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Wishing you a pleasant good evening on your travels home or wherever you may be with my broadcast partner from news radio seven eighty one oh five nine FMWBBM, Chicago Bears super Bowl winner Tom There, Good evening time, Jeff, you're the kind of guy that likes the wintertime. I'm the kind of guy that waits for Indian summer, just for one more week after that first phreeze. Yeah, I didn't get it through any yard work at all. So the leaves are still on the grass and hopefully the
snow will melt in short order. But it's expected to be cold. Man, it's going to be colder on here. Well that's November, that's what you expect. Yeah, no question. But the Bears hitting the road, they won't be playing
in this weather. They may be practicing indoors this week at the Peyton Center, but we will all break it down throughout the course of the night, we'll recap the Bears lost to the Lions, look ahead the Sunday's trip, and coming up in the show, former Bears quarterback Mark Sanchez, who called Sunday's game on Fox for a breakdown of the Bears and in particular Justin Fields, so that'll happen
about six thirty. And former NFL quarterback and now radio analysts for the Falcons for a long time now, David Archer coming up at six ten. Thanks to our producers Dan Brilliant, Jordan's trut up and Sean Sears at the Score Studios, Tom, he did it again, Justin Fields again. A national story this week. You know he's gonna be a national story the rest of the year because he didn't necessarily burst on the scene. He's probably, I mean, he just started to be so productive with his legs.
He's hard not to watch in whether you're a Bear fan, of Falcon fan, or just an NFL fan. He's an exciting player that's gonna be fun to watch throughout the remainder of this year and hopefully for the next decade. In Chicago. All Right, Five new NFL or Bears records thirteen total touchdown since Week seven, number one of the NFL. We can go on and on. The one that really strikes me, forty eight rushing first downs. That's number one in the NFL, excuse me, number one in the NFC,
number six in the NFL regardless of position. And that's what's really helped the Bears third down offense now really rise because he's doing a lot of it on third down as well with his legs, right, you know, I think that's probably the most confusing thing to any defensive coordinator in the league, is when you get to a third and whatever, it's makeable because of the legs of Justin fields. Now, how do you play your front seven?
How do you play your defensive coverage? You know, how do you distribute the bodies around with the field to make sure that you limit the running lanes for Justin? And I don't know if you can make him small enough, because he has the ability to run by anybody. All right. Matt Eberflews on the Bears Coaching Show last night on w BBM on what makes this man as special as he has been playing. He's obviously very special. First of all, he's a special person. You know, he's he's a great teammate,
he's a great leader of his football team. And he does it. Do actions first, and he's the first guy in the last guy to leave, and he is working the same guy every day and he does it. He's there after practice and as you know, you know, for forty five minutes doing routes with these receivers every single day. So he's special that way, you know. And we always tell a talk about leadership and say, hey, model the behavior he wished to see, and that's what he does.
He models that. By doing that, he inspires others, he inspires his whole football team by the way he works. I'll going to the football field itself on game day. There is no question that he is something that's hard to handle us with the opponent because the ability to run on the design runs, but also that the unscripted ones as well. The third one was a design run. Everybody knew that he had a potential to keep it
and he did what he did. And then obviously there's the ones where he drops backs and you know, it does it does a good job of getting those first downs on third down or whatever the situation may be. But yeah, he's special, and it's opening up asking game like the col Comet play, you know, putting defenders in conflict, not sure what they're going to do that fifty yard touchdown. Obviously that was an error in judgment on the defense, right,
but he's putting the defensive coordinators in conflict. They don't exactly know what to call on third down, whether it's third and one or third and nine. And because the effort and the time and the work that Justin puts in, as Matt has described as a season ticket holder, and excites the heck out of me for what he's going to bring as a Bear is alumni. I'm so proud to watch this guy and what he does around on the field in the way that he's getting mentioned around
the entire NFL landscape. So it's super fun to hear the compliments by Matt Eberflus because he's the guy that sees it the most and sees it the closest. We'll hear more from Mett just talking about being a defensive coach. He understands what these guys are going through because he's had to stop similar players and he had to adjust over the course of his time as a coordinator because the league has changed. There's a lot of these guys, but maybe not a lot of guys like Justin Fields
or Lamar Jackson. That's that's different, and Justin's different than Lamar. That run that he bowled over the defender, Deshaun Elliott gave him a concussion. That guy's guy's a nasty hitter and he lowered his shoulder and blew him up into the end zone. I mean, that was all want to And he's just he's thick, he runs, he glides. Guys look like they're standing still when he's running in the open field. And he's a lot faster than his time
forty when he was at the combat. I don't know what four four four four six is because that's not four four six, right. You know, you're as fast as you need to be. And I you know you hear what. That's what coach Eeverflu says last night. He's fast as he needs to be, right because he's got gears. He gears down, ere he gears up. You know, when he was running away from Jeff Acuda and who's also an Ohio State grad, and he didn't necessarily have him in
his review, mirror. He was tilting his head so he could see him. How gratifying that must feel as an athlete and everything that Matt talks about, the work he's it in to be that accomplished, that in great of shape where he can make those kind of runs late in the game. And I know he's sore when he gets in the locker room, because every time an NFL lineman walks in the locker room, they're sore. But I just imagine how sore he is. Excuse me, budd, He's
in such great shape. He has the ability to recover well. I asked, Also, is the man tired? Do do you concern yourself as the season goes on? Does it affect his passing down the road if he's doing all of this kind of running? And Matt said, hey, we're gonna we're gonna keep in a monitor and everybody, we got the buye Week coming up in three weeks, and you know, the next step, obviously, is what everyone's gonna want to talk about. Can you start making more plays out of
the pocket, Will you have more volume of passes? Will you be able to finish games as a team in fourth quarter? Highly leveraged situations yeah, I think first and foremost the question is passing efficiency by Justin fields to limit some of that abuse that he takes at the conclusion of runs, to limit some of the fatigue and the legs if he doesn't have to run as much.
But I think he can become more of a weapon if he throws the ball efficiently and then he jets the jets the epocket when he needs to, because then that's when he can turn third and nine into a fifty yard touchdown run. So I'm excited for what the future holds, But as a player, I believe that the passing game has to be more effective and more part of his game as much as his ability to run Bears.
A running back situation did take a hit today. Khalil Herbert goes on injured reserve at least for the next four games, so he's going to be out until December at least. It looked I could happen in that fourth quarter kick return something with the hips, so we're going to keep an eye on that as well. And Kingsley Jonathan and his Wave looks like they're bringing in another defensive back in Justin Laye, a former third round pick
by the Steelers out of Michigan State. We'll catch up with all that, but coming up next Mark Sanchez, who called the game on Fox, with a breakdown of the Bears when we come back. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score, falk back and Bears All Access. It's brought to you by IGS Energy with Tom Thayer, Jeff Johnny act here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Getting ready earlier this
week on a Tuesday night. Usually we're later in the week by getting ready for a trip to Atlanta to the Mercedes Benz Stadium to meet the Atlanta Falcons, a team that's lost two in a row and three of four. Bears have lost six of seven. Now joined by their radio analysts and our good friend and my fellow alone from Iowa State, same graduating class. I believe. I believe the man is David Archer, former Falcons quarterback. How you doing tonight, Dave, Jeff doing good? Buddy, Go Cyclones, Yes,
go cyc Clones. We need two more wins to be Bowl eligible this year. Yeah, we got a little work to do. Yeah. Well, it's gonna be about five below zero when Tech rolls in, So I think that they're gonna have a problem with that, right, I hear about that. You know, we got a golden domer with us, so we can just you know, have a private conversation, you and I right here, right, But yeah, yeah, what year did you graduate? Eighty four or eighty three? I was
eighty three, eighty three. Yeah, Tim's year same class as me. Thank you, David, David, you're getting ready. You know. The interesting thing is it's it's it's been a long time for the Bears to settle in on a quarterback that, you know, has the ability to not have situations like as a rising in Atlanta where people are talking about, Okay, it's nice, Marcus Mariota's a veteran quarterback. Well, we got this guy Desmond Ritter on there and the roster we
drafted him. Let's take a look at him at this point. And that seems to be carrying the headlines here after the mini buy. What's your take on it. I know coach has squashed all that there is no quote unquote situation. It's Marcus Mariota for the game against the Bears. Well, Jeff, it doesn't help that the guy that's coming to town. Is the guy that everybody Atlanta wanted to draft two years ago. The two drafts ago, right we took Puts the sight in and Justin Fields, a local kid went
to Harrison High School right here in Atlanta. That's the kid that everybody wanted here. Former Georgia bulldog went went to a house day, you know the story. So so yeah, there's gonna be a lot of that in the stands. And so because we didn't have him, and we drafted a kid this last year in Desmond Ritter, who I think is the third all time leader in wins for a college quarterback as forty four wins. It's Cincinnati is
kind of sitting in the wings. And he showed some promise in preseason, and you guys know and Tom and I can both tell you that preseason is different than the regular season. But he played well in the preseason, did some good things with a limited package, and so they're chomping at the bit to see him getting the game, especially the way Marcus played Thursday night. He played like a young player. He made a lot of mistakes, put the ball in harm's way, and we were struggling offensively anyway.
Without the run game. He's got to try to minimize damage. He didn't do that. He magnified the problem. So that's even a scentuated the conversation about the other guy playing. But this is a team that's still in the mix. I mean Tampa's one game head they still play Tampa
later on in the year. Is even though they're at four and six right now, Hey, David, I want to like extend a little bit of conversation about the quarterback position because Justin Fields is in the position he's in and Desmond is looking for his opportunity eventually from the time that you came in the league and to where it's at now, do you think the terminology in the huddle is too exhaustive for the quarterback being able to pick it up, know it exactly what it means, knows
exactly what the audible they're calling within that terminology, and then what they have to look at the defense and make everything compute into their mind. What do you think of the terminology for today's quarterbacks? Yeah, it's it's it's ridiculous time. I could see you looking back at me, if we're in the same buddle looking at me Cross,
I'd like what the hell are you talking about. So it used to be used called a formation or protection and uplet numbers and off we went right, and then if you wanted to change a play at the line of scrimmage, it was a double digit number and it changed. It changed things. There was some memorization attached to it. It's almost like we've had to remove your ability to memorize what's going on in the playbook. You just gotta gotta have somebody tell you exactly what to do. I mean,
we're seeing in the college ranks as well. Right, you look at the sideline and you've got a guy signaling the offensive line. You got a guy signaling the wide receivers, you got a guy signaling the quarterback. So it's crazy, but you're right. The verbiage has gotten exhausted, is the right way to say it. This West Coast offense is kind of morphed into kind of a West Coast with a little bit of the run and shooting it. There's all sorts of stuff in it and all the build
in numbers and names. Now it has you know, Tom there. You remember the old forty nine er offense. I mean, think about Joe Montana, those guys. That was pretty wordy, you know, And so that was kind of an, you know, kind of an exception to the rule. Is you know something that you could get to everybody and get out of the huddle, in and out of the huddle. Now it's become all of that, And I would agree with you. I'm glad I don't have to spew that stuff out
to you guys in the huddle. You know what. Looking at your tight end a couple of years ago, when Pitts was drafted, he was going to revolutionize the tight end position. He was gonna be a wide receiver playing tight end and kind of reminds you of of Winslow when he was playing in San Diego. Where is he at and in his career does he have a lot further to go or does he still are they still
looking for him to make major improvements now? I think there's some rawness to him Tom that there's no question that he needs to refine some of the things you need to do to be a good route runner. I think from a physical standpoint, the guy's six six, he's got a seven two wingspan, he runs four four, So all the physical traits are there, I mean, and you know, in all honesty, you know he albeit he had an
extra game, extra couple of games. You know, he was the first tight to go over a thousand yards sin ditka did it in Chicago, in you know with what he did, so U, I think the guy has has the talent to do it, but we're still seeing a raw version of it. And I don't know that he's necessarily growing this year either, Tom, because the way we're playing offense, it's kind of an archaic way of playing offense.
We're running to football, we're running some zone read. Tell me if you guys have heard this story before, I think you guys are watching the same thing happen up there. But there's some there's some issues with the passing game. We can't protect all that well. So the drop back pass game is kind of part of what we do. We do a lot of play action. There's an RPO, there's there's zone read, there's you know, play action off
of that. And so I think from a from a pure route running, being able to stand outside the numbers and affect the game in the slot we're removing, I think he's probably I don't know, as you regress, but he really hasn't grown that much this year because he just haven't gotten the ball enough. Yeah, the ball's not going up in a in the year A lot of here either. I mean, it's kind of strange league wide, what's going on. You're not seeing a lot right now.
I don't know if this is the wave of the future. I mean, the run games have been something else. And certainly, and we're David Archer, analysts for the Atlanta Falcons on radio, and former NFL quarterback out of Iowa State, joining us here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. But do you look around and see wow? First of all, the Bears are leading the league with over two hundred yards rushing. Justin has a lot to do with that, of course, but it's it's the commitment to it, and
you're seeing it around the league. Is this what we're headed completely? Well, it certainly seems like we're making a transition back to it, right Jeff. We spread everything's spread out, and we started throwing the ball over the yard, and I think they realized that the defenses that were beginning to adjust to the spread offense looks a little bit more of a college feel to it, you know, empty sets and all that kind of stuff, and all of a sudden, defenses are saying, okay, well we're gonna eat
your pass. R you want to you want to spread out, we'll try to jam or seer to line of scrimmage, will disrupt timing, and we're going to get after your passer. And you're seeing teams get after the quarterback. Now that the evolution of that was the short pass the game. Now we've got the bubble screens and all that kind of stuff you see at the college level. And now they're they're growing into that. They're they're finding a way to defend that. And you look up and now there's
lighter players on the field. Defense over. You've got six dbs on the field. Well, I'm going to run the ball against six dvs. Tom. I'll tell you back in the day, if we saw you go light with an extra DV or two, we're gonna pound your rear in. With the run game and the evolution of the quarterback now with the ability to run, you know, justin fields, the guy down here, Marcus Mariota is still very capable of snapping off a forty fifty yard run if you
give him room they'll do that too. So the evolution of the quarterback from an more of an athlete standpoint as opposed to the pocket quarterback. And then kind of the defense is the ebb and flow of them trying to cover these spreads and offense is realizing, well, they got lighter defenders on the field, We're going to attack that with a run game. That's kind of awesome. The run game again. All of a sudden, David, what do you think at Justin Fields right now? Well, you know,
Durry was out. I know after the first year. I liked him. I thought he was in by draft analysis down here as we got ready because we thought we were going to take a QB to two drafts ago, right, so we really looked at the quarterbacks hard in our draft now, says I thought Justin was the second best quarterback coming out. I thought he was right behind Trevor Lawrence is the second best guy. Trey Lance hadn't played very much. I didn't like that scenario, and I never
liked the kid from BYU. I just think he'd played against the competition that Justin Fields had played against. So that's why I liked him. I thought it was a little bit he started kind of slow, but then I began to think, Okay, well, wait a minute. The Kays a rookie, give him a chance, and it's starting to come for him. They're starting to kind of play the game the way he can play it. I mean, what averaging about twenty twenty one throws a game he's talking
in about. They're calling some frun plays plus something promptus somewhere in that ten to twelve times a game for him to run it. And so he's able to affect the game physically the way he did in college. And so I think his comfortability playing at this level, knowing what he can and can't get away with, is starting to come. I think obviously the aeros pointed way up. His last two weeks have been phenomenal running the football, and I think he's just going to get better as
a passer. David, You know, a lot when I talk to people about playing for dick in the eighties, a lot of people say, oh, you know, the modern day athlete, They couldn't take a guy with Dickon's personality and his sideline demeanor. But I look at your guy, and I look at the way he was yelling at not yelling, coaching, yelling, whatever you want to call it during the preseason. And then he's got you know, that face that if you make a mistake, he's kind of scary to come back
to the sideline too. Is that good for this team or how do people perceive him? I think the biggest thing Tom is his ability to kind of coach everybody the same. And I think that was what he came in with. And I know you appreciated this about coach Ditka is it didn't matter whether you were a star player like Jimmy Mack or whoever it was, you were going to get your ass too if you did the wrong stuff coming off the field. And he's treated everybody
the same. And frankly, we don't have a ton of we don't have a bunch of star players on this team. I guess the young tight end would be kind of in that category or kind of blossoming into that category. Cordarrell Patterson is a guy that is kind of blossomed a little bit here. Grady Jarrett maybe on the defensive line. So it's it's a group that needed to be coached
pretty hard. So maybe that's the scenario. I don't know how many stars would would kind of blend in with the way guys are a little bit thin skin nowadays. I don't I sure as I'll think, and I don't know about you, Tom, but there's no way that the quarterbacks nowadays gold have taken Ditka the way back did and the way Mac handled him, There's no question about that. You know Mac could just brush him off and laugh at him and stuff like that because Mac had that personality.
I'm not sure guys in this year it could handle it. But getting back to Arthur Smith, I think he's a perfect fit for the cast of characters they have here and some of the young guys are going to bring in down the road. Does he include himself in the defensive side of the ball or does he leave that alone? And with that question, when you look at it, when you think about a defensive coordinator getting ready for Justin fields,
what is your plan of attack is it? You know you can't keep him in the pocket because he can run around it. Do you want to force him to throw the ball or do you attack the line of scrimmage with multiple blitzers and see if the offensive line can pick it up and make Justin make a quicker decision. Well, Tom to all that is, yes, everything you just said, because there's no you know, he's good enough now to
where he's you know, he's been around long enough. And I know it's only a year and a half plus, he's been around long enough to renose. Okay, if you show me the same thing, I'm gonna beat it. And in the coaching staff going to find a way to get him comfortable and beat something the same thing. So you're gonna have to do everything you just said. You're gonna have to blitz him. You're gonna have to play coverage.
You're probably gonna have to spy him sometimes. And if he does get out of pocket, you'd like to have into your push. But if he gets out of pocket, don't allow him to escape through the pocket. Don't let him climb in the pocket. He's got You got to shove him out one way or the other, preferably obviously to his left because he's a right handed passer. But you've got to shove him to the sideline, use the
sideline as an extra defender. And then, boy, you got to have a lot of eyes on him because this you know, you guys have seen it the last two weeks two sixty plus yard touchdown runs. This guy's the fastest guy in the field. If he gets clean, he could go. And so if you don't gang tackle leverage tackling, this is like trying to you know, Jeff, you call some of the great calls on Devin Hester. Ever, you are ridiculous. This guy could beat that guy. You know,
there's no question about that. You've got to cover him like a punt returner when he gets out of the pocket. But if you can force him to one out of the field, I think that's what they'll try to do. But as far as Arthur being involved with the defenseive side, ink for the most part, Dean Piece handles that he kind of hand picked Dean Piece. He brought him out of retirement, Dean had retired, brought him in. They'd worked
together in Tennessee. Of course, Dean's got a great history and working in New England and and so he's done. He's done a great job and been around a lot of good coaches himself. He's done a really good job with a group of guys that really don't know much about I'm sorry, hey, David Miami tried to spy him a couple of weeks ago, and the spy was not as fast as Justin, so he just ran away from him. Is there a guy on your roster and you don't have to identify him just in your mind of knowing
the roster. The way you do that is that has spy capabilities against him? Well, I think we have a guy fast enough, but he's probably but Justin could probably put him in his pocket. So we don't have anybody big enough that could potentially run with him. At six three two hund twenty five pounds, you're gonna have a tough time finding anybody that's going to match that. So it's one thing to be able to track him down and then it's the other thing to physically get him
on the ground. So, I mean, this is a this is a potential star in the making. You guys have watched it. I think Chicago should be excited about what they have. Now they've got to kind of build things around him. You keep giving your defensive players what the hell's going on up there? Give Roquan Smith away and he's a great player. What do you guys do it? Yeah, Well that's a complicated, that's a longer conversation. Who's there. You know, obviously money's involved and uh, you know, got
instincts on what to do there. David, thank you so much for your time. One last question, Grady Jarrett. You mentioned him, and that guy is still a wrecker of the pocket. He seems like he's having a much better year than he did a year ago. Is he the guy that Bears have to circle to make sure he doesn't destruct a game plan a little bit? Yeah? I think I think you're you're a day we're bang on, and that's usually the case, Jeff. They're gonna double team him.
Atlanta did not fit the run very well. I'm sure Tom's looks at some tape. Linebackers overran plays and they were gutted by the run game by Carolina last week. They're double team and Grady and telling those linebackers okay, come come make some plays, and they didn't do it. So you can bet Chicago's going to test the belly of the Falcon defense this weekend, all right, David, Hopefully we'll say hello and see you. I think it's our first trip. I keep I thought we were there once.
Tom says no, So I think it's our first trip to the New the new building, so it'll be exciting to see. We'll look forward to seeing you guys. Man f safe travels. All right, David Archer our guest here on Bears All Access coming up next, Mark Saint Jefs. We talk quarterbacks here with Tom There. I'm Jeff Joni Acc. We're brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score,
Tom There, Jeff Joni Act. Just shirt from David Archer, Sean Sears, our producer, Sean, I didn't have my ear pe sin. Let me know when we have our next guest, and that guest will be former Bears quarterback Mark Sanchez now working at Fox. Love Arch's candidness, Tom Oh Mark is here, Okay, Well he's been with that organization for quite a while. Job yeah, yep, and Mark Sanchez been an NFL quarterback for ten years and just finished watching our game on Fox along with Kevin Coogler. To do
a great job and welcome to the program. This is Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score here with Tom There, Jeff, jonyach Mark, thanks for taking the time. How are you doing tonight, Tom and Jeff? I'm doing great, guys. Thank you. So I did not watch the entire rebroadcast of the game, obviously doing the game ourselves, but I saw some clips or hurt some clips, and there was a lot of who's an oz from you? With Justin running crazy again at
Soldier Field? What what were your takeaways? Now? A couple of days later too, to digest what we're witnessing right now. I mean it is special to watch and in some ways exhausting, but in a lot of ways rewarding. And it's just finding that that balance of you know when to really try and extend place and when to cut eight, say uncle and move on with your life, and you know, throw the ball away and gets in the next down.
And that's the trick for every quarterback, whether you can move like Justin or you know you're trying to fit a throw in here there with your arm strength, every quarterback goes through it. Justin just has so many tools and so many gifts that he's still ironing some of those things out, but he is one of my favorite guys to watch. It's just you never know what's going to happen. I mean, the guy, I think it was like a seventy plus yard scramble. Are you kidding me?
I mean, if I had that kind of athleticism in my pinky toe, I might be playing still. So it's it's incredible. Mark, you talk about balance. When you look at Justin and the special skills he does have. What's next for him? What would you encourage him to put major emphasis on to take his game to that next level of it with his abilities? Well, I mean it's it's one play here or there, right that that have really separated some of these some of these games for them.
And listen, one play doesn't decide the game, right, everybody has a hand in it. It's the ultimate team sport. But when you throw the pick six to a Kuda that's going to come back and look bad, you know, you don't think about the fast break, miss lay up, breakaway layup, you know, in the middle of the second quarter. But when you lose by a point at the end, you're like, dang, you know that one would have been one of them or whatever, missing a free throw or
something like. They add up over time, and so my real takeaway from Justin just like a lot of these young quarterbacks, but he's he's going to have more opportunities than others because of his unique skill set and his ability to extend plays is the overall theme for him. As the play gets longer, his IQ has to just skyrocket and he has to get smarter as the play gets extended, and every time he does that, it's just one more decision. He's going to have to make, one
more crucial decision he's going to have to make. And that's on top of everything he's already doing, making run checks, you know, reading defenses and all that. So the mental stamina that it's gonna take to do that, plus the physical stamina on top of that, it's getting cold out there already, you know, running around that much when it's even colder than it was on Sunday. I mean, that stuff takes a toll on you physically mentally. It's it's
a real deal now. So he's going to have you know, if let's just say the baseline for quarterbacks, Let's just throw out a number so it's easy, but like a hundred decisions, right, Let's just say you have a hundred decisions again, just because of his skill set in the
way he can extend place. He's gonna have a one hundred and fifty at least to just have to rehash and understand the situation and really for him once again, as a play gets longer, he's got to get smarter and the situation has to trump whatever and whatever decision you're trying to make. And that's you know, that's not easy when you're running you know a four four out there, that's and he plays even faster than that. So forget
the four floor. I mean, he can fly. There's no ways for he's got to be it's got to be faster. I mean, come on, it just it just appears. It's wild. So like what I'm a perfect example, right, is like you know some of the some of the third down plays, that's where he's so deadly right, and he's he's converting he's able to convert some of these third and longs that nobody in their right mind can do. Right, Like, no,
no normal skill set quarterback can do that. Okay, what he's doing, he's doing stuff that we haven't seen in this league before. He's breaking records that have stood for over twenty years or longer. Right, that's incredible. So he's a generational talent. Now, if you look at the top teams on third and long, I mean, you're you're converting anywhere from like ten percent to maybe like if you
get in the low twenties, you're like amazing on third down. Right, So if you think about that and you get you know, call it four third and longs a game, five third and longs a game whatever. I mean, just one of those and you're doing fine, right, think about that, just one for five on third and long, third and seven plus third and nine plus whatever. So if you nailed two of them early in the game, those next ones,
it's almost like being three zero in a pictures count. Like, now I'm going to be real selective on these next couple, unless, of course, the situation Trump's at and hey, it's you know this third and long and you know everything's on the line here and we gotta come up with something, so I gotta pull a play out of my butt here, like whatever, Okay, fine, then go make some magic happen and you go be you and cut a loose But you know, just playing the numbers that way, and that's
the stuff he's gonna learn along the way. When he's done worrying about formations and shifts and some of these defensive looks, he's going to really be able to major in that. And when those two things intersect, right, once he's mastered the forma sins and he's really getting to handle on the defense, then he's really understanding concepts and all that. And now it's just, hey, how are we going to win the game. Let's let's just talk about how we're going to play. What are our decisions we're
going to have to make when he gets there? Wholy smokes. And if he can stay healthy, of course, I mean, look out, he could be well the best to do it. Man. Hey, Mark, So, I've been doing the Bears games now for twenty six years, and I do the games through the eyes of an ex offensive lineman. There's a lot of pre snap reads that I look at offensive lineman in the way to their stance, defensive line in their stances, configuration of the defense.
You being an ex quarterback and as broadcaster, how do you look at a game with justin that you're broadcasting. Well, I think some of the tape I watched going into it, I mean I'm like flagging these plays, coming up with some of my own, you know, lists of clips, so I remember to watch him again and how special they are. But the multiple third downs he converted on Monday night against the paths like third and longs. I think it was consecutive third and sixteens or third and eighteen or
whatever it was. You're just like, WHOA, okay, be ready for anything on third down? Number one? Number two is you see a ton of movement throws right like, you just look at numbers and kind of what what he's most comfortable doing, and a lot of that's a lot of the run pos, run pass option stuff. So pre snap looks like our cornerbacks off, can they run those
quick out throws with a run tagged? You know, trying to understand their rules when I talked to the coaches during the week on what, you know, what an advantageous throw looks like to them, So I can kind of put myself in their shoes when I when I think they're going to run one of those RPO throws and they have a run tagged and then some sort of bubble or screening or whatever on the outside, you just essentially you're counting cows right, and anybody in the world
can do it. It's just can you do it consistently and you know, make all the tough throws or else everybody in the world would do it. So I use those a little bit when I watch, but like the heavy and light stances and stuff aren't always as easy to tell. And I know, you know those being an aligneman, you know, especially from upping the booth, it's a little farther away to really hone in on some of those.
But I mean obviously taking some stuff from the from the defense, right, like how they're trying to play them, and use a little deductive reasoning like okay, why are they stunning so much? Well, because they run a ton of zone zone runs, right, like you try and stunt and you know, getting between some of those double teams that are trying to work to the second level, and
that's like a counter to that. So obviously they're expecting that right nickel pressure's off the edge to Justin's right side to force him to turn left and escape the pocket left cut the field and half for the defenders because they're taught to plaster right, like stick to your man, Like, uh, what do you say? Like luggage in the airport, right, keep your eye on your luggage, so at least you have half the field eliminated if he's rolling to his left,
and for most quarterbacks that works. For Justin, I mean we saw him hit Cole Comett on the opposite side of the field, so it's like, you know, you just try and play your numbers as best you can and I hope they they end up in your favor, but you know, it just it was just I really wanted to see that thing go to overtime and I was just bummed about the kick. You know that was that was tough. Yeah, that was no question. This is 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. A couple of more questions here for Mark Sanchez, our guest, have you done a Falcons game this year? Yes? We did Falcons Rams, okay earlier in the year. Is that who you all have this week? Yeah? Sorry, I'm sowing in
my zone. Yeah, no, I saw. I was wondering what you might have thought of the match up there, because he's going back to Georgia, there's gonna be emotions involved, no question. He played his high school ball there. The Falcons fans sounds like they wanted to be drafting Justin. They didn't do it, And uh, it's gonna be an interesting return home there to do that for Justin, probably emotionally and mentally and on the heels of what's been
going on. You just mentioned a breaking records galore here and seemingly doing things. He's got forty eight rushing first downs. He's got the most rushing player of any position in the NFC and sixth in the NFL, and he's sixth
in the NFL and rushing. I mean, it's it's you gotta admit, it's exciting stuff for fans, broadcasters and everybody because, as you mentioned, for me as a broadcaster, you took the words out of my mouth because with Devin, at least I knew he was gonna catch the football and he was gonna run Justin. He's got the football and he's in charge of the whole show, and I don't know what he's going to do, and that makes it
very contelling. Oh, it's so fun to watch. I think, Um, you know, DNPS is going to give them a million different looks. It's their defensive coordinator in Atlanta. You know, he'll give you the rolodex and you know you might not see the same coverage on third down for the first you know, six drives, and so that can get a little frustrating as a quarterback. The other thing, though, I mean, they're gonna have to figure out what the
plan is and decide that early. Are they gonna are they gonna try and pressure them or are they going to turn it into one of these games where let's force them the same way the Bears tried to do to Jared Goff. Let's force them to sustain fifteen play drives, twelve to fifteen play drives, convert multiple third downs in a row, and you know, make it a war of attrition of sorts, and then you know, if we're gonna die, we're gonna die by a million and a half paper
cuts and force them to be efficient on offense. And a lot of defenses are really turning to that style. Occasional pressure situationally to try and knock yet a field goal range. But for the most part, sitting back, you know, keeping the lid on the defense and nothing gets by it. You do your very best to stop the run. You have to be impeccable with your run fits and your gap assignment, which is not easy, especially the way Justin
can move and those backs can move. I think they're one of their best personnels is having Herbert and Montgomery and Justin in the backfield, because that's a three headed monster, you know. I think that's probably one of their most explosive personnels. Then you get Comment and then you know, pick your poisoner receiver. If Nick kill Harry is healthy, then you get him and Claypool. Then you go like big across the board plus the two backs. I mean,
are you kidding me? You're gonna make some guys have to cover, and if they're going to cover on the edge, they've got to be physical with those two wideouts. They want to cover inside coal Comment good luck because he can really go. And then how do you want to stop that run game? You get your head knocked in, you know. So, in my opinion, I think that's one of their strongest offensive personnels. And then from Atlanta, just watching their stuff, it looks a lot like some old
school organ stuff with Chip Kelly and Marcus Mariotta. A lot of their run game. Out of those multiple personnel's, heavy personnels, you'll get the multiple tight end sets and all that. I think those just make the defense go playing vanilla, getting a phone booth and kind of waded up in the middle, and then you let your quarterback run around and you have enough speed to get to the edge. And if you capture the edge in those personnels, I mean you're off to the races. So I like
those for both sides. But it'll be a good matchup. And that's you know that they play hard. They played different than they did last year. I think this year's Atlanta team a lot like Detroit. They're in these ball games late, they're much more competitive, and they're working in the right direction. I expect every game for the rest of the season, no matter the opponent, will be interesting all the way to the fourth quarter. I just I just have that feeling and agree with that. Hey, Mark,
we're out of time. We could talk to you for three hours. Great stuff. We appreciate the act. Thanks quarterback, you got all the knowledge. Brother, appreciate time. Good luck. I hope you're enjoying this new career path for yourself. And uh, I'm sure you're you're you're treating it just like game day. So congratulation today. I'm having a blast looking forward to Thank you guys so much for having me man. Thanks Mark, Mark, Mark Sanchez working with Fox.
He'll be working again this weekend as we will as well, and we come back, we'll break down a little bit more on the Bears and Falcons and today's latest injury news on Clil Herbert. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit Athletical dot com to request an appointed in clinic
or virtually and start feeling better tomorrow. Jeff Joni account there as we wind down our Bearings as Access show tonight. Mark Sanchez, he really gave you a quarterbacks perspective there and plus David Archer. We got some good stuff today. But so let's start talking about other things, Tommy, because you know, dealing with Grady jareded the interior, the offensive line,
that'll be key. As he said, they don't have a star studded team by any means, but they do play hard, they do play fast, and I don't know exactly what their injury situation is. They made some changes in their secondary. They've had guys out A. J. Terrell's their best corner, but he hasn't played and I don't know he could be coming back this week in terms of practicing. But what are some things that have your attention aside from
the quarterbacks in this game? You know, it's kind of the speed at which they play with, But a lot of this gets instigated by Grady Jared on the defensive line, because when you talk about what ultimately they want out of the three tech MAC three technique defensive tackle across the board in the NFL FELL they want that immedia penetration to kind of create some dysfunction with the organized plan of the offense and then it allows all the
other defensive players kind of to filter into their place. But I'm just interested in to see what type of scheme do they have that directly affects Justin fields, Like when we are talking to both Mark and David Archer, I don't know if there's a spy in the league that can put up with Justin speed, or if they have a guy that runs equally as well as he big enough to tackle him. So it's kind of intriguing
every time you go out there. What are they going to do in the first quarter of their defensive scheme. It's an established defensive coordinating gamps. He's gonna he's gonna be challenging him for sure in that regard calling. All Bears fans get the ultimate VIIP fan package with Chicago Bears VIP security, game ticket and appearance from Bears legends and more by visiting Chicago Bears VIP dot Com. Tommy Khalil Hilbert We've mentioned at time of the show, looks
like he's got a hip injury. He's gonna be on IR at least for the next four games. Six point zero a carry, best in the NFL over six hundred yards plus, he can catch. It's a it's a loss question about it. So David Montgomery truston Ebner. Maybe they bring up Darrington Evans as well, what's your take on it? All? Right? Like Darrington Evans and a lot of people haven't seen him because he's a member of the practice squad. He
runs really well. He's got running back instincts that if you plug in there, you could give him an opportunity. I like Treston Ebner. I think he catches the ball well out of the backfield, but if he give him multiple carries to see how does he react to the physical part of the game that we've all talked about. But to me, if David Montgomery went to a one back show and what had a majority of the carries, I think that he could handle everything that's expected of him,
from blocking to catching to carrying the ball. But how's this, Why don't we give a couple carries, a couple catches the kari blasting game? Thank you? He's the type of guy you put him in a one back feature, if you put him a catching balls out of the backfield. We saw make some unbelievable catches in training camp, So I would extend the responsibilities for carry blasting game. I would still have him be the blocker that he is.
But man, I'd love to see that dude get four or five carries a game, whether they're short yardage or first down. I'd love to see it, and many in his career. But you know, there's got to be a wheel route in this game plan somewhere right, a wheel route or a quick car you know, I hope listen, I hope the wheel route comes from the Chicago Bears, and the wheel route doesn't come from Cordarrell Patterson because if you're gonna put him in motion, he's caught wheel
routes before as a member of the Bears. One more segment to go. Great seats available to see your Chicago Bears this season at Soldier Field. Get your tickets at Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets. Another break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. All right, this segment of Bears All that just brought to you by cd W to be able to get it basically out of time, real quick. Tom around the league, you create a lot of injuries are becoming what's going This was
a rough date, a lot of big injury scale. Leonard down for the years. Cooper Cup gonna be out maybe the year. Uh, they're expecting three feet of snow and Buffalo Is that real? This Sunday they play Cleveland. It's gonna be a historic Lake effects snowstorm. The lake water is still the lake water temperature is still so warm. It's gonna create more moisture in the sky and you're gonna have some thunder along with the snow. It's gonna be awesome thunder snow. Well, yeah, I guess we're lucky.
We're not getting that around here or in Atlanta. No, no question about that, not in Atlanta. A real quick final thought the play of the linebackers Morrow and Jack Sandborne.
I thought they looked good. Tackles lost Sanborne speaks for itself. Now, how cool is it that that guy is making an impact in his second NFL start, A local guy like yourself and Cole command Well, the evidence is in this dedication to be prepared when his opportunity was presented, even though it was because of the trade of Roquan Smith, he was mentally physically prepared to go out and play from day one when they inserted him in the lineup. All right, Tom, we'll talk to you later in the week.
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