WEBVTT - Previewing the Vikings | All Access 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.519 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:08.560 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears Official 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.560 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.200 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.959 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.959 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:30.520 Physical Therapy and CDW. And good even to everybody. Welcome 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.160 into another show. Jeff Johnny, Act, Top Bear, Jim Beller 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.040 with you as we got a full line up once 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.720 again to tackle the Bears this week. Good to have 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.279 you alongside fellas brought to you by g Energy. Thank 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.760 for listening to everybody. Whove got Tris Dickens handling the 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.680 controls and our score studios, our producer Jordan tread Up, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.440 Dan Briley helping us out as well. Coming up at 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.480 six ten Dieter Iceland. He is an undrafted free agent 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.360 guard prospect and he is going to join the program. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.960 Interesting journey to the NFL because all roads lead to 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.480 the NFL on metterwhere or what country? And then at 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.800 six thirty times good Buddy and Pete Bursch, who played 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.440 his high school football at Providence New Lennox the Minnesota 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.759 Vikings radio analysts who join us at six thirty. Jim 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.240 and Tom, how you guys handling things and house? What's 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.440 going on in your worlds right now? Big Tom and Jim? Well, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.520 you know, like you said, we're getting ready to tackle 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.000 a little football information. I like how you threw that 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.399 little play on words, because that's kind of what it's 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.040 about right now. You kind of in the hopes that 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.920 the training camp is going to go on and then 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.039 you kind of take steps Accordingly, that's not necessarily the 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.880 guaranteed case, but in my world, I got both fingers, 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.720 are all my fingers crossed and hoping it happens. Yeah, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.080 we'll get a lot of news hopefully tomorrow. The owners 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.200 are going to meet. Sounds like, you know, they've come 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.960 up with some of the agreements on the protocols from 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.920 the NFL and the NFLPA side of things. You know 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.960 about you know, players won't be put on NFI, say 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.000 if a player test positive for the virus, it'll just 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.840 be essentially what could be a three week i R 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.160 process and almost like roster exemptions that we brought up 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.840 on the show as well, So teams are able to 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.600 combat this, and it's it's going to be a juggling act. 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.320 There's there's no doubt. I think everybody's wondering how this 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.200 is all going to work out or even if, even 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.760 if it will kick off. So I think a lot 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.680 of clarity will happen tomorrow after the owners meet and 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.240 the clarification on that football injury list versus non football 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.399 injury list is that they would still get full pay 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.120 if they are COVID nineteen ineligible, and that's really the 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.480 key thing, and I think that's fair given the environment 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.040 right now. Fellas you agree, Oh, I agree one hundred 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.840 percent with you, Jeff that if you're gonna go out 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.800 there and you're gonna put yourself out there with the 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.000 possibility of contracting the virus by you know, rubbing elbows, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.600 having collisions, doing everything that you need to do in 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.720 football in order to be prepared, I do think they 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.080 need the protection. But Jim, then you have to be 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.400 responsible though off the field, and you got to be 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.080 accountable to your teammates and the building, and you know, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.760 it's it's a it's a sacrifice, you know, for five 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.520 months to get your your team and and your ability 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.799 to get through the season. Yeah, I really do. I 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.239 think players got to be accountable. And you know, every 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.960 and I've brought this up that every coach asked players 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.720 with you know that initial missions, the initial mission statement 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.000 by every coach is just about, hey, can you make 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.120 the commitment the dedication to this organization your teammates. We 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.120 know it's basically essentially a five six month deal, and 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.680 I think players will have to approach it differently, say hey, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.880 you know, I'm well after I leave the facility. You know, 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.280 I just know for myself personally, I actually had this 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.560 conversation with my wife. I said, live if this was 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.480 happening when I played, could you make would you make 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.640 the commitment where I stayed away, whether it's at a 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.160 hotel or somewhere in a bubble and I just FaceTime 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.640 the kids? She said absolutely. And I'm wondering if guys 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.960 will make that type of commitment and dedication because I 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.640 personally know I would. And I saw JJ Watt's tweet 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.320 tonight from the Houston, Texas He's like, hey, players want 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.440 to play, and he reiterated three times that the players 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.320 want to play, and I think a lot of players 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.960 do and we'll just see how commit committed they are 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.040 and how they can be to make the type of 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.120 commitment they're going to need to make in order to 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.760 be pulled off. Man, Tom, you made that commitment as 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.120 a player. I mean you put aside certain things in 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.880 order to get through a season. Yeah, you know you 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.040 have to, you know, Jeff, whether you have an injury 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.440 early in training camp, and you know I can play 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.080 with this thing. It's gonna have some pain involved in it, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.600 but I think I can get through to the end 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.200 of the season. I think everybody and a lot of 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.400 guys that I played with, you know, struggled with that 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.880 part of football. So this is a completely different type 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.640 of health commitment because you kind of know what you're 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.120 possibly getting into when you commit yourself to the sport. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.039 But this is unlike a knee injury. That's there's a 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.640 you know, more things that can happen with this. But again, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.320 I would if I was a young man, I know 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.359 that I would have to and I'd be willing to 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.839 commit to it. And just while we're hearing on Twitter 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.120 and whatnot, you know, J. J. Watt, you mentioned that 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.560 you know they don't have all the information yet, and 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.440 I know some teams could start actually bringing guys in 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.479 on Saturday rookies or even next Tuesday for rookies, and 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.080 then if it all goes well, nobody's really got a 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.719 set date the NFL's eyeball in the twenty eighth, whether 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.840 that is or not the case. They don't have all 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.279 the info yet on exactly the infectious disease protocolls they will. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.520 Teams have been working on this for months, the testing protocolls, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.920 what happens financially if somebody does get the positive COVID, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.960 But nothing has been created upon as Gym pointed out, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.279 But it's not as if for the fans out there, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.640 it's not as if this is a complete in the dark. Oh, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.160 we're just going to throw it at you. This will 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.080 be a discussion and the owners will have that opportunity 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.799 tomorrow to kick it around and present it to the union. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.400 It sounds like they've had pretty good talks, you know, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.799 over the last couple of days, doing framework and stuff 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.600 like that. It's going to be a process like these 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.280 other sports have been. And everything you've heard, Jim is 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.000 pretty much in that vein. Yeah, yeah, I do, and 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.440 I you know again, I think ultimately the players do 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.640 want to play. We already know some players with underlying issues. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.080 Mark Andrew's a tight end for the Baltimore Ravens. He's 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.520 got diabetes. Said, yeah, he goes. I think this could 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.039 be a special year for the Baltimore routings. So you know, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.159 he does have some legitimate concerns, and I don't think 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.120 anybody would be upset if any player did elect to 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.200 op out. But as as I mentioned, for these gms, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.080 is kind of be going to be a juggling act. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.400 You have to have players available, because I think everybody 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.160 understands if there are and luckily they've gone down, whether 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.640 it's in the MLS, Major League Soccer, or even the NBA, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.640 you know, the positive tests have gone down. Teams are 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.719 going to have to have a reserve to tap into, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.320 you know, say before a practice or a game, a 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.440 tight end or a running back goes down. You can 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.600 better have a stash of players that you can tap 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.920 into to fill those roster spots. Right now, the Union 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.240 releasing seventy two known cases of players through last Friday, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.920 July tenth, about two point five percent of the twenty 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.120 eight hundred player NFL Coming up next, one of the 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.240 newbies of the NFL for the Bears. Dieter Iceland, off 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.800 African native, former rugby star and Olympic weightlifter, now a 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.800 Chicago Bear trying to win a job on the roster 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.160 at offensive line. He'll join us next on Bears All 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.160 Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.040 Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.080 IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.400 natural gas, and homewarrnty products over one million customers across 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.560 the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.360 Jeff Jonny Yakolong with Tom Thayer and Jim Miller former Bears, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.360 Here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.920 seventy The Score, and a warm welcome to one of 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.240 the new Chicago Bears, undrafted, a rookie offensive lineman, Deeter Iceland. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.239 Good evening, Welcome to the program. We've read your story, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.880 We've followed your path to the National Football League. It's 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.200 quite the journey and certainly not traditional. From South Africa 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.000 to rugby, to Olympic weightlifting to Yale and a few 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.120 stops in between. How does it feel to be in 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.640 the National Football League. Gater, thank you so much for 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.800 having me on. Guys are really appreciate it. It's definitely 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.080 a dream come true and something that I didn't think 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.840 was possible six or seven years ago. So I'm really 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.800 fortunate to have this opportunity in front of me, and 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.840 I'm ready to seize it. You know, one of the 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.679 things about you is that people should know because many 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.760 players don't have direct paths. Obviously they don't have the 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.200 pedigree necessarily as a first or second round pick. But 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.920 you wanted this so badly. You made decisions growing up 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.440 where you did to come to the United States, play 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.720 in a high school football camp in Virginia, get recruited 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.400 without even planning a game from Yale, and then become 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.120 a three and a half year starter on the offensive line. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.760 You had to make a lot of self sacrifice. Why 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.240 so much self sacrifice to come into this league when 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.360 you could have played many other sports? What was it 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:55.000 about football that caught your attention? I just love football 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.719 the moment that I actually sat down and watched the 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.439 game when I was sixteen, I just loved the strategy 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.080 that's involved with it, how every single person has a 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.520 specific responsibility that they have to pull in order to 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.360 achieve success as a team. And I just love the 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.839 physicality of football. I mean, I played racbe grown up 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.240 all my life, but the physicality and football is just unmatched, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.800 and I really relish the physicality of it and punishing people. Well. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.560 Dater is a former offensive lineman. I couldn't be pulling 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.360 for you anymore. I'm so happy and I look forward 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.600 to your journey. But you know, when you start playing 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.360 in a sport football that we're all accustomed to since 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.319 Pop Warner, but then you start playing it later and 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.360 be more around in college, what's harder for you the 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:46.800 actual athleticism of the sport or the language and terminology 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.480 you have to learn and use to play the sport. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.800 I think for me, originally coming in the ladder, the 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.960 language was definitely a little bit harder. I mean I 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.719 soon realized the disparity that exists between water football and 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.920 actually trying to play it. I mean, when I went 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:05.840 to that camp in Virginia, I didn't know what the 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.360 E and B gaps were, so I had a far 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.760 way to go. But luckily I was a good athlete 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.880 and a really good athlete for my size, so I 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.160 was luckily able to figure it out once I knew 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.720 what to do mentally, and luckily I was able to 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.960 do that during my freshman year, where I felt like 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.400 I was forced to develop a lot really quickly. So 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.400 I think just getting thrown into the fire by my 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.960 offensive line coach that I had at Yale and my 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.760 freshman year was really a key turning point for me 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.120 as a player. Well, Jeff mentioned you got thirty four 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.680 starts at Yale. Was there ever a time at Yale 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.040 that you were tempted to can maybe go to that 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:49.240 next college level to challenge your skills? Or were you 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:55.440 always content with being at Yale. Well, I think that 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.440 I really loved the Yale experience, and I'm really fortunate 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.079 for what the school did for me in the position 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.480 that it put into me and got me a great degree. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.520 I think that if I had the opportunity to grad 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.840 transfer to another school, if I had not played my 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.760 freshman year, I think that I probably would have taken 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.240 advantage of that. I think that I had the talent 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.160 and the size and the physicality and the athleticism to 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.760 start at a lot of schools, a lot of FBS 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.160 programs around the country, so I think that's something that 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.040 I would have taken advantage of. But I'm really fortunate 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.480 for my Yale experience and it's it was just a 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.440 dream the past four years. Well, Deeter, you've worked hard, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.839 and congratulation for working yourself. It's been at an accelerated 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.400 pace to get to this opportunity and now it's you 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.319 know you. Look, you haven't even been able to practice 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.000 yet with your teammates, and maybe just talk about what 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.520 is your mindset heading into training camp, your first one 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.319 of your young career. Yeah, obviously we're in a very 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.520 unique situation, but I feel like our meetings that we've 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.560 had over Zoom starting in May have really been productive. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.880 I've really enjoyed getting to know the coaching staffs and 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:11.000 especially Coach Castillo and my fellow rookies. And it's not 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.640 like we were slacking the whole time. We were really 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.600 working hard. I had to adjust to the new techniques 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:22.160 that Coach Castillo was teaching us, and I really trying 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.440 to ingrain that into my body, and I sent him 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.680 videos on a daily basis, just doing the same thing 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.480 over and over and over again until it's second nature. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.800 So obviously it's a very unique situation with everything going 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:40.120 on right now with the novel coronavirus, and we don't 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.920 know necessarily what's going to happen in terms of training 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.000 camp being delayed or unique protocols or all that. But 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.200 all I know is that whatever opportunity is put in 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.200 front of me, whenever that is, whether that's next week 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.240 or a month from now, I'm going to seize it 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.720 to the best of my ability. Well, let me followed up. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.640 Can you give maybe an example of a technique, like 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.840 you said, because once it becomes rope memory, you know, 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:05.680 that's when it when it sinks in and you're just 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.160 kind of reacting from that standpoint. But what specifically do 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.240 you feel you've had to work on in terms of 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:16.040 those techniques from Coach Castel. Yeah, So, Coach Christillo is 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.720 a great pass protection technique that's very different from what 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.760 I used to do in college. That is preset to 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:28.320 the different defensive alignments of the defensive lineman, and it's 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.400 just something new that I had to learn that's a 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.440 lot more detailed and specific. But I think it makes 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.800 a lot of sense. And all the film that we've 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.800 watched of his past guys who have followed that same 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.520 pass protection technique. It works, so I've just fully dedicated 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.520 myself to learning it every day and really just getting 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.880 used to It. Was very feign at the beginning, but 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.400 I feel like I've become so much better technically, and 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.040 I wish that I had learned that while I was 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.199 in college because I feel like it would have elevated 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.200 my game even more. So I'm really excited to put 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.240 it to the test and on the field. Bears rookie 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.280 guard Deeter Ice led our guest You're on Bears All 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.440 Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy score, Jeff Tom 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.760 and Jim Deeter tell us what Stellenbosch, South Africa's like, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.200 and there are are a lot of kids playing football over there. Unfortunately, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.960 I think I'm the only player from there, but hopefully 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.520 hopefully can inspire some other South African kids as well. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.960 But Sellembosch is a great town. It's really beautiful, very 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.600 close to Cape Town that's a little bit more famous. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.480 But Sellinbosh is just a little bit north and it's 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.360 got beautiful mountains and vineyards and it snows on the 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.480 mountain peaks a little bit in the wintertime that it 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.080 is there right now, so it's It's a really beautiful 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.520 place with a lot of rich history. So I love 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.440 to go back and visit my family and I hope 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.440 to see them soon, barring everything that's going on in 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.200 the world right now. So, Dieter, I have a two 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.400 part question read about your Olympic weightlifting background. Are so 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.840 you still able to incorporate in your football strength training 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.480 number one? In number two, have you ever served in 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:15.280 South Africa? So luckily I am able to incorporate Olympic 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.800 wa lifting into my strength program. I love doing hand 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.400 cleans and power cleans and snatches and all of that, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.600 so luckily I have I've built the foundation in order 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.720 to succeed in those things, and I think they're great 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.720 movements to build your explosiveness and your speed and your 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.280 power and all of that. So I love Olympic way 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.200 lifting and I owe a lot to the sport. And 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.440 unfortunately I have not served as much as I would 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.560 like to, but I would really love to in the future. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.760 So I think that once I don't weigh three hundred 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:49.200 and twenty pounds, I'll tick. I'll tackle that endeavor. Well, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.240 give the listeners an example, because obviously the weight room 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.840 and you've probably done a lot of max lifts in 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.880 the weight room. Say the Hank clean. What you're just about? 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.120 What what type of weight we're talking about that you 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.600 could max out on? So my max that I've done 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.120 Hanklean is three eighty five. That's my best that I've 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.960 ever done. And when I was competing when I was seventeen, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.920 eighteen years old, and the full clean and jerk I 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.920 did three sixty five and in the full snatch I 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.720 did three hundred and fifteen. So I'll tell you what, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.160 nobody was better in the weight room than Tom Thayer 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:24.920 back in his day with the Bears of Tom. How 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.400 did those numbers stack up with a young guard out 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.360 of Notre Dame back in the day. Well, Dieter, I 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.400 think the first time you get into Hollis Call, I 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.800 think those lifts are impressive. But I want to tell 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.680 you about Clyde Emeric who's up in Hallis Hall waiting 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.800 to greet you. He's one of the greatest Olympic lifters 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.560 in the history of the sport. He's read about you 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.840 and he wants to meet you. So when you do 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.240 get a chance, go out and seek the oldest guy 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.840 in the building. And that's Clyde Emrick because he wants to, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:58.440 you know, hear about your weightlifting venture over the your lifetime. Yeah, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.560 that sounds great. I'd love to and fully us some 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.400 tips so I can hopefully add some twenty pounds or so. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.879 That'd be great. Well, the big part of it is 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.000 it's all about want to when you're in the weight room, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.960 and you know Tom's taught me and Jim has taught 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.280 me many times. Off seasons are really where a team 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.439 develops the bond and the chemistry and the desire to 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.920 be a winner and before any media gets their eyes 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.679 on them, before any fans get their eyes on them, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.800 and even before frankly coaches do, and it's in that 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.600 weight room or as Jim's team in two thousand and one, 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.080 they knew they were going to be a winning team, 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.119 and they did. They go, they won the division, they 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.240 go to the playoffs. Short of that, this is your 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.560 first experience in your football playing life not to have 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.720 that type of offseason, and you're a rookie and you're undrafted, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.520 and you're relatively in terms of experience level, new to 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:51.000 the game in many respects, Does that create an opportunity 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.280 In addition to the challenge for you that you're you're 0:17:55.320 --> 0:18:00.280 basically something that's going to be molded into an NFL player. Yeah, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.879 I mean I think that I've I've faced long odds before, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.560 and I'm truly a believer that you are responsible for 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.879 the opportunities that are created in front of you, and 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.720 you're responsible for seizing it to the best of your ability. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.199 So I think that those are true things, but I 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.280 don't look at them as negatives. I just view them 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:22.320 as obstacles to be conquered. So I know that it's 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.560 one thing that's lacking with the offseason now is just 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.879 the ability to actually run place together and get that 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.239 team chemistry that's so key. But I think that a 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.919 lot of guys have been really been studying diligently on 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.120 their iPads, so hopefully once we get there, everyone will 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.400 be on the same page and we can just get 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.639 the ground running. So that's definitely what I'm vidden happening, 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.720 and hopefully it can come to fruition. Hey Dieter, are 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.480 you do you have the ability to do the proper 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.120 conditioning to get ready for training camp? Excuse me, because 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.040 you know, I don't know if there's things you've learned 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.440 in your past to get you prepared for the conditioning 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.920 part of it, or has coach Uanca Steal been able 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:05.280 to tell you or encourage you to do any type 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.520 of specific conditioning drills. Yeah, so I mean for the 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.639 conditioning itself. I think that what I do is I 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:17.919 usually simulate running twelve to fifteen play drive and I 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.240 just pick random plays in my head and I simulate 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.160 it on air, and then every twenty five or thirty seconds, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.960 I just run it again and go over again. So 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.919 I do that in conjunction with actually running the conditioning 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.320 for the conditioning tests that we've been doing, and that's 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.520 always really good to get yourself into that top end shape. 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.640 But I think just simulating those drives is what I've 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.200 been doing to prepare myself well. And in my experience, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.840 it's just how quickly you can make a routine for yourself. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:49.600 I know you've probably been in a routine for the 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.080 Zoom meetings and how you go out on and get 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.960 your work done to apply it. But for training camp, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:56.680 you know a lot of it is about getting a 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.160 routine and just really get into the grind of things. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.560 How quickly did you sell into that routine at Yale 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.120 where you could excel at which you did, and how 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:07.720 quick you know, do you think you'll be able to 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.880 quickly be able to do that here in Chicago? From 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:16.320 that standpoint, yeah, I think that routine and self discipline 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.280 is so key to success. I think that that's something 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.600 that I've tried to apply to everything that I do 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.520 in my life because I think that it prevents you 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.560 from giving into your moods or your feelings of that day, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.040 and you just given to what your self discipline is 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.360 and allow that to dictate what you need to do, 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.240 which is the hard work. So I think that that's 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:41.119 something that I did throughout my time at Yale and 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.639 why I was able to succeed as a students and 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.720 as an athlete. It's just by controlling my time effectively. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.760 And I look forward to doing that in Chicago now 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.760