All Access: Allen Robinson excited for 2019

and welcome into another edition to Bears All Access. Jeff johnny Ac along with Tom Thair and Jim Miller in Michigan and his home after a day on the air on Sirius x M NFL Radio, We're gonna hop right to it. We got our special guests ready to go, fired up and enjoying what was a crazy NBA trade deadline. I saw tweets all day from Alan or Robinson, the Bears veteran wide receiver, kind enough to join us here on Bears All Access. Alan, good evening, how you doing.

You love that NBA, don't you? I do? I do? I do? And thanks for having me. Know um, the NBA is funny, though basketball has a has a very deer place in my heart. You know, it's something that I played. I'm ever since I can remember, so, um, you know, I has a special place in my heart, you know. So it was fun being able to follow the NBA and you know, also not being in season. You know when I'm when I'm during season, normany focused

so much on the NBA. But you know, being able just to wake up and look at the news and you know, actually be able to watch ESPN, you know, because I'm don't during season. You know, it's pretty it's pretty fun and exciting for me. What struck a chord with you today? With the league? Man? You know, I was actually a pretty uh pretty surprised and I see Anthony Davis traded, you know, Um again, I think there's so many different storylines that you see across the NBA.

You know, you see guys being traded mid game. You see veteran guys being traded, you see young guys being traded. You see guys being traded three times and then being waves. You know, so it's a lot of It was a lot going on during this NBA trade deadline. Hey man, what about through your journey through free agency last year, did you have any of these conversations behind the scenes that players were recruiting you or it maybe even a

coach was saying how well they've respected your ability. You know, you hear a lot of different things, you know, from

from my agent, you know. But at the same time, you know, um, for me, especially with Chicago, you know, and by by me being close friends with Adrian Amish, you know, I had just kind of talked to him too, and I really got to feel like how Chicago was, you know, being able to talk to princes A Mukamara, you know, playing with him in Jacksonville, you know, being able to to talk to a couple of guys that I knew, you know about the city of Chicago, you know,

and that was a big thing for me. Like I said before, Um, Chicago was one of the only teams that did kind of kind of have that benefit for me, you know, to be able to actually talk to some guys who are who are currently on a roster and who had been there and who had been in the

city of Chicago. Well, Alan, Jim Miller, here is a pleasure talking to you down in Atlanta when you were with your your teammates and Tariko and join your that day on set, and just as you're reflecting you see that Super Bowl fifty three is in the books and just how close the Bears were as a football team. Why not us? Everybody always says, and why not the

Bears in twenty nineteen. You know, um, I think we have all the time in the world to accomplish that, you know, um I think for us, you know, again starting to day one, Um, whenever we start and get back in April, you know, the number one goal and the first starting point for us is, yes, we do want to win a Super Bowl. Row. We know we have to start with, you know, winning the division, you know, and and again we're gonna have to sit back and watch.

You know, it's gonna be some changes being done in the in the division. You know, probably some some small changes on our roster, just like just like everybody you know, and it's a it's a different team from from a year to year. You know, maybe be some small change, maybe some big changes, but it's a different team, you know. So once we still footing the facility, you know, once we return back, you know, we had to stay locked in on our goals and you know we got to

work twice as hard as we do last season. Hey, Alan, what's different for you this offseason and where and how will you focus your time? Um, you know, for me, it's it's good, you know, being um, being healthy you know at this standpoint, and being able to being able to do some some things. You know. Um again, still still getting back to one hundred percent. You know, I was nursing an injury rifractured my ribs leading the season

last year. You know, so just so just kind of kind of working through that, you know, and being able to have time to just kind of really work on all aspects of my body, you know, my joints and everything like day and really hone in onto certain specifics that I want to get accomplished this year as opposed to last year. You know, the main, folks, was just to get back to one hundred percent and get back

on the field. Alan Robins and our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score Jeff and Time and Jim Miller with you and Alan Robins and the Bears veteran wide receiver. I know you and I talked right after the end of the season in the locker room, and you had a big

smile on your face. You have the loss hurt, but you were excited about just what you're alluding to here, to kind of reinvent the body a little bit, to have you know, full capacity, to get yourself exactly physically right, get you're all balanced up and ready to roll. Is that the underrated aspect of coming back from an injury,

even a year and a half later. Almost definitely, you know, I think it's very underrated, you know, because once you get through that first year, that twelve month process around you know, thirteen and fourteen months, you know, at the same time, you're still playing catchup, you know, but your body is still it's still a little beat up, you know, from just the amount that it had to endure, you know,

the recovery process. You know. So so now just to feel like I'm not playing catch up, you know, to be able to kind of set certain benchmarks that I want to set going into the season, and to be able to work my way up and you know and peak at the right time. You know, um going into the season is it's definitely big, you know, And like I said before, you know, being able to have all the time in the world to focus on some of the specifics that I want to focus on body wise,

football wise and everything like that. You know, I think it's it's definitely going to benefit me a lot. And every guy is different. I know, some guys they feel like they get their explosion back two years after ACL surgery. And for you, did you feel you got all that explosion backers? There are still work to be done in that area, and here you still lad the Bears and receiving in twenty eighteen. You know, it definitely still still

work to be done. You know. But as of course of the season I went last year, you know, I did, I did start to feel that explosion, you know, coming back, you know about the game game five or six in the season, you know, I started to progress a lot,

you know. And again I think, um, I think our training staff and our strength staff did a great job of you know, I'm also also just helping me throughout the course of the process of you know, um and still implementing plios throughout the course of the of the game weeks. You know, still sty're doing a lot of strengthen and work through the course of the game weeks, you know. And I thought it did a great job of just having a good plan for me. All season long.

When it came to the week to week. Hey, Allen, it's about Matt Naggie. Did anything surprise you about him this year on or off the field? You know, from the unique things he does on the field with the personnel groupings including the defensive players, to the atmosphere after

the games, anything surprised you about Matt? Nothing surprised me at all, you know, And definitely congratulations to coach na you know, if winning Coach of the Year, you know, I thought it was very very well deserved, you know,

but nothing surprised me at all. You know, I think the biggest thing for me, um, you know, looking from the outside and you know, before actually being a part of this team, was that you know, I knew that that was something that he did very well to what's to move guys around, put guys in a certain position, you know, and and really cause different different havoc for defense.

You know, I think whenever defenses don't know exactly where guys are lining up or have some wrinkles to their plane, you know, it's tough to kind of to kind of scheme for a lot of guys and not just scheming for guys, but you know, for the whole scheme and thing is hard for defensive coordinators to know exactly where guys are going to be at or or what's exactly going to be run from this, you know, So I knew.

I knew when I did my little bit of research on on coachnag you know, before he got to Chicago. You know, I knew that that was a big part of his offense and now something that I want to be a part of. Alan Robinson, our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to scorer. It bears all access as the off season now moves into a different phase.

You took in the Super Bowl, I assume I want to know what your takeaway is on that game and did you see yourself and your teammates playing in that game as it was unfolding, because it very much could have been that way for the Chicago Bears in twenty eighteen. The actual game and stuff, I did not see, um, but I am I definitely first saw us, you know,

playing in that game. You know, just as far as as I was watching the rest of the playoffs and stuff like that, you know, just as far as certain players that were made you know, defensively and and and offensively. You know, I saw every guy in the locker room make those plays. You know. I saw guys um you know, certain throws that were made. I saw Mitch make you

know certain catches that were made. I saw guys in our receiving room make you know certain certain runs and in certain um certain receiving yards being being gotten from the backfield. And I saw threetmake you know on same thing on defense. You know, I saw a lot of the plays being made, um that we made all year long. You know. So it's no doubt in my mind that that the Bears don't had the possibility and don't have the the locker room to be there in two thousan nineteen,

well you mentioned and you guys played both teams. When you look at New England in the Rams, I guess, and this was everybody considered this the year of offense in the NFL where you're surprised at least at the score. It was so low scoring, and you faced both those defenses. I mean, did you think it was gonna have the edge that way in White leading the Patriots way? Um? I did not, you know, And again it's tough for

me to say, because I can't see. I didn't see the game, you know, so when I did see the see the score and just kind of you know, I saw some of the saw some of the updates on my phone, you know, as far as the score and stuff like that, I wasn't this applies, you know, I have to sit back and watch the game. I know. I probably watched the game at some point in time this off season just to kind of see, you know,

how the game went, you know. But I was definitely surprised, you know, um, um, New Englands is normally a pretty good team in the red zone, you know, so I don't know how many times they got to the resort or didn't, but I expected them to get there a little bit more. And defensively, I knew that, Um. I knew that New England was gonna try to keep the Rams, you know, out to end zone, to keep them kicking field goals, you know. So um, and again I thought the Rams had a pretty good offense to be able

to get down there as well, you know. So, um, I didn't expect it to be that low score, and I thought they may get into a little bit of a of a field goal competition. Early on, but I thought the things may kind of settle out a little bit and you may see some guys get into the end zone. But yeah, I was really shocked by the score. Well, Alan, it may shock you to find this out, but you know, given what Jim just threw out there for you, the only snap of the game in the red zone was

the New England touchdown run by Sony Michelle. That was it for the two teams. So one red zone snap in the game. Wow, Yeah, I would have I would have never guessed. I would have never guessed, you know what I mean, That's that's a pretty uh, that's a pretty small field that those guys were playing on, you know, as far as need the team getting to the getting to the rizzo for except for on that on that possession, you know, that's a that's a that's an eighty yards field,

you know. So those defense Credit to those defenses, I mean, they played they had to play lights out, you know, to be able to keep both teams really out of not only the rizzone, but I mean from the scoreboard, looks that they kept them pretty much out of field goal range as well, you know. So I mean, yes, that's us those defenses. Sure did, all right, all we appreciate you, man. I hope to talk to you throughout the offseason from time to time here on Bears All

Access and enjoy your evening. All right, Thank you, Allen, Thank you. Alan Robinson, Bears receiver, our guest here on Bears All Access. Jeff, Joni actimp there, Jim Miller coming back after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score and welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, your prompt partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products to over a million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS

Energy at igs dot com. Jeff and time in studio here in Chicago and in Michigan at his home. Jim Miller trio back together again another week of Bears All Access. We just listened to Alan Robinson. If you have any conversation you'd like to throw on the table here three one, two sixty four, sixty seven sixty seven. Adams da Zinsky is our producer tonight, helping us out as well. Any takeaways from Anna Robinson, Big time and Jim you know for me when Jim talked about the process of recovery

and how long it takes. I think he got a reflection of his commitment to the game and how well he did one year into the process. But I still think there's so much left for Alan Robinson to achieve in this system. The smarter, the better, the more efficient that Mitchell Trubisky gets, the more opportunities that it's going to present for Alan Robinson because I think he's gonna win a lot of big guy battles against some of

the dbs he's gonna play against. And when Matt last year talked about this offense being in a developmental stage like a freshman class, how quickly can you go from a freshman class offense to a graduate class offense within

one year? Or is this gonna be a three year Matt keeps talking about, you know you killed it at one on one, now you're going to two o one, Right, Well, Jim, can you go from does it have to be one one, two one, three on one process for Mitch and Allen Robinson and the crew, or can you go from a freshman class level to maybe a junior senior class level. Yeah, I think it can be done as at an accelerated level. They're just gonna be so much further ahead than that

what they were, And especially for Alan Robinson. I mean think about in that interview he said he was just starting like playo metrics during the season to work on his explosion. He'll be much further ahead of the game just having his body prepared to play it. I do think they'll dive into the excess and knows what they covered is now in the bank, and now they just can keep on investing in new things that they're gonna introduce the players, and it'll be at a much more

accelerated level. On top of that too, he can actually go and meet up with Mitch Drobiski and the other receivers and throw the ball around during the off season, you know, and get back into that sink. You know, their chemistry grew. I mean it kind of was. The exclamation point was the playoff game. Alan Robinson was very difficult to defend. The franchise postseason record ten for one forty three. He was very good in that game. Yeah, well, I think he lived up to everything we thought, just

the body control and in all those things. He's a big target. He gets run after the catch. He can make the acrobatic plays down the sideline, and you know, when he got a receiver like that, sometimes it may be covered, but you're gonna let it, let it go.

And I think Mitch he got that confidence in that trust as the season went along, just knowing that Alan Robinson is always going to be a positive ent to the end of the football Jeff play, Jeff and Tim and Jim Miller with you here on Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy three one, two, six, four four sixty seven sixty seven to count him a zoo. Mike is on the line. Mike, how you doing tonight? Mike you there? Yep? How are y'all doing good? How

are you doing good? Thank you? Frays can just go on to see what y'all think the Bears should do in their first pick in the draft. I know it's a little early, but still hankering for some football talk. So I got you, I got you. You can't. You can't get enough of it, that's for sure. I missed it already. I miss I missed it. Well. The thing about is all, you know. I have a couple of

interesting questions. I'm glad Mike brought it up. So the combine is February twenty six, throughout the first couple days of March, right, Um, and then you have you know the four thinking about you know, the Bear. It just seems everybody that they're going to stay with the third round pick. So that's what you have to go to. There's no thinking of any trade opportunities for the Bear.

Nobody hearing nothing. I'm just saying. So you know, as we sit here and talk about the draft months in advance, you know you still have to watch the combine and you're you're thinking, you know, how many you know, how many picks into the draft? Are you? Are you thinking here? Because you can't. There's no analytics that can have you prethink the process where the Bears are going to pick hit the round. Yeah, no exactly, but they'll have a pretty good idea of you know, who might be available

and arrange Jim, that's how they work those boards. Um. But yeah, I mean you're gonna keep going for best player available, aren't you, And and try and fill needs too, because there are still some and there are depth issues that you'd like to address. And you got a factor in free agency, which starts in the second week in March. Yeah, and you know, I don't think there'll be big players in free agency, but if I think there's a player who's a right fit, I think we saw last year

just how aggressive Ryan Pace was. You know, just because they went out and signed a couple of receivers, it didn't preclude the Bears from drafting another wide receiver, as Anthony Miller was picked up. We know, like right now, if you just look at the Bears roster, you know they resigned Bobby Massey. Could offensive line be a targeted area?

You'd think safety if they lose Adrian Amos in free agency, and I believe a couple of tight ends aren't resigned, you know what's gonna happen with Dion Sims and I believe Albroncker and those guys in Brown, I think we're out of contract right now. So tight end, you would lean there because I'm a I'm a big need guy.

I think when the draft comes around. Every time when I look at a draft, after a team is selected, nine times out of ten, they're drafting for neat at a position that they didn't fill in free agency, and it becomes an area, another checkbox where they can fill out the entire roster. All right, Jim, we call. This is from Gurney. James wants to talk a little offense. How you doing tonight? Hey, fells really cool to be on the phone with you guys. Man so really quickly.

I just want to see you guys hit the nail right on the head, really simple. This team next year is going to go as far as his offense goes. So we talked a little bit about going from one on one to two oh one. I think the two o one is just going to be coming in the training camp already knowing the terminology, so it might be a little bit easier to get the three oh one. So being twenty first, I steel if these guys got to be in the top twelve, if not the top ten,

to make it for the playoffs. And nothing bad about Naggie. I love him, but I just hope his playoffs. His calling that playoff game, his game plan was kind of iffy, so hopefully he can grow too. But it's exciting. It's awesome to be on the phone with Big Tom and Jim. I love watching you guys play, and I just with

no jet to say, having an awesome awesome week boy. Yeah, thanks James, And I think what I'm looking at I want to see how you know, it was great what coach Nagi did coming in and he obviously was demanding of the players, and again they were evaluating him as much as you know he was evaluating them. And just you know how hard is in demanding. He's going to be of this football team. And I hope he is demanding and this team we talked about the maturity of it.

I hope they're demanding of themselves to push themselves further beyond what they've already accomplished. And I think that has to be a shared vision by both. But I think the coach is the one who's got to put push the buttons to make it happen. I always say everybody says what comes player or first, player or the coach. I definitely think it's the coach. The coach comes first in order to make it happen. That's why Bill Belichick

this one a six world championship. That coach knows how to push all the buttons to be demanding of the players and hold them accountable to reach the heights of the well. You know what the key here is is when you push all the coaches out of the locker room and you only have the players. The most important guy in that locker room, I believe is Mitchell Trubisky and I still think he pushes his buttons as much as he does any other player inside that locker room.

And that's the key ingredient, Jim, because when you talk about the lengthy success of Belichick, you know, you got to see who's riding in a sidecar the whole time, and you know, I know that he's done good things with other quarterbacks who have stepped in for Brady in the moment of need, but Brady's the Super Bowl guy that you know is a lot hopefully going to develop into the relationship of Matt and Mitchell, and it has

to leave that continuity. I mean, I'm glad to see offensive coaches are all remaining no one, but he's moving on. I just that chemistry is critical and you need it to grow and it doesn't just take a year or two and there will be hurdles still to climb. And this is for the whole offense. I mean, you got young guys, young skill position players, and an offensive line

that is intact. That is it is going to take a big jump, and I believe Matt and I interviewed him after the honors night the other night, Jim, and I'm sure you did as well. He's got his duck center already. What the messaging will be for twenty nineteen, You're still gonna be you, You're still gonna be obsessed, but there'll be new things to undress and to reveal to the players when they meet for the first time in April fifteenth or something like that, with the first

team meeting. He gotta keep it fresh, and he does keep he keeps it exciting, and he keeps it fun, and he does keep it challenging. We see what kind of coach he is on the practice field during training camp, and that guy's fiery. Man. Well, I just think, you know, every year there's just the ebb and flows of the season here. You know, you get Khalil Mack. He unfortunately has the ankle injury. Then he's got to sit two games. And what Alan Robinson he missed, had to sit down

a couple of games. And that's really what it is. How do you adjust through all those periods where some guys are banged up? You know, your team's a little beat up. Can you practice this hard? Can you push through it? And you know all the other things that could you know, potentially beat distractions for a team. You gotta deal with all that. And I thought he was masterful with how he did it and did it with ease and look good doing it. I mean, that's for sure.

He definitely had the heartbeat and feel of his team and where they were each and every single week. What I like about Maddie doesn't have these pre made up messages that he's going to deliver. Deliver when he thinks the time is right. He talks about his messages have something to do with what that's something relevant in the moment, and so he's not putting any of these ideas or having these pre speeches given to these players that are smarter than just the agenda. Every week, Yeah, there we go.

And that's the theme of the what's happening in the moment exactly, and the theme is it's a it's all I can't wait to hear it every week. I want I'm curious where it goes and sometimes be app sometimes predictable. That's time there. Ever, the Marketer right here with Jim Miller here on Bears Ow Access. Take your phone calls when we come back three one, two sixty seven sixty seven. Adams, Zinsky and Herb Lawrence our producers here tonight. Thanks for listening.

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didn't say my name. I guess you've already admitted to it. I'm going it's hoping for no more beach mishaps. That's you know what you said there is I need to hear the story right away. Hey, listen, I'm basically Charlie Brown, So anything can happen. That's anything can happen kind of trip, that's for sure, But looking forward to it. It's some great Bears fans headed down there to Mexico. Be first time I've ever been to Mexico. Any advice, fellas, take

your shirt off. Bottled water, Yeah, bottled water. You know. I Jim was Jim's big time. I mean, you know, it's serious x M NFL radio, and he gets all the big guys. He sits down with Bill Belichick, he hits down with Tom Brady. So we're in the and Jim, you saw me there, I looked a little frazzled in

the post Super Bowl media craze. They were very particular and how they were going to shuffle people in and out of the Patriots and uh, the the admentory interview rooms, and you couldn't go into the MVP room because once you go in to hear the Belichick and Brady press conferences and uh, Julian Edelman, you aren't allowed to leave. So you were stuck. So you whiske buy me and Tom Brady's on your hip pocket. I just I was like, he goes, hey, Jeff, how are things going? And I

was just like kind of phased by it all. But uh, how how was Tom after that? He's great? You know, and I think he and Bill and it is once you're a patriot and a part of that team, in that organization, you're you're always a part of it. And they're they're always so gracious with their time. And Tom took a few minutes to join Serious x M NFL Radio, and you know, it is as true today is what he was as a teammate back in two thousand and four. Treats everybody the same, and I think any player on

that roster today would say the same thing. The guy's you know, he's just an amazing teammate to play with. Works extremely hard. You know, expects a lot out of his teammates, but they see how hard he works to get where he's at and to win games. And it truly is about winning with that organization. How many times you know here, I thought it was great Bill Belichick

wins the six World Championship award. Right away, he's flattered to be with Papa Hallison and Curly Lambeaux with what they college because they accomplished six world Chain said even to be in their class, because I believe you know, growing up Bill Belichick watch a lot of the Chicago Bears. But right away that was one of his first comments to be like, Hey, to be with those two guys is just really flattering. To be in the National Football

League with those greats. Yeah. And you know, if I hear one more about how boring the game was, and I might pull my hair out, because I heard it today from one of the people here I work with, And to me, I love the strategy of it all. I love defense. I love running the football. I always will. It's in my blood. I just love it. And the strategy of the whole thing, how they came out and how they did. And you know, you sit there watching, I don't know if you guys watch it this way.

I watch and think how the Bears are defending each of these teams or how they're attacking each of these teams too, because I felt they would have been extremely competitively be an interesting situation. I think the reflection of a lot of people to the Super Bowl is they're not really football fans that are watching the game because it's the Super Bowl. And then when you have that type of scoring, a little bit of sloppin us early in the game with the interception by Brady and stuff,

that's their reflection of the game. But the true people that enjoy football for everything it can offer you, from the fifty point game in the regular season to this, you know game they score in the single digits. You know, there's a I just think the people that aren't really true football fans don't appreciate it as much is the high profile scoring games. And it's just the subtle adjustments.

One for Bill Belichick and I brought it up on air, Danny Shelton basically didn't even dress the last month of the year for the preaching. I don't think he played, and here he had a big loss. Yeah, he had the big play in the game, and just those subtle adjustments. A lot of teams would go forty two nickel against the Rams. The Patriots ended up running like a fifty one. All they did. They had their nickel personnel, but they just walked one of their linebackers up on the line

to just say, hey, we're set in the edge. Your outside zone run game is not going to be there, and we're gonna put it all on golf and I thought, and they just constantly mixed in their coverages from combo coverages to man to zone and that's why I think Jared Goff was just a step slow. And this thing from the Rams standpoint, when they don't run a lot of you know, twelve personnel. They were an eleven personnel team.

They were over eighty percent and eleven personnel, and finally towards the end of the half and more towards the second half, they went to twelve to try and help out their run game a little bit. And it's just not who they are, and I think why they struggle in the game. But you're kind of right, yea, because I think it's how the game's branded now, or how they train fans. I think anybody under thirty, I just

don't think really appreciate those those subtleties about defense. I think they're trained for offensive offense, high scoring, because that's how it's kind of been over the past couple especially from college to now, how the Pro pro game has gone a little bit more high scoring as well. So do you take some of that and use it against the Rams in twenty nineteen when you got to go out to South in California to play the Rams. Next

year when you're the Bears. There's always a lesson to be learned from every time, you know, I want to give you an example, because after the Super Bowl. We played the Washington Redskins in the playoff, and for the entire season, the Washington Redskins played a defense where they had four down defensive linemen, then the linebackers and the defensive backs. Then we play them in a playoff game and all of sudden, they've played five man defensive line.

And that's not what we are prepared for. And it's hard to make immediate adjustments against something you haven't seen all season, and then how you can construct your past protection where your vulnerabilities are gonna lie. And a lot of that was a factor and why we lost that game because we weren't ready for the for the completely

different defensive style change that immediate. Well, you gotta be ready for anything, you know, and I know, but you know, it's interesting to talk about Mitch in this way, or or even the defense, you know, with Chuck Pogana coordinating it, and how subtly different things might be and how they'll be attacked after a year of tape on these guys and Khalil Mack settling in and all these other variables. Is that these guys haven't seen everything yet in their careers.

The younger guys, you know, Mitch certainly has seen a lot, but he hasn't seen everything yet. Pat Mahomes hasn't seen everything yet. Deshaun Watson hasn't seen everything yet. Tom Brady has seen everything and beyond, so he's ready for anything. It's these younger quarterbacks and against these great defensive minds, and again a mindlike Belichick. You know, it wasn't too unsurprising to me that it was going to be a struggle.

It wasn't necessarily not going to eventually kick in at some point, and at times in that game, goff did catch a little rhythm and catch a little fire, and things could have been different the past that was knocked away by Mccording the end zone gonna been the touchdown, but I missed a field goal drop touchdown. So it's not like the Rams played poorly that poorly where they couldn't have won the game. I'm with you, and Wade was Brady is nine and three all time against Wade Phillips.

But you want to know what Wade does in the games. Typically the averages he gets to Tom two times where he's able to sack him, and he's always averaged one turnover. How about the first drive the Patriots are going right down and Wade Phillips got him with what I call two trap the corners off and also that the snap of the ball, the corner comes up hard, guy goes to the safety position and that's what it is. Tom thought, oh, it's gonna be off coverage. I'll just throw it out

there to the side and he got trapped. That's why they called two trap and they got the interception. I think. I mean, they were right there with what they did defensively as well, like you said, one red zone snap. Granted, the Patriots missed a field goal as well, but man, that was I thought it was just an awesome game to watch, just the cat and mouse of it all. This is Bears All Access. It's presented by Igs Energy, Jeff, Jonny Yank, and Tom There along with Jim Miller. Three one,

two six four four sixty seven sixty seven. Let's go back to Matt Nagge winning Coach of the Year, just being at the honors night and watching them up there, except that quick to point out, it's not just my award. He did give a lot of credit to his coaching staff, and that coaching staff really impressed us this year. They're they're outstanding teachers. Yes, we get a bunch of new defensive guys that we're gonna learn, We're gonna learn what they're all about. But they are are veterans for the

most part, veteran experience and successful wherever they've been. That that, to me is also one of the underrated untold stories is just how prepared, and you brought it up a thousand times time, how prepared this team was for every possible scenario and for every potential player that had to

get down the field and be asked to make a play. Yeah, you know, a lot of It's kind of funny because we had a lot of questions that came up during training camp, like why aren't these guys playing this is a new system, why are they Is this the right

decisions for these guys? And I think that's one of the things that benefited the football team is that everybody was prepared when their number was called, whether it was for a long period of time like James Daniels, or it was just for I'm a Sherik grmanis coming in there and doing the drive Nickel, right, you know, all the guys DeAndre Houston, Carson had to show up at

a certain time. All right, We're gonna take a break here in three one two sixty four, four sixty seven sixty seven Adams Dzinski or Lawrence our producers Jim Miller in Michigan, Jeff and Tim here in Chicago on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Hey, This weekend Inside the Bears, Cody white Hair and Charles Leno Junior the Pro Bowlers tour Universal Orlando Resort. They're gonna hang with

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one two six four four sixty seven sixty seven. Going to look at the Bear. We had Alam Robinson out earlier today. We probably should have got into the rest of the receiving corps a little bit. You know, we'll be doing this throughout the off season and it'll go fast. We'll start, we'll do these position evaluations in these groups. But that receiver position is critically important to that next

step for the offense. These guys are veterans, but everybody learned it at once, so they don't know all the ins and outs yet, either of even though they've been in the league in a while. But he's he's your guy, Adam Alan Robinson, your guy. I want to see more red zone opportunities for him because he's a red zone touchdown machine when he gets going. Bulk of his touchdowns have been in the red zone. And then you got Taylor Gabriel had one game with touchdowns two against an

Aponomy the Miami game. But you know that guy, if you get that, get that game breaking going on. Jim and Jim and Tom and n Wims, the development of Anthony Miller to take that next step and really learn how to play the game, and Javon Wims getting opportunities, you know, all everything that you're talking about. That receiver position. A couple of weeks ago, doing cross talk with Mac and Perks. They asked me what's my biggest concern of offense, And to me, it's tight end because I'm a little

nervous of the you know, the experience. Well, I'm a little nervous because Adam Sheheen has got to be able to have a healthy offseason where he develops a little you know, a little bit of strength and little power durability, is able to stay on the field and become the weapon that he's capable of being downfield. And I still think there's a lot for Trey Burton, you know, I don't think he's really scratched the surface of what he should be included in this offense when you see the

results of other players at the same style position. So all the receivers were talking about it's where my biggest

concern for the whole offense is the tight end position. Yeah, I think, you know, and I brought it up, you know, because they could probably you know, if they move on from Dion Sims, you'd like think Adam Adam Sheheen is going to get more opportunities as an inline blocker, you know, all the stuff that kind of Grinkowski does, he does inline, they can put him outside, flex him outside the numbers. All those type of things we have, we kind of

have yet to see that materialize. For Adam Sheheen. We know he's got a ton of talent, there's no doubt about that, but he has the foot injury early that has the step back from from that standpoint, and I think for Anthony Miller as well. For him, you know, now he's got the shoulder surgery. Hopefully he can heal up and accelerate his curve because I think he is capable of so much more. With what he was going to bring the offer, I expected him to have a

bigger impact this year they did. He still played and showed his toughness and all those things and made great plays. I'm not saying that that he didn't, but I think he's capable of much more, and I think that shoulder really was a setback for him personally. Yeah, and back to Sheheen, though, you know, you see everything that you'd want right you see it right there. So third year usually a takeoff year if you're going to really start to make an impact in the league, you know, with

another offseason of weight training. Like you said, Tom, what difference does that make for you to both of you guys can weigh in on this one. And what areas are we talking about? Legs, lower body, everything, the whole structure of your human body. You know, it's like Clyde Emrick always says, you can't shoot a cannon from a canoe, So that means your legs have to be equally as important as your upper body. And it is an overall overall structure for him. And he is an athlete and

he needs the athleticism. So they do a lot of counter training to help a guy like Adam Sheheen. And you know, when you see what Gronkowski was able to contribute in the blocking area and the laid portion of the season, there's a significant amount of strength and technique that goes along with that. So, I mean Adam shines still has full development ahead of him. It's probably a little premature to, you know, say, oh, you know, he doesn't have the ability. He's got all the abilities in

the world. The only thing I don't want to see him do as I don't want to see him get a shovel pass again because I just think he is too big, he's too tall, he's too noticeable. When he's in motion, and um, I just think that's something for Trey Burton, Allen Robinson, Tariq Colin, Taylor Gabriel, those types of players. Yeah. Again, he's from Ashland College, so you know this offense is is pretty complicated what he's running right now. You know, it's a new system. They just

have to learn. I think he's gonna be a lot better. And I'm with Tom, you know, he's he's got to get in the weight room, get stronger, and hey, no one's stopping you're from going out and hitting the sled. How about that time that'll get his blocking up the bar and where it needs to be. So go push the sled a little bit. They'll get your legs and hip strong. I agree, there's there's always those tools out

in the practice field that you know. I think someone you know, when we are talking maybe to Charles Leno, how he was bragging about how James Daniels was willing to stay on the practice field after practice in his pads and continue to do work out there. I think, if you're a young guy and you're as dedicated as what the Bears expect you to be, you gotta do that.

You're willing to do that on your own. Well, you know, it's a locker room full of guys that love the game, So I'm not gonna have a hard time getting these guys to work. This is a situation that obviously Ryan Pace has looked to enhance and one guys that love the game, and it is all about you know that guy next to you and the overall goals of the team, the mission statement, so to speak. And I think they're

in a really good place that way. So when guys are coming in, even the young guys are going to be able to say, this is how we do it here. Yeah, I saw that there was a stat that the NFL is getting even younger, and here the Bears went from one of the oldest rosters to one of the youngest rosters. But yet again, I think it is it's identifying the right right players with the right character and the right traits. Because as young as this team is, they display a

level of maturity. You know, because you could argue, I mean, those teams even a few years ago they had veteran players on it. But yet I consider this team more more mature. For the twenty eighteen Bears didn't say a team three years ago of the Chicago Bears. They're much more mature about going about their business. Yes, and I would agree with that. I mean, these guys that have been here in their past, they had great talent and whatnot,

but sometimes the agendas weren't online. And that's that's the worst part of a talented team. If you got a talented team and the agenda isn't right, you're not gonna win right. You know too, They made a good decision and when that all started with the weight room at the beginning, because you have to create a positive atmosphere in a position and create these guys and putting a position of confidence through the gains they make them there, and I think it's important from that portion to start

the season. It is if you're lining up to play a playoff or Super Bowl game three one, two, sty four sixty seven, sixty seven. Time to hop on. In our final fifteen minutes of tonight's show, We're off at seven o'clock, Jeff Joni Act tomp There and Jim Miller on Bears All Access look a little bit to the combine here in a couple of weeks, Fellas and Jim, you're I know you're already doing an extensive research on that. I'm just getting started on that part of it, the process.

But I was kind of blown away today when it was listed how many Combine invites came from only a select group of schools for out of twenty four programs. Right, one hundred eighty four of the three hundred and thirty seven invites are from twenty four schools. Yeah, now, I think maybe I shouldn't be surprised at that, but it kind of took me by surprise. Is this one shocking? Clumpson and Alabama have the most. That's not they're double

digit for for both of those schools. But yeah, and you know, it's it's a part of it, you know. I think it's it's tough, and there are some guys that aren't even getting invited, you know, due to some off the field issues, and we know about that. But yeah, you know, it's all about the power five. I think

everybody understands that. Right now. You'll get some select guy, select guys excuse me, from from smaller schools, but to get those will be what I think there's a total of three hundred and thirty normally that pretty much get the invites to go to the combine, and you know you're lucky even if you know some of the guys that get elected, like say an extra arm for the

quarterbacks when you're throwing to the receivers. Some select guys around the country will get invites for that just hoping to get a look, but will not be in the actual workouts competing with the quarterbacks. So you know, it's you got to make the most of it. You know, it's just another piece to the puzzle. Players take it,

should take it seriously. I know it's a lot of it's canned answers and things like that, but I thought it was interesting down at the Senior Bowl that every GM that I talked to is like, no, it's really

not about making the player comfortable in the interview. They want you uncomfortable and put a player in an uncomfortable position because that's a lot of times where you're going to be in a game and so, and they feel it's pretty easy now even though all these players are are pretty much coached heading in there that they get all the information that they need because you can always

throw a curveball that can maybe a solid player. Let me give you, guys, both a area because it's going to come up for the first time in the history of your lives. Okay the history, Yeah, in the history of your lives. So I'm going to give you a guy that is a flash in the pan at the combine, you know, numbers, looks interesting, looks good in shorts and stuff.

And then I'm gonna give you a guy that's in the Alliance Football League that really looks good in pads on tape, in full contact of actual football where you're gonna go with it because never in the scouting of the NFL has ever been that type of process of scouting. Now, what are you thinking about a kid that's running this in college with no experience? What about NFL Europe when

we had NFL Europe. I mean, guys made rosters that way, right, But I think there's more exposure to direct us soil opportunity of NFL coaches that are trying to develop talent for opportunities when you when the season ends in April and they can go right into it. Let's pick it up on the other side of this break, we'll pick up that conversation. Tom thare the conversation starter right there with Jim Miller. I'm Jeff Joniack on Chicago Sports Radio

six seventy the score. Can Tom fare with you? Michael wasn't on it says bred right here three one, two, sixty seven, sixty seven, and we'd bring in Jim Miller as well. All picking up after the commercial break, Tom brought up the idea of possibly pulling guys off the Alliance of American Football, which gets started on the weekend.

And would you weigh that versus what your concerns are in the draft You're always gonna want they're coinciding, they'll you know, because being in the USFOLO is a little bit different. That's the league that you are committed to. Here, it's a possibility of developmenting these guys for NFL opportunities, right, go ahead, Well, well there's I mean just even look at the two teams in the Super Bowl just how

they were built. You know, I think twenty three guys out of the out of the fifty three for the New England Patriots were guys outside of that building that they targeted. You know, whether it's street free agents, undrafted free agents, those type of guys that Bill Belichick we're we'll get and think of all the trades. I mean, think of Danny Shelton. I mean, that's a former first round flameout for the Cleveland Browns ends up playing big for the New England Patriots. And that was a player

that was brought on via trade. Saying could be said for the Rams. I mean, look at all the traded players or other guys that they brought in from Brandon Cooks who was traded twice from New Orleans to New England then traded to the Rams. Or you bring on a free agent like him Dominicansu, former first round pick, a keep to lead they acquired instances, goes on and

on and on and how those teams are built. So I think you scour everything from street free agents, undrafted free agents, because nine times out of ten, those guys are going to be huge contributor as well. Think about the starting center as a rookie for the Patriots, David Andrews. Now he's going on like his fourth year. That guy was an undrafted free agent starting center for the New England Patriots over the past four seasons. Gonna be creative.

They already got three Canadian Football League players on their roster now to reserve the futures deal, So it would as I'm trying to get ready for the draft. Now you get so enamored with first and second round, right, but now you know that that's not likely to be the case unless they do something crazy. But guys are gonna fall out of the first, to fall out of

the second, maybe into your lap a little bit. Just from my own analysis, it's it's such a hard thing to do to start now picking through guys would be third, fourth, fifth round guys that you need to be on your roster. And you wonder if how a general manager handles that. Well, you know what, a general manager is gonna be able to handle it because they're a little bit more secure in the in the football team that they have right now.

It's not like they're at the bottom of the barrel trying to pick their way up back to the top. All they need to do is pick and choose a couple of pieces to come onto this football team that was talented at the end of the season. So it's not they're very fortunate that are not in a desperate scenario. Yeah, again, you kind of tend to trust I know you're you're gonna have your Shara Misses but just look at you know, Jordan Howard there's a fifth round pick out of out

of Indiana. You know, you look at too, you know other guys, Eddie Jackson, there's a fourth round pick that they selected out of Alabama. You know, these guys have been impactful player. How about Isaiah Irving, you know that guy's a college free agent. Or even Kylie Fitz who gonna fall ho about Blow Nichols fifth round pick of

the Bears. So you know it's in the wheelhouse. You know when you're selected in the third, fourth, and in fifth rounds and and you know you trust and have faith that Ryan Pace has hit out some of those picks because they've been huge contributors that he's picked up in the draft. Yeah, it's it's a common theme that these guys are a life bloody your football team as you build over the course of the time. You know, you only gonna have so many first round picks, and

those we know are fifty fifty bet most of the time. Right, you know, you got Jimbo and Keith van Horne were both first rounders, and then you got Boards and that converted defensive lineman Jay and undrafted free agent and me a fourth rounder from the USFL. So now the thought about that, So the offensive line coming back intact, everybody's sign seal ready to go as they begin their second year in this system. But guys like Kyle Long and Leno and Massey have played together for a while here

now Cody three years as well. How do you approach that next phase as you begin the process as a veteran offensive line? Where do you get better every day at this point? Like, how does that work now versus when they first started offensive defensive lineman. There's so much specific fundamentals and techniques in which you need to sharpen every single day, no matter how long you play the game. So just positive reinforcement from your position coach is the

most important thing for every one of these guys. I think Rogers on the defensive line side of the ball, he has these guys go through these drills each and every day, no matter if you're not good enough, you're you're good enough to do the drills again, and I just think you can um you know, just continues to sharpen it and add an element to this offensive line that they haven't had this consistency for a while. And you got to believe for Harry heastand I don't know

what techniques or drills that he used utilize. I'm sure there were some new things even for the older players that they could pick up. Certainly a lot of it was probably new for James Daniels just being a second round pick and how he was able to come in and perform. So I think he's going to continue to get better. But I think even for those veterans, it was you know, some probably new things that have approached them that haven't become rope memory in terms of the techniques,

and I would think they'll be better with James. Two, I still think you need to investigate is he best fit for guard or could he be a dominant Pro Bowl center? And I think it's unique that Cody has the ability to move anywhere. But I still think there needs to be a decision made what's best fit for James and his longevity here in the NFL. All right, well real quick before we take off, here is the alliance going to work? Jim? Yeah, I think it'll work.

They're already you know, they got the games. They'll be broadcasted that you can hear them on serious X NFL radio and you'll see them on TV as well, and as Tom said, a lot of it's gonna be a pecking ground for a lot of NFL teams that will be scouting those that league for the players that are there. And coach Stoop's back in business in the XFL, which is spring at twenty twenty, so you'll be hearing a lot of big name coaches that imagine finding their way

back on the sidelines in the NFL. That's gonna wrap us up for tonight for Jim Miller and Top there and our guest Adam Robinson. Thanks for listening everybody. Thanks as always to Adam Zinski and Herblawrence, our producers. Have a great night, everybody. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Thanks for listening to this Chicago Bears Network presentation of Bears All Access. Podcasts are available on Chicago Bears dot com and on iTunes or download the

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