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Welcome Evan, everybody, Welcome in Too Bears

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Weekly. We're deep into the NFL scouting combine

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and we are going to be talking all about

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it all night long. Got

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some special guests as well. Great Cosel breaks

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down tape for NFL Films will join

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us. The hot topic is the quarterbacks, of course,

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and also Bruce Feldman, who

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does an outstanding job writing about Cottage football

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for The Athletic and the sideline reporter for

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Fox College Football Saturdays.

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He does a great job and has done a deep dive

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already on a number of these players He's gotten

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to know very well with the course of their respective

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careers. I'm Jeff Jonnyck with Super Bowl winning

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Bears guard town there. Jim Mitill be along from

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the Combine as well. We're up at Hallise Hall.

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I drove back up here because of

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an event. We have tonight up here at Halls Hall. But

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I've been there all week, so we can talk about that in time.

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I know you're watching everything on television

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right now and you're getting

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a lot of good information. But this is

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about quarterbacks. This draft about

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the top three, and then we're the rest fit in and

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potentially the first round. Of course, the Bears are

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the talk of the entire draft. Again, it

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is to.

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You, but I'm a position.

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It is to you, but I'm a position player, so

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I pay attention to a little bit more outside

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just the quarterback position. I

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tell you what, I see a lot of speed, a lot of athleticism.

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I see a lot of physical development. I see

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a lot of guys that aren't shy about getting into

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the weight room, and I'm glad to see

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it because I need to see the reflection

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of commitment by these guys that are invited

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to the combine that this is what

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they want to do for a living. I've seen a

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lot of evidence in the forties

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and some of the drills that the different positions have

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done today.

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Right, the first of the drills today. And now we're joined

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from Indianapolis by former Chicago Bears

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quarterback from Serious x MNFL radios, moving the

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chains, Jim Miller here for a couple of segments.

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He's got a big dinner tonight with the entire crew

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from Serious Exam. It's a big night

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for you and it's been a busy few days.

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What have you what have you learned so far and certainly

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how it pertains to the Bears.

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Jimmy, Yeah, obviously, you know,

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you do wonder about the future of the combine

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when certain players won't be doing all the testing

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and some won't even be doing the medicals.

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Believe it or not. That's what the combine

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was formed to do, was get the medicals

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on all the players where teams, you

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know, can submit that information abroad

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to all thirty two teams. But I think

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Tom kind of nailed it. I think you're seeing the you

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know, the athoticism of the edge rushers,

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the big defensive lineman that got on the field

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today. So there was a lot of buzz because you

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start to see the numbers that Braden

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Fisk from Florida State. What

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a show that that guy put on and Pat

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and I interviewed that kid. Seventy one games

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in college, five years at Western Michigan,

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transfers to Florida State. The guy

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missed one game, he missed four practices

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total, and he actually put on a show

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today four seven eight and is forty.

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He's a very explosive player, very

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productive and really, you know, he's right there

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in Michigan City, you know, just down the street

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from the Chicago Bears. He just wonder if they want

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an explosive free technique. This guy has

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literally checked every box from

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the Reese's Senior Bowl to what

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he did here today at the Annapolis

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Combine. I just saw the recent numbers of

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Dallas Turner, the edge rusher. My

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goodness, what he posted today. But again,

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you got to be able to play football all the

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tape factors in. But you know, there

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are a lot of different things that are unfolding

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here at the Combine that are not traditional

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and things have been done differently than in the past.

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Hey, Jim, I asked Jeff this question. I'd like to

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hear your answer because last year there was so much

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conversation about Bryce Young.

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CJ.

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Stroud in the quarterback position almost

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at sometimes sometimes

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and I get a kick out of watching the rest of the position

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players and to see their performance

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in the combine. And then you think about

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what the narrative, what the conversation

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has been about the quarterback position this year.

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Is it any different this year than it was last

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year?

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Just because the amount of quarterbacks they have

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at the upper upper

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side of the scale.

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Yeah, yeah, well I agree with you, Tom, I think

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this year is a little bit different. Yeah, quarterbacks

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always drive drafts, but you look at

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the guys that are out there available on the free

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agent market. I don't even think since

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when I played there have been this many

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guys available. You've got Ryan

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Tannehill, you know, you know, a

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player like Russell Wilson is expected

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to be released. You've got you know, other

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players that are out there that come with the

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extensive playing time. Gardner Minshew,

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he's available on the open market. Kirk

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Cousins is available on the open

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market. So just the volume of

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quarterbacks in free agency

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and what the draft is going to supply is

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a lot different than what has been in the past.

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And as we know, sixty

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eight new starting quarterbacks

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had to start games this year. So much

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so that the NFL already came out today

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and Troy Vincent, they're at three forty

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five Park Avenue in New York, said that they

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want to change the grounding rule because they

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know it's a problem because if your quarterback

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gets hurt, it's going to affect the outcome

5:22

of games and the play is going to significantly

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drop for teams that have an opportunity to

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compete. So very interesting year all

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around what's considered to really protect

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these quarterbacks and what's available

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out there to make your team better, you.

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Know, Jim, another topic that has interested me because

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not only are paying attention to the Combine, but paying

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attention to the NFL over the last

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few weeks. But now it kind of picked

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up a little speed here at the combine. I've

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never heard the conversation quicker

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about coaches being on a hot seat because

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they got Belichick and Vrabel and some of the

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other guys waiting in the wings for their

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coaching opportunities.

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So it's almost like a combination.

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If they don't get the draft right there converged

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to performance and development at a high level,

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you could see guys that are in jeopardy already

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are losing their job, and for me, it's kind

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of a weird topic to being brought up at the

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combine when this should be about the

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players and not a coaching future.

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Yeah, but I think we know that that window

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gets smaller every year, and it's not just for

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the coaches. I think it's for the general manager.

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Certainly, a guy like Bill Belichick with

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his success, you know you're

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gonna, you know, got to respect

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to him and what he's done. You know

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you're gonna want him to see it through. But

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you've got new bee coaches, and I think

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we know the reasons why. I look it down there in Carolina

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with Dave Kanellis who was just hired there,

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not a lot of guys would have taken that job. It's

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not an acceptable job, you

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know, with what they've done and how impatient

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the owner has been, and so it's

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just not an attractive job, and typically

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that guy wants to win. Now, these owners

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are aggressive, they don't have patients,

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and that's why he's already gone through four new head coaches.

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And I think that that's truly a new trend around the

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NFL as well. Think of the new owners out in

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Denver. I mean, they

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signed the contract for Russell Wilson

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and then brought on Sean

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Payton. All right. If I'm the owner,

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I'd be like, dude, that's why I brought you in here is

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to fix the quarterback, all right. And this is

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a guy who's played at a high level, and it sounds

7:18

like they're already to cut ties. So impatience

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is at an all time high. Whether it's a veteran

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coach in Sean Payton or whether it's

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a rookie coach like Dave knelis.

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Where the impatience is is at the

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most important spot, offensive

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coordinator. Since twenty twenty one,

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every offensive coordinator has

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changed, and gonna

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be is that insane? I mean, we bring

7:42

it up with with co

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Sale, great coach selling. Are any of you coming up here a bit

7:47

later. I'm just stunned by that every

7:50

single coordinator

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has changed. Now, they may have been rehired

7:55

by somebody else from that group, but Jim, when

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you're talking about QB and offense

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is taken several years to really

8:02

digest, get understood, and you're

8:04

changing languages constantly. It flies in

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the face of all the discussion

8:09

we have about guys like Peyton Manning,

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who had the same offense for all those years, and

8:13

and Aaron Rodgers and Green all these different

8:16

offenses where quarterbacks flourished

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in because you took your time with them

8:20

and you didn't have all this change. It's

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not good for the sport. It's not good for

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offense, not good for these quarterbacks who

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you know, we beat them up

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when they don't do well, but maybe in part

8:31

because we're not patient with the offensive coordinators

8:34

that are teaching them.

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No, I agree with that, Jeff, because you

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know that's never good on a young quarterback's

8:40

career, or when you're constantly changing offensive

8:43

coordinators. One coach coaches it one way,

8:45

another coach coaches it a different way. They've

8:48

got different schemes, different philosophies,

8:50

different terminologies that you've said

8:52

and discussed and really just you

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know, laid out right there. When these

8:57

old coordinators need to adjust to the

8:59

talent that they have and gear the

9:01

offense to the talents

9:03

of the players that they have, and you

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don't see that. This is a lot of cookie

9:08

cutter stuff where it doesn't work out.

9:10

Let's move on. Let's get another guy in here,

9:12

and he's gonna want to do it his way. Here's what

9:14

he believes in. And you look at a guy like

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Alex Smith, who I bring up all the time. He had

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nine different offensive coordinators

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as the quarterback for the

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San Francisco forty nine ers. All Right,

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he moves on to Andy Reid, and by the way, he

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took them as the first number one overall pick

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to a championship game. Andy

9:33

Reid identified the talent they trade

9:36

for him. Thus they win the

9:38

AFC West Championship before they

9:40

ended up going to Patrick Mahomes.

9:42

All right, by then, he had been through the

9:45

gauntlet, He had been through every system,

9:47

he had learned everything. It was a school of hard knocks

9:49

for him, and it's just never a productive

9:51

way to go about it. I think we all acknowledge

9:54

Alex Smith ultimately had a good career,

9:56

but it was a rough start. Man for all the reasons

9:59

that you just mentioned. That guy was just going

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through offense after offense and never

10:03

could settle in. He was constantly

10:06

learning the new offense, having to get on

10:08

the same page with the new coach, when really

10:10

the coach really needs to gear the offense

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to the players that they have.

10:14

By the way, Braden fisks forty faster than

10:16

Patrick Mahomes ran at the combine.

10:19

I just find that amazing for the

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red shirt senior transfer to FSU

10:24

from Western Michigan. All right, Jim, I'm going to take a break. We'll have

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one more segment with you with Tom Fair. I'm Jeff

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Indianapolis taking care

10:55

of combine duty. We're headed back there tomorrow

10:58

to here quarterback Caleb william and

11:00

Drake May and Jayden Daniels

11:02

and all those guys that Jim the Lion

11:05

to get in. There is going to be interesting.

11:08

People are saying this is going to start showing up at five am.

11:11

Because if

11:13

people can understand in the old days, you

11:16

know, you'd get one or two guys and you'd

11:18

have a lot of room to operate and you can actually

11:20

ask questions. But now they

11:22

bring in ten or twelve players

11:25

at once and you

11:27

have to pick your your lane. But the

11:30

crowd will be around Caleb Williams,

11:32

that's just the fact of the matter. And there's TV

11:34

cameras and a lot

11:36

of reporters and you're not going to be able to even

11:38

hear what he has to say, so you may have to wait to hear

11:41

it later. But what are your expectations.

11:43

What kind of questions do you think he's going to get?

11:46

Yeah, I think you're going to get a ton of questions

11:48

one and it's just totally different now, Jeff, I

11:51

think about when I first started with Serious, there

11:53

were only two hundred and fifty credentials

11:56

offered by the NFL. Now there's over

11:58

twelve, over two thousand media credentials

12:01

that are approved by the NFL. Because this

12:03

has became now a TV event, right

12:06

and the media comes down here and it's

12:08

it's a big event, and now they're broadcasting

12:11

it on TV and it's somewhat must

12:13

watch a TV But yeah, I

12:15

do think everybody's going to surround Caleb Williams.

12:17

You know, he is projected to be the number one

12:19

overall quarterback taken. I

12:22

do think he's been well prepped, much

12:25

like his the release of the statement the other

12:27

day about how much he, you know, would love to be

12:29

drafted by Chicago and he's talking about deep

12:32

Tis Pizza and Sirius Tower,

12:34

and you know, somebody prepped him.

12:36

You know, somebody prepped him to

12:38

say the things that he did. And I think he'll be prepped

12:41

tomorrow and very polished with how

12:43

he deals with the media. He's not going to

12:45

show his cards and we know he's not going

12:47

to do a lot down here, but the media

12:49

is part of it because his camp wants

12:51

him to have his story told. And that's just part of

12:53

the test match that goes in to the NFL

12:56

draft nowadays.

12:57

Ask each of you want to start with Tom and then Jim pick

12:59

it up, pick up the baton. What do you need

13:01

to hear from him? Sylvia and Wado asked me

13:03

that same question. I said, I want to see

13:06

and hear the depth of his love of the game.

13:08

And sometimes that can't be rehearsed,

13:11

it's just comes out organically. What do you want to hear?

13:13

You know he started and now he's put

13:16

that ball in motion.

13:16

I don't know if there's any injury concerns throughout

13:19

his college career that we should be concerned about.

13:21

Is he trying to hide something

13:24

that's been bothering him. Is that why he doesn't

13:26

want to do the medical Does he just not want to take

13:29

that time up. So I would be interesting

13:31

to, you know, just hear it from him, to say

13:33

if there's any concerns about

13:36

you know, any any issues that may come

13:38

up in the future. I don't know if he'll answer him honestly,

13:41

but I would like to know that. But you

13:43

know, I'm I think, like Jim said, he's been prepped

13:45

to talk enthusiastically about any of

13:47

the top cities that are up up in this draft,

13:50

and you know, I don't think that

13:52

he'll you know, you can ask him a question

13:54

to really get an honest answer out of him. But just

13:57

because now I have medical medical concerns,

14:00

if he's not willing to stand in front of an

14:02

X ray machine or get tested

14:04

by the doctors when they look at your knee

14:06

manipulation and the other things.

14:08

They do, well,

14:10

I think from his standpoint, that's a big mistake

14:13

because as we know, they always have the

14:15

medical rechecks, and at some point

14:17

he's going to have to give the medicals to all the teams

14:19

that potentially would be interested in

14:22

him. There's no team that's going

14:24

to sign off on just drafting him without

14:26

having the medical. And so if

14:28

this is unprecedented for a player

14:30

to do this, this could be unprecedented

14:33

for a team that says, hey, you don't give us some

14:35

medical or taking you off our board. And

14:37

I hate to be as blunt as that, but your

14:39

body is your resume, quite frankly,

14:42

and teams need to push back a little

14:44

bit because that's what this Indianapolis

14:47

combine was designed for. But any

14:49

one of those teams that potentially and obviously

14:51

the Bears are in the number one pole position to

14:54

do it, they're going to get the medical and

14:56

they will put him through a workout whether he

14:59

likes it or not, because if he doesn't, then

15:01

they may take him off their board too, No different

15:03

than any other team, because those are what the fact

15:06

finding, mission guided discovery

15:08

that teams are looking for when they were to make

15:11

that type of investment into a player

15:13

who was refusing to do so.

15:14

Jim, have you altered any of your thinking

15:17

on any of the top quarterbacks, and that

15:19

includes like JJ McCarthy and Michael Penis

15:21

and Bone Knicks, not just the big

15:24

three that we're all discussing that could go one, two, three

15:26

in the draft. Because

15:28

of who you've spoken to scouts

15:31

or your own analysis of the tape

15:33

and just your research.

15:34

Yeah, I think Jayden Daniels is going to

15:36

leap frog Drake May and like

15:39

getting him from North Carolina. Yeah, I do think

15:41

you will. I think teams are really

15:43

he in order the way I

15:45

hear it from teams, they look at him

15:48

as another Lamar Jackson, who's

15:50

what a two time league MVP now right,

15:52

So that's the feeling

15:54

they're getting about Jayden Daniels.

15:57

I do think Michael Pennix is going to be big

16:00

on the medical but I do think he will

16:02

go in the first round. I'm somewhat surprised

16:05

at how high a lot of teams look

16:07

at JJ McCarthy from University

16:10

Michigan. A lot of teams have him in the

16:12

top twenty right now, which

16:14

surprises me. I personally don't

16:16

rate him that high, and not that I don't like him,

16:19

but I just think that's too high for him. I

16:21

think he's more of a system guy on

16:23

a very talented team in my opinion.

16:25

But a lot of people will go back and say, well, go

16:27

look at the TCU game with him. He threw it

16:29

all over the lot. Michigan

16:32

has eighteen players down here at the Combine.

16:34

They are a very good football team. I

16:37

personally think he's overrated, and I think

16:39

if you look at a guy like bo Nicks, I

16:41

don't think he's going in the first round. I

16:44

think he's a six year player who's kind

16:46

of at his ceiling right now. You know he's

16:48

got sixty one games played

16:50

in college, so I think you

16:53

know you've seen him at his best.

16:56

But Michael Pennix's guy I'm interested

16:58

in. I think his medicals, if

17:00

they prove true, I think he's a guy you'd

17:03

want to take in the first round. So I see probably

17:05

five guys going in the first round.

17:07

And lastly, before we let you going off, Tom

17:09

ask one more question as well. But in

17:11

terms of everything else, is

17:14

there a position group that you're most

17:16

intrigued watching? And you're watching

17:18

certainly the stuff today from the defensive line

17:20

and linebacker level that you really

17:22

want to see. I know we're going to watch those quarterbacks

17:25

on Saturday but any group that you need

17:27

to see to verify some things

17:29

or to push up, especially

17:31

as it pertains to the Bears, who you know, I would

17:33

think edge safety, not

17:36

not that they won't fill those needs in free agency,

17:38

but receiver, those

17:40

type of things.

17:41

Yeah, I think receivers. You know, there's

17:43

all kinds of good receivers and they come in all

17:45

sizes that seem to be that seems to be the

17:48

case the past few years. I am interested

17:50

in these pass rushers. One specifically

17:53

is the Missouri kid Darius Robinson,

17:55

who ran I think to four to nine to one today

17:58

at two hundred and eighty seven pounds.

18:01

I mean, this guy is like to me, he's

18:03

like a Cam Jordan type of player.

18:05

I think he's unique. I do think there

18:08

are linebackers there. You're unique.

18:10

And I do think there are a lot of big corners

18:12

in this draft. A lot of big corners

18:15

in this draft, So that intrigues me. An

18:18

offensive tackle, this is a good offensive

18:20

line draft, you know. For Michael Haynes, I

18:22

think I brought him up from yukon the Garden. There's

18:24

good centers here. I think the Bears are positioned

18:27

a draft a good center. Powers

18:29

Johnson out there from Oregon is one

18:31

to really keep your eye on. But a lot

18:33

of good centers, a lot of good tackles, and

18:35

some good guards so o line corner

18:39

or pass rusher I think are interesting.

18:41

I think all areas that should interest the Chicago

18:44

Bears.

18:44

You know, Jim, when you look at the tight end position

18:46

and all the job requirement of that position

18:49

in today's modern day game, you

18:52

know, sometimes I find it difficult to see a

18:54

solid evaluation of what the upside

18:56

of is the of these tight ends. You

18:58

know, you got bowers from origins and

19:01

young kid kids like that. But is

19:03

there a group of tight ends here that, when

19:05

we talked about it last week, that Bears maybe

19:08

should be interested in getting one similar to

19:10

the template of Cole kmet

19:13

in the versatility. Is there

19:15

a talent amongst this group of guys?

19:18

Oh yeah, I think if you look at Ben Sinnett

19:20

from K State, check out this guy. I

19:22

mean, this guy walks on at K

19:24

State, He's got a full ride to South Dakota.

19:27

He walks on to K State. He tells his dad,

19:29

dad, I'm gonna earn a scholarship in a year,

19:32

And his dad's like, hey, man, why don't he just take South

19:34

Dakota that way, I don't got to pay a year of

19:36

school, right, So he says, Dad, I'll earn a

19:38

scholarship in the year, goes to k State,

19:41

gains forty pounds, earns a scholarship

19:44

in his first year. And this dude's a

19:46

player. He's a player. He's a movement

19:48

tight end. He's gonna get better at

19:51

his inline stuff. But this guy has

19:53

earned it everywhere he's played. And

19:55

he, like I said, he walked on and he would

19:57

he was not a big guy. He said he's got the cle He

20:00

did his first day and said, I thought

20:02

I made a mistake, but he said, I'm going to see

20:04

it through. And he made a promise to his

20:06

dad and he filled it. The other guy

20:09

is Theo Johnson from Penn State Legit

20:11

six six, two fifty seven. You

20:13

should hear the story of his family.

20:16

Crazy moms from their husband

20:18

was abusing her. She took their six

20:20

kids, walked away from the marriage. She now

20:22

has become a lawyer. I talked to

20:24

this young man today. He's the real

20:26

deal and he can do it all. And he's got

20:29

the frame, the character, the discipline,

20:31

the drive. Everything you're looking for.

20:34

He's a very interesting guy that I'm sure a

20:36

lot of teams want to coach.

20:38

Yeah, I was there listening to that story and

20:40

he was so he says, I am proud

20:43

to be here. My mom did everything

20:45

for us. They were homeless for a long while

20:47

and and everybody

20:50

in the family is on its way to having

20:52

successful life. And she's a partner in the law firm.

20:54

You got that one last thing.

20:55

I will just say that, Senat because you talk about

20:57

the template of Colecombett. You know, in high school

20:59

letter and base golf, tennis, track and

21:01

hockey, So you talk about athleticism,

21:04

versatility.

21:05

He's got a little bit of in his athletic background.

21:07

All Right, big Jim, I know you got a big den. Where are you going

21:09

tonight?

21:10

We're going to Tony's Nice Little

21:12

Tony don't know.

21:14

It, don't know it never been well. You

21:16

guys have a great time. You guys have a lot to celebrate.

21:19

It's been a heck of a run with everything

21:21

you guys have done here in the off season, with

21:24

the Senior Bowl, Super Bowl, now

21:27

this, then the Pro Days, then the Draft.

21:29

You guys work hard over there. We'll see you up there again.

21:31

I'll be back tomorrow, guys.

21:32

Good to be with you, all right.

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and Tom Thayer. Interesting stuff from Big Jim

22:15

Miller, as he always has a unique perspective.

22:17

He talks to so many of these guys every

22:19

single day. And I was

22:22

watching him yesterday. He's on his

22:24

set, they're doing morning interviews for their afternoon

22:26

show. But then he's walking around

22:29

and he's just talking with coaches,

22:32

executives, and it's just a constant. This

22:34

is what it is during the period of time you're

22:36

available. And in the old days it

22:39

was all day. Now they've taken

22:41

these interviews Tom and they're twenty minute

22:44

chunks of groups of players, and

22:46

so one day it may start at eight am and be

22:48

done by noon. Today it started

22:50

at nine am and was done

22:52

by eleven thirty. And it's really

22:55

condensed the time the players have to be available,

22:58

and it creates than

23:00

a day of constant search for other information,

23:03

and the halls are lined up with reporters

23:05

trying to snag somebody to find out a nugget,

23:08

and that's what it's become, camping out looking

23:10

for info.

23:11

Yeah, you know, you think of every interview Jim starts

23:13

with the background of being a quarterback. In

23:15

no matter what player, what

23:17

position coach you're talking to, what player

23:20

you're getting ready to talk to, it's

23:22

always, you know, comes from the Jim's

23:24

ideals from a quarterback and how it fits

23:27

along to the different position and

23:29

position coaches that he gets to talk to. So

23:31

he has, you know, it has a different an

23:34

interesting take on it, just like I would

23:36

have the same as an ex offensive lineman if

23:38

I was talking to linebackers, defensive

23:40

linemen. You know, different members of different

23:42

coaching staffs. I would have different thought processes

23:45

as well. But you know, Jim's got a ton

23:47

of experience of you know, talking to

23:49

a lot of different people in.

23:50

The league, don't I don't think we're talking about tackles

23:52

enough. I mean, these tackles do these

23:55

tackles are a really good times? Let's say they are very

23:57

good. Resumes they project to

23:59

being very good. Everything's a projection, obviously,

24:02

but that are there could be seven

24:04

or eight first round tackles.

24:05

Well, well, you know, you know, taking the consideration

24:08

right now, what's the second most important position

24:10

that Bears have to get right this year? And

24:13

when you consider free agency in the draft,

24:15

and it's probably center. And we won't

24:17

talk about center Jeff until the third day

24:19

of the draft, which is a shame.

24:21

But I think you know it's a Now,

24:23

this is a question for you you and know

24:25

better. So, whomever

24:28

the quarterback is for

24:31

the Bears starting Week one, do you want a rookie center

24:33

or do you want a veteran center to take some of the

24:35

load off the quarterback.

24:36

That's not a prerequisite for me, okay,

24:39

I want a talented center that throws

24:41

a really efficient shotgun snap back.

24:43

Considering what percentage of the time you're

24:45

in a shotgun offense nowadays.

24:48

I want a guy that has the ability

24:50

to be a leader immediately.

24:52

I don't want to I don't want a shy, passive

24:54

center.

24:55

I want a guy that comes in here that has a

24:57

type a personality with an

24:59

attitude, and a guy that is

25:01

familiar with the weight room. You know, I was

25:03

talking to someone about something. You know

25:05

what they said, what's a different evaluation

25:08

you would do uh with a guy.

25:10

If you wanted to get to know him a little bit better.

25:12

And I would take an offensive lineman, I would take

25:14

a position player, and I would take him in the weight room

25:16

and I would know. I would say this, put

25:18

one eighty five on the bar for me in

25:21

and now if they got to okay, that's

25:23

a forty five on each side, and then you got

25:25

to put a twenty.

25:26

That was you know.

25:27

So I want to see how repetitiously

25:29

you've been in that weight room to tell me

25:32

a little bit about the reason why you're here.

25:34

If if again, if your need information

25:37

fed to you about how to work in a weight room,

25:39

that tells me a little bit about your off season preparation.

25:42

So if I have a center and I have

25:44

a guy I want, I'm concerned about his

25:46

two twenty five reps. I'm concerned

25:48

not necessarily his forty. I'm concerned about

25:51

his ten. I'm concerned about

25:53

his his vertical jump.

25:56

You know.

25:56

So the explosive aspects

25:58

of those type of judgmented

26:00

players is what I'm interested in.

26:02

Yeah, I'd be nervous sitting with you in

26:04

an interview because I'll tell you what your demands

26:07

are going to be different, and they're going to be football related

26:09

and not going to be any you know. I'm saying

26:11

this in in a positive way and a compliment

26:14

to you, because you would

26:17

you'd get right in there with them and you'd mix it up

26:19

a little bit. You know.

26:20

It's like I would say,

26:22

I just want to see how well they know their way around

26:24

the room.

26:24

Yeah, well, you know, these guys all have trainers that

26:26

are loading those bars, so I don't know if they can I

26:28

don't know if they're computing.

26:30

Listen, as much

26:32

time throughout your high school and your college career

26:34

that you spent in a weight room, you become so

26:36

familiar with way to add it up from

26:38

the forty five to the thirty five, to the twenty

26:40

five to the ten, the five, and the two and a half.

26:43

You can ask me any combination.

26:45

Of what you want onto a bar, and I

26:47

can go in and put it on in a second's notice.

26:50

If you've got to sit there and do it with a.

26:52

Calculator, you're telling me all I need

26:54

to know about your investment in the weight room.

26:56

Great Coachsel does great work for NFL films.

26:58

He's breaking down video and

27:01

game tape he's done at his entire career.

27:03

I ran in into this morning in Indianapolis

27:06

to talk quarterbacks and other things.

27:07

I mean, obviously, you know you have Kaylee Williams,

27:09

you have Drake may have Jaye Daniels. They are the guys

27:12

being talked about right now, is you

27:14

know the top guys. You

27:17

know, I think all of them have really

27:19

positive traits and and are good prospects.

27:22

And you know, I always think in terms of these guys as prospects.

27:24

Until a guy plays in the NFL, it's hard for me to

27:26

talk about them as anything more. You

27:28

know, we've seen in the past when players

27:30

are talked about generational and

27:32

that kind of stuff, and you know, it doesn't necessarily

27:35

work out because it's it's a little

27:37

harder in the NFL than it is in college.

27:40

You know.

27:40

I think Williams is a really interesting guy.

27:44

You know, he's clearly gifted, clearly

27:48

gifted, controls

27:50

the ball really well. He's an easy thrower of the football,

27:53

obviously, can make wow plays above

27:55

the x's and o's and off script. You

27:59

know, played enough that doesn't necessarily

28:01

translate really well to the league. So

28:03

on tape you probably didn't see as much,

28:07

you know, timing rhythm, throws, hit the back football,

28:09

come out his own window, throws,

28:11

things that you have to do in the league. My guess

28:14

is he's more than capable of doing that, but

28:16

you still would like to see it more and

28:19

then so you don't know until

28:21

you see until you see it.

28:24

You know.

28:24

I think Drake May, I think

28:27

he'll wow people a little bit because he's going to

28:29

be so big. You know, he's going to be not

28:31

quite as big as Josh Allen or Justin Herbert,

28:34

but kind of like that. So I think

28:36

he'll be an impressive physical

28:38

specimen and he's a.

28:39

Great athlete for that size.

28:41

He's a very easy thrower of the football.

28:44

It's like Joe Burrow with a better arm, like he

28:46

throws it very easily. But

28:48

he's got a few concerns on tape, you know. I think

28:50

he misses a few too many easy ones.

28:53

I think he drifts a little bit in the pocket, which

28:55

causes some problems for him. But

28:58

somebody's gonna look at his traits and sizes

29:00

a trait and they're going to feel like

29:02

this guy is has

29:05

what it takes, and you know,

29:07

whether he's ready to play week one. That's

29:09

that there's ten different variables

29:11

that come into play there. Jaden

29:13

Daniels is a guy that's really really grown

29:16

on me. I watched him last summer from twenty twenty

29:18

two. I've watched a ton of him from twenty twenty

29:20

three. I actually spoke to someone who

29:22

said he's up to two twelve. I don't know what

29:24

the numbers are. We'll find out, you know,

29:26

at some point here soon, you

29:29

know, because obviously there are people concerned about his bill

29:31

that he was, you know, lean, and

29:33

obviously he's not as great

29:35

a runner as he is. I think one of the things that's

29:38

really impressive about him

29:40

is he just uses that as a parachute.

29:42

He doesn't drop back and look to run. That's

29:44

his last resort. So you

29:47

know, he's really comfortable.

29:48

In the pocket.

29:49

He's got good mechanics, good technique,

29:51

not a gun, but can make every throw. I

29:54

think there's enough on film

29:56

with him that shows that he can make the

29:58

kinds of throws you need to making the NFL. To

30:02

me, he's kind of an ascending guy. And

30:04

I heard I actually spoke to a coach who

30:07

interviewed him and said he's super impressive

30:09

as a kid, like super impressive, like you

30:11

want him in your quarterback room. So you

30:13

know, those are the main three guys.

30:16

I guess the big question is no,

30:18

no, no, no. The big question is who

30:21

jumps into that now number four

30:23

out of those, you know, because it's

30:26

a lot of taste, whatever your tast After that.

30:28

You're starting to get into scheme

30:31

adaptability, coach, who

30:33

a coach feels runs their system,

30:35

you know, at a higher level.

30:38

And then you know, I don't think anybody

30:41

next is going to be a top

30:43

ten guy in my view. You

30:46

know, I particularly like bo Nicks

30:48

as someone who you know, but he's a scheme

30:50

guy. I mean, I think he's an efficient player

30:53

with movement ability. Some

30:56

might like JJ McCarthy because of what

30:58

he was in college her and an

31:01

NFL system at a relatively high level.

31:04

I don't think his traits on tape

31:06

are really high level, but you

31:09

know, he's he

31:11

played at a high level in college football and

31:14

ran a system really well.

31:17

And won a national championship with

31:19

seventeen of his teammates. At the scouting

31:21

combine, I cut that short a little bit

31:24

to give you a moment to talk about it before we go to break,

31:26

But we were walking and talking,

31:28

so there's no notes that he knows

31:30

it cold like. It was a very fascinating

31:32

interview. I talked him for like twenty minutes and went

31:35

deep dive on everybody.

31:36

Yeah, you know, so if you look at the three quarterbacks,

31:38

and you know, you look at Caleb Williams, Caleb

31:41

Williams reminds me of a guy like Lincoln

31:43

Riley always counted on him as a bailout.

31:46

He'll bail me out quarterback. He didn't

31:48

have great receivers, he didn't have great offensive

31:50

line, but Caleb will make a play that.

31:52

Is going to get us out of this.

31:54

The worst game that he played was probably Notre

31:56

Dame game when he tried to do too much, but I

31:58

still believe in Cable Caleb Williams and

32:00

his throwing ability.

32:01

When you look at Drake.

32:02

May, the thing that concerns me about him, you though

32:05

he's a big, strong guy, he never has

32:07

the right foundation of his feet and he counts

32:10

on his arm to get the job done.

32:11

I think if you don't.

32:12

Have a solid throwing foundation, you

32:15

create inaccuracies in your own

32:17

decision making process of trying to

32:19

throw the ball. And one thing about Daniels from

32:21

LSU, He's lived under the pressure

32:23

of one of the most pressurized coaches in all

32:25

of college football, and that's Brian Kelly.

32:28

I think one of the biggest things that you can learn

32:30

on how to handle pressure is when you have

32:32

a coach like Brian Kelly and the mount of pressure

32:35

that he puts on you to be successful.

32:37

And started with Herman Edwards in Arizona

32:39

State before transferring to LSU and having

32:41

that long crease played a lot of football at

32:43

the college level. When we come back, we'll have more

32:46

on the combine from Bruce Feldman. He

32:48

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33:16

We're trying to get a lot of opinions, a lot

33:18

of thoughts about the quarterbacks. And

33:21

I was impressed with some of the writers

33:23

from around the country and the football enthusiasts

33:26

that are covering the sport, because all of them are not

33:29

pure writers. They're football analysts that have

33:31

podcasts or whatever. But a lot

33:33

of these guys asking the teammates

33:36

or the opponents of Caleb Williams

33:38

and Drake May how they defended them Tommy

33:40

throughout the course of their careers,

33:43

and the different respect and for Caleb

33:46

Williams. In the case of Caleb Williams, it was

33:48

got to keep him in the pocket, otherwise he's

33:50

going to kill you. And just that mobility,

33:53

the second reactive

33:55

throws that he could make off

33:58

off schedule and off and

34:00

a magician back there, So that was consistent.

34:03

And then with Drake May just you

34:06

know, he's he's got a laser and

34:08

he just he does not he's

34:10

not afraid of ripping off a pass

34:12

and he'll fit it in the tight windows. And

34:14

everybody respecting what Jaden

34:16

Daniels over the course of his careers

34:19

grown into. So that's from players,

34:22

and I think we're hearing a lot of that too from the media.

34:24

And then of course the discussion about,

34:27

you know, justin fields and what's going to

34:29

happen there, that's the other main topic. It's

34:31

a topic every single minute up there.

34:33

What's going to happen? What will the Bears

34:35

do well?

34:36

I think it's a wise approach to go and evaluate

34:38

the mindset of players that played

34:40

against him. But if you go back and you look

34:43

at the teams that has had success against

34:45

Patrick Mahomes since he's been in the NFL,

34:47

and it's pressuring him inside the pocket

34:49

and making him getting a retreat position, and

34:52

then that's when you try to make him make sacrifices

34:55

in his accuracy in locating a

34:57

target. And I don't you know, maybe

34:59

that's the same thing Caleb Williams is

35:01

going to face throughout his NFL career is

35:03

being you know, having you know, these

35:05

guys to keep them inside the pocket. But what happens

35:07

you face a team that has a deficiency

35:10

in closing the ranks around a pocket

35:12

and he's able to use his fluidity

35:15

to find targets to get outside

35:17

the offense and open up

35:19

an offense that's more designed to you

35:22

know, hit what he sees and everything. So,

35:24

you know, any any of the quarterbacks,

35:27

you're gonna go out and you're evaluate the players

35:29

that played against them, and they're going to tell you something

35:31

different about each one.

35:32

Yeah, and how they their scheme,

35:34

how they prepared for him also, so that was

35:36

also very different how they chose to defend

35:39

these players. Also, you

35:41

just hit upon something that I'm

35:43

answering every question at the combine. I've

35:45

done a lot of interviews national well,

35:47

other teams, whatever, and you

35:50

know, what are the what's your focus

35:52

beyond the court line of scrimmage remains

35:54

because if you're talking about playoff

35:57

football, what we saw and we

35:59

texted each other these things, it's

36:01

it's it's pressure. If you can't protect your

36:03

quarterback late in the season

36:05

to get into the playoffs or in the playoffs,

36:08

like you're referring to it, Patrick Mahomes

36:10

against uh you know a

36:12

couple of years ago when the when the Tampa BA Tampa

36:15

Bay was ferocious, and if

36:17

you can't apply pressure that gets

36:19

home, you're gonna lose well,

36:21

So that is important.

36:22

Go and look at some of the games that the Bears played this year,

36:25

Tampa and Tampa. They weren't able to close

36:27

a line of scrimmage and they got beat down there Kansas

36:29

City. In Kansas City, they weren't able

36:31

to stop the line of scrimmage and block

36:34

Chris Jones even though he just came aboard

36:36

and the rest of their defensive lineman, and you saw

36:39

the end results of it. But you know, you have to think

36:41

about within your own division if you can't

36:43

go out there and put up a pass

36:47

blocking force against Green Bay Packers.

36:49

Because the Bears have run the ball pretty

36:51

well against Green Bay, but eventually

36:53

they're gonna have to match wits with Jordan Love

36:55

and that's gonna be about pass protection in

36:58

getting your receivers.

36:59

Out into the open, all right.

37:00

This conversation I had with Bruce Feldman

37:02

again, he writes for the athletic college football. He

37:05

is very popular for his Feldman freaks,

37:07

the unbelievable athletic accomplishments

37:10

of some of these athletes that were watching right

37:12

now at the Combine over the course

37:14

of their careers. But also a sideline

37:16

reporter. He's been in many games of some of these players

37:18

and quarterbacks on the sidelines multiple

37:21

times. But we start with the expensive

37:24

and very adventurous journey

37:27

that almost every team takes and trying to find

37:29

a quarterback.

37:30

No, it absolutely is because you're

37:32

the franchise. You're the person who's going

37:35

to change everything, and like I said, they get it wrong.

37:37

It's a position where guys get hurt a lot,

37:41

you know, and even the ones who we think are oh,

37:44

this guy is got

37:46

everything, you find out

37:48

there's something missing, you know. And I just

37:50

think that that's why, you

37:53

know, that's why this is a really interesting draft,

37:55

especially because it's so top heavy

37:57

with franchise quarterbacks. If

38:00

you asked me last year, and I feel like I've said

38:02

this, I was more sold

38:04

on CJ than Bryce Young. Part of it was

38:06

CJ's just a physically bigger guy,

38:09

but I thought he had everything you're looking for, and I didn't

38:11

think he would be as great as he was as a rookie.

38:14

But I think you're just trying to get

38:17

to the most consensus

38:20

in your head and kind of squeeze out the most wiggle

38:22

room, and that's what that's kind of

38:24

goes into this.

38:25

So how do you evaluate this group.

38:27

I think it's a really good group. I

38:30

think Caleb could be special.

38:32

Drake May is really good. I

38:34

don't know what. Like Jayden Daniels

38:36

blew up this year. He really improved.

38:41

I'm a little more skeptical on him physically,

38:45

you know, he's not He's got a narrow frame,

38:47

guy who can run, and he did

38:50

you know, had a statistically terrific season

38:53

at LSU, had two great receivers. I'm

38:55

a little more not

38:58

as if you told me he's the third pick in the draft,

39:00

I'm not. I'm not sure.

39:02

I would be a little leery on that one. I

39:06

like Michael Pennick Junior a lot.

39:08

I know he has the injury history. I

39:10

think he was as impressive to

39:13

me he was the most. He was my heisman vote

39:15

number one. I

39:18

like his character. I like that he

39:20

has faced heavy

39:22

at personal adversity come

39:25

through the other side and is open to talk

39:27

about it. I think, you

39:30

know, it depends on what situation he goes into. I'm

39:33

a big fan of his. I

39:35

you know, he's one of the guys

39:38

I'm most interested to see how he turns out

39:40

and everything.

39:41

I loved watching the Pac twelve this year. I mean

39:43

early in the season, you know, and then just the

39:45

receipt. Roma Doonzay

39:48

I fell in love with immediately. And while

39:50

everyone talks about Marvin Harrison and he will be great,

39:52

I'm sure Roma Dunsay

39:54

and a bunch of others are not not players

39:56

to sleep on. Would you learn about Kaleb Williams,

39:59

and I'm sure you did some of his games

40:01

on the sidelines. What can you tell us

40:04

that?

40:04

I think he managed some things pretty well, you

40:06

know, like I know guys on that staff who really

40:08

people like him. I just

40:11

think he was handed a different set

40:13

of problems than a lot of other quarterbacks.

40:15

The offensive line this

40:17

past year was terrible. The defense was so bad

40:20

that you know, I used this line before

40:22

that an NFL scout had told me where It's like he's

40:25

trying to hit a five run home run every play,

40:27

And you wonder, do you pick up bad habits

40:29

from doing it that way, you.

40:31

Can definitely happen. You think about some I

40:33

mean, I think a David Carr.

40:34

I was gonna say that too. They're obviously different style

40:37

quarterbacks, but David Carr got sacked. I don't know what the number

40:39

of, like seventy five.

40:40

Yeah, yeah, And so I was seeing ghosts after while.

40:43

Yeah, and you know who else said seeing ghosts? That was

40:45

another USC quarterbacks, Sam Darnald. And

40:48

I think Caleb is much

40:51

more talented than Donald.

40:55

But I do think there's something where you

40:57

may have to unlearn some things that got

41:00

worn into you. So if

41:03

he goes to the Washington and he's going

41:05

home that's where he's from. You

41:08

know, he'll go to Cliff Kingsbury, who knows

41:10

him very well from his time last year

41:12

at USC. That's favorable circumstances.

41:18

But like I hope,

41:20

you know, I again, like you

41:23

heard a lot of stuff about like you know how some

41:25

of the dads of his father's thoughts

41:29

on what needs to happen and everything, and it's

41:31

like I

41:33

change the game is a thing that can be a little

41:36

leery. Like you know, Tom Brady did some you

41:38

know some you know, stuff

41:41

way beyond football.

41:42

But he did it.

41:43

Long after he won Super Bowls. To go

41:45

in and talk about these things, I

41:48

think is maybe puts a lot

41:50

on your son, especially when your son's not that

41:52

old.

41:53

Jake may in the same situation, different send circumstances

41:56

in twenty twenty three versus twenty twenty.

41:57

Two different for him to also fill

41:59

Long was more of an air raid guy. That was the

42:01

OC he had previously, and

42:03

then new system last year handled

42:05

it well. I think he was a I don't say he was flying

42:08

under the radar, but at least relative to Caleb and

42:10

the other guys in the Heisman race, he certainly was.

42:12

Everybody I know who's been around him likes

42:15

him personally.

42:17

You know.

42:18

Again, if I

42:20

think he's going to be a really, really good NFL

42:23

quarterback, I don't know what people would

42:25

fault him on. I

42:27

just and I do think it's good that he not

42:29

good for it wasn't good for him at North Carolina, but just that

42:31

he's come through a couple of systems and I don't think

42:34

he I don't think

42:36

he buckled with any of it, and.

42:40

No, he did not. He was their team

42:43

leader. Great guy. Loved some

42:45

of the features I've seen on him, will pick up

42:47

Tom's thoughts and all that in our final segment coming

42:49

up here on Bears Weekly on ESPN one thousand

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42:53

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43:02

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43:14

you know br.

43:15

Well on, Bruce Felman and everybody else that

43:17

has an opinion about the quarterback. No one

43:19

is an agreement on the opinion

43:21

about the.

43:21

Quarterback, which scares me.

43:23

Well, I wish that we could do a show

43:25

here on a Thursday night and take calls for

43:27

the whole one hour in only about

43:29

the quarterback position, and then tally

43:31

them up at the end of the show to

43:33

see where they wanted to go. And I bet

43:36

you'd be one third, one third, one third,

43:38

you know, one third, keep justin, one third, keep

43:40

get Caleb, or one third you

43:43

know one of the other guys, Drake or Daniels.

43:45

So it's just that no matter

43:47

who you interview and the different people that you talked

43:49

to down at the combine and will continue

43:51

to talk to you. There's never gonna

43:53

be an agreement in the room of what

43:55

your decision you should be you should

43:58

be making. So when they show those of

44:00

Ryan polls up with the combine, that's

44:02

why he is the most interesting man in

44:04

the combine this year, because everybody's

44:07

trying to pick his brain and think exactly

44:10

what he's thinking.

44:11

Yeah, I mean, and it's a billion dollar decision

44:13

for a billion dollar franchise. Yes it is,

44:15

and it you know, and this is a listen. They invite

44:18

it. You know, they'd rather be in

44:20

the pressure department than not, so that

44:22

you're in the highest level of sports, and

44:25

they embraced this kind of stuff for sure, only.

44:27

If I was hoisting the Super Bowl Trophy at the end

44:29

of the season and I was the non pressure

44:31

of that pick.

44:32

All right, Well, it's been a fun show.

44:34

Headed back to Indy. We'll have another show

44:37

next week on Bears Weekly. We got

44:39

our podcast Bears et Cetera coming up

44:41

on Tuesday, and we're gonna have to start looking

44:43

at free agency time in our final thirty seconds

44:45

because some of those needs

44:48

we talked about will be filled in free agency.

44:50

We both feel about free agency

44:52

the same way. I think. Don't don't blow out the.

44:54

Budget exactly, you know, and look

44:56

for an immediate starter if you're going to go out there

44:59

and you can get the return on a TJ. Edwards,

45:01

Tremain, Tremaine Edmonds and

45:03

those types of guys that bring him on.

45:04

All right, Thanks to everybody, our producers and

45:07

the executive producer of the Bears Radio Network

45:09

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45:11

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45:14

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45:16

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