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four Chicago Bears. And helping us lead you to the matchup veteran cornerback and stud defensive player for the Chicago Bears. Right now Prince Mukamara along with Tom There, Jeff Johnny Act. This is Bears All Access, brought to you by IGIs Energy from Chicago's Sports Radio six seventy to Score here at P ANDC Studios at HALLISA. Good to have you with us and Prince, thanks for taking the time. We're gonna spend a ton of time on this. This is

a massive matchup. I know it's one game at a time approach, but the national media is in town, so the locker room has a lot more activity in it this week. You feel it, Yeah, yeah, we do. And UM, I mean we knew just with the way that the Rams been playing all season and the way we've been playing and when they flex, when they flexed the game, we knew that this game was gonna be surrounded by um by a lot of hype. But um, we're built

for it. We've played on Sunday nights a lot of times and um, and to be honest, I mean, I think this is a great test for both teams. I think the Rams has been in some playoff atmosphere type games and um, and we've been in a couple of them. But I think this is since this is the next one. Like you said, I think this is this is the biggest one. You know, Prince, I watched a lot of football and I haven't seen a lot of the Rams

yet this year. So in the cross games that you played throughout your system, have you seen the Rams in preparation for other teams because the Rams are on the cutups, or have you not seen very much of them up into this this week of preparation? I would say I have seen him a lot because I've watched them on TV. So like that shootout game versus Kansas City, saw that and uh, and then I seen their Packers game, and then I've seen their their Saints game live on TV.

What do you think of the Chiefs game in the Saints game, since those are the two of the best teams in the league along with you guys, right, Um, I mean, just a lot of offense, a lot of a lot of points and um, you see a lot of momentums being being changed. And I mean what Jared Goff is doing this year, I think I think it's amazing. And I think he's in his third year and um, of course with the help of his coach, coach UH

coach Sean and then um, the weapons they have. I mean, I think he's he's been taking it to another level, you know. And in preparation for the Rams, for a defensive back, what's for difficult in the communication? What's more difficult in a formation change right before the snap of the ball, your field position or kind of a new formation out of the huddle that you haven't seen before. I would say, I mean, I think it depends what

the call is. So I mean, if we're if we're in a man call and they do a formation change. Now we have to okay, like where's our where's our guy going? Like what's the um We have to get on our guy And it could be depending on the call, just because like most defenses they have like it. It's almost like a check with me call, meaning to a two play call. So if if they come out of this formation, you play this. If they come out in

another formation, you play this. So if if they line up an empty one formation, okay, we haven't check to that. Then if they go to something else, it's like, okay, now we have to make sure everyone's on the same page and see it and see it and see it the same way. So you don't get wide open guys. I mean I'm talking kind of laugh about it now, like you see in New York. So you make sure

everyone's on the same page. Well I'm saying because just because it's it's behind us, but you want to get on the same page so you don't get wide open guys. And when you see wide open guys like that, it's usually okay, someone might it's a it's a bust, and

someone might have not gotten the check. Not many busts this year, so even if you get a couple, is it really it is an unsettling I think it is unsettling, unsettling, and it's very and it's disappointing just because, um, we see how we've seen how great we can be, and I think it just like it's more, it's more like come on, like we're better than that. Like there's a standard we want to hold. And anytime we hurt ourselves, um yeah, we'd rather the team hurt us than us

hurt ourselves. Prince and Mukamar our guest here on Bears All Access, Jeff jonny Acc and Tom Thing. We'll step away for our first break. You're at Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score. Welcome back to be proud partner Riding Electricity and natural Gas and home worn new products go for one million customers across the country. Were more about IGS Energy and igs dot Com. Jeff Jonnyac along with Tom There, Prince and Mukamar and our helper today, Dan Barelli and Jordan trut Up as we get you

set for Bears and Rams. I looked it up just for kicks because veteran players, we always analyze how many games you play at how many years but it's more important than how many snaps. And so does it shock you You've had over fifty six hundred snaps in your NFL playing life right now, that's a lot of snaps. I mean, I don't know if it's allowed to have to compare it. Okay, don't you think I don't know yet,

I don't have to compare it. It's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I would say so, yeah, especially with especially with the number of games I've missed. Yeah, I'm trying to reach one hundred games, so hopefully that comes soon. Well, you know, durability at the cornerback position is extremely valuable because they don't take you guys off the field. It's not interchangeable. So it does speak to you, know, your ability to

hang tough in there. And the way you guys are asked to play is physical to me, So Victor and you, why don't you play physical? Do you feel those fifty six hundred snaps? No? Because I think in the off season, like, So's it's funny. I think it's it's an all football players. So it's like during during the season, it's like I only got two or three more years one year maybe, But in the off season, it's like, Wow, I could play. I could play five more years. I mean, even even

on bye week. I feel like the mood is different and stuff like that. And I remember, I'm a player told me last year like when you when you start taking um pain pills to get through to get through practice, it might be like it might it might be time taking up so and I've been doing good or night. I don't even take anti inflammatoris or any type of

pain pills, so I've been good to knock out. But you know, you think it's kind of a little bit of juice during a player's career because you've been around for a while. Some of them unusual fun that Matt Naggie has brought along this season, you know, with the postgame celebrations with the defensive players inside the offensive huddle, because that's been a spark of fun for you, whether

it's the postgame celebration or the on field stuff. Yeah, I would say, I mean, I would just categorize it as like winning this winning can make you feel younger. I mean, and I could see like why Tom's probably been Tom Bradsman probably playing song just because just because you're winning. It's like, I think things are going better, that it's not always there's not always a raining cloud

over over over the building and stuff like that. And um, feedback when you on what you said, Tom is is that yes, the dancing being you, it's uh, it's it's lively, it's it's vibrant, especially having like the young guys on this team and their energy. I think all of it, Um, all of it makes sense of that. So I have

a question. So there's already been talk that Mitchell Trubisky had a full participation practice today, And you've been around for a long time now, given the different scenarios you face and your approach to tackling quarterbacks, has it changed because of like how they try to coddle these guys in some sentence, some sentence, But if it's a fourth and one on the quarterbacks coming at you, I mean,

do you judge how you have to hit them? As that approach to tackling quarterbacks changed throughout your career in the NFL, or your even your physical sense of when you get a chance to hit them, I would say this year more than any year for sure, just because I feel like they've the league, the refs, they've emphasized like hey, if you if it looks like you've hit a quarterback too hard or landed on them too much, um, we're going to We're gonna find you and and we're

gonna penalize, uh you and your team. So I would say this year more than more than any year. Me myself, I don't think I've been in contact with the with the with a quarterback enough times uh to to to judge it really, except when the quarterbacks running out of sideline, and I know that's the like that's the easiest way to get a penalty, even to even touch them. So I just make sure, Um I just forced him, force

him to the sideline. I mean, I think of mits running the ball, But then I think about you, Okay, Cam Newton is going for a fourth and one. Ben Roethlisberger's going, you know, Deshaun Watson, any of these guys that are clever or have size to him. I I that's one of the weird elements about defensive football that's had to change for you guys, is seven years when you came in the league, you're jacking the guy up.

Now you're kind of cautious, you know, cautiously approaching the situation exactly and I think I think it's the fear of just just getting the flags and and just earning the team. I mean, like I think uh claint Matthew has been a poster boy for that uh a lot this year, and I mean I feel like his his hits um have been have been clean and um yeah, I mean it's just unfortunate. Text you're a black shirt, buddy. And did you see how he threw Matthew Stafford down

like a rag doll? Last week? Did? Got? He got a penalty for it, he got, He got a couple of penalties last week again for he does I don't think he cares, won't way or another. So you know that'll be something to keep an eye on on Sunday that that could just touch off quite the quite the melee if he gets a little nasty on right right right, I could Yeah, I could see that too, especially well

you know that guy. UM know him pretty well, and I've gotten to know him a lot more um off the field, just because um he's like a business guru and he knows how to um, he knows what he's the he's the epitome of of the of a guy of what it looks like to carry themselves well off

the field as as a business minded individual. Soul Um, I kind of been under him and been texting him about different questions and different um different different ideas of ferocious cat Yes on Sundays, a ferocious gut body pales in comparison to the guy he's playing next to. Well, when you look in terms of quality, you know, style and substance. But I'm well, a nasty factor you got,

you got right, I mean, adopticasu is there. But if you look at the the initial media, that destructive position that Aaron Donald can put himself in, I haven't seen a lot of guys like that throughout my career. So six one, let's start with that. He's really six feet in some change. So who did you play against that resembled that body type? Well, I think you think of a little Roy Glover, you think of John randall Um.

There's a lot of guys with that body type back then, because there's a lot of three four nose guards that were little stumpy guys. But that Aaron Donald's anything, but his quickness is such that he could play anywhere up and down the line of scrimmage. And they're very fortunate to have him because it's hard to sack quarterbacks now out of the shotgun three step drops and they get

the ball out of their hands so quickly. He's got sixteen and a half and treating shipped and double team tamed and all that, like muffenses are trying to be trying to be sneaky. But yeah, he had no sacks the first three games. So he's those sixteen a half sacks game in the last nine games, right, and thirty thirty one hits on the quarterback. Yeah, that I'll keep you up at night. Yeah, but that being said just in the locker room this week talking to a couple

of the guys. You know, this is a strength versus strength matchup, your defense against their offense. But it seems like because of Aaron Donald singularly almost And I got to give a you know, a shout out of course to the two corners, the very aggressive, very very good corners in the Keith To League and Marcus Peters. But let's not forget about the Bears defense, and all the eleven are making plays. All the eleven are big factors.

Idea feel a little bit underappreciated, maybe from the written word and the spoken word about the Bears defense this week because all the conversations about Aaron Donald. No, no, um, not at all. And I mean, just like you said, I think we've put we've we've been put on notice, like people people in league are starting to respect us and they're starting to give us credit. And um, but I mean you gotta give credit to words due and Aaron Donald. I mean I don't I told the media

earlier this year, I mean earlier this week. I don't think he's just up for NFL defense player view. I think it's league league, um, league MVP, just just with what he's doing and and he's like he's changing the games like very opportunistic, like um just those those sack funnels and not getting a sack, like he's giving the ball back back to the offense and putting them in great position. And um, I mean he he means a lot of their team and he's doing a lot, uh

for the team. But I think collectively as a defense for us on on the Bears, I think what we're doing, Um, I mean, we're we're doing great things too, especially Kyle Kyle full Or. I mean, um, I was telling someone, I was telling the media person this two is, Um, I know he's not kicking his butt, but I'm probably kicking his butt. Forum'm like, man, you should just sign a transition tag and um, it would have been it would have been great for you. Uh, it would have

been great for you this this upcoming free agency. But I mean how he's playing, um lights out and I mean even a Keem Nickson, I mean Eddie and man, I mean you can name everybody real que I'm Danny, like, we can name everybody. Yeah, me too, who's having yeah without a doubt, without a doubt, without a doubt. Yeah, Um, I would say just because I mean regardless, just because

I mean my stats are are are great. But um, I feel like just what I'm able to do on my side, just being able to press every down and uh and take away the guy in in front of me, I think that does a lot um for a team, you know, So in preparation for this game, throughout I heard the stat yesterday. Throughout Tom Brady's career, He's lost one hundred and sixty yards and offense to Neil downs after victories, which is an amazing stat. So this leads

me to my question. So far you've played against Tom Brady this year, and you have all years of film and advice and everything for Tom Brady. Here you got a small snippet side of Jared Golf, although he's been

really productive. Is it harder or e easier to prepare for a quarterback you have very little information on but he's productive or a guy that's got a huge amount of information and productive like Brady, I would say it's it's harder just because you don't you don't have you don't see examples of him reacting to everything exactly exactly in different defenses, in different situations. But one thing, I one thing you can learn about the quarterback is that

person's character and confidence. Like, Okay, if this person's in double coverage, does he still think he can fit it fitting in? If he's on the far hash, does he think that he can still make that deep outthrow? And then that's what it shows on film. He seems he seems very confident in his arm and in his guys and um, he's gonna put it up there. Are you seeing a lot of different formations from team to team to team this year or are there similarities in the

offenses that we hear about the coaching trees. We talk about all that kind of stuff, similarities or differences week in and week out. I would say the last the last couple of weeks is it's been different. So like we're this week, we're coming from a New York team that's playing pro style, office like like they're trying to with with the fullback. They're trying to get an eye formation, running down your throat and then um and then uh and then play action and do a whole bunch of

a whole bunch of crossers. This team is more like single back. They're still trying to run, but the Rams are still trying to do a lot of crossers and they're trying doing a lot of play action. And play action only works when you have a great running back. And these last two teams we've had played against the Giants with Cekuan and now the runs with Um with Girly, the play actions probably donna work. Yeah, I mean they're doing it under center too. He's got over a thousand

yards rushing when they're under center. Wow. So that's a different look for you. A lot of teams don't do that anymore, No, they don't, and a lot a lot of teams are I thought they were going to the college route where you open them or you open it up and and just and just gun it, and just and just pass. But um, I think that's what makes

these running backs so well. You know what in the running game, when you take the center center, quarterbacks sayings directly beyond center, and you're retreating in the quarter, and the running back is always running, already running forward, he has momentum built up by the time he gets the ball in his hands. Some of the RPO offenses, when these guys start from a dead stop, they don't have the same momentum going Yeah, I never thought about that,

thought about that. That's very true. But conversely, he's got to turn his back to the defense and get his head whipped around exactly. How can you guys use that to your advantage? I think pressure, pressure, and then and then locking up our guys in the back end. I mean, if we're sticky, if we're in sticky coverage, and you add the pressure, will be in the reposition to make plays.

It's an interesting chess match this on Sunday night. There's so many intangible factors to this game, whether it be weather related with the cold and a Southern California team coming in and a Southern California quarterback to a seventy one year old defensive coordinator in Wade Phillips to the godfather that runs you guys in Vic Fangio. And then the offense is in particular with two young head coaches that are the play callers and the play designers. Unbelievable

matchup Sunday nighted Soldier Field, Prince and Mukamar. Our guest with Tom There, I'm Jeff Joni Act. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score special thank you to Prince of Mukamar for joining us tonight on Bears All Access Roots. Chris would like you to have this one hundred gift card to enjoy it one of the Chicaveland areas steakhouses. Appreciate it. I think You've got a couple of those already. Now I'm building a portfolio. Actually, yeah,

you know Theater of the Mind out there. I did slide it over. What's the rest? You thought it was just a Christmas card sitting there at that time. Gave me or something here, it's a gift for Prince Tom there with me here on Bears All Access brought to you by Igs Energy from P and C Studios at Hallis Hall as we get you sent for Bears rams Uh the aspect you mentioned earlier and if you're just joining us, we started talking about individuals on the defense.

But Kyle Fuller, so he leads the NFL right now in past defenses, he's got eighteen of those. Um, you guys have had your share of targets, both of you guys. It's not too warped in terms of you know, they can't really they got to pick their poison a little bit because you guys have made somebody plays on the ball. But if you were to explain to the average fan just what he's done over the last couple of years to put him himself in this position to be an

outstanding all Pro caliber corner, what would it be? Man Um, I would say, you have a guy in his third year who didn't play his third year because of because of his injury. Now he's going to his fourth year, supposed to pick up his fifth year option. Fifth year option guarantees him that he's going to be on the team mix year. If you don't pick it up, then he's gonna be a free agency It doesn't get picked up.

Now he's gonna be So now he's going to free agency in his fourth year, coming off injury, and you bring in two free agents who's supposed to start, who's supposed to start, and take him and take his position, and going through training camp he's like fourth or third or fourth on the depth trap because Bryce's are Bryces are is our nickel? And um, yeah it was. It

wasn't even thought about. And then um and then didn't have a didn't have a an outstanding training camp his fourth year, and then um and then slowly just keeps chipping, just keeps being consistent, being available, um and um, and then he starts bawling his first I mean for the first two games, we have Julio Jones and then we have next game we have uh um, I think it was the Shawn and Mike Evans, and so it's like these are like the top whatever wide receivers in the league.

Then he holds his own and then um, I come back um healthy and and Coop's been playing well, so now it's like, gosh, what do we do. Usually when you're in a situation like that, the guys who are getting paid like crazy they should be on the field regards because you don't want to put that money on the bench. Now you look bad as a as a as a gm UM. But like Kyle made it hard for them, Like he's been playing so good, so we're in a little rotation and then um, then it's so funny.

Nobody knows it's really I'm gonna give you guys a little inside. But after our UM night game against Green Bay, um we it was it was. It was a bad game. We we we lost it. Kyle the next game we had UM the vikings Monday night. We had the next thing. We had Vikings Monday, and Kyle was supposed to UM. Kyle wasn't supposed to wasn't supposed to start, but then it was supposed to be supposed to be being Coop, but Coop ended up having some type of injury, and

then Kyle ended up starting. And then after that Kyle and the Kyle never looked back and just ascended. And I keep telling everybody Kyle has like this Momba mentality, like this Kobe Bryant laser focus. I don't care what anyone says. My preparation is there, Like I'm confident and Um, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna win at the end and um, and you should see him on game day.

He has this like he has his look in his eye and you just know, wow, Kyle's gonna ball today and um and yeah, and that's just that's just been a stud feel time. People don't really know that about Coy. He he doesn't let everybody in. No, he does not. And just wonna me me and my wife and him. We always have dinner, um, every week and um, and my wife is always like friends. I don't. I can't figure this guy out. I say, yeah, nobody, nobody can't. I mean he loves he loves golf, and I mean

that's all anyone really knows. But yeah, he's very um inquisitive. You know. It's nice though for all the defensive backs, is when you go back and you take a stop watch to the pass rushes that hassled the quarterbacks last year, they were significant. They were in the fourth second range,

and it's tough for defensive backs. Now you bring it up and it's a lot closer to just over two seconds, you guys are able to capitalize on that sped up hassle pass rush, and I think that's what's a nice thing that you guys have been able to do, is you guys have been able to compliment the front that

you guys have been given this year. I mean, I mean, without a doubt, Khalil definitely makes that clock a little a little shorter, and I mean he he probably doesn't have to rush, but just knowing, you know, Leonard's rushing right well, Akam is a powerhouse. Eddie's having the best season of his career. Blom Nichols what he's been able to do, and Jonathan Bullard and the rest of the crew. But you know, it's been nice on a regular basis. Roy Robertson Harris, I don't want to forget him and

all of them. Yes, no, we're definitely fortunate. I remember last year it always like I would look at Jalen and Aj Jalen Ramdy and Aj Bouye and I would say, man, look at their front, like their front four. They they're so nasty and they get your quarterback and um and now I'm now I'm experiencing that and I'm reaping the benefits of that. Also when you bring up those two guys that it makes isn't an amazing how fleeting successes in the NFL at Jacksonville, where they were at a

year ago at this time and where they're at right now. Um, and that you know, those guys are still out there and they're still battling. But yeah, that team is going through some tough time. So having success to sustain it takes a real mature locker room. Yeah, mature locker room. And yeah, definitely a lot of a lot of a lot of work. But the mature lock locker room part, though, I don't you feel that that is now what the

Bears have even though you're a young team. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I and and in this case, I don't think young and immature go together with us. I think we are young immature, but we have a lot of um, young mature guys. I mean, from from Kyle, from a team, from from Danny, from Mitch, like Mitch just the way he handles things and goes about his business, and um like Trey Burton and Alan Robinson I mean, and Eddie Jackson.

I mean, the list goes on. And I mean you credit you have to credit Ryan paceon Um and management to what they're they're they've built so far and what they're continuing to builds Chase the oldest in the locker room. Yes, he's a good he's a good elder statesman for that locker room. The attitude he brings out there when he's either doing demonstration squad or getting ready to start what he was able to do in training camp and develop a lot of young talent, both the defensive backs in

the receiver. So he is a good guy in that position. Yeah, he is. And he's also like our little um because he he kind of because he's been with Naggie, kind of has Naggie's ears. So anytime we ever suggest him, you tell him you know him, you know, you know him better than us and stuff. Yeah, he's thirty one, but I think he relates well to a twenty one year old kid. Yeah he doesn't that there's a ten year gap, but I think he can almost be young

in that way. Now, would you as a rookie been able to fit with that type of maturity in this locker room, I'm a sensing you would be. Yes, Yes, for sure, for sure. Um, I mean, I mean there's guys that remind myself of me in that and in that locker room like Um, I don't know if I would say maybe like a Michael Joseph. I mean he's our corner on practice squad and kid and I get me and Roquan have the same agents, and our agents

say that we're pretty we're pretty similar in some ways. Also, ro Quan definitely does not act and look or talk like a rookie. No, there's no way he has that. There's something about him he's got he You know, you look at Mike Singletary as a rookie and the demeanor that he came here with. It was always starched and serious.

And I know Roquan is probably behind locker room doors, he's a different But the appearance of his preparedness, his professionalism, the results that we've seen out of where why he was drafted where he is, he reminds me a lot of him. All Right, let's talk the rams a little bit. For the guys you'll be dealing with. Uh, they do a lot of motion and everything despite being under center of those jet sweep action and all that good stuff.

So it's gonna be interesting. But Matt Naggie earlier this week mentioned that Sean has a game plan that is yet a few plays, but the most teams could run that play with three different versions, but he's got he does at times five. Now what does he mean by that? I would think that like you can run the play in information. You can just line up and run it. Then you can run it where you motion a guy and then run it, or you can run it with

different personnel. So instead of all wide receivers, now you put tight ends and running backs and run it. And I think I think that's what he means, just by different variations, Like one thing might be different, but it's still different. So what are your tells on offense like that? Um? I think we go by the rules. Okay, what does the final look look like? So if it looks like it's three by one, okay, this is what they do

at a three by one. If it looks like it's two by two, this would look This is what they do at a two by two. If it looks like when if it looks like okay, when this receiver is inside the hash and and and uh and et cetera, et cetera, then this this is what you're getting. So we try to go off the final look. Is it

a is it a consider their bread and butter. I think every team wants to be able to develop a play that they're one hundred percent confident and running out a bunch of different formations, but no matter when they need a yard four yards, this is the deal. Yeah, I would I would say the Rams have a couple of um of those plays and I mean it's the first week and uh um, I mean it's like a first day and installing and um so hopefully um we

get to know more of that. Well, no matter what, John mcvay's a dangerous play caller, and the guy is full energy, no different than the guy. He'll be eyeball on them on the other sideline. The competitive nature of those two high coaches, I think it's gonna be a show. And it's just it's just unfortunate that one's not on offensive, one's not on deal. They're both offensive guys and um yeah, and I feel like Sean coach coach mcvay's more like he has the aviators the designer. Gee, he's more he's

thirty two, thirty, he just turned thirty two. Coordinator similarities have any one one sixty sixty so unbelievable. I think is a wonderful. It's just like Chase being head coach right now. Yeah, exactly, exactly, smart guy, man, he's got an unbelievable view of the game. Well, we appreciate taking the time. I know you've got things to take care of. It's body maintenance day, exactly, body maintenance day for Prince

of Mukamara. Tom and I will be back. Will continue on with Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score. This segment of Bears All That courted buying td W CDW people to get a Jeff Jonnyak and Tom tare we said you buy a Prince of Mukamar a few segments. Really enjoy He's very open, very honest about all things, and so when he speaks, you gotta listen to what he's saying. You know what I like about him as we've had him the show now a

couple of times. So now he's been become more of a friend of the program as Dad Jacots used to say, and he is. But you know, you get a better in depth opportunity to talk to him, because whether we're in training camp or at the early part of the season, I think we're lucky to have a guy like Prince come out more than once a year to learn a little bit more about the him and the Bears. I know we've been teasing the matchup with the Rams, and to me, it's just a delicious mix of everything that

you want in a football game. And it's at Soldier Field. There's going to be a playoff atmosphere. This will be one of four remaining games left in the schedule. A lot can be helped with a win in this case for the Bears, and the Rams still have something to play for. Obviously they clinched the division last week, but they want the number one seed, they want home field obviously the way they play football, So there is a

lot on the line for this game. Bears looking to bounce back in the locker room this week, just a little bit more of a business like approach. I think the loss may have caught everybody's attention in there. Oh yeah, I mean there's got to be a business like approach, not only because of the loss of last week, but

of the evidence that you see on tape. You know, one thing about studying football nowadays is a lot of guys can study through the analytics of football and listen to look at the numbers and then read about how things are going to play out. Maybe when I watch football and I put the tape on. Rarely do I look at a team and within seconds, within a couple of plays goal, my jaw drops and I go, wow, that's what happened with the Rams. And it's more on

offense as well as on defense. And with the explosiveness and the destructiveness that the two guys on the inside can cause, and Dominican Sue and Aaron Donald, it puts a scary frame to this game because if you want, if you want to take the red zone of this game, the red zone is not the twenty yard line. In the red zone is the two guards the tackle, the two guards the center in the two defensive tackles. That's

the red zone of this game for teams. More for the Bears than well, I know, I'm saying for the Bears of specifically Aaron Donald and Adamicasu against I'm gonna give some props to the Bears defensive front two on the interior against their interior because Jared Goff, they move them, they waggle, they boot, but he's not running with the ball. He doesn't, So I think a team and Eddie can

do some damage inside. I think that Vic Fangio can get Mac and Floyd hitting those a gaps with some pressures that will speed up the process because like any quarterback, I honestly think that this guy, he gets a little edgy back there if you do hit him. So I'm getting if I'm getting ready to prepare for the Arizona rams La rams, I know that I have to have an interesting scheme to be able to block those two

guys in the middle. I gotta get them blocked every play. Jeff, There's no way that you can go to the game the field and ignore those two guys. You gotta get blocked. Now, when you're talking about in preparation for the Bears defense, they have so much talent within the width of the defense that you have to block everybody within the width of the defense. You think you can let Leonard Floyd go free from the backside, he can run you down.

You think he can block Khalil one on one, He's going to be able to be destructive a Keem Hicks. If you give him a week one on one on the inside, he's going to walk that lineman back into the quarterback running backslap. So I think they're they're kinds of a different destructiveness between the two teams. They do do a ton of chipping. They help those guys out. Even with the wide receivers, they're all blocking on the way out to rout. They have to more because of

what's up on the offensive line. You know, that's what their fear is. Todd Gurley. So first down, he's averaging five eight to carry. This is a team that does not play behind the chains. Tom They're ahead of the game almost every time. And a back like that, as versatile as he is, he's not it's not impossible to stuff this guy. He has like eighteen stuff carries this season. I think that's going to be necessary a series or few to get them behind the chains a little bit.

You know, it's gonna be necessary. We're gonna go back into the memory bank. Remember the playoff game in eighty five against the Rams, and it was a third and one or fourth and one, Eric Dickerson Hall of Famer, as great as Todd Gurley ever hopes to be. They gave it on a straight isolation play against Mike Singletary. Mike Singletary stepped up to the plate stopped Eric and Eric Dickerson in his tracks, gave up no yards and

it was a change of downs. Those are the type of plays that you're gonna have to have out here by a lot of guys, including Danny, Trevathan and Roquan but everybody on the field is going to have to make that type of stand up play. Is it possible or how do you you know? Candy Heptis, couldn't the Bears get in a shootout with a team like the Rams? I mean they can? Do you want to know? To mee you have two good of running backs to get into a sho doubt because a shootout to me is

dropping back and throwing the ball every play. I don't want to see that. I mean, it's it's Chiefs Rams, right, we're not doing well. Unfortunately, then you're leaving out two of the better running backs in the National Football League. Gurley obviously considered the top of but I still have

a lot of respect for Jordan Howard. So I think that you better bring your running back a strong, powerful running game with you if you're gonna get into a scoring matchup with these guys watching the tape, why are the Rams giving up so much rushing yards. I mean, they're they're one hundred and eighteen, but they've had SIA got two fifty on them right. Um, Because if you can contain the two guys on the inside, you have

other edges and other options. And with the ability to run the ball too, I think you could be really aggressive at Dante Follower Junior. I think you can be. Um. You know how a couple weeks ago against Detroit, Matt threw a bunch of lateral passes behind the line of scrimmage with wide receiver blockers right in front of them. I think, Um, however, you get the ball out to that area the field, they're capable of giving up yards. I don't know how willing of a tackle their corners

are either. Well, yeah, they are physical when they want to press you. But after that, you know, I would test, I would test keep you know, he's pressing. He's played a half of football since Week three. Pressing. Pressing against the wide receiver at the line of scrimmage is different than having Cody Whitehair, James Daniels, these guys pulling an

approaching you and seeing how gutsy they are up. Wouldn't you want to find out where that ankle is though it was a high ankle on tlid that was surgically repaired. He did come back, but they had him on a pitch count last thirty something snaps last and only played the first half. Yeah, did not play the second half, so he's played a half of football. How would you attack a guy like that just to find out where he's at, especially a risk taker like he. I would

do a multi level. I would have him try to cover guys like Tree Cohen or Alan Robinson in bad matchups. I would have some of those screens where I had Trey Burton blocking him, maybe Josh Bellamy blocking him at the line of scrimmage, and see if he had hold up against those responsibilities, or you know, see if he can really turn and run. Because you got the Taylor Gabriel and those types of guys to test him in

all areas. You want to go out there and see, Okay, did the reason you didn't come out in the second half because your ankle got so cold within that twelve minutes you couldn't get it rewarmed up? Or can you come out here at seventeen degrees and get it all you're hoping for the seventy degrees. No, I mean kickoff temperature is gonna be thirty. It's not gonna be. Guarantee you're looking at the wrong app I guarantee you we'll

have a bat. And it's almost as if you're getting on your knees and ask you mother Nature, please get that temperature under twenty. I'm with you, I want to see it. I'm just saying, you know, you're asking about a keep to leave, specifically who hasn't had a lot of chance to play. But if he comes out of the locker room and it never gets warm, it's hard to get warmed up. And you know, I believe they're a different defense with him because he's such a confident player.

I think they feed off of that confidence, at least on that back four. He's that type of player, and Marcus Peters has struggled without him this year. Six touchdowns allowed, six penalties. Very good ball skills though, as we know, we're best interceptors in the National Football A guy we're gonna step away now. The break here on Bears All

Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to school. This Sunday night game against the La Rams is brought to you by Beggars Pizza front partner of your Chicago Bears. I do love playing the Rams for a lot of there was some great history obviously between the two franchises and when you played two, the Dickerson years and whatnot, even going back in time, the Roman Gabriel years, the Fearsome Foursome years. I love the matchup. Loved the old white and navy blue uniforms of the La Rams. It's all.

It's all very exciting to do it on national TV though, two young quarterbacks, some great individual skill players. I just think it's going to be an outstanding matchup to see and how the Bears respond come off that washed in New York. I'm not too concerned about it because there's just so much belief in each other in that locker room. I think they've got themselves refocused, repositioning, geared up to go at it right and whatever happens happening. You know.

The thing about it is is you're talking about a big matchup in the NFL because of the system, the high powered defense is the high explosive offenses. But it's a great matchup because of the personnel that Matt is molding into the team that he has visioned for for the future as well as now. And you're talking about the Rams coming in here and the Bears are actually

competitive against him. The reason this thing has been put on Sunday Night Football is because around the NFL landscape, around the country and everywhere, there's interest in the Bears playing the Rams. Could you see if the Rams were coming in here, even if it was a Sunday noon game with this record and the Bears had no hope,

it would be a scary game. I think even though the experience they went through with the Giants, I see the hope for the future of the Bears is so high that people are more than intrigued by this game. All right, let's talk Mitch. What are your expectations two games down with a sore shoulder and starting on Sunday.

I have the same expectations if he never left the field, He's been able to go through a series of tests and make sure that everything is physically ready for him to go out and play the game that mentally and physically is challenging to his opponent. You don't want to have to go out there and think about a physical aspect of the game and still try to pay play the game mentally like you've been playing it since Matt's put in this system. So I expect these guys do.

When they introduce Mitch's the starting quarterback, he holds nothing back. Now, that's what that was. The next sentence out of my is how he concludes his scramble runs is got to be an important of the part of the way he handles this game because he's got to be in control of the way he concludes that he cannot take the hits that he's in all honesty, because this is his m You are going to see if he does scramble out of there in within the playing surface and not

going out of bounds and domicans, he's gonna land. You're not. You can't give him that chance. Jeff, You know all right, Listen, if you're a baseball player, do you know where the bag is that you're sliding to? Okay, if you feel someone behind you, if you're approaching somebody in front of you, you slide. Don't get me that extra yard and a half with a collision. Get down and getting and be able to get in the huddle. Girly, Uh, you said wow when you put on the tape. I know you

were talking both sides of the babble. What was the wow that caught your attention about how the rams are designed with Sean mcphay's. First of all, you just you look at his size, You look at his stride, you look at his versatility. You look at the way he handled himself throughout the development of last of last year UM and then being getting prepared in the offseason and have it and being able to accept the workload that he's got and you can do everything with him. You know,

what is his deficiency? That would be the first thing that I would try to look at good pass proche Right, That's what I'm saying. You know, the first thing you do is when you look at an opponent, you're trying to devise a game plan against him. All right, you know, Jeff Joniac is the best guy they got on their football team. But what is his deficiency? What is the one thing he doesn't wanted to do or he's not really good at. He's good at everything, And that's that's

the unique thing. Why you get drafted as high as he did, why he has the stats behind him, why he's averaging five yards a carry in this unrunhappy NFL. I'm looking at Brandon Cooks also because he's a killer back there if he gets too deep. But on the road he has not been. And I'm talking about the Green Bay the Denver game, which was in the snow. It was the lowest quarterback rating in the season for Jared Goth. I know that Sean was asked about that

this week. He said that was just not necessarily what are related, but you know it is. The common ground is crowd noise. The effect of the crowd noise in the in the disruption. It hasn't a verbal cadence. And now your offensive tackle, offensive guard, you know we talk about a lot now lately, is coming off the same plane the offensive line altogether. I have to you can't

do that on the road. And if the Bears crowd comes out and has this this verbal assault on the field when the defense is out there, you're going to disrupt the flow of their offensive line, just like the Bears haven't done to them when they go out and play Denver, Kansas City, Green Bay got them for five sacks each. Tell me Bears get five sacks, where are they at? Tell me about those crowds that you just mentioned what's the unique thing about going to those stadiums

that they're they're great. They're great, they are, and so are so are the Bears. I don't you know when you go to the Bears on the road or you get to the Bears at home during this this run, I think they can be as loud as anybody out there. All Right, what players on the Bear side of the ball offensive defense? Are you circled have big games? Well, it's it's Hardie the guard, It's it's hard. Yeah, I mean the inside Cody and the two guards that that's

going to be the red zone for me. If they had that camera that floats above them and only showed those five guys the whole and he never watched anything else, you would be able to tell the story of the game. And it's hard not to ignore Mitch because of um, you know, he is the guy that everybody's pointing dude to be a little ignition. And I want to see

Eddie Jackson. I want to see if Eddie Jackson has the ability to undercut a route, get a ball back, steal a possession from the Rams, and see if he can capitalize on his all pro run. They basically do one back, three wide receiver offense, one tight end, So Bears will be a nickel and they've been very good at nickel this year. They've been on the field a ton. They'll do that ninety five percent of the time, that alignment. But that puts a lot of strain though on a

guy like Bryce Callahan. He's going to have to have a he's got a tough assignment. I think Bryce enjoys it. Yeah, you know, it's you know, that attitude, that personality. You have to have to be that fifth roaming defensive back and you got to be able to go on the field against some overmatch type of guys. I think that's why Vic Fangio likes Bryce and he loves blitzing him too. He's puts them quite a bit this yearing him. All Right, Well, it'll be fun, no question about it. We keep talking

about it. It's going to be an outstanding matchup Week fourteen. Hopefully it delivers to everybody's hopes and expectations of a Bear's win. That's gonna wrap us up tonight on Bears All Access. Dan Barelli, Jordan Trudup and if people helping us out at Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score for Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks again at Prince and Mukamara, Bears and Rams over on WBBM Sunday four

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