Good, long, Samardzija interview on ESPN.com

[RammyFanny]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?page=070116samardzija

 

Good read. I've always thought Jeff would be leaning alot more to football secretly, but it truly sounds like he's torn and that we remain a strong possibility.

Tommy's a good buddy. He's been through a lot too. It was definitely good to have someone who felt what I was feeling and could talk to about it. Tommy's a little bit biased when you ask for advice because he's a huge Cubs fan. You've got to watch your questions with Tommy because before you know it you'll be wearing red and blue. He's a huge Cubs and Bears fan so unless I went to the Bears, I know what his answer is. But it's always in a joking way.

Whoever Tommy is, keeping steering him our way.

 

And he says his mom would probably want him a Cub...

I think about my mom all the time. I think ultimately she'd just want me to go out and do whatever made me happy. What's easy for me is that I know she'd be cheering either way. I think she'd probably just want me to be home a lot so she'd probably want me to go to the Cubs, unless I got drafted by the Bears. I think my dad wants me to play football, and my brother is more like me, he wants me to prove everyone wrong and play both. But in the end they both want me to be happy and will support me in whatever I choose.

[SouthSideRyan]

The Tommy referenced is Notre Dame safety Tom Zbikowski, a Buffalo Grove product.

[Outshined_One]

He's basically begging the Bears to draft him, imo.

[Bruno7481]

In his latest chat, Jim Callis was speculating very heavily that JS could be signing a baseball only deal in the very near future.

[RammyFanny]

Just realized his mom is dead...didn't recognize that at first.