All Access: Amukamara on tough nose defense

brought to you by IGS Energy. With Tom there, I'm Jeff Johnniac, and we will be joined by Prince Amukamara, the veteran cornerback for the Chicago Bears. Time I want to start right into today's news conferences as the Bears try and put the Green Bay game in the rearview mirror.

I thought Mitch Trobiscuit the Mike was outstanding, getting into a lot of detail about his thoughts about particular game situation which really define a quarterback, what you're doing in the red zone, what you're doing in the two minute offense, and was very transparent about what was going through his head and how he'd like to see a change in the future, what do you think about it? You know, Mitch's kind of Mitch and Matt Maggie both are kind of like an artist, because when you have a team,

it's just like one big blab of clay. And then after you get to the chance to experience it through OTAs and preseason, then you start molding it a little bit. But then when you get into the real action of the regular season, now you start molding that thing into

whatever structure you're going to make out of it. And so when Mitch goes back and evaluates the tape critically, real seriously, with his teammates as coaches and his peers, then you start understanding the things, Okay, I didn't need to hurry this up, or man, I should have seen this downfield. So it's all those types of things, you know, when Mitch said today at the podium and probably trying to make the point the whole time, Mitch's improvement is

going to be a constant. He's never gonna get there and then and then oh it's all over, I'm at the top or else you know, he's so, I mean, that's that's I'm glad mitche realizes that the importance of the continuous work and effort he's got to put in. As an offensive lineman, you need to see the game through the same eyes as a quarterback does, and you did for all your years as a guard with the Bears. Did you, after watching tape see the game as he

described it today? Yes, I think. You know, going into the first game, your first experience, there's a little bit of over anxiousness and maybe you're trying to think too fast and all those things that you fall You'll eventually you'll fall into the tempo and fall into the rhythm of the offense of the game. Those things will start to slow down. Because everybody wants to call it his second season, which it is, but it's still his first season,

first season within this system. You know, you want to go up and have all these glowing or remarks about Mahomes in Kansas City. This is his second year in the same system. So it's it's hard to have the comparison because Mitch has already forgot which Mahomes is double learning. Yeah, and that's common though, that is and that the analysis he is immediate. And there was a great question asked

today and Mitch acknowledging too. You know, it's it's a sport at a position where you're defined, this is who we are for the rest of your career on this game. Next game you're defined a different way, and the next, and this will go on for the next fifteen years of the man's life, right, you know. Unfortunately, unfortunately, fortunately, that's the benefits of playing the quarterback position. What did he say as soon as he walked off the stage at the end of his press conference, He goes, I

have the greatest job in the world. So that is the reflection of the respect Mitch has for his opportunity, and he also realizes the improvement he has to make in what we as fans expect from him because he's already set the buy the bar high. He's a good athlete, he's dedicated, he's really he's got accuracy, he can throw on the move. So all the traits that you need to see out of a quarterback, he's displayed them all. Third and goal three, hard line, sixteen seconds ago, first quarter.

The still shot, you've seen it because you've been hitting the mobile unit pretty good there this phone. You're finding out a lot of stuff these days. You're starting to come into the century. So yeah, still shot at Trey Burton back there appears to be wide open, right and it's still shot. And he explained it perfectly today. His first check was Turiko and his first read. Then he goes to the check down, takes the five yeard, get the points, tend nothing first quarter. He says, that's a win.

But as you look at it, as he moves forward, he wants to be the quarterback that will at the first glimpse, boom, when you're not having to think about it, throw that pass. What he will, but he will, he will. That's the way he's going to develop. But that's not a first glimpse read to Trey Burton. The first glimpse is to treat and then he was covered immediately in the flat. And then when he looked backside Taylor Gabriel,

he thought that was his name. So now you're talking about maybe three three seconds into the course of the play, so it's not immediate throw it. You know, there's a lot of evaluation. You're you're avoiding the rush, you go to the the scrimmage, understand the protection and understand where your vulnerabilities lie. So there's a lot more thinking into

it than pass hunting kid. Absolutely pleased to be joined now by the veteran cornerback of the Chicago Bears, fresh off the practice field and a shower, Prince Samukamara joining us. How are you doing, my friend? Are you sure I showered? That's what I was told. Anyway, it wouldn't matter if you did or didn't. You know, it's football season. You do what you can, right, right? Do you do whatever

you have to do to get ready? Jay Hilligberg once said, the greatest thing about the job as an NFL football players you don't have to shower on your way to work, and you know you always have fresh clothes hanging in there. Right. Yeah, Well, thank you for digging the time, Thank you for taking the time. You get a little extra prep work for

the Seattle Seahawks. It's been a head spinner this whole preseason and leading into the first game, and it's almost right now, a little chance to breathe a little bit with this extra preparation. I don't know if that's really the way it is for you as a football player, but after everything that's gone on, is it a little bit of a chance to take a deep breath? Yeah, especially with how um especially with how Sunday Sunday ended. Um. Yeah,

that extra day helped us as a as a team. However, it's crazy because we got done Sunday and then we had Monday Tuesday UM off and then got back into

a Wednesday. So that Monday Tuesday, I'm sure guys watched the film forgot about it, but he still had to watch it with the UM with with with our coaches and and where our thick skin uh costume and yeah man, so uh coach uh coach Naki went went through UM just uh offense and defense as a team with with like UM maybe the I don't know if the owners were in there, but I know everybody was in there,

like gems and stuff like that. And he prepared us and just say, hey, we're just like sharpening each other and UM, I wouldn't say guys got called out, but it was. But he was just pointing, pointing plays and just going going through the ebbs and flows of of of how the game win and guys, guys received it well.

And you can tell how how guys are attacking UM practice practice this week just with a little bit more like UM, a little bit more, just doing a little bit more and everything, whether it's finishing, whether it's more after Um, we just know across the team, guys just want to get that bad taste out of our mouth. This is one thing that Tom for the twenty two years that I've known him in this position, he talks about that meeting where you have to have and he's

well read it. And I don't know if I always been that way. Well, you know what, It develops camaraderie first of all, because you're challenge in front of your peers, and when you talk about having thick skin, you got to be able to take constructive criticism from the coach. And then you know, as an offensive linement, I could anticipate, I'll I gave up a sack or tackle for a loss. I look at the guy next to me. Again, you gotta stick with me, come on five, you know. Just so.

But again, that's the way that you build the team that ultimately you're going to have at the end of this whole journey that you're you're just starting. Exactly. No, I completely agree with you, Tom, And it's more like, um, there's a singing in football. I'm sure not film like, it's never as good it is, and it's never as bad as it is on film, So it just to

remain neutral and um and just keep pushing. It is hard to have a twenty four hour rold when you had forty eight hours and now you're gonna dig back again. And here it is the first day this because today is really a Wednesday in the football world of Monday through Sunday. But because of the Monday night or so, you're still getting questions about what happened in that game. Is that a challenge for a player because you are trying to set your mind right and you know, the

media has its obligations. Totally get it, You get it too, but it is hard to keep going back when you just want to just go forward. Yeah, I mean again, I agree with you. It's just more about like that game, like all just all the emotions from even from sitting down with um, with Missus McCaskey and just knowing everything

that just went into that game. It's just like boom, like you just pop popped the bo loon and um just kind of really, um, I'm sure just deflated like this whole this whole organization just for just for that night. But now, UM, I think everyone has that short term memories like all right onto Seattle, like where you know they're going to start with the T formation on the

offensive side. No, and I and I and I didn't get I didn't get it until I mean I saw on social media on Twitter, um like it was in I think in an honor of how this and stuff like that. I thought, eighteen forties, it's pretty cool. Yeah, nineteen forty one against the Washington Redskins. They opened I think they beat him seventy three to nothing that at that time. And I just you know, it's the respect

that you have. You think of Virginia McCaskey sitting in the stands and probably the only person to see the inception of that idea, that idea run and then you know, play still work. Yea seven yards, I'll take seven yards. But I hope they use it more and more. And you know what, no one met and knowing how these offensive coordinators are on these offensive coaches, they'll they'll come up with different offshoots from that play and make defense is prepare for it, like they have to, right, you

have to prepare you just because they showed it. Yeah, we have to. Well, I you know, I would like to talk to Prince a little bit more about it after the commercial, just about his defensive thinking. When you have to prepare for an equally balanced play like that, maybe after the other that's time their Prince and Mukamar are a guest with you here over the course of the next fifty minutes or so. This is Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports

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You want to pick up the T formation play that started the game against the Packers gained seven yards, right, you mentioned gain seven yards, So it's not a play that you shelf and never bring out again. But Prince, now when you're on the other side of the ball. Now you're looking at a backfield that you don't have great familiarity with. What do you think what are you thinking defensively? So I'm just thinking, okay, there's three backs in the backfield. I'm thinking, of course there can be

some type of toss or direct run. But I'm also thinking, okay, he has three guys in a back for there's also Max protect, maybe deep some type of deep developing routes. So when it's stuff like that or something we haven't seen, it's just like, okay, let's when in doubt bellot out, like stay stay deep, let it, let it clear out,

and then and then react after. Okay. So now for the fans of us getting ready for Game two, you know you have the guys like um, big band, you got Marino and even Rogers for some case kind of more stationary quarterbacks. Now you're bringing a Russell Wilson. They got Dak Prescott, they got a slew of creative quarterbacks in the NFL. Does this change your game at all when you have more of a stationary quarterback as opposed to a Russell Wilson type. Um, the only way it

changes in my game. And just have to be ready for I just have to be well conditioned, just because I know Russell's gonna extend the plays I mean similar to to Um, the guy we played last week. I just don't even want to mention. I just know that that their quarterbacks like that are gonna extend the plays.

So I just have to we called a plaster where you get close to your guy, or get close to any guy if you're in zone, just because when the quarterback starts scrambling, it's like basketball, guys can go any any anyway. Aaron Rodgers, Let's just say that that second half the frustration level of a defense. If we're watching it, I'm frustrated. I can't imagine what it's like for you guys, because you gotta stay patient and you gotta you gotta be there to make the big play. Um, what is

going on after a first half? For it was complete the domination and you pressured him to have then having him sit there and just pick away. Yeah, I mean so so the first half is just like wow, like we like we really we really punched him in the mouth. I'm even when Aaron was in, we punched them in the mouth. And then even when they didn't start moving the ball until Kaiser got it. When Kaiser got in,

then they started moving the ball. But then you see um Khalil ended that with a sack a sack fumble or shack strip and then turn over run down and then um. And then when we go to halftime, UM, guys were of course um filling themselves excited, but guys were still echoing like, hey, like this is four quarters. We haven't did anything yet, so guys knew like we

had to bring it back the second half. The second half came, we weren't sure if Aaron was gonna play or not, and they ended up he ended up playing, and then um, and then they started getting some up temple stuff. They started moving and then UM. And then when they had the first score, UM, I think I

think that was on Kyle. They had the first score, then it's like okay, they got some momentum and then UM and then I come back in from a head with a head hit and then and then they have and then they have the long play on me and then they have the second score. Then it's like like it's almost like Ben don't break. It's like okay, like like let's get like let's have some and then UM.

It just felt like once once we stopped bleeding, once we started bleeding, we couldn't we couldn't stop in and stuff like that, and I'm just thinking, like, man, if we just held them, because because as we were watching film, I'm thinking like, Okay, man, it was really like five minutes in the third quarter and it was like twenty to three or twenty three. You mentioned that you were surprised. Yeah, I just couldn't. I just couldn't believe. I just couldn't

believe it. And then um and yeah, like we just couldn't stopped to stop the bleeding, and um, and they just had they just had the momentum and they and they just went with it. So I mean, you gotta tip your hats to them for not taking it and for not and for not giving up. You know, I think when you have that saying, desperate times call for

desperate measures. When he came out of the locker room at half time, I think he kind of threw the game plan out the window and said, all, Okay, I'm gonna get the ball out of my hands like Aaron Rodgers nose he can. So I think that kind of changed the whole tempo of the game a little bit.

You're a little bit more necessity to protect myself than actually doing the device game plan that MacArthur he put out there, right, I agree, because he was if you if you saw, if you watch him, he didn't really put that much weight on that on on that foot. So it was just quick dank and dunk and then the um and then the line did a great job

um with with protecting him. And yeah, I mean and I mean and there and there was a time when they were they were probably we call it the maroons on maybe like the thirty yard going in and it was we had a great third down and he was. I seen him arguing with McCarthy like, hey, like keep them back, keep the field goal team back. I want to go. McCarthy's like, no, get out, like get him out and stuff like that. I'm like, man, like, this is not a good sign. This guy feels this. He

was confident because he did he in his mind. This is reminded me a little bit. Not certainly it's Week one versus a super Bowl, but when I'm sitting there while I'm at the Super Bowl and Atlanta giving away its lead and Tom on that day, every single thing that happened had to happen, how it happened for that to even have a chance to win the game. And

I believe the same thing happened in this case. It had to happen that way if he if he settles for a field goal or another field no, there's no chance or the Bears are one one, one snap makes a difference in that game. Right, that's probably the most difficult aspect to swallow, right, right, in any phase. Right. Yeah, No,

I couldn't agree with you more. You know, um, just going back to the preseason a little bit, because there's a lot of a little bit of talk about interceptions this year, and and I it's neat to be talked about because it's something that's going to happen. And so you started the conversation the preseason. Then we then Clail Mac comes here. Does that number in your head go up? Or I still got that same number set in your head? Um, I mean yeah, of course I think I still have that.

I mean, I'm gonna have that same number every year until until I get as long as I mean, as long as I'm playing. And yeah, I said a joke like when he when we when I found that we we signed him, I was like, yeah, that is looking a little bit more uh, prom promising now And stuff. But yeah, I mean it's no, it's no surprise, the dynamic, the type of um energy that he just brings brings to our team. I mean I've always watched I've actually honest,

I never really I never really watched him. I just know, I know it acculates. I know he was defensive player year. I know he's an All Pro in a pro bowler, and I never really watched him. But I mean that well, you know, it's kind of like Von Miller and Khalil. They're over on the West Coast. You know, the first time I sat there and watched one on ones with Von Miller a couple of weeks ago and Denver, I was going, oh my god, this this guy is shot out of a can. And there's a lot of similarities

between the two. So now we are going to learn a lot more about Khalil in the next few years with his situation here. But you know, he has a great teammate, a great guy to bring in the locker room when you're trying to construct construct a positive atmosphere there. Yeah, it's crazy how how fitting he was um to, I mean crazy, how grave a fit he was when when he came here, because I know pace and and and management there's they're so huge on just having great guys

and stuff like that. So the fact that Matt came in, um and just molded right in and got along with our personalities and and really bought into the culture so fast. Um, I think that's that helps our team out alive. Prince mcamara, our guest here on Bears All Access pause rank or engineer Dan Barelli helping us out here as well as

Brandon McCarty as the show moves on. Here, Prince, you're you're hitting the nail right on the head because you don't know when you got a guy who just became the richest defensive player in NFL history in terms of a contract, you don't know really what you're getting unless you're here through the grapevine, right all the grapevine, My grapevine. Time's grape fine. He's a fun loving guy, he's pretty humble, and you know he's a he's a nasty football player.

That's all you need to know. And that must be comforting because this is an alpha business and there are a lot of guys want to be Alpha's not everybody can be in alpha, and some guys do it with a big, big voice. Others do it by their play, and I think he's the latter. He does it with

his play. Get that you get that impression from him and there, Yeah, and now, I mean even before that game, he was being more vocal because and I remember watching him watching I've seen a picture of him on the Raiders team, he had a see on his on his chest and in the in the NFL or any team, you don't. I don't think you just hand those captains out. So for him to be a captain there, and then now seeing him on our on our team, how he's starting to be vocal now and starting to just speak

up and lead and lead through actions. I'm starting to starting to see him as a captain on what's he saying? Um, you know, I think he's just making sure we're poise, like uh, saying stuff like like come on guys, like like let's get one. When he talks to the bes, hey, um, uh, cover your guys just for one more second and so so I can get in and stuff like that. You know. I like his practice habit that he's gonna make guys like Rashad Coward better because now he's going against this

offensive line every day in practice. He's got a really serious approach to his effort. In the tempo he uses that. Now you see, it's a trick kind of a trickle over effect where guys are going to have the opportunity to develop and practice against the best in the league. And believe me, I know about practicing against the best defense in the league and how much better you get because of it. That is town there with Prince Amukamara.

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I mentioned in that little red right there home opener at Soldier Field, Matt Nagy has talked about it extensively about re establishing a home field advantage. The crowd has been sometimes in recent years they have not received the payoff with enough victories. So what's it take to create the home field advantage other than the obvious putting it into the wind coun that makes it a nasty place for visitors to come in and deal with. You guys, I think it starts with us. It starts with the players.

It starts with us doing things that's gonna get the crowd excited. And that's not jumping and hollering and swinging our towels. That's that's our play on the field, making making big plays, scoring touchdowns, getting big hits, making interceptions. I think the fans feed off of that. And I mean, like we're we're entertainers and they want to be entertained. So if we give them stuff to holler about and to get loud about, I mean a third down and

the game is close, um they're gonna be loud. But if the third down and the game is and we're getting blown out, I don't. I mean, it's human nature. I don't think that they're gonna care as much. So if if we do what we need to do, us players, I think the fans are gonna react off of us. How hell you know, how helpful is a crowd noise helpful to a defensive back. It is to the defensive line. It's really slows down the offensive line and everything like that.

But you know you have the extreme crowd noise and you know it is it is great to have as an assistant. Does it help defensive backs? Does it confuse them? Does it limit your communication with the width of the field? Yeah, I mean it it it helps us because now the offense can't communicate and they need to communicate more than us. But um, the defense it it can't hurt us al just a little bit. But we don't care just because

we do need to communicate verbally. But that's why we can use like sign lay guage and we can do um, we can do other stuff. I mean, the corner is very easy. You can just give me one, two, three or four and I know how I know how to play those uh those coverages. You know a lot of chatter between wide receivers and dbs, at least during my time in football. And this week they got a X Chicago Bear that has a lot it brings a lot of chatter with um do you do you get involved

in that? Do you stay away from it? Do you not have time for it? Or how? How does how do you go about that part of your business. I never I never start talking first unless, um, unless someone's not playing the game the right way and I either that's um, do an extra after the whistle or just or if they're talking to me, then then I'll then I'll pop off after. But other than that, any anything in training camp with Anthony Miller because he came in

here a confident guy and he's a rookie. So now Prince Mukamara a seasoned veteran and you gotta you know, have a couple of battles with a guy like that. Um, it was very It was very little. I mean we probably I think, if anything, we just made fun of each other. But on the field, um, not not so much. I think maybe when I was when I was out a little bit with my growing he was he was saying, oh okay, you're you're d you get it, you get you get some days off and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, yes,

Other than that, not not too much. But Anthony's very very um, a very confident individual. I mean I'm excited for him to get started. You know, when when a kid comes in like that, I think it depends on the vet. Um, I think most vets would probably want to humble him um some somehow or something like that. But me, I mean, I coach Naggie started. They're like, hey, be, you have some swagger so and I think that's part of the swag and him being him. So, UM, I

just I just let let him be. In your entire career, that's your third team. Have you ever felt as empowered to be you as you do right now? Or have you always been you? Um? I would say, I would say this is almost similar to Jacksonville when we had Gus Bradley, and Gus comes from the the Seattle like lineage, like where um, I mean they're playing music videos in the in the in their team meetings and you can wear hats inside the building and um, and they have

a basketball hoop and stuff like that. So that was more like that was like public school. That was just more like that was I really I felt like how like basketball players, we had curfew and stuff, but I just felt like basketball players they can stay as long as they want. They like they basically can do whatever. And I kind of felt like that. Man, I kind of feel like how Lebron kind of kind of feels just like I felt like a true vet when um, when I was there and UM, but those those type

of systems don't don't work for every team. Some people need in one structure. But um, that was just a perfect fit for me coming from Coughlin Coughlin School, and I really appreciate that. Appreciate that in my career because I was there for five years and that really like straightened me up, being being five minutes early and knowing how to be a pro and stuff like that. So that prepared me for August Bradley and the man Naggie. I think Matt has the same expectations from all of

his players. He just has a more modern way of putting it. Because since since the day Matt was hired, and every time he stood at the podium, I've always respected everything he said about the next message that he wants to deliver, And I think that's what players want to hear. They don't want to hear a guy that's so evasive at the podium that you really don't know what he's saying. You're different because you played from Mike dit guess, so the messages they came fast and furious.

But coaches stand there. I've always been told this. Most of the coaches that I've talked to, they are talking to the media answer that questions, but they're talking to you, guys, and if the message is different from what they're telling you in the team meeting at the podium, then we got to disconnect. Then we got a problem. Am I

right right? You need to And I don't know that you're hearing what he says at the podium or if you guys do occasionally read it, and a lot of guys on Twitter now, so they are susceptible of hearing things that maybe they didn't want to hear before, or reading things they didn't want to read before. But the message has to be consistent. So I think there's this notion that you know, coaches stand there and tell tell the media a bunch of a bunch of nonsense just

to fulfill a commendment, but they are talking to their players. Yeah, I agree with that, But mine is my perspective is almost like a vice versa because I feel like what he tells us is what he's telling to the to the media. And I don't know which one comes first, but but anytime he'll tell us something and then I'll see a tweeter or a clipping like, oh he said what he told them, He told that exactly to us.

Was this approach any different? You know, it seems like you have five months to prepare for your first game of the season than you got three days to prepare from every game after that was his approach. The same at the beginning of this week as it has been leading up to the as it was leading up to the Green Bay game. But now your time is much more condensed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Coach Niki has been very

even killed and um. And I think from this generation of coaches, I've been seeing like they're starting to bring the energy and they've learned that players feed off that energy. So he's the same coach talking stuff, UM, talking stuff to us at at practice. If if the scout team offense makes a play, it's a good job, good job offense, good job offense. Just to get under the defense the defense skin and um, if I drop ball or something, Prince, that's that's another ten balls on the jokes for you

and stuff like that. So he's always um, he's always honest, always bringing that energy and UM, I think as a player we appreciate that coming from the coaches. He's very

transparent too. He uh, I don't know how players feel about this too, but you know, taking responsibility today at the podium too, just talking about how he didn't feel like he was in a great rhythm as a play caller in his first game here as head coach, and and have the due had an offensive coordinator or not offensive coordinator, buy title, but designed the game play call the plays as a head coach, especially on third downs and so forth. That admission a lot of coaches are

not going to do. They may say it. I believe what he says. He's not just it's not just lip service. The players appreciate that. Yeah, I think there's a very um I think him him being genuine. I think guys, guys can really read off that a player can tell for coaches faking it or not. Is this the closest and age you've ever been in your career to your

head coach. Yes, because you know, when you when you start closing that gap between the Coughlin and the other ears, there is a difference because now you're seeing things similarly. You know, he has young kids, and he's you know, everything else that goes on with his life there. Yeah, Yeah, I can I can definitely uh see that, and I

think that's why, um it's it's a good fit. Prince and Mukamara our guest here on Bears All Access as we break down the Bears game to the lost of the Packers, look ahead to the Seattle Seahawks, a visit from Pete Carroll's guys. He mentioned Gus Bradley, so Prince and Mukamore knows a little bit about that defense over there in Seattle. Bradley worked there and was kept by

Pete Carroll his first year back in twenty ten. Eight years of great success for the Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson and the Fellas coming to Soldier Field Well continue here on Bears All Access on Chicago's Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of Bears All accesses brought to you by Ruth Chris Steakhoup. This is how It's done. The yum from Tom Bear as Prince Mukamara joins us here remaining segments with the Bears starting cornerback getting ready

for the Seattle Seahawks. I mentioned Gus Bradley, you played former Jacksonville. Now he's out in LA with the Chargers. As a defensive coordinator, but he comes from that system. There's a lot of familiarity here, a little bit about exactly what they're they're going to be doing here as well. There's a lot of interesting things they do defensively, but it's different. I know you're looking at it from an offensive perspective. But what did the Legion of Boom do

to secondaries around the National Football League? Oh? Man, I think they they kind of pressed us to try to get our get our own name in stuff like that. So you see, um, I think, uh, Chris Harrison and the Broncos. I think they started like a no no fly zone and stuff like that, and um, I mean they actually made us kind of more more valuable and just and kind of showed the league like, hey, this is what happens when you have that continuity, that good

core of guys that that stayed together. And I think for the GMS and stuff, it kind of showed them like, hey, you can you can build from within the house, like you can find something like I mean Camp Champs. So I think it was like a fourth round guy and then Sherman was like a fifth round guy, and then I mean Thomas was a first and stuff like that. So when you so, I think it kind of showed gams like, hey, you can find some gems and just um and mold them and kind of build them from

with them. But I mean they were just dominant probably for I don't I think, well, really, when you know he's at six out of eight years winning records, playoffs, two super Bowls, win one first two year seven and night they made massive changes but on their system early. All right, so you get these teams with nicknames and then because it starts with Boom and it starts with the big hitting safeties. So now you get all these rule changes. Do they have to change your tackling tempo?

And maybe it changes what the reputation of defensive backs can be because you can't you can't light up guys anymore, starting with the safeties and to thebes, right, Yeah, yeah, I think I think guys are and we have been practicing how to hit, I mean, how to how to move our head. I mean even the defensive lineman. Now you can't even it used to be like a bonus a chair on top tub put all yours who was a Gannon or when he ended his career at the Raider, he used to be great to just land on them.

Now you got to hit him and then like roll over and you might get hurt trying to land on on your shoulder. And like that. I mean Ben roethlisbergers six six and how I mean how much? I mean, come on, some of these quarterbacks, they're big gags. Cam Newton called Pepper. How you planning on bringing that guy down? You gotta do by any means necessary, right right right,

and you can't. Yeah, And that's the thing I think, guys, I mean, I hate to bring this up, but we've learned from the thing we've learned from the Saints and Vikings game is like, I'm it looked like Marcus Williams of safety. He looked like he wasn't trying to blow him up, like he was just trying to hit or get it tackled. But I think for him being so worried about that, he missed, he missed the whole play. So I think guys are just gonna do what they

have to do. The playoff Yeah, the playoff game, yeah, I think, God, you're just gonna have to do what they have to do. Make the hit and then boy, but you know, if that happens the next morning, you're a front page story. Exactly. Well, it's the fundamental challenge your whole life. You're preached about the head, part of the fundamental of whatever you're doing, blocking, tackling anything. Now it's almost like you got to completely get rid of your head and think of shoulders and arms and and

getting it out of the way. So I think the defensive back he all, he just unfortunately ducked his head too early trying to make a legal hit at the end of the play. Yeah, I'm thinking this. If I'm in offense, i am work in the middle of the field to my heart's contempt, because really the fear of getting ripped back there at the tight end position or a crossing route or whatever, I think is gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah. I mean, do you feel you might

start seeing that this year? Yeah? I can. Yeah, I can definitely see that. Even I mean I'm thinking about from our game, even with the those late hits on on Mitch, like those those late quarterback quarterback hits. It's just like if a guy rolls out, I mean even just just throwing the ball, you're more likely to get a penalty from that too. But you know the game's moving so fat are you actually thinking through this? No, No, you can't possible. Yeah, No I can't. Um, Yeah, I'm not.

I'm not worried about that. I just have to face the repercussions after. Yeah. You know what's weird is and talking to Charles Tillman quite a few times about his peanut punch and all that stuff, He's that there are times where he was in position that he can anticipate the momentum of the offensive player coming at him in

regards to getting the punch in there. How if he's gonna be off balance when you know when he's hitting the ground and that you know you can just come Like last week, for example, didn't Von Miller go up and just take take the ball away from the running back for Seattle? Unbelievable. It's just the anticipation of movement by defensive players because you see it so frequently in your life. Yeah. And I think the more you play,

just the more you're able to be um. Just you're more able to react and um and just make great plays like Von did. That tape is fun to watch if you like pass rushers. Oh my gosh, I see how about how about when the tackle gave him up and he comes slanting down Russell Wilson never saw him. I mean he puts some punishment on that man. Yeah, well they started and Mac could be doing the same thing.

I'm like, I asked Mac, I said, did you see I had to look at I had to look at this dats I think for Von think Von had three yep, three sex and j Yeah, just that slant he went up and then just darted straight in and then it was it was a sack fumble. And then the one where because Russell X to roll out, Russell's circled back and just ran. Well, the first play of the game they're in Denver, they run a seven step play action fake drop in. Any offensive tackle in the league is

gonna be get beat. And then at least one out of two you got Chubb rushing, you got Derek Wolf on the inside, he got von Miller. That's that's a silly play to run to start your season. So sometimes you have to put some coaching criticism in there when you're thinking about the rushers Von Miller one week and now this tackle is going to go to sleep all week thinking about Mac. Yeah, it's almost like the onlines

playing the uh the AFC west back to Bay. It's funny though today and in the locker room, Max saying, you know, I get Aaron Rodgers, won't week now get Russell Wilsa. He goes, you know, give me a break right right just the eye. I mean, that is one thick bodied pass rusher who can really close the distance on or he's got the thing. I love watching about it, and I love a couple. I love a couple of things in football if it doesn't really matter to the

average listener. But I love running backs. I love variety, and I love pass rushers. I love the different toolbox of each each pass rusher and how they can make plays just on their sheer, athleticism, power, knowledge, instincts and whatnot. Those are fun. That's like art rushing the passer, would you agree, yeah, yeah, yeah, And just I mean because they also use like karate or just something something with their hands. It's not a wax on, but it's crazy

how they how they use their hands. And it's like it's almost like you could tee off on that old alignment because you can do a bull rush and go straight through them, or you could shake them and go outside and inside. I mean and but the best part about being a D line is that you can have a sack one play, run out, get a breather, get refreshed, and then go back in. Or you could get blocked for seventy seventy yeah exactly. Time would just be cutting them left and right. Well, no, you know what he

liked awful watching watching the Denver Seattle game. The first couple plays Denver brought third third tier pressure onto Russell Wilson. So it did change his way of thinking it thought it He kind of putting his head quicker that I have to escape rather than sit inside the pocket. So it'll be interesting to pay attention to when you talk about your favorite thing in football, Jeff's favorite towing football as a corner blitz, above and beyond all that other garbage.

He just wanted love Rande Barber corner blitz you know, over the years outstanding. Uh, you know, I'd like to see them send you every now and again. You've been on a blitz at any point in your career? Yeah? Yeah, in my career, but not not much. Yeah you're outside, yeah anyway, you're an outside guy. Um thing I want to bring up before we go, because the MAC when I we sat down, we did a TV interview and when he first got here, and I'll be dog on

if he's not. His whole interview is using his hands, and it was, and I'm thinking just the way he was talking and how he used his hands because it's muscle memory. Yeah, I'm telling you, he's sitting across me, he's probably using those same moves on an offensive tackle. Yeah, no joke. I can see that. I can see that. There's definitely muscle memory, a lot of repetition. You know. You go back and you look at Von Miller. One of his first rushes, he's got an unbelievable Karate move

at the offensive tackle, extend his arm. He bats both of them down. But the thing about it is is Khalil's really good at it. Two he can bat an offensive lineman's arms down and still have his momentum feet going forward. So they have to be double organized because most people when they're using their hands, the first thing they want to do is think about stopping their feet. And so now he got these great rushers bam. But look at look at the coordination of their feet while

they're coordinated with their hands. I'm thinking Leonard's gonna learn a heck of a yeah, yeah, Leonard. I mean Leonard's potentials through through the student roof. So all right, Prince and Mukamar our guest here on Bears All Access. Another segment to go here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment of Bears All Access is orchestrated by c d W c d W people who get it, Jeff and Tim with Prince and Mukamara get it ready.

With the Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson Branton Marshall coming to down at three catches in a touchdown last week, overcoming some tow and ankle issues, said he traveled all over the world. Offensive pass interference puts off in the end zone. He had here you go. That's good to see where Prince, who knows we're he'll lined up. He's more than considered there. I think a possession target there. But they got speed, that team's speed on both sides of the ball. Tyler

Locket at a fifty one yard touchdown. They had a tight end fourth rounder Will Disley. Coach was calling Dick go over. There is a big guy rumbling through tackles, breaking tackles on his way to a sixty six yard play. So the Seahawks may be rebuilding, but they got some happens. What have been the preach points already for you guys, Well, definitely, I mean what makes the team goes definitely the uh

the quarterback. So I mean I've been talking about h Russell Russell a lot and um and yeah, I mean with Doug, with Doug, I think ball, I don't. I don't think he's gonna play, But just getting to know their receivers from Jeron Brown and um and Marshall and Locket who got a nice little pay day this to this offseason and um. So yeah, so we're we're just introducing ourselves to them and like we did um on

the field and practice against their stuff and um. Yeah, they I mean they have a pretty good a pretty a pretty good offense from they like they like to run. They like to definitely like to run the ball, and when they get a chance, like you said, um, they're gonna give you those deep shots. I talked a little bit about crowd noise before, because there's no more stay outdoor stadium in the league right now than Seattle to

be disturbing for the opponent's offense. So now Russell Wilson goes in the Denver, you get a chance to evaluate that tape. Is he a different quarterback with crowd support than he is at home when he's got complete control of the cadence and all the movement of UM personality the line of scrimmage. I would say so, especially if being home, I would say, Um, it's more more comfortable. He's able to probably get get out more checks because he's not he's not being interrupted by UM, by by

the crowd noise. So I would say it's definitely an an advantage when he's UH when he's at home. You've been around a long time, so you've experienced a lot of highs, a lot of lows throughout the course of your career with games, wins and losses with a young team. Does anything concern you about a loss like that for a young team that's still learning how to win, Not at all. And I saw that firsthand today with with

Eddie Jackson. I mean UM encouraging guys to keep keep finishing, to UH to the ball even when he broke it down today He's hey, Phillas, it was simple. Why we lost the game as we didn't finish. So let's let's let's continue to do that. Let's let's emphasize it more and um, let's exaggerate and let's start doing extra at the ball because I don't want to ever feel that feeling again. So, I mean, this is Eddie second year.

I mean, but you understand he came from he came from Alabama and stuff like that, and I'm sure he's not he's not used to losing. So I mean just seeing that, um, seeing his mindset, and I'm sure a lot of guys respect to that. You know, we've been here for this entire show. We've never once mentioned ro Kuan Smith. So now you have an opportunity to be around him for a couple of weeks. Comes from a big time program at Georgia that he's a first round

draft choice because he's a qualified athlete. What have you seen in ro Quan in a couple of weeks? Is he a conversation guy to the different defensive players on the team or is he consistent with his position coach and maybe a guy like Danny Trevathan Roquan's um maturity. I mean, he doesn't even seem like he's a he's a rookie. I mean, he's so mature, ump, especially off the field meet him. Has had a lot of conversations off the field, but um, just on the field, he

just seems like he seems like he knows everything. And I didn't know. I didn't know how fast. I didn't know how fast he was. I mean, he tried to try to challenge me in a race we haven't raised, but he tried to challenge me. And um, just seeing how he flashes on film, Um, our whole our whole team's excited. But yeah, I mean, especially like off the field, when when we speak just about like, uh, financial stuff. I mean, this guy, this guy already seems like his head,

his head his own straight. Yeah. He's one of a handful of first rounders on that defense. You're one of them. He is. Um obviously, Kyle Fuller is obviously, Uh, Khalil mack is. You're the nineteenth pick in your draft. Uh what's the pressure associated with that? I know it's a common question that's asked for a young player, but you're not young player anymore. How did you deal with be in a first round pick? Man? Um? And how can

you help those in the same position. Yeah, I would say, I mean the pressure is to perform, but to perform now like um, like the team, the organization they want to see and they're roy they want to see a return on on on their investment. So um, so I mean I would say their expectations for you is for you to to be Pro Bowl first year. It's just for you to to show them like why why we chose you? And um, you might have a standard for yourself, but but they they have a standard for for you.

So I would so, But as I think as long as your standard is higher than their standard, and you you put the most pressure on yourself, I don't think, Um, their pressure isn't isn't really gonna mean anything to you. And I mean, and this is extra information giving you.

But like when I talk to them, when I talk to like you got a platform, he man, when I talk to Kevin White, like even I mean even even even call Fuller, like look at Kaful last year, like his back his back was against the wall like me and call me and car actually closer this year than we were last year, just because it's kind of awkward.

But I told calls like hey, like they brought me and Coop to take your to take your spot and um, and even in training camp there was nothing he didn't if we were being honest, he didn't really show anything. And then UM, and then I was out for a little bit. And then he started to hold his own UM in the games and then UM. First two games he held us own against Julia, held us own against Deshaan and Mike Evans. The next held us own against Antonio Danis like whoa, Like we can now I'm back.

It's like, hey, we can't just take this guy out. So what like Kyle. Kyle's mindset was just like, man, my backs against the wall. I gotta come out swinging. They don't they don't really believe I mean, they don't believe in me and um and God, sorry trying to be so politically correct, but you can't do you can't. I'm only saying they don't really believe in him because they didn't pick up his fifth year option. So it's like, um,

so it's like he came out swinging. So I talked to Kevin, like, hey, Kevin, you're kind of in the same spot. I mean, they brought two guys in pay two guys to come in and take your spot. And I mean his mindset is great. Like I can only control what I can control. I understand the situation. Haven't played a lot of games, but I'm gonna do everything I can't to show them they made a mistake. And I think it's a great conversation. Everybody is worthy of

their first round pick. A team saw the potential of them. I'll never forget again named gains Adam's first round pick. He passed away many years ago as the Bears. He told me before he passed away. Three months before he passed away, I wish I wasn't a first round pick. He couldn't live up to those expectations and all of the came of that became too much, you know, from family to whatnot. And you know, like you said, they

expect Pro Bowl. If you don't that, you almost feel like you're Hey, nice spoons back game coming up against the Seattle Seahawks. Hope you have a great season, and thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it. Thank you guys for having me. It's always a pleasure. Prince Samuel Kamara, Tom There and Jeff Jony Act. That's Rep saying up this week's Bears All Access for Brandon McCarthy, Paus around Damn BROI. Thanks for listening, everybody, Thanks for

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