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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
By God, that's Clay Harbor's music. He's not running down a tunnel. I'm not Jim Ross, but we're happy to have him in studio. Clay Harbor, frequent guest on our station, the nine-year NFL veteran, co-host with David Hahn, Ruthie Polinsky on the big pro football show on CHSN. And you got the three-man weave today, Clay.
Usually it's, I think, just me and Marshall to have the Marshall, Grody, Layla crew. This is a four-person panel. I love this.
When I woke up, I knew it was going to be a special day.
Chapter 2: What insights does Clay Harbor share about Bears OTAs?
Get to sit in between Marshall Harris, Mark Grote. We got Layla Rahimi smiling at the end of the corner over there. It's just a great day with all three of you guys in here. Yeah, usually I get two. I have to deal with only Marshall, and he's picking on me. But it's good to have you guys here as some backup. Grote already told me he protects me. I protect you, man. Didn't you call Marshall Unk?
Yeah.
He's Unk. That's an endearing term.
Marshall is Unk. It's endearing. You said that like you're that much younger than me, though. That's what's crazy. People call you Unk.
However, though, Marshall, you've mentored him a little bit, right? Yeah. In the media spaces. I mean, so I think that you should just accept it. It's a term of endearment.
It's a term of endearment, yes. He's my baby T. Brody really wants to mentor him.
Is that what you're saying, Brody? Brody, he's my baby T? He's your baby T, yes. Oh, my gosh. My baby C. Yes, Tyler Ferengel, your baby T. And I'm glad that we got the bonus yesterday. We get to hang out. We got to hang out with Clay yesterday along the sidelines watching an OTA on the far fields of Halas Hall.
Grody's locked in, by the way, guys, at Halas Hall, for all that you know. Some guys will sit there and talk and hang out a little bit.
you're sitting here have a conversation next thing you know grody's just he disappears it's like the homer simpson into the bush he finds the best vantage point he's got his notepad out i mean this guy's locked in so just need to give grody a shout out thank you for us always having his eyes on the field that's why i give such great analysis can i tell you something that i did notice out there yesterday that i didn't bring up in any of these scribbled notes i have here or over here and it's something that you'll appreciate are you a doctor at
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Chapter 3: How is the Bears roster shaping up during the offseason?
And Ozzie last year. And Theo, by the way, playing right tackle. Theo playing right tackle. So he's obviously going to be that swing guy. I think he's still going to factor in come training camp. But is there going to be as big of a drop-off as we think from Ozzie being out? No, they were all kind of similar type players.
So I don't think that's something you have to worry about, especially when you've got a guy like Ben Johnson, who's uber aware of all of his players, their strengths, their weaknesses. If they're playing against the Rams and you've got Miles Garrett over there, do you think...
I come in, if I'm a tight end, I come to that film room and they say, hey, sorry, Clay, guess what you're doing this week? You're chipping. You're helping on the block. We're double teaming this guy. Ben Johnson knows what his players can do and what they can't do.
Well, and I feel like that may be one of the best examples is, OK, Rams, you've got the defensive player of the year, the single season sack record holder now. And how when you're visualizing how the Bears put this together, say they have to face them again, you know, we go back to the playoff game. That's the part of it where and we had a texter say this earlier.
They were like, man, when you think about how left tackle is unstable, maybe it's not the worst thing that they got a third tight end in the third round. I feel like that is exactly the mindset that you're talking about right there.
Yeah, the tight ends make sense. And I know you were out there, Grody. All three of them made plays yesterday in OTAs, and I was very impressed. Sam Roush took a hit yesterday, too. Sam Roush took a hit to the ground by Nefi Sewell, tackled him. I'm like, what are you doing, bro? Yeah.
own guys there's no pads on no pads that was a hard that's a hard one of the harder hits i've seen in no pads you'd get fined for that back in the day but roush impressed me he's explosive everything we saw in rookie camp was out there with great rookie camp explosive guy had a nice play down the seam got behind the linebacker in front of the safety caught the ball cole commit consistent cole i'm gonna call him he caught some passes looks big looks fast
Nobody's been talking about this, but I feel like Colson Loveland has gotten a lot bigger. He looks bigger, stronger. He's as smooth as you can be for a tight end. The special thing for me, a lot of tight ends, when you're running these routes, these out routes, these dig routes, which is tougher tight ends, they have to break down. They have to pattern. One, two, three.
Wide receivers take the one step and they cut it. That's the difference between a tight end and a wide receiver. It's a semi-truck taking a stop versus the speed car. Colson Loveland can run like a race car. He's just a different breed of athlete. He looks bigger. He didn't have an off-season last year coming off a shoulder surgery. His ceiling is the roof. I think that's the saying, Marshall.
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Chapter 4: How does Clay Harbor assess Karan Amagaji's potential?
He slips him without losing any speed. Tough for a tight end to do, especially when you're 6'6", 255 pounds. And then he gets out on a nice route. So this guy is just doing some uncommon things frequently. For his build. And then obviously we know what kind of blocker he is. It's just like I've told you guys. I've played with Gronk, Brent Selick. I've played with Eric Ebron.
I don't know why I throw Ebron in there. But Zach Ertz. Colson Loveland is a different breed of guy. He's unlike any tight end I've seen. Better than Gronk? I'm not better than Gronk. Gronk was just a different breed of tight end. He was just one of those big 6'6", 6'7", 270 pounds. He's not running routes.
When I'm out there watching routes, when I get signed by the Patriots, I go, I'm excited to learn from Rob Gronkowski. Let's see how he runs routes. We got Martellus Bennett on that team, too. Another freak athlete. Gronk didn't run better routes than Marty. Gronk didn't run better routes than me. Gronk was just a playmaker. I don't know what to say. He was a playmaker.
Part of that had to do with the fact that he was such a good blocker. They could put him on the front side of any run. So now when you do these guard pulls, these flash fakes, linebackers suck up, they have to respect Gronk because he's such an elite blocker. He gets in behind him. And with Gronk, the one thing I never saw a player do... I mean, this guy ran like he had two left feet.
I mean, big, dumb animal in the best way possible. But he would just catch the ball and make the move while he's catching the ball and just hunt for contact. I mean, he was just, he was like, I remember one time, real quick, sorry. Don't apologize. Watching practice, Tom's out there, Gronk's on there. We have a route and we're supposed to run. It's like a bender. You have to run a bender.
Gronk sits the ball down. He sits the route down and catches the ball. Tom hits him for 15. I go, Gronk, what made you do that? That was so cerebral of you. I would have kept running like the route said. I just wanted to get open. I saw the open space right there, and I sat down and wanted to catch the ball. In my head, I'm like, oh. So that's the thought process there.
That is a revoicing thought. I expected to learn a little more from that.
Did you see the episode of him on the Family Guy? On Family Guy where they did the caricature of Gronk and partying with all the other Gronkowskis and just making him out to be the ultimate frat boy, basically.
But whatever you think, it's true. And here's a funny story. I lived with Joe Tooney when I had my cup of coffee. More of an espresso shot in New England. It was quick. I was there for OTAs, training camp, sixth game of the year. I get cut, get signed the next week by the Detroit Lions. Joe Tooney's my roommate. Who else is our other guy? Ted Karras is still playing.
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Chapter 5: What role does Braxton Jones play in the Bears' left tackle competition?
He's like, you know, I've been dancing a lot, and I feel like it got me in really good shape. It's pretty sick, man. It's actually pretty kick-ass.
Now I'm picturing Gronk doing jazzercise, getting ready, getting twinkle-toey. I'm like, dancing?
Gronk's party ship was a legendary three-day music and lifestyle festival cruise hosted by NFL star Rob Gronkowski and his family in February of 2016. It went from Miami to the Bahamas. And it had performances from Flo Rida and Waka Flocka Flame.
That tracks. That absolutely tracks.
It's too good. There was some video of him chugging a water bottle in front of like a kindergarten class. Do you remember that? And the kids were like, chug, chug, chug.
He's fantastic.
It's water in front of the kids.
He's living his best life. Let's be honest.
Why didn't you go on the Gronk Party Cruise?
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