All Access: Trubisky on 2019 expectations

We start our twenty nineteen training camp version of Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score Jeff Jonny Acolong, my broadcast partner Tom Thayer from News Radio seven eighty and one oh five point nine FM WBM, and our special guest to kickoff training camp, quarterback Mitchell Trubisky. Good to see you. Good to see you, guys. Thanks for having big smile on the face. Took care of took care of some of your media responsibilities today.

Typical line of questioning, you know for the start of training camp, up a lot of bit about expectations, your goals, your progress in the greater scheme of the entire team. And as is the case every time we talk to you, you always have a genuine thrill about being with your with your guys, and this team is as tight as they come. It is, it is, it's it's a privilege to be a part of this team, especially the special guys we got, and it makes coming to work today

every really fun. So a lot of people think training camp is is hard work and it's tough. It is. It has to be, that's what's supposed to be. But for us, it's a lot of fun. Just another opportunity to be around each other every single day, have a lot of fun, make some memories, and get better as a team. You know, I was reading a quote from Ryan Pace and he says that you've made incremental improvement and he says steady incremental improvement as long as he

keeps up that pace. Do you have the patience for that? Or you a guy that wants to make and it's just the word incremental improvement. Do you want to make faster improvement than just that statement by Ryan Pace? For sure? I think that's kind of our theme. And Ryan told me that a while ago. We spoke about this, and I can't agree more because I think that's that's not how everybody wants it. But sometimes That's that's how it

needs to be. And everybody wants big years statistical wise, but I think we had a big year last year as a team. I didn't I didn't individually have the best season, but we had a pretty successful season as a team. And for me, I just need to keep getting better, keep improving my game, and in that steady incremental progress is definitely a key to that. So it's all about, Um, It's all about consistency and longevity and how can you get better every single day throughout training

camp and the grueling heat, Um? Going through practice? Are you getting better in meetings? Um? Are you taking care of your body? Are you stronger the next day than you were the day before? Was that adaptive thinking for you though? As an athlete? Have you always been that way or had you been an impatient person regardless of what stage of football you were in or whatever sport

you play? Yeah? I think, oh um, Over the years, I've kind of grown to like that kind of mindset because I mean as a society and as a young kid, for me, like I just wanted to be the best right away, and you don't really understand what it takes as a kid, but for me, um, sit. Sitting um behind a quarterback in at North Carolina taught me patients. Not getting what you want right away taught me patients. UM. And then not having success right away in the NFL

taught me patients. And but how how you're able to overcome that and and and see incremental progress even when you're going through failures. I think that's what separates you in the long run. And then um, when you keep when you when you just play the game with a certain type of consistency, I think, uh, that's when you have long term success. So it's it's it's definitely you have to wrap your mind around that mindset and you

have to buy into it. And I think if you get other guys that buy into it, I think that's how you're a better team. Is just who's going to be more consistent every day in the long run. And I think those teams win the most games in general, and the most consistent quarterbacks definitely have better play across

the board. You see, you guys have up and down years, but the guys who just steadily get better and better and better, and those guys are normally viewed at some of the best who's play the game, and that's what we're all trying to do. Just be the best we possibly beat can be, and you play the game to be the best at it. You know, when you talk about up and down years, a lot of times that has to do with change. This is going to be the first year in a long time in your quarterback

life you don't have change. You're within the same system, you're within the same terminology, you have a lot of the personnel groupings that will be the same. How much more? How much does knowledge help you be a better quarterback? It's I mean, knowledge is the name of the game. Knowledge is power. It helps you when you go onto the field, You're not thinking about what you have to do. You already know what you have to do. You're not thinking about what is the defense going to show me here?

You kind of can anticipate. You're anticipating what they're doing instead of reacting, so you're a step ahead of instead of a step behind. When it when it comes to just reacting and just being in the same offense and knowing my guys like inside now having those um really deep relationships with them, and then knowing this offense and you want to get to the point where you can master an offense and know it how coach Nagi does and see the game and then all the plays through

his eyes. M But that's going to take a lot more studying and a lot more days, and but I think it definitely gives us an advantage this year, just as an offense that everybody knows exactly what to do, we just gotta um dive in even more to the details, get better at every single play and execute it when we get there on the field. And I think that's how you see even more progress and even more success.

Mitch Trubiski our guest here on Bears All Access brought to you by IGF Energy with Paul's Ranger Engineering Greig Miller helping us out here at training camp in Bourbon at as our producer with Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac. What are you reading these days? Because last year he had a great book and it kind of set the

platform for the year. What are you reading now? Yeah, I'm actually reading a book called Legacy and UM it's a book about the New Zealand All Blacks, the rugby team, probably the most successful UM sports team in all sports, just because they're win percentage. How many championships they've won, the type of players that came through there. And I got the book from Ryan Pace yea. So he always has like a book, um like as like a theme for each year. And last year we had our book,

and this year this is kind of our book. And whatever I'm reading before that, I kind of put to the side and read what he gives me, um. And and it's a great book. It has a bunch of great themes and lessons that could help you in sports and business and definitely applies a lot to our team. And um, I think it's going to help just our overhall mindset. And I think one of those things, and it comes up in the book, is that steady incremental progress.

And everybody wants to be the flashy team, the highest statistical, but are you winning consistently, are you doing the right things in your building, at training camp, at practice, in the locker room on the daily basis, that's going to separate your culture and put you in the best position

to win games on a regular basis. So there's a lot of good stuff in the book and I like it and I'm still going through it, but yeah, it's kind of like one of our themes for this year, and it really dives into their culture and how you

get guys to buy into the culture. And I think we have just built like a really special culture here with Ryan Pace and all the guys he's brought in and bringing coaching age in and the type of players that he wants in his system and in his organization, and them two working together have just brought in the

right guys. They've gotten everybody to buy into it. And I think that's really what was a big part of our turnaround from last year, and it is going to help us build off of last year going into this year. And I think that's a great way how you deal with expectations, pressure, all that stuff on the outside that yeah, exact complacency exactly, all those things on the outside that everyone else is worried about. I think we're just worried

about taking care of each other. If you take care of the people in your building, you do the little things on a daily basis. I think the culture produces the results you want. Myself, remember, Phil Jackson used to give out books, you know, he hand picked up particular book that might motivate even Michael Jordan of all people, and it seemed to have a great effect that you're

looking forward to the books. But yeah, individually, when you only have twelve different players on a team, it's a lot easier to hand out different subject matter for the way it's going to help a person grow. When you read this book legacy and you hear understand the sport that they're playing, is it relatable to offense, defense, special teams? Because you know, when when you have a rugby team, you have Australian rules football, it's kind of a game

that moves up and down the field, everybody together. Here there's the offensive portion, defensive portion, and the special teams contributions. Is the book relatable in those terms? Do you guys? It's I would say it's relatable not because of the X X and os, but because of everything else. Obviously they're two totally different games, but I just think the themes are relatable and they applied to what we're trying

to do in sports and also in business. It's more about leadership, UM, culture building and how to get by guys bought in UM. Rugby is obviously a total, totally different game. I don't even know exactly how the game works ever, seen more the ins and out. I mean, I've watched like clips and stuff in highlights, but I don't know the scoring system and all that happens. But there are lessons that go on throughout this book that definitely applied to football, and it's definitely not about x's

and OS. I don't I don't think I'm halfway through the book. They haven't mentioned an X root one time, and I think that I think that in itself is a lesson. It's not about the plays we draw up in the meeting rooms. It's not about how how great a play is, or it's about the people and who's running this play and how bought in are they together and do they have each other's backs and are they willing to do whatever it takes on every single play to help you be successful. And I think that goes

back to the culture instead of x's and OS. And obviously I think we have an advantage of x's and o's because we have coach Naggy and his brilliance and what he brings to the table. But I'd love the fact that they him and pace Bos embrace the culture side of it and how people when people and players and coaches that they win games. They make the plays. You can't just draw up something and make it work.

The players got to make it work, all right. Let's take our first break here on Bears All Access from Bourbon at with mister Tramisky Jeff Jonnyak in town Fare on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to 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

the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com our conversation kind enough to join us on the opening at training camp. Mitch Trubiska, you've been here since Monday. I assume a quarterback school and the rookies. Um, you mentioned about teaching other players how things are done here, both xs and o's, or where you want guys on the offense and so forth. But again that culture that is going to be a huge theme this year. Is it easier now for you in your position now to

be that guy? Also? How you guys can come to me with questions I have answers? Yeah, definitely, I think just my knowledge of the offense and the respect I've earned from my teammates over the last couple of years and all the work I put in and just the respect I had from them. They, especially the young guys, are able to come with me for a questions with questions like what do you want on this play? How do you want me to run this route? Um? What do you want to do with protection on these on

these plays? And I do have the answers, UM, and I know what coach wants, and so I'm able to relay that and make sure everyone's on the same page. And I think that's what good quarterbacks across this league do. They're they're able to be an extension of the coach per se and and are a teacher at the same time. So I'm helping these young guys pick up the offense, helping the new guys UM get in it and whatever

coach n you wants. We have that constant communication and UM, I'm relaying to the other guys what exactly I want on the field, and we're making it happen. And I think that's helped us a lot from your one year two just knowing offense and knowing what we want to get out of it, everything can play. I was reading another article, so at the end of minute, camp be a thorough grasp of the play, now becoming more detailed

with each one. That's kind of almost what you're saying is that last year you can go out and you can call the play in the huddle and you can run the play, but now you have to know. Now you know how everybody's job fits exactly to every single play. When you talk about the details of the offense, yeah, exactly.

And I think that's just an advantage for us because instead of me just hanging on the first or second option to play, I could either get to the third, fourth option or fifth option within the play or change it or making adjustment really quickly to our know Okay, this is what I'm in anticipating from the defense, this is what I think is gonna work. I'm gonna get to this right away a lot faster. So we're having

more successes offense. And that's just through knowledge, knowing the ins and outs, knowing where all the pieces fit against the defense. That what we're anticipating that they're going to bring on that play. So when you talk about the details, will you run the ball less or can you become more threatening when you know when and how to run the ball. As a quarterback, you keeping in the ball. Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of the runs last year were just me deciding I had to pull it down. We

really didn't have a lot of quarterback designed runs. I think you may see something this year just to keep the defense honest, and for me, it's just keeping that aggressive mindset that it did help our team a lot last year. Me being able to run in the run game, those runs, I appreciate it. They were and I think I think it opened a lot of things up for us and obviously kept us on the field, especially after

third downs. But I think, um, that's part of my game that I used where I could still make improvements at other parts of my games to where I don't have to use that just getting to the third or fourth guy so and instead of me running it, I'm getting the ball to the fourth or fifth option to play and letting them run with it in open space. So we just got a lot of playmakers and it's my job to get them to the ball. But that's

something to where I just gotta stay healthy. I gotta be smart running the ball, and it's it's always going to be an in the moment kind of decision because sometimes I'm just pulling it down and trying to make a play. Because the defense there, they get paid to do what they do too, and sometimes they have a better call than us and U sometimes you just gotta out athleticize them on the field. Run DMC. He excited about this group and all the different things they can

do on the field. Yeah, I'm I'm pumped about it. Um, I'm really excited about our running backs Threek obviously coming back, Um, Mike Davis and David Montgomery, and I can't wait to see these guys with pads on. I think David has told me every day since we got out here. We're still in helmets and shorts. He's like, I can't wait to get the pads on, and we really can't wait to see it. Um, But we got to take care of our guys throughout camps. You don't want a lot

of mileage and hits on your running backs. You want to get them into the season so they're able to help us carry the load there and use these three guys Trek, Mike and David. They can do it all and they all are kind of similar, but within their games they're also very different. So, um, I think the thing that helps us that then being similar, they can all do they can all do everything, which the defense

won't be able to key off. Okay, this back is in the game, they're gonna have this certain type of play. I don't think they'll be able to key off things like that. They'll whatever running backs in the game. The defense, we'll never know what we're doing. And I think just

the element of surprise will help us alone. And then obviously just getting the ball in their hands and letting letting them do what they do best with our five big guys up frontly in the way, and really everything ultimately starts with those guys up front, the five guys who don't get enough credit for what they do. Um, but these running backs are definitely gonna run wild and are going to help us big kind in the past

game as well. I'll let the big guy handle the offensive line that it might be because I mean, I think it's one of the strengths of the team. Oh, you know, these guys have played together. I think it's going to be an incredible strength because you're really solid at the offensive tackle position. Cody white Hair is going to be more bigger and stronger, more dominant because I hear some of what he's been able to do in

the weight room. Because you you you kind of control your body differently as a center than Cody, as the ability to as a guard or any other position you can play sinse. So for the average person, um you're there's different bendabilities, there's different responsibility at center. You know, there's a different explosiveness after the snap of the ball

before center can explode into a defensive lineman. And I think when you take some of those restrictions away from Cody, he can be as dominant at the point of attack is anybody. But I said it to you the other day, I feel that with an offseason that Kyle Long had, he could be the best interior offensive lineman in the NFL. In Cody's not far behind. So I just think it's it's a great matchup for the Bears. Power game passing,

game protection, everything that goes along with their responsibilities. And

it's nice to see that Mitch recognizes them. But you know, when you talk about the early portions of the season, this offense's ability to score a lot of points, I think that can be the most beneficial, helpful thing to the defense, because whether you want to believe it or not, there's gonna be a period of an adjustment with coach Pagano, the way he gets to understand his talent in the way he understands how to put his playmakers in the

best position possible. If the offense can score earlier in the game with more frequency, it's going to allow the defense to be a little bit more aggressive and help you guys to be aggressive in the latter part of the game. Do you find that to be true? Yeah, definitely. Common sense would say the who scores more points wins the game. And I think if you score more points, that definitely helps our defense out and takes pressure off

of them. I mean, I think a lot of the time last year they took the pressure off of us, right, But well that's what that's what I was saying, is now you can take the pressure off them absolutely. I mean great teams, I mean we want to win forty to nothing. I mean that's the ultimate goal. Score a lot of points and hold them to nothing. And whether there's an adjustment period or not, I think they're I

mean there might be with the new head coach. I mean defense coordinator and stuff, but they're still a super talented defense. The best defense crossed the board and they're all bought into this defense. I wouldn't be surprised if if they just hit the ground rolling and are great from the jump. But I mean that it's we definitely have to do our thing on offense. There's no question about that. We want to come out score and just be a complete team from top to bottom offense, special

teams and defense. Score a lot of points and be able to just make sure we're taking a knee in the fourth quarter and we don't want it to be close. But obviously you just gotta feel out every single game. But the name of the game is scoring points. We're in this as an offense to score every temp we get the ball to stay on the field, take pressure off our defense, and when they get on the field, they have to do their job. But for our job

as an offense, it is to score a lot of points. Definitely, we have to go to a break here, But real quick, give me thirty sick. You thrive on tempo as a quarterback, yeah, definitely.

I think tempo and rhythm or it's pretty much everything when it when it comes to quarterback play, if you're in a rhythm on a drive, the tempo of getting in out of the huddle, that's something I talked about a little bit ago and my press conference, just like the little things like getting out the huddle quickly, get into line of scrimmage so you're able to make adjustments, communicate with your guys, get everyone in the right spot, get everybody on same page so that the player running

is going to be successful. So I think that's a point of emphasis for us. And just keeping that tempo, keeping the defense on their heels, never know when we're gonna hit them, and hit him often and just keep them off balance and uh and then tempo. You can also bring that to quarterback play. Are you throwing in tempo and rhythm um to get your playmakers the ball? So there's there's a lot of ways you can use

that word. Keep going back for your first series in preseason in your rookie year, you got out there in a two minute situation and you look so comfortable. That's that's kind of your thing. We'll pick it up when we come back from the break. Mitch Drubisky, our guest here, on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy

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I mean, that's that's what you love seeing, you know, the confidence right away at the line of scream boom, get your get your bottle, the playmakers and exploit matchups right the tempo with the type of talent you have though, I mean, you can. You know, it's interesting because we think of last year when Alan Robinson got here and he's recovering from a knee injury, and it's hard to develop great timing and tempo when a guy is, you know,

recovering from an injury. Alan Robins should should be better, faster or more of a weapon faster because you guys have had a complete offseason to work and you're gonna training camp healthy. So I mean, can you just talk about what he means to the offense, what he means

to the rest of the offense, not only his performance. Yeah, for sure, Um Allen's an incredible talent um and when he when he's on the field and when he's at his best, he can't be covered one on one, So defensees have to pay more attention to that that the double team of him zone his side and find ways to Um to take the ball out of his hands.

In As an offense, we're gonna find his way as many ways as we can to get him the getting to them one and one opportunities, get him down the field and let him run the routes that he feels best at, and just being able to develop a lot more chemistry throwing this offseason and um going back through the timing him having a full off season, being healthy and he's looking great and I'm excited to see what he can do right from the jump. But he's definitely

gonna be a big time target for us. An indicator, Matt said that your ability now to read the rotation of the safeties throughout your snap count and at the line of scrimmage is something like that's super helpful to a quarterback to kind of make a decision of where the ball's gonna go no matter how they're moving, or you have a better indicator because now you understand what their movement means. Yeah, definitely. You gotta try to anticipate what the defense is doing so you're you're a step

ahead of them, not a step behind. And throughout the off season, I think we have some of the two of the best safeties uh Haha and Eddie who are the best at disguise and showing you one thing but doing another. And there are times throughout practice they got us.

But throughout film study and seeing a lot of different looks and the off season, I think it helped us progress as an offense and it definitely helped me as a quarterback um just to stay ahead of defense and have an answer to go with the ball when when when you start to see rotation or when you see it start to see them go back to a to a two high shell set um and the name of the game is finding completions and just getting the ball to your playmakers and getting into their hands, and the

quicker you're able to id defenses, um, the the easier it is for me to get out of my hands and make plays and make sure it's getting to them. We talked to you about this at the one hundred celebration, but the final drive in the playoff that when you and Alan were just in sync, you get that that it was what everybody wants to see from from a great quarterback. Is that drive put yourself in a position to win. It almost probably felt to you like, Okay, it would be great to just pick up where we

left off from that moment. Right as a quarterback, you guys probably were frustrated the season ended that obviously because it ended, but that you couldn't play another sixteen games with that kind of momentum from that drive. How big was ed drive to you? Yeah? It was big, And I think not only that drive, but there were a lot of drives throughout the season where we just felt

leg's an offense like we could not be stopped. And that's where the consistency part of it comes into, where we want to feel like that every time we take the field, on every single drive, And how can you duplicate that feeling and that temple of offense every single time you're out in the field, because I think that's when you become a really, really dangerous offense and the

defense does not have any answers. But that was just one of those drives to where our backs were against the wall and we had to make the plays, and we did, and everybody was on the same page. Nobody blinked, nobody was worried about what we had to do. We just marched right down the fields and the plays were made because we believed in it and we trusted our preparation and we made the same plays we made in practice.

So that's what's going to come down to, just putting in a lot of work, um, making the players at practice, and then translating it to the game and when you get those opportunities to just allow yourself to shine. But um, in the grand scheme of things, you want to have more drives just like that to be more consistent, more explosive,

um dominant offense. So I think I mean in all the statistical categories looking back, we're around the middle top half better in the NFL, But we really like to be like a top five offense, just like our defense is top five. I think that's where you see the dominant teams and stats don't tell the whole picture, but I think they could. They can show what areas we needed improving, and that's just staying on the field, converting

third downs and obviously scoring more points. And that drive was great, but we had a lot of opportunities throughout that game that we could have been better and we left points out on the field, and that's where we need to take the next step as an offense. And I think that's where we picked back up in the offseason. We'd like to pick back up, like you said, with that momentum, but you can't. You just got to go

back to work and pick back up with that. Just are you going to embrace the everyday grind and the challenges that you need to do to get better every single day? You know, it was fun for us at the hundred year celebration for you to see you get introduced to McMahon on stage and giving you the headband and the sunglasses and everything. But then you had a chance to meet generations of ex players throughout Bears history.

Was there any one common question or any common theme that when guys of the past had a chance to be introduced or meet you. Was there any one topic that they brought up or was it all over the board of football and X Chicago Bears. Yeah, a lot of the guys, I think just being in that room, we all realized like how special it was to be a Chicago Bear. And the theme was just just enjoy your time because it goes fast and it's a special

opportunity to play in Chicago. That was the overall theme, and you could you could see the how genuine and how excited everybody was to be back together and we

were just happy to be part of it. Did the momentum of the season kind of blow you away when you went to away stadiums and you saw that Lower Bowl become filled with Chicago Bears fans, Because you know, being around the team now for almost forty years or thirty whatever ever years, it inspires me when I see the away stadium being filled with orange and blue jerseys

scattered all throughout. I mean, that's kind to be cool for the momentum of an active player to hear it from the stands and to see it, you know, after that one hundred years celebration because it kind of gives you a little bit understanding. Okay, this is why it's special to these guys that under eighty seventy sixties and so on, and why it's special for you guys that are active players. Yeah, it's it's it's a big time.

It's it's special to play in Chicago. And we've realized that having the year we did last year, seeing all the fans come out, and I've realized Bear fans are everywhere, like across the country. Wherever you go, you will run into a Bears fan. And that's how it kind of is. After a winning season, you walk around town or you see people downtown Chicago and everybody's wearing blue and orange, they got Bears gear on. They're they're proud of this team.

And that's what exactly what you want as a player. You want the fans to be proud of the product that you're putting out on the field because we put everything we have into this blood, sweat, and tears, and for them to be behind us and support this team, it means a lot to us. And to see them come out to the games and take over those stadiums at away stadiums, it just gives us the drive them. Amentum,

we need to finish games. And we're definitely proud to play here in Chicago, and we're proud to play for the best fans, and we just want them to be proud of us in return. Do you feel good when you go downtown and you're part of the fabric of the city. Now, you're going to Cubs games, you're going to white sacks, You're having fun with the fellas, You're I don't know if you go out much downtown at all with the fellas or your girlfriend or whatever. I mean,

is it fun to be Mitch Trabisky right now? Yeah, it's it's cool. I mean, there's a certain responsibility and I don't like to be out too much, But as much as I could be downtown with my guys or my family and really enjoy it, it's it's a special city, and I think it's the city is definitely excited about the team as well. Mitch Drubisky our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy score back with you at training camp here in Bourbona at

Alive at Nazarene University. Jeff Joni Actim Fair and Mitch Drobisky the Bears starting quarterback with us with Paul Zing and Greg Miller, and good to have you along with us everybody as we kick off our training camp part of the season and you I think we're on the first time last year that was before we got to know Matt Naggy as a coach during practice on the field, and we quickly learned how competitive that man is. Super

as a quarterback himself, I get it, but he's intense. Man, tell us, did it even surprise you once the training camp hit, how how intense he is and how competitive he is. He's right up your alley. Yeah, it's awesome. I mean, as players, we feed off that energy and that passion and every single drill is super competitive and

that's how it's built. And he wants to win, and you could feel that in the games where he gets a little mad, he gets upset, and you feel that energy and like, all right, we need to turn this round. Coaches in it, Let's get behind him and let's start to make plays because he wants to win as bad as anybody. And if if your coach wants it more than the players, then you're in trouble. You gotta have the players want it just as bad as your coach. So that's when you take the batime definitely from him

to do that. And who did that for you guys, Jim, everybody just did it? Yeah, I mean we because our position coach was such a great player himself. He kind of like Matt Maggie. He's played quarterback before. He can explain the position and details to what he expects out of Mitch. An interesting thing about it for me would be what's the difference between Mark Helfrich and Matt Maggie Because we know a little bit about Dave or Gone.

We've watched Dave Orgone as a player and kind of understand he's kind of been around old school offense more than the new school stuff, and Helfrich and Matt have been around new school offense. How does how does Mark um insert himself into the development of Mitchell Trubisky. Yeah, he's he's very very smart. And do they work on the same tempo, Matt and Mark Helfritz. They they all work together and there's no idea too crazy outside the box.

That's it's a it's a cooperative everyone in the same direction, pulling together plays. Obviously it's Coach Naggi, but hell, Fritsch and Ragone or they have their input and he respects that. And everyone's bringing different ideas to the table and bringing ideas and stuff that worked in the past and what they have in their back background and they're bringing to

the table. Mark is really involved in the run game and in the RPO stuff and stuff that's helped him in the past, and he brings amazing concepts to the past game and they kind of just all bring it together and it's kind of formed into Coach Naggie's offense. But he's just super smart and he's a great teacher. The way he's able to like break things down and explain things to our guys out in the field, out

in the meeting rooms. He just puts it in a way that's really understanding to the players where guys can pick up on it and that relates to them and they really hits their brains so they're able to remember it and then just use it onto the field. So all of our coaches are really like that. They're really great teachers, and that's what you want on your coaches, someone who can teach the game inside and out and

help Rich is. He's brought so many great ideas, concept and plays that have helped us, and we kind of just like intertwine them into Naggi's grand scheme. So there's not like it's not like Health has his stuff, Naggie has his stuff, and Rags has his stuff. They're all in this together and they're all coming up with ways to how we can make this offense better. And they're just like mad scientists in the lab, just putting you throwing your two cents into hopefully oh yeah, all the time.

You have to because it's it's my offense as well, and it's also to have coaches like that that want the quarterback to have ownership of the plays and of the offense. So I'm always in there drawing stuff up as well, coming up with ideas and count concepts and routes that I love to throw and how we can put those together to make our offense even better and and throw some new stuff in there as well. So it's there's no ego, which is the best thing about it.

It's not like, no, that's if I didn't come up with this play, like they can't go in. They're not like that at all. They're just great teachers, great humans. There are all some people to be around. It's so much fun to be in meetings with them, just learning from them. And there's so much knowledge, hum and experience being around the game from so long and so many different directions. It's it's a fun group to be around. And they just have so much knowledge that is able

to bring together. And I think the best part about them is that they do do a great job of bringing it together and making it sure, making sure it fits our personnel and the type of people we have in offense. You know, in nineteen eighty five, when Dick conserted William Perry into the backfield, it was kind of to get of a little bit of a jab back

at Bill Walsh and the forty nine ers. But we've seen what it's been able to contribute to the Bears, and it's kind of fun for all of us to see defensive personnel in the huddle and whatever they do. Are there defensive players that kind of come up to you and say, hey, match, I can do this, and you know, tell Nags about this, or do they sit there and tell coach Nag himself that look, I got I have these offensive capabilities, give me a whirl. Yeah, definitely.

I heard it a lot during the season last year, especially when red zone Day rolls around, because they don't want to be out like when we're in the field. They want to be close to the the red zones. They could score a touchdown. And a lot of those players we came up with last year were to honor the teams of the past. We had the handoff to a team Hicks to kind of the ice spots. He's the freezer. Yeah, yeah, Perry was a fridge. Um. Yeah, the T formation up

as good football play. Yeah, keep it going. Yeah, it's uh we got some good chunk yards out of that. So, um where are we at? But you mean, you know, you know, the whole defensive crew up there and in the red zone in the plus territory, it's kind of defense. They're they're like, oh, they can do everything. They'll be like, you know what, whyn't you guys just sit down? Like Prince will come in, He'll want to throw it pass, Eddie will want to run a route like Khalil's like, yeah,

put me in the backfield. So, I mean they all want to get um an opportunity to score touchdown and Coach's he's like, all right, draw it up, Like he's like, let's see what you got And no idea is is outside the box. Are too crazy and and it's a lot of fun to see. And I think it just has helped bought into this defense um that like it's it's not just offense and defense, Like we're a team, we intertwine, we're in this together, and I think it

just brings us closer overall. But you definitely have those guys coming up to you on a daily basis saying, hey, let me get this play and I could do this a lot of fun. It creates a certain sense of camaraderie and breaks up the monotony of just having the same offensive guys in there exactly. Yeah, you know you can't replicate obviously every season because there are new people and new circumstances and new but boy, if you could

bottle up what that fun was like. Forget about performance for just a minute, but the fun that you guys have playing practicing the personalities and like we've seen and you know, defensive players you're friends with you. You know, I've been in locker rooms and covering this team over the years were times when the two sides and they

just didn't mix. This team mixes. That's where the special comes in, right right, I'm being that's a that's a huge point, and that's something I tell people all this time, all the time, Like aside from like the wins, the success we had last year, like last year and the football season was the most fun I've ever had play football. And to say that at this level with all the pressure and expectations on the outside and just put that aside, like we had so much fun, like every day, coming

to work, being around each other. Winning games is obviously part of it, but it was so much fun. Analytics it's the hot thing in all sports, even in business right now. How much are you into it? Do you listen to some of the analytical research being done in the front office and with your staff and how it trickles down to you as a player. Yeah, I think it's I think it's important, Um because stats analytics they could show, um, they could show the picture, but not

always show the big picture, or necessarily it doesn't. It doesn't show exactly what you want to see or progress or failure. Um. But I think it is important and I definitely look at the analytics that we collect inside the building. I don't pay attention to anything on the outside.

So you'll see stats that, um, these other companies or I don't know, there's a bunch of outside that there much yeah, um, And I don't really pay attention to that or what to come up with because you don't know how they're looking at it, what they're what they how they're grading it, or how they view our plays. They don't even know what my job is or assignment is on every single play as yet. You're grading what we're doing and how we're doing it. Um. But yeah,

that's stuff that goes on the outside. So I'm not worried about that. But if they bring something to me that's like, hey, this is this is the number we're at and that's not good enough, this is what we need to be at, yeah, totally, I'll buy into it

and um and and see ways to get better. And you're always trying to track progress and what you need to get better at, and I think sometimes numbers and analytics is the best way to keep track with that because sometimes you just get lost in and not need um. Like like Tom says, like you you just gotta Yeah, it's illustrative. It shows the picture. It shows, Okay, we

got better from here to here. We're we're better in yardage, we're in scoring and stuff like that, and this is what's going to help you be a better quarterback and help us win more games. And we'll look at that and go with it. But at the end of the day, it's are you doing your job every single play? You know, Mitch Trubisky segment, we'll get into your Madden rating. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I don't know anything about it,

but I've heard a lot of them. Yeah, he's not on social media, never will be, so he thinks, you know, like three days later, you know, yeah, it's awesome, it is. But I wish I was right right with him. That's Mitch Trubiski top there, Jeff Joning act with with you on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score Back with you on Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy score Our final moments with Mitch Trubisky. Kind enough to give us an hour

here at Football Conversation. We really could talk to you for three or four hours because your knowledge and your input and your charisma, and the way you answer questions is maybe we can get fresh air, maybe we can get him back the week leading up to Super Bowl. You know, since I have the two weeks, we'll do that all access and the two weeks before. You know, that's everybody's goal. Obviously it doesn't even need to be stated,

but I thought it was interesting Tom. I don't know if you saw his news conference with the media when they came in here earlier today. They got their goals. You guys know what you want to accomplish, but it's private matter. Is this is going to be kept in house. This is this, This is what I feel about this team match, and you tell me if I'm on target or a little off face. But the energy that is in the in the in the locker room and what

it takes to the football field is all genuine. Everything's organic. There's nothing that's manufactured, which makes it more real for everybody. These are you guys when you were drafted, especially your class, that kind of set the tone for world we're at right now. You guys wanted to be the changers, the culture changers. There's so much about culture that is the answer I think it's actually the answer to getting things done here the right way, and that feeds the beast,

so to speak. Do I have it right? Yeah? Exactly, that is right. Everything we're doing here is real and we like to keep things in house. It's there's a certain business approach, but we're having really really fun while we're doing it. But you know what, I just to say one thing because I talked asked the coach Nagie a lot of times about the roller coaster schedule, and

he says, that's a reflection of success. And he said Andy re taught him if you have every game that starts at noon, you're you're not the team they want to put you on in in a a national scope, when you talk about starting the season on the Thursday night, you talk about a Monday night game right after that another Sunday night game. That is kind of a reflection of where the team wants to be. They want to have that schedule right. Well, but how did you handle it?

It was awesome because it meant we were a good team. As a young guy, you don't think about where you're playing. You just think about winning the game. But the reason you're all over the place is because you're a good team and they want to recognize you on a national scope. And I think that is a reward of the team for being good, but it's also the result of being a good team. And the other aspect of it is

this is a team of big personalities. And every time I've covered the Super Bowl the last twenty three years, I've covered these super Bowls, and you spend a week with these guys and that's not enough to get a true indication, but they get the show off a little bit at the podium. Whatever is the charisma, the swag and the personalities pop. The Bears have a lot of that right now. Yeah, who are some of them than

maybe are ready to emerge? We have different level and Eddie Treek, Eddie and guys in my class, we have a very charismatic offensive line. But like they like to keep it in the house. They're very like they're very a close knit growt. They got their inside jokes, they got their group chat, they got the things they do on in their meeting and they say and do things that only they understand and none of the outside world really knows it. But like that's part of the technic group.

They guys in the offensive line, Kyle Long Um James, You guys might not even ever heard him talk. He is hilarious, but you only would not have known that. You only know those things like being around him. Um. The running backs are great. The receiver room probably has the most chrisma. Of course, the uh Anthony Miller, Um, Cordell Patterson, Taylor Gabriel, Like, these guys are just hilarious,

great people to be around. Obviously, they always think they're open and um, get me the ball, and it's fun stuff like that. But they keep every day coming to work. They keep it fun. And then you have the guys on defense, Dan Trevethan, Akim Hicks, h Prince and Mukamara. Like, these guys are characters, you know what you know, ro Quan Leonard and Khalil they're kind of introverted at the podium. And Danny Trevathan, He's got a really fun tempo and

he speaks a lot of all of his experiences. And I think that more exposure that Roquan gets, the more people are going to be exposed to his personality. And I think he's a guy that's on the verse of having a lot of fun in his football life. We all have, we all have our roles, we all have our personalities, and I think the most important thing is we all we're all real and genuine by it. We're not here, we're not out here trying to be somebody.

We're not We're not trying to go outside the box or we're just all ourselves and we all fit into this like family. And you have everybody who who does their job and has their role within this family. And um, it's like you said, it's not offense and defense, it's it's the Chicago Bears where a team. We're a family. Offense, defense, special teams. We're all in one. We have each other's backs.

And every day coming to work is just a great opportunity to have fun, be around these guys and UH and go to work and work for that ultimate end goal, um, which which is to play in that Super Bowl. But we also realize that it's not just going to happen. It's it's gonna be an everyday grind. And what are you taking advantage of the day in front of you and the opportunities you have today to get better to give ourselves that opportunity to long run. And it's just

the people we have in this building. Everybody has a purpose, a reason why they're here to be a part of this team, to be a part of this culture, and I think everyone's bought into that and everyone everyone loves being here. I think one of the most difficult things to do in any walk of life, whatever your career is, especially one's high pressured or a performance based. You're on a stage, so Tom and I know different it's performance

is living in the moment. And I thought it was interesting that Taylor Gabriel has been in your ear about living in the moment this year, because everybody's senses something special brewing. Obviously, guys, we're knocking on that door already last year. Is that easy for you to do or is this going to also have to be a trained move in that direction to live in the moment? You like what he had to say about it. Yeah, I loved it because we were like, we really enjoyed last year.

But I think it's like anything else in life, you can you can do it a little bit more, you can work a little bit harder, you can have extra meetings, you can get extra routes after practice. I think we can keep keep an open to mind and have perspective about how special this is that we get to do it on everyday basis and just really enjoy every opportunity a little bit more because last year we had so much fun, and we know this year is going to

be even more fun. So why don't we take a step back every once in a a while and be like, Wow, this is this is really special. Let's live in the moment. Let's enjoy it, and even if it's just like something as small as a meeting or getting together at lunch or a conversation with Jeff and Town for an hour exactly.

And I think just going back to the Bears one hundred, it kind of showed us that because those guys, we realize how special it was, that all the all they talk about is like, it's never gonna be how it is right now, so make sure you enjoy it. You have to enjoy the opportunity you have and realize how special. And if you do it now, you're able to enjoy it now more than you will later. And I think

that's where everything starts. And it's the best time here and we're happy to be back here and we're just all like super excited, and they're hungry, agains are hungry. Good luck, you have a great time, great season, and thank you so much for your time here to day. I know you're business for Tom there, Mitch Trabisky, I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks for listening, everybody. Thanks to Paul's Orange and Greg Rather and the guys back in the studio.

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