Mark Grote
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They can develop a quarterback.
They can develop a wide receiver.
Tight end.
They can develop a left tackle.
They can develop a tight end, who, by the way, will be featured in Inside the Locker Room a little bit later on.
Colston Loveland will be a part of that, and he was really good yesterday.
Yeah, I mean, you think about, and that starts with the guy that's next to the left tackle, and that would be Joe Tooney.
I mean, to have that... MVP.
Yeah.
MVP.
I mean, when you have that guy and you have willing helpers like Cole Komet and Colston Loveland and maybe even an extra offensive lineman, the Bears have done a good job of, to some degree, covering up
the deficiencies, like the one-on-one deficiencies that may still exist with Ozzie Trapillo and or Theo Bennett.
They are not perfect products yet, and they have gotten a decent amount of help, but that's the way you do it.
That's what we've been begging for and wanting is just to see a representative offensive line that even if there is a weak link, and I don't even know if I want to go that far in calling the left tackle position a weak link, it just needs a little extra help, and the Bears have done a terrific job in making sure that that occurs.
A little help.
It's a little help.
That's okay.
And I'm not saying these guys can't hold their own either.
Many examples where whomever the left tackle has been this year, they're holding their own.
But it's also okay to say, okay, you've got one guy in Theo Benedet who came from British Columbia and never played in an NFL game, comes in and thrives in Ozzie Trapillo, who we sort of left for dead at the beginning of the season.