All Access: Amukamara on preseason play time

back to Bears All Access. Here from P and C Studios at Hollis Hall, Jeff Jonnyac along with Tom Thayer a Hollis Hall version of this week's show and joined by our special guest, veteran cornerback Prince Samuka Mara. The dancing full on the practice field along with the rest of the secondary throughout the course of practice. That's part of the side show everybody, as the Bears get ready to play the Colts here on Saturday night. Is that you guys dance so much? The secondary does? What the

heck's going on there? You guys are moving to the music. I would say, yeah, history of the secondary probably is more rhythm than anyone on the team. I mean, it would be a toss up between us and the wide receivers. Mitch can move a little bit too, that that'll be that'll surprise you a little bit. But um, yeah, I don't know. I think we're all just trying to have fun out there throughout the dog days of its distractive exercise. About that, you like that distractive exercise? That's what I

have the same question run down. Are you antsy or are you always trying to stay loose? Because even in Kaka key version, as as exhausted as I think you would be, you're always just moving your hips, You're always jumping around. Are you as an antsy? Are you just trying to stay loose? Yeah? I think more just trying to stay loose. And then also just like I think like if you always hear they probably didn't have music, did they? Okay, so just they just the music and

um and yeah it just like makes you move. I enjoyed music. And then um, like these kids, the millennials, they always come out with new dances. So you're just trying to pray who fits in that category. I'm the team. I mean, like Duke Josh Josh Woods is the er I've ever seen in practice. So you're gonna laugh it this side. You know, I'm not. I don't know your music. I mean, I have no idea. I'm a country guy, right, So I ask Aaron. Aaron one of the prs um so me goes, I got that right, So I said,

working me. He goes, no, it's working me. So that's one you guys all you know. So Josh Woods knows all the machinations of working me. So he's got it down. It's like a whole you know, choreograph deal going on. And I see you out there, dude, doing the same. So and that's and then Drake God's plan. Yeah, everybody on that day. Nick Williams, Tom the big muscled up, big bicep defensive lineman, is is all aoud God's plan is a dancer. Yeah, it's true. I'm almost in the

same boat with you. But I know them. I just don't know who sings it. So like even in the locker room, like I always have my zam out and I get made fun of, but I'm trying to um figure out. Man, like, Okay, this is catchy, like who sings is? But yeah, those guys, yeah they know it to a team. They can act it all up. It is fun though. It is fun to watch. It's fun

for those guys. You gotta you gotta reduce the monotony of the day to day and they still stay focused on the task at hand though, And if it didn't, the music would stop it. So this this is Bears All Access brought to you by Igs Energy, Jeff, Jonny Act, Tom There and Prince Umukamara our guest here at PNC Studios. It has the pink the pink shoes. Are you wearing them because they're comfortable in your locker? First ones? What's what's up with that? Yeah, definitely wearing them because they're

they're comfortable. Um, my first year's, second day at practice. Like I broke my foot, like stress fact, I had a stress fracture. Broke my foot. It is called a Jones fat fracture. So broke my it's like my pinky toe and they put a screw in there. First broken bone on my body and um, and then from that point on, it's like, Okay, I'm I'm just gonna Once I find the shoe like that model, I'm staying with it.

I don't care if it's the heaviest shoe, Like, I don't care if it looks the dorkis like, I just want something comfortable that I can stay in. And and those Adida's models, Adidas get gets mad at me because they're like the year. They're like four years ago, three years ago models, and those are ones that I spared and um, but when I get to season, I'm working to something more comfortable. Are you a spiker molded cleat? Um? Molded?

I like molded. The benefit of that is, um, I feel like they have they have better traction in there. They're just comfortable in your feets. The spikes do work, and especially on certain fields like San Francisco, like that was like sometimes teammates like but Santo teammates said, hey, like you're wearing you're wearing spikes. You're you're you're not going out on the field. And so I bet the bullet and put those on. And those worked well. Do

you as the molded cleats that you wear. Molded cleats are it's all one bottom, and the spikes are where you can screw them out and off and you can even change the lengths. So nowadays with the transfer from natural grass at Soldier Field the sports Turf in New York to the sports Turf in Indianapolis. Do you are the same bottoms on both surfaces? No? So Team Team Met will say like, hey, like, no, no screwings for for the for the turf. The molded ones are the best, um,

the best ones for the turf. Team Met. By the way, long time equipment man Tony Medlin, who got the heistood up to the shoulders off and what was that all about? Said again he's oh, no, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't see that. I didn't see that. It was funny. Team Met today though. We walked in the locker room and um, I was like, teamto are you crying because of you know the video we saw of h you guys weren't in there. Oh, this is new. So we saw a video of you know, the four Ladies of

the NFL. We saw Missus mccaskey's her little her little debut, her little part in there, and so's like flashbacks of I mean, just the whole history from her with with her dad and then the sons are coming on and then talks about Piccolo how you passed away, and then walk how you passed away. So when I looked at Team I'm thinking like, like he's probably having flashbacks like because he knew, um, he knew he knew some of those guys that were showing up. And I said, team,

and are you crying? And he never answered he was crying, but he did. He did. He said, man like, it was, Yeah, it was, it was emotional and stuff like that. I'm thinking, man like, the number of guys he's seen, or the number of number of ball number of situations, like he's been around for a while. So so let me just say one thing about that. So that is the the the NFL Films production, correct, Greg Miller, our producer, and that is going to debut later this month. Right, there's

rewinding down here in August. So he got the four pillars that remain in the NFL that can speak fluently about the one hundred years, and I hear it's must viewing, so great conversation about things that they only know and no one else could possibly. So when you see a little snippet of history through the eyes of Virginia McCaskey, are you glad that you had a chance to take part in the hundred year celebration just to kind of learn a little bit about the overall history the NFL,

not only the bay. But then you think you have one of the you know, the foremost powerful people you know of the NFL, and Virginia mccaski here, yes and um and just think just knowing that, Okay, like she actually knows ball. Like Charles Tuman was on there and he was saying he was trying to talk to her during like a play, and then one of her sons is like, no, like like only during commercial break, like

she's she's paying attention and stuff like that. And then after it went to commercial break news, hey hate Charles and stuff like that. So she's very serious about ball. But then also I learned about like because everyone was surprised when we got the bobble heads and I'm sure you're gonna mention what those bubble heads or four and stuff like that, but we're like, who is this seventy seven? Like who's grain Granger? Granger? And then and then and

then they brought him range Man. Yeah, and then they brought him up in the videos like oh he was like the best back or like he was one of the least one. He was one of the greats here, and it's like, oh, can now that makes sense why he's on there and like we're not. We don't have our own that's yet to come in. There might be don't sell yourself short, prince. I heard they have max um. Some some lucky people are getting max Yeah, each each week of the season, the home games. Uh, that'll be

one of the giveaways. So I don't think Tom and I may have you ever had a bubblehead going back to college days or have you? No? No? God, that would be one for me to keep right there. Well, you mean i'd be using it for practice in some sort. You could take a bald guy and put it on anybody's jersey and it looked like the guy as long as he was a bad Prince and mokamar O guest here on Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy.

As the preseason winds down, as it seemed longer than it normally does, because even though last year was longer in terms of days with the extra game and whatnot, just has that feel a little bit. I think because of where you guys are at as a team, it just feels like, let's get to day one, let's go. We're ready to go. I think you guys are ready

to go. Yeah, I agree with that, and it does feel a little long, especially because we haven't played uh yet, So it's like we've been practicing like OTA's mini camp training camp all to play um uh on on, I mean in September and and so just because we haven't played yet, I feel like that's why I feel so long. Has the experience of the off season? How is that

bent for you? As you get more mature in the in your experience of the NFL, you conclude the season the way you did, but your expectations are through the rough. How is how is the transition of your off season? Do you and do you have any time to relax or is it getting right back on the horse. Definitely have time time to relax. I try to use off season as a time to um to seek out other interests that um that that interests me, like so whether it be like real estate or or acting and stuff

like that. But then um still try to find time to work out, but I usually and then also to like travel. I'm sure there's like a lot of stuff that I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that my just serve r knows that's not me because if it were the big guy here Tom Theaters blushing would be all over. That's the second ten man, I'm gonna find you. We gotta have some kind of fine. We're gonna go to a break. We'll pick up your offseason interests when

we come back. Paul's ranger engineer Greg Miller, our producer here today filling in on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products over one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Joniak and the phone ringing Tom Thayer along with Prince

and Mugamara, who called was in the last sevement. If you're just joining us, So the seven time consecutive pro bowler called Prince, you might have thought it was Jay Cutler or j J. Ratl. Those were two choices. But now those two offensive linemen and line up against it, went with each other all those years there. They're as thickest thieves, so they they talk more than two people

probably should. But Jay, you will when you finally retire and your years away from the NFL, you kindle those relationships and friendships that you know are always going to be a part of your daily existence. Good. Yeah, So before the break, you're talking about your offseason interested you'll say, So one, you said real estate, So now does that mean you were doing that this summer? Are learning it? Number two? You said acting? So were you doing some

of that as well? Were you volunteering at the community Playhouse in Glendae? I mean what were you doing Glendell, Arizona? Yeah? So, um so real estate. I've done my feet wet a little bit just right now, just um, I've done some flips and then right now, I own some condos in um in Jacksonville where I played, and um own some in um in Arizona, and now I'm I'm in Uh.

I dabbled in in La. So I'm just just getting my my feet wet and just trying to diversify my assets, uh somehow, like because everyone always asked me, okay, like what are you gonna do when you stop playing? What do you do when you stop playing? And um, right now, I mean, I mean it could be two years, but when you look at other people, I mean it could be eight years, so just not knowing when when that is, but I do know the window is slowly closing. So

just trying to make the most of my opportunities. And what about real estate intrigues you aside from the obvious, the investment is typically good and you're gonna make money. So just what real estate? I just get like a rush. It's like another adrenaline, like like football, Just like finding like those deals and like great cap rates and um or value ads and just trying to um just trying to get a win out of those. Well you can you know, parlay that into your acting and b a

million dollars listing? You know if you've seen the show. I mean, if you're flipping TV you got million dollars listing or the World Poker Championship, what are you watching? Probably a million dollars listing? Yeah, probabi. So is that does the is this is this a textbook thing or is it information off of you know, a computer or is this a conversation that will even go into the locker room to young guys where you can say, hey, you know, this may be something that you should take

some interest in. Yeah, I think it's was definitely not textbook. So I've been learning from friends who've who are former players and now real estate agents, so they actually know um a lot and they've been helping me out a lot.

But I think the conversations definitely flow into the locker room because, Um, I mean, look at um what's his name, fry or Elliot Fryer, former kicker like he was he is a financial advisor, Like he was a financial advisor before playing, Like he was telling me his journey got into aff AAF and he Steve Spurrier was was his coach and he got to look there good and now he gotta look at a try. But before that he

was he was a financial advisor. He is, And so guys just letting guys know, like like you're more than an athlete, like the ball is gonna stop bouncing or whatever. Sometimes so like what are the interests do you have? He would scare me, and it does actually even for me at my age. You know, what if this were what do you do? And I'm later in life, much later in life, as you can see him by my gray hair. But a guy that you know gets cut after three years or a serious injury, you can't overcome it.

I mean, you're still a very young and you're going to be a very young man when you retire. What is it that you're going to do so you're not day to day boredom all right, Hodia like or just

to even make a paycheck, you know. So it's it's a legitimate question, and I think a lot of guys probably choose not to think about it right right, right, and probably because they might think like that's distracting, like the saying or the phrases like plan B distracts you from Plan A. So they probably just want to focus U all in on football. But I feel like that's why you see a lot of guys struggle when they

do step away from the game. It's like, okay, like I've been in this routine, like I'm never like my Thanksgivings and and Christmases were planned out for me like the last twelve to fifteen years in my life. Now what do I do during a run this time? So you don't you don't want that to be new to you,

and um, you want to have a plan. So I have a lot of respect for a guy I said, played like Trace Armstrong, who's now Matt Naggi's agent, Mark Helfrich and David Gohing's agent, and he's gone into that realm. He was here last week and just realizing he had

a fifteen year playing career from multiple teams. Got better as he got older as a pass rusher, his numbers went up, and then he got involved with the players Union and now he's an agent on the other side of the fence, helping coaches and some players and media. And he's still a young man. So he's had multiple careers in a in a period of time. That and

you know, raise three kids. The neat thing about acting, though, I think because you play football and you have that adrenaline rush every time you go to a game, you need that in your life. And I do see it from guys that they have they have no excitement in their life anymore. So it's you're just surfing. Well, yeah it is, Well, that's what it is. That's what keeps

me alive, that's what keeps your blood going. But I think the same thing can happen through and you know something so different in acting that is is not football, right, you know, And I think it's a neat interest for you to have, right, I agree completely, and I'm like every team I get on, Like, man, I hope hard Knucks like comes comes here just so do I would love that problems. You would have to still be yourself.

Yeah you you would, you would, but um, I mean I would just I would like I would make sure there's an exaggerated version. So get back. Are you getting? Are you taking lessons? Yeah? So I haven't have you what have you done? I have dabbled in some lessons, but um, I'm very prideful when I feel like I've wrought talent and can just like get a script and

just go. But I know that my my roles would be um, would be smaller, just because like if I could have it as I want to, I would want to be like the Ryan Gosling and notebook right, I would want to I'd want to be like a heartthrob. But but I I read like I told my wife, I said, there's no way like I could like kiss somebody, I couldn't separate like the kissing from yeah, from reality,

like I would. I would want to keep practice. There's no way I wouldn't want to keep practicing and practicing to Rachel McAdams or whoever, like every every single time called Thomas Jones. He's big now really? Oh yeah, what does he do? I don't have the exact show. If somebody wants to write it down for me, i'd have to look it up on my phone. But he's an actor, man, he and he's killing it. Thomas Jones, who was beloved

here with this. Uh and it surprised me because he's got that such a tough guy persona weight room guy. But now he is, you know, transferred that holy just like Eddie George, you know, taking his skill set him you know, doing Live Broadway and the other acting that he's been able to do. Yeah, so you know he's involved. He's done a lot right now. I meant straight out of Compton, number out of Compton. Yeah, a violent man, uh Luke Cage, Corbin Nash. And I know he's in

a series too. And forgive me, Thomas, I don't exactly know who it is, but he's done. He's done great and I would have never guessed it either. Are you talking about a tough, you know, very focused guy on just he's all about his body, you know, he's yoked up still and he's just he's been a very committed athlete. Now he's a very committed actor. But what from football can help you be a good actor? I mean, you know, offensive learning an offense is memorization of all the plays

and everything. Don't do you have the same amount of memorization for your defensive requirements that you do, because it seems like that's a lot of the requirement of being able to memorize what you gotta say, but not be you, you know, be be this facial expression or this person. Yeah, I mean, and even just from like communicating right and just like improving like on a play or anything like that.

And then just also like working on a team and just knowing how to interact with different people and like in kind of like different actors, Like someone's gonna be here today and someone and the new guy will be here the next day. So I think football sets me up for it tremendously. Are you funny? Could you have no job? No? I don't. Actually, I feel like my humor is like it's just on the run, like organic, yeah,

and somewhat dry. Frinza Mukamara, our guest here on Bears l Access, will take a break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score, The Chicago Bears Network presents Inside the Bears, brought to you by a Verizon. Anthony Adams and Lauren Screed and cover the world of Bears football on and off the field every Sunday night at ten thirty five pm on Fox thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot com or on the Bears official app. Jeff Joniac, Tom There and Prince and

Mukamara our guest as the Bears. Moving to Week three of the preseason, they'll be in Indianapolis on Saturday to take out of the colt. You can hear it on News Radio seven eighty and one or five point nine FM WBBM, Tom Thare and myself at the mic starting

at five kickoff at six local time. You're not gonna be playing though, pretty much guaranteed for this, which is totally made people crazy a little bit in the league and even locally and fans, I mean, the league itself is promoting on NFL Network or on Serious XM's NFL Radio. Week three of the preseason is when the starters play into the third quarter. It's the dress rehearsal for the season.

Throw it all out the window because people are suggesting that Matt Nagy because what he did last year and how the team performed that this is the new way. It may be, it may not be. How do you feel about it as a veteran? I love it. I'm not you won't hear any complaints from me. I've I really really loved the schedule and how and how coach Nagi's going about things. And I think I've read I've

seen like la do it. Um. Then Sean McVeigh, Uh, they're they're doing it, And to be honest, he's like, oh, if you put the veterans aside, I feel like it hurts like the guy. It helps the guys who are trying to make the team because now they're going to have more opportunities to get on film than anybody UM in the league. And I feel like that only helps them, UM secure a roster spot. Their snaps have gone up exponentially.

I mean, they are now basically full time guys for four weeks and that that that cannot well, I guess it could hurt some guys and it could it could rediscover some others. So there's a lot of talk about the new collective bargain agreement. That's he's eventually going to come up, So you have you treat the preseason and the fashion you're treating it now where you get very little playing time. So if they wanted to redo this

whole thing. And when I was in the USFL, we had no preseason games, We had an inter squad, we had a scrimmage with another team, then we played eighteen regular season games. Would you even be open to that as a conversation if you want it, Because you've got a lot of experience in the NFL, you've been here

a while. Would you even take that into consideration if you if you were in the conversations at the table, No, just simply because I mean, there's just has to be a time because if I'm looking for if I'm at it from like a coach or GM or from an owner's perspective, like there has to be a way where I can evaluate these guys, and I feel like those preseason games they allow you, they allow you to do that the young guys. Yeah. Well, and I was just

talking about this with Tom today watching practice. Is that as a player who you're going to need to count on as your teammates, whether it be on special teams or a guy that fills in. If somebody gets hurt, you need their true You have to trust them a little bit. That trust has to be carved out at some point, and it's the effort that results in a play. I mean, I look at a guy, you know, he's a definite long shot to make this team, Matthew Betts

out of Canada. He was rushing the pastor the other day with such aggressiveness and getting on the edge of the offensive lineman and drawn Khalil Max's attention and they're high five and is you guys know, when you see a player, and when a player is starting to emerge a little bit, you want them on your team, you know. And you know guys you don't want on your team, right, I mean, that's the black and white of it. And

this does allow for that to happen. I think they gotta dip their toe in the water to see what it's really like. Yeah on game day, yeah yeah, and especially if you haven't especially if you haven't played in the game yet. And I mean when you talk about uh, that's like another person that comes to mind is like Duck. Like Duck Ducks cornerback. He's made so many plays in practice it's like okay, Like now, like to be honest, doesn't matter what you do in practice, like all that

matters what you're doing in games. It's like, okay, let's see what we're doing in games. Then he gets that that pick on the one or two yard line from in from New York and um and yeah, and that gets us excited. We're like okay, like he's shown it in practice and he's doing it in games. Um, that really shows a lot. You know, when you have take all the cornerbacks and there's your guys are all built in different sizes and shape because Kevin Tolliver is different

than Duck and You're different than both of them. So when these young guys that don't have a great deal of experience, when they come up and ask your advice, does does what you do transfer to their abilities? Or

is each guy's traits handled a little differently? Yeah, I would say it has to be catered to their um, to their tangible so like whatever, like if they're tall, strong, or fast, for me, how I play corner Um, I don't think a guy like Duck or um, like a guy like Duck can can do it how I do because I like to be I like to be man and man like um in your face and like I'm ready to run with you, I'm ready to fight with

you or whatever. But like a guy like Duck or Duke, they might want to play off just because they're they're they're a little they're a little smaller and um and stuff like that. So I would just tell them, Hey, this is how I do, and these are things I do, and and if they can take um some things from me or um, I would strongly suggest, like, hey, go look at somebody that kind of fits like your type and fits how they play and fits how you play, and see if you can and incorporate some of that.

Prince Samu Kamara our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score Jeff and Tim and Prince kind enough to join us here. Today is the Bears wind down Week three of the preseason and they'll meet the Colts on Saturday night. Yeah, can you give me a little thumbnail on each guy in your secondary? Are you able to do that for me?

What do you mean my thumbnail? You know what their strengths are and how they're fitting in and maybe who's come the furthest so far in this offseason from your perspective, Uh, We'll go with Kyle Kyle Fuller. Yeah, yeah Kyle. Yeah. I don't think Kyle's is skipped to be um. I mean I think he's gonna have a better year this year,

uh than he did last year. I mean last year he was all world and um even with last year as great as great of a season as he had, I know he'll agree with us, like he still feels like he's like he missed some plays, but um, I feel like he's gonna turn it up again this year. Kevin t U T I'm I'm excited for for Kevin. Uh. He's uh he's a big, strong and fast, fast guy like myself and UM yeah, I'm I'm excited to see um things from him. He's gonna be great for us.

Duke is really impressed Tom and I and Duck because it's not too big for him. They come with the requisite attitude for a corner and a nickel position in particular. Would that be fair to say very true? Yeah, Duke definitely has that um, that dog that people would say that they want in a player not afraid of anybody, is not afraid of line up any against anybody and has great balls. Man buster, you know what cops in my head? He every time he goes after the ball,

somebody's on the ground like he's hitting. Yeah, it's not. You're not supposed to be that. He puts people on the ground. You think that's how he plays. Yeah, and he I'm sure, and I know he's gonna be compared to Bryce Um probably this whole first season, but I feel like it was a it was a great it was a great grab just from our management, just because they're similar. He's Um, he's experience, and he's like just

as fast and as athletic as brother. He talks about this being the front seven he's ever played with, the best front seven he's ever played with. You know when you said that too, Yeah, that's what are you in agreement with this? Because you've you've been around some pretty

good front sevens, But what do you think of this one? Yeah? These, I mean, these these guys are are yeah, extremely talented, and I know that the clock, the clock in a quarterback's head is going to be shortened, and yeah, it's gonna make our jobs a lot of easy. John Franklin, you played running back made corner, he played quarterback and now trying to be an NFL corner. Um probably probably one or if not the fastest guys on on our team.

And the strikes he's made from last year to this year, Um has has been grades, been making plays on on the balls. But still learning. Um still learning the game and as sweet goes very o Michael Joseph Chicago born

and brag grib listening in time there. I like I like, I like like if I if I could choose, if I could trade spots with somebody like athleticness and how I feel like I would want Like Michael Josie, he just seems like a prototypical like corner, just very limber, thin, can move, can move well, and and just has great ball skills. I feel like he has all the tangibles.

All Right, we're gonna step away another break. A couple of more segments to go with Prince Simulcamara, the veteran cornerback for Chicago Bears twenty nineteen season about to commence with the Packers on September fifth, Thursday Night Football will get into that. Coming up next on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to the score, Kick off the bears one hundredth season at the middle of night. Chicago Bears Black Party, Saturday, August thirty, first in Logan Square, open from noon to

ten and free for all ages. That's ten pm by the way. Enjoy activities including food, alumni autographs, photo opportunities, and music from Lovely the Band and more. Tom and I have been to those over the past couple of years. Good time had by all. Everybody enjoys getting out with this great August weather in Chicago, the final spasms of

the heatwave. I guess it's starting to cool down a little bit with September coming, and that means Bears football will open a season on September fifth, the league's opening game. And how often do you think about it Week one against the Packers. I mean, I'm starting to thinking about it a lot, a lot more now. I mean just just there's just gonna be some much emotion just in

that game. I mean, from for this being our one hundred year and um us opening a game here for for the uh uh and for the first game of the season, the NFL's one hundred and then of course what happened last year um in um at Green at Green Bay's plays. So there's gonna be so much, so much emotion and then I mean even just from how we how we finished the season last year. So um, it's gonna be a big game for for both teams, and um, there's gonna be a lot of a lot

of excitement. But um, we're I feel like we're gonna be ready. The adjustment to a new defensive coordinator is like being on a new team, or just like being on a new defense. When you think of coach Pagato and you know him, you know him in pract this. You know, I'm an OTAs you know, I'm a training camp preseason games. But like you said, it's different for you in a regular season game, just like it will be for him. Yeah, it's I feel like it's like

me just being just getting a new a new defense. Um. And I say that well him, him and in coach

Vick have similarities. Um, I think they're both Italians. And but Vic I always always telling him Vick is, Um it's not as vocal, but you still know how he feels and and Chuck after being um a head coach, just as presidents, he still carries himself, UM like he's like he's a head coach, and I mean just like the presidence and the respect that that he demands and he's very confident and um and but we're excited for

him to be our DC. He definitely challenges us in every ways and he and he teaches like life lessons and always comes up with these like quirky sayings like skin like armadillo and like so what now what just different different things, and um, I can't I can't wait to, uh, I can't wait to How does he challenge you guys? Give me an example, give me something living and breathing that give me an example of a challenge to Prince

and Mukamara. So he one thing, one thing he one thing he doesn't want us to do is like as a defense with all the success that we experienced last year, is like don't like, don't settle, like like we can be better. So even he doesn't, he doesn't want us to go through the through the motions and stuff like that. And he'll he'll always say, um, like today, today's Thursday. Thursday,

Today's Thursday. So he'll always say like, Okay, we're gonna this is gonna be the best Thursday in all of Thursdays. In history, or this is gonna be the best walkthrough and and all of walkthroughs in histories. So just to get our mind thinking positive, like, hey, like, no matter what we're doing, whether it's full speed or it's has to be whether there's no speed, like this is gonna be the best rep that I have, um that I've

ever had ever. What you don't know, and this would be true for anybody, is that Vic is a great coach. Pagano's a great coach. But the way they call games and how it all you know, the play callers, whether it be offense or defense, that's what you don't know. You know, that's what you're gonna have to adjust to because when is he gonna dial up the pressure or

what circumstances, how's it gonna play out? You know, in terms of what he sees in the bigger scope and you know, puts in your head over the course of the week. What's he got up his sleeve? You know that's the part that you that'll be the fun part. Yeah, yeah, it'll be that will be the that would be the fun part. Yeah, And just with Vic, just with being with him when I was with him for two years, it's like I could kind of get his sense. It's like, Okay, this is the time of the game, this is the

down and distance. Um, I think I'm gonna get covered too right here, and and I would just know and um yeah. And so with Chuck now is just like man like he kind of don't kind of don't know what he's gonna call me. Um, but um, I feel like defensive coordinators have a great great of course they should have a great eye for the game. And um. And one thing with Vick is like it could be thurning long and I'm thinking, Okay, we're gonna get We're gonna get covered two to keep everything inside and in

front of us. But then if if they convert on that there and long, that covered two is going out the window, Like we're not going to see h covered two like the whole game and stuff like that. So I'm sort of Chuck is similar, so not looking ahead or thinking ahead, but I am. So you figure, if I'm a guy I get cut by the Detroit Lions and then they bring me into the Chicago Bears and then they start picking my brain about what we do

on the offensive side of the ball. So now you you played a couple of years for Vic Fangio, you know as well, you know, as way of thinking and what you're telling us, is there anything that you can tell Mitch or tell Matt to say, Hey, in this scenario, this is the way he thinks, or this is something that we used to do regularly on this down a distance, this field position for a week two you mean, yeah, yeah, that's gonna be some kind of show. Yeah, I mean,

I'm sure. I mean, I think I think they would go to they would go to a couple of guys before they go to me, Like I think that they would go they would go to Kyle because Kyle Kyles was here the longest. But then also, I mean, should we have his we have his film, I mean we have his we have we have his uh practice film and stuff like that. But I'm sure vis Vix a smart guy, and I'm sure he's gonna um, I'm sure he will do different stuff and I mean thinking, thinking

in the right time frame. I mean, I'm sure Amos is probably singing, singing right now as we're talking. But but of course it's not like we have it's not like we have the same defense quote unquote. But um, but I'm sure amos. They have amos in there right now, like hey, like and stuff like that. But that's just that's just how the league works. Like and you'll see and I'm sure you guys, we'll see. You'll see guys get guys. Guys are gonna get cut from here. That's on.

There's gonna be maybe Green Bay or there's gonna be a team that's gonna say we I remember we did that when I was in New York, like we like I think the Eagles had had kind of guy during the season. They had cut a guy and we're gonna play him that week and we picked up We picked up that guy exactly, sell him rainbows and sunshine and ye, you're out of here, my man. But that's the competitiveness of this league and it's happens all the time. To

Shake Townsend. I'm intrigued by him as as your secondary coach because it comes with the built in respect of the fact that this guy was a very successful defensive back of the Pittsburgh Steelers, doesn't it. Yes, I enjoy having him, and I mean, one thing that's unfortunate for me is like before, like I could always like get away with stuff. But he's a former player, so he like know what he means, what are you trying to say?

I mean, just like I don't even know, like nothing comes to mind, but even just like just like little stuff. But he's he's already been there. It's like you're It's like it's like he's my dad and I'm his son, and I'm trying to do stuff that he did when I was a kid, and so so nothing and that's what's so tough about having him as a coach. It's just nothing gets nothing gets past him and stuff like that, and so he can't take advantage of of of of

a coach a substitute team exactly, That's exactly. It's it's harder to kind of squeezing that veteran's day off. He never got a veteran's day off, you know. But you know that's that's the good that's the good influence of him and I you know, it's probably the you know, you know from us from the sidelines looking in and we see the work ethic of Khalil Mack, you know, I mean as an ex player, he's kind of inspiring because I see the effort that he gives and if

they're running um a gas er in between. He's still he still does it the fastest. You know. He has to be out there and win where they put the ball down to start the next team. Him and Leonard pretty much. But he beats him every time. I mean, you're not beating this guy. Yeah, it's it's uncanny. Talk about competitive. Yeah, he wins everything. He's super competitive. Yeah. Yeah, we'll pick that up when we come back. You got a good relationship with Khail Mac, don't you. Yeah, yeah,

we're gonna talk about when we come back. Here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score final segment with Bears cornerback Prince and Mukamara. Here on Bears All Access, brought to you by Igs Energy from panc Studio at Hollis Hall, Jeff, Joni, Act Tom there with Paul's Ranger engineer and Greig Miller, our producer today. Prince kind enough to give us the hour here today as he gets ready for a trip to Indy to take out of the Colts gearing up for that season

opener against the Packers. So we left, we're talking about Kalail Mack and how inspiring ment guy is to watch and just what he does on the sideline, teaching other players, how he takes a moment to just play catch with Leonard Floyd and just really in a different way leading. He's not He's not a raw rod act that I can tell. He's not going to be, you know, spewing a lot of fiery comments. But he just leads by example. And I know that's cliche, but you need guys like

that too on your team, don't you. Yeah, you do, you do. I mean we have a good share of vocal guys, but we also have guys just like you said, just just lead by example, and just like you were naming um earlier earlier, like him him running the springs and even even just him um, like I do see him. I see him him talking to Chuck. I think Chuck harrisy. He's a former I call him from University of Buffalo. Yeah,

I call him little baby Mac or whatever. And um yeah, just him him teaching him that and and he you like around the league that there are some guys who who won't give um information like sometimes oh, like they'll think like, oh, this guy's trying to like replace me, or this guy's trying to take food off my table. But I mean, you know what, there was a guy used to be or Brian Robinson. You know he passed away years ago, but uh, defensive lineman, you tell me

playing for the Rams, Saint Louis Rams. They wouldn't tell him anything. They just didn't want to. But he was going to change that and he was going to be the guy that you could come to. I see it more nowadays that guys are willing. Yeah, maybe it wasn't that way five ten years ago. Well you don't for you, I'm when did you guys? You guys just keep everything

to yourself. Well, I don't know. See I just now from the outside looking in, because I see a Keem Hicks living in the back pocket of blah Micheles and he's constantly And last week in the sidelines of the game, you saw Clill Mack with voters and Isaiah Irving going over specific type of pass Russian counter moves fantastic. Is there is there a young guy that seeks because you and Kyle are two different cornerbacks, I mean there's you know, you guys play a different style. Are there guys that

gravitate towards you? And you know I need to ask you specific questions whether it is much as a route being run at you as your responsibility to a defense going forward. Yeah, I would say me and Mike Joseph probably uh talk talked to Most and Um like he's very astute like and he he just like watches me like, hey man, like I've seen you played this way or do this when you pressed like like why did you

why did you do that? And stuff like that. So he actually is UM is more active and like asking me questions and just wanting um, just wanting better insight and insane with Franklin on that whole background, Sorry are you going you want? I just want to finish it because it's it's a weird concept to me because so watching Monday Night Football, they got that segment it's called you Got Most and Last. Yeah, do you talk about

that stuff in the locker room? If you see yourself on a national type of media coverage, do you talk about that or do you just try to leave that so far behind you don't even want to bring it up. No, we'll talk about it. And even even after the play, I told him, I said, hey, um, one thing that my defensive back his name is Peter Jina. He's a defensive back coach for the Saints. I said, one thing he told me is don't let a bad play turn

into a bad day. So yes, that guy, um made a play, But um, you can still like, you can still play hard and you can still sounds like something exactly and so and and he did. He finished the game. Um, he finished the game pretty well. But yeah, but I mean, even if it's a good a good top ten that he's on is like, I don't think the guy who's on it is gonna say, hey, did you see him on on top ten? But I think guys would, uh, guys would bring it up. And I'm sure over time.

He's been there now for two years. He was on the practice squad all of last season and maybe not. But you know his background, I mean he didn't even start in his high school football. I don't know baground. Yeah, he grew up in Oswego, which is in the Southwest suburbs, and so he grew up a Bears fan. And you know, he didn't play. He had all he just couldn't crack the line up for whatever reason. So he goes and plays flag football at University of Dubuque in Iowa, like

in like intermurals. Oh yeah, he just he and he worked. He went in the weight room, he added a bunch of strength, and then he got the chance to get on that team and he became one of the best small school cornerbacks in college football two years ago. So his journey is from nothing like he's you're helping him and he's trying to help you win the super Bowl

in twenty nineteen if he makes this football team. So you know those kinds of and you're in your first round pick and you're you know, you're sharing this information with a kid who's that's why he's Thursday. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know that. One thing I did here when I was um, I did it. I did an interview on a cylinder in the Panthers game. Someone said he was five town is correct? What what when? Ye higher? Yeah? And I'm thinking, okay, like my wife is like five foot.

I'm not gonna say wait better, but I'm thinking, like my wife, this guy was like that first year. You talk about somebody that's invested in himself, right, I mean, it's a great story. I love those stories. I mentioned Mac. You got a camp. You have a camp every year and everything can how'd you get him the cop man? I paid him. No, I'm getting but I could not believe listen like I was. So I was. I was so flattered and um and honored. But yeah, he came.

I just simply I just imply asked him, and um, he said, yeah, he's gonna come and and with my camp. I don't say who's coming because I don't want to falsely advertise and I don't want those kids to come for them. I want them, Yeah, I want them to know like I'm good and I'm I'm enough and um. So, but every year I always ask different guys and yeah, Matt came, and I was like, wow, people, did the

kids gravitate to him? Because yes, everybody, everybody loved him and he and he's just one of those guys that that's gonna sign every autograph and take every every picture. Didn't big guy nobody? And then um it was cool, Like I had my friends help me with the camp, and I'm thinking, like, Okay, who who can I give, like like the um the privilege to like to like be with camp, be with be at camp with mac working uh uh um, like an exercise or whatever. And then I gave it to one of my good friends

who who's a who's a Raiders fan. Um, but I knew he would still enjoy it. But yeah, Mac was amazing, and UM, I'm trying to get him out again if he comes to learn about the guy that maybe we don't see. Oh man, he's um a lot, a lot funnier, he has great, a lot funnier than than you would think. Has great, great personality, UM, very very like welcoming, just like just hospitable, like opens his house, um, just like

um invites and um. And and Mac has some business ventures also that um that he's not shy on on including and um he just he You just wouldn't think like with guys like that, even my stereo talking. I'm sure fans are too. And maybe you guys too, Like you think this guy's a prima donna or like a diva or like a guy with like who's accomplished as much as he's accomplished, but he's more like he wants every everybody to win, and he wants to talk about

everybody else. He does not want to talk about himself. And he's never going to be that guy. So Chicago. I mean to me, he's he's lak er esk in that regard humility of of a star player that you wouldn't or narrowly suggest would be the case exactly. And I even but when when I found out like he red shirted, I started a crack on him. I'm like, man, Wow, for one time in your life, you weren't. You weren't as good as everybody like you. You red shirted, So

I thought that was pretty funny. Last thing for me, what do the kids want to know? Like when you go to a camp and you're surrounded by kids, whether Khalil's they are or not, and you're there, what what? What is the kid? What are the kids need? Yeah? So I always get two personal I always get two tough questions. Number one, who's the best guy you you've guarded? A Number two like how can I get to where

to where you are? So I would say those two questions I get mostly all right, Well, your ball skills have escalated at a very crazy rate. I think you easily had double digit interceptions over the course of training camp, and you're including you had one yesterday, pick six. And I learned from another interview that I did with you earlier this year that no one ever taught you really how to catch a football until Ed Dontel, which to me,

you played football your whole life. That's a stunning statement. Yeah, but thank goodness it finally happens, right right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just when he and I And that's one thing I loved about Coach Edar is like, and you see what the Shay two is like, they actually care for you as players. And I was just yeah, well when he told me that I had to put my index fingers together, in my thumbs together and actually look the ball in it.

And the term you use, or the phrase he used was just stop the ball, like don't catch it, just just you were trying to grab it. Yeah I was, Yeah, I was just trying to catch it either with my body or just Yeah, you would think just by natural osmosis happen. But I'll tell you what, You're gonna have a big year. Yeah, thank you, Princeton Mulcamara, I guest, thank you joining us. Man appreciate it. Always a good time with Tom there. I'm Jeff Jonny Aac. Thanks to

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