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chains as we bring you this week's edition. After Thursday last week, you would think not a lot as transpired Fellows in the last four days, But plenty, plenty has and plenty will in the coming hours and days. Because the league new year star shortly free agency. But this NFL and NFLPA CBA vote that was scheduled for tomorrow postponed now until Saturday. They get a two day extension. There's lots to break down and all that, and we'll

do that in this segment. We'll also be joined tonight by two Bears Buster screen joining us tonight, it'll be around six thirty and also joining us will be veteran wide receiver Javon Whim So a lot to check in with the fellas and check in with you guys. Let me just get reactions from the two of you right now on this CBA situation. You know, to me, Jeff, it seemed like he was gonna it was working out to be a little bit easier than I think we

all thought before this process ever started. I'm not necessarily disappointed. I think the conversation a better understanding of the language and it might help more people come on board because as many the superstars that are an angst of signing this new contract, a majority of these guys that have interest in signing this contract are still in the early stages in the development of their career and their wealth management. Yeah,

it's it's interesting. I think the league's kind of in a holding pattern right now, Jeff, until this CBA potentially is ratified, and like you said, it's been pushed back now till Saturday. The players have till midnight, it sounds like to place their votes, but I think everybody's kind of in a standstill right now. Teams can Technically the deadline for the franchise tag is Thursday, and I'm wondering if the players push their vote back in order to

count all the votes. I'm wondering if the league does the same, because to me, it would be very difficult for teams to conduct business when they don't even have the rules yet of a new CBA or without a new CBA. So whichever way it goes, it's going to change the direction of how teams conduct business. So you just wonder if that franchise tag window will be pushed back, much like the players votes to be counted has been

pushed back till Saturday. That may be in the cards here within the next twenty four hours, so would they. And still a president's job still on the docket as well, and the NFLPA several players nominated. I was interested to see what Sam Macho, the former Bear and now Tampa Bay Buck, had to say about it. He supports this particular offer from the National Football League owners and said that basically one percent of the population of players are

against it. The other nine have something a game from it, and he breaks it all down very well as we would expect him to do. And it does involve the increasing minimum salaries and the extra playoff game and the extra seventeenth game as benefiting those guys, the superstar players, though, as we discussed on Thursday of last week, may not all be on board with that type of deal. And then you got Russell Olkoon, Jim, We'll start with you.

Russell Olkoon, who's up for this as well. He's already on that committee, is reportedly accusing the executive direct through the union to Marrow Smith, of trying to push this thing through without listening to or taking seriously the objections of the entire group of players, including the executive committee. What's your stance on this? What are you hearing on this? Well? I don't know for Russell o'coon to come in at this late state and uh stage and say, you know,

basically it's it's against their what should I say? They're rules of how they conduct business. Maybe they've been negotiating for over three hundred days, over three hundred what's been

in bad faith? I would say, according to Russell o'coon, all those players have been informed, every player has been sent sent the file and any information that they have requested, but they had put in place and the ball had started rolling with over three hundred days of negotiation, and then at the last minute to claim that this is bad faith by the CBA when those meetings are conducted every single month, that the player reps are a breast of the situation and some of those guys are involved

in the actual negotiating. So I just think for for Russell o'coon, who is one of the prominent players of kind of compared to the rank and file players that make make league minimum, for I think for him to say that, I think is disingenuous at best. Yeah, I agree. I think there's such a separation between Russell o'coon and that bottom tier of guys that are fighting for their NFL life that you know, they don't have a lot

in common. So you know, when they have a decision that has to be make and you go out there and you try to make a headline just by putting yourself out there, it's I don't think it's putting you in favor of the young guys. I just think it's trying to put your name out there as a possible candidate to take this thing over. Well, he apparently has proposed a bad faith filing and an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board as it impacts

the CBA. All kind of stuff. We could talk about this all day. I know fans don't love talking about this stuff, but it is a top headline right now in the National Football League. But when we come back, we'll be joined by Javon Wims, the former Georgia Bulldog and Bears wide receiver. As we continue on with Julio Rosseo and Adam Sazinski helping us stop spin of the dials and our Score studios. This is Bears All Access brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio

six seventy The Score. Hey, welcome back, everybody to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products to over one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Joning, Act, Tom there, Jim Miller with you, and please to be joined by veteran Bears receiver Javon Wims to the program

right now. Javan, how are you doing. You've been down the show a couple of times in offseason going all right, yeah, oh season good, thanks for having What are you up to currently? I'm in New Hampshire. You no vacation girlfriends she's up there, so she's from here. So that's why I'm at currently. Very good And what amount of attention are you paying to what's going on with the CBA right now? Um? Well, you know, I'm just keeping an

eye on it. Just yet more information from the older guys, you know, whenever it's time to make decisions and stuff like that. So you know, I just be keeping a good eye on it. I haven't been too deep involved in it, but I've been keeping a good enough eye on it. You know, Jivan, there's a lot of people that's going to take care of this collective bargaining agreement and get a take care of What are you doing to Givon Wims? Do? We've seen your talent, but how

can we see an expanded role by Javon Wims? Just you know, just focus every year. I try to just grow every year, you know, from my UM. It started way back since I was journey at Georgia. You know I didn't every year just find a way to grow and be and you know, have a better following year. And you know I did that my UM senior year at Georgia. From my journeys to senior year and dance from my rookie to sophomore season. You know, I think

I've definitely made a jump. So now just third years trying to make a permanent jump out just pretty much solidified act of the NFL starter. Well, Divan, Obviously, you mentioned about getting the information from whether it's your player reps, and I assume you've been in those meetings and being a player and being a part of the union. You

are a dudes member that pays. I mean, how you know, for a young player when you come into the NFL, how interested were you information whether it's Damorris Smith is laid out or your Bears player reps to really inform you of the partnership you have with NFL owners in the NFL. Um Obviously, when you know we first get in the NFL, you're just trying to just focus on you know, you know, smaller things and you know things

are right now. But as you know, the season one O that as I got more information on it, you know, I became intrigued by and just you know what to me, sitting to me is listening to guy's opinions and thinking, you know how this can affect every guys from the oldest player on the team to the youngest player on the team. So you know, I definitely just you know, been keeping a good ear to it and guy to it.

Javan whims our guests here on Bears All Access presented by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score Jivan, joined by Tom There, Jim Miller, and myself Jeff Jonik Jivan. In terms of what your offseason plan is in terms of the physical aspect of it, do you have anything up your sleeve different and you've done in other years getting ready physically to play the game,

And what are you asking of yourself in that regard? Oh, well, you know, different from a lot of years, you know, I would just train and train and train, and sometimes over training. This year, I'm being a little bit more smarter. Just I know my body now, and you don't know how to train myself now, I know how to Uh, you know you're to write people who right trainers. M No, I know my nutrition, I know what I need to eat, what I don't need to eat. So I definitely just

been smarter about it this year. There's a lot of coaching changes on the offensive side of the ball, but there's consistency with your position. Coach. You know, when you talk about the amount of coaches that you go through in college and some of the guys go through the NFL, how important it has been for you to have consistency at your position. Coach, Man, it's been amazing. Um, you know, I love you know, I love learning from the coach

I have now. Um, you know, he's he's awesome, and it just show you know, his work not only is just been speaking for ourselfs Um, you know things he teach you know, not only just me, but the other receivers. You know, we go out and we try to performance to the best abilities and where we learn it. You know, it pretty much shows and it's a Um every player that I feel like, you know, we all made a jump. So I think, Um, it just shows how great of a coach he is and it's very just important just

to have that same consistency. Well, is it different like when you go back, say in twenty eighteen, and you watch your plays and the contributions that you made, and then you watch last year's tape and you see how different of a player you are or maybe areas you have improved so greatly. I mean, does that surprise you? How different in things that you're learning, how much better you are as a player? And I guess what are

your focus now? When you go back and watch the step to say, hey, I can make a huge improvement again. Well yeah, you you you're right. Um, you know it's a teller two players. You know, my coach sat me down and he showed me twenty eighteen version of me, rookie version, and he showed me some clips of me last year. And you know, you absolutely it looks like two different players. And you know where I go from Now. I look at, you know, the player from first year.

I look at the player from last year, and then I look at the things that I liked, and I looked at it was a lot of things I didn't like. So the things I didn't like, you know, just correct those things. And now around this time next year, when I'm looking back at this player, you know, of this coming season, hopefully I'm able to say, um well, I knew I'll be able to say, yeah, I definitely corrected

a lot of things I did years leading two. Hey Javan, what is it that you liked and what is it that you didn't like about as you did yourself analysis? And how do you parlay that into you know, making a bigger impact. Yet eighteen for one eighty six and a touchdown last season you got more playing time than you did. Is there is there something concrete that you can tell us? Um well, I know I've always been an opportunist to player, and I've always just made most

of my opportunities. But there are some opportunities I definitely left out the last year. You know, I'm not proud of myself for and you know, I definitely want to correct just mainly just you know, keeping the technician trying to rush off for us, and you know I have pretty good grout running. You know, I focused on you know, releasing offline scrimmas and things that people said I couldn't do.

So I do those things fairly well. Now now is just putting it all together and showing that I could do it, not only every Sunday, but every day throughout the week. And you know when I roll out of bed, I'm the same consistent player, which is you know, I believe myself I'll be a great player in this league one day. But just putting it all together now and just being more consistent with it. You know, you had a great block last year on Cordarrell Patterson's kickoff return

for a tough down. You know when you're trying to transfer the blocking ability of a wide receiver to your blocking responsibilities as a special team or has the two of them helped each other combined to do each of them better? Um, it definitely as help. And you know one thing I had to learn, you know, blocking is a great technique. Also a lot of time blocking is you know, just the one too if you gotta want to, you know, be able to do it. And you know CP as a guy, you know what I've seen that's

you know, he's a great returner. So you know I will be doing a disservice not only to the same but you know to somebody who's a great returner. If I didn't you know, go out there. You know I try and block is if I'm trying to run around and get open. And that's how I just said shut. That's how I approach every blocking, even on offense, if there's an everything for me and make a good block, you know, to help a runner get you know, five or eight or ten or whoever long extra amount of

yards after contact that you know, that's what I'm gonna do. Um, are you open to change? Because you know you look at all the offensive changes in terms of the coaching staff. Granted wide receivers stays the same with with Mike Fury, but how the offense could be structured differently and how your role could could be different with the change. Are

you open to it? I guess from that standpoint. Um, you know, obviously, if the team needed me to and it makes sense, then you know, obviously you know I'd be willing to make a change. But if it's a change you know that I think will help the team. If you know, if it's something else, you know, I don't, we all don't see that I'll be great at or to help. You know, it would makes sense. But if if the change makes sense, then you know I'd definitely be willing to do it. All right, We're gonna let

you go. Jivan. I appreciate you coming on, but I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up some of your bulldogs coming into the league. You know, you want to be in this business someday. You want to be in a communication business, right, so you know, give us a little fuming. Now. You got Jake From, you got the two big offensive line and Andrew Thomas and Isaiah Wilson. You got DeAndre Swift. That's just to name a few before guys on offense that fans might be interested in

knowing about. You know, you just name some great guys. Everybody knows. You know, the headliner is a Jake From and um DeAndre Swift. So I don't need much time speaking on those guys. You know they they are headliners. But Brian Harry and great running back. Um. You know around hard, he's got a run between your face, you will catch the ball. He's a great special teams player. You know, he gave nothing but effort and he's reliable. Um. You know, Andrew Thomas is a great officer a linement.

You know he's uh, he's gonna remind you a lot of Isaiah Wilson. He went to UM. You know, Zay went to the Patriots the years Sony and Jay went to the Patient's first round together, and which is my draft here? And um Charlon Acknlly, you know as a guy, he's he came along and you know he definitely showed how great he can be. Fun Sack. I used to make Soiloman from the same area, so I played Solomon many times in high school basketball. Kids athletic, so are you.

It's an unbelievable crop of offensive weapons coming out of that program list how many years, and you're one of them. So look forward to see you once the offseason program begins. And thanks for taking out some time. Enjoy the rest of your vacation. Oh no problems, Thank you, Thank you guys for having you our pleasure. Javon Wims our gas buster screen coming up at the bottom of the hour, but up next, Tom and Jim and Bears Talk here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy

to score. This segment of Bears All Access is brought to you by Old Spice. Never let a friend lose his swagger, Jeff, Joni Act, Tom there and Jim Miller with you as you break down the Bears in advance of the new league here coming up on the eight team. Lots of issues to break down with the CBA, hoping to get finalized and voted down by the players, and we'll see if it passes. And there's so much conversation about it that we could spend an entire show on it,

but a couple of notes. So much kind of hit the news of the day, guys. But even before I do that, Jim, you had in that conversation with Javon Wims just now you were intimating, okay, if they ask you to make a change, were you buying a position change? No, I just mean open to the offense? Yeah, could he move around? Could he play different positions? Is it going to be looked at differently offensively? Certainly Bill Laser is

going to bring his ideas to the table. I gotta believe John D. Philippo is going to bring his eyes to the table as well. Clancy Barrone is going to have his input. But you know what I mean by that's just how is the offense gonna shift it all? Is it shifting in a different direction if say, maybe tight end isn't addressed, Is there going to be a different outlook of how they structure the offense moving forward in terms here Tom asked him a great question about blocking.

You know, the lack of run game last year. Maybe there's some principles that are going to change and be different from that standpoint. Maybe the whole run scheme is different overall with what Vandcas Steele in the new coaches may implement and how the games are going to be called differently by coach Naggy. So, I mean, I think that's all on the table because you go from twenty six points a game down to sixteen points a game clearly is not good enough, and you have to be

open to change to do some things differently. You know, routes and catches for Givon Wims that everybody understands he's got the size and he's got the attributes you need. So you think of, you know, Taylor Gabriel is gonna move on, do they want to add more size over the across the line of scrimmage and every receiver and you know Javon Wims. The more you get recognized because of the great effort you're putting in in practice, the

more opportunities you're going to create for yourself. So as much as he's lucky to have Mike Fury still here and the consistency of that position coach that knows him. It is about year to year improvement in the eyes of the GM, the scouts, and the position coaches. All right, good, good guy to talk to you, No question about it. The guy is definitely advancing as a player in different aspects of his game. Just gotta fine tune it a

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Bears Nickel Defetterbuster screen. You're one as a Bear Buster, you had said many times, and granted the season didn't work out the way everyone had hoped in terms of playoff aspirations and an eight and eight record, but it was one you enjoyed arguably the most in your NFL career. You still feel that way as you look back at it. Yeah, yeah, go for the playoffs and masks. No. Every team's goal

to go to the playoffs, win the Super Bowl. But I didn't feel like, um, everybody left with a positive vibe, and I'm saying that what we did, but we know, we knew that we could have done better, and we knew the things that we needed to correct in the off season. So go into the off season knowing what you need to correct and being able to get the job done next year. It's always something you can look

forward to. Hey, Buster, when you look at yourself and last year, you look at your free agency of looking around, you look at the hundred year anniversary of the Chicago Bears, you look at all the build up between the Bears and Packers game. Were you a complete Did you know a lot more about the Bears system by the middle end of the season than you did the first week of the season or did you know enough information by the get goal that you are completely comfortable in the

new scheme? Um the scheme I played in this year, it was something Symtil I played and for the Jets and with Dick you're on, I played in Cleveland, so of course of the terminology is different. But uh, you know, I'm a guy. Aggressive guys blitzes and plays man and man covers and I fail like everything that that Chuck called this year sit my steell, sit bluster. J Miller here,

Good to talk to you again. How did you come out of the season in terms of bumps and bruises and how quickly is the turnaround for you when you get back at it to start working out again? No injuries all year? Um, I felt really good. And uh, right after the season, I give myself for a week and I just started back working out. So I started a little low maintenance and then pick it up. But right now I'm in pretty good shape. I like to, you know, stay and shape yet around so I can

hang with the young guys. Yeah, you know you made that clear many many times. That's your thing, right. What was this the first time that you can remember that you didn't have a season of you know, at least something things that you had to attend to. Yeah, So when I play for the Jets, play my whole career with Cleveland, my first to year with the Jets, and then my third deal with the Jets. I actually missed my first game because I broke both of my hands

and missed my shoulder of all in one game. So I mean, just to be able to complete the full year and not miss any games no reps or anything like that. It's so good, but throughout my whole career two games, hey buster, you know it would We couldn't pass up without asking you about some of the stuff that's going on with the collective Bargaining agreement because you're in a different phase of your career. You've been around a couple of teams, you're a veteran, but you're still

a young veteran. Where are you in terms of the information that you know in the collective Bargaining agreement where they're trying to get to you guys? All right? So me as a player, I'm a vet. I know it's um we do sign. If we don't sign this deal, it won't hurt guys like me, the veterans that have been he paid and you know, like the salaries different, and just to be clear, like a little of its

still clouded to me. But from my understanding, if we do sign the other deal where you play eighteen games, the young guys will make less money. So for me, I'm old school, like, let's get the deal done. You know, football is a different sports, a hundred percent injury prone. No other sport is like that. So yes, I believe in protecting the players, but there's a draft every year, people are replaced. It's I just feel like it's so

many of us. I'm all in for protecting the players, but I mean it has to be, you know, fifty fifty thing between the players our owner where it's both fair for each sun well, being the veteran that you are, how do you feel since when you came in the league and I was a part of a two buster, you know, you're sit in the meetings. I remember when Gane Upshaw used to get in front of us when I was a former player, and it could get pretty you know, pretty back and forth, pretty heated pretty quickly.

But that was when the CBA really that was the first deal that ever had even been done in the league. But how informed do you feel as a player in terms of the updates from the players, reps from the NFLPA president Eric Winston, and just the overall flow of information, So you are informed as a player to make a really good decision on your vote. Well, Chase Daniels does a good job of reaching out to all the guys that's the vets to, you know, reach out to the

guys in our position group. But um, like I said, like if you think on the business side of it, if you were an owners, it's hard to there's another sport where where the the roster fleshuates like the NFL roster. So the guarantee certain things I can't see, like why it's not guarantee, but like for me as a player, your health, everything, So I do wish they like benefits

for a little better. But other than that, you know, I love playing the game, like I don't once the game becomes too business like, that's when I'll leave buster screen our guests here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. This is Bearers All Access with Tom Thare, Jim Miller, Jeff Joniac with you with that theme in mind, do you have a sense of where the greater part of the Bears roster feels about this, About this particular deal,

I would saying. So, I haven't talked to like the whole team about it, and I do think we have a younger team. But I can only speak for myself. And if I were to say signed the deal right now, I would probably signed the deal. I mean, there's a reason why most of some owners don't don't want players to sign the dealing. Move on to the eighteen game schedule. So as a player, you have twenty five hundred players verse thirty two owners. I mean whose pockets are deeper

the owners? Exactly. Well, Hey, Buster, I know where you have an event going on with Hugo Boss and you talk about some of the outside things you do outside of football. It seems like you're really engaged, whether it's fitness, businesses or fashion. So what do you what are you guys going on over there with Hugo Boss. So Hugo Boss on Michigan have they dropping the twenty twenty spring collection?

And kay, let me put the event together. One thing versus is help market brands and uh, Hugo Boss being a big client. I mean it's a big event for me and I did one by everyone in Chicago that can show up on Thursday from six to nineteen free during some of these food see some pool clothes, maybe buy some clothes. I just want to But the most important things from it all, all the proceeds, or twenty percent of the proceeds goes to my chariton screen with him. Well,

how'd you get involved in that? Buster, Because hey, football's kind of everybody says it's a career, but it's more of a window till you get onto your career. And this sounds like something you'll be doing maybe once you're playing days are over. Maybe just touch on that a

little bit and how you got involved. Yes, I started it two years ago and part of the the Versatile is a talent agency, so you know a lot of guys and if it was like, hey, my agian does do anything off the field like um, And you know, as a player, if you're not, if you're not the star player, agents aren't really going to go out their way to get the guy who you know, he's not the top four or five guys on the team. So with Versatile does it it's get guys that you know, kind of

float under the radar. Four thousand dollars deals, ten thousand dollar deals, things like that, because you do have that window of playing, so you should maximize the amount of money to break in. But as Versatile continue to grow, I build a lot of relationships with Suddain brands and Human Busses. One of the first time I worked with Hugo boss I was actually a jet and uh, you know, I made my connections through and they trusted me to you know, host the event and put the event together

in Chicago. So I mean, it's gonna be a big night for me. Hopefully you know, it goes as planned, but I'm pretty confident it'll be a good turnout. Buster Screen our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score on Bears All Access. Lastly, before we let you go, Um Screenway itself is the charity, and I know you have the marketing firm aspect of it, and you're you're not just repping you know, athletes, it's it's models and entertain anybody in the in the entertainment business.

Year you're trying to help. Obviously it's a cool thing, but in the in the bigger sense, what does the charity do and what what does it do for you as a as a guy who's got an entrepreneurial spirit as well? Um Screenway, we uh, you know, we help single mothers and children of the league, and I think that's big now dates because the vorce verse is so high. I just feel like the world's a little bit more selfish nowadays with all social media and things like that.

So there are some moms out there on their own, so it's big for me to be able to, you know, give a help in hand, because you never know, like who needs a help in hand and when it can come, you know, at the right time. So anytime I do do a big event, like I make sure, I mean, we help a couple of people out in the area. Hey, if time flies in from Maui and Jim from Michigan, Uh, you know you're gonna set them up with a swag bag from Hugo Boss. I mean, he would look great. Tommy,

you look sadly like I like that. That's a big mark. That's a big brand. I know that you don't roll with anybody anything but the high Roller brand. You know, all closer like I just like clothes that you look well put together. I could get my whole outfit from the grocery store and I still would be happy if it looks great, well good, I'm comple. My wife says, I need all the help I can get. Man, I'll take it what you got. Let's go, Hey, Buster, good

to talk to. Good luck with the event. Always enjoy you on the show. You're one of the good guys in the league and a guy who's got a big picture plan of life. So appreciate you telling us all about it, Buster Screen in the offseason program Buster Screen Bears Defensive Back, filling us in on Bears All Access. We're gonna take a break. Rejoined Tom and Jim after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score final segment tonight a Bears All Access on your Monday night.

Hope it's going well, Jeff, Joni Acolon with Tom there and Jim Miller. We just interviewed Buster Screen and fellas. I always enjoy talking to it because he's gonna give you an honest and an answer, an honest analysis of his own views on things, not just his playing skills and where he's at when he needs to work on, but just overall. Do you think his opinion about the collective barring agreement and what the knowledge is or what it isn't is more in line with a greater number

of players than not. You know, I think if Jeff, it depends on what side of the dividing line you're on. What do you consider in your life financial wealth for the remainder of your life, or what do you consider that building Because there is a difference of opinion, you know, when we sat in that strike and started to have those long term discussions the upper echelon, the upper earners. They were in a whole different frame of mind in this strike, And so I think Buster's got a really

clear view of it. He understands both sides of it. But I do think if you took a majority vote of all the players, they want to get this thing decided and keep this ball rolling. The worst thing that can you can ever do is get one or two guys to try to influence some type of work stoppage, and that is not good for anybody. Yeah, he's an

older player, he's more mature. You know, it's two ends of the spectrum here, a young player like Javon Wims that maybe when you come into the league, you're not married, you don't have kids, and then you know, a ten year vet like Buster Screen, you look at things a little bit different. You know, this collective barnering agreement does have pension increases for retired players, It will have more health benefits for players because ultimately, you know he's going

to be a retired player as well. So I do think your thoughts change and things take on greater meeting. Just the older you get, the more mature, you get and you start thinking about things after football, and certainly your pension increasing significantly is going to be a big part of that. So as a young player, you kind of you just you think you're going to play twenty years and that's just not the case. Again, pro football

is really just a window. It's not a career, you know, It's really a window to your next career and what you will be doing the next twenty thirty years of your life. And and maybe obviously his adventures with Hugo Hugo Boss is something that he'll be doing in the future away from football once he's retired, which which brings you to a topic like Eddie Jackson. For example, Eddie gets a new contract, gets a big contract, as was expected, and an important piece to the Bears future, not just

on defense but as one of the team leaders. Is a guy that people rally around in that locker room. And it's a great debate all the time about YEA, when you're pressure packed of playing for a new deal, when you've got that talent that you don't want to waste financially, and then after the contract, you know, is that pressure bigger? Is it harder? I mean, you can look at it from various ways. How do you guys look at the guys who get the big contracts in

their first crack at it after being drafted. You know, you know, Jeff last year, I think Eddie Jackson had a lot of individual, individual pressure on himself. He knew at what age of his career he was. He knew he had to perform. He knew he had to stay healthy, and he knew he had to keep those eyes opened of all the people that enjoyed what he's done in

the early part of his career. Now the deal is done, you got a lot of pressure on you from the team, and I think it's a different form of pressure because your salary is printed in the paper. Everybody knows what you're gonna make. So now those plays that you were making as an unexpected young guy, now you got to make those same plays as an expected, veteran, paid guy. And I think with it comes expectation and the pressure

to play and play well. And as we know, there's you know, there's only a handful of guys on every team throughout the NFL that are going to get the high tier contracts. Quarterbacks. You know, your market tea go to receiver, etc. Pass rusher. I think everybody's aware of that. You know. It's the other ninety percent of the guys that are that are on the roster that are fighting tooth and nail, and most of those guys are are

the rank and file players, you know. So I think if you just look at this deal overall, I meane, through the high money earners in the NFL need anything more, I think you would say no, you know, so, they may begrudged the fact that they're going to play an extra game. I get it. I think we all get it. But that extra game alone literally could be a quarter of you know, really a quarter of a player's earnings throughout his NFL career for the rank and file members.

When you think about it, they're going to get an extra well, now they didn't even put a cap on it, because it's gonna be over two hundred and fifty grand potentially for that seventeenth game. So it's a big deal. Think about that. If the average career is let's just say four years, so if you were to have a lockout next year, a quarter of a player's playing career, his salary would now avoid So rank and file members

don't want that. They don't want to lose a quarter of their earnings in window that's already really small in terms of earning power, which is a very small window to earn it in Jim, you may have discussed this on your show today, but there are players that you know are vote vocal on Twitter or any of the social media outlets and maybe seek outside opinion of legal perspectives that are not really aligned with the National Football League in terms of a knowledge of what really goes

on in football. It's just general knowledge. Sometimes that can be a dangerous proposition and give a false sense of what the reality of the of the contract that has been put for them to review because it's so detailed and it could be interpreted in many different ways. Did you find that have you talked about that. I've seen it today, you know, from several players around the league

using other sources for explaining the deals. You're all sure, yeah, I mean, but the players set something to do about that. I mean, they're the ones that voted into Borris Smith.

So I mean they only have themselves to blame because they approve that vote, they voted on it, and they have their leader and from that standpoint, I think for any player, probably their best resource is going to be their agent, their representation, because I guarantee you when those agents get that four hundred and fifty six page document, and as I mentioned, when they go to their client and they tell their client, hey, this is a good deal for you. You're the rank and file member of

the NFL. Your salary is going to increase. This is good for you. Now for the high priced, top tier players, they're giving obviously the opposite spectrum, where you know, say a guy's getting a million dollars a game, saying Aaron Rodgers, that's getting a million dollars a game. You know he doesn't want to play another game. And I get it because he can afford to not want to play in another game. But that's not true for all members. So I would think for the players, their best resource has

to be an agent. When you get labor law lawyers like what say Russell o'coon is getting involved with with Garrigos. I mean, then if he feels that Garrigos should run for the NFLPA, hey wait till that votes open and Garrigos can throw his name into the hat and we'll see who the players vote for. At that point, I understand everything's Jeff Jim is saying, and he's got a

good understanding of it. It's you know, I think these guys right now, they're fortunate that they have quicker transfer of communication than we did back And I hate to keep bringing up the old strike that we went through, but you know, these guys, you know, they have a better ability to communicate the information more clearly and get a quicker response from it. Also, all right, let's talk

college draft. Quick note to a tag of Byelowa apparently medically cleared for all football activity after his very serious leggings or excuse me hip injury and expected to throw for teams guys on April ninth. Is that an important moment for this potential top five pick. I definitely think it is. You know, you know, he's obviously gotten positive reviews the whole way. You got a good Mrrive result down at the NFL Combine. But I do think this

is what I'm wondering. He may give a workout on April ninth, but I still think, Jeff that teams are gonna go want to go in and work him out individually. You know, is he cleared for that. Can he do it on back to back days in terms of an intense workout. I don't know if that's going to be the case yet, because this is a significant injury, and there are going to be teams that come to pause of whether they're going to select a player with this

type of significant injury. They are going to have their medical doctors look at it and say, hey, is this going to be a degenerative condition? Does he have seven years to play? Is it eight years to play? Pat brought it up. Pat Kerwin, obviously a former executive, brought up today. I can only recall one player ever coming back from this injury, and it was the linebacker for the Jets, and he said he was out basically two years, and it was Marvin Jones. He did come back and play,

but it's a different position as a linebacker. There's a lot of rotation at the quarterback position in terms of the rotation of your hips. And believe it or not, for the listeners out there, a lot of x NFL quarterbacks they have to have their hips replaced because of that rotation. So what is really the damage or I should say, the degenerative condition of that hip and a lot of it's going to be medically driven by your

team doctors and how his results come back. You know too, Jim and Jeff is every time we talk about a quarterback that's going through a workout or going through his college day, only report that comes back is going, Okay, he was fifty out of fifty six. We had all these passes that we're going to throw. I think this is going to be more of an evaluation of his feet than his arm ability, because you have a countless amount of throws to go back and look at at

a college level. If you think you need that eighteen yard out or this perfectly time pass, his judgment day is gonna be his feet, his drop, his foundation, his ability to, like Jim said, to use his hips, and his throwing motion. So gosh, it's it's kind of strange that we're gonna be evaluating a quarterback more for what he's doing from the waist down rather than from the

shoulders up. All right, I gotta bring it up because it's it's obviously it's becoming a big thing across Europe with the cancelation of sporting events and possibility of having games with no fans. I guess the NBA, MLB, NHL MLS temporarily restricting lockeromaxis for media to interview players keep them as safe as possible with the coronavirus when the when the league year starts, do you guys have any anticipation of what the NFL might be facing here, because

it's all eyes on the NFL all the time. So what they do is is a significant aspect of sports obviously. I mean, isn't that kind of what the world does up into that point? And then as things get closer than you got to start making, you know, more clear headed decisions, and I guess you're just gonna have to, you know, just have It's kind of a wait in sea scenario right now, because you know, it's it's so many months yet to cop Yeah, yeah, well, you know,

I think it's obviously good to be precautionary. I think there's only one hundred cases in the whole United States, and of course there should be worry about it's spreading, but you know, it just everything that I read and information you gather, it's good that it's warming up because I guess that is the one thing in terms of the heat and how the change of the seasons will probably be the best bet to deter the virus as as it currently sits because the warmer it is uh

typically um from flice. From what I gather in what I read about the virus, it really slows it down. So I think it's good to be precautionary. But again, I still think, you know, there's no reason for panic because you know, one hundred cases. I'm not saying it is a good thing by by any means, but I mean it could be a lot worse. But I think the weather changing and heating up will be a big factor in determining and hopefully can can get this thing

going in the right direction. All Right, we got a minute and a half to go. We'll let you guys fly as this week's show coming to a close with Free Agency now at nine days away, any any final thoughts for the home stretch. I know we'll have one more show before that kicks in, but uh, you know, it could be could be delayed. Who knows what the CBA situation. But let's just say for the sake of saying it, it'll all be a clear road. What do

you think you know? To me, it's just the interest in the quarterback position, either the superstars to see where they're going to go, or how these backups are going to filter to these other teams. You know, when you have former Heisman Trophy winners first and second picks in the draft, other experience bets, it's going to be interesting. I think if it gets ratified on Saturday by the players,

look forward to an exciting next week. Things are about to roll and an explode because that tampering window is open, and I think it'll be business as usual in the NFL. All right, Fellas appreciated his own waste for Tom and Jim, I'm Jeff Joniak. Thanks to Javan Wims and Buster Screen as well as our producers, who do you Overseao and Adams DESINSC. Hope you enjoyed the program. We'll talk to you next week on Bears on Access on Chicago Sports

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