Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome, Bears All Access. I'm Tom Fair. Jeff is
Speaker 1: going to be along in a minute. He just finishing
Speaker 1: up some interviews with coach Nagie. We're lucky enough to
Speaker 1: have our guests, Mike Davis. Mike, thanks for coming down today.
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking your time before probably the you know,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest games in the career of the Bears,
Speaker 1: you think in one hundred year anniversary, kicking off the
Speaker 1: NFL season, and how exciting is it for you for
Speaker 1: this opportunity. It's very exciting for me. I'm just grateful,
Speaker 1: you know, to be here, thankful in a coach and
Speaker 1: Naggie in a pace to I'm believing me and I'm
Speaker 1: having me here to play. You know, belief in you
Speaker 1: is what I hear everybody. Ryan Pace talks about it
Speaker 1: all the time, Coach Naggie talks all about it all
Speaker 1: the time. But you know, belief you've created that because
Speaker 1: what you've been able to accomplish in the short amount
Speaker 1: of time that you've been in the NFL is the
Speaker 1: reason why you were sought after in the first place,
Speaker 1: and probably your versatility as a player, wouldn't you agree, Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: coming out out of the season out there. You know,
Speaker 1: becoming a free agent was just like when I became
Speaker 1: a Cree agent, you know, everybody started calling, and I
Speaker 1: was just like, you know, I didn't I didn't know
Speaker 1: I had, like, you know, this much value. You know.
Speaker 1: I was always thinking to myself, like I have a
Speaker 1: lot of value, but like you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: teams are calling, you know, and all this and all that,
Speaker 1: and I was just you know, you know, blessed with
Speaker 1: you know, thankful for you know, us ex players were
Speaker 1: kind of jealous in the way they go about the
Speaker 1: preseason nowadays. Um, we used to play the whole game,
Speaker 1: the entire game. Is this the smallest amount of time
Speaker 1: in terms of game play that you've had throughout your
Speaker 1: career in the preseason. Yes, And I'm actually I'm happy
Speaker 1: about that. I love the way coach Naggy his his
Speaker 1: approaches of Forest preseason. Um. I hate that, Um that
Speaker 1: even the idea of them cutting back preseason because I
Speaker 1: remember coming in as a younger player that I basically
Speaker 1: made the team because of preseason. So I never looked
Speaker 1: down on the players that sat there grunting, you know,
Speaker 1: through preseason from the time you got into the pros.
Speaker 1: Where you're at right now? What have you improved at
Speaker 1: in your game? What have you improved at the most?
Speaker 1: You know, because it seems like, you know, the thing
Speaker 1: about a college player coming to the pro levels, Hey
Speaker 1: can he pick up the blitz? Can he you know,
Speaker 1: catch the ball, you know, out of the backfield from
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and all these different formations? How
Speaker 1: can he read the line of scrimmage? What are you
Speaker 1: better at him this point in your career? UM? I
Speaker 1: would say my mind set, um where my mind is basically, Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like everything guess comes, you know, comes natural,
Speaker 1: as far as running back, as far as you know,
Speaker 1: running faster, catching better. Um. I don't look at those
Speaker 1: things like big improvements. UM I look at myself, you know,
Speaker 1: my mental state. That's what I've gotten better at. What
Speaker 1: is your off season habits? Because I think you know,
Speaker 1: that's one thing that you're always challenging at as you
Speaker 1: get older, as you gain experience in the NFL. What
Speaker 1: do you do during the off season to get yourself prepared? Um?
Speaker 1: I train really hard in Atlanta, and um you know,
Speaker 1: as I've learned throughout the years, is better to take
Speaker 1: care of your you know just as much as you're training. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's like one of my big things was taking care
Speaker 1: of my body. And I'm seeing, like, you know, a
Speaker 1: dramatic change and how fast I run. And because in
Speaker 1: the youngest years I was just just out of just running,
Speaker 1: I never really took care of my buddy as much.
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Speaker 1: dot com. You know, I read this article about you
Speaker 1: having this chip on your shoulder? Do you have a
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder? Is that something that you'll carry
Speaker 1: with it year throughout your whole career. Yeah, of course, because, um,
Speaker 1: it took a lot to get here, and I'm never
Speaker 1: satisfied with where I am, so I'm always have a
Speaker 1: chip on my shoulder. It's just something I just go
Speaker 1: out there and play with. You know what's crazy. I
Speaker 1: was reading about you your senior year in high school.
Speaker 1: You have nineteen hundred and twenty three yards. You carry
Speaker 1: the ball two hundred and thirteen times so far, in
Speaker 1: your pro career, you've carried a two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: four times. You're a fresh guy. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: and I you know, the the experience that you had
Speaker 1: is the reason that you're so sought after for a
Speaker 1: free agent. But you're a guy that's you know, been
Speaker 1: in the NFL for a while. But you're still right, Um,
Speaker 1: did you did well? This is why I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you at the beginning of when you when you
Speaker 1: look back at your high school senior year, did the
Speaker 1: nineteen one hundred and twenty three yards or the two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen carries? Did that seem like a lot
Speaker 1: of work? Or were you so much more talented the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys you played with that it wasn't
Speaker 1: a big strain on you. Um, I was just a
Speaker 1: high school I don't. I don't know. I just feel
Speaker 1: like you. You don't get tired. I don't know, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're endurance and everything is really high in
Speaker 1: high school. Um Stone out in Georgia, Right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: went to Stevenson High School and um before that, out
Speaker 1: of Fredick Douglas and um, yeah, man is I don't No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't tough in high school. But it's just I'll
Speaker 1: just feel like high school you and and I don't
Speaker 1: want to say one of the best shaping your life,
Speaker 1: one of the best shapes in your life. I guess
Speaker 1: starting college, but high school it was easy. Okay. Then
Speaker 1: you you have a chance that you're you're ready to
Speaker 1: go to Florida and then you decide to go to
Speaker 1: South Carolina. What was the reason for that switch? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that story is kind of funny. Um, so you know,
Speaker 1: like the top recruits, you know, we all talked to
Speaker 1: each other and everything, and I don't I guess coaches
Speaker 1: didn't know that when they're recruiting you. But um, back then, UM,
Speaker 1: I was committed to Florida on it was sent like
Speaker 1: it didn't matter what was going on. I was going
Speaker 1: to Florida. You know. I always wanted to play football
Speaker 1: in Florida, so you know, I couldn't wait to get there.
Speaker 1: So there was nothing, you know, that could make me switch. So, um,
Speaker 1: they do the in home visit and they send uh,
Speaker 1: I think it was a coach Lewis Derrek Lewis. I
Speaker 1: think it was tight end coach at Florida at the time.
Speaker 1: They send a tight end coach in the house for
Speaker 1: a home visit. You know, usually they send like, you know,
Speaker 1: head coach or your position coach for home visit, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I don't care. I'm coming to Florida anyway.
Speaker 1: So are you say you got offended that they didn't
Speaker 1: send the head coach. So my brother, my brother asked
Speaker 1: him where they recruiting Keith Marshall. You know, Keith Marshall's
Speaker 1: one of them, you know, one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: And um he was like no, he sucks and all
Speaker 1: this all that blaha bladday. So I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: brother like, why are you asking? Like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: So the next day they saying, like, the whole coach
Speaker 1: and staff to Keith marshall house to recruit him. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I'm not going well. So but
Speaker 1: Steve Spurry or was the head coach at South Carolina, right,
Speaker 1: do you do you think that kind of increased your
Speaker 1: value because you had seventy catches throughout your college career.
Speaker 1: You know how many catches would you have had in Florida?
Speaker 1: Would you have you know, been uh, you know, primarily
Speaker 1: a running back. But it seems like the more that
Speaker 1: you can expand your game is probably a big reason
Speaker 1: why you're here with the Bears because they liked the
Speaker 1: receiving ability. But seventy catches in three years, it's pretty
Speaker 1: good number. Yeah, I would say it's really it's really
Speaker 1: within two years my first show. I really don't right. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you had single digit catches, but given I was given
Speaker 1: the toll, Yeah, I was in behind Marcus Alattimore, man,
Speaker 1: which was really a blessing thing behind him. But um,
Speaker 1: and Steve Spurr your offense, you had no choice but
Speaker 1: to learn how to you know, to be able to
Speaker 1: catch in that offense. If you can't catch and block,
Speaker 1: then you wouldn't be out there. Um. So when you
Speaker 1: went to San Francisco, did you ever play at Seattle
Speaker 1: as a member of the forty nine ers, Because this
Speaker 1: is the reason I'm asking, I'll get to the question
Speaker 1: is because then the noise inside Seattle as we've gone
Speaker 1: there as broadcaster unbelievable. Man, it is crazy, and you
Speaker 1: know how destructive is that against the opponent's offense. When
Speaker 1: you're there part of the Seattle Seahawks, you hear that
Speaker 1: crowd noise and you know that there's no verbal communication
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage, because I really believe that's
Speaker 1: what you're gonna hear here Thursday night. Yeah yeah, I
Speaker 1: played against Seattle. Well I didn't play that game, but
Speaker 1: I was there, and um, being an opponent team and
Speaker 1: not being able to talk to somebody right next to
Speaker 1: you is kind of, I want to say, it's kind
Speaker 1: of annoying, but is an NFL communication is big. So
Speaker 1: it's like you have that communication and everything is off
Speaker 1: and then tim is taken down and you get to
Speaker 1: rushing and sh bad things happen. So crowd noise is
Speaker 1: like a big thing. Right. I think you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: a siren Thursday night. That's kind of gonna be a
Speaker 1: little bit annoying to yourself. But last year they introduced
Speaker 1: it to the Bears crowd and it's it's deafening at times,
Speaker 1: but hey, you know that's the great benefit of playing
Speaker 1: under the most one of the most supportive home and
Speaker 1: you know following crowds that you can get. This is
Speaker 1: going to end our first section. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and we'll have the man at the mic that should
Speaker 1: be here, Jeff Joniac. We're here with Mike Davis, and
Speaker 1: we'll We'll get right back to you. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniak back with you along with Tom Thamer, broadcast
Speaker 1: partner from news radio seven eighty and one or five
Speaker 1: point out FMWBBM, and our guest today's show is Mike Davis,
Speaker 1: the veteran running back or ready to make his maiden
Speaker 1: voyage with the Chicago Bears. And I just I just
Speaker 1: finished my interview with Matt Neggie for the pregame show
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. So he's as relaxed and as composed
Speaker 1: as you can possibly, but he's so excited at the
Speaker 1: same time. And I think the message is that Mike,
Speaker 1: he wants all you guys to feel the same way
Speaker 1: and not make it too big, even though it is big. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure everybody, you know, not
Speaker 1: on edge out there. Well, you're gonna have some guys
Speaker 1: you know out there with the nerves and still, but
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make sure we all come or relax.
Speaker 1: We had a good day of practice and we just
Speaker 1: want to make sure that carries over to the game.
Speaker 1: And the whole thing is a bottommotion when you get
Speaker 1: right down to it, because you got to manage your
Speaker 1: own emotions on game day. It doesn't matter if it's
Speaker 1: week one or week seventeen. That there's that. But I
Speaker 1: like to break it up into segments. You got you
Speaker 1: got rookies yet in your own room. David Montgomery only
Speaker 1: can imagine when his emotions are gonna bet a guy
Speaker 1: like yourself, there's been on two other teams. You got
Speaker 1: a fresh slate here in Chicago, exciting new offense. You
Speaker 1: got your own emotions. You got the emotions of a
Speaker 1: head coach that took a team to twelve wins last
Speaker 1: year and a playoff loss and still trying to get
Speaker 1: that bad taste out of the moth to move on.
Speaker 1: You got the emotions of fans that are have high
Speaker 1: expectations this year. I mean emotions all over the boa,
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix. You know, a guy got the team that
Speaker 1: traded him. Now he's got to go out here and
Speaker 1: try and beat them. I mean there's all these chips
Speaker 1: on shoulders and emotions all over the place. So how
Speaker 1: do you guys do that as professional athletes? Just go
Speaker 1: out there and relax your team, maybe talk to yourself,
Speaker 1: you have teammates or you have guys out there that
Speaker 1: you know, we taught to guys that come them down.
Speaker 1: But I mean also, you know, you can listen to
Speaker 1: music or your pregame, you know, ritual or however you
Speaker 1: handle it. What is yours? Um? I just listen to
Speaker 1: music or or a comedy at TIMS. Yeah, any any
Speaker 1: particular tunage. I listened to all you know, rappers from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: like Future, a Little Baby, all those type of guys.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I listened to like like Nephew Tommy
Speaker 1: from Steve Harvey Morning Show. I listened to his prank
Speaker 1: calls any run dmc uh. They've been playing a lot
Speaker 1: of that in practice. Well, it's it's funny though that
Speaker 1: you know that that's the name that the running back
Speaker 1: room is taken over, and when you you know that
Speaker 1: was more of my era than your ear. But it's
Speaker 1: it's it's funny, how you know, as soon as you
Speaker 1: get three guys in the room together, you start thinking of,
Speaker 1: you know, what title can we put to this room because,
Speaker 1: as Jeff mentioned, you guys seem to be so different.
Speaker 1: Is Trick Is he the life of the room and
Speaker 1: you're the experience of the room. And then Montgomery's just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where he fits in. I would
Speaker 1: say Montgommery already figure he already fits in him um
Speaker 1: in the room. He's a talented young running back. And
Speaker 1: oh yeah, honestly, I can't wait to see him, you know,
Speaker 1: go ouad and play as well. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to play, but I'd love to see my teammates
Speaker 1: go out there do well, especially guys who it's it's
Speaker 1: important to him you can tell them. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's got a very businesslike approach on that practice field,
Speaker 1: and I think it's tantalizing. And I'm in Iowa State
Speaker 1: grad so you know, I saw almost every snap, so
Speaker 1: I know what to expect from his talents. Uh and
Speaker 1: and they are they are special talent. All you guys
Speaker 1: have special talents. This run, this running back trio is
Speaker 1: as diverse as you guys are not all like you know,
Speaker 1: you're not six foot running backs. You guys are all
Speaker 1: diverse in your own way though, And you have special talents,
Speaker 1: and I guess that's what's tantalizing about it for all
Speaker 1: you guys. And I'm sure you guys all feel about
Speaker 1: that the same way about each other. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: you know, we go out there, we're taking their personal
Speaker 1: personal and it's it's like you can't just key on
Speaker 1: one guy. That's that's a hard thing with our running
Speaker 1: back from UM. We want to be able to go
Speaker 1: out there and do everything. You know. That's so you
Speaker 1: can't just look at one person saying when he's on
Speaker 1: the field, he does this. So you got a running
Speaker 1: back room that could you could put anybody anywhere, you know,
Speaker 1: when you came out and I don't know what all
Speaker 1: the scutting reports said, obviously, but it's always okay. Guys
Speaker 1: can run the ball the instincts of a running back,
Speaker 1: you know that that that translates very well to to
Speaker 1: day one in the National Football League season. But the
Speaker 1: other stuff like pass catching, hands, pass pro, how how
Speaker 1: are you at those in your opinion in terms of
Speaker 1: pass catching, route running, and pass pro And how's that
Speaker 1: evolved since you got in the league. UM, I would
Speaker 1: say my route running has involved a lot, especially coming
Speaker 1: from home Seattle. Um I had to know receiver routes
Speaker 1: and signals, and that's something that um um here you
Speaker 1: have to you have to know everybody's position. So um
Speaker 1: I was I evolved in in route running, catching and
Speaker 1: um think of that nature when so when the free
Speaker 1: agent market opened up, did you have a chance to
Speaker 1: investigate the Bears offense and Mark Halfred's coach Naggie Dave
Speaker 1: were going in and everybody else who would have a
Speaker 1: hand in coaching you or did you or did they
Speaker 1: come at you so quickly that they kind of set
Speaker 1: their sights on your skill set to fit into their offense.
Speaker 1: Um I already looked at you know, Chicago's offense and
Speaker 1: it was it was like when free agency started, Um,
Speaker 1: I knew I was gonna be free agent. I knew
Speaker 1: I wasn't going back to Seattle, So I was you know,
Speaker 1: I asked, you know, players around the league, you know,
Speaker 1: how what do you think about this team? You know,
Speaker 1: what do you think about such and such? And m
Speaker 1: Benny Cunningham. Um I talked to him. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, like like what do you think you know
Speaker 1: about Chicago? And he was like, man, if you have
Speaker 1: a chance to go just go man, It's He was like,
Speaker 1: it's the best place for you. And he was saying
Speaker 1: the offenses is you love it, the concepts and everything.
Speaker 1: And as I was just looking, you know, looking around
Speaker 1: um Chicago as soon as free agency open um, it
Speaker 1: was like Chicago was pushing the hardest and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to go somewhere Ilse wanted. You know, you go
Speaker 1: through OTAs and it's kind of behind closed doors. You
Speaker 1: don't have the the visibility of the fan support they
Speaker 1: did at training camp. Did it surprise you that every
Speaker 1: day that ten thousand people lining the five fields around
Speaker 1: training camp in support of what, you know, not only
Speaker 1: to their expectations of what the Bears, but just the
Speaker 1: overall support of their team. Um yeah, I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 1: Waking up in bourbon A and you know, as um
Speaker 1: on a cart, riding you know to the stadium, seeing
Speaker 1: you know, the long line for people to get in.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, this is like every day. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the right time to be a Bear right now. I
Speaker 1: mean it really is. It's the right time to be
Speaker 1: a Bear. And I like that you researched it from
Speaker 1: a perspective of a guy who isn't here anymore, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna get all sorts of reactions. Sometimes guys don't
Speaker 1: like the fact that they didn't get invited back, or
Speaker 1: they got moved or whatnot. So but Benny very well
Speaker 1: respected in that room here, Brian Piccolo Award winner as
Speaker 1: veteran very well spoken guy, and uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's nice to know that the guys who've left appreciated
Speaker 1: what was here. And I know there's guys on this
Speaker 1: practice squad that are thrilled that they're able to still
Speaker 1: be here right now, not just because it's an NFL job,
Speaker 1: but it's because it's the Bears and they've done their
Speaker 1: own research and their buddies are at the bleak saying, well,
Speaker 1: it's not like that here, and that and the part
Speaker 1: that's not like that here you can speak to more
Speaker 1: than us. So you've been with Seatt, I've been with
Speaker 1: San Francisco as Tom and you talked about in the
Speaker 1: first segment. But it's the camaraderie. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: asked the keem Hicks yesterday. I said, you know, oh, Mac,
Speaker 1: excuse me, I asked Mac, I go, now that you've
Speaker 1: been here a year, what's the difference, and he goes
Speaker 1: to the camaraderie. It's just everybody's pulling on the same rope.
Speaker 1: And sometimes that could be a cliche, Mike, but you
Speaker 1: guys are living it right now, do you do you
Speaker 1: feel that same thing right now? Yeah? As a brotherhood,
Speaker 1: we all, you know, we all come together, you know,
Speaker 1: every day and you can just tell in practice we
Speaker 1: all being seen and um, it's just you got guys.
Speaker 1: It's just so ready to play and go out and
Speaker 1: hit somebody, you know, other than each other. And which
Speaker 1: is also cliche in the National Football League, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody saying it every year. Yeah, but it's real, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's just you got a group of players that you know,
Speaker 1: that love each other, and you know they just can't
Speaker 1: go out there and play for their brothers. Mike Davis
Speaker 1: our guest here on Bears All Access right before the
Speaker 1: start of the regular season opener against the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers Thursday night at Soldier Field. We'll have it for you,
Speaker 1: starting with a four twenty pregame on WBBM, followed by
Speaker 1: a seven twenty two kickoff at Soldier Field. Another segment
Speaker 1: coming up here with the Bears running back after this
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Speaker 1: players college football at South Carolina. So you've had some coaches. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the old ball coach. You guys need
Speaker 1: guys to talk about that, did you the old ball
Speaker 1: coach Steve Spurrier. He kind of gave us a funny
Speaker 1: story why he went from Florida to South Carolina, right,
Speaker 1: But I want to know about the old ball coach.
Speaker 1: I love that guy. He's well, hold on, I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't play for him, but I love I just
Speaker 1: love the just his love of the game. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a good coach. He was tough to play for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, he's a good coach. And then uh yeah, Champ,
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly, yeah, Jim tim Sula for one years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Pete Carroll, I mean these are all different. First difference,
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, he's right. How could you put all
Speaker 1: that into context? All these offensive coaches is pretty I mean,
Speaker 1: is really hard, especially to have a different head coach
Speaker 1: every year and then league, So me coming in the
Speaker 1: San Fran having Tom Sulan, Dan chip Kelly and Dan
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan coming in, and you know, when head coaches
Speaker 1: come in, they want to bring in, you know, their
Speaker 1: own guys type of players who they think you know,
Speaker 1: you know who already, who they think you know already
Speaker 1: better than you and don't give you a shot. And
Speaker 1: then it's just like, hey, it's got to go improve
Speaker 1: them wrong. It is it? You know when you I
Speaker 1: was an offensive lineman, so the five offensive lineman they
Speaker 1: work together and you kind of have similar kind of
Speaker 1: fundamentals about no matter what system you're playing, if you're
Speaker 1: playing a Chip Kelly system, Steve Spurrier system or Matt
Speaker 1: Nagy system, was everything different for you for every different
Speaker 1: guy you played for. Because it seemed like Steve Spurrier
Speaker 1: is wide open. Chip Kelly has run quick as much
Speaker 1: as you can possibly get around the field. Thomas Sulo
Speaker 1: is a defensive minded head coach, so we're things different
Speaker 1: for you. For every HUD head coach you played went
Speaker 1: for yeah every year, which is pretty tough. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Chip Kelly was by far that that offense was
Speaker 1: a total totally different than everybody else. But as you
Speaker 1: go and play in the league, certain things, you know,
Speaker 1: it click and it sounds the same and it is
Speaker 1: the same, you know, as far as specialist protection, and
Speaker 1: as you get that's why I said, as far as
Speaker 1: the mentality once you know, as you get smarter and
Speaker 1: the game goes on and goes on, plays become easier
Speaker 1: to learn, concepts become easier to learn, and especially seeing defenses.
Speaker 1: Did you feel this offense was in that category? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this offense is easy to learn verbiage and once you
Speaker 1: I mean you understand the names and you understand the
Speaker 1: concepts and why things are run, and certain things just clicked,
Speaker 1: like I said, then you you know it'd be easier
Speaker 1: for you. You know. Matt Naggie today when he met
Speaker 1: the media after practice, because he's been hit on this
Speaker 1: a lot about not playing in the regular season or
Speaker 1: preseason rather will there be rushed, He goes rushed. Forget
Speaker 1: about it, he goes, I ran more practice reps than
Speaker 1: I ever have in my whole career as a coach,
Speaker 1: and you guys felt it. I talked to Taylor Gabriel yesterday, said,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've played games. Yeah, would you say
Speaker 1: that that's a fair representation of what training camp and
Speaker 1: this offseason has been like for all of you guys?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, trust me, He's posted us a lot special
Speaker 1: guys who you know who don't play in the preseason games.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we go out and practice, We go out
Speaker 1: and have our own games and everything, and uh we
Speaker 1: we you know, four quarters, you know you have you
Speaker 1: you have time and everything. So we go out and
Speaker 1: get our work done. You know, you may not see
Speaker 1: it in preseason games. Got him in sideline, but trust me,
Speaker 1: that day before and the day before that, those guys
Speaker 1: who getting those reps in. How's your feel for the
Speaker 1: offensive line, because I do think when you look at
Speaker 1: Kyle Long, Cody Whitehair, James in the middle, you look
Speaker 1: at the two offensive tackles, this is a heck of
Speaker 1: This's a heck of a group. They're athletic and they're
Speaker 1: strong and powerful. Your first run that you had in preseason,
Speaker 1: you basically ran straight through the whole for twenty yards.
Speaker 1: You have a good relationship ship with these guys. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a really good relationship with everybody. Ont know
Speaker 1: if it's a it's fun man. I Craig jokes for
Speaker 1: them every day, and um yeah, I told him what's crazy?
Speaker 1: It was? Um I told them that. You know, one
Speaker 1: day I was gonna take you know, take them all
Speaker 1: out to eat. But it's like like that kind of
Speaker 1: hurt in my pocket. All right, they all just lie there,
Speaker 1: got you know, you know, Cody just got paid, you
Speaker 1: know paying. It's just like Charles got paid last year.
Speaker 1: We've got an extension, James James a high draft pick,
Speaker 1: you know, fifty two million. It's like, oh no, that's
Speaker 1: kind of tough buying a gift. They'll take you out
Speaker 1: to dinner. They will be they will be taking out.
Speaker 1: You know. That's the thing about it is the first
Speaker 1: time you pick up a blitzer that maybe they lose
Speaker 1: control of, then all of a sudden they're patting you
Speaker 1: on the back instead of the other way around. But
Speaker 1: you know, the way these players are choreographed, um is
Speaker 1: that you know there there's a lot of versatility to
Speaker 1: this offense. So I mean, you're you get to play
Speaker 1: all over the place, you get to line up everywhere.
Speaker 1: That's gotta be fun for all the skills that you've
Speaker 1: developed since your time in college, throughout all those coaches
Speaker 1: to the point where you're at now. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: why I love this offense because I can be you know,
Speaker 1: I don't be. I won't be looked at as one dimensional,
Speaker 1: and I can be everyone in the field at any time.
Speaker 1: That's why I love the offense. That's why I love
Speaker 1: a concept. So I love you know, how how Matt
Speaker 1: nat how he sets everything up. So it's really amazing
Speaker 1: how the players come by and how you you know,
Speaker 1: you can be put at a certain spot and you know,
Speaker 1: and get the ball. So I legit love this offense.
Speaker 1: But you can talk a little offensive line with him.
Speaker 1: By the way, he was a left tackle. His very
Speaker 1: first and a first football job was a left tackle.
Speaker 1: Good for years, ten years old, good for ten years old? Well, friend, well, well,
Speaker 1: last year we talked to Roquan Smith and he was
Speaker 1: talking about how he was They wanted to put him
Speaker 1: at center, and he went there one day and hated
Speaker 1: it so much he asked the coach if he couldn't
Speaker 1: play there anymore. And you know, hey, it's a good
Speaker 1: experience to getting the three points. Grove Grove Park is
Speaker 1: in Georgia, right, yeah, Lathonia, Georgia. It's I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. Okay,
Speaker 1: So when my when my brother got drafted to the NFL,
Speaker 1: he moved us out to Latonia second year in high school,
Speaker 1: like my sophomore year. So do you remember that first
Speaker 1: practice snap at left tackle? Yeah? Yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: was playing left tackling and it was just like, let's
Speaker 1: try a running back. And ever since then, I was
Speaker 1: just I was killing it. Usually it's the other way around, Mike.
Speaker 1: Usually you think you could take a snap at fullback
Speaker 1: and they moved you up to offensive guard or center
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, so I was. I started at left
Speaker 1: tackling then, and uh, you know, I guess they they
Speaker 1: knew who my brother was and then got out of
Speaker 1: running back and then the rest of his was running
Speaker 1: back all the time after that. So were their coaches
Speaker 1: around your house recruiting your brother, and you know he
Speaker 1: tried to walk around and show them that year. Then
Speaker 1: next prospect up the bat in this family. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. I wish when my brother was uh, when
Speaker 1: he was in college. I was in the high school.
Speaker 1: Um it was it was do you remember the recruiters
Speaker 1: coming around and you know, trying to investigate his talent stuff?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I almost definitely remember. Um it was. It's
Speaker 1: really crazy. Um, it was a lot going on, especially
Speaker 1: you know, for my brother. And then it was, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody knew who my brother was, but did nobody know
Speaker 1: who Mike Davis was? You know, everybody know James Davis.
Speaker 1: And then I started getting the name, you know, James
Speaker 1: David's little brother, and I was just like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta do something about that. Yeah, this was nothing.
Speaker 1: I didn't like that one. Well, I lived the same
Speaker 1: thing because my brother two years older than me, was
Speaker 1: a star in high school football and no one knew
Speaker 1: who I was. Everybody knew who Rick there was, and
Speaker 1: so you kind of live, you know, but the living
Speaker 1: the shadows of your older brother kind of inspires you
Speaker 1: to want to be able to do what they're doing
Speaker 1: or what they're accomplishing. Yeah, and sin back and watching
Speaker 1: how everything I'll photo with him in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: I I was just sitting man and learning, you know,
Speaker 1: everything I could be on him. So um. You know
Speaker 1: here in the James Davis little brother just made me
Speaker 1: wanted to work harder, you know, especially coming out of
Speaker 1: high school. Everybody thought, you know, I would go to Clemson. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I go to the Rabbit school with that. Yeah. We'll
Speaker 1: pick up that story after this commercial break, because there
Speaker 1: are lessons learned and all of that of that. James Davis,
Speaker 1: by the way, was Mike's big brother, but Mikeson's own
Speaker 1: man right now. For Chicago Bears, that's for sure. Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers will know that. Starting on Thursday night, we'll
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Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score Thursday Nights
Speaker 1: one hundred season home opener against the Green Bay Packers
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Speaker 1: of your Chicago Bears, with Mike Davis Bears running back
Speaker 1: top there. Jeff Joning acc with you previously the break
Speaker 1: here we were talking about. His brother. James Davis was
Speaker 1: a sixth round pick out of Clemson by the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: Also played with the Washington Redskins and add some some
Speaker 1: time with the Detroit Lions, I believe as well. But
Speaker 1: you know, growing up as the as the brother of
Speaker 1: somebody who's already in the NFL is not simple when
Speaker 1: you're trying to make your own way. And is that
Speaker 1: still fuel you right now a little bit? You know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to make your own identity and trying to
Speaker 1: make your mark. Um, now doesn't it? That doesn't feel
Speaker 1: me anymore because you know I can go home. You know,
Speaker 1: I have my own name and uh me doing my
Speaker 1: thing in high school, um end up getting my own name.
Speaker 1: But at the time it was it was okay, like
Speaker 1: I have to get this out of people had as
Speaker 1: you know, James have his little brother like this, this
Speaker 1: is not going to stick with me. And then in
Speaker 1: terms of his own career and you look at that
Speaker 1: and you see just how fleeting it all can be.
Speaker 1: He did not have a long career with the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns and was injured and uh, those big dreams can
Speaker 1: really evaporate quickly, can't they? Yeah, really quickly. So um,
Speaker 1: there there were things you know, I always always like
Speaker 1: to you know, sit back and learn and uh watch
Speaker 1: guys you know, if they're in front of me. You know,
Speaker 1: I always love to learn from that. You know. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I went to South Carolina. UM,
Speaker 1: I felt like, if I was going to go anywhere,
Speaker 1: and if I wasn't going to play right away but
Speaker 1: end up playing, I felt like, Okay, I'd rather go
Speaker 1: to South Carolina and say behind Marcus Lattimore and learned
Speaker 1: some things from him because you know, I knew for
Speaker 1: a fact next year he was going to the NFL, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he had the talent. So UM, me sitting
Speaker 1: back in the watch the other things I unraveled with
Speaker 1: my brother. I used always seeing myself like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen to me. Yeah what what did you
Speaker 1: What could have been done differently there? You know when
Speaker 1: you think about it that you learned about from my brother, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, taking things more seriously, um, you know, on
Speaker 1: the field, off the field, UM, not letting things get
Speaker 1: to me with family and and and friends and watching
Speaker 1: everything financially and you know, just learning from every little thing.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the one thing and things we can't
Speaker 1: relate to. But when l when players become NFL players,
Speaker 1: and I've heard a thousand times from guys in the
Speaker 1: same position. The family and friends that want a little
Speaker 1: piece of it becomes so difficult to deal with. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are there have been so many guys have come
Speaker 1: through this building that said the same story. And I
Speaker 1: always talk about a story, and you'll know the name
Speaker 1: Gaines Adams. Gaines Adams played at Clemson. He was the
Speaker 1: first round pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was traded
Speaker 1: to the Bears. And he always told me he did
Speaker 1: not want to go home. He didn't want to go
Speaker 1: home because everybody wanted something. He just didn't want to
Speaker 1: go home. And he went home after his last season
Speaker 1: with the Bears and he died. He had some congenital
Speaker 1: heart issue that no one knew about, and he died.
Speaker 1: And I always felt it was like he was just heartbroken.
Speaker 1: He didn't want He didn't know he was going to
Speaker 1: be a first round pick. He didn't think he was
Speaker 1: good enough to be a first round pick. Someone else
Speaker 1: thought that, and he was deemed a failure in Tampa
Speaker 1: and all but all those folks out there wanted a
Speaker 1: piece of Gaines Adams. And those are the types of
Speaker 1: difficult scenears that we never see or hear about it.
Speaker 1: But it's got to weigh you down a little bit. Yeah, does,
Speaker 1: especially my rookie year and second year, especially in San France,
Speaker 1: I could say I felt the same way. Especially you know,
Speaker 1: it gets it can wear you down, especially you know,
Speaker 1: everybody you know asking for something and it's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, can everybody doing nobody can do anything. It
Speaker 1: was like you feel like nobody can do nothing, like
Speaker 1: on their own, like they need you and it's just
Speaker 1: like it's it's annoying when you know you're trying to
Speaker 1: prepare for a game where you're getting calls like I
Speaker 1: need you to pay for this, I need you to
Speaker 1: do that, and it's just like I got a game
Speaker 1: in an hour and you're calling me for you know
Speaker 1: this such a much. You know, you know I need
Speaker 1: you to pay you know, my rant, my bills and
Speaker 1: all this, and it can legit, you know, break you down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you learn how to say but um, it's it's just
Speaker 1: know as you know as a word. You know, it's
Speaker 1: hard for you to tell. You know, your parents no,
Speaker 1: you know, especially they're raided, but it's it's things you
Speaker 1: have to go through and you got to learn with
Speaker 1: and they got to know that. You know, as a player,
Speaker 1: you don't owe them anything, so you can you can
Speaker 1: always do things for it, but you don't owe them nothing.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's tough that I had to learn, you know,
Speaker 1: in your running back life, especially when you have an
Speaker 1: older brother, When did you you know, factor in how
Speaker 1: important your ability to catch the ball was gonna Because
Speaker 1: it seems like if you have an older brother who's
Speaker 1: a running back, everybody, whether you're a pop warner, you
Speaker 1: know your nineteen hundred yards as a senior in high
Speaker 1: school you're running the ball is such a talent. But
Speaker 1: nowadays in the NFL and coach Naggie has talked about
Speaker 1: it a lot that you gotta be able to have
Speaker 1: the talent to catch the ball. When did that kind
Speaker 1: of creep into your your mind about your your advancement
Speaker 1: and going forward? Um? College? Um? At running back? Um,
Speaker 1: you know we ran a lot of wheel rods coming
Speaker 1: out in South Carolina. Um. So is it because a
Speaker 1: spurrier because he liked to throw the ball. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say because a spurrier. Um, you just had to
Speaker 1: be able to catch the ball or you were you
Speaker 1: were not playing. There was a lot of things that
Speaker 1: went on. If you couldn't do this thing, you weren't
Speaker 1: going to play? Were you good immediately at that? Because
Speaker 1: it seemed like there's players all around the NFL that
Speaker 1: they have great talent and running the ball, they're tough,
Speaker 1: they can lower their shoulder pads, and through all my
Speaker 1: generation to now that you know, sometimes it's difficult for
Speaker 1: them to pick that up. Was that something that it
Speaker 1: was an easy transfer for you? It's easy to transfer.
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever had a problem catching, But
Speaker 1: it's really all about concentrating and doing it over and
Speaker 1: over and over. So um, I mean, it's something I've
Speaker 1: pred as a lot, especially in all season Mike David
Speaker 1: Bears running back with us here on Bears All Access
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy Score with engineer Paul
Speaker 1: Zurrainge at Our, producer Dan b Really, Jeff Jonning act
Speaker 1: in timp there you mentioned Marcus Lattimore, and I bring
Speaker 1: it up only in that there's another lesson learned or
Speaker 1: reality learned, because that injury that he suffered it was terrible.
Speaker 1: It was a tragic story and it really ruined his
Speaker 1: abilities to make that jump and make it a successful
Speaker 1: NFL career. What was your takeaway that because you were
Speaker 1: right there when it all went down, Um, it was,
Speaker 1: It's just like it was. It was really unfortunate, and
Speaker 1: for it to happen to like Marcus Latimer, I just
Speaker 1: feel like it wasn't fair because the kind of person
Speaker 1: that he was, it's really good. And um not only
Speaker 1: was like like good on the field, but Lad was
Speaker 1: like a genuinely great person, like off the field, Like
Speaker 1: if Lad could lend you his freaking shirt off his
Speaker 1: back and us his last one, like he would like
Speaker 1: he legit would do that. He's that type of person,
Speaker 1: and um man, it was just things like I learned
Speaker 1: with lat It was times like in college, you know
Speaker 1: you feel like, yeah, I can't do this no more,
Speaker 1: Like I want to give up. But you sent behind,
Speaker 1: you sent my Lad, and he was telling you, hey,
Speaker 1: come on, let's do it. You know I'm going through
Speaker 1: I'm feeling the same thing. Come on, let's get through it.
Speaker 1: And you know, he was that type of guy and
Speaker 1: something like that, you know, trickle down. And when he left,
Speaker 1: you know, I still had that mindset and when got
Speaker 1: next to me, you know, he wanted to give up,
Speaker 1: and you know while we're running and all this. You know,
Speaker 1: you think you can't do it, and you get that
Speaker 1: encouragement from one of your team and like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: come on, you know I feel the same thing. Let's
Speaker 1: get through it. What's he doing now? Um? Actually? Um
Speaker 1: he he works for South Carolina now I think with
Speaker 1: player development, so um, I actually just taught it, like recently,
Speaker 1: I need South Carolina to send me some gear. You know,
Speaker 1: when when you think of a guy like Lattimore and
Speaker 1: Jeff Today was at the unveiling of the statue of
Speaker 1: George House Walter Payton. Do you do you understand the
Speaker 1: enormity of Walter Payton? Are you Are you too far
Speaker 1: removed from the end of his career to you know,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't it don't. It doesn't seem like they
Speaker 1: have highlight film, you know, like they distribute highlight films
Speaker 1: today like they used to. Are you familiar with the
Speaker 1: greatness of Walter Payton? Yeah, of course I am. With sweetness.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, well it's hey, it's hey, it's thirty
Speaker 1: something the year since you know Walter Payton. That's the
Speaker 1: beauty of Yeah. You go to the Onmbine every year
Speaker 1: and they're still guys that never got to see him play,
Speaker 1: but they'll punch on YouTube and they grew up with it.
Speaker 1: Or you're ready for high school football game and it's Walter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can definitely put up my hotline of Watson and
Speaker 1: so much stuff he did. It was it was most
Speaker 1: definitely amazing. And I don't I don't know there's a
Speaker 1: play I think he rented like three people. Wister didn't
Speaker 1: understand how you did it, but well, you know, you
Speaker 1: know what's contact balance and a heart. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny in the rules of today when you look
Speaker 1: at some of those runs against the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: or the ball or the Detroit Lions and stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: he he'd be fined in nowadays. But you know, Walter
Speaker 1: said he had a coach in high school or in
Speaker 1: college once I told him, don't ever run out of bounds,
Speaker 1: run through the guy that's gonna attempt to tackle. And
Speaker 1: then they figured out how many yards he had after
Speaker 1: contact near the sidelines, and it was significant in his career,
Speaker 1: how many actually yards when he put the football down right,
Speaker 1: because he always put it ahead, so that collects yardage
Speaker 1: to the all time leading rusher at the time Walter
Speaker 1: Payton will continue our final segment with Mike Davis is
Speaker 1: running back getting ready for the Bears and Packers Thursday
Speaker 1: night here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score.
Speaker 1: One more segment ago with Mike Davis kind enough to
Speaker 1: give up his time as the Bears get ready to
Speaker 1: meet the Packers. Final day of practice here, a little
Speaker 1: walk through tomorrow and then it's off to business in
Speaker 1: the season that everybody can't wait to get going. Mike
Speaker 1: Davis with Jeff Joniac and Tom there we're talking about
Speaker 1: Walter Payton and I was at the UM bailing today
Speaker 1: MC that and I honestly Tom and I'm gonna share
Speaker 1: this with everybody to be so fortunate to be a
Speaker 1: part of all this as I have been for the
Speaker 1: last you know, twenty three years of the Bears organization,
Speaker 1: and being asked to do something like that, you never
Speaker 1: know what you're really going to expect, Like we didn't
Speaker 1: know what to expect at the one hundred and you
Speaker 1: walk out there and it's it's a wow moment, right,
Speaker 1: And so there were probably three hundred people their dignitaries
Speaker 1: from Chicago and it's windy as can be and you're
Speaker 1: hoping the rain. And there's Virginia Hollis McCaskey, and there's
Speaker 1: Dan Hampton. Then there's Mike Ditka, who was thrilled to
Speaker 1: be there, and there's the Peyton family and Jared Peyton
Speaker 1: and Brittany are just so thankful for this opportunity to
Speaker 1: have those statues there and the passion of which they
Speaker 1: spoke I wish. I mean, I'm sure Dan was unbelievable
Speaker 1: as he right on Q. He captured everything perfectly about
Speaker 1: the essence of these two great men. And the George
Speaker 1: Hollis statue is just so real. It's real. You see
Speaker 1: it out here every day. You can't help but notice it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: every day. And now everybody who walks the Soldier Field
Speaker 1: from that South parking lot in the Soldier Field going
Speaker 1: to see that and just it's it looked like it
Speaker 1: had been there permanently, it's been there forever. It just
Speaker 1: with the backdrop of the stadium. It's a beautiful bronze
Speaker 1: statue of both men and captured the essence of who
Speaker 1: they are. I just you never get tired of those moments.
Speaker 1: But you can't get that at every organization. That's what's
Speaker 1: the beauty of this one, the history, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: go out there and start a new chapter for yourself
Speaker 1: and for the team. Yeah, the history here most I
Speaker 1: mean most definitely, Field, especially Soldier Field, is just something
Speaker 1: about being there. It's just field, like at home. But
Speaker 1: um yeah, honestly, I can't wait till Thursday. And I
Speaker 1: know it's going to be crazy, but honestly, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to step on the field. You know, it isn't
Speaker 1: credible because Matt Nagy talks about you guys creating your
Speaker 1: own legacy, and I think that's what every Bears fans
Speaker 1: hope for because I was a part of the eighty
Speaker 1: five team, but I grew up here in my whole life,
Speaker 1: So I understand the role that the Chicago Bears, certain
Speaker 1: individuals play in the history of the Bears. But you
Speaker 1: imagine how enormous it would be for you guys to
Speaker 1: create your own legacy and leave behind a trail of
Speaker 1: great memories here in city. So, you know, Matt is
Speaker 1: just preaching to you guys. You know, understand what you
Speaker 1: guys have the opportunity to create in front of you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have. We had a lot of talent um, a
Speaker 1: lot of talent everywhere in his offense, and um, you
Speaker 1: always tell people, you know, we have weapons everywhere, and um,
Speaker 1: this the defense is amazing. M honestly sick and tired
Speaker 1: of practicing against him, but um, it's I can't scress
Speaker 1: enough every position, I feel like it's loaded. It is
Speaker 1: amazing practicing and against your defenses. And and again, just
Speaker 1: for my own account, is practicing against the eighty five defense,
Speaker 1: and it was it was it was crazy that how
Speaker 1: good of a team that you get a chance to
Speaker 1: practice against every day. Yeah, is actually tough. But then again,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean you're a thankful for Um. You
Speaker 1: probably won't say anywhere else, but um, when the game
Speaker 1: time comes, I feel like, you know, it's it's easier.
Speaker 1: So it's just one of those type of things where
Speaker 1: you know you just gotta be ready and expect the unexpected.
Speaker 1: One thing that I give a great deal of credit
Speaker 1: to Matt Nagging. Others have tried it. But you got
Speaker 1: to have the right chemistry and the right situation to
Speaker 1: move lockers around and have offensive players to be hanging
Speaker 1: out with defensive players and not just position groups. Specific
Speaker 1: that being said, have you have you become type with
Speaker 1: any defensive players. Yeah, I'm actually cool with everybody on defense.
Speaker 1: That's a crazy part. My locker is right next to
Speaker 1: Khalil Matt so you know, you know, if he can,
Speaker 1: yeslve some of the rating this whole movie, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd be fine with that. Yesterday's there he was surrounding
Speaker 1: and you were looking for your shoes. Oh yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: you know if people hadn't hurt that, I just wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, to make people laugh, you know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to scare somebody, So I told me, hey, what's my shoes?
Speaker 1: Right right right right? There? Is there any history behind
Speaker 1: number twenty five for you? Um, there's no history behind it. Um.
Speaker 1: I were um twenty eight all my life because my
Speaker 1: favorite football. But that was Marsha Fault. Really yeah, why
Speaker 1: he could do it all? And I think it's one run,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it was against the Browns where
Speaker 1: he ran and he just stopped and a guy ran
Speaker 1: past him like without looking. But um, I just love
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, Marsha Fault could legit do
Speaker 1: it all, especially catching. You know, kepting probably came from
Speaker 1: Marsha faulk. But you're gonna have the same opportunity within
Speaker 1: this offense, Mike, this is an offense that is gonna
Speaker 1: allow you to do everything capable all that out your
Speaker 1: talents that you're capable of. You and your talents. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why Chicago one of the places that I wanted
Speaker 1: to come to, because I knew I would be able
Speaker 1: to be inwhere in this offense. And as you watch
Speaker 1: it throughout the season, you know, you you see how
Speaker 1: much fun these guys are having, and you know, in
Speaker 1: my head, I always thought to myself like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of that. How many times
Speaker 1: did you see videos are clubbed up? Um? I think
Speaker 1: I saw all of them. So what what impression did
Speaker 1: it leave you? Say, from the beginning and then to
Speaker 1: the end, because it's certainly evolved into something much bigger,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure guys were even a little hesitant to
Speaker 1: join in the fray and have some fun like that.
Speaker 1: But what what the message you to send you as
Speaker 1: a guy looking for the outside end? Um, it sends
Speaker 1: a message that you know, this team has a lot
Speaker 1: of fun, you know, during the game and when is over,
Speaker 1: like we're gonna have fun beating the brakes off of you.
Speaker 1: And then not that we're gonna go and celebrate. You know,
Speaker 1: it's one of the things. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: a lot of places, you know, a very strict lockdown,
Speaker 1: and you know guys are just like you know, go
Speaker 1: here and and and it's military here. You can't do this,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. And you know you just found outside.
Speaker 1: Look and then you look to Chicago, Barret. You think,
Speaker 1: this team, once they score touchdowns, it's a party. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing you talk about being lockermates or Clil
Speaker 1: mack is that you go from clubbed up. Then you
Speaker 1: see the serious approach he has and I just think
Speaker 1: it's a really important role that he plays on the
Speaker 1: preparation of this team and for all you guys to
Speaker 1: get prepared for Thursday night. Yeah, you see, Clil macum
Speaker 1: is one thing. You know, I'll pay attention to everything
Speaker 1: and Clail mac when he was you know, it's certain
Speaker 1: things you know when guys get you know, big contracts
Speaker 1: and you know the guys they're big names. You know,
Speaker 1: certain things that they don't do. And Matt goes out there. Man,
Speaker 1: he does it all. He works, you know, harder than
Speaker 1: I think people know. But um, you know, it's little
Speaker 1: things to go out there and does on his own.
Speaker 1: He goes out and do it. He goes to extra mile,
Speaker 1: he runs more, and you know, it's crazy to see
Speaker 1: you from a guy, you know that's getting paid so
Speaker 1: much money, beats everybody in sprint. Can't beat him, can't
Speaker 1: beat the gashes the ball Leonards tried so many times,
Speaker 1: can't do it. Yeah, that's every every practice, in every
Speaker 1: drill exactly. Those guys are into the ball, which is crazy. Mike,
Speaker 1: good luck on Thursday night and for the rest of
Speaker 1: your season, and have a great career with the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Week one is always the unknown, the great unknown, So
Speaker 1: who knows what we'll expect, but it'll be fun to watch. Yeah. Wait,
Speaker 1: Mike Davis our guest for Tom Thare Mike Davis, Paul's
Speaker 1: arranging Dan Ba. Really, I'm Jeff Joni Act. That'll do
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