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Welcome into another edition as the Bears get ready to meet the Panthers in Carolina hot team right now, three game winning streak with Teddy Bridgewater playing some really good football for the Panthers with the Loto weapons that today defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano praised at no end as I welcome in my broadcast partner from news Radio seven eighty and one h five point ATFMWBBM super Bowl Bear Town. There.

Did you hear any of that news conference today, because man Pagano just gushing about the Panthers and really challenging his guys to pay attention to h I guess the same kind of detail that Matt Negge's looking for offensively

from his guys. Yeah, you know, Chuck Bogano. He see when you watch this team on tape, you see a lot of window dressing before the play ever starts, and that's a lot of movement in the backfield, a lot of misdirection seeing if I can catch a player that's peeking in the backfield rather than following through to my assignments. And then Teddy Bridgewater is not asked to do an abundance of things, but what he does and what that

offense does, they do it really well. And they try to stay on schedule, so each down fits into the next downs role. So I understand what Chuck is saying. And you always respect your next opponent the most, no matter who you played down the road exactly, they got speed out of the edge. Robbie Anderson standing receiver, really having a great season with Bridgewater, and there's familiarity there because of Matt Rule. He's brought a bunch of his Temple guys in guys who played at Temple, and he

has moved those guys both offensively and defensively. And Dj Moore's an outstanding receiver just a couple of years removed from having a really impressive campaign as a young receiver for them, and you know Mike Davis. Hearing a lot about Mike Davis. We both like Mike Davis. He's a good guy. You know, had a really tough time last

year with the death of his father. I think that pretty much sidetracked him quite a bit, and he's talked about that subsequently after he moved over to Carolina last November. But you know, again, you're happy to see guys that are good guys take advantage of opportunities, and with Christian McCaffrey down, he certainly has taking advantage of that opportunity, and not just run of the ball in a rugged way, but also in the past receiving game, he's caught thirty

of his thirty three targets. Tommy, Yeah, you know, he is the template of David Montgomery. And I think if David Montgomery didn't burst out of the scene and be so successful early in the sights and the viewing of the coaches, Mike Davis was probably been the number one running back. But when you have found what you had in David Montgomery, you realize that David Montgomery is gonna play the role in what you brought Mike Davis here for.

But I like Mike Davis, So I think if you're looking at these two offenses, you're looking at two running backs that have a lot of similar traits of each other. Hey, coming up on the show, we've got a lot jammed in. We're gonna talk to Mick Mixon, the voice of the Carolina Panthers. He'll be coming up shortly to talk about his guys out east, and then we're gonna be joined by Deshaun Gibson playing some good safety for the Bears.

At the bottom of the hour, around six thirty we als, we'll hear from Nick Foles, the Bears quarterback, and an interview I did with him as we prepare for Bears game Day live on Sunday morning, ten thirty on Fox Chicago, along with Louke Cannellis and assortment of things that we're

gonna dig into, and I want to dig into. Maybe one of the biggest topics of the week to hum is Frank I almost said, Frank Cole Commet Cole Commet the Bears rookie tight end and people wondering why he isn't getting targets and a lot of attention because of the position coaches talking this week, including the veteran former offensive line coach and tight end coach Clancy Barrone. I was asked, what is Kemet doing that has his attention

right now? If you go back and you look at the very first play from our game Thursday night against the Bucks. Okay, the very first play all right. In fact, when the game was over, I came back and I had three text messages on my phone from various NFL coaches and they were line coaches and tight end coaches.

After the game, I had a couple of phone calls on my drive home from some of my peers on the league, and they're all talking about the same thing, and it was about the very first play of the game and something that will never show up in any any box score. And we ran that jet sweep. As you guys probably know, he had Jason Pierre Paul in a wide wide wide technique, which which we didn't know that he was going to be that wide, thought maybe he might be more head up, which makes it easier

for the tackle to help him. He's out there all by himself. Now. JPP is a real defensive lineman. The guy's got, you know, pretty good resume. And here comes Coal and if I'm not mistaken. All the draft experts said that was the biggest question mark come out of Notre Dame was his blocking. He didn't just reach JPP and and to gain leverage, he strained his SIPs through the block and actually flipped his SIPs and gave us

a nice and nice seem to go around. I have not seen that from very many players in my in my time in the NFL. And here comes Coal and doesn't so things like that. I'm just you know, and and and my my appears around around the league also saw it, and it was it was really something special. And things like that tell you that this game is not too big for Coal. He's doing very very well. And you know, and and we all know that mentally he's he's got everything under under control, which we heard

from the beginning time. But when you hear a position coach talk about his player and the exciting level and tone that he did, what do you think of that? Because clearly it's it's it's a nuance that not everybody's going to catch because he's not catching passes quite just yet. But as a white tat end, he's got to be

that inline guy that's moving people out of the way. Yeah, you know, to me, initially, it's a more important role that Cole Commet is a successful blocker than a pass catcher right now, because that's a trait, that's a craft that's use that they will you know, they will use out a cold commets as time winds on. However, if you can't block, you can't play. And it is really a high compliment when you talk about a defensive personnel that gets completely out of position that's expected of them,

but you're able to complete your block legally. So it is encouraging the way he talks about Cole's blocking ability, and then I think eventually you'll see him inserted more in the passing game, and hopefully as conditions deteriorate in the passing game becomes shorter for more efficiency, he'll be involved more. Well, you heard from offensive coordinator Bill Laser today on why Commet isn't getting those passes better this pass game, But we're really not completeing enough passes as

an offense. So when you don't complete enough passes, when you're not converting third downs, you always answer these questions, well, then why isn't such a such game in a ball Well, because we're not complete enough passes and we're not staying on the field. That's that's that's that's where we are. I mean, it's it's we completed more percentages of this game, but offensively, you know, other than some heroics right to

win some games, which we're thrilled with. I think it's hard to say we've been in a rhythm where you can do what you want to do. You know, we're not doing what we want to do yet. So there's gonna be a whole lot of people not getting the ball enough and their feelings and yeah, I shouldn't say that the questions about why is this guy or that guy not doing enough? To me? That's all back page to why are not we not good enough on offense? Right now? You know, nothing wrong with Cole, It's wrong

with us. Is the problems us. That's a very honest appraise with there, Tommy. That's exactly what I was gonna say. It's the most honest answer we've heard around here in a long time. No, I don't, I don't mean that, but it is a really honest answer by Bill Lasor because that's you know, what is evident when you look

at the lack of third down conversions. You think of how many plays that takes off the shelf, and you know, Cole, he could be used as a first and second down receiver, but you're losing them because you're not converting out third down. But hey, I like that answer by Bill Lasor, and I think it's an honest assessment of what's going on, but also an honest assessment where you need to improve to get everybody involved. This is Bears All Access brought

to you by IGS Energy. Our producer today, Rick camp good to be with him once again, and also Jordan tred Up and Dan Burley for helping us out as well. Coming up next, the voice of the Carolina Panthers, Mick Mixon, will join the program. This is Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access 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. With Tom Fair, Jeff Joniac and now look at the Carolina Panthers from the inside out as we walk him in. The veteran voice Mick Mixon, who teams up with former NFL quarterback Jake Deldom and former offensive lineman Jordan Gross on WBT, the flankship station of the Carolina Panthers. And I have a feeling you're in high demand right now. You got a team that's one three in a row. You got an exciting new coaching staff, and Matt Rule and Joe Brady the young

gun coordinator. I already think you've been on the score today. So hey, I hope you don't mind talking about us. You know now, I'm not like you, Junk. I don't have a secretary, administrative assistance people you have to go through. I'm just a humble, a little correspondent here. Just every now and again, I'll be driving down the road and I'll go, David Hester, you are ridiculous. You're a funny guya.

Tribute to you, the legend, Jeff Joe. Hey, you know, while we're talking about it, what is your signature called? Do you think that sticks with you to this day that that fans love. I don't have one. I don't believe in signature calls. And I all respect to you to Wayne Lervie, there's your dagger to to to others. You know Gene Decker, Haw Fire, the Cannons and Tampa. I don't. I don't believe in it. I'm not on

social media. I believe Scarcely breeds momentum. I believe in letting the play try to tell me what we're choices to make, so that's how we roll down here. I like it. I like it. Tell us about Joe Brady first and foremost. We know about Matt Rule. Joe Brady, at thirty, youngest coordinator in the league, obviously trained extremely well. He's got everybody's attention right now, doesn't he. I think so, Jeff. I think Ken Thomas, I think you're you're you're in

there somewhere. Maybe Jeff will let you chime in during our visit, But I think what you got here is an O coordinator that has exactly the pedigree that teams are looking for. But I want this message to reverberate around the league. Do not, no one, do not mess with Joe Brady for at least a couple of years until we can season him here, get into the playoffs, get some confetti raining down on our heads, and then you can talk to Joe Brady about coordinating or being

the head coach for your NFL team. But just seriously, man, he's got a plan and it's what everybody's looking for. That fast twitch, up tempo, a lot of college stuff, some of the screen stuff they uses, and he's just as a Now I think the natural born play call it. Hey, Meca's Teddy Bridgewater lived up to expectations or is he exceeding them? I think exceeding them. I think in a normal if this were any kind of normal deal time,

he would be a rock star. He would not be able to go get as smoothie, he would not be able to go to the electronics story and pick up some head funds. He would be he would be. His CU rating would be right up there. But because of his understated style outside the building and because of just the total just the chi, the fung shui, the calmness that he plays with. Now he's he excites people by

getting other people involved in the offense. We had a quarterback here who would like to jump over tall buildings to the single bounding and that kind of thing. Teddy's more of a point guard, more of a distributor. But he's he's been phenomenal. Well, what about Mike Davis. Are you a stronger team in terms of running the ball after contact with Mike Davis than you would be with

Christian McCaffrey. It's a good chance of it, at least at least maybe right up there with Christian McCaffrey Mike Davis. I don't know where he gets it, what switch he throws, what music he listens to to that mat on right before a game, But it's personal to him. Every you know, you've seen it, Tom and Jeff, you guys have two when he was there every he's just irritated that a tackler would have the temerity to come up to him

and try to collide with him. What about God? I don't know how to ask this question, because a couple of years ago, Jeff and I were on the sidelines of a Carolina game and behind us warming up was Luke Keikley and is enamored as I was, with his ability and just super impressed with how grad he is.

Can Chin fill the role of Luke Keikley? You're looking at six three two thirty eight, two thirty five as opposed to sixty three two tennis type guy wearing twenty one, So can Chin fill that role, or am I way out of bounds? You're not a way out of bounds, but you got one float out of bounds. He but I'm buying kind of what you're selling because Chin is exception.

He's the nephew or the cousin knows. I think he's the nephew of Steve Atwater and he's got violent hands, he's a he's a striker, he's not scared, he can play. He's all over the field, and he's currently the Panthers tackle leader with forty three. So you're you're you know, you're you're a student. You're observation about what Chin brings. But mother nature only gives you one Luke Keikley every several hundred million berths, just the skills that he had.

So I say, you got just one foot out of bounds. We got to look at the replay though. All I will say this, though Uncle Steve was a heck of a hitter and looks like Jeremy Shin is well out of southern Illinois, not too far down the road from US by way of Fisher's, Indiana. Our guest is mcmixon, voice of the Carolina Panthers, and this is Bears all Access with time There. I'm Jeff jony acc here in

Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Let's take a further look at your defense right now, the run defense. You know, on paper, the numbers don't stack up, But are they better than the numbers show at the moment? Are they? Are they having some difficulty in that regard. We got no chance to slow the Bears down. It's just I just hope we can keep it competitive down here and just you know, extend the broadcast out where people will be interested to hear some of the ads

in the fourth quarter. But the problem, Jeff has been has been really setting the edge and holding the edge. Teams have been running this crack toss against the Panthers and just outflanking the defense. And then it hasn't been so much that we've been creased up the fiddle. It's been more it's been more backs being able to turn the corner, you know, bouncing runs. And so the problems, according to our head coach, are fixable just being a

little bit more gap sound. Tom could probably coach us up on the old saying in the league where if you try to see too much, you see a little. You try to see a little do your one eleventh, you see a lot and I think those messages are being conveyed somewhere in our building Vankou Perica Stadium right now tonight. I know Brian Burns had a concussion in your last outing against Atlanta. He was on the practice field to day and don't know what work he did.

But if people haven't learned about this young man and what he can do on the edge as a outstanding edge pass rusher, who's got that arc and bend to him, if you could amplify just what he brings to the table and how far his star could rise one day. Bow legged kid that looks to see him walking around, he just looks like he wouldn't be that twitchy, but

he's got that burst and a lot of juice. Plus he's got that who was the former cold if I'm right on this, that had to spin move Dwight Freeny, Oh yeah, Dwight Freenye, who do the three to sixty thing and get in the backfield birds as slippery and he did. He wasn't practice today with a helmet, but not not not full go, but limited participation in practice. So the Panthers are hoping that the fifty three will be able to go out there and run a few

laps on Sunday. What's the atmosphere around there, Mick? Is it? Is it completely the Matt rules or is it? You know you have Ron Rivera in your rearview mirror. He's a defensive minded coach. You bring a high, explosive offensive college coach in. You don't have a great deal of time for training camp because of the pandemic. But when you when you are near the at the facility, there is it completely Matt rules building house organization. Right now,

let's see Ron Rivera. Ron Rivera, oh yeah, I remember him now. The coach Rivera was fantastic and his legacy here is secure as one of the all time great guys. And you know it almost worked. He got the Panthers to the Super Bowl in twenty fifteenth against the team the Panthers felt they should have played right off their feet and that that was a gut punch to lose Super Bowl fifty to Denver, But all credit to the

Broncos and their players and staff. But time that rule has come in and everything he has touched around here has turned to precious metal. He's got the gift of humility. He is funny, he listens, but he's tough. He coaches the player's heart, and he's got this ability to not coach everybody the same way. He realizes that certain players need to be cajoled, encouraged, certain players need to be motivated,

maybe coach a little harder. And it reminds me a little bit of some of what I've read about Matt Negge and some of the some of the innovative things he's brought to the Bears locker room. And that fair do you guys see the parallels absolutely beginning with just bu and Club dub, which is the celebration during wins for the Bears, and they've had more of those than not so far in his first three years. But yeah, I mean, he's a very relatable guy. Total coaches, players, coach,

and the and the guys buy into him. And that's really what the culture has become. It's it's a buy in and this resilience that is really because of the struggles of the offense, and Tom can amplify on this as well, just you know, their ability to hang in games because of their defense being resilient. That gives them a chance to and they've had too many close calls. Obviously they'd like it a little different, but that is

the case right now. Mick Mixon our guest, final moments with the veteran voice of the Carolina Panthers, as we often do, and we got a couple of questions left for you. But the local guys are not far down the road, East Chicago, Indiana. An eight year veteran Kawan short out for the year K one was a certainly a terrific player perdue and just what he's meant to that organization and where he's at right now. He's a

cut above as a guy. Uh foundation, hard for kids, tremendous locker room guy, and just his shoulder just as not cooperate. It's so he'll take he'll create a vacuum when without being able to play Cheff that would be difficult to fill. I think Panthers have other bodies they can slide in. Derek Brown's played well, You'll enjoy watching

him play. Sometimes Terren Brown just grabs guards and centers and a little regard for their personal safety and just throws them down and then tackles several people and hoping the ball carriers one of them. But yeah, we miss KK short. We miss him already being in the interior, and I think it's going to be I wish I could see you. So you're broadcasting the game from Chicago. Yes, that's that's our plate here in twenty twenty. Yep, we'll be in the WBBM studio. You bet you well. We've traveled,

the Panthers radio crew. We took a van of ten hours to Tampa, ten hours back, and then we drove to Atlanta in the same van. So I'm throwing the gall it down to a city that describes itself as a muscular, robust city. Right, So you gotta get to some games or else I will have won my personal battling issue. I guess you, Mick. Well, we did make it to Detroit without any harm, so we have a couple more in mind. I know Tom's going to force the issue, that's for sure. Yeah, we gotta go. Hey, Mick,

one question, you know, one quick question. So the Bears have a new offensive guard left guard this week with the injury to James Daniels, and you guys have an injury on the interior your defensive line. What do you think about bad battle a little you know, a little notification you got to go on and play. You know, Kase Short has had some injury issues, but there's you know, nevertheless, there's going to be a new starter up there. So how do they feel about the replacement and how do

they feel about the replacement going against a replacement. I would think in a short, little tight window to prepare, the advantage would go to the defensive player, everything else being equal. I mean, you may have one of the seven blocks of granite there in this backup guard, but I would think that the advantage might be to the defensive side of this instance, especially with a quarterback. I just got done watching the first half of the Tampa Bay game on NFL game Pass, and I listened to

some of the Joniacs show on the radio. I'll like doing that too, to see if I can steal any kid bits. But you know, Folds is amazing. I just don't see how does he do it? I mean, how does he look? He looked terrible. He looked like some guy who would want a contest to come out of the stands and try to play quarterback for a couple of those throws. I guess I'm thinking mainly that third down throw in the right flat right. He had some decent stats. Maybe the pick wasn't all his fault, but

then he just can flame on. How does he do it? Because he lets things go. Man, he lives in the moment. That's his style. And he's always been that way, as we'll learn actually an interview. We're going to be playing here after you leave us be for the rest of our show. But he uh, he just has a he's always had it ever since high school. He can control some chaos and so that's that's that's the mark of

a great NFL mind. Anyway, whatever the town may be, is just forgetting what went wrong and so you can fix it and move on immediately. Otherwise you have no chance. Mick. We gotta let you go. We got to Shaun Gibson coming up. Good luck on Sunday, not too much luck, but good luck the rest of the season, and always a pleasure to talk to you. You and everybody stay safe there in Carolinas. The joy guys, thank you, you

guys say save us well, appreciate all your time. Mick Mix and the boys of the Carolina Panthers coming up next. We'll be joined by Tshaun Gibson, the Bear starting safety. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Jeff jony Ak and Tom thare with you and we're brought to you by IGS Energy. Use clean energy for your home at IGS dot com because every good choice adds up

to a better world. Just finished tough talking Tommy with mc mixon. Quite the character he was on with Dan Bernstein this afternoon, and so you know he should be paid part time by the score today. Well, I mean, he definitely has an opinion of the Bears and nolth Carolina, and that seems to be a little bit stronger of an opinion of Carolina or any anything the Bears have done so far. So well, you know, do you think that the league feels that way similarly about the Bears

because of just how they've won. Well, I think they want them to be a finished product at the second to fifth week of the season, and that's not the case. I think it's a case about making sure that you improve weekly. They ultimately get to be the best team you can possibly be at the end of the season. So I'm not looking for the Bears to be the best team in the league or the best team they can be at the end of the season right now. So I think there's a lot of them room yet

to come. Well, what do you think about how Matt Naggie every Day asked about similarly that the questions about Nick Foles and their relationship and the dynamic between not only head coach quarterback, but in this case play caller and quarterback and just all the moving parts the gears of this thing. It's it's a daily Q and A. And the answers are almost similar because you can only say what you're gonna say, and you got to go out there and prove it on the field. And everybody's

got to elevate offensively. We all know in situational football they got to get a heck of a lot better and they need to score a lot more points. Well, I don't think the issue is Nick Foles. I think the issue is the fact that they don't have an effective, feared running game. And if you had that element within the offensive side of the ball, you would get more completions, you would have you would be in more control of the defense. Instead of you breaking the huddle in fighting

what the defense is offering you, you would be in control. So, you know, I think that's one of the elements here that kind of gets overlooked and pushed off to Nick Foles. That's not the case. I think Nick is doing everything that's expected of him, and still you know, Nick is

in the learning stages. No matter what you want to say his past relationships with Bill Lazor and John d. Philippo and Matt Nagy, He's still installing an offense to himself that some guys are a little bit more familiar with. Similar to Teddy Bridgewater, He's installing a new offense in his own brain that he hasn't been familiar with the last couple of years, even though I know Joe Brady's there, but it's a it's a different head coach, it's a

different terminology, it's a different group of teammates. So you know, there's there's big changes for both of these quarterbacks this weekend. Good news injury wise, you know, they're pretty much full goal here health wise. Deon Bush, the only apps and tee at practice today, is still working through a hamstring injury,

but it looks like on special teams. Sheriff mcbanus will be back limited today for Brent Urban, one of the inside rushers, and I I thought it was interesting listening to Chuck Pagato today too, because we've seen some push, we've seen some of his athleticss and Maria Edwards j got a pat on the back today from Pagatto as being one of those guys that are disruptive in it creating a little bit of opportunity for Khalil Mack to maybe not get as much attention. He's gonna get it anyway,

but also you're gonna start seeing more. I believe, I really do believe this that Robert Quinn will crank it up and we'll have more opportunities to get numbers that become more reflective of his career. And of course the key mix has had a great start to the season, but it sounds like he's very happy with what he's getting from a variety of different people and not just the big the Big three. You know what, I like variety.

You know, it's really challenging do an offensive lineman because you never get used to the habits of the guy that's playing in front of you, because they can be interchangeable bodies up and down the line of scrimmage. You can play Roy Robertson, Harris, Blile, Nichols anywhere you want to. I do think Mario Edwards Junior gives you a little bit more in the pass rush ability than Roy Robertson Harris does. So I do think it's a nice change.

If you go down there and you have a first down defense that includes Roy rob Arkivas Mingo and James Voters, you know a lot of personnel changes can be made effectively. Voters with his first career sack last week and the Bears went over Tampa Bay. Joining us now on our phone line is strong safety. To Sean Gibson, the ninth deer man out of Wyoming count enough to join us tonight. To Sean, how you feeling, buddy, I'm doing well. I appreciate you guys. Oh, we always appreciate you. Thanks for

coming on. Kind of take stock of the situation here. Four wins in five or as Cordarell Patterson says, Bears are just trying to go one and other this week going to Carolina, but a pretty dynamic bunch of weapons over there in Carolina, that the defense is sinking its teeth into what's your initial observations of what you're gonna be walking into in Carolina, That they have an offense that's very unique. You got a quarterback at the Ham

who's not a turnover machine. So anytime you got a guy who's not going to jeopard out the game on offense, it always make a challenging for the defense. No matter how many playmakers you have. If you got a guy who's willing to take checkdown, I have to checkdown and take what you give them. It's always challenging in that aspect. Then you know they do have weathers on the outside. You know, I think that they have probably one of

the faster receiving corps if you exclude the Chiefs. You know, obviously they are rarity, but you know they have a fast receiving corps and they'd like to get those guys in catching run situations. And the running back is playing good football right now. I mean he's running a ball at a high level. He's involved in a passing game.

I think I've seen the stats saying that he was only behind an album Camara or tied with album camar and receptions or something along those lines, which is rare company. So he got to tip their heads off to him. Man, they're doing things that that that fit their skill set. You know, they're not trying to do things that doesn't work and doesn't fit, trying to force anything that just take and what you give them. And it's been working

for him. An offensive dynamic as it is. So when you combine that with a team that's not with them to just shoot themselves in a foot of being but don't break mentality, you're going a three game winner street, which is what they have been doing. Man, So you gotta take your head off to him. Hey, de Sean. Last week, there was a great play in the Tampa Bay Bucks where Roquan Smith lined up in the line

of scrimmage and he rushed Tom Brady. But then you fulfilled the backside obligation against the ball that Brady through the receiver. You were there immediately. There was no gain to the play and you look at you guys working in tandem from the line of scrimmage of the defensive backfield. Is that something that you could have done Week one against Detroit or is it just part of the evolution

of you and your involvement with this defense. Yeah, I think that the Detroit game plan was we had we you know, you bring it in, newcomers in and it was a weird year as it is to begin with. So I think that if you go back to the Detroit game and we ran a lot of two men and too high and cover two more cover too than I think that a lot of people probably ran being here more cover too than I ran in my life. So I think that, um, as you know, bullets get

the flying. You can only get a graph and understand what gods can do, um to a certain extent, and training camp practices you can't tackle guys. Those are not live periods. Even though you can evaluate God to a certain extent, it's only so much that you can see those guys doing and when the bullets is flying, and um to whatever that may be. The Detroit game plan

was what it was. And I think as the season has progressed, Coach Pergano has started to dial it up and let guys go out there and play their strengths and do things like that. So I would continue to expect man that that you know, there's things that that coach Pergano and the coaching staff and the defensive staff. They're seeing guys do different things that they probably weren't

able to see it as a season progress. We know it's a weird year, as I said before, So once the bullets is getting to fly, people are starting to make less mistakes, and you know, you started getting back into the group of football. And now we do the first quarter of the season, so you know, those errors and those mistakes, fundamental and technique mistakes, it's just going out the window. Now you're getting the guys start settling into honing in on their skills and just going back

into being the players that they are. So it's just a testament to the trust that coach Pagano's having in his defense man, and he's letting guys do more things and hopefully that's continue to translate to good defense and more wins. You know, you talk about trust the coaches are building in you guys. In the last couple of weeks, I've seen both you and Eddie Jackson do a nice job of filling your role at or near the linebacker level to support the team when they're running the ball.

And you think about the success that Mike Davis has had so far running the ball in place at Christian McCaffrey. When you talk about that trust, is it you trusting your own instincts, how you see the running evolve in front of you, or is it something that because of the formation on offense a specific defense called and you and you fulfill what your role is out of the huddle, right. I think that's a combination of both. And I think that if you ask Eddie the same thing, he had

said the same thing. I think that I trust those guys in front of me. So a lot of these players are just instinctual. Obviously, you know, God giving ability back. At the same time, it's just knowing where to be and when to be and when to be able to take my shots because I know that Khalil is gonna be where he needs to be a team, it's gonna be what he needs to be, rowing Danny's gonna be where they need to be, and it's only one place

for me to be. And if those guys are doing what they're supposed to this this run is going to most certainly come back to me right here. And it's one hundred percent my play to make. And I think it's a trust. It's to trust for those guys to say, men, if if if if I stay sounding this a gap, I know that Gift is coming down. If Boa is coming down, Eddie's coming down. And I think it's a trust.

At the end of the day, it is instinct some plays that some places you just gotta go in there and you just gotta track the ball and make plays. There's been times where you'll see Eddie flash and he probably wasn't supposed to be there. His shooter run. You know, it's a great play he made against Indianapolis that forced a fourth down. He shot to know where he wasn't supposed to be that, you know, and there's things like

that that we've told ourselves in training camp. Coach to say told us man, m, he don't want you in this backfield if you're not willing, if you're not willing to be a willing tackler. And you know, it's kind of like that old school monset he played for the Stiller, So you know that those guys mindset man is is a little different than a lot of people. So you know that's the mentality. So you know, coming here, you

got to breathe that I've just been sworn in. And it's just something that I just you know, adapted to, not nothing that I couldn't do. Is just I played with a lot of guys who played in a box. So my game primarily has been playing deep middle of the field and seeing a ball and trying to go get the ball in. That's what Eddie has been doing his whole career, and he's been effective at it. So now he got two guys like that, who's happening to say, you know what, I gotta be willing to put my

nose in here in a box tea. You know, just two pros man, two pos man that that's willing to do that. And you know, that's really what it comes down to. Uh, And it's just it's a fun time. I'm playing back here with these guys. You know, Sean Gibson, our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score, you know you got more, You got more mileage on the tires than Eddie. You gotta you're a ball hawk man. You got twenty four

career interceptions. So here's a guy who in this game against Carolina back in seventeen, he got a scoop and score and he gotta pick six in the same game. And those are the type of plays that started to define who Eddie jacksony ball hawk, you know, a great, great playmaker. So do you sense a little frustration from

him because quarterbacks are looking the other way? They're they're not trying to get in his area code too often because they know he's trouble with the balls in his hands, because he's a great runner after the catch, and and that's the way you definitely could play offense. But do you have to like counsel him a little bit, say, listen those opportunities because you got twenty four interceptions that's not by accident, but they'll come. How do you like

calm him a little bit about that? If at all? Because at all he tweeted something out this week about that, you know, no targets and he wants that ball. He wants to crack at that ball. Absolutely. I think that when you make, when you make your bones and you prode yourself on this, it's tough. And you know, like I said, man, that's something that's always proud of me my whole career since entering the league. And it can

be frustrating, absolutely, And but that's a testament. You know, it's a testament of the type of player that you are. And you know it is frustrate. You know, we talk on the sideline and he come over there and he mentioned it during a game, and like I told him, man, it's just a testament of what you put out there, what you put on take. The thing about it is the less targets he gets, the more opportunities I might get.

So you know, at the end of the day, but you know, realistically, it's tough to have a guy like that, man with that type of skill said, that type of talent man, and that type of ball, that type of ball skill in production this early in his career for teams not to get noticed. I mean, he's been to two Pro Bowls back to back. Um, he's he I don't personally think he get enough justice. If you ask me, I don't think that he get enough. Dude. You look, he was left off the top one hundred lists, which

is a travesty. When you met when people mentioned safeties, top safeties, you always have to see other people saying, man, what about this guy in Chicago, And I think it's just I think it's just a slight man. I think it's disrespectful. But at the end of the day, the league know about him and that's why he's not getting

as many targets and things like that. But at the end of the day, those things come, and you know, like when he had his run in twenty eighteen, m you know, when they come, they come in bunches, and that's that. That's been an ago saying since the beginning of time, and that's the truth. Not every team is gonna be scared to throw at thirty nine, and we've talked about that and he knows that. And when those

opportunities present itself. We myself, the city, the team, the defense, we more than confident and understanding that he's gonna be able to make a play when those times come. But right now I think that he's he's not shutting down. He's not a shutdown mode that he got to get a big playing due to these things, man, because he's impacting the game in a bunch of different ways. Man, He's he's up impacting the game. I think that this year him in the box compared to watching for him

from last year. Man, he's just more confident down there. And you know he might not have the interceptions yet. You know, it's a long season still, but you know he's impacting the game in many of the ways, man, in some ways that he probably don't even realize that he's doing, just by his prison. So I think that he understands that at the end of the day, being a ball player, man, he wanted to get the ball. He pried himself on the ball. And you know those

players have come New York robbed him of one. But like I said, man, we got ten more between me and him for a season. Man, we got eleven games to get to happen. So you know, I'm more than confident that he gonna be able to be satisfied with what he's done this year. You know, Sean, during the length of your NFL career, the fundamental tackling by defensive backs has had the change because the target and where you can hit and how you can hit. What was

your siteline for the Kyle Fuller play. I don't know if you saw it an actual time or how impressed are you with his ability to fundamentally change the process and hit a guy that legally but that impactful in the game that probably was the most textabok beautiful hit I've seen, and did I see alive. Absolutely, it just was he came in and it seemed just like it happened so in such slow motion, but it happened so

fast because it was a bang bang play. But it's hard that those are the type of things that only willing tacklers you can't teach that. Man like Kyle is a pro. He's a pros pro, and he's one of the more willing tacklers at the corner position that I've ever been around. And I've been around some good cornerbacks. I've seen a lot of good cornerbacks in my time.

I have nine years under me. So for me, I think that for us kyl Is, we've seen cast ticket head and there plenty of times man and you know, make make make physical runs on running backs in and things like that, so it wasn't as surprising to us. But I mean, it was a beautiful tackle, obviously, momentum changer, and I think that that probably was the play of the game in my pen beyond anything else. I think because at that moment that changed the course of the

momentum of the game. We put points on, we added points to the scoreboard due to that play. It just was something that was so huge. Man, that that and the tackle itself when you're watching on family, don't do a justice to be in there watching that play happened live. I mean, just a beautiful tackle is nothing to critique about it. I mean, it's a it's it's an eight

plus in my book. Sean Gibson. Our guests will let you go to Sean, But before I do, I hope you know that your secondary coach the shakedownsend did he did he remind you guys last week that he was one of the guys that picked six Tom Brady back in his day. See DT left that out. He never he never told us that. That's the traversy that he did not remind us that. He didn't even show us that. He didn't. We knew nothing about it. Man. Maybe because it was a short week. I'm gonna give him that. Man,

he had the car javerything game. But no, he didn't. He didn't tell us that man that right there. I think that's something he should have told us, ban but right he didn't show us. He didn't tell us. Man, that's that's terrible minute. Well you look it up. Halloween Night two thousand and four. You were fourteen years old at the time, Sean, so a hard time and you you have as many things pick six as as he did. He had three in his career. You got three in years,

so you can pass him soon. Absolutely, absolutely, that's the plan for sure. All right to Sean, thank you so much for your time. Good luck on Sunday. I appreciate you got family. To Sean Gibson, outstanding interview right there with the veteran safety of the Chicago Bears, were gonna step away, have another break, We'll here from Nick Foles coming up next. This is Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy

to score. Hey Bears fans, it's important to stay connected now more than ever, and at Motorola we love making that possible. With a new razor, you can enjoy staying connected a little bit more. It's a phone, it's an accessory, it's an icon reinvented Hello motto. Jeff and Tim on Bears All Access with Rick Camp, our producer Tom, A lot of our brethren in the media here in town, writers broadcasters Morning, the last tonight of former Chicago Tribune

colleague Vonn McClure. He covered the Bears for many years. I know he did many interviews with you over the time. But he passed away in Atlanta, where he's been covering the Falcon since twenty thirteen, most recently with ESPN's NF Foundation. So condolences to his family all one hundred percent. I felt so bad when I heard that because he's a

young man that has such a great attitude. He's super friendly, and you know, I'm glad I had a chance to meet him when I wasn't a player, because you could be more friendly with him, and that's the attitude and approach he ever he had with active players or those of us in the media that we had a chance

to become friends with him. Well, you can tell the respect of a man when you go on social media today on Twitter and hear all the across the country the people that he touched and worked with over the years. So condolences again to Vaughan McClure at the age of

forty eight to passing away in Atlanta. Let's switch gears because on Sunday, the Bears will be in Carolina and you'll catch Bears Game Day Live at ten thirty on Fox Chicago and Luke and Ellis along with Tom and I host that show every week and our feature interview this week, and our player profile is Bears quarterback Nick Foles. Here's a snippet of that interview. All right, Nick, when was the first moment in your football playing life that you realized that you are equipped to calm the chaos?

I say the first moment would probably be my junior high school. We were down by thirteen points with four minutes and eleven seconds to go. I remember the our fans were leaving, our cheerleaders were crying. We came back and I threw two touchdowns to the final four minutes of the game so win district and go to the playoffs.

And I think that was really the first time where when everyone thought it was over, I was able to calm the storm inside of me and keep going with my teammates and ultimately win a game at the last second that everyone thought at that point was over. And that was the first time where you know it was never over till it's over. I saw some pages of your autobiography and all the years I've covered football players get stamped by Scouts one way or another, and it's

really hard to lose that label. Do you feel that you've gotten a fair shake in terms of labels, because you do bring it up in the book, and it doesn't seem entirely fair all the time. One thing I've talked about is I've been labeled a lot of things

throughout my career. I really don't care about what other labels are because at the end of the day, I just feel like we as people are becoming so judgmental of everybody that we're not taking a look a look at ourselves in the mirror and saying, like, listen, I need to look at myself first and see where my falls are as a human being before I start judging and labeling all these other people. So I say that respectfully to say, and I'm gonna go back to scripture.

Glaciers one ten talks about you know, not living the police people, but living to glorify God. And that's something with labels is I'm not living to police anyone. I'm living to glorify God through that, and with that, I'll be loving and respect cool and kind to people. But it's not for their sake, It's for his glory. That's something where in this game you're constantly judged by every single throw as a quarterback, Like I feel it like I missed a throw in the previous game that I airmeled.

We're sprinting out to the right, a throw that I had thrown in that stadium actually to beat the Bears back in twenty eighteen, same throw sidearm, and I remember I threw it and was like, oh my gosh. But you can feel like every single play you're gonna be that's part of it. But you can't let it destroy you as a human being. You have to say, listen, I know what's important, and I'm gonna play the next

play and I'm gonna be there for my teammates. I don't care if I'm labeled as a backup or starter, as a third string, Like, I just want to beat myself and I want to go into that facility. I want to enjoy what I do and I want to impact the men and women that work at the facility in a positive way. If you would indulge me in the football accomplishment category for just a moment, because you

have done some incredible things. Winning the Super Bowl is side that's a team thing, but the man who finishes the job at the quarterback position seems to get all of that glory, obviously, But the twenty seven touchdown two interception, you're tied for best in NFL history twenty five straight completion games, seven touchdowns in one game. As just a sports fan, do you ever just glance at it and say this was something? I mean, I've had some moments here.

I think I don't glance at it often, to be honest with you, but there are times where I do remember those moments and say, you know what, like Gods allowed me to do some really special things. Can't forget that that's the player I am, because there's people that are going to try to tear you down, there's situations that can tear you down adversity, and I think it's

important not to forget like what you're capable of. So I say for that purpose, not dwelling on it, but making sure I don't forget those moments, because those have been really special moments that I did with some really great teammates and coaches. And those are just some of the comments from a very introspective man who knows how to who knows how to communicate those things. You know,

you can't dwell on those types of comments. A guy wrote an evaluation about me once after the season, and he went through all the pros and cons and then one of the negatives. He said, I'm a very moody person. But I never met the guy. I never met him face to face. I never shook his hand. So you know, some of these opinions are formed by you know, people on the inside telling them things about you, and then

they go and they write an article about it. All right, one more segment to go with the moody town they or this second of Bears. All Access is brought to you by Microsoft Surface and CDW. People who get it learn more at CDW dot com. I think that was my scouting report nine years. They got a nice stuff. Let's take a break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy

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equally offense, defense, special teams. You gotta probably surpass them a little bit. But if you allow these guys to grow confidence in one area, hey, it's gonna be tough, but it's gonna be a high of sixty seven degrees. So I think that the Bears team will be able to go in and stay fresh and it won't be just unapproachably hot. All right, Tom, we're out of time.

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