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Speaker 1: welcome into this week's edition of Bears All Access, brought
Speaker 1: to you by IGS Energy. Jeff joni Ac along with
Speaker 1: Tom There Jim Miller will be along as well from
Speaker 1: Serious XM NFL Radios Moving the Chains and our producer tonight,
Speaker 1: Sean Anderson. And as we get together, hoping everybody out
Speaker 1: there is getting along okay, living by the rules of
Speaker 1: the road, so to speak, right now, and staying at
Speaker 1: home and social distancing and hopefully hopefully everybody's healthy. And
Speaker 1: Big Tim got to do a shout out right out
Speaker 1: of the gate to all those folks out there in
Speaker 1: the restaurant business that are providing drive by pickups. You
Speaker 1: got the medical profession doctors, nurses, all medical personnel. You
Speaker 1: got grocery store workers, I mean we could go on
Speaker 1: and on and on, police, fire, first responders. Way to
Speaker 1: go You're helping us through and there's no other way
Speaker 1: to go about it. We need these folks, So thank
Speaker 1: you one and all. And I know you're in the
Speaker 1: restaurant business as well. Yeah, it's you know, it's an
Speaker 1: everyday struggle and everyday new experience just trying to something
Speaker 1: you're overcome. But you know, when you talk about those
Speaker 1: the all the people, the you know, the garbage collectors,
Speaker 1: the road department, the electrical workers, the whole workforce that
Speaker 1: is kind of keeping a world together during them some
Speaker 1: of the most difficult times that we've ever seen in
Speaker 1: our mature lifetime because when we are kids, there is
Speaker 1: things that our parents went through that we are never
Speaker 1: aware of, a lot like the kids up today. But
Speaker 1: for every one of the workforce members that go out
Speaker 1: there every single day, believe me, don't ever think there
Speaker 1: goes a day that you're not appreciated in the efforts
Speaker 1: that you're you're putting forth. And also a big nod
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bears team president CEO Ted Phillips today
Speaker 1: tom announcing a commitment of one point nine two million
Speaker 1: dollars to local COVID nineteen relief efforts and the nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty obviously a significant number in Bears franchise history. The
Speaker 1: address up there at hallis Hall and also the beginning
Speaker 1: of this Bears franchise a very significant donation. And they're
Speaker 1: working on and money different fronts for Advocate Charitable foundations,
Speaker 1: Relief Fund, Critical Care at Illinois, University of Chicago's community
Speaker 1: support programs, and the Chicago Community COVID nineteen response funds.
Speaker 1: So many different Bears also contributing. So a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of great stuff going on right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it's about. It's about support, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that people need out
Speaker 1: there is they need signs a positive not necessarily if
Speaker 1: it's moving against the coronavirus, but positive signs of support
Speaker 1: out there amongst amongst the people that are giving enormous
Speaker 1: amounts of money like the Chicago Bears, or you know,
Speaker 1: the other NFL and professional sports owners all around the
Speaker 1: landscape of sports and what they're doing to support their community,
Speaker 1: their employees, you know, just outside the building of their organization.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jeff, it's kind of weird because you
Speaker 1: think about the Bears future and when they made the
Speaker 1: change to in house the training camp inside of hallis Hall.
Speaker 1: While you know it's really it's a big step they've taken,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's so much respect out there for
Speaker 1: Olivet and everything they did in support of the Bears,
Speaker 1: but the uniqueness of this season and trying to be
Speaker 1: prepared a step ahead of, you know, the norm. I
Speaker 1: think the Bears have been able to do that with
Speaker 1: the movement of training camp and their preparations coming up
Speaker 1: at about six ten are going to be joined by
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Chicago Bears, Matt Naggie as
Speaker 1: he begins his third year in the most unique of circumstances,
Speaker 1: So be tuned in for that with Tom and Jim Miller.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniak, And today Roger Goodell did an interview
Speaker 1: of some sort and he said, you know, he's continuing
Speaker 1: to say this that the NFL is planning to play
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and his quote is, that's our hope
Speaker 1: and that's our planning to date. We can help our
Speaker 1: country heal, we can help bring our communities together, we
Speaker 1: can provide hope, we can provide a distraction from the
Speaker 1: everyday issues and show people there is a future out
Speaker 1: there and that we're all going to be part of it. Obviously, Tom,
Speaker 1: the public safety and how it impacts stadium workers, fans, players,
Speaker 1: their families, organizations, all that that has to be taken
Speaker 1: into consideration, and they will do that and they'll be
Speaker 1: proper steps and so forth. But given what they're doing
Speaker 1: with the draft, two weeks from tonight gets underway with
Speaker 1: round one and doing it by virtual reality with the
Speaker 1: IT department's going to be the heroes and this one,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you they gotta be, because they're going to
Speaker 1: be really in the focus here. He has proven that
Speaker 1: this is this is the plan that he wants to
Speaker 1: pursue until somebody tells him you can. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm glad that he's going he's following through with the
Speaker 1: draft because you know, I kind of laugh and I
Speaker 1: giggle at it about all these people, how they think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be caught with their hands in their pockets
Speaker 1: because they don't have these eyeball to eyeball investigative meetings
Speaker 1: that they have with these guys. And you know, I
Speaker 1: always put myself or the guys that I was getting
Speaker 1: ready to be drafted with back at that era, and
Speaker 1: there was no communication, there was no contact. You hopefully
Speaker 1: were sitting near a landline. So when they called you
Speaker 1: without cameras on you, that you are going to be
Speaker 1: accepted into the family whichever team was drafting you. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad Roger Goodell is kind of putting a benchmark
Speaker 1: out there in the horizon for people to kind of
Speaker 1: shoot for, for the world to aspire to be in
Speaker 1: that position, so practices or training camps or games can
Speaker 1: take place. As you know, Jeff, when the Score played
Speaker 1: the broadcast of the game this past weekend. Now, the
Speaker 1: last couple of weekends I've listened, It's been a really
Speaker 1: positive distraction for me. And I'm not listening to ourselves.
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the broadcast about the Bears game. In
Speaker 1: your mind kind of is able to escape away from
Speaker 1: the other news you're paying attention to twenty three and
Speaker 1: a half hours a day the other six and a
Speaker 1: half days. Jim, is that the Jim joining us now? Jim?
Speaker 1: Is it a no excuses NFL draft? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think any team. I agree with Tom, no team
Speaker 1: is going to be caught with their pants down they're
Speaker 1: gonna have all the information that they need on these players.
Speaker 1: They've scouted these players, some guys three years because they've
Speaker 1: come out as juniors four years. Some guys have come out,
Speaker 1: you know, because they were red shirted five years. So
Speaker 1: they've got information on these guys. As for I found
Speaker 1: out today on the medical rechecks, there's seventy two, well
Speaker 1: actually seventy three guys that need a medical recheck, and
Speaker 1: it's seventy three now because Brandon now you the Arizona
Speaker 1: State widebc Real had surgery. But what the NFL has done,
Speaker 1: they've broken that up between six teams. So six teams
Speaker 1: have like twelve guys each that they got to do
Speaker 1: the medical rechecks. They get virtual exams with doctors. The
Speaker 1: agents are more than willing to give them the information
Speaker 1: because they want to get the info out there about
Speaker 1: their client. Seventy five percent of those rechecks are already done.
Speaker 1: Then it will all of them will go back to
Speaker 1: NIC in Indianapolis, and then every team in the National
Speaker 1: Football League will be sent a report on all these
Speaker 1: medical rechecks. All these teams will be more than equipped
Speaker 1: with the information that they need. Probably the one thing
Speaker 1: that area of concern would be trades. On Draft Day.
Speaker 1: You're probably going to see gms and teams that have
Speaker 1: traded and have a relationship. They're going to be more
Speaker 1: likely to trade than say a new GM, say like
Speaker 1: Andrew Barry of Cleveland. So I think you'll see trades
Speaker 1: still happen, but it will be with guys that have
Speaker 1: long existing relationships and have done it before, or they
Speaker 1: may be in place verbally earlier in the day and
Speaker 1: then become official when the actual time to do it
Speaker 1: is in the offing. All right, I'm gonna step away.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, Bears head coach Matt Naggie kind enough
Speaker 1: to give us some time tonight on Bears All Access,
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Speaker 1: six seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: along with Tom Darem, a broadcast partner from WBBM, and
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, a former Chicago Bears quarterback and a member
Speaker 1: of the staff at Sirius XM NFL Radio. Moving the
Speaker 1: chains with Pat Kerwin and now joined by the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Chicago Bears. Please to be joined by
Speaker 1: Matt Naggee. Good evening, Matt. How are things going going well? Guys?
Speaker 1: How are y'all doing doing great? Thank you for stepping
Speaker 1: away from what is a very busy time NFL draft
Speaker 1: preparations two weeks from tonight. It may seem like it
Speaker 1: is a long way away, but you guys, you guys
Speaker 1: have been working so hard at this as as a
Speaker 1: franchise and with all your meetings and staff and so forth,
Speaker 1: that uh, it probably isn't enough time, you know, to
Speaker 1: get ready for something like this in the most unique
Speaker 1: of circumstances. Yeah, you know what, Jeff, It is that
Speaker 1: it's as we're all going through, the word precedented keeps
Speaker 1: coming up and unique and any way you look at it,
Speaker 1: and we're all in different situations, and I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the one thing for our situation is we're
Speaker 1: pretty fortunate right now, um, being able to be around
Speaker 1: people that are working really hard, um to to really
Speaker 1: let us and allow us to get our job done.
Speaker 1: So we've been in our world. We've been doing a
Speaker 1: lot of meetings, you know, technology wise to resume and
Speaker 1: Skype and and uh and and different things with our
Speaker 1: home office computers, and everyone's been doing really well with it.
Speaker 1: So it's been unique and at the same time fun.
Speaker 1: Hey man, can you talk a little bit how much
Speaker 1: time you're going to save and the fact that it's
Speaker 1: not that you guys made this as decision with coronas
Speaker 1: virus in mind, but making training camp back into hallis hall.
Speaker 1: So now all those moves, all those different changes that
Speaker 1: you used to make in the past, Bam there. You
Speaker 1: guys are ready to go to hit the ground running
Speaker 1: as soon as the opportunity presents itself. Yeah, no doubt time.
Speaker 1: I think for us and everybody that's going through this
Speaker 1: right now, the communication is the biggest part of this
Speaker 1: and making sure that you over communicate clarity, and that's
Speaker 1: where we have a lot of guys that are working
Speaker 1: around the clock trying to make things happen so that
Speaker 1: things can be convenient. Everybody's a little bit out of
Speaker 1: their comfort level right now, and I think that sometimes
Speaker 1: when you're uncomfortable, things can be harder. But for us,
Speaker 1: the way we're looking at it is let's come up
Speaker 1: with solutions. And so the other part of this too, guys,
Speaker 1: is that every other team in our world, in the
Speaker 1: NFL is dealing with these exact same situations. So there's
Speaker 1: really no excuses. I mean, it's it's time to roll.
Speaker 1: It's time to make sure that we continue moving forward.
Speaker 1: And so far, in the last several days and really
Speaker 1: the last probably ten days, it's been it's been really
Speaker 1: great communicating. It's been different, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's been effective and productive. I'm glad you brought that up. Coach.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to again. I talked to Dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: head coach of the Falcons, actually just yesterday, Pat and
Speaker 1: I did, and he said the same thing. He goes,
Speaker 1: if anything, this has helped us out as an organization
Speaker 1: to communicate better. He and Thomas Dimitrof have had some
Speaker 1: great discussions that have maybe spurred into other discussions that
Speaker 1: maybe of things that they need to think about or
Speaker 1: address and things like that. So, if anything, communication has
Speaker 1: been at a premium and it's been better within an
Speaker 1: organization is what they found. Yeah, without a doubt to him,
Speaker 1: and you're right, you know, we did you know, for us,
Speaker 1: I think in our role, I know for mine as
Speaker 1: a head coach, when you're at house hall and and
Speaker 1: every other coach is there and within fifty feet of
Speaker 1: your desk, that door gets knocked down a lot throughout
Speaker 1: the day. And what it does is it becomes really choppy.
Speaker 1: Right now, I get up in the morning, get a
Speaker 1: workout in, get a you know, a cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: I come into my home office and then we fired away.
Speaker 1: I haven't left my home office here since eight o'clock
Speaker 1: this morning. And but it's good. It's productive. And instead
Speaker 1: of all of us being together shoulder by shoulder and
Speaker 1: probably wasted more time than we should, we're getting a
Speaker 1: lot more stuff done. A matter of fact, we're we're
Speaker 1: crunching some things that we've done before in in you know,
Speaker 1: eight to ten days down into two to three days
Speaker 1: because of how effective we're being. So it's certainly new
Speaker 1: for us, but everyone's had a great attitude, and like
Speaker 1: you just said, with Dan Quinn and the Falcons, I
Speaker 1: mean that everyone else is doing the same thing. Bears
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Naggie kind enough to join us on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio. Six seventy
Speaker 1: to score. Jeff, Tim and Jim. You know the one
Speaker 1: thing about coaches And I ran into John Gruden a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago at the NFL owners meetings, the
Speaker 1: spring meetings, and you know, he talked about how there's
Speaker 1: not you know, he was getting back into it. So Matt,
Speaker 1: there wasn't enough practices to really evaluate players the way
Speaker 1: he'd like or as coaches, time is precious. And now
Speaker 1: when you guys do get back, you don't know about
Speaker 1: the offseason yet, it's already a different experience. Coaches like
Speaker 1: to have their hands on players. And now with the
Speaker 1: new CBA, your practices are cut in half to sixteen
Speaker 1: padded practices. You got weekends, three day weekends baked into
Speaker 1: the whole offseason program. How do you process all that
Speaker 1: as a guy who wants to take what you get
Speaker 1: done on the practice field and take it the game day,
Speaker 1: but you may not have as much to deal with Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, Jeff. I think for us is you know,
Speaker 1: once you once we know here as things go the
Speaker 1: direction of what you're allowed to do and not allow
Speaker 1: you know what you're allowed to do and then what
Speaker 1: you're you're not allowed to do? It all. It allows
Speaker 1: you as a coach to prepare in different ways, and
Speaker 1: so we all want to have as many practices as
Speaker 1: we can and as many meetings as we can. But
Speaker 1: in my last two years, for example, I've come to
Speaker 1: realize as well that sometimes when you have all that time,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can do too much, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think we're all living by the whole Less is more
Speaker 1: principal right now. It's that's just the way that it's
Speaker 1: going to go, whether it's through virtual meetings with the
Speaker 1: players or or it's less practice reps or less practice time.
Speaker 1: The ones that you do get when that time comes,
Speaker 1: they better be efficient. And that's our job, the prep,
Speaker 1: the prep side of it as coaches, to make sure
Speaker 1: that we're firing on all cylinders to make that happen
Speaker 1: so that the players can come in here. And again,
Speaker 1: on their side, they have to make sure that they're
Speaker 1: staying in shape and they're adapting to different weight rooms
Speaker 1: and going out to these different fields and trying to
Speaker 1: run and run these steps and staying conditioning so so
Speaker 1: that when they come in there they're in tip top shape.
Speaker 1: And so it's all of us communic It goes back
Speaker 1: to communication, making sure we're talking to our guys h
Speaker 1: not the xes and those part, but just making sure
Speaker 1: they're safe because number one, autumnly, that's what matters the most.
Speaker 1: And then are they being are they preparing themselves so
Speaker 1: that when the time does come, are we hit the
Speaker 1: ground running? Hey, Matt, I want to break the ice
Speaker 1: and talk cornerback a little bit. In our lives as
Speaker 1: we watch sports, all of us in our time, whether
Speaker 1: it's boxing or Wimbledon, when it gets down to the finals,
Speaker 1: we all gravitate towards somebody. And so right now, I'm
Speaker 1: a Mitch guy and I always have been. But I
Speaker 1: also come from an era when quarterbacks got two or
Speaker 1: three years to develop into the system to get the
Speaker 1: best understanding. So now this is the third year in
Speaker 1: this system with Mitch, I expect his biggest jump with
Speaker 1: the most honest plate. Is that the way you're approaching
Speaker 1: this with Mitch in this third year around this system. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I think he would tell you the same thing.
Speaker 1: And again I go back to a few days ago
Speaker 1: when we did our press conference, Ryan and I were
Speaker 1: together and just talking through the scenario that we're in
Speaker 1: right now. To us, we look at this as what
Speaker 1: we're trying to do is trying to make this the
Speaker 1: best situation possible for Mitch and then also for Nick,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a good situation for us.
Speaker 1: And when we talked with Mitch, just you know, the
Speaker 1: excitement and determination of fire he had at knowing that
Speaker 1: this is going to be an open competition. That's who
Speaker 1: he is. And so him being in this offense the
Speaker 1: last two years and really kind of knowing where the
Speaker 1: bones are buried in certain plays. And then at the
Speaker 1: same time, he knows that there's certain areas that he
Speaker 1: can get better at. He knows that, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what I love about him, is that he stays
Speaker 1: positive with that, he's hungry to get better. But then
Speaker 1: on our side too, we need to make sure that
Speaker 1: we as coaches are putting these guys, not just the quarterback,
Speaker 1: with everybody in the best position possible so that we
Speaker 1: can be successful. You know, Tom, We've we've spent this
Speaker 1: whole offseason now looking at scheme evaluation and just taking
Speaker 1: a look at the why part behind our offense and
Speaker 1: why it was so sluggish. It's not just one reason,
Speaker 1: there's several reasons. The beauty is for us is that
Speaker 1: we think we know what some of those answers are.
Speaker 1: And some of it is is players, some of it
Speaker 1: is scheme, some of it is execution. And but what's
Speaker 1: good for us is that we know that we can
Speaker 1: get a lot better, and all of us as competitors
Speaker 1: can't wait to get back out there so that we
Speaker 1: can do that and show everybody, you know, what our
Speaker 1: plan is. And it starts with Mitch and I think
Speaker 1: he's excited for that opportunity, and as is I know
Speaker 1: Nick is as well. Yeah, I want to take it
Speaker 1: to the mental makeup of Mitch. And I've said this
Speaker 1: about Alex Smith too. I think he got a little
Speaker 1: beat up out there in San Francisco, but man, that
Speaker 1: guy became mental teflon when he arrived in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mitch has had extreme highs and sure
Speaker 1: he's had some lows as well. All young quarterbacks go
Speaker 1: through it. Shoot, I lived it there in Chicago. I
Speaker 1: know the vitriol that can be, that can be spewed.
Speaker 1: But just just for Mitch to have that mental teflon,
Speaker 1: like I said, where you just put the blinders on
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter. Let's just get better. Be a
Speaker 1: better quarterback tomorrow than you are today. And and maybe
Speaker 1: just that mental side of Mitch and if he is,
Speaker 1: if he has that test line in him where things
Speaker 1: just bounce off you for sure, and that that's a
Speaker 1: that's a trait to me, Jim, that as you know,
Speaker 1: playing quarterback all your life, that that you have to have,
Speaker 1: and it's it's every you know, the more players you
Speaker 1: have on your team that are mentally strong, the more
Speaker 1: coaches that you have that are mentally tough, UM, the
Speaker 1: better you're going to be. Because you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of adversity that strikes there's a lot of bad
Speaker 1: that happens, and that's how you react to it. And
Speaker 1: so at the quarterback position, UM, you touch the football
Speaker 1: every single play, and so there's times to be praised
Speaker 1: and there's times to be criticized. And so when things
Speaker 1: don't go well, whether it's you individually or whether it's
Speaker 1: your team, UM. And especially in a in a city
Speaker 1: like we have here in Chicago, where everybody's so hungry
Speaker 1: to win and win a Super Bowl, UM, there comes
Speaker 1: more pressure and so you need to be mentally strong.
Speaker 1: And I think that we're all learning in that aspect
Speaker 1: and I know, I know Mitch is really focused on
Speaker 1: trying to do everything he can to control the things
Speaker 1: that he could control, and if he does, that will
Speaker 1: be more than fine. And it's the same thing with Nick.
Speaker 1: And so what we said earlier is throughout this this
Speaker 1: open quarterback competition, it's gonna be just that. Guys. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see how open and transparent we are in this thing.
Speaker 1: There's no agendas. We're gonna go out there and these
Speaker 1: guys that we're going to give them every opportunity, equal
Speaker 1: opportunity to go out there and win the job. And
Speaker 1: we're going to be very honest and open with him.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the only way that you do it.
Speaker 1: And with that, it'll be healthy and it should make
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears better. A few more minutes here with
Speaker 1: Matt Nagie, Bears head coach, on Chicago Sports Radio six
Speaker 1: seventy the score. Just want to amp flag one more
Speaker 1: thought about that in the competitive nature of Mitch. There
Speaker 1: was a point in December during a two game stretch
Speaker 1: after he threw a pick. He was thirty to thirty
Speaker 1: eight for three hundred eighty yards, five touchdowns or rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown and average ten yards of completion. I know it
Speaker 1: because I just looked it up in my notes today
Speaker 1: and it came upon me. Is that the kind of
Speaker 1: resiliency you know in this man? Sure? Yeah? And again
Speaker 1: the nice part of the off seasons when you are
Speaker 1: able to go through your scheme evaluation as a staff
Speaker 1: and go through the wyse and at the same time
Speaker 1: you realize, Okay, here's some certain areas where we can
Speaker 1: get better, but here's some areas right here where we
Speaker 1: did pretty we did a pretty good job. And when
Speaker 1: we're talking here about Mitch and some games that he
Speaker 1: played really well, I just I continue to go back
Speaker 1: to that Detroit Lions game on Thanksgiving and we're, you know,
Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways. He made some big
Speaker 1: time throws in that game, and there were some mental
Speaker 1: toughness in there where there were some third downs where
Speaker 1: we need him to make that play and he makes
Speaker 1: a deep corner throw to Anthony Miller on third and
Speaker 1: long and he throws a great ball down the sideline
Speaker 1: inside the inside. The five comes back the next week
Speaker 1: and we're playing at home on a Thursday night against
Speaker 1: the against the Cowboys, and he puts together a really,
Speaker 1: really good game in regards to just take him control.
Speaker 1: And you know what, when you go back to that
Speaker 1: first game against the first drive against the Cowboys, do
Speaker 1: you guys remember we were going down the field a
Speaker 1: getting some first downs and then we happened to throw
Speaker 1: an interception. Kid made a good play and that was
Speaker 1: a time where I can specifically remember Mitch coming off
Speaker 1: the sideline and it was just one of those dusted
Speaker 1: off my shoulder type deal, I'm gonna come back here
Speaker 1: and gash them, and that's exactly what he ended up doing.
Speaker 1: And it was beautiful. You know, it was really neat.
Speaker 1: You could feel, you could feel the energy with the crowd.
Speaker 1: You can feel the energy with our team, and so
Speaker 1: those are the happy memories that we have. Those are
Speaker 1: what we know he can do, and I know he's
Speaker 1: really excited to go out there and give it everything
Speaker 1: he has and compete with Nick hey Man. Last question
Speaker 1: for me is about the quickness that you kind of
Speaker 1: absorbed on defense. I think Robert Quinn gives you a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of versatility, maybe on the opposite side
Speaker 1: of Khalil Mack. When you look at the interior speed
Speaker 1: of Danny Trevathan and Roquan Smith in the experience and
Speaker 1: the growth and the development of Eddie Jackson. I think
Speaker 1: this defense has a chance when you look at the
Speaker 1: improvements of Eddie Goldman, Roy Robins stuff that this this
Speaker 1: defense has a chance to be faster I think than
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, I would agree with you, Tom. I
Speaker 1: think that, Um. I just know this when when you
Speaker 1: when you get phone calls and text messages from your
Speaker 1: peers around the league and they, uh, they talk to
Speaker 1: you about some of the moves that you made, and
Speaker 1: in particular, uh, you just know that when you have
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn and Khalil Mack on one side, and you
Speaker 1: got the rest of our guys on the inside there
Speaker 1: with Hicks and Goldman and where Robertson, Harris and Balow
Speaker 1: and the list goes on and on, and then you
Speaker 1: throw you know, Danny and Roquan and then our back
Speaker 1: end guys. Before you know, we become a really fast defense.
Speaker 1: And those guys last year learning Chuck system, um and
Speaker 1: along with some injuries that we had, I thought they
Speaker 1: did a really good job last year, and I know
Speaker 1: that they're going to be really hungry to get back
Speaker 1: at it, to show what they can do and their goal,
Speaker 1: you know, there. They set their goals high. We set
Speaker 1: our goals high. It's not to be the top ten defense,
Speaker 1: is to be the number one defense. And I know
Speaker 1: our coaches are really hungry right now, our defensive coaches,
Speaker 1: to get them back on track. And and I know
Speaker 1: our players are two So it's gonna you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's about focus. It's not about anything but that. We
Speaker 1: gotta stay focused and just control we can control. And uh.
Speaker 1: And that's just staying nice and relaxed throughout this process
Speaker 1: and being there for one another. All right, Matt, we're
Speaker 1: gonna let you go. So grateful for your time. I
Speaker 1: know you're swamped, so appreciate it very much. Good luck
Speaker 1: with the preparations here over the next couple of weeks
Speaker 1: for the draft, and good luck with everything. Stay healthy,
Speaker 1: hope your family's great. Hey, guys, I appreciate it. You
Speaker 1: gotta take care, stay healthy. And one last thing too
Speaker 1: real quick. I just want to thank our our organization
Speaker 1: for donating you know, you know, one point nine two
Speaker 1: million dollars towards the COVID nineteen. I think it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's just peace volumes to who our organization is, Yes,
Speaker 1: and everybody involved yourself included with the contributions, so everybody's
Speaker 1: for it. Thank you so much. Thank you to the Bears.
Speaker 1: Bears head coach Matt Naggie. We're gonna step away continue
Speaker 1: the conversation with Tom Fair Jim Miller. We'll look at
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft and break down some of the positions
Speaker 1: of interest as we get ready two weeks from tonight
Speaker 1: the draft first round underway. Here is Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: This portion of the show brought to you by CDW.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Joni Actomp there and Jim Miller with you. Half
Speaker 1: hour to go before we turn it over to Cubs Baseball.
Speaker 1: The two sixteen NLCS Game five replay and that has
Speaker 1: been a fun experience for fans and Tom you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have another one here on the Score the
Speaker 1: Bears on Sunday, the NFC Divisional playoff game against the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks for everyone to enjoy. And that'll be one
Speaker 1: of six more to go here over the next six Sundays.
Speaker 1: Are fun, you know, I just like I said, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a mental escape from the seriousness of
Speaker 1: our day to day, A pro over the last you know,
Speaker 1: a month and a half whatever, and no telling how
Speaker 1: long how long it's gonna go. But you know, um again,
Speaker 1: work of doing some working around my mom and dad's house.
Speaker 1: I got a transistor radio on outside it and it
Speaker 1: is like, you know, back in the old day, when
Speaker 1: that was your only muns only means of being able
Speaker 1: to listen to a game, and it's it's it's nostalgic
Speaker 1: and it's really fun. I'll tell you what I do
Speaker 1: need a distraction, Jeff. I've accomplished every single chore I've
Speaker 1: needed to do around this house for literally the past
Speaker 1: ten years, all right. So every storage room is big clean,
Speaker 1: the garage is big clean. So yeah, I think everybody's
Speaker 1: looking for a little distraction, a little diversion. A lot
Speaker 1: of the programming now they are putting onto some older games,
Speaker 1: some classic games, and love that, and I love the
Speaker 1: fact that the draft is going to continue. It's going
Speaker 1: to continue in a different way, like you said, in
Speaker 1: a virtual reality. But I'm looking forward to it. You know,
Speaker 1: we try to stir up some two thousand and one
Speaker 1: games of the Great Jim Miller experience, but I guess
Speaker 1: it was turned down. They wanted modern day football. That's
Speaker 1: what I answered. I was told. Anyway, I try to
Speaker 1: get you one. I try to get a few on Jim.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks, Jeff. I have a quarterback question for
Speaker 1: Jim if I may, sure, Okay, But because we just
Speaker 1: got ton talking about Matt and Aggie, about the competition
Speaker 1: between Mitch and Nick and stuff, and how training camp
Speaker 1: is going to go. But I'm drawn back to a
Speaker 1: statement that Nick Folds made during his press conference when
Speaker 1: he said that, you know, by the time we start running,
Speaker 1: I'd like to know this system as well or better
Speaker 1: than the head coaches are better than the coaches? Is
Speaker 1: that realistic? Jim? Do quarterbacks? Did you ever get in
Speaker 1: a system that you had the luxury of being around
Speaker 1: it long enough that you felt that you knew it
Speaker 1: as well as anybody or even the coaches in the room. Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I think you can get get to that point.
Speaker 1: You know that, but you know, you got to work
Speaker 1: at it. I mean, for Nick Foles, I think he
Speaker 1: comes with already a lot of knowledge in this offense,
Speaker 1: already from his days and in Kansas City and obviously
Speaker 1: just being with John D. Filippo. I mean, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna come with a great, vast knowledge about this system
Speaker 1: where it's going to be beneficial to him. I really
Speaker 1: believe that. And you know, and I think Nick he's
Speaker 1: going to compete with with Mitch. I think they'll that
Speaker 1: quarterback room will will be just fine. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: along because really, at the end of the day, you're
Speaker 1: competing against yourself to get better. Just like I said,
Speaker 1: you want to be a common Jim. Is that a
Speaker 1: common way of thinking? Though? Um again, I again, I'm
Speaker 1: asking quarterback specific because when you go into a group
Speaker 1: with offensive lineman, you're kind of hoping that every guy
Speaker 1: in the in the room is on the same page
Speaker 1: at the exact same time in the course of a game.
Speaker 1: Does every quarterback go out there that has any you know,
Speaker 1: era behind them have that same I think it is different.
Speaker 1: Like for a quarter every player on offense should want
Speaker 1: to know the assignments of their fellow teammate, you know.
Speaker 1: But a lot of times, especially for young players, you know,
Speaker 1: let's say I call place, if I go uh, let's
Speaker 1: just say I go zero on um Z close seven
Speaker 1: seventy two Z drive. A lot of that is seven
Speaker 1: seventy two. So the offensive lineman here seven seventy two,
Speaker 1: they know it's a seventh step drop. They know it's
Speaker 1: seventy two protection. A lot of them don't. They don't
Speaker 1: care about the formation or anything like that because it
Speaker 1: doesn't involve their assignment. You know, the receiver is gonna
Speaker 1: hear a like I said, zero on Z close. That's
Speaker 1: telling the Z zero on is a formation. It's a
Speaker 1: twelve personnel where I've got a tight end on each
Speaker 1: side next to the right and left tackle X is
Speaker 1: in his true position, Z close. So the the the
Speaker 1: Z receiver here, hey zero Z close is way and
Speaker 1: then they hear they they don't care about the protection.
Speaker 1: Now when I say seven seventy two, Now the receivers
Speaker 1: and the other skill position players, they just hear, wa
Speaker 1: wa seven seventy Are they here? Z drive? That's the principle.
Speaker 1: So you know they're focusing in on their ear and
Speaker 1: I'm letting everybody know, hey, this is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: So I've given the protection, I've given the formation. I've
Speaker 1: now given the play, and everybody's focused in on what
Speaker 1: their assignment is because I've given him that play, now
Speaker 1: how they read it versus the coverage. They got to
Speaker 1: know all that and you know all that stuff. Or
Speaker 1: if a blitz comes and the offensive line they'll pick
Speaker 1: up the blitz because it's basically a slide protection that's
Speaker 1: sliding to the will I know, I'm hot off the
Speaker 1: mike and Sam if they come, I've got him my
Speaker 1: built in hot read. So the receivers don't even have
Speaker 1: to worry about sight adjusting from that standpoint. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the thing is when you play
Speaker 1: with great players, say like Olon Cruz, Olan Cruze, he
Speaker 1: could you know, he would listen to the whole play
Speaker 1: and he knew everybody's assignment because he's just a highly
Speaker 1: intelligent football player and he's reading the safeties, he's reading
Speaker 1: the coverage, and you know, he's pretty amazing. When you've
Speaker 1: got a fellow teammate like that that really takes pride
Speaker 1: in knowing the entirety of the play and everybody's assignment,
Speaker 1: and you know, it definitely helps out and it lessens
Speaker 1: your job and it makes your job easier as a
Speaker 1: quarterback who's trying to disseminate all that information. Jim Miller
Speaker 1: timp there, Jeff jonningatkar On Bears All Access on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy to score With all that you
Speaker 1: just talked about right there, the average fan was thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: what exactly is he talking about? But what your point is,
Speaker 1: do you value what a guy's intelligence level is football
Speaker 1: wise as a much higher evaluation point than say, a
Speaker 1: guy can run under a four to four. I mean,
Speaker 1: is this a league that now is requiring a little
Speaker 1: bit more football intelligence than maybe in the past, you know,
Speaker 1: Jeff on the one phrase that Matt mentioned a couple
Speaker 1: times during the course of his interview talking about the
Speaker 1: quarterback position is me being mentally tough? Is that you know?
Speaker 1: That's kind of the definition of it is making sure
Speaker 1: no matter what circumstance you face, no matter what position
Speaker 1: you play, if you break the huddle and then there's
Speaker 1: a change that you only have an eighth of a
Speaker 1: second to react to, are you mentally tough enough to
Speaker 1: go through those circumstances and be right on Q every
Speaker 1: time there's a there's a change with no notification. All right,
Speaker 1: more with Jim and Tom coming up next after this
Speaker 1: break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Bears All Access. It's brought to you by
Speaker 1: Igs Entergy, Jeff, Tom and Jim breaking things down. There's
Speaker 1: a trade just moments ago. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys saw it, but the Rams dealing wide receiver Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks and a fourth rounder to the Houston Texans for
Speaker 1: a second round pick. So Rams paid a lot of
Speaker 1: money for two years for Cooks, some forty million plus.
Speaker 1: And that's the newest chess piece moving around in the
Speaker 1: NFL this evening. Fella's break that one down, Jim, Well,
Speaker 1: they just paid. Well, it's a good deal for the
Speaker 1: Hton Texans. Obviously, they traded away DeAndre Hopkins because they
Speaker 1: didn't want to pay him. He wants a new contract,
Speaker 1: obviously wants the eighteen twenty million dollars range, and Houston
Speaker 1: wasn't going to pay that. Let's say, work that trade
Speaker 1: with Arizona. But when you look at Cooks, it's a
Speaker 1: good deal. One. He's spent time in the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots offense before, right, he was with New England, so
Speaker 1: he knows that playbook that Bill O'Brien is doing. Plus
Speaker 1: the Rams already paid Brandon Cooks eight million dollars bonus
Speaker 1: that he was due in March, so they're basically Houston
Speaker 1: now is just getting the flat salary the paragraph five
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to pay this year. So that's
Speaker 1: beneficial to them. A player that's going to be coveted, obviously,
Speaker 1: the learning curve is going to be very quick in
Speaker 1: terms of the offense. And they got a player that
Speaker 1: can really take the top off of defense and he's
Speaker 1: got speed. So for Houston, everybody thinks Bill O'Brien is
Speaker 1: doing all these crazy things. This one kind of makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense from my book. You know, if
Speaker 1: I was a receiver like Cooks, I would rather go
Speaker 1: to a quarterback with the versatility that they have in
Speaker 1: Houston rather than kind of a statuesque, a lack of
Speaker 1: mobility quarterback. And I know Jared Goff as a young guy,
Speaker 1: but I Deshaun Watson. What he gives a receiver sometimes
Speaker 1: is that breaking away from protection or from a breakdown
Speaker 1: of protection, and that's when you become you know, you
Speaker 1: can become a big play receiver because of that quarterback versatility. Well,
Speaker 1: he said quite quite the quarterback career Drew Brees, Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Jared goffo guy, poor guy? Hey, what to a Tega
Speaker 1: Alabama quarterback did have a workout throwing the ball that's
Speaker 1: gonna be sent out to all thirty two teams today. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's been a week of interesting you know, two weeks
Speaker 1: away from the draft, you start hearing, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: different things that may or may not be accurate that
Speaker 1: are thrown out there about a player, whether it be
Speaker 1: his background, injury or whatnot. In this case, the hip
Speaker 1: is certainly a big topic of conversation and addition to
Speaker 1: other injuries. Um, what do you guys make of this?
Speaker 1: And is this just Asian doing his job? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think Lee Steinberg's just doing his job. Again, he's the
Speaker 1: one of the medical rechecks that that teams are getting
Speaker 1: on and they'll have all the information. One, he's not
Speaker 1: going to be a one hundred percent every everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: Even though he's working out. He says he's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent ready, But that's that's just running around in shorts, right,
Speaker 1: Is he ready to take a hit really on that
Speaker 1: on that hip? No, he's not one hundred percent U completely,
Speaker 1: you know, according to Michael Lombardi, obviously he's been at
Speaker 1: this a long time. He said, one team is medically
Speaker 1: taken to a tongue of viola off the board. For
Speaker 1: all we know that that just could be, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff that's that's thrown out there. It could be a
Speaker 1: team that likes him that maybe leaked that information from
Speaker 1: all the reports that are out there. He's gonna heal
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be ready to play, all right. The
Speaker 1: probably the last bit that teams are looking for, Like
Speaker 1: in this virtual workout, they want to see the rotation
Speaker 1: of the hip. That's what they're looking for. They know
Speaker 1: he's not going to be a one hundred percent when
Speaker 1: they draft him. All indications are that this hip, the
Speaker 1: likelihood of it popping out of socket again is slim
Speaker 1: to none. The fracture in the hip has healed up
Speaker 1: two So you know you're still going to draft a player,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to be one hundred percent. He's
Speaker 1: probably going to be a guy that is shelved. Earley
Speaker 1: just to be careful with him medically, to make sure
Speaker 1: he's completely healed, where you don't put him on the
Speaker 1: field or stress out that hip too early before he's ready.
Speaker 1: I still, you know, I think everybody's got him going
Speaker 1: in the top five. I think that's where he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna go. He's if you watch him play, I mean,
Speaker 1: who is it? Bill Polian the other day he compared
Speaker 1: him to Russell Wilson. To Russell Wilson is who he
Speaker 1: thinks to a tug of viola. This his mechanics throwing
Speaker 1: a football are flawless. Are flaws. So if you can
Speaker 1: get over the medical and you feel you've done your
Speaker 1: due diligence in the medical competitive advantage, you could be
Speaker 1: getting a great quarterback here in the future. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just a little nervous because of the supporting cast
Speaker 1: he played within college. When you look at what Alabama
Speaker 1: offers the time of possession, that your offense can control
Speaker 1: the football because your defense is so dominating. Some of
Speaker 1: the teams that you play in the front end of
Speaker 1: the season are so you know, under talented that you
Speaker 1: don't you know, you're not even playing in the second half,
Speaker 1: you know. I remember when Drew Brees became a free
Speaker 1: agent with a bad shoulder in Miami immediately gave up
Speaker 1: on him. And if they would have made the decision
Speaker 1: to sign Drew Brees, it would have changed their franchise. Forever,
Speaker 1: but you had a little bit more of a study
Speaker 1: of what Drew Brees was capable of doing on the
Speaker 1: NFL level. Here, you're trying to take the quarterback off
Speaker 1: of the greatest team in college football. And I know
Speaker 1: with Clemson and the rest of the team, I'm just
Speaker 1: over exaggerating. But again, I don't know if this guy
Speaker 1: is gonna be ready in a year to come into
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the league and be
Speaker 1: the quarterback and the reason they turn it around. So
Speaker 1: I've been afraid of to, you know, just because of
Speaker 1: his injury history, and I just don't know if he's
Speaker 1: capable up to playing at the at the athleticism he's
Speaker 1: gonna face from the defensive player he's gonna see without
Speaker 1: a red jersey on and practice in. What I mean
Speaker 1: by that is playing against the best defense in college
Speaker 1: and they never had a chance to hit him. It's
Speaker 1: going to be different when the great teams in the
Speaker 1: NFL are going to have a chance to hit him.
Speaker 1: Jeff Johnny Actim there, Jim Whitler with you on Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: We all know it's difficult and challenging to evaluate quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in their long term ceilings and where they're headed in
Speaker 1: the first round. In your opinions, both of you guys
Speaker 1: wig in, what's the second most difficult position to evaluate
Speaker 1: and project? Do you want to go first time? To me,
Speaker 1: I think the hardest position to find great players at
Speaker 1: his cornerback because of the athleticism, what their requirements are,
Speaker 1: their reaction without indication, their ability to be physical but
Speaker 1: yet to have feet like a ballerina. And you know,
Speaker 1: probably because it's probably the farthest position away from what
Speaker 1: they evaluate you as as an offensive lineman to what
Speaker 1: you see these guys go through in your combines and
Speaker 1: just over the years of watching football, to me, corner
Speaker 1: seems the most difficult position, and nickel slot corner is
Speaker 1: really difficult. You know, you see a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that play on the outs, say Chris Harris, Denver always
Speaker 1: played him on the outside, But who did they kick
Speaker 1: into the nickel corner? It was Chris Harris, So that
Speaker 1: is you know, it's a coveted position because it's become
Speaker 1: such a substitution situational game now when you look at
Speaker 1: the NFL, because most teams base offenses are three wide receivers,
Speaker 1: so you need three corners and somebody has to play slot,
Speaker 1: and you need a good one. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: offensive tackle. I mean, I know there's some that are
Speaker 1: stamped rubber stamp ten years starters at left tackle, but
Speaker 1: it's to me that's a difficult one. We can pick
Speaker 1: up the conversation with an offensive lineman who knows better
Speaker 1: than I do. Tom There, Jim Miller. This is Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy the score final segment here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access Jeff Joniac along with Tom There and
Speaker 1: Jim Miller. A shout out again to the Bears. One
Speaker 1: point nine two million dollars being donated to local COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen relief efforts, a statement today by President Ted Phillips.
Speaker 1: So that's a big number right there, and fellows of
Speaker 1: the NFL going to also do the same thing on
Speaker 1: draft night. It's basically a draft of thought. A little
Speaker 1: bit in addition to the players, six national nonprofits American
Speaker 1: Red Cross, CDC Foundation, Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army, United
Speaker 1: Way are going to benefit with that and so strong push,
Speaker 1: but maybe nothing more in terms of visual that really
Speaker 1: impacts this whole process. Did you guys see the picture
Speaker 1: from United Center today? United Center right now has seven
Speaker 1: hundred seventy four thousand, eight hundred and forty pounds of
Speaker 1: non perishable food right on the floor or the where
Speaker 1: the ice would be. We're talking a major depository here
Speaker 1: as they free up space and the food depository warehouse.
Speaker 1: So this is the kind of stuff that's going on
Speaker 1: in the community. Boys, it's beautiful, it really is. It's
Speaker 1: it's incredible some of them, the opportunities you get to
Speaker 1: see the goodness in people's hearts and how these you know,
Speaker 1: major CEOs of major corporations want to change the whole
Speaker 1: configuration of their working system so they can make something
Speaker 1: to help the first responders or the medical field. It's um.
Speaker 1: You know, it seems like every day you kind of
Speaker 1: wake up looking at your phone or looking at the
Speaker 1: news to see what the next the next announcements are
Speaker 1: gonna be, and you always just wait for that one
Speaker 1: positive one, and you know, it's it is really nice
Speaker 1: in terms of what we've been able to see the
Speaker 1: people doing. Yeah, it's really it's it's great to see everybody.
Speaker 1: It's not just the NFL community. As you mentioned, it's
Speaker 1: it's everybody overall that have really stepped up their efforts
Speaker 1: to help out their fellow man, their fellow woman, And
Speaker 1: it's just the unselfishness of it um to do it
Speaker 1: for the good of everybody, and it is very refreshing
Speaker 1: to see. Jeff and I think everybody has really put
Speaker 1: this in perspective and doing everything that they can to
Speaker 1: help out one another. All right, before we went to
Speaker 1: break time, we're talking about you know, what's the most
Speaker 1: second most difficult position to kind of evaluate for the draft?
Speaker 1: There have been plenty what's that? What's first quarterback? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say Joe, but you know, there have been
Speaker 1: plenty of left tackles or tackles period that just you know,
Speaker 1: they were a top ten pick and they didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't cut it. And you could say that about any position.
Speaker 1: But what do you think about that? And what do
Speaker 1: you because this is a draft that there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a bunch of tackles drafted early, and Hector Bears could
Speaker 1: invest in one at some point, not that high. Obviously
Speaker 1: they're on a first round pick, but it's very possible
Speaker 1: they could do that, or a guard or something like that.
Speaker 1: What do you need to see in this draft in
Speaker 1: terms of how it fits the Bears at that position
Speaker 1: tackle or a guard, if you're going to bring in
Speaker 1: somebody of that nature. You know, I think Wan Castillo
Speaker 1: has a very specific coaching style, and I think they
Speaker 1: did a good job of getting him in the building
Speaker 1: quickly so he could start evaluating the talent that's valuable
Speaker 1: to him. Not only his own talent. He has to
Speaker 1: study the game tapes from last year and look at
Speaker 1: the pros and cons of all the talent he's gonna
Speaker 1: have already there. But kind of looking okay, first of all,
Speaker 1: what is the weakness of the player you're looking at
Speaker 1: and compared to his strengths? And if he does have
Speaker 1: a weakness, can you coach him out of that? Does
Speaker 1: he have such a habit or a trait that's so
Speaker 1: bad that it's it's difficult to overcome? You know, Jeff,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that you see throughout the
Speaker 1: course and time that just the trends position of getting
Speaker 1: into a playing position, whether it's coming out of a
Speaker 1: three point stance or a two point stance. And defensive
Speaker 1: lineman and a line defensive players are so intelligent if
Speaker 1: you have that one hiccup that maybe you're giving an
Speaker 1: indicator an eighth of a second before the play starts.
Speaker 1: That can do anything to derail your career. And there's
Speaker 1: been a players throughout time that have maybe gave an
Speaker 1: indicator away and it's only talked about on your own team.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, Juan Castillo evaluating the talent to
Speaker 1: make sure that if they do have a perceived weakness
Speaker 1: that he can coach him out of it. A good
Speaker 1: good tackles in this draft, and as time will tell
Speaker 1: you one, they're all good athlete To say, McKay Beckton
Speaker 1: out of Louisville, that's a big man who can move.
Speaker 1: You know that. Granted he's three hundred and sixty four pounds,
Speaker 1: but he moves really well. Jedrick Wills from Alabama, same thing,
Speaker 1: and he is a nasty, nasty player. Tristan Worfs is
Speaker 1: a great athlete. The guy he was a freak at
Speaker 1: at the combine with what he benched, what he ran,
Speaker 1: He's he always an all state discus thrower, shot putter,
Speaker 1: of state wrestling chip. Yeah, these guys are really good
Speaker 1: athletes and that's what and Tom will tell you if
Speaker 1: you're playing tackle. You want quiet feet and loud hands,
Speaker 1: and these guys all have it because they can move
Speaker 1: as big men. They've gotten some and some nasty obviously.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna wrap it up. Boys, talk to
Speaker 1: you next week. Jim Milner, thank you so much. Tom.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you later. Thanks for listening, everybody. Thanks
Speaker 1: to head coach Matt Nage for joining the program and
Speaker 1: to Sean Anderson for producing it. Come's Baseball next seventy
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