Adam Hogue

They're then they go straight into draft prep.

And a lot of that becomes more of like track training for the combine rather than football.

And then they got to get ready for the pro days and then they get drafted.

And then they're literally a rookie minicamp the next weekend, you know, and the only off time they get all of that time.

is the break they get between veteran mini camp and training camp, which is basically six weeks in the middle of the summer.

So it's a lot and it's, it's a real thing.

Then they play more games their first year in the NFL than they've ever played in their life because it's the NFL and you play more games.

Now you're also in the playoffs.

So is Declan Doyle put it yesterday.

If you include the preseason, this is the Bears' 22nd game of the season, which when you start to put that in perspective, it's pretty crazy when you consider what football actually is and how grueling it can be.

So getting back to the idea of the rookie wall, to me, it's remarkable that it's not just Colson Loveland.

A lot of these rookies just seemingly have blown through that.

I thought he brought up a great point, which is, hey, man, when you're playing for a team that's winning and you're in a locker room that has this tight bond that the Bears...

evidently do this year.

It makes it really easy to come to work every day.

And so in their eyes, being as young as they are, they're probably just living the dream right now.

And it's probably easier than maybe we think to battle through it.

Yeah, you know, I think the good news is, and you know I've been talking with you guys for a few weeks about it, is that I think DeMarco Jackson's speed helped last week.

And we had Anthony Heron on Hogan Johns on today's episode.

He brought up a fair point, though, that while...