What can Bears fans expect from Coby Bryant and Garrett Bradbury?
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What can Bears fans expect from Coby Bryant?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody, middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. Rivers down the middle of the field and it is intercepted! Deflected and picked off by Kobe Bryant! That's courtesy of CBS. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And yes, you heard that right. That was Philip Rivers. Remember that happened? He had a nice little run coming back at 44 years old with the Colts. I don't know, based on the Colts' moves and their health, if that's going to have to happen again. I'm going to guess not, but I won't say hard no. Will you say hard yes? No. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And just to button up the discussion regarding Kobe Bryant now with the Bears, Benjamin Solak was on with the afternoon show yesterday with Lawrence Holmes and Matt Spiegel and was very complimentary of who the Bears have picked up.
So you would see Kobe spend the majority of his time in the box and Bayard spend his majority of time up high. They would not have the full like, you know, the Seahawks had with Kobe Bryant and with Julian Love where it's, hey, you never know who's coming down, who's not. Everybody can do everything. It'd be a little bit more like the Eagles with Vic Fangio where they had Reed Blankenship and then they had, you know, at times it was Johnson Garner Johnson, then it was Andrew Makuba. But it was, hey, like, you know, Reed is the player we'd prefer to have deep. The other guy we prefer to have close to the line of scrimmage. We can switch it up on you just to get the drop on you, but it's not going to be what we live with.
So if they return Bayard, which is my expectation, then you're going to see Bayard spend the majority of his time as the deepest safety, and Kobe spend the majority of his time near the box. Now, Kobe has cornerback experience. When he played at the University of Cincinnati, he was a corner. For his first couple years in Seattle, before he broke through in Mike's defense, he was on the corner of the JEP chart. That was where he was. And so when you think about the coverage ability that you got from a guy like Chauncey, who, you know, plays safety but really you're trying to play him in the nickel a lot and have him cover receivers kobe has that skill set and that wasn't relied upon a ton in seattle because they had devon witherspoon and nickamon warwick they had so many guys but you can ask kobe to be a player who comes down and plays that that slot position and then be creative with the safeties that you play behind him as well
So that sheds some light. He was very bullish on Kobe Bryant whenever he got drafted. Well, here's why I love this pickup for the Bears. One game... Sorry. One team... One receiver in particular comes to mind. I don't know. Do you guys remember when that team from just north of us came and played against the Bears and they lined somebody up in the slot and he was just destroying people off the line of scrimmage? Christian Watson. Ah, that's him. That's good. Good recall on your part. Something about a bay and it being a color and they put things together in boxes. You already know. And so now with a player with this particular skill set... Team Voldemort. Because he can cover. Kobe Bryant can be down as a guy who could blitz, but if you also, you know, oh, I see it's not C.D.
Gardner-Johnson down there. It's a guy who cover-covers in Kobe Bryant. That's not advantage Green Bay in the way it was last year. And it's a very specific memory, but you notice I unlocked it quickly.
How does Coby Bryant's role differ from previous teams?
What just Green Bay? Was not just Green Bay the last month of the season. You know what? I feel like the Packers game, though, was like the perfect example of it happening multiple times. Yeah, because guys got beat. And now the Bears weren't healthy. Kyler Gordon won in the first game. But at the same time, what did Matt Bowen tell you for the last two or three weeks of the season? Just call crossing patterns. Just make everything slot-oriented. And frankly, when we were talking about Wandale Robinson, what is he good at? Receiving yards in the slot.
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