All Access: Trubisky excited about new offense

access pass into Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Miller Litte, CDW and four From Chicago Bears Training Camp headquarters on the campus of Ottavat Nazarene University and bourbon A, we are bringing you Bears All Access tonight, brought to you by IGS Energy with eighty five Bear and Super Bowl winner Tom There, I'm Jeff Jonik and our special guest, Bears starting quarterback Mitch Drubisky. Thanks for taking the time

to join us. And you don't have time. I mean, you are really stretched, aren't you? Right now? Right now? I appreciate y'all having me, but uh gotta make time for Bears All Access. Give us an idea of just what it's been like from from a layman's perspective, how you can translate it into their everyday life. Just what you're trying to learn here and trying to be so let's just wake up, eat practice, eat meetings, walk through, eat meetings, go to bed, do it all over again.

For however, many days in a row, had a day off. Yesterday I got to decompress a little bit. But yeah, all we're doing is eating, meeting, talking football, and then playing football. So really, really they just locked in out here in Bourbons and it's been a lot of fun. We're installing a lot on offense, so it's all about just repetition, getting it down and learning installs each day.

Is there anything transferable from last year? Because last year we watched Mitchell Trubisky being a three five seven step drop quarterback. Now we see Mitchell Trubisky rpo. Is there anything transferable for you, either language wise or fundamental wise. It's a lot different. It's a lot different from last year, just the footwork, the the differential differential between last year and this year. It's just there's a lot more freedom

within the offense. There's a lot more freedom within the footworks and the drops um RPO drop back and it's all about timing and getting it down. So we have like a quick three, stretch three and rhythm three, so they're like all different three steps, but it's all within that family, Um, and then all the terminology is different. We have some words that were taken from last year, but they mean different things this year. And that's throughout

I mean all throughout all the NFL. Like you have some words that are definitely used like trips and double and but last year it meant something different this year. Luster, Yeah, exactly. I've seen you run maybe five or six different screens already. You know, you talk about a screen, and you know, we had a slow screen, we had a slip screen, we had a full back screen. Now I see I might have seen you guys screen to five or six

different players. That's just one play in particular that has a lot more exposure of what you can do with it. I love the tight end screen. Yeah, definitely, that's that's gonna be good. It's all about UM getting our different playmakers the ball and taking taking pressure off the rush. So just getting the ball out quick. It's easy completion for me. UM still counts his pass yards and we're just getting our playmakers the ball and the take the rush out of the thing and let our alignment and

go down the field and go blastom people. So UM, we have a lot of good screens in and it's all about just keeping the defense on their toes, just trying to hide the ball and all that, all that good stuff. That's a good point about hiding the ball because especially with the action you're bringing with the speed you have, whether it's Taylor coming around on an end around or a fake or whatever, it does freeze the defense for that split second, and you're a magician back

there with hiding the ball. I've had to pull my head around a few times to make sure. You to make it hard to call games, you know, because you got to make sure you know where the ball is going. Is that a big element of this that is really

gonna down to defense? Hopefully? Yeah, definitely. You just want to let that make that the defense hesitate just for one second, just you could get them go in a different direction or catch them out of place, or um have two defenders go with one guy that doesn't have the ball, just to get them out of place, and it really opens things up within the offense and it makes it easier on us if we could just um, if we could trick the defense just just by those

simple window dressings, the motions, the jet sweeps, the arounds, the um all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but and you gotta have this legit speed time. As you pointed out, they have to respect you have to respect it. Tariq, you have to respect Taylor. You have to respect Kevin. You have to respect it. Right, you got so many playmakers at the line of scrimmage, they have to account

for him. And I said, it's going to open up running lanes for your running backs, but it's gonna give you a great decisions to make out the line of scrimmage. You know, it seems I again sports transferable, are you. It seems like you're more of a point guard now, you know, the more familiar become. You can distribute, you can head fake, you can i fake, you can hand fake. But again, it's about distributing the football. But you can also hit a three. Yeah, that's that's the deep ball,

the touchdown. Yeah. So yeah, pretty much. I mean that's what it's been from my whole life, and last year was a little different, and then we're getting really back to just quarterback. It's all about getting the ball to your playmakers, not trying to do it all yourself. Use the talent around you. And I'm just I got a lot of talent around me now, so just distributing the ball, making sure we're in the right basketball term, the right

offensive set. So are we going against the man play his own play, do we have the right play on versus the right coverage? And uh, do we need to run the ball, and just getting all those things, making sure we're all set every and we for us, we play our best when we play fast. We're not thinking at the line of screamage where you go through our checks um and we're in the right play and then

we just go out and execute it. So for me, it's just getting everybody set in the right place and then distribute the ball to our playmakers, let them do what they do with the ball in the hands. What's neat for us as Bears fans is, for years we've watched the great running backs, whether it's Gayle Sayers, Walter pay Neil Anderson, the whole crew of running backs to the bench here and the other day listen to coach Naggi. He talked about how important the vertical passing game is

to make this offense successful. And that's kind of interesting for us because we're used to seeing three yards in a cloud or dust, but you gotta have that influence of throwing the ball down field in order to do more at the line of scrimmage. Yeah, if if I'm not mistaken mistaken, Coach Niggi's offense last year they led the league in rushing and then they were very good

passing the football as well. So you gotta have a number two yards after the catch, which I can see a ton of that here right for sure, that's what we want. We want yards after the catch, get the playmakers, ball stretched, the ball down the field. But it's it's all gonna come with that balance. And we have great running backs and we're gonna have to use all of them to keep the defense honest. And then hopefully when when you suck the defense up, that's when you can

really take shots behind them. So we just gotta use both those and feed off one another and hopefully that allows everything to open up. But you got definitely got to have that balance. And in our linement up from they've done a great job pass pass blocking, but they love running the ball, and that's what they really enjoy doing is run blocking as well. So in this you really feel, then, given what you've learned to this point and what's all been put in. You'll be able to

affect every blade of grass, horizontal and vertical, stretching it. Yeah, that's the goal. That's the goal. I think all good offenses do that to some extent. U use all the field and and really do what you're good at. Like we're we're gonna be our off our own offense. We're gonna do what we're good at. And we're not just trying to be anyone else besides ourself. We're not trying to be the Chiefs from last year. We're not trying to be the Patriots. We're not trying to be the Eagles.

We're trying to be the twenty eighteen Bears. And we're still figuring that identity under coach and egging his offense, and they've done a great job so far. And we're just m just gonna keep rolling from here. Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with us here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score Jeff and time with you as well, and we're pleased to have these starting quarterback of the

Bears with us. Well, you know, old school, we would carry a playbook around with us that could be anywhere between three and four hundred pages. How much of this new playbook do you have ingested? Because you know what match? I don't think people I do. I talk about it all the time. How difficult it is for a quarterback to master the terminology then know exactly what it means for us other position players. We can look at pictures, we can look at what has identified exactly to us.

How long did it? How long does it take you to master just the language to go out and run a huddle? Yeah, it's still an ongoing process, I would say, because we're just building and building each day. But I mean, we could play a game tomorrow with everything we have in and we'd be perfectly fun. We got enough in the run game, in the past game, and in situational two minute red zone, all that stuff to be able to play to a game tomorrow. But right now we're trying to get as much as we can on film

of the whole playbook. We're still in installations and I don't even know if we're halfway done yet. But we didn't just have a ton of bulk, And for me it's just drawing a lot and going through the play calls so I can step in the huddle say the play call with confidence, making sure everyone's getting lined up, we're playing fast and everyone knows what to do. So there's a lot of studying for me from that aspect, but we definitely have enough in right now where we

could go out and play a game. But this, this offense and the way they've taught it, everything builds off one concept and gets more and more complex to just just give us more options down the field, and I mean down the road. When you break the huddle, does the cadence just fall out of your mouth or because there's a lot of adjustments and I think a lot of sight evaluation, a lot of subtle changes that you

can make just in your cadence. So you use all that terminology and tell them what you're going to do in the huddle, then you go to the line of scrimmage and two, three, four things could change, you know how? Like I said, is the cadence easy for you or is it something you think about? It's I mean, it's become easy. The we have a bunch of cadences, which is different from last year because we usually would the defense is kikey on it. We only have to go

off one or two caneses. Now we have like eight to ten or however many silkanes is. I'm not trying to give too much out here because we probably got enemies listen. But I'm I'm listening as an offensive lineman at practice, so it's no not to divulge information. I'm just trying to see the simplicity. Harry coach na ch chirp in a day when he was in the in the running back pass protection drills with a linebacker, was some good hard accounts from your head coach. Yeah, he

he knows how to do it. He's been in that spot before. So I would just say for me, I get the play call in the headset, and I think about the play, and sometimes you gotta use a dummy cadence. Sometimes it's a good play, let's get up and run it. So I'm thinking about that. I get into the huddle, I tell them what we're gonna go on, tell them to play, and then reiterate what we're gonna go on. And depending on where the play clocks at or um, if I need to make a check, I could go

with the cadence. I told him more change it, and that's how we're going from there. Without giving Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it's. It's it's. We got two football mines sitting here, that's for sure, working out the details of what it's like to put together an offense and get it going for the regular season. We're gonna take our first break. Mitch Drubisky kind of us to join us here tonight

on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products to over one million customers across this great country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Mitch Dubisky, Bears starting quarterback. Here our guest tonight on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Paul's rage or Engineering, Greg Miller helping

us out today, Tom there and Jeff Joniac Here. Miller, you know that beards. He's got camp beard. He's got camp Bearday, he's grown it early for the playoffs. It's all white. Hey, match, I got a folklore question for you.

So I'm out in Hawaii this year and I meet somebody from your neighborhood, and they tell me about this high school game you played where you were the quarterback and I think Kareem Hunt was the running back on the other team, and he was saying that Mitchell Drubisky would take the ball and run around one end and take it the end zone. They would pitch it to

Kareem Hunt and he would go around the end. And I just heard that this game was some pretty explosive offensive firepower to from two guys that are now in the NFL. Yeah, it's crazy. I played against Cream in high school and then we actually played against each other growing up too, So when we were ten years old, I think was the first time we played each other, and our youth teams just battle against each other. And now that we're both in the NFL. It's pretty crazy.

But always ruined for Cream And see that coming from him or was he two young to recognize that type, this level of talent. We were just out there playing. Yea, we really weren't thinking down the road, but obviously we we stood out and what we could do on the football field, and we just continue to chase that dream and believe and made it happen. But yeah, he's He's a special you know that. Hearing that out in Hawaii, I always said, I'm gonna ask me to that question

when I get a chance. And so I've always been wondering about the focal are of two great high school people, you know, And it's no different for you at Joliette Catholic. And I'm sure you and your brother and I'm sure you guys weren't videotaping like we do now is as parents, we videotape everything our kids did in sports. And but I love seeing the old Peyton Manning Eli Manning videos from their backyard. There's one coming up on the Kelsey's

uh that are you know. They show them in Brown's uniform and Indians hats and they're running around tackling each other in the backyard. I'm sure you have those videos with your brother yea one brother or two brothers. Okay, so you got a lot of good stuff like that. But you know, you think about that ten years from now, fifteen years from now, they're gonna be running that stuff about you and what it was like growing up in Cleveland, and it's gonna just it's it's gotta be a little bit.

I don't have the right word for it, but not overwhelming. But it's just stunning to think that as a little kid, you're doing this and you have dreams and then they start to become reality and not everybody gets to experience that. Yeah, it's crazy. Like you said, there's no really words to put it in put put it into words, but like you just I mean, this is my life. There's no other way to like look at it. Besides like this

is the game. It's meant everything to me and I put everything that I had into it and it just worked out to where I get to do it for a job now and pay play at the highest level. So I mean, it's it's been a long time coming, but you for me living it, there really was no other way that it was going to work out, I guess if you put it that way. But it is a dream come true. Definitely, take don't take that for granted.

And h it's the best job in the world. Well for people that grow up to be a professional quarterback, for the people I got to see you growing up as a young kid. All the Pop Warner football I played high school. I never played with a quarterback that went on a Division one football or that went on to become a professional like yourself. So it's got to be neat for those people that live vicariously through the people they see grow up in their towns and that

are good in different sports. So, you know, quarterback, that's what makes that position so unique. There's one out of a thousand where if you're big as a kid, you're alignment. It's pretty cool. I know a lot of people back home still root for me, and that means the world for me. I got a lot of Crow's friends that are pretty much on this. All my friends and family are on this ride with me, and they get to enjoy it. And like you said, you a quarterback, that's

there's a lesser, lesser of us. Did you feel the same way with your family? Are all on the ride with you and still are? Oh yeah, oh yeah. I mean I'm the youngest of my family and I had the chance to go on a team during their most successful moments. But it's different. You're an obscure, you're a right guard. There could be fifty thousand people at the game.

They have no idea who you are. You get fifty thousand people at the game and every one of them know who's the quarterback position, So it's kind of a different stress. You've allays said you were born to be alignment, yeah, body type. Do you feel you were born to be a quarterback? Yeah, definitely. You never thought about anything else, Nope, No, I was thinking about playing running back up until sixth grade. Then we started throwing it and I was like, I

knew I was meant to play this position. So just throwing, running, getting everyone lined up, and just always having the ball in your hands, always being in control. That was I just felt like it was what I was meant to do. That's what the word I was going to go to was control. Control you that's your person that you like to be in charge. Be in control for sure, different

than being in charge, be in control, same thing. I don't mean it that way in that, you know, like your quarterbatrol, But yeah, by virtue of the title of position exactly, you are in charge when you're the quarterback. Yeah. With I mean that's just the way it has to be. And you have to be that leader in the locker room, in the huddle, and you gotta earn your teammate's respect, but you have that control on the field with the plays, and you have that leadership and being in charge just

by having that platform and being that position. Well, I would just thinking of you, have you ever been in a huddle and see confusion that you need to clear up before you get to the lion scrimmage? Because sometimes I've been in a huddle too, and there may be a player that just doesn't have the reps along with the rest of the team. It maybe it may need a subtle hand, a subtle adjustment, and you know, but that's got to go along with the position I would

assume at times throughout your life. Yeah, definitely all the time, especially in practice we're I mean, we're installing a lot and guys have a lot going on right now, and for me, like the number one thing is just like just speak up and ask me so I know that you don't know, because if I don't know that you don't know, then you just go out and run the wrong route or do the do the wrong assignment. So if you ask me, then I could get your out in the field. Then if I see that confusion, then

I try to just let them know right away. And a lot of times it happens during games and during practice where we're still talking about the last play and how we could have fixed that and watch that better. And it's hard because in practice you want to fix it. But like when you're doing team drills and and doing move the ball drills, you gotta forget about the last play and move on. Like the most important play is

the next play. Let's forget about that last one will come into meetings and that's why we have all his meeting time so we can watch film correct it then and and that's important. But guys want to correct down the field in the huddle, but when I walk in, that's it's not the time and place. We got to move on, get the next play, focus on the job and test at hand, and then go execute that play. So um, so you can just put it on film,

continue to learn from and get better. Mitch Trabisky our guest here on Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score Jeff and Tom, Mitch. Given the enormity of the task of digesting all of this, and it's on your shoulders to do it, and everybody else, you know, keys off of you. Are you able to quiet your mind at all on those down moments when you do have some time or is your mind constantly thinking now even off

the football field, about football and about this offense. Yeah, definitely. Um, I've found ways to decompress and just relax and uh and just like be myself and be a normal person. But this is the life that I chose, and this is the life that chose me, and I just I have a football mind, always think about concepts. I always thinking about ways to get better. I always thinking about my teammates. Uh, always staying in touch with coach, um, all my coaches, really just texting my ideas and um,

watching film what I can get better at. But I have found ways to just relax, connect with family, decompress, watch Netflix, or just get away from you a little bit. Because if you're always just you, you never want it. You never wanted to become boring, monotonous or football always

excites me all the time. So once once I step away for whether it's five, ten, fifteen minutes or a couple hours, once I get back into it, then I got to make sure it has all my intention, all my focus, because we just you don't want to do anything eighty or ninety percent, it's gotta be one hundred and ten all the time. So when did it bite you football? When did it get you? When did it get me? When did you remember? When did you sign the first autograph and you say this is I'm going

to sign it when I make them. But that moment that you fell in love with the game. I don't know if you can recall it as a little kid, but it had to be when you're a little tyke. It had to be when I was little. It had to be when I was little. Um, the first week I think of practice ever, I was seven and I was playing against bigger kids and I was getting smashed. I'm like, Mom, Dad, I don't know if this is for me because I was playing like wingback or something.

It wasn't a quarterback yet. And they're like, no, you're you're sticking to it. And thank god I did, because then you just you score a couple of touchdowns, you get that feeling, you you just you you make some of your best friends growing up and you're like, oh, this is awesome, this is so much fun. And then score touchdowns. You're having fun, you're winning games. And then and then you're watching the college and NFL games on TV,

and for me. It was going back to my high school games as as a youth kid growing up watching the Mentor Cardinals play every Friday night with coach Trip Signo and coach Janiak, And then I was able to be a ball boy at a very young age and be a part of an older group of kids and uh, they really mentored me. And I just fell in love with the team camaraderie and everything it took that goes on behind the scenes. Um, and then just fell in love with the game. I wanted to be in those

big moments. I wanted to I wanted to just deliver for my team and be as far as something bigger myself and uh and and and have fun with it. And it was. It was the best thing in the world. You have, age forty point three yards as a punter in high school to did you ever go to pass putting kick? I did? I don't know. I didn't go to the big thing, the big wal competition. So we had our local one uh in Mentor every year at our youth camp that I actually went back to this year.

Was so we had the punt passing kick at the at the Mentor camp everywhere and I did win it, uh five or six years straight throughout the youth camp. So yeah, I got the punt, and we weren't trying to punt my senior year, but the times we did, I got to boot it a couple of times, so I put up some amazing numbers. Were our guest. You're on Bears All Access, will take a break and have

more on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Sign your child up for a fun, non contact Chicago Bears youth football camp brought to you by getorade in athletical physical Therapy. Visit www dot bearscamps dot com to say fifty dollars today Jeff Jony Act Tom Fair with you on Bears All Access with Mitch Trubisky a few more segments to go with the Bear starting quarterback recent and I brought it up to you a story by Tyler

Dunn of Bleacher Report. He did one on you before the draft in seventeen and did one with you this summer. An incredible article, incredible look behind the curtain of what you're all about and how thoughtful you were about this game, what it means to you, where you see this franchise heading in the future, and so forth. There's an inner desire. That's something and it's a quote that I'm gonna pull from you. It's something inside of me that's always wanted

to be great and leave a mark. Where do you think it comes from? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. It's just like like I, like I told you guys before, I felt like I was meant to play this game, and my reasons for playing this game, I think that's just what they're meant to be. And I'm just trying to do something bigger than myself. So it's not about I mean, you just gotta play this game for the right reasons. It's not about the money, it's not about

the fame. It's about creating a positive impact and making just leaving a lasting legacy. I think for me, it's just thinking as big as possible and then just trying to go out and get it. So I think as big as possible, think about as many wins, championships, relationships that you create a long way, and think as big as possible and then just try to go get it. And you just got to have something inside of you that that makes you tick, that just makes you go.

You just you just gotta love it. You know, well, it goes along with the position too, because the quarterback is the most high profile position there is. When I look at guys like Cody white Hair or Danny Trevathan, I see the same commitment to those guys to get where they got. Unfortunately, Cody's one of five in the middle of a big pile, and Danny Trethan on second

level there's only one quarterback. So I guess, I guess when you're a little kid and you're going into Pop Warner, they always look at you and go out, what position does this kid fit into? And you're fit into that position. But once you finally get into that quarterback there there is a kind of a special aura about you in the way that you need to treat your teammates to get the best out of them, you know, I mean, I just you. You help your teammates flourish by your attitude,

your accuracies and the and the way you can perform. Yeah, definitely, And I would say vice versa as well. So the things that motivate me and are playing with guys like Cody white Hair, dy In Trevethan like, they inspire and motivate me, and I have to I have to mirror that as well. So I mean, I mean, that's that's what I'm trying to do, Just try to inspire and other people around me better the same way that I

feel like that they're making me better. So Cody White here my linement up front, like just such like passionate, selfless guys, I have to I have to be the same way and even more so, just to make their jobs and their experience just as amazing as I feel like mine is. You know what I mean. I pulled out of this article. Also, it's clear to me that you have done your research as well, maybe out of your own curiosity or need or to understand other leaders

and how they lead men. And is that something that you've always done or has it just been something part of your professional development, because clearly you're reading books. The Sam Walker book, The Captain Class is something that was discussed. You went through that in great detail, highly right, and recommend people you know googling this story. You'll you'll learn a lot about Mitch and what he's all about. It's

very very detailed. But that is that something that you did on your own that you want to learn more about how other men lead other men? Yeah, definitely. Um leadership is very important to me. And reading that book by Sam Walker, The Captain's Class, awesome book, and I bet I've been able to develop a relationship with Sam as well to continue to like just dive in and learn about leadership and find out about other leaders and

try to implement what they do. And I think it's more so not learning about others, but you got to figure out, like what's what worked for you, Like because I read things, I'm like, Ah, that's not who I'm. That's not who I am. I'm not going to do that, but like these things and like, oh I never thought of it like that, Like that is a good way to lead, and and that fits with what I do

as well, So let me implement that. Let me just anything to gain an edge to anything that can make me a better person, a better leader, a better teammate. In general, I'm always trying to just gain knowledge and trying to get an edge to continue to get better.

And that book definitely gave me a lot of great ideas and what I can work on, what I already have that I can continue to grow and let prosper, and then some things that I need to cut out and then because I've been told like different things in the past and how to lead and uh you you got to give big speeches, but like in this book,

like it's not the true leader. The most successful ones throughout history aren't the ones who gave the Hollywood halftime speech like get come on, guys, like we gotta do this. Like those guys usually aren't saying anything. They're going one on one. They their teammates know, they care, they're always doing their job. Um. And and it's a lot of like contact um uh i um, I'm trying to blank. Uh yeah I contact and just like just being locked in in that fiery passion your guys have to feel you.

So it's not about like what you say, it's about like what you're doing and how you get your point across to your teammates. So um yeah, awesome book and awesome article by Tye Dunn. And I haven't read it yet. He knows I don't read those stuff those things, but

my parents love the article as well. And when I get a text from my parents saying, wow, that was a great article, you like, I kind of know he did a really good job, and I like love sitting down with him over the last couple of years, and I think he's done one a year on me just to like let people know who I really am. So I appreciate the piece he did on me and just

spending time with him to get my point across. But yeah, there's a lot that goes on, and I'm always just trying to further and figure out different ways to learn and grow as a person. I think reading and especially it's I love sports and I love history, so that book kind of combined it, and it talks about all the greatest leaders throughout sports and what they did and who they are as people and what they were about to help further their teams and become successful dynasties. You know,

you talk about being a good teammate. You know that's got a transfer to the other side of the ball. So Mitchell Trubisky, you know, last year we came here and there were so much uncertainty about the defensive backfield of the Bears. Now I think it's one of their highlights of the defense. Do you spend any time talking to those guys, Do you get like their observances of you, Do you get any kind of indicators of what a defensive player can help a quarterback definitely all the time.

I mean, as a quarterback, you gotta be the leader of the offense and you're also looked at as leader of the team. So for me, it's encouraging those dbs

challenge them. We're making each other better in practice and then afterwards talking about it, having fun and just being guys, hanging out with the guys, but also like talking scheme, talking with Prince and Kyle about what they're seeing with my shoulders or footwork, if I'm getting giving any tips for certain routes and how I could do a better job hiding that, or talking with Eddie or Amos about where I'm looking when I'm going downfield as opposed to

short routes. Just trying to do as much as I can the same play to hide in disguise, intermediate passes from deep ones and run plays from pass plays, just making everything look alike and vice versa as well. So I'm telling them if, oh, if they're playing off like that, i know they're gonna jump or um. Just going back and forth and trying to iron sharpman's ire and just trying to make each other better every single day and having those conversations and um, it's not just offense and

offensive guys. The offensive guys hanging out with the defense. And I think that's something that's different from we're a lot, we're a lot closer and we're making each other better. So, um, Yeah, Eddie Jackson was Tommy about at the end of the day and he came out with a big smile on his face and he starts talking about you guys had a conversation about the draft class. Yeah, you know how there is a lot of pressure on that draft class. It's like the foundation a little bit about the next

generation of Bears. And you guys own it. You're embracing it, You're not running away from Yeah, we definitely embrace it. I think that's just type of people we have and the type of players that we brought into the me Tarique, Adam and Eddie, and we want that pressure and we want to be the ones that we can look back years from now and be like, this is where it started, this is where we turned around and we just let

our personality shine. But we are doing it together and it's I mean, we we we realize now that the offense needs the defense and the defense needs the offense, and we just need to feed off of each other and to be able to win football games. That's what it comes down to. Just the special teams as well. So we're just very inclusive, very tight knit group and making each other better every single day and make sure we're having fun with it. So we're joking around at Eddie's, Hey,

I'm gonna I'm gonna get the next one. I'm gonna pick you off next time. And I'm trying to make him better as well. So it's just every day competing and get better. Now there's some jokeres there's some personalities growing on that team all right in your own backfield with number twenty nine, but going and you might have one perculating in seventeen. All because I hear seventeen talk a while it's Anthony Miller. We will talk about a coming out after this break. We'll take one here on

Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score got the latest Bears news, photos and videos delivered straight to your mobile device. Download the Chicago Bears Official mobile app presented by Verizon. Jeff and Time with Mitch Traubisky, the Bear starting quarterback. Before the break, we brought up Anthony Miller. Tom, you brought up Anthony Miller. Tom knows. I was talking about this guy during the draft process.

I could not stop watching his tape. I couldn't he he was unstoppable at Memphis and to then learn his story about the Memphis Grind and what he's all about deep in his soul and what that town forces you to become, so to speak, how you grew up and walking on there and just becoming a stellar player. I love the guy and he is not shy and even talking to defense his coaches, he's not shy. What's it been like playing with him and learning about him and

what he is capable of becoming. Yeah, it's been awesome. I think he Anthony's got a ton of potential and he's been able to pick up things quickly. And what it really impresses me the most about him is one his swagger, his attitude, his confidence, and he lets a show. But it's it's it's not too much, I don't think. And he could stick his foot in the ground and separate. That's really what what he can do different from the

other guys. He could stick his foot in the ground and change directions just as good as anyone I've seen. He's up there with guys I've thrown to in the past and Tarique just you you could see it. Sticks, his foot separates, run routes, very savvy when the balls around him and goes up and gets it, and he plays with a lot of confidence, and um it just I feel because we talked about that, just that inner

confidence and what drives you. I see that and I could feel that from Anthony as well, just knowing getting to know him, his background story and what motivates him, and you just you want guys around you that want to be great as well. And he's doing whatever you can to fit in this offense and get the ball. And he's out here working as hard as hard as anybody. So I appreciate that. Well, you got Anthony Miller as a rookie, then you got Alan Robinson as a veteran.

You got Taylor Gabriel as a veteran. They have some NFL experience. Do the two players talk to you differently exactly of the rousing, the way they like the football or anything, because you have a rookie with no NFL experience, but these other guys with a great deal of ANX

NFL experience. Do you see a dividing line between the two. Yeah, it's different, Um, because those guys can talk about to me what they've done in the past, the veterans, and then Anthony is really just asking me, hey, like what do you want here? Um, just trying to be a sponge with an open mind and kind of asking what I want because he because he knows if if if I do exactly what the quarterback wants, then I'm gonna get the ball and I'll be in the right spot

in the right time. And that's what it's all about. And then for the other guys, it's kind of like comparing what they did to the past, but um just shaping it to what we're doing this year, just we can get on the same page. So Anthony's I think

everyone learns in different ways. And the guys, the veterans like Alan and m Taylor, they could look at what they did in the past and kind of let their minds translate to what we're trying to do now, where Anthony is more of like a blank slate, brand new offense, like trying to pick it up. And it's it's all about communication and being on the same page. And we're

having great conversations. And the more I can get around those guys and talk about with them in the film room and on the field, and if we're seeing the same thing, that's when you're really clicking as quarterback the receiver, and all those guys have been great picking up the offense,

keeping an open mind and communicating with me. And all three of those guys, I would say, have that hunger that just drives them and want to get better, want to be on the same page with the quarterback because you, as a receiver, you want the balls. You gotta make sure your quarterback knows where you're gonna be and at what time, at what depth, and then you get the ball and then you score touchdowns and then you have happy receivers and happy fans, that's for sure. Mitch Tubiski

our guest head coach, Matt Nagy. Do you remind you of anyone that you ever come across in your life? And how do you too your personalities? I mean, obviously the obsessed aspect of what he's what he's preaching, it fits you. You are obsessed, right, yeah, You're relentless clearly, and going back and just reading about you and knowing you in the short time I do you. Clearly you're obsessed. So does that make the match up with you any perfect? For sure? I just being obsessed is like you think

about a daily. You're always trying to like do as much as you can, to take advantage of every single opportunity because you never want to look back on something and be like, I could have done this, I could have done that. You want to give it everything. You gotta leave it on the field. And Coach Naggi is he's he's one of a kind. Uh. He definitely has character characteristics of people have come across in the past, but he is uh, He's he's a special guy. He's

a special offensive mind. He's he's got a great persona and attitude and vibe about him that the team has um has just we we've got that energy from him him and we've really vibed off him on both sides of the ball. He's an offensive guy, but he's supporting the defense and he's pushing them on that side the ball as well as offense. And everyone just I think

he's made everyone hungrier. We want to learn more, we want to work harder, we want to become more united because we have a very fiery, passionate leader in him, and he's also one of the most sincere guys and just will have a real conversation with you about anything football off the field, and he cares about his players, and you couldn't ask anything more as a playing for

that guy. You know, I had practice. I was watching Dave or going to a kind of a rush, hassle drill to you quarterbacks, and then I see Mark halfritsch over there including himself and the coaching and he got Matt. Where does Mitch fit his time in between those three coaches? And how do each of them assist you? Yeah, it's I mean, there's no like set no, no, no, no, no. What I'm saying is, you know I see each of

these guys, he's doing different things to help you. Um, you know, I guess where does the chain of command go for mitche when you're either in a meeting, learning on the field, getting coaching points. Is there a level or are they all? Are they all one and the same. I think the great thing about them is they all work together. They're very cohesive, open minded, and they're not worried about stepping on each other's toes or saying something

um and that each of their own unique style. So I mean there's enough, there's enough for me to go around for everybody, and I'm just trying to learn as much as possible. And they all have this unique perspective and backgrounds from where they come from. But it's never it's never divisive, it's never conflicting. It's everyone moving towards the same goal and coaching in that way. So they've done a great job of just breaking up who talks

when UM and doing it as a cohesive unit. And it goes the same way coaching on the field, So whoever's calling and plays, sometimes it's coach Helfrich going through plays, sometimes it's coach Nagy and the call it situations and and then coach were going is talking to me throughout all the practice. So when we do drills, when we do routes, they're all working together, and I'm just trying to absorb all of it from all of them, and uh and and and it's it's never a divisive, conflicting manner.

They work great together. They've been awesome and Chase Daniel and Taylor Braef for that matter as well. Fifteen years combined in the league. You already have more starts in both of them combined. That's just by virtue of their positions in their in their life so far. But um, they seem to be willing as anybody, but yet still

have competitiveness to them too. Yeah, they're awesome. I cannot say enough good things about Chase and Tyler just I mean being quarterbacks, and you look across the league and just like in general, I mean guys in the NFL, they have they have these egos, and they have selfish desires.

I want one more money, I want more playing time, and then you come across guys like Chase and Tyler just the ult competitors and then just willing to do whatever it takes for this team and for them helping me and just being sincere, genuine guys and wanting to

hang out all the time. And there we do things different this year where all the quarterbacks we do everything together, so meetings, going on to eat, just being around each other, and that's continued to make the quarterback room more united, and we're getting better and we're more efficient that way, and that's helped our offense and our team as well.

So I just think having those guys in that attitude and what they bring to the table, and they're shooting competitive, and they're pushing me every day, and they've had so much experience in the NFL and this offense that they give me great tips and knowledge every day to just help me learn and pick something up that much faster so I could just improve from it, move on and go to the next thing. One more segment to go with Mitch Kabisky, the Bear starting quarterback here on Bear's

All Access with Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment of Bears are All accesses orchestrated by CDW CDW people who get it, Jeff and TWN Mitch Dubisky on our final remaining moments. It's it's a game week when you think about it, because a week from tonight Bears are playing Canton against the Baltimore Ravens of the Hall of Fame game. Been to Canton as a kid, I assume, yep, do you

ever play there? I did not play there. I was a ball boy in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven when the Men are Cardinals were in the State championship. Unfortunately we lost both, but they were the two some of the two best years and the rides I've been on as far as like because I felt as part as that team as like a six and seventh grader being a ball boy. I thought I was like my role was just important as the guys

who were playing being a ball boy. So that was so much fun as a kid, and that's kind of what has grown my love for the game. And Canton is a special place, the Hall of Fame, all the special players who have been there, and the Bears do have the most fame. Yes, and Big fifty four going in. Brian Hecker, you've met. We love the guy. We've known You've known him obviously since his entry into the league.

He's an do anything for you kind of guy, which I believe is a reflection in the mirror of you two. You are that guy. It appears to be on the year that he's going in. How cool is it that this is all it's it's a big platform jump, really a springboard for the rest of the season. Who knows who's playing and how long and whatnot. And it's probably gonna be a lot of young players, but that's almost besides the point, it's the day when a member of

your family's going in the hall. Yeah, definitely, um, and it really is. It's a it's a Bears family and that's important to everyone who's been in this and wear the blue and orange. And Brian or Lacker is obviously a special player, but a special person. Just getting to know him a little off the field and he supported me in this team and it still does going forward, and it's gonna be a special day for him and it's just all this excitement around him and this team

going into the season. I mean, you just it's the perfect recipe. I guess you're growing up as a football fan. Was there ever a defensive player out there that made your nervous or going while I'm glad I'm don't play against him, or would definitely that guy? Well you think him on the Nike commercial is growing up You're like, geez, that's how how like how big do I have to get so where I could like just go against that guy?

You know, well, you know he's so big, so fast, and you're just as a kid, You're like, gosh, the NFL really is a different level. Well think about him dropping and covered two down the middle of the field, down the pipe at six four two sixty two fifty five or running a four six four five six forty and trying to throw over the top of him. Well, we are doing a report the other day. There's a lot of instances during Brian's career where he would chase

someone down. The person would get up and look and well, I remember Michael Vick one time, Aaron Rodger, who was that? Right? These guys are looking, who hit me this hard? That was running this fast? And they've turned when they see the expression and that it's a guy like Herlocker. You know, as a kid grown up, I look at NFL players going, God, I'm glad I never have to play against him or will be done by the time I get there. And you know, it's the same thing. You know, you just

you watch a guy that you envy. That's crazy. I mean, he's going in the Hall of Fame for a reason. He's a specimen on the field, and I just think his personality, along with his worth work ethic, it's a unique, special caliber type of guys that only get into the Hall of Fame, and Broun definitely fits into that category.

And his play and it speaks for itself. This week on Inside the Bears, James Daniels talks about his journey from starting freshman in the Rose Bowl to getting the call from the Bears on Draft Night, and Lauren Screeten and Staley check out all the outdoor activities fans can do after practice here in Kankakee County. Inside the Bears air Saturdays at six on CW fifty Chicago and Sunday's at ten thirty five on Fox thirty two Chicago. We can also watch show segments online at Chicago Bears dot

Com or on the Chicago Bears Official app. Anytime, any moments back to that article, there was something you said about your belief and where this is headed, and it was written he vows right here to turn the Bears into a winner. You better believe them. In your quote was it's going to happen. It's for sure. That belief is necessary when you're a quarterback and when you have your guys buying into that, well, you know when it happens. Being around football as long as you have because there's

a moment. You know, you can ask anybody who's been in the Super Bowl. There's a moment when it happens. Do you think you'll notice when it'll happen when you guys are ready to roll. Yeah, I think, well, I think we'll know, and I think it's just kind of brewing right now. But obviously I think I don't think you have those type of big moments until you get

into the season. But I think one of the most important things thinking about that comment or that quote is having that belief but also not knowing when it's gonna come, but also believing it doesn't matter when it comes, and it might not be tomorrow, it may not be next week, it might not be next year, but that doesn't matter. It's all about the process and believing that it will happen and when it does, it's going to be special. So um, that's that's just the mindset getting better every day.

When that special moment happens, trust me, everybody will know about it and we're just gonna be rolling from there. But I definitely think you just gotta have that belief, and um, I just think everyone from your teammates to the um, to the coaches, the fans, and everybody else in the organization, they feed off that kind of excitement and belief, and that's what you want to believe in. That's what makes everything so exciting, that's why you play

the game. Match. We appreciate your time. Thank you, so I guess thanks to Mitch for also Dan Breally, Jordan tread Up, all right, Greg Miller, Paul's urge, Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac that's gonna do it tonight. I'm Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Good night, everybody, thanks for listening to this Chicago Bears Network presentation of Bears All Access. Podcasts are available on Chicago Bears dot com and on iTunes, or download the

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