All Access: Patterson talks Pro Bowl

I'm Jeff Johnny ac along went broadcast partner Tom There from news radio seven eighty one or five point ninew BBM. How you doing this evening? I'm doing good to Big Jeff, how you doing. I'm fantastic. Chiefs coming into town, rolling in for a Sunday night matchup. Glad they kept the start time at seven twenty. The reasons are obvious. There's a lot of good reasons. One is that these guys got to stay dialed in. This is not going to

be a playoff here obviously in twenty nineteen. But for each and every one of those guys that are going to play on Sunday night, they it's about pride in themselves and pride for the football team and where they're headed down road. You know, it's still about the super Bowl,

and that's the one thing about this year. I know there's been some difficulties, but I don't ever want to lose that phrase out of the conversation of improvement, because if you have any other goal other than winning your division, getting into the playoffs and winning the super Bowl, we're all kind of wasting our time here. So I think it is about the Bears getting better these next two games.

It's about the continuous improvement of Mitchell Trubisky, finding a little bit more details out about guys like Anthony Miller, Jasper Horstead, you know, just just to name a few, Kevin Tolliver and stuff. So, I you know, I know it's a different season, but I don't think you ever lose your focus and ultimately what your goal is do accomplish. Were brought to you by IGS Energy. Good to have

you alongside. Cordarrol Patterson will be our guest tonight here in studio, so I'll be looking forward to to talk to him then waiting off season long. He's a very interesting guy, terrific, high character individual, who loves the game of football, and you can see it each and every time he takes the field. So we'll get into him, but right now, let's let's take a look at what the Bears are going to be facing in Patrick Mahomes.

The inevitable comparisons. You heard it all this week about the comparisons of he and Mitchell Trubisky, Matt Naggie and Andy Reid. We're gonna hear about Dave Tobe, We're gonna hear about Chris Tabor. You're gonna hear a lot. But that Chief's team is a powerful team. It's a fast team, speedious offense. I've seen on tape all season long, and maybe in a long time. I go back to watch and when the Tampa defense or even the Bears defense at times during love here, it was loaded with speed

at different areas of the field. But they've got it all over the field offense and defense. Well, yeah, I know. So what do you do? I mean, you don't let him have the luxury of time. You try to take that away from him. You try to put pressure in the face of Patrick Mahomes as quickly as you can. You try to address the situation at the offense at the line of scrimmage. I'm talking about receivers and running backs and stuff as a imediately as you can, so

it's not like you're going to play passive football. You've got really nothing to play for, so you can be as aggressive as you want and nothing scares a team more. That's getting ready for the playoffs is having a home opponent with a hostile crowd, and then as the aggressive as you have the possibilities of being. Like all quarterbacks,

they do dissolve a little bit under pressure. He Patrick Mahomes, his percentage completion percentage is drastically different under pressure, but he still makes big plays under pressure because he's got that guns linger mentality. Where do you see him being

attackable by the Bears defense? You know, I think it's they're kind of fortunate to play back to back games against Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Holmes because I think a lot of the philosophical thinking of how you attack great quarterbacks starts with the way you attack Aaron Rodgers and can filter to Patrick Mahomes. So I think the direction that you want to put pressure on him, which way do you want to force him to be the most vulnerable when he's trying to gay pressure and trying to

advance the ball forward. I don't I think that you have a contained rush that you try to keep him inside a small area to work with, even though he's got the arm talent that is as good as anybody out there. I do think that you can when you, you know, get him on an outdoor, natural grass field cold, see the way his receivers are running, if if it's if the atmosphere is you know, blustery and stuff. So I think he didn't care about that. Said, but you

have see that NFL films. Yeah, but you have to take everything into account when you're thinking about how you're attacking him. That's supposed to be forty eight degrees too. You know, you would like a little snowstorm or something like that little holiday. Well, I mean, look at the evidence that they have. Last week they're playing in a snowstorm against the Denver Broncos, and that's like the Denver Broncos aren't there and is only the Kansas City Chiefs

having fun. Well, he has fourteen passes of forty yards or more, nine for touchdowns. That's number one in the league. And that's certainly what his m as, no question about it. But he's got all this speed. Obviously this is a track team a little bit. But then you at that tight end Travis Kelsey, and we keep talking about the tight end position all year long, and you see what zach Ertz does in Philadelphia, what Kelsey does for this system with Andy Reid, and you know that's what Mattnegie

wants for the Bears eventually. Yeah, you know what. And I know when you talk about the two tight ends from Philly and from Kansas City, you're talking about guys that have been around for a long period of time and to have put up some great numbers. You know, I'm really interested in watching the career development of Jesper Horstead because when you look at his ability to catch the ball, I think he has the hands that are good enough to qualify him to be a contender in

the tight end position. As he gets bigger and stronger, he develops into a better blocker, I think that's going to provide more opportunities for him to catch the ball. So the position they've been searching for the most, I do think there's a guy there that they really have an opportunity to develop. So I don't think it's a panic situation about the tight end position. I think it's about the development of JP Holtz and Jesper Horstead. Defensively,

Chris Jones outstanding defensive line. Gotta block him. He can bad dude, he can wreck a game. Yeah, he's so quick in the middle that he can put pressure on a quarterback into in a backfield on a running place, so with such immediacy that he allows the other guys to you know, kind of tackle around him. But his snap count efficiency, his innate ability to stay on sides within then come off the ball with explosiveness, and the honey Badger he's he's playing well. Tyren Matthew playing very

well for them in that secondary. So you're gonna wait and see what you're gonna trying to exploit. Obviously against these Chiefs. Well, that's why I think the defense is better. It's gonna be interesting because I think as much as you taught look at a comparative comparison between Mitch and Mahomes, how does each head coach, how does each play caller call the game? Because I think that's what you're gonna see. People.

They're gonna come back and say, oh, did you see what Andy Reid did on third down when his back was up against the goal line. Oh, did you see what he did in the red zone at this particular point. So, I think there's gonna be a lot of comparisons there of of the overall efficiency and the style of attack by the office. Looks like a team's gonna play good good.

I mean, I just wanted to be healthy. The Chiem Hicks, He's another guy that we sit up here and we talk about the defensive tackle for Kansas City Chiefs and Chris Jones and how good he is. You look at the offensive lineman they're back there talking about how powerful a Chiem Hicks is and what he can add to the interior the Bears defensive line that helps expose opportunities

to Khalil Mack and Leonard Floyd. All right, when you take a break, our first here on Bears All Access with our engineer Paul's Orange and our clapping producer Dan Barelli, with a live studio audience, Bears sweetholders, This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score, and welcome back to Bears All Access. Here on Chicago's Sports Radio six seventy

the score Where at P ANDC Studios. Here at hatiusau Jeff and Tom brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner the Chicago Bears provide electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products over one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Say a load of the Pro Bowler, an All decade member of the USA Today team. How about a big loud welcome in a big hand for Corderoll Patterson everybody? How

about that stuff? Man? All? Yeah, the Pro Bowl is nice, this will be your third but all decade, all decade with Kalel Mack's right. Yeah, but you know what certainly deserving. You've been the best. You've been the best in the return game, man, and you've expanded your game over over years to become, you know, this season, arguably the best gunner in the National Football League. It's been a pleasure to watch you on special teams and then the stuff

you do on offense as well. So congratulations for that. I mean, this is a town that had Devin Hester. Oh hey, he's a Hall of famer. He'd better be a Hall of famer. But you know, to be an all decade performer in any era is a significant accomplishment. What do you think of it? Yeah, I really haven't. I've just seen it an hour ago and the Bears

posted in it. You know, it still haven't hit it me yet, man, because you know, you got grace like Devin Heister and guess there's all those guys who changed the game, you know, who paid the way for me. So growing up as a kid, you know, looking up to those guys you know now get to play in safe field they played on this. It's kind of just outstanding, man.

You know, I remember I really wanted an interview you ever since you return the kickoff against the Bears for the touchdown, and you know that it was such a big play that came back to haunt the Bears all throughout the offseason. But you know, that's that's where your talent lives. You know, you're one of the most threatening kick returners in the history of the NFL. So now, I don't know if I agree with the way kickoff returners are now because I enjoy that you return it

all the time. That's what that's what I want to see. So when the ball is kicked off, do you follow the flight of the ball the entire way, or do you have a chance to peek at the coverage and then refocus on the football. I'm not really worrying about the coverage and stuff because I trust those ten guys

that's out the blocking for me. And you know, in Tave's he give me the green Like each and every time the ball is kick he say, if you can get to the ball, we're gonna return it, don't matter no matter where is that if it's kicking on deep or whatever. And he always say when we're playing at home, is they got to kick it in the river for us now to return the ball? So we're gonna always return the Thank goodness because what the league has done with the rules of the game. And I'm an old

fashioned guy. I love the way the game was born and how it was meant to be played. And it includes kickoffs. It includes you know, on sight kicks, it includes all of that, everything that you're good at. Were you worried at any point in your career when things started changing with the kickoffs, They basically saying this a precaution reason or tournamentimize concussions and stuff like that. But you know, some guys they only play special teams, and

you know that's that's the only job. And you know, some people, we just go out there give it our heart. You know, you're trying to take the fun out of the game for some of us gots. So every chance we get out of get out there, we just try to make a play. Every game I've ever played in in the NFL, I was on kickoff return from a first game to my last game, and you think how

specifically choreographed blocking scheme is on the kickoff return. Um The one against the Chicago Bears that you return, it seemed like they had a creaset open and you were gone there. I mean it was, it was evident. So when you you got to read your first blockers to your second level, to your third level. Is when you talk about an offensive running player, there's a line of

scrimmage and everything beyond it. When you talk about a kickoff return, you're reading blocks for almost thirty five yards. Is that something that you you just do on the move, or because of the way the returns are choreographed, you know kind of how to pre predict what's going to happen in front of you. It all starts that practice. Yeah, Coach days. He gives us every look that's possible, what that coordinated and did over every year. So he's out

there for twenty minutes just going over kickoff return. So he gave us a good, good insight on you know, what they expect from those guys. So and it's all about your instinct, man. You just gotta you know, you just gotta go out there and just be ready. You know, some guys they don't trust the eight blocks, you know, and I trusting these guys one hundred percent. So every time the ball is kid, we're gonna bring it out. So after the flyer play that you didn't get the fumble,

that was an obvious fumble. I saw you right after halftime. You walked out of the locker room when you walked right up to an official. Were you still talking to the official about that play? Of course? Man? First that got did I got a locker room. Man. I went

straight to my cell phone. You know, my girlfriend she sent me a video of it, and I just watched it like thirty times, like no, no, lie, I watched it like thirty times, just Washington, Washington watching it, and I started on coach tays and everything, and it was like that was a good play. So what did you address to the official at that time, just how you knew that he was wrong, or did you kind of

explain the A to B two C type of play there? Oh? No, I would never tell officially wrong even though when they wrong, right, she can't tell him that. So I just went up. So I was like, hey, what was going on at that play? He was like, you got there too early? And I was like, no, I didn't. I just I just watched the film over and over and over and over and over, and I got there so as he

caught the ball and I made a play. If you brought him a doughnut, you think he would have honestly, Man, this week, I think I'm going to bring my four dozen and dough nuts ball? All right? So I'm kickoff, returning to following the flight of the ball. And so now on a punt team, do you ever get a chance to track the football or is it all you're

following the kick returner and how he's reacting. Oh, you definitely got to watch the ball, but you can't look at it too too long because you know you got no great returners out there. They they trick in with the things they do. So I just try to get a good field for what the ball was, Pattio's kicking it, and just how to look at returns. Is he gonna catch it? In Cordell Patterson our guest here on Chicago

Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This is a Bears All access from PNC Studios at had us all brought to you by IGS Energy. I want to say what I have to say about that play. So when when when it happened, I lost my mind, I really did.

I could not believe that that was a reversal or they wouldn't say that it's Bears football, because that's the underrated aspect of this that no one's It was a possession change into the Bear's hands of a great field position, and then you got a penalty and a thirty five yard line start for the greatest quarterback arguably in the game. That's tough duty for your defense. Talk about sudden change, that's that is like a turnover by the offense. That's

that's essentially what it was. But what was the explanation they gave you? That's the part I'm looking for beyond saying that. But you say, you know, oh, you're you didn't give him room, but you reacted and he never put his hand in the air. That's that's a veteran in Tremont Williams. Yeah, it's kind of no answer they can give. You know, I feel like once they make a call, they're gonna stick to it because you know, they're just like any human being. Whatever they say go

if they don't want to be wrong. So whatever they call the States And yeah, all right, Tom talked about instincts. You talked about instincts in the return game, but you're old. Coach George Stewart with the Minnesota Vikings said, the man was blessed with great vision. And when I used to interview Devin Hester, that's right, don't we love Devin Hester? Everybody?

He always used to tell me, because you know, you're trying to dig into the mind of a great player, and he always told me he just looked for color, the opposite team's color. And that's what his vision was. It wasn't necessarily lanes and green grass. It was color, and so you see color, you run the other way. He made it that simple. Is it that simple? When you got ahead of steam as an explosive a player as you are. I mean, David hust anything simple for him, man,

because the great things he did. You know, if he's seen, you know the cluer. He goes all the way. And I'm a guy I just look at the end zone when I see the zone, just trying to get to the endzone every time I get the ball in my hands, no matter what. One of the best plays of the season, the one of the most exciting plays, and I don't know if I ran in the locker room that week or whatever, was when you sprinted to the ball on the punt and it became an exciting play. You chasing

the ball so it wouldn't go on the ends. And one game was that again, when you're down that punt inside first Detroit game, that was one of the most exciting plays of the season. I literally was out of my mind. Is he gonna get there? And he got there and touched the ball down. That's fun stuff. When you talk about exciting plays, people just want to dismiss special teams as a necessity. Like our guy Doug Collette always says, it's the most important down on football is

fourth down. That was a great play, an underrated, ridiculous play. You chasing a football to down it. But because you're so fast and so explosive, that became an exciting play. People were out of their seats with that one. Do you even have that kind of excitement for that play? Oh? Man? That play? It was amazing. Man, Patio, he'd been doing hell of a job. Pattle down everybody, patal down it.

He's been doing heck of a job all year, given us gunners, you know, opportunities to make plays each and every Sunday, Thursday, Monday. So whenever he put the ball or we just had to go out and get in, there's no way I couldn't get to that ball because it balanced it perfectly and it just landed where only I could have gotten the ball. At the time, you know, it looked like you and Sheriff McManus had a really fun competitive flyer type of competition after betting. Then Shrik

got hurt. Now you got Deon Bush out there. We had Shrik on here a couple of weeks ago, and he talked about the competitive fund that you guys could have. Specifically, he was, you know, he's a he's a great special team player that's made a career at it at a high level. Do you have to kind of poke the guy whoever takes over for Sherick McManus to try to get that enthusiasm out of him, or Dion Bush stepping up to the plate, does he approach it with the

same enthusiasm that you and Sherrik were doing. I mean, Dion, he already knew what what's that stake, So he knows Shri was the ace of our special team. So he he's not trying to be better than him. He's not trying to be him. He's just trying to go in and just just feel the rule and just playing a part, you know, just not trying to be somebody you're not. Cordelle Patterson our guest. We're gonna take a break here on Bears and All Access. We're at P ANDC Studios

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for more info. Back at PNC Studios Here at HOLLISAU, Jeff and Tom with you and pleased to be joined by our special guest this week, the Pro Bowler, third time named to the Pro Bowl, Cordarrel Patterson, and what has been an outstanding year for him? Number two and average and kick return but number one in yards and I believe still you're the only player in the league to have three one hundred plus yard return days. And you know you started looking at those things. Hey, it's

like running backs. You know, you only get so many opportunities. So that's that's a pretty good number right there too. I always ask the returners who happened to be the returner for the whole see how many looks like a guy who misses sacks, And they think about how many they missed and not the number they got. And sometimes those numbers can really I should have had twenty five sacks,

you know they have ten or something. How many kick return touchdowns do you think you left down the table this year or you not in your own doing obviously, but you think that way. No, I don't think that. Okay, you think that you start stressing up, Yeah, you can't think Yeah, have you ever been stressed out in your years playing the NFL? No, it's it's never. It's football. You know, you're one of the rare ones. I mean, I'm just blessed get this opportunity to play this game.

So why would I be scressed playing this game? Do you know guys that are and do you help them? There's a lot of guys that's chriss planet. You just just got to talk to him, man, because that's my seven year and it feel like I'm still on my second year. So it go byself fast. You just gotta take take advantage of it. You know, there's a lot of people looking up you're There's not a lot of people as talented as you are to do what you do too, So I think there's a lot of people.

You know, I was drafting the fourth Rong, but every single day I came suspicious if I still had a job, you know, because you do, you have a little bit of insecurity. Cor Darryl. You could sit them down on a couch right now and have a field day. You talk about a guy that's stressed, but you play without. You play with other guys like single single, Terry or Walter, they don't have a great deal of stress because they know they're at they're perfect at their job. So it's different.

Guys have different But do you think it's more because you were an offensive lineman? That's how offensive lineman think in general? Yeah? Yeah, I mean because you know, if you if you play seventy five offensive plays and you give up a sack and a tackle for a loss, the whole game's bad. No matter if you had sixty eight other pancake blocks, it's still a bad game. So stress the different. One thing about Pro Bowl or do you have you did you ever go to a Pro

Bowl in Hawaii? And are you would you rather go back to Hawaii or do you like in Florida. I went my rookie year. It was in Hawaiian I feel like they should take it back to thank you and and and not just because of the great weather and it's an exotic vacation, but Tom spends a big trunk of the year in Maui. But you you feel because of their love of football on the islands and the

types of players that have come from Hawaii. No, no, no, more obvious than Olan Creutz, the great center we had here that it's it's important to that environment there, that culture, right, that culture, that community, the fan base out there. It's you know, high school football, college football is big out there. But I think it's more, you know, the attraction to

the players. It was kind of like, Wow, you're an All Star and you're going overseas to play in an All Star Game with some Now that you have experience, you probably met most of the guys, but you know, when you're a young guy going there for the first time, it is like you're going to Fantasy Island to play football. And I know it's the Pro Bowl, but it's still quite a reward. Of course. Man, I just like just being over there to get away from all my family.

You know, in Florida, they could just drive up six hours away, So why you just can't get in a car and drive there. So there they already bugging you about this one. Man, Oh my god. Really they already say they already got their rooms and stuff. Though, Well, I see that it's a good thing that that's a lot of love right there for their guy. No, yeah, I get the sense it gets it too expensive for Cordero.

Patterson's well, you're one away from an NFL record tying eighth touchdown in the return game, and that's something even Devin Hester didn't accomplish when you put it in those terms, And I know you and I wanted to sit you down, you know, after number seven, but you said, hey, you know, I'll do it. But you know, I'm glad you're talking. I'm glad you're sharing your story and because you appreciate greatness and we're seeing it. We appreciate the guys who

love the game and self made players. And your journey to get here was not simple. It just wasn't, you know. It wasn't like you stayed four years at one college and we first round pick. You had to work your way get to Tennessee. You got to be a first round pick. But this is, you know, your third team, and it's not like it's been just a straight line like some guys. And your story, though, is interesting, and I really appreciate the fact that you're putting in the time.

I am the effort because you love the game and I heard you say that today. Your love of the game is something that's significant. You just said it yourself. It doesn't feel like you've been around for seven years. You know. It is a kid's game, but it's a man's game too. And where did that love begin for this game? I would say like six six or seven,

you know, just growing up under my mama's wings. You know, she the smile and the joy she had on her face, you know, just kicking us out of the house, telling us go out and do things outside instead of being in the house. And you know, I got introduced to football and then you know, I didn't look back every since because she was always there. You know, every game, every practice is just just just doing what mothers do,

you know, single mother, you know, raising three kids. So that's that's why I'm always happy enjoying this game and I'll never looked back. You know. There was a guy, Rob Nickovic who went to Jolia Junior College and then went on to play for the New England Patriots and have a lot of success. You went to a junior college, what changed in you as an athlete from your senior year in high school through two years of college junior college, because then you go to Tennessee for one year and

you declare eligible for the draft. Where this kind of a weird question where you're talented after high school that you knew that that's where you could grow into and what did happen during those junior college years to turn you into the player you became As I was a little as a little kid, I was always the fast guy, you know, the fastest guy on the field. And you know, going up in high school, you know, I didn't play my knife in tenth grade year. I sought out those

two years. I played my eleven and twelfth grade year. You know, it's a crazy story, man. So and I to my twelfth grade year. You know, I sought out another year because I was going to a junior college. But you know I wanted to go to a prep school that was closest to home, you know. So I tried to go to that and it was all bogus. So I saught out that year. Then the following year, the junior college I was supposed to go to, he called me up and told me you still got a

place here, you know. So I went there and did my two years, and you know I was there. People was saying, and you can go to the NFL and all this stuff, So did you think it was real? I didn't think it was real because I never expected to be playing football that long and you know, being that good, you know, and then you start got all these people telling you you got a chance, you got

a chance. Then you started believing it yourself. So how do you get from A to B to develop that trust and the people that are telling you because they could have been just talking, talking, talking and not really giving you the reality. But you know, you you had thirty six touchdowns in those two years at Hutchinson, broke records and tore it up, so you clearly we're on people's radar. But did since you didn't think you were gonna be playing football that long? Where where did the

trust kick in? Was there an individual you really trusted and said, Okay, I believe what he's selling me. I mean I always just you know, leaning back on my mom because you know, and doing that period in junior college, she really taught me how to wash the laundry and fold laundry because you know, I never did large on my own until I got the junior college, and it was it was a nightmare, man, because you know, you can't put I still do it now put colors with white.

Oh yeah, welcome to this. So I just lead on my mama and my junior college coach, you know, and he always one of the guys that always believed in me, always told me just trusting myself and I would just never look bad. You know. The crazy thing. We're gonna go to a break here in a minute. But the power of women as it relates to football, I'm not

kidding around here. Like the moms, the ants, the grandmas, you know what I mean, Guys, over the twenty three years of me being a part of this organization and doing interviews, it's always I mean, there's obviously dads too, but the moms, the grandmas, the ants are reasons that you guys play the game when you think about it. At the same time, there's moms out here now and I get it that are afraid for their kids to

play because of head injuries and whatnot. But it's it's sure is interesting to hear how powerful women are in your life and a lot of your guy a lot of your teammates lives, a lot of these NFL players lives. Yeah, man, women so powerful it's an understatement, you know. The things they do behind closed doors, you know, and do everything for us. Man cook, clean, you know, laundry, just do what everybody push you to play. Of course did the

same time. My first two years of popcorner football, I cried every day on my way to practice because who wants to be an offensive lineman in the middle of August going to Pershing Field to practice football. Nobody. So I used to be crying every day I'm a way to practice, we get close to the practice field, my mom would push me out the car and she'd say, you'll stop crying when you see your friends. You put

your helmet on. By the time you walked up and got face to face with them, the tears would dry up and you'd go to practice. But if it wasn't for her and just the relentlessness of finding me wherever I was hiding and dragging me to practice, you know, you don't know if you can imagine the missed opportunity if you didn't. Oh my goodness. Two great athletes right here, Tom there and Cordell Patterson. I'm not a great athlete, but I'm Jeff Jonik, and this is Bears All Access

on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by CDW. People to get it, learn more at CDW dot com. Jeff Joni Act, Tom There live audience here at PNC Studios, sweetholders, sponsors, you name it there here, guys, you've done a nice job tonight. Give him a nice hand right here. It's got a nice cross section of Bears fans. So we signed some autograph signed how I feel guilty because I'm

not an NFL player, but I do appreciate the invitation. Everybody, did you practice your autograph over time? I used to try to write my whole name out. Forget about it. There's no time, no So I'll just do the cepat now. Just it's colored today. Tom's very thorough, and I think we both agree that the best autograph we've ever seen was Gail. He took his time. And I remember it was Singletary's Hall of Fame induction. I was at in Canton and I had a little tiny football and I

went up to him. He was kind enough to do it. And it's just it took like five minutes to right Gail Sayers. But he took it nice. And but it's it's a goat and then you got er lacker. Brian just does be in a slash and you do what you gotta do, right because you're signing a lot of autographs. But Tom's very particular about that. Well, I just want, you know, I want people to be able to read them. But Tom also the whole room on the helmet to sign because he really like, he really likes his autograph

everybody right, right, he really likes that iograph. Have you ever seen I was watching highlights the other day of GAYL. Sayers and then when he returned all the touchdowns on the money field at Wrigley Field. Have you ever seen just the highlights of that of GAYL Sayers returnability as a Chicago Bear. Of course, yeah, it really is, you know because I just because I saw the highlights of it yesterday. It's so fresh in my memory at thirty four years old. Induct him in the Hall of Fame.

Short in his career of anybody. And when you see you talk about vision in your vision as a returner, you see his vision on display as a kick returner on a punt returner. He had vision, but he also had the ability to anticipate his cut so aggressively that it put defenders defenders out of position and an off bounce when they try to make a tackle. Yeah, I think he knew it. He knew where to go before

anybody else knewhere he was going. He had that type of ability, you know, to set two or three guys up, make a missing just gets an end zone the Lambeau field. Is that an asset to you? Or is it a slippery field to you? Because we heard a lot of conversation both ways about it being slippery in some instances, but if you know where you're going, maybe it's not as slippery. How did you feel it was? It wasn't too bad. It's just you gotta put like some seven

still cleaks on. So you gotta change from being in your regular molded cleats. You wear molded cleats on our field every field you do. Now, molded cleats are just rubber ice bottom seven step seven bottom studs. Are you grew him? Actually screw him in and out of the shoe? Why do you sound surprised? Because I know in a game, in a game, I never felt competent, confident wearing a rubber bottom shoe. I always wanted to have spikes that

dug in the field. And it was interesting because Walter Payton always wore those kangaroo kangos they called kangaroo shoes that he had the screw and spikes, but on the front of his shoe he always wore the three quarter inch spikes to have better grip and more control, you know, And you see the evidence of it when he ran

and hit somebody. But there's not a lot of guys that were, because there are most of them are half inch cleats, but Walter were ones that were longer to have more grip on the field, and it's just not widely worn. Cordaro Patterson our guest here on bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy. I know there is a backstory. I don't know if I have it all right, but I'll let you tell it. The name Cordero where to come from? I forgot? You forgot? Really? You're so

full of it? Man? No? Really? Is it too funny? I think I do. I don't know. Mom something like that, her two favorite shows One Life to Live and Walker, Texas Ranger. Is this true? So there you go. A couple of the characters. Cordaryl Roberts, a smooth talking, tall, dark and handsome cowboy. And the other was corddel Walker, a ranger, former Marine Marshall expert, and all around tough guy played by Chuck Norris. There's Corderyl right there. Do

you think your teammates know that story? So, you know, going from team to team, And I look at a guy like JP Holt, he gets dropped in parachute into a season, and you know when he was here in the early days, sitting in his locker like this, and I realized for a minute, They're like, man, it's hard, like you don't know anybody. And you know when you dropped in a bunch of guys that it's like going to a new school and you don't know anybody at school.

Did it ever feel that way for you, even though you were a free agent and you had the whole offseason that to spend with these guys, h Condor, I think it's like that everywhere you go. Man, you're just trying to adjust to that environment they have. You don't really know what they spect. You don't know you know how to come out your element. At first, you got to feel everybody else is a locker room, no matter what team you're playing for the same it's always to

say it is. There's not much different. If I walk into New England right now or I walk into Minnesota, it's not much different. The same. Yeah, interesting, I didn't think it would be. So do you find it's like water finding its own level? Do you find your guys pretty quickly? Oh? Guys, you always stick to You're a guy like your receiver, so always go right to those guys have if they've tapped. You know, everybody talks about Allen Robinson and his experience and how guys like Anthony Miller,

Lena and him, or they forget that. You know, you're a veteran receiver too in this league. Have you used that influence to help those guys and your experience to help those guys if they ask you questions about the game, especially on the office and side of the bar, of course. But Allen Robinson, he's one of the best you know in this NFL right now that I haven't been a part of him, you know, just getting to watch him day in day out. Man, how hard he worked at practice.

In the games, he never come out, he never's come out. He defines professionalism. Yes, man, he takes every advantage of his opportunity. So if they expand your role in the future with this offense, you know, it's kind of weird because you're such a great returner that it's almost like you don't want to lose that ability and that threat with you. But if you expanded your role in this offense would have come at receiver or running back, both

really both. I mean so because I think a lot of us were surprised but impressed with the role that you took as a running back. But I think a lot of people were surprised when you came onto the campus here at Hollis Hall to see how big you are, because I think even when when we got to learn about you in Minnesota and through the Raiders and stuff, we never got a close up look at you because

we didn't really know what Cordarrell Patterson was. But then all of a sudden, you show up here and we're going, Wow, this guy is a lot bigger than a lot of us thought. So, you know, did you did you morph into a running back over time or is that just something you kind of had the skill set because you're such a good returner that translated to a running back position. I I just felt like I just always wanted the ball. You know, every time I get the ball, I just

trying to make something special happening for my team. So no matter if I'm at running back, kid, return, wide receiver, when I get the ball in my hands, I just trying to do something special. They did this with you at Tennessee too, right, Yeah, yeah, so this was not like some new new rent innovation, right, because this is always all the teams are trying to do the same thing with you. Yes, sir, Yeah, Where did you feel the most comfortable on the offensive side of the ball

among all these teams? Oh? Like, were you just fit and you just had a connection? Maybe in the backfield? Yeah? Really, no, kids, just see that that stuns me because of all that you know, lightning speed, you know, run a route and run away from somebody, and like the couple of weeks ago when you had that catch and run, it's you have this gear. There's a gear and you just hit the gear and their tail lights gear your tail lights. I guess I don't know, right, don't you think you

have gears? You can say that, Yeah, it steaks you. Cardell Patterson our guest. One more segment to go. This is Bears All Access Hot Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score Sunday Nights game against Kansas City Brunts. You by a Horizon, the official wireless provider of the Chicago Bears. Jeff Jony Actomp there Cordell Patterson our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The scores the Bears get

ready to meet the Kansas City Chiefs. And of course we've known Dave Tobe for a long time, great respected special teams coordinator, and that's where Chris Tabor, you know, worked as well here with the Bears, and they think a lot of each other. Their coverage units are really really they're they're very good, they're lead both both teams are in the top ten in special teams this year. Yeah, I mean that's the you know, that's why Andy Reid

hired Dave Tobe when he left Chicago. He's been a great specialty in his coach there throughout his whole career. He's a great leader, he has a he's ski he's a good schemer against a pony and if they have vulnerabilities there. But Chris Taber has learned a lot from him too, and Tabs has developed into one of the more knowledgeable special teams coaches in the league, and that he will be for a long time. So. I don't know if anybody knows this, but Cordero, he calls your

pony the pony. Did you know that? Yeah? Every day? Yeah? Did he was? That? Was that? Ever? Were you ever referred to as the pony before? Never? Do you like the nickname? Yeah? I love it, haven't. I haven't unleashed the pony just yet, but you got a couple of games to go before I unleashed that pony. Uh six two? Are you still about two twenty? No? A little heavier? Yeah? Yeah, that's college man. Really really, it's a good food or

hard work. It's a good food. Man. So if at your new weight, would you still run a four two? Of course? Would you do better than a four two? No? I won't do better, but I still think I can run the same speed. Do you think you're the fastest guy on this team? No? Turball, No, Tarik Maybe yeah, Well that doesn't leave. That's about it right there. You're the You're the trio. Although yeah, yeah, you're the trio.

I'd say sometimes it looks like Anthony Miller's running a four two because he explodes off that line of Scrimm and dunnee. Now, what what what are your conversations with a guy like that? Because this is a very very emotional player. That's a that's a good thing to have on Sundays, and he has a great belief in his ability. He brings up that Memphis grind where he grew up in all the time. So what kind of conversations you have with a young Anthony because he's tearing it up

right now. It's really the conversations you can have with Anthony Man. He's like, he's like Russell Westbrook on the field. He has no friends, So you don't even talk to him because he really he's in that zone that you just got a backup, even on your own in your own huddle. Yeah, you gotta leave him alone because that is interesting. Yeah. Have you seen guys like that before as a young guy? No, he's interesting. I like it. Yeah, why because it's different. You don't see that in a

lot of guys. He got that that documentality, yeah, and that that you can tell them when he grew up and he taking it out on a football field. His youth keeps you young. You know, it's nice to be around young guys, you know, and being a veteran now of the NFL, it's nice to be around enthusiastic young guys. Hey, what do you think of clubbed up? Just so? Do

you participate in it? Because you know they show the highlights after and I never see a I'm always on the outside there because I don't want to aboud to see me. Is it a surprise? It is too yet, because what you've been through in your life, and to consider the different teams you've been with the success and stuff of them, is it Is it a crazy atmosphere in there? It's funny what you're getting in the music already blasting and it's different. What kind of what kind

of relation to the club double? Was it like to win a super Bowl? Though you're one of the few guys in that room that won a super Bowl? It was amazing, man. You know, I never in a million years go to fishing myself win a super Bowl. You know this, it's just a dream come true. You know, something we work hard for each and every day. That's what we do it for, you know, that's what we show up every morning, late nights just just to win

a super Bowl. When you when you did accomplish that with the Patriots, did you have a did you have a personal look in the mirror like wow, I did it? Like this is like now do you just you just want the next one obviously, but you don't know if you'll ever be in that position again, just like Tim's team one and eighty five and they never had another bite at that apple. First thing I did after the Super Bowl, you know, my kids in the hotel room

laying down. I just went in there and start yelling and tell him you're dad is a super Bowl at chemp So the first thing I did, and you know, just trying to get another one now, man, and you feel good to get one, but what was one? Went out? Two? With that experience? Who left a bigger impression on your Belichicker Brady, Oh gotta be Belichick. Is it just the

way he carried the whole team? You know, because a couple of years ago, the Bears went in practice against the New Yealand Patriots for a week and we had a chance to go sit and on as press conferences and it's a really uneasy period because I feel bad for those guys that are sitting in the audience getting ready to ask him questions. I'm sure he's a different person in front of you players exclusively than he is

in front of the media. So I mean, is there anything that you've carried with you from him or is every experience a new experience for you. It's just the respect that you get that guy because everything's he doesn't accomplish. You know him and Tom, and you know, he's a funny guy. Man. You know a lot of people don't see it, but he's always making jokes and meeting and stuff. But at the same time, he's serious. He's about his business. You know what he loves. He loves the tradition of

the game. He loves the history of the game. When we did practice against them a couple of years ago, I took the opportunity was coming off the practice field to just say because I know he collects football books and I like collecting football books also teaching the history of the game, and I can never get enough of it. I just love the old you know where it all started, and boy, you get into it, he stops. He'll drop

everything to talk about that. Because his father had a huge collection as well that they donated to the Naval Academy Library. But he brought up the history of the Great Lakes Naval Station here and after the war, how the West Coast offense came to the Midwest and the East coast, you know, the Philadelia, the Philly, Pennsylvania area football, and that's where it all kind of grew. It kind of mushroomed into all these different schemes and philosophies. And

to me, that's interesting for a coach. I'm sure it's uber interesting the exers and os and how it all hall it relates, and how the ideas came about, because no matter what's going on now, it started somewhere, you know, football and all the different plays and whatnot. Are you are you that in tune with the game in that way or do you just love playing? Do you love the exs and o's of football? Some guys don't. I just love playing football, man, And you know I wouldn't

never stop playing. I think they'll have to kick me out the league because that's how much I love a game, and I would just keep playing it. So I can't play no more, man, because I carry along. It's fun. It's fun just being out here. You know, each and every day it's a new opportunity for me and just be a part of this organization. Well, you are the pony to many in the building, but you're also see flash p eighty four on your Twitter handle. Why that,

I don't know, man. I came up with flash so in junior college, I was at a banquet and this guy was saying, we got flashy players like me. So ever since then I just stop, didn't Hey it works, Cordaill Patterson, really appreciate you joining us tonight. Job how about it, Cordarell Patterson. Everybody a pro bowler and an all decade member of the USA to eight team, and all was play on Mac. It's the Bears in Chiefs on Sunday. Quick thought time on the matchup. I can't wait.

I want the Bears fans to be supportive. I want to have the same atmosphere there was against the Dallas Cowboys a couple of weeks ago. I want the Bears to conclude the season with two wins, and I want to see the offense continue improvement, and you know, the team hicks back in the lineup, show the fans what the future is coming here? All right? We'll have it four. You're starting with a four o'clock pre game and a seven twenty kickoff on news radio seven eighty and one

h five point nine FM WBBM. For Dan BURRELLI, our producer, pause ranger, engineer. Are great fans. Here are sweetholders for Tom Thayer, Cordarelle Patterson. I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks for listening to everybody. Have a rate night. This is Chicago's sports Radio, six seventy The Score m