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Speaker 1: CDW and four two down, three to go on the
Speaker 1: preseason Bears bawn in Cincinnati last night, thirty to twenty
Speaker 1: seven to the Bengals. A late touchdown gets the win
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati. Bears have the ball in their hands to
Speaker 1: try and make a difference, but it did not happen.
Speaker 1: Also on miss field goal fifty two yards avoided a
Speaker 1: tie by Cody Parkey, High and everybody, Jeff Johnny Acco
Speaker 1: my broadcast partner from News Radio seven eighty and one
Speaker 1: to five point at FM WBVM, Tom Thayer, the eighty
Speaker 1: five Bear and Bears preseason TV analyst and former quarterback
Speaker 1: with the Bears. Jim Miller here on Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score evening, Fellas, time will start with
Speaker 1: you overall quick analysis of what happened last night. Now
Speaker 1: that you've had some time to think about it and
Speaker 1: watch it again. Well, I think any preseason game is
Speaker 1: always about the team going back into the room and
Speaker 1: being able to sit in front of your peers and
Speaker 1: get strictly criticized about the evaluation of the tape and
Speaker 1: you better perform better during the course of the week
Speaker 1: and then leading up to the next game. So I
Speaker 1: think you just got to take the film. You have
Speaker 1: to deconstruct it, see how it fits it according to
Speaker 1: the reps that you got, and then like I said,
Speaker 1: make improvements physically and mentally, so you're better judge next week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah for me when you look at it, and obviously
Speaker 1: going to be with you Jeff and Tom. But you know,
Speaker 1: first things first, you know the basic things. You know,
Speaker 1: those have to be corrected. We know the drop passes
Speaker 1: and there were numerous mistackles. You think of that Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon touchdown reception. Two guys had you know, took the
Speaker 1: bad angles, one player didn't wrap up on that particular play.
Speaker 1: Those things can be corrected. And then obviously, like like
Speaker 1: what Tom saying about the attention to the details, you know,
Speaker 1: salt guys not getting signals in a two minute drill
Speaker 1: where you know, the tyler brays trying to signal a
Speaker 1: route and receivers not paying attention and runs the wrong route.
Speaker 1: So those are all mental errors. And like we always say,
Speaker 1: the physical errors you can kind of accept. You're going
Speaker 1: to get beat sometimes physically in football. I think it's
Speaker 1: more about the mental mistakes and the lack of focus
Speaker 1: that really really needs to pick up in what is
Speaker 1: a new offense and why they're having these type of
Speaker 1: mental errors. This is bears All Access brought to you
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Speaker 1: and thanks is always to Herb Lawrence. Let's dig in
Speaker 1: to the trenches because that's where it all begins and ends.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about the offensive line first,
Speaker 1: and then we'll go over to the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Tom and Jim, As you guys looked at
Speaker 1: the game as it was unfolding, and now I've had
Speaker 1: time to think about it as well, and again watch
Speaker 1: it a second time. Where did you see some positives?
Speaker 1: Where did you see some things you need to work on?
Speaker 1: And there are any of these guys outside of the
Speaker 1: first team that caught your eye moving forward here in
Speaker 1: the coming three games, you know, Jeff, for me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give the first team offensive line and incomplete because
Speaker 1: there's not enough reps really to judge them on. And
Speaker 1: you got to be able to have multiple series in
Speaker 1: order to see these guys if they can make adjustments,
Speaker 1: if they did have a physical or mental air. But
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about a guy that's really
Speaker 1: all right. First of all, I love James Daniels. I
Speaker 1: think this guy has the ability to be a major
Speaker 1: contributor by the time the first regular season game begin.
Speaker 1: He does a lot of things really natural, good balance,
Speaker 1: good length, good size, in good strength. The one guy
Speaker 1: that's really capturing my attention is Richard Coward. This guy's
Speaker 1: an offensive tackles making the transfer from being a defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He does things as well as a seasoned offensive lineman
Speaker 1: right now because he innately has confidence in doing them.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to repetitiously teach an offensive lineman how
Speaker 1: to do certain skills and they still have a hard
Speaker 1: time learning it. But this guy, he has got size,
Speaker 1: he's got a nasty streak about him. He's a good athlete,
Speaker 1: he's got good feet, recovery to the outside. So if
Speaker 1: I have one guy that's really you know, pressing my
Speaker 1: interest buttons on the offensive line of the outside guys,
Speaker 1: it is Richard. Let me ask you this, Tom, because
Speaker 1: you know making that conversion, and it seems like you
Speaker 1: know Harry heastand does like his toughness. Certainly you know
Speaker 1: his hands and being a defensive lineman, he certainly knows
Speaker 1: about what you know, offensive lineman and areas to attack
Speaker 1: on an offensive linemen. But you know, for offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: you know, they're so used to earth defensive lineman, they're
Speaker 1: so used to always going forward, penetrating. What about for
Speaker 1: him in terms of his pass protection, you know, getting
Speaker 1: back and you know, really getting himself out of that
Speaker 1: mindset of always being a guy to come off the ball,
Speaker 1: which is going to be great on running downs, I
Speaker 1: would think, but in the pass protection part of it
Speaker 1: for Coward, you know, Jim, the most difficult thing to
Speaker 1: teach an offensive lineman is the foot and the way
Speaker 1: the process of pass blocking because you have to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: but you also can't be over aggressive where you lose
Speaker 1: your block. And those are the things that I'm impressed
Speaker 1: most about. Is he has tremendous confidence in the length
Speaker 1: of his arms reaching the defensive player outside linebacker, defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: But he also has the feet to catch up to
Speaker 1: him and he can dance around to stay in front
Speaker 1: of the defender. And that's one of the things that's
Speaker 1: capturing my attention is his ability to translate defensive line
Speaker 1: play into being a quality pass blocker. But you still
Speaker 1: see that, you know that Mark boards conversion defensive mentality
Speaker 1: at when he goes down field and he has to
Speaker 1: hit a linebacker hard or else he's double teaming with
Speaker 1: a tight end or an offensive guard. He is a
Speaker 1: strong guy. He has good knee been He's six six
Speaker 1: with length, so again three hundred and twenty pounds. He
Speaker 1: moves as well as you need to move, and he
Speaker 1: has a good understanding of the offense, which impresses me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really like what I really like what Daniels did
Speaker 1: on that touchdown run by myself, because you know, I
Speaker 1: think if you go back and look at the whole play,
Speaker 1: he probably was a little high on it, but I
Speaker 1: think you saw his lower body strength because ultimately end
Speaker 1: up pancaking the defensive lineman of the Cincinnati Bengals to
Speaker 1: get that touchdown run for me, Jeff, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the tight ends. I thought the tight ends had a
Speaker 1: good night. You know, the receivers were lacking a little
Speaker 1: bit with the drops and precision route running, but the
Speaker 1: tight ends, I thought Adam Sheheen specifically, he looks much
Speaker 1: better at the top of his routes and really when
Speaker 1: he comes out of his break, he's looking for that
Speaker 1: football and I think he's starting to show those soft
Speaker 1: hands that he had as a basketball player. He's a
Speaker 1: big body. He's gonna be a red zone threat, I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day and when the
Speaker 1: season's all said and done. And even the other guys,
Speaker 1: I thought Ronniker played well, you know, the catching runs
Speaker 1: for him and the obviously Daniel Brown too. So I
Speaker 1: think it was a big night for the tight ends
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears. Oh, it certainly was. And there's
Speaker 1: something about tight end production in the NFL that always
Speaker 1: has got my attention from the time I fell in
Speaker 1: love with this sport. Always has it's it's not just
Speaker 1: a rugged nature position, but like you say, the red
Speaker 1: zone opportunities, the mismatches against the safety or a linebacker,
Speaker 1: and you got the big dude rumbling down the seam
Speaker 1: to snag a laser on the run, busting tackles along
Speaker 1: the way. Sign me up twelve passes to the tight ends.
Speaker 1: Last night eleven caught for one hundred and seventy four yards.
Speaker 1: You know this is a mismatch league, and Matt Nagee
Speaker 1: knows how to exploit mismatches. He talks about it all
Speaker 1: the time, and he does so aggressively. We'll pick it
Speaker 1: up from there. We'll go back on the defensive line
Speaker 1: as well when we come back. Thanks for joining us
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Speaker 1: Before we go into the defensive line. Like I had
Speaker 1: mentioned before the break, I do want to go back
Speaker 1: to a couple of the notes that you get. And
Speaker 1: this is a guy that from the time they moved him,
Speaker 1: and it was an idea of Vic Fangio, has suddenly
Speaker 1: become so smooth back there in his past sets at practice,
Speaker 1: it's night and day. In a very short period of time,
Speaker 1: he has made a big jump. This is a guy
Speaker 1: they didn't start playing football into the eighth grade Fellas. Instead,
Speaker 1: he admits he was playing video games or picking fights
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. So this guy comes from a tough food
Speaker 1: to your point time, he's got that mentality, a tough
Speaker 1: guy mentality. Oh yeah, And I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: have to have that mentality to be in the trenches,
Speaker 1: and you have to have the desire and the willingness
Speaker 1: to make a transition like that because there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of similarities to it. And then the overall assignments
Speaker 1: and the understanding of terminology after you make the transition
Speaker 1: as a defensive players. It's pretty confusing at the beginning.
Speaker 1: But I think Harry and Donovan Rioli, all the assistance
Speaker 1: that he has up there on the offensive line have
Speaker 1: been doing an incredible job just molding this guy into
Speaker 1: a legitimate offensive right tackle in the league. And I'd
Speaker 1: be interested to see him take some sets on the
Speaker 1: other side, just to see if he could transfer his
Speaker 1: ability over to the left tackle position. And then the
Speaker 1: other matter was Tom You mentioned James Daniels, so you
Speaker 1: enfision him making an impact or at least on the
Speaker 1: track week one. I do, you know, and it's it's
Speaker 1: because of the versatility of Cody white Hair that I
Speaker 1: feel so strongly about this. To me, Cody white Hair
Speaker 1: can really play anywhere in the offensive line. But if
Speaker 1: I could put him at the offensive guard position and
Speaker 1: keep him there for the next ten years and not
Speaker 1: move him ever again, you know that would be a
Speaker 1: goal of every offensive line coach. I think James right now,
Speaker 1: James Daniels, the rookie out of Iowa. He has the strength,
Speaker 1: the ability, the understanding of both the snaps under center
Speaker 1: and shotgun, and he's got the strength and then if
Speaker 1: you had Cody and Kyle Long on each side of you,
Speaker 1: these guys could escort you through your rookie season with
Speaker 1: a lot of strength and experience. So I would just
Speaker 1: keep cultivating the talent of James Daniels and understand that
Speaker 1: he has to make a commitment to an NFL season
Speaker 1: and it's not easy to do right after your senior
Speaker 1: year in college. But that's what they drafted him for,
Speaker 1: and he's showing there's some root to be a real
Speaker 1: bright spot in this camp. Well, I think when we
Speaker 1: look at James, I think, in just talking with Harry
Speaker 1: Heastanding wants him to get a little bit stronger upper
Speaker 1: body wise, because really, to me, the strength of his
Speaker 1: is really his anchor. He's really got a thick lower
Speaker 1: body where he can drive much like he did on
Speaker 1: that touchdown run by Mizelle. Really uses his legs to
Speaker 1: really just like tree trunks and they're solid man and
Speaker 1: he can get a good view. But Jimmy, the upper
Speaker 1: body strength, he wants to build up a little bit more.
Speaker 1: One thing I like about James in the game, as
Speaker 1: he was playing center, he snapped and he was pulling
Speaker 1: to his left. He understood that the inside linebacker was
Speaker 1: taking a path for the running back. He stopped, readjusted
Speaker 1: his course, made the linebacker readjust to a longer challenge,
Speaker 1: and he was never able to make the play. So
Speaker 1: it's not his instincts. It's his instincts at the line,
Speaker 1: but it's he's got good understanding and he's got the
Speaker 1: wherewithal to keep his head on a swivel when he
Speaker 1: is on the move. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting how
Speaker 1: it unfolds, because you know, I think there is something
Speaker 1: to be said with white Hair at center all year
Speaker 1: last year, and probably the centers are making a lot
Speaker 1: of the calls up there. Not that James can't do it,
Speaker 1: but he was. He had to sit out really a
Speaker 1: week because of the shoulder. He needs to wonder how
Speaker 1: far he is behind, because you'd like to think that
Speaker 1: quarterback center, you know, you want those two to be
Speaker 1: tied at the hip and maybe by missing some time
Speaker 1: that's set him back a little bit. And why they
Speaker 1: probably still have Eric Cush and Watford and all those
Speaker 1: guys competing that guard and probably will stick with Cody
Speaker 1: Whitehair at the center position. You know, over the years
Speaker 1: time when we've done games, we have circled rookie centers
Speaker 1: when when the Bears have gone in to play different
Speaker 1: teams over the years. Maybe it's based on, you know,
Speaker 1: certain matchups and whatnot, but we've always looked at that
Speaker 1: as an advantage for the Bears when you're going up
Speaker 1: against a rookie center. Would you feel that would be
Speaker 1: a disadvantage at some point because at his age, he's
Speaker 1: just twenty years old. Granted he was a terrific player
Speaker 1: for Kirk Ference at Iowa, but would that be something
Speaker 1: that you would look at as a potential issue. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a body valuation of his ability. And then when
Speaker 1: you're sitting in meetings with him and you ask a
Speaker 1: question of him, you ask him to maybe give the information,
Speaker 1: the right point out and everything in order to protection
Speaker 1: then the audible. And you have to test him that
Speaker 1: way too, And if he can come up and answer
Speaker 1: these questions instantly, then you know mentally he's able to
Speaker 1: grasp it. You know, Cincinnati, they drafted Billy Price out
Speaker 1: of Ohio State with the twenty first pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: and they were criticizing his ability to have the center
Speaker 1: quarterback exchange fluidly, and then they were bragging that he
Speaker 1: had two practices without any drops, So you know, I
Speaker 1: would I see as much or more ability in James.
Speaker 1: I see more strength, more size in James than I
Speaker 1: did in Price when I was watching Cincinnati, So I
Speaker 1: don't If he has the ability to stand up and
Speaker 1: play and he's got you know, the evaluation of the
Speaker 1: coaches and the staff, hey, I have no problem starting
Speaker 1: him week one. This is Beers All Access with Tom Fair,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, and Jeff Jonnick here in Chicago Sports Radio
Speaker 1: six seventy to score here until seven o'clock tonight again
Speaker 1: three four sixty seven sixty seven. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: defensive line thoughts on how those guys looked up front. Well,
Speaker 1: for me, I'll go first time. I liked what I
Speaker 1: saw from Leonard Floyd to get off. Now he's added
Speaker 1: a swim move. He's already has a spin move, and
Speaker 1: he also has that burst where he can just get
Speaker 1: off and lower his shoulder and get around the offensive tackle.
Speaker 1: And he really displayed that numerous times. Twice he beat
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati tackle with a swim move, and so I
Speaker 1: was impressed. I liked what I saw from him. I
Speaker 1: know he's coming back from from the knee surgery. But
Speaker 1: for him, and I know he's they've been you know,
Speaker 1: they've been smart with them bringing him back, and he's
Speaker 1: you know, practiced sparingly and how they've utilized him there
Speaker 1: in training camp. But Leonard Floyd, and clearly you can
Speaker 1: see the effect that one pass rush where he had
Speaker 1: the swim move. Andy Dalton was affected on that play,
Speaker 1: released the ball way too early, receiver wasn't ready, cow
Speaker 1: Fuller gets the opportunity to step in front of it
Speaker 1: and get a pick six. So for me, I was
Speaker 1: very impressed with what I saw with Leonard Floyd. So
Speaker 1: that's what we need to see all sixteen weeks of
Speaker 1: the season from from the big time pass rusher. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff has been saying all year that Leonard
Speaker 1: Floyd has been stacking practices, and he has. He's been
Speaker 1: out there every single day giving really given quality effort,
Speaker 1: whether it's individual pass rushing drills or teamwork or pass
Speaker 1: coverage responsibilities. But when when I think of the defensive
Speaker 1: line of the interior, you know you have your regular
Speaker 1: cast of characters, first play the game, great play there
Speaker 1: by a team hicks really strong from the backside, overpowering
Speaker 1: and overwhelming when they try to single block him. But
Speaker 1: you know, then you know, you have your Eddie Goldman
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Bullard and stuff. But when I look at
Speaker 1: John Jenkins, Blow Nichols and Nick Williams, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: look for that those depths and that that components of
Speaker 1: multiple position players. Every one of those guys have been
Speaker 1: able to play up and down the defensive line. So
Speaker 1: if you have seven defensive lineman active or even six,
Speaker 1: and every one of them can play every position up
Speaker 1: and down the defensive line, your hands are never going
Speaker 1: to be tied if you do have an injury or
Speaker 1: a hiccup at any position. And John Jenkins big size,
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty pounds. In Nichols, here's a guy
Speaker 1: that has length six four two ninety and I really
Speaker 1: like what he's been able to transfer from you know,
Speaker 1: having you know, not from Delaware, so you're not playing
Speaker 1: against major talent, but the talent he's up against, he's
Speaker 1: really he's battling. So those are a couple, you know,
Speaker 1: the three defensive lineman, I think they're really going to
Speaker 1: be involved in the mix when the final decisions are made. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then you look at Nichols, he played more the inside,
Speaker 1: in the interior of the three men front there at Delaware,
Speaker 1: and now he's been asked to move outside. He's he's
Speaker 1: doing a good job. There's no doubt about it. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he's definitely in the mix. You see the
Speaker 1: athleticism from his standpoint. But the other defenders that really
Speaker 1: stood out to me. You know, we look at DeAndre Houston, Carson,
Speaker 1: he's blasted again, I think, making some plays, and you know,
Speaker 1: you look at other guys. John Tmu, I know he
Speaker 1: missed the tackle or took the bad angle on Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: the running back from him Cincinnati, but he's consistently around
Speaker 1: the football. When he's been asked to play for the Bears,
Speaker 1: he comes up big and it's always around the football.
Speaker 1: And the guy who I liked as well as Cassim Atibali.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of plays where he really set
Speaker 1: the edge and forced the running back of the Bengals
Speaker 1: to cut it back inside. Then on other plays where
Speaker 1: he had to crash and close. You can definitely see
Speaker 1: his experience in the National Football League, and he's played
Speaker 1: in numerous games and I think you could definitely see it.
Speaker 1: It showed up in the game last night. Yeah, sixty
Speaker 1: one games of NFL experience for at a ballet and
Speaker 1: a high motor in pursuit. That's one of the scouting
Speaker 1: reports on Atibali, a fifty year man out of Boston
Speaker 1: College who began the ballk of training camp banged up,
Speaker 1: but he's getting himself healthy and ready to go in
Speaker 1: a position that there is some need, no question, to
Speaker 1: fill out that roster for the Bears defensively. We'll continue
Speaker 1: our conversation here on Bears All Access after this break
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Speaker 1: We've missed you, my friend. You've been there forcedout the offseason,
Speaker 1: but now we've been talking to Bears places. We had
Speaker 1: a great training camp visit with a number of players,
Speaker 1: not the least of which was Minster Whisky and Charles
Speaker 1: Little Junior. Cody white Air. It's really been fun getting
Speaker 1: to know these guys when you get to spend significant
Speaker 1: time with him Tom, you know, for forty five fifty minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, I mean because you you know, you kind
Speaker 1: of always find something out new about these guys. The
Speaker 1: better they get to know you, the more they kind
Speaker 1: of unveil a little information about themselves. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a fun road here in training camp
Speaker 1: so far because I think every practice has held a
Speaker 1: little bit more interest. You see the development of players,
Speaker 1: the development of offense, and you know, as these games
Speaker 1: clicked through in the preseason, I do I find myself
Speaker 1: having more interest in these preseason games in quite a
Speaker 1: long time. Well, and you look at it, you know,
Speaker 1: even some of the comments after the game from Mitchell,
Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, you got to have
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency, and I think he's he really
Speaker 1: is starting to feel that. You know, the season, we
Speaker 1: can say, hey, five preseason games, it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: a marathon and all those things, but before you know it,
Speaker 1: it's already here. You know, and you got and you know,
Speaker 1: we all understand the reasons. There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: going on in terms of players being in and out
Speaker 1: of the lineup and all the new information of offense.
Speaker 1: But you know, every player is given that information. You'd
Speaker 1: like to think that they can go in there and
Speaker 1: you know, and perform it at that level. And I
Speaker 1: think it hasn't clicked yet, and I think some of
Speaker 1: the comments by Mitchell Trubisky is like, hey, it's it's
Speaker 1: not up to our standards. So you always got to
Speaker 1: be clawed for perfection and you should want to try
Speaker 1: and be perfect every single day you're out there on
Speaker 1: the whether it's the practice field or in a game.
Speaker 1: And now I think after two games that sense of
Speaker 1: urgency is starting to kick in, and I think some
Speaker 1: of Mitch's comments really ignited that, you know, Jim and Jeff.
Speaker 1: One of the things that kind of changes the momentum
Speaker 1: a little bit when you transfer from bourbon At back
Speaker 1: to the facility and now you're back in the workplace
Speaker 1: that if you make this team, if you earn an opportunity,
Speaker 1: if you win that locker, man, this is where you're
Speaker 1: going to work, hopefully for quite a while. And I
Speaker 1: do think it puts a little bit of extra pressure
Speaker 1: when you start going home because you know, Okay, if
Speaker 1: I'm home after training camp, boy, it's closer to that
Speaker 1: regular season and the evaluation time is getting shorter. So
Speaker 1: I do think that puts a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: wrenches up the tempo a little bit too when you
Speaker 1: go home. Well, not only that, I believe there's very
Speaker 1: significant competition going on home. I mean we look at
Speaker 1: the secondary for example. I mean they can't keep everybody, obviously,
Speaker 1: but guys that have been here for a while. We
Speaker 1: mentioned this last time of the broadcast, and Jim, you
Speaker 1: just mentioned DeAndre Houston Carson, who is out standing on
Speaker 1: special team, So that guy's got a leg up in
Speaker 1: the competition. But he's also been well thought of enough
Speaker 1: to actually get on the field in three safety sets
Speaker 1: last year with Vic Fangio. So he's earning his way
Speaker 1: onto this roster. Nothing's guaranteed yet, but he's starting that
Speaker 1: process again. And and DeAndre Hall guys got an attitude.
Speaker 1: I mean, he he hasn't had a lot of great opportunity.
Speaker 1: He was hurt obviously last year at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, but he is yapping back there and he'll
Speaker 1: hit you. And I think he's earning more and more
Speaker 1: confidence every day, he had a nice evening last night.
Speaker 1: And so you're you're evaluating this, this secondary and all
Speaker 1: these other position battles with a new coaching staff, particularly
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, and a new
Speaker 1: head coach. I'm just wondering where these decisions are going
Speaker 1: to fall when you cut down to fifty three. Now
Speaker 1: it's you know a lot of people say, ah, you know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about guys that are at the lower end
Speaker 1: of the roster or gon be special teams guys. It
Speaker 1: all matters, It all matters. It lights the flame to
Speaker 1: start the competitive conversation at every position, because that's what
Speaker 1: you're left with in the preseason, first couple of weeks
Speaker 1: of the preseason. Heck, next week, these guys are going
Speaker 1: to play a ton of snamps again, They'll play more,
Speaker 1: They're not gonna play a whole game. So this is
Speaker 1: what our evaluation is centered on. Are these other guys,
Speaker 1: the guys we've been talking about on this show, But
Speaker 1: then then introduced Chris Tabor, the special team's coordinator, into
Speaker 1: those decision making process because when you look at the
Speaker 1: fake punt that was run against the Bears last night,
Speaker 1: that's something that's going to be going over a couple
Speaker 1: of few times by Chris Tabor and understanding the players
Speaker 1: that were completely you know, unbeknownst to the play or
Speaker 1: some guys that understood it quickly and then gave a
Speaker 1: great gave great chase to it because Josh Woods was
Speaker 1: the guy that caught it from behind. And here's an
Speaker 1: interior linebacker that shows significant speed. He's got the ability
Speaker 1: to play. So you know, you taught you drafted a
Speaker 1: guy in the first round as a linebacker. You drafted
Speaker 1: another interior linebacker. But Josh Woods is the guy that's
Speaker 1: kind of showing up in spots that have the speed
Speaker 1: attached to it. That is is impressed of as anybody
Speaker 1: and I think too. It's going to factor in, you know,
Speaker 1: with all the new rules on kickoff, who do you trust?
Speaker 1: Are you going to trust a rookie orre gonna trust
Speaker 1: a veteran, you know, like somebody like Edi Bali who's
Speaker 1: been around the league a little bit, you know, in
Speaker 1: terms of game planning and adjustments to how officials they're
Speaker 1: going to call, you know, the kickoff and kick return
Speaker 1: with all the new rules that are involved there, because
Speaker 1: there's going to be adjustments every single week. It just
Speaker 1: sounds like the league office in the in the officials
Speaker 1: are going to tweak that from week to week with
Speaker 1: how things are called on the field, what they want called,
Speaker 1: what they don't want called, what was missed, what was
Speaker 1: not missed, How it's going to be called in the future,
Speaker 1: you know, compared to say week four, to how it's
Speaker 1: called in week twelve. And so I think you want
Speaker 1: to have savvy football players, which technically are going to
Speaker 1: be all your backups that are going to be on
Speaker 1: those units pretty much your backup linebackers, you're backup safeties
Speaker 1: like a Houston Carson that will be in those rules.
Speaker 1: And how much do you trust them? And obviously those
Speaker 1: guys getting some playing time over the last couple of
Speaker 1: years is really going to benefit them. And I think
Speaker 1: that's going to factor in as well. You know, I
Speaker 1: have not looked into it today, but what was the
Speaker 1: results of the other games in terms of helmet rule
Speaker 1: and all that. Jim, I don't know if you did
Speaker 1: your show today or not. I know you're traveling once again,
Speaker 1: but on serious XM any pushback again today, not just
Speaker 1: in our game, but no, I do know there was
Speaker 1: one ejection in a game. But I think overall, you know,
Speaker 1: it's being received. Obviously, the coaches are saying everything that
Speaker 1: they need to say. Hey, we're just going to adjust
Speaker 1: with how the officials are calling it. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think right now they're trying trying to create a database,
Speaker 1: at least the league offices and the officials of what
Speaker 1: they say, how it's going to unfold during the years.
Speaker 1: So all these preseason games matter because as we saw
Speaker 1: last night, whether it's the new helmet rule or the
Speaker 1: kickoff rule and how it's going to be officiated, they'll
Speaker 1: create a database where they'll probably come to will hopefully
Speaker 1: at least a better consensus by the end of the preseason.
Speaker 1: So I still think it's an early infancy of really
Speaker 1: the reaction because we're really for most of the league,
Speaker 1: they're one game in, the Bears are two game in,
Speaker 1: and this really probably you'll hear you'll hear some tricklings
Speaker 1: out of the league office, in the in the officiating
Speaker 1: office this week from Al Riverot of how it went
Speaker 1: and how the maybe potential changes as they start to
Speaker 1: really formulate their game plan as a season fast approaches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was Colt's safety Schamaco Thomas. He went helmet to
Speaker 1: helmet on David Moore of Seattle and his head coach,
Speaker 1: Frank Reich. I totally supported. He said. It was very
Speaker 1: disappointing as it was pretty clear that he did something inappropriate.
Speaker 1: I'm diving in there, so it'll be something we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about throughout the course of the entire preseason. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna make us happy. You know, an agitated Tom
Speaker 1: Thare was there last night. I should have unfold and
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna bug you to the to the end.
Speaker 1: It's gonna really thick you off town. Well, it's almost
Speaker 1: like you a reaction from the crowd within the stands,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they there's a lot of
Speaker 1: influence because now I think fans are so smart that
Speaker 1: sitting the stands they recognize an illegal hit and it's
Speaker 1: almost their reactions sometimes is as meaningful as anything to
Speaker 1: get a call or change a call. We'll continue on
Speaker 1: and discuss all this here on bear Zild Access three one,
Speaker 1: two sixty four, four sixty seven, sixty seven. Please give
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Speaker 1: to score. Welcome back to bear Zell Access and reminding
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears Official mobile app presented by Verizon, Jeff Joniak
Speaker 1: and Jim Miller. In time you flew back with the team.
Speaker 1: Last night, I went back to the hotel with the crew,
Speaker 1: ran into the television guys Adam Amine, who made his
Speaker 1: maiden voyage last night on Fox with the Bears Broadcasting Network,
Speaker 1: and Jim Miller is his partner in crime. And so
Speaker 1: the hotel bar is shutting down. Jim's kind enough to
Speaker 1: buy us a couple of adult beverages. And at last call,
Speaker 1: the bartender had music plan of the background lights are
Speaker 1: coming on and he offers a free poor for anyone
Speaker 1: who could identify the movie that the song that was
Speaker 1: playing was in. And I have no idea, nobody know.
Speaker 1: Big Jim looked at the ceiling pause for a second,
Speaker 1: nails it jaws confidently, I might add. So he got
Speaker 1: a free cold one because he now that I think
Speaker 1: the song is show me the way to go home.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I thought you were pulling my leg.
Speaker 1: That was masterful and impressive. I thought you were just
Speaker 1: scared to go into the water, Jeff, you know, much
Speaker 1: like Tom when he's out the surfing out there in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: I mean, how could you not know that song from Jaws?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a Roy Schneider And obviously you look
Speaker 1: at the actors and how great that movie was. I
Speaker 1: think was Conrad and who else was in that movie
Speaker 1: besides the Roy Schneider Richards. Those were the three guys
Speaker 1: on the boat having a having a good night. But
Speaker 1: it was time to go home, and it was time
Speaker 1: to go home for us. But that was that was
Speaker 1: a stellar performance. I got a tip of the cap.
Speaker 1: I don't have good recalls, so I never I would
Speaker 1: have never gotten that one. But anyway, we bag ress.
Speaker 1: We're talking Bears football here. After the preseason lost in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati last night, thirty to twenty seven. We focused on
Speaker 1: a number of different things, but we've left out some stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a lot of good things. Let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about again, guys that are trying to compete
Speaker 1: for In this case, Ryan Nall trying to compete for
Speaker 1: that who's going to be that fourth running back? And
Speaker 1: he's competing obviously it would take Juan Maizelle ripped off
Speaker 1: that long run and he showed me some pullaway speed.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was impressive right there. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that he had that in him, right. Remember the post
Speaker 1: game we asked Matt Naggie about and he talked about, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw Ryan all run down the sideline with speed
Speaker 1: and then you could see the tightness in the hamstrings
Speaker 1: and to see the defender close up around him. But
Speaker 1: you know, Ryan, he showed me surprising speed because that's
Speaker 1: really the first time he got to open up with
Speaker 1: a run that serious when he got opponent's face or
Speaker 1: chasing you. But his interior instincts in how to understand
Speaker 1: the blocking schemes in front of him and where the
Speaker 1: holes are mostly going to give him the biggest crease
Speaker 1: to get through. And Myzelle showed significant signs at also.
Speaker 1: But I did like to see how to Ryan all
Speaker 1: his ability to be strong inside the hole, his ability
Speaker 1: to catch passes out, you know, out in the perimeter,
Speaker 1: and then his ability to get outside and have significant
Speaker 1: enough speed to break an over pursuit by the defense,
Speaker 1: get around that corner and turn it up. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you know that's why. And Ryan said early in camp,
Speaker 1: we really liked him for his vision, and really that
Speaker 1: play encompasses his vision because, as Tom mentioned, you gotta
Speaker 1: think when when he's getting the ball from the quarterback,
Speaker 1: he's not even looking at the ball into into was belly, right,
Speaker 1: He's looking at the defensive line, surveying that obviously the
Speaker 1: front before even the snap even happens, anticipating where potentially
Speaker 1: the holes could emerge depending on the blocks. Then once
Speaker 1: he gets the ball, he's got to react, and at
Speaker 1: the same time he's already surveyed the defensive line. Then
Speaker 1: he sees the corner outside crash pretty quickly. That corner
Speaker 1: came inside almost almost i'd say, maybe two to five
Speaker 1: yards outside of the tackle box, and Ryan right away
Speaker 1: said nope, I'm taking it outside and he bounced it
Speaker 1: right away. So what it was a draw or an
Speaker 1: inside zone run is what I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be. Or even if it was a draw, some
Speaker 1: draws can bounce to the outside like that. But you
Speaker 1: got to have a running back who has the vision
Speaker 1: of the secondary and how they're reacting back there at
Speaker 1: the snap of the ball. And I think clearly you
Speaker 1: could see that because that whole play really encompassed that vision.
Speaker 1: That he has and why Matt Nagee really praised it
Speaker 1: and why he was hit in camp with the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears to begin with. And he's a versatile player for
Speaker 1: a big back. He's a versatile player. As Tom mentioned,
Speaker 1: the way you can catch the ball. He's got some
Speaker 1: soft hands, and that clearly is going to be a
Speaker 1: prerequisite in this offense. Also, one thing that I was
Speaker 1: encouraged by is the bears willingness to go back and
Speaker 1: repeat plays because early in the game they had a
Speaker 1: mental air and then they were able to come back
Speaker 1: and run the play three other times in the course
Speaker 1: of the game with really good success. So you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes back in our days we would damage ourselves. If
Speaker 1: Dicka would call a play and we'd go out there
Speaker 1: and get tackled for loss or have a mistake, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't go back to it. So it is encouraging to
Speaker 1: make sure you show faith in your players and you
Speaker 1: believe in the scheme that you're developing, that you can
Speaker 1: go back and repeat the same play and get better
Speaker 1: results each time. All right, here's some nuggets on No. Okay,
Speaker 1: eighty r touchdown two twenty one yards in an overtime
Speaker 1: upset for Oregon States, and that was against cal Back.
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen against Oregon, he had a sixty six
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run against Colorado one hundred and seventy two yards,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns on twenty four carries. He had another big
Speaker 1: game against Oregon four touchdowns in twenty sixteen, eighty nine
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run against Washington State against Arizona, another big
Speaker 1: hundred plus game. I'm looking for the big long touchdown runs.
Speaker 1: Forty five yard touchdown run against Washington State again in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and a seventy five yard touchdown run against
Speaker 1: Colorado State. So he's more than capable of doing it. Jeff.
Speaker 1: He's six two two thirty two. You have Michael Burton,
Speaker 1: who's just a full not just a fullback, he's a fullback.
Speaker 1: He is a big, powerful fullback six ft two forty.
Speaker 1: But when you look at Ryan All and you see
Speaker 1: you think of six two two thirty two, that's a
Speaker 1: big running back. That's a guy with length and is
Speaker 1: a guy with power and size behind him. Because you
Speaker 1: look at Benny Cunham five ten two eighteen and I'm
Speaker 1: just saying there is a diverse size on the running
Speaker 1: back flow chart. Here with the Bears, and you know
Speaker 1: six two is a good size for a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, god forbid, if Jordan Howard would have go
Speaker 1: down to injury, who's going to be your short yardage
Speaker 1: goal line back? You know, he'd probably be the man up,
Speaker 1: is the way I'd look at it. You know, what
Speaker 1: are gonna do? Put Burton back there. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's going to be the case. I would think Noall
Speaker 1: isn't a legit competition to make this roster for that
Speaker 1: very reason, because those situations and it is about situational
Speaker 1: football in the NFL, and I would think coach Nagy
Speaker 1: wants to deploy all those sets that really threatened and
Speaker 1: when sometimes you need to pound it, you got to
Speaker 1: be able to pound it. You got to have the
Speaker 1: guys that can do it. And really Howard and Noah
Speaker 1: are really the two bigger backs on this football team. Well,
Speaker 1: he runs a four or five eight at least he
Speaker 1: did at the combine, and he's a tough inside runner,
Speaker 1: and he has special teams and Billy he was running
Speaker 1: down kicks last night and he was getting down there
Speaker 1: in Murry. So it was a good bright spot for
Speaker 1: the Bears last night. Any of the other guys down
Speaker 1: the line on the roster that maybe your eyes last night.
Speaker 1: I like Jeff and Jim. I like Tyler Bray from
Speaker 1: the opportunities that he's been giving in the last two
Speaker 1: weeks and then practices. He shows his height, he has
Speaker 1: a good view of over the top of the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. He's got good confidence in his arm either
Speaker 1: fitting in into tight holds, and I know that, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of overthrowing the Ben Bronicker in the end zone,
Speaker 1: you know, was what was kind of a tough deal.
Speaker 1: But he has a higher plus side um and I
Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect out of him because we've
Speaker 1: never been exposed to him for this long, but from
Speaker 1: what he's been doing, Jim, I like what he's been
Speaker 1: doing in this offense. He made some nice throws and
Speaker 1: clearly you can see the arm strength and a couple
Speaker 1: of those he threaded the needle pretty good, especially when
Speaker 1: the Bronnicker that went for the big run. I mean
Speaker 1: that was that was a tight throw and he put
Speaker 1: it right down the money where he needed to. In
Speaker 1: a couple of throws to the outside, I thought he
Speaker 1: put on the money for a bigger guys. He's set
Speaker 1: in Kansas City for basically five years, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of years he was dealing with that wrist injury
Speaker 1: when he was coming out of Tennessee but ultimately corrected it.
Speaker 1: But this offense, he should feel very comfortable. And I
Speaker 1: think you saw, you know, for at least both um,
Speaker 1: you know, Chase Daniel and Bray. I think they do
Speaker 1: show the rhythm when they get into it. And granted
Speaker 1: they're dealing with different guys, but you can see they're
Speaker 1: getting guys lined up, you know. I even saw Bray signaling,
Speaker 1: you know, some things that he wanted and he's you know,
Speaker 1: and then of course the young players that aren't used
Speaker 1: to are kind of looking at him cross Syde and
Speaker 1: he's still trying to work it to get it all
Speaker 1: coordinated at the line of scrimmage. So you can definitely
Speaker 1: see the experience. But he has a lot of arm talent,
Speaker 1: he really does. He just he needs to play. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's really where it's at. He's he's a guy who
Speaker 1: probably needs to play right now at this time in
Speaker 1: his career, and we all know why he's here and
Speaker 1: he will be here probably all year for the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears and and because he's you know, there to be
Speaker 1: the support system in the offense for what Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: needs to learn and use that resource all the way
Speaker 1: to preparation on game day every single week. But I
Speaker 1: liked what I saw from Tyler Bray last night. And
Speaker 1: it was sixth year in the National Football League, first
Speaker 1: five of Kansas City learning that system of Matt Nagge
Speaker 1: and what they put together for the Chicago Bears. Another
Speaker 1: segment to go here on Bears All Access. We'll look
Speaker 1: ahead to what's going to happen in the next few
Speaker 1: days both in Bourbon and Denver up at a Hallis
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Speaker 1: And now it's a return after today's day off, a
Speaker 1: return to Bourbon, a a night practice. How the campus
Speaker 1: about it? That Nazaren Tomorrow a Sunday a closed practice
Speaker 1: and then off on Monday. But they're backup at Hallis Hall.
Speaker 1: They'll do a little work on Tuesday and move off
Speaker 1: to Denver, and then a week of work with the
Speaker 1: bron goes Wednesday and Thursday, walk through Friday, game, Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and next Saturday. You can hear it on WBBM. Fellas
Speaker 1: I know, Tom and I discussed this somewhat at length
Speaker 1: last night. I'm a big fan of it. I think
Speaker 1: Tom's coming around with this team about working against another team.
Speaker 1: I just see great benefits from it all the way
Speaker 1: across the board. I see no downside. How do you
Speaker 1: guys feel about it? In Tom? In retrospect, after thinking
Speaker 1: about a little more, how do you feel? Well? You know,
Speaker 1: the first day a couple of these rookies get up
Speaker 1: there are even experienced guys, They're gonna think that they
Speaker 1: have no oxygen at all. It's eighty six eighty seven,
Speaker 1: eighty six, eighty five eighty five the temperature there in Denver.
Speaker 1: Those are hot practices at high altitude. So I do
Speaker 1: think there's gonna take a little bit of time that
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be a to get acclimated there,
Speaker 1: to be physical to exert the energy that expected out
Speaker 1: of them and then go out there and have lengthy
Speaker 1: practices for a few days in a row. I like
Speaker 1: the idea of them going there. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: good for a new coaching staff. It's good for a
Speaker 1: team to, you know, to stay close and you know,
Speaker 1: create that camaraderie. And I do think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good friendships developing on this team, So I do
Speaker 1: like it. It breaks up the monotony of just being
Speaker 1: at one site for six weeks, So I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: I just want to say I'll have a different opinion
Speaker 1: at the end of the week than at the beginning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. I think it's gonna get the Bears,
Speaker 1: especially at certain position, a lot of good work. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean by that. How about Bobby Massey
Speaker 1: going against a speed rusher like Von Miller or Chris Harris.
Speaker 1: Think about young Anthony Miller when he's got to line
Speaker 1: up against Chris Harris, who's a Pro Bowl corner in
Speaker 1: this league. Think about the Bears secondary getting challenges from
Speaker 1: Damarius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders to qualified receivers in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. So I just I think it's great.
Speaker 1: You can get get guys going on two fields in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, one field where the Bears offense
Speaker 1: is going against the Broncos defense and vice versa on
Speaker 1: another field and how the Bears will be working. So
Speaker 1: you get two groups going. You could have two two
Speaker 1: minute drills going at the same time. So certainly the
Speaker 1: coaches are going to talk to one another and how
Speaker 1: they're going to script it with Vance, Joseph and Matt
Speaker 1: and things that they want to work on. But all
Speaker 1: the one on one situations against maybe different techniques and
Speaker 1: different players, I think will be beneficial, especially for the
Speaker 1: young players, uh, you know, as they watch the older
Speaker 1: guys work against some of the best in the league overall.
Speaker 1: So I think it's good anytime you can go against
Speaker 1: another team. You know, you do have to you do
Speaker 1: have to be in control of the discipline, because I
Speaker 1: have been in cross team camps that we fought so
Speaker 1: much that we had to split up and we had
Speaker 1: to go our separate directions and go home. So and
Speaker 1: you do have to be in control of these I know.
Speaker 1: And they went to New England a few years ago,
Speaker 1: everything was solid. They had one scuffle Indianapolis, a few
Speaker 1: years back the same thing. But so, I mean, you
Speaker 1: do have to make sure that you go out there
Speaker 1: and you get something accomplished in the practices. You just
Speaker 1: don't want to have some of the trouble that you
Speaker 1: have in other one other teams play each other. If
Speaker 1: you guys were preparing to do this as players, what
Speaker 1: are some of the things you have to go through
Speaker 1: to get yourself ready to deal with the altitude today?
Speaker 1: Like right now? Oh nothing, you know. Jen Gibson, the
Speaker 1: director of the Sports Science is up at Hollis Hall.
Speaker 1: I think they've been having conversations about how to prepare
Speaker 1: for this, you know, in terms of hydration, I think
Speaker 1: the longer you're up there, the more comfortable you're gonna feel.
Speaker 1: But it's just going to be that first couple hours
Speaker 1: that you go through practices, the first couple of days
Speaker 1: that is gonna it's gonna feel overwhelming. I played up
Speaker 1: at the Air Force Academy and I played up in
Speaker 1: Denver a lot, So you do have that feeling, and
Speaker 1: you know, eventually you become used to it, unless you're Jeff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the hydration aspect of it. When you're
Speaker 1: traveling their high altitude, and you know, they're gonna benefit
Speaker 1: from them conditioning level of it's gonna be beneficial for
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears as well. They'll be they'll be you know,
Speaker 1: I think the Broncos will be cognizant of it too.
Speaker 1: How many breaks that they'll take, you know, within how
Speaker 1: the practice is structured. So I think they'll be smart
Speaker 1: about it from that aspect. But I think overall it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fantastic, and just the competition level, it's gonna
Speaker 1: ratch it up. You know, it's technically it is still
Speaker 1: the Bears against the Denver Broncos, and every team's gonna
Speaker 1: want to show up every single day. I saw San
Speaker 1: Francisco last year. They traveled out to or excuse me,
Speaker 1: Denver traveled out to go to San Francisco, and those
Speaker 1: were great matchups between Trent Brown, who's now a New
Speaker 1: England Patriot. Before they traded him, he was a San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine er and them and Von Miller just
Speaker 1: going at it every single place. So you're gonna have
Speaker 1: some good matchups one on one in terms of the
Speaker 1: periods and then the team periods and how it all
Speaker 1: comes together. So it's it's gonna be good for both
Speaker 1: teams overall. Well, you remember when we were playing the
Speaker 1: Patriots and practice there a couple years ago. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the scuffle, but you know it was Malcolm Butler and
Speaker 1: Alshean Jeffrey and there was also an injury I believe
Speaker 1: to Rob grind Cows after one of those practices. But
Speaker 1: Butler was thrown out of there by Belichick for fighting
Speaker 1: with Jeffrey. And you know, not looking back at that,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler doesn't play in the Super Bowl. You know,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey had a really good couple of practices against the
Speaker 1: Patriots that week two years ago. You think that was
Speaker 1: in the back of his mind. No, I just think
Speaker 1: that when you go through the simulated drills one team
Speaker 1: offensively or defensively, that there's an advantage to it. And
Speaker 1: so when you say, I'm saying related to Butler not
Speaker 1: playing in the Super Bowl a long shot. But no,
Speaker 1: we never got an explanation. There's too much separate, too much,
Speaker 1: too much time and separation between that decision. Bill Belichick's
Speaker 1: going to make the best decision for the team leading
Speaker 1: up to the game itself. I don't think he would
Speaker 1: hold something in the back of his mind that took
Speaker 1: place so long ago to effect the Super Bowl roster decision.
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Speaker 1: on the Chicago Bears official app anytime. All right, some
Speaker 1: bullet points, real quick next step in the development and
Speaker 1: growth of this team, starting with practice this weekend and
Speaker 1: moving into Denver. Let's start with Mitch Trubisky. We'll do
Speaker 1: some quick bullet points for both of you guys. You know,
Speaker 1: I think Mitch has just has to stay the course,
Speaker 1: you know, again, evaluate the tape. You know, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that Mitch isn't showing this overwhelming excitement about the performance
Speaker 1: of the first unit, because you know, you got to
Speaker 1: come back here and seriously get prepared, and you have
Speaker 1: to make improvements, adjustments, and you know, the you know,
Speaker 1: the Mitch is not going to be a finished product.
Speaker 1: Even when the regular season starts, Mitch is gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be ever learning. It's you know,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna say, oh, Mitch, you know it all
Speaker 1: you gotta you're you're done, You're ready to go. No.
Speaker 1: I think every time he goes out to practice, every
Speaker 1: time he's on the field, there's going to be a
Speaker 1: coaching point made that's going to help him become a
Speaker 1: more intelligent player. But I think that should be across
Speaker 1: the board for the entire offense when they get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to show up again. Yeah, it really was what
Speaker 1: coach Nagi talked about. There was always just one player,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the wrong assignment or not finishing and
Speaker 1: all those things. You know, all those things matter. As
Speaker 1: we know, it takes all eleven guys. It's never going
Speaker 1: to be perfect, but you want it to be as
Speaker 1: close to perfect as you can. And I think it's
Speaker 1: right now as another opportunity for mister Trabisky to really
Speaker 1: assert you know, his command you know, and demands you know,
Speaker 1: perfection from from his teammates when they go out to Denver. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: enough of the bad snaps, enough of the drop footballs.
Speaker 1: Let's be perfect today, you know, demanded from your teammates.
Speaker 1: You want to push them to be the best, and
Speaker 1: his teammates should push him to be the best when
Speaker 1: when he has a mistake. So now's the time to
Speaker 1: really be more or assertive, and I think be more
Speaker 1: demanding because the season is not far away now it
Speaker 1: isn't didn't see Allen Robinson, Taylor Gabriel's banged up, No
Speaker 1: Tarik Cohen, no Jordan Howard, no Danny Tavaithan Prince and Mukamara,
Speaker 1: and no Roquan Smith just yet either. That's the topic
Speaker 1: for another day as this thing still is a log
Speaker 1: jam with the Bears first round linebacker. Hopefully we'll see
Speaker 1: some of those guys on the field against the Broncos
Speaker 1: in next Saturday's game up in Denver. Well, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us, Big Jim. Thanks for taking the time. I
Speaker 1: know you're swamped with all your training camp travels, but
Speaker 1: we appreciate it. Always good to be with you, guys,
Speaker 1: you know that. And we'll see out in Denver. All right,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller with US four Town There Jim Miller, and
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