WEBVTT - All Access: Smith on first training camp 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.600 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.640 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.640 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.279 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.040 Access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.040 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:30.920 Physical Therapy and Art Van Furniture in Mattress. Everybody. Jeff 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.519 johnny Ick along with Tom Thurm, broadcast partner from news 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.320 Radio seven eighty one to five point FWBBM. We are 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.240 at Bears training camp out of at Nazarene, getting ready 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.240 for what's going to be fundight at Soldier Field Saturday Night, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.199 Family Night and the chance for the fans to get 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.840 up close from personal with their twenty nineteen Chicago Bears. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.879 Our guests today on Bears All Access brought to you 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.960 by IGS Energy. Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:57.240 to score the outstanding inside linebacker in year two, Roquan 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.360 Smith kind enough to join us after a fun practice. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.280 It was for me as an observer. It was a 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.600 fun practice real Quin because there was some hitting involved, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.280 there was some tackling, it was a lot of live 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.440 drills going on some goal line, some rapid fire, get 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.160 the kicking team out there and bang through a field goal. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.600 It just had a real good, high tempo. How'd you 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.600 feel about today's practice? I felt great about today's practice. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.440 It was definitely good from the standpoint of felt more 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.440 like a game with like the live periods and um 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.959 having that so getting a chance to go against the 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.839 offense live men a lot, and then I thought it 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.200 was like just another step in getting those game ready. Well, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.280 it's right up a lot of guys, alleys, because you 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.760 guys are a physical bunch on defense. You guys are 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.480 flying around, but guys on the offensive line they want 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.200 to be able to get in there too, put their 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.800 fingers in the dirt and come off the ball. So 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.880 did you feel like that kind of set the tone 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.240 for what you guys are thinking about it the night 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:50.640 before you knew you're gonna do it, so it kind 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.520 of set the tone for the day. Oh, that definitely 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.280 sets the tone. And um, you love it as a 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.080 defense when you're able to go live but being smart 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.440 at the same time and then just having a chance 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.000 just to tell on someone. So you love that time 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.000 looking at him smiling. Just to set the scene here, 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.640 you have a T shirt on and says it says 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.200 Bears Linebackers hit squad. Is that a team issued shirt 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:10.760 or did the one of the players haven't made it? 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.880 That's the team, this team issue. So it's more so 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.120 we got got together the inside linebackers m with the 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.800 coach Delion, and um, we came up with a slogan 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.200 for ourselves and UM we said we're the hit Squad, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.799 so you know we hit everything. Does each position have one? 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.200 Or is it just the linebackers right now? It's just 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.520 us as I know right now? Okay, So, um, there's 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.880 been a lot made of music at training camp. Do 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.640 you like the music or when you're trying to learn 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.240 and get coached up and stuff, could the music be 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.000 down a little bit? Well, how do you like it? 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.080 Because you know last year having a short period of 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.640 training camp, now you're here full time. How do you 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.200 like the music? I enjoy the music. Um, I love 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.120 like you know when we mix it up. So it's 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.440 a little diverse, you know. So it's not just one 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.720 thing here today. It's like different all every day. So 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.480 I love that, and um, it gets more crowds and 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.560 get all of the crowds into it. Are you hearing 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.480 it or that just in the back of your mind? Well, 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.720 depending on the song, I can't hear it. Depending on 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.799 certain songs, I'm like, Okay, this is getting me going 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.000 right now, even though I'm already going. But definitely some songs. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.399 So if Kan Brown's on, you're dancing, Uh yeah, I'll vibe. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.000 It's more kind of it kind of mellows me out, 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.240 just having me thinking more so, I'm more so laid 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.200 back when it's when that's all and I'm just thinking 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.919 about everything. I love k Brown. I do. I love 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.440 Kan Brown. I bet you didn't. You're looking at me 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.120 right now. You're I don't even know you don't even 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.359 know me, right, but you know, to explain the time, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.400 explain the big time. Who Kan Brown is, what he's 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.080 all about? Yeah, Kan Brown? Um so, most he's country. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.400 He falls under the genre of country, but like he's 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.520 a little different, not your uh back in the day 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.840 type of country, not your hell billy, but he has 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.760 definitely has some country to him. And um, well, so 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.360 you kind of grew up in the country. Was was 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.320 country music a part of your young guy existence? Or 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.200 were you off off the beaten track and listen to 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.400 something that young guys like yourself would Well, I was 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.760 all around. I listened to country, R and B rap, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.520 but country I did. I started. I got more into 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.160 it in high school. I had a couple of buddies 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.400 who were just like these huge country fans, and then 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.160 we used just riding car rods and going on dirt 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.920 roads and different things like that, and it was just 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.000 like that's all they were playing. So I'm like, oh man, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.280 it's growing onto him. Man. That's how it started. Well, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:23.360 like I like um Kane Brown, Swindale, m Old Dominion. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.600 I heard a little Zach a little Eric Church out 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.320 at practice today, so that was definitely great. Luke Combs 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.320 I like him a lot too. Swindale, So yeah, all 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.479 of those guys, Um, I like it. But as we 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.960 continue this, I mean they're playing hard rock, they're playing 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.160 old stuff, they're playing new stuff, they're playing rap, They're 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.080 playing a lot of different stuff out there. So it 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.200 is fun to watch the guys because every even some 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.520 of the offense. Kyle Long likes dancing. He's dancing out there. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.080 He's dancing, ready to go into the cold top he's 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.200 always moving around. That's a guy. You wouldn't think it 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.360 would be dancing. You wouldn't get this guy to I 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.240 dropped dead. If he was dancing time not dancing, we 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.640 would you have answer prance No. But the thing about it, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.000 what I like about it is walking on the practice field, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.120 you're kind of tired, lethargic, and then all of a 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.480 sudden you start hearing the music. It gets you jacked 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.559 up a little bit, and it can take you from 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.720 kind of you know, ready to get ready to get excited, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.080 and it can be motivating the music. I definitely agree. Yeah, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.720 I feel like if you are down a little bit, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.880 just having that music, I feel like, in the sense 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.400 of music is energy, So like I kind of like it. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.200 Sometimes you may be thinking a little slow than like 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.440 certain lyrics in this song or like this song that 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.480 maybe play just makes you want to go even harder. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.760 You know. I have a question. So last year you 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.440 miss training camp and now you're full. You're full and 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.000 you've been a part of OTAs, You've been a part 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.479 of Mini camp and everything. So what you did last 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:45.000 year while you were in your contracts situation until being 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.120 ready for training camp this year? Did you do enough 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.080 last year? Did you not do enough? Or are you 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.840 more prepared this year because of your OTAs and everything, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.040 just you know where you're at from from a year ago. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.840 I definitely would say being here in kemp is like 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.120 huge for me, and then as a rookie not really 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.400 knowing what to expect coming in the NFL, and then 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.000 like having this training camp, I feel like along with 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.239 last season, I feel like it kind of like motivate, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.560 like with the tackles, Like I get my tackling down 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.200 in training comp. I don't just have to worry about 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.279 going out to a game. I get the thud here 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.440 more as like last year I wasn't thud and so 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.520 it's like I came out a little rusty. So I 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.240 definitely think it's a lot of great things. And then 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.440 just having a live contact and just like with the 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.640 speed of the game, you can never really plan for that. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.680 I feel like and I feel like with this year 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.560 it's been great for me. Did you know that you 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.800 guys are gonna get out of today? Like did they 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.840 let you know when you're getting ready in the locker room, Hey, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.279 we're gonna have some live periods, So put a little 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.160 extra hair air in your helmet, you know, spatch your 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.760 shoes up, tape your hands. Were you ready for it? Oh? Yeah, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.880 I was definitely ready for A coach had mentioned it before. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.400 So like, I'm just like whenever today I'm ready, just 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.479 call my phone. Yeah exactly, I'm ready to go. And 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.680 you don't need an invitation, do you? Because one thing, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.960 you know, you are the nicest guy around. I mean, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.040 you have a big smile on your face all the time. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.040 But when you get out there, all of your athletic ability, 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.839 your god given size and speed and quickness, they all 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.760 come together when you tackle. You are an explosive tackler. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.360 Have you always been that type of tackler who can 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.240 uncoil on contact and finished right through somebody? I would 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.120 say I did do that a lot in high school, 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.440 and then when I first got to college, I was 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.440 kind of like I was more so just trying to 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.280 like hit guy's lord. And then I got um at 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.360 like the end of my sophomore year, had a heart 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.720 to heart with my college coach, Glenn Schuman, and he 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.720 was just like, man, you're like because I was a 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.200 little light at playing the linebacker position. And so then 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:34.960 I got up to like two twenty five, and he's 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.160 just like, man, for that's why I looked like for. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:38.880 He was like, well, I didn't learn it then, but 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.440 that's what he said. He was like, forced equals mass 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.000 time acceleration. So when it was like that, I'm like, man, 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.320 I am two twenty five. I can't run pretty good, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.679 so like, why don't I just like uncoiling to someone? 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.040 And then I started trying out, trying that out chest 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.440 chest to chess with people. And then after that I 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.480 was just like, hey, man, that's all she wrote. You know, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.720 you bring up your sophomore year. Can we talk a 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.160 little bit about September twenty First I went to Notre Dame. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.640 You going to Georgia they play on that day. You know, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.000 now you're a year removed from college football. You have 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.320 a lot of memories that you've happened to you at 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.160 Georgia that got you to the point where you're at. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.840 Do you still you still pay attention? Are you still 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.480 excited about it? Because you know Notre Dame going into Georgia, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.880 it's gonna be a big game. It's definitely gonna be 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.440 a big game. But I'm definitely it's definitely close to me. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.720 Two of my best friends are still playing at Georgia 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.920 then there last year, so it's like I have to 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.960 pay attention to those guys, and then they always ask 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.640 me what did I think of the game and different 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.480 things like that, and also just you know, going to 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.080 Georgia and then we already beat We just beat Notre 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.960 Dame when I was there, so I'm expecting them to 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.120 do the same game. You know. So you got young 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.800 college friends that you're still tight with, they know you're 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.040 at this level. Who social media is between you guys, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.520 more you to them or them to you? I would 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.280 I would say it's more of them to me in 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.040 a sense, or we're just more takes. We'll just takes 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.800 between the phone and whatnot like that, because like I 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.600 don't really like a lot of times they'll say different 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.920 things on media. But I'm just like you, they're shy 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.200 away from it, right exactly. You don't want it to 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.320 get You don't want to touch that stove and get burned. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:07.679 If you do, you do it once and that's the 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.079 end of it. Have you ever tweeted something or posted 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.040 something on Instagram that you wish you wouldn't have at 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.920 any point in your life? No, that's good now would 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.160 keep it down. Ro Quan Smith our guest here on 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.040 Bearzol Access. It's brought to you by IGS Energy. Our 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.480 engineer coming down to Bourbon eight today. Paul Zerrang and 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.600 the Great Greg Miller is here as well as our producer, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.720 the Great Greg Miller, who knows his music better than 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.920 all of us combined, with all due respect. A drummer, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.800 he plays drums, you know, in a big way. So 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.240 the hidden talents behind the scene of the Bears don't 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.200 mess with g money. This is Bearzol Access on Chicago 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:49.840 Sports Radio six seventy to score. Welcome back to Bears. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.240 All Access brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.520 partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.640 home warranty products to over one million customers across the country. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.040 Learn more about IG Energy at igs dot com. Jeff 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.679 Joni at Tom there with you, and Roquan Smith our 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.480 special guest this week, live from training camps. It's a 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.880 rare opportunity. Whenever we get guys to come in here, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.439 we do appreciate it because it's hard work out there. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.000 You got football in your mind. You want to get 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.079 your rest and you gotta get your your food, your 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.559 your liquids and all that stay hydrated. Then you got 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.120 more meetings today and it all wraps up with walk 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.760 throughs and all that. There's a lot going on for 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.840 your training camp, but it's also a time to just 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.880 take a deep breath a little bit, and it's our 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.360 most genuine opportunity to really get to know players you 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.960 know at this setting. So we do appreciate you coming out. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.040 We had Mitch on to open things up from training 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.640 camp last week. But now in your second year, you know, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.840 as a rookie, it is like what David Montgomery says, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.000 you have two years one moff listened twice as much 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.000 as you speak as a rookie, right. I say that 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.160 to my kids all the time and to some other 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.480 people to tell they don't listen right. Right. But now 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.959 now is there a natural comfort zone to be really 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.920 be you, you know, as Matt says, Yeah, I definitely 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.760 feel like that because like going into your rookie year, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.400 you don't know really what to expect, and so with 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.880 that year going through, you've kind of learned everything, know 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.560 what they expect from guys, coaches and different things like that, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.400 and now you're here, You're kind of like, oh, I've 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.840 seen this before, I've seen that before. So things kind of, 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.840 you know, get repetitive in the sense, but you can't 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.720 get complacent at the same time, so it's always every 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.040 day like you got to attack certain things. But it 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.520 definitely is more of a like, I feel more comfortable 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.079 at your social hour at night, two hours at night. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.480 What do you do at that time? Who do you 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.480 gravitate towards and what kind of like you know, before bedtime? 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.000 Funding can you have? Oh well, I tend I don't 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.560 tend to gravitate anything to anyone. I'll normally like do 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.440 something in the tubs or do something like in the 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.720 training room, and then I'll just normally go in there 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.760 because I'm not really on my phone much throughout the day, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.280 so I'll probably just go back into the room, make 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.080 a few phone calls and whatnot. I don't really hang 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.079 out as much, right But you got some guys that 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:00.240 have big personalities too in that linebacking group. And I 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.760 think of and he's now healthy he had a bad 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.000 hand injury last year. Is Josh Woods. He's a fun 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.080 guy to watch. He's a very interesting candidate for this 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.320 football team and whatever capacity that they envisioned for him, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.440 especially as special teams. And Joel Eya Booney Way another 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.199 guy in your draft class, a guy that is also 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.960 you know, god given size and speed there and then 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.720 Danny Trevethan. I told he looks five years younger right now. Seriously, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.240 I have not seen him play this way, running with 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.880 total reckless abandon in charge. You know, I'm sure you've 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.720 had an impact on him as well as he's had 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.040 an impact on you. And you guys are really the 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.719 group of you guys and Nick Kakowski, there's some other 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.679 guys as well. You guys are really playing at a 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.000 high level, it seems right now. Do you feel that way? 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.880 I definitely feeled out why I feeled that way. I 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.200 was thought out Trevethan. I feel like it's great. You know, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.840 he's been great for me. And then I think, you know, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.040 just with the young energy, but man, like he's playing 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.800 his tail off and like I've never seen a twenty 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.400 nine year old movies as he's moving like at the 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.200 position linebacker, and like what he's doing right now is 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.520 really good. And I think we're just like making the 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.280 best out of each other and we're doing all we 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.240 can to get each other better. We see one I 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.600 see he sees some stuff. He'll always like say hey, bro, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.640 I see that or this and that. And then with Quick, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.439 I feel like Quick Quakowski is really playing well this UM, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.360 this UM training camp and whatnot, and I'm just like, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.120 I see a lot of great things from him. And 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.240 with Ea Booney Way, I feel like he's been consistent 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.680 this training camp as well. And with Josh Wood, he's 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.520 definitely an interesting guy, you know, coming from safety and 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.880 having a year one year at the linebacker position. But 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.720 I definitely feel like he's getting more downhill and like 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.120 his athleticism shows and flashes. And then we have kp 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.000 who's a veteran as we all know, a great special 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.160 team and also can step in and play some backer. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.400 And then we have Thurmines coming around. He's doing doing 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.560 some good things for us. So that's definitely UM. That's 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.760 definitely good. Kevin Pierre Lewis and jam Jamir is a 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.360 first year player at of Indiana State. For you fans 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.880 out there, you know when they talk about new offensive coaches, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.440 they talk about the breaking in time of learning the 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.280 terminology and there's a you know, the timing is different. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.800 Everything is that there's their similarities to that. When you 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.720 get a new defensive coordinator, a new position coach, does 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.480 it take time to learn new things or are the 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.000 coaches learning you guys rather than you learning a new 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.280 a new UH style or terminology or what a defensive 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.000 coordinator brings. Oh, well, you know, it's obviously different when 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.520 you have a new coordinator. But at the end of 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:34.160 the day, we've been together since UM when when UM 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.080 coach mcgunodam got hired, which was earlier this year, so 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.680 we've definitely had time and like, I feel like we're 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.000 doing a lot of good things together. And so you're 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.320 kind of familiar with the terminology they use from the 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.000 you know, because me, I grew up in the offensive 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.520 side of the ball, and it seems like it takes 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.760 a lot longer to master the terminology is a defense 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.320 is a less terminology to master. And because I see 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.320 you guys using multiple fronts, there's a lot of difference 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.040 to this defense. And it's not you know, it's not 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.560 a forty three defense, it's not a thirty four defense, 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.320 it's not a bear defense. It's a little bit of everything. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.600 Do you like multiple fronts, And was your experience in 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:14.400 college like kind of one or two dimensional? And now 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.440 does it seem like there's a lot more on your plate. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.840 I felt like in college we did a lot of good, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.760 a lot of different things all over the place. You 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.640 never could tell whether we were three down, four down. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.960 And I feel like here I'm enjoying it. And then, 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.320 but defense is in a sense, defense is just simple simple. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.280 All it is is conceptual. So like everything is a concept. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.720 So like I feel like if it's like you know fires, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.960 it says a fire zone defense, you got three hundred 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.000 three deep, so like different things like that. I feel 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.720 like everything kind of goes into a concept. So it's 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.400 not that hard when you when you think about it, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.240 just like you put things together in group things inside 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.040 Linebacker Real Kuan Smith, our guest on Bears All Access 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.600 here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The Score brought 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.960 to you by Igs, Energy, Jeff and Time with You 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:58.680 as well as this second season rolls in for you. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.720 You accomplished the heck of a lot as a rookie. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.120 There are high expectations on you, and I'm sure you 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.240 put them on yourself as you go to bed every night. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.600 And think about your day and you look to the future, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.280 what do you see for yourself? I just want to 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.200 be the best version of myself. That's what I tell 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.640 myself each and every day, not trying to live up 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.080 to anyone else. What did anyone else I've done? Like 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.560 in the passage, it's more so about attacking my weaknesses 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.640 each and every day and just being the best version 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.080 of myself. However I can do that, whether that's getting 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.720 extra reps doing this, or maybe just like having my 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.320 path level even lower, so like different things like that, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.160 but I definitely want to just be the best version. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.320 What do you think of Mark Deleone, the new Ins 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.640 linebacker's coach. The first thing that pops in my mind 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.200 is energy, high energy. I definitely would say that high energy. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.440 I think he's a great asset to our room, and 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.240 with him being in there, he's and what he tells 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.080 me every day, you know, he just be the best 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.960 version of yourself each and every day, and I just 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.320 try to do that. And I always have that reminder 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.240 from him as well, you know, you got to attack 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.160 it like it's your last day. And then with Chuck 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.840 in the background as well. So I definitely love that 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.360 if you're to sleep when saying I didn't have the 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.720 best version of me today, well, I'm definitely I'm definitely 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.040 going to bed and push Like like, man, I've had 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.840 like I left like two or three plays out there. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.560 I wish I can get back, but you know, you 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.440 scribe for a perfection, but that's never really possible. But like, 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.560 I definitely want to be there. Have you ever had 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.600 a play because I know I have and I still 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.879 had players that haunted me from my career when I 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.320 was playing that you ever have a play that haunts 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.359 you still in your head when you think about it 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.320 on tape or just either they're just the mistake you 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.320 made that you know that you'll never do it again. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.159 Oh yeah, There's there's plenty things like that that's happened 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.600 like since probably college and then like a couple of 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.760 plays like that in the league. You just be like, man, 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.240 I really did this, and you can't when you look 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:43.920 back out of you like I can't believe I let 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.760 myself do that. But like things happen, but you can't 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.560 just you can't live in the passage. Just have to 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.560 keep going, right, you got one to really haunt you. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.800