All Access: Robinson talks Nagy, Trubisky

Ranks are engineering. Dan really our producer here at Bears All Access. We're brought to you by IGS Energy. So it'll be an interesting week for you getting back in the in the swing of things and trying to get on the field for Sunday against Detroit. Yeah, yeah, you know, but I'm I'm really glad to be back out there, you know, feeling great, you know, So, I mean it's not a better time, you know that I could have

came back. You know. I like to take a little chance on Bears All Access to get to know your background a little bit, because all you know, we don't get very much of a chance to talk to you, and when I was reading about you, you're from Michigan, Michigan or Michigan State, they don't recruit you. You end up going to Penn State. And then the other choices were Buffalo and Toledo. Your six three receiver. Look where you're at? What happened there? Or why did Why was that? Um?

Why did that happen? I mean it's pretty funny because, Um, actually at Michigan State, they wanted me to play defense. They wanted to play cornerback, as did a few other schools, you know, but I wasn't really too comfortable at that time, you know, playing playing a defensive back position, you know, and I wanted to play receiver, you know. And I kind of had made that pretty known as as a lot of college coaches and stuff, We're coming to my

high school. So I feel like that may have been a little bit of the reason why when you went to the combine and you had your pro day, why didn't you bench press? Um? Actually I had I had a shoulder issue. Okay, yeah, so um, coming out of college. I believe it was against Minnesota, I had got Um, I got tackled and I let it on my shoulder. Wrong and it wasn't any structural damage. It was more so um, I was more so like a nerve damage

type thing, you know. So um, throughout the process of training for the combine and everything like that, it just was really about just just kind of rehabbing the arm, you know. So I wasn't even everything else. Yeah, everything else that they asked of you, you did. And I would just find a kind of you know, but but that happens a lot of times guys, you know, or an agent. It will say to somebody, Hey, listen, maybe you shouldn't bench rest, wait ti your pro day, or

don't do it at all. You know that that's some something of what of a common thing. But I'm curious with Tom brought up about, uh, that recruitment process. What was with the cornerback idea? Yeah, I mean, weren't you a prolific offensive player in high school? I was? I was, but I played both sides of the ball. And actually my my high school receiver and cornerback coach, I mean, he's a big he's a big corner as well, and he went to Duke and play a corner, you know.

So he always talked to a lot of schools and and I think for him, he thought that I could play corner as well, you know, but but just my preference, I wanted to play receiver. But you know, everybody in the NFL was great on both sides of the ball. When we were talking to Prince of Mukamara last night, when he went to his college recruiting trip to Nebraska, he thought he was going as a running back, and they kind of sold him the story that he was and then when he showed up to Nebraska, they put

him in the room. They literally found him in the defense. Funny thing is I remember receiving a phone call from coach Royan Vanderlin at the time at Penn State. This is probably a week before I had officially enrolled in Penn State, and he asked me how did I feel about playing defense? And for me, it was I told him how I felt. You know, that wasn't the reason why I was going to Penn State is because I

wanted to play receiver, you know. So it's kind of funny how the whole recruiting process goes sometimes, right, So you go through the recruiting process and then you go into Penn State, you had the what you went through your freshman year and then all of sudden you go into a sophomore year and then there's some guys dismissed, there's some guys that leave the program, and all of a sudden you're kind of catapulted in the position of you can't just be good, you gotta be you know,

a big time player for Penn State at that point. Then you were able to capitalize on it. Definitely, that had to be a heck of an opportunity for you. Yeah, it was. Um, I think the biggest thing for me was once coach Bill O'Brien got there. You know, I'm starting that spring, going into my going into my sophomore year. I started out really at the bottom of the depth chart, you know. I didn't have much fun you know, some

of the older guys and stuff like that. But as we approached the spring game and after the spring game, I was named as as as one of the starters, you know. And it's funny because coach O'Brien, he's a guy um for me. He named me as a starter with like an asterisk, you know, just to just to make sure I didn't get too comfortable at the time, you know. So um with him being a coach that he is. You know, he took us through a really

tremendous winner conditioning and really spring football, you know. And and for me, you know, I was just able to thrive through that, you know. Again, it was one of the tougher things that I've done, you know, throughout the course of football, you know. So again, I mean just just me really be able to build the trust of the coaches and stuff like that, offer really not having too much game film, you know, by by being very

limited as a freshman. This is Bears All Access, which run by Alan Robinson the second along with Time There. I'm Jeff Joniak. Thanks for joining us. We'll be with you to the top of the hour. Alan, that was a blessing to play for For Bill O'Brien, I would imagine, because obviously he's an NFL head coach. You played in an NFL system in your college career. That made easier

transition for you with Jacksonville and ultimately where you are today. Definitely, you know, for me, I was fortunate enough to be able to be thrown into a lot of different positions, you know, playing playing outside, playing inside, you know, playing playing a lot of different positions and being able to run a lot of different routes. You know, I'm going into my junior year. That was something that he had

challenged me, you know, right after my sophomore season. Was you know how really the type of player that I said I wanted to be. You know, he challenged me to be that player. You know, he would send me film, We would do a lot of different things as far as just for me to try to elevate my game. You know, he knew that my end goal was that I wanted to play in the NFL. You know, So for him, each and every day, he made sure that he challenged me, you know, and really and truthfully held

me accountable to that. So with that, the understanding of concepts for receivers and Mitch Drubisky talked about this yesterday about Alan and what their relationship is like and how it's been developing since the offseason and training camp as he worked back from his ACL But do you understand better the nuances of the position from route running and understanding and the other positions and what they're trying to do coverage wise to you and your relationship with the

quarterback maybe better than most because now you know a lot of these guys coming out of college, they're in spread systems. They run one route, they're just reading off one thing. You had to do it all, Yeah, definitely. And again, even even when I first got into the NFL, you know, I had a receiver coach who challenged me

a lot as a player. You know, so even like now seeing seeing some of the front side of a concept, you know, depending on what that concept is, you know, typically I have a good idea of what will be the backside route, you know, especially in certain offense where you have certain things coming to the quarterbacks vision. You know, it's it's for me, I've been able to really digest a lot of the offense is now to whereas it's more so just learning the terminology of everything rather than

learning the schematics. Like you capitalize on the opportunity your sophomore year in college, it seemed like you capitalize on that same opportunity your rookie year in the NFL. Depends. They prepare you to be ready as a rookie to go out there and contribute. You know, some guys like Tony Madeline always says, you have one year in the NFL to be young. After that you have to be experienced. It seemed like you came in experience and took control

of your opportunity. Definitely. Um, I was really thrown into a blessing of a situation, you know, being able to being able to be thrown into a team that really drafted a lot of the young players to come in and really play right then. You know. So our core of our offensive group at the time was all rookies, you know, so we all were able to grow together. I was able to get on the field early, you know,

being able to get those opportunities, you know. Um, I think a big part of being a rookie is is this a lot of trial and error, you know, seeing seeing certain things that you do well, seeing certain things that you don't do so well, continuing to just polish what you do really well, and trying to figure out how to how to improve the things that you don't do well. You know. So so for me, I was able to get a lot of reps at doing that,

and I think that's what really helped me out. So that was Alan Hearnes and Marquis Lee also, Yeah, there are still players in this league. Um did that? Does that help you today? Dealing with that as rookies and all you guys learning at the same time to help somebody like Anthony Miller right now. Definitely, definitely. You know, um, I've I've been in I've been in a situation you know like him. You know, I think it's best to be thrown into the fire, you know, so to speak.

You know, being able to have to go out there and really learn how to swim, you know. And I think because you really learn a lot faster like that. You know, it's not like you don't have You're not being baby you know, uh, you know baby sat with certain things. You know, you're you're you're really called them to go out there when you're routes, make plays, you know,

and that's what you're axed up, you know. And and at this level, you know, the type of guys that really make it to this level, you know, you really thrive off the competitive nature and the challenge. You know, whether that's from coaches, whether that's from an opponent. You know, that's where you thrive at and that's where you typically see your best. That's Anthony to a t. Yeah, you don't have to worry about I'm like, heck, guy wanting

to compete, right, what if you learn about him? Definitely, you know that's the biggest thing, you know, seeing seeing his competitive nature you know, um um, the confidence that he has in himself. You know, even sometime in training camp, you know, if he if he may run a wrong route or something like that, it was always at a very good tempo, you know, always always playing full of speed, you know, never taking plays off and things like that.

You know, and when you have young guys like that that you bring around you, even as even as a five year guy, you know, that's something that really inspires you each and every day, you know, because you see the motor of other guys, you know, you want to be a part of that energy. You know. What helped you guys too, is you guys are out there at practice every day at training camp playing against an experienced defense. And I think when you're trying to learn an offense,

it's more challenging to you. But ultimately all you guys are going to get better because of the guys you're facing every day in practice. Definitely, you know, and I think I think that's something that stands true you know to all good teams. You know, um, it's it's really fine. You know, really comes down to sharper than iron with iron, you know, So going up against those guys each and every day, you know, Prince and Kyle, you know, seeing

the different looks and going against press coverage. You know, you got two great safeties in the back end. You know, so each and every day we were challenged. Alan Rabbits in the second Bears wide Receiver our guest here on Bears All Access with Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac. The Bears heading into a stretch of three games against division opponents, will tackle that subject with Alan and much more here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy

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thrilled it they're here. I mean, how many of you guys? Honestly, I know we got some folks that never miss a game home or away, But how many of you guys have traveled this year to any of the Bears road games, so we got a fair amount, nice percentage. Yet Tom has Alan has I'm a season ticket. I'll tell you right now, the travel, it always blows my mind. I don't know how. I don't know how. In Buffalo they got the lower bull like they did the lower bull

of the stadium right near the Bears bench. You could see the uniform difference, you know, the jersey difference, the Navy blue and orange. And what a what a loud crowd that was. Arizona was like that, Miami was like that. I mean, as a player that doesn't get old, you know that that is an impactful thing definitely, you know, like you said, you know, especially like the Miami and the and the Arizona game. You know, I mean when you feel a crowd like that, you know, in the

in those type of environments. Man, it's so fun to play in front of. But the white the white out that they have at Penn State. But when I was when I went to college, I played at Notre Dame. I had the chance to play at Penn State a couple of times. It's an impressive stadium, an incredible place to go. There had to be a lot of even on when I saw it this year on TV the white Out at Penn State. That's got to be inspirational and college level. But then you think the same thing

that these guys commit to you as a pro. Definitely, definitely, you know, like you said, you know, um the White House and happy that they are really something special. You know. Um, I mean this is I've I've had some pretty crazy games, so like that in front of that, you know, but again, um, being in the NFL, you know, this is this is the best crowd that I've played in front of, you know, Umm, being at home, you know, so I mean coming out there to Soldier Field each and every week, you know,

it's fun to play in front of. You know, when you were in Jacksonville and you were going through your contract situation, there was transition tag was mentioned with your name, So given to what happened you you're here with the Bears and then you see what the transition tag and Levion Ball is going through. Did it all work out for you according to the plan that you would hope for whenever? Because it's there's there's so many business aspects of the decisions. You have to make that a lot

of time. We're not privileged too. But it all worked out the way you wanted it, definitely, you know, for me, Um, throughout the course of the season, you know, just kind of talking to my agent and things like that. You know, as a player, you start to kind of sculpe out you know, some some some of the possible scenarios, you know, and especially once I saw a coach coach nag he get the job here, you know, Um, Chicago flew to number one on my radar. You know, that was that

was a big thing for me. You know, I had I had got a chance to really watch a pretty good amount of film on on the Kansas City offense and what they had done, you know, and and really how their players are moved around and stuff like that. You know, so as a receiver, I mean for I mean, for me, it was truly a no brainer. You know, I have not heard many players actually do the homework beforehand. They have their agent try and set the price, and maybe the guy wants to pick two or three places

he wants to go. But it sounds to me like you did the homework on coach first before committing and they obviously had to have interest as well. I would find that quite rare. Why did you do that? For me? I knew that this would be a big, a big point in my career, you know, the next um these next few years, you know, as far as as far as what I want to establish, you know, again, as

as myself as a player, you know. So I think that was the most important thing, you know, is is to really get with a coach who was a was something like an offensive guru, you know, who knew, who knew how to make things easy for the players, put the players in right positions and everything like that, you know. So I think for any guy, you know, for I mean for me, you know, my goal is to play

at least twelve seasons, you know, that's my goal. So for me, I knew that this part right here would be a big, big part of my career, you know. So for me, I really wanted to take the time, especially having a little bit of extra time, you know, being an injured I wanted to do all all the due diligence that I could do. Why is that the magic number? Um? I felt like for me, just kind of setting that as a as a goal for myself.

You know, Um, I feel like in twelve seasons, Um, I'll be able to to really accomplish everything that I would want to accomplish out of the game, you know, and as far as you know, just just me playing a minimum of twelve you know, so I thought, you know, twelve years would be a good number, just as far as to me, you know, to to really hold me accountable us as to a goal. You know, I'm a

I'm a very goal setting person, you know. So I feel like twelve seas really allowed me a chance, you know, to compete for Super Bowls, you know, to be able to do things with my family, you know, to play in to play in an organization like this. You know, I knew that twelve seasons would be able to really to really exhaust everything on the NFL that I would eat. You know what's cool about playing for Matt Naggie, It's never a one man show. Everybody's gonna get their opportunities.

And I think the Bears have plenty of playmakers. But I'm reading an article today on my phone that said the Bears lack game breakers, and I don't agree with that because I think there's a lot of you guys

that have the ability to be game game breakers. But I like Matt's use of all the playmakers, and that had to be interesting that when you came to Chicago, then you saw all the other pieces that they were putting in here, and how all you guys were going to be able to run this scheme together and how effective it would be. Definitely, you know, and that's something that you really see and field through training camp, you know. I mean, we have a lot of guys who can

go out there and make plays, you know. So I mean, for us, we don't really focus too much too much on the outside of noise. You know. We understand that the media has to be the meeting and has to write about something, you know. So for us, you know, we understand the players that we have. You know, we've had players a lot of players you know, score touchdowns and and and really thrive in their opportunities and stuff

like that, you know. So you know, each each and every week we just try to go out there and just compete and be our best. Last week, on the official stats at the end of the game, I think it might have been one of the first time I've seen it that every single player active was used. You know how every time you look at them, there's always a couple of backup quarterback or a backup tight end

or whatever that doesn't get a chance to play. Every guy used in the game last week, and it's kind of neat because every everybody has their hand in the victory and there's more support in the locker room. Definitely, definitely, And that's something that coach Nik you know, preaches, especially in offensive rooms. You know, everybody has to learn everything you know each and every week, you know, because you don't know how you know, really how to cookie makrmball.

You know, going back to what time said about alleged lack of game breakers, this offense is designed to stretch the field vertically and horizontally. And now you got a three dimensional component when you add in a guy like Adam Shaheen getting back healthy because he's six foot seven, two hundred and seventy pounds and he can run and he can catch, he can you know, threaten the seam, and he can be a red zone target. But with Cohen and Burton and Gabriel a lot of yard after

the catch. Those are three guys were already a lot of yards after the catch in this offense. You know, every position you're a deep threat. You got the tight end position. I said with Shaheen, you got Jordan Howard, you got many different types of weapons. Isn't that more beneficial to create matchups and also to force a defense that you know, we gotta pick your poison a little most definitely, you know, even even through him, they're Anthony Miller, you know, Yeah, I forgot it. I mean, we got

we have we have. Sorry, Anthony, I didn't mean to forget Anthony. We have a great group of guys, you know. And that's the thing, you know, for us each and every week, you know, we go against teams in and just just pick your poison, you know, I mean, whatever you do. You know, we have a counter four, you know, and we have and we have more where that came from,

you know. And I think that's what makes this thing so fun is again you see so many different guys making plays and it's and it's so hard to account for as many players as we have. That's Alan Robbinson the second. He's our guest here on Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy, Jeff and Tim with

you as well. We'll be with you to the top of the hour at P and C Studios at Hallisa in front of a live studio audience of Bears season ticket holders, no doubt jacked up by the fact the Bears have hit the bye week at five at the halfway point, at five and three, the second half of the season gets under way, and we hope to see Alan on the field on Sunday, Khalil Mack on the

field on Sunday, Adam Shaheen. But Nichols, Ben Bronnicker all this week cleared to practice and ready to go at the right time because three games in twelve days and I know we're gonna focus on just one. But the fact of the matter is is Prince and Mukamara brought up yesterday, it's hard not to think about playing the Lions twice in three weeks because that's a rare occurrence. But do you guys feel like it's almost a new

season starting a little bit? You got the first half out of the way, some of the kinks out, everybody's getting healthy, and now you go into the good stuff the divisionally, definitely, you know, and I think that's what's so fun about this league. You know, you work so hard and in the months of May, April and August, you know, to put yourself out of position to be really contending for you know what I'm saying, for the division in November. You know, that's what you play for.

You play to be in the mix in November and December, you know, so you start the new year hopefully as a playoff team. You know, that's what you play for. You know, like coach Nagie always says, it's a lot of teams right now who are really getting ready for next year, and there's a lot of teams who are doing a lot of things. You know. Fortunately, we're the team you know that's at the top of the division, you know, and really getting into the meat of our schedule,

you know, and it's exciting. You know. Again, like I said before, that's what you play for, and you've earned it because you missed the good stuff last year in Jacksonville. Definitely. I mean, I don't even know how you handled that. Honestly.

It was tough. It was tough, you know again, Um, I mean seeing for me being in Jacksonville, you know, seeing the send of the years that we had my first three years, you know, to to really creating a culture and really working so hard to get to that standpoint, you know, to be in sidelined in in the biggest game that I've ever been a part of, you know, as far as the AFC Championship, you know, said that was tough, you know, but but again, I'm glad to

be able to have this opportunity right now to really be in the mix, you know, at the top of the division, you know, and really usum, really us having the whole whole plan to you know, to what we want, you know, as far as as far as winning the division. You know, we hold our own destiny in our hands, you know, and that's what you want. In November. Being from Michigan, did you have an attachment to the Detroit Lions when you're growing up? I mean, are you familiar

with the thing? And I'm not looking ahead because I've had the experience of playing in the Thanksgiving Day game and it's kind of unique because there's not a lot of teams playing. It's a Thursday game. Um, we're you a Detroit Lion fan growing up? I mean, are you a Calvin Johnson guy? Almost? Actually, it's funny. Growing up, I was a Randy Moss fan. Really, I was a big Randy Moss fan, So I really wasn't. I really wasn't too much of a Detroit Randy Moss the Kings,

So yeah, I was. I was a huge Brandy Moss. You know. Typically my um typically one of my birthday gifts each and every year was to be able to go see the Vikings when they played at Detroit because of his skills? Is that why? I mean? It was that's that obvious that his skills were so superior. Definitely definitely. You know, growing up playing football, you know, watching this guy, you know, um and some of the plays he made.

I believe it was one game, I think he had like three catches for like one hundred and sixty seven yards and three touchdowns or something crazy, you know. So um, he always had always put on a great show. Well, you know he has this little little bit on TV. Now you got moshed. What would it be for Allen Robinson, you know when you burned somebody? Yeah, definitely, I definitely want you got robbed. That's how I like that. I like that. That's Allen Rods in the second here I

bears all Access. We're gonna step away back with Moron, Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score. This segment of Bears All Access is orchestrated by cd CDW people to get it Jeff Jonny Act, Tom Fair, and Adam Robinson. The second the Bear's receiver back and ready to go, hopefully this week after that grunt injury. Those soft tissue injuries are paining, aren't they They are? They are you know, um, just so much you got to get through, you know.

Fortunately now I'm I'm back one hundred percent, you know, so feeling good. Yeah, you probably could have played, probably, But Matt Naggi is emphasized over and over again that take the cautious approach. Do you appreciate that as a player, even though everybody wants to play. I can't even imagine what Khalil Mack wanted to do about not being able to play because of his ankle. But sometimes it's a

smart move. Definitely, Definitely it's smart, you know, I'm um, definitely frustrating for me, you know, I wanted to be out there, you know, and and for me, um, the number one goal that I had said this year was I wanted to playing all sixteen games. You know, that was a goal that I as set for myself, you know. So it was frustrating, you know, not being able to not accomplish that, but you know the best is yet to come for you. Do you like your animated character

that they have for all? I do? I do. Actually, I like it. Think that you're you're physical enough your arms? I do. I do. I actually like it a lot. I do remember the first time seeing it, you know, and I thought that I really like it a lot. Yeah, it's a great you know what. Um. One thing I wanted to ask you about is Jeff and I have had the opportunity since he's been here to get to know Adrian Amos a little bit. Um. I know, you guys are good friends from college. He's told us that before.

Are you surprised how good he is as a pro? Are you surprised what he's developed into? And are you impressed with the way that he's come along in these last couple of years. Definitely, I'm not surprised at all. You know. One thing is funny, um, Actually, once I left Penn State, I kept telling him to play cornerback, to play cornerback. He was a he was a very good cornerback in college. You know, and it's funny because

we always go back and forth. I know he wanted to play safety, and I will always tell him just

continue to play corner. Continue to play corner. So as far as I'm not, I'm not at all surprised that at the player that he has developed into, you know, I mean, he has tremendous cover skills for a safety, you know, um him and him and Eddie Jackson, you know, they both do you know, So, I mean I think that's something that really is is rare in this league, you know, being able to have two safeties who can cover you know, light corners, you know. So m for him,

you know, it's not it's not surprising at all. Well, you'd better be able to in this league now the highest scoring total in NFL history at this point anyway, and the most touchdown passes in the league, So you gotta have. I mean, look at Bryce Callahan, He's basically playing the entire game in Vic Fangio's nickel package. Defensively, she's got to be able to tackle here. Yeah. Yeah, that's requirement for a corner to safe. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

You know, I think I think that's what the league has come to you know, they put a lot of stress on the back end. But you know, Adrian when he got here and they didn't have the support of the pass rush they do now, and they you know, it kind of took a little bit of pressure that was kind of unfair to him. So for us, I'm not speaking for Jeff, but I know I'm really impressed with the way he's come along because he's a true pro.

And I don't think if you dedicate yourself at this level, whether you're good or not, you may not you know, it may not work out for you. But the effort that he's put into it's kind of cool. Definitely. Like you said, you know that's something especially on defense, you know what I mean really on both sides of the ball. You know, every thing from from upfront, you know, has to has to coincide with, you know, what you want

to do as far as an offense or defense. You know, you need to line the block, you know, you gotta have a receiver running route, you need to pass rush, you need to cover, you know, so in this league that's kind of how it works sometimes. And you guys were roomies, right, Yeah, Yeah, has he at all changed? He has literally not changed a bit, not changed a bit. You know. Um it's funny. Um I haven't, I haven't.

I haven't lived with him in five years, but I could, I could, I could only imagine he literally has not changed one bit. Oh he's a humble guy. He's soft spoken, but uh, you know he when he has something to say, it's pretty, it's a it's a deep thought he right, I mean he tells it like it is a little bit. He does. He does, He definitely does. And he's the

incredible Hulk, right, that's what they call him. Yeah, yeah, I mean he's been he's been living with that, you know, since since probably our freshman year in college that I can think of, So, I guess said quite the recruiting class. That's yeah. Over there at Penn State. Alan Robinson the second our guest here on Bears All Access were brought

to you by IGS Energy. So now that you've had time to marinate a little bit with this new team that you're on, and you know what a playoff team looks like, obviously from being in Jacksonville, you know what it takes for a team to get over the hump and get to someplace that everybody wants to go. Do you see the makings of that right now swirling in

this locker room? Definitely? You know, I would say the first time that I saw it and knew the kind of team that we would have was after we beat Arizona. You know, it's hard enough in this league trying to come back from down fourteen on the road. You know, so having a young team like this, you know, a team who really had only played a couple of games.

You know, that game could have won a lot of different ways, you know, but seeing how the sideline responded, seeing an energy that we maintained throughout the course of the game, you know, I knew the kind of team that we would have had. You know. It's a lot of teams, you know, when they get down ten points or thirteen points, it could be in the first quarter or whatever. You know, they lay down. You know. So we were down fourteen points, I believe came out our

first drive of the second half. We punt it. You know, so even then, you know, a lot of teams would have just packed it up, you know, and start pointing fingers,

start blaming different people. You know, as a team, we really hung together, you know, hung strong and battle back and won that game, you know now, and that's really you know, every time I would go home, you know, I would talk to my to my family, everybody would saying, you know that that right there was a special and big win for us throughout the course of the season.

You know, when you win a game like that early, you know you're able to play week to weekend and really keep that in the memory bank as far as not getting down, you know, knowing how the game can play. Same thing with like the Dolphins game. We didn't come out on top, but as a as an offense, you know, we really picked it up in the second half, you know, and we know that we can do that comeback in Arizona. Huh didn't that happen any two thousand and six, right

Bears fans? I can't remember yesterday? Super Bowl year. You know what's interesting for Buffalo game was, and it's got to be exciting for you is the first player to start the second half, they come out here and he Unleasha's middle of the field the bomb and then it ends up interference and stuff. But it's nice to see that Mad It's always on the edge of attack, definitely.

You know that's something that he preached. You know, he wants to stay aggressive, you know, and I think for us, you know, as as players in the offense, you know, that's what you want. You know, you never want to play against the clock. You know, I've said I said a few times, you know, to really accomplish what we want to accomplish in this league, you got to beat the team. You know, you can never beat the clock. You know, beating the clock is so tough. You know, again,

especially playing against against good quarterbacks and good teams. You know, you the only way to beat that team is that go through that team. You know, Bears fans are really smart fans, and they study their opponent. They really get to know the guys within the division really well. Are you a type of guy that studies the defensive backfields of the teams in the Bears Division or is it just week the week you only you only study what

you have in front of you. Or are you familiar with the talent within this division because now you're playing on Yeah, definitely, I would say I would say for me, typically how it goes is um I kind of focus on the big picture of that a little bit more in the in the in the off season, months, you know, when you have more time and stuff like that, you know, but during the season, you know, I really keep it,

uh keep it focused on week to week, you know. Um, oh no, I'm sorry, it's took a deep breath, now go ahead. Yeah, yeah, so, uh so I keep it week to week. You know, we play against a lot of good defense and a lot of good cornerbacks in

this league. You know, every game matter, you know, So I know, I know now especially you know, getting into the division, we do have having the lumps of a division games coming up, you know, but each and every week, you know, like like coach Matt has said before, you know, we've we've really put ourselves in this position, you know, to be to be five and three into and to give ourselves these these next two quarters of the season, you know, to really accomplish what we want to complish.

If you play against the team they have a number one corner, would you rather go against the number one corner all all game? Or would you like to be alternated between the different corners depending upon what side of the field or where you line up on the field. I mean, I mean, are you do you become more familiar with the defense you're doing if you do one guy, definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely. Um. I just it's funny because I didn't I didn't want to tip my hand too much as far as as

far as my preference, you know. But but it's like being an offense. It's like it's like a boxing match, you know. Um in boxing, you know, boxers go up against the one opponent you know, for the whole match. You know, so you're able to to kind of crack a code if you will, or or you know, just kind of develop your strategy based on you know, how the game is going and stuff like that. So I think set them up a little bit. Yeah. Well, with that being said, do sometimes because you know you're you're

a very level headed guy. Uh well, I can tell anyway. But you got receivers and corners in this league not naming names, they really get into it a little bit in the weeks in advance of the matchups. So either they're trying to get in each other's head or one up them in the in the public relations game or

whatever it is. Um, I don't picture you ever doing that, But are there corners out there or guys that have kind of baited you over the course of a couple of weeks before the matchup, or during the week of the matchup, on game day maybe or maybe during the game, maybe during the game. Um, you know. But but me personally,

I've never done that, you know him. I think again, in this league, you know, I'm typically so focused in lockdown, you know, to the to the week to week playing, you know, as far as as far as a certain things, you know. And again, I'm not a person who really, um really circles too many teams or or or a defensive backs or opponents on the schedule. You know, I take I take every each and every week for what it is you're sending that too many. So there is

a couple, you know, it's a couple. It's always a couple. You know, it's always a couple. So anybody you want to get back get back at again, you don't have to, I'd ask you for names. So there's got to be a guy or two you like to get back at them. Definitely, definitely. All right, that's Alan Roberts. In the second We'll continue on here from Hallis Hall at PNC Studios. Here brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio. Six seventy to score. The Chicago Bears Network presents Inside of

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bills times. I'm so very expensive. Um yeah, right, double a. Anthony Adams? Did you know him from Penn State? And have you seen anything of him on just the different funny things? I did not know him from Penn State, But how could you miss the antics that he has? Right, That's what I'm saying. You know, Anthony Adams was a really good football player and he comes from Penn State. But now he's a developed a persona on the comedic then that's more. Many more people know him for that

nowadays than you know for his football accomplishments. Definitely, definitely, you know what I know, for him, I don't know if that's good or bad, you know, but but I'm it's definitely. Um, I would say, you know, that's a great thing, you know, being able to transition, you know, out of the game and do different things, you know, and really such a mark on certain things like that is is a great accomplishment. He's developed a brand, he's developed Spice Adams, and it comes with it. And like

you said, I think you're intrigued by that yourself. You you almost and he had done stuff folks in Jacksonville about his recovery from the ACL and it was almost like your own media company. Yeah, honestly, it's funny because actually me actually met and one of my buddies did like the whole thing. Really okay, yeah, so in this person had some background in it or yeah, yeah, it's just wait and yeah no, um, we both went to

Penn State. Um, we both were in a communication. So I mean, he knows a lot about a lot about the behind the camera stuff. Well, it's a great pairing because it's a great story. These mini documentaries, they're very popular right now. We all have short attention spans apparently in our society. So these five to ten minute vignettes about somebody's journey that and not unlike Tom Brady's deal

that he did. It was fascinating and it was fascinating to hear you and first person explain your journey and what you all went through, because I don't think the average person. I mean, there's a lot of high school football players out there, college football players. You've never admitted to the NFL that obviously, and whatever sport you played,

you've suffered an injury of significance. Torn acls are very common, unfortunately, but for a professional football player in the top one percent of all human beings who can actually get a job and play it at a high level, like yourself, that is a significant hurdle to overcome, and that is a very lonely journey. What was it for you or did you try and make it? Because it happened on a third play of your season you lost the whole dog on thing. What was that journey? How did you

choose to frame it for yourself? For me, once I had gotten back into the locker room after I got injured, I told myself, you know, it's It's a couple of different ways that this thing can go. You know, I can either feel sorry for myself or I can bounce back, you know, and really set myself up to be the

player that I've always been. You know, I knew that I knew that nobody would feel sorry for me, and I knew that me feeling sorry for me wouldn't do anything, you know, So at that at that standpoint in time, you know, it was always always glass glass half full, you know, And for me, I think that was a big thing that that changed a lot, just as far as my mental and how I approached a lot of

different things. You know, each and every day, if you ask anybody in Jacksonville or even here, you know, who's who has really had any type of any type of part in in my progress in my recovery, you know, they'll tell you each and every day. For me, you know, I came in here and you know, each and every day was like it was like nothing ever happened. You know.

And it's funny because even even the trainer, Andre Tucker, he will always tell me, you know, like like something, I know, you may have those days, you know where you're not feeling the best or something like that, you know, so just let me know, you know, But even he'll tell you know, it's not I don't think a day at all that I ever came in here and said that,

you know. And and again I knew, I knew the type of player that I wanted to get back, you know, and not just to get back to the player that I that I was then, but continue to improve from that, you know. And I knew again that at the moment if I dropped my head, you know, I knew the different ways that that could go. You know, it's there's

never a good time to get hurt. We've all I've had surgeries too, but you've given the fact that when it happened, it's probably better for you in your career instead of happening with seventeen seconds left in the season or you know, because you worked to that hard and then you had that whole process of being able to get yourself healthy again. And now if if anybody didn't know it, no one would ever know that about it. And now you're you know, they often say, oh, kids,

it's you can get back. Obviously did, but it's now a year and a half. Yeah, that's kind of a slot number for getting back for Yeah, definitely, definitely you know him and each and every week, you know, throughout my lifting stuff and stuff like that, you know, I continue to do different different playos and stuff like that, you know, to to really continue to help my explosiveness and everything like that that I've that I've always brought

to the table. I think Adrian Peterson was able to, um kind of allow people to believe in theirselves if they did go out and they work hard and they did the right where youhab, that they could get back to one hundred percent less than you're just like he did.

And definitely, you know, um I was say, I would say, it's a it's a pretty big group of guys, you know that I can think of off the top of my head, just that I will always you know, kind of just think back about, you know, going through my recovery. You know, you're Adrian Peterson's, You're Jordy Nelson's, you're Keenan Allen's.

You know, seeing how these guys came back from their injuries and stuff like that, you know, I knew again, I knew if I just put my head down and work to get back on that field, you know, that everything will play out how how essentially how I wanted it to. So, Matt Nagy, you investigated him obviously, now you've gotten to know him, and the and the players like to call him Swaggy Naggie. I think Josh Belleny came up with that because he does carry himself in

that manner. We can see it. We saw it in the micd up segment that the Bears put together from the game against the Jets, I believe, and just his fire, his intensity, what he does in the post game, his idea of celebrating wins. I think it's starting to resonate with this young slash pseudo veteran team. What's he like behind closed doors when he's just talking to Allen Robbins, same he knows that, like you said, you know, very

very very energetic, very optimistic. You know, I've never it's not too many times that you see him upset, you know. I mean, the only thing that can really get him upset is mental errors. So besides that, it's not too

many things that can really get him upset. You know, he's always he's always positive, always encouraging, you know, and I think for any player, you know, not just young players, but vets and you know you need that from a coach, you know, because again I mean from a guy who who really played the game and a guy who understands players and understands how players tick and stuff like that. You know, he's a great coach. You got the disco ball that hangs in the winning locker room after games.

I've never seen it before, but now we see snippets and highlights of everybody dancing in the background. You have your breakout dance ready, so when you you know, are are you? Are you ready for that moment? I'm not. I'm not a big dancer, you know, And I think I'll keep it to the same terms of coach nag, you know, m I'll bring out some dance moves. You know, once you go to the playoffs, you know that's the plan.

You can always go to the robot good well, you know, like he says, just be right, yeah, you don't that. You don't dance. You can jump up and down though, you can celebrate with your teammates, and the Bears have done it five times so far in twenty eighteen, looking for more. Starting Sunday against the Lions at Soldier Field, will continue with our guest, Alan Robinson the Second here

from Pallis Hall and panc Studio. After this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score and thank you to Alan Robinson Second for joining us today on Bears All Access. Ruths Chris would like to send this one hundred dollar gift card to enjoy at one of their Chicagoland area steakhouses. Tom Thare's opening up your gifts. I mean, he's like sports. He's the kid on Christmas morning, no question,

will be opening up everybody. He is. He is a meddler and a needler, and he's very very how should I say fidgety? You know on the team plane. I can't even sit still. I can't even fall asleep. He'll be poking at me. He doesn't want me to sleep. One time, as a kid, I got a box of slim Gems for Christmas. I woke up and ate every one of them. That's down there. I'm Jeff Jonik. Our final moments where Ellen Robinson the Second here on Bears

All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy. We really appreciate the season ticket holders coming by, so thank you folks very much for coming here. I hope you're enjoying the show, all right. I can't help it because the locker room and I go in the locker room two or three times a week for a few minutes and say, how do the fellows do some interviews or whatever? And there's constant conversation about the NBA in there. I mean,

you got Charles Lenno Junior knows his basketball. You got Josh bell Andy weighing in on who's the greatest of all time? And Allen Robinson shows up to our show tonight in a Big Baller brand sweatshirt. I could see where he's thinking. He's he loved them Lakers. You know, It's funny. I just realized, probably what five or sixty years ago, that I wasn't actually a Lakers fan. I

was a Kobe Bryant fan, you know. And it's funny because you kind of throughout the whole wave of Kobe Bryant, you know, I just assumed that I was a Lakers fan as well until he left, and there was like, gosh, I really don't like the Lakers like that. And it's funny because one of my host buddies is a big Lakers fan, and we always bonded over being quote unquote Lakers fans, you know, and took Kobe Bryant left, and it's like, oh, like, I'm not a Lakers fan anymore.

So I think that's pretty funny. Now what Um, Now, I really just follow a lot of good basketball, you know, I'm not really too I do like watching the Celtics, you know, I really enjoy watching the young team that they have, um them, Golden State. I like watching Golden State. Um, it's a lot of good ball going on right now. Did you like the bad boys back in the day?

Too young? I am too young? I am too young. Yeah, I was more What was that two thousand and four Pistons, two thousand and four Pistons, Ben Willace, Richard Hamilton, Chauncey Billups, Tayshaun Prince group right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was the group. That was a group that I grew. When you look at a guy like Lebron James, and you know, the thing that I always I talked about it all the time because I'm so impressed with the obvious effort he has to invest in the off season

to be so great for this many years. And when you talk about playing for twelve years. Um, you have to have that investment in the off season, and if you don't, you're not gonna play, no matter how badly you want to. And so when I see a guy like Lebron, that's what inspires me, is the effort that he must invest in the off season. Is it the same for you most definitely. Yeah, I'm definitely learning more,

you know, each and every year. You know, as far as you know, investing in like game readys, norma techs, you know this this up and coming off season, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to invest in the hyperbaric chamber, you know, So just doing a lot of different things, you know, like you said, you know, for me, um, for me wanting to play you know at least twelve years.

You know, that's that's a job in itself, you know, each and every day, each and every off season, you know, taking care of your body, putting the right things into your body. You know. So it's a lot of work. Well, you're in the right place because in this building, I mean obviously the Peyton Center, and Tim played with Walter so knows every detail about how he got ready in off seasons and the and the infamous hill that he

ran every every summer getting ready for the season. But Charles Tillman, we were privileged enough to see Charles here for a long time, and how he showed up on the first bus every every game, and how he went through these really detailed situations before a game to get himself right. Or Matt Forte who did use the hyperbaric chamber, I believe too, And what the massages he got after every game and and the and the It was painful.

Its painful to get rid of the pain, definitely. So you got to be willing to go through the pain to get rid of the pain most definitely, you know, like you said, massages, cold up, um, cupping, hyperbaric, you know, even like cryotherapy. You know, it's a lot of different things that you can use. And do you do the

cupping thing and explain that thing? I do? I do so yeah, So so I guess the cup and is you know, they put these cups on you and they and they and they compress them, you know to where ass they're they're compressing your muscles, you know, because the best way to get like the acid and stuff out of your muscles is to compress it, you know, rather that's through a cup, through massage and stuff like that.

You know, so at times it is it is pretty painful. Yeah, so you'll see, guys, it's not your typical massage where it Yeah, you got these big bruising circle bruises on your body. It is amazing what you guys go through. Players and all that's done. What's your game ready attitude like, because you're it's not massage and it's not covering all that stuff has been done during the week and now you show up on Sunday morning, Monday night, Sunday night,

whenever you're gonna play. You know, me, my typical game day is funny because just probably over the last three to four years, and I'm not a big, big music guy on game day, you know, I'm typically just focused, locked in. You know, when I'm riding to the stadium, I typically may um um driving wise, I may I may turn on the radio, you know, and whatever's on there, you know, but I'm not too much like loud music

and stuff like that. You know. I found it best for me, you know, to just to just be you know, everything calming, you know, just just visualizing and thinking about you know, everything that's about to take place early early bus or late bus early bus, first bus because it when you go to a team they have six buses for the team. They have them staggered, so you can go at different times. First bus time goes on a cab at five thirty in the morning. But I never

took a team bus to a game. I took a cab every time because I kind of got there a little bit earlier because that was so anxious and everything. But and then that you look at the guys that come on the third bus because they have a whole different way that they function and get Yeah, yeah, for me,

I'm the first bus guy, you know. Being able to be able to get to the stadium, you know, just kind of just kind of sit down, you know, being able to do everything that I want to do, you know, as far as as far as maybe getting cups before the game or or or different things like that. You know.

So I'd just like to give myself all the time in the world, you know, to really prepare myself and and to really just you know, just just kind of relax a little bit before the game and just you know, um, I mate, like uh, look at some more players or just kind of visualize everything. Well, one thing we can say, I'm behalf of all Bears fans, glad to have you back. I'm glad to have you in Chicago. I'm glad, trust me, I'm glad to be here in Chicago. Now, this is

a good city for it. You're a Midwestern guy and now I hope to see you on Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Good luck in it should be a heck of a second half of the season. Will be five and three, Bears in first place. We'll have the game nine am pre game noon kickoff over on WBBM on Sunday. That's gonna wrap us up here. From how to saw PNC Studio Bears FANJA turned out again. Way to go for Allen Robinson the second time there. I'm Jeff Joniac.

Thanks for listening, everybody. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score, Yeah,