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You know, sensors. The draft has ended. It's to spend the most talk about draft history of Chicago Bears sports and the outs the outskirt, the outlying topics that have been going around the league and everything. Super impressed with the impressions that the choice of Justin Fields is left around the league impressed what they consider his development possibilities

to ultimately turn into. And hey, we can't sit here and talk about the draft week without talking about the punch in the face that we all got right before the draft started in conversations of Aaron Rodgers possibly being disgruntled enough to move on. You've been eloquent in your

debut here todaytime. I love your feelings the history of Chicago Bears football, But anytime a quarterback a certainly one of this stature and this kind of ceiling, Wow, because this guy really is the limit and you're right, A buzz in town is palpable, friends, family acquaintances, people reaching out on social media to both of us. While I'm not you because you're not on social media, but just the way you have interacted with people in the public,

that's the first topic is Justin Fields. Listen, I actually talk to people, so you know, between common between conversations this morning with the general manager of another team and getting their reflection about what they think. You know, Justin Fields is the new quarterback. He is not the quarterback that came out of my generation, the straight drop back passer.

Now we've been introduced to an athlete that plays quarterback, and from what we've seen in the sense, this whole athleticism at that position has started justin fields fits right into that that new generation of quarterbacks in the NFL. And to what are you referring to but the punch in the face right before the draft, please, well, well

that's when that Aaron Rodgers information came out. And so when you're thinking about what player can the Bears take to help this team make the biggest jump the soonest yeah, you're thinking about quarterback, but we assume that all of them would be gone by twenty and then all of a sudden they bring up within the division. If there was one player you could take out of the division to give everybody the best chance to climb up top,

it would be Aaron Rodgers. And then during the course of the week, I messaged you who is the second best player in the NFC North? And now you have to think about it because it's not an obvious that jumps right on your plate. Again, you know, we're all you know because the story hasn't left the headlines about Aaron Rodgers. But I think the second headline that's most talked about this week is the selection of Justin Fields. That's a great question too. We're gonna approach that with

our friend Jim Miller just a moment. We're also going to hear from some college head coaches that impacted this draft from a Bears perspective, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, Oklahoma state head coach Mike Gunde, and Virginia Tech head coach Justin Fuente. And that leads me to the former Chicago Bears quarterback, a Michigan stater. The series SXM NFL radio host on Moving the Chains with Pat Kerwin, our special guest each and every week, Big Jim Miller, Oh

you've got thoughts. I know you do. You must be grinning ear to ear to hear Big Tom's excitement. Jim, Yeah, well I am. I'm excited for Justin Fields. You know, I didn't think the Bears would have a chance to get him, but here he falls through ten and Ryan Pace works to deal with the giant, said Levin, with of all people, Dave Getlman, that never is really traded down. So it worked out brilliantly for the Chicago Bears. Already

have talked to Justin Fields. He's this guy's a tough competitor and like Tom said, it's a different way that the game has played. And this is a very athletic, very determined, I think, very tough minded individual that I think landed up in the right spot with the Chicago Bears. And then the Aaron Rodgers drama continues to unfold, And what is your perspective on it. I know it's probably

been topic number one on your show all week. Yeah, it has been obviously, and you know, some people as sensitive feelings, you know, just because they draft a quarterback and maybe he doesn't feel appreciated when you look at Aaron Rodgers, and I tend to agree with with bred Farmer. I don't think this is going away any anytime soon. I think Aaron Rodgers is a very principled guy. He's going to stick to his guns and I don't think he reports for a training camp and so the Packers

are going to get what they what they want. We'll see what Jordan Love can do and then maybe at that point, if he plays well Jordan Love, I mean plays well, maybe then the Packers would consider trading Aaron Rodgers. If he plays poorly. I think Aaron Rodgers will get his fat new deal that he wanted all along in Green Bay. Did you have a take on Terry Bradshaw's opinion about things? No, I mean, here's the thing is

I mean organizations. You know, it's it's the typical players, play, coaches, coach, owner's own you know. So if Aaron thinks said he's got to be abreast of every single decision making process that the Packers are doing, and I think he's sorely mistaken, that really doesn't happen in any organization. They may give an inkling and ask you your input about, Hey, what do you think is so and so player in this and that? But honestly, how many players is Aaron Rodgers

really studying prior to the Packers draft? Every single year? I don't think any player does that for any team. And then you reflect on and afterwards and you just you welcome him in with open arms. So, whether he felt he was caught astray or really out of touch with that pick of Jordan Love, at some point every organization is going to have to draft a quarterback. I

think we all know that. You know, Jim and Jeff, I think that narrative of the quarterback being more involved in personnel decision started earlier this offseason with both Russell Wilson and Deshaun Watson. So I just think it's something that Aaron Rodgers is piggybacked on because, yeah, he may be talking about Jordan Law or the lack of receivers. You know, this is a topic that began with those two guys in their turmoil and their decisions they're making.

I mean, it goes back to Tom Brady. Everybody thinks they're going to talk their way out of town. But Tom Brady did it the right way. He did it where he wouldn't be placed with the franchise tag. He went to the owner's house and Robert Craft. They said their goodbyes and that was it, you know. But Tom had been building up to that moment to making sure they couldn't franchise tag him and all that stuff, and then he's able to move on and everybody went there

their separate ways. That's really not the case for Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers has three years left under contract, plus they can franchise tag him for two more years, so yeah, they can give him some more money to make them happy. But I think he wanted really to end his career in Green Bay by getting a long term extension again, and it just really didn't happen, and that Green Bay seems to be digging a line in the sand where they're not going to offer him any extension on his contract.

I am of the opinion, though, that this whole idea about competition rankling somebody, it just drives me nuts. I mean I do. I mean, listen, I'm gonna be fifty nine years old. So maybe people think that all man thinking, but I just don't buy it. Everybody in life has to deal with competitive aspects of their position and what's down the line, what's coming down the pipeline. It's just part of life. And if you're gonna be sensitive about competition, I don't care who you are. I mean, it's you're

not coughing up for me. Yeah. Here's the thing is, Jordan Love was no competition from the get go. He's a greatly raw player. I interviewed Jordan Love how about this time? I asked him, hey, man, can you give me an example of a hard count? He didn't even know what a hard count was, and I go, here, you just got drafted by Green Bay with the all time best hardcount quarterback in Aaron Rodgers. I said, you're gonna find out what a hard count is in how

to do it. So he's really no competition for Aaron Rodgers. And realistically, if Aaron continues to play, he may never even step on the field. So it was kind of a wasted pick when you look at when Green Bay selected Jordan Lowe. Yeah, you know one thing about the young quarterbacks, Jim, when you talk about the hard count, it's a non rhythmic tone to the voice of the quarterback and trying to make the defensive lineman susceptible to jumping or even being off balance. And nowadays they really

don't use that. You know, you've got Aaron Rodgers who's the master of it. You have guys in the past from Steve de Berg to Boomer Assias and that we're masters at it. But now in the modern day offense, it's almost because you got two plays called and you have so much going through your brain. You really don't have quarterbacks that are at that level where they know everything so perfectly that they can use that voice flection

as a weapon. That's equally as destructive because if you win on that two to three times a game, you're talking about touchdowns or big completions. In the case of Aaron Rodgers, that's time there. Jim Miller, Jeff jon Acc here on Chicago's sports Radio six seventy the Score. Let's take a break here on bearsdall Access. Welcome back to Bears on acces. I was brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for your home at igs dot com because every good choice adds up to a better world.

Jeff Jony Aac, Tom Thayer, Jim Miller, with you on our show this week, a post draft show. Couldn't be with you the week before, but glad we're with you now. As we're breaking down the Bears selections, let's talk about the departure of left tackle Tommy Charles Leno Jr. Durable as they come, reliable as they come, ninety five straight starts when you add the playoff games. And this was something in Brad Biggs article this past week in the

Chicago Tribune. Played next to twelve starting left guards since Week four of twenty fifteen, and wow, and he still weathered that storm. So any inefficiency that popped up during the course of that time, and Bears use five left guards last season, you know, may have led to some not as stellar play in twenty nineteen. I thought he played well last season in twenty twenty, but there's not a guy in the roster tom that has a start

at left tackle now in this league. Yeah, you know, you didn't think about the amount of left guards that he played it next to, and then think about the amount of offensive line coaches he's had through his bearer's journey, so you don't grow that consistency of the same technique.

Talk to you for a number of years. Charles Leno did more in developing himself because he first was tried at a right tackle and didn't necessarily work out uniquely enough, he went over to the left side and had the qualities and had the traits to sustain at that position. So I admire what Charles has been able to do

throughout his career. However, when you get into salaries and you get into youth and you think of how this offensive line can change if you can plug in a new body there, and one they obviously went and drafted, one they feel has the skills to play that position, and from you know, all the guys that I played with throughout the course of my career. Watching Jay Hilgenberg get traded to Cleveland, I got cut. You know, it's

gonna happen to everybody throughout the course their career. So you just have to have thick skin at that point in your career and you figure out that you still have the desire to go to another organization and give everything that you've built up into that point, or have you satisfied yourself played enough football and are ready to move on. I think Charles is going to have an opportunity to go and probably walk into somebody's team and

immediately compete as the starting left tackle on their team. Jim, how do you feel about the move? And I mean, obviously it was necessary to clear salary cap space because it's extremely tight for the Bears here in twenty twenty one. Yeah, I think it's pretty clear for not only Charles Leno, but Bobby Massey on the other side as well. The Bears moved on from both of them. They had big contracts and they hate they contributed, they played good football,

and we're good Chicago Bears. Along the way, I'm with Tom, I think Charles will have an opportunity to play somewhere. It sounds like Bobby Massey is already getting some looks like by the Denver Broncos where they can step in, fill in and play right away. But you know, again, it's about getting younger. You do have the salary cap issue that you have to deal with, and we'll see

what Tevin Jenkins is able to do him. Plus, they drafted Larry Boreham, who who are good young offensive lineman that look to have a clean canvas, that have some versatility and have played more than one position on the offensive line. You would think Tevin Jenkins gonna have that opportunity at left tackle. Maybe give that opportunity to Larry Boreham on the right side. If it doesn't work there, he could kick in the guard, is what Boreham could do.

So I'm high on Jenkins. I think he's a solid player, is very versatile. But he's got all the things you're looking for in terms of the size at six five, the weight, his lateral ability, and how he moves. And it looks to be that he's going to have to learn quick and be able to step in and play and play well for the Chicago Bears. All right, let's listen in to Mike Gunny, his head coach at Oklahoma State, earlier this week. Tevin is very interesting. I think he's

just ratching the surface on his ability. He came from Topeka, Kansas, as you guys know, and when he arrived, I don't think he had any idea what college football was like. And just in the last year he's finally developed some toughness and some grit that that will certainly benefit him playing in the NFL. I would not be surprised in two years if people are looking back and saying that he is potentially the best offensive line take in this draft.

And I say that because he has phenomenal athleticism, strength, he's highly intelligent, and he's just started to really get into football over the last eighteen months. All right, Tom there, what is your reaction to Mike Gundee and what is your thoughts on what the capability is immediately of Tevin.

First of all, I liked the enthusiasm and which Mike Gundee coaches, where I think it's spills out to the rest of the football players, and it's a very contagious attitude that he has and as he says, he's built that kind of a reputation within the last eighteen months. That's kind of what's expected from an offensive lineman or any college player that gets a little bit feel of playing early in their career, and then the expectations are

raised each and every spring into the fall season. And again, I know a head coach that with a drafted player is always going to talk positively about their former student. But now after they went drafted Teven I went and watched a lot of film on him, both on the right side and left side, because I want to see if there's a reality that this guy can transfer his right side balance to the left side, and I really

think he can. And so when you're talking about this offense and when Justin fields plays, they don't necessarily have to be a left side dominant team. They can be a right side dominant team if they feel that Rats were the office of line has strength, and Tevin is kind of working into his own, so I do believe he can play there. I think he's demonstrated the intelligence, the aggressiveness, the attitude and the character that you need to come in here and try to be that immedia

day one starter. But you know, he's going to have to rely on guys like Cody Whitehair and the experiences that James Daniels has been able to live through. Because is Cody right now the oldest offensive lineman on this unit with six years of experience, Because you're talking about a really young group of offensive linemen, and if Cody has consistency at that left guard position, here's a guy that could help Tevin become that dominating left tackle that

you need to have for the next ten years. Yeah, Cody's twenty eight. If that he's twenty six, So yes, I also up thirty, which is you know, I'm good with Jim. I mean, I know the experience level. I mean there's a bunch of starts between those interior guys now and what they decide to do ultimately. It's a task that you could be creative with, Jim in terms of, Okay, close your eyes, what you're starting five offensive line look like on day one? Yeah, I would think it would

be Jenkins at at left tackle. I think white Hair will be at the left guards or well, depending on what they do with James Daniels, I should say, but I would say white Hair at the left guard must have heer at center depending on what they do. I think there's a position battle going at right guard, and I would think Coffetti would be the right tackle. But I'm gonna give Larry Boram an opportunity to take that

right tackle spot. If he's able to take it, then I kick Caffetti down to right guard, is what I think they'll do. But I would give Larry Boreham every opportunity at right tackle, Jim and Jap. I think when you look at game day rosters and how many offensive lineman, Alex Bars gives those guys the backup strength. He can play center, he can play either guard, and he's played tackle. So here's a guy that his versatility could be his

biggest asset. And if he's not a starter, he's gonna play an enormously huge important role of maybe being the sixth offensive lineman and short yardage and goal line packages. But he's got to have that mental capacity to be able to hold that down any single assignment that's asked of him, from right tackle, the left tackle, and everyone

in between. And they also have the young guys they drafted Arlington Hambright, Lechevia Simmons the prior year Dieter Ellison, who is the guy they drafted undrafted free agent rather than Elijah Wilkinson who came over a five year veteran from the Denver Broncos. That's Tom Fair, Jim Milhim, Jeff, Jony Act. This is Bears All Access. Let's step away. You're in Chicago Sports Radio six sevent eight to score.

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and Jamilla. I'm Jeff Johnniac. All right, let's spend this whole segment talking about justin field, because the first thing that we're gonna hear is, Okay, when's he getting on the field. It's almost going to be a weekly Q and a from the media, how's he doing? Monitoring his progress. It'll start in the in the first veteran mini camp at the end of jr middle of June, and it's going to continue over the course of time. Andy Dalton is the starting quarterback as camp begins, and there's gonna

be let's just call it what it is. It's gonna be tough the moment any mistakes are made, because when fans are in the stands its soldier field. They're gonna want justin fields. That's just how it works. Well, they really are. The bottom line is, you can only play a player when he's ready to play. A lot of times I always say it's it's by happenstance, Like Ben Roethlisberger.

You know, if Tommy Maddox didn't get hurt, Ben Roethlisberger doesn't go fifteen and one is rookie season, you know that those are just happenstaffed things where an injury forces a young quarterback into the lineup. The Bears have a good quarterback room with Nick Foles and Andy Dalton. They both have played a lot. They can bring along the young quarterback and they'll be unselfish in doing so. But

I think Matt Naggie has already talked about it. You don't want to throw a young player to the wolves. That's where you can destroy a lot of young quarterbacks. Justin Fields needs more polish. He needs to learn a pro style offense more than that's different than the power spread that he ran into Ohio State. And he's got all the ability in the world to do it. But you'll only put a quarterback on the field when he's ready to play. That's the route. For example, Miami went

last year with two a tongue of viola. How many times that Brian Flores says, We're not putting him in until he's ready to play. He's got to be able to protect himself and he's got to be able to execute all the things that he's being asked to execute. So I think they'll take them their time with Justin Fields, But his timetable is up to him how hard he studies, how hard he works, how fast the offense sinks into him, and when that happens, then he'll be ready to be

inserted into lineup. And I think at some point this year it will happen for the Chicago Bears. You know, if you want to take him as a blank slate, he's probably one of the top three athletes on the Chicago Bears. But I think judgment day is going to come from his mental responses initially in the meeting room. The way it is for a quarterback to wait is for an offensive lineman. Dick Stanfeld would have us actually read in that room to show that the developed camaraderie there.

To get up on the board and make sure that you can diagram every single assignment of every single player on the board at the right time. If he asked you a question in the middle of a sentence, you'd better be able to answer it quickly enough that you're both paying attention you know exactly what he's talking about. That's going to be the initial evaluation process of justin fields. If he's being able to absorb everything mentally in the classroom,

it's going to be really encouraging. So when they take them out in the field and they go through those repetitiously run drills on the offensive side of the ball, and that's when you're going to be able to use his athleticism and try to look at the development of those other trades. But, like Jim says, in every quarterback across the league, it'll put you in harm's way if you're not mentally ready to run the system efficiently to keep all your assets in a positive in a positive way.

I do think that the history that Matt Nagee has with the rookie year of Patrick Mahomes, what they call the blueprint of how they got them ready, is certainly something to start with. Jim. It's a great place to start. And you know, everybody coaches everybody different, everybody adapts differently. And it does sound it's time alluded to about the mental aspect of things that this guy is a really good processor, does have an unbelievable ability to digest that information.

Sounds like he's super smart. Yeah, when I talked to Ryan Day, the Ohio State head coach, he raved about him. You know, I don't know leading up to the draft over his question while he's the last guy in the building, first guy to leave it, I don't buy into any of that, and Ryan Day pretty much shot that down. This guy, this is a guy who basically the Big ten wasn't going to play right. It was Justin Fields in his family that got the Big ten to play. So this guy is a very motivated self starter, a

guy that gets things going. So people forget that that it was Justin Fields who got everybody together for the Big ten to even play football. Last year. So tells you about his love of the game, that he wants to play football, that will work extremely hard, and he'll stick his neck out there for not only his own team, but the entire Big Ten and every team in the

Big Ten. That's what this young man did. And you brought up Ryan Day he met with the media last week through a lot of praise towards Matt Nagge and Ryan Pace for their approach in this whole process. The relationship goes back to when we played each other, Um in college. Um. He was a quarterback at Delaware, I wasn't in Hampshire. We had some great battles against each other. Um, and we've stayed in touch, um, and just you know

through you know, when I was in the NFL. UM. You know, he was in the NFL as a quarterback coach, and so we kind of stayed in touch that way. And then when he got to the Bears, UM, you know, he would call about some of our players, always really good, one of the better guys I've been around, just asking questions.

And then um, even as as early as you know, when justin gut here, Um, he and I would talk about justin a little bit and I gotta give Matt credit, Ryan Pace credit, everybody in the in the Bears organization. I thought they did an unbelievable job in this process, not only you know, asking all the right questions, but um but but I think this is a great fit and just the way that they went about their business

was really professional, and I feel great for them. Um. But but I hope our relationship can can help along the way. Um. You know, anytime you know, anybody in the NFL asked us for access about our players, we try to do it. But it was great to have that extra relationship with Matt. I know Ryan was a huge part of this as well, and they have a great staff. So I'm excited for the city of Chicago to see Justin fields and this is going to be a fun time to be a part of and watch

from Columbus. But we're gonna we're all Bears fans now and really happy for Matt and for Ryan. Tommy couldn't have said it any better right there. But from your perspective as an offensive lineman, Jim den Chiman as well, what does it take for these young offensive linemen to block for a guy like this because of his legs now Ohio State didn't want him running all over the place.

When he did, it looked really good. We've seen the highlight this week of him racing downfield after a completion helping block to get his receiver into the end zone. I just pure effort in a game in the Big ten. I mean, all sorts of things point to a guy that can carve up a defense with his legs is more challenging block a guy like that. It is challenging when he gets into an ad lib type of scenario

where if protection breaks down. Now Justin Fields is on the booth because it's really you can't see behind you. You can only block what's in front of you. And so when they get a better feel of what are his tendencies, what are Justin Fields like to do when he feels pressure, which way does he like to move? You know? Now they say, oh, push Aaron Rodgers to the left because that's where he's vulnerable. Blooney, The guy can throw from anywhere on the field he wants to.

But those are the types of tendencies that they're going to have to learn from Justin. And so if they have a pocket construction called out of the huddle. They have to understand where is this pocket most likely gonna not necessarily break down, but where will he force to go? And it's just the little things, the little subtleties you'll learn because you realize that you have an athlete behind you and not a stationary target like some guys have

a tendency to be. Jimmy did get sacked I think forty eight times in college, had I think twelve fumbles. So these are areas that you know you're gonna have to keep a focus on as well for him, right, yeah, absolutely, Ball security is everything, and your decision making and taking care of the ball is going to be paramount. I'm with you on that he had too many fumbles. From that standpoint, he's got to be smart about getting down, not taking the vicious shots like he did in that

game against Clemson. Obviously, had had hurt him the following week when he had to line up against Alabama because he wasn't entirely healthy. He's a big, strong guy. But just because you're big and strong like that, be smart. No one to slide, weigh the risks and rewards, run out of bounds when you need to. But I really like his intermediate passing and his deep stuff. He can get his deep footballs out a little bit earlier. From that standpoint, his best football is ahead of him. This

guy basically transferred into a house date. He's the two time Big Ten Player of the Year because he's got all kinds of ability. But he's not a polished product yet. All those saying need to be brought to his attention, and he needs to get better, and I believe he will be better as he moved forward as a quarterback in the NFL. TIM there's been comparisons already to his style of a Donovan McNabb. That's a name that pops in and I can I can see that the body type.

This is not some skinny quarterback who has size. This is a well built athlete and very very strong, durable guy. It looks like to me. I don't know if that's the comparison that you would say, but from your conversations with some NFL people, what are they saying. You know, he's got the frame of Donovan McNabb and Dak Prescott, He's got the elusiveness of the conditioning, the feat of Russell Wilson and Deshaun Watson. So I think that's the

perfect combination of both. Because when we were all young guys and Donovan McNabb came on the scene, he was a special athlete play in the position. But we kind of were aware of that because of his time in high school around here in what we got the way we got to see him on that offense in college. But offenses have changed since Donovan McNabb came into the league.

They were using his athleticism as traits and the durability to develop that offense in Philly, and with the coaches that he played for, they were still a kind of a pass happy type of offense with the running game in a strong defense behind it. Now, the way the game has changed, you can take video evidence of Russell and you can take video evidence of Deshaun Watson and try to incorporate him into the game of justin field. So I think he can be more threatening against defenses.

He can change the way you rush, you are rushed against because they're worried if he gets outside the pocket, it could be damaging. That's town fair. Jim Meller Jeff jonahac Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score step away, We'll get into the other draft picks outside of Justin Fields as he gets his debut with the Chicago Bears coming up at Rookie Minicamp. Just here in a short time next week. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment of Bears All Access

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Fans have joined the season ticket Priority List and current season ticket holders will have exclusive opportunity to participate in this pre schedule from seven till eight. So next week's going to be exciting. Any guess is who the Bears open the season with Jim No guess is what you love? You know, there's there's odds on all this. Now we can make money on this, Yeah, Tim, Yeah I did. Did they play Cincinnati? I mean, it's it's fun to

talk about, that's for sure. How the schedule stacks up, because it doesn't make a difference when you play a team and how and now we know where they're gonna play teams. We just don't know when it'll be fun And I know fans in the stands, if everything goes well, I should be an exciting added bonus to this, for sure. Tom. Let's start talking about some other draft picks here. Larry Borham. We touched on him earlier, Missouri big guy at one point north the three fifty, because that's the way they

wanted him there. They wanted big guys. Now he's back around three thirty and seems like he's got that Detroit nasty to him too. Yeah. You know, I'm glad he played basketball as a young man because I think at this size he's probably developed into a better short area athlete because of the footwork that he repetitiously practiced in

basketball as a young man. However, When I look at Larry, he's got all the trade and the reason he was drafted because he shows all the willingness to participate, the hard play, the offensive tackle, taken up space. However, he is going to have to be getting he has. He's gonna have to get in better physical condition. And when you talk about getting up to three fifty, you know it's easily done by eating, but your body just doesn't

acclimate to that type of way. You have a chance of being a better physically conditioned athlete at a lighter weight. And some of the guys that you're going to have to play against, you better have some knee bends. To play against the guy like Khalil Mack. You better have speed out of your stance in order to, you know, get in front of these speed rushers. So I think Larry has the traits and the length and the size and the power, but he's got to develop more in

the weight room and in the cafeteria. Jim, you hear about him from Detroit. Yeah, Well he went to Brother Rice. It's a really a fine prep school right up the road here, so that it's a very good football program. Ends up at Missoo is played left tackle. He's played left guard and he's played right tackle. As Tom mentioned, he's a massive man. Now, this guy's a massive man.

He's got to show that he can handle the lateral movement at the tackle spot, and I think you're going to try him at tackle and if it doesn't work out there, then you kick him in the guard. But all these guys try him at that position, I think you'll get that type of movement at the line of scrimmage that you're looking for. He's got to work on his hand placement, but I think you try him at tackle and if that doesn't work out, then you kick

him into guard. Jeff. One more snippet about that is when Justin Fields gets the opportunity to play, you got to realize that this offensive line has to be in better condition than they've ever been before. Because when we watched Russell Wilson come into the league, he would out condition his offensive line and the defense he was playing against. You saw the offensive line and hands in their hips in the huddle suck an air. Same thing with the defense.

So when Justin gets on the field, he's got to realize he's a more difficult sacked guy. So they got to be able to keep on their feet and sustained blocks probably a second to a second and a half longer than they would with a less elusive quarterback. All right, let's talk Das Newsom out of North Carolina. An intriguing player here, a guy that willingly opened up and his newser on zoom that he loves the block. Don't forget that aspect of my game. I think he is an

outstanding watching his highlights, he loves the summersault. After he makes the catchy summersaults back up, he's constantly summersaulting. So he shows me some great athleticism and out of the slot Jim, because I do think that is an area where the Bears could really flourish with competition, and I think bringing in some veterans in there too to help out in that battle. And we still don't know what the future looks like for Anthony Miller. This this could

be the best thing to happen to Anthony Miller. But also don't underestimate this guy. He's ready to play. Dazz Newsom even though he's a sixth round pick. Yeah, Andy pounds and he's got great short area quickness. Just go look at his three cone drill and everything like that. Immediately he could minimum be on the field right away for the Bears. As a punt return this guy is a terrific punt returner in terms of his average and things like that. Like most receivers, needs a better route running.

He had some drops. He'd fixed it with getting to contacts, so that's helped him out in terms of that, but it needs more polished in terms of his route running. A great run after the catch ability. He definitely will push Anthony Miller and hopefully the light bulb goes off because this guy will be ready to ready to compete because he wants to play and get on the field. One thing for Newsom, I would say it's the Darnell Mooney approach that they had set up. Here's a guy

that came on late. It was able to be a huge contributor, just like in the second half of the season, Cole Comett was a larger contributor to the tight end position than Jimmy Graham. So Bears are not adverse to playing young guys as soon as they're ready to get on the field. Oh no, it's huge. And you know the speed component of Mooney clearly. And then you bring in the veteran Demre Bird who's also a kick return punt return threat with his speed back in his days

in college four to eight. And Marquis good One who was competing in I wasn't even aware of this. Larry Mayor Chicago Bears dot Com wrote it. He was competing in long jump competition and he had the fourth best time in the world a month ago. So he's ready. He's ready to row as well. So a lot of good things happened in the receiver position. Of course, Alan Robinson coming back on his franchise tag that's already signed. They've got until July fifteenth to work on a long

term deal. All right, we have one more segment to go. We'll hear from Virginia Tech head coach Justine Flente on Clil Herbert, the running back out of Virginia Tech. Will break him down and the rest of the draft after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to our final segment here on Bears All Access were brought to you by IGS Energy. Good to have Jim Miller sticking around from Sirius x MNFL Radio and Tom There breaking down the draft before we go back

into the Bears draft. How great a feeling and Jim, hopefully God won you know, one of one of your boys will make it to the National Football League and you'll have that same kind of pride that Chris Rumped. The defensive line coach of the Bears, thrilled to see his son there together in their home in Houston. He got picked in the fourth round by the LA Chargers, a promising defensive ent out of Duke. The dad called it a remarkable feeling. I don't even know how to

describe that. When you're a coach in the National Football League for the first time and your son gets picked. Yeah, there's well, it was littered throughout this draft. You know, you look at Winfield, Winfield and what he was able to do, and obviously JC Horne here's another His dad was a great receiver from that standpoint, So you know, it is good to see. You know, I encourage my sons.

I try not to force and play football if they if they want to play it, I'm gonna support them one percent and give them everything they can or everything I can give them to succeed. And you know, it'd be a dream of mine if one of my boys could could do that, but I don't force upon him. They've got to want it and do it for themselves. They're their own man. And I would think Coach Rump would say that about his son as well. Tom always

the moment for your mom and dad. You know, I'm the youngest in the family, so I you know, so it was different because all I had so much support from my older brothers and sisters and my mom and dad, and you know, you know, football and sports were new to us because my sisters didn't play sports at the time then, and our family was led to football by my brother and I followed in his footsteps. So he was quite an inspiration for me. So I was proud. I was proud to be able to do it. But

my brother was a fullback. I was an offensive lineman. And it's something you know, you talk about the fathers that have the kids playing, do you want to play your same position or do you want to maybe venture off into different territory and where their talents take them. All right, let's talk running back Codel Herbert out of Virginia Tech by way of Kansas. His head coach Justin Fuente, and I had a conversation this week about the rookie

running back. All Right, coach, thanks for taking some time tell us about this young man. Because the first thing that pops in my head, it's big task to leave one university where you spent four years, drop yourself in, be a star of the program, do a great job. And oh yeah, by the way, we got a pandemic going on. So how the heck did he you know, bridge that gap and earn the respect of coaches and players and teammates in that short amount of time, during

this difficult time. Well, I think, first and foremost, he did it with a humble, hardworking frame of mind, you know, I mean it was a non traditional season, to say the least. He had a non traditional road. We did a lot of work, background work on Khalil. None of it had to do with how good a football player he was. All of it had to do with how good a person he was, and he exceeded our expectations. Just was a fantastic fit for us, both on and

off the field. And obviously it was very productive, but just uh fit right in from day one, even through all the trials and tribulations that that made up last season. When he got the media on zoom. I was taken by the idea that you know, running backs, cornerbacks, wide receivers, you know him, they all have a pretty strong feeling about what they can do, but he said he can do everything. Is that a fair assessment of Tellio Herbert?

I think so, you know, he this is a highly intelligent young man that's going to pick up the schemes quickly. I think you know what we saw from him, which we didn't use him as much on special teams. He was our kick returner, but when we turned on our training video on the punt team and on kickoff team, he's on those those training videos too. So this is a guy that's gonna that's gonna search for a way

to help the football team. You know, he's got good hands, he's an established route runner, he's got a great vision and balance. But you know he wants to contribute to the team, and I think he'll he'll do about what whatever it takes to try and kind of hammer out a role. And you know, he came from American Heritage high school guys in Fort Lauderdale area, and I think seven guys from this class are on NFL rosters right now from this draft class. So and it was Patrick

Curtan senior that coach the football team. So crazy talent. Do you think that is part of the process for a guy like this probably's not thrilled that he's a sixth round pick and feels maybe a bit overlooked because he was fifth in the nation and rushing last year. Tom that he's going to have from the day he started playing football. The competition was fierce at that high

school and now it's just continuing on. But that's one of the reasons why I think that he'll probably be one of the quicker contributors, because when you talk about a running back, it's about a vision inadability to prepredict how the holes are going to open up in front of you. And when you go back and you watch his tapes game tapes, not just a highlight tape, you can see that ina to Bill to be able to

read what's going on in front of him. When you talk about the receivers of the defensive backs, receiver you have to fit that relationship with with your quarterback. Defensive backs you have to figure out how you fit into that defense and the different assignments you have to learn However, the impact of a running back. They can come in here and they can play if they have those traits that they showed throughout their college career. Yeah, that's interesting.

You know, we remember when the Bears drafted David Montgomer, everybody raved about. Look, he breaks the most tackles of any player in college football. I would say this about Khalil Herbert and Tom to touch on. His greatness is his vision, his ability to see the hole, hit the hole, and get through the hole. And that's what he's been. That's where he's accumulated his most yards. He's got a seven point seven average. He had over eleven hundred yards.

Does have kick return ability and is a three down back, so it can be a contributor on other specialty is whether he's the up back on the punt team and things like that. But his vision is probably his best trait. And if the should have Damian Williams in the backfield along with David Montgomery and some other guys that are

in the mix, a pretty healthy position right now. Defensive back Thomas Graham at Oregon the last pick in the sixth round, number two, twenty eight opt out guy last year, but a ton of experienced Tom forty games, eight interceptions, thirty two pass breakups, and I guess that's the key for me. So he got his hands on forty balls

and forty games. Nickel corner, that's where I hope that they expose his opportunity too, because I think it's as equally as important position as any position on the defense. If you don't have that nickel cornerback, you'll get picked apart all day and they will make you stay on the field. So I like to see the competition at that position because I still think there's some guys waiting in the wings to see the best out of themselves. However, Graham is going to be that next candidate to come

in and compete. Yeah, who's you know, Duke Shelley's gonna have some competition. You know, they got to create that competition. From that standpoint, I agree with Tom. Five ten, one hundred ninety pounds looks to be more of a nickel corner. He's a very good tackler and as you mentioned, comes with a ton of past breakups from that stamps point, so he's very instinctive. I don't know about his deep end recovery speed, but his short area quickness, looks to

fit that bill as a nickel slack corner. And he's got some physicality to him indeed, and then the Bears picked up a seventh in a trade with Seattle and use it on a BYU big boy nose tackle Chiris Tonga Tom tell us about him, be big man. You know, one thing I like about Ciris is that he can do everything that's asked out a defensive lineman. He's not a one dimensional creative stalemate and let someone else come and make the tackle if you want to run creative

line stunts. He has the ability to be deceptive but still get around the corner. He's got ability to create a one on one stalemate with his head up and get involved in the tackle. He can stop, excuse me, two defensive lineman at once and allow that that linebacker to run free. They need a big man in the middle. I know they have any gold and coming back. However, when you talk about the size, the ability of this body to stay low and be powerful, Tongan's gonna have

a fun opportunity to be a contributor. And I'll tell you why. Danny Trevathan, Roe Kwon, Josh Woods Joe Ellie Booney way, they better go and introduce themselves of the big Man, because he's going to help them in their career as much as any other player on the field six twenty five pounds. I saw a game with him against Coastal Carolina. He had twelve pass breakups in a game where he's batting in town. So he's very aware of what's going on around him and has the ability

to anchor yep. Uniquely gets his hands up in the air. Fell As we are out of time, we could continue to talk about at the roster now almost at ninety will continue to break down even some undrafted guys. Keep an eye on linebacker Caleb Johnson out of Houston Baptist, guy that could make an early impression as we break down the Bears at twenty twenty one. Good to have you, guys. We'll talk to you next week. For Tom Thayre Mother,

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