All Access: Amos on defensive dominance

Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score Jeff, Jonny Akin Tom there and our guest tonight is double A. Not that one, because you know who gets all the love is double A Anthony Adams. This is Adrian Amos. Everybody, and give him a nice hand because you know this is this is a busy time of year. Yeah, it's it's the holiday season and all that, but it's football

season and it's just really getting started right now. Three games to go, and you know you give it up an hour of your time on a on a weeknight. It's not simple to do. You guys been working all day and you got lots to do. So we appreciate you coming by. Can you believe how far this team has come since Week one? When you last that game in the Green Bay Packers, Man, it's it's you know, it's like you know, night and day, but it's it's

the process of a season. And UM, how we learned from that first game and just took that upon ourselves to finish every game. UH, finish every opportunity, finishing in practice. That became a model earlier in the season. Um and uh coach just reminded us that this week this morning, about just just finishing each and every game. So I feel like that was a we we took a lot from that, just that learning experience. Does this season seem

to go fast? So this is your fourth year being A lot has changed for you in those four years, in those three years, as as this season going faster because of the success you guys are enjoying. I think so because you know when you three and whatever, three and ten at this point of the season the last couple of years, UM, you know, it's just a different vibe and different feeling. You know, practice a little harder, game seemed a little longer just because you're losing. But

you know when you're having fun. When you're winning, it's fun. You're having fun. This team is fun and you know it. Just you know, when you're having fun, it's like you know, the time just you know, slip right away from you. So, um, you know winning that that cares a lot. I was looking at an old interview between you and Jeff a couple of years ago, and it said that you said that you take care of them now you don't look ahead.

Has it been harder to do that this year because of the excitement you guys are generating or are you still staying in the now weekend and week out? I think it's more even more important right now just have to focus on each week. Because we let this week slip away from us, it's gonna make the following week harder. So if we just focus on right now, this practice, this game, UM, I think you know that future would

take care of itself. What you recall from that week one that that gnaws at you a little bit, um, just that we got after them early. Um, we came out, we were playing well, playing shot um. Then a couple plays U in the second half got away from us. And you know, let a team like that hang around and then m just come up short in the end. You know, everybody just you know, we were it was promising that we know what we are capable capable of, but at the same time, when you lose a game

like that, it's like, dang, we just got finished. Oh you know, you guys have been resilient. It's a good word to use for these guys time, because you know, you lost four games by combining fourteen points, but it's how you lost those games that gnaw at you guys a couple over times that come back by the Green Bay Packers. I mean, it's crazy when you really think about what you guys have accomplished this year, but in reality, you haven't accomplished anything yet until it actually says NFC

North Champion or you know, a playoff clinching. And I think that's why Matts kept the focus small. Just take care of each day at a time. Is that work for a young team like this because you know you're still a young player, but you've been around a while. You know, over the years, I've just learned that, you know, the margin fora air in this league is real small, so you know, each game it could be one or

two players that could decide the game. And then during the season, the good teams they win their close games, you know what I'm saying, and then the bad teams they don't. You know, you can have a team that's you know, two teams that's very similar, but one team wins those close games. One team doesn't win those close things. And those come from little mistakes, you know, little mistakes, little details that separate you know, those good teams from

those bad teams. You know, So you're a strong safety, Eddie Jackson, the free safety. Can you give all of us a little description the differences between a strong safety and a free safety. And then because we're all thinking of Aaron Rodgers and like, what is the differences between your guys's job obligations? Well, um, with with with Vick he likes to switch it up a lot so um over the course of the season, and you know last year,

Um we go back and forth pretty much. But you know, the strong safety is just more towards you know, uh, in traditional defenses, more towards the tight inside um it's supposed to come down more often. A free safety plays in more space, um, over the top, in little holes and different things like that. So um. Traditionally, Yeah, the strong safety is more in the box more um more of it's the next linebacker, if you know, if you want to put it like that, Are you guys interchangeable? Now?

Have you you with the experience that you have and what Eddie's capable of doing? So? Can you guys, you know, stay in the position and play each other's position? Almost? Yeah, more this year than last year. We've been, you know, switching a lot, so you can't really, you know, get a game plan on where each person is going to be, so, you know, it helps for disguise. You don't know which one's gonna come down sometimes, and I think that plays with quarterbacks, you know. I was watching the tape of

Kyle Fuller's interception the other day. When you're a defensive back, you can be anywhere from four to fifteen yards off the line of scrimmage, and it seemed like, you know, the head of Jared Golf It's stuck in one position and it never rotated the field. Can you really see the eyes or face or the head of a quarterback while you're going through all your other duties of watching the way things are coming off the line of scrimmage. Yeah,

that's easier when you're in a zone coverage. I mean you're in the zone, it's easier to watch a quarterback and see where his eye is going. But when you're a man, you're more locked in to your receiver and the routes that you're looking for. So um, but but yeah, that play, you remembering that play, his eyes was standing all the time. And then I think we were like in quarters and I had inside help on Kyle, and Kyle made a great play. He sat on the route

and then broke down and finished on the play. So I mean that was kind of his own concept where he see the quarterback, But it's more just him just making a great play, knowing where his help was and knowing where he could be aggressive. Well, they talk about the game slowing down for the quarterback. Does the game slow down for you as you gain more experience and the more offenses, is the more formations and everything you see? Yeah,

it slows down in the way because it's mental. You know, as a as you get older, you know, you see more, you start to feel more. You start to if you know what they're doing, you can get that faster. You know what I'm saying it makes you play that much faster just because you know where they're going. And when you're confident in your teammates and what they need to do, you're not hesitant as in, well, maybe I need to help him, so I'm not gonna I'm gonna sacrifice doing

my job to help this person. So um, that's how the game slowed down for everybody. Adrian Amos, along with Jeff and time here on bears all access from PNC Studios at how To's all brought to you by IGS Energy. At the times point too, do you do you come into this game from the college game already with your eyes trained or do they develop at the NFL level at a really elite level. I think, um, yeah, I think that's something that has to develop, um with experience

in the league. In college, I know, I played more corner and nickel, where my job was just to cover one man that was my guy. I got him and um, which sounds easy now right, Yeah, now it does. But now in the NFL, everybody's more athletic, everybody's you know, NFL player, so um, and then I'm moving too safety where I have to know where other people are supposed to line up. I have to sometimes get other people

lined up. Um, we'll basically get people lined up every play, you know, because you have to communicate back there in the back end. So it's just a lot more to look at. Uh. You have to learn how to watch film, and I don't think in college coaches teach players how to watch film. Um what you're looking for when you watch a film? What are you supposed to be studying? You know, that's something that I'm still working on. Um. You know I'm learning new things, you know, every year,

just just how to improve my game. You know. I was reading up about you and they said that the combine you're ran a four or five forty, and then you went to your pro day and you're run like a four three seven. How did you decrease? How did you take off that amount of time or did you feel better at your pro day than you did at the combine? Um? Well, combine is like is a hectic time, Like you really don't sleep much? You you know it.

You know, in my atmosphere, we had three different combines, and so it's better now that you guys have the one. But I just see that adjustment you made, and it's home feel the advantage. Yeah at Penn State hopefully. Yeah, but um, but yeah, when we just got back to school, Um, you know, I just went and I was just like, all right, I'm gonna run again. I didn't have to run it again. Actually my agent didn't want me run again, but I said, I know that I'm gonna run four

three here. So, um, you know, I just went and I just lined up and ran. I think at the combine, it's just you know, jit as you trying to I was the first one to run and everything too, but I feel like I still ran a good time for my position. Yeah, I had to go first. You have to sit in front front of the class all through grade school and stuff because you have the double A.

Yeah probably, yeah, yeah. And then so I'm getting up there up there at the combine, legs shaking, nervous about to run the foard and yet just then when you get back to your pro day, he's just more relaxed. It's people, you know there. Um. I mean it's the same amount of scouts and things like that, but it's just a different atmosphere. Just feel a little bit better,

you can breathe safety. Adrian Ames, fourth year, Chicago Bear first place outfit, ready to try and finish the job in the NFC North on Sunday at Soldier Field against the Green Bay Packers. Time for our first break here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, are proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warrmpty products to over

one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff and Tim here at PNC Studios at house. So we got a lively bunch fuel up to place sixty you know, sixty minutes a daytime, that's all you need. You know, let'sten. Did you get them? That's it's a minimum. Did you guys? Were every one or you work out today? Just say yeah, just quick time? Did you work out today? I know Adrian did and not me, not yet, but the day is still young.

We have Damn Briley, our producer, Bob Boxer, our engineer here from the UPNC Studios on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score, Uh the News on Bryce Callahan broke my heart. He's having an outstanding year. Broken foot, gonna be out for the rest of the year. But if you could put into perspective just how in context how difficult that position is to play. I talk

about it all the time. It may be one of the most difficult on defense because of the variety of tasks, the variety of responsibilities and what you have to do. And he's a slightly built guy, but an explosive athlete who is tough as nails. Yeah, man, that's a that's a tough loss. That's a that's a hard position to play. UM. I think nicol and probably know what's God with Eddie Goldman plays um out of two most underappreciated positions UM in defense in football. So um, Yeah, he does a

lot in there. UM covers a lot of the slots. UM he's you know, left by hisself, phone slice a lot. UM, he blitzes UM, he comes up and can tackle UM. But man, uh, injuries a part of the game. You know, it's sad to see him, you know, after having a great year like this, and then you know, as for for us to lose him, but we got sherek filling in. Um A veteran who's been there, has been playing, knows the system. Um, so UM, he's gonna come in and

do great. Will anything change for you without giving up information? Will anything change for you? Or is it you know what you've been doing and nothing will change without Bryce or with Sherek being in there. Um? I don't think, UM much will change, you know, as far as you know the scheme and anything like that. Um, you know, just just keep on pushing next man up. Just going to have to communicate with Sherek Moore instead of Bryce.

You know what I'm saying, Me and Bryce hu said have you know, kind of goes back and forth, pre snapping things like that. So I have to shift over and get on that same page with Shared because of your versatility. Was it ever discussed about possibly you filling that role? Oh? Yeah, I mean emergency I'm you know, I have to learn well I think you know, because you played corner in college and you have experience everywhere in the defensive backfield, so it's one of those characters

that can play anywhere, right Yeah, so um in emergency situations? Yeah, you know, UM, I have to learn everything, so you know I might have to fill in. Um, here there, So I'm just prepared. You know, when we were watching film, when we when he talking to the Nick, who act like he talking to me? You know, think about Sherik, and we've seen guys time and I've been here obviously a long time, and guys that have been just known as special teams players that also wanted to play defense.

We never got the opportunity. The one guy I always thinking of was Corey Graham just the other night watching him play again. He's still playing the game and has gone to a couple of Super Bowls. So when you finally get that opportunity, no matter how deep it is into your career, you know you welcome in. And a guy like him, he's he's a very quiet guy, not unlike yourself, not unlike it's a quiet secondary except for Prince,

I guess Prince and Eddie. But with with wanting to do that and not really being trusted completely by your defensive coaches to do that on a regular basis or but Vic Fangio does trust this man. He puts him in packages, he's putting him on the field and getting him out there the blitz and so forth. So it'll be interesting to see Sherik with this kind of responsibility because with Nickel now with three wides and four wide, you guys are out there in that instead of base

almost the whole time. Right. Um yeah, one thing about vic. If he don't trust, you're not going out there. So, um, you know, it's just next man up. It's not we're not sitting here talking about um, you know in meetings like oh man, what we're gonna do? Um, and sheriffs just filling in. Um, you know he's been practicing Nickel all year as well. It's not like you know, he hasn't had any rest and he's just filling in there.

So he's gonna come in and then we stick to our terminology, you stick to our game plan and then get in and get after it. Um. You know Shark has been doing the dollars stuff with blitzing and different things like that. He's been covering all year. So um yeah, he's a trusted everybody trusts him. So we're going into this nice game confidence. Can you feel the pass rush

because you know we can see it. It's evident to us, say there as an ex offensive lineman or just fans of the Bears, and you can see how aggressive is. But now you're a defensive back and the quarterback has to make decisions at a little quicker pace than maybe they did a couple of years ago. So can you feel that rush? Yeah, I think, um, I think it works hand to hand for sex, for interceptions with them with the secondary, you know, making the quarterback double pump.

You know, they get the sack, or we might have a breakdown in the secondary and Mac or a team get in there and break and tip of ball or get to sack, you know and bail us out. So, um, I think it goes hand to hand, and it's just it's just great to have that balance. And when you had that balance of that, um, you know, you get played games like last game where you got takeaways, you got four interceptions, you got sacks, you got you got

it all. At the beginning of the year, Prince put out a pretty heavy duty number out there, talked about ten interceptions for himself. But you know how you see what Kyle, do you see what you have been able to do, Eddie Jackson, Prince himself, everybody's got involved in the mix. You know, to me, it seemed like a big number given the amount of interceptions that you got the last couple of years. But now every everything's coming into play, and the defensive backs are complimenting the pass

rush equally as well. Yeah, you know, Prince, he just said one of his goals. You know what I'm saying. So um, I think I think every defensive back. You know, when you write a goal sheet the beginning to get you want some crazy. You want to write something down that nobody will believe you're gonna get. So you know, everybody does that? Have you done to do? Yeah? Every single year I've got, I got a goal sheet and just I'm not gonna say all my goals. Throw one

on there. Well, all right, playoffs, Yeah, that's not a crazy one at off? Yeah, how about this. I didn't know this until today, but tie by the Bears or a Washington tie or lost Bears are in the playoffs no matter what. Now they have bigger fish to fry. Obviously, Time shaking his head the room. I'm not I'm not let her as a player, and now as a fan as a broadcaster, I never want someone else to get me into the playoffs. You got to get into the

playoffs of your your own abilities. You know. Naggie's an unbelievable guy, isn't he. You know, from the dancing and the postgame locker room celebration to everything he's ever said at the podium since the minute he was hired has come true. And it's got to be interesting for a player to listen to because you know, he's telling you how things are going to go, and he's stuck to his word. Everything's coming up like like he's described to us.

Yeah he um. You know he's a great coach. He came in, Um, he earned you know, respectum early on. And then you know he's a coach. He wants us to have fun. So he almost forces you to have fun. You know what I'm saying. He forces you to dance. He you know, he makes everybody, don't you know. I'm not gonna say too much. I mean it's it's fun because a lot of people, you know, play better when and loose and you know, having fun. And then we're winning as well, so you're winning. Um, you have time

to have fun. Is actually a lot of time, so you're supposed to have fun right here. So um, So that combination that just it brings the team close together. And this, you know, the closest team that you know, I feel like I've ever been on. I was just talking to somebody the other day and I was just saying, it's the funniest the team I've ever been on, just because people so loose. People, people say things that you never heard them say before. I didn't even know you talked,

so you know what I'm saying. So, Um, you know, it's just a better vibe when you win in energetic and you know, everybody just loose, you know, between you and Alan Robinson, he was on here a couple of weeks ago with us and Jeff and I asked rob Alan Robinson, I said, are you surprised at Adrianames his success at this level of football? And he was not surprised because you guys were close in college and they understood the abilities you had there. Are you surprised at

his success at this level? Um, you know because of what you saw him do in college. Um. People don't really like me talking about Abra because they think I'm biased because that's you know, it's been my boy. So but um, really, I I'm not surprised. I really expect more, you know, because you know I've seen him day to day and not seeing how he worked, how I prepared, where he came from from freshman year of college to

when he left as a junior. Um and that you know, I know, its ability matched up with people I've played against, felt so um. You know, I think he's still got a lot more, you know, to go. You know, I know he had seasons with Pro Bowl and things like that, but you know, I think he you know, he still has a you know, al ways ago and you know, I expect I expect more for myself as well. So it's like, um, we hold each other. Is he serious

or fun? Um? He both real competitive? Right, So when it's time to compete and he's like he's locked in so um. You know, you can see both sides of it. But you know, just because you guys have that group of friends, you're the super six, Super six, that of six guys in college that they communicate every day, and Alan Robinson is one of them. But to see you go from one team and then come to the Bears this year and you almost have a feeling, Wow, it's

always like this around here. Now, it's not. This is the first year that I think there's been this much fun um surrounding your guys's practices, your postgame celebration and everything else that Matt and the other free agents have brought to this team. Yeah. I was talking to uh Roquan and Iggy yesterday and I was like, you don't even know how it's big, you know what I'm saying. So this all y'all see. You know, hopefully it stayed

like this. So um, yeah, it's a it's a it's a it's a better feeling, a better vibe around the building.

We'll pick up the conversation on the other side of this Breakwearing Bears All Access here from PANC Studios at Hattisall on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score, bring a coat to donate to the Chicago Bears Coach Drive on the seventeenth from four thirty to five thirty to our Deerfield Store at Jewel and receive an autograph, picture and or a picture with Prince Mukamara, the Bears starting cornerback,

one of the impressive players on defense. As we welcome you back to Bears All Access here at PNC Studio at Howisall Fuel up to Place sixty, A bunch of teachers here and uh Tom starts sweating, time starts sweating. He's always telling me he was just a see, a very average student. Now see, you know I knew. I only want to say that I'm a C student. I can't. I can't. You know you've made it through lay far right regret. Yes, it's just but you know you could

not be a C student playing football. No, you had to be an a student in the football classroom. Well it's you can't have mental errors, you know, in sports and football especially, mental errors get you cut. Physical mistakes get you coached. So that is the thing about it. And it's still the same today, isn't it. And he oh, he's tells me if you think you're beat, So he's got it all covered. He's got every angle covered. Is it all true for you too? Yeah? For sure? You

know them mental errors. You'll never want to get your sheet back and see you know, emmy's on your sheets. So um, and then everybody relying on you. So those mental errors, those are controller booths, you know, in everybody's eyes. So you can control your mental errors. Um, you know, sometimes you get beat, but let them beat you, don't beat yourself, right, And so didn't one You guys are greating papers now instead of check marks on it, just emmy mental error, you know, and what it would be

a nice little jo ay. Did you ever play any offense? Because I was reading up about you and it seems like all your history, all your background always points to defense. Oh yeah, and um high school. Actually coming in the high school, I was a quarterback. I was like five two grade. Yeah I could. I could. I could throw throw them out. I don't know how accurate I was,

but I could throw them out. And then, um, when I got moved to Corner Um sophomore year in high school, and then they let me play both ways junior and senior year. Um in big games. They let me play both ways at Calvert Calahoa. Yeah, so offense. Actually I played some tight end, I played receiver. I was the wildcat quarterback. Um, I think that I think that any

any off conversations with coach Naggie about your offensive abilities. Actually, Um, I was getting on coach in London, the running back coach, the other day because he was with me in college when I was a kick returning and I told him he ain't tell him I got skills, um on offense to try and get it, get me a play, but um, they're probably saving it for you know. Yeah, yeah, at the right time. Like you said, they had you in

the big games. Yea, yeah exactly. But you know, it's now probably a pretty hearty conversation in the locker room week to week about what's next and who's getting the rep and who's doing what. Um. Yeah, we actually just

be laughing about it. Um, see if you just a decoy or not, and so um, you know, you know he actually comes in and pulls somebody out sometimes just to make Vic mad sometimes, but you know, we'll see what happened, you know, what you know, And when they're trying to find out what your future is going to be, you you went to the Senior Bowl, which you have to be invited to go to. It's an all star game where they bring an NFL caliber talent and then

you practice for a week against the best players in college. Um. When they brought you to the Senior Bowl, Um, were they trying to determine what position you would best fit in the NFL. Yeah, that was a thing coming out, whether I was going to be more of a corner or nickel or move to safety. Um, because you know, I know some teams was you know, looking me as

a nickel type position, nickel corner. Um. But then once I got there, and then days went on, I was more at safety, um so um, and then started talking to teams and they was looking at me more for more at safety. What skill is harder to develop? Coverage or tackling for a defensive back. I don't know. Um. Were you a good tackler when you were a corner? Yeah? Yeah, I played boundary corner. Say playing Um, I was either impressed man or I was in like, uh half half corner.

So I have a lot of run fits um on that. So um, I feel like all my life, you know, I've been you know, actually my father was big on tackling and rapping up and making big hits stuff like that. So um, um, I feel like, I don't know if one of the other is harder. It's just when you playing against better players. I guess, um, in coverage, coverage is hard. You know, anybody, anytime you gotta go out there and play man on the receiver, you know who's one of the best athletes on the field. You know

you got caught covering them all day. You know that's probably harder. So when Kyle was matched up with you know, Julio or something like that, they're going to catch balls, you know, the Julio Jones, you know what saying he's gonna catch some balls. That's hard to do that after the catch stuff, right, just make it hard on him. Fourteen hundred yards five years in the role for Julio Johns. I mean that that's an impressive staff that I just right now. He's a man and there's a handful of him.

I mean what and they had come all shapes and sizes at you too, now too. You know, it could be a guy who's quick but not fast, and he could do as much damage as a guy can blow right by you. So they just it's all about technique fundamentals in the scheme. Yeah, I mean, then you got somebody like Julio, that's all all of them. He's you know, quick, fast, you know and big, so um, you know, just go out there and make it hard and um. That's why you know, corners get paid them big, big dollars because

that that's one of the hardest positions on the field. Yeah. But you know, as Tom knows, and I feel this way, and if you're a playoff contender. If you're a Super Bowl contender, you gotta have good safety play. It's it's not even a question. And in the proper situation, it should be a guy who's gonna get some Pro Bowl recognition. And certainly Eddie Jackson's getting that right now. Looks like, you know, he'll he'll be a Pro bowler this year

in the second year. What's he meant to you? Because the chemistry between the two of you, this is not just this year. This was brewing last year, right so this this was developing and it's really hitting a crescendo right now. Yeah, I mean, um, he just you know, he's a playmaker. Um. You know, he loves to go get the ball. You know that. That's the big thing with him. Um, he's good in space with um, he's smart,

knows where the ball is going to be. You know, you had just had some players that just got knack for the ball that you know, when the balls in the air, they just it's just seem to go to them. You know. It's just certain people in the league that you see like that. You know, like uh, Marcus Peters with you don't know why he always has like he just has like eight interceptions and recovers. Five fund was

they just come right to him. Just certain people, the ball just fall to them in a leap and then. But he's not only that, he also can come up, you know, and make tackles as well. So um, you know, he's just he's getting better, you know every day. Both of you guys to be starters your rookie year. It's pretty impressive. Could given the fact that you got to come in here compete at a level you're competing, you know, ed Donna tells the heck of a coach. Vic Fangiel's

got a difficult system. But both of you guys earning those opportunities early in your career, you know, it had to be helpful because the Bears were looking for a set of safeties for the last fifteen years almost and now they have two guys that are young and they're going to grow together for quite a few years. So it's gotta be fun. You know, you're a young guy, but you're the most experienced out of the out of the two, So there they are looking for a lot

of advice from you. Oh yeah, sometimes I do forget that I'm only twenty five years old as well, So Um, actually me and man edged the same age, so um, yeah I didn't I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah we're the same age. So um. You know it's just you know, it's a blessing that you know, to have people you know around you that's like you get along with that. That chemistry is important. I've learned that, um over these

years that you know, it makes it fun. Like with with all of us in the secondary, we've been together, we know each other. Um, you know we hang out that like, stuff like that is important. You know people may not you know, realize realize it, but you know, when you hang around people, you it's kind of you know, like you don't want to let the next person down. You know what I'm saying. You don't want to mess up and leave him out the drive because then he'll

look bad. Like the corner, the corner relying you to be on the post. Make sure you're in that post because you know, if he gets on the post, you're messing up. You know how he looks with the player, not only the team, but you, you're messing up. You know his grade sheet, you know, talked about it. You're going to the senior ball talking about not letting your teammates down. So these college kids that don't participate in their college bowl games there, well, how do you feel

about that? Because you're you're closely removed from college football. But I don't see you a guy of making that type of choice. So when you think of these college kids now that are skipping ball games, what is your opinion of that? I say it both ways because you know, people trying to you know, they've been working so hard to get to a point where you know, they can

provide for their families and things like that. So if they get hurt and they drop far in the draft, nobody's gonna, like, it's not gonna be that same energy that everybody has when they sit out, when they're calling them selfish and different things like that. But when they get hurt, it's not the same. You know, all right, We're still we're still the refuge. First of all, you know what I'm saying, even though you just got you know,

you just got hurt, you know what I'm saying. So I understand in the way, I don't know if I could sit out just because I don't like sitting out football games, you know what I'm saying. If I got an opportunity to play. I just want to play, just because I don't like I would't like sitting out of practice. Did you feel that you had to go to the Senior Bowl. Um, I know it's more of an all star game, not your college game, but it's something now if they ask you to come to they're obviously interested

in your talents. Yeah. Um, I felt the pressure in the way just because I had some things with my shoulder and I wanted to prove that I could still play with my shoulder the way it was. I had to get shoulder surgery at the end of that year. But yeah, I just wanted to. I wanted to prove to my approved, to everybody I could still, um play through it, you know, with how it was at the time. So I think if you got something to that benefits

you and going, you can go and prove. I want to go, proved I can cover receiver as well, so and I think I proved that as well when I went there. So I feel like if you have something to prove to go, I think and they can benefit you, I feel like you should. You should go. So after the Senior Bowl, you had your shoulder operating on no

after my workie year. Okay, okay. Adrian Amos our guests along with Tom There Jeff Joniac here on Bears All Access Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score Bears and Packers Sunday at Soldier Field, That am pregame, noon kickoff on News Radio seven eighty and one or five point at FMWBBM. We're on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score with Adrian Amos, Jeff Joniac and tomp There A Squared, T Squared and J Squared on this show. How about that?

How about them at first ever? Maybe we're brought to you by Igs Energy X. Sunday's game against the Packers brought to you by Jewelosco, the official grocery store of the Chicago Bears. Uh. Adrian, you mentioned the tightness of the team and we see it in the locker room every day. A lot of card games going on, basketball shooting while the media is in there and so forth.

Um is that there's guys sleep? I don't know, how are you guys sleeping in there when there's all that racket, there's guys getting ready for practice legitimately sleeping, they're sleeping on the couch, you're sleeping in their locker. I mean, you ever been so tired you sleep through anything? So you know what I'm saying, that's it's the day to day ground in this week fifteen, it's a week fifteen. It's week fifteen. Uh really like week twenty because you've

got the preseason and all that. So, um, you're just tired and feeling yourself. You just going there? Um yeah yeah, Well on long days, Um, it takes a couple of days to get back to it, and then you refreshed by a round from Thursday Friday and then um, you feeling ready. Um the Saturday, you relaxed day, and then you're ready to go on Sunday. You know, Matt talked a lot about the crowd on Sunday Night. I think it was probably the most impressive crowd support that I've

seen here and maybe fifteen twenty years. Where it was it evident to you during the introductions or did it there? Did there come a point in time, aren't a big third down or something where you know the Stay team was exploding out there? Yeah? I think the last two some of the Sunday night games were really loud. I thought the Minnesota game was loud, but then when I heard this past Sunday, it was, you know, even louder. So um, I noticed, you know, maybe third downs when

it was just it was just extra loud. So um, I was like, this a loudest it's ever been that, you know, especially since I've been here. Communication is important for defense as well as offense. And now there's been so much conversation this week about the Air Raids SIEN siren going off on the field. Are you do you hear that or is it something that you're not even paying attention to the other noise going on because you

got so much in front of you. Oh no, I didn't know anything about that siren, right, I just had spent conversation for the last four or five days. Yeah, I couldn't hear it in my headset either, but apparently it was. It was pretty loud so before every third down, wasn't every snap for all I know, I don't know anyway, they try to make it as loud as possible in there and the crowd it apparently, and I'm sure the

Rams didn't. Oh yeah, I'm sure the Packers won't either, But you know, it does get the engine running a little bit though, doesn't it to hear all that sound? Oh yeah, you know, it's it's just like energy is infectious,

you know. You know, just after a big play, it just when the crowd going wild, and even before a third down, you know, get keen pumping up the crowd and you got the crowd going wild, and offense try and make the checks and then you know, quarterbacks like to be in the exact right call on third down. You know, that's the biggest play, you know, biggest play the series. So you know, with us disguising the crowd loud, they can't really get their cadence right. So that's just

a big help the Bears needed. I mean, you look at the weapons that they go and face all around the league. When you go to Green Bay, they have a loud, supportive crowd. You go inside Minnesota there have a loud, supportive crowd. So it's equally as important for the Bears crowd to come in here and be loud and support because it does it does help or the defensive side of the ball of a lot. Oh yeah, yeah,

it does help a lot. You know. I feel like this year, like it's it's been a real home field advantage, right, you know, with the crowd noise, with being at home, with our mindset is protecting home field, So you know, I think it goes hand to hand. You know, with us winning giving them something to cheer about, and then you know with them actually chearing. That's the key part right there. You know, you keep them on and you guys have had a only few situations where you've been

playing from behind. You know, early in games you've had the lead, You had a huge point differential advantage in the first half of games and carried it through and I think that helps you guys rush the pastor it helps you guys quicken that clock and a quarterback's head to make and feel pressure to make a play, make a completion and so forth. So it has married very very well with what you guys are trying to do.

And you're in every game. You in the Chiefs. The only two teams in the league were leading the second half all all thirteen games up to this point, so that that's different. Yeah, offense and defense, you know, it goes hand to hand. So our offense is better this year. Um as far as they're making plays, they're keeping us off the field and they're getting up and it's forcing quarterbacks to try to squeeze things in tight windows, hold the ball a little bit longer, try to do actual things,

and that causes more turnover. So, um, just as much as it's us getting better, it's them getting better as well, and that's helping us. You guys have more interceptions this year in the than the last three years combined. Yeah, and that's crazy, you know, and you've been here for all that, so you knew what it was like listening to you say how some guys just get the ball in their area code. You've seen firsthand what it's like when you don't have that kind of fortunes. Now, some

of it's man made, some of its luck too. Yeah. I mean, when you're down a lot these last couple of years, what we've been losing a lot, so get down a lot. Teams can just run the ball. They're not forcing things as much. Um. You know, we've been a solid defense, um, but taking the ball away just makes it that much better. You know, you didn't play a lot of reps in the preseason, none of the starters did. But then the preseason's over Saturday morning, Boom,

Khalil mack gets dropped on your lap. When did you find out about it and what did you think that he was going to be able to contribute to the football team overall, not only the defense but his leadership in the locker room. I think it was like the night that all the rumors were going around that, Um, I don't know, it might have been like my mother or something that mother a cousin and something something like that.

Somebody texts the group chat and was like, hey, y'all just got Khalil mac But it wasn't like official yet, and you know, it was just like a man like you know, because he's a great player, you know, saying when you get another great player and then you you look at it. We already coming into this year, we was like confident that we was gonna have a great defense this year, and then when you add somebody of his caliber, then it's like, all right, we're gonna be

even better than we thought we was gonna be. So um, you know he just can amen and then uh he fits in. Well, I mean all great players won't fit in, but um, personality wise, you know, he he fit in the locker room, and um, they feel like he'd been here for a while. That's a key component. We'll pick up on the after the break on that aspect of it, because you didn't have a guy with a huge ego

come rolling into town, that's for sure. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score back with more after this. All right, we're wrapping things up here at Hollis Hall at panc Studio, Fuel up to play six. Do you have a lively crowd tonight? Appreciate you guys coming up and having a good time. Uh I tell you who had the best penmanship out of the three up here? Now we sent all your footballs who had it? Now, don't you know, don't don't

let him politic. Let's get let's let me here a loud for Adrian? Thank you? All right, that's it Tom there ah, that's baloney about. I watch you on the act. Jeff's chicken scratch. Tom wins. Adrian second. I come in third. Everybody, everybody is second. The greatest autograph of any Hall of Famer for the Chicago Bears, Gail Sayers has the greatest signature. You look at his signature anywhere, It's unbelievable. He's not

telling you a lie that is absolutely accurate. Well, thank you Adrian Amos for joining us tonight here on Bears All Access Roots. Chris would like you to have this one hundred dollars gift card to enjoy one of the Chicagolan area steakhouses that Tom is always investigating before he officially heads off. I could eat this by myself. Uh, you have a what's your food vice? What's the one thing that you know you shouldn't but you do it anyway. I don't know. I don't really have nothing, like really

you eat that good? No? I eat everything everything. The fuel up people here are from that that feed the kids in their schools and stuff and run the program. So you know, he gotta always say I don't eat fest food, but I will eat Chick fil A. I go to check Fila. I don't eat much test food with Chick fil A. That's that's my spot. So I remember a couple of years ago, like my fashion advisors, he was looking at my bank statement, it was like

majority of Chick fil An. That's funny. Hey. Yeah, As a calendar turns into the new year in twenty nineteen, you're gonna be busy out and about with a little charity bowling tournament. Uh January third. Oh, yeah, I have a found oution foundation called I'm Still here. Um. It helps uh support families with Alzheimer's, you know, as well as under privilege youth. So he's just having an event on January or third, Um, you know, raise money and

um to just just get my foundation off running. And it's just the first year of your foundation or yeah, it's my first just my first year. I'm just kicking it off and you know, pretty excited about getting it going. So just my first event. Going to do a bowling eventum around here in Vernon Hills. So you got a game bowling uh here, and now I'm hit him miss one day, No, I don't need bumpers. But but one day I go in there and I'm you know, I'm

lighting it. I'm lightening it up. And then one day mediocre. Yeah. Well, well we'll learn more about it as we get closer to it exact time location and check it out. I'm sure there'll be a website of some sort. We can pass it along to folks and help you out why Alzheimer's. Um, me and my grandma are real close. Um so um about when I was in college. You know, Um, a lot of people my family died, so Alzheimer's came faster and sped up. Um. So, um, she really needs help

with everything. She she forgets everything, she needs help with everything. So you know, I'm just here and I think about it all the time. So I just, uh, I figured I start something that's you know, you know, I feel better. I feel like I'm helping her as well, um as other people that's going through that same same problem. Do you where are the cleats or do you keep them for display? Because they have the cause for cleats everybody's everybody's um what they're involved with. What are you the

guy that wears them or displays them? Um, yeah I won him this past game. Yeah, I won him this past game. And then, um, you know I'm probably gonna auction them off. We're working on that now. I might auction them off at the bowling event. So, um, just you know, just raise more money for the foundation. It is a great thing the league has allowed you guys to do as a group of players. All Right, we're

wrapping things up here. Thirty seconds. Give us a sneak peek the rematch, the big one Sunday at Soldier Field the Green Bay Packers. Man, you know, it's a big game. Um, you know, just because it's the next game and we lost the first game. We feel like that game slipped away, um, you know, and you know we want, you know, start turning the tighten this rivalry, you know, saying, start getting some wins in this rivalry. So, um, it's the next game.

But all those extra things, you know, added onto it that we can say now that this is that week seems like a completely different season. When you think a week one and just getting Roquan and Khalil there for four days and now having the team that you've been able to put together for fifteen weeks, it's gonna be

a It's gonna be an awesome game. Oh yeah, you know, you know, just we just build from week one to week now, we just so much better, We know so much more, you know, and we're a lot closer as a team. All right. Well, time to slay slay the pack sixteen and four with Aaron Rodgers against the Bears. I know that drives Tom crazy. They've come in here and won eight straight at Soldier Fields, so it's been

a while and we look forward to it. Adrian, you're having a great year individually, let alone the entire defense. It's it's really been fun to watch. I know you've had a great time playing with your teammates and uh, just continued success. Man, keep it strong. Thank you all right, Adrian, name us our guest here on Bears All Access for Dan BURRELLI, Bob Boxer Engineering, and for all you find folks that fuel up to play sixty. Thanks for coming out for Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Chicago

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