It was awesome.

It was awesome.

You know, it was awesome.

Definitely a dream come true, you know, first NFL touchdown and, you know,

to have my teammates celebrate me.

It was an awesome moment, so, you know, hopefully it was first of me for sure.

That's Justin Fields, the newly anointed Messiah of Chicago, talking about his very first

NFL game with the Chicago Bears.

And yes, it was just the first week of preseason football, but for rookie quarterbacks like

Fields, a game like that isn't just a rehearsal.

It's a referendum, maybe even a religious revival.

So today, our Lewis Riddick, former NFL safety and front office executive,

shares his deep love for this time of year and his insights into a franchise and a coaching staff that he knows so well.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, August 17th. This is ESPN Daily. Brought to you by Goodyear.

Discover the road ahead. Good Year. More driven.

So Lewis Reddick, you played in the league for a bunch of teams. You were a scout. You were the

director of player personnel for a couple teams. How's your relationship with the preseason

changed over the years now that you're both Monday night football analyst guy and also like perpetual

general manager candidate that like Chicago fans are very mad is not their GM right now. I love it.

I love that part of it. See, I love it past the first quarter. I love it past the second quarter when

most people are like, I don't know these guys. Talk to me in September. I'm still into it because that's the old,

that's the old, that's the old, I want to find the guy that nobody knows, put his name out there,

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