This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Great show for you guys today.

Our Bears writer, Adam Adam Johns is going to be

joining us a little bit later as part of our series of team writer visits that we've done during

training camp. I was at Bears practice last Thursday. It's very hard to keep track of the timing on all of these.

Really enjoyed talking to Adam. Obviously, it's a team I spend a lot of time worrying about

thinking about mowing over. So we got into the weeds on a lot of different stuff. Before that,

though, very excited to welcome my good friend Nate Tice. Nate, how are you doing, buddy?

I'm doing very well. It was just you two. So it was just, it was just you two just gushing for

like an hour straight. It was in a coat closet in Howis Hall. This is not a joke. That's amazing. We were in the coat closet just tucked away, worrying about when Justin Field should play and how bad the offensive line is and how much time Matt Nagy has. We'll get to all of that. You and I are going to talk about kind of the next step in some of the shows that we've done over the last couple weeks. We hit some of the new quarterbacks in places that we wanted to see. We hit some of the most intriguing first year play callers that we wanted to talk about. Sheel and I talked about the offenses because you can't do every single show. So we had to take a little bit of a break. Now we're going to talk about defenses. We have the top 10 offenses with Sheel. I want to just think a little bit different with the defenses. I want to talk about just the units we're most excited to watch, the ones that we are looking forward to the most this year. This could be because they're doing a scheme tweak. This could be because of the personnel that this team has. It could be a combination of the two.

So we're going to try to get to, how many do we have here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So eight, we have eight defenses. A quarter of the league. Which feels pretty good. Yeah, you know, it's fine. Some will be a little bit more in depth than others. But that's what we're going to do.

We're going to get to the defenses that we are most looking forward to watching here in a couple weeks, buddy.

We're going to get to the defenses that we are most looking forward to watching here in a couple weeks, buddy. We're getting there now. It's August, August 25th. We are in striking distance. Week zero of college. That's how you know. It's like week zero of college, we're like, oh, yeah, here we go. Now we're getting into it. You remember those days where you could get to school two weeks early, drink every single day and just not even feel it at all? I mean, I used to, I used to get there in the middle of August when we had our just awful, awful house. It was on Cliff Drive in East Campus in Columbia, Missouri. Our floors were so sloped that the floor and the bottom of the wall had like a six inch gap between them

that's the type of house we lived in and for two weeks we went out every single night and I just didn't

even feel it it was completely possible that was usually when training camp was winding down for us

was move-in day in which was the middle of August of Madison in Madison. So it was almost like a tease because

you'd be coming home on your, we all had mopeds and stuff and scooters. And you'd be just coming

back. And I lived on Mifflin, which is, you know, for two years, which was the Mifflin block party, which is famous in Madison. And I'm coming home and I just see everyone just couches. They're part they're drinking beer on the street like or getting ready to move in they're just all right

we'll tailgate are moving basically as they wait for the get to keys and everything and you're just

coming back middle of two a day about to go take a nap and you're just like soon just get to those

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