T.J. Edwards talks signing with hometown Chicago Bears | Parkins & Spiegel 

I love it when players who were Bears fans get to come play for the Bears. That makes my heart sing! Welcome home, TJ!

TJ - your positive energy radiates through the audio. So there’s that. Happy as hell for you man. Worked your ass off and now playing in the NFL about 40 minutes from home. That’s insane. Hats off to you for all your hard work and commitment. And a complement to your parents for raising such a hard working level headed human. It’s hard these days. Welcome to Chicago TJ!! 🐻⬇️ I don’t remember being this excited to be a Bears fan. You’re home for the rebuild. Go kick some ass

Man, I’m so god damn happy about the bears. Getting everything lined up like they have this last week and signing young men like this…this isn’t the bears I’m used to. Can’t wait to see you boys play

I already love this guy. Humble, kind, genuine, and hard worker from what it sounds. Welcome TJ!!

This was an awesome interview. He’s a legit bears fan!

Eagles fan here: TJ Edward the player. Good instincts, very hard worker, good tackler. Not a great cover backer. Eagles found him and developed him, shame the Eagles let him get away. Good signing Chicago

As an Eagles fan TJ is a terrific player & person you Bears fans are gonna be so fortunate to have him. This sucks that he’s gone but he deserves credit for everything he’s done for the Eagles.

Dream signing in terms of ability...value...enthusiasm...desire. A testament to hard work paying off. Leader. Role model.

I'm so smiley right now! Congratulations, T.J. and welcome home! 🐻⬇️💙🧡

His contract is extremely team friendly and he seems to have a lot of upside. Super happy to hear he was a Bears' fan growing up.

BEAR DOWN TJ!! LETS GO. Most hype offseason in franchise history. This man sounds so well spoken, diligent, and im so excited to see him pop off in the orange and blue.

Man he sounds like a real Bear fan & now his playing for his home team. That's a dream come true Welcome home Homie!!! BEARDOWN ✌️ 💯 💪 👊!!!

He said being a Chicago fan I had faith in every player they brought in I felt that 💯

Awesome move, underrated that he loves the history of the BEAR LBs. He knows how those guys plays and what to expect, so I'm excited to see Chicago play for the first time in 5 years

I love when fans get to play for their team. As a Bears guy, I love this a billion. Plus this guy sounds exactly how you want your players to sound, ready to work, excited to work, willing to work. Let's get it Bears!! Bear Down.

What’s cool is that now his family can rep their favorite team while wearing his jersey💯

He and Sanborn are going to have a blast

This gonna is gonna kill it in Chicago. You can tell he's genuinely pumped to be home

Welcome to Chicago TJ!

Lfg welcome home TJ

It's fun to watch this organization grow its culture. Character matters with the front office. This is a win-win for player and team. Draft some O-line now.

I LOVED this! These three guys are going to be dangerous!

Love this signing, and after hearing him speak, September can’t come any sooner!

hell of a fun interview. This felt like a couple of friends getting back together!

Man...this was AWESOME. Love to see players who grew up Bears fans, come and play for them. They know how we fans feel every week!...haha.... And he is a REALLY good player. Makes it that much better.... BEARS!!!

Sounds like a decent smart well spoken guy. Should be a damn good piece for our puzzle. Welcome man!!!

Great to have a local , still live in Lake Villa and went to PMS as well .

Good show. I appreciate Jimmy Johnson's insights. I agree with him. OL can be drafted or taken in later rounds, they just need good coaching. Bear Down!

The best linebacking group in the Nfl- Edwards Edmunds Sanborn

Love his attitude.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!¡

99 solo tackles and 160 overall!!! We just added two guys that can actually tackle. With Sanborn, Edmunds and Edwards we have a nice LB corps now we need to build that Dline and we`ll be looking good.

IN the words of Good news Cliff levingston "WHAT TIME IS IT" GAMETIME WOOOOOW

its so refreshing seeing all these positive comments! Bear Down! We are going places in the next couple years!

Poles is doing an amazing job.

Welcome to Chicago TJ. Time to restore the "MONSTERS of the MIDWAY " BEAR DOWN !!!!

Great guy.. and smart with a high football IQ.. he plays hard with a ton of effort, and reminds me of Lance Briggs… I don't know about Morrow.. are they keeping him or are they drafting or signing another linebacker? I would love them to sign Jack Campbell… Those two guys in the middle would be tremendous… Both are over 6-4, 245 pounds they would be great against the run and very good against passing. that would be a fantastic duo for your linebacker's group

Sounds like my Dad and I!! And now my Son,great story!!!

Now let's get started on Arlington

We also just got Tremaine Edmunds!! All hail King Poles lol

WE'RE PUMPED TO HAVE YA, TJ!!!!!!

This is awesome

Lets go 🐻🧡💙 Welcome TJ

Might be buying more linebacker jerseys soon!

Dude made it 2 years with Siriani. He's a dawg!!!

I loved this signing so much today

Can’t believe this is the freakin Chicago Bears. Other than Pace GMs of the past wouldn’t even consider doing any of this. If Emery or Angelo was GM now they’d just take the number one pick and pick an O lineman that would wash out in 3 years. Poles seems like he’s a step ahead of everyone

He said Mike brown?!! Wow that’s dope 30 all day

Edwards middle, Edmunds WLB, Sanborn SLB

well this might be The Key pick up by the Bears, for 1 you know he is going to give it 200%, and that intern will push his teammates to do the same, smart move Ryan Poles

BEARSDOWN baby 🫡🤟🏾

Another Chicago area dude!! TJ 🙏👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Welcome back home!! Or 2nd home?!😅.. I'm glad that you'll be a big part of the Chicago Bears renaissance..🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Thanks 😉 hopefully all works out well for everyone..

Seems like he will have real Passion to play and win for the bears

Welcome to the 🐻 TJ !!

Anybody else agree that just maybe ...if you're signing players off a SB team or '21 #1 seed and this year's pick to win SB (Bills) might have some decent players to choose from? Maybe I'm guessing.

If you seen buffalo play you know we got gem

Great, great interview, wow! He'll probably end up at WIL and Sanborne will go to SAM...or it might be the other way around. Edmunds is huge in the middle of the field against the pass so he's the MIKE.

Solid linebackers. Now if they can do close to the same with the line, and maybe a Dent and Hampton They might beat the 72 sack record! That's going to be really tuff. The secondary looks pretty good too! The offense looks much better than the 85 Bears solid offense if they can get a good tackle. Payton would be very hard to match. That defense will inspire that offensive line and give them plenty of clock to do their thing! With Fields and their receivers. If they can jell like the 85 team did. Look Out!

Roquan who?! GM Ryan Poles has replaced him with two young rising stud LBs and a second round pick! Nicely done

COOL

He said Mike brown... I thought if he didn't get injured Mike brown was dangerous like Gary fencik

Mike Brown in life and on Madden would hurt your soul! 🐻⬇️

Love this kid, but honestly, he’s a Mic. Put Jack at the Wil, this kid is a Mic, he knows how to read the offense, and call the plays. He’s great in coverage, totally underrated. Edmunds isn’t as good as him, put him at Sam.

Let’s go Bears 🐻

Glad we got Edwards and I liked what he had to say but these guys doing the interview are a bit annoying.

🐻⬇️ baby!!!!

Bear down!!!

To badgers on the same d lets go

This guy whengirst seen free agent list we need this guy we got him I also what dt pen stat a Donald but we took Kevin white what joke

TJ went UDFA because of is RAS score not being as good as other Linebackers even though he outplayed many and won awards to prove it.. He's a football player, first and foremost, not a track athlete… If I am drafting players for the Bears, I'm looking for a true football player first and athleticism second. You need a guy who knows and loves the game passionately. And if you find them and they just happen to be from the Chicago area even better. So far I love their group of linebackers, but if they can draft Jack Campbell as another middle or edge linebacker because of his size 6-5, 250.. much like Edmonds, but a bit larger. He's not as fast but he's a great athlete. And I would love Van Ness and.Kancey or Tuipolotu..and Campbell if he's being ignored..

Home town players never work out

SOX!!!!!

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Why can’t you be as good as Boers and Bernstein…

Love it! FGB - Go Bears!