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seven to the Bengals. A late touchdown gets the win for Cincinnati. Bears have the ball in their hands to try and make a difference, but it did not happen. Also on miss field goal fifty two yards avoided a tie by Cody Parkey, High and everybody, Jeff Johnny Acco my broadcast partner from News Radio seven eighty and one to five point at FM WBVM, Tom Thayer, the eighty five Bear and Bears preseason TV analyst and former quarterback

with the Bears. Jim Miller here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score evening, Fellas, time will start with you overall quick analysis of what happened last night. Now that you've had some time to think about it and watch it again. Well, I think any preseason game is always about the team going back into the room and being able to sit in front of your peers and get strictly criticized about the evaluation of the tape and you better perform better during the course of the week

and then leading up to the next game. So I think you just got to take the film. You have to deconstruct it, see how it fits it according to the reps that you got, and then like I said, make improvements physically and mentally, so you're better judge next week. Yeah, yeah for me when you look at it, and obviously going to be with you Jeff and Tom. But you know, first things first, you know the basic things. You know, those have to be corrected. We know the drop passes

and there were numerous mistackles. You think of that Joe Mixon touchdown reception. Two guys had you know, took the bad angles, one player didn't wrap up on that particular play. Those things can be corrected. And then obviously, like like what Tom saying about the attention to the details, you know, salt guys not getting signals in a two minute drill where you know, the tyler brays trying to signal a route and receivers not paying attention and runs the wrong route.

So those are all mental errors. And like we always say, the physical errors you can kind of accept. You're going to get beat sometimes physically in football. I think it's more about the mental mistakes and the lack of focus that really really needs to pick up in what is a new offense and why they're having these type of mental errors. This is bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy, Jeff Johnny Act, Tom Fair, Jim Miller with you for the next hour. Mike Chen producing today

and thanks is always to Herb Lawrence. Let's dig in to the trenches because that's where it all begins and ends. And I want to talk about the offensive line first, and then we'll go over to the defensive side of the ball. Tom and Jim, As you guys looked at the game as it was unfolding, and now I've had time to think about it as well, and again watch it a second time. Where did you see some positives? Where did you see some things you need to work on?

And there are any of these guys outside of the first team that caught your eye moving forward here in the coming three games, you know, Jeff, for me, I'm gonna give the first team offensive line and incomplete because there's not enough reps really to judge them on. And you got to be able to have multiple series in order to see these guys if they can make adjustments, if they did have a physical or mental air. But I'm going to tell you about a guy that's really

all right. First of all, I love James Daniels. I think this guy has the ability to be a major contributor by the time the first regular season game begin. He does a lot of things really natural, good balance, good length, good size, in good strength. The one guy that's really capturing my attention is Richard Coward. This guy's an offensive tackles making the transfer from being a defensive lineman.

He does things as well as a seasoned offensive lineman right now because he innately has confidence in doing them. Sometimes you have to repetitiously teach an offensive lineman how to do certain skills and they still have a hard time learning it. But this guy, he has got size, he's got a nasty streak about him. He's a good athlete, he's got good feet, recovery to the outside. So if I have one guy that's really you know, pressing my interest buttons on the offensive line of the outside guys,

it is Richard. Let me ask you this, Tom, because you know making that conversion, and it seems like you know Harry heastand does like his toughness. Certainly you know his hands and being a defensive lineman, he certainly knows about what you know, offensive lineman and areas to attack on an offensive linemen. But you know, for offensive lineman, you know, they're so used to earth defensive lineman, they're

so used to always going forward, penetrating. What about for him in terms of his pass protection, you know, getting back and you know, really getting himself out of that mindset of always being a guy to come off the ball, which is going to be great on running downs, I would think, but in the pass protection part of it for Coward, you know, Jim, the most difficult thing to teach an offensive lineman is the foot and the way the process of pass blocking because you have to be aggressive,

but you also can't be over aggressive where you lose your block. And those are the things that I'm impressed most about. Is he has tremendous confidence in the length of his arms reaching the defensive player outside linebacker, defensive lineman. But he also has the feet to catch up to him and he can dance around to stay in front of the defender. And that's one of the things that's capturing my attention is his ability to translate defensive line

play into being a quality pass blocker. But you still see that, you know that Mark boards conversion defensive mentality at when he goes down field and he has to hit a linebacker hard or else he's double teaming with a tight end or an offensive guard. He is a strong guy. He has good knee been He's six six with length, so again three hundred and twenty pounds. He moves as well as you need to move, and he

has a good understanding of the offense, which impresses me. Yeah, I really like what I really like what Daniels did on that touchdown run by myself, because you know, I think if you go back and look at the whole play, he probably was a little high on it, but I think you saw his lower body strength because ultimately end up pancaking the defensive lineman of the Cincinnati Bengals to get that touchdown run for me, Jeff, it's gonna be the tight ends. I thought the tight ends had a

good night. You know, the receivers were lacking a little bit with the drops and precision route running, but the tight ends, I thought Adam Sheheen specifically, he looks much better at the top of his routes and really when he comes out of his break, he's looking for that football and I think he's starting to show those soft hands that he had as a basketball player. He's a big body. He's gonna be a red zone threat, I think at the end of the day and when the

season's all said and done. And even the other guys, I thought Ronniker played well, you know, the catching runs for him and the obviously Daniel Brown too. So I think it was a big night for the tight ends of the Chicago Bears. Oh, it certainly was. And there's something about tight end production in the NFL that always has got my attention from the time I fell in

love with this sport. Always has it's it's not just a rugged nature position, but like you say, the red zone opportunities, the mismatches against the safety or a linebacker, and you got the big dude rumbling down the seam to snag a laser on the run, busting tackles along the way. Sign me up twelve passes to the tight ends. Last night eleven caught for one hundred and seventy four yards. You know this is a mismatch league, and Matt Nagee knows how to exploit mismatches. He talks about it all

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Before we go into the defensive line. Like I had mentioned before the break, I do want to go back to a couple of the notes that you get. And this is a guy that from the time they moved him, and it was an idea of Vic Fangio, has suddenly become so smooth back there in his past sets at practice, it's night and day. In a very short period of time, he has made a big jump. This is a guy

they didn't start playing football into the eighth grade Fellas. Instead, he admits he was playing video games or picking fights in Brooklyn. So this guy comes from a tough food to your point time, he's got that mentality, a tough guy mentality. Oh yeah, And I mean, you know, you have to have that mentality to be in the trenches, and you have to have the desire and the willingness to make a transition like that because there's not a

lot of similarities to it. And then the overall assignments and the understanding of terminology after you make the transition as a defensive players. It's pretty confusing at the beginning. But I think Harry and Donovan Rioli, all the assistance that he has up there on the offensive line have been doing an incredible job just molding this guy into

a legitimate offensive right tackle in the league. And I'd be interested to see him take some sets on the other side, just to see if he could transfer his ability over to the left tackle position. And then the other matter was Tom You mentioned James Daniels, so you enfision him making an impact or at least on the track week one. I do, you know, and it's it's because of the versatility of Cody white Hair that I feel so strongly about this. To me, Cody white Hair

can really play anywhere in the offensive line. But if I could put him at the offensive guard position and keep him there for the next ten years and not move him ever again, you know that would be a goal of every offensive line coach. I think James right now,

James Daniels, the rookie out of Iowa. He has the strength, the ability, the understanding of both the snaps under center and shotgun, and he's got the strength and then if you had Cody and Kyle Long on each side of you, these guys could escort you through your rookie season with a lot of strength and experience. So I would just keep cultivating the talent of James Daniels and understand that he has to make a commitment to an NFL season and it's not easy to do right after your senior

year in college. But that's what they drafted him for, and he's showing there's some root to be a real bright spot in this camp. Well, I think when we look at James, I think, in just talking with Harry Heastanding wants him to get a little bit stronger upper body wise, because really, to me, the strength of his is really his anchor. He's really got a thick lower body where he can drive much like he did on

that touchdown run by Mizelle. Really uses his legs to really just like tree trunks and they're solid man and he can get a good view. But Jimmy, the upper body strength, he wants to build up a little bit more. One thing I like about James in the game, as he was playing center, he snapped and he was pulling to his left. He understood that the inside linebacker was taking a path for the running back. He stopped, readjusted his course, made the linebacker readjust to a longer challenge,

and he was never able to make the play. So it's not his instincts. It's his instincts at the line, but it's he's got good understanding and he's got the wherewithal to keep his head on a swivel when he is on the move. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting how it unfolds, because you know, I think there is something to be said with white Hair at center all year last year, and probably the centers are making a lot of the calls up there. Not that James can't do it, but he was. He had to sit out really a

week because of the shoulder. He needs to wonder how far he is behind, because you'd like to think that quarterback center, you know, you want those two to be tied at the hip and maybe by missing some time that's set him back a little bit. And why they probably still have Eric Cush and Watford and all those guys competing that guard and probably will stick with Cody

Whitehair at the center position. You know, over the years time when we've done games, we have circled rookie centers when when the Bears have gone in to play different teams over the years. Maybe it's based on, you know, certain matchups and whatnot, but we've always looked at that as an advantage for the Bears when you're going up against a rookie center. Would you feel that would be a disadvantage at some point because at his age, he's

just twenty years old. Granted he was a terrific player for Kirk Ference at Iowa, but would that be something that you would look at as a potential issue. Now, it's a body valuation of his ability. And then when you're sitting in meetings with him and you ask a question of him, you ask him to maybe give the information, the right point out and everything in order to protection

then the audible. And you have to test him that way too, And if he can come up and answer these questions instantly, then you know mentally he's able to grasp it. You know, Cincinnati, they drafted Billy Price out of Ohio State with the twenty first pick in the draft, and they were criticizing his ability to have the center quarterback exchange fluidly, and then they were bragging that he had two practices without any drops, So you know, I would I see as much or more ability in James.

I see more strength, more size in James than I did in Price when I was watching Cincinnati, So I don't If he has the ability to stand up and play and he's got you know, the evaluation of the coaches and the staff, hey, I have no problem starting him week one. This is Beers All Access with Tom Fair, Jim Miller, and Jeff Jonnick here in Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score here until seven o'clock tonight again three four sixty seven sixty seven. Let's go to the

defensive line thoughts on how those guys looked up front. Well, for me, I'll go first time. I liked what I saw from Leonard Floyd to get off. Now he's added a swim move. He's already has a spin move, and he also has that burst where he can just get off and lower his shoulder and get around the offensive tackle. And he really displayed that numerous times. Twice he beat the Cincinnati tackle with a swim move, and so I was impressed. I liked what I saw from him. I

know he's coming back from from the knee surgery. But for him, and I know he's they've been you know, they've been smart with them bringing him back, and he's you know, practiced sparingly and how they've utilized him there in training camp. But Leonard Floyd, and clearly you can see the effect that one pass rush where he had the swim move. Andy Dalton was affected on that play, released the ball way too early, receiver wasn't ready, cow Fuller gets the opportunity to step in front of it

and get a pick six. So for me, I was very impressed with what I saw with Leonard Floyd. So that's what we need to see all sixteen weeks of the season from from the big time pass rusher. Well, you know, Jeff has been saying all year that Leonard Floyd has been stacking practices, and he has. He's been out there every single day giving really given quality effort, whether it's individual pass rushing drills or teamwork or pass

coverage responsibilities. But when when I think of the defensive line of the interior, you know you have your regular cast of characters, first play the game, great play there by a team hicks really strong from the backside, overpowering and overwhelming when they try to single block him. But you know, then you know, you have your Eddie Goldman

and Jonathan Bullard and stuff. But when I look at John Jenkins, Blow Nichols and Nick Williams, because you're gonna look for that those depths and that that components of multiple position players. Every one of those guys have been able to play up and down the defensive line. So if you have seven defensive lineman active or even six, and every one of them can play every position up and down the defensive line, your hands are never going to be tied if you do have an injury or

a hiccup at any position. And John Jenkins big size, three hundred and thirty pounds. In Nichols, here's a guy that has length six four two ninety and I really like what he's been able to transfer from you know, having you know, not from Delaware, so you're not playing against major talent, but the talent he's up against, he's really he's battling. So those are a couple, you know, the three defensive lineman, I think they're really going to

be involved in the mix when the final decisions are made. Yeah, then you look at Nichols, he played more the inside, in the interior of the three men front there at Delaware, and now he's been asked to move outside. He's he's doing a good job. There's no doubt about it. I think, you know, he's definitely in the mix. You see the athleticism from his standpoint. But the other defenders that really

stood out to me. You know, we look at DeAndre Houston, Carson, he's blasted again, I think, making some plays, and you know, you look at other guys. John Tmu, I know he missed the tackle or took the bad angle on Joe Mixon, the running back from him Cincinnati, but he's consistently around the football. When he's been asked to play for the Bears, he comes up big and it's always around the football. And the guy who I liked as well as Cassim Atibali.

There were a couple of plays where he really set the edge and forced the running back of the Bengals to cut it back inside. Then on other plays where he had to crash and close. You can definitely see his experience in the National Football League, and he's played in numerous games and I think you could definitely see it. It showed up in the game last night. Yeah, sixty one games of NFL experience for at a ballet and

a high motor in pursuit. That's one of the scouting reports on Atibali, a fifty year man out of Boston College who began the ballk of training camp banged up, but he's getting himself healthy and ready to go in a position that there is some need, no question, to fill out that roster for the Bears defensively. We'll continue our conversation here on Bears All Access after this break

on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Hey, sang your child up for a fun, non contact Chicago Bears Youth football camp brought to you by Gatorade in athletical physical therapy. Visit www dot Bears camps dot com to see fifty dollars Today. Jeff Joniac along with Tom Thair Jim Miller kind enough to join us again this week. We've missed you, my friend. You've been there forcedout the offseason,

but now we've been talking to Bears places. We had a great training camp visit with a number of players, not the least of which was Minster Whisky and Charles Little Junior. Cody white Air. It's really been fun getting to know these guys when you get to spend significant time with him Tom, you know, for forty five fifty minutes. Yeah, it is, I mean because you you know, you kind of always find something out new about these guys. The better they get to know you, the more they kind

of unveil a little information about themselves. But you know, it's it's been a fun road here in training camp so far because I think every practice has held a little bit more interest. You see the development of players, the development of offense, and you know, as these games clicked through in the preseason, I do I find myself having more interest in these preseason games in quite a

long time. Well, and you look at it, you know, even some of the comments after the game from Mitchell, you know, I think, you know, you got to have a sense of urgency, and I think he's he really is starting to feel that. You know, the season, we can say, hey, five preseason games, it's you know, it's a marathon and all those things, but before you know it, it's already here. You know, and you got and you know,

we all understand the reasons. There's a lot of things going on in terms of players being in and out of the lineup and all the new information of offense. But you know, every player is given that information. You'd like to think that they can go in there and you know, and perform it at that level. And I think it hasn't clicked yet, and I think some of the comments by Mitchell Trubisky is like, hey, it's it's

not up to our standards. So you always got to be clawed for perfection and you should want to try and be perfect every single day you're out there on the whether it's the practice field or in a game. And now I think after two games that sense of urgency is starting to kick in, and I think some of Mitch's comments really ignited that, you know, Jim and Jeff.

One of the things that kind of changes the momentum a little bit when you transfer from bourbon At back to the facility and now you're back in the workplace that if you make this team, if you earn an opportunity, if you win that locker, man, this is where you're going to work, hopefully for quite a while. And I do think it puts a little bit of extra pressure when you start going home because you know, Okay, if I'm home after training camp, boy, it's closer to that

regular season and the evaluation time is getting shorter. So I do think that puts a little bit of you know, wrenches up the tempo a little bit too when you go home. Well, not only that, I believe there's very significant competition going on home. I mean we look at the secondary for example. I mean they can't keep everybody, obviously,

but guys that have been here for a while. We mentioned this last time of the broadcast, and Jim, you just mentioned DeAndre Houston Carson, who is out standing on special team, So that guy's got a leg up in the competition. But he's also been well thought of enough to actually get on the field in three safety sets last year with Vic Fangio. So he's earning his way onto this roster. Nothing's guaranteed yet, but he's starting that process again. And and DeAndre Hall guys got an attitude.

I mean, he he hasn't had a lot of great opportunity. He was hurt obviously last year at the beginning of the year, but he is yapping back there and he'll hit you. And I think he's earning more and more confidence every day, he had a nice evening last night. And so you're you're evaluating this, this secondary and all these other position battles with a new coaching staff, particularly on the offensive side of the ball, and a new head coach. I'm just wondering where these decisions are going

to fall when you cut down to fifty three. Now it's you know a lot of people say, ah, you know, you're talking about guys that are at the lower end of the roster or gon be special teams guys. It all matters, It all matters. It lights the flame to start the competitive conversation at every position, because that's what you're left with in the preseason, first couple of weeks of the preseason. Heck, next week, these guys are going to play a ton of snamps again, They'll play more,

They're not gonna play a whole game. So this is

what our evaluation is centered on. Are these other guys, the guys we've been talking about on this show, But then then introduced Chris Tabor, the special team's coordinator, into those decision making process because when you look at the fake punt that was run against the Bears last night, that's something that's going to be going over a couple of few times by Chris Tabor and understanding the players that were completely you know, unbeknownst to the play or

some guys that understood it quickly and then gave a great gave great chase to it because Josh Woods was the guy that caught it from behind. And here's an interior linebacker that shows significant speed. He's got the ability to play. So you know, you taught you drafted a guy in the first round as a linebacker. You drafted another interior linebacker. But Josh Woods is the guy that's kind of showing up in spots that have the speed attached to it. That is is impressed of as anybody

and I think too. It's going to factor in, you know, with all the new rules on kickoff, who do you trust? Are you going to trust a rookie orre gonna trust a veteran, you know, like somebody like Edi Bali who's been around the league a little bit, you know, in terms of game planning and adjustments to how officials they're going to call, you know, the kickoff and kick return with all the new rules that are involved there, because

there's going to be adjustments every single week. It just sounds like the league office in the in the officials are going to tweak that from week to week with how things are called on the field, what they want called, what they don't want called, what was missed, what was not missed, How it's going to be called in the future, you know, compared to say week four, to how it's

called in week twelve. And so I think you want to have savvy football players, which technically are going to be all your backups that are going to be on those units pretty much your backup linebackers, you're backup safeties like a Houston Carson that will be in those rules. And how much do you trust them? And obviously those guys getting some playing time over the last couple of years is really going to benefit them. And I think

that's going to factor in as well. You know, I have not looked into it today, but what was the results of the other games in terms of helmet rule and all that. Jim, I don't know if you did your show today or not. I know you're traveling once again, but on serious XM any pushback again today, not just in our game, but no, I do know there was one ejection in a game. But I think overall, you know, it's being received. Obviously, the coaches are saying everything that

they need to say. Hey, we're just going to adjust with how the officials are calling it. But you know, I think right now they're trying trying to create a database, at least the league offices and the officials of what they say, how it's going to unfold during the years.

So all these preseason games matter because as we saw last night, whether it's the new helmet rule or the kickoff rule and how it's going to be officiated, they'll create a database where they'll probably come to will hopefully at least a better consensus by the end of the preseason.

So I still think it's an early infancy of really the reaction because we're really for most of the league, they're one game in, the Bears are two game in, and this really probably you'll hear you'll hear some tricklings out of the league office, in the in the officiating office this week from Al Riverot of how it went and how the maybe potential changes as they start to really formulate their game plan as a season fast approaches. Yeah,

that was Colt's safety Schamaco Thomas. He went helmet to helmet on David Moore of Seattle and his head coach, Frank Reich. I totally supported. He said. It was very disappointing as it was pretty clear that he did something inappropriate. I'm diving in there, so it'll be something we're gonna talk about throughout the course of the entire preseason. It's not gonna make us happy. You know, an agitated Tom

Thare was there last night. I should have unfold and I know it's gonna bug you to the to the end. It's gonna really thick you off town. Well, it's almost like you a reaction from the crowd within the stands, and I don't know if they there's a lot of influence because now I think fans are so smart that sitting the stands they recognize an illegal hit and it's almost their reactions sometimes is as meaningful as anything to

get a call or change a call. We'll continue on and discuss all this here on bear Zild Access three one, two sixty four, four sixty seven, sixty seven. Please give us a call here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Welcome back to bear Zell Access and reminding you you can get the latest Bears news, photos and videos delivered straight to your mobile device down though the Chicago Bears Official mobile app presented by Verizon, Jeff Joniak

and Jim Miller. In time you flew back with the team. Last night, I went back to the hotel with the crew, ran into the television guys Adam Amine, who made his maiden voyage last night on Fox with the Bears Broadcasting Network, and Jim Miller is his partner in crime. And so the hotel bar is shutting down. Jim's kind enough to

buy us a couple of adult beverages. And at last call, the bartender had music plan of the background lights are coming on and he offers a free poor for anyone who could identify the movie that the song that was playing was in. And I have no idea, nobody know. Big Jim looked at the ceiling pause for a second, nails it jaws confidently, I might add. So he got a free cold one because he now that I think the song is show me the way to go home. I don't know how I thought you were pulling my leg.

That was masterful and impressive. I thought you were just scared to go into the water, Jeff, you know, much like Tom when he's out the surfing out there in Hawaii. I mean, how could you not know that song from Jaws? I mean, that's a Roy Schneider And obviously you look at the actors and how great that movie was. I think was Conrad and who else was in that movie besides the Roy Schneider Richards. Those were the three guys

on the boat having a having a good night. But it was time to go home, and it was time to go home for us. But that was that was a stellar performance. I got a tip of the cap. I don't have good recalls, so I never I would have never gotten that one. But anyway, we bag ress. We're talking Bears football here. After the preseason lost in Cincinnati last night, thirty to twenty seven. We focused on a number of different things, but we've left out some stuff.

I mean, there was a lot of good things. Let's let's talk about again, guys that are trying to compete for In this case, Ryan Nall trying to compete for that who's going to be that fourth running back? And he's competing obviously it would take Juan Maizelle ripped off that long run and he showed me some pullaway speed. I mean, that was impressive right there. I didn't know

that he had that in him, right. Remember the post game we asked Matt Naggie about and he talked about, Yeah, I saw Ryan all run down the sideline with speed and then you could see the tightness in the hamstrings and to see the defender close up around him. But you know, Ryan, he showed me surprising speed because that's really the first time he got to open up with a run that serious when he got opponent's face or

chasing you. But his interior instincts in how to understand the blocking schemes in front of him and where the holes are mostly going to give him the biggest crease to get through. And Myzelle showed significant signs at also. But I did like to see how to Ryan all his ability to be strong inside the hole, his ability to catch passes out, you know, out in the perimeter, and then his ability to get outside and have significant enough speed to break an over pursuit by the defense,

get around that corner and turn it up. Yeah, I think you know that's why. And Ryan said early in camp, we really liked him for his vision, and really that play encompasses his vision because, as Tom mentioned, you gotta think when when he's getting the ball from the quarterback, he's not even looking at the ball into into was belly, right, He's looking at the defensive line, surveying that obviously the front before even the snap even happens, anticipating where potentially

the holes could emerge depending on the blocks. Then once he gets the ball, he's got to react, and at the same time he's already surveyed the defensive line. Then he sees the corner outside crash pretty quickly. That corner came inside almost almost i'd say, maybe two to five yards outside of the tackle box, and Ryan right away said nope, I'm taking it outside and he bounced it right away. So what it was a draw or an inside zone run is what I thought it was going

to be. Or even if it was a draw, some draws can bounce to the outside like that. But you got to have a running back who has the vision of the secondary and how they're reacting back there at the snap of the ball. And I think clearly you could see that because that whole play really encompassed that vision. That he has and why Matt Nagee really praised it and why he was hit in camp with the Chicago Bears to begin with. And he's a versatile player for

a big back. He's a versatile player. As Tom mentioned, the way you can catch the ball. He's got some soft hands, and that clearly is going to be a prerequisite in this offense. Also, one thing that I was encouraged by is the bears willingness to go back and repeat plays because early in the game they had a mental air and then they were able to come back and run the play three other times in the course of the game with really good success. So you know,

sometimes back in our days we would damage ourselves. If Dicka would call a play and we'd go out there and get tackled for loss or have a mistake, he wouldn't go back to it. So it is encouraging to make sure you show faith in your players and you believe in the scheme that you're developing, that you can go back and repeat the same play and get better

results each time. All right, here's some nuggets on No. Okay, eighty r touchdown two twenty one yards in an overtime upset for Oregon States, and that was against cal Back. In twenty sixteen against Oregon, he had a sixty six yard touchdown run against Colorado one hundred and seventy two yards, three touchdowns on twenty four carries. He had another big game against Oregon four touchdowns in twenty sixteen, eighty nine yard touchdown run against Washington State against Arizona, another big

hundred plus game. I'm looking for the big long touchdown runs. Forty five yard touchdown run against Washington State again in twenty seventeen, and a seventy five yard touchdown run against Colorado State. So he's more than capable of doing it. Jeff. He's six two two thirty two. You have Michael Burton, who's just a full not just a fullback, he's a fullback. He is a big, powerful fullback six ft two forty. But when you look at Ryan All and you see you think of six two two thirty two, that's a

big running back. That's a guy with length and is a guy with power and size behind him. Because you look at Benny Cunham five ten two eighteen and I'm just saying there is a diverse size on the running back flow chart. Here with the Bears, and you know six two is a good size for a guy. Yeah, I mean, god forbid, if Jordan Howard would have go down to injury, who's going to be your short yardage goal line back? You know, he'd probably be the man up, is the way I'd look at it. You know, what

are gonna do? Put Burton back there. I don't think that's going to be the case. I would think Noall isn't a legit competition to make this roster for that very reason, because those situations and it is about situational football in the NFL, and I would think coach Nagy wants to deploy all those sets that really threatened and when sometimes you need to pound it, you got to be able to pound it. You got to have the guys that can do it. And really Howard and Noah

are really the two bigger backs on this football team. Well, he runs a four or five eight at least he did at the combine, and he's a tough inside runner, and he has special teams and Billy he was running down kicks last night and he was getting down there in Murry. So it was a good bright spot for the Bears last night. Any of the other guys down the line on the roster that maybe your eyes last night.

I like Jeff and Jim. I like Tyler Bray from the opportunities that he's been giving in the last two weeks and then practices. He shows his height, he has a good view of over the top of the line of scrimmage. He's got good confidence in his arm either fitting in into tight holds, and I know that, you know, kind of overthrowing the Ben Bronicker in the end zone, you know, was what was kind of a tough deal.

But he has a higher plus side um and I didn't know what to expect out of him because we've never been exposed to him for this long, but from what he's been doing, Jim, I like what he's been doing in this offense. He made some nice throws and clearly you can see the arm strength and a couple of those he threaded the needle pretty good, especially when the Bronnicker that went for the big run. I mean that was that was a tight throw and he put

it right down the money where he needed to. In a couple of throws to the outside, I thought he put on the money for a bigger guys. He's set in Kansas City for basically five years, you know, a couple of years he was dealing with that wrist injury when he was coming out of Tennessee but ultimately corrected it. But this offense, he should feel very comfortable. And I think you saw, you know, for at least both um, you know, Chase Daniel and Bray. I think they do

show the rhythm when they get into it. And granted they're dealing with different guys, but you can see they're getting guys lined up, you know. I even saw Bray signaling, you know, some things that he wanted and he's you know, and then of course the young players that aren't used to are kind of looking at him cross Syde and he's still trying to work it to get it all coordinated at the line of scrimmage. So you can definitely see the experience. But he has a lot of arm talent,

he really does. He just he needs to play. I mean, that's really where it's at. He's he's a guy who probably needs to play right now at this time in his career, and we all know why he's here and he will be here probably all year for the Chicago Bears and and because he's you know, there to be the support system in the offense for what Mitchell Trubisky needs to learn and use that resource all the way to preparation on game day every single week. But I

liked what I saw from Tyler Bray last night. And it was sixth year in the National Football League, first five of Kansas City learning that system of Matt Nagge and what they put together for the Chicago Bears. Another segment to go here on Bears All Access. We'll look ahead to what's going to happen in the next few days both in Bourbon and Denver up at a Hallis Hall as well as you listen to Bears All Access

here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. This segment of Bears All Access is orchestrated by CDW CDW people who get it. Jeff Jony Act, Tom Fair and Jim Meller with you on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy This score. This is Bears All Access presented by IGS Energy. And now it's a return after today's day off, a return to Bourbon, a a night practice. How the campus about it? That Nazaren Tomorrow a Sunday a closed practice and then off on Monday. But they're backup at Hallis Hall.

They'll do a little work on Tuesday and move off to Denver, and then a week of work with the bron goes Wednesday and Thursday, walk through Friday, game, Saturday night, and next Saturday. You can hear it on WBBM. Fellas I know, Tom and I discussed this somewhat at length last night. I'm a big fan of it. I think Tom's coming around with this team about working against another team. I just see great benefits from it all the way across the board. I see no downside. How do you

guys feel about it? In Tom? In retrospect, after thinking about a little more, how do you feel? Well? You know, the first day a couple of these rookies get up there are even experienced guys, They're gonna think that they have no oxygen at all. It's eighty six eighty seven, eighty six, eighty five eighty five the temperature there in Denver.

Those are hot practices at high altitude. So I do think there's gonna take a little bit of time that these guys are gonna be a to get acclimated there, to be physical to exert the energy that expected out of them and then go out there and have lengthy practices for a few days in a row. I like the idea of them going there. I think it's it's good for a new coaching staff. It's good for a team to, you know, to stay close and you know,

create that camaraderie. And I do think there's a lot of good friendships developing on this team, So I do like it. It breaks up the monotony of just being at one site for six weeks, So I'm okay with it. I just want to say I'll have a different opinion at the end of the week than at the beginning. Yeah, I love it. I think it's gonna get the Bears, especially at certain position, a lot of good work. You

know what I mean by that. How about Bobby Massey going against a speed rusher like Von Miller or Chris Harris. Think about young Anthony Miller when he's got to line up against Chris Harris, who's a Pro Bowl corner in this league. Think about the Bears secondary getting challenges from Damarius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders to qualified receivers in the National Football League. So I just I think it's great.

You can get get guys going on two fields in terms of, you know, one field where the Bears offense is going against the Broncos defense and vice versa on another field and how the Bears will be working. So you get two groups going. You could have two two minute drills going at the same time. So certainly the coaches are going to talk to one another and how they're going to script it with Vance, Joseph and Matt

and things that they want to work on. But all the one on one situations against maybe different techniques and different players, I think will be beneficial, especially for the young players, uh, you know, as they watch the older guys work against some of the best in the league overall. So I think it's good anytime you can go against

another team. You know, you do have to you do have to be in control of the discipline, because I have been in cross team camps that we fought so much that we had to split up and we had to go our separate directions and go home. So and you do have to be in control of these I know. And they went to New England a few years ago, everything was solid. They had one scuffle Indianapolis, a few years back the same thing. But so, I mean, you do have to make sure that you go out there

and you get something accomplished in the practices. You just don't want to have some of the trouble that you have in other one other teams play each other. If you guys were preparing to do this as players, what are some of the things you have to go through to get yourself ready to deal with the altitude today? Like right now? Oh nothing, you know. Jen Gibson, the director of the Sports Science is up at Hollis Hall.

I think they've been having conversations about how to prepare for this, you know, in terms of hydration, I think the longer you're up there, the more comfortable you're gonna feel. But it's just going to be that first couple hours that you go through practices, the first couple of days that is gonna it's gonna feel overwhelming. I played up at the Air Force Academy and I played up in Denver a lot, So you do have that feeling, and

you know, eventually you become used to it, unless you're Jeff. Yeah, it's gonna be the hydration aspect of it. When you're traveling their high altitude, and you know, they're gonna benefit from them conditioning level of it's gonna be beneficial for the Chicago Bears as well. They'll be they'll be you know, I think the Broncos will be cognizant of it too. How many breaks that they'll take, you know, within how the practice is structured. So I think they'll be smart

about it from that aspect. But I think overall it's gonna be fantastic, and just the competition level, it's gonna ratch it up. You know, it's technically it is still the Bears against the Denver Broncos, and every team's gonna want to show up every single day. I saw San Francisco last year. They traveled out to or excuse me, Denver traveled out to go to San Francisco, and those were great matchups between Trent Brown, who's now a New

England Patriot. Before they traded him, he was a San Francisco forty nine er and them and Von Miller just going at it every single place. So you're gonna have some good matchups one on one in terms of the periods and then the team periods and how it all comes together. So it's it's gonna be good for both teams overall. Well, you remember when we were playing the

Patriots and practice there a couple years ago. You mentioned the scuffle, but you know it was Malcolm Butler and Alshean Jeffrey and there was also an injury I believe to Rob grind Cows after one of those practices. But Butler was thrown out of there by Belichick for fighting with Jeffrey. And you know, not looking back at that, Malcolm Butler doesn't play in the Super Bowl. You know, Jeffrey had a really good couple of practices against the Patriots that week two years ago. You think that was

in the back of his mind. No, I just think that when you go through the simulated drills one team offensively or defensively, that there's an advantage to it. And so when you say, I'm saying related to Butler not playing in the Super Bowl a long shot. But no, we never got an explanation. There's too much separate, too much, too much time and separation between that decision. Bill Belichick's going to make the best decision for the team leading

up to the game itself. I don't think he would hold something in the back of his mind that took place so long ago to effect the Super Bowl roster decision. Jim Miller and tomp there with you on Bears Owexis are remaining moments here on Chicago Sports Radio six any of the score. There is a lot to go on the Inside Bears Show this week. Trey Burt going for

a ride with Empathy Spice Adams. Another edition of Big Guy in a Benz Inside of the Bears air Saturday six pm on CW fifty Chicago and Sunday's at ten thirty five on Fox thirty two Chicago. You can also watch show segments online at Chicago Bears dot com or on the Chicago Bears official app anytime. All right, some bullet points, real quick next step in the development and growth of this team, starting with practice this weekend and moving into Denver. Let's start with Mitch Trubisky. We'll do

some quick bullet points for both of you guys. You know, I think Mitch has just has to stay the course, you know, again, evaluate the tape. You know, I'm glad that Mitch isn't showing this overwhelming excitement about the performance of the first unit, because you know, you got to come back here and seriously get prepared, and you have to make improvements, adjustments, and you know, the you know, the Mitch is not going to be a finished product.

Even when the regular season starts, Mitch is gonna be you know, it's gonna be ever learning. It's you know, you're never gonna say, oh, Mitch, you know it all you gotta you're you're done, You're ready to go. No. I think every time he goes out to practice, every time he's on the field, there's going to be a coaching point made that's going to help him become a more intelligent player. But I think that should be across the board for the entire offense when they get an

opportunity to show up again. Yeah, it really was what coach Nagi talked about. There was always just one player, you know, doing the wrong assignment or not finishing and all those things. You know, all those things matter. As we know, it takes all eleven guys. It's never going to be perfect, but you want it to be as close to perfect as you can. And I think it's right now as another opportunity for mister Trabisky to really assert you know, his command you know, and demands you know,

perfection from from his teammates when they go out to Denver. Hey, guys, enough of the bad snaps, enough of the drop footballs. Let's be perfect today, you know, demanded from your teammates. You want to push them to be the best, and his teammates should push him to be the best when

when he has a mistake. So now's the time to really be more or assertive, and I think be more demanding because the season is not far away now it isn't didn't see Allen Robinson, Taylor Gabriel's banged up, No Tarik Cohen, no Jordan Howard, no Danny Tavaithan Prince and Mukamara, and no Roquan Smith just yet either. That's the topic for another day as this thing still is a log jam with the Bears first round linebacker. Hopefully we'll see some of those guys on the field against the Broncos

in next Saturday's game up in Denver. Well, thanks for joining us, Big Jim. Thanks for taking the time. I know you're swamped with all your training camp travels, but we appreciate it. Always good to be with you, guys, you know that. And we'll see out in Denver. All right, Jim Miller with US four Town There Jim Miller, and also thanks to Mike Chen for helping us out. Thank you most of all for listening. This has been Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score.

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