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insert the game plan. And you know, they call it a mini bye week, but it's really not. It's a couple days off. Because you play on Thursday night and then you get a chance to play on Monday, when they really do have the bye week. You can significantly relax from the game and kind of forget about it for a couple of minutes. Here, you really don't get a chance to forget about it because you have to keep it fresh in your mind. You can't come out here and you know, forget an assignment or two along

the way. So it's about staying in the moment, you know, Like Dick always used to say, you can't turn the key off and then turn it on immediately. It's at the beginning of the season. Once you turn it on, it's on till the end. Yeah. But while you say that, you know they had the short week, so it was really walkthroughs. And this week you won't practice till Thursday, so it's six days since the game, so they really

haven't practiced a lot. I think he's going to Mattie Brouflus will get a little bit more individual work, get the techniques that they've researched that they need to improve upon each player. Three good things, three things they need to work on, was the conversation they had with their position coaches today. So it should be a much fresher team headed to New England on Monday. Yeah, but you know, this team has always been fresh. They have a good attitude.

They come out and they work hard. You saw some of it that, you know what, we saw instance of that in training camp when we are up here and they would be eighty five to ninety five degree day, they go out there and they were to work hard, and they'd work fast, they'd practice hard, and then they had to do the same thing the next day. So

I've always been impressed by this football team. The energy that they carry on kind of an everyday basis and every game basis so far up until you know, until the end of the game because they've they've been in some halftime scenarios. We didn't know what was going to happen, and they came out and play their best football. Right, They've yet to have a lead in the you know, at halftime, and they are still two wins out of that. But you got to finish, and that's been the frustrating thing.

You heard it from Justin Fields Jalen Johnson today. Yeah, you know, they're trying to keep it positive in the coaching end of things, but the players know. The players know that they could have had these games and that's the frustration part of it that they have to overcome. With that being said, the things that need to be worked on, aside from the obvious and finishing the rest of them are kind of obvious, and those were pinpointed

today by mattieberflus One. They got to get the passing game going and protecting Justin Fields and getting rid of

the ball quicker on defense, got to stop the run. Yeah, you know, the offensive part of it is a more difficult solution I think than the defensive part of it, because when you talk about the offensive component to improvement, it's making sure that you're starting to understand the terminology perfectly and not just you know, I, oh, I know it pretty good, or I you know, I could probably go in there and get a bee on a test. No,

that doesn't work. It's about knowing this stuff perfectly. So when you talk about timing, you talk about offensive line protection, getting the ball out of Justin's hand, you know, being more protective of himself so he can be in it for the long haul. Those things are all curable, but it's a constant process of correction when you talk about offensive football, and you need to be in the same system for a period of time, so you do and

you can do it perfectly. Defense, you know, when they brought in this defense and they instill installed this front, guys were making position changes. Roquan Smith, for example, going from an interior linebacker in a different style of defense to be in a kind of an edge middle linebacker in this defensive front with more defensive lineman in front

of you. So, like I said, I've never been disappointed in the energy that these guys show up every week with but it is about the finishing, the end result. And it's a young team, one of the youngest in the league started the season I think tied for eighth youngest overall roster. But they've played significant snaps more than any other team in the league. Rookies have played a lot of that is on special teams, coverage units seven eight rookies on these coverage units, punt and kickoff return.

But overall, you just got to find a way to score points and that has been even pre dating this administration. The difficulty for the Chicago Bears scoring touchdowns. Then point of emphasis the red zone. You know, everybody that watched the game last week, they saw how many opportunities the Bears had in the red zone than they failed to score.

Then you look at the Giants game when they had red zone opportunities early in the game and they failed to score touchdowns and they end up getting field goals. So what do you learn from that? You learn when you get into the red zone you have to have a game plan that you're one hundred percent confident in that you know that when you get inside that twenty, you get inside the ten and you get as close as the five yard line that the end result has

to be touchdowns. This is not a team right now that can go out there and get by with field goals. One way to improve or defense and allow them to play more aggressive and take more chances is by getting a lead. And so I think all those different components can help the overall team have more wins attached to it. Some business today a Mere Smith March set the former Minnesota Viking wave today Asaiah Coulture. It was on the roster last year for a minute. I think he had

one target last year. He comes off the practice wid to help out at receivering. Nakil Harry should likely get snapps this week against his old team. I would think. I hope he does. But you know, even if he does, we don't know a lot about him because Nikkil Harry came here, you know, former first round or big body. The type of guy that you know is you can tell the game means a lot to him because you

don't look like that without putting effort into it. But Nakil Harry, you talk about the timing between the receiver and the quarterback. He needs to have a couple hundred reps with Justin just to understand, just to get to know each other a little bit, and then they need to find, you know, five or six pass plays and they need to repetitiously go over those another hundred times during the course of a week. So yeah, I'm excited to see Nakil Harry, but it's not gonna be you know,

plug and play type of performance. Happy birthday today, Thank you to eighty three year old and Mike Ditka the Coach about that Happy Birthday, Mike. This week also Steve McMichael Battling Als the Fight of All Fights also celebrated to sixty fifth birthday yesterday. Last week it was Mike Singletary, it's hard to look I'm sixty. I know you're sixty one, but it's hard to look at the eighty five Bears.

You're sixty one. No, I'm not. You should be, you know, I feel like I'm much more than sixty one, our sixty rather but it's hard to think of Ditka the Bear because you guys had so much vibrancy. You ruled the ruled the roost of Bears fandom, and now you guys are on the other side of sixty it's so hard to think about that. Don't you feel the same way a little bit? I know, I feel good. I feel like I'm not that just knowing that you guys are all at this point, of course I do, because

you know, I grew up in this day. I grew up in Joliet. So you know you're a Bears fan and that's the team you're committed to, because when I was growing up, you didn't have all these different avenues of NFL distraction with the red zone and turning on any station device, yeah device in getting any team you want to listen to. You know, you were born bread

and you know with the with the Bears. And so when you walk in there for the very first time, you see that team and you see Ditka, and you see all the guys that you read about and saw on TV. And it's a special group of guys. But it's the kind of the guys that walk around at the same confidence today, whether you're eighty eighty three, sixty three or you know, however old, we are unique to that bunch, Yeah, no question. I just you know, we all can daydream what it would have been like for

that team playing in twenty twenty two. I don't know you guys might have been in a lot of trouble. We would whip anybody you would on and off the field. All right. Coming up next, Bears defensive lineman Justin Joins will join the program after a break here from haisaw. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. All right, 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. Jeff joni Ac Tom there here at PNC Studio at ha a song. We've got Magellan Corporation. Here are guests in the building and they're sa Uso Illinois and they're a lively bunch. Big Tim welcoming Bears defensive tackle Justin Jones to the program. How are you feeling, my man? I'm good, I'm good. I'm happy to be here. Man. Yeah, get a good break and get the get the mind right and the body right, the spirit right for the next eleven games.

I guess as a bye week, then come to week fourteenth. So you got a ways to go before you get a true break from the game. Yeah, man, I'm not even thinking about the bow you got on is Lea. Man, it's so far away to you know. If I start thinking about it now, you know, it just makes it go, It makes it, you know, longer. So, how do you like the weather change? I don't. Don't you know? Have you been in the climate change of the four seasons very much in your life? Because you got drafted on

the West coast? You grew up in a down in Georgia, So you know, as this temperature starts to change, how do you like that? You know? So I went to Anthy's date and uh January February, and uh in North Carolina it gets pretty cold. We'll get we get maybe like sixteens of snow. So you know, I'm I'm pretty good right now, I have I haven't got the uh, the extreme cold yet, so it's coming. Yeah, I heard to revisit the San Francisco game. Was that the wettest

game you've ever played in in your life? Or have you faced that before? Because I think in all the years and the all the years I played, and all the years of end broadcasting, I've only maybe seen two that bad in our time. What about Yeah, I've played it much worse. Yeah, So we played Notre Dame my junior year in uh college and we were the only game all because it was a hurricane and we played in the middle of the hurricane. They was the only

game they didn't cancel. And uh yeah, it was like four to five inches of water on the ground, maybe six and like every time you step, like your cleat just like disappeared into the water on the field. And we did. We did. We want we wanted to block punt. You know, he's a domer. I want to Notre Dame. Really. Yeah,

I'm so sorry. No, I'm I'm I'm happy to see because you know, that was one of the cool things is when you had an opportunity to play schools like that that they weren't in just on the irregular schedule. So it was a great experience to go out there. And did they get you all hyped up to make sure you beat Notre named Uh yeah they did. They did. They said, you know, raining or sewn, you know, it doesn't matter. You know, we're gonna put the ball down

to play. And that was the biggest I was like our montre there to put the ball down and you know, we'll play. Were you playing inside defensive tackle? I was? I was. My defensive line was actually pretty good. Oh my gosh, yeah, listen, listen, pretty good. Bradley Chubb, you know, you know, Bradley Chub, B J Hill, Contavious Street, Justin Jones. And then last week on the broadcast to Washington had their starting defensive and I was blowing the guy up.

Now I'm gonna forget his name. Uh he was on yours. James Smith Williams. Yeah, James Smith Williams had a couple of sacks the week before. So it's like defensive line you over there, you guys were something called the pack pros. I guess you guys called each other pack pros is. Just like everybody who went to the anybody okay, anybody in the league, Okay, yeah, but that that that was

something special. That's rare. Get a whole defensive line drafted. Yeah, yeah, that was that was something real special that we had. You know, we all, well three of us were roommates when we first got in there, so you know, it was pretty cool just to you know, grind with those guys and you know, just see the change, you know, and everybody's bodies and their mentality and their knowledge of the game, and you know, just apply to the field.

It was a beautiful than to see. Crazy thing though, real quick, Tom is because back and you and I talked about this on some show. Maybe you're on with us before. But I find it interesting that so, you know, you bounced around. You were from the Bronx. Are you a Yankee fan? Okay, they're beating Cleveland and the Alds should be wrapping up and headed to the Als. Yes, but then you're down to Georgia. You know, you look, take a look at Georgia. Right. They told you you're

two inches too short, right? They told me I was too short to play. Clemson told you, yeah, sorry, you're too short at defensive tackle. But you know, you look at a lot of these defensive tackles in the league. Six two, six three, What are you now, I'm six two and a half. It's working, Yeah, it's working. You know, fifty year in the NFL. It's like the short arm thing with tackles. It drives Tom nuts. You know, Hey, if you got leverage, you're gonna win. Yeah, that's true.

You know you got game, you got game. I'm gonna how big you you know, Aaron Donald played at two sixty five, two sixty and I've also seen other d tacks who play at three forty, you know, and they're great players. So it doesn't matter, you know, how good, how good you are with you know what you got. You know, when when you go to the combine, they put your back up against the wall and then they tell you to raise your toes up and then they

put that ruler down. Oh yeah, because you know, I went through my whole life in my high school program. I was six to five and then I went to the combine. It was sixty three and three fours, and I, you know, you're losing money by every half anch for sure. For sure. I definitely thought I was about to be in there and be like six three and a half, maybe six four if they if my hair was nicely on. So they got me at like six two and a half and I was like, oh man, but it's all good.

So the combine was actually a crazy experience. You know, you everybody sees it on TV, but that whole of the schedule they got going on over there, it's really really really draining. It's crazy. You know. When I came out of college, we used to have to go to three different combines. We had to go to one in Detroit, one in Tampa, and one in Seattle and do the

whole thing each time. But I was reading reports about you and they said, oh, they had projected you to be a fifth or six rounder, but you went in the third round. Yeah. Did that surprise you? Or did when you went to the combine? Did you say, Hey, I'm as good as any one of these guys that I'm competing against. We pretty much already knew where I was gonna go, you know, before the draft. Like now I wouldn't say after the combine, but I mean before

the combat. But after combin we pretty much knew exactly where I was gonna go. But you know, we really got to feel for after the Senior Bowl. You know, I had a pretty good Senior Bowl coming out of college,

and that kind of boosted my draft stock. Really. Uh, did you like the Senior Bowl because I I, you know, I went to the Hula Bowl because I didn't want to go to something as serious as a Senior Bowl because back in the days they had you do in double days, it was full pads and everything was legit pro style. Yeah, you know, you know, now that I've been in the league a couple of years, the singer Bowler we had back then was not pro style at all.

It was more so, you know, just to see who who can play the best one they're tired, and obviously, you know, they watched the past rush snaps, so that was kind of all the drills everybody really wanted to see. But after that we got a whole hour and thirty minutes after practice, so you know, we basically spent that

condition and you know, doing team reps. So you know, for me, that's not really a pro practice to me, but you know, it was a good, good opportunity to showcase, you know, the skill sets and everything, and you know in those drills and especially when you're tired. You know, that's that's a big thing, you know, league, you know, how do you play when you're tired? So that that's the only real realistic that I can honestly say that

you know, we got from the Singer Bowl. The best part of the Singing Bowl, honestly is the interviews and you know, the one on ones with the coaches and every day so they can really see, you know, where you are mentally with the game. Because that's most important. So when I would come here for and watch OTAs and stuff, I was amazed at how fast you guys were practicing, not not the length of time of how fast you guys were going through your drills that we're

running team work that would do it. And then I was curious, is this going to be able to carry over to live training camp practice? What did you think when you got into training camp with Matt Eberflus. Did you like the pace of what you were practicing? Were you getting too much conditioning work? Were you're getting enough conditioning work? How did that settle in with you? Honestly, though at the time you know it was it was hard, but you know, obviously, you know, getting in the training

camp it built up the stamino. You knew that we needed to play and obviously, you know, you've seen it in the last couple of games. You know, even though I haven't gone our way, the fourth quarter has really been our quarter. And that's because you know, the other team is pretty much getting tired and we have the stamina to play. And that's that's due to the you know, the condition that we did throughout practice and OTA and training camp. So even if you don't see it now,

you know we definitely thankful for it now. So our guest Justin Jones here on Bears All Access Tyler booterbaum I hope I said that correctly is our producer. Back at the score, pauls rang here with Dan burrellion a cast of thousands in the audience. Here we're gonna take another break more with Justin after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to store. Welcome back to Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy, Huge clean energy for your home at IGS dot com. Because every good

choice adds up to a better world. And this segment of Bears All Accesses is brought to you by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit Athletical dot com to request an appointment in clinic or virtually and start feeling better tomorrow. Welcome Magell Incorporation and USO Illinois here at PNC Studios at Hollis Hall. This was not a full practice day for Justin Jones and the Bears. They did to walk through meetings. How did it all go? Because Mattieberflus talked about what

they wanted to do as coaches. Every team does it a little review of what's happened for the first six and look at the strengths, looks at things that need to be tweaked. I know, you know that run defense is going to be one of the big ones, at least on your side of the ball. Yeah, you know, he definitely are brought that up to us today and that was one of the biggest things, you know, we talked about and but he did highlight, you know, some of the positives that we had. You know, we had

a lot of positives. And the biggest thing that he said to us is that you know, we're getting better every week and you know, you know it might not show up on the wins like we wanted to. Is that that's obviously frustrating, but you know we are getting better every week, and that's really all you can ask, like because in the NFL, you know, you just can't. You can't stay the same either. You're getting better, you're

getting worse, and you know we're getting better. So have you ever played New Have you ever played New England with Tom Brady throughout your career? I did my rookie year. We had went to the playoffs and it was the first round of the playoffs, and uh, we had played them and we definitely lost. So from what you've been able to learn throughout your career, is there a different approach to when you play a team that doesn't have

Tom Brady in New England? That does? You know? It's a serious question because I know if if we were playing against the defense that had a guy like Reggie White, it would be a whole point of emphasis when you prepare for him. Is it the same with New England or is it what you remember preparing as a younger guy. I wouldn't. I wouldn't say it was anything different, you know, honestly in my opinion, you know, you treat every game like it has a life of his own, and you

know you can't. You can't talk about the Patriots without talking about Tom Brady at the time, right you can't. You can't talk about you know, the Bucks without talking about Tom Bury. You can't talk about anybody without talking about their best players. And that's that's kind of what I mean by cheer. Everybody be saying you have to show respect to the players that kind of make their

team go. But you have to have you also have to make a make a plan to take those players out to make them ineffective in the game so that you can, you know, obviously do what you're trying to do, which is obviously win. You know, you can't you can't let those players get going and get into a rhythm because they can hurt you at that point. You know, when you go back to the Green Bay game, you had a couple tackles for lost explosive plays at the

line of scrimmage. As a defensive lineman. Do you like when you're on the road where you can kind of grow it familiar with the cadence of the quarterback or do you like it at home when you really can't hear anything and you're just going on instincts because I I see you have explosive plays on the road, and it's I don't know if you're fault you're falling into that cadence rhythm or what is it for us to know? You know, it's different things. You know, it's different things

for me personally. Uh, I like going on the road more just for the simple fact that you know, our bearest fans travel. Yeah, and uh that's huge for me. You know, I like going to foreign stadiums and you know, putting on the show for them and obviously get going there and getting to win, you know, especially when our fans travel like that. That's something I really I really enjoy doing, you know because a lot of fans get to go home unhappy, and I love that. I love that.

But um, you know, as for you know, cadence and everything. When we're on the road or when they're home, and you know, our fans really loud. I pay attentions to like the clock, you know, the the game clock. I'm pay attention to manners, and a lot of people go silent. Counsel, you know, they have a routine cadence or a routine you know motion that they do, you know, to let everybody on the old line not that they're about to hike the ball, notifying me that they're about to hit

the ball. And so once they do that, I'm out of there. When they're at home. You know, some people were like, uh, let me think Aaron Rodgers. You know, he has some things that he do that he does, you know, pre snap the way I know when the boss coming, and once it comes, like I'm moditating before everybody else moves. It's possible Mac Jones could come back for this one of the wise that Bailey Zappy who's been been impressive and almost three full games are putting

up a lot of points. You your Chargers team that you were on last year did play took him down to the wire. I think they had one touchdown run and four field goals with mac Jones. What you learn from Wack Jones last year that if he goes in there and comes back from his injury, that will benefit you just from knowledge from playing him once. Oh, you definitely know he's a good quarterback. He doesn't like anybody next to his feet, you know, so that's that's a

big thing. You know. He throws off his back foot whenever there's pressure obviously, you know, but if we can get some confusion going on, that was one thing about him, you know, once he gets confused, you know, he kind of just throws the game away in my opinion. But um, you know, obviously if he gets in the rhythm, then obviously he can hurt us. So you got to give him in respect in that aspect. But you know he does he does have a kryptonite and we're going to

expose that. Yeah, I'll tell you the one thing you gotta get ready for as you know, with a Bill Belichick coach team, and Tommy and I just broke it down for our game preview, is that they throw a bunch at yet they throw packages after package. I'll start out with whatever, and then you got to figure it out over the course of the game. That's a part of You got to find a lot of answers to

a lot of questions, even as the game's unfolding. Would that be a fair representation of playing a Patriots Bill Belichick coach team. That's definitely true. That's definitely true. But you know, one thing about you know, fundamentals and technique like those, those things aren't gonna lie to you, you know, So if you're really focusing on those things, and you will be okay. And that's from the front end of all the way to the back end. So stuff like

that doesn't really worry me, you know. It's more so it's more so, you know, are we are we playing with effort? Are we getting to the ball? Are we are we all getting half to the ball? Are we knocking to pile back? Are we getting pressure on the quarterback? Those those are things that I'm worried about, not more so what they're doing. It's always about us. So who do you think's bigger trash talkers offensive line or defensive lineman?

And then from all the young guys that Jeff and I don't know that well yet, who's the biggest talker at your defensive lineman? Uh? So the offensive? Is there any offensive lineman that talk trash to you? Or are they They're back to the huddle so quick. Yeah, they're they're in and out for me. Now. They don't really talk too much to me, but I've seen I've seen a lot more d lineman talking trash. Yeah. I mean, Tommy, you didn't talk, did you? No? But we didn't have time.

But there are some guys that do. And because we're getting to know a lot of these guys for the first time in our life. You know, I'm talking about old line though. I mean Oland did there's there's there's a did you? And Jay No? You know, I mean, we didn't take anything because you'd get a defensive lineman from a team that would try to line up like the Green Bay Packers used to have a guy named Tim Harris and he would line up against everybody on

the offensive lineman. He would talk a lot of trash, so you almost had to give it back to him, you know. But how about John Rando who had a whole book on your whole life, and he was yeah, oh yeah, he'd do research. I mean he would do he wouldn't know everything about your life and just poke at you the whole game and be talking though. Going in NFL films with John rad it's hilarious, hilarious, but he get on your skin, you know, he'd get under your skin a little bit. Justin Jones, our guest here

on Bears All Access. It's brought to you by Igs Energy. So part of your weekend was hanging out with the folks as an honorary captain for the TAFT ken Wood, Chicago Publicly Girls Flag Football City Championship Game TAFT one and both teams are going to be competing in the state championship here at Hollis Hall later this month. You have a one year old daughter, so you know you gotta kick out of that too. What was it like in is this part of the future with girls and

boys for that matter? I know the NFL would love to have it to be an Olympic sport one day, you know, honestly, it'd be it'd be good for both you know, and uh personally, you know, just the game of football itself. I think it'd be. I think it'd be really good for the girls and women that wanted to play football in my opinion, you know, especially especially obviously me having a daughter, I'm a little biased. You know, I want her to enjoy the sport as well, and

obviously she seemed like she wanted to do it. So if you know, at some point when she gets of age, you know, we'll put her in something like that and you know, let it try it out. But you know, it's huge. You talk about opportunity to get to get be able to get more people into sports and be able to get more people an opportunity to get a free education, you know, and and you know, possibly going get into the Olympics. That's that's amazing. That's literally life changing,

like you know, for a lot of people. So you know, I thought that was amazing. You know, find the information out and you know, you're looking at the teams, like being out there with Tad and Kim, they love this game like they love it, like they're they're they're playing like they're they're playing like full speed like they're they're there.

You have to see it what you're own eyes, Like literally, it's amazing that they're running routes and everything, and you know, they really get competitive, trash talking to each other like and you can even see it the way they pull the flag and throw it on the ground and walk off like it's they're they're out. They're really trying to get in. It's amazing to see. Yeah, So I'm sure here again, you know, they kids mimic behavior, so they watch watch the big boys at the NFL level do

their thing. Yeah, and it's gonna trickle down even how they wear their socks or how they wear their uniforms. So we got to take a break. Justin Jones our guest here at Hatasar at PNC Studios with Tows there. I'm Jeff Joniac not Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score College All Bears bands. Get the ultimate VIP fan package at Soldier Field this season with Chicago Bears VIP securing game ticket pregame hospitality, appearances from Bears legends, and

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hanging out with the big guys up front. Really a great chance here, free agency for the first time in your career, and really to kind of vault your career with a new platform here with a new team. But my gosh, the rookies, they're more snaps than any team in the league, buy a long shot. So you got a young football team. What's it like playing with these guys in there? Have they have? They adapted quicker maybe than they wouldn't if there weren't so many of them,

especially on special teams for example. Yeah, they are, they are. But the good thing about it is, you know they're getting all these quality reps now, and that's one thing you know about it. You know, for a lot of rookies in the league. They don't. It's a lack of reps, you know. It's a lot of bets taking all the

reps nowadays, you know, and all the other teams. So here, you know, giving all these rookies, you know, so many reps at a young at a young age in their career, like it's going to be huge for their career just in general, like they'll be able to start seeing things a lot faster, you know, in the following games and following years and just develop faster as a player because the reps are important. You can't imitate game reps in practice,

like you have to be in the game. You have to understand the situations, the pressure, you know, how the fans, you have to feel all that stuff, you know to get to understand it and get better at it. And you know, for certain things out to affect you, like you know, like a rookie was going to a hostile environment that might affect them, universes of fat who's been who's been there three or four times like that, you know, they that doesn't affect them at all, you know, So

that stuff's important. Is there information that you can transfer to a guy like Dominique Robinson, because you talk about the offense breaks of the huddle, you take everything in the consideration the time on the clock, the down and distance, what hash mark they're on, the stance of the offensive lineman is there is there a teaching components that you can help a guy like Dominique because he's played different positions, but he's got the talent to grow and do a

defensive end. You know, I've talked to domin a couple of times. You know about about you know, a tendensee's and everything, and you know how to how to diagnose the whole player. You know, within like maybe seven to ten seconds, kind of know what's coming to ask you before you've been getting your stance, because that's really the that's really the that's really one of the one of the biggest the biggest things you know of the down

is trying the pre snap reads. You know, that's really important for a d lineman to understand you where the ball is going. You know what kind of block you're gonna get, you know what your assignment is. You know how can you can how you can do it effectively? You know when you could take your shots because those are one of the big players and may you know, you're able to take a shot and it won't hurt the team. It's within the scheme. But you could take

their shot and make a big play, you know. Obviously you know from what you've seen on the pre snap. You know, so we've talked about, you know, alignments. We talked about running back alignment. We've talked about splits between offensive linemen, tackles and guards, and we've talked about you know, tendencies from a center, you know, from from the head

motions to the way he owes the ball. We talked about quarterbacks and stuff like that and their manner risks you know, from when the ball comes out and stuff

like that. So we talked about a lot, but you know, it's it's repetition, like I said, you know for rickies, you know, to be able to understand certain things like that and be able to look at that, and you know that for it to become second nature, to be able to look at that and become second nature and you don't have to really think about, oh let me look at his eye, let me look at the split. It just becomes something part of your routine, you know, of a snap so that's kind of what we're trying

to get to. But we talk about that, and you know he's starting to do things like that too, So that's that's pretty good. You know what as a defensive lineman, see these guys that are talented that are able to deflect balls out of the air when the quarterback throws them. Can you teach them things like that to say, Okay, I'm still rushing against the offensive lineman, but I'm also

reading the eyes of the quarterback. Is that something that is in eight and you that you have from thousands of reps and one on ones and teamwork and everything else you go through. Or is that something that's learned

or taught by a coach from the past. Well, you know, it's it's something like so you know, looking at us is always good, you know, but there's also things as you know, for just being in front of the quarterback in general, right then looking looking at a ball indicators you know, when it takes his hand at the ball, that's when the balls coming. Because some quarterbacks are pump fake you and they the hand will still be on

the ball. They're not going through the regular throw of motions for you know, to be able to know when to jump and stuff like that. So you know, just just just you know, taking advantage of all those tendencies and everything. And IVI was, you know, if you're getting a double team, you know you're not getting to the quarterback.

The best way to affect them to get your hands up, you know, try to block the past or get getting his vision so to overthrow it or something, you know, getting the hunt fate because he can't see or you know, you know it's open, but it's a bad package. You're

right there. So just something you know, to give guys extra time to get there, or you know, give guys ex time, you know, just to you know, to beat their man so you know, you they get a pressure or a sack or something, because sometimes you know, a double team comes your way and you know you're ineffective on the rush. But that's one good way, you know, to affect the quarterback. Hot button topic right now, justin Jones, our guest here with Tom there Jeff Jonny Ack on

Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy. So the NFL owners meeting today out in New York and a topic of roughing the passer was discussed, and the NFL's executive vice president of Football Operations, Troy Vincent said, Yep,

healthy conversation, healthy conversation about it. These recent calls, We're not changing our philosophy as a defensive lineman who gets to the quarterback, and yet you know what the flags mean or the type of way you have to hit a quarterback these days, even with full momentum and the heat of the moment. How do you feel about that if they're going to continue to lean on what they're

doing right now? And even Rich McKay, the Competition Competition Committee chairman, said I got lulled into it once and it probably won't happen again in terms of reviewing things like that. And that was about pass interference. Back in the day. They could never get a consistent way to call pass interference. What is your thought out as a as a three technique defensive tack who's asked to blast

off at the line of scrimmage and go get the quarterback. Personally, I think I think it's pretty solvet you know my opinion. You know, I do agree, you know, not just hit sticking the quarterback at all times, because obviously that's the way to really really hurt them. You know, you don't want to hurt you don't want to hurt guys like

that in this game. But you know, obviously the recent the recent calls, I think they're pretty soft, you know, because I don't think there were anything wrong with the recent ones. You know, ya obviously are referring to the Grady chair at the time Brady went off. Yes, but even this path, even last night, I mean, there were you know, there's been a dozen of them. But is it going to alter the way you go about it?

Is it in your head? Because think, think for a minute, what if it's fourth quarter crunch time and yep, you know that word close, you're trying to close, and you get to the quarterback and you're happen to land down. I'm a certain way that they don't like. I mean, usually got to pull off. You know, if you're if you're about to dump a guy, you know you can get your hands off to the side and kind of

like lean over a little bit. It seems it seems hard, but it's not as hard as you know it seems because you know you have full control of what you're doing. Like if you have the quarterback in your hand and you're about to dump them, you know you have control or either let them go or pull off. Or if you come at them at a angle, you know, to get your head to the side and not put it in this stern them. Like you know, it's certain things

like that that you can control. Now that there are things you can't control, Like you know, maybe you beat the guy and the tackle pushes you into the quarterback and you end up, you know, falling at his legs or something like that. Or you know, maybe you're tack on the quarterback in the old line and falls on top of you, so now you're really pancake in the quarterback. Like, some things you can't control like that, but the ones you can't control, you know that you have to do

your best to control those things. So that's really my take on it. You know, you know it's you know, it's soft, you know it's off I feel like, you know, with the rules and everything like that, but at the same time, you know it's to protect that guy. So yeah, you know, I look at it from both angles. Boy, Justin's taking some hits that you'd like to throw a flight. How do you feel about this. Hearing this from the NFL owners today, It's kind of like a baseball umpire.

You know, all baseball umpires are not going to call the strike zone exactly the same. So now you're asking the officials to interpret what they saw and what would be hard for a defensive lineman if you're playing against Kyler Murray or you're playing against Cam Newton or Ben Roethlisberger in their prime, you have to have two different approaches to these guys. I remember Cam Newton broadcasting a game and guys are bouncing off of him, and so I guess you'd have to put some tom study time

in to the type of quarterback you're playing. Does he try to spin out of tackles, is he willing to take a hit, does he hold it a little longer to get the ball out of his hands? And you know issues that are you know, you guys will have to study now. You know, for those bigger guys, you know, the biggest thing we preach just depend the arm so

we can't throw the ball away. That's the biggest thing we teach because obviously, you know, we can't just drill the guy, even if he's a big even if he's big, you feel me. So we got we got to pin the arm to make sure we can't throw the ball and you know, making and make it a gang tackle because you know, that was one thing about you know, Ben Roethlisberg. I remember when I was younger in my career. You know, he's a big guy. You know, it's hard to bring down by one man. So you know, pin

his arm. You know, way for everybody was to get there and get him down together. That's that's one of the big things we talked about. So that's how we answer you know, those bigger quarterbacks. That's for the running ones. You know, come of just keep him in the box or keep him in the cup and then you know that how to make it easier if him to get tackle.

So Ben was the best pump fake quarterback I've ever seen because he has such big hands that he could make it look like he was actually throwing the ball right. It was just trying to get a defensive back out of position or a defensive lineman to jump right. So you broke down the team last week for what would you say, Oh, man, I was just talking about how I would just talking about you know, just having having a swag. Man. It's Thursday night football, and you know

we look good. Man. It feels good out here, you know, and the lights is all you know, fans are going crazy, man, Like, we just gotta ask some swag when we take the field. Man, we gotta have energy, we gotta have jews. You know. We had to play like we love a game. And that's what the biggest thing we talked about in that huddle, and just play for each other because you know that's all we got. You know, we're going to award together. You know, you empty the tank for each other. We've

been grinding all year. What's the best one of those you've ever heard in your football playing life. Honestly, I think I think the one Road said, I forgot what game it was. He was micd up. It was mic though. Was a san Fran might have been might have been saying I don't remember, Yeah it was san Fran. But he was like, man, you know, I'll dive. I'll die on this field right now. You know what, I'm emptying the whole thing for y'all, and it makes su y'all do the same. Man. I was like, Oh, they get

me chilled right there. Man. I told him the next day in the locker room. I was like, hey man, you got me ready to play after that one. So but yeah, that was that was a good one for sure. That that was probably one of the best ones I've heard so far. Did you did you like the orange helmets? You know, I wasn't a big fan of it at first, but when I saw it under the lights, you know,

with the jersey combo, it was pretty cool. Let me ask you this, so you know, during my career, we only wore one helmet every single game, and you kind of break in your helmet. It's like a pair of leather shoes when they start fitting perfectly, they fit perfectly.

Did you feel any difference in the helmet that you wore since it was kind of a fresh helmet, It was kind of tight a little bit, you know, but we wore the day before, you know, and practice for a little bit, so that that made it a lot easier, you know, to break in come the game. But you know, I think the cold air kind of tightened the leather a little bit. But it was pretty cool. It was all right, all right? Before we let you go get

your final scouting report. If it's all about stopping the run so you can earn the right to rush the past or whomever it may be. It means stopping Remandre Stevenson. What kind of back is he? And what do you

seeing on tape? Honestly, we haven't even had the opportunity to break down doing I know coaches have, but we've been more so looking at you know, we've been looking at Washington and doing a lot of seal scouting, you know, these last these last four days, you know, just focusing on us and really, you know, seeing where we can better ourselves as a person, as a player. You know,

not more so just the team itself, but each player individually. Like, look at yourself and be really really really strict on yourself and really, you know, saying, coach yourself on how did you get the better version of yourself on the field? Hey, justin, I want to tell you one thing. If you win a play immediately like he did in Green Bay and stuff, keep your head on the swivel because that running back

will will light you up. Really, yes, just you know, food for thought, because I was watching some different tape on him today. He number thirty four, the interior linebacker for Detroit three times the guy blitzed three times. He lit them up, and so I'm just saying, if you get one of those quick wins, look for him. There you go. They are scouting a board for Justin Jones. All right, well, we really appreciate you taking the time.

I know you got a lot of work to do and you want to be with your family, but I know the folks here from Magellan and USO Illo, I appreciate it. Thank you. Have a great rest of your season. Teardown, Buddy Beardown, Justin Jones, our guest. We'll continue Tam and I another segment to break down the Bears and Patriots on Monday night here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. That's the sound of Magellan Corporation in USO, Illinois.

Special guests here on a special edition of Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Joanna budabam Our, producer Dan Brouley, pauls rang here. Justin Jones a very enjoyable interview. He's got a lot to say and he's lived a full life. Enjoyed our feature with him on the television side, and he's a proud popot that's the best part of it all. I love it. That is number one, no doubt about it. Number two is he's a defensive line he's a lineman. You know,

that's always the best part of ours. That's where it's one or lost right there. And you can catch him at at twenty seven savage on Twitter. I never asked him what that is twenty seven savage because he's certainly not that number, but a really interesting cat. Through six games, the defensive lineman have seven and a half sacks, so they'd like to see that number. He's leading away co leader with a couple of players on this team, Trevis Gibson and Dominique Robinson one and a half. Robert Quinn

won Alquity Mohammed one. But again, the preach points and I know fans don't get a kick out of it.

It's not there's answers in there, but it's not what they want to hear, obviously, But fundamental technique eyes, trust your eyes, signmon alignement keys, it's all the verbiage that you're going to hear from this day forward from this coaching staff, and that's the key to winning fan And you want to create confidence because you want to know when you go into these stadiums that are a little bit off the beaten trail, like New England, you don't

play there very often. You got to go in there with the confidence that everything you're doing in practice is getting ready for you to win games. And that's the attitude the Bears have to have going forward. If you cannot sit there and go, oh, this is woes me because they have this guy on the team, it's about woes them because we're gonna come in here and we're going to bring a physical style of football that's gonna be a you know, running game, passing game, and our

defense and we're gonna bring it. This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by CDW people to get it. Jeff, Joniakin, Tim there with you a couple of nuggets today. Tom. I know you'll have some opinions on the NFL is looking at a Black Friday football game and I saw that so a day after think so you know the idea is, I guess to play every day of the week. I don't know if Friday's keep seemingly off limits, but not on the day after Thanksgiving. How do you feel about it? That's in the but

it's gonna happen. They haven't named the teams. Yeah. The only people that are unhappy about it are the malls and the guys the stores that have the super sales and they want as many people in their stores all day. But hey, I think it's a great day for football as long as they don't take away anything from high school state championships in college football, because that's when all

these games are. And you know, these teams, these coaching staff, these parents, the support crew of every one of these younger kids that put in a lot of time and effort. So don't take attention away from those guys just to put another pro game on Friday. So hopefully it's you know, like I said, it doesn't interfere with the big moments for the high school and college kids. I don't know what the significance is, but a lot of writers who

are tweeting this today. NFL owners hearing at today's meetings that the average margin of victory this season is eight point nine points, which is essentially a one score game, pretty much on pace to shatter the Super Bowl era record of ten point two. So you've got balance in the league. I believe there are ten teams with a winning record, that's it, and three divisions do not have a winning team. That you may have a five hundred team. How do you look at that? As a veteran player

and now analyst, Does it matter to you? I mean it doesn't matter because they've always wanted parody. But with free agency and so many coaches being fired every year, you don't have a chance as to build a foundation that lasts four years, like you know with you know you have in certain amount of teams. You know you got obviously the quarterback position in Green Bay, the coaching position in New England. You know, those are a couple

of examples that you have success. But you know, when you have so many guys changing over the year and a year out team in a team out, it's gonna be hard to have a great team with a with a first year head coach or a great team with the first year quarterback. It's it's difficult position to master. All right, let's talk about the past protection and justin fields as he heads into New England, because he'll he'll listen no matter what, they're gonna throw things that maybe

he hasn't seen yet in his sixteen NFL games. But the idea that they want is to keep him in the pocket. And you know, YadA, YadA, YadA, he's got moves that can get him out of the pocket, that pivot move. I'm just you know where you at on past protection because Maddie Berflus is saying it's all eleven, which includes Justin getting rid of the football and also

getting everybody in the right protection. It is, but I'm kind of disappointed there's not a wider variety of throwing spots for Justin because yeah, okay, New England knows that they're going to try to keep him in the pocket. He's never going to be in the pocket. I mean he is, but you know there's a majority of the time that he's going to be on the outside. You know, there's an easy play to Darnell Mooney where Justin rolls

do his left Darnell Mooney is wide open. There's not any type of defensive player around him to hit him or you know, have a challenging tackle. Same thing with Cole Comet. There's a you know, a passet in the fourth quarter that they throw with the David Montgomery on the edge. All those types of things getting the ball out of his hands, quicker throw from a variety of spots. Allow your offensive lineman to throw play action as frequently as you possibly can, because it's the most aggressive pass

protection there is in football. When you are a straight drop back team and you're giving ground grudgingly, but you're allowing the defense to be the aggressor, it's difficult protection. So use the god given gifts that Justin has and throw them from a variety of positions. Stats are interesting because you know they say a lot, but sometimes it's deceiving, and so the Bears haven't passed the ball a lot

that by volume. It's more a run football team right now, and it may stay that way for the remainder of the season. I which is five with you and I right, no question, they're near the top ten in the NFL and a rushing one hundred and seventy point eight yards of game at five point two a Kerry today, Mattie Riffo said, the hot hand will run the Footballalil Herbert at six yards of carry David Montgomery at four right now. But they both are excellent in the passing game, and

they both play a violent brand of ball. They both have leverage and they both bring it every snap. I'd rather have that than have a guy that doesn't want

to get hit, because these guys deliver punishment. You know, if you can continue to develop the offensive line, Chris Morgan, the offensive line coach, is a hell of a coach, and I think if they can continue to develop the offensive line still have the same desire to run the ball throughout the second half of the season, You're going to see the Bears win a lot of games because late in the season, when other teams are, you know, fighting with backups and so on and so forth, that's

when the Bears will be able to win those fourth quarter games. Calling on Bears fans get the ultimate VIP fan package with Chicago Bears VIP security, game ticket and appearance from Bears legends and more by visiting Chicago Bears vip dot com or winding things up. Want to thank our studio audience today Magellan and USO Illinois, thank you

for being here. Hope you enjoyed the show. For our special guest Justin Jones, Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac, Thanks, Paul Zuring, Tyler Butebaum, and Dan BARRELLI here from panc Studios at Alasas. Good night, everybody. This has been Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score, Cann