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Physical Therapy and CDW. Have you along, everybody, Welcome into another edition of Bears All Access this week brought to you by IGS Energy with my broadcast partner from news Radio seven eighty and one oh five point OUTFMWBBM. Mister Tom Thayer, your Super Bowl Bear. Good to have you alongside. Tell me, how are you doing tonight? Jeff, I'm doing good. You know, it seems like each week I start the show by saying, one will one work. Where we are one week closer to everything, you know, a lot of

decisions that need to be made in the NFL. And before we are on the air, I kind of asked you, you know who, who was the most interesting person that's been released this week? Not the free agents, but the release because you know, I was thinking of the two offensive lineman from Kansas City, Mitchell, Schwartz and Fisher that have been released. I think this year unlike any others, it's it affects when you were injured and if you

were going to be cut. With both of those guys having one with a back surgery, one with the achilles tear, I think it's as a huge factor in this year in guys getting released. Well, yeah, but just in terms of just and trim and cash that that has to get out of that salary cap in six days. So

I think that's an equally big part of it. But yeah, you think about neither of those two guys around the field for the Super Bowl, you know, right, But you know, in a normal scenario, if the salary cap was risen, there's two guys that they would rehab through their program. Now there's uncertainty for each of those players, but they probably have a better indication of what the status is. And I don't mean to dwell on the Kansas City offensive lineman, I mean for veterans as a whole in

the NFL. All right, Jim Miller our guest as always each week, Big Jim Miller back with us from Sirius x MNFL Radio. Moving the chains with Pat Kerr went off his shift, then over to ours for a few segments and I Big Jim, how you feeling tonight? I'm doing great. Hey, I missed you guys last week. Has something to take care of, but it've worked out well and it always good to be with you guys. And yeah, here this is the fun stuff. Nothing ever ends in

the National footballing There's always something to talk about. And as free agency approaches, teams getting their cap numbers down, all those things, there's this, man, it's gonna be so much fun. It's different coming off the obviously with the Salway cap going down, team there are some good guys getting released by teams around in the NFL. I mean there were some big ones today as Tom just mentioned, and there will be more tomorrow and through the weekend.

Right six days from now, it all gets gone in the new league year gets underway and the cap must be met one hundred and eighty two and a half depending on if you have some leftover cash from last year. That puts the Bears at just over one ninety for the savalry cap. Let me take care of some business before we move on here. It's gonna be a short and show and I We've got a forty five minute version bulls basketball against Philadelphia seventy six ers in town tonight.

We'll turn it over to Chuck s Horski and Bill Wennington to get you guys bulls ball out of the All Star break. Mike Rankin as our producer tonight, as well as Jordan trut Up and Dan Brilla for helping us out as well our Bears guests tonight will be an assistant coach, a new one for the Bears, and then it'll be our inside linebackers coach Bill mcgovernor will talk to him coming up at the bottom of the hour. You mentioned, you know, and you've been saying it, Jim

for a while now. The teams, it's got to be the Saints right at the top of the list. They let go or Will Generas Jenkins. They've let go some others, and there's still a lot to be done with that fat franchise right there. And of the Bears, and you know the same coming up here soon. You know, the warrant rumors out there and the reports that Bobby Massey

and we already know about Buster Screen. Yeah, and you know, the team the Bears currently are are over, So they're gonna have to do some more things from that standpoint. But you're right, the Saints, they're big names that they had to you know, they really stay with Janoris Jenkins, and they've got more work to do. They're still around thirty million over the cap. The Rams are now the

worst team. I mean, think about New Orleans when they started that, they were over one hundred and fifty million over the cap. I mean, so there's a lot of work to be done, whether it's Drew Brees and the other players there. They're gonna have to restructure some players contracts that'll continue for them to get that cap number down. And the Rams, I think they're just gonna have some flat out tough decisions. Like Michael Brockers, who's a good player.

I think they're just gonna flat just have to get rid of them, because you know, once that March seventeenth at four pm hits, all these teams have to be under the salary cap. That is by rule how it is, and nobody wants to get deemed or anything like that, and and teams like it that way. You know, it's they have to make adjustments because the cap has gone down. But you hear about the new TV contracts probably four years from now. Every it's gonna below everybody's minds which

the salary cap will be. But the owners like it because it's a hard cap. It's a hardcaps are fixed cost, and so it's a it's a level playing field. And yes, they're going to take a hit in the NFLPA, and the owners have agreed that they're going to spread this loss over because there was a four billion dollars loss this year, four billion dollars, So they're gonna try and spread this out and then when these new TV contracts kick in, they'll start to make an You'll see the

salary cap. If everything is fortunate and there's no more viruses or anything like that, it should have a steady growth and of really a big explosion here in the next four years. That's Jim Miller with Tom Fair. I'm Jeff Johnny AAC will take our first break. Coming up, we'll be joined by the bears new inside linebackers coach at the bottom of the hour, Bill McGovern. 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 with Tom Fair, Jeff Johnny acc and Jim Miller from Chicago Bears quarterback. We're brought to you by IGS Energy. Good to have you alongside and choose clean energy for your home at igs dot com because every good choice adds up to a better world. Tell

us a lot going on. You're gonna hear signings, You're gonna restructures around the league, including the Bears, and also you got the Pro Days getting underway Northwestern head there are Big one this week, a lot of attendants there and also just now on social media on Twitter, the Tribunes Brad Biggs reporting the Bears have agreed to terms with Cairo Santos, So that puts an end to all the kicking conversation. He had a terrific year franchise record

of consecutive kicks. Brad reporting that it's a five year, sixteen million dollars deal with a max value of seventeen and a half. So there you go. One of the first shoes to drop in terms of what the Bears gonna do with their roster. Tom and Jim, Hey, I'm

happy for him. He deserves it. He's a hard working kid that really endeared himself to the Bears fans, even though they weren't in the stands, and I think inside the locker room made some really difficult kicks, and when it was judgment Day and some of the harsher conditions that the Bears faced throughout the end of the season, he lived up to everything that was asked of him. So I'm happy for a guy that things work out

and builds confidence throughout the year. Nice percentage ninety three over ninety three percent last year two or three over fifty nine, ten forty forty nine. And I'll say it this way, because there was a lot of bad kicking around the NFL, and Kyrie really had a good year.

He was study for the Bears, and you just wonder, granted the Bears traded with the Raiders to pick up Eddie Pennero, I'm wondering if Eddie could be a bargaining chip because this looks like this could potentially solidify that Santos is going to be the kicker for the Bears. But there were a lot of teams that struggled with their kicking game and maybe maybe a run excuse me, Ryan Pace could maybe acquire another pick if somebody was interested in Eddie Penarol. Also, you know when it's becomes

official from the organization. Again, this is Brad Biggs's story. You couldn't happen to an nicer guy, number one, A guy who work through a lot of personal battles to get to where he is back with the Bears. Because he was a record setting kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs fellas, so he had the excellence, then he had the injury and it took longer than he wanted it too,

obviously to get through it. But to kick twenty seven in a row in as you say, Tom, some tough situations and anybody who kicks well enough to handle soldier field and it's trickiness. You know, you got to give him a tip of the cap. To this day, Robbie Gold's the best soldier field kicker of all time and dealing with that over a long period of time, got to know that place so well. But Cairo Santos is fit right in to the Chicago Bears, right, you know

the thing. The thing about his perseverance is, you know, rarely do you get a big chance like that as unless you can measure up to the competition that they're going to set before you as a kicker, and what they set before Cairo as other people coming into the mix, kicking out there under a lot of pressure because of what's happened to the Bears in the last couple of years. With the kicker, I just like to see what he was able to persevere and like you said, he's a

quality guy and he deserves the opportunity to flourish. And Jim the operation involved too with Patrick O'Donnell, Patrick Scales. They're both free agents as well. They've been able to get those guys back year after year. Is that also an important aspect of this right now, to get them back? Yeah, yeah, I would think so. I think you want to keep

that trio together. I really do. I mean, you know, granted, they'll be able to see what they're worth is in free agency, but you know, the market's going to be tough now because because teams are so salary capped strap right now, there's kind of the halves and the halves not so I think for them would be nice to get keep them all together. Um, you know, they'll continue to work, but you know how many games are decided by a field goal. You know, they're so important to

this game. And I just think that's a good signing because you know, I've talked to other kickers. I know you guys have talked to Patrick Manley and other specialists that come on here Chicago, going in Soldier Field, it's

psyches you out. I remember talking to j Shanson of the Detroit Lions and he said, for whatever reason he goes a lot of kickers are just psyched out before they even go into Chicago because it is kind of a mentally challenging the area, just the wind coming off the lake and how it is and how it can squirl in that stadium, and they kind of just psyche themselves out. And once you've got a guy that has a confidence, whether it's Robbie Gold or Cairo Santos said,

feels that they can, they've got to Downpat. I mean absolutely, this is a great resigning for the Bears. I always felt when I heard kick any stadium, if you're going, you don't have to combine or whatever and get the young kickers when they start thinking or talking about the wind. Granted they get asked about it first, but then if it becomes a repetitive theme, you know that there could be a little bit of issue right there, and trust value because you really you got to negotiate it, but

you can't dwell on it. Well, you know what too, as natural surfaces to all kickers, puts a dynamic into their head. And now you have to include your plant foot. So if you don't have a care plant foot, you're rare are going to be able to be an accurate kicker. And I think because of the plans the playing surface of Soldier Field that lingers in the mind of all

AstroTurf and sports field kickers in the league. All Right, you know I've been reading a lot of these former NFL execs, Jim and you've talked to him, I'm sure on your shows on Serious XM. But you know I keep hearing seeing Joe Banner, Joe Banner, who was with the Eagles for so many years, keeps talking about the smart teams will take advantage of this particular unique opportunity here in twenty twenty one. Is that fair? Regarding what's about to happen here and the cuts and some big

names as we've alluded to at the top of the show. Yeah, I talked to him. Michael Bidwell, the owner of the Arizona Cardinals. He came on with us last week and he thinks that there is going to be And he's not the only one. There are other general managers that we've talked to, like Steven Jones yesterday, the CEO of the Cowboys. They believe there's going to be a seismic shift of talent in the NFL with the players moving on. You know, because like I said that, you've got half

the league that has big time salary cap money. You know, teams like Jacksonville, teams like the Jets. I mean, these teams have well over eighty million dollars of cap space where they're sitting right now. And then you got a team like the Rams, who they're still in the hole. They're they're over the cap thirty two million dollars. I get all that, but they can't say they can't sign anybody.

I get all that. But when you talk about, like, what is your definition of smart both of you guys in this situation for an NFL front office, Well, I think if you want a guy, you go after him. But I think it probably the best example. Well for former Chicago Bear scout, how about Chris Ballard last year? Remember how everybody's saying, man, look at how patient he was. Man he made the big trade and got to Forrest Buckner, and they gave him a big deal, and they had

the cap space to do it. But he was he was smart and not making the big splash. And then the markets started to come down, and the markets started to come to him, and he had he had the money available to now sign a whole bunch of players. He brings the n Xavier Rhodes and signs all these free agents for reasonable contracts because these players need work

and the and the money was drying up. And I thought Chris Ballard did just a tremendous job last year for the Indianapolis Scolts and how physically prudent they were in their spending. And I think that's the key part about it. You never want to overspend, you know. Even Jerry Jones admitted today about the money that he paid for Dak Prescott. He says, he I overpay for the

most special things in my life. And Dak had the leverage and they knew they had to resign him in Dak actually benefited even though the Satway camp went down, Dak got a better deal than what he did last year. You know one thing I'm gonna do is I'm first of all, if i'm a GM, I'm gonna look at my own roster. I'm gonna look at what guys are developing in a talent position where they can compete for a starting position with a cheap salary. So I'll bring

So you got a guy like Shad Coward. Rashad Coward showed that he has the ability to go out there and compete at offensive guard and offensive tackle, and then you have the salary of a guy like Bobby Massey. So first of all, the decisions I'm gonna make are with the guys that are on my own roster that are stepping up to a competitive position. And then I'm gonna go look at for a veteran that's willing to take a little bit of a pay cut to be

on a good team and compete for a starting position. Fellas, we have to step away for another break. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Bill mcgoverned, the Bear's new inside linebackers coach. This is Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. The Chicago Bears Network Presents Inside the

Bears brought to you by Verizon At. Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeden cover the world of Bears football on and off the field every Sunday night at ten thirty five on Fox thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot com or on the Bears Official at a broadcast binder top there Bears quarterback Jim Miller from Serious x M NFL Radio moving the chains, joining us as we break down Bears football heading into what is an

important week to get down to the salary cap. Also, Jim, a lot of pro days going on right now and he catch your attention. So far, north Western had a big draw with their offensive lineman in cornerback. And then of course the Clemson workout that included a lot of great players right there Texas today as well. Anything stick out, Um, Yeah, I think Clemson. The two receivers down there are good. Cornwall A Powell, he's a really good player. Amari Rodgers.

I saw both of him at the Senior Bowl. Senior Bowl. Amari Rodgers is a really good player too. Also, their offensive lineman that Jackson, he was the blindside for Trevor Lawrence but in tom I know you'll watch him on tape, but this guy's legit six five, three hundred and forty five pounds. He's probably gonna be a power guard in the NFL. He'll probably be on a team that runs a lot of gaps scheme stuff, like a Baltimore. Baltimore runs a lot of gap scheme. But I like him.

He's a good power garden. That's the thing is this year's draft, there's it's not as deep as the tackle draft at the position of tackle as in previous years. A lot of these tackles will kick in the guard like Jackson, who I just mentioned from Clemson. There's got a lot of guys like that in this draft. You know, I'm interested to see throughout the Pro days this year

as I don't. I think when you go to the combine and you're there with a couple of one hundred other guys and then you're lining up for the forty or you're getting underneath the bench, there's a lot of motivation,

a lot of adrenaline flowing in the room. I'm interested to see the forty times of the fastest players this year, if they match up to the fastest guys in the past, because I think when you're running a forty by yourself, just around a bunch of scouts at a pro day, it is not as motivating, it's not as adrenaline filled, it's not as competitive as when you're at the combine.

So it'll it'll be interesting to you know, when you see some of these numbers off of these top tier guys, if they're going to live up to what's expected of them from the past guys. Interestingly for me Jim and Tom is yes, you're right about that, and it's now it's not standardized. Now that's it. You know, that's the one thing everybody says, well, what do you what do you got to do the combine in Indianapolis. Well, it's the same surface for everybody. Everybody does the same work

under the same eyeballs. So now you have a measuring stick that goes back decades and that's the trick. And you look at the weightlifting competition even out whether that stuff matters or not to the to the average person, I think it's the competitive juices. Find out what's what's making a guy tick. Because the last few years Jim and Tom they had it available to the fans it was the rowtiest part of the combine in Indianapolis. I'm

seeing some early returns here. You wonder what some of the guys and I don't know if some of these guys are opt outs or not. And I'm not talking about offensive linemen or defense, and I'm talking about backs and receivers doing four reps or three reps or six reps. Are they getting the kind of training that they've been used to. Well, that tells me everything you need to.

You know. The one thing real quick is when you look at the weightlifting competition, it's not necessarily who's going to do the most, it's who's gonna do a number that shows me they're investing themselves in the weight room. And if I see a guy that lays on the bench and whether he's three hundred and fifty pounds or one hundred and fifty pounds in the number of reps, the number of competitive time in the weight room, that tells me something about the player. Yeah, the big Georgia

offensive i'd been Cleveland is supposed to do over. He's trying to break the record. The record is forty nine to two twenty five. He's trying to he thinks he can get over fifty. But much like Tom just talking about the cautionary tale is this, and probably everybody should have known it because his father was a really good player in the NFL. Orlando Brown. People forget Orlando Brown, who's probably gonna get traded for he is a right tackle for Baltimore Ravens. They moved him over to left

tackle due to the injury to Ronnie Stanley. He benched the bench six times, so everybody, to Tom's point, Tom's saying, everybody's saying, oh, he's lazy, he doesn't work hard, he's not invested. But if you put out the tape, he's a legit player. He's already gone to two Pro Bowls and now he potentially may be traded because he wants to play left tackle. There are exceptions to the rule like that, but for the most the point that Tom

everybody's sitting at home on. You have to show that you're working at this, that you're invested, that it's important to you, and when you can do those certain benchmark numbers really obviously makes teams, GMS coaches feel a lot better about you. And why Orlando Brown dropped to the third round in the draft. There's no way he's the third round tackle, No way. But he did well today. The Texas tackle Samuel Cosme thirty six reps on the bench, and you got to give a shout out to Pat

Fitzherud on the Northwestern program. Tim first of all, tremendous environment, big draw and his guys really did some really good, impressive work. With Shawn Slater, the the tackle who opted out of twenty twenty and was in great shape, ran a four to nine. He's got long arms, big dude. Gonna be a first round likely at tackle there and Greg Knew from the cornerback ran at four three four three nine forty and as a highly thought of corner he boldly says, I think I'm the best, and that's

what you want to hear. You know what's going to be different for me this year, Jeff, is the guys that are coming out of college, you always expect that year of growth for them. When I see a when I'm gonna see a guy for the first time in Eddie Goldman who's who's a pro but sat out that year, I also need to see indicators on what he's been doing in the last year. So you have college guys that are around the system, they're around a big support system.

But then when you have some of the NFL guys that did opt out, I think they're going to go through some of this same evaluation they did maybe as a senior in college after coming back and seeing are they plug and play or do we need to get you back in shape? Jim Miller, Jeff jonnyac tamp there with you on Bears all access coming up in moments. Bill mcgoverned the Bears inside linebackers coach on a shortened

version tonight. It Bears all access all right, So the Bears using what is available to them as provided by the collective bargaining agreement franchise tag Alan Robinson. I'm certain he's not thrilled about it, Jim, but there were at ten players in the same position, and it's an annual, annual discussion. Obviously, players don't love it, but organizations have the right to do it. Yeah, and you know he's you know already Taylor Molten, who's offensive tackle the Panthers.

He already signed his franchise tender. I don't know what Alan Robinson plans to do, because if he doesn't sign it, obviously can stay away from the offseason and workouts and voluntary stuff and all that. But you just wonder. I don't view the tag as something offensive. I really don't,

you know, because you look how Kirk Cousins benefited. If anything, it's it's his starting point for negotiating, which is a high number for the receiver in the franchise tag, and so you know it's only going to go from there now whether they can work out along from agreement prior to July fifteenth. This is a tool that is allowed by ownership in the NFL, and the players agreed to it. So I don't look at it a tag as something so bad. You know, you're guaranteed. I just signed it

right now in case you got injured. Now you're guaranteed that salary for the entire year. Dek Prescott's glad he's ideas. Trust me. I've never been discouraged by the attitude of Alan Robinson. So if he signs, I think that he's going to be a great asset to the football team. But like Jeff said, some guys maybe in disagreement with the franchise tag. To me, I look at it as

a lot of money guaranteed. He's a worker, wants his name to be shiny, and so he'll he'll continue to do what he needs to do to be a great football player. Coming up next, Bill mcgovernment, Bears Inside Linebackers coach, here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to 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 Bear and Jim Miller, two former Chicago Bears. I'm Jeff Joniac with you on Bears All Access with our producer Mike Ranting here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score, and we welcome to the program the Bears new inside Linebackers coach, Bill McGovern. Bill, thanks for taking the time out tonight. How are you feeling?

I feel great, Guy's pleasure to be with you. You got a lot of experience, obviously, nearly four decades of coaching and taking a step away last year to become a defensive analyst at Nebraska. What did that time away to just kind of look at the game a little differently? Do for you and what will it do for you with the Bears moving forward. Well, I think obviously going down there in Nebraska was a great experience. One of the things you got involved with a lot more there

in the college game is the quarterback runs. It's much more prevalent in the college game, so you know, just different ideas, different looks to do to give the opposing teams that when they have a guy who can run the quarterback. But it was just something to kind of get back to basics, kind of reach our battery and just kind of that's why I'm so excited to be here right now. Hey, coach Bill top there here. Um, I wanted you know, throughout your career in college twenty

four interceptions altogether, I think eleven as a senior. When you talk about turning a linebacker into an all three down linebacker, do you introduce your vision as a former defensive back to the linebacker in that role. Well, one of the things is, as you guys know, the game has gone to a great deal of passing and then spreading the field using all areas of the field. So guys have to have an awareness of the past game.

They have to be able to understand route concepts and everything else and have to understand the coverages and how they're going to get attacked by offenses. So it's one of those things that we try and teach those guys right now. The more they know and the more they can do, the more valuable they are. So it's it's it's a challenge because obviously the offense is going to try to stress you every way in every coverage, but

it's important if the guys can study it. And then the guys here have been doing a great job of studying in the past of getting to know and getting position to make a play. A coach Jim Miller here and welcome to Chicago, And let me just ask you all your years in coaching and here you've coached a lot of great players at the pro level, at the collegiate level, and you know, and players just want to

get better. I just know from I I could have couldn't have cared who my coach was, just I would know as a player if they make me better at the end of the day. And so, how do you get across and get your points across to players and how do you get them to responds? What buttons do you need to know how to push because every player is different in order to push those buttons well. And you guys know, being players, former players, you guys understand right,

it's a relationship business. One of the things you want to know from a coach is, hey, how can you help me get better? How can you extend my career? And hey, how can you help me hopefully make some more money? You know, but if we're playing well, those are the things that guys are looking for. But to

do that, you got to earn your trust. You know, respect is given, but trust is earned, and we really got to do that and you just getting to know these guys one on one that I think is one of the bigger challenges now with the COVID and everything in the way to shutdown is you don't have that off season program to get to know these guys a

little bit more. In the off season, you know, you're getting zoom meetings and stuff like that, but it's that kind of slows the process down a little bit, but it's one of just gaining their trust, getting them to understand it, Hey, I'm here for you, I'm here trying to help you guys get better. Bear's new inside linebackers coach Bill mcgoverned our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score on Bears All Access, we're out of here for Bulls basketball coming up at six forty five.

They entertained the Philadelphia seventy six ers tonight. Okay, So on this staff and even through the front office, there's a lot and I'm saying, everybody's that a corridor of Jersey, Philadelphia, Central Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, Ohio coaches on this staff. Do you feel right at home here because there's a bunch of you. You're from Jersey, right, absolutely, I'm from North Jersey, Yes, for more though Jersey. But it's a great area where I'm from, lovely area. But if this has been a

tremendous place to come to. I know a number of people here, people who went to college with me at Holy Cross College. A lot of the alumni are out here. So it's been a great experience. Obviously kind of been bunkered down here in the offices, but I've got a lot of people here that are around and helping me show me how what a great city Chicago is. And we you know, Tommy was being he kind of glossed over and he snuck in there. Twenty four career interceptions.

But let's let's tell you, folks, this is a holy cross defensive backers at the NC double A Division one double A record in a career and eleven as a senior in All American. You're a Hall of famer, your big time bill. Tell us about your playing career a little bit, and you know you got to throw that.

You know you remember that. You know Gilbert Gilbert used to be are on Lovey staff and they he had what forty two career interceptions, So the players start calling him forty two, they're gonna start calling you twenty four. I don't know about that. Listen, when they when they looked at when they looked at me in the back end, they just they were throwing it at the worst guy. The other guys around to that much better, So they figured they'd take their chances with me. Coach, When what

is you like if you have a background. You you talked about how defense has changed so much to me, I think no one is a forty three and nobody is a thirty four. It's whatever offensive personnel you're facing. Do you have a background in a type of defense that you've been raising, because when I look at your resume, it's one of the most impressive college pro linebacker resumes I've ever seen by a coach. But where do your

roots lie? It's a good question because just like you said, I've kind of grown with the sport in the sense that when I first started out, every everybody was kind of a five two. Then then it got turned to three to four, then it went to a four to three, everybody went to h and now it's basically coming down says you. Guys, know, you want to present the offense with different presentations on different downs, so you don't they don't get a beat on you and kind of contale

off on you. So you've got to be able to do a little bit of everything. You can show a bare front, you can do in the whole mine yards. So it's one of those things that as we go forward, you know, you just kind of keep evolving and trying to give the offense different looks, but you know, kind of set the tempo if you can with your defensive style. It's my biggest thing is how do we play? Are we playing smart, fast and aggressive? Well, well, coach, can

you break it? Down without giving too much away. Just as you mentioned, everything's so wide open now, but there are you know, tendencies of an offense. You know that, just that you know teams that are out there, you know they're running the guy and say, Kansas City, they're running a guy in motion. Oh it's a jet suite. Well, they're running the same guy in motion up. Patrick Mahomes is faking and running a bootleg. They're running a guy

in motion. Oh it's a shovel past, Travis Kelsey. How you're able to zone in to really get the goals of what you're trying to accomplish when these offenses just look like they're just wide open, but they are giving

you a tendencies to break, don't right. And that's a credit to the players in the sense that there's the way their study habits are and the way they need to be detailed in their preparation, because you have to you have to notice that every little thing that goes on out there, what way you guys aligned, way a guy motions, what kind of speed he's motioning with, if the back is offset further than he normally is. All those things come into play and you're trying to basically

line up and take it away from it. You want to be a sound defense, but you want to take away what they do best. And that's as you guys know, during the week, we study what a team does, what they hang their hat on. We want to try to make them try to try to beat us left handed if they can. All right, we'll let you go. Bill. Last question though, because you're you do know Sean Decide

from Boston college days and what you know. It's an interesting thing because the young guy bringing in a guy who's been in football for four decades into the mix here, what advice do you give a first time defensive coordinator. I'm not even given advice. We're here for each We're kind of we're kind of using each other as a resource.

That's everybody comes together on this. You know, there's older guys that we got scars from, you know, when we've coached and played that we understand that some things work well, some things don't work as well, you know, but we're trying to help each other kind of just present the best defense that we can. But showing the showing the one thing you know about showing he's going to be prepared, he's going to have these guys ready to play and

they're gonna play for him. Yes, everybody's excited about it. Indeed, Bill, thank you so much for john us. Looking forward to Mitya great guys, looking forward to Minya. Thanks for having me on. Bears Inside linebackers coach Bill McGovern. Before we wrap up, some final thoughts fellas up earlier in the show, the breaking news from Brad Biggs from the Tribune. The Bears reportedly have agreed to terms with kicker Cairo Santos. Let's touch that stone one more time, starting with Tommy

there and going over to Jim. Well, I just think he earned it. You know, this is not something that he's just being gift. That he earned it, and I think that's what you want to see out of every position player. This will be the last time you hear this from me more. Kickers need to be in a Hall of fame. Who decides the outcomes of games more than kickers? Quarterbacks? Jim, Thanks so much, Town. We'll talk

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