All Access: DeFilippo talks coaching experience

broadcast partner. Tom there, I am covering Super Bowl fifty four in Miami, and good to be with you, Tom. How you doing. I'm doing good, big Jeff. A little envious of you being down there only in the warm weather. I like being here on behalf of the Chicago Bears with Bears All Access. But again I see you, know the first highlight I see of anybody getting interviewed. I see you in the background of the Robbie Gold interview. So you're you're always the picture. Jeff, No, no, no no,

by not by choice. Let me let me assure you that that was opening night last night. So that was something that uh, you know you you were gonna be guaranteed to talk to Robbie Gold and uh, it's interesting. You know. One of the things that he brought up is that he went back and went back to the O six game, which which the Bears did lose here in Miami, and he went back to look at Dave Tobe's entire coach's tape from that game and to see if he could find an edge and angle anything that

would affect his own performance in this game. Thirteen years later, I thought that was interesting. Which snap sat kick. That's Robbie State snap sat kick. So what's he looking for? Well, I think he's you know, Robbie is a really well rounded special team thinker. He will take punt protection, he

will take the punt team, kickoff return, kickoff coverage. He will look at the analytics of how the kicker is specifically sitting hitting the ball in a majority of his kickoffs, the distance, the hang time, and those little kind of the numbers that you can factor into the kicking game. They can benefit you. And you can understand hanging time, you can understand the positioning that the kickers trying to

put the football in. So Robbie's been around the NFL long enough now where he is not a one dimensional kicker. He is multidimensional in the way he thinks of field conditions, field position, time of game, all the other elements that are considered by a coaching staff. Well, it is a

game of excellent special teams. The kickers, the punters are outstanding for the Super Bowl, the Chiefs and forty nine ers, and then the coverage units because of the speed on both sides, these teams are both very fast, none faster

than the Chiefs. And then you get arguably the best special teams coach in the National Football League in Dave Tobe, the former Bear special teams coordinator, who has great memories from that Miami Gardens game at hard Rock Stadium what it is now called, when Devin Hester took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown. He said he thinks about it every day, thinks about it all the time, shows

his guys the tapes. Wants Micole Hartman to look ahead and say, hey, Hester was your favorite player, So let's see if you can pull something off like this. It doesn't have to be the opening kickoff, but it would be something special. And they have that threat every kickoff that they get, and that's one thing about Robbie Gold that can help. When you look at the opponent's kicker, they're probably gonna try to kick it out of the back of the end zone to take away any threat

of that. However, what are the conditions going to be What is the plant foot going to be like for the kicker? Is he going to be able to get all the strength behind it to bang it into the end zone. Robbie Gold doesn't kick off for the forty nine ers. He is the field goal and extra point kicker. So you know you have multiple feet that's involved in

this battle. Both when you talk about two punters and three kickers, you know you can have a hiccup, whether it's in protection, snapping, or just the perfection of the way that the ball has to come off your foot. A lot to discuss here about the Beers. We've got a couple of guess coming up. John d. Filippo, the Bears new quarterback coach, we'll be joining us shortly. We'll be joined us well by Hall of Fame writer Damn

Pompey at about six forty five. We're gonna hear some Eddie Pineto and Patrick O'Donnell i called them the Miami Chamber of Commerce representatives because they were pitching Miami pretty well and representing. So we'll talk to those guys about what their off season plan is and how twenty nineteen ended for the Chicago Bears. This is Bears All Access.

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good to have you on this Tuesday night. I'm broadcasting from the Sirius XM studios here in Miami at Radio Row and Tom's tucked away in Chicago at the Score Radio station. Thanks to the producers as well, Hollo Rosias and Mike Chen Thanks for helping us out. Pleased to be joined by the new quarterback coach at the Chicago Bears, John D. Philippo, had a chance to meet him a couple of years ago with the Eagles and the Super Bowl coverage that week, John, Welcome to Chicago, buddy. Hey,

I appreciate it. It's great down with you guys, and I really appreciate you having me on. You know, I was walking through the hallways here in Miami and I was stopped twice. People wanted to talk about you, just the kind of quarterback coach you have been and how respected you are. So that came out of the blue, but I certainly loved hearing that. I think Chicago Bears fans should be excited about that too. That's very humbling. You know, whoever stopped you, I want to thank them.

And obviously, you know, whenever you have that reputation of being good at what you do, obviously it's a good thing. And I really I really can't wait to start, you know, with the Chicago Bears. Hey, John, or experience? Sorry, yeah, Tommy, go ahead, Jeff, I'm sorry. No, you haven't had a heck of a lot of experience, obviously, with so many

different places. Sure, you know I've had I've had a you know, it's it's it's good and bad, and I look at as a good way I've had a lot of experience with a lot of young players, and you know, that's just kind of been you know how with the situation I've been thrown into. And I think that's a good thing because I really think it helps you learn

how to teach a bunch of young guys. And you know, obviously Mitchell is not a rookie ye or a second year guy, you know, but at the same time, he's still kind of fresh, a fresh player in the NFL who was you know, impressionable and and you know, can you can shape him in certain things you want him to do. UM. So I think a lot of the young guys I've had that have had success, whether it be Derek Carr, you know, Carson Wentz, Gardner, Minshew was a seven time Rookie of the Week, Rookie of the

Week this year. I think it's going to help our team, um and I'm really looking forward to helping, you know, obviously coach Nage and coach later and doing what they want to do. You know, John as kirk Cousins calls you a flip, and I'm sure we'll hear that enough

throughout the season. You know, family has been a big topic throughout the playoffs, with all the coaching staffs in the playoffs, you I don't think there's anybody I've read more about being raised in the football lifestyle than you have from the moment you were born in the Youngstown State area. What's your earliest memory of football and when you knew it was going to be an influence in your life. That's a great question. Um, I've been very fortunate the web I've been brought up. My dad and

I are best friends. And you know, when you're a coach's kid, you go one of two ways. You either love it or you hate it, and there's there's no middle ground. Okay, there's not. Well, I kind of like it. I kind of You're either all in or you're all out. Okay, So I'm forty one years old. This is my twenty second move when I moved to Chicago. And either you liked that lifestyle or you don't. And I've embraced that lifestyle.

I'm a very fortunate I have a wife that has helped me embraced that, you know, helped me and supported me in this lifestyle. But my earliest moment of knowing that I love football was probable when I was four or five years old. They had my dad was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt, and they had a football camp there in the summer and they let me play quarterback

for one play. You know. The older kids held me up and let me and let me throw the ball, you know, and they kind of cheered me and held me on their shoulders, and I said, you know what, this is what I'm all about. I'm all about team. I'm all about you know, um football and what it's all about. And it's been it's been really, really really cool. John d Philippo our guest, the Bears new quarterback coach, here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This

is Bears All Access presented by IGS Energy. John. It's interesting and I kind of drew a triangle. I know you were born in Youngstown, and obviously you moved over to Radner, PA. So with you and Bill and Matt, it's a little triangle area of Pennsylvania. So it's right in the thick of football country. That's not by accident.

I have a feeling that the like mindedness and what your what your roots are the three of you and others that have been coaching all over the National Football dag and certainly playing there's something about that region of the country. What the heck is it? You know what it is? It's a blue collar mentality and it's hard work, putting in a good day's work, and it's just what

you're brought up in. And like I said, you know, I was very fortunate to be brought up in this lifestyle and seeing you know, what team does when you put team above self and all those things. But that area the country just has a certain way of of giving you a little bit of a blue collar attitude, you know what I'm saying, and putting in a hard day's work and understanding that, hey, it's okay to work, to have a hard day's work and then go home

and feel good about yourself. So there's no better place to grow up in Pennsylvania. Hey, John, you've been in this division for a little while. I mean, you've had experience within the division. Do you still think this is a blue collar division? There's no doubt. There's there's no doubt. And you know, you know, part of it is the weather, part of it's you know that the defenses that are

in this division. Um, I think that that gives offenses offenses fits a little bit, but you know you're you're going to have to put in a hard day's work in terms of time trying to figure out you know, Mike Zimmer's double A package, you know, Matt Patricia's Oaki package. You know those things that you're going to have to figure out and have a good plan for it, because if you don't, don't expose you. And obviously I don't

want to. I don't want to leave out my one of my mentors, Mike Petting up in Green Bay, so I worked with in Cleveland. So Coach Pett, you make you make us work hard too. You know. Also, John, you talk about the influence that Tom Coughlin has been on you is is is it the seriousness and the time and his attention to details or is it his football philosophy that's attracted you to him being one of your mentors? You know, Coach Coughlin and I he is, he is what I'm all about in football, and he

really understands team. He really puts an emphasis on team. He really puts an emphasis on leaving your ego at the door. He really puts an emphasis on discipline and discipline in a good way. When I say discipline, there's a difference between discipline and harassment. I think there's a good way of of of having some discipline and you know, wearing an issue gear to practice and those type of things.

I don't think that's that's all bad. I mean, and some people may say that's a little old school, but you know what it is what it is, And coach Cofflin has been a great resource for me throughout the years, and he's a great guy. We're here with John d. Philippo, the bears new quarterback coach, here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score with Jeff and time breaking things down as the Bears get ready to move into twenty twenty in great detail. What is it about you enjoying

working of quarterbacks? I love that challenge of it every day, the fact that you know, when you work with with real guys, I mean, you've got to be prepared as a coach, and you know, these guys want to learn and they want to know the why of things, and you'd better be prepared for the why of things. And there'll be times this year, there'll be there were times in my past where you know, a quarterback will ask

me a certain question back. You know what, I don't know the answer to that right now, but I'll find it out for you. And that's that's okay, and that's okay. So you want to be challenged as a coach. I think it's very, very challenging the coach quarterbacks in the National Football League because there's so much to get ready for in the course of a week, in the time that you're allotted, and I think it's just an awesome challenge.

And it's fun to work with those guys because it's most the great ones want to be great and they want to learn, So it's fun to work with those guys. Hey, coach Flip, I was watching one of her miked out segments, one of many, may I add, and you had a comment you said, the route always precedes the protection. Can you explain that a little bit, because I'm an offensive lineman and I kind of think about it, but I've never heard it's the sentence said that way, And can

you explain a little bit to me? Sure? Well, I think what probably what I was saying at that time was, hey, that's a built in I don't know if the quarterback was hot at that time. But say we had a drag route out to the right side or the left side, the tight end's running a three yard drag route. The route always precedes the protection in terms of hey, I gotta know, hey, if I got if we're in five main protection, they're bringing two from the side, I gotta

get it out right now. So the route proceeds the protection in terms of knowing where to go with the football, in terms of certain looks that you're getting from the defense. All right, hey foot, You know Tom mentioned those videos and I think I brought this up to you when I met you during the Philadelphia Super Bowl. You win, But you know the comfort you have in talking two people to explain the game of football from an excellent is Does that go back to being a coach's son.

I think that part of it. Um, I think I think this. I don't think this is rocket science. To be quite honest with you, I like to share information because I think that helps everybody. I think it helps you guys do your job better, It helps me do my job better, and it helps us to understand what each other thinking and what each other are trying to accomplish. So to me, when I can share and when I can tell you know, the media or a player, you know exactly what we're trying to accomplish as a team

and what we're trying, what we're thinking about. I think it helps everybody out hey, John, and you've been an office. And one more thing. I think it helps our fans. I really do. I think it helps our fans. I know how passionate the Chicago Bear fan base is. I think anytime that you can explain to our fans you know what we're thinking as well, I think it helps

them too. You've spent a lifetime around the game of football, and you've seen the emergence of facilities that can compare to the taj Mahal when you back, you know, maybe and Philly, you've seen a couple of them. Now you come up to the new Barras facility, you see multiple fields, you see the facility, you see the offerings to not only coach as players and everything you've talked about. What was your initial impressions of the new Bear facility. I was wowed. I was wild And let me let me

tell you something about the facility. Obviously that shows you that there's our ownership is really serious. About winning. That's what the facility tells you. Number one, Number two to formulate team. Okay, the players need and you guys know this, and you guys been around long enough. The players need to be around each other. And how do you facilitate that. You facilitate that by having them in an environment where they want to be in. Okay, So our facility now

offers our players. They want to be there in OTAs, They want to be there in training camp and hanging out together. They want to be there, eat lunch together, having dinner together instead of trying to go back to the hotel. If you have a craft facility. Okay, and now they're around each other more, you talk more, you formulate team. And I think that adds nothing but success and gives you the chance for success because that formulates team in the environment that you work in. Philippo otherwise

known as flipped. From this day forward, that works for you, right. Absolutely. Did it make it easier to interview for this job knowing a lot about the Bears already since you did interview for the head coaching job, Yeah, absolutely did. And you know, obviously I knew coach nagi um He and I played against the other in college and so we're both from Pennsylvania. He went to Delaware, I went to JAMU. Uh.

We played against the other in college. Uh. And obviously I knew Ryan Pace from the interview, you know, interview for five and a half or six hours with them in Philadelphia the year we won the Super Bowl. So I think the fact that not only I knew them, but more importantly in this process they knew me and so um, you know, they knew what I was all about, they knew what I stood for, they knew my character, my background, all the background information on me that they

had to do for a head coaching interview. I think that really smoothed the process out in terms of the timing of it. On last question for me is this is probably one I don't know if maybe it isn't, maybe it is. It's one of the more experienced staffs that Matt Nage is put together with the years of service from one custio in Clancy and now and now

yourself and Bill. When you have that many football minds in the same room talking about offensive football, is it something that it's a continuous conversation or is it just a matter of making sure all the new guys learn the system as well as they can, and then the conversations increase. That's that's a great question, you know, it's UM. Coach Nagge's obviously sets the tone and what we're trying to do and tells us, you know, what we're trying

to do. UM. You know, this staff reminds me very similar to our twenty seventeen staff in in Philadelphia, where we had you know, we had Doug Peters coach Peterson as our head coach, and you know, coach Reich is our office coordinator, myself as a quarterback coach, Jeff Stoutland as the office line coach, Duce Staley as a running

back coach, Mike Rows as a receiver coach. We had a lot of very experienced guys that had no ego, and that's what attracted me to this job most was the experience on his staff that coach was putting together with no ego and our only goals to win. And so whenever you're presented with those things, I think that can do nothing but help you in terms of the attractiveness of the job and wanting to be a part

of that, because that's the name of the game. When you win, everybody gets what they want, players, coaches, personnel, people, everybody gets what they want when you win. And so when you have no ego and you have a lot of experience and a lot of guys that have called plays before and a lot of guys that have coached Super Bowls, have been around good teams, I think that

can do nothing but help your team. I ran into Andy Hack who played for the Bears, and Tom knows him well from Notre Dame as well, and he was talking about Wandcasto hasn't worked directly with him, but but Tom, you'll appreciate this. He did as a Seattle Seahawk get a visit from one Coast who's leaving Texas A and I at that time and just trying to get in the NFL, and he was taken by his explicit and

very direct approach about technique and how it matters. And he said he never quite got the firm stamp of approval from one because it wasn't as perfect as he wanted. And it still he still thinks about it to this day. That's how much he respects him. Wow, that's that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's really cool. And you know, I've had a chance to be around Coach Castillo and admire him from afar back when I was you know, back in two thousand

and five. I'm talking about when he was the old line coach to philadelp Eagles and I was a quality control coach for the New York Giants. I mean, that's the type of staff that they had that Coach Naggie's trying to put together in Chicago is what you know, the philadelp Eagles had back then with you know Eagles had in seventeen. You know, those type of things coach Reid has and that's what Coach Nagie knows. And that's

a really good thing. I mean, that's a really impressive tree that you know, they're all part of, and that's something you really want to be a part of for sure. All Right, big John, We're gonna let you go. We really appreciate you taking the time. I know things are busy right now, but good to have you in Chicago and be looking forward to seeing you. Hey guys, Hey, thanks for having me on. Have a great night to enjoy Miami and George Chicago and I'll see you guys.

So all right, John D. Philippo flip the Bears quarterback coach kind enough to join us here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score back with Tom Thare in a moment. This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by Old Spice. Never let a friend lose his swagger, Jeff Jony Act, Tom Fair. This is Bears

Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy scores. Excuse me, big Tom, as we get you said, I love listening to the John D. Philippo, by the way, as I said, getting to know him a little bit during Super Bowl Week, talk to him I think three different days that year. Just a really well spoken guy and well thought of

as a quarterback coach. Well, I think the offensive team meetings are going to be there's going to be so much more experience that's going to be included in the conversations, whether you're making adjustments against the opponent one of these assistant coaches I've already seen, or just familiarity with what the style they're trying to run against you. So I do think the preparation conversations inside those offensive meeting rooms on Monday nights, Tuesdays and throughout the course of the

regular season weeks. I think it'd be fun to be a fly on the wall, right, It'll be fun to hear everybody's collaboration when the time comes when they're allowed to have contact with players and whatnot, and to get more out of this in terms of what their plan is and so forth. So it's something to look forward to. Guys are already looking forward to next season. Tom had a chance to visit with Eddie Pinetto and Patrick O'Donnell here at the Super Bowl. Obviously they live in the area.

Beach for Patrick and Miami born and bread for Eddie. Pineto had his whole family here, and uh, they're excited about having the game in their backyard. They're they're big football fans first and foremost and just excited to, uh, you know, let the NFL come to Miami once again. So here's a little interview I did with him earlier today. It feels good to be back home, finally being able to put my tank top on and the sandals and walk the beach feels great. Is that your thing? Do

you like walking the beach? That's my thing. I got the tank top on the sun lotion. I love it. Speaking Spanish with all my friends. That's the best. I think the sandal thing has stopped you in Chicago. I knowed some thirty degree days you kept the sandals on. I know you were trying to bring a little Miami up north, but I gotta bring the swag, keep the focus small. As they like to say. Was that difficult to do as a rookie? Um, I mean I gain. I feel like I gained a lot of experiences here.

I mean just you know, I was talking to Pout about it, just you know, working with the wind and the cold and so it was. It was very new for me. In college, I kicked always in you know, good weather. So just gaining experience, I think it was the biggest thing. And how about you, have you evolved over the course of your career. I think it's using

soldier field to your advantage. You know, when the opposing team comes in, they can't sleep at night, they're worried about the grass, the wind, you know, if it's gonna snow, the weather, things like that. So I think using soldier field to your advantage. I know there's been two games where two different kickers had to have tough games, and you know they came in and have a job the

next week. So Soldier Field isn't always friendly to everybody, but I think using that home field advantage is really important for us. You know, early in your career, did you have your own sleepless nights about some games because of Soldier Field? No? Absolutely, you know, being a young player at Soldier Field, you just have to adapt as quickly as you can. I think pulling out different tricks

of the trade. You know, different balls, different kicks. You know, not every ball is going to be like you're kicking in Miami. It's not gonna be seventy five and Sonny, you know you're gonna have your cross win fifteen twenty miles an hour, and you just try to get the ball to the sideline forty five yard fair catch balls are not going to hurt you and Soldier Field. So it's a little different to strategy when you go into

Soldier Field versus you know, a warmer climate. We were Eddie Pineto and Patrick O'Donnell on Chicago's Port Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access. Jeff Joni Act down here my twenty fourth Super Bowl in a role fellas, can you imagine I've covered more Super Bowls in your age for sure? Right, how old are you? Twenty four? Just turns makes me makes me very old. He's still looking young though, That's all that matter. Thank you, Eddie.

I appreciate. But it's always fun for me because of this. You hear the stories, you hear how guys got to where they are, the journeys. What does it mean here though? Do you be a part of this now? You were? You've played your college ball here obviously both of you guys did. But to be hosts, you know, you got a lot of a lot of guys in the league

that are coming. You probably have teammates coming, or friends or guys you grew up with that are I don't know, are there any in the game that you grew up with? On these two teams? Enough for me? No, Travis Kelsey for the Chief. I went to school with him at Cincinnati, you know, before I transferred University of Miami. So it's cool to see that. You know, he works so hard

to get where he's at. He's been through through it all in his career, in college career, so in order for him to get to this point, you know, the pinnacle is awesome, is awesome, so I wish him nothing but the best, and obviously Robbie on the other side, you know, playing with two guys like that that work so hard to get to this point. Hopefully it'll be a day when we're at this point and whatever we can do, you know, reach out to him, you know, if you need restaurants or anything I can do to

help them. Does it feel good to come from an area that where football is important? I know the league likes to come here for the sunshine, but there's just a great history of football. Yeah, I mean, you know for the Hispanic community too, I think it's a it's a pretty cool feeling. I mean, you know, all my friends that you know that I grown up with here that I lived in Miami, that are all Hispanish, Colombians, Venezuelans, Argentinians.

They all know about the NFL. So it's a pretty cool feeling, you know, to bring all that back in my hometown. And then you know, the Super Bowl is here in where I was born and raised, So it's pretty cool. You have ever dreamed this, you know, growing up as a kid, that one day you might get a chance to do this. Yeah, Um, you know, my biggest dream growing up was obviously to play soccer and be a professional soccer player and be better than my dad.

My dad was a professional soccer player. So my goal was, you know, I gotta be better, gotta be better. And then you know, my life changed and now it's switched, and you know, now hopefully one of my goals is, you know, one day to you know, make it to the super Bowl and win it all. So you're making your rounds here on radio road today and your brother is, what fourteen? He looks bigger than you already, So I don't know what his line of path is, what he's

gonna wind up. Maybe he'll be an offensive lineman for sure. Twenty thirty drive coming soon, for sure. He does he play sport. Yeah, he plays soccer and he fights MMA, so and he kicks field goals. So he does three different things, goals and kicks tail yeah a little bit.

Yeah what attracted him to MMA? Um? I think you know, growing up as a kid, he actually got bully growing up as a kid, So my dad actually wanted him to start learning how to defend himself because he was too He was always the biggest guy in Claus but he would, let you know, people take advantage of him because you know, he was just a nice kid. So my dad said enough is enough. He put him in in some UFC and now he's kicking butt. So that's tough love right there, Patty. You could hire him as

your buddy guy. You can walk him around here. Who's that Eddie or his brother? I guess that's the choice. Ed. He's been doing a lot of curls on South Beach last time I've seen him, So he's walking around with his flip flops and tank top. So, fellas, on a serious note, what is your offseason plan? Now? I know you spend a lot of time with kicking clinics and stuff like that. It's your brotherhood, so you guys all work on different things. I don't know if you guys

are gonna work. What's your plan to get ready for twenty twenty. Yeah, so we're gonna, you know, watch the super Bowl, you know, enjoy a little bit of February and probably get back to work, you know, end of February March March first. That's usually when a lot of guys start picking it up. They get back to the weights and things like that. So we have a place

down south here by Bomb Maritos. So Eddie being so close to me, we take advantage and do as much work as we can together, so seamless when we get back up to Chicago. Yeah, we're like we did last offseason. I mean, we work together, just um, create that chemistry and just be ready when we go back and work out that facility where we get you know, good treatment and you know we lived and do different things to get our body right to be ready for the season.

So honestly, I mean, you're a few years younger than than our friend here O'donnald. But are you guys hanging out now? I mean you guys are doing things together. Yeah, you're running in the same circles. What are we what are we talking about? The same circles? Yeah, yeah, we're in the same circle. Yeah. Eddie calls me and he's like, my boy, can you please take me out to dinner tonight? Please? It's like family in town. I can't know. Yeah, we hang out a few more paychecks than you. Yeah, yeah,

pick up pack out a new house. So he's been acting different now since he got a new house. So hopefully, hopefully I get that invitation soon. I'll be waiting for it before we let you go. Is there that feeling in the locker room that you guys left twenty nineteen with a resolve? Are you already hearing it from your teammates, like we gotta get this right. I think the last game of the season was big for us. You know, we wanted to make a statement and we went out

and we won the game. So I think that we're going to carry that over into the twenty twenty season, and you know, we need to get it going. We need to get this jump started right off the bat next year. And I think everybody feels the same way, and that's been the heartbeat and locker room thus far. So yeah, I think the biggest thing, which is showing I mean, obviously we don't have the season we wanted

to have, but showing everybody that we don't quit. You know, winning that last game was you know, an eye opener for everybody that we're not going to quit, you know, um, and you know, hopefully we have we have higher expectations for this season coming up. So gentlemen, appreciate you stapping by, Enjoy the rest of your week, and thanks for having us down here. Thanks for having us, Johny, I don't

forget the sunscreen, appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah, that's good advice, right, But you know, as Eddie says, but don't you feel there they have good camaraderie already those two Well, yeah, they you know, teammates will and they and it'll continue throughout life. You kind of develop a relationship that lasts

longer than the sport itself. But I think it's good that a guy like Eddie, because Patrick's been around now for a while, that is exposed of the success of the Super Bowl because Eddie Panneiro he had no pressure on him when he came to the Bears at the

beginning of last season. Eddie Pannaro has a lot more pressure on him this year than he did last year because nothing was expected of him, and then when he made the team, it was all trial and error throughout the course of the season, and then he finished on a high note. I think you said this final eleven

kicks he's made. But now that pressure is increased on Eddie and he's got to come in here and if the Bears are going to turn it around, it's not only going to be the offense, the defense, the special teams are going to be included as just as much. And the performance of the kicker, as we've seen throughout the season, is going to count on wins and losses

at the end of the year. So it's interesting that you put it in that perspective because many would say that he did have a lot of pressure, just the whole access and whatnot. But you are right with every step forward in your career, it's just perceived it it's more than perceived. It is actual pressure because you got you gotta maintain and get better. And you know too, is like Patrick says, you've got to start using the

weapon you have in Soldier Field to your advantage. When you talk to the opponent's kickers and punters, you got to tell them how bad the conditions are, how the footing is awful. But you're just going to be making this up. This is We've got to be turned in to a weapon on behalf of the Bears in the in the surface and the conditions at Soldier Field. All right, we're gonna take another break. Coming up in just a

short while. We'll be joined by Damn Pompey and this is Bears All Access from Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score back with you from Miami temp there in Chicago at the Score Studios, and this is Bears All Access presented by IGS Energy. Good to have you alongside awaiting Damn Pompey in our next segment and this segment it Bears All Access brought to you by CDW. People to get it learn more at CDW dot com. Tom

you can't escape it. The Kobe Bryant death and the passing of his daughter and the horrible crash certainly has been the undertone of the first couple of days here. You walk around Radio Row and almost every conversation on talk radio throughout the country and frankly across the world is about Kobe, and it's certainly expected and it probably will continue for a little bit this week before the end of the week kicks in and their focus becomes

on the game. But you know, for a lot of i'd say early thirty, mid thirty year olds who are probably twelve fifteen years old during the time post Michael, it was Kobe that took their attention and they became attached to him. I'm talking about athletes and just you know,

just everybody out there. You know, it's kind of hard to ignore the relationship between Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, because fortunately I had a chance to go to a lot of Michael Jordan games, and whether he was on TV or I got to see him in person, he was probably the most impressive prepared figure in sports that I've had a chance to be around, both professionally and everything, and the way he carried himself and how competitive he was, and so in the back of your mind, I think

when you see it, you're introduced to a guy like Michael Jordan, you always think about who is the guy that's going to be able to carry this torch and you know it's not Shack and it's not Lebron because they're different body styles than Michael Jordan. Both Kobe and Michael Jordan are listed at six six Michael Jordan at two sixteen, Kobe at two twelve, and there's so many

similarities in the style of game. That's what always impressed me so much about Kobe is because he was able to take the torch from Michael Jordan and continue his greatness but even elevated in some aspects of the game. And I'm only talking, I'm not talking about his life.

I'm only talking about the game of basketball. So that was the thing that impressed me most about the carryover between Michael and Kobe, because I think when you're inspired by somebody like obviously Kobe was of Michael Jordan, what do you do with it? There's guys. When I was coming up, I remember John Hannah, the great offensive guard, being on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and I thought that being an offensive lineman be on the cover of

Sports Illustrated was unattainable. But then you see and then all of a sudden, he gives you inspiration because this could be you someday. And I think when we got introduced to Michael Jordan and is just years of superiority. I think Kobe did a great job of carrying that NBA torch forward, and his post basketball career was starting off in an unbelievable fashion as well, just the impact he was making to the game and to life in general.

You know, you mentioned John Hannah. It was interesting talking with Eric Fisher today because the rare number one pick as an offensive lineman and he was in twenty thirteen, and just all of that coming from Central Michigan where he and Joe Staile are the only first rounders from that school to be drafted, and both happened to be offensive lineman now meeting in Super Bowl fifty four. But his start was slow and it was hard, and it's

it's a great example of what perseverance takes shape. How you know, you talk about Raheem Mostart and his perseverance, but you gotta talk about I got Eric Fisher, who's probably playing the best ball of his career now, but it wasn't always that way. No one develops at the same rate, especially in professional sport or you know, in any occupation. But you know, just talking about football here. And he also said, I said, hey, when did you really get the Andy Reid playbook? And he said, you know,

probably two three years. So that's a lesson to be learned too. Is we begin year three of Matt Naggie here in twenty twenty. Coming up next, the Hall of Fame writer Dan Pompey did join us to talk Hall of Fame and the Super Bowl. This is Bears All Access san Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bars all Access Doan Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer with you as we get you set for Super Bowl fifty four.

We get Tom's thoughts on things before we get to Damn pomp. Paid time is Tony Gonzalez was talking today. Fox had their own media day for all their talent, and he's doing some fine work there. But the whole conversation Tom was about today's tight end and he feels that if you don't have one of impact, you're not going to the Super Bowl. A guy like Travis Kelsey, a guy like Zach Ertz in Philadelphia obviously the most recent example, and a guy like you know, the San

Francisco forty nine ers, George Kittle. Yeah, I agree, you know, because but it's it's what the tight ends is capable of doing. Where they can line up because there's a variety of space. And when you look at the Hall of Fame career of Mike Ditka, and he did spread out a little bit from the offensive line and became a little bit of a receiver, introduced a little bit of a receiver into the tight end position. Nowadays, you look at him, Jeff, their lineup as a wide receiver.

They're line up in a stance next to a tackle there and multiple positions in the backfield. They're in motion multiple times throughout the course of the game. So what the tight end position in terms of a receiving tight end has turned into. It's so multidimensional that you can take it. He can be a weapon that you can

take advantage of your opponent. And listening to some of the when John Filippo was wired up in different spots, he talked about being able to put the weapons in the most advantage of position at the line of scrimmage. And you know he's got those weapons here at the Bears. But certainly it is going to be about a development

of a tight end eventually. You can help deserving families by donating a gently used winter coat to the Chicago Bears Jewelosco Coach Drive the participating Jewelosco locations now through February twenty eighth. Donations benefit the Salvation Army Joint to us out of ye now is Dan pom Pay. I'm Miami Parts Unknown, enjoying his eating already, but kind enough

to join a few minutes with us. Busy weekend is always for Dan, a whole week rather with not only his own work that he's doing in stories, but as a Hall of Fame voter, and it's that way. It's become your tradition, hasn't it, Dan, It has been. Jeff's good to be with you guys tonight. Of course, Hall of Fame voting now is a part of Super Bowl Week for me, and it's an important part of the job and something I look forward to and spent a lot of time on throughout the year and take very seriously,

Hey Dan, Dan, you've been around a lot of Super Bowls. Now, does do you look at similarities that could happen between this game that's coming up in some of the ones in the past, or does each super Bowl have a life of its own? Well, you know, I think there are some things, Tom that always kind of carry over. I mean, so many times in super Bowls, I think great quarterbacks cherry the day or at least give their

teams the best chance to win. You know, I think we often see, you know, a great defenses stand up in Super Bowls too, And that's why this game is really interesting to me, because you've got both of those elements on separate teams, so you wonder which one will end up prevailing. But I think, you know, when you've got a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes is really special and capable of winning a game late, you have to really

respect that. Yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo from Rolling Meadows. And I was trying to think this through today and I broached the idea. I said, I don't know if I have my math right on times and who won what, But in terms of a Chicago area kid winning a super Bowl, I was trying to think who that might be. So obviously Donovan McNabb for Andy Reid in Philadelphia did not win. He's from Rolling Meadows. He's got an opportunity to win.

And then I realized that Ken Anderson, if you include Batavia as a Chicago area kid, a suburban kids, some forty five miles away from Chicago, he did win. A might you might have to go back to out of rams last time, not all with a championship. Yeah, but think about that. That's how rare this is, this opportunity

for Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah, very rare. And um, you know it's interesting because I think a lot of people think that, uh, that team has been carried mostly by hearts other than the quarterback, right, I mean, and it's hard to argue that when you see the formula in the last game, certainly NFC championship games, when they ran the ball like crazy and scored all their points running and with with kicking UH and obviously their their defense. You know that

that's their formula for winning. But I think what he's done very well, what he's done all season long is make key throws when he's had to make them, and uh step up at opportunity times and you know, when they're in third and long, or when they're in the red zone, or you know, a critical juncture of the game two minutes late in the game, he's been there to make the play. Hey, Dan, the losing coach in this Super Bowl, are they going to have a big

obstacle to climb over? Because you look at what happened in their Super Bowl history with both of these coaches, you think that's is that going to be maybe a haunting topic after the game to see how it follows them around? Well, given their history, you know it could be.

Because of course, Kyle Shannon hand had the disastrous moments in his previous Super Bowl as an offensive coordinator with the Falcons, and Andy Reid has got this incredible history as a head coach to accomplish everything you could possibly accomplish, except when the Super Bowl, and of course he had one opportunity when he was with the Eagles and it

didn't happen there. So I think you know that that will be a talking point for whomever loses, especially it will be amplified if you know there are some questionable play call or decisions or you know that sort of thing. I think is going to really stick with these guys if it happens. I know you've written about it, you've

talked about it. But looking back again at the the Special Hall of Fame committee that was put together that you were part of, that Blue Ribbon panel, and the election of Jimbo Covert and Ed the late Ed Sprinkle, it must have been a great passion for you to to do this. Obviously to study all the candidates, but to get Jimbo in there and had Ed Sprinkle's family get to acknowledge this at some point in their lives was a significant moment. Yeah. I think more than anything, Jeff,

it was deserved. You know, two guys who really earned it. I think we talked about this a little another day on the radio. But you know, ed Sprinkle to me is a guy who really started the Bear's great tradition of defense. Um. You know, before he came along, the Bears were known mostly as an offensive team and known for their offensive start. Now he played a little on offense too, but he was mostly a defensive player and

known for his ability to rush the passer. And I think he really kind of gave the Bears this organization, this franchise, an identity has lasted from the nineteen forty nine and he really was a special player. You know, a number of players that played against him during that era had said at the time that he was the most difficult player in the league for them to go

against on a regular basis. In terms of Jimbo, of course, you know, he's a guy that we all watched, unlike at Sprinkle, and a guy who we all saw dominate the very best opponents that he went against. Stuff went against seventeen Paul seventeen games, i should say, against Hall of Fame pass rushers and held them to four and a half sacks, and you know, critical part of the great run game of the Bears in the nineteen eighties.

Even after Walter Payton left, you know, with Neil Anderson, and it really was just a very important player, I thought, to those Bears teams, so glad to see two guys who deserve to get in van. You sat there on the sidelines and you watched Jimbo covert either in practice in games, and you see his dominance. But when you're trying to learn information about a guy like Ed Sprinkle, maybe with a lack of video or because the reputation that I've always been introduced to Ed Sprinkle is being

the toughest man that's played for George Hallis. So when you have one that's so obvious and in front of you, then the other one you have to learn about. How do you go about learning about the football life of Ed Sprinkle. It's a good question and it's a challenge, you know, it's one of the problems that we have. You know, I'm on the senior committee for the Hall

of Fame. When you talk about guys who played before we were born, or we really had a chance to study guys who played in an era when statistics were not kept the way they are now, you know, we don't have the same measures. So um, I think you have to really go back and use everything at your disposal, which you know is a lot of looking through different newspaper articles that were written at the time, anything you can get about what we said. Books, Um, you know

there was, there was. I got some good things out of books on him. Oh, some old books, some newer books, even about interviews that were done throughout the years about his play. Um. I think you know. One of the other benefits of this committee is that the Blue Ribbon Committee is that we had some people on it who some of them are in the Hall of Fame as talent evaluators, some of them are are currently in the

game as coaches and and evaluators. And these guys were able to access some of the old tape and they said that the tape on Sprinkle was unbelievable, that he just jumped off the field in terms of a guy who was making an impact all over the place. So to me that that carried a lot of weight to hear those guys say that. All right, Dan, good luck this week with the Hall of Fame committees, the selections, and thanks for joining us. Okay, thank you a pleasure.

Dad's gonna wrap up our show for tonight. Thanks again to Sirius XM for their facilities here at the Super Bowl for Julio Assass, Mike Chen, John D. Philippo, the Bear's new quarterback coach, Edit Pinero, and Patrick go Downo and Dan Pompey for Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac That's gonna do it here from Miami tonight on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Good night, everybody, thanks for listening to this Chicago Bears Network presentation of Bears All Access.

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