All Access: Daniel on Trubisky's play

we'll work on the sixty. We've got Chase Daniel coming up in our next segment and throughout the show tonight, the Bears quarterback. We'll join the program as the Bears get ready for Packer Week, and folks, I was talking with Tom earlier. This week we shoot our videos that you could see on the website, the Bears website and also on w BBM and the Score. And Tom he's usually in a very very very very rotten mood during Packer Week, but he's generally today, i'd say, very upbeat.

So what's the big switch. I'm angst, I'm very I am very accessful. I'm taking my vest off. You know, it's just diff and it's a Packer week is not something that you get ready for because it stays in your system your whole life. If you ever play for the Bears, you're a bearss fan whatever, It's not something you're you know, you're thinking about it three days in advance.

It's something that you prepare for, whether it's you know, having you know, chili cookoffs, or having friends over that are Packer fans, or just having that rivalry that kind of heats up throughout the week and you get pretty

animated and irritated. Though. You know what, though, it's different because when I played for the Bears, we never got beat by Green Bay, and after all the years now never being less invested as a Bears fan, it just gets to me that that post podium, we're we're doing the post game broadcast and we're either in the broadcast booth or leaving the stadium, and you can see those guys addressing the podium and I don't want to see that anymore. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of I'm

tired of being around it. And it's so hard to leave that stadium, especially last year at the end of that game, when the way the way things unfolded, and luck, you know, thankfully for us that it just pointed the barrels the arrow straight up. For the Bears, they learned a lot from that, no question, as they have learned a lot about the Week one loss this year. So many comparisons week fifteen a week one. It would be true for any team because week one's the great unknown.

You don't know what you're getting from your team. You have no idea, you don't have any idea what the season's going to look like. And now here week fifteen, we have a pretty good idea of what it's looked like. This team has been resilient and they've ripped off four wins in five weeks. It's been a good start to the second half. There's confidence. I heard Mitch Trubiski at the podium this week sound he'sas, I don't care who we're playing next, just bring him on. That was basically

his message. I like the attitude, right, I mean, that's the attitude do you have to have be because you're not going to give any one opponent unrealistic amount of respect. But you know, you talk about the similarities of last year to this year. There is no similarities to the Chicago Bears team that they're going to be facing Sunday that they face at the beginning of the season, and I think it's just a completely different football team. And

there's a lot of differences on the Green Bay Packers. Also, They're one consistent is that they have Aaron Rodgers and he's such an instigator of their success. But I think in the path that the Bears have been on, it's a it's of improvement and significant improvement in the last four or five weeks. What do you see from the Packers. It's hard to overlook Aaron Rodgers because to me, I think that Aaron Rodgers is the best player in the NFL.

So when you see what he's able to do to contribute to other players maybe you know, benefiting from playing with him, some of their offensive lineman benefiting playing with from his quick decisions, his arm talent, his accuracy, his decision making process. Trying to take a young head coach and help him develop because the quarterback is more experienced than the head coach. And I see there's a lot of responsibilities on the shoulders of Aaron Rodgers. They did

go out and tap the free agency market. This year in the free agency they got Adrian Amos from the Bears and the two defensive ends they got. They're super talented football players at the Darius Smith in pressing. But I will say if you just looked at it from something on paper, statistically, they don't shine. But here's where they get you, and they always have with Aaron Rodgers, he's terrific in the red zone. He is terrific on

third down. They keep themselves typically in really good third down situations, but they score points when they have to. They score points before half, they score points coming out of the break. The Bears have done that too in the last three weeks very well. And it's creates that takeaway a possession and score before they get the chance to get the football again. The two for one, which Aaron Rodgers has been great at over the course of

his career, and they're doing that again this year. I think they have fourteen touchdowns on opening drives of either half, and that's pretty darn good right now. And they take advantage of your mistakes and so he doesn't make any two interceptions and they do take the ball away. Super manipulative with the snapcount at the line of scrimmage, and if you do, you get if you jump offside, you if you're a little bit off balance, he's going to look for a way for someone to go deep and

try to attack you because of it. But you know what's interesting is Mitch is getting good at a two. His snapcount at home is becoming a verbal weapon. And I just think that you're going to have to focus on the discipline of the defensive line this week not to get off balance or off sides, because even if you're off or defensive lineman and you kind of jump a little bit, but then you're kind of retreating back before he snapped the ball, you're rich a pick, you're

out of position. Yeah. Well, Mitch's third and one hard count that was a penalty for a first down, and that was on a scoring drive. So I was a catch by Alan Robinson. He was terrific after you know, you brought it up. I talked about it with him too. After interceptions the last two weeks. You've got it memorized by now thirty at thirty eight three eighty six touchdowns, including one rushing and ten yards of completion. So that's a quarterback who says, hey, I made a mistake. I'm

not going to make another one. Keep moving in the right direction. Well, you know, I think that's gonna be great to talk to Chase about because you know, to get into the mind of a core back, you have to ask a quarterback. And I think it's really interesting to see when you get someone that's been in that room, that's been filtering that information to get a line out of Now, Chase Daniel coming up next. We're with the

Fuel Up sixty crew here at Hattis Hall. This is BEARS All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy from P and C Studios. I'm Jeff Joni Ec with Tom Thayer, and this is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. All right, everybody back at PANC Studios Here at Hattis All on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy of the Score with Dan Briley, our producer and pause ranger engineer. I'm Jeff Joniac almost said little Z, my guy, little Z. I'm Jeff Joniac with Tom Thare and this has brought

to you by IGS Energy. We welcome in Chase Daniel, the veteran quarterback. What is it eleven years thirteen years. Eleven years, yeah, eleven years, eleven years in the league. Man, I'll tell you, you talk like a coach, you play like a coach. You think the game in a very unique way, at which I guess a lot of veteran quarterbacks eventually become that way. But it's always fun listening to you. So thanks for taking the time to join us on the show this week. In front of the

play sixty crew. You know you played more than sixty every day. Gotta get everybody up and moving. Remember when you were a kid, what'd you do? Because you're you're younger than Tim and I play sixty. See we're running around from dawn to dusk, you know. But I don't know if kids all do that anymore. They don't make them like they used. They do not chase, they do not. How's my Missouri buddy there? My Missouri buddy used to be a big, big, big eight, big twelve guy like

me at Iowa State, and now you're big time over there. Sec. Yeah, no, I know, I don't remember what I was like to play in the Big twelve. I used to hate Missouri basketball young before your time, remember Norm? Yeah? Oh yeah, they were great. Oh yeah, we had some battles with Iowah State, but we're talking football with the Bears quarterback

Tim take it away, Chase. Jeff just brought some stuff about how many years you've spent in the NFL last year or last week Before the game, Eli Manning says he doesn't want to be an assistant coach and he doesn't like being a backup. Would you be a good coach? I mean, I think it would be a great coach, um, But do I want to be a coach? Probably not so? All right, So this past two weekends ago, why well I figured that was coming, but the why didn't? Um?

I just see like how much they work and how much they do behind the scenes, right, And I've I've given so much to this game already, and I love my family too much to be away from them. And it takes a special takes a special type of person to be away from their family and their kids, and and obviously you make it work. But um, you know, as as of now, I would say no to coaching.

You know, just a couple of weeks ago, I was watching the high school state championship games and I was looking at the quarterback positions, specifically and that's not a bunch of Cam Newton's and Ben Roethlisberger's out there. There's a lot more guys that are your size. So I'm gonna so in high school, what are the two things that high school quarterbacks should learn to do better than everybody else in order to start taking their size to

see how it fits into that position. Yeah, I would say I would say the number one thing is work ethic, Especially in high school. You you have to show everyone, including your teammates and your coaches, that you want to be there, that you want to be the best that you possibly can be. Right there's in high school you have so many people going out for the team. You don't know who's gonna make it. You have to sort of separate yourself. And two, you mean you got to

be able to throw the football. I mean you got to be able to be accurate with the football. And if you can do that, I think in high school that's sort of what separates guys from you know, who can throw it to who can't, and that's who sort of will succeed, especially at the quarterback position. When you looked at your talents at the conclusion of your high

school career, because you are more than a quarterback. Did Missouri have a system in place already that was going to fit your talents or did they have to kind of tweak it around what you brought to the table. Yeah, I I committed their after my junior year, before my senior year, and they were in the process of switching offenses to really suit Brad Smith, who came before me, a living legend in his own right. I mean truly one of the first of a kind sort of dual

threat and new age type quarterbacks. And I mean I would he's a He's a better person, first of all, than he as a player. We still stay in touch to this day. But they sort of switched it to him or the run option RPO types off sort of

before anyone was doing it. And then you know, when I got there my freshman year, that's sort of when the switch started to Hey, let's get six and a half seven yards deep in the shotgun, let's get the ball of our hands, let's go five wide, you know, shack the half back back in the backfield, take advantage of what the defenses is giving us. And that's why we were able to put up so many really so much good numbers in college. I mean, it was fun

to play. But also, you know, you look at the personnel that I had, Jeremy Macklin, Martin Rucker, Chase Kaufman. I could go on and on. These guys played long time in the league. Um, so that that helps win. And Brad went wound up and play wide receiver in the NFL. Did when you can't got in? Did anybody try to switch you to another position? I don't know if I could play another position, so I'm glad they didn't. Uh So, No, for me, it was it was it

was quarterback all the way. Well, Brad was kind of a quarterback that was more of a runner, where you were a quarterback that was more of a thrower. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's no question. But at the same time, in Missouri, I think I ran for over a thousand yards in my career, so it was more of a scrambling type thing. So, you know, average three hundred and

fifty yards a year running. Some were called runs. Um you know, but it also helps play in almost in this same offense that we sort of have now more more empty backfield. But um, it definitely helped, and I think that's why I've been so good and you know, six of my eleven years have been in this offense. Um. You know, whether it's with Matt Naggie or Doug Peterson or Andy Reid. Um. So that's what I feel so comfortable about this offense. This Year's been an evolution, hasn't it.

It's been something. I mean, whatever expectations may or may not have been outside, inside, personally, individually, throughout the locker room. You know, you never know how it's going to unfold. What are your impressions of how it's unfolded. I could ask you a zillion questions of what you thought it might be, but just the whole process. And while we're at week fifteen of this season, Yeah, it's it's crazy, right,

only promised three more games. And that's sort of in the quarterback room been our calling call, right, like our calling card is just like, hey, you you're only promised three more Wednesdays. You're only promised three more Thursdays. So make the absolute best of them. Take it one game amount of time. But obviously, if you if you look at the arc of the season, it's not where we

want it to be. Especially to start. You know, we had some some tough games, some close games that we should have won, and got blown out a couple of times, like you know, the New Orleans games. That's just that's not like us. And one of the things that we haven't been super proud of. You know, as of late, we've protected Soldier field. But at the beginning of the year, we lost some games and told your feel that we

should not have lost. And I just think offensively, uh, you look at it, and it's really the tell of two halfs of the season. The first eight games, we just we didn't have an identity, uh, and sometimes it takes a long time to find an identity to find, you know, a quarterback and a play caller, head coach

sort of get on the same page. But also see, you know, we've had some injuries here and there, we've had to have some feelings and offensive line, we've had some feelings at receivers and and I think it's just it's it's gotten to a point now where you look at the second half of the season and we're firing all cylinders. And I really like to go back to really the first Lions game. Uh really when we started, it was at home, and and it just it just

felt different. We scored three touchdowns that day, our defense played, you know, really well, and then you know, you go to La Mitch got a little hurt. Take that out of the equation. But every other game since then, I mean, we've been firing all cylinders. And the thing that I think, uh that goes unnoticed is really the first half of the season we had like fifty five to fifty eight to sixty plays a game. We weren't on the field

at all, and that's just that's not normal. And we were putting our defense in very bad spots where they're having to play seventy five eighty plays a game. You look at since the Lions game, it's like sixty five, sixty eight, seventy two, seventy five, Like those are the type of games that we want. We want to control the tempo, we want to be on the field. And guess what the narrative is now, Hey, we're staying on

the field on third down. We're much better on third down and the second half of the season than we were in the first half of the season. You know, a couple of weeks ago, you said you saw Mitch Rubisky have the best Thursday practice that he has. Can you recognize a good practice as the offense as a whole our do you break it down specifically to the quarterback position. I think you can tell when everyone's sharp.

But as a quarterback and being around this offense, I know what it's like to be sharp in a practice as a quarterback. And whether you like it or not, this offense starts and ends with a quarterback. So if Mitch has a good practice, usually the entire offense is going to have a good practice. But yeah, I mean, there was just something about it and me and me and Coach Ragon sort of talked about it and I

said something and I meant it. I usually don't say a lot at the end of the practice, like when we break it down with the quarterbacks, but I just told him, I just let him know, hey, man, like I'm I'm being serious, Like you put together today probably one of the best Thursday practices I've seen in quite some time. And it just Ball was jumping off of his hand, he was sharp, he was jumping around, he was using his cadence. It was just all those type things.

And that's continued to progress and he's continued to build on that. When you're in practice and you hear the play called in the huddle, do you still have a quarterback clock in your head when you're watching Mitch run the play and you're going, Okay, this is how I feel it. Yeah, there's no question, especially because in the National Football League you really don't get reps as a backup, so you have to be able to, you know, go out there and run through it and walk through it,

stayed behind it. And so that's what I do every single play. I'm right behind it, walking through as up I'm playing to play. Chase Daniel our guest here on Bears All Access. We're gonna take a break here from Hatti Saw at PNC Studios. We're brought to you by IGS Energy and this is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy

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Bay Packer game on Sunday. Let's talk play calling because there is an art to it. We know that. And Matt Neggee is now deep into a second season as the Bears head coach and play caller. And what have you picked up in terms of that art? And you say you're not going to be a coach, but would you have your own style? Yeah? I mean, I mean, I think, Um, Matt is one of the better play colors um that I've had a chance to be around,

probably him, Sean Payton and Andy Reid um. But but with with Matt Um, it all comes down to the quarterback play caller um relationship. And I think him and Mitch have a great one. And I think it's just going to continue to grow. It's going to continue to evolve. Uh. It takes some games in this offense now to see what your quarterbacks like, what your quarterbacks don't like, et cetera. So what I think he's done a really good job of these past eight weeks is, first of all, he's

running the football. Uh. And that's where it starts up front with our guys, with with demo and uh, you know those big hogs up front, man, they are they're doing well. And you know, we might not be running for one hundred and eighty yards or one hundred nine yards, but what we're doing is we are getting almost five yards to carry. So so first of all, that's great. And by the way, we ran for one fifty something

last week, so that's that's huge. That's where this sort of this offense starts and everything sort of comes off that. So we're able to get our under center play actions going, We're able to get some of our shot plays going, or our po game. I think he's just done such

a really good job mixing it up. As a late when you watch tape of your opponent, do you look at exactly how your scheme fits against the your opponent or do you look at vulnerabilities within their defense to say, hey, you know, keep this play in mind or this area of the field open. Yeah, there's no question that the first thing we do as quarterbacks when we're watching film is we definitely look for weaknesses in their defense, and I think the coaches more so look at how we're

going to exploit that based on our scheme. And so what we're doing as quarterbacks. When we're watching film, we are not only are we studying the eleven defenders on the field, but we're also studying the tendencies and the play calls of the defensive a coordinator who is Mike Petton in this case. So it's a lot more than just turning on the film and just watching. Hey, that looks like man verage. Hey, that looks like single high zone. Hey, that looks like you know, cover two. Uh, it's what

does he do on third and two? What does he do on third and eight? Okay, we're in the red zone here? How does this call is different? I mean it's it's very intricate. Uh. And and we have these these sort of routines at the quarterback room that we like to follow, Like today is really for us a a base install day, meaning first and second down, run, play, action, pass screens, whatever. It's it's normal around the league that does that well. Tonight as quarterbacks, Um, we like to

get a head start on tomorrow. Tomorrow for us is third down. So tonight we just literally just came from h Mitch, myself and Tyler Bray. We will watch third downs. So we'll break it up by third downs and see what they do and see what we can expect, and then you know, later tonight we'll get to play call sheet for tomorrow for third downs. So that's sort of how the week goes, so forth and so on. Tomorrow would be red zone and Saturday sort of review. So

it's it's a it's a crazy week. Is it fair to say in eleven years you've seen everything or do defense is still surprise even you? Yeah, I think defense is evolved, just like offenses evolved. Um, you know the big thing this week and really you know this sort of flavor of the week slash flavor of the year is this what we called simulated pressure, meaning they're bringing one but they're dropping one and they're playing shell coverage behind it. That's sort of the flavor of the year

for defensive coordinators. So um, and all this like linebackers mugged up in the A and B gap. Right, So if you told me, you know, five years ago that this would be happening, I'd say you're crazy, Like, no one does it. It's a four two box. These guys are like just boom boom boom, and you know you're playing cover three. Uh so they're they they have to just confused half the audience. Yeah, I know, I'm getting

a little too interested. There are some people out there that that get it, but it's uh yeah, I mean you're you're really studying tendencies out there. With that said, so when they start driving now as six defensive back a dime which is becoming very popular. Also, it seemingly would take away every possible viewing lane you have. What are the challenges as a quarterback when you see dimond? Yeah, and this this team plays a lot of dime u there.

I think their first in the National Football League at at number of dime snaps. So what that means out there they have four d lineman, one linebacker, and they have six defensive backs, so six small people that try to cover our guys. And it is different because you know, they have a couple of dime backs that they bring in the game. They take a linebacker out that they feel really comfortable in coverage, maybe whether it's covering Treat Cohen or you know, Yesper or you know a number

of our tight ends. So it does it does make it a little more difficult to prepare just because you're not sure how they will play us. But yeah, I mean, they can do just about everything. It's it's it's another corner out there instead of a linebacker. So it's not the norm. But you know, with them, you know, we got to be prepared for it. With the with the change that center between Cody and James. The flight of the football from a snap by Cody. Does does it

change your eyes at all? Or have you become consistent with the flight of the football where you know exactly where it's going to be. I think because Mitchen and uh, you know, Cody have worked together now all of last year and then almost half of this year, I think it's it's definitely, Um, they got it down and um it does it? Does it? No, that's a fair question

because it definitely changes from center to center. Like when I'm taking a snap under center from from James, my hands are much higher on his on his bottom, you know, from Cody, it's much lower. I'm sure you guys really want to know that. But it does. It does change, There's no question. Um. And I think the comfort level of Mitch and Cody really played into that decision of

of switching the two. Yeah, well, you know, I think Cody, he's a he's a good settlement on that inside because he can help develop the talent of Rashad Coward and still continue the development of James Daniels. And I don't think James Daniel's ability to play center is out of the realm of possibility going in the future in his career.

But I think they're really fortunate to have a guy who's talented as Cody that can make those changes and still you know, hold up to the leadership that's expected of them. I totally agree. And and it just so you know, it's it is not easy to move from guard to center right in the middle of the season. I mean, Cody had not snapped a ball since the Philadelphia Eagles game because we knew sort of then that he was probably gonna make the switch, so he wanted

to playoff game. Yeah, playoff game yeah, um uh. And so it's it's not easy. So a credit to them for for being able to do that and do it so well. It's Chase Daniels, our guest here on Bearzo Access, brought to you by IGS Energy. Do you ever have a good time with James Daniels and Chase Daniel and the whole Daniels Daniel thing. What's that dynamic in the room. Yeah, I think I think, uh, for for me, obviously there's well say, obviously there's no S on my name. There's

an S on Daniel's name, James's. So I still to this day, Missouri fans, Bears fans, whatever you call it, they will still put an S on my name, and I try to tell them there's only one of me, there's not multiple, No s please, um. But it's still you know, it's just it's part of the deals. I three First, many people still call it soldiers Field. Yes, right here in the great state of Illinois. It's inherent.

As you look at your season. I know in training camp you said you felt like you were the most ready, most prepared, best playing the best football of your career eleven years in and that's certainly the way you'd want want it to be. You still feel that way fifteen weeks later, Yeah, there's no question. I just I felt like, um, you know, being able to play in a couple games last year, and then just building on the preseason and building on the games this year, it all helped. Right.

So for me, I have a really really, really good routine that's sort of time tested, over eleven years, I haven't really changed much. Maybe I've changed more in the recovery aspect of it. As I get older, my body needs to recover more. That's just science. So maybe instead of one massage, I'll get two massages in a week. I'll eat much healthier. You know, I have a big sweet tooth. I don't eat as much sugar as I

used to, which is hard. But uh yeah, I mean definitely feel like I've played my best football to date. I mean, you know, I've been in eleven years, only have five starts. So the more I get a chance to start, the more I have to come in and start, the better I'm gonna get. You envision that as a possibility when you entered the NFL. You know, I entered

the NFL undrafted. So my whole goal and my whole mentality was just do anything and everything I can to make the team for the first few years, and then I was able to back up Drew two or three years and then move on to Kansas City and listen, you know, I'm a backup quarterback, and I tell these guys, other backup quarterbacks that asked me a lot, like how have you seen league? So long. How have you done this? Um?

You know you you have to be able to push through and you have to have that belief that you will be a starting quarterback. If you're not, then you're in the wrong profession. If you just are okay with being a backup quarterback. UM, it's not good enough. I was a wonder do you have to take a break or can we go? No? That's ah, we're breaking. I didn't see the breaks winded question. We'll save it big time,

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with Tom There. I'm Jeff Jonnyak, and our guest this week is Bears quarterback Chase Daniel. As you look at things in the way they've they've gone, and the constant, the constant pressure of playing quarterback in the National Football League, but in a city like this, I'm not saying every city isn't like this, but it definitely is rare and this is a unique place to play quarterback. You've felt it, you've seen it, you've seen it from the inside out.

How challenging is that? You know? Sorry, all I heard was Cabo San Lucas. Yeah, your name, my name, My name wasn't on there. Man. I'm sure there's still time ten degrees outside right now and five on Sunday. Yeah. No, So I heard something about pressure, and um, yeah, I mean listen in this town, especially a great sports town

like Chicago, right, Chicago, Bears. I mean you you grew up watching first of all them and the Packers play, and it's not an easy town to play in because there is a lot of pressure to be great, and when you're not great, fans are going to criticize you. That's part of the job, right, And I always tell Um Mitch, I always tell any quarterback that I'm with, and he knows this, but when you win, you're gonna get way too much credit, and when you lose, you're

gonna get way too much blame. You have to stay even kill and it's almost cliche to say it, but everybody does. There's certain things about football that just continue to come back and you think, wow, that's just lip service, but in reality that that is the case. And because this league is so crazy, right, it's ever changing. Stuff changes every single week. It is a what have you

done for me lately? Leak? And if you do not live up to that, if you do not score enough fantasy points, if you do not do X, Y and Z, I mean, there's always going to be um, something wrong with you and Um. You know, especially in this in this day and age of social media and Twitter, right, everything's out there. Everyone has a voice. I love it. I'm I'm I'm the worst at it. I'm on Twitter, so you can't shut it off? Yeah, just because why why do you like I enjoy. I enjoy the interaction,

the interaction with fans. I enjoy um listening to sort of the narrative of each week and how the fans are portraying our team, and it's just it feels like a connection to me with the fans, and um, you know, I'm definitely not naive not to think there's there's some bad stuff out there, but you got to filter it, right, Like the only the only thing I think. I think the Bill Belichick quote, if you if you didn't see it, the Bill Belichick quote, if you didn't see it, Um

about the fifty three men in the locker room. Those are the opinions that matter. That that rings true, man, that that really does at the end of the day. Um, these are the guys you got to make happy. Now, you took my quest, you took all my fire because going into the break, you're gonna let me ask where you're sending an autograph? So sorry, but that's what was that? Where are you going? Because I was about more though, well I was watching some of the Belichick and Nick

Sabe and they were talking about it. I think the cell phone has killed camaraderie on a team because when you go to these facilities and they're so super in size and everything. And when these guys get out of meetings and I saw there was a player that UM on another professional team that text message somebody during practice. He was sitting out practice because he's injured. He's on the practice field and the text message a response to someone. UM.

You know. And the only reason I ask you because you have the most experience of anybody, and you were around a generation before the whole social media industry was so prevalent. Do you think it's it's hurt the camaraderie of of of a team, of the con relationship that you have with the guys in the locker room, because that's all you had. There's no question. I think it's hurt more than camaraderie of the team. I think it's hurt hurt our culture. Um. You never see when you

go out to eat anymore. And I'm a big story because I know when to turn it off. Like, but when you go out to eat with my wife and I look across the restaurant, what do you what do you see? No talking? Oh? Well, shouldn't you be where your feet are? That's a Chuck Bagano quote And it's never rang more true. And and and uh, you know for me, Um, like like you said, we didn't grow I didn't grow up in the cell phone culture. But but I'm living in it right now, correct, So so

I have a really good view of both things. I didn't get a cell phone until I was seventeen years old. I saw like an eight year old with a phone the other day that note that knew how to use it better than me. I mean, true, true story. So it goes, it goes. Have you ever seen the little kid who you know, they they don't know how to turn a book? Yeah, because they they they're sliding over like there's gonna it's a fun. There's there's no question.

And listen, we have a two year old kid and and you know all these kids have these iPads these days and NonStop and don't know how to talk. We are very very strict on that. But to get back to the question, that's that's just a little aside. Um. Yeah, there's no question. And I think Matt has done a really good job here because he has truly installed a no cell phone rule in meetings at all. You are gonna hang out with your buddies, um, And I think

it's helping. You really just don't. You don't see him anymore. UM. Now, it is a good escape for guys to go on and you know, serve social media or text some people, sure, but there's no question that it that it has hurt the camaraderie, you know, on the one area I think will help. In nineteen eighty seven, we went on strike and we had no ability to mask communicate what was really going on there. The message was lost in the

trans transition, translation, whatever you want to say. You know, when you talk about nowadays and you talk about the new collective bargaining agreement that's coming up, So considering where you are in your career, do you think about helping a generation after you through these negotiations Because I think a lot of people have brought it up, But I do think that the social media will help these guys be more in contact and understand what the message is

out there. Yeah, there's there's a that's a that's a great question, and um, there's no question about it. So if you guys don't know, I'm I'm the NFL Players Association rep for our team. I've I've been going to these conferences for UM, eight years now. And all that all that says is that the the NFL players have a union, right, and so I help represent I'm one

of thirty two representatives of union. And and what thank thank you, um, just because just because I care about I care about the business side of football and taking care of players, right, Like the average careers three years to me not good enough. So the average guy is retired at twenty four years old, right, what are they going to do after sports? Your your rookie contract, after taxes, after agent fees, a couple hundred thousand dollars over three years,

over three years, a couple hundred thousand dollars. You want to buy your mama car? All right? Fifty grand? You have one hundred fifty You want to buy a house? No money? You're you're broke. I mean, it's it's insane about the number of people that are broke. But there's no question, which is what in other things interesting is that if I if I end up playing two more years, which I plan on doing, I will have played through three CBA's right, which is very just It's not normal.

I've been through a lock at year, so I get everything that's going on and there's no question that the former players are are very high on our priority list, and they do have a voice because of social media. Now their kids might be helping them out right to tweet,

but absolutely there's no question that they do. How about the future players though, at the same time, because there aren't times and I don't want to get it in a whole NFLPA and ownership and which side of end type of argument, But there are some in some cases and I'm not gonna names. I hear things that disturb me over the years from these these um these meetings, and this vitriol that comes out is that it's it's almost a me for I don't I don't care about

the future. I care about now, And that would bother me because if you don't grow this game, the game will be in trouble. There's no question. You don't know when that trouble comes. Yeah, And and I really love where our team's at um right now. With that, we actually just had an NFL Player Association meeting. Some people from the union came down and we talked about the multitude of issues. Um. You know, the Collective Bargaining Agreement

which is called the CBA. It's what the NFL and the NFL Players Association, the rule, the handbook that they play under. It's it's expiring in twenty twenty. And they came and talked to us about a day and you would be surprised at our team, how many people talked about the future of the game. Not only do we want to get a better deal for us, but we want to look out for those guys that are in high school right now, that are in college right now. We want them to have better benefits than us. We

want them to get paid more than us. And not only are you trying to take care of of us, you are trying to take care of former players and the future of the game. That's Chase Daniel will continue here from have Us Hull panc Studios. It's Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of Bears All accesses brought to you by CDW. People to get it

learn more at CDW dot com. Jeff Jonny Act, Tom There and Chase Danuel our guest Bears Packers on Sunday at lambeau Field. It's great to have the magnitude of a game like this, I know, and I talked to Buster Screen in the locker room today, just no matter what following coach resorders, keeping it one game of it at a time, just focusing on this. But the undeniable fact is it's it's a playoff game. Yeah, yeah, it's

a playoff game. There's no question. I mean, I think you know obviously we talked about it earlier in their show. We didn't start the season like we wanted to as of late four out of five, I think, and gain in some momentum, and we've made this game a game

that matters. Not that it didn't or it wouldn't if we weren't in because it's Bears Packers, I get that, but it matters, and so you know, it matters for both teams, and I think both teams realize that anytime you get the Bears and the Packers together, it's gonna be there's gonna be some fireworks. And for us, the only thing we can control is how we prepare on a Wednesday, on a Thursday, on a Friday, travel Saturday and play Sunday. We can't, I get it. We need

some help here and there. Whatever, Well, if we don't win. The help doesn't matter when you talk about the preparation on Wednesday, Thursday and stuff being here for a period of time, not having indo our facility on these in

these cold weather practicing conditions. Where do you get the best concentrated work when you get an indoor facility where it's temperature controlled and you have you know, all the field side you need or are you a guy that you like to go outside because those are conditions you know me, you know, just for the preparation, I think mentally probably made a little bit more concentration the warmer conditions.

There's no question, especially on Wednesday, because Wednesday's are really first big work day, and so what that means is there are a lot of plays thrown at players that are new, right, so we need as much mental focus that we can possibly get, way more than the physical. Now, I would say tomorrow, you know, we're gonna go outside,

we're gonna practice. But but Wednesdays sort of as of late, it's been a more of a mental day for us because the you know, sixteen games, seventeen weeks throughout the season, your body is going to feel bad, regardless of what position you are. It's a long time to be doing it. We've been working since you know, the middle of July, and so yeah, I mean for me personally, I would have loved been outside today because that's the sort of

the weather we're gonna get on Sunday. It's looking like, you know, a high of fourteen love two um truly yea truly football won't be until nightfall, exactly, it's gonna ben It's gonna be sunny though. It's gonna be sunny, so that that will help maybe some You can help deserving families by donating a gently used winner coach to the Chicago Bears Jewelasco Coach drive at the participating Jewel

Asco locations now through February twenty eight. Donations benefit the Salvation Army Jeff Joni Act top there Chase danuear guest here, the Bears quarterback. If you could put into context how Matt Neege has shepherded you guys through the difficulties this year to where you stand today, well, i'd I'd say the first and most glaring thing from a player is he's never changed. He never changed when we you know, lost two or three in a row. He never changed

when we weren't meeting inside expectations. Um. And I think that's a true leader of a coach. All right, Um, you have to demand excellence but understand your players at the same time. And um, of course, I mean listen, he he took blame for some of it that really wasn't his fault. So he showed accountability and and uh in the team and in himself. And I think that just the team, I mean, the team loves him. He's

he's a great guy. The team's loved him ever since his intro meeting April third or second of twenty eight team, when he first got introduced to the to the team. Um. And Matt is a guy that is forever uh an optimist uh and and so am I. So he's never had a bad day. He really, he really doesn't ever get in a bad mood. And I think the team has sort of taken that on. He's it hard to have fifty three optimists sometimes. Yeah, there's no question. I don't want to hear excuse you, I don't want to

hear complaints. Well, and I and I and what I love about it and and this is this is a pretty young team right like age wise, it's a very young team actually, But what I love is the accountability factor that the players have for one another. And I think that's truly when a team can take off when

it doesn't come from the head coach. It comes from Danny Trevathan or a team Hicks or Khalil Mack or Mitch or Alan Robinson, the leaders on the team, gathering the players and saying we're not going this way, which is bad. We're going the opposite. We're going good and

we're going to stay that level. You know, I'm not a big fan of closed door team only meetings, but you guys, there was brought up a couple of weeks ago about you guys have in one, and I'm glad there was only one, because I don't think that's a message that you want to just keep getting in where they we got to figure out what's going on here, and it's only amongst the players, so it had to

be a strong personnel led player meeting. But I got to imagine, as much as you talk about those other guys, there's a lot of eyes that had to gravitate towards you. And you know, whether it's a young guy with no experience looking for Chase for answers, or it's a guy with a minimal amount of experience that needs Chase to tell them what's going to happen here. Yeah, no question. And in that so called players meeting, it lasted a grand toll of about a minute and a half. Good, So, um,

you know we're we were never in panic mode. It was just more of a let's get right, let's move on, done, break, move on. But at the same time, I am in an interesting position, right I'm a backup quarterback, but I'm also the longest tenured UM player in the NFL on this team, So I will get guys that will come up and ask for you know, you know, whatever it

may be. And I do try to give leadership, but at the same time, I know that I am not the starter, like this is Metche's team forever and and so I have to sort of not walk the line, but also like not make my leadership known out there, because that would be stepping on on Ten's feet and that's not who I am and and that's not the relationship Ten and I have. How how would you describe it? Um?

You know, for me, it's more of a lead by example and trying to do do all the right things, whether it's um, you know, getting here at five forty five in the morning studying an extra film, or staying later or staying after with some of the receivers to help a little bit of everything behind the scenes type thing. And I think you know, listen, I'm not the only all the all backup quarterbacks will do that, right, That's there's nothing special about that. But you know this matters

to me. The game matters. I don't just play it just to play it. There's a reason, right, and it's I love the game, and I love being here. I love being a part of the Bears US. It's one of my favorite organizations. Who gets you out of your seat? You know, during my career we were playing and Barry Sanders was on the other side, or Dan Marino was the other side, it kind of got you out of your seat to go and watch. Who has brought you

out of your seat to watch throughout your career? Oh man, Um, obviously you know, I get a lot of crap for this in the quarterback room, but but you know, it starts and ends with with Drew Brees, just because I was with them for so long and he sort of taught me the ropes of being quarterback, but man, it was it was something special to watch him. Um, you know, not only during games when he was carving guys up, but he was the same guy in practice too. Man,

it was remarkable to watch. You know, this could be trouble for people, but the first thirty eight games of his career, in Mitch's career, their numbers or have you seen this? I I've seen. I've seen everything I have early startling. And the only reason I bring it up again, it's not to say Ten's gonna be Drew Brees, maybe he'll be better, yeah, okay, or that David Montgomery is not going to be Walter Payton, but you never know. The fact of the matter is that there's every game

is a referendum on a quarterback. And to me, that's the most I don't care what. Every game's a referendum up, he's not this or he's going to be this, And to me, that is the roller coaster struggle that even I have a hard time with as an analyst of observing it all. Yeah, and listen back in the day and when Drew was putting up these numbers through the first thirty eight games. He wasn't getting what say Mitch or anyone else who will struggle a little bit of

their career. I mean, it's thirty eight, it's a blip. He's gonna go on to start three hundred games in the league. I mean, come on now, like, give the guy a chance to to get his feet wet to play. And but you know, that's that's the culture we live in today and and he understands it and all these other guys. There's multiple quarterbacks around the league. Sort of happened with Marcus Mariotto when he was playing a little

bit and got sort of replaced by Ryan Tannehill. I mean, listen, it's it's out there, and that's why this league has turned into such a what have you done for me lately? League? That's Chase Daniel, Thank you so much. Always a pleasure, thank you, very very very good to talk to you. Thanks to the fuel up to Play sixty crowd for Dan Barrelle Pauls ranked top there. I'm Jeff Joniak. That'll

do it tonight at Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score will talk to you on Sunday from lambeau Field on w BBM pregame and nine kick off at noon. Good Night, everybody,