Our next episode of \u201885 at 40 has dropped, and we spoke with Hall of Fame Tackle Jimbo Covert!<\/p>\n
The Chicago Bears legend joined the podcast to discuss the greatness of the \u201885 Bears, the offensive line being the unsung heroes of that team, what it was like blocking for Walter Payton and Jim McMahon, and what it was like to practice against that defense.<\/p>\n
He also discussed his relationship with Dan Marino, the lone loss to the Miami Dolphins this year. However, when we asked him if the team really wanted to get revenge against the Dolphins in the Super Bowl (Miami had lost to New England in the AFC Championship game), his answer was interesting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t really matter,\u201d Covert explained. \u201cAt the end of the day, it didn\u2019t really matter if you played the Dolphins in the Super Bowl and beat them, you still would be 18-1. You wouldn\u2019t be undefeated. Beating them wouldn\u2019t make you undefeated, and I don\u2019t think it would have changed our legacy either\u2026 Would I have rather have played the Dolphins in the Super Bowl? Absolutely. I think it would have been a hell of a game. I think the score would have been similar to what we beat the Patriots by. I think our team was on a roll, and we would have had a much different game plan offensively as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim gave some really thoughtful, fantastic answers. It\u2019s a podcast that is well worth your time.<\/p>\n
If you want to check out the video version of the interview, you can do that on the 2nd City Gridiron YouTube page below:<\/p>\n
If you want to listen to the podcast, you can do so on the 2nd City Gridiron Podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts, or use the player below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our next episode of \u201885 at 40 has dropped, and we spoke with Hall of Fame Tackle Jimbo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[14087,741,7768,217,7,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-383122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-chicago-bears-history","9":"tag-chicago-bears-news","10":"tag-chicago-bears-podcasts-videos","11":"tag-dolphins","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-dolphins","15":"tag-miamidolphins","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115237277188669270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}