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Ye Bears et Cetera with the voices of the Chicago Bears Jeff Joniac And when you start talking about wins and losses and why or how they occur, you gotta talk about opportunities, the ones a team takes advantage of and the ones they don't. Every snap really does matter. We're going to discuss all that coming up today in episode seventeen of The Bears et Cetera podcast with Super Bowl winning Bear Tom Thayer. I'm Jeff Jonahac. Coming up each week we'll talk with Matt eber Flush. We'll hear
from him later on. Thanks as always to producers Dan Brilly, Jordan tread Up, and Katie Tuber. Tom. How are you feeling, buddy? How you feeling about the game. I know how you're feeling. I know you're zero and two doesn't feel good, right? Now no.
But you know, I think when you play football and you invest your whole life in it, you always have to watch a game to enjoy the game. But then after you go out and study football, you have to see how corrections can be made.
Jeff. In the life of me playing football.
I don't think there's ever been a game where it hasn't been a correction that's been able to be made, no matter how good the play is or how bad the play is. So I think that's the process that you have to go through at this point. You have to keep the assistant coaches in the positive frame of mind as they coach the players through tape, and you have to take them out in the field and try to process the information in an athletic aggressive way.
Twenty seven to seventeen to the final, the game was there to be won throughout the course of the day despite some of the problems that they experienced in being consistent throughout the day. And there are likely in any game, no matter what week, five or six plays on both sides of the ball that in the end are the reason for the outcome, and I think we can pinpoint all of those in this particular game. We'll hear from
Matt Eberflu's doing the same. It's the plays you make in the place, don't make tom And so let's start with the positives and the plays they did make against Tampa Bay. And I'm going to start on the offensive side of the ball, and certainly the connection with DJ Moore and Chase Claypool, and then the justin fields touchdown our places to start. Twenty nine yard run by Roshawn Johnson, a good run by Khalil Herbert, a couple of successful screens,
and therefore those are the positives. What do you think if I missed anything?
No, you know, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I think, you know, using cole Kmet Moore as a target, you know, like we talked about it on first down, to make yourself in a more makeable second, third down, the continuous targeting of a guy like Chase Claypool. Don't forget about him just because of the criticism he took from the public after week one. And I think DJ Moore deserves more opportunities.
And I think he's.
A type of guy that should be targeted ten times a week. And I do think that there's a courses in the game that you have to revisit the plays that are successful early in the game. You know, Jeff, the game that we did against the New England Patriots years ago, when Tom Brady was really successful against the Bears, he threw the same play to the same player for eleven completions. And so I think the Bears are capable
of that. If you find a play that Justin is more than comfortable with where he can either target his wide receiver downfield or pull the ball and go and put the defense in a negative position, I think you have to take advantage of it more than once. But like you're talking about, I think the Bears are running
screens very well. I think Roshan Johnson has explosiveness at the line of scrimmage that if you give him an outside crease he's got the speed to take it field and the willingness to low his shoulder against the third level to have extra yards attached to it. And that's
the one thing that encourages me about Khalil Herbert. He's not an easy tackle, so when you have the opportunities for him to carry the ball, you know, you're always talking about getting the extra two or three that's important to this offense.
So now the consistency of that and knowing what you're seeing and trusting what you see and just making a play. We're gonna hear from Darnell Mooney here in a second. Darnell made a great point the discussion about justin fields and throwing guys open or finding open receivers instead of taking a sack or just getting rid of the ball. Quicker, you know, it's all about just Hey, it's on us, Mooney said, it's on us. Claypole, me, Dj. The guys give it, give us a shot, trust us to make
the play, and then it's on us. I love that comment. We're gonna hear about it in a second. But how did you process that?
I think it's a great comment, Jeff.
You know, I think when you the whole team gets to together, you know, seven on seven and the playmakers of the team. You know, justin if it's third and thirteen, he doesn't have to throw a thirteen yard completion. If he throws an eight yard completion with momentum or eleven yard completion to a guy like DJ Moore, that's a difficult tackle.
You have the opportunity to turn that into a first down.
So sometimes I think when they get themselves into these third and long scenarios, Justin puts so much on himself to be the reason the play succeeds. I think that's a little unfair to him. I think the offensive line is getting to know each other a little bit better, so I think they can use multiple protections during the course of a game, no matter what front they're seeing.
So when Justin feels comfortable with the protection that he's called in the huddle, I think that he has to put that onus, like Darnell Mooney says, on the receivers and allow them to make the play.
Here's what Mooney said. It had us on Monday.
That's something that we feel that we're capable of doing. It starts to, just like I said, putting the ball in the playmaker's hands. Put the ball in DJ's hands. The first couple of plays you see gets us down down to the end zone pretty fast. And just like I said, allowing us to be accountable, allowing us to make those plays or don't make those plays and blame it on us, We'll take the blank for sure.
So just allowing us to be accountable for those.
So, by the way, money thinks he's going to be Okay, Tom bruise on the knee.
Put on knee pads, de emphasize the importance of knee pads in college football game. Now all these kids come out of college and they're we're basically wearing shorts. When you're in the NFL, they're emphasizing all tacklers to go lower on the body because they're staying away from the head. Now you have these guys that have little to know knee pads on, and when you do get a shoulder pad, you get a helmet, you fall on a hard piece of the turf, then you can expose.
That possibility to happen.
So I just wish that all and I'm not and I'm not talking to Darnell. I'm talking to all football players on every level about protecting your knees.
And then money on If field should run more, that was a question after four attempts in three yards.
You can't really say all those things.
I think last year you didn't really think he was doing that until we kind of changed things to make it fit for our offense within what we had. So we're still kind of trying to figure out what we what we have what's where we're good at And you didn't think he would just run the ball until probably like a couple of weeks in the season where you're understanding, like this works for us, so we're going to continue to do that. So we're still trying to figure out
what works for us. And I mean it's not it's not too soon, not too late or whatever to figure those things out. Obviously, we don't want to be going to being if we're tuning over, we're not really talking about like what works, and we're probably still trying to figure out what works.
But we're still trying to figure those things out.
He brings up a great point. It took until the middle of the season got to feel comfortable doing it. I did expect a little bit more yesterday. Got to give credit to the defense though the end state home. They're waiting for it, so they weren't crashing down on our po.
So how do you change that?
I think the Bears have not used enough moving pockets, and whether it's naked bootlegs, bootlegs with protection, if it's role protection, if it's waggle, which is kind of a straight dropback, and then you meander off to the right, or the left. If Justin has those types of protections and passes called as soon as he rolls out to the side and he sees his targets covered, it gives him more of an opportunity to run a field against
less bodies. If you try to keep him in the pocket and run from inside the pocket.
You're going to run towards danger.
For all your journeys ahead, go with a partner who's been on your team from the beginning, the one members and communities have trusted for over eighty five years, Blue Crossing, Blue Shield of Illinois, always standing by you, with you, for you, through it all. Jeff Joniak Tom Thayer on the Bears, Etc. Podcast. We'll get into the defensive side of the ball after we listen to head coach Matti Reflucing, our weekly conversation with the Bears Boss. Well, welcome back
to the Bears Et Cetera Podcast. Matt, Let's start in because last night on the Bears Game Night Live show, one of my featured tapes was talking about opportunity. You think only every snap matters in the playoffs, like that's when the intent every stamp matters, But in reality, every snap matters in the NFL, no matter of the season, when opportunity knocks, you got to open the door and you got to kick it down. And there were so many opportunities.
I started out the team meeting with this morning, you know, and talking about opportunity. I had a lot of the plays on there, you know, so you know, the Brisker interception, you know, the you know, the cost fumble that we had. We had caused a few fumbles, the sack opportunities that we that we need to finish those, and those are all opportunities to put the guys behind a six set a short field for our offense, you know, And that's winning football.
You know.
When we blocked the kick that we are line, excellent job, fifty yard line, and then we need to seize the opportunity there for a field goal or at least a touchdown.
You know.
So those I showed all those plays in the team meeting today, you know. And then I said, I also showed them what we did well. You know, I know, we had some opportunities that we didn't take care of and that would have swung the game for sure, But I also showed them what we did well. I showed them the explosive plays on the on the on the
two touchdown drives, those were excellent. I showed the defense of the stops they made to keep us in the game in the second half and certainly at the in the fourth quarter to get our get the ball back for our offense to go for the go ahead score. And uh, you know, so those are all things we did well. You know a lot of good plays were made out there. But again, seizing those opportunities is what what wins and loses games and and we have to take care of that.
And that goes for quarterback justin fields as well. I think you'd agree there were some situations where they were open receivers. He held on the wall, maybe too long, didn't didn't fire, got hit, sack, whatever the case may be. Those are opportunities you got to seize.
Yeah, he would agree with that one hundred percent, you know, And you know, he's got to do a good job of, you know, delivering the ball on time, and he's been doing that and he's doing it more consistent, but we just need more consistency of that. You're seeing, you're seeing an advancement from year one to year two in the system. You're seeing flashes of that. Now, we just need to
see more consistency with that. And when he feels that pressure in his pocket presence, you know, just get rid of the ball, you know, throw it at the guy's feet, at Herbert's feet or whatever that might be. And you know, let's not take those sacks. You know, we can we can minimize you know, the losses there a little bit better. And he knows that.
It's interesting because as a public speaker, when I do big events or whatever, I'm always looking at the eyes of the people. Okay, are they hearing what I'm saying? Are they reacting in a certain way? So when you show those clips of the opportunities missed, do you see the heads going? Do you see do you see it in your players? And they say, oh my gosh, yeah, I mean obviously they know it. They know it deep down in their heart when it happens, like, you know, gotta gotta get that.
But do you see yeah, oh yeah, those guys are you know, they're workers and they believe in each other, you know, and they have a relationship with each other. They love each other. So those players are tight and they want to do it for each other, you know, those opportunities and see those opportunities. And I showed the multitude of players you know, in there, so it could have been the offensive line, receiver, quarterback, you know, defensive line.
All the opportunities that we did have and that we can take advantage of. And it's our job to see those opportunities.
You know.
I thought it's important to bring up the fact that, you know, sudden change is big in the league obviously after turnovers, how a defense responds or how an offense responds with sudden change for defense, and when you talk about injuries, you know, you lose your two safeties for a part of that game. And young guys come in, guys not with a lot of experience. But Quindel Johnson, the rookie out of Memphis, got amnt of waivers from the Rams. Elijah Hicks has had plenty of playing time,
but you know, thrown in there in the heat. And Greg Stroman, he's been on the roster, he's a veteran. But how did those three guysular handle their duties yesterday with that sudden change of an injury or a situation.
I thought, well, you.
Know, they were prepared, and that's a really a credit to those players and also their coaches, you know. You know, that's Andre Curtis, our safeties coach, you know, for the coaches those two safeties, and he did a nice stob with preparing those guys. And also David Overstreet coaches our Nichols, you know, so he was he's Stroman, you know, and he does a good job with him too. And those guys played solid. They were in there, they did what they were supposed to do, and they had a solid
game for us. And you're gonna need that when you have injury, you know. And some of this was you know, heat related or injury, but the guys did a nice job coming in and stepping in.
All right, Let's talk to what was the defensive coordinator yesterday, Matt Eberflus. Overall, I thought there were some really good things stopping the run game, Gervon Dexter, making a couple of flash plays he was thrown aside guys and making plays and then the overall pressure didn't always finish, But were you pleased with how you guys and and stopping them on drives with short field goals that was important to keep the game still in reach for the Bears. Throughout almost the entire sixty.
Yeah, I thought they guys played played well. You know, they played well at some at points. You know, at points we can certainly improve. We know that, you know, certainly on the on the sacks and the takeaways. We got to get those numbers right. Third out numbers we got to get right. So you know, we're gonna have some focus areas on our defensive team this week and those will be what we focus on.
All right.
Kyler Gordon went through it last season. Also, Trakwon Brisker goes through it last season. Rookie defensive backs Tyreek Stevenson knows he's going to have a target on his chest. There's no way around it. We know he's tough minded, he invites it, he's good, he forgets. But you know now that you're knee deep in it and he faces a great receiver like Mike Evans this week, how do you evaluate where he's at and how do you monitor that as you go through practice this week?
Yeah, you know he's in a good spot. You know, he's in a good spot mentally. You know, just a couple little tech things. You know, John Hope coaches our corners and he does an awesome job, and he'll get him right. You know, he's been a coach for a long time and uh, you know, he's had rookies before and developed those guys into really good players. So you know, we expect the same about of Tyreek, you know. And the biggest thing for him is that he has to learn.
It's a learning experience. This first year. He's gonna learn a ton with the different skill sets that he has to cover, you know, and you know, Mike's Mike's a unique skill set, you know, because he's long, he's fast, you know, and he can get behind people and uh, you know that's the one thing that he's good at. And so he'll learn from that and move forward and uh and prove of it.
We know that offensive line chemistry and playing together is significant. It's it's as long as the NFL has been around.
Uh.
I believe there were like almost nearly a dozen starting combinations last year. I can't remember the exact number, and again, the intended five won't be available probably until week six. How is that impacting the offense right now? Because it's not the same vibe every time.
You know, there's certainly an impact for sure, you know, Nate was you know, for personal reasons, wasn't there, you know, obviously, Tevin and you know, so you're you're moving guys around a little bit. But you know, for the most part, you know, the guys did a solid job yesterday, you know, you know, in protection, you know, it seemed like they're you know, they did a good job there for sure. But again, we got to run the ball better. We
got to do a good job in protection. And the guys there out there are going to be the guys who were playing with. So Simo does a good job coaching those guys and they're they're ready to go, and you know, he's got to do a good job of stepping up there and making your opportunity count.
In a backle like Roshan Gent, it doesn't matter who the back if they rip off a big run excites the team twenty nine yards. Do you ever feel like, Okay, let's feed the beast a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, you know, he did, he did a really nice job. I thought Herbert had some good runs yesterday too. You know, he had some really good runs. Make some guys miss you know at the point of attack, you know, to keep the play alive. And I think both those guys are really you know, starting to move up, you know, and we just got to do a good job of putting them in opportunities so they can be successful.
We could talk a long time, You're out of time, So let's look at Kansas City, one of the great stadiums in the NFL to enjoy game as a fan, and I'm sure for a player to play in it. What are we facing here with the big red wave of this defending world champs.
Yeah, you know, just you know, a lot of skill. You know, their skill on both sides is really good. You know. Defensively, they they like the pressure, you know, they're a big pressure team and they got some good players there.
It's gonna be different kind of pressure too, right than balls. Yes, it'll be different kind.
It'll be different. There'll be some all outmax pressures and different things. And he'll create some new things. He has the designer blitzeres that he does every different every week, which are new, so he always does those things, you know. And then offensively, you know, Andy does a heck of a job, you know, scheming up different ways to get
guys open, get his skill open. So you know, they did a nice stop running the ball yesterday, you know, in terms of their average, you know, and they really were you know, I know they had a hard fought battle yesterday, you know against Jacksonville, and I watched that game last night. But you know it's a you know, it's gonna be a big challenge for us.
Good luck this week. Thank you. Obviously agrees very much so with with some of the things you brought up regarding fields and then just the comfort of of calling defensive place. He was pleased with the way certain aspects of the defensive performance was done. Certainly defending the run. They certainly play the linebackers demand Edmunds and t J.
Edwards combined for twenty eight tackles. He also addressed obviously the missed opportunities of sacks, making the right tackle, the right time, ball on the ground, find a way to get it, take the interception, all the things we all talked about, which goes back to what I said at the outset of this program.
The key word that you said at the beginning of the program, and the keyword that Matt set throughout the press conference is consistency. And so when you talk about all those examples of the way to improve or the accomplishments of the inside linebackers. It is about consistency. It's about every phase of the defense getting to know each other and developing that chemistry so they run a faster pace of defense. I do think it did show itself this week in Tampa, and I look forward to seeing
it this week against the Kansas City Chiefs. But I think Matt's catchphrase for the week is getting back and having a perfect practice on Wednesday and having the consistency of all team elements offense, defense and special teams.
So from Jack Sanborn, who was at the podium on Monday on just how the game was called by the defensive coordinator for the week, Maddi Berflues.
Obviously the first time with him. It's obviously been his defense for a while and knows it very well. But yeah, I mean I'm curious, you know, Tremaine kind of is listening to him until like hear exactly what he's saying. But yeah, it felt like we were kind of sending more pressure early in the game and stuff like that, and definitely aggressive and knows what he wants and knows what on certain plays, certain down in distances, situational ball.
I can definitely trust and put us in exactly the position that he wants us to be in.
And you know it's the confidence they have and a guy who's done it many many years, this is his defense. Let's be honest, it's his defense at the Bears defense. But said Sanborn says that you know, the confidence in that goes a long way Tom and I would expect that from these guys me too.
And you know the thing that I like about football is there's always a little bit more pressure when the head coach has his hands on a specific element of the team and he is calling the defense along with his duties as a head coach. And when you look at Jack Sandborn, to every single one of these players, Matt is a type of guy that's out there. We see him out there individually coaching fundamentals. So he knows
the defense. He wants that more, he wants that better consistency, He wants these guys to play fast, and I think if every one of them continue to sharpen their fundamentals.
We'll eventually see the outcome that we all want.
Busy Heart Seltzer the official art Seltzer of the Chicago Bears Jeff and Tom here on The Bears et Cetera podcast. One more from Samborn. This is a local guy. This is a guy who experienced all those you know, losses last season to end of the year. Samborne was asked today if if he's taking it to heart.
I mean, yeah, I think for me, it definitely does, just because you know, everyone's here to win, and everybody here wants to win, and so yeah, it definitely is tough. And you know, just being here last year too, being a part of that, I think everyone kind of understands. Everyone feels it, and I think nobody is more kind of disappointed in it than you know, the guys that are going out there every Sunday and kind of putting their bodies on the line for it.
And yeah, I think everyone wants to win.
I mean, the city deserves a winning team, and yeah, and I but we come in every day and you know that's our goal.
I love the answer. I love the answer Tom. For the guys that have been here and have not experienced winning, it is hitting them hard. And despite the fact it is a different season, a different team, the guys that have been here, it does hit them a different way. It would have hit you a different way. As a local guy and a here for a long time.
You know, Jack's path into the NFL is not as similar as a lot of other guys. When you come as a free agent, you're a local guy, you're not necessarily expected to make the team. Then you expect, Then you make the team, and you exceed expectations. So he doesn't have a long NFL life to go by. But when you have Tremaine Edmunds and you have TJ. Edwards, you have these guys that have been on successful teams and they see what it takes to maintain and sustain
that consistency of winning. I think those are a couple of sounding boards that should be talking in the locker room a little bit more.
With encouragement and correction.
But I don't think a guy like Jack Sandborn needs needs a lot of advice about how hard to play the game and how to be prepared, because even when I watch him in the game against Tampa Bay Bucks, the dude still reads offense is as quickly as possible. He's a great Johnny on the spot tackler, and I still think his.
Best football is ahead of him.
However, when you have guys that come from winning franchises, the message that they can put inside the locker room and the way guys should think, prepare and be ready on game day.
I think it could spill through offense and defense.
Take a chance download the Bette Rivers app today. All right, let's talk about Tyreek Stevenson. As I indicated in the interview with coach Kyli Gordon went through it, Jakwan Brisker went through it. Rookies go through what they go through, and he's going to be targeted until further notice. Certainly they're going to look at the tape and see where he is at right now. And so yesterday Sunday, Mike Evans,
they went to him. They went to Mike Evans, they went to him when he was being defended by Tyreek Stevenson, and the end result was five of seven for one hundred and forty yards and a touchdown. Now skewed a bit, frankly, because of what you feel strongly about on the offensive pass interference that should have been calling Evans on the seventy yard touchdown, our seventy yard pass play.
I don't think I know.
Listen, Mike Evans throughout the course of his career has done this to a lot of defensive backs. But the judgment of any football player after an effort like that comes how do you rebound from it? Tarik Stevenson is one of the more physical, tackling defensive backs the Bears have, and I really admire that element of him. He's going to learn more about routes. He's going to learn more about how wide receivers in the NFL attack, how they're running downfield.
He's going to get more consistent.
About his reads to the receivers he's playing against. So when you talk about a six ' five, two d and forty pound receiver that's had a big day, Tyreek Stevenson should not be ashamed of it. He has to learn how to improve from it. And the next time he comes up, like a weapon against a weapon like that, how do you defend it more securely? Well?
Brought to you by PNC Official Bank of the Bears. Other injury news, we touched on Darnell Mooney. The word from Maddy Refluse on Eddie Jackson was positive for now, so that still needs to be taking a look at the foot injury. There at a couple dehydration issues during the game with TJ. Edwards and also Jakwan Brisker who managed to come back. Tom, they're going to Kansas City. I don't know if you check the weather yet, is
it going to be hot there? Because seventy one okay, not an issue, should not be an issue, should not be an issue at all.
Three twenty five starts, so the temperature will be on the downward.
Now.
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Yeah, getting to be that weather fall is about to commence, that's for sure. Let's talk about Kansas City and the one thing I want to talk about first and foremost is this third down of these past two weeks. So yes, so a lot has been given up on third down and Baker Mayfield was twelve or thirteen on third down throwing the football. You got Patrick Mahomes coming in. Can you stop some of the third down damage? And how do you represent doing it?
First of all, I think they got to find someone that has the capabilities to run stride for stride with Kelsey because Patrick Mahomes when he gets in trouble and he sees his downfield receivers cover, he's willing to go underneath, and like I said, that thirteen yard pass, he's willing to throw an eight yard completion and count on Kelsey to get the extra five six yards needed to get
beyond the first down marker. So I do think the role of not letting him have a free release off the line of scrimmage, allowing someone to interrupt his route as is as immediately as possible. Can you take a guy like Jakwan Brisker and kind of mirror him around the field from the line of scrimmage all the way through his route? But it's going to be about interrupting the comfort zone of Mahomes. Do you think there's a couple of attackable spots on their offensive line and if
you can interrupt their protection. Put Patrick Mahomes in a back pedal, and I think you as great as he is, as great as his vision is, all the arm angles he can throw from, but any quarterback that's in a backpedal has difficulty accurately throwing it forward.
You know, the Bears are much better at the moment and stopping the run than they were a year ago, And that's a big tip of the cap to the new front seven and some of those players there, and it can only get better from here. Isaiah Pacheco is the guy. He runs really hard. You're going to really have to want to bring that guy down. He's still got a chip on his shoulder for where he's drafted, and he was a star in the Super Bowl last year.
Good news, Chicago United Airlines is getting brand new planes with other bells and whistles like Bluetooth connectivity screens at every seat in room for everyone's roller bag. United proud to fly the Chicago Bears and you too. All right again, We're going to preview this later in the week, But Kansas City's defense has allowed just twenty three total points. The big guy comes back and hits the ground, running hard. Outstanding defensive tackle Chris Jones. He had a second and
a half, He had five pressures. He hit the quarterback a couple of times, and much like Travis Kelsey, is a go to when they need a big stop, they turn to the big guy, Chris Jones.
Well, if your intentions is to run at them, you better have some type of secure block against him, or at least he's going to penetrate into the backfield and disrupt the flow of the play, attack him from unexpected angles. And that's kind of the way that we treated guys from departed Jerome Brown who played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Reggie White departed Reggie White for that matter. But when you play against great players with extreme explosiveness, you have
to attack them jet at unexpected angles. And that's traps, and that's whams, and that's angle blocks by powerful offensive lineman.
If you do that, what happens to the defensive lineman's psyche throughout the game? Great players, if they start looking over their shoulders see what's coming, do, they start losing their touch with where the ball's going and they start looking to see who's coming from the side or whatnot.
You create an instant of hesitancy and their explosiveness off the line of scrimmage because they're kind of seeing, Okay, if cole comets coming in slow motion, is he whamming me? Is he setting me up to get trapped? Or is he going to run by me and go off field? Now, if you can put that instant of hesitancy in their explosiveness off the line of scrimmage, you're giving the advantage back to the offensive lineman.
I don't think Chris Jones is going to.
Shy away from it, but there's a lot of different ways that you can unexpectedly attack him at the line of scrimmage and take advantage of him penetrating across the line of scrimmage.
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Patrick Mahomes, You know, I just want the Bears when they do take the practice field on Wednesday, to go out there with a positive attitude. I know they are zero to two and they lost the game. There's a lot of criticism that hope these guys aren't listening to through social.
Media, because it is about weekly improvement.
It is about developing that chemistry, and like Matt said, if you can go out on Wednesday and have a positive practice, that can do a lot to kind of bring the locker room back to life.
Give a little belief.
In what they're teaching you, and try to take it ultimately ultimately to the game field on Sunday.
All right, Tom, back with you on Thursday for our preview of the Bears Chiefs in Kansas City Thursday night, six o'clock at ESPN one thousand Dolls Bears Weekly Show. We're going to be joined on the podcast, by the way, by the great voice, one of the great voices in the NFL, Mitch Holtis, the very excitable Kansas City Chiefs radio play by play man. He'll have some stories fun got to talk to. So be ready, Big Tom, be ready.
I'm ready every day for Bears head.
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