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Bears went at Wrigley Field with the Giants. They destroyed y a titled who are Giants fans complaining? How the Bears defenders just went at y a tittle And you've seen some of those pictures. They abused him in the pocket. Before forty five plus fourteen ten the final, Larry Morris, the MVP, Billy waited a couple of short touchdown runs. The defense allowed just a Frank Gifford touchdown catch and a field go on a day they had a four

degree temperature, eleven degree below zero windshill. Sounds like Sunday at Soldier Field. That's what I was gonna say. Hey can possibly match up to be at night another great Giants Chicago Bears battle and they are historic. We heard about him as ex players and if you are a Bear kind of a remembrance type of guy, you'll learn a lot about the type of battles they had. All Right,

we're gonna be with you here until seven o'clock tonight. Well, we got coming up Daz Newsom our guests for a couple of segments and will break down the Bears and Giants. Also look at what's transpired over the course of the season for several Bears and what might transpire on Sunday. First thing that comes to mind for me, Tom not only the performance of young players. We don't know who

the quarterback is as of this show. Right now. Today at practice, another limited day for Justin Fields, Andy Dalton, the full go. You know, Nick Foles is ready to go if needed. What do you do here? You have

to play the healthiest of the quarterbacks. The last thing you want to do is to put one of these guys in the conditions that it's gonna be Sunday and possibly, you know, slow the process of their ability to play quarterback and then end up with an injury and that's all three of these guys included, but you have to start with Justin. If Justin is the healthiest, he's the guy that I want to play the most. This was earlier this week from Matt Neggie regarding the desire of

four fields to get on the field. You know, just from listening to him talk and where he's at. You know. The thing with Justin is he's super tough, So we have to balance that. We got to make sure that he doesn't hurt himself because he's trying to tough through something. But he's also smart too, and he gets it that we have his best interest. So when he has that ability,

it helps. He wants to be out there. He wants to be out there for his teammates, He wants to be out there to be able to help every way he can to help us continue to finish the season strong. Yeah, and that's certainly got to be the case. We'd love to see him though, right, we'd love to see him. Well, there's a lot that you have to think about. How severe is the injury. Can they go up there and tape it where he really doesn't feel it and he's able to have the mobility and the throwing balance that

he needs. And then you also think that, hey, there's two more games left in the season than you're gonna have plenty of time to heal. You know, it's a real slippery slope when you're talking about how healthy do you have to be to play? And if I'm healthy enough to play, I gotta play because I'm gonna have a long offseason. Slippery slope's the keyword. I mean, maybe

forty eight inches. It's not on Saturday, and it's gonna be below zero on Sunday, right, But you know, those are the types of conditions you expect this late in the season, especially on the Lake Front. It's unpredictable, and for what these players were prepared to go with in Seattle, Listen, man, I respect their desire and their ability to go out and play as well as they did under the balance of the game. In Seattle, Jason Peters remained limited at

that ankle. So what do you think they'll do at the tackles. You know, I think that if Larry Boram is healthy, they'll probably play him a right tackle, and if Tevin is healthy, they'll probably play him at left tackle. I've always let it be known that I wish they would flip flop and give Larry Borum an opportunity to play left tackle at home, in Tevin Jenkins to play right tackle at home, because I think you'd see a more well balanced, powerful offensive lineman because they can hear

the commands of the quarterback. What did you think of Larry's performance at left tackle in Seattle. I think he did a great job. Little notification, he was mentally prepared to understand the assignments and his protections. Accordingly, he went out there and he played the position again. And it's always about balance when you talk about offensive tackles, because the first thing they do if you get off a balance and your beat. Larry Boram, like I said, he

was mentally prepared, physically prepared. The second series they said, look and Tevin's not gonna play anymore, and thinking you're gonna play right tackle, boom you're in at left. I just shows you you know some of what Larry Boram's all about. Wide receiver Marquis good Win under the weather, JP Holtel for personal reasons today Duke Shelley didn't practice yesterday, back as a full participant today up at Hallis Hall.

Also hearing from commit the Bears. Tight End asked a lot about what's next here in twenty twenty one and why does it matter if the team's out of the playoff mix? Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously from the outside, you know we're not making the playoffs, so it's kind

of like, you know, what's the point. But these these games mean a lot, you know for me, you know specifically, you know, I'm a young player in the league, and you know this is two more two more games, eight more quarters that I get to play and see more stuff and you know, kind of build on some things and try some things. You know, these last couple of games and you know, everyone's playing for a job here. You know this is not um. You know, we're just

not gonna let, you know, settle down. Guys are not just gonna settle down here at the end. Like you know, guys are playing for jobs, future jobs. You know, what you put on tape matters. So that's something that's that's big, and you know that's why you're always gonna see players fight hard to the end because you know this means a lot to us, and guys want to keep playing, and you know the way they do that is put a good film out there. I expect that from a

young player. I'm certain there's some veteran players feel the same way because of the uncertainty of their future years. And we'll hear from David Montgomery here in a moment. Also, I don't know where you're at on how things how they play out here the rest of twenty one, if they bridge in the twenty twenty two, I'm less and less thinking that way because you just got to finish your season strong, because you don't know you're you're a

different player the next year. You're either an older player or a younger player getting better or trying to make

it to that next step in your development. Yeah, but when you're talking about some of the guys, you're mentioning what the Cole commits and the David Montgomery and a lot of these other young guys of Khalil Herbert's and stuff and the roster, I mean, the they have to have a they want to be a dominant position at their player, especially if you're Cole or Dave Montgomery and you have such high expectations place on you and you can never take a game lightheartedly. You're gonna get hurt.

You can never not go out and prepare to play against the team you're not very familiar with the giants, else you'll look bad doing so. I'm glad Cole has the attitude he has, and I hope a lot of the young guys share that same attitude. One of them is running back David Montgomery. It carries you feel a whole lot better knowing that you've got a possibility to

win the next two games and actually doing that. It means a lot going to the next season, just to show like our capabilities and what we capable of being able to do that. So it means a lot to me from my stupoint. So for him, he he does feel little bridge to next year. Listen, David Montgomery does never have to go up to a podium and tell

us how important it is to it. It's reflected in every one of his games, and I know whether it's the first game of the year or down to the wire like it is at this portion of the season. Dave Montgomery's gonna play hard, you know. It's it's really it's something to watch him play. He catches the ball well, he runs, he blocks everything that you need. It's required out of a Champion Division winning style running get back

Daved Montgomery has that. I don't know if you notice this, uh last five weeks, the top receiving running back in the National Football League is David Montgomery one hundred and sixty six yards. He's been targeted thirty one times more than any other back and twenty six receptions. That was not the case before these last five weeks. Than right,

I think it's just earned the coaches understanding that. Look, if we played you know, in the last couple of games, he's had a couple of catches out of wide receiver. He's had a lot of them out of the backfield. He runs screens really well, So you know, David David Montgomery is the type of guy that if you do split him out of a wide receiver, he can be

part of your target rotation of the play. Last heard Matt Nagee on Wednesday of this week talking about how this team is looking at these final two games as well. After the win in Seattle. When you when you're losing games like we like we were, you just we always talk about just get that win, just get that one win, and sometimes if you just focus on that one win, it never comes you gotta just focus on execution and

playing well. And I think that for us, like just coming into the building the next day or flying home that night like that, that's why we do what we do to be able to win the game together, because we did all three phases. So that helps. Now now we understand, Okay, they're going to give us two games. You have to play. We know we can't make the playoffs. Now let's finish strong. Let's let's let's show everybody who

we are. And even when things aren't easy or things aren't great, we still finish and no one can take that away from us. And I think that that speaks to the character of players and futures and so that that's why we're doing what we're doing. And I think the players have done an amazing job of accepting that and wanting to do it and then they show it. They don't just talk about it and then not do it on game day. They're doing that, and the coaches

are coaching hard. And when that's the case, I'd rather much have it that way than a team that just decides the fold up shop and not play the rest of the year. Have you been at teams who did it the other way. Did you feel, guys ever did that? Unfortunately? Yeah? You did? Unfortunately. Yeah. You know, that's the worst thing when it starts to to trade the locker room, no matter what part of it is during the losing season,

it's almost unrecoverable. But you know, one thing you can think about these guys right now, and you think about the length of time that we spend up there during trading cap those guys probably spend you know, sixty hours a week between the multiple practices, the weightlifting, the meetings and everything. Jeff, right now, we're looking for three hours a week, two times three hours a week. Can you guys in that locker room commit that three hours a

week after everything else. You gotta be able to do that. Coming up next DA's Newsom joins US Bears wide receiver and punt returner with Tom Fair Jeff Joniac. This is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for your home at igs dot com. Because every good choice ends up to a

better world. Please to be joined here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score with wide receiver and punt returner and all around funny man. As we're learning Daz Newsome UNC, that blue shure didn't look good on you in college, Dads time there, Jeff Joni act, But navy blue and orange looks better. What do you think, hey, man? I can't I can't disagree with you. There heck of a punt return last week? Buddy? Did that just give you some juice? Or honestly, honestly

it was. It was just like I've been waiting on my opportunity. I had to make some shake and I was just trying my best to do some of my opportunity. What does that do for you? I feel like I feel like it gives you more confidence. I mean, I mean I always have confidence. I feel like you can't play this sport or this position without confidence. So I feel like I feel like I just feel like it just gave me more confidence than that I can really do this thing. Hey, Dads, to the cribon three to

the cribon? Made is that something that? I mean? Did you make that up? Did you learn it or I from I got that from a coach at UNC. It was a tight end coach Coach Chaid. Coach Chail. I got that from Coach Chaid when I was in you want to see my freshman and sophomore year, and every time he would get the return of you would I

never heard nobody said. He always say to the crib on me to the crib one three before we bring and then then he left out of my sophomore year or what we got a new staff then, and so so I just I just kept the thing going by myself. I like it. Hey, Dad, So you know, I was kind of I was reading about Yeah, so you went to college as a dB, you went to a wide receiver.

You're obviously a super talented guy. You got receiving skills, and it kind of reminds me of Devin Hester because there's a lot of similarities in your background and what he became in the NFL and your multi level of talents. So if you would have stuck with dB, could you play dB? First of all? Honestly? I think so. I think I think I was a better d be honestly,

but I ain't playing this so long. I'm probably a little I mean, I can't say I ain't playing this so long, but I'm probably a little rusty now and as as then I would have been if I would have just stayed I focused straightly on dB. But I feel like I was a better be But I got switched before I before I even got to school. You know the other night the other day at Seattle, it was snow and so hard during the pregame. How does that affect your site? Is it easy to follow the

football because it's brown against the white background? Or are you having snow flakes hit you in the eyes while you're kind of focusing I'm the downward flight of the football, um so. And in the beginning of the game, I was having this conversation with my teammates and I was saying, like when I came into the locker my littles, that they took my vays off and me, I played with my vays and do anything unless I can't see, And like you're like usually rain like rain, like usually I

can't see very well, so I take it off. But snow, I know, and snow, I can still see my vas on. So I'm telling you put my vas back on. And I just wanted to see how it was. And then when I went out there for one most without my helmet, it's snow getting all in my ass. I can be able to see. So I put my vags on. It was so much clear and so just like all the snow flakes hit my VADs social name, it ain't bother me as much. And then you know, some of the deflacancy.

It just turned into like so I got to like a water drop, right. I feel like the shield helped me out a lot. Yea as newsom our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventies, score the most logical question, then the follow up PiZZ it. Have you ever played in snow before? Nah? So that was the first time. Yeah, that was the first time. Did you like it? It was fun? It was definitely fun because I felt like I felt like it made

everybody's slow down. It made the game or slower interesting. Khalil Herbert also, I'd never played in snow. Got to kick out of it. But now a whole different thing. Expected to be blow zero wind chills on Sunday. You down with that? I gotta down anything. Yeah, it is a You gotta adjust, right, you have to. You have to mentally embrace it. Now times the old offensive Lineman. So he went out there with uh, you know, no, no, no undershirts or anything like that, just froze it out up.

But you do have to mentally get it there, and then when you answer that question, I have time tell you how to do that. But so the thing about the cold, I feel like, at first I used to never play with sleeves, but in the last game, I'm like, I'm like, I'm man had to put some sleeves on the day. I'm like, I don't know if I can

tug it in the snow without know sleeves. It made, you know, it made me cold when I saw David Montgomery go down for the snow angel after his score, because I, you know, cold or warm, I sweat equally as much. And so I was thinking, man, having that back up against that cold. Ye, no thanks David. Yeah I won't. I won't doing the snow flake with him. And I don't know about that one. Hey, hey, dads. So when we go back to OTAs, you were kind of the most noticeable wide, the most noticeable rookie of

the bunch. It seemed like you were developing a really good relationship early on with Justin and then unfortunately you had the episode where you broke your collar bone. With the broken collar bone, did it give you a chance to catch up mentally or um? You know what? How did you go about your business and improving even though you weren't on the field all. Honestly, my biggest thing was I was just trying to make sure I'm where

everybody else is within the playbook while I'm out. Some of my biggest thing was just trying to get get the mental reps. And I would say it was definitely tougher because I'm more of a I'm more of a learned as I do type of person. Then then then somebody telling me and then I have to go do it. But it was definitely more of a mental thing. But I feel like I feel like once I, once I got back out there and just got a little quick fluid things, I feel like I was getting I was

definitely coming along real good. So now let's move. Let's advance like five months and you've been around just in a bunch. Why did you guys initially have an immediate relationship with each other and what do you think the potential is? You know, there this relationship between the two of you young guys you know that could be doing it here for a decade long time to come. Um, I think I think from one we just both came in. We came in. We both came in hungry. Honestly like him,

he came in when he dropped the four team. I'm sure he wasn't expecting that. I went in sixth round. I wasn't expecting that. So we really just both just came in here with the hunger. When we're trying to fool, you go wrong. And I feel like that's what's just gonna hold us to be great within these next couple of years. Just so I'm still trying to poof go all. There's always a bunch of those guys in the locker room, and I'm sure there were in college two guys that

thought they'd be recruited by bigger schools or whatnot. But there's a growing bunch on this team. Man, I think you know who they are. I mean, Cula Herbert's definitely one of them, Montgomery's definitely one of them. Justin Johnson's definitely one of them. I'm sure Cole Comett feels that way as well. Justin I'm sure feels that way as well. Do you do you hear that from them? Blown Nichols, is do they talk about you guys talk about it? Do you guys you know, break it down that way?

Or is this just each individual's personal journey? Um, what do you mean as in as in chip on the shoulder, chip on the chip on? I feel like I feel like I feel like it's personal and it's a team thing. Like I feel like I feel like for you to for you to feel that way, you gotta feel it personally before you feel it as a team because because you know, it's always gonna be a chip on on your team's shoulder, like people are always gonna say you're not this, You're not that. So so I feel like

a team is always gonna chip. But but you have to have a chip individually for you to get the job done. Because coach was saying the other day, you were saying, if you get better individually, it's gonna make the whole team better. What coach told you that, I cannot remember. I cannot remember. I think it. We don't know if it was furry or if I don't know if it was coach tags or I don't know if it was nagged. It was probably all three. It was one of the three, one of the things. And you're

the son of a coach. So your dad played in the college at Virginia Tech, played in the Canadian Football League, he played in NFL Europe, and he was an assistant coach on your high school team at a very prominent athletically gifted area of the country in Virginia. What your dad's name, Myron correct? Yeah. What were your dad's best teaching points to you throughout you growing up and what did he instill in you as a football player and

as a man. I feel like he is still he is still like like the dog and stuff like they never backed down to never get out work. My dad he very very hard and never getting our work. So I feel like I feel like that that's something that he installed me as a young age and really just just me going to get it. My dad, my dad, he's a He's a very hard worker. He always had like three jobs and told two jobs at leagues, so so he just always been a hard worker to go get out Just feel like I feel like he is

still he installed that part very good. And hey, dads, when you look at the length of this season after coming off of college season. You know, there's it's a big challenge to young guys that don't realize that you're going to go through a preseason then all of a sudden the season starts and you're gonna God, after eleven regular season games, I'm usually done by now, but I got almost a whole season left. How how has that been on you? Is that something your dad kind of

told you? How this the length of the season was gonna go along with you because it's only the first year that you know, you kind of learned that lesson. But how is how has that been on you? The toll of the length of the season. Um, I mean, it's been pretty fun to me, honestly. You know, I'm a football fonetic. I love a bit around the game. But um, it definitely has been a long, very longer than than us with it. But my dad, I mean not only my dad told me about it, but I

have an uncle. I have an uncle that works for the NFLPA eight. So he also told me about how long the season is and just just making sure I take care of my body. And he was just telling me just just how to be a prol He just said, going there, he said watch, guys, that a is a pro. He said, watch guys, that's that's not so what and he just said take the good things and and basically put him to use. What about so when you watch that ninety seven yard punt returned by Jachim were you're

blown away that he caught it. And now they've had a couple of opportunities to have some really impressive punt returns. To yourself, you know, if you think about that line, that five yard line, you know, don't don't catch it if it's gonna go beyond five, or you gotta see what you gotta see, like your vision on the punt return on your twenty eight yard or I think it was immediate vision by you that you saw where your opening was gonna go and you took advantage of it.

So about Jachim on the ninety seven yard or and then your twenty eight yard or is it all vision? Jachim? Jachim, he just that's this what he does. Return that prometary is what Jakim does, and he's really good at it. So he just he finds a way I don't know how he does it, but he finds a way to get open or to get himself open day to get out of here. But me, I definitely have some more

work to do within punt return. I feel like it's all in having a feel for He's been doing them about probably like fast years now, so he got he got a pretty good feel for. So I feel like I feel like the more the more graphs I do, I get to go feel for and know what I'm supposed to be, know where I was supposed to be hitting at at Dad's Newsome, our guests here on Bears All Access. Time to step away, another segment to go with the Bears rookie wide Receiver and punt returner. This

is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit Athletico dot com to request and appointment in clinic or virtually and start feeling better tomorrow with Tom Thayer, Jeff Joningac our special guest, Dad's Newsome, the Bears rookie and a rookie class that is really looking bright in the future. I know you spent a ton

of time with Thomas Graham. Obviously, you guys, the patients must have been difficult to wait on that practice squad to get your opportunity. And do you feel that you know, you can't feel pressure or you can't want to do too much when you get the opportunity because something might backfire. But what was it like because you guys were college stars and now waiting for your opportunity and now you're getting it. Oh honestly, um coming in when it first happened, Yeah,

you know, I was. I was in love with love hurt when it first happened. But but I talked, I talked to my agents on They just told me going there and work hard, work hard, and practice and this saw them basically just saw him this song that it was a mistake. And I'm that That's what I did. I just put my head down, practice grind every day and I made you trying to make sure I get myself better every day. So when it's tied me to

go out there, that I was prepared. And when I when I went out there, I felt I so you know that you like crack collar bones, certainly set your back. It probably that that's what did it? Would you say, uh, I, I would say I would definitely say that's part of it. I can't I can't blame it all on that, but I would definitely say I had a big part. What would you say is your biggest strength as a wide receiver. I think I think to make people miss. When I got the ball in my hands, man, you did that,

Aladdin Cottage? Man? That was that some special stuff out of the slot. Tommy. You know, guys, I was drafted in the fourth round and I've been bitter ever since that time. And I know what you So, what what was your goal like when you got drafted? Hey, it doesn't matter where you Once you get drafted, you get drafted. You got You have equal opportunity as anybody else that got drafted above you. And you see some of the wide receivers that are already out of the league that

were drafted in front of you. But what was what type of motivated the factor was that for you to make sure that you were prepared as we saw you were prepared the first day you showed up at OTAs Um Light Like I said that, I went, I've seen a kicker go before me, so that my mindset was on one thing, was approved everybody wrong and really just grind And I feel like for you to do that

you have to believe me yourself. I had to work ahead to make sure that I believed in myself that I was going when I go out it, I was gonna be confident to go do what I gotta do, And a lot of a lot of my games is

about confidence. You know, are there any other other wide receivers that you pay attention to, Because I gotta say, being in the same division with Davante Adams, I tell you I'm so impressed with the guy and his focus and his attention to detail, his ability to survive when he's such a high targeted guy as everybody else is lower. Is there anybody that you paid attention to throughout your time knowing that you're gonna come to the NFL to

try to take something away from what you see on video. Yeah, I'm gonna big Stefan dis guy. I like. I like his to attit too. What I like how how you come to the work and I feel I feel like he gets the job done, no matter no matter what. He's not the fastest guy. He's not the quickest guy, but you get it done. Also, looking at guys in the slot, I know you did work on guys like Julian Edelman, you work on Amari Cooper? Have you picked

up anything that serves you well here? Yeah? Like like like, I definitely I definitely took a took a little out of bad from Cooper Cup. I definitely watched Cooper Cup cut up that definitely had to get some of his moves out of the bag. Can you that guy? He could he could be a triple crown guy. Touchdowns, receiving yards, catches. I mean, he's nice. He's definitely nice player. I see a lot of players that we've talked over the last few weeks kind of have a little bit of their

own product lines. Are you in line for that? Number one? Because, like I said, you got the best name in the NFL? And number two is are any of these guys giving you any swagged uh kind of you know, either promote their product or just kind of kind of get a look at what they're dealing. Um sure, I mean, what's his name on Markey's Markey's good when good? When he gave me he gave me some socks on his brand,

Sir Herbert Herbert. I gotta called him Sherbert. I called him Sherby, but but Sherbert, he he stands, he stands you with his stuff. You know, he ain't trying to spread the love. He ain't trying to spread the love right now. But I'm gonna get one. I'm gonna take one from soon. How about money. Mooney's got a line, Yeah, morning outline. Moone ain't give me nice. He didn't give me nine eighty that. I wanted to take some of its big too. But we need to start. We need

to start a double Z something. Yeah, I don't know what I would want to do though, Like like am I am I gonna do a clothes like what type of blue? Well? You know, I feel like I feel like when I telled out, I got to be different, soil I found something different. Hey, it might be food. We know you brought that up to the media back back when they first met your training camp. You wanted food ideas. Uh, how are you rolling with that? By the way, because I understand you don't really stock your

refrigerator much. Yeah, I ain't really a cooking guy, but I hadn't been to a couple of good good players Bennie Hondas. But that's one one place I go to about at least twice a week. I go to Bennie hand about twice and we gonna beat your pot le guy las everywhere? Though, Um what did I have that was? How good? It was? The maple and ash. Yeah, that's all that Jeff's place that's good or other place I've

been through. That was a girl they got. They got this one place out here called grid Le twenty four. It's twenty four. It's like waff whelps. You're still working that waffle house angle here? Yeah, it's like but they got wings. In the interesting Das tell us again, Tom asked you in the break, uh, the original aspect of your name Dads with two Zi's where to start? Who came up with it? And why? Um? My dad, My dad came up with it. And it came from a ripper named Dads. He was in He was in Snoop

Doggs back in the day. I don't know what it was called, whatever it was called, but his name is Dads with onesie and my dad I guess he liked the name, but he won. Dad. I like it. I like it's a it's a it's a good name. And you know, people, that's the thing about it. People only need to hear it once. Yeah, and and they remember from other I like I said, it could be like

a Devin. We might have the next Devon and the dads and Jeff was the one that gave Devin uh Devin Hester that you are ridiculous where it followed him for the rest of his career and hopefully into the Hall of Fame. What you know, you just gotta do something crazy, gotta do something great out of the field, right and you never know what pops out of your mouth. A couple of quick hitters and they will let you go. Favorite food, what is it? Gotta give me one, Just

give me one. I'm not to go. Macaroni and cheese. Can't go wrong there. As you told us or your mom said, you slept in your uniform before games when you're a little tight, you're supporting. Are you wearing the jersey to bed? Nah? I don't get a number. I thought again, too hot. I thought it got too hot. I woke up sweat and so I stopped doing it. It was really the socks. I had to realize I had to stop putting the long socks on, but to go to bed in but I had to sleep in

my pants. That that was just the thing. Love of the game right there lastly, and then we'll let you go. We're down the Giants. What are you expected on the second team to come in and play hard? And I'm expecting us to come in and do our thing. All right with that, Let's have a big old to the crib on three ready to us now to send us out to break all right, to the cribon meat to the crebon three, one two three, There we go, Das Newsom, Thank you so much, brother, Good luck on Sunday. Good

luck there, Tom and Ivey back. We'll talk Giants after this break. On Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score Sunday's game against the New York Giants, brought to you by Doctor Peppers Zero Sugar, the zero Sugar Bears fans deserved. Jeff Joni act, Tom Fair back with you on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access and brought to you by Igs Energy. Tom, who do you think it's gonna quarterback the Giants? They're not

saying just yet. You're picking from Mike Glennon and Jake from right now, Daniel Jones. If fans don't know it out for the year after a neck injury, So that happened a few weeks ago. From started last week he got yank during the game. Yeah, you know that's unfortunate because I was kind of hoping he did well and I would like to see him again. Um, you know, I know what Mike Glennon offers the Giants and their

supporting cast. We played against them, The Bears played against them last year in Jacksonville, so I think they really have a chance to get at him. But I'd like to see from get the opportunity to play again, just because you like to see how a player or rebound mentally. You know, physically, they have the qualifications, but nothing like getting yanked from a game and then when you go back in, am I up to the grade of what

they expect? All right, Well, whoever's in there, Robert Quinn's going quarterback hunting one more and they'll pass Richard Dent for the Bear single season record. That would be eighteen sacks. He's got seventeen right now. He's had sacks and seven straight games, eleven and a half sacks over that period of time. And you weren't a Bear in eighty four, you are baron eighty five. But Richard did the same thing.

He had three sacks in his rookie year, played sixteen games, but he only started a few, and he had a big surge at the end, and then eighty five he tore it up again with seventeen more and six in the playoffs. But he also had three in the playoff game against Washington in that eighty four playoffs season as well. And just reeked Havoc on quarterbacks, Robert Quinn's doing this, but he's doing it in ways that are impressive, sean

to say, because he's doing everything well right now. You know, his approach in the offseason, like I've said repeatedly, has been awesome. His practice habits, uh, every day are awesome. His meeting demeanor, he's uh, you know, he's bought into the way we want to play defense. Uh, and he's done a tremendous job of doing that, you know, And for a guy that's a ten plus year VET to be able to do that is a credit to him that he's still looking to grow and still looking to improve.

And I think I agree with you. I think on all facets, uh, he's had a tremendous year. And then on the sack record, means something to Quinn. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how it wouldn't be uh, you know, uh, And I know he's he's a humble guy, and we all want the wins first, right, you're in this you're in this sport to win as a team. Uh. And so that's still our primary focus as we go into the Giants game. And and if he gets it, yeah, I think it'll be meaningful. Will he be meaningful in

that moment? I don't know, you know, I think that like like like you know, anytime these guys set records and things like that, there's a time and place for them to be able to reflect on it. And he'll have that for the rest of his life to be able to reflect on that. How you feel about it all big time? You know, you think about Robert Quinn has done since the beginning of the year to the end of the year. You know, his first sack came with a nice combination stunt between he and Khalil Mack.

In these recent games, he's had multiple sacks with stunts involving Blial Nichols. So Robert Quinn, he's not only getting himself better, but he's bringing teammates along with them, and his skill is so impressive on his ability to adjust his body weight, move his momentum, explode off the ball, get an understanding of the staff count, and then have a result in sacking some of the more creative quarterbacks in the league. I thought it was interesting when I

did that feature on him. He said, because he's pigeon, Tony thinks he's got tremendous ankle flection. Right. You know, hey, if you believe it and it works for you, you go with it. Right. I agree, one hundred percent. Whatever your assets are, use them to the fullest of your ability. Safety Eddie Jackson, you know, he's a high energy guy. He keeps having one up. You know, everyone's only sold and just to see him having a success he's having you know, you know it was you know, it was

well worth the long overduehot. And say he's a guy who comes in you know, he works, he's focused, you know what I mean, And just see him go out there making those and sang players, it's it's incredible And for us we just want to feed off that and get to that, you know, that level, and that's you know, bringing us back up to the devil playing like that

as a whole defense. All right, Eddie Jackson, a Bear safety who is basically putting his hand up in the air and saying, you know what, I don't mind playing nickel nicol slot, kind of likes it. He's mentioned more often than not that playing deep in the post or playing in the back end of the defense, you don't get a lot of activity. They haven't thrown his way very much. Hey, he's in the mix every play if

you play nickel slot. And he says that because of his cornerback background in college, it's something he's really really adjusting to rather quickly, and what I think is a very difficult position. Oh so, I think it's a difficult position today also today because you have multiple route variations at that's slot receiver can run. But what I think I like about Eddie Jackson and the matching the safety background with corner experience in the slot is you play

a lot closer to the line of scrimmage. You can be more involved in stopping the running game and maybe even a couple creative blitzes here and there. So yeah, if he expands this role, you never know the variety of things the defense can use with them, and Temmy word out at Devin Hester is a finalist, one of the fifteen for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. One

step closer to Canton for Devin Hester. You know, it's amazing and I think about Devin Hester and I think about Charles Tillman, because Devin Hester is often referred to in this NFL. When you see great kickoff and punt returners, and then when you go out and you see the number of times throughout the course of a Pro football

weekend that the peanut punch is used. It's amazing the impact of Devin Hester and Charles Tillman have had on the league in just how they're constantly talked about and when you see other people reflect what they were able to do. Tom This was a couple of years ago we did an interview with Devin Ester about his chances to go to the Hall of Fame. What I did in the National Football League. It's not whether or not

I'm gonna make it to the Hall of Fame. Is it would be embarrassing if I don't get first ballot. And that's how I feel about it right now. You know, when I sit back and I think about it, everything I accomplished you know, for us return game, it's not so much will I make it? I know, deep down the side of the thanks that I didn't feel it's no question for me. It's will I be a first ballot? And that's my question, and Honsty, I do feel like I should be a first We'll see if he gets there.

He's a top fifteen Modern era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame today, even that's an accomplishment, yeah, it is. It's a great recognition of how great he was and how talented at this level he is. But I think you have to take in consideration the other guys that are in that top fifteen class. What were they able to accomplish and what type of careers do

they have? So if Devin did not make it on the first opportunity to make it, it would be no insult to him when he does get into the Hall of Fame. Some of the other ones Andre Jensen, the former Houston Texans wide receiver, to Marcus Ware the great pass rusher, Patrick Willis, the great inside linebacker, and your buddy Sam Millstown the late Sam Mills. Yeah, I mean, you know, I think Devin Hester's name belongs right alongside any one of those guys, So I guess he does

deserve it. And when you there's not probably not a lot of people that are familiar with Sam Mills, but coming from a small college through the USFL into an All Pro linebacker at you know, five to seven and a half, you know, he wasn't a huge guy, but he was a dominant and dominant player. And Zach Thomas, the former Miami Dolphin inside linebacker as well, another small inside linebacker. Though Zach Thomas was as intelligent as you got in the league, but he was an underside, got

undersized guy that just had great mental success. All right, Tom, let's take a break. We have one more segment to go. We'll take a deeper look at the Bears and Giants coming up Sunday at Soldier Field. We'll having nine am pregame noon kickoff on news radio one oh five nine WBBM with Tom There, Jeff Joniac. This is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by CDW. People to get it with Tom There, Jeff Joniac getting a set for

Bears Giants on Sunday. You know, Darnell Mooney over one hundred targets this season. Okay, that's number one. He leads the team in twenty plus yard catches. Nobody's close on the team. Cole came at his second in single digits. He's got fourteen. He's now tied with Alan Robinson for third down catches with fourteen. He's had a really good year. So he's bearing down on a thousand yards and he's

also looking at ways in which he's developed. I would have to say more of a leader just in my room wise, being more vocal and then just trying to be as best as a playmaker as I can for the team and give us work whenever there's needed, and being there on third downs when there's needed as well. Think that run he made against the Seahawks after the catch and what he did. I mean, it was brought

up by Bill Laser to daytime. Immediately going to the hashmark hand of the bottle of referee, keeping it going, not celebrating the big catch, not going through a bunch of historionics, celebrating himself. He just knew what to do in that moment, and Laser said that was as impressive

as anything. Oh yeah, I think when you understand the moment, Do you understand how quickly you have to go about the process of getting everybody set understand exactly where the football is, what hash you're gonna be on, the type

of personnel you want to include. The process of football never stops just because somebody made a great catch in a run after you know, when you think about Darnell Moody eight hundred and sixty yards receiving out in the year, what is the landmark for a wide receiver these days? If you're going to be considered in that upper absolote when you talk about seventeen games nowadays, So I mean, is it eleven hundred yards at the end of the year.

Is that what everybody should be reaching for? Because I'm really interested to see what Darnell does with that eight hundred and sixty yards in the final two games, right exactly. And you know, being a touchdown makers the ultimate goal. Obviously touchdowns have been tough to come by for the Bears and tough to come by for everybody. But that'll

be the other gauge of it. How you set up scoring drives with your big place Because he's had plenty, he's had a lot and you know, you compute, if you compute how many big catches some guys make and what that leads to on a drive, you're always looking at a play or two that are the hook for the reason the Bears get in the end zone or a team gets in the end zone. So that's something you look at as well. But I like the fact that as he begins the end of his second year,

he's thinking himself as a leader, and that's important. It is, you know, one thing I like. I like Darnell, and since the time he's gotten here, think he's the most creative player the Bears have with the ball in his hands. I think he's great in the open field, great around traffic. But I don't want to see him carry and sweeps anymore.

I don't like the type of contact because when Darnell Mooney goes in motion, Jeff, because he is such a great receiver, that's a high alert of everybody in the defensive backfield and near the line of scrimmage that eleven is in motion. So then you flip him the ball, it's a more physical impact, the more physical conclusion to that play. So so I like Darnell within what receiver because so many receivers are doing that now. Yeah, you know,

I don't know a lot. You know, you know Jachem Grant who has a role as a returner and is explosive in the open field. I think that's the perfect type of carry for Jachem Grant. Separate him from defenders and let him be that superior speed, creative with Darnell Mooney, when you're talking about it's about touchdowns and then it's about getting your offense movie down field. All right. We touched down the tackle situation. This is Bill Laser earlier today, Tom.

What's best for where the rookie tackles where they play. For most guys, it helps them to be in one spot with consistency. The NFL doesn't always allow that to be the case. I've been somewhere before with the rookie tackle who we felt really good was improving on the right side. Midway through the season, we lost a veteran left tackle. We made the decision to move the right,

the rookie from the right to the left. You know, probably if we had gone back, we said, we would have said, hey, for this guy this year, the better thing would have been to keep him where he was because he was playing better on the right than he played on the left. But you don't know that when you make you know, when you decide to make the move, you thought you had a better right tackle to come in, you know, and becoming your the old third tackle to become the new guy. So you have to weigh all

those things. So every one like to have one hundred percent consistency in their footwork and just playing one spot. I would think most guys would say yes, But you know, we've got to do what we have to do to win this next game. And sometimes that means moving guys around, you know. And sometimes it's because we think you can move and we think the next best guy to come in should go to that side. You know, it isn't always just that one person. You're trying kind of dealing

with the dynamic of the whole line. So that's that's, I guess, a very generic but honest way to answer the question about moving those guys around. To me, I've seen Larry borm At in front of me and put it in display during the course of a regular season game that the most difficult position to find on an offensive line is left tackle. If you have an opportunity to cultivate the skills of a player who's already in a short amount of time show that he can play

that position. Then I try to make the future of my offensive line with that tackle going to his right. And I think still, if you put Tevin in the most confident right handed stas that he could be in, you know you have the beginnings and the makings of an offensive line for the future. And to me, again I've been saying it, I start with Larry on the left side. All right, let's look at the Giants. What sticks out to you. They've won just four games and

Joe Judge's second season, a lot of injuries. They got a lot of guys you don't even know who's playing off the COVID list. Sa Quon Barkley hasn't been run of the ball as well. Offensive line kind of influx left tackles looking pretty good. The defense has some guys up front that are tough. You know, initially there is a clash of personality between a really serious head coach in some of the drills that they put him through in training camp, and so you gotta be good to

capitalize on that type of discipline. In expectations of professional athletes at this time, and then they have complete failure in the quarterback position that didn't allow sat Quon Barkley after he came back from injury, to have a wide open offense that people were responsible for space and not just attacking the backfield where he was injury. To Kenny Galladay, who they brought over there to be a big play

spark for their their offense. In Evan Ingram the tight end, you know, he's kind of a guy that has skill and ability that's just never really put it together that you need for a seventeen game season nowadays, and so I think it's a team that's struggling, especially when you fire your offensive coordinator about the midway point. It just shows you there's kind of dysfunction from the locker room that carries to the quarterback position that ultimately hinders the

process of your football team. Kenny Galladay is still there, Evan Ingram, Kyle Rudolph's plenty of weapons for the defense to worry about. In on the defensive side of the ball. Ziz Asulary the rookie had of Georgia with eight sacks. James Bradbury outstanding getting his hands on the ball, and Zavian McKinney, the safety. Second year safety has five interceptions. A couple of other notes. Jared Allen, also a semi finalist now for the Hall of Fame. A couple of

coffee with Goods. Yeah, you know, Jared's had a great career in Kansas City, in Minnesota. The wounded up with the Bears, but he was always a dominant pass rusher in the perfect down and distance, and he capitalized on it.

And you know, he's got a great personality, but half a tim And I condolences to the family of Jeff Dickerson, who died this week at the age of forty four, on the Bears beat for two decades, A good friend of ours, a good friend of mine, a year long battle with colon cancer, and tom to turn out by the Chicago sports community and the National Football League is it's really jaw dropping. Nearly eight hundred thousand dollars raised for his eleven year old son, who has lost both

his parents here in the last couple of years. You know, I just I think it's such a sign of respect for Jeff and everybody feels so bad for their son. And however, when you have this outpouring of emotion and evidence of it. It's just the way Jeff carried himself. He's always been a great reporter. He's always been a great guy. He's always got been a guy that's not looking for publicity and not being part of the story, but just talk about the story. And I couldn't feel

worse about it. It just it didn't come as a shock, but it came as just a sour of surprise because of what he has been through recently with his wife. Really unbelievable story in many, many regards. But his name is certainly going to live on, and Parker will certainly know that his parents and Jeff were extremely valued by friends in their community and this world of football that we live in. Tom and a coaching legend, also passed

away this week. And John Madden also a broadcasting icon and a name familiar to all the gamers out there, and Madden football so generationally impacting so many different aspects of it, beloved by fans everywhere. How did he affect you in anyway as a football But I got to tell you, throughout the entire course of my professional career, there's been two really giddy things that I've been excited

for the little kid in me. Is when I first time I ever got a football card, I said, oh man, I made it because my whole life I remember collecting football cards and getting the bubble gum in the football cards, and finally I had a football the time I went the first time I went on the Madden Cruiser. Because you're watching Monday and Night football from the outside looking in and thinking, oh my god, if I ever play in the NFL, is ever a chance that I would

play on Monday and Night football and stuff? And so when you get the opportunity to be invited inside the Madden Cruiser, it's like you're walking into a mini palace football royalty because it's only the length of a bus. But you're thinking, here's a living room, here's a couple, here's a couple of video screens that he watch his video on. He's got his driver and his cook and his master bedroom and stuff. You know, it's you know, that's the little thing about sports, no matter, you know,

the little things that you remember. And getting a football card and going out to the Madden Cruiser, well, I'm sure he loved to talk ball, especially with the guys up front. So I'm sure you had plenty of conversations with him. That's gonna wrap us up piece to him and his family as well. For Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac. That's gonna do it for us tonight. Thanks to our producers Jordan trud Up and Dan Really and the folks here at the Score Bears Giant Sunday, we'll bring it

to you from Soldier Field. That'll do it. This is Bears All Access, not Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score