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Speaker 1: in our next segment, Tom, how we how are we
Speaker 1: feeling right now? What are you? What? Are you already
Speaker 1: tired of hearing? What are you? What do you wish
Speaker 1: you're hearing? As we enter the pre combine mode and
Speaker 1: free agency around the corner. You know, I wish the
Speaker 1: quarterback class was more impressive. I wish there was a
Speaker 1: bigger number of first round caliber guys out there that
Speaker 1: we're gonna be shuffled and juggled somehow, like you know
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when it was Trubisky, Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson, and you know, you have such a
Speaker 1: discrepancy and size of the type of quarterback that you
Speaker 1: want to play in these modern daying systems, and the
Speaker 1: Alabama guys just doesn't necessarily fit the template of size
Speaker 1: that you're looking for when you're talking about how physical
Speaker 1: the game is. So I'm curious. We'll cj Stroud overtake
Speaker 1: Bryce Young in the path to the draft last to
Speaker 1: determine that. Including free agency, we'll discuss all that with
Speaker 1: Jim Metta as well. Justin Fields. I knew it was
Speaker 1: going to be a topic. You knew it when they
Speaker 1: started the whole Super Bowl media tour that it was
Speaker 1: going to be a topic. But man, it's taken a
Speaker 1: life on its own. You're not on Twitter, so you
Speaker 1: don't see it, but every single day discussion about whether
Speaker 1: he's good enough? Will you be dealt? Are the Bears
Speaker 1: looking to move up or excuse me, are the Bears
Speaker 1: looking to move them so they can get you know
Speaker 1: another quarterback. I mean, it's it's gonna it's gonna last
Speaker 1: this way, all the way till April. Man, it does.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what social media you're on, what Twitter
Speaker 1: it's on, because every single nationally exposed sports talk show,
Speaker 1: whether it's on TV or radio, it's the same topic
Speaker 1: nationally there. And so he got such a disagreement between
Speaker 1: guys who used to be former gms in the league
Speaker 1: and they're so convicted that the Bears should trade Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: and then you have other guys that were hired in
Speaker 1: the same capacity throughout their career. Such a disagreement with
Speaker 1: that and Justin Fields is the direction that the Bears
Speaker 1: need to stay and they need to go. And that's
Speaker 1: the camp that I'm in. I'm full steam ahead with
Speaker 1: Luke Getsy and Justin Fields, and I think if we're
Speaker 1: gonna see significant development by Justin Field, it's going to
Speaker 1: be a second year in the same system, the same terminology,
Speaker 1: with a group of players that he's familiar with, and
Speaker 1: then the rest of the guys they bring aboard. I'm
Speaker 1: sticking with. I'm talking about two. I'm I'm more interested
Speaker 1: in the line of scrimmage, right now and talking about
Speaker 1: what what the open and I'm gonna stick with that
Speaker 1: all the way down the line, offensive defensive lines. What
Speaker 1: are we looking at here? Free agency and draft and
Speaker 1: you know, you know be better. It's not even you're
Speaker 1: gonna bet you're going to you are going to come
Speaker 1: away with starters on both sides of the ball by
Speaker 1: way of free agency and the draft that are going
Speaker 1: to be upgrades significantly in some cases. And we'll set
Speaker 1: to another piece to the foundation of the future town, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're in a draft position where even if
Speaker 1: you make a trade, you're still in you're still in
Speaker 1: position to make a decade changing uh positions. When you
Speaker 1: talk about offensive line and specifical defensive line specifically, I
Speaker 1: think there's the type of talent out there that you
Speaker 1: can go out there and change the competitiveness of both
Speaker 1: of those elements of the team, make them much better.
Speaker 1: But try to set a couple of pieces in place
Speaker 1: that will be here for the next eight to ten years.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of discussion too about potential
Speaker 1: deals here with other quarterbacks. Are you paying other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: out well, we'll get into this too with Jim on
Speaker 1: the quarterback thing. But Lamar Jackson is one of the dominoes.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna Are they gonna sign them? Are they
Speaker 1: gonna tag him to the point that somebody can put
Speaker 1: an offer on the table and send him to an
Speaker 1: offer sheet that may lead to a trade of some
Speaker 1: sort in a big haul for the Ravens. You got
Speaker 1: the Daniel Jones matter. He's got a new agent. He's
Speaker 1: looking for a little more dough. You look at his
Speaker 1: numbers and Mitchell Trubisky's numbers over the course of the
Speaker 1: last three years, four years, and they're very similar. I mean,
Speaker 1: but one is being looked upon in a different way
Speaker 1: and Mitch is on the trademarket potentially. And I mean
Speaker 1: this quarterback think Derek Carr, Aaron Rodgers. I don't know,
Speaker 1: mant lots to talk about. You know, one thing about
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. After they got rid of Joe Judge, they
Speaker 1: brought in a new coaching staff. That's when Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: is flourished. And with Trubisky, no matter where he's been,
Speaker 1: he hasn't had that year where he's flourished. And they
Speaker 1: thought maybe this was gonna it was gonna be this
Speaker 1: year with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So the reason that they're
Speaker 1: talking about Daniel Jones and possibly franchising or signing him
Speaker 1: to a long term, long term deal is because of
Speaker 1: his development in the short term with a new coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and now this coaching staff is thinking long term. So
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the guy is in place there that
Speaker 1: that can lead the Giants going forward. And so I
Speaker 1: think the Bears have the guy in place that can
Speaker 1: lead the Bears going forward. So it's about the positions
Speaker 1: of interest that you you know, you just brought up
Speaker 1: an offense and defensive line lead the way. I think
Speaker 1: because of all this, and because of the three and
Speaker 1: fourteen season, Bears fans in particular, just can't to get
Speaker 1: the process started. They want to just get there. And
Speaker 1: I'm with you, you know, I just want to get
Speaker 1: there now and see what it all looks like, you know,
Speaker 1: but there's so many months to go here yet I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't I listen. I want time, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: never wish time away. I want all of the different narratives,
Speaker 1: the different investigative work. He got to do that. You
Speaker 1: got to do your due diligence behind the scenes when
Speaker 1: you're looking at taking a player this high and what
Speaker 1: they have to do for the organization. You're not just
Speaker 1: asking a player to come in here at such a
Speaker 1: high pick. And I'm not saying the number one pick.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that the Bears have traded down in a
Speaker 1: little bit lower in the first round. But he's got
Speaker 1: to come in and this this this time frame of
Speaker 1: a coaching staff, of a GM, a new president, and
Speaker 1: what happened to the team last year, and they got
Speaker 1: to be difference makers. This is not where you can
Speaker 1: bring in a group of a group of guys and
Speaker 1: hope that in two years they pan out. No, this
Speaker 1: is you got to pick him in you two months.
Speaker 1: They got to be the guy that you picked day
Speaker 1: one starters in day one starters. Indeed, that's what we're
Speaker 1: looking for, is the Bears get ready for a memorable
Speaker 1: offseason run. Here they're working hard up at Hollis All
Speaker 1: coming up next, We're joined by our friend Jim Miller,
Speaker 1: the former Bears quarterback. He'll jump into the conversation with
Speaker 1: Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac and this is Bears All Access.
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Speaker 1: better world. With Tom there, Jeff Joniac and our old
Speaker 1: pal Jim Miller from Serious x MFL Radio's moving the
Speaker 1: chains joinder the program as he does each and every week. Jim,
Speaker 1: it's a crazy weather world. I mean just down the
Speaker 1: road a piece into Calvit last night, I mean severe icing.
Speaker 1: We got eighty five degrees in North Carolina today, where
Speaker 1: my daughters are going to grad school. You got, I
Speaker 1: mean what what? What he got up there? Did you
Speaker 1: guys get pummeled up there? And at least your daughter's
Speaker 1: away at grad school? I had. I was cooped up
Speaker 1: with my kids the last two days they didn't have school. Jeff,
Speaker 1: My life has been a disaster. It's a mess. I
Speaker 1: can't get anything done. You know, But do you have
Speaker 1: your own on air light in whatever room you're broadcasting from,
Speaker 1: so when it's on, they know not to come in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they know, Cat, but that doesn't stop him, you know that? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Now how bad you get hammered over there? I mean,
Speaker 1: let me rephrase that snow getting kids snow. We got
Speaker 1: the freezing rain. Okay, that's where roads were bad, dude
Speaker 1: to the freezing rain. So that's why they pretty much
Speaker 1: canceled everything. So everybody's been home. It's been a busy household,
Speaker 1: so a fun time, but a lot of chaos going up.
Speaker 1: It's okay, you know, kind of a message of goodwill.
Speaker 1: Did you see the story about Jim Harball, How he
Speaker 1: came across a tree in the road and the police
Speaker 1: were trying to move it, so he got out of
Speaker 1: his car. They gave him a set of gloves. They
Speaker 1: never knew who he was, so then he worked side
Speaker 1: by side with the police and it took him at
Speaker 1: ten fifteen minutes later they were able to get the
Speaker 1: tree moved enough to allow traffic to move through. And
Speaker 1: then finally after it was all done, they became aware
Speaker 1: of who it was, and you know, they just sent
Speaker 1: him a message, message of thanks and goodwill up there
Speaker 1: in the ice storm. Yeah, there's a lot of down
Speaker 1: trees so that everybody's helping each out to neighbor helping neighbor,
Speaker 1: which is is a good thing to me. Now, see
Speaker 1: I was on it. Jim sorry to interrupt you. I
Speaker 1: was unaware of this story, and I'm talking to a
Speaker 1: guy that's not on social media. So where are you
Speaker 1: getting your information from? Do you have people out there
Speaker 1: that send you stuff that are on social media? Time, Well,
Speaker 1: how'd you come about this story? I was just reading
Speaker 1: a news a news site. I was, you know, Oh,
Speaker 1: so you are on social media? No, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: just an app where you can read instead of having
Speaker 1: a newspaper, you're you're read it off your phone. And
Speaker 1: that was just part of the stories. And I felt
Speaker 1: I was really happy for jim to pull over and
Speaker 1: you know, to go out and assist the first responders
Speaker 1: and officers and doing that, and I think it, like
Speaker 1: I said, it's a mission of goodwill. Congratulates Jimmy. I
Speaker 1: don't even know Tom anymore. I mean, my gosh, that's outstanding.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're staying in tune and in touch with
Speaker 1: the world as it spins. Which leads me to this question. Then,
Speaker 1: so that's a celebrity moment for the guys who don't
Speaker 1: know until they realize it. Do either of you have
Speaker 1: a celebrity moment? They didn't know who you were? And
Speaker 1: then you did something similar or you helps, and then
Speaker 1: they realized who you were. Anybody, Tom, I'm a good
Speaker 1: smiritan every day. Please come on, Mark's unnoticed every single
Speaker 1: yet you're an NFL quarterback, my fellow neighbor. Of course
Speaker 1: there had to be. I know, everybody thought you were
Speaker 1: er laker. No, no, you know. The only thing that's
Speaker 1: ever happened to me is recently when I used to
Speaker 1: bring Ernie to the hospital a lot when Katie was
Speaker 1: in the hospital. I had Ernie with me and he
Speaker 1: had a service vest on and there was a woman
Speaker 1: in there who thought that I was working the hospital
Speaker 1: with um, one of the dogs that go and me.
Speaker 1: So she asked me, could you come into my room
Speaker 1: and meet my daughter? She has a leg issue and
Speaker 1: you know I and so she thought I So I go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I went into the hospital room and I actually
Speaker 1: left Ernie with her in her bed for like thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: I went down to Katie's room, came back and got
Speaker 1: the dog, and as I was walking out, the young
Speaker 1: the girl's husband and wife or husband and father were
Speaker 1: walking in and he recognized me as I was leaving
Speaker 1: the room, and he's going, what's that guy? What's Tom
Speaker 1: doing here? He works for the hospital. I knew you
Speaker 1: had to have something, that's for sure. Jim. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you heard the first segment. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: talking quarterbacks on your show every day too, But the
Speaker 1: justin Fields conversation, it's trending every day, every few hours,
Speaker 1: there's a new new wrinkle. But I guess we should
Speaker 1: expect this until the draft, right until they aging carousel
Speaker 1: quarterbacks sorts out of the trade market. I mean, we
Speaker 1: knew this was going to happen, but there's just there.
Speaker 1: There's cases being made. It's almost like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a defense and one end and in an indictment on
Speaker 1: the other. From all the experts in the analysts, how
Speaker 1: are you sifting through all this? Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: a bunch of bunch to do about nothing, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: you know, so they need something to write about, they
Speaker 1: need something to tweet about and whatever. So I don't
Speaker 1: really pay attention to it. I think the Bears are
Speaker 1: just focused on what they need to do, and the
Speaker 1: only decision makers that matter or are going to be
Speaker 1: in that draft room when they ultimately make these selections.
Speaker 1: Quarterback isn't on my list quite frankly, so I think
Speaker 1: they've they've got their guy. He's a hard worker, um
Speaker 1: can do a lot of special things. Even talked to,
Speaker 1: you know, some Bears players like Jalen Johnson who I mentioned.
Speaker 1: I talked to Nicholas Moreau yesterday. I said, all right,
Speaker 1: what's what's it like prexit against Justin Fields? He's like, man,
Speaker 1: he's got He's got everything it takes to be a
Speaker 1: great one, you know, because he's a special, special, talented player.
Speaker 1: I think we know they need to build around him,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what the Bears, you know, what
Speaker 1: their intention is here this offseason. I think Fields will
Speaker 1: be just fine. Where's that? Do you think Justin Fields
Speaker 1: should limit his media access from now until the draft?
Speaker 1: Because when I go back and I look, I listened
Speaker 1: to a lot of the cutoffs from his on the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl roll, it seems like you can answer a question,
Speaker 1: then it becomes kind of a topic or you know,
Speaker 1: could be interpreted differently. Yeah, yeah, and That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Would would Justin be better off if he'd you know,
Speaker 1: stayed out of the media way until the draft? Or
Speaker 1: is you know, is adding to the confusion in the
Speaker 1: narrative of other people who say they should, you know,
Speaker 1: move on from Justin or look to possibly trade him. No,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good question. I don't know why
Speaker 1: he'd want to be in the media. You know, he said,
Speaker 1: just had to do it, you know, seventeen eighteen weeks
Speaker 1: in a row, and even more than that when you
Speaker 1: think about training camp and there's gonna be plenty of media,
Speaker 1: whether it's going to be at the OTAs and other
Speaker 1: things where he's working through through the voluntary part of
Speaker 1: this offseason where media will have access to him, and
Speaker 1: you know, I think again, this is a time you
Speaker 1: just kind of decompress. You know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: he was doing out the Super Bowl, whether he was
Speaker 1: promoting something. Maybe that's why. Yeah, and that's normal, I
Speaker 1: mean quarterback and you know players do that every year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: go on a dark retreats or anything like that to him.
Speaker 1: Everybody but had to go there, didn't you. Hey, I mean,
Speaker 1: he can do whatever he wants. I mean, everybody's taking
Speaker 1: shots and for that, I mean, whatever he's got to
Speaker 1: do to make his decision for him, Rodgers, that that's fine,
Speaker 1: I think, but he's the one who put it out there,
Speaker 1: and I think why people are making fun of it,
Speaker 1: you know, that's why, that's why I got to say
Speaker 1: about it. I don't care. I could care less. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what it all means. And that's again,
Speaker 1: each individual's own journey to get their mind right to
Speaker 1: do anything in life, let alone, or to find that
Speaker 1: mental piece and quiet, whatever it takes. But he's the
Speaker 1: one promoting it, so he's opening the door to the
Speaker 1: jokes and the criticism and whatever else. I mean, it's attention.
Speaker 1: I mean, well think, I mean, if it's if it's
Speaker 1: a soul searching thing, you know, I'm sure that a
Speaker 1: lot of people have benefited from it. I was reading,
Speaker 1: you know, I think there was a mountain climber that
Speaker 1: spent time at a sky sky cave retreat I figure
Speaker 1: what it's called. And there was a lady in the uh.
Speaker 1: I forget what line of works she was in, but
Speaker 1: she's gone there a couple of times. And again it's
Speaker 1: just you know, I think we all know. You know,
Speaker 1: when you go through something you've worked hard, you know,
Speaker 1: you do got to re energize you kind of recharge
Speaker 1: your batteries and and you make your decision and go
Speaker 1: about it. But uh, you know for this, because like
Speaker 1: you said, he put it out there. To me, it's
Speaker 1: not a hard decision. I mean, it was funny. I
Speaker 1: was just doing a show and a service member called
Speaker 1: in and tried to compare it to war. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: when I played football, I never feared for my life.
Speaker 1: You know. I've gone over to Afghanistan on USO tours
Speaker 1: and Antonio Freeman's a man of fact. The Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers receiver was with me and he met we went
Speaker 1: out to this one base that was on the outskirts
Speaker 1: there in pakist Or, Afghanistan when we went there, and
Speaker 1: he met some guys that served with his brother, and
Speaker 1: Antonio Freeman's brother died as a marine, and but he
Speaker 1: met some guys in his unit and they all had
Speaker 1: a really a tearful moment. But this guy was trying
Speaker 1: to compare in Roger's decision to like war, and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: I've never feared for my life in football. It's not
Speaker 1: that deep. I mean, realistically, what's the decision. Does he
Speaker 1: want to make sixty million dollars or not? Right right,
Speaker 1: that's the decision. Another report that I just heard and
Speaker 1: read about was that he was supposed to stay for
Speaker 1: four days and he left after two. So did it
Speaker 1: come to you that clearly within that forty eight hour
Speaker 1: period instead of the discipline of having the four days
Speaker 1: to stay. I don't know, man, I did see a
Speaker 1: video of somebody else that went in there and to
Speaker 1: have it completely pitch black black am no concept of time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think I can do it.
Speaker 1: I honest to God, there's no way I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: So maybe he couldn't either. Two and that of the
Speaker 1: four or five from the listeners out there, Jeff scared
Speaker 1: of the dark. Then yeah, hey, you know I'm the
Speaker 1: first to admit as a as a kid. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hated having the door clothes that I didn't like it.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. All right, Well, we'll talk more
Speaker 1: justin field. Some good analysis and some things you learn
Speaker 1: about when you delve into a statistical analysis of what
Speaker 1: he's done so far. We'll talk about that. And what
Speaker 1: the Bears need is they get ready to look at
Speaker 1: that roster and make sure they're making the right decisions
Speaker 1: to set themselves up for success in the most critical
Speaker 1: and important offseason. And we've seen here in a long
Speaker 1: time with top there, Jim Miller, i' Jeff, Joniacker. This
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Speaker 1: M NFL radios moving the chain. So, Jim, your buddy
Speaker 1: Matt Castle working for the thirty third team, I saw this.
Speaker 1: He ranked all the quarterbacks as they stand right now,
Speaker 1: the teams they're on, and the NFC North had off
Speaker 1: four in the top thirteen and number thirteen was just
Speaker 1: in field. So the men who played the game have
Speaker 1: respect for what the man has done so far, on
Speaker 1: what he's capable of doing. Yeah, and they rightfully. So,
Speaker 1: I mean again, he's a special athlete that can do
Speaker 1: things that other quarterbacks can't do. You know, I've mentioned that,
Speaker 1: you know physically, you know, he kind of stacks up
Speaker 1: to somebody like Josh Allen, because Josh Allen could do
Speaker 1: some things physically that other quarterbacks just can't do. Arm strength,
Speaker 1: you know, his ability to move, to scramble, you know,
Speaker 1: take on you know, tacklers. He basically runs over linebackers.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many quarterbacks can do that? And I
Speaker 1: think Fields is a special type of guy like that
Speaker 1: that just has special traits. I think we all know
Speaker 1: he's got to develop as a passer. He's got to
Speaker 1: be have more anticipation, speeding up the process of reading
Speaker 1: defenses has got to be better, and all those things
Speaker 1: will come. I think he's shown great progress from year
Speaker 1: one to year two in a new offense, I should add,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll do that again. He'll make another
Speaker 1: huge jump here this offseason. I think he's dedicated to it.
Speaker 1: I think he wants to be a great player. I
Speaker 1: think he loves football. I think he's a good leader.
Speaker 1: I think he's got all, you know, all the scoutable
Speaker 1: traits and some that are unscoutable, the heart and desire
Speaker 1: to play football and get better that you can't scout.
Speaker 1: I think he has all those things in him. So
Speaker 1: I think he'll continue to grow and get better, Hey, Jim,
Speaker 1: when you're a quarterback within a new system and you
Speaker 1: start memorizing the terminology so well that it's almost like
Speaker 1: Luke could say a word or two out of his
Speaker 1: mouth and then you can finish the play. Does that
Speaker 1: type of knowledge clear the vision for a young developing
Speaker 1: cornerback where it doesn't necessarily mean or you know, have
Speaker 1: to see exactly what the defense is doing because you
Speaker 1: know what you just said and how it fits into
Speaker 1: you know, the field of play where you're at depending
Speaker 1: hashmark down and distance and everything. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: get to the point where you're thinking the game, you know,
Speaker 1: and you talk through all those things with your your
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Like say your first third down in shorts,
Speaker 1: you may have five of those, your five third best
Speaker 1: third mediums, your five best third and long plays where
Speaker 1: you know, when you're out there in a series and
Speaker 1: you're moving the ball and all of a sudden that
Speaker 1: first third down situation comes up, I was already thinking, Hey,
Speaker 1: I know we're running zero slot out, you know, Z motion,
Speaker 1: you know to eighteen dancer, whatever the play call is,
Speaker 1: you know, and I already knew it because like, hey,
Speaker 1: we already discussed that this was gonna be our first
Speaker 1: third and short play call, and I'm already thinking I'm
Speaker 1: preparing myself for that play and how it should work out,
Speaker 1: what defense we expect to be or they're going to
Speaker 1: be in in that third and short. Now when I
Speaker 1: send that z in motion in that corner, goes with
Speaker 1: them ding ding ding Yep, that's just what we practice
Speaker 1: third and short. This is a man and man defense.
Speaker 1: There they are. That's my key right there, you know.
Speaker 1: And now you can just see it on fold with
Speaker 1: how the game's being called, and that that should happen
Speaker 1: to you every game. You know that you're so in
Speaker 1: tune with it that you know what's going to be called.
Speaker 1: You can anticipate what the coaches is going to call,
Speaker 1: you can anticipate what front and coverage you're gonna get,
Speaker 1: and and you know what you're going to do to
Speaker 1: try and to attack it. And it reaffirms everything that
Speaker 1: you practice during the week and all the things that
Speaker 1: you discussed during the week. I saw this his playoff
Speaker 1: opponents in twenty twenty two, justin fields when he was healthy.
Speaker 1: I was six games. He had a one on three
Speaker 1: quarterback rating, thirteen touchdowns, one interception and two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen yards a game in those games with a high
Speaker 1: of two fifty four. I'm assuming those are correct. I
Speaker 1: saw it on Twitter, but you know, I look only
Speaker 1: one game of twenty completions. I would like to see obviously,
Speaker 1: that go up to and that goes back to did
Speaker 1: you see this guy's jim? The average length of a
Speaker 1: pass has changed in the last nine or ten years
Speaker 1: a yard less. So it's that short passing game where
Speaker 1: you get guys the ball, run and run after the
Speaker 1: catch stuff. Yeah, and wide receiver screens and bubble screens
Speaker 1: and all those things shovel passes that are now really
Speaker 1: called much more prevalent lead than what they used to
Speaker 1: be called. You know, I just even go back to
Speaker 1: the Gary Croton stuff. I remember our first game where
Speaker 1: we beat Kansas City and Shane Matthews was starting that time,
Speaker 1: And remember Gunther Cunningham called it a razzle dazzle offense.
Speaker 1: And now it's pretty much in every offense, isn't it.
Speaker 1: And and even some of that stuff was being run
Speaker 1: back in the seventies. If you go back and look
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh Steel stuff, they ran wide receiver screens back
Speaker 1: in the seventies, so it has recycled. Now it's just
Speaker 1: more prevalent the college game and the impact, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of trickling up, and it's going to continue moving
Speaker 1: forward because they again want everybody cover every blayd Grass
Speaker 1: you know Bill Walsh, I mean his quote, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to throw I want to have my quarterback
Speaker 1: throw it for five yards and watch the receiver run
Speaker 1: for seventy five. And so it's yeah, maybe it's taken
Speaker 1: a step backward because of the different type of offensive
Speaker 1: game plans and style of offense that you're running that
Speaker 1: was different than the Bill Walsh forty nine er heyday,
Speaker 1: but you know it's still I think what you would
Speaker 1: like to do is get the ball into the hands
Speaker 1: of the best runner on the team with open space
Speaker 1: and allow him to convert it for whatever he can. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and it's going to continue to be, you know, because again,
Speaker 1: all these quarterbacks are running it in college, so it's
Speaker 1: going to continue to happen in the NFL. I do think,
Speaker 1: you know, even these quarterbacks today, they just they throw
Speaker 1: a lot more than you know, like I said, I
Speaker 1: had like seventeen touchdown passes my whole college career. These
Speaker 1: guys do that in like four games, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how much they're throwing. And you look at even
Speaker 1: my kids, like my eight year old, he'll be turning
Speaker 1: to nine, so he'll start football, but he's done flag football.
Speaker 1: And they have all these passing leagues like if you goal,
Speaker 1: they have all these it's basically seven on seven Skelly.
Speaker 1: So it's just all skill position players, quarterbacks and receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends that there's out there throwing and competing.
Speaker 1: It's in every indoor golf bubble around here. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's the same way down there in Chicago. So those
Speaker 1: are just all those reps are throwing the ball. You
Speaker 1: know that those leagues were never even there when I
Speaker 1: was growing up. I mean, and now they're all over
Speaker 1: the place. I'll tell you it would be cool. You
Speaker 1: see some of these designs also on you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches out there they post tape on
Speaker 1: RPO design plays and some of them are really creative
Speaker 1: that you can envision because of the run threat, the
Speaker 1: dynamic ability of Justin and having running back, having a
Speaker 1: backfield like the Bears have had a versatile one to
Speaker 1: really pose a lot with motion from whatever they're going
Speaker 1: to add to the mix. Can really get really creative
Speaker 1: on the designs and still pass from it with great success.
Speaker 1: And I'm excited about the design moving forward as well.
Speaker 1: Tom from offensive coordinator Luke getsy when they get different
Speaker 1: kind of pieces, Oh me too, you know, but you know,
Speaker 1: get different kind of pieces, but even some of the
Speaker 1: pieces you already have to see how you can involve
Speaker 1: those in the game plan more consistently. So we need
Speaker 1: more out of Cole, we need more out of Clay.
Speaker 1: We need to see where Darnell Mooney's eventually going to
Speaker 1: be throughout the course of the season. You need the
Speaker 1: running back position to be a part of the passing
Speaker 1: game is as much as the running game. So God,
Speaker 1: there's so much, so much growth possibilities because of a
Speaker 1: guy like justin Fields. That that's why it's so exciting
Speaker 1: moving forward that you know when he gets time just
Speaker 1: to hash over terminology with Luke, it's going to improve
Speaker 1: him more than you know, any other element of practices.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Tom Fair, Jim Miller, I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: Will take a break here as we continue on Bears
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Speaker 1: by CDW. People will get it. Tom There, Jeff, Jonny Ac,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller from Serious x M NFL Radios, moving the
Speaker 1: chains with us. Glad you joined us tonight. Getting through
Speaker 1: the days before the combine, So combine coming up, leaving
Speaker 1: on Monday. Jim is that becomes the focus in the
Speaker 1: central focus and a lot of great insight we'll get
Speaker 1: from scouts, agents, coaches to some degree, and of course
Speaker 1: the guys who are trying to get drafted. So it's
Speaker 1: always a fun event. It is a convention like atmosphere,
Speaker 1: but it's if you're in football, you gotta be there,
Speaker 1: right Absolutely. I think it's a big part of the process.
Speaker 1: Not all these players. Obviously we're playing in the East
Speaker 1: West Shrine or the or the Senior Bowls. So interviews
Speaker 1: are going to be a big part of it. Where
Speaker 1: the opportunity to interview quite a few few guys, a
Speaker 1: lot of the coaches and GM's like to get all
Speaker 1: the media obligations out of the way early, so probably
Speaker 1: you know, Tuesday, Wednesday, they'll probably pretty much wrap up
Speaker 1: with them and then pretty much you'll focus on the
Speaker 1: players after that. But it's it's a huge affair. Three
Speaker 1: hundred nineteen players are the top players in the country.
Speaker 1: That are there some players who didn't get invited still
Speaker 1: will get drafted. Like it was interesting we were talking
Speaker 1: to Carl Brooks yesterday, who's a very talented defensive lineman
Speaker 1: bowling green there in the MAC. I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: is a big time player. He played and had a
Speaker 1: great week Donald Mobile, and he didn't get invited to
Speaker 1: the combine. He said, Hey, is what it is. I
Speaker 1: didn't get invited, but you know, I think I put
Speaker 1: my best foot forward and I still think that he'll
Speaker 1: get drafted. So it's about the medical I think we
Speaker 1: know that they just want to see if all the
Speaker 1: players your body's kind of your resume and and you know,
Speaker 1: if you're going to invest million millions of dollars into
Speaker 1: these young draft picks, you want to make sure they
Speaker 1: got a clean bill of health. So that certainly is
Speaker 1: the most important part of it. Tom when do you
Speaker 1: want to hear from Ryan Paul's the general manager. On Tuesday,
Speaker 1: he'll meet the Chicago media and man Aberflus. The national
Speaker 1: media included on Tuesday. That'll be the Bear's a thing
Speaker 1: at the hotel. And what do you want to hear,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, I almost want to see hear him
Speaker 1: send a message to the rest of the gms in
Speaker 1: the NFL, letting everybody know that he's out there to
Speaker 1: negotiate for this first pick in the draft and put
Speaker 1: not necessarily expectations, but at least open the lines of
Speaker 1: communication because I don't think that there's only two or
Speaker 1: three teams in play. You want to talk to as
Speaker 1: many teams as possible that want to come and listen
Speaker 1: to what you have to offer and listen to what
Speaker 1: you need in order to take it. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's not going to sit out there and specifically tell
Speaker 1: you an individual that he's interested in. Maybe he'll you know,
Speaker 1: hash over a position or something that he's favoring at
Speaker 1: this point. But to me, like I said, I would
Speaker 1: have a booth at the combine on the ground level
Speaker 1: and say open for negotiations with every GM. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: certain that it's already started. But you know I talked
Speaker 1: about this in the first segment with Tom Jim, is
Speaker 1: that what happens with the venerand quarterbacks is gonna is
Speaker 1: gonna impact this now namely, and I know folks have
Speaker 1: written about it today. Lamar Jackson. They could place the
Speaker 1: franchise tag out in March seventh to keep things, uh
Speaker 1: still from becoming a free agent. I'm not sure they're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get a deal done. He's not budget.
Speaker 1: He wants all that guaranteed money like Deshaun Watson got
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. That's a unique scenario. I don't see that
Speaker 1: continuing to happen with every single quarterback. What happens with
Speaker 1: Lamar should he not stay in Baltimore? Does that impact
Speaker 1: the Bears ability to make a deal with that number
Speaker 1: one pick um? No, I don't think that's gonna affect
Speaker 1: the Bears at all. I think there's you got quarterback
Speaker 1: needy teams that are gonna want to trade up, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to talk to the to the Bears
Speaker 1: because Houston's picking at two, So they're gonna want to
Speaker 1: go above Houston. Say if Houston, who we all expect
Speaker 1: to draft a quarterback, you know, if you know a
Speaker 1: team below thinks that Houston's gonna take that guy, they're
Speaker 1: gonna want to be in front of Houston. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to talk to the Bears, so Colts raiders
Speaker 1: Carolina at nine. I would think, I would think even Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Atlanta's got a lot of kept, you know, got a
Speaker 1: lot of space. Even though they drafted Ritter last year,
Speaker 1: do they believe in him. Maybe they like one of
Speaker 1: these top guys even more this year. So I don't
Speaker 1: think that when you envisioned them trading, four of them
Speaker 1: are Atlanta. I could see that. I could see it.
Speaker 1: But here's the problem with it. If Baltimore can't get
Speaker 1: the contract done, you have to be willing to do that.
Speaker 1: He wants a Deshaun Watson guaranteed between two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars guaranteed. Some teams may not be one.
Speaker 1: You know. Steve Ashott, he already said he's not going there.
Speaker 1: He already said that he publicly discredited what the Haslum
Speaker 1: family did for the Cleveland Browns, giving it that one
Speaker 1: hundred percent guaranteed contract. They pooh pooed, a lot of
Speaker 1: owners were not happy about it. And it's the outlier contract.
Speaker 1: Even Kyler Murray didn't get that much from Arizona guaranteed,
Speaker 1: and so they made him an offer, he bet on himself.
Speaker 1: He got hurt again. They have an offer out there,
Speaker 1: he does not like it. They're about one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars apart. So they just put the franchise tag on
Speaker 1: him and guess what, he's gonna have to bet on
Speaker 1: himself again. So I think he's staying in Baltimore because
Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe in other team's just
Speaker 1: gonna be open arms. Oh yeah, here's two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars guaranteed when you haven't finished the last two
Speaker 1: seasons alone for the Baltimore Ravens. You know, when you
Speaker 1: think about Arizona Cardinals, that is not the template of
Speaker 1: success that you want to follow. Because when they have
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes and they draft Josh Rosen, then they fire
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes, and then they bring in Kyler Murray, they
Speaker 1: bring in Cliff Kingsbury. Now he's gone, and then Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray kind of demanded himself into the contract that he
Speaker 1: was awarded. You don't know how that ended. It's gonna
Speaker 1: work out, and a lot of Lamar Jackson when you're
Speaker 1: talking about a team making it want to making a
Speaker 1: trade or being even interested in taking making a trade.
Speaker 1: Are they going to be privy to the inframation of
Speaker 1: what the factors were with his knee injury last year
Speaker 1: that was such an enormous setback that he never got
Speaker 1: back on the field after he got injured or was
Speaker 1: that just contract strategy And a lot of the numbers
Speaker 1: that you're talking about Lamar Jackson going forward and people
Speaker 1: bring up all these numbers there from years in the past.
Speaker 1: Now Lamar Jackson, there's a little bit more of a
Speaker 1: design on how you want to play defense against him,
Speaker 1: and if you can get physical with them, you affected
Speaker 1: the kind of play. So I just think that if
Speaker 1: he was gonna go sign, I think Baltimore is the
Speaker 1: perfect team for Lamar. But they're bringing in a new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and how much will that be a setback
Speaker 1: if this new offensive coordinator wants to bring in his
Speaker 1: own terminology. You know what's also interesting, he is forty
Speaker 1: six in sixteen as a quarterback, six wins, sixteen losses,
Speaker 1: and it's almost like he doesn't want to be there.
Speaker 1: You know. They've now switched offensive coordinators to a guy
Speaker 1: who likes to throw the ball, yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: supposedly going to run more tempo and all that, but
Speaker 1: they've won forty six games they have won with this
Speaker 1: young quarterback. So yes, just kind of all around bizarre
Speaker 1: where it's at right now. And if another team, because
Speaker 1: the other other teams are gonna have the same concerns
Speaker 1: as Baltimore. He hasn't finished the last two years. The passing,
Speaker 1: pocket passing hasn't been up to snuff. That's got to
Speaker 1: be better suit certainly moving forward. So here's the tag
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to have a prove it deal again.
Speaker 1: So either that or signed the long term contract offer
Speaker 1: that we offered you. This is what we believe your
Speaker 1: worth is, and then you're going to get a lot
Speaker 1: more money guaranteed than just the franchise tag number, which
Speaker 1: will be thirty two million dollars, which has nothing to
Speaker 1: scoff at. But he's if I were him, I would
Speaker 1: want the long term security because he's the last two years,
Speaker 1: he's been hurt and his team has finished miserably without
Speaker 1: him in there. Right. Yeah, Tom, if you're going to
Speaker 1: pick a quarterback in this draft, where would you like
Speaker 1: to get one? I'm ticking a similar style quarterback. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: if I was the Bears, you know, if I'm any
Speaker 1: any time after the If I can get multiple picks
Speaker 1: in the first round through a trade, and then I
Speaker 1: start seeing a guy that's similar in skill and ability
Speaker 1: but needs time to develop on that third and fourth round,
Speaker 1: then I've start searching for a quarterback to to fit
Speaker 1: the just and template. So now when Luke getsy is
Speaker 1: in there teaching the specifics, the exacts of the style
Speaker 1: play of a quarterback, that he's teaching it to two
Speaker 1: guys that are similar in traits. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: anything against Trevor Sinian because I think he was a
Speaker 1: really good backup quarterback this year, and you know, really
Speaker 1: as support of the quarterback position. But when you're in
Speaker 1: a fortunate position with some of the assets you have
Speaker 1: in a unique year, it would be nice to go
Speaker 1: out there and find that quarterback that maybe you develop
Speaker 1: for your own team, or you develop for an asset
Speaker 1: that's tradeable on the road. All right, boys, will there
Speaker 1: be an offensive lineman that will start in the same
Speaker 1: place on Day one of the twenty twenty three season
Speaker 1: Jim on the Bears. Um, Yeah, I think there's there's
Speaker 1: plenty of guys that are out there. I mean, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: on the current the current guys, Oh, any of the
Speaker 1: guys who finished the season as a starter at their
Speaker 1: current position, will they be there Week one of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. I would think probably Braxton Jones and co
Speaker 1: were those two. I think everything else is up in
Speaker 1: the here. I think they could draft a center. I
Speaker 1: think they could draft obviously right tackle and guard. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I saw that they just already
Speaker 1: resigned Iceland right and he sees back in the mix
Speaker 1: for for the Bears. But I would think more of
Speaker 1: the right side. But the two guys i'd say would
Speaker 1: be white here in Braxton Jones, Braxton Jones, Great, you know,
Speaker 1: I would be interesting, sorry, Jim. I'd be interested to
Speaker 1: see if they've developed enough familiarity with the athletic traits
Speaker 1: of Braxon Jones. If they went out there and they said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this left tackle is a valuable to
Speaker 1: us and he can come in here and he's a
Speaker 1: Day one plug and play, whether it's a second or
Speaker 1: third round, is Braxton is he comfortable enough to go
Speaker 1: over and play the right tackle and fit ins kind
Speaker 1: of seamlessly like he did as an inexperienced rookie on
Speaker 1: the NFL level this year. So that's why when I
Speaker 1: think of who is gonna be on the starting lineup
Speaker 1: next year in their same spot, it's almost like all
Speaker 1: five of them are up for competition, and probably Cody
Speaker 1: has the stronghold on the left guard position, but I
Speaker 1: think they need to see improvement out of him this
Speaker 1: upcoming year from last year. And Braxton Jones really gives
Speaker 1: them a unique piece. And you know the evaluation by
Speaker 1: Ryan Poles and his staff about the officeive alignment and
Speaker 1: valuable to him. Whatever happens in free agency to start
Speaker 1: the process, you get your guys. You're gonna spend some money,
Speaker 1: no question about it. There's a little luck involved and
Speaker 1: how this all works based on needs and and whatever.
Speaker 1: But I just spend smartly and get the value as
Speaker 1: best as what's well because you got other teams every
Speaker 1: right now, because in the salary cap and everybody's got
Speaker 1: their teams, are gonna get down get to their cat everyone.
Speaker 1: Because you have money, they're all gonna have money. Bears
Speaker 1: have a lot of money, but that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: that's gonna relate to getting somebody that you want, because
Speaker 1: you still got to maintain. You gotta be disciplined with
Speaker 1: the value, don't you guys think I mean, say, darn
Speaker 1: Payne is not franchised. Uh and and and you know,
Speaker 1: are you just gonna pay our King's ransom for that
Speaker 1: or are you gonna still be careful with value? Or
Speaker 1: if that's somebody they want, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what their plan is, but I just want to see value.
Speaker 1: And that being said, what absolute do you need in
Speaker 1: terms of position that you want to get in free
Speaker 1: agency over the draft. I'll leave it to both of you.
Speaker 1: Gym you can start, Yeah, well, I think, like you said,
Speaker 1: I don't think you want to be a drunken sailor.
Speaker 1: I do think it's got to be targeted of what
Speaker 1: you're going to go after. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: three techniques, you know, because that's kind of where it
Speaker 1: starts and stops defensively, you know, Javon Hargrave just came
Speaker 1: off an eleven and a half sack year for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Can they afford him? I mean, that's that's a penetrating
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. Even when he was with the Steelers, they
Speaker 1: played one gap, three four because he's such a penetrator.
Speaker 1: So to me, that'd be a guy who's on their
Speaker 1: radar screen for the Bears. Again. He had eleven and
Speaker 1: a half sacks as an interior defensive tackle for the Philadelphiels.
Speaker 1: Can they afford him? Do they tag him? Or would
Speaker 1: they tag Chauncy Gardner who had six interceptions in their secondary?
Speaker 1: Because you don't want to get old. I think we're
Speaker 1: all aware of that. You want to come off, you
Speaker 1: want to be signings. Yeah, and that's and then they're
Speaker 1: going to focus on on the draft. To me, I
Speaker 1: think the Bears are going to target free agents for
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. One to elevate justin
Speaker 1: fields in the offense. And I think they're going to
Speaker 1: draft a lot of young defensive players like they did
Speaker 1: last year and just develop those players pass rushers, defensive tackles, linebacker.
Speaker 1: You would think we just talked about Nicholas Moreau. He's
Speaker 1: a free agent. You know, there's a linebacker need there
Speaker 1: for the Chicago Barris and we liked the secondary. But
Speaker 1: I think they'll probably draft defensively, veterans will sign offensively
Speaker 1: through free agency. Yeah, you know, listen, you know, with
Speaker 1: the experiences of last year when everybody came aboard and
Speaker 1: they'd had the Larry Ogan, joeby Mishap and how that
Speaker 1: was handled. They signed him, then he didn't pass the physical,
Speaker 1: so you went on and got Justin Jones, and on
Speaker 1: Justin Jones. At the end of the year you started
Speaker 1: experimenting a little bit with him on the outside. So
Speaker 1: where is his position determined going forward? Because when you
Speaker 1: look at Trevis Gibson and you look at Dominique Robinson,
Speaker 1: I don't know what Taco Charlton is going to be
Speaker 1: doing if he's even in the conversation. You also have
Speaker 1: to get better at that position, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can rely on the fact that the more
Speaker 1: playing time that Dominique Robinson gets, that's a guarantee that
Speaker 1: he's going to turn these traits into a player and
Speaker 1: that you know that's yet to be seeing. And if
Speaker 1: you're gonna have Travis Gibson as one of your starting
Speaker 1: defensive ends, then you need sack performance out of that position,
Speaker 1: and not a couple and a couple of games, You
Speaker 1: need a double digit throughout seventeen games. And you go
Speaker 1: back one year from right the right year from now,
Speaker 1: we are talking about the season that Robert Quinn was
Speaker 1: coming off of and then he came in and really
Speaker 1: didn't accomplish anything for the Bears after that, and then
Speaker 1: was traded to Philly. So I do think that the
Speaker 1: defensive line, the exterior, the defensive line needs as much
Speaker 1: attention as we continuously pay to the three technique defensive tack.
Speaker 1: That's time there, Jim Miller, Jeff, Jonny Act. One more
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Speaker 1: and Jim Jeff Jonah yac here as we get set
Speaker 1: for the combine to the start of the real interesting,
Speaker 1: The lying season, Jim, the lying season, We're gonna be
Speaker 1: ear hustling left and right in Indianapolis. Sow you gonna
Speaker 1: finally take me out to dinner? Though? Sure, Jeff, I mean,
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is ask right, No, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the truth. Tom. Jim always asks, now we've we've
Speaker 1: we've had it I think we've had a couple every
Speaker 1: now and then. I've gotten every now and again, but
Speaker 1: usually I say no, yeah, you know, I gotta do this.
Speaker 1: I got that, So you know, I can understand if
Speaker 1: you just peel back now and you say I've asked
Speaker 1: too many times. We went out to dinner and mobile
Speaker 1: as we did. It was like the last supper Tom.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was incredible because I think it probably
Speaker 1: will be the last time. What I noticed about Jeff
Speaker 1: is throughout the day he listened all of his offers
Speaker 1: and then yeah, hey he'll recall his best offer and
Speaker 1: then go with that person, that restaurant, that whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: I have been I've been accused of such at the
Speaker 1: Combine in particular. I'm sorry. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: friends time. I got a lot of friends in high places. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. But it's a great time. And I'm sure, Jim,
Speaker 1: we will run into each other at time or two.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some other things going on
Speaker 1: league wide, Jim, are you surprised at some of the
Speaker 1: assistant coaching hires around the league? Did anything catch you
Speaker 1: by surprise? Even today, there was the addition of quarterback coach,
Speaker 1: and if I can find it right Davis. Yeah, Davis Webb,
Speaker 1: who's now he's gonna be Russell Wilson's quarterback coach. How
Speaker 1: does that work? Yeah? Yeah, He's only twenty eight years old,
Speaker 1: and Russell obviously thirty four. And Davis has played minimally,
Speaker 1: if if at all, and Russell, you know, I think
Speaker 1: we know Sean Payton's going to have a heavy hand
Speaker 1: in that and how the offense is run. So I
Speaker 1: think really Sean will probably be in those meetings and
Speaker 1: bringing along h Davis Webb as a as a young coach,
Speaker 1: because like you said, he I don't even think he's
Speaker 1: officially tired retired from the Giants. You know, he was
Speaker 1: with the Giants last year as a as a back backup,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, I think Sean and that happened
Speaker 1: when I was in New England. Basically I've mentioned this
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. He ran every quarterback meeting and Josh McDaniels
Speaker 1: was in there, you know, and it's just kind of like, hey,
Speaker 1: learn and to do what I do. Listen to what
Speaker 1: I say. Here's how I want these quarterbacks taught. And
Speaker 1: Josh was learning at that point. Josh wasn't a play caller.
Speaker 1: He was just the listed as the quarterbacks coach, and
Speaker 1: he was breaking into it, and and Bill Belichick was
Speaker 1: breaking him in how to coach quarterbacks, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that'll be a kind of a similar situation.
Speaker 1: But here's what I do think what's interesting. Likely look
Speaker 1: at Frank Reich. He's leaning on a lot of veteran coaches, right,
Speaker 1: Jim Caldwells down there, the guys who we've hired, that's
Speaker 1: a very veteran staff. I do think Sean Payton, he's
Speaker 1: mixed in some young guys like Davis Webb. But look
Speaker 1: at the Will Hoyt. He signed the linebackers coach, who's
Speaker 1: outside backers. He signed Greg Manusky, who's been a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be with Vance Joseph who's now So that's
Speaker 1: a veteran staff. And then you look at guys like
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon, who's just hired out there for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Go look at his staff, man, that is a green staff.
Speaker 1: There's coaches that have never even coached in the NFL
Speaker 1: before that they're signing out there. So it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, There's been a lot of movement for coaches
Speaker 1: more than what has happened recently in previous years. You know,
Speaker 1: either this era or the era that's gone by. Jim
Speaker 1: McMahon always tells a funny story that Andy Reid played
Speaker 1: offensive tackle for Jim McMahon when they're at BYU. When
Speaker 1: Jim McMahon went to Green Bay, Andy Reid why his
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach, And when he was sitting in there with
Speaker 1: the rest of the quarterbacks, Jim was sitting up there
Speaker 1: reading a newspaper and Andy Reid tol him to put
Speaker 1: the newspaper down. It's time to get started. And Jim said, Andy,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you one thing. You will never
Speaker 1: teach me anything about playing quarterback. So you think of
Speaker 1: just the role of what these guys developing to do,
Speaker 1: and all of the time and energy that Andy Reid
Speaker 1: has put into it from where he came from and
Speaker 1: the Lavelle edwards to where he's at. Now, you know
Speaker 1: the ladder that you're gonna take to get to that point.
Speaker 1: It's going to be filled by some characters and some
Speaker 1: events that you're going to have to show that you
Speaker 1: have the guts to work through them to prove that
Speaker 1: you're a guy that can coach these guys that are
Speaker 1: coming onto your team, Jim, because you're QB, I gotta
Speaker 1: ask you, of all the quarterbacks of the combine that
Speaker 1: are invited, who do you most want to see. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you who. I Mine's Anthony Richardson. I just want
Speaker 1: to see what it's all about. I know he hasn't
Speaker 1: played much, but the athletic gifts or something, so I
Speaker 1: would I would like to see what he does, just
Speaker 1: for a reference. You know, how about you? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: guy and it's unfortunately he won't be able to work
Speaker 1: out there as Hendon Hooker. I think he can spin it.
Speaker 1: He can spin the ball. C J. Sprout I like
Speaker 1: him a lot too as well. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people are high and will love us and he's
Speaker 1: growing on me. To me, he's a little robotic when
Speaker 1: you look at will love us from from Kentucky. But
Speaker 1: got to do more work on him. But Richardson is
Speaker 1: an interesting name and Hendon Hooker I had the ability
Speaker 1: to talk to him out there at the at the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. As soon as you shake his hand, man,
Speaker 1: he's got big mitts, you know, so spinning a football
Speaker 1: is not a problem for him. He can put a
Speaker 1: ton of revolutions on the ball and kind of after
Speaker 1: those guys, it's you know, there's there's you know he
Speaker 1: brought up a guy one. We gotta go, bro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: wun run. I'm interested what he's gonna run forty times?
Speaker 1: I'd love I would love to hear more about this,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna do it over a beer in Indy.
Speaker 1: You got it? Sounds good? My friend than you, Buddy
Speaker 1: Jim Miller toomp there. Thanks, as always our producers Dan Brilliant,
Speaker 1: Adams Tazinski. The Score program being continues here on Chicago
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