All Access: Anthony Adams talks post football career

Jeff Jonnyac along with my broadcast parner from news Radio seven eighty and one oh five point NFM, WBM, mister Tom Fairtom Good evening Jimmler away out of the country. I hear so and hopefully enjoined some good vacations, so he says, so, he said, we really don't have a GPS on him, so he could be in Michigan. Just enjoy a little downtime, now, Jim. He wouldn't He wouldn't miss the show for anything. But it is good to be with everybody, and we're gonna have a couple of

nice guests tonight. Kret White, junior, the rookie running back out of Lacsahatchee, Florida and Flora Atlantic University. He'll joining us at around six h eight and then the one and only Anthony Spice Adams coming up time at six thirty. A good chuckle to be had, for sure. But I want to get somewhat serious about football with double A as well, because I think that gets lost in the shuffle a little bit in his entertainment side of his career.

I agree one hundred percent. I was talking to him, I was talking about it a little bit ago, that Spice Anthony has become more famous after football, but I think it is lost in the shuffle that he was such a good football player, and regardless of the system that he grew up in the NFL or in college, I do think his game could translate to today's type of defensive football because, like we said, you have those numbers A thirty four or forty three, But you know, Jeff,

as long as you've been around the NFL, now that's really not the case, because you're really playing a defensive front that as match up a bowl against the personnel that they have on offense depending upon down and distance. So I do think I'd like to hear Anthony talk about how his game would translate into today and where would he play in what position? Would he play most. I have a good feeling I know the answer to that. But more more than anything, it is all about matchups

on both sides of the ball for that matter. So big time, we're just really you know, real quick, you know. Now,

let's let's transfer it to the modern day. And Eddie Goldman, you know, Eddie Goldman had to expand his game from what you know he was featured as initially, which was a big, you know, heavy duty nose guard because they make him play up and down the line of scrimmage and you know, um so I think Spice would have been able to do the same one month away really from the first practice of training camp July twenty seventh

and bourbon At for the eighteenth consecutive season. I was with Kyle Long today Tom for a bit and had a good conversation. And his anticipation, the team's anticipation, which we've been alluding to weekly on this show, is really

at an all time high. And for him just the fact that he's healthy and he feels good and he's been through the ringer that part of football, what you all have as you played the game, you've overcome stuff, and he overcame some significant injuries, but he also had to endure some losing season, so he got to experience and taste what winning felt like in a very unique

way last year, and so everybody's very jacked about it. Well, I'm glad we have positive anticipation for Kyle Long because you know, he's the type of guy that could be as dominant as any offensive lineman in the NFL today, and with a solid positive offseason behind him, where he's not rehabbing, he's getting stronger, he's you know, he's able to sharpen his craft. He's able to go out there at practice every day with Harry and the rest of

the offensive lineman out there. So it's really exciting for the Bears fans because you know, last year you kind of had to think, oh, what are you going to get out of Kyle? How healthy is he going to be? And so if he can have a season and put together a sixteen game stretch, and then you think about Cody Whitehair going to left guard, you know, you talk about the interior of an offensive line that could be

as good as any in the NFL. And when you talked about last year, before they got to play the Rams, there was more talked about the interior the Rams defensive line than there was about the interior of the Bears offensive line and the Bear's interior. The offensive line had a better against those guys than a lot of teams did throughout the whole year. And those two combatants are gonna remember it when we go to La to take on the Rams this coming season. That's gonna be a

big showdown game. We're gonna hear from Harry heastand we're gonna hear from James Daniels in today's program to Shake townsend Mark de Leone, the inside linebackers coach, got a bunch of topics to address all coming up here on the show. Thanks to our producers Hurt Lawrence and Sean Anderson tonight and Shane Reardon is always forgetting us all connected.

This is Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy tonight and again a good lineup of guests here as we battle through the I'm never gonna say it again. I'm not gonna say any word like vacation time off, none of that, because they're still guys up here working. The parking lot was full of players, and you know there's a lot, a lot of good stuff going on for everybody, but some guys are from taking a break and getting some time away as well. But a lot

of people football camps going on too. You know, you're Teriq Cohen and you have Mitch Mitchell Trubisky having his camps and you know, bringing a little bit of that positive energy from the pros down to the kids that are look up to them and are gonna venture off in the sports, whether it's football, baseball, basketball, hockey, whatever it is. I think it's nice for these guys to get out there. That's top there. I'm Jeff Jonik, and

that's our traveling music to a break call. Welcome back to Bears on Oxis everybody, brought to you by IGS Energy, of proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gash and home warranty products to over one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff joni Ik and Tom there, Jim Miller away for this week's show, but good to have you

with us. Later on, we'll take some phone calls three one two, sty four sixty seven, sixty seven as we have a couple of guests for you here in the next few minutes and we'll break things down with the rookie running back Kareth White and Spice. Adams will join us at around six thirty tonight. Time you mentioned offensive line play and James Daniels in particular. Uh, this is in something that you know is a shock that he's

moving to center at all. He played that way at a high level at Iowa, but during the OTAs, during the mini camp, we had an opportunity to visit with him and a lot of conversation about making that move from guard the center, and he trusts his coaches. But if the coaches think it's the best best way to help the Bears win, I know that that's they wouldn't do that just because. So I just know that the that the coaches believe at me playing center and Code

playing guard. So I'm just ready to just do it. Nothing's really changed nothing, I'd say everything's about the same. Only differences on the field is like I can make the calls and like even even like if I do, like may have a bad call, Cody, Cody always like, oh James, it's this, or he'll just say, like I say, the call would be wrong to Koy'll correct me. So, I mean it's it's it's about the same. Good to have that backup though with a guy who played the

last few years at a high level. Yeah, you know what too is life is important to James. He goes back to college this offseason, graduates, where's his bear's jersey actually underneath his robe as he's walking out with the rest of the graduates out there. And then football. We saw last year how important it was to him because he had to get prepared quickly. And so you're, yeah, you're playing left guard because they don't want to put

too much on your plate initially. But then he's also working with Cody, who's not going through struggles, but he's going through a change in the way he snaps the football to Mitch. And so now you put James in there, back at center, and he goes to a more conventional style of the shotgun snap to Mitchell Chrubisky, and I

think that's going to help Mitchell Trubisky. So rather than focusing on the flight of the football and where it came back in a knuckleball style, James is going to bring it back to the quarterback more in the spiral style. So that's going to allow Mitch to keep his eyes in the area of the field that is going to help him most, but it's also going to allow Cody to play stronger. And James, if you go back and you look at what he was able to do during

his college years at center, he's really good. He's a multi talented football player and he's got the body style for both. And so I do think this is the best move for the Bears, for the best move for James. But I think the Bears and Harry He's stand the offensive line coach, was really smart in the way he went about making this transition for James to come in as a second year starter and to have not too much on his plate to absorbit the responsibilities that you

have at center. What did you see of him during last offseason at the pivot along with some training camp snaps. You know, he understands of the position really well. He understands how to earn leverage immediately upon the snap of the ball, whether the Mitch is underneath center or in a shotgun position, and he's got the length in his arms to be able to keep that separation between defensive lineman.

But he also has the ability to scan the defensive line and how when they're gonna move in stunts or he's got to go up to the second level. He's got that athleticism. But you taught he said, Oh yeah, if I ever make the wrong call, Cody and Kyle or the rest of the offensive guards will be there to make the correction. He's not gonna make mistakes because when we've watched this offensive line develop, everybody has an

opportunity to understand the system equally as well. Charles Leno is really intelligent at the offensive tackle position like Bobby Massey, and that information can transfer into the middle. So it's not like I said. When they had to get to the actual game action, James was ready to play guard. I think he could have played center also. However, again, don't force feed him too much information and allow him to play with speed and confidence. And I think he'll

have the same this year at center. Over the years, when we analyze matchups and we see a rookie center on the schedule, whether it be Week one or Week sixteen against a very good defense, you always had some trepidation about that when you alize the other teams, and maybe it was players specific based on their abilities or whatnot. But even young players can have some difficulty against really

good defenses. What are the trappings of that position against a really good defense if you're a rookie, you know in that position, he's not a rookie anymore, but he's going to be a first year starter at center. You know, Jeff, let's go back in our memory bank of brought games.

We broadcasted with the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton mannag I was going to bring that right, that was the one and they had young offensive lineman there and they kind of brought up that mug style defense to create confusion from the time they broke the huddle into the snap of the ball. Fortunately, they had great linebackers up there and Brian or Lacker and Lance Briggs that had a great understanding of each other and what their responsibilities were

after the ball. After the snap of the ball. But now you questions, you put question marks into the heads of the young offensive lineman. Now if they're just really seriously, like a quarter steps a quarter second slower than you have these experienced offensive lineman quarter second slower is getting you out of position at the snap of the ball.

Whether the linebackers came or they didn't. It just put him, you know behind, you know that slower retreat of Peyton Manning, and it allowed the Bears to take advantage of the offensive line. And you know, all throughout the course of history, I think all defenses look at how much experience anybody

has at the position. And unfortunately, when you get that rookie center, and then if you play him at home inside the Bears stadium, when the crowd has been incredibly loud as of late, that it's really distracting to this young guys because they're trying to think of their responsibilities

when they're breaking the huddle. They're trying to make sure they remember the snapcoud and then they have to make the directional calls sometimes whether it's runner passed, and there's a lot of responsibilities on the shoulders of young guys who are still thinking the offense rather than playing the offense. Continuity is king, and Harry Heston will tell you that the offensive line coach, it's critical. I mean, it's deal with the ham at you're dealt so whichever way it goes,

you make the best of it. Having guys that have played together is critical to the success of the group, and the best lines are always the ones that have the most continuity and have the most consistency, and day in and Dad are working together, and it's just you can't argue that. And sometimes you don't have the luxury of having that happen, so you make the best of it.

But it's absolutely the best thing. And the best lines in the history of our game are the ones that you know, stay healthy and play together and playing and play out and they know that this is happening. We know how to handle it, and there's no hesitation. You know, they can do it right now. And the less they have to communicate, like verbally and change, they just kind of kind of look, say somebody's name, you know, hey, go what a little work and booth They're going. It's there.

They they're They're in. They're in the vicinity play after play. They're not like relearning something or starting over. And this is they all know exactly where their hands should be. They all know exactly where their eyes should be. And then that's what they work on daily because they're not always where they're supposed to be. But they know, ope, I gotta get back inside, I gotta get hands here, I gotta do that. Oh, you know which you guys

is starting unit back in your day. Excel that you had the fortunate ability to be able to stay health easy group for the most part, and play together for

several years. You know what, Jeff though, when you listen to Harry talk about what it takes to be an offensive line, I guarantee Am Boards, j Becker, Van Horn, jimbo Covert, we could get together today and even the other guys that were in the room with us, we could speak a language amongst ourselves that no one would have any idea what we are talking about, but we knew exactly what we are saying, whether it's someone three bodies away or someone that's standing right next to us.

Because even when you break the huddle and you can't approach the line of scrimmage and start talking about the play because defensive linemen are too smart and they pick up on that stuff. We have a whole series of words about how to communicate the snapcout that you would have no idea what we are saying. And that was

the beauty of it. The longer you could stick with each other, the longer that you could be around with each other, the more of these languages that you can make up and start and that where you can understand only each other and no one knows anything what you're talking about. Well, they're gonna face some really good defensive fronts this year. There's some really good defenses on the schedule.

You look at what they're gonna face with the LA Rams on the road, the Dallas Cowboys coming into Soldier Field, two of the better defensive teams in the NFL, and it's going to be interesting through the LA Chargers in there. There's gonna be a lot of a lot of really impressive defenses. And as as you look at it from a Bears perspective, there's gonna be a lot of offensive lines that are going to be sweating it out playing the Bears defense. This you know, it was just within

the own division. I mean, you can't even talk over the Minnesota Vikings because they have so much talent, and when you when they play on the road in Minnesota and they have that crowd support. Last year, the Bears were able to earn the crowd out of the game, and I think this is what you know, the Bears are going to have to do in Green Bay, in Detroit and in Minnesota within the division. All right, time to take a break here on Bears Zoe Access with

Tom there, Jeff Joniac. Thanks for listening, everybody, three one, two, sixty four, sixty seven, sixty seven if you want to hop on on this great summer day and a good day in Chicago. Nice ball game on the North side today where the Cubs getting in a win a White Sox, have Minnesota coming in for a homestand tomorrow for a nine gamer with the Twins starting things off tomorrow. It's great to be in Chicago in this summer. And this

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down what's remaining of this Bears off season. And getting ready for the start of training camp. In one month, they will be less than a month they will be reporting and getting back to practice and out of the practice field. So it's a great time to be a Bear.

I said that today with Kyle Long. It's just a convergence of unique momentum based on what has been accomplished here in the last couple of years in procuring some really good, talented players that are budding, so to speak Tom in terms of their abilities, their star quality, their swag, their charisma. It feels like a fun bunch of guys. As we've learned last year that it was but a bunch of guys that are ready to take that hunger

and turn it into something special. And what this year means all of it coming together, it's it's a real convergence here. But you know it all starts up top Jeff, because you know the message that was delivered by Matt and Aggie at the start of last season when we didn't know a lot about him. He gave these players

the option to be themselves and guys. They took it and ran with it, but they had to also be professional and they had to understand what their responsibilities were when they got on the practice field, and we saw Matt interject his personality out of the practice field if he was dissatisfied with the effort that he was getting out of them. So this isn't something that you can come out here and just have fun with it. You

got to be professional first. You got to perform at it a really high playoff to super Bowl level, and then you got to go out there and figure out where you fit into that locker room and how you can make the atmosphere better. So you know it is I think he puts a lot of responsibility onto the players, but he is the message clearly from day one about what he expects out of them in their preparation to be the best well. And he also lets his coaches

take center stage as well at times. He doesn't want to have the same voice all the time, so these guys can step up and be heard in various ways, even if challenged. Players that do the same thing. It's a team that does police itself. I think you have plenty of leaders spread all over the place. There's not just one guy that right now is the face of

the team. Even though Mitch Trubisky is the quarterback, that's an assumed responsibility and he's certainly taking that baton and running with it and will continue to develop that with teammates. They know who's in charge there at the quarterback position.

But it does take a village at times when you don't have that Hall of fame superstar that's just lining up every day, as we saw with Brian or Lacker on the Bears defense, and Olan Creutz on the Bears offense or what you guys had a bunch of Hall of famers on your teams. So I bring up a guy like you know, we talk about budding stars, and Roquant Smith I think fits that category. I think there's a high expect that he will have a big jump

from last year when he was Pro bowlworthy. Actually there were there was a lot that he did in a very short time because he wasn't with the team in the offseason. Mark da Leone is his new inside landbackers coach, and Tom feels the same way. He's got high expectations for this individual player and he can make the biggest jump, maybe out of anybody this year. I think he has all the tools, all the skill set and the personality trades to be elite and one of the premier players

at his position in the game. He has the skill set, the talent level, and the personality traits to be that player were you had on real Quan. You know, I think he's really fortunate to have grown up with a guy like Vic Fangio and then to move on to a guy like Chuck, Chuck Pagano and Mark de Leone, you know, all the players that are gonna kind of mold his career because the experience of improvement doesn't only

happen with one guy, one coach, and one system. I think when you hear Mark talk about the traits of role Kuan Smith, He's got everything that you need to do develop into that Pro Bowl type of linebacker. He's got traits that carry over to Danny Trevathan and the outside linebackers he's playing along with. Along with the guys up front. He's got a great desire to be a great player, which I think is the most important trait that Ryan Pace picked out when he decided to pick

Roquan Smith. So I'm really excited to see what he can do with an entire offseason with the Bears. Have you know, how does Chuck Pagano see his traits to fit into some of the past experiences he's had with great linebackers. He's been able to coach and I think when you mentioned it that coach Naggie allows the coaches to be great coaches to develop this talent. And it's going to be interesting to see how Roquan is in a system that probably has different subtleties than the one

he's already played in. But again, he's still the same great player that we are introduced to last year. And it's a middle of the defense. You know, you want that to be strong up the middle, and the Bears certainly that right now. With Eddie Jackson on the back end. You got a keeman Eddie up front, you know when the front can be morphed into a passing third down front. You got got big guys up front that can really handle the inside position, and then you got the inside

landbackers real Quin and Danny Trevithan. So that's where you

want to see. It'll be interesting because I think there's probably a lot more teams that are watching defensive tape of Chuck Bagano's past and then now, how does you you know, insert the past of Chuck Bagono's experience into the more of the modern day NFL offenses, and that's going to start Week one with the Green Bay Packers, because if McVeigh is the mentor of the young coach up in green Bay, that is a really good offense when and when we study that offense of the San

Francisco forty nine ers, and there's a lot of ability at the line of scrimmage. But now, how do both of these coaches counteract each other with the personnel you're going to see at the line of scrimmage the early season, unknown of the two opponents you're gonna face. I think it's gonna be an awesome display of how teams are gonna look at the Bears and how the Bears are going to look at their opponents. That's time there. I'm Jeff Jonah, yak Herb Lawrence and Sean Anderson spending the

dials for us on Bears All Access. Anthony Spice Adams coming up next here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Join us for the PNC Chicago Bears five K Saturday July thirteenth, then finish up on Historic Soldier Field Register Now at Chicago Bears dot Com slash five k before prices increase, and maybe our guest will foot the bill for you to run that race, because I'm sure his multiple personalities will all be outfitted in running

that race at Soldier Field. The Bears five K Anthony Spice Adams kind enough to join us tonight, the entertainer extraordinaire and outstanding defensive tackle with the Chicago Bears from two thousand and seven through two thousand eleven. Double A. You got your running shoes on July thirteenth? You in that thing? Sir? No, sir, I did it. I think it was two years ago. And my shins hurt, my

back was hurting, my calves were hurting. It's about a little hills that you don't see until you're actually on it. What's long as you've ever run at one time? Uh? Probably about five miles. That's impressive. We had to do that in college, and Uh, I used to pride myself and beating little guys. I didn't care how little they were, or you know, if they were two sixty two fifty whatever or maybe some wide receivers. But what I found

out was we ran on Saturdays. And what I found out is a lot of the guys went out Friday night, so then it didn't it didn't make sense. Man, did you ever did you ever have a real strenuous um preconditioning test in the NFL for any of the any of the teams you were around? String you is no, No. I mean once you come from college, it's just like you're laughing at everything in the NFL because basically it's

it's really just technique, you know. But we had shuttles, like three shuttles, three times shuttles where you know, you run fifty yards, come back, go back down, go back down. I think it's like a total of six times or whatever like that was our condition to test. How would

you hand in with the niners? We had this thing called the beat tests where you would run I think it was like fifty yards or something like that, and then like you had to make beats and then it would go down to forty yards and thirty yards and twenty yards and ten and five or whatever, and you had to cross the line before the beat. And the guys used to win all the time. We're like the quarterbacks,

of course, they didn't do much. How would you handle this five weeks in between the end of mini camp before the beginning of training camp, I would work out like a monster, and you know, try to eat clean and you know, just come in and just be in tiptop shape, because it's nothing worse than coming in into

camp and letting all your teammates down. I've seen guys who they've held out of practice because they weren't doing what they were supposed to do in the time before coming into camp, and it's first it's embarrassing, and then you get fined. I didn't know coming from the forty nine ers, it was just like if you made plays, they really didn't care how much you weighed. So when I got here, I think I was maybe five pounds over,

eight pounds over or something like that. And Coach Smith made a big deal about it, like he came into our defensive line needing rooms, like, hey, guys, we don't play with fat guys. I just want to let you know. And I'm and ab Alex Brown. Of course he's looking around. He's like, who's fat somebody now, And I'm just like, okay, this is how y'all doing it, Like I didn't know, like okay, But I end up losing the five pounds

the next practice and then you get fine. I think it was when we played it was five hundred dollars per pound per day. So if you Steve came in over five pounds, if you didn't lose about the next day, then you have to pay twenty five hundred. Again, that's significant, my friend, significant man. Second round pick in two thousand and three by the forty nine ers. We've touched down this before, the fact that you were a second round

pick out of Penn State. Many felt that you should have been a first round pick, and you made this sport last for a while for yourself, and I think the scouts had a better idea about you maybe than the general population about your abilities. Are you proud of the fact you were second round pick? Proud of the fact you had a pretty long NFL career with two teams? Yeah? First, I didn't. There never was my dream to like play football.

I always wanted to play basketball. You know, I'm from Detroit, so we had the bad Boys Isaiah, Joe Dumars, John Sally, Dennis Rodman, you know. So that's all we played in my neighborhood. And then I couldn't play literally because I was too big. I was like at twelve, I was probably like three hundred pounds, so there was no way I was playing, literally, but my mom dropped me off,

which I'm glad she did. And you know, I had been playing ever since I was fourteen, So when I got to college, I never like had a dream that like, Okay, I'm gonna play in the NFL. But what happened was my junior year, I started seeing guys that I had good games against get drafted. So then I was like, oh, maybe maybe I got a shot because if they drafted this guy, I know they've seen the Penn State game. So I started buckling down and everything and just like

maybe I got a shot. And I'm real competitive, so I never like want to lose or whatever. So my whole goal when I got the Pending State was to start, and then I wanted to win the national championship. I mean,

which didn't happen, but that's that's what drove me. And you know, for me to get they I was projected to go foreth round and for me to go second round, then that's when I knew, like these people don't know what they're talking about and they haven't seen me yet but once I get down on that field, I'm gonna make my presence know, and I did that for nine years, and I was I was fortunate enough to play with

the Bears in that locker room. Man. I just put something up on Instagram right now about how fun that locker room is. I mean it was. It was so it was a breath of fresh air to walk into that locker room and get boxed up, you know what I mean. Like to see people in playing basketball, playing baseball. You know how it is, Jeff coming there when the media is supposed to come in there, and you know, you got a duck because somebody's throwing a baseball at you.

We had a blast. Well, you know, I was just talking to somebody about it today. And that oh six team and that two thousand ten team, Um, there are there are a bunch of really impressive players that you played with that that carried over from O six, um that don't really get a lot of attention. Just almost at every position on defense, including some of the backups, are really good football players. That's a really good football team. Yeah.

They they did a great job and you know, getting a lot of high character guys that could that could ball. You know, I think about um I am Badajo playing special teams, and we had people who wanted to play special teams, you know, who wanted to be out there blocking for for hester and you know, sometimes you look at it as punishment, like, oh, man, I gotta go on special teams. I'm onna punt return and kickoff blah blah blah. But I mean you have people who were

fighting to get on special teams. And then I just talked to Chris Harris not too long though, he's doing pretty well out there with the Chargers, and we had a long conversation just about the things we used to do in the locker room and all the ping pong tournaments we had and people playing Madden and all types of stuff we used to do. Man, it was I had a blast. Hey, how come when you guys always talk about the Bears and the good teams the Bears had,

it only talks about the defense. I mean, if it's eighty five, that's all you talk about. If it's your team, all as you talk about as a defense. How about bragging about the offensive line and some of the influence that they had in that locker room, Because I know there's a couple of guys that were pretty serious about the way they conducted themselves. That meant a lot to the interior when the locker room doors closed. But no,

the conversation always gravitates to this defensive player. This defensive players, you know, bring up, bring up some offensive players there. But you know, I always had a blast with the offensive line. And for me to play with a guy like Olan Cruz, who you know, he would come up to me and ask me different things before practice and everything.

I'm like, what, this dude is an all time great and he's talking to me because he's going up against Duayne Robertson or something who's had the same like body type or whatever. So he's like, you know, what do you attack when you're you know, when you're in a tilted position, or you know, if you're shooting a gap, what's the first thing you go for? Whatever. Like we're having this conversation before practice and then after practice, like, you know, can you stay up after practice do some

couple reps from me? I'm like, what, you know, it's a perennial All pro pro bowler and I'm just like, okay, it's something different about this squad man and then in camp, Oh, we had a great time. In camp. Man Fred Miller would be on a grill, and if you were a veteran, they let you stay on the first floor at camp or whatever. And so the offensive line they had all the rooms on the first floor and they were going

get burger king and everything. And so in the middle of the night they used to always ask hey, double a, do you want something? I say, nah, man, I'm good. And then coming about one am, two am, they would hear like some fit and falon like going on with the bags and everything, and Roberto Garza would come out and he say, oh, the raccoon strikes again. It would be be like going in trying to get some whoppers

and stuff. So they nicknamed me the raccoon. But you know, when you when you talk about all and asking you those types of questions. As a broadcaster, when I see you and I see you come to the Bears, I think a Jerry Ball who was a hell of a defensive lineman for the Detroit Lions, and I played against him a bunch, And so when I think about a player and I'm watching his style a player, I now, who does this guy remind me of that? I played against that the way I would think about how you played.

And so you know, and I and I don't know if you ever knew who Jerry Ball was, but he was a head of a player, and you know he had the skills to play up and down the line of scrimmage. He wasn't only a nose guard. He stayed in a nickel. He moved over to the guard. He was a good pass rusher. So you know, you think of Olwen using your the intelligence you have in your body style to help him prepare for a player. It's the same way in broadcasting when I see you come aboard,

what what do you make me think of it? And I think of Jerry Ball. You know, Jerry Ball was very underrated. Um, you know, just a big dude who was athletic. He could dunkle basketball. And so to get compared to Jerry Ball, man, that's that's huge for me. Man.

A lot of people don't know about that. But you know I studied all of those guys, Colepepper from Tampa Bay and even um the grave Digger, you know, I mean we didn't have the same He was of course, like way bigger, but you know, just to see how he was man in those gaps and even you know later in his career, you know he did it well right on the one and only Gilbert Brown, the Great Big He's a burger king guy. We haven't even scratched

the surface on your very much. We gotta go to break double A. But when we come back, I gonna talk about your post career life because that could take a whole hour, but and maybe two. We don't have that kind of time. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Back with you on Bears All Access here in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score good to be with you, Jeff, Jony Act,

Tom Fair, and our special guest Anthony Spice Adams. You can watch him on Inside the Bears with Laurence Screeden each and every week, even throughout the off season and the off season that is winding down getting ready for the regular season. How much have you enjoyed on that show? And did you ever envision yourself doing a show like that for for the Bears or any team? Never? And the fact that you don't watch it makes me want to go harder. You know, I gotta get you to

watch it, like that's that's my goal. Like whenever I'm thinking of things I'm gonna say, I'm like, you know, I wonder what Jonik would think about what I'm gonna say right now. But listen to me, you know, I'm just I can try to make you watch it. Listen to me and time, you know, you know me, I just like to ruffle your feathers a little bit. So don't think for a minute that I'm I'm telling you because I tell you, I tell you one thing. I would just have eyes in the back of your head.

You know. I know you probably have a pretty good peripheral vision as a basketball player and as a defensive stud in the national football the great athlete that you are. But you know, whether it's Kareem Biggins, whether whether it's coach Done Done, whether it's uh the iron Man, whoever it is, you got me good. And I'm not forgetting about this really fast. Hold on, hold on, y'all gonna

ask me questions. But I just want to commend you and sayre for the job y'all did at the hundredth and not only that, just from all the years of being on TV and radio, you guys are probably one of the greatest one two punches the NFL as scene. I want to give y'all y'all props. I'm gonna hang up and let you guys talk right. You know why because it makes Time break out into a complete full body sweat when he hears any compliments. So we'll take it.

Thank you so much. We know it comes from the heart. I know you mean that, so we appreciate it. But you got me good. When you're talking about Screeten's wedding. You're talking about I should be on the top of her wedding cake. Oh yeah, you said it, So don't tell me. I don't watch the show, and I'm gonna get you back somehow somewhere. You watch the snippet. Somebody sent that to somebody set me up. I mean, you

got me good. I said that that was like two seconds, and I said it so that it would get back to you so that you could watch it. Yeah, whatever, you know, you got the whip that I don't have. You got me good. Hey, Anthony, do you have to do two autographs now? Are you Anthony Adams and one and Spice and the other? Or how like the people that follow you? What do they ask for when you sign something? Oh, it's it's crazy now. And my mom wrote a book based off of my character, Cream Bigghams,

So I'm signing books as Cream Bighams. It's crazy. I was at it. I was at a track me because my kids run track along with Johnny Knox's kids and Rashida Davis, like, all of our kids are doing really well in track. And this lady comes up to me, who you know, she was a parent to one of the kids out there, and she's like, you look familiar. And so I didn't want to set myself up and be like, oh, okay, you know me for a defensive tackle or the Bears, and so I'm like, I don't know.

I don't know where you might know me from. And she said, she knows me from YouTube if you do all the grilling videos and you do songs and you dance and you do the laugh and everything. So I'm thinking, oh, maybe she knows me from inside the Bears, maybe she knows me from the Great American Bacon Show or whatever. And she says she knows me from YouTube. So you know, there's a lot of layers when it comes to Spice Adams. Yeah, of course you guys know already, but you know I'm

a big deal. Yeah, you are a big deal. Anybody forget it. When you were working the Orange carpet at the hundred years celebration is as soon as Naggie and Ryan Pace, you went right down and you did a kind of a interview right right. Forgive you thirty plays, not in a row, but I can get it thirty. Well, you know the whole list of characters that you got

to meet that night. You know it had to be kind of a cool thing for you too, is you know, because you know, I don't care if Dick Buckus walked up to you when he was as a player or today. You know, the guy is still intimidating. He's neat guy to meet. But all the entire history of all the players you had a chance to meet. It's always good to see RoboCop, always good to see Richard Dent. And I remember when Tony Madlin, mister Medlin gave me number ninety five, because at first I was supposed to be

seventy three. I still have the tag with my name on it, and he gave me ninety five, and I was like, oh no, I can't wear this like this is the sack masters, Like I don't even feel comfortable wearing this, and so you know I don't. I don't like how I looked within the seventies and anything like that. You know, a number doesn't define me or whatever. But you know, he said, no, no, you got to wear

this or whatever. So I saw Richard Dent at a game and I said, I hope I'm doing you proud, and he said, hey, man, you represent in double A. Keep doing your thing. And so for him to give me that voter confidence for wearing his number, like, I was forever grateful. So to see him anytime, whether it's orange carpet or anywhere, you know, it's always good to see some people. I talked to Nathan Vasher the other day and he said he saw him at Bears Fit,

Like on the app machine. I'm like, what they're doing apps? That's crazy. I got to get up in there now, man, Yeah, you're starting to drop a few. You find those apps. Yet they in there somewhere. They shot and what you call the introvert Anthony Anthony Spice Adams our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Jeff Jonny Ac time they were with you to the top of the hour. So out of all your alter egos and all your different variations of your personalities, here which of

them was the original? And how many of these particular individuals did you come up with during your playing career and just will holding them back a little bit to one day you're gonna do something with him. Well, I was very notorious for making up characters in college, and you know, all my whole teammates called me like, oh man, you got to bring this guy back out, this guy back out or whatever. So and they they're just basically

what I observed growing up in Detroit. My uncles or friends of the family who you know, will come over to the house and you know, have a good time and come around during the holidays, and it's basically everything I observed. But the favorite character I like doing his cream victims because he's he will not make a shot, but he just does not lack confident. You know, if he goes one for four hundred and eighty five shooting the ball, he's talking about that one he and you

know he always sees a silver lining and everything. So so did you know people like that if somebody right now at the park who's just like Cream Bighams. I promise you he has on goggles, he has on a tight outfit with his socks all the way up and some Chuck Taylor's. I guarantee you there's a Cream Bighams

in every state in America. Hey spice all over the world. Actually, So when you when you see a movie like Coming to America or I know there was one that just came out where the guy played all the characters in the movie, could you ever see yourself doing something like that, because that would be I think a guy that has just an abundance of humor and Coming to America with Eddie Murphy and his part is it's one of the best movies ever out there. But these guys play, you know,

five or six characters in the course of the movie. Yeah, so, like you know, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Richard Pryor you know, I watched all those guys growing up. They're they're the funniest, you know. I would love to do something like that. Those are the guys who like influenced a lot of the videos that I make on social media. So if the opportunity presented, itself to do a movie or a series or something like that. Then oh yeah, I'm hopping on it for sure. I would love to do that.

I love to play, Jeff Joniac. I would love to call a game and say, Devin Hester, do all ridiculoize. That's about the extent of what you'd be doing for me. I guess you know. Damn pomp Pay captured the essence of you and his article in The Athletic Amy twelve. Um, what kind of reaction did you get from that article? For those that didn't know your entire history and your journey.

I thought it was cool, um that we got a chance to talk about me kind of um starting another career because when I was done, you know, I still had one year left on my contract, and I still wanted to play. And you know, once you reach thirty

in the NFL, you know you're you're considered old. So I knew that it would be selfish with me to keep trying to chase this dream, knowing that I have to uproot my family and we have to go to you know, Seattle for three weeks, and then I would get released and then have to go to Charlotte or something, and then have to go to the Texans or whatever and to you know, just just to be selfish like that and to keep chasing these dreams and everything like that, I just just decided to give it up and not

knowing what I was going to do next. And you know, through all the relationships that I made, the Bears to come to me and say, hey, can you co host this show called Inside the Bears? I don't think people know that story. And so for me to do that for the athletic and Dan POMPEII, who didn't have me as one of the hundred Bears of all time, I thought it was cool and I thought it was great to share that story. Hill. Well, there's still time to

crack somebody's one hundred. You got a long career left in you, and before we let you go, and we appreciate taking all this time tonight. I know you. I never saw it. I never heard it. I don't know if you're able to do it, but it apparently used to do Olier imitation. Do you have it in you to rondo out the show to night? You got about thirty seconds give us a little walle okay, So I had to say something up for you. So make it quick. Okay. So while he was just he would complain about things.

So let's just say you show up at practice and they say, okay, we got a conditioning test. This is Wallet's reaction. Oh my god, Dumble, why why aren't we having a conditioning test? I'm too old for this. That's Wallet nice and Neaton simpled. Or at the show, why Jolie, why do you have to get off the show because it's it's time to hand the ball off to the score. Tip of the hour Anthony double A Spice Adams Uh a television host, an actor, a comedian, more importantly in

Chicago Bear defensive tackle. Thanks double As Anthony Adams for top there. I'm Jeff Johnny Ac. Thanks for listening to everybody. Thanks to herb Lawrence, Seawan Anderson and Shane Rearden and the guys. This has been Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Good night, everybody, thanks for listening to this Chicago Bears Network presentation of Bears All Access. Podcasts are available on Chicago Bears dot com and on iTunes or download the official Bears mobile app.

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