition, familiarity, making sure the different segments that 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.960 are growing together become familiar with each other. So when 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.200 you do hit this thing running at the start of 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.800 the regular season, everybody's on the same page. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.240 And certainly there's we're getting and you mentioned it today. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.719 We're going to talk every single day about justin fields 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:30.720 and every day can't be a referendum on whether or 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.599 not he's going to be a superstar or a great 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.960 starting quarterback or not in the National Football League. And 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.520 I know it's important for you to evaluate every single pass, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.280 including you know why it was or wasn't completed, and 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.880 that can also bear fruit if it doesn't work right, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.359 So you know, you go back to the drawing board, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.760 you adjust, and you get in the same page with 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.040 your receiver. Because there were some drop passes, there were 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.360 some off target throws, and they're always going to have that. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.800 But everybody's trying to chart every single step in the 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.400 process that comes naturally with the quarterback position. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.480 You know, it seems like every single play runner pass, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.119 we always look at timing and tempo of the play 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.360 and then the result of the play. But when you're 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.680 watching a quarterback as much as we watch Justin and 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.800 how much we pay attention to every one of his reps, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.560 I'm not gonna I'm not going to be critical of 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.400 an incompletion, just like sometimes yeah, you make an easy 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.720 completion and that's the way the play is drawn up. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.920 But I like the fact sometimes there's an incompletion as 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.400 a result of Justin moving his eyes, changing his sightline, 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.000 having trust in his arm, having faith in the receiver 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.520 can catch a late notification of a pass. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.640 So it's going to be interesting. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.280 And listen, man, this is day two, you know, when 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.680 we're talking in day fourteen fifteen, when we're doing this podcast, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.320 when they're practicing it against Indianapolis. There's going to be 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.960 a whole different narrative to how we talk about him 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:02.760 day by day. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.200 Well, you know, we met the fine folks from panc 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.280 Bank and some of their clients today in the viewing 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.880 suite over the practice field. Those are always fun for us. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.400 We could tell stories, take questions and you know there 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.800 is a lot of questions about you know, where is 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.640 Justin's development? Where is he at? And a comparison comes 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.360 up every single time, and you know how I feel 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.400 about it. You know, they want to make a comparison 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.200 to the Jalen Hurts all the time. Year two was 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.160 big for Jalen Hurts, but year three was bigger. Justin fields. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.200 Year two was big, became a big name because of 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.760 his legs and some of the big throws he made. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.000 But dynamic run and we know he's got that in 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.720 his hip pocket to get him out of any kind 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.400 of trouble or if he sees an instinctual time to 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.760 take off and go, go and make a big play. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.000 But everything can't be a comparison to what happened just recently. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.360 I know it's easy to do. People like to bring 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.679 that up because he did have a takeoff here, and 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.080 he had aj Brown coming aboard, just like the Bears 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.520 now have DJ mooreboard. How do you frame that and 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.080 how do you look at that discussion and those improvements 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.640 towards somebody like a Jalen Hurts. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.200 Well, you look at the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.720 They spent quite a bit of time building up this 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.120 roster underneath Jalen to make sure when he got to 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.560 where they think he can get to, he's going to 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.040 have a dynamic. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.880 Supporting cast to work with. That's number one. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.920 But when you look at the comparisons between Justin and Jalen, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.520 first of all, it's the template of each other. They 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.920 look very similar, They're both great athletes. They both have 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.640 tremendous arm strength. To me, I still think Justin probably 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.360 has the upper hand and just natural long ball accuracy. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.520 That's the one element of his game I wish and 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.880 I hope that he can thrive on more with the 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:48.640 receivers as they're developing. And then because of Luke Getzi 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.840 here two years in a row. Same terminology, and I 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.360 keep talking about that because this is not terminology that 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.880 you want to memorize, it's terminology that you want to know, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.800 like your second language. And that's where Justin has to 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.160 be able to improve in the knowledge of the system 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.920 to how it best fits the play called. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.520 You know, I had a conversation with Darnell Mooney yesterday 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.000 and we got into a little bit about his rehab 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.360 and how he's coming along and what that journey was like. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.360 We're going to get into that a little bit later 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.160 here on the program, but you know, on what the 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.000 goals are and he said, well win, but you know, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.280 bombs away. They want to put the ball in the air, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.120 and he goes, we are not messing around. That was 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.960 the quote that stuck with me about Darnell. We are 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.840 not messing around that wide receiver room and that relationship 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.480 with Justin fields and the work that's already been put in, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.040 and the work that Justin expects his receivers to put 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.160 in even after practice with him. It's important he needs 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.760 that and they need him in that regard, and that 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.439 is something that Justin and Mooney started last year the 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.920 year before working together after practice. Last two guys off 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:01.679 the field. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.559 Well, you know, every quarterback receiver could probably echo those 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.800 same words that we want to go deep, and we 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.360 want to go deep offen But what's happening on your 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.240 line of scrimmage. Are you getting the projection that you 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.520 need in order for the receivers to get in a 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.640 winning pace versus the defensive back they're facing. Are you 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.600 running the ball successfully enough with enough influence that you 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.200 can have play action pass that gets defenses totally off 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.240 balance where you can take a take a shot at 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.200 a guy that's peaking in the backfield. So you know what, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.960 you look at those receivers out there, and from IQ 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.880 Saint Brown to Claypool to Darnell to DJ and all 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.720 the other guys. I'm going to leave guys out because 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:45.920 there's so many guys out there. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:47.520 There's a lot of speed out there. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.080 So if you can develop everything that you need on 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.040 the line of scrimmage to help you be that attacking 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.200 downfield football team, Listen, man, you got the quarterback that 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.080 has the arm and he's willing to throw it. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.440 Now they get a combination of a basket ball team 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.040 and a track team, and you got to put Tyler 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.199 Scott in there, because when the ball's in his hands 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.880 and I saw him return a couple of punts, he 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.760 can hit the guests. The rookie out of Cincinnati he's 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.680 got some speed. So all that together there's a mix 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.040 and match as we bring You the Bears, Etc. Podcast 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.080 Episode number two with Tom Thayer, Jeff Joniac United Airlines 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.520 Official Airlines of the Chicago Bears. All right, I was 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.120 in the cafeteria to today Tom ran into a surprise. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.240 I get next to somebody that we both know and respect, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.199 and I say, can I buy you a cup of coffee? 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.559 It's Cole Comet and he got a big smile on 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:43.319 his face. So fifty games into his NFL career, he's 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.200 got a fifty million dollar contract. The numbers look great 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.280 for him for a job well done over the course 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.199 of growing in his first three plus years. Now in 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.080 the National Football League, this is year four and they 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.760 still see a high ceiling for this guy. But you 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.240 know what really struck him, and he is a humble guy. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.600 He is. We've got to know him. We've done many 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.760 events with him outside of the building, and he's just classy, mature, 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.680 and you know, he reminds me a lot of you, honestly, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.960 as a guy that just respects playing in that uniform 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.440 for the Chicago Bears growing up here. But you know 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.360 what struck him, and I want to ask you more 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.800 about this. From your perspective, is that what he wasn't 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.640 really mentally ready for was the reaction he got in 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.360 the locker room. Guys just genuinely happy for him, his position, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:36.200 Coach Jim dre emotionally happy for him. And when the 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.120 guys as they say that you know the kids today, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.320 they say, the players today, they get the bag, the 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.040 money bag. Right, Well, he got the bag and everybody's 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.400 happy for him. And I think it sends a larger 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:51.240 message because there haven't been many guys in the last 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.800 five six years that have earned a second contract. Eddie 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.760 Jackson was the previous one in twenty seventeen after a 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.960 great season, but it has not happened very often. Cole 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.320 Comet is the next guy since that time, more guys 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.480 are going to be looking. And that is a mission 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.400 for Ryan Polse. He met the media briefly today Tommy 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.440 up here and echoed that again. He said that when 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.360 he got the job, he'd like to reward his own 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.120 and this is the first one for him. Your reaction 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.520 to all of that and what it means as a 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.080 former player, saw guys get contract extensions every other year 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.040 during your time with the Bears. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.080 Listen, our time with the Bears was a different collective 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:31.960 bargaining agreement. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.040 It was more of a struggle of negotiation. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.520 There was never that generational wealth player that got rewarded 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.600 for his lifetime and lifetime of his kids, and so 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.280 it was kind of a different battle back then. But 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.800 I super envy these guys that have the opportunity to 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.800 get rewarded for all the effort they've put in since 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.920 they've been playing pee wee football or pee wee baseball 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.680 or any sport that you played growing up in just 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.560 the development of your athleticism or was it going to 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.360 lead you to And so I'm excited for Cole. I'm 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.520 excited for his family. He comes from a football family 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.080 with his dad and his uncle and everybody else a board, 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:17.240 and hey, it just I think it's significant message inside 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.280 that locker room, if you pay attention to the details, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.680 you put in the effort that's expected of you, that 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.880 you're going to have a chance to be rewarded handsomely 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.520 for your investment in yourself. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.960 Yeah well yeah, people say it energizes the locker room, 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.720 and it is because you know, if you don't back 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.200 it up, if you don't back up. It's just lip service, right, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.880 So you got to back it up. As a general manager, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.160 Ryan Poles is following through on everything he said he's 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:46.920 going to do and what he wants to do. And 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.440 that's a great first step. Everybody notices. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.760 And what I like about it is is inside the 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.840 locker room. When I was playing with some really really 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.240 close people to me that I developed more than a 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.880 football French ship with, I saw them go through real 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:07.280 struggles in their negotiation and you know that's kind of 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.520 a difficult message to bring down to the locker room. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.080 Then some other guys are concerned about it. So when 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.560 you talk about you know, Cole for what he's been 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.960 able to earn and how it lights up the locker room, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.240 it does. It sends a great bright message to like 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.400 I said, everybody about their work habits and what they're 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.400 you know, how they're going to be rewarded if they 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:27.840 do it right. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.400 All right, A bit of a quiz for you. So 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.000 you're head coach and Hall of Fame Chicago bear Mike 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:36.640 Ditka of course, helped revolutionize that position. Carson looked to 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.400 guys like John McKee and and some great tight ends 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.680 over the history of the National Football in the early days. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.400 But I believe Ditko was the first to go to 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.840 the Hall of Fame at the tight end position. And 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.640 thank god he didn't follow his other pursuit. He wanted 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.280 to be a dentist, as you might remember, at the 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.480 University of Pittburgh. I just find that hard to believe. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.840 Pulling teeth. He guys made you pull your own teeth. However, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.400 name the only the tight end to make the Pro 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.800 Bowl since that time in the nineteen sixties from the 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:06.840 Chicago Bears. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:17.879 Wow Parsons, Bob Parsers now as a Potter, Yeah, yeah, No, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.120 mart Martellus Bennett. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:21.159 He made it. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.040 He made the Pro Bowl in twenty fourteen, and that 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:25.800 was a free agent signing, of course. But then a 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.119 year later he was no longer a Chicago Bear. But 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.080 that that is something that you know, alternate or did 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.720 he make it? He made the Pro Bowl? Yes, he 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:37.000 made the Pro Bowl in twenty fourteen. However, there's something 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.320 about like you and I both love the running game. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.040 We're always going to love the running game. We love 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.639 we love the play in the trenches with the offensive line. 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.960 And I've always loved safeties and I love tight ends, 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.120 and it's been a long time. I believe Cole has 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:56.000 Pro Bowl potential. And I believe that not because of 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.159 the money that's attached to his name. Now I just 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.560 see him stair climbing. He's still only twenty four years old. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.920 It'll be November, I believe, or March. Pardon me, then 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.040 will he'll turn twenty five. So he's still a young 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.480 player that's going to be in a system now for 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.040 a second straight year, And like Justin Fields and the 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.320 rest of them, I believe he has that potential. Now 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.879 how that works? You know, this league with Travis Kelce 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.280 is the gold standard obviously of the type of tight end. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.199 George Kittle, the type of tight end is going to 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.320 garner a lot of attention, a lot of yards and 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.440 a lot of touchdowns. But I'm not putting anything passcal now. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.919 You know, I think this tight end room has the 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.560 beginnings of a really positive atmosphere in kind of a 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.119 young building tight end room that's gaining experience, and that 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.680 it has some experience from Robert Tunyn and stuff from 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.720 other successful organizations. So and I think that what they 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.359 can contribute to the line of scrimmage, whether they're spread 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.640 out wide or in a blocking position, from h back 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.240 to fullback to tight end or backside. They have the 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:03.800 qualifications to do everything, and Cole, uniquely enough is qualified 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.800 to do every one of those jobs. 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.840 All those other guys they're. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.560 Good at something, but Cole is good at everything that's 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:11.800 asked out of a tight end. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.960 Score huge savings on an impressive lineup of items with 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.800 jewel oscoll for you. This handy app features hot digital 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.600 deals on everything from premium produce and savery snacks too, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.760 butcher fresh meat and more. Get additional details at jewelosco 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.159 dot com. Jeff Joniac, Tom Fare welcoming you to version 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.199 two of the Bears Etc. Podcast. Had a couple of 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.119 folks already enjoy it big time. They love your sense 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.560 of humor, they love your storytelling, and so you know, 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.000 we'll continue on that regard because you know, the funny 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.360 thing is, and I was on Wattle and Sylvie yesterday 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.040 on ESPN one thousand, our new flagship home for the 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.119 Chicago Bears, and Watto asked where you were, and I said, well, 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.720 that one's my fault. I told them to turn around 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.359 and go back home because practice was going to be 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.360 indoors with no pads, storms were brewing on. I knew 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.280 it wasn't a good idea for you to come up here. 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.200 And that's not your bag, right, Like you love watching practice, 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.720 but you know it's just not your thing. But the 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.480 big wait, the big reasons. Wait, the big reasons. Wait, wait, 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.920 the big The big reason was the air quality. And 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.600 you were scoffing at that, right, because back in the day, 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.360 do you think you had days in Platteville, Wisconsin when 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.960 the temperature spiked that you had practice wiped out because 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.280 of poor air quality? No? 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.240 No, So you know it's kind of funny. 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.560 Back in the day of transition transistor radios, so we 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.400 want we had a transistor radio plugged into the back 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:41.360 where everybody. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:42.760