Alshon Jeffery reflects on his career with Bears, previews Eagles matchup

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What are Alshon Jeffery’s most memorable Chicago Bears highlights?

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With the 45th pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears select Alshon Jeffries, wide receiver, South Carolina. I'm here with Alshon Jeffries, he wants to know where the turkey is. I wish we could have scored 50, no matter who was out there playing. We're just trying to score a lot of points and just trying to get the game over. Marshall and Jeffrey. Top of your screen, that's Jeffrey in motion. Now he's going to go back to the lane. Wide open. Touchdown. There goes Cutler. He got by Robinson. He throws into the end zone. It's caught. Fly down. Touchdown, Jeffrey. Going deep again and looking for Jeffrey. Oh, what a catch. What a grab at the 8-yard line. Cutler to the end zone.

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Jeffrey.

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Touchdown, Chicago. Watson to the end zone.

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It is back for the touchdown.

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Outside of Jeffrey. Bears trying to do that here today on third down. McCown steps up and again looking for Jeffrey. And did he catch it inbounds? It didn't look good. Caught on a touchdown. Unbelievable. He's a generational talent. So, I mean, I watch his team. I can't deny that. Everywhere he's been, like he said, his team don't lie.

Rahimi Harrison 1:14

With Rahimi and Grody on 104.3 The Score.

Mark Grote 1:19

are a lot of really great moments for our next guest in a Bears uniform as we welcome you back to Rahimi and Grody on 104.3 The Score. That guest is Alshon Jeffrey, former Bears and Eagles receiver, Super Bowl 52 champion, 2013 Pro Bowler. What a year it was for him with the Bears in 2013. Number 80 on the 100 Greatest Bears of All Time list, Alshon Jeffrey. in studio with us. He's over here smiling. You had to be smiling listening to those highlights right there.

Alshon Jeffery 1:53

Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. The one he said, is he in? That was my favorite catch of all time.

Mark Grote 1:59

Oh, yeah, man. That's, if I'm not mistaken, that's in freezing cold temperatures at Soldier Field, December 9th, 2013. End of the half, right? End of the first half from Josh McCown in the corner of the end zone.

Alshon Jeffery 2:15

I would say two of my past, two of my, so I was the Super Bowl catcher in the Super Bowl, but two of my favorite highlights is that one and the Minnesota game. Like the Minnesota, I think he threw it deep like a, I want to say it was like a 50-yard touchdown. Because more memorable to me, the cornerback had got ejected because he touched the referee because he thought I was passing interference. That would have made it even more funny. We kind of made a joke out of

Mark Grote 2:45

it. Was that from McCown or from Jay? Because you had a lot

Alshon Jeffery 2:47

of success

Mark Grote 2:48

with Josh. It was from Josh. That was from Josh. So was the play at the end of the first half, right? That was Ditka night, too, if I remember correctly.

Vinny Rotino 2:57

We're even getting texts about it, yeah.

Alshon Jeffery 2:59

That was a... Probably one of the coldest games I ever

Mark Grote 3:02

played. Oh, yeah. It was like... I think the temperature might have been like one or two, but the feels like was like 30 below. They were retiring Ditka's jersey at the half, and it was like... That was the night George McCaskey, his voice cracked. You guys were in the locker room trying to get warm at that time, but... That was some good stuff, man.

Alshon Jeffery 3:23

Because I remember warm-ups. We out doing warm-ups. Nobody from the Cowboys came out there. I said, oh, we got this game. Oh, really? The game's over. It's too cold for them. You knew. That's what we was thinking going in. It was like, it's too cold. No one on each side came out. The receivers and quarterbacks wasn't doing pat and go and none of that. Yeah.

Vinny Rotino 3:41

That's hilarious. So from jump, you guys already knew you had the edge.

Alshon Jeffery 3:45

True story. Behind it, that's how we felt.

Mark Grote 3:47

You know, somebody said, I said, when I heard we were having you on, I said, oh, that's awesome. Alshon Jeffries coming in here, one of the greatest Bears receivers of all time. Yeah. And there's a relativity factor here. But you are. There's been only so many Bears. You had back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. You broke the Bears' single game receiving yards record of 218 yards. I believe that still stands. You know it still stands. You'd know if it didn't. 218. I know DJ Moore probably came close. But that was a record that was set in 1952.