All Access: Bellamy not satisfied with NFC North Title

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Good to have you long. We'll be joined by one of the interesting players I've met in the national Football League Josh Bellamy, the wide receiver and special team's jem and he'll be joining us shortly to talk Bears football. But overall, as you digest what's going on so far since the Packer game and the clinching and the parties and the dancing and all that is back down to

football now, right. You know, you sit there and you kind of talk to some of the people about Mitchell Trubisky and even though they went and they won the division championship, Mitchell Trubisky is not a finished product and he's far from it. And some of the questions I hear is, you know, like, you know, what can you do going forward? How much better can this team get? What is going you know what's going to happen with this team, and they're still just scratching the surface. So

you know, when you talk about division championship. But in preparation for San Francisco, I think there's so much that Matt can include in his offensive game plan, stuff that we haven't seen yet, stuff that you know, Mitchell Trubisky may have been doing in practice since training camp, but he hasn't used in a game yet. So I still think there's so much growth for this team going forward, we're kind of getting caught up and no, you want

a division. So it's a complete product. That's not. One of the main questions at hallis Hall was you know the defense is elite. I mean, Matt Neggie said it himself, it's an elite defense, and he was asked, is the offense right there with him? And it is a playoff offense. And Matt's very confident about his offense. He's confident in what he's seen from Mitch Drubisky and how it's developed so far. But like you said, there is so much

growth yet to happen for everybody on the offense. I mean you the scratching of the surface comment you just made is so accurate. I think that's the step back. That's the step back. Look at the bigger picture here. Yes, they have one well growing as an offense. It's a developed and now mature defense still with young players who also can still get better. Well, So I do believe

this is a playoff offense. So, but I do think where they're gonna be in a couple of years, and the way we've been around teams that have really showed so much growth in their and their time together. That's where that's where I think they're going. Yeah, but the focus is on right now. That's that's really the focus on what they can do with their ten and four record at this point with two games to go and the playoffs in the offing. The goal here is obviously

best possible seat. You can only go up here as the number three seat. You got number one and number two, and if you can move up it just creates a whole whole load of opportunities. Everybody would love to have a bye week before the playoffs get going. Yeah, I mean everybody you know that is the goal when you start talking about you know, first of all, the first goal is to win the division, and then what happens going forward in the playoffs you got to be prepared for.

But I like to have incentive at the end of the season because, like coach Dicka used to tell us, you can't turn a dial off and then just turn it on. It's something that once it starts at the beginning of OTA's training camp, it's it goes until don't forget that thought. I want to pick it up because that is always the big question sports. How can you do it? Does it really happen. Maybe some special people can do that. Maybe one of them is Josh Bellamy.

He's now joined us. Josh Bellamy kind enough to take some time this week to join us down bears all access. How you doing, brother, Yeah? Ear to ear. Smiles around building all frankly all year, even in times of trouble. You know, the very little you know, you guys want to lost four games by a total of fourteen points. You realize that, right, true? Yeah, can you imagine it? Fourteen points away from being an unbeaten team. That's how

much belief has been around here. But Tom, the smiles around the building have been here all season because they genuinely do like each other. I'm in that locker room, what three three hours a week I see you guys, whether it's playing cards or jacking around, which you've always kind of had an audience in there with your fellas. But Matt Naggi's just taking at the whole new level, giving you guys really a platform. But just do it, do whatever makes you happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Nagi man,

he just wants us to have fun. And you know that's like the big part of this game, you know, it's just having fun. You know, it's it's worked, but at the same time, it's fun, you know, like it's a game. We're playing the game. So you know, I feel like, man, everybody's just having fun. Man, and it's like coming to like it's just got so big and it's just blowed up, like it's just crazy, Like hey man,

we just we just living. When you guys played two it at once, you know, when you guys got a role and obviously you came in eighty five and so everything worked, you guys, boom, it was magic, you guys. Yeah, but it was fun. It was different. You know, Dicka already had things in motion. Jim finks he had drafted the right amount of players. And that's what I was gonna ask Josh. You know, we were talking to Alan Robinson.

He said, when you guys all came together for the first time in April third, that's when you guys came together for a group. You've been around here for a while. When half of that moment, did you notice that culture was changing? Things were gonna be different and it was a whole different attitude there. Um, we're talking about me

as in the receivers. Well, no, he's just the whole team, the whole building, because you know when when we started coming around here, when they hired Matt Naggie, there was a change of culture inside the build. There's a change of attitude. Yeah, I'll just say like when coach Naggie first came in, even his first meeting, like he just he let us know, like, man, hey, there's no reason to be uptight. There's no reason for us that he gave us room. Like, hey, you guys, be yourselves. He

put that up from day one, and be yourself. And like, I just think like everybody just being the sales lending personality show, like they're not scared to be who they are and they're just playing the game. And we're having fun and loving it. You know, we are brothers. We spend this We spend more time with each other than we do with family. So right now I just feel like, man, we're embracing this, this coaching we got going on right now, we just we just bawling. You know, it's need. Like

our team there was somebody for everybody to grab. Every fan had somebody to gravitate towards Weller. It's the fridge crew, the offensive line crew, the Walter Payton Crew, the Willie Gold style, even Kevin Butler, right, and and that's the same thing with this team. There's so many unique personnalities here. The fans, you know, when they they scam the stadium and they show jerseys, there's jerseys from everybody. And I think it's a cool thing about this team that there's

seen a Bellamie jersey. I've seen a couple. I don't know if it's a Bellemue Marshall, right, that's yeah, it's nice. It's like I see all In Cruitz's jersey and I always tell people it's mine. It's all good. Yeah, But at that meeting April third, because now guys are bringing it up. Alan Robson's brought it up, some of the Danny Traviatan's brought it up. April third. April third seems to be the rebirth. Now third, that's when we said this foundation, right. But if you think back to that moment,

did you envision where you'd be today? This kind of forget about the wins and losses. Now, I'm talking about the camaraderie and the type of people you have in that room. Yeah, yeah, we all envisioned it. It's just like this is what coach Naggie won. It Like everything's just like coming to life, like he spoke it earlier April third, he spoke on that day and now like up intil this day, like everything is coming to life. It's like even through the losses, you know, like nobody's

getting down. Everybody is helping each other up and that's what you need. And a good team for everybody to build each other up. It's like it's no it's no negativity going on, like you know what you know. So every day we're just grinding and trying to be better. Spiked only four losses. Has there been any any at any point of dark moment on his team this year?

I can't remember, you know, like I've been here and sometimes you know, when you go down and the score, you know, the opponent goes up and you know, guys like, oh man, here we go get it hasn't been like that. It's like hey, they go score touchdown. They man, it's out turn to go score touchdown or it's out turning to let's go win. You know, and our defense. If our offense we don't score, put the ball off and

get the ball to defense. Man go stop them offense, get the ball, let's go score and special teams doesn't make plays. Like that's just how we we We've been working and it's just been coming into play. You know, you haven't had an easier role in the NFL when you're when this offense was introduced to you, Was it a hard offense to learn because you're playing multiple positions, you're blocking out of multiple formations and different positions on

the field, You're in motion all over the play. So everything that Josh Bellamy had to do, was this the right offense for you? And was it hard to learn master or you're still getting to know it? Well? You know, I came in with I was in Kansas City, so when Naggie and you know, Andy and those guys came over, I kind of like, I already had a feel for this offense, so I already knew it. You know, I've been in a lot offenses, so but I already knew

that kind of the field of this offense. I remember a little bit of it, so like, but when it came over here, like already, that's just how I just learned every position, I know every where everybody's doing. And that's just how I operate. So now you know, I could play every position, and I just that's the way. I just my mind. I just do it that way. So it doesn't matter if a rob comes out or Turbo comes out, or Anthony comes out, I could just go win. So you know, um, that's just how it's been.

And you know, our whole receiver group is like that. You know, hey man, let's just everybody know what everybody doing, and that way we can everybody can operate, we can move around, we can do different stuff. Coach now you can put us in different spots. He can do motions and all that stuff. And the offense is really it

looks crazy, but it's really not that complicated. But you know, there's an there's an article in October that Matt Nagie says, um Bellamy is an easy game day activation because he's a three position player. Are you talking about three positions on offense or are you talking about your offensive positioning and your special team delivery? I think he's talking about offense, you know, because I could play I play X, I played the Z brand, I played the Z so I

play all three. So you know I come in for whoever. Yeah, you know, I played four phases I play, and then I played four phases right on special teams. So you know, hey, man, I'm just glad to be here. I'm glad we win in man, Yeah, so are we? Yeah? It is about time. Josh Belling me our guest here on Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, Pauls the Ranker, engineer Dan Briley, our producer here at Hollis Hall. Uh in a word to describe you as a football player survivor,

say that's accurate? Uh, come on, well, you know we could talk about it. So back to Kansas City. That was like twelve right, yep, twenty twelve. Here we are in twenty eighteen, and you've been on several teams. How many times you've been cut? I mean your surviving your survivor. Yeah, yeah, you're self made, I say that, how about that? Yeah? I agree, Man, it's been a long road for me. Man. You know, this is the first time I've I've been on the winning team. You know, just what over what

how many wins? Five wins, six wins? So you know, like for me, man, it's new, you know. So I'm just embracing it too, man, And every day I want to go work, work harder, get another w so and that's just how this team, the team is. Man, Hey man, you know, if you've been around here for a while, man, you know how it's been. And you know we've been up and down, coaches, changing players, all kinds of stuff. So man, right now I feel like, man, we got

a healthy team and we've just been bailing. Man, and everybody just want to win and let's everybody do good. But Matt, you know, Matt didn't want to talk about the past, history, the Green Bay rivalry. He just wanted to talk about the future. And I think that's kind of what you're living too, is the future not the experiences of what you live through has been a positive

for you and now you're benefiting because of that them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been through the rough times man, and now you know, hey man, that's the only way you can get to this point, man, is to take losses in to go through the you know, the speed bumps. And man, right now I feel like, man, we're going up. So it's not about what happened in the past, about what's gonna happen in the future. You got fined for blocking Aaron Donald did the referee tell you what you did wrong?

Or do you see on cape what you have to do to improve that? Because I'm not a big fan of players getting fined for a block that's constructed with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't. I didn't try to do that. That was that really was like it just happened, like you know, because I was coming across. I was supposed to get the gown on the end, but he kind of flashed and I just went down on him. But I was really going to get the end, but I didn't. I didn't mean to do that. Josh Bellamy our guest here

on Bears All Access. We're gonna step away take our first break with Tom Thayre. I'm Jeff Joning. Act last to discuss is the Bears get ready to meet the forty nine ers and get themselves playoff ready. Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score and welcome back to Bears All Access. Brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas at home. Warranty products are over one million customers

across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff and Tom with you from panc Studios at Hollis All here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. A guest this week, Josh Bellamy. You've always been one of my favorite players because of the energy, the confidence. You don't let anything bring you down. Man. You talk about our next play mentality, which MAT's always talking about. Yeah you got you got that, You've had it for a long time. Why it's just it's about

the next play. You know. I learned that it's just me and you know, you can't let one one play, you know, affect your whole game or you know, like define you know who you're gonna be or who you are. You know, like I've realized that, you know eight you're gonna have good plays, You're gonna have bad plays. It's about moving on. Even like some guys, you know, even if you have a good play, you gotta move on to the next play because you know, you gotta have

a play after that. You gotta have a you know, it's gotta gotta build it up, build it up. And even if you have a negative play, you gotta move on. And even when I um like going back to I want to say, what year that was that Tennessee game when I dropped that ball, you know a I was like, okay, yeah, that was a big, you know moment for me because I never like been in that situation. And even you know, even uh George, he came down and eat, He's like, man,

don't don't let one play define you, you know, like cashing. Yeah, Like Josh, just move on, man. I love it when you play. I love your energy. You know, just move on from it. And I was like, you know what, like that that's big, you know, like he's even the owner, he coming down like hey, man, let's move on, you know. And and that's one thing you know, Uh, even coach coach Fox he preached that too. Man next play, next

play mentality, And that's coach Naggy, you know. It's it's just it's it's been building up, man, even from going back up into this point. I feel like just us building up to this point. It's been a long role, but this is what we needed to get to where we're at right now. Well, in your arsenal, you got a twenty two yard and around run against the Minnesota Vikings. Where is it? How can we you know? All these multiple offenses when when are we gonna see that in

this in this offense with you? Oh man, yeay man. You know it's it's the role you know you like to carry as much as a cat. Yeah, it is what it is. I don't care what they do. I don't care if it's a block, if it's a if it's a run, if it's a catch. I take the same pride as I would in the catch and run or block, you know, eight man, That's just the role it is right now, and whatever they need me to do,

that's what I'm down to do. Like I don't hey, I'd rather praise those guys for scoring a touchdown I made a block on the play. You know. That's just the way my mentality is. You know, our guy, our statistician that sits up in the booth with us, Doug Cletty. He's probably one of the smartest guys in sports in terms of analytics and numbers. He talks about how the punt is the biggest play in a football game, and we saw evidence of you twice this week, how you

basically change field position by it. When you're running down on a punt. You're the one of the flyers, the outside guy that have to get down there and determine how their punt return is going to return it. So now he's trying to fake you, but you're also trying to file the flight of the ball to put you in the best position either to make a catch or your back to the goal line. How hard is it to do all those things and you got usually got two guys trying to knock you into the out of

bounds area. Yeah, you know, I'll tell those guys that, like Alan Robinson and h Taylor, those guys, you guys playing office, come out here and play gunners if you want to see whether you want to want some work, you know. And then sometimes you're going against two guys, I tell him, like, you know that sometimes that's that

might be like the hardest job. You know, you're going against two guys your disadvantage, and you gotta try to stop the ball, you know, and and you know you and the punter gotta be on like you know, like the same record. But you know, it's it's it's pretty interesting. It's pretty yeah. Yeah, yeah, you gotta have some some grit to you, man. You gotta be a dog, That's what I tell him. Even like you know, shared like, you know, and not why I shared played like he's

a dog. That's just the way his mentality is. And you know, like when you got a guy like that on the other side of you, and you gotta be

funny thing it's about that. I did a feature on the two of you a couple of years back, and I learned so much about what it takes, the mentality, the detail and the fundamentals and the technique that has to be proper, which you know, you can get off schedule very quickly on special teams, yeah, you know, because special team it's a one play like it's one play mentality. You only get one play to do what you do.

And you know, you got some guys gonna play offense get sixty plays a game, you know, but on special teams you might get six plays, ten plays, you never know, but it's fourth downs so on that that's you're down to to be great and that's what we do. Man. You mentioned Sherik is being a dot for those who don't know him. I mean, he's the nicest guy in the building, right yeah, my honest face, very feisty on the field of fight, say the least, right, Yeah. I

learned a lot about don't mess with Sherik. He's proven is worth that defense too. But you guys did the years of instigating each other and challenging each other coverage, So I think it was a really a real positive about it. Maybe you brought it out. It's about creating competition, you know, it's just in any room. It's about creating competition. Like when you got Jordans and you got Tarik, and you got uh uh ma Zille and you got Bunny.

There was guys all in that room. But it's all competition at the same time, and that's what makes you better in your room. And you think about our room. You got Alan Robinson, you got Taylor Gabriel, you got Anthony Miller, me you got h Kevin and you got h ten of those guys. So you know, it's all competition. Like when you're in camp, everybody's really competing for jobs.

So and then you get to this season, it's like, man, hey, Turbomaze's catches this game, and damn man, I'm trying to get me some catches, you know, like such as as you had one hundred yards this game. I'm trying to, you know, make my plays count. So that's what that's what I guess, that's what helps the team build up. Man, do you do you watch college football? There's a reason I'm asking this question, Uh a little bit, I'm really watching. Okay,

here's you know yourself and Sheriff. You guys have made a successful NFL career because the wave you've involved yourself and special teams and you became a member of every single phase of special teams on the field. It seems to me the college game is killing special teams, both by fair catchers on kickoff return and some of the other limits. And I don't want to see that player lost because I think the look at the good fortunes that you've been able to increase because of coming here

as a special teamer. That's like all for like like a good coach like when I was in college, like coach Strong and uh, you know how to coach. My special team coach is Kenn Carter. Like it was like, yo, special teams a lot of you guys, Yeah, y'all might go to the NFL, but special teams are gonna be your way in the door. Like you know, like I tell the young guys that come like hey, man, you know, hey,

you ain't. You ain't one of those top guys. You need to be trying to play special teams, Like that's your way in the door. And that's like how I've been, Hey, man, that's my way to do it. Kids don't want to hear that though, a man, but you got to That's that's the truth. Hey man, let's you gonna you want to play on this team and you want to go down and talk Trey Burton a body Trey. Yeah. Oh,

he started at the very bot. I mean, he was like the you know, but tenth tight end on the Eagles, and he he becomes special Teams Player of the Year on the Eagles. Yeah, that's your way to the top, man. Some guys, Yeah, you get your find your role on special teams, then you end up finding you a role on you know, you've been on the active, you've been on the act. If somebody goes down, now you plugged in because you're on the active. And that's just the way I think. That's the way I've been for me

the past couple of years. You know, hey, I've just been on special teams and then kind of filling my way in the offense. And you know, I've been making my way up and now you know I'll be I'm in the game. You know, I played a kickoff return from my last my first game to my last game, and I think that was one of the most important roles I had because when you see your name my first team, any special team, you're getting a jersey for the day, and I think that's important part of it

for you. That's big. That's big. Yeah, man, you got it that that's what you want to see. Man. You want to see your name on that active RUSS And it's okay there to make the team, but you want to be on the field playing when when it when it's time to play that ball kicks off. You want to be on the sideline, just dressed out. I want to play. So that's just the way I've been, you know, just keeping me going in this league. Man. It's just man,

I want to be on the field. I want to play whatever I gotta do, That's what I want to do. Wide receiver Josh Bellamy our guest here on Bears All Access with Tom There Jeff Joni Yak were brought to you by IGS Energy with step Away. Another segment coming up next here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score, Escape the cold and head to the reu Pallas Costa.

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Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Jeff, Joni Yak and Tom There with Josh Bellamy, Bears veteran wide receiver. Can you pinpoint the moment that you realize you got your break in the NFL. The year that was big for me was when I when I made the active roster. When my first year, like coming in out of camp making the active roster, I was like, okay, yeah,

I mean the roster. That was big for me because I never I never did that, you know, I went three years on the scout, like playing on practice squad and okay, yeah I got three games in or I got four games in like towards the end of the season, but like coming in and like, hey you're an active you made it. That was big for me. And then the year after that, you know, like my special teams role, I played a lot of special teams. I want to say that was two thousand and sixteen. Yeah, so that's

a long time. So I undersk guys that repeatedly get cut or repeatedly have to be staying on the practice squad. Why do you do it? It's the love of the game. It's the love you know, you just you wanta this is what you did all your life, like up until this point, like, man, I'm here now, I just want to I want a ball, like I want to. I

want to show the world what I got. You've been doing it for so long, Like playing back, you're football with your friends and you know either they from proving people wrong or the doubters or even the people that's what of your family, you know, it's you know, you do it for whatever your reason is, your why and it's just like, man, now that you're here, like, hey, I want to shine, but you know, you went to

a junior college first. And I really admire guys that go to junior college and get themselves into a four year college because that shows you. That shows me that there's a guy that has a great deal of desire to want to play in the NFL or want to take this thing as long as he could. What was in you that going, Okay, I'm gonna go out to the West Coast and play in junior college. Then I'm gonna come back near the Midwest and go to college.

What motivated you to allow yourself to believe that that was You're gonna be your path just like, man, hey, I can't I can't be home. Man, I got all kinds of scholarships. Man, I gotta I gotta go make it, Like that was my dream, Like to make it to this point, to make it to the NFL, to get to the NFL to play. I watched it on TV, you know, like, man, I wouldn't be in the NFL. Like I feel like even when I got cut, I

got cut, like I forgot how many times. But my agent and my old agent, he was like, man, I think we're just gonna we're gonna try to go to the Canadian. Yeah, I'm like, man, listen, if I got to go to Canadian, I'm done, Like you know, Like you know, I'm once an NFL playing I'm gonna make my way in this league. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna do it. And even if I got out work everybody stayed longer. Is he's still your agent? No? No, Josh Beller, he Bears wide

receiver here on Bears all access. Um. In terms of that kind of thinking and so forth, Um, what is it about you? Because you've you used to when we were here early on, you would be in coach's ears so much. Get me on the field, get me on the field, get me on the field. It was that part maybe of the reason you did get the opportunity. You wore people down a little bit, like telling them, hey, I can do this and somebody and they finally gave you some shots. Like I said, what were you like

then versus now? A maturity and just as things changed for you, Oh no, because I'm still tell the man, give me the game. I'm trying to get in the game. But you know, like it's just like back then, you know, I probably I don't think I understood the game as much as I do now. You know, like now like I know what's going on, you know, I know the different looks, I know what the defense is doing. Like, I take more time and I'm studying a little more, you know, more than back when I first came in.

I was just hey, it's just talented. Hey, let me just go out here, man, let me do what I can do. And that's not the way the league is. You know, you got in college, you got a couple of guys that's just on elite level when they're just doing crazy stuff. But in the NFL, I mean you got smart guys there where they're supposed to be there. You know they're getting it route there. You know that they're doing everything they need to do. So like now

it's like you gotta be smart. It's not just talent now, it's not just physicality, is not just who's the strongest, who's the fastest. It's just about sometimes who's the smartest. And you know, like now I feel like, man, you know my game. What helped my game is me understanding and that's the part I feel like helped me. You know, Joshua, what's the scariest thing about being on on the onside kick team? What I was getting ready to watch that

moment unfold this past Sunday. I saw the job Nick Wadkowski did, and then you think about some of the events of in the past, of recent history of on site kicks, both for the Bears and maybe the reminder of the one that happened in Green Bay a couple of years ago. It seems like that kick can be kicked so many different ways, and so is it a

nervous for moment. I'd rather be the side kicking it than the side receiving, you know, because the side that's receiving it, the pressure is really young, right right, you know, but the guys who are going to get the kick did coming right, you know, It's like it's full speed ahead, it's none stop. So you know, like that's that's the part. Like it's just I think like the on side key that might be more like more nervous for anybody than any part of the game. Like it's time for own

side kick. Man, is either we get it or we don't like it. Turn to get it. We don't get it, it might be over. So it's like that. It's crazy, man, if it would be more fun if they made all linemen beyond it instead of all because you know, the hands team, the hands team during the course of your career, it's a special team because you know if your call for hands team, that you're one of the better athletes

and that whole group of a football team. But you know, you never know how that ball would be like more like a pinball machine leading up to that point. I know the guys who are own the own side kick like, oh man, over time man, I mean on sideki. No, I do worry though they're going to legislate that out of the game one day, because I don't think they can not. It's it's got just quit. You look at

the hip I quit that we talked about. I mean, it was legal, right, but it tooks some guys off their green and gold, but at the end of the game, didn't not. Yeah, man, this is got a little heated. It's the game one guy back in the day to kind of what those guys were going through, the hit they were going through. It's it's the it's the game you chose to play. So like you know, I feel like they're doing a good job protecting the players. And you know, like if the ball goes in there, you

can fair catch, fair catch it. But if it if it hits the ground, and it's fair ball and it's free games. So you gotta kind of keep your head on the swivel. Right, But it's it's a choreograph play. It's not like a free from it's not just a yeah yeah yeah, it's designed. Now you got guys going and trying to maneuver, trying to go get the ball. And then you got the really the guy who's catching in the back, he's kind of protected, but he got like, you know, probably about four guys in front of him

protecting it. Now, if you scheme it up right, you might have two guys in front of you. You get out coached. But hey man, it's that that quit. He had a good play he did, you know, because you know, you think of what Beckham did against the Bears a couple of weeks ago, you think of the lesson Anthony

Miller learned a couple of weeks before that. And then you got the biggest moment in the Bears years in the Bears season, the clinch of division against the Green Bay Packers and it comes down to an onside kick. I mean, it's that that set of events. Man, you have to have thick skin and great confidence in yourself. Yeah you do, man, you had the write guys out therefore you know he made a great play and you know, quit those guys. Many I love. I'm glad we got it.

Josh Bellamy with us on Bears at Access. We step away for another break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score especial thanks to Josh Bellamy for joining us today on a Bears Solid Access. Ruth Chris would like to have this one hundred dollars gift card pulled out of Tom players hands and into the hands at Jolly to enjoy one of their Chicagolan Areas steakhouses. Ruth's Chris, this is how it's done, and the way the Bears have played this season. I seen, I think that, and

also it's very apropos. This is how it's done. You get a bunch of young guys with some veterans like yourself, guys who have been through at the at the bottom of the league. In terms of like you said, you hadn't won. I did a little research project before the season, it was all but like five or six guys that actually had a winning record in the league in the

locker room. And then you get this coach who's been done nothing but win in Philadelphia and Kansas City at the age of thirty nine now forty, and he stirs the pot. He mixes up the locker room. He get you guys to bond, He get you guys to play hard, have fun, and wallah, you've got ten wins, seven at home, three and three on the road. You survived a couple overtime losses. You know, there have been hurdles, there have

been things that force you to be resilient. And now you're you're one of the talk teams of the league. You know, with a defense that's playing at elite level, it's like almost you can't draw it up any better. It's like final where he said Imagic Kingdom. I love him when they are like, man, we're gonna get into session. Someone defense. He used to be a dB where you yeah, I played defense too. I played everything man, quarterback too, even in the little league. Really okay, well, would would

you be a corner or safety? Uh? And in this defense with Fangio I'll probably be a safety safety. Okay, has he ever asked you to go out there tease me a little bit? Yeah? You know that hail Mary defense. They usually put a couple of big receivers back there to try to snag the ball out of the air. Hey m I ask everybody this on Club Dub. Is there anybody that you recommend never to dance in public? Because you know there's might be some guys like my

who the NFL's oldest Paul boy, Carl Parski. Yeah, man, he got some moves. I just want him to stay Club Dub. But you know, it is funny because this this is something we're not accustomed to. But I think everybody's taken a great appreciation to it because it's it isn't center for you guys, and it means a lot to the team. It means a lot to the camaraderie. So you know, I I see a lot of players that I put You know, you can go to the Super Bowl Shuffle and see that Fencing and Fuller should

never dance in public, but they do. And you know this guy's got he's got I know you got rhythm and moves. No man's right up after those games, man, we just like, hey, man, cloth up and they go up. Man, we've been to go to Club Dub and then the game. We can't wait to get there. Hey, great schools this week they're doing it. It's see, it's the thing. I've seen some I've seen other NFL teams doing it starting to Yeah, I've seen the Saints. I've seen uh, the Eagles,

I think on Instagram. I've seen a couple of teams doing it. Well. It's like it's like when teams did fake Super Bowl shuffles and it never materialized in anything. You guys, haven't we are? Yeah? I was original thought. Man, we got the real club the T shirts. Yet, oh he might be on the way good. Was it you or was it Travisan that gave Naggy the Swaggy Naggy title? I don't know. I think it might have been. It might have been Craven Blank Yeah, swag Nagy. Well, I

mean that sticks too because he won't dance. But that boom, Yeah, that's catching two. Been talking about the boom. I think I told him, man, we need to get something in the stadium where we play that you know, like how even when you go to Minnesota they do the little school. Yeah, I need to get that in our stadium that it needs to boom. Can you imagine sixty thousand people? Yeah? Man,

I think we should get that going. Man, that'd be big and all that that preseason talk that a lot of players seem to give their teammates, Now that gets everybody energized. Is everybody paid attention to that? And then like on a after a touchdown, you know, big players or something, you know that that'll be big. Do you know who Josh Bellamy's biggest supporter is you? Wow, I am, but it's number ten. Yeah, it's Trubisky. Why does he

trust you so much? That's my boy? Man? You know, ever since Mitch came in, you know, I always challenged him. You know, I was like, hey man, you know, hey, this your team, Like, this is what they brought you here for. They brought you here to be the guy and you gotta lead us. And I always told him I always believe in him, no matter if he's down, I go tell him and he'd do the same for me or whoever. You know, that's just the way he is.

And I love Mitch man. I love the way he prepares, I love the way he played the game and he got swagged to him. You know, you got some guys that got fake juice, but Mitch, he just he's original with it, like he just got it. And I've seen it in him when he first came, Like, man, this dude, he's gonna be good. Man, He's gonna be good for us. You know that. You know that he had the three

really nice scramble routes this week. Wanted to Adam Shahdn't, wanted to Taylor Gabriel and then one um Jordan Howard. So when you see Mitch in the scramble and you know how clever his feet is, is your first response to get deep or just to kind of identify yourself as you're ready, you're ready for it. I feel like like when Mitch is back there, like he's like Tarik,

it's like a punt return. You never know, like if he if he if it's not there for him, like go ahead, Like I tell him all the time, Man, Mitch, hey, man, use your feet, use your legs. Man, you can run. You know some quarterbacks can't do that. But the way this league is built now, I was like, man, you gotta use your legs and he got like he can,

he can really do it. And I were talking to him today, I was like, mitch Man, like you're in the pocket, like you be knowing what those guys be at, just be turning and doing circles and like just like maneuvering getting out of there, and it'd be crazy. I love watching them do it too. Is this close so many times somebody hunting them down? Yeah, but then it's the first down to Taylor Gabriel, second and fourteen. He

told me, he's like, it's my sixth sense. Like that's significant though that you can't the fact that he said that is significant. It's significant. There's two significant things to that. One. Not every quarterback's gifted with that. So if fitz clock is running and it's going to get better, this is just scratching the surface. But the second part of it is eyes downfield. On that throw a sheheen that spends away and he never he never looked at the rock.

She didn't drop his eyes. He kept looking and shaheen, you can't miss him. Yeah, I mean, that's a great play and your catch that was a heck of a play. That seam route. We wrake that one down and me and Mitch worked on that play during the week. Um, we wrapped it a couple of times, and Mitch he was like, man at first, like he wasn't comfortable. He was like, man, let's jb let's do that. Let's do

it a couple more times. We did like rant it like four times and then like we kind of you know, got it together, kind of like kind of perfected it, you know, and he was like, all right, I'm good with I'm good with it. And it happened in the game. I wasn't even supposed to be in. Uh, a Rob was supposed to be in on that play, and I just happened to get it. And me and Mitch practiced practice h during the week and it happened, and it came. He threw it up to a Rob's heighten but you

got it. Got you know that that upper right hand what was able to slow the momentum of the ball and be able to grab it. It was you know, I think you know that's been the talk about that best catch in your career. Yeah, would you agree? Always so far? Josh Bellamy top there, Jeff joni Ac will step away. Another segment coming up here on Bears All

Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. You can help deserving families by donating a winter coat for the Chicago Bears, Jewel Osco Coach Drive and participating Jewel Asco locations now through February First. Donations benefit the Salvation Army. Jeff Joni acc and Tom Thayer enjoyed having Josh Bellamy aboard tonight on Bears All Access. Interesting character, as we learned, comes from very humble roots in terms of finding his

path in the National Football League. But you know, you know why coaches like him because he gets full effort, He works hard at it, he doesn't take a day off, he doesn't dog it. May not make every play, certainly as a wide receiver, there have been some that have not gone his way, but his value to the team in other ways. He's one of those guys, guys that

are like the old term of glue guys. Well, you know, it's easy to follow the path of a guy like Mitchell Trubisky that gets drafted in the first round, gets traded for it and go up to number two. You look at the kids that want to have a positive influence in their pursuit of whatever sport they're gonna play, male or female. And it's not always step A to step B and boom you're you're on the high stage. It's about going to junior college, it's about going to

another four year college. It's about getting cut a couple of times. Those are the those are the things. Respect those guys. Oh my god, I because I had the easy route, Jeff, I mean, well I did. When you were blessed with talent, you have to take the advantage of that talent and you in terms of okay, I went from high school to a four year college. I had the USFL opportunity that came to the Bears and

had great success here with this football team. But when you look at a kid from Florida goes out to the West Coast to junior college, goes back to Louisville, get goes into the NFL, gets cut a couple times, most guys just give up. Most guys, guy, I have to get onto my second career. And when we sit here and talk to a guy like Josh, never he never believed it. He never thought that he was going to fail. And I think so. I think it's a

great lesson for young kids. That they need a little bit of a push and a little bit of motivation, and sometimes it's got to be self motivated, like Josh, all right, let's talk a little forty nine football about it. So digging in deeper to all the math and just watching tape and so forth. We have our own opinions and so forth. We'll share a lot of those on Sunday.

But anything changed from when we got together this week early, when we just got into the infancy of getting you know what the forty nine ers are all about, because they have one two in a row, they won all four of their games at home, and they have a young quarterback who's right now got the blessing of the head coach, Kyle Shannon, who's also one of the games better play callers and play designers, and he's having success. Well, Mullins isn't going anywhere because they don't have anywhere else

to go. He's the third quarterback. I'm just saying, they're not gonna make a quarterback change, and so he does have Yeah, he only has two hundred and three pass attempts. However, it's it's that's not gonna They're not gonna their game plan isn't gonna be all Mullins. It's gonna be a team involved game. And then you look at what the tight end position has been able to provide for the

all three quarterbacks since they've they've been playing there. They have quality personnel up front, defensively, they got some good young guys that are playing well. They got a coaching staff in place, they got a general manager who's gonna be there. So to me, when you talk about a team like the Bears that I've already clinched the division, then you've got a team that still has to play well because the evaluation is equally as strict as if

they were ten and o or oh and ten. So they're saying is they're not going to They're not counting the clock and getting their golf clubs all right. Their car's not packed exactly. I am impressed with this kid. Though he's a rookie, nobody really knows a lot about him. Nick Mullins and that tight end you better tackle him. He's leading the league in yards after contact. You know, it's crazy. This guy's really George Kittle has had a nice season in his second year and he made the

Pro Bowl. I just watched an eight minute piece about George Kittle in his background and his you know, the athleticism to George Kittle comes from his mom's side of the family, even though his dad played at Iowa. If you ever want to hear a story about success in the from the mother's side of the family, you know, there's like nine girls in one family and they used to have their own softball team. So even George talks about why he is where he's at, and so it's

interesting to listen to a story like that. And yeah, Mullins, I really admire him too, because you think they bring in Garoppolo, they have Bethar there. They both get injured and now your notifications, man, Jeff, you're up. You're starting for the next week. And he came out and he played a great game on it wasn't Monday night football, and they won the game. They're in the top five

in the league and yards per play. Yeah, they don't take the ball away, so really almost historically low two picks, seven total takeaways, Bears twenty six interceptions, San Francisco forty nine ers two And you know, maybe years ago we would think that's the way that was trending. For the Bears against an opponent. But can they before we let you go, can they keep their edge the edge that they've created the Bears? Of course, and to me it

was evident. In Matt Naggie's press conference today, he talked about what he expects out his team, what they need to do going forward, and is there any way shape or for him. They're not thinking about the last two games didn't even enter his mind. It's about making sure that he gets his football team to be better than they were last week against the Packers, and everybody is on board. Good news on Eddie Jackson and Aaron Lynch.

They don't appear to be season ending injuries ankle and elbow sprains, respectively, So that's good news in the bigger picture, that's for sure. Eddie Jackson a pro bowler at safety and Lanch a valuable rotational player on the outside edge. All right, that's gonna wrap us up. Our show is over for this week. We thank you for listening. As always, thanks to Josh Bellamy, our guest. We're brought to you by IGS Energy for pauls rag Or Engineering and Dan Briley,

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