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Speaker 1: last week, you would think not a lot as transpired
Speaker 1: Fellows in the last four days, But plenty, plenty has
Speaker 1: and plenty will in the coming hours and days. Because
Speaker 1: the league new year star shortly free agency. But this
Speaker 1: NFL and NFLPA CBA vote that was scheduled for tomorrow
Speaker 1: postponed now until Saturday. They get a two day extension.
Speaker 1: There's lots to break down and all that, and we'll
Speaker 1: do that in this segment. We'll also be joined tonight
Speaker 1: by two Bears Buster screen joining us tonight, it'll be
Speaker 1: around six thirty and also joining us will be veteran
Speaker 1: wide receiver Javon Whim So a lot to check in
Speaker 1: with the fellas and check in with you guys. Let
Speaker 1: me just get reactions from the two of you right
Speaker 1: now on this CBA situation. You know, to me, Jeff,
Speaker 1: it seemed like he was gonna it was working out
Speaker 1: to be a little bit easier than I think we
Speaker 1: all thought before this process ever started. I'm not necessarily disappointed.
Speaker 1: I think the conversation a better understanding of the language
Speaker 1: and it might help more people come on board because
Speaker 1: as many the superstars that are an angst of signing
Speaker 1: this new contract, a majority of these guys that have
Speaker 1: interest in signing this contract are still in the early
Speaker 1: stages in the development of their career and their wealth management. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. I think the league's kind of in
Speaker 1: a holding pattern right now, Jeff, until this CBA potentially
Speaker 1: is ratified, and like you said, it's been pushed back
Speaker 1: now till Saturday. The players have till midnight, it sounds
Speaker 1: like to place their votes, but I think everybody's kind
Speaker 1: of in a standstill right now. Teams can Technically the
Speaker 1: deadline for the franchise tag is Thursday, and I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if the players push their vote back in order to
Speaker 1: count all the votes. I'm wondering if the league does
Speaker 1: the same, because to me, it would be very difficult
Speaker 1: for teams to conduct business when they don't even have
Speaker 1: the rules yet of a new CBA or without a
Speaker 1: new CBA. So whichever way it goes, it's going to
Speaker 1: change the direction of how teams conduct business. So you
Speaker 1: just wonder if that franchise tag window will be pushed back,
Speaker 1: much like the players votes to be counted has been
Speaker 1: pushed back till Saturday. That may be in the cards
Speaker 1: here within the next twenty four hours, so would they.
Speaker 1: And still a president's job still on the docket as well,
Speaker 1: and the NFLPA several players nominated. I was interested to
Speaker 1: see what Sam Macho, the former Bear and now Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buck, had to say about it. He supports this
Speaker 1: particular offer from the National Football League owners and said
Speaker 1: that basically one percent of the population of players are
Speaker 1: against it. The other nine have something a game from it,
Speaker 1: and he breaks it all down very well as we
Speaker 1: would expect him to do. And it does involve the
Speaker 1: increasing minimum salaries and the extra playoff game and the
Speaker 1: extra seventeenth game as benefiting those guys, the superstar players, though,
Speaker 1: as we discussed on Thursday of last week, may not
Speaker 1: all be on board with that type of deal. And
Speaker 1: then you got Russell Olkoon, Jim, We'll start with you.
Speaker 1: Russell Olkoon, who's up for this as well. He's already
Speaker 1: on that committee, is reportedly accusing the executive direct through
Speaker 1: the union to Marrow Smith, of trying to push this
Speaker 1: thing through without listening to or taking seriously the objections
Speaker 1: of the entire group of players, including the executive committee.
Speaker 1: What's your stance on this? What are you hearing on this? Well?
Speaker 1: I don't know for Russell o'coon to come in at
Speaker 1: this late state and uh stage and say, you know,
Speaker 1: basically it's it's against their what should I say? They're
Speaker 1: rules of how they conduct business. Maybe they've been negotiating
Speaker 1: for over three hundred days, over three hundred what's been
Speaker 1: in bad faith? I would say, according to Russell o'coon,
Speaker 1: all those players have been informed, every player has been
Speaker 1: sent sent the file and any information that they have requested,
Speaker 1: but they had put in place and the ball had
Speaker 1: started rolling with over three hundred days of negotiation, and
Speaker 1: then at the last minute to claim that this is
Speaker 1: bad faith by the CBA when those meetings are conducted
Speaker 1: every single month, that the player reps are a breast
Speaker 1: of the situation and some of those guys are involved
Speaker 1: in the actual negotiating. So I just think for for
Speaker 1: Russell o'coon, who is one of the prominent players of
Speaker 1: kind of compared to the rank and file players that
Speaker 1: make make league minimum, for I think for him to
Speaker 1: say that, I think is disingenuous at best. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think there's such a separation between Russell o'coon and
Speaker 1: that bottom tier of guys that are fighting for their
Speaker 1: NFL life that you know, they don't have a lot
Speaker 1: in common. So you know, when they have a decision
Speaker 1: that has to be make and you go out there
Speaker 1: and you try to make a headline just by putting
Speaker 1: yourself out there, it's I don't think it's putting you
Speaker 1: in favor of the young guys. I just think it's
Speaker 1: trying to put your name out there as a possible
Speaker 1: candidate to take this thing over. Well, he apparently has
Speaker 1: proposed a bad faith filing and an unfair labor practice
Speaker 1: charge with the National Labor Relations Board as it impacts
Speaker 1: the CBA. All kind of stuff. We could talk about
Speaker 1: this all day. I know fans don't love talking about
Speaker 1: this stuff, but it is a top headline right now
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. But when we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll be joined by Javon Wims, the former Georgia Bulldog
Speaker 1: and Bears wide receiver. As we continue on with Julio
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Speaker 1: six seventy The Score. Hey, welcome back, everybody to Bears
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Speaker 1: joined by veteran Bears receiver Javon Wims to the program
Speaker 1: right now. Javan, how are you doing. You've been down
Speaker 1: the show a couple of times in offseason going all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh season good, thanks for having What are you up
Speaker 1: to currently? I'm in New Hampshire. You no vacation girlfriends
Speaker 1: she's up there, so she's from here. So that's why
Speaker 1: I'm at currently. Very good And what amount of attention
Speaker 1: are you paying to what's going on with the CBA
Speaker 1: right now? Um? Well, you know, I'm just keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on it. Just yet more information from the older guys,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever it's time to make decisions and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So you know, I just be keeping a
Speaker 1: good eye on it. I haven't been too deep involved
Speaker 1: in it, but I've been keeping a good enough eye
Speaker 1: on it. You know, Jivan, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that's going to take care of this collective bargaining agreement
Speaker 1: and get a take care of What are you doing
Speaker 1: to Givon Wims? Do? We've seen your talent, but how
Speaker 1: can we see an expanded role by Javon Wims? Just
Speaker 1: you know, just focus every year. I try to just
Speaker 1: grow every year, you know, from my UM. It started
Speaker 1: way back since I was journey at Georgia. You know
Speaker 1: I didn't every year just find a way to grow
Speaker 1: and be and you know, have a better following year.
Speaker 1: And you know I did that my UM senior year
Speaker 1: at Georgia. From my journeys to senior year and dance
Speaker 1: from my rookie to sophomore season. You know, I think
Speaker 1: I've definitely made a jump. So now just third years
Speaker 1: trying to make a permanent jump out just pretty much
Speaker 1: solidified act of the NFL starter. Well, Divan, Obviously, you
Speaker 1: mentioned about getting the information from whether it's your player reps,
Speaker 1: and I assume you've been in those meetings and being
Speaker 1: a player and being a part of the union. You
Speaker 1: are a dudes member that pays. I mean, how you know,
Speaker 1: for a young player when you come into the NFL,
Speaker 1: how interested were you information whether it's Damorris Smith is
Speaker 1: laid out or your Bears player reps to really inform
Speaker 1: you of the partnership you have with NFL owners in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Um Obviously, when you know we first get
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you're just trying to just focus on
Speaker 1: you know, you know, smaller things and you know things
Speaker 1: are right now. But as you know, the season one
Speaker 1: O that as I got more information on it, you know,
Speaker 1: I became intrigued by and just you know what to me,
Speaker 1: sitting to me is listening to guy's opinions and thinking,
Speaker 1: you know how this can affect every guys from the
Speaker 1: oldest player on the team to the youngest player on
Speaker 1: the team. So you know, I definitely just you know,
Speaker 1: been keeping a good ear to it and guy to it.
Speaker 1: Javan whims our guests here on Bears All Access presented
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Speaker 1: score Jivan, joined by Tom There, Jim Miller, and myself
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonik Jivan. In terms of what your offseason plan
Speaker 1: is in terms of the physical aspect of it, do
Speaker 1: you have anything up your sleeve different and you've done
Speaker 1: in other years getting ready physically to play the game,
Speaker 1: And what are you asking of yourself in that regard? Oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, different from a lot of years, you know,
Speaker 1: I would just train and train and train, and sometimes
Speaker 1: over training. This year, I'm being a little bit more smarter.
Speaker 1: Just I know my body now, and you don't know
Speaker 1: how to train myself now, I know how to Uh,
Speaker 1: you know you're to write people who right trainers. M No,
Speaker 1: I know my nutrition, I know what I need to eat,
Speaker 1: what I don't need to eat. So I definitely just
Speaker 1: been smarter about it this year. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: coaching changes on the offensive side of the ball, but
Speaker 1: there's consistency with your position. Coach. You know, when you
Speaker 1: talk about the amount of coaches that you go through
Speaker 1: in college and some of the guys go through the NFL,
Speaker 1: how important it has been for you to have consistency
Speaker 1: at your position. Coach, Man, it's been amazing. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I love you know, I love learning from the coach
Speaker 1: I have now. Um, you know, he's he's awesome, and
Speaker 1: it just show you know, his work not only is
Speaker 1: just been speaking for ourselfs Um, you know things he
Speaker 1: teach you know, not only just me, but the other receivers.
Speaker 1: You know, we go out and we try to performance
Speaker 1: to the best abilities and where we learn it. You know,
Speaker 1: it pretty much shows and it's a Um every player
Speaker 1: that I feel like, you know, we all made a jump.
Speaker 1: So I think, Um, it just shows how great of
Speaker 1: a coach he is and it's very just important just
Speaker 1: to have that same consistency. Well, is it different like
Speaker 1: when you go back, say in twenty eighteen, and you
Speaker 1: watch your plays and the contributions that you made, and
Speaker 1: then you watch last year's tape and you see how
Speaker 1: different of a player you are or maybe areas you
Speaker 1: have improved so greatly. I mean, does that surprise you?
Speaker 1: How different in things that you're learning, how much better
Speaker 1: you are as a player? And I guess what are
Speaker 1: your focus now? When you go back and watch the
Speaker 1: step to say, hey, I can make a huge improvement again.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, you you you're right. Um, you know it's
Speaker 1: a teller two players. You know, my coach sat me
Speaker 1: down and he showed me twenty eighteen version of me,
Speaker 1: rookie version, and he showed me some clips of me
Speaker 1: last year. And you know, you absolutely it looks like
Speaker 1: two different players. And you know where I go from Now.
Speaker 1: I look at, you know, the player from first year.
Speaker 1: I look at the player from last year, and then
Speaker 1: I look at the things that I liked, and I
Speaker 1: looked at it was a lot of things I didn't like.
Speaker 1: So the things I didn't like, you know, just correct
Speaker 1: those things. And now around this time next year, when
Speaker 1: I'm looking back at this player, you know, of this
Speaker 1: coming season, hopefully I'm able to say, um well, I
Speaker 1: knew I'll be able to say, yeah, I definitely corrected
Speaker 1: a lot of things I did years leading two. Hey Javan,
Speaker 1: what is it that you liked and what is it
Speaker 1: that you didn't like about as you did yourself analysis?
Speaker 1: And how do you parlay that into you know, making
Speaker 1: a bigger impact. Yet eighteen for one eighty six and
Speaker 1: a touchdown last season you got more playing time than
Speaker 1: you did. Is there is there something concrete that you
Speaker 1: can tell us? Um well, I know I've always been
Speaker 1: an opportunist to player, and I've always just made most
Speaker 1: of my opportunities. But there are some opportunities I definitely
Speaker 1: left out the last year. You know, I'm not proud
Speaker 1: of myself for and you know, I definitely want to
Speaker 1: correct just mainly just you know, keeping the technician trying
Speaker 1: to rush off for us, and you know I have
Speaker 1: pretty good grout running. You know, I focused on you know,
Speaker 1: releasing offline scrimmas and things that people said I couldn't do.
Speaker 1: So I do those things fairly well. Now now is
Speaker 1: just putting it all together and showing that I could
Speaker 1: do it, not only every Sunday, but every day throughout
Speaker 1: the week. And you know when I roll out of bed,
Speaker 1: I'm the same consistent player, which is you know, I
Speaker 1: believe myself I'll be a great player in this league
Speaker 1: one day. But just putting it all together now and
Speaker 1: just being more consistent with it. You know, you had
Speaker 1: a great block last year on Cordarrell Patterson's kickoff return
Speaker 1: for a tough down. You know when you're trying to
Speaker 1: transfer the blocking ability of a wide receiver to your
Speaker 1: blocking responsibilities as a special team or has the two
Speaker 1: of them helped each other combined to do each of
Speaker 1: them better? Um, it definitely as help. And you know
Speaker 1: one thing I had to learn, you know, blocking is
Speaker 1: a great technique. Also a lot of time blocking is
Speaker 1: you know, just the one too if you gotta want to,
Speaker 1: you know, be able to do it. And you know
Speaker 1: CP as a guy, you know what I've seen that's
Speaker 1: you know, he's a great returner. So you know I
Speaker 1: will be doing a disservice not only to the same
Speaker 1: but you know to somebody who's a great returner. If
Speaker 1: I didn't you know, go out there. You know I
Speaker 1: try and block is if I'm trying to run around
Speaker 1: and get open. And that's how I just said shut.
Speaker 1: That's how I approach every blocking, even on offense, if
Speaker 1: there's an everything for me and make a good block,
Speaker 1: you know, to help a runner get you know, five
Speaker 1: or eight or ten or whoever long extra amount of
Speaker 1: yards after contact that you know, that's what I'm gonna do. Um,
Speaker 1: are you open to change? Because you know you look
Speaker 1: at all the offensive changes in terms of the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Granted wide receivers stays the same with with Mike Fury,
Speaker 1: but how the offense could be structured differently and how
Speaker 1: your role could could be different with the change. Are
Speaker 1: you open to it? I guess from that standpoint. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, if the team needed me to and
Speaker 1: it makes sense, then you know, obviously you know I'd
Speaker 1: be willing to make a change. But if it's a
Speaker 1: change you know that I think will help the team.
Speaker 1: If you know, if it's something else, you know, I don't,
Speaker 1: we all don't see that I'll be great at or
Speaker 1: to help. You know, it would makes sense. But if
Speaker 1: if the change makes sense, then you know I'd definitely
Speaker 1: be willing to do it. All right, We're gonna let
Speaker 1: you go. Jivan. I appreciate you coming on, but I'd
Speaker 1: be remiss if I didn't bring up some of your
Speaker 1: bulldogs coming into the league. You know, you want to
Speaker 1: be in this business someday. You want to be in
Speaker 1: a communication business, right, so you know, give us a
Speaker 1: little fuming. Now. You got Jake From, you got the
Speaker 1: two big offensive line and Andrew Thomas and Isaiah Wilson.
Speaker 1: You got DeAndre Swift. That's just to name a few
Speaker 1: before guys on offense that fans might be interested in
Speaker 1: knowing about. You know, you just name some great guys.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows. You know, the headliner is a Jake From
Speaker 1: and um DeAndre Swift. So I don't need much time
Speaker 1: speaking on those guys. You know they they are headliners.
Speaker 1: But Brian Harry and great running back. Um. You know
Speaker 1: around hard, he's got a run between your face, you
Speaker 1: will catch the ball. He's a great special teams player.
Speaker 1: You know, he gave nothing but effort and he's reliable. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Andrew Thomas is a great officer a linement.
Speaker 1: You know he's uh, he's gonna remind you a lot
Speaker 1: of Isaiah Wilson. He went to UM. You know, Zay
Speaker 1: went to the Patriots the years Sony and Jay went
Speaker 1: to the Patient's first round together, and which is my
Speaker 1: draft here? And um Charlon Acknlly, you know as a guy,
Speaker 1: he's he came along and you know he definitely showed
Speaker 1: how great he can be. Fun Sack. I used to
Speaker 1: make Soiloman from the same area, so I played Solomon
Speaker 1: many times in high school basketball. Kids athletic, so are you.
Speaker 1: It's an unbelievable crop of offensive weapons coming out of
Speaker 1: that program list how many years, and you're one of them.
Speaker 1: So look forward to see you once the offseason program begins.
Speaker 1: And thanks for taking out some time. Enjoy the rest
Speaker 1: of your vacation. Oh no problems, Thank you, Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for having you our pleasure. Javon Wims our gas
Speaker 1: buster screen coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: but up next, Tom and Jim and Bears Talk here
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Speaker 1: with you as you break down the Bears in advance
Speaker 1: of the new league here coming up on the eight team.
Speaker 1: Lots of issues to break down with the CBA, hoping
Speaker 1: to get finalized and voted down by the players, and
Speaker 1: we'll see if it passes. And there's so much conversation
Speaker 1: about it that we could spend an entire show on it,
Speaker 1: but a couple of notes. So much kind of hit
Speaker 1: the news of the day, guys. But even before I
Speaker 1: do that, Jim, you had in that conversation with Javon
Speaker 1: Wims just now you were intimating, okay, if they ask
Speaker 1: you to make a change, were you buying a position change? No,
Speaker 1: I just mean open to the offense? Yeah, could he
Speaker 1: move around? Could he play different positions? Is it going
Speaker 1: to be looked at differently offensively? Certainly Bill Laser is
Speaker 1: going to bring his ideas to the table. I gotta
Speaker 1: believe John D. Philippo is going to bring his eyes
Speaker 1: to the table as well. Clancy Barrone is going to
Speaker 1: have his input. But you know what I mean by
Speaker 1: that's just how is the offense gonna shift it all?
Speaker 1: Is it shifting in a different direction if say, maybe
Speaker 1: tight end isn't addressed, Is there going to be a
Speaker 1: different outlook of how they structure the offense moving forward
Speaker 1: in terms here Tom asked him a great question about blocking.
Speaker 1: You know, the lack of run game last year. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's some principles that are going to change and be
Speaker 1: different from that standpoint. Maybe the whole run scheme is
Speaker 1: different overall with what Vandcas Steele in the new coaches
Speaker 1: may implement and how the games are going to be
Speaker 1: called differently by coach Naggy. So, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that's all on the table because you go from twenty
Speaker 1: six points a game down to sixteen points a game
Speaker 1: clearly is not good enough, and you have to be
Speaker 1: open to change to do some things differently. You know,
Speaker 1: routes and catches for Givon Wims that everybody understands he's
Speaker 1: got the size and he's got the attributes you need.
Speaker 1: So you think of, you know, Taylor Gabriel is gonna
Speaker 1: move on, do they want to add more size over
Speaker 1: the across the line of scrimmage and every receiver and
Speaker 1: you know Javon Wims. The more you get recognized because
Speaker 1: of the great effort you're putting in in practice, the
Speaker 1: more opportunities you're going to create for yourself. So as
Speaker 1: much as he's lucky to have Mike Fury still here
Speaker 1: and the consistency of that position coach that knows him.
Speaker 1: It is about year to year improvement in the eyes
Speaker 1: of the GM, the scouts, and the position coaches. All right, good,
Speaker 1: good guy to talk to you, No question about it.
Speaker 1: The guy is definitely advancing as a player in different
Speaker 1: aspects of his game. Just gotta fine tune it a
Speaker 1: little bit. And coming up next, we're gonna be joined
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Speaker 1: are the most important ones in the NFL. Had a
Speaker 1: very good year for the Bears last year in his
Speaker 1: debut season. He's coming up next on Bears All Access
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Speaker 1: I didn't feel like, um, everybody left with a positive vibe,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying that what we did, but we know,
Speaker 1: we knew that we could have done better, and we
Speaker 1: knew the things that we needed to correct in the
Speaker 1: off season. So go into the off season knowing what
Speaker 1: you need to correct and being able to get the
Speaker 1: job done next year. It's always something you can look
Speaker 1: forward to. Hey, Buster, when you look at yourself and
Speaker 1: last year, you look at your free agency of looking around,
Speaker 1: you look at the hundred year anniversary of the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: you look at all the build up between the Bears
Speaker 1: and Packers game. Were you a complete Did you know
Speaker 1: a lot more about the Bears system by the middle
Speaker 1: end of the season than you did the first week
Speaker 1: of the season or did you know enough information by
Speaker 1: the get goal that you are completely comfortable in the
Speaker 1: new scheme? Um the scheme I played in this year,
Speaker 1: it was something Symtil I played and for the Jets
Speaker 1: and with Dick you're on, I played in Cleveland, so
Speaker 1: of course of the terminology is different. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a guy. Aggressive guys blitzes and plays man and
Speaker 1: man covers and I fail like everything that that Chuck
Speaker 1: called this year sit my steell, sit bluster. J Miller here,
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you again. How did you come
Speaker 1: out of the season in terms of bumps and bruises
Speaker 1: and how quickly is the turnaround for you when you
Speaker 1: get back at it to start working out again? No
Speaker 1: injuries all year? Um, I felt really good. And uh,
Speaker 1: right after the season, I give myself for a week
Speaker 1: and I just started back working out. So I started
Speaker 1: a little low maintenance and then pick it up. But
Speaker 1: right now I'm in pretty good shape. I like to,
Speaker 1: you know, stay and shape yet around so I can
Speaker 1: hang with the young guys. Yeah, you know you made
Speaker 1: that clear many many times. That's your thing, right. What
Speaker 1: was this the first time that you can remember that
Speaker 1: you didn't have a season of you know, at least
Speaker 1: something things that you had to attend to. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: when I play for the Jets, play my whole career
Speaker 1: with Cleveland, my first to year with the Jets, and
Speaker 1: then my third deal with the Jets. I actually missed
Speaker 1: my first game because I broke both of my hands
Speaker 1: and missed my shoulder of all in one game. So
Speaker 1: I mean, just to be able to complete the full
Speaker 1: year and not miss any games no reps or anything
Speaker 1: like that. It's so good, but throughout my whole career
Speaker 1: two games, hey buster, you know it would We couldn't
Speaker 1: pass up without asking you about some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that's going on with the collective Bargaining agreement because you're
Speaker 1: in a different phase of your career. You've been around
Speaker 1: a couple of teams, you're a veteran, but you're still
Speaker 1: a young veteran. Where are you in terms of the
Speaker 1: information that you know in the collective Bargaining agreement where
Speaker 1: they're trying to get to you guys? All right? So
Speaker 1: me as a player, I'm a vet. I know it's
Speaker 1: um we do sign. If we don't sign this deal,
Speaker 1: it won't hurt guys like me, the veterans that have
Speaker 1: been he paid and you know, like the salaries different,
Speaker 1: and just to be clear, like a little of its
Speaker 1: still clouded to me. But from my understanding, if we
Speaker 1: do sign the other deal where you play eighteen games,
Speaker 1: the young guys will make less money. So for me,
Speaker 1: I'm old school, like, let's get the deal done. You know,
Speaker 1: football is a different sports, a hundred percent injury prone.
Speaker 1: No other sport is like that. So yes, I believe
Speaker 1: in protecting the players, but there's a draft every year,
Speaker 1: people are replaced. It's I just feel like it's so
Speaker 1: many of us. I'm all in for protecting the players,
Speaker 1: but I mean it has to be, you know, fifty
Speaker 1: fifty thing between the players our owner where it's both
Speaker 1: fair for each sun well, being the veteran that you are,
Speaker 1: how do you feel since when you came in the
Speaker 1: league and I was a part of a two buster,
Speaker 1: you know, you're sit in the meetings. I remember when
Speaker 1: Gane Upshaw used to get in front of us when
Speaker 1: I was a former player, and it could get pretty
Speaker 1: you know, pretty back and forth, pretty heated pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: But that was when the CBA really that was the
Speaker 1: first deal that ever had even been done in the league.
Speaker 1: But how informed do you feel as a player in
Speaker 1: terms of the updates from the players, reps from the
Speaker 1: NFLPA president Eric Winston, and just the overall flow of information,
Speaker 1: So you are informed as a player to make a
Speaker 1: really good decision on your vote. Well, Chase Daniels does
Speaker 1: a good job of reaching out to all the guys
Speaker 1: that's the vets to, you know, reach out to the
Speaker 1: guys in our position group. But um, like I said,
Speaker 1: like if you think on the business side of it,
Speaker 1: if you were an owners, it's hard to there's another
Speaker 1: sport where where the the roster fleshuates like the NFL roster.
Speaker 1: So the guarantee certain things I can't see, like why
Speaker 1: it's not guarantee, but like for me as a player,
Speaker 1: your health, everything, So I do wish they like benefits
Speaker 1: for a little better. But other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: I love playing the game, like I don't once the
Speaker 1: game becomes too business like, that's when I'll leave buster
Speaker 1: screen our guests here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score. This is Bearers All Access with Tom Thare,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, Jeff Joniac with you with that theme in mind,
Speaker 1: do you have a sense of where the greater part
Speaker 1: of the Bears roster feels about this, About this particular deal,
Speaker 1: I would saying. So, I haven't talked to like the
Speaker 1: whole team about it, and I do think we have
Speaker 1: a younger team. But I can only speak for myself.
Speaker 1: And if I were to say signed the deal right now,
Speaker 1: I would probably signed the deal. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: reason why most of some owners don't don't want players
Speaker 1: to sign the dealing. Move on to the eighteen game schedule.
Speaker 1: So as a player, you have twenty five hundred players
Speaker 1: verse thirty two owners. I mean whose pockets are deeper
Speaker 1: the owners? Exactly. Well, Hey, Buster, I know where you
Speaker 1: have an event going on with Hugo Boss and you
Speaker 1: talk about some of the outside things you do outside
Speaker 1: of football. It seems like you're really engaged, whether it's fitness,
Speaker 1: businesses or fashion. So what do you what are you
Speaker 1: guys going on over there with Hugo Boss. So Hugo
Speaker 1: Boss on Michigan have they dropping the twenty twenty spring collection?
Speaker 1: And kay, let me put the event together. One thing
Speaker 1: versus is help market brands and uh, Hugo Boss being
Speaker 1: a big client. I mean it's a big event for
Speaker 1: me and I did one by everyone in Chicago that
Speaker 1: can show up on Thursday from six to nineteen free
Speaker 1: during some of these food see some pool clothes, maybe
Speaker 1: buy some clothes. I just want to But the most
Speaker 1: important things from it all, all the proceeds, or twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the proceeds goes to my chariton screen with him. Well,
Speaker 1: how'd you get involved in that? Buster, Because hey, football's
Speaker 1: kind of everybody says it's a career, but it's more
Speaker 1: of a window till you get onto your career. And
Speaker 1: this sounds like something you'll be doing maybe once you're
Speaker 1: playing days are over. Maybe just touch on that a
Speaker 1: little bit and how you got involved. Yes, I started
Speaker 1: it two years ago and part of the the Versatile is
Speaker 1: a talent agency, so you know a lot of guys
Speaker 1: and if it was like, hey, my agian does do
Speaker 1: anything off the field like um, And you know, as
Speaker 1: a player, if you're not, if you're not the star player,
Speaker 1: agents aren't really going to go out their way to
Speaker 1: get the guy who you know, he's not the top
Speaker 1: four or five guys on the team. So with Versatile
Speaker 1: does it it's get guys that you know, kind of
Speaker 1: float under the radar. Four thousand dollars deals, ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollar deals, things like that, because you do have that
Speaker 1: window of playing, so you should maximize the amount of
Speaker 1: money to break in. But as Versatile continue to grow,
Speaker 1: I build a lot of relationships with Suddain brands and
Speaker 1: Human Busses. One of the first time I worked with
Speaker 1: Hugo boss I was actually a jet and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I made my connections through and they trusted me to
Speaker 1: you know, host the event and put the event together
Speaker 1: in Chicago. So I mean, it's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: night for me. Hopefully you know, it goes as planned,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty confident it'll be a good turnout. Buster
Speaker 1: Screen our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy
Speaker 1: to score on Bears All Access. Lastly, before we let
Speaker 1: you go, Um Screenway itself is the charity, and I
Speaker 1: know you have the marketing firm aspect of it, and
Speaker 1: you're you're not just repping you know, athletes, it's it's
Speaker 1: models and entertain anybody in the in the entertainment business.
Speaker 1: Year you're trying to help. Obviously it's a cool thing,
Speaker 1: but in the in the bigger sense, what does the
Speaker 1: charity do and what what does it do for you
Speaker 1: as a as a guy who's got an entrepreneurial spirit
Speaker 1: as well? Um Screenway, we uh, you know, we help
Speaker 1: single mothers and children of the league, and I think
Speaker 1: that's big now dates because the vorce verse is so high.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the world's a little bit more
Speaker 1: selfish nowadays with all social media and things like that.
Speaker 1: So there are some moms out there on their own,
Speaker 1: so it's big for me to be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: give a help in hand, because you never know, like
Speaker 1: who needs a help in hand and when it can come,
Speaker 1: you know, at the right time. So anytime I do
Speaker 1: do a big event, like I make sure, I mean,
Speaker 1: we help a couple of people out in the area. Hey,
Speaker 1: if time flies in from Maui and Jim from Michigan, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna set them up with a swag
Speaker 1: bag from Hugo Boss. I mean, he would look great. Tommy,
Speaker 1: you look sadly like I like that. That's a big mark.
Speaker 1: That's a big brand. I know that you don't roll
Speaker 1: with anybody anything but the high Roller brand. You know,
Speaker 1: all closer like I just like clothes that you look
Speaker 1: well put together. I could get my whole outfit from
Speaker 1: the grocery store and I still would be happy if
Speaker 1: it looks great, well good, I'm comple. My wife says,
Speaker 1: I need all the help I can get. Man, I'll
Speaker 1: take it what you got. Let's go, Hey, Buster, good
Speaker 1: to talk to. Good luck with the event. Always enjoy
Speaker 1: you on the show. You're one of the good guys
Speaker 1: in the league and a guy who's got a big
Speaker 1: picture plan of life. So appreciate you telling us all
Speaker 1: about it, Buster Screen in the offseason program Buster Screen
Speaker 1: Bears Defensive Back, filling us in on Bears All Access.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. Rejoined Tom and Jim after
Speaker 1: this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score final
Speaker 1: segment tonight a Bears All Access on your Monday night.
Speaker 1: Hope it's going well, Jeff, Joni Acolon with Tom there
Speaker 1: and Jim Miller. We just interviewed Buster Screen and fellas.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy talking to it because he's gonna give
Speaker 1: you an honest and an answer, an honest analysis of
Speaker 1: his own views on things, not just his playing skills
Speaker 1: and where he's at when he needs to work on,
Speaker 1: but just overall. Do you think his opinion about the
Speaker 1: collective barring agreement and what the knowledge is or what
Speaker 1: it isn't is more in line with a greater number
Speaker 1: of players than not. You know, I think if Jeff,
Speaker 1: it depends on what side of the dividing line you're on.
Speaker 1: What do you consider in your life financial wealth for
Speaker 1: the remainder of your life, or what do you consider
Speaker 1: that building Because there is a difference of opinion, you know,
Speaker 1: when we sat in that strike and started to have
Speaker 1: those long term discussions the upper echelon, the upper earners.
Speaker 1: They were in a whole different frame of mind in
Speaker 1: this strike, And so I think Buster's got a really
Speaker 1: clear view of it. He understands both sides of it.
Speaker 1: But I do think if you took a majority vote
Speaker 1: of all the players, they want to get this thing
Speaker 1: decided and keep this ball rolling. The worst thing that
Speaker 1: can you can ever do is get one or two
Speaker 1: guys to try to influence some type of work stoppage,
Speaker 1: and that is not good for anybody. Yeah, he's an
Speaker 1: older player, he's more mature. You know, it's two ends
Speaker 1: of the spectrum here, a young player like Javon Wims
Speaker 1: that maybe when you come into the league, you're not married,
Speaker 1: you don't have kids, and then you know, a ten
Speaker 1: year vet like Buster Screen, you look at things a
Speaker 1: little bit different. You know, this collective barnering agreement does
Speaker 1: have pension increases for retired players, It will have more
Speaker 1: health benefits for players because ultimately, you know he's going
Speaker 1: to be a retired player as well. So I do
Speaker 1: think your thoughts change and things take on greater meeting.
Speaker 1: Just the older you get, the more mature, you get
Speaker 1: and you start thinking about things after football, and certainly
Speaker 1: your pension increasing significantly is going to be a big
Speaker 1: part of that. So as a young player, you kind
Speaker 1: of you just you think you're going to play twenty
Speaker 1: years and that's just not the case. Again, pro football
Speaker 1: is really just a window. It's not a career, you know,
Speaker 1: It's really a window to your next career and what
Speaker 1: you will be doing the next twenty thirty years of
Speaker 1: your life. And and maybe obviously his adventures with Hugo
Speaker 1: Hugo Boss is something that he'll be doing in the
Speaker 1: future away from football once he's retired, which which brings
Speaker 1: you to a topic like Eddie Jackson. For example, Eddie
Speaker 1: gets a new contract, gets a big contract, as was expected,
Speaker 1: and an important piece to the Bears future, not just
Speaker 1: on defense but as one of the team leaders. Is
Speaker 1: a guy that people rally around in that locker room.
Speaker 1: And it's a great debate all the time about YEA,
Speaker 1: when you're pressure packed of playing for a new deal,
Speaker 1: when you've got that talent that you don't want to
Speaker 1: waste financially, and then after the contract, you know, is
Speaker 1: that pressure bigger? Is it harder? I mean, you can
Speaker 1: look at it from various ways. How do you guys
Speaker 1: look at the guys who get the big contracts in
Speaker 1: their first crack at it after being drafted. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff last year, I think Eddie Jackson had
Speaker 1: a lot of individual, individual pressure on himself. He knew
Speaker 1: at what age of his career he was. He knew
Speaker 1: he had to perform. He knew he had to stay healthy,
Speaker 1: and he knew he had to keep those eyes opened
Speaker 1: of all the people that enjoyed what he's done in
Speaker 1: the early part of his career. Now the deal is done,
Speaker 1: you got a lot of pressure on you from the team,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a different form of pressure because
Speaker 1: your salary is printed in the paper. Everybody knows what
Speaker 1: you're gonna make. So now those plays that you were
Speaker 1: making as an unexpected young guy, now you got to
Speaker 1: make those same plays as an expected, veteran, paid guy.
Speaker 1: And I think with it comes expectation and the pressure
Speaker 1: to play and play well. And as we know, there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's only a handful of guys on every
Speaker 1: team throughout the NFL that are going to get the
Speaker 1: high tier contracts. Quarterbacks. You know, your market tea go
Speaker 1: to receiver, etc. Pass rusher. I think everybody's aware of that.
Speaker 1: You know. It's the other ninety percent of the guys
Speaker 1: that are that are on the roster that are fighting
Speaker 1: tooth and nail, and most of those guys are are
Speaker 1: the rank and file players, you know. So I think
Speaker 1: if you just look at this deal overall, I meane,
Speaker 1: through the high money earners in the NFL need anything more,
Speaker 1: I think you would say no, you know, so, they
Speaker 1: may begrudged the fact that they're going to play an
Speaker 1: extra game. I get it. I think we all get it.
Speaker 1: But that extra game alone literally could be a quarter
Speaker 1: of you know, really a quarter of a player's earnings
Speaker 1: throughout his NFL career for the rank and file members.
Speaker 1: When you think about it, they're going to get an
Speaker 1: extra well, now they didn't even put a cap on it,
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be over two hundred and fifty grand
Speaker 1: potentially for that seventeenth game. So it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Think about that. If the average career is let's just
Speaker 1: say four years, so if you were to have a
Speaker 1: lockout next year, a quarter of a player's playing career,
Speaker 1: his salary would now avoid So rank and file members
Speaker 1: don't want that. They don't want to lose a quarter
Speaker 1: of their earnings in window that's already really small in
Speaker 1: terms of earning power, which is a very small window
Speaker 1: to earn it in Jim, you may have discussed this
Speaker 1: on your show today, but there are players that you
Speaker 1: know are vote vocal on Twitter or any of the
Speaker 1: social media outlets and maybe seek outside opinion of legal
Speaker 1: perspectives that are not really aligned with the National Football
Speaker 1: League in terms of a knowledge of what really goes
Speaker 1: on in football. It's just general knowledge. Sometimes that can
Speaker 1: be a dangerous proposition and give a false sense of
Speaker 1: what the reality of the of the contract that has
Speaker 1: been put for them to review because it's so detailed
Speaker 1: and it could be interpreted in many different ways. Did
Speaker 1: you find that have you talked about that. I've seen
Speaker 1: it today, you know, from several players around the league
Speaker 1: using other sources for explaining the deals. You're all sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but the players set something to do about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're the ones that voted into Borris Smith.
Speaker 1: So I mean they only have themselves to blame because
Speaker 1: they approve that vote, they voted on it, and they
Speaker 1: have their leader and from that standpoint, I think for
Speaker 1: any player, probably their best resource is going to be
Speaker 1: their agent, their representation, because I guarantee you when those
Speaker 1: agents get that four hundred and fifty six page document,
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned, when they go to their client
Speaker 1: and they tell their client, hey, this is a good
Speaker 1: deal for you. You're the rank and file member of
Speaker 1: the NFL. Your salary is going to increase. This is
Speaker 1: good for you. Now for the high priced, top tier players,
Speaker 1: they're giving obviously the opposite spectrum, where you know, say
Speaker 1: a guy's getting a million dollars a game, saying Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: that's getting a million dollars a game. You know he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to play another game. And I get it
Speaker 1: because he can afford to not want to play in
Speaker 1: another game. But that's not true for all members. So
Speaker 1: I would think for the players, their best resource has
Speaker 1: to be an agent. When you get labor law lawyers
Speaker 1: like what say Russell o'coon is getting involved with with Garrigos.
Speaker 1: I mean, then if he feels that Garrigos should run
Speaker 1: for the NFLPA, hey wait till that votes open and
Speaker 1: Garrigos can throw his name into the hat and we'll
Speaker 1: see who the players vote for. At that point, I
Speaker 1: understand everything's Jeff Jim is saying, and he's got a
Speaker 1: good understanding of it. It's you know, I think these
Speaker 1: guys right now, they're fortunate that they have quicker transfer
Speaker 1: of communication than we did back And I hate to
Speaker 1: keep bringing up the old strike that we went through,
Speaker 1: but you know, these guys, you know, they have a
Speaker 1: better ability to communicate the information more clearly and get
Speaker 1: a quicker response from it. Also, all right, let's talk
Speaker 1: college draft. Quick note to a tag of Byelowa apparently
Speaker 1: medically cleared for all football activity after his very serious
Speaker 1: leggings or excuse me hip injury and expected to throw
Speaker 1: for teams guys on April ninth. Is that an important
Speaker 1: moment for this potential top five pick. I definitely think
Speaker 1: it is. You know, you know, he's obviously gotten positive
Speaker 1: reviews the whole way. You got a good Mrrive result
Speaker 1: down at the NFL Combine. But I do think this
Speaker 1: is what I'm wondering. He may give a workout on
Speaker 1: April ninth, but I still think, Jeff that teams are
Speaker 1: gonna go want to go in and work him out individually.
Speaker 1: You know, is he cleared for that. Can he do
Speaker 1: it on back to back days in terms of an
Speaker 1: intense workout. I don't know if that's going to be
Speaker 1: the case yet, because this is a significant injury, and
Speaker 1: there are going to be teams that come to pause
Speaker 1: of whether they're going to select a player with this
Speaker 1: type of significant injury. They are going to have their
Speaker 1: medical doctors look at it and say, hey, is this
Speaker 1: going to be a degenerative condition? Does he have seven
Speaker 1: years to play? Is it eight years to play? Pat
Speaker 1: brought it up. Pat Kerwin, obviously a former executive, brought
Speaker 1: up today. I can only recall one player ever coming
Speaker 1: back from this injury, and it was the linebacker for
Speaker 1: the Jets, and he said he was out basically two years,
Speaker 1: and it was Marvin Jones. He did come back and play,
Speaker 1: but it's a different position as a linebacker. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of rotation at the quarterback position in terms of
Speaker 1: the rotation of your hips. And believe it or not,
Speaker 1: for the listeners out there, a lot of x NFL
Speaker 1: quarterbacks they have to have their hips replaced because of
Speaker 1: that rotation. So what is really the damage or I
Speaker 1: should say, the degenerative condition of that hip and a
Speaker 1: lot of it's going to be medically driven by your
Speaker 1: team doctors and how his results come back. You know too,
Speaker 1: Jim and Jeff is every time we talk about a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's going through a workout or going through his
Speaker 1: college day, only report that comes back is going, Okay,
Speaker 1: he was fifty out of fifty six. We had all
Speaker 1: these passes that we're going to throw. I think this
Speaker 1: is going to be more of an evaluation of his
Speaker 1: feet than his arm ability, because you have a countless
Speaker 1: amount of throws to go back and look at at
Speaker 1: a college level. If you think you need that eighteen
Speaker 1: yard out or this perfectly time pass, his judgment day
Speaker 1: is gonna be his feet, his drop, his foundation, his
Speaker 1: ability to, like Jim said, to use his hips, and
Speaker 1: his throwing motion. So gosh, it's it's kind of strange
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be evaluating a quarterback more for what
Speaker 1: he's doing from the waist down rather than from the
Speaker 1: shoulders up. All right, I gotta bring it up because
Speaker 1: it's it's obviously it's becoming a big thing across Europe
Speaker 1: with the cancelation of sporting events and possibility of having
Speaker 1: games with no fans. I guess the NBA, MLB, NHL
Speaker 1: MLS temporarily restricting lockeromaxis for media to interview players keep
Speaker 1: them as safe as possible with the coronavirus when the
Speaker 1: when the league year starts, do you guys have any
Speaker 1: anticipation of what the NFL might be facing here, because
Speaker 1: it's all eyes on the NFL all the time. So
Speaker 1: what they do is is a significant aspect of sports obviously.
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't that kind of what the world does
Speaker 1: up into that point? And then as things get closer
Speaker 1: than you got to start making, you know, more clear
Speaker 1: headed decisions, and I guess you're just gonna have to,
Speaker 1: you know, just have It's kind of a wait in
Speaker 1: sea scenario right now, because you know, it's it's so
Speaker 1: many months yet to cop Yeah, yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's obviously good to be precautionary. I think
Speaker 1: there's only one hundred cases in the whole United States,
Speaker 1: and of course there should be worry about it's spreading,
Speaker 1: but you know, it just everything that I read and
Speaker 1: information you gather, it's good that it's warming up because
Speaker 1: I guess that is the one thing in terms of
Speaker 1: the heat and how the change of the seasons will
Speaker 1: probably be the best bet to deter the virus as
Speaker 1: as it currently sits because the warmer it is uh
Speaker 1: typically um from flice. From what I gather in what
Speaker 1: I read about the virus, it really slows it down.
Speaker 1: So I think it's good to be precautionary. But again,
Speaker 1: I still think, you know, there's no reason for panic
Speaker 1: because you know, one hundred cases. I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: is a good thing by by any means, but I
Speaker 1: mean it could be a lot worse. But I think
Speaker 1: the weather changing and heating up will be a big
Speaker 1: factor in determining and hopefully can can get this thing
Speaker 1: going in the right direction. All Right, we got a
Speaker 1: minute and a half to go. We'll let you guys
Speaker 1: fly as this week's show coming to a close with
Speaker 1: Free Agency now at nine days away, any any final
Speaker 1: thoughts for the home stretch. I know we'll have one
Speaker 1: more show before that kicks in, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it could be could be delayed. Who knows what the
Speaker 1: CBA situation. But let's just say for the sake of
Speaker 1: saying it, it'll all be a clear road. What do
Speaker 1: you think you know? To me, it's just the interest
Speaker 1: in the quarterback position, either the superstars to see where
Speaker 1: they're going to go, or how these backups are going
Speaker 1: to filter to these other teams. You know, when you
Speaker 1: have former Heisman Trophy winners first and second picks in
Speaker 1: the draft, other experience bets, it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think if it gets ratified on Saturday by the players,
Speaker 1: look forward to an exciting next week. Things are about
Speaker 1: to roll and an explode because that tampering window is open,
Speaker 1: and I think it'll be business as usual in the NFL.
Speaker 1: All right, Fellas appreciated his own waste for Tom and Jim,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniak. Thanks to Javan Wims and Buster Screen
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