WEBVTT - All Access: Mike Davis ready for Week 1 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.000 Everybody, welcome, Bears All Access. I'm Tom Fair. Jeff is 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:04.680 going to be along in a minute. He just finishing 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.360 up some interviews with coach Nagie. We're lucky enough to 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.319 have our guests, Mike Davis. Mike, thanks for coming down today. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:14.159 Thanks for taking your time before probably the you know, 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.520 one of the biggest games in the career of the Bears, 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.360 you think in one hundred year anniversary, kicking off the 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.319 NFL season, and how exciting is it for you for 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:26.479 this opportunity. It's very exciting for me. I'm just grateful, 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.000 you know, to be here, thankful in a coach and 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.280 Naggie in a pace to I'm believing me and I'm 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.440 having me here to play. You know, belief in you 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.800 is what I hear everybody. Ryan Pace talks about it 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.360 all the time, Coach Naggie talks all about it all 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.880 the time. But you know, belief you've created that because 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.360 what you've been able to accomplish in the short amount 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.400 of time that you've been in the NFL is the 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.960 reason why you were sought after in the first place, 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.680 and probably your versatility as a player, wouldn't you agree, Yeah, Um, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.720 coming out out of the season out there. You know, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.680 becoming a free agent was just like when I became 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.319 a Cree agent, you know, everybody started calling, and I 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.200 was just like, you know, I didn't I didn't know 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.240 I had, like, you know, this much value. You know. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:09.720 I was always thinking to myself, like I have a 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.640 lot of value, but like you know, a lot of 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.760 teams are calling, you know, and all this and all that, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.319 and I was just you know, you know, blessed with 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.920 you know, thankful for you know, us ex players were 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.800 kind of jealous in the way they go about the 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.320 preseason nowadays. Um, we used to play the whole game, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.199 the entire game. Is this the smallest amount of time 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.920 in terms of game play that you've had throughout your 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.880 career in the preseason. Yes, And I'm actually I'm happy 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.320 about that. I love the way coach Naggy his his 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:45.840 approaches of Forest preseason. Um. I hate that, Um that 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.640 even the idea of them cutting back preseason because I 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.840 remember coming in as a younger player that I basically 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.400 made the team because of preseason. So I never looked 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.320 down on the players that sat there grunting, you know, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.840 through preseason from the time you got into the pros. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.840 Where you're at right now? What have you improved at 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.960 in your game? What have you improved at the most? 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.120 You know, because it seems like, you know, the thing 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.399 about a college player coming to the pro levels, Hey 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.920 can he pick up the blitz? Can he you know, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.040 catch the ball, you know, out of the backfield from 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.560 the line of scrimmage and all these different formations? How 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.360 can he read the line of scrimmage? What are you 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.600 better at him this point in your career? UM? I 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.320 would say my mind set, um where my mind is basically, Um, 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.360 I feel like everything guess comes, you know, comes natural, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.400 as far as running back, as far as you know, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.960 running faster, catching better. Um. I don't look at those 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.040 things like big improvements. UM I look at myself, you know, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.240 my mental state. That's what I've gotten better at. What 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.640 is your off season habits? Because I think you know, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.200 that's one thing that you're always challenging at as you 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.000 get older, as you gain experience in the NFL. What 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.440 do you do during the off season to get yourself prepared? Um? 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.600 I train really hard in Atlanta, and um you know, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.400 as I've learned throughout the years, is better to take 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.840 care of your you know just as much as you're training. So, um, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.080 that's like one of my big things was taking care 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.359 of my body. And I'm seeing, like, you know, a 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:13.320 dramatic change and how fast I run. And because in 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.480 the youngest years I was just just out of just running, 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.200 I never really took care of my buddy as much. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.320 Chicago Bears All Access is brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.640 a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.520 home warranty products for two over a million customers across 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.240 the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs energy 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.080 dot com. You know, I read this article about you 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.680 having this chip on your shoulder? Do you have a 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.080 chip on your shoulder? Is that something that you'll carry 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.680 with it year throughout your whole career. Yeah, of course, because, um, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.960 it took a lot to get here, and I'm never 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.760 satisfied with where I am, so I'm always have a 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.520 chip on my shoulder. It's just something I just go 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.360 out there and play with. You know what's crazy. I 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.440 was reading about you your senior year in high school. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.720 You have nineteen hundred and twenty three yards. You carry 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.640 the ball two hundred and thirteen times so far, in 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.000 your pro career, you've carried a two hundred and thirty 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.400 four times. You're a fresh guy. I mean, you know, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.240 and I you know, the the experience that you had 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.680 is the reason that you're so sought after for a 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.840 free agent. But you're a guy that's you know, been 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.880 in the NFL for a while. But you're still right, Um, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:22.520 did you did well? This is why I wanted to 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.080 ask you at the beginning of when you when you 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.240 look back at your high school senior year, did the 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.240 nineteen one hundred and twenty three yards or the two 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.520 hundred and thirteen carries? Did that seem like a lot 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.640 of work? Or were you so much more talented the 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.039 rest of the guys you played with that it wasn't 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.920 a big strain on you. Um, I was just a 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:40.960 high school I don't. I don't know. I just feel 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.680 like you. You don't get tired. I don't know, you know. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.240 I mean, you're endurance and everything is really high in 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.080 high school. Um Stone out in Georgia, Right, Yeah, I 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.040 went to Stevenson High School and um before that, out 0:04:55.040 --> 0:05:00.120 of Fredick Douglas and um, yeah, man is I don't No, 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.080 it wasn't tough in high school. But it's just I'll 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.839 just feel like high school you and and I don't 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.160 want to say one of the best shaping your life, 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:07.680 one of the best shapes in your life. I guess 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.720 starting college, but high school it was easy. Okay. Then 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.360 you you have a chance that you're you're ready to 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.560 go to Florida and then you decide to go to 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.120 South Carolina. What was the reason for that switch? Yeah, 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.640 so that story is kind of funny. Um, so you know, 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.720 like the top recruits, you know, we all talked to 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.000 each other and everything, and I don't I guess coaches 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.680 didn't know that when they're recruiting you. But um, back then, UM, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.280 I was committed to Florida on it was sent like 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.080 it didn't matter what was going on. I was going 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.000 to Florida. You know. I always wanted to play football 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.599 in Florida, so you know, I couldn't wait to get there. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.560 So there was nothing, you know, that could make me switch. So, um, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.560 they do the in home visit and they send uh, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.520 I think it was a coach Lewis Derrek Lewis. I 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.440 think it was tight end coach at Florida at the time. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.120 They send a tight end coach in the house for 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.160 a home visit. You know, usually they send like, you know, 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.720 head coach or your position coach for home visit, but 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.960 it doesn't matter. I don't care. I'm coming to Florida anyway. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.400 So are you say you got offended that they didn't 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.440 send the head coach. So my brother, my brother asked 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.560 him where they recruiting Keith Marshall. You know, Keith Marshall's 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.119 one of them, you know, one of my best friends. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.400 And um he was like no, he sucks and all 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.280 this all that blaha bladday. So I'm looking at my 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.880 brother like, why are you asking? Like it doesn't matter. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.360 So the next day they saying, like, the whole coach 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.760 and staff to Keith marshall house to recruit him. And 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:26.880 I was like, yeah, I'm not going well. So but 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.640 Steve Spurry or was the head coach at South Carolina, right, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.320 do you do you think that kind of increased your 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.520 value because you had seventy catches throughout your college career. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.240 You know how many catches would you have had in Florida? 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.920 Would you have you know, been uh, you know, primarily 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.040 a running back. But it seems like the more that 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.680 you can expand your game is probably a big reason 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.760 why you're here with the Bears because they liked the 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.000 receiving ability. But seventy catches in three years, it's pretty 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.800 good number. Yeah, I would say it's really it's really 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.240 within two years my first show. I really don't right. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.800 you had single digit catches, but given I was given 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.080 the toll, Yeah, I was in behind Marcus Alattimore, man, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.920 which was really a blessing thing behind him. But um, 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.240 and Steve Spurr your offense, you had no choice but 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.560 to learn how to you know, to be able to 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.440 catch in that offense. If you can't catch and block, 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.120 then you wouldn't be out there. Um. So when you 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.240 went to San Francisco, did you ever play at Seattle 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.560 as a member of the forty nine ers, Because this 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.520 is the reason I'm asking, I'll get to the question 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.000 is because then the noise inside Seattle as we've gone 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:37.080 there as broadcaster unbelievable. Man, it is crazy, and you 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.760 know how destructive is that against the opponent's offense. When 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.080 you're there part of the Seattle Seahawks, you hear that 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.480 crowd noise and you know that there's no verbal communication 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.920 on the line of scrimmage, because I really believe that's 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.080 what you're gonna hear here Thursday night. Yeah yeah, I 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.920 played against Seattle. Well I didn't play that game, but 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.520 I was there, and um, being an opponent team and 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.600 not being able to talk to somebody right next to 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.440 you is kind of, I want to say, it's kind 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:09.200 of annoying, but is an NFL communication is big. So 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.240 it's like you have that communication and everything is off 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.000 and then tim is taken down and you get to 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.680 rushing and sh bad things happen. So crowd noise is 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.080 like a big thing. Right. I think you're gonna hear 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.000 a siren Thursday night. That's kind of gonna be a 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.680 little bit annoying to yourself. But last year they introduced 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.840 it to the Bears crowd and it's it's deafening at times, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.160 but hey, you know that's the great benefit of playing 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.719 under the most one of the most supportive home and 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.520 you know following crowds that you can get. This is 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.360 going to end our first section. We'll be right back 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.120 and we'll have the man at the mic that should 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.480 be here, Jeff Joniac. We're here with Mike Davis, and 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.199 we'll We'll get right back to you. Welcome back to 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.640 Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy, a 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.120 proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.680 and home warranty products to over one million customers across 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.000 the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.319 Jeff Joniak back with you along with Tom Thamer, broadcast 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.240 partner from news radio seven eighty and one or five 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.360 point out FMWBBM, and our guest today's show is Mike Davis, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.440 the veteran running back or ready to make his maiden 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.640 voyage with the Chicago Bears. And I just I just 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.960 finished my interview with Matt Neggie for the pregame show 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.440 on Thursday night. So he's as relaxed and as composed 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.679 as you can possibly, but he's so excited at the 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.839 same time. And I think the message is that Mike, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.800 he wants all you guys to feel the same way 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.120 and not make it too big, even though it is big. Yeah, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.599 I just want to make sure everybody, you know, not 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.320 on edge out there. Well, you're gonna have some guys 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.760 you know out there with the nerves and still, but 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.720 I'm just trying to make sure we all come or relax. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.959 We had a good day of practice and we just 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.520 want to make sure that carries over to the game. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.480 And the whole thing is a bottommotion when you get 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.040 right down to it, because you got to manage your 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.240 own emotions on game day. It doesn't matter if it's 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.120 week one or week seventeen. That there's that. But I 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.360 like to break it up into segments. You got you 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.720 got rookies yet in your own room. David Montgomery only 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.080 can imagine when his emotions are gonna bet a guy 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.280 like yourself, there's been on two other teams. You got 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.360 a fresh slate here in Chicago, exciting new offense. You 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.240 got your own emotions. You got the emotions of a 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.400 head coach that took a team to twelve wins last 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.960 year and a playoff loss and still trying to get 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.839 that bad taste out of the moth to move on. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.040 You got the emotions of fans that are have high 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.640 expectations this year. I mean emotions all over the boa, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.640 Clinton Dix. You know, a guy got the team that 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.319 traded him. Now he's got to go out here and 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.839 try and beat them. I mean there's all these chips 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.520 on shoulders and emotions all over the place. So how 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.439 do you guys do that as professional athletes? Just go 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.839 out there and relax your team, maybe talk to yourself, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.079 you have teammates or you have guys out there that 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.280 you know, we taught to guys that come them down. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:47.959 But I mean also, you know, you can listen to 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.079 music or your pregame, you know, ritual or however you 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.880 handle it. What is yours? Um? I just listen to 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.880 music or or a comedy at TIMS. Yeah, any any 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.600 particular tunage. I listened to all you know, rappers from Atlanta, 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.880 like Future, a Little Baby, all those type of guys. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.880 Other than that, I listened to like like Nephew Tommy 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.000 from Steve Harvey Morning Show. I listened to his prank 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.480 calls any run dmc uh. They've been playing a lot 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.599 of that in practice. Well, it's it's funny though that 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.760 you know that that's the name that the running back 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.800 room is taken over, and when you you know that 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.400 was more of my era than your ear. But it's 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.839 it's it's funny, how you know, as soon as you 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.400 get three guys in the room together, you start thinking of, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.559 you know, what title can we put to this room because, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.760 as Jeff mentioned, you guys seem to be so different. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.000 Is Trick Is he the life of the room and 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.760 you're the experience of the room. And then Montgomery's just 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.760 trying to figure out where he fits in. I would 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.920 say Montgommery already figure he already fits in him um 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.719 in the room. He's a talented young running back. And 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.280 oh yeah, honestly, I can't wait to see him, you know, 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:54.959 go ouad and play as well. And you know, I'm 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.360 excited to play, but I'd love to see my teammates 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.640 go out there do well, especially guys who it's it's 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.400 important to him you can tell them. I mean, he's 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.240 he's got a very businesslike approach on that practice field, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.880 and I think it's tantalizing. And I'm in Iowa State 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.559 grad so you know, I saw almost every snap, so 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.520 I know what to expect from his talents. Uh and 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.320 and they are they are special talent. All you guys 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.160 have special talents. This run, this running back trio is 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.719 as diverse as you guys are not all like you know, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.240 you're not six foot running backs. You guys are all 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.280 diverse in your own way though, And you have special talents, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.719 and I guess that's what's tantalizing about it for all 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.760 you guys. And I'm sure you guys all feel about 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.160 that the same way about each other. Yeah, it's just 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.640 you know, we go out there, we're taking their personal 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.719 personal and it's it's like you can't just key on 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.679 one guy. That's that's a hard thing with our running 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.719 back from UM. We want to be able to go 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.439 out there and do everything. You know. That's so you 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.800 can't just look at one person saying when he's on 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.640 the field, he does this. So you got a running 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.559 back room that could you could put anybody anywhere, you know, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.920 when you came out and I don't know what all 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:10.160 the scutting reports said, obviously, but it's always okay. Guys 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.319 can run the ball the instincts of a running back, 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.040 you know that that that translates very well to to 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.160 day one in the National Football League season. But the 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.760 other stuff like pass catching, hands, pass pro, how how 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.559 are you at those in your opinion in terms of 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.839 pass catching, route running, and pass pro And how's that 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.080 evolved since you got in the league. UM, I would 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.520 say my route running has involved a lot, especially coming 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.680 from home Seattle. Um I had to know receiver routes 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.079 and signals, and that's something that um um here you 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.080 have to you have to know everybody's position. So um 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.079 I was I evolved in in route running, catching and 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.280 um think of that nature when so when the free 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.520 agent market opened up, did you have a chance to 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.400 investigate the Bears offense and Mark Halfred's coach Naggie Dave 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.439 were going in and everybody else who would have a 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.640 hand in coaching you or did you or did they 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.920 come at you so quickly that they kind of set 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.720 their sights on your skill set to fit into their offense. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.719 Um I already looked at you know, Chicago's offense and 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.080 it was it was like when free agency started, Um, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.520 I knew I was gonna be free agent. I knew 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.840 I wasn't going back to Seattle, So I was you know, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.720 I asked, you know, players around the league, you know, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.680 how what do you think about this team? You know, 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.800 what do you think about such and such? And m 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.160 Benny Cunningham. Um I talked to him. I was like, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.000 you know, like like what do you think you know 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.880 about Chicago? And he was like, man, if you have 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.640 a chance to go just go man, It's He was like, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.080 it's the best place for you. And he was saying 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.160 the offenses is you love it, the concepts and everything. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.120 And as I was just looking, you know, looking around 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.120 um Chicago as soon as free agency open um, it 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.120 was like Chicago was pushing the hardest and I just 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.880 wanted to go somewhere Ilse wanted. You know, you go 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.440 through OTAs and it's kind of behind closed doors. You 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.840 don't have the the visibility of the fan support they 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.920 did at training camp. Did it surprise you that every 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.160 day that ten thousand people lining the five fields around 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.080 training camp in support of what, you know, not only 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.080 to their expectations of what the Bears, but just the 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.320 overall support of their team. Um yeah, I wasn't expecting that. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.200 Waking up in bourbon A and you know, as um 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.800 on a cart, riding you know to the stadium, seeing 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.640 you know, the long line for people to get in. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.360 I'm just like, this is like every day. Yeah, it's 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.120 the right time to be a Bear right now. I 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.280 mean it really is. It's the right time to be 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.920 a Bear. And I like that you researched it from 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.320 a perspective of a guy who isn't here anymore, because 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.920 you're gonna get all sorts of reactions. Sometimes guys don't 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:49.920 like the fact that they didn't get invited back, or 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.760 they got moved or whatnot. So but Benny very well 0:15:53.840 --> 0:16:00.720 respected in that room here, Brian Piccolo Award winner as 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.840 veteran very well spoken guy, and uh, you know, it's 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.280 it's nice to know that the guys who've left appreciated 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.280 what was here. And I know there's guys on this 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.240 practice squad that are thrilled that they're able to still 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.920 be here right now, not just because it's an NFL job, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.520 but it's because it's the Bears and they've done their 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.920 own research and their buddies are at the bleak saying, well, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.280 it's not like that here, and that and the part 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.080 that's not like that here you can speak to more 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.080 than us. So you've been with Seatt, I've been with 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.720 San Francisco as Tom and you talked about in the 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.840 first segment. But it's the camaraderie. I mean, I just 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.720 asked the keem Hicks yesterday. I said, you know, oh, Mac, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.200 excuse me, I asked Mac, I go, now that you've 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.760 been here a year, what's the difference, and he goes 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.280 to the camaraderie. It's just everybody's pulling on the same rope. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.040 And sometimes that could be a cliche, Mike, but you 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.480 guys are living it right now, do you do you 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.520 feel that same thing right now? Yeah? As a brotherhood, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.720 we all, you know, we all come together, you know, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.080 every day and you can just tell in practice we 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.320 all being seen and um, it's just you got guys. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.399 It's just so ready to play and go out and 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.960 hit somebody, you know, other than each other. And which 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.200 is also cliche in the National Football League, you know, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:17.160 everybody saying it every year. Yeah, but it's real, right, Yeah, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.119 It's just you got a group of players that you know, 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.280 that love each other, and you know they just can't 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.520 go out there and play for their brothers. Mike Davis 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.960 our guest here on Bears All Access right before the 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.360 start of the regular season opener against the Green Bay 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.480 Packers Thursday night at Soldier Field. We'll have it for you, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.359 starting with a four twenty pregame on WBBM, followed by 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.320 a seven twenty two kickoff at Soldier Field. Another segment 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.399 coming up here with the Bears running back after this 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.520 sun Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. The Chicago 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.359 Bears Network presents Inside the Bears, brought to you by Verizon. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.680 Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeden cover the world of Bears 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.000 football on and off the field every Sunday night at 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.720 ten thirty five pm on Fox thirty two Chicago, or 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.040 watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com or on the 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.240 Bears Off Show app with Tom There, Jeff Joniak, and 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.000 Mike Davis. The veteran running back now a Chicago Bear, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.080 players college football at South Carolina. So you've had some coaches. Now, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.639 let's talk about the old ball coach. You guys need 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.320 guys to talk about that, did you the old ball 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.720 coach Steve Spurrier. He kind of gave us a funny 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.840 story why he went from Florida to South Carolina, right, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.520 But I want to know about the old ball coach. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:25.640 I love that guy. He's well, hold on, I didn't 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:27.800 I didn't play for him, but I love I just 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.640 love the just his love of the game. You know, Yeah, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:37.080 he was a good coach. He was tough to play for. Yeah, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.760 but um, yeah, he's a good coach. And then uh yeah, Champ, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.280 Chip Kelly, yeah, Jim tim Sula for one years. Yeah, 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.320 So Pete Carroll, I mean these are all different. First difference, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.680 I mean, wow, he's right. How could you put all 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:55.919 that into context? All these offensive coaches is pretty I mean, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.360 is really hard, especially to have a different head coach 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.240 every year and then league, So me coming in the 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.000 San Fran having Tom Sulan, Dan chip Kelly and Dan 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.560 Kyle Shanahan coming in, and you know, when head coaches 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.360 come in, they want to bring in, you know, their 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.960 own guys type of players who they think you know, 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.119 you know who already, who they think you know already 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:17.600 better than you and don't give you a shot. And 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:21.560 then it's just like, hey, it's got to go improve 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.080 them wrong. It is it? You know when you I 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.600