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ringing in my ears. Jim Miller, who predicted thirteen and three way before the season beginning, that's exactly what they finished, going out of the playoffs before bowing out at Old Soldier Field before the new facility open up. Jim, how are you doing? And you got your traveling shoes on ready to roll? Yeah, I'm ready. We head out next Tuesday, so I'll be gone for about a month, hitting about twenty two different camps, So looking forward to it. Just it's just good to be back out on the field

and just see guys going to work. I mean, that'll be just fun to be a part of again. Tom. I know you're not a traveling man, but it'd be kind of fun to take a dip in to look at all thirty two teams before you get the season started, you'd learn a heck of a lot. Yeah, it would be. But I also look forward to going to Bears practice every day because it's incredible how you see the maturation process of a team from day one till the end

of the football season that we have the luxury to see. So, you know, we've talked a lot about a different subjects throughout the offseason. Now we're gonna be talking about real football, real development, about the process of these young guys to see how they fit in and to see how these old guys are coming not old guys, the veterans are coming along in their career, all right. Yeah, thank our producers Jordan tread Up, Dan, but really Katie Tuber helping

us out. Certainly the friends here at six seventy to score a final show before they started training camp. Later on in the program, we'll be joined by NFL dot Com writer Adam Rank from NFL Network and NFL dot Com. He'll join us to talk. He's a Bears fan, big Bears fan. We've got the weekend of arrival tom of the rookies quarterbacks and rehabbing injured players, so the rookies kind of get a lay of the land, a little bit, even though they had the mini camp of the Rookie

Mini Caamp. It is how fool will get a little prestart. They won't be in pads by any means. But what does that do for the young guys as they find out what the routine's going to be every morning up at hallisah? I don't know. I've heard it described as class on the grass, you know, because a lot of these guys need to be reintroduced to the information mentally, because physically, I think all these guys have been going about their business at the normal pace that's expected of them.

But when you're away from the mental part of the information that's played such an important role in your success. I think it's good for the rookies to have a couple of days of getting back in the classroom so they can get up to speed. Jim, with the new CBA rules that kicked in a few years back, do you feel this is an advantage for the rookies, Well, I think it puts more on the players. They have to do a lot of stuff on their own time, you know, because you're you're not getting the reps on

the field that we've talked about. But as Tom mentioned it, it reintroduces the material to these guys where they get a jump start before the veterans come in. But you've got to take advantage of the time you're away from the facility. You know, even though there'll be a training camp and they're kind of in a confined environment even when they're not on the field, they got to have the wherewithal and the due diligence to constantly go over the material, do it as much as you can until

you finally understand it and you finally get it. So I think it puts more accountability on players that they've really even though when their downtime is there, they've got to take advantage and take advantage of learning this material that they're required to learn. Tom, I just did an event the other night in front of twenty five Bears fans. They were absolutely thrilled and excited about Justin Fields being a Chicago Bear, and that's really all they wanted to

talk about. And honestly, that's been the case the entire offseason, and you can't fall fans for doing that. This is an exciting player and one that is going to develop and be a franchise quarterback. Everyone hopes for many, many more years to come. But I tried to accentuate other big topics during what is going to be a very intriguing training camp, and I can't get past a couple

of positions. One is the offensive line, obviously, and we do feel it's going to be a much stronger offensive line with the health returning to a player like James Daniels and Sam Mustafer being trying to continue to be

a leader on that offensive line. Of the center position after being inserted during the season, Cody Whitehair steady as always, but Jermaine Affediot right tackle to start the training camp, and at left tackle, Tevin Jenkins, the rookie hat of Oklahoma State, and simply because it's a position that he is learning on the fly, essentially having just over four hundred snaps in college, and nobody else on the roster right now with left tackle experience in an NFL game,

So to me, that is a as big a story as anything. How do you feel about it? You know? I also think that Matt Maggie drew a line in the sand. How many carries a game does he intend on getting for David Montgomery? Did he say twenty? And there's a couple of other running backs out there, so you see if these guys get eight to twelve carries a game. So now you're talking about thirty sometimes thirty plus, And I think that's what the offensive line wants to hear, Jeff.

They want to hear that. Listen, we're gonna run the ball. We are gonna be physical, we are gonna make this offense move forward. And compliment no matter what quarterback plays behind center, that if they can have a strong running game, it's gonna help their passing games. So I'd like Matt Naggee taking over the play calling duties in coming out and saying that he has intentions to compliment David Montgomery, because I think Montgomery and the offensive line, Jeff go

hand in hand. You gotta have one to help the other, and I think it's David can help the offensive line as much as the offensive line can help David. Hey, big Jim, you're the quarterback, You're Andy Dalton, you're justin fields, you're Nick Foles. You're going to camp. You get the layout of the land from Matt Naggie on the first

team meeting, this is what we're going to be. They start installing plays if if they do stick to that run game and have that kind of desire to run the ball that many times, if you're ready done, you're justin fields, you're Nick Foles, and you are a former quarterback. How does that make you feel heading into the season. Yeah, I think you know, saying it and doing it are two different things. I think you have to stay committed.

You know, you've got to follow through with it, because I think we know game situations sometimes dictate that the run game can be taken out of it, you know, so we even say if you're behind in a game, you can't panic. You got to have the wherewithal and the commitment that you've presented the players that you're going

to follow through on it. I mean, how many times do we see teams that say it and then they go into a game, bad things happen, and then they abandon what they originally tried to do and just scrap the game plan. So I think it's, you know, like what Tom said, the message is there that this is what we're going to do, but you have to follow up and have the commitment because the play acts and

pass game will play off of that. So well could be such a big part of the Bears offense as long as they stick to running the football in a game. In your career, Jim, did you ever get to the sideline and say, coach, we gotta stay on the run and you start to feel it slipping away. Everybody likes to throw a ball, obviously your QB. But did you have any a story about that when you actually made your case and they listened to you. Yeah, I think, well,

there's numerous times. I think we went in and played Philly one time and who was it Chris Valerio. I think he knew a certain run play was gonna work, and I remember he went over and told the coaches that, hey, if you call this play, this is gonna be there. And all it was was twenty six duo. They felt that, you know, getting a double team on the nose tackle, they felt that they could move them with ease and with the strength of Oland obviously the strength of Chris Valerio.

That's you know, over seven hundred pounds of beef coming at you. So all of a sudden, the coaches listen, they paid attention. We started running that play and we started making Hey, in the run game. So you have to have that back and forth of you know, a really dialogue that the coaches believe in you as a player that certain things are going to work. Now, what game was that again? You ran the ball at twenty

five times in a row. We played the Indianapolis Colts in that eighty five season where we ran at the

first twenty two plays to open up the game. And you know, I've been a part of those types of games in my past where we knew that we had one play that was so strong, but depending upon how the defense lined up, we could call it at the line of scrimmage and we went that direction and we had about two hundred and fifty yards rushing and we are super successful because of what the defense was offering us.

So I think sometimes you have to listen to the players as much as you want to sit there and look at your play sheet to see what you think can work well. And I always bring up this this example. When I was with Pittsburgh, we went out at that point the Oakland Raiders. We had zero rushing yards at halftime. I mean, the coach Kawers said, will Be went into the game. He said, guys, don't be surprised if they

because they were shooting penetrating defense back then. He said, they're going to get some tackles for loss, but we're gonna stick with our game plan and have the wherewithal for four quarters to continue to run the football. The second half, Jerome Bettis rush for one hundred and fifty yards. It was just sticking with the run game, and the coach told us as a team, it's not gonna look pretty at times, but we're gonna stick with it and stick with it. We will wear them down and this

is how we're going to win the game. And that's exactly how it played out, and everybody believed in that plan. That's Jim Miller, tomp there, Jeff Jonnyak and this is Bears All Access. Coming up next, NFL dot COM's Adam Rank will join the program. This is Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean energy for your home at IGS dot com because every good choice

adds up to a better world. With Top there and Jim Miller from Serious Sex M NFL Radio, Moving the chains with Pat Kerwin. I'm Jeff Joniak, please to be joined by Adam Rank from NFL dot Com. You see him on NFL Network as well. He's got his hand in the fantasy pot. He does previews and he did a great job for all thirty two teams, state of the franchise for everybody. So Adam, thank you so much for joining us from LA. But before we begin to talk about the NFC North and your thoughts on it,

Bears fan, you are not shy about it, are you? Huh? How'd this come about? Are you a Chicago and I don't know your entire background? I yeah, you know what I'm not share or not shy I should say about sharing my my fandom. And it really does come from my parents, who would be freaking out right now. I'm sitting here looking I know this is an audio recording, but I'm looking at Tom and just thinking of my life and my parents and my uncles and everybody just

love the Chicago Bears. And I was born in Schaumburg. Oh sorry, park Ridge. I don't want some Chamberg. You know, somebody from Schaumberg getting upset and being like no, the hospitals in Park Ridge get it right, but you know what, Like, I don't know, because now the suburbs are fighting. I

don't know. There's a whole issue going on. But I didn't grow up in Chicago or in the Chicago Land area, but I still kept in an allegiance to the Bears, mostly because we moved to southern California and the team moved away. I did. I did live there long enough to be like, hey, I sort of liked the Rams in eighty five and then had to hear it from every member of my family like I'm a four year old and everybody's yelling at me. Like I was, like,

I'm Deeter Brock, Like listen, I'm sorry. I was rooting for the local team. But I do now have fully embraced the Chicago Bears, and I've also made my children following that footsteps too. I said, I don't know if you're gonna have a link to Chicago, and I think I think this is a longer answer than you wanted.

I'm always my kids. You know, they weren't born in Chicago, They're born out here, but I want them to have that kind of lineage and I want to look back and seeing that because my dad put me in a Walter Peyton jersey when I was a kid. I am now making my kids put on Bears jerseys instead. I'm getting rid of the Cutler jerseys. I'm getting him Justin Fields jersey, so that'll be a little bit better. But

it's just something that's now going to be a family tradition. Well, you can always change that sea on the Cutler jersey, turn it into a being. It becomes a Butler, and you're right back in the eighty five team. But you know, you know, I want to ask you just real quickly about the division. You take in consideration. Every head coach in this division give me the temperature of their seats at this point. Well, I think i've Lafleura is probably

the safest regardless what happened. So he's good. Dan Campbell is coming in, brand new coach. He's going to get an opportunity, hopefully a couple of years to try to prove himself. It is a little I don't know. You can take it one of two ways of having Anthony Lynn on your staff. Number One, it's good if you're

an INEXPI orience head coach. It's always good to have somebody on your staff, who has been in that role previously, who can help guide you along and kind of, you know, knows what it's like to call a time out in an NFL game. I do believe that he's going to get a unless it's a complete disaster and they would turn to Anthony Lynn. But I think that he's going to get a little bit of run. Mike Zimmer, of course, has been there a long time with the Minnesota Vikings.

It seems like every other year the Minnesota Vikings are competitive. It's a real It's kind of like you're walking by a roulette table and it's like one red, one black, one red, one black. I don't know, this is their odd year. This is the year that Mike Zimmer is supposed to be good. Of course, he's got his son is the assistant defensive coordinator. Kubiak's son is the offensive coordinator. So it'll be interesting to see how that plays out, because at some point it feels like Mike Zimmer needs

to stretch together some consistency. Adam, you'd since you just wrote about the state of all thirty two franchises, what is the state of the Green Bay Packers, And it could be two states one where Aaron Rodgers does show up. One more Aaron Rodgers doesn't show up. That could be the state of those that franchise. That was it was.

There was a lot of glee in my heart writing about the possibility of Aaron Rodgers moving on from Green Bay and what it would be like and what what everything would you know, how how the world would be different without Aaron Rodgers as a quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, because I think those fans are a little too spoiled, you know, these thirty year old millennials who've never experienced what it's like to go through a season without a franchise, without a Hall of Fame quarterback. It's

not even like having a franchise quarterback. You've had two of the best quarterbacks of all time, guys who are probably in the top ten of all time, and it's you know what, it's a it's a it's a weird world.

You don't know what it's like. And so I also look at this too, because the Milwaukee Bucks just won the NBA Championship, and I don't know if this is going to be some sort of monkey's paw situation where some kid had found the monkey's paw in a flea market in Milwaukee and then whisked for a Bucks Championship, not knowing that it's going to set off a chain of events that would include, you know, Aaron Rodgers being

dealt to the Las Vegas Raiders or something. Actually, I don't want him to go to Las Vegas because that would mean Derek Carr would come into the division. I'm like, I don't want you to have a good quarterback. I want you to try Jordan Love. You stick with the quarterback that you thought was going to be better than Aaron Rodgers or the air apparent. You should have to wear that. So I'm I'm looking forward to see how that plays out. Because these Packer fans sure seem to

think that they're this great model organization. Oh we're so they always feel like they're the La Lakers of the NFL, And I'm like, bro, you're the Mavericks. You had a generational talent and you have one title to show for it, and I know you can come in and make fun of me. We have one title since eighty five, A hell of a title, by the way, I'll take that if you ask me. I don't know, and my dad used to always talk this is one of my dad's running jokes, and I'm sorry that I'm gonna share it

with you. He's like, you know, he's like, he really My dad was convinced that somebody asked a Bears fan, do you want to have a string of Super Bowls? Or do you want to have the greatest team of all time? And that person chose greatest team of all time? So if that's if that's what you're trying to come back at me with, it's like, oh, look at you. You had the greatest team ever ever in football history.

Because there's no debate about that. It's ridiculous. But I would love to see the Packers have to wallow in this and find out what it's like to go into a season where your quarterback's not going to bail you out all the time, because that's the biggest thing. It's like, you're always able to be bailed out, like Aaron always pulls it. You know what you guys do? You know irresponsible things and Aaron always bails you out. And I want to see this. I want to see you live

life like me for a change. Well, the network needs to send you to the shareholders meeting next week to ask all the tough questions. That's what needs to be done at him. I would love that. Yeah, let's do it. I would happily make I would happily make that journey. Adam ranked NFL dot Com writer and big star at NFL Network, joining the program with Tom, Jim Miller, Jeff Jonnyaca remaining moments with Adam. So you're in the fantasy game as well. We have so many fantasy football players

out there. I don't play. I know't. Tom definitely doesn't play. Time's not even on social media. Jim. I don't know if you're doing it, but if you get to pick your top fantasy players on the Bears headed in here to the twenty twenty one season, who you circling well? Number one? I love David Montgomery and I love when Matt Nagee was talking about getting the ball to him twenty times per game. And it's always good when coaches say that I know that Matt Matt, I call him

like I'm his best friend. I feel so stute, Like Jeff, I'm so sorry. I feel like this is where it really I get exposed as some sort of fraud. But I really like that Matt Nagee was mindful that he needs to get the ball into the hands of David Montgomery. I think that he's shown himself to be a dynamic back. I think, as you said on NFL Network the other day, the left tackle position and rebuilding this offensive line is gonna be go hand in hand with how good David

Montgomery can be. And when you have a young quarterback and whether it's Andy Dalton or Justin Fields, I think that that running game is going to be very important and I hope to see Montgomery get those opportunities. He was fantastic down the stretch. I think we finally got to see David Montgomery fully operational. You know, it had been it had been a you know, it had been at a Dodge Charger that had been in the garage

for so long, and they're finally out. You know, the guy's driving it in the neighborhood and you're like, that's a sick car. Yeah. I love to seeing that. We should see more of that this season, so I think he should be the number one guy. Alan Robinson, of course, is fantastic. I will continue to contend that he's a top five wide receiver in this League, Fantasy Reality, whatever it is. I love Alan Robinson, but we also love Darnell Mooney, and I really, you know, I think it

really was me. I think if you trace this back, Jalen Ramsey being mad at Darnell Mooney this offseason really does stem from me in a comment that I made on Instagram. So I apologize for that, but I'm not going to apologize for being so bullish on the ability of Darnell Mooney and what he's going to be able to do this season. And you know what, I'll play

that clip over and that's it. Yeah. People make fun of me for that too, like, oh, the best part of your season was Darnell Mooney beating Jalen Ramsey And I'm like, yeah, pretty much was. Yeah, that was that was the highlight. That's fine, Like I don't like, I can admit, like, you know what, the season didn't work out quite like I had wanted it too, but yeah, that was. That was one of our highlights. So I'm

gonna be proud of that. So I love those guys, and I hope that cole Comet can take a step forward. We love tight ends in this in this chief derivative offense and I think Cole Comet it's a pretty good player, you know. I it's funny to me again, like you guys know this as well as anybody like. Tight end is a tough position to learn, and it is probably especially for fantasy football. It's the one that takes the

most time to come in and really grasp. Because I think it was Greg Olson who was talking about it. This by the way, the Greg If you get me started on the Greg Olson trade. Sorry, no, no, that's not what you're asking, but I will say time for that, dang it um. But he was talking about how difficult it is to make to transition into the NFL and Cole coming in last year in a COVID limited offseason and now getting a full, full workload. I think he's

going to be fantastic. So I'm really optimistic about some of these Bears players in a fantasy football Hey, Adam, I want to go back to Green Bay for a second, because, okay, we heard a lot about Oh, they offered Aaron Rodgers the most money for an extension, but they could possibly give him a quarterback. He doesn't want to be there for five years. But what does that tell Jordan Love? Now?

We don't believe in you that you're even close to being ready because we're willing to keep Aaron Rodgers for five more years. Or was it just kind of you know, was shooting up in the air and hoping they hit a bird as it flew by. Maybe a little of column ay, maybe a little of column B. I really love the fact that there's a lot of people in this world who would say things like you couldn't pay me enough money to live in Milwaukee or Green Bay.

Aaron Rodgers is going out there and actually putting its money where his mouth is, like, yeah, that's exactly right. Couldn't pay him enough to live there? Apparently. I do believe, though, Tom, you hit the nail right on the head with this is sort of a vote of no confidence for Jordan Love, Like you drafted him as a developmental prospect, and you know, maybe it's a little unfair to say that he's not ready right now? What is he going to be ready? Like? How long is it going to take him to make

that transition to the NFL? Because we've seen some of these other quarterbacks come in and immediately pay off. And Patrick Mahomes, you know, took one year off and then he was ready to go. And I think that's the player that he gets compared to a lot. So he had a full season. He's behind it. You've you've seen him in practice. That's the thing is like you've seen

him in practice, you've made the assessment. And if you've made the decision that he's not going to be ready for the next five years, then why were you even drafting this player? So that's that's a tough one, all right, Adam, you are highly entertaining a word Smith and I tell too much of your time, is what you're trying to say. Had you had ten questions, you got the three. I'm so sorry, but I'm so excited. I can't I see

these faces. I'm too excited. I can't control I saw you on NFL Network and I was like, oh my god. I'm like trying to tell the producer, like tell Jeff I said high and they're like, Adam, please shut up, like let him do. Hey, we'll have you on again, Adam. A great job and have a great twenty twenty one season. Appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much for having me. I loved every second back when more on Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score

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can make you finish line in that race. I don't know about physically, but personally, Yeah, has to make some pains, but I can pull it off, that's for sure. All Right, fellas, let's break down some other camp battles. We talked about the offensive line on our first segment. I'm gonna go to the defensive side of the ball and talk about that cornerback position because obviously Jalen Johnson is ready to take off in his second year, healthy, ready to go.

I like his demeanor, I like his attitude. It was never too big for him last year. But then it's gonna be a battle for both that inside slot and the outside cornerback position. So let's take a look at it. We're gonna start with Jim and there's a lot of different names there with varying degrees of experience or what they're coming off of. Desmond Truffont, rough Year in Detroit comes here a lot of experience. If he can get back to his form of being a guy who makes

plays on the ball, that would be big. Artie Burns had a chance last preseason, was not able to stay healthy, and then he got kendallville Door, who got a lot of attention during the veteran mini camp. You know, corners with confidence played their talent. He played with a lot of confidence during the mini camp. Yeah, I think, well, Kendall he got his feet what last year got in some playing time. You're right, You've got two veterans there

and already Burns and Desmond Truffont. Desmond certainly has the most experience of all of them. But as we know, father time catches up with everybody and Kenny stay healthy for an entire season. The guys that are behind him, already Burns, Duke Shelley, Kendall, Vidoor have played. There's just not a lot of not a lot of which I say, you know, in terms of their amount of time that

they played. So those are ascending players. Duke Shelley I thought at times did some good things last year, especially in the inside at the Nickel Spot when a buster screen went down and Kendall vidore. For me. About Kendall, I think he's got all the skills. I'd like to

see how much he's grown physically. For me, when I thought the Bears, uh, you know, picked him, he'd had to get spent a little time in the weight room and just beef up a little bit so he could really compete with the rigors of football because his frames not as big is some other players. But if he's done his due diligence, he'll have an opportunity to show

his wares. But I think they'll be ready with the guys that they have upfront that'll help him out in terms of the pass rush where they're not covering all day. You know, Jim, you said it. I think it's the guys up front. To me, I concern more about Robert Quinn and what he can do up front to be able to help the defensive backs in the back end. If you really don't have significant pass pressure and you're asking these cornerbacks, defensive back nickel corners to cover for

more than three seconds. I think it's almost a losing battle. I think if Robert Quinn can come up here and accentuate the play of Blile Nicols and how much that he's improved last year, you know what you can get out of a key, makes you know what you can get out of Khalil, And then you have a group of other guys on the interior helping out that defensive line.

If that defensive line can push the urgency of the quarterback up to about that two second mark before he's thinking about getting rid of the ball, that's what's going to help the defensive back. Again, I like the a selection of guys that you have in the defensive backfield. I think we need more of a selection of guys up front to be able to compliment the rushers. But a lot of it is gonna be if Robert Quinn can show up like he's demonstrated in the history of

his career that he can play at that level. And that is true. But when the quarterbacks getting rid of the ball so quickly now in today's NFL, those guys really have to be ready, and I look at that slop position because it's a difficult one. You have to cover everybody, and you have to defend the run, and you have to be a smart player, and you have to be physical, and you have to stay healthy. Bears had a really good one and Bryce Callahan couldn't not

stay healthy here. He has not been able to stay healthy throughout his stay in Denver either, but he's regarded as one of the best slack corners in the NFL. Jim that position from a quarterback's eyes on the other side of the ball, How significant is it that they find the right for that spot. Yeah, because a lot of times nickel has kind of become the base defense. Teams will go out there on first and second down and they'll be in a three wide package, which is

going to force that nickelback on the field. It's just that's the way the game has evolved and is time would refer it to say a pass rusher, you don't want a pass rusher to have a two way go. So imagine you're on an island, they're in the slot on a receiver. What does that receiver have a two way go? So you've got to be pretty savvy about how you are as a player to really maybe force a one way go where you don't allow him, say to have an inside release or an outside release depending

on the downer distance. So I think you've got to be a really savvy player as well as have the athletic ability and be cat quick for all those reasons that I just mentioned. One thing I liked about Buster Screen over the last couple of years is how efficiently and how aware he wasn't the line of scrimmage playing and helping in the run game. You can't have these guys thinking one dimensional on a retreat stepping goal back.

You got to be able to read the line of scrimmage as efficiently as you're covering pass routes and in the different dime packages that we've seen over the years from Vic Fangio to last year with coach Pagano, I think Sean Desai is gonna be pretty creative. He's got DHC still in the mix there help out third safety position. Tom.

Let's look a little deeper into the defensive line and I'm just gonna consider the two outside linebackers are part of that bunch, because I still think it's highly regarded around the league. If they played at their potential, they could be devastatingly good. And that's what we're looking for in the return of Eddie Goldman. It looks like that is going to happen. He's gonna be back, He's gonna be a camp It's it's said to be that he's

hungry and ready to go. Got to see it though, and when they get the pads on and see where it goes. But that to me is a is a big addition to the mix as well. But you know, you look at the eighteen team, the defense was so good a low Nichols, you know it was not that guy just yet he flashed. Jonathan Bullard is the guy he beat out. They were counting on a gentleman Bullard. But I think there's a chance it could be if they play to their potential and stay healthy and even

better defensive line. Leonard Floyd had four sacks that year. I mean, if you're saying what you say about Robert Quinn, I mean, if he gets back and rolling and is healthy, it could be in a really big story for the defense. And Sean to say, yeah, and I think what blow Nichols has been able to do the last couple of years, and how much improvement he's shown with the willingness and the ability to play on the inside but probably being

more effect on the outside. I think he's the type of guy that can attract so much attention like a Kim does on the other side, that it can help Khalil or this can help Robert Quinn. Mario Edwards Junior played really well on the snaps that he got and he's gonna have to show the same presence that he did last year on the defensive line. So again, a lot of us we have our fingers cross for Eddie Goldman because we wish the best for him individually as

the player we've seen him be able to develop into. Now, if he comes out here with a great attitude and all of a sudden he's attracting double team attention on the inside, it only kind of opens up those outside guys to have less bodies, less hands at him. So it is going to be a team effort, and I can't wait to see how Sean Decide puts these pieces in place initially to take advantage of what he assumes

is the opponent's vulnerabilities. Jervis skips it also, Jeremiah attach you adding to that mix as well, looking for further development of that defensive front. Jim Tom mentioning Sean decide,

we all know him very well. I do think you could be safe to say that he is not only super smart, but if things go well and he is the play caller that we think he is, this could be a rising star defensive coordinator in the national football He as a young guy, but do you feel he is equipped to get the best out of the safety

Eddie Jackson. Jackson respects him a great deal, loves how he thinks, and that is a very important relationship and you could dare say one of the most important relationships to the coaching a player on this team for twenty twenty one. Would you agree, Yeah, I think Eddie, he's a quote unquote quarterback of that secondary's going to be disseminated a lot of information to the other players that

are out there. So you have to have the ability to communicate and you've got again you've got to trust the plan of the coach and have that back and forth that Sean will be listening to to Eddie as well of what he's seeing on the on the field and how it's unfolding. So but I always go back to this, every coach we have tendencies, you know, so we'll have to see, you know how how how are things going to be called differently than say Chuck Pagano

or say Vic Fangio. You know, Sean's gonna put his own fingerprint on this defense, whether it's you know, a third and short situation or a goal line situation or maybe a third and long. Maybe he likes to litzmore to force the offense to cite adjustin then they rally up and make a tackle. Things like that. I think that's really where you need to see where Seawan Desai is going to go as a play caller. We have yet to see it yet, so I think it's remains to be seen what's out there and how it's going

to unfold. And that's our teams are looking at the Bears that don't quite know exactly what Sean Desai is going to be. That's Jim Miller toomp there. I'm Jeff Joniac. Let's take a break here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score this segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by Athletico Physical Therapy. Visit Athletico dot com to request an appointment in clinic or virtually and start feeling better tomorrow with Tom There

and Jim Meller. I'm Jeff Joniac here on Bears All Access dow Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score brought to you by Igs Energy Fellas Meet the Rookiees. Always a popular production to the Bears broadcasting department. You can catch it on Chicago Bears dot com and the Bears YouTube channel and airing Saturday night on Fox thirty two at ninth pm. The featured attractions Justin Fields, Tevin Jenkins, and Khalil Herbert, the sixth round running back. Here's a

snippet of what Fields says in the show. A quarterback, everybody, I'm the team's gonna look up to you. You know when things are going good, and of course some things are going bad, so everybody's gonna look at you, to your body language, how you carry yourself. I'm definitely ready. I think you know, if there was you know, anybody in this drive class, I was ready for this to

and I think everything nobody but me. To be honest with you, I've just been groom, you know, for this little in my whole life, and he has from a high school start at Georgia, Ohio State. The amount of plays, the big games, the amount of games played, his skill set and speed, his size, his intelligence, his poise frankly from what we saw in the in the few snaps

we did during minicamp. But most of all, and it comes out of the piece time, is his humility and that is coming from his parents on down to him. Stay in humble is a great place to be when you're a professional football player, especially at the quarterback position, to draw the attention of everybody else on the roster. You know, I always look at guys that transfer and when they transferred to a program that's big, to a transfer to a program that's equally as big as maybe

a little bit bigger than how do you succeed? And Justin did everything that was asked of him. And that tells me a lot about a player. Because there's other guys that have gone to a Division one school and then went down a division or two. They've had a good career because of the Joe Flacco. But here's Justin Fields going from a big program to one equally as big. So I like to when you know, it's like a

poker player, you're betting on yourself. Man, you're going all in, and I believe in my hand, and I believe what I'm going to be able to accomplish. And he went out and did exactly that. That's why the scouting in the people that admired the talent that he brought to the table became enamored with him, because here's a guy that left a program and came to another one and took charge and was equally as successful as he beat

on himself to be. Jim, you're gonna get a thousand fans a day max at have us off for the first time fans at a training camp in that facility. It's gonna be fun. And hear all the clamor of the fans and their excitement about it. If you were to give them a guide to what to watch at the quarterback position during this particular camp with Andy Dunton and Justin Fields and Nick folstanging snaps, what would that guide take their eyes to? What do you what do

you suggest they look at with these three? Yeah? I think well you can definitely tell how a quarterback holds onto the football that he's not processing information. You know, as Tom mentioned, there's a timing aspect of it where

you go back. Whether it's a three step, five step, seven step, drop, you hitch and you throw the ball, that ball should be coming out pretty quickly, and if it's not doing if a quarterback is not doing at it tells you that they are not processing the information quickly enough, ie the coverage, whether it's a blitz so forth like that. So when that ball comes out with timing in rhythm, you'll know that a quarterback is growing and doing his job. From that standpoint, handoffs or handoffs,

I think we understand that. But if the ball isn't coming out in a certain allotted amount of time, I think you know that that something's amiss there at the quarterback spot. When you're listening to connors or even talking to guests about the incoming class, because they get a lot of attention all the way up to and through training camp, especially the big names like at justin Fields, what are you hearing on your show? But what are they? What are they? Is everyone the same on justin Fields

right now? Yeah? I think everybody's pretty high on Justin Fields you know, it's just for him, there's not a big sample size. Is Tom mentioned he transfers into Ohio State and he's really a two year starter, so he hasn't reached that, you know, that thirty thirty start thresh old. That really Bill Parcels has always talked about that he would never want to draft a quarterback who didn't have

at least thirty starts from college. I think teams try to dive in differently now because we know with the situations that that's unfolded. Sometimes that's just not going to be the case. As Tom mentioned, Kintell transfer one from one school to another, and maybe he's only a one year starter, So you've got to be able to dive deeper into the intangibles about a quarterback. But as far as justin fields, nothing but positives is what I've heard.

And another player featured in Meet the Rookies, left tackle out of Oklahoma State, Tevin Jenkins. Personally, right now, the next step for me is to add more grit and more grind into my daily aggression, you know, like how I tech the day and you know, like everybody's been saying, like I keep on hearing about it, you know, stacking days. You know, it's just about getting better every day and then have a good day, have a better day next day,

and keep on doing that. Tom does he have it figured out there in terms of the plan any campus he embarks on this journey a unique journey for anybody making the switch and being at this level against that defense every day. Any other advice you'd give Tevin Jenkins, you know you're in it as a player, Just make sure you understand the information as well as what we expect justin fields to understand it, because again, you Jeff,

we talk about it all the time. You cannot go to the line of scrimmage thinking you've got the lot. Go to the line of scrimmage knowing what your assignment is against any defense you can face. If you create any hesitancy within your game as a left tackle because of that, you're thinking at the line of scrimmage, you're gonna get beat. You're gonna jeopardize the entire offense. So look, we have to have a little bit of patience with Tevin.

You're not gonna go out there and see an all pro left tackle from day one, but I think you'll see a different left tackle one week into it, two weeks into it, and then when the season gets starts, it gets underway. And in general, with that being said, the players coming back from injury, everybody wants to hurry up and get better. Everyone wants to be able to

be back to one hundred percent. What advice to both of you guys and do this in a minute if you can't each that you would give players in terms of getting on the field when they might see something slipping away from them, a starting job or a place on the roster, because there's a there's a handful of guys that are in that position. I think you got to trust at the work that you've put into it. There was an off season where I had back surgery

in the off season. Then you had to create that trust within yourself and what's expected of you once you get ready to play. And I think all these guys they kind of gain that trust as they go through the reheabilitation process and understanding what's going to be expected of them once they put shoulder pads in a helmet on. Yeah. Yeah,

I think there's different varying degrees. You know, It's like who we say, there's there's a difference between between being hurt and injured, and as Tom said, you got to trust not only the trainers in the information they're giving you in terms of the plan of your recovery and what you're trying to do to get back on the field. And you've also got to trust yourself. You know how your body feels and what you can play through and what you can't play through, and that you need to

heal up a little bit more to understand that. Oh, okay, I feel confident now. I'm ready to get back on the field and play my best. But there are other things that you know as a player that you can fight through and it'd be just a matter of time, but you're still able to go out there and get

things done that you need to get done. A couple of key players will keep an eye on das Newsome, not sure what his availability will be with a broken collar bone during the rookie minicamp, and also Tarik Cohen as he works his way back from a torn acl All right, more to come. Last segment ahead Jim Miller and Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score see here twenty twenty one Chicago Bears. It sold your field for the first time this season.

Get tickets for the Meyer Bears Family Fest at Chicago Bears dot Com. That's coming up on August third. Fans would be and it's in the week and it'll be interesting to see a lot of fans who cannot get the house hard didn't win the lottery to get there, will be at Soldier Field, and that's always a fun time and a good practice. All right. Remaining moments fellas

real quick interesting thing done by Pro Football Reference. They went back to the nineteen sixty season, and you know, sacks were not a thing until nineteen eighty one, but it meant that they looked at the tape. Jim Osborne would have had fifteen sacks and seventy six, Willie Holman fourteen and a half and seventy nine, Wally Chambers fourteen and nineteen seventy five. That's just below Richard Dent's seventeen

and a half and seventeen the all time records. But that's an interesting exercise and I think it's important too. And I would have loved to know what Deacon Jones's numbers would have been. I can't wait to find that out. But a guy like Jim Osborne. Tom his number really jumped to eighty one sacks, and for that matter, so did Dan Hampton's to eighty two. Just some Yeah, Jim Osborne was a great defensive tackle. You know, he was

kind of ahead of his time. He was a combination of a guy like big, thick, strong on the inside like Steve McMichael. He was able to be absorbed heavy duty double teams at that time, where you could hold the player up top and you could chop his knees out from underneath them. So I think Ozzy Jim Osborne has all the respect in the world as one of the premier defensive lineman defensive tackles in football throughout his time. Jim different topic. Roquan Smith the inside linebacker position and

the linebacker position in general. I think he got everybody's attention. With Fred Warner's big ninety five million dollar deal in San Francisco, Roquan's gonna get an extension. But as a player that knows what's going on and what happens next with the Indianapolis Coats, a great linebackers or Darius Leonard, what's it all mean? Yeah, I think we all know the CAP's gonna start going up again, and you know,

these crazy numbers are coming out there. And if Roquan can continue to play like player I thought he played at an all pro level last year. And that's no offense to Bobby Wagner. That's how well Roquan played in my opinion. So yeah, I think the Bears know it's going to come at a heavy cost. All Right, we're at a time fellas appreciate it. We'll see a training camp Jim in a few weeks. And now thank you for everything he did this offseason as well. For Tom there,

Jim Miller. I'm Jeff Joniac. Thanks to Jordan Trentup, Dan Billy and Katie Tuber and the folks at the Score. That'll do it for us today. Talk to you from training camp on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score