WEBVTT - Building around Justin Fields | All Access Podcast 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.640 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.680 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.680 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:16.319 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:21.079 Access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.079 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:30.720 Physical Therapy and CDW. Thursday, closer to the NFL Draft, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.800 and welcome Ata Bears Alt Access. We're brought to you 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.640 by IGS Energy with my broadcast partner from news Radio 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.720 one oh five nine w WBM. Tom Fair, I'm Jeff 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.720 Jonia Copall as well everybody. Thanks to our producers Dan 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.919 Billy and score producer Adams Deadzinski. Former Bears quarterback Jim 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.639 Miller joins us from sirius XM NFL Radio. Coming up 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.680 in our next segment, Tom, how we how are we 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.279 feeling right now? What are you? What? Are you already 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.920 tired of hearing? What are you? What do you wish 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.560 you're hearing? As we enter the pre combine mode and 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.000 free agency around the corner. You know, I wish the 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.039 quarterback class was more impressive. I wish there was a 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:10.160 bigger number of first round caliber guys out there that 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.920 we're gonna be shuffled and juggled somehow, like you know 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.800 a couple of years ago when it was Trubisky, Mahomes 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.760 and Deshaun Watson, and you know, you have such a 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.959 discrepancy and size of the type of quarterback that you 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.600 want to play in these modern daying systems, and the 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.760 Alabama guys just doesn't necessarily fit the template of size 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.000 that you're looking for when you're talking about how physical 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.840 the game is. So I'm curious. We'll cj Stroud overtake 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.800 Bryce Young in the path to the draft last to 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.000 determine that. Including free agency, we'll discuss all that with 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.240 Jim Metta as well. Justin Fields. I knew it was 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.600 going to be a topic. You knew it when they 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.320 started the whole Super Bowl media tour that it was 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.040 going to be a topic. But man, it's taken a 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.240 life on its own. You're not on Twitter, so you 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:04.680 don't see it, but every single day discussion about whether 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.040 he's good enough? Will you be dealt? Are the Bears 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.280 looking to move up or excuse me, are the Bears 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.120 looking to move them so they can get you know 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.760 another quarterback. I mean, it's it's gonna it's gonna last 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.800 this way, all the way till April. Man, it does. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.840 It doesn't matter what social media you're on, what Twitter 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.400 it's on, because every single nationally exposed sports talk show, 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.680 whether it's on TV or radio, it's the same topic 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.920 nationally there. And so he got such a disagreement between 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.800 guys who used to be former gms in the league 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.560 and they're so convicted that the Bears should trade Justin Fields, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.760 and then you have other guys that were hired in 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.520 the same capacity throughout their career. Such a disagreement with 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.880 that and Justin Fields is the direction that the Bears 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.440 need to stay and they need to go. And that's 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.480 the camp that I'm in. I'm full steam ahead with 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.720 Luke Getsy and Justin Fields, and I think if we're 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:02.840 gonna see significant development by Justin Field, it's going to 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.919 be a second year in the same system, the same terminology, 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.120 with a group of players that he's familiar with, and 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.560 then the rest of the guys they bring aboard. I'm 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.520 sticking with. I'm talking about two. I'm I'm more interested 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.359 in the line of scrimmage, right now and talking about 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.640 what what the open and I'm gonna stick with that 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.240 all the way down the line, offensive defensive lines. What 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.640 are we looking at here? Free agency and draft and 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.959 you know, you know be better. It's not even you're 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.520 gonna bet you're going to you are going to come 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.720 away with starters on both sides of the ball by 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.880 way of free agency and the draft that are going 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.200 to be upgrades significantly in some cases. And we'll set 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.520 to another piece to the foundation of the future town, right. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.560 I mean, you're in a draft position where even if 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.600 you make a trade, you're still in you're still in 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:54.320 position to make a decade changing uh positions. When you 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.040 talk about offensive line and specifical defensive line specifically, I 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.560 think there's the type of talent out there that you 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.040 can go out there and change the competitiveness of both 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.840 of those elements of the team, make them much better. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.720 But try to set a couple of pieces in place 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.880 that will be here for the next eight to ten years. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.000 There's gonna be a lot of discussion too about potential 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.720 deals here with other quarterbacks. Are you paying other quarterbacks 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.480 out well, we'll get into this too with Jim on 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.799 the quarterback thing. But Lamar Jackson is one of the dominoes. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.560 Are they gonna Are they gonna sign them? Are they 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.560 gonna tag him to the point that somebody can put 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.840 an offer on the table and send him to an 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.120 offer sheet that may lead to a trade of some 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.159 sort in a big haul for the Ravens. You got 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.200 the Daniel Jones matter. He's got a new agent. He's 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.719 looking for a little more dough. You look at his 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.039 numbers and Mitchell Trubisky's numbers over the course of the 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.800 last three years, four years, and they're very similar. I mean, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.480 but one is being looked upon in a different way 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.440 and Mitch is on the trademarket potentially. And I mean 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.240 this quarterback think Derek Carr, Aaron Rodgers. I don't know, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.560 mant lots to talk about. You know, one thing about 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.960 Daniel Jones. After they got rid of Joe Judge, they 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.040 brought in a new coaching staff. That's when Daniel Jones 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:16.039 is flourished. And with Trubisky, no matter where he's been, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.800 he hasn't had that year where he's flourished. And they 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.960 thought maybe this was gonna it was gonna be this 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.560 year with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So the reason that they're 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.840 talking about Daniel Jones and possibly franchising or signing him 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.760 to a long term, long term deal is because of 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.560 his development in the short term with a new coaching staff, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.560 and now this coaching staff is thinking long term. So 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.360 you know, maybe the guy is in place there that 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.240 that can lead the Giants going forward. And so I 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.240 think the Bears have the guy in place that can 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.600 lead the Bears going forward. So it's about the positions 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.680 of interest that you you know, you just brought up 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.400 an offense and defensive line lead the way. I think 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.480 because of all this, and because of the three and 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.400 fourteen season, Bears fans in particular, just can't to get 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.279 the process started. They want to just get there. And 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:03.920 I'm with you, you know, I just want to get 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.680 there now and see what it all looks like, you know, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.960 but there's so many months to go here yet I don't. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.800 I don't I listen. I want time, you know, you know, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.000 never wish time away. I want all of the different narratives, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.400 the different investigative work. He got to do that. You 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.120 got to do your due diligence behind the scenes when 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.360 you're looking at taking a player this high and what 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.360 they have to do for the organization. You're not just 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.800 asking a player to come in here at such a 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.960 high pick. And I'm not saying the number one pick. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.520 I'm saying that the Bears have traded down in a 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.920 little bit lower in the first round. But he's got 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.800 to come in and this this this time frame of 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.080 a coaching staff, of a GM, a new president, and 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.360 what happened to the team last year, and they got 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.720 to be difference makers. This is not where you can 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.800 bring in a group of a group of guys and 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.000 hope that in two years they pan out. No, this 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.960 is you got to pick him in you two months. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.920 They got to be the guy that you picked day 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.840 one starters in day one starters. Indeed, that's what we're 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.719 looking for, is the Bears get ready for a memorable 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.920 offseason run. Here they're working hard up at Hollis All 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.600 coming up next, We're joined by our friend Jim Miller, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.520 the former Bears quarterback. He'll jump into the conversation with 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.520 Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac and this is Bears All Access. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.240 We're brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:27.120 Radio six seventy. The score, Hey, everybody, Welcome back. This 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.960 is Bears All Access and we're brought to you by 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.640 IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for your home at igs 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.400 dot com because every good choice adds up to a 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.480 better world. With Tom there, Jeff Joniac and our old 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.360 pal Jim Miller from Serious x MFL Radio's moving the 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.040 chains joinder the program as he does each and every week. Jim, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.480 it's a crazy weather world. I mean just down the 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.880 road a piece into Calvit last night, I mean severe icing. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.720 We got eighty five degrees in North Carolina today, where 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.400 my daughters are going to grad school. You got, I 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.400 mean what what? What he got up there? Did you 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.760 guys get pummeled up there? And at least your daughter's 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.200 away at grad school? I had. I was cooped up 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.680 with my kids the last two days they didn't have school. Jeff, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.440 My life has been a disaster. It's a mess. I 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.840 can't get anything done. You know, But do you have 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.840 your own on air light in whatever room you're broadcasting from, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.960 so when it's on, they know not to come in. Yeah, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.440 they know, Cat, but that doesn't stop him, you know that? Yeah? Yeah? 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.480 Now how bad you get hammered over there? I mean, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.680 let me rephrase that snow getting kids snow. We got 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.000 the freezing rain. Okay, that's where roads were bad, dude 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.000 to the freezing rain. So that's why they pretty much 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.640 canceled everything. So everybody's been home. It's been a busy household, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.000 so a fun time, but a lot of chaos going up. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.720 It's okay, you know, kind of a message of goodwill. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.719 Did you see the story about Jim Harball, How he 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.880 came across a tree in the road and the police 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.760 were trying to move it, so he got out of 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.280 his car. They gave him a set of gloves. They 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.960 never knew who he was, so then he worked side 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.000 by side with the police and it took him at 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.920 ten fifteen minutes later they were able to get the 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.640 tree moved enough to allow traffic to move through. And 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:11.000 then finally after it was all done, they became aware 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.360 of who it was, and you know, they just sent 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.600 him a message, message of thanks and goodwill up there 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.800 in the ice storm. Yeah, there's a lot of down 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.120 trees so that everybody's helping each out to neighbor helping neighbor, 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.040 which is is a good thing to me. Now, see 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.280 I was on it. Jim sorry to interrupt you. I 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.600 was unaware of this story, and I'm talking to a 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.680 guy that's not on social media. So where are you 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.360 getting your information from? Do you have people out there 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.880 that send you stuff that are on social media? Time, Well, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.760 how'd you come about this story? I was just reading 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.240 a news a news site. I was, you know, Oh, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.200 so you are on social media? No, no, no, it's 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.800 just an app where you can read instead of having 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.280 a newspaper, you're you're read it off your phone. And 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.400 that was just part of the stories. And I felt 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.520 I was really happy for jim to pull over and 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.360 you know, to go out and assist the first responders 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.160 and officers and doing that, and I think it, like 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.839 I said, it's a mission of goodwill. Congratulates Jimmy. I 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.120 don't even know Tom anymore. I mean, my gosh, that's outstanding. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.079 I'm glad you're staying in tune and in touch with 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.000 the world as it spins. Which leads me to this question. Then, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.960 so that's a celebrity moment for the guys who don't 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.440 know until they realize it. Do either of you have 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.560 a celebrity moment? They didn't know who you were? And 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.160 then you did something similar or you helps, and then 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.160 they realized who you were. Anybody, Tom, I'm a good 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:37.199 smiritan every day. Please come on, Mark's unnoticed every single 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:42.960 yet you're an NFL quarterback, my fellow neighbor. Of course 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.040 there had to be. I know, everybody thought you were 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.160 er laker. No, no, you know. The only thing that's 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.160 ever happened to me is recently when I used to 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.120 bring Ernie to the hospital a lot when Katie was 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.280 in the hospital. I had Ernie with me and he 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.839 had a service vest on and there was a woman 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.520 in there who thought that I was working the hospital 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.719 with um, one of the dogs that go and me. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.000 So she asked me, could you come into my room 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.360 and meet my daughter? She has a leg issue and 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.640 you know I and so she thought I So I go. Yeah. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.400 So I went into the hospital room and I actually 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.760 left Ernie with her in her bed for like thirty minutes. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.560 I went down to Katie's room, came back and got 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.720 the dog, and as I was walking out, the young 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.440 the girl's husband and wife or husband and father were 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.839 walking in and he recognized me as I was leaving 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.360 the room, and he's going, what's that guy? What's Tom 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.960 doing here? He works for the hospital. I knew you 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.839 had to have something, that's for sure. Jim. I don't 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.480 know if you heard the first segment. I'm sure you're 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.680 talking quarterbacks on your show every day too, But the 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.760 justin Fields conversation, it's trending every day, every few hours, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.280 there's a new new wrinkle. But I guess we should 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.840 expect this until the draft, right until they aging carousel 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.960 quarterbacks sorts out of the trade market. I mean, we 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.559 knew this was going to happen, but there's just there. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.080 There's cases being made. It's almost like, uh, you know, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.080 a defense and one end and in an indictment on 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.439 the other. From all the experts in the analysts, how 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.600 are you sifting through all this? Yeah, I think it's 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.920 a bunch of bunch to do about nothing, quite frankly, 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.320 you know, so they need something to write about, they 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.040 need something to tweet about and whatever. So I don't 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.400 really pay attention to it. I think the Bears are 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.120 just focused on what they need to do, and the 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.720 only decision makers that matter or are going to be 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.959 in that draft room when they ultimately make these selections. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.959 Quarterback isn't on my list quite frankly, so I think 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.719 they've they've got their guy. He's a hard worker, um 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.360 can do a lot of special things. Even talked to, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.680 you know, some Bears players like Jalen Johnson who I mentioned. 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.880 I talked to Nicholas Moreau yesterday. I said, all right, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.280 what's what's it like prexit against Justin Fields? He's like, man, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.360 he's got He's got everything it takes to be a 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:03.080 great one, you know, because he's a special, special, talented player. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.679 I think we know they need to build around him, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.760 and I think that's what the Bears, you know, what 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.480 their intention is here this offseason. I think Fields will 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.360 be just fine. Where's that? Do you think Justin Fields 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.640 should limit his media access from now until the draft? 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.079 Because when I go back and I look, I listened 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.440 to a lot of the cutoffs from his on the 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.720 Super Bowl roll, it seems like you can answer a question, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.720 then it becomes kind of a topic or you know, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.319 could be interpreted differently. Yeah, yeah, and That's what I'm saying. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.040 Would would Justin be better off if he'd you know, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.400 stayed out of the media way until the draft? Or 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.280 is you know, is adding to the confusion in the 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.960 narrative of other people who say they should, you know, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.920 move on from Justin or look to possibly trade him. No, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.080 it's a it's a good question. I don't know why 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:51.880 he'd want to be in the media. You know, he said, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.160 just had to do it, you know, seventeen eighteen weeks 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.080 in a row, and even more than that when you 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.000 think about training camp and there's gonna be plenty of media, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.600 whether it's going to be at the OTAs and other 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.400 things where he's working through through the voluntary part of 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.520 this offseason where media will have access to him, and 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.480 you know, I think again, this is a time you 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.840 just kind of decompress. You know. I don't know what 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.520 he was doing out the Super Bowl, whether he was 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.240 promoting something. Maybe that's why. Yeah, and that's normal, I 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.040 mean quarterback and you know players do that every year. Yeah, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.240 but uh, you know, I don't think it's going to 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.520 go on a dark retreats or anything like that to him. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.240 Everybody but had to go there, didn't you. Hey, I mean, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.600 he can do whatever he wants. I mean, everybody's taking 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.800 shots and for that, I mean, whatever he's got to 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.440 do to make his decision for him, Rodgers, that that's fine, 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.240 I think, but he's the one who put it out there, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.120 and I think why people are making fun of it, 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.040 you know, that's why, that's why I got to say 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.120 about it. I don't care. I could care less. I 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.040 don't even know what it all means. And that's again, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.400 each individual's own journey to get their mind right to 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.840 do anything in life, let alone, or to find that 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.400 mental piece and quiet, whatever it takes. But he's the 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.160 one promoting it, so he's opening the door to the 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.280 jokes and the criticism and whatever else. I mean, it's attention. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.840 I mean, well think, I mean, if it's if it's 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.040 a soul searching thing, you know, I'm sure that a 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.240 lot of people have benefited from it. I was reading, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.160 you know, I think there was a mountain climber that 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.320 spent time at a sky sky cave retreat I figure 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.080 what it's called. And there was a lady in the uh. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.240 I forget what line of works she was in, but 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.480 she's gone there a couple of times. And again it's 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.600 just you know, I think we all know. You know, 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.000 when you go through something you've worked hard, you know, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.320 you do got to re energize you kind of recharge 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.160 your batteries and and you make your decision and go 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.560 about it. But uh, you know for this, because like 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.760 you said, he put it out there. To me, it's 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.080 not a hard decision. I mean, it was funny. I 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:47.040 was just doing a show and a service member called 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.560 in and tried to compare it to war. I'm like, dude, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.240 when I played football, I never feared for my life. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.520 You know. I've gone over to Afghanistan on USO tours 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.000 and Antonio Freeman's a man of fact. The Green Bay 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.880 Packers receiver was with me and he met we went 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.320 out to this one base that was on the outskirts 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.040 there in pakist Or, Afghanistan when we went there, and 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.320 he met some guys that served with his brother, and 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.480 Antonio Freeman's brother died as a marine, and but he 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.440 met some guys in his unit and they all had 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.400 a really a tearful moment. But this guy was trying 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.360 to compare in Roger's decision to like war, and I'm like, dude, 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.120 I've never feared for my life in football. It's not 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.280 that deep. I mean, realistically, what's the decision. Does he 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.400 want to make sixty million dollars or not? Right right, 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.320 that's the decision. Another report that I just heard and 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.440 read about was that he was supposed to stay for 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.280 four days and he left after two. So did it 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.000 come to you that clearly within that forty eight hour 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.120 period instead of the discipline of having the four days 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.920 to stay. I don't know, man, I did see a 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.960 video of somebody else that went in there and to 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.280 have it completely pitch black black am no concept of time. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:53.960 I don't know. I don't think I can do it. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.400 I honest to God, there's no way I couldn't do it. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.400 So maybe he couldn't either. Two and that of the 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.440 four or five from the listeners out there, Jeff scared 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:08.359 of the dark. Then yeah, hey, you know I'm the 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.480 first to admit as a as a kid. Yeah, I 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.359 hated having the door clothes that I didn't like it. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.720 I didn't like it. All right, Well, we'll talk more 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.160 justin field. Some good analysis and some things you learn 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.480 about when you delve into a statistical analysis of what 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.359 he's done so far. We'll talk about that. And what 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.919 the Bears need is they get ready to look at 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.400 that roster and make sure they're making the right decisions 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.360 to set themselves up for success in the most critical 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.800 and important offseason. 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So, Jim, your buddy 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.080 Matt Castle working for the thirty third team, I saw this. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.640 He ranked all the quarterbacks as they stand right now, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.800 the teams they're on, and the NFC North had off 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.240 four in the top thirteen and number thirteen was just 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.199 in field. So the men who played the game have 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.800 respect for what the man has done so far, on 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.840 what he's capable of doing. Yeah, and they rightfully. So, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.560 I mean again, he's a special athlete that can do 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.240 things that other quarterbacks can't do. You know, I've mentioned that, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.320 you know physically, you know, he kind of stacks up 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.439 to somebody like Josh Allen, because Josh Allen could do 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.680 some things physically that other quarterbacks just can't do. Arm strength, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.159 you know, his ability to move, to scramble, you know, 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.679 take on you know, tacklers. He basically runs over linebackers. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.800 I mean, how many quarterbacks can do that? And I 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.360 think Fields is a special type of guy like that 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.320 that just has special traits. I think we all know 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.359 he's got to develop as a passer. He's got to 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.159 be have more anticipation, speeding up the process of reading 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.120 defenses has got to be better, and all those things 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.240 will come. I think he's shown great progress from year 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.040 one to year two in a new offense, I should add, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.720 and I think he'll do that again. He'll make another 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.280 huge jump here this offseason. I think he's dedicated to it. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.119 I think he wants to be a great player. I 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.359 think he loves football. I think he's a good leader. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.240 I think he's got all, you know, all the scoutable 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.680 traits and some that are unscoutable, the heart and desire 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.880 to play football and get better that you can't scout. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.560 I think he has all those things in him. So 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.320 I think he'll continue to grow and get better, Hey, Jim, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.600 when you're a quarterback within a new system and you 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.840 start memorizing the terminology so well that it's almost like 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:39.840 Luke could say a word or two out of his 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.639 mouth and then you can finish the play. Does that 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.080 type of knowledge clear the vision for a young developing 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.320 cornerback where it doesn't necessarily mean or you know, have 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.480 to see exactly what the defense is doing because you 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.640 know what you just said and how it fits into 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.159 you know, the field of play where you're at depending 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.040 hashmark down and distance and everything. Yeah, I think you 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.840